Nasa astronauts heralds a new era in commercial space travel. People around the world are facing heavy new coronavirus rules and restrictions governments are trying to stamp out rising infection rates while avoiding the full economic shutdowns they imposed earlier this year when a global tally by Johns HopkinsUniversity Shows the number of reported cases is now more than 18000010600000 have recovered and around 690000 people have died. But tougher restrictions are being reimposed in and around manila after reported infections in the philippines jumped to more than 100000 from tuesday businesses and public transport are expected to close and people will need special passes to leave home groups representing nurses and doctors have been pushing president to target to tighten control saying the countrys losing its fight against the virus i have heard you call up different groups from the medical community for it week in. Gum unit it got in dean is c. Q. In major manila a fully understand where your Health Workers would like to us for such a timeout period they have been in the front lines for months and are exhausted well jamila and going is in manila she says the government will decide in mid august with the to lift or extend the lockdown. Today marks the 150 of these since the philippines recorded its 1st coronavirus case and after that the country the Southern Region of luzon more than 50000000 people were placed on the rate a lockdown or enhance Community Quarantine for almost 3 months thats already one of the longest most strictest quarantines implemented by any government in the world over the last few months the government in fact lose in its restrictions at the time the total cases recorded were 18000 less than 2 months later its now reached over 100000 what the doctors are asking is for them to for them to be given breathing space so that there is enough time to decongest hospitals now on their full capacity this call came over the weekend the president spoke here sunday night in basically said he is listening to the appeal of frontline workers and although hes not going to bring back megaman they lowered the greater metropolis into a total lockdown again he is tightening control which means that there will be no domestic flights most likely transportation will be limited and Cross Community travel will also be limited there will be more checkpoints in the coming weeks in the coming weeks and by august 13th they hope to review the number of key says recorded by department of health and then they will decide again whether an extension is expected or they can find an illusion restrictions for their ease the economy under distress at the moment here already. Well the epicenter of the virus for now is in latin america where more than 200000 people have died and nearly a quarter of those fatalities are in mexico its government began lifting restrictions and made to restart the economy now its looking like it will have to reverse that reports. New cases of corona virus show no signs of slowing down in latin america. In argentina which has largely kept the outbreak under control this is meant a return to lock down restrictions for 2 weeks as cases there are once again on the rise. And you know why dont you want the newness will be the big problem we kept having the last 15 days is that we all relaxed we all felt that the situation was contained and the situation is not contained. A lot down in colombia was also recently extended through the end of august colombia is among the countries in south america showing the most alarming rates of contagion that is going to you know that there are people who dont follow the rules to go out even without a mask or use it incorrectly so were in a complicated phase of the pandemic and theres a lot of contagion. Latin america is home to an estimated 8 percent of the worlds population but accounts for nearly a 3rd of the worlds coronavirus debts with brazil and mexico making up a majority of the fatalities in the region. In the case of brazil the government has faced heavy criticism for lacking a unified approach to containment efforts with president. Hu caught coded 900. 00 himself often appearing in public without a mask. The same is true in mexico where the countrys president often makes statements that contradict Health Officials such as the recommendation that people wear masks to prevent the spread of the virus memory up on the top of you know when im going to put on a mask when theres no corruption and it will then ill put on a mosque they will still talking about. The u. N. Warns the impact of the pandemic on latin american economies could amount to a 10 year setback in terms of g. D. P. Yet as countries work to reopen businesses the seemingly unstoppable wave of contagion thats gripped the region is making these efforts near impossible. Hello al jazeera. Australia 2nd largest city melbourne has finished its 1st overnight curfew its one of several emergency measures introduced in the state of victoria after cases to record highs last week there were 671 new infections and 7 deaths on sunday victoria has also banned large gatherings reintroduced Online Learning and ordered people to remain within 5 kilometers of their homes making the gauge reports from sydney now on victorias battle to contain a 2nd wave of infections. This will no doubt have a huge impact on jobs on the National Economy but also on Peoples Mental Health and it also shows just how quickly the situation can change during this pandemic and strangely i had been one of the more successful countries in terms of tackling covert non tain but this 2nd wave of infections that were