prime minister is calling for early elections and an overhaul of lebanon's political class. and other news 5 months after its 1st fatality the coronavirus death toll in brazil passes 100000. and as you can see thousands of israelis are back outside prime minister benjamin netanyahu his residence demanding his exit over corruption allegations and his courage in 1000 responds. really well into the sports news including the process of european fund ventas. sorry has been silent for champions league just 2 weeks after he won the italian league. now the deadly port explosion in lebanon's capital is now igniting a fresh wave of anger towards the government thousands have been demonstrating in central beirut with. some protesters storming the foreign ministry and prime minister how sunday up says people have a right to be angry addressing the nation just a short while ago he has called for early elections now one police officer has been killed in clashes with protesters and the lebanese red cross says more than 100 people have been wounded politicians are accused of corruption and inaction which led to tuesday's devastating blast that killed 158 people and wounded 6060 people remain missing and around 300000 lebanese are homeless because of all the damage caused 3 m.p.'s from the opposition christian party quit earlier that makes 5 resignations in total but as we were saying lebanese prime minister has and dab says he will now introduce a draft bill in the in the coming days proposing early elections. we cannot face these problems unless we have early elections to elect a new politicians and a new parliament we need a new political elite and a new parliament we need to work together to overcome this difficult period we know and i know the people have questions about the catastrophe and how the government plans to do it the catastrophe is way bigger than anyone could imagine the impact might stay forever. well let's now speeches and of go to our correspondent who has been in the thick of all the protests in beirut then as the news of her proposals as trickling down to the demonstrators there how are they taking it. well some of them are welcome that they're calling it a victory they're calling it a good step a good beginning we won one round in a long battle because calling for early elections yes this is something that the people have been demanding for some time now they want a new leadership but what they're worried about is that the. new election will just bring back the same politicians to power because they crafted the political elite the ruling elite they crafted them elect or a law that works in their own benefit it is very difficult for independent candidates for exam. well to be elected to office it's a very complicated process whereby the country is divided into several districts and because of the different sects in some areas christians vote you know vote for muslim m.p. in some areas as a christian candidates you're not voted in into office without the support of the muslims so it's a very complicated process on the grounds of people of feel that the you know the just come back to power but undoubtedly they see this as a concession on the part of the authorities that they are in a corner and there is no doubt it's not just the protests that the. pressuring those in power it's the international community and it is the reality on the ground the reality is this is a cash strapped government a state close to bankruptcy the country needs billions of dollars in aid those are the international community says you're not getting that donors are not giving you that money unless you reform the state and you carry out reforms that means that their hold on power will weaken so they're under international pressure they're under pressure in the streets and so it seems at least on the surface that the prime minister is trying to reach out to the people and to cave into their demands then it is looking a little bit come the way you are now that we've seen today more than 100 people injured one police officer even killed tear gas live ammunition and the fire is still raging you've been there the whole afternoon since this began can you describe how it all unfolded. violence running battles in the streets in central beirut we are in the center of beirut there was there were calls for a protest and then some protesters tried to storm the parliament building which is not very far from here the security forces responded with excessive amounts of tear gas and some points they used live ammunition and they kept lobbing tear gas into the crowd the crowd remained defiant for a few hours just moving back every time that the tear gas the spreads in the air but they would return and they would chant revolution revolution but at the end hundreds of security forces push them out of the square and we saw them beat up a few a few people that people are they they stood their ground but in the face of power but at the end they know that the balance of power is not in their favor but they feel that they've done something they vented their anger today it was not just about the new leadership today it was about telling the world really that they want justice justice for the victims of the explosion because they believe the political elite who knew that there were tons of thousands of tons of explosive material at beirut ports did nothing about it they kept them in the warehouse in a densely populated city then a heart of that correspondent on the streets of beirut thank you very much they know and they say well let's not speak to my own bashar his al-jazeera senior political analyst and he joins us from london now and i want to start with house india he was addressing the nation but ahead of tomorrow's international fund raising conference was he addressing global leaders to the ones who have demanded reform. well look i mean hasn't they have does not represent a political party but say it doesn't represent a power center is not greedy at this it should make it was supposed to come in on the head of. the government in order to absorb the anger in the streets of london are over the last year or 2. and so now faced with this disaster explosion on tuesday he really doesn't have a lot to say except talk about actions talk about patients and talk about the donor conference come tomorrow because in the end of the day there is a little bit of he can actually do today in the end of the day his government is a sort of window dressing it will to a corrupt. system in the country so if every possible way he is now and linda. prime minister. already has foreign ministers where it's already been are not a problem and there's no quit already he is in a vault with the government basically incompetent to meeting with the implications of the apartment and its meaning of for levanon remember that it's not just the city another known even sometimes the 5 percent estate. this is all of the country so hasn't the might want to kick the can down the road where he's really not able to absorb the anger of the seats yesterday to be or to more than a moment speaking of that anger as anna was saying well let's tear gas not to people engine the whole wound as wanting these scenes and it feels like in some ways these protests are also a show for the international community as some demonstrators are also saying how do i don't have this affect perceptions of tribal regions. well you could be it you'd be surprised our viewers might be surprised that for example i've just read that report or hizbullah's television station that the mystic reports are talking of other them strippers as the scum of the earth so if you can you can you can really begin to understand the deep divisions within the country and while there is a street or not there is an arms. the political right means of alexa because the president know and others have whatever's happening so. what you seeing today is it is a serious isolation within the country and in the end of the day this the people in the streets are not well represented into political establishment and certainly not among the centers of power in the country today as it stands so they are only way out of this. line if you will is to scream out to be dumber and add to pressure to bring in an international pressure on the been established now how would this translate and that's the big question because in the end of the thing once the euro conference happens the war on you know number of millions of dollars could be could. be spent well we certainly know who have heard a report on the earth the micro numbers that the money will go directly to those most affected by the explosion to rebuild their homes their houses rebuild their lives and businesses but then on what's going to be positions in terms of reconstruction rebuilding ringback. or what a number of conditions that were involved accountability that would involve the end of the corruption but it's been difficult to see however and corruption nepotism and the analysis of the country without end the executive editing system the sectarian political system the sectarian division of labor the 2nd big fish in of the pie called the state and once it's out. there the big question for me is not so much how much international pressure there will be on the lebanese for the system the big question for me is the following wayne will that it be nice including but if any leaders look and the better way to make the look and the letter. they are industrious people. behind some of the least developed countries in the world behind i'm able to connect the country 24 seventh's with extra city this is a country that frankly needs to look at the matter and ask. what's next because the state is bankrupt completely and it's not just because of. the economic powers centered him that it is to shift once upon a time but i'm used to be a central banking center. so the service industry i'm so so awkward it is no longer so it needs a whole new vision for how to rebuild its system but its economy and the number of millions of dollars we're not even begin to dream what ails and so they need to look in the mirror and boast in the streets burning. down this and that and picking our ministries if they want to occupy those ministries tomorrow when i suggest they don't burn him down or bring them down because they need to organize into political parties they need to run 2 elections because running for elections end of the. it's going to be the only thing possible given one is a great liberal serious governing system that is able to be we're a society. that the her problems facing the country. are under sorrow the al-jazeera senior political analyst always great to get your insights now and thank you. it is now estimated that the blast on cheese day cost $10.00 to $15000000000.00 worth of damage to its ports and the wider area our correspondent bennett smith has been getting and not a perspective on that wreckage. it's not until you move away from the beirut shoreline that you get a real impression of the scale of the devastation just over my shoulder the orient queen boat that was capsized by the force of the blast and every building you see along the skyline has been impacted there isn't a single pane of glass left and