seeing in victoria just doesnt seem to be going away fast enough of course residents in melbourne already werent able to leave their home unless it was for essential reasons but still a covert 19 cases have remained in the triple digits weve seen daily infection cases of 4050600 cases and why is this happening while there have been issues with Hotel Quarantine people returning from the strike there have also been problems with tracing and testing people with. And police say that some have been flouting the rules they havent been horrible even though they have tested positive through the virus and they should be isolated and that is why the premier Daniel Andrews has said that these restrictions have had to ramp up and that means that people are not allowed to leave their homes between 8 pm and father am in the morning schools are now closed again businesses are shutting down and really this is a situation where the new restrictions are in place for 6 weeks the big question is whether the numbers will reduce during that time for. At least 13 people have been killed and 42 injured in an attack on a prison in eastern afghanistan. Officials say there were several explosions including a suicide car bomb outside the prison in the city of jalalabad Afghan Security forces on the attackers for a gun buckles several prisoners escaped during the fighting has claimed responsibility well bill and so are reason freelance journalist in kabul he says it appears to be a revenge attack by ourselves. I was able to speak to an end mate in the political block who said a number of inmates are wounded several security towers are being controlled by the militants its still not clear how they got so much weapons and ammunitions into the heart of jalalabad the city but a few days ago the Afghan Intelligence service announced that they have killed the head of intelligence for the Islamic State so it seems like its a revenge attack by that group we often heard from the americans from the Afghan Government that they have defeated the Islamic State in that part of the country but clearly the group is extremely resilient theyre able to strike such complex attacks after many many years of operations against them is actually a very bad news for afghanistan and slight embarrassment for its International Allies as well. Now to nasa astronauts are back on earth the landing off the u. S. State of florida the mission was led by the private Company Space x. The operation is the 1st of its tied to be carried out on a commercial spacecraft and more companies could follow. Reports. Its a commercial success story. The 1st crew mission to space led by a private Company Returns to earth for us astronauts bob franken and doug hurley are back home where we have our 1st few particularly after their 2 Month Mission in the International Space station the astronauts were slowly helped out of the capsule as the Company Space x. Plans more ambitious projects we are starting the journey. Of bringing people regularly to and from lower earth orbit. And on to the moon and then ultimately on to mars things looking good now the success of a test flight could lead to a new booming industry nasa is no longer the purchaser owner an operator of all the hardware we are going to be a customer one customer of many customers in a very robust commercial marketplace. To save money and redirect resources and 2014 nasa turn to commercial Companies Like boeing and space x. For space flight programs and now Additional Missions research and even tourism could fall out you on musks space x. Is going to be one service boeing is going to come online probably later this year theyre going to complete another crude test flight so they can begin flying astronauts next year Virgin Galactic is looking at flying astronaut so this is just the beginning it took more than 18 hours to get back home the socalled dragon capsule endure temperatures of more than 1200. 00 degree celsius as it reentered the earths atmosphere theres Something Special about having that capability. Launch and bring your own astronauts home and we went through a lot of years without that capability and i think were both super super proud to have been just a small part of the team that accomplished bringing those space flights back to the florida coast and bringing that capability back to america. That technology and a giant leap in the way space travel is financed and run that power to these astronauts into the history books using the 1st us build hardware since the shuttle was retired nearly a decade ago. So the young aljazeera time for a short break here in aljazeera when we come back pressure mounts on the long time the russian president ahead of elections a week from now. And a missile from Lewis Hamilton will tell you its a blow to stop him from winning his home grand prix or in the stay with us. We hit the heights of 53. 