damaged over there and just on the other side is the remains of the grain silo and the grain silos was most of the grain supply for levanon there is no strategic reserve and all around the grain silos the remains twisted remains of the country's main port warehouses everything in there food included other goats destroyed or traffic has been diverted further up the coast to tripoli the 2nd port but it is having trouble managing with the capacity and managing with the demands of taking in extra supplies it is really at the same time a devastating and a shocking scene. while there is plenty more ahead here this news hour including a tribute to brazil's coronavirus victims as the country reaches a somber milestone. ridiculous and barbarous china condemns u.s. sanctions on hong kong's leader its police chief and other officials and the controversial car being dumped the pink lafave creates a big surprise in qualifying for sunday's formula one race. brazil's death toll from the corona virus pandemic has now passed 100000 and so wild west outbreak after the united states. reports from rio de janeiro. one time bus driver i was shown that crash on the was one of brazil's 12000000 unemployed that is until the soaring death toll caused by the coronavirus pandemic landed him a job as a grave digger at the sun will solve a cemetery on the outskirts of rio de janeiro. we had to recruit 30 undertakers to cope with the growing amount of birtles and build a separate area just for infected bodies. i'll be shown the works in the cove did 1900 designed especially for the victims of the virus. the most painful part is witnessing the farewell which is different from many other people want to say goodbye to their loved ones but we can't allow them to get near. brazil's cova death toll keeps growing in part because the government is encouraging brazilians not to stay home while failing to take measures to stop the virus from reaching even remote parts of the amazon despite evidence to the contrary president. continues questioning the seriousness of the pandemic and scorns w.h.o. guidelines such as the need for widespread testing and using face masks. as a result many here are skeptical about the official number of deaths like lead to a deal on who does for morning exercises in front of the emblematic football stadium now converted into a field hospital you know removing me and. i never saw anyone coming in or out of this hospital so i don't know if the story was made up or of politicians have just been using the pandemic to steal money this is one of the 5 field hospitals of rio de janeiro that are being dismantled some of them not even completed the state health secretary and his deputy are in jail for allegedly misusing the funds that were given to fight the covert 19 pandemic and the governor is about to be impeached on corruption charges. back at the cemetery 53 year old moyes says amid the colonel is about to be buried. his family is obliged to stay far away almost unable to see the casket being sealed off some of the few for them sympathetic to signal unfortunately my rather than go has just become more and more statistic buried in a 5 minute ceremony. gives the impression that nothing is going on but i think very in numbers of this are even higher than the official says that this thing and although the president and a 3rd of his cabinet have tested positive for corona virus critics say a deadly combination of corruption and a refusal to come from the pandemic head on will continue filling brazil's graveyards. well monica yant a cab joins us now live from rio de janiero monica how is the health system now it was already overwhelmed how is it holding up now. well in the main cities the health system is is holding off well now they've decreased the number of deaths in the big cities but it's writing throughout the country and we're already talking about the possibility of having 200000 deaths by october so numbers are growing but in big cities like rio de janeiro the numbers are in some regions of the country they're dropping already and monica how of people now hearing president also nara i mean he called this a little food then he called it himself. exactly and maybe that was one of the worst things that could have happened because by catching the groan of ours and being well. week after and saying that he used chloroquine which has there's no proof that it that this is a cure for for covert 19 he made it he downplayed it once more so people are saying ok the president got it a 3rd of his cabinet had it and they're doing fine so some people are even don't even believe that this is a pandemic other people the ones that lost of the families of the 100000 are really feeling it and they know that this is serious and visible so noddles didn't even give a comforting word to any of these people who haven't said anything he says life has to go back to normal he just said this repeated this recently again so it's a mixture of insensitivity of not not giving any comfort to people and not having a national strategy you there's no health minister we have an interim health minister here in brazil now the 1st one was sacked during the bendemeer the 2nd one left and the 3rd one isn't even a doctor he's from a military officer and monica i do want to ask you about the remote parts of brazil that we've seen the virus spread to is there any sense of that's being addressed people they're reaching well are they getting the help that they need. well. no not really i mean it's being spread also because there's this lack of information it's like you go on if you watch the television in brazil you see the president saying one thing the minister saying something else governors each one it depends on which state you're saying something different it's similar like what happens to the united states with trump and the different. governors in different states each one having their own policy and it's it has become a political matter here in brazil. if you're you know if you talk a lot about the pandemic you're against the government if you don't play it you're with the government so if it isn't anymore about a disease something that scientists and doctors should be deciding about it's something about whose side you're on. speaking to us from rio de janeiro thanks so much for giving us the latest monica went to hong kong is condemning the u.s. for imposing sanctions on its top leaders calling the decision despicable and shameless chief executive kerry lam and the current and former police chiefs are among 11 officials whose u.s. assets will now be frozen sarah clarke reports from hong kong. the united states went directly to the top singling out hong kong chief executive kerry land and imposing sanctions on any american assets she has also targeted is hong kong's police chief chris tang his predecessor and other officials americans and u.s. businesses are banned from dealing with them the u.s. secretary of state said the sanctions target individuals responsible for imposing a national security law in hong kong might palm pilots is the sweeping legislation is unacceptable and cartels political freedom in the city pro-democracy activist joshua wall was quick to applaud the decision if tried for the world to realize that they need to reassess their foreign policy toehold call and try to. the situation in hong kong with the escalate is high for the world those that were caught the sanctions were prompted by president donald trump's executive order last month denouncing china's imposition of the law which criminalizes acts of suspicion terrorism and subversion hong kong's chief executive says the law is crucial to restore order in the special administrative region where there's been months of political unrest carolan described the sanctions as despicable and barbarous and says the government will not be intimidated her response was echoed by commerce secretary i don't buy any sort of valid reason for this blatant hearings up on call affairs live on country by i don't think this is necessary for the civilized man to do so china's response was also swift with his top official in hong kong ridiculing sanctions who are claiming who's also on the list says he doesn't have any assets in the united states sanctions are a wasted effort this latest round of sanctions is a dramatic escalation in tensions between beijing and the united states the hong kong government hasn't ruled out targeting american companies and individuals. operating here that move could be nixed sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong now afghanistan's highest consultative body of the loya jirga has recommended the government released $400.00 taliban prisoners but it says they should only be freed if they promise not to return to fighting the release is seen as the last hurdle before peace talks with the taliban can begin it's now up to present a shotgun and to make the final decision which could come as early as sunday when the chairman of afghanistan's high council of national reconciliation a beloved ella says the majority were in favor of the release emotionally there's no we don't you know but i saw that none of the committees were against the release but they would different views and opinions about it some of them were saying that the release should be a precondition some of them were saying that a ceasefire should be the priority some of them were asking for local and international guarantees there were some individuals who is saying that with the release of 5100 prisoners the level of violence is still high and they were against the release. flight data recorders have been recovered from the wreckage of a boeing 737 which crash landed in southern india on friday both pilots are among the 18 dead and current poor and careless stays around 150 passengers and crew were also injured as a repeat tradition flight from dubai plunged off the end of the runway reports. on a gloomy wet saturday morning corey closed clouds gather at the site of friday evening as cross there in express flights plowed of the end of the hilltop runway and down the slope the fuselage split into 2. $190.00 passengers and crew were on board the boeing 737 flight from dubai it's thought the pilots who were both killed in the crash twice tried to land the plane during a monsoon storm that's overshot the runway which is notorious for being difficult to land on during heavy rain better conditions you have to get out and the weather conditions were unfavorable just the monsoon it seems a pilot as this is a tabletop airport tried to bring the flight to the end of the runway but you just slippery conditions dismissed out to a place there is a drop of 35 feet where it fell and immediately the rescue workers are 5 or gate ambulances reached that and locals also helped the crash investigators have recovered the black box flight data recorders. now the inspection then various other things going on. rescue operations as part of that as the operations they had to break also a barn some of the parts of the aircraft. some of the injured in hospital praised the pilots and the pilot both horses got in the neck of. the pilot tried a lot to land us safely in the rain it was cloudy and around $730.00 we crash landed