00 degrees in iraq the last couple days it dipped off a bit i think tempers are on the rise once more the blazing sunshine and not much else the still a drift at the breeze the northerly picking up some the dust and take it down through q. A. Thats the orange bloom there and the cloud is deep enough for thunderstorms and substantial ones in the southwest of saudi and western side of yemen otherwise its dry and getting hot fiftys in the forecast the q 8 a nearly that for baghdad was lit little relief from the breeze not very much to be honest this leave the hot and dry then down to the wet boat which is basically from yemen west was through ethiopia and back through this heart of africa south of that if youre on the coast kenya and somalia you pick up the edge of the moment soon wind is a cliff like cosa tends to generate rain every now and again and mogadishu has a rain in the forecast a 2 out of the next 3 days the next 3 humid days i should say. So thats the general picture then big thunderstorms in concert go west its dry each of the south is that time its mid winter in most of southern half where all of Southern Africa to be honest but the wind direction is so critical to some places paulton is mostly in particular with a wind of the interior gets particularly warm and not record breaking but is well above where it should be. For. Japan is doing a massive thing to protect against devastating tsunami one o one east investigated nature can be can tie break the you will expose communities to greater danger. On aljazeera. Aljazeera. Every. Welcome back a greater amount of our top stories here on aljazeera tougher restrictions are being reimposed in and around the miller after infections in the philippines jumped more than 100000 from tuesday businesses and public transport are expected to close and people will need special passes to leave home. People around the world are facing new coronavirus restrictions as the global tally rises to more than 18000000 cases more than 690000 people died in a 3rd of them in latin america. And australia 2nd biggest city melbourne has finished its 1st overnight curfew its one of several emergency measures introduced in the state of victoria where hundreds of new cases are being reported daily. Now the Israeli Army Says its hit what it calls a terrorist squad in the occupied Golan Heights and accuses them seen in this video of planting explosives along the border fence 4 were killed in the ambush last week the Israeli Military targeted 3 outposts in syrias southern connecter province injuring 2 people well lets get more now from harry foresaid he joins us live from west jerusalem harry so what more have the israelis been saying about this incident on the border. We are saying that it took place in the early hours of the morning in the Southern Area of the occupied Golan Heights that as you say these are images referring to these 4 people as terrorists who were trying to infiltrate Israeli Occupied territory to plant explosives and the Israeli Military has now released this video of the israeli response which was an attack they say by troops at the scene and an aircraft the 4 men grouped together a scene obscured by a cloud of smoke and dust as the explosion takes place now the military is saying that it holds israel holds the syrian authorities responsible for this attack but its also of course important to note that this is a particularly tense time up in the north at the moment because of an expected or at least prepared against hezbollah response presumably from lebanese territory rather than syrian territory that is what has bill or says that it will do when one of its fighters is killed indeed there was a hezbollah fighter killed in a an airstrike inside syria last month and last week last monday there was an incident on the the border fence separating lebanon from the disputed farms area which is under israeli control israel says there was an infiltration intent then and that they forced those fighters back with fire in that incident it appears or at least there is no indication and no claim on either side that the hezbollah fighters were killed in this instance the 4 people who attempted to infiltrate israeli controlled territory were killed the question is whether this was some kind of secondary hezbollah response whether its totally unrelated whether there is still the potential for some kind of a hezbollah attack on israel in the coming days certainly has said that it will still avenge its fighter who was killed south of the massacres last month all right to have a force had there in west jerusalem harry thank you. Meanwhile israels army has known as to a strike against several hamas positions in gaza they came hours after palestinians fought a rockets into israel that the military says was intercepted by its eye and Defense System meanwhile Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says protesters demanding his resignation and the case of trumpeting on democracy throughout the summer thousands of israeli demonstrators and call for him to step down this weekend so the largest protest to date they say netanyahu has failed to handle the coronavirus pandemic and shouldnt be in office while on trial for alleged corruption. That years of. These wild and unfitted. Including the day before yesterday there were calls to murder the Prime Minister and his family the media is ignoring it and covering it up in the politicians. The israeli Prime Ministers son yeah has been banned from tweeting about protest leaders and Israeli Court ordered him to delete tweets that include the person addresses and cell phone numbers of the organizers of demonstrations against his father the protest leaders say they received threats of the tweets were posted over the weekend russian mass drugs have killed at least one person in Northern Syria 5 others were injured when bombs hit a weapons depor in the city have been issued in rebel held province last month when investigators accused russia and its syrian allies of the indiscriminate bombardment of civilians manchester in Northern England has declared a Major Incident as it deals with more corona virus infections that enables agencies to last for more resources Media Outlets had already reported that Prime MinisterBarak Johnston is looking at perspiring plans to ease restrictions to avoid another nationwide lockdown. 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