it was difficult to land he really tried to loss during the 2nd landing attempt the tire skidded on the left side there was a shared church it was over 36 feet then there was a sudden bright everyone on board was wearing seat belts we keep their hands on a safe in front of us to protect ourselves that the plane fell into the ditch and broke into 2 houses. carrying the state is trying to a large number of indians working in the gulf is the 2nd plane crash in 10 years involving in india express flight from dubai 158 people were killed when their plane skidded off the runway in mangalore ruin crashed down the hill in 2010. friday's flight this child to by the indian government repatriate workin stranded by the pandemic for months and who are eager to return home some never made it to the long awaited reunion with their families so high that. hostile ahead here on out as there are protesters in israel keep up the pressure on prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be live and restoration and support battle and are prepared to make it champions league comeback against not only. well it's been raining quite heavily in pakistan's a bit more of that to come the clouds 1st crossed. but it's sort of dissolving by sunday will be a few showers up in the mountains i think but maybe not widespread rain not more cloud which stretches back towards the empty quarter and to some degree a cutoff what's been a fairly stiff and dry and dusty wind coming out of iraq than towards qatar which means the temperature will probably be reflecting a humid environment on the hot side still the monsoon is still blowing across the amanti kosovar will have 3 more days of drizzle sometimes even forecast as proper rain but it will turn green all the same is right for the time of the year. across the sars dry heat but this obviously represents thunderstorms a long way north they come through in clumps and they come certain drop a lot of rains on the army has registered 101 millimeters in the last 24 hours a service that clump of cloud went through which is now on its way through mali and will go off shore somewhere west of getting another we watch the next one develop the cancer in masses this one is a little bit further south but again you've got orange to share with. a mostly dry picture i have to say forecast wise is a little bit warm sorry for port elizabeth. but . rewind return ends with a new series. and running updates on the past down to sing these documentaries. that was just to. remind continues with the last try secret army of the cia since 975 a living the same way that the ancestors did living in the forest in the jungle and it seems like they're abandoned by everybody on al-jazeera. video of the ducting it and forced into sexual slavery by the japanese imperial army. for the so-called comfort women of the 2nd world war decades have passed but the trauma lives on. whitney's fall is the story of the women who campaigned with unwavering resolve for an official apology for this appalling chapter in history. the apology on al-jazeera. the. you're. you know again i'm the star let's remind you about top stories this hour thousands have demonstrated in the lebanese capital beirut they're angry at the government blaming corruption and inertia for an explosion at the port on tuesday that killed 158 people one police officer has been killed in clashes with protesters and the red cross says more than 100 people have been wounded. dozens of protesters stormed lebanon's foreign ministry building chanting slogans against the government and the political establishment they burned a portrait of president michel aoun the demonstrators called for the ministry buildings to be also occupying and lebanon's prime minister has india has now called for early elections following that wave of public outrage in a televised address he said he would introduce a draft bill in the coming days proposing early polls on that's now speak to sami not a he's the director of 11 institute for strategic affairs and he joins us now from beirut sami let's start with early elections is parliament going to vote for that. it may vote for that but i fear that this would be would not be enough to. draw up solar or to count the anger of this sunni. population the protests. of our anger because of what happens on tuesday night they want they want justice they want an international investigation what happen they want to have a responsible accountable for what they have done just to some scapegoats some. managers add cost terms or the poor direction. being had by the architect the is not an os they want. in an international community international investigation and not an action or early election which has been and that the man that evolution or or the demand of the protesters is not i see it it's not in us today i mean as you were saying there have been these multiple promises of accountability for everyone responsible for she states because we saw that from the president the prime minister from hezbollah do you think that will actually happen especially for the elite despite the investigation that's been promised. sorry i didn't get the question i was just asking whether you think that the investigation will actually lead to any accountability you spoke about the protest is not having any interest and it's not an international and this is the concern that this is not an also. nice book the nation has been news to. and that to know where. so many where are buried responsible also crimes also being. also a quarter i. did not get. this is why they. ordered internationally. to jordan and you know that there was actually. that a prime minister and today what happened on. that getting. missed that which is very important but. hold the city has been destroyed on tuesday and its basic right of everybody needs to know. who is the responsibility of stalking. dawn's explosive in the heart of their city and sami has when he addressed the nation he also spoke about changing the political elite but even if there are elections surely take place within the existing political system with the same political parties right or do you see brought a change potentially here. can be changed even with their current elected or no that is they know me. or their current political parties but the mall has to look at me. and there is. a part of the establishment. that explosion. because all the water they could establish is responsible. sammy noted that the director of the 11th institute of strategic a fan as always great to have you in fact outta there. well thousands in west jerusalem protesting against israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for weeks demonstrators have demanded the netanyahu step down want standing trial if a corruption charges and they've also voiced trust patient over the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak there well that's a car spun and harry forth and he's in western us and with those crowds how do those crowds really do seem to grow every week. well yes i mean this was said last week last saturday to have been the biggest protest so far to the naked eye it looks at least as big this week if not bigger so the momentum of these protests remains extremely high we are just a few 100 meters away on the other side of the square behind me from the residence of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu this is another substantial very noisy protest directed at him personally demanding that he step down once again there is a pretty large dominance i think of israeli political left here in terms of the the black flag movement and other similar movements that have long been arguing that he should step down because of the fact that he's facing 3 corruption charges regrets 2 cases on which he is now on trial i did it has been very much field as well by widespread discontent and anger with the government moment in dealing with the growth of virus pandemic and the economic fallout of it and as you say the dimension continues to grow rather than decline and harry i believe as you talk about yet another election is that like you. well yes i way from the street protests it's hard to see exactly what the mechanism for getting rid of not you know can be directly from these protests if they don't somehow get translated into his own party. and sort of start undermining his political support get away from this there is a pretty big ruction in the. initially unity government between netanyahu and his former rival now alternate prime minister defense minister ready guns every week on a sunday israeli governments have their weekly cabinet meeting this sunday's cabinet meeting looks on the brink of being called off because they can't agree on an agenda that's it you know who wants to cause a one year budget which would allow him a free hand to potentially going to elections and staying in office in the run up to those elections gantz wants to see the agreement that he signed earlier this year on a meaning a 2 year budget which would give him more security as he looks to take over as growth that agreement in the denver next year if they can't come to an agreement by the 25th of this month that there isn't some kind of rescue emergency legislation and that would trigger another election a for election inside 2 years and that would be in a very high health of the our correspondent live in west jerusalem thank you very much gary. has declared a state of environmental imagine see after the japanese are in ship again spending tons of oil the island is appealing for help from france but a volunteer came up operation is already underway there and mason has the story aerial and satellite photos show the extent of the oil spill off the southeastern coast of. the japanese owned ball-carrier what does she owe ran aground late last month and began leaking its $4000.00 tons of fuel into the indian ocean all 20 crew were taken ashore but rough seas hampered attempts to stabilize the ship and pump the fuel off after declaring a state of environmental emergency prime minister pravin juggernaut appealed for help from france he says islanders don't have the expertise to clean up the spill president emanuel qualm promised to send teams and equipment from the nearby french island of. while the government's waiting for french help to arrive some volunteers have started their own cleanup effort building sea booms with straw to soak up the spill. will see them still movies with we are here to see what we can save everyone here is trying to save what they can of our ocean which gives us so much and which supports us the border this is our heritage it's a good move was just wrong headed we can see the situation is getting worse this bill is affecting so many sectors tourism the economy ecology good. news was that some salons are offering free haircuts this weekend as hair can also be used to soak up oil. while 4000 tons of fuel may seem like a relatively small amount compared to major oil leaks its impact on the riches is huge. islands are surrounded by some of the world's most valuable coral reefs and tourism is crucial to the economy the impact will not only be logical leap equally be economical because many people erode their livelihoods from the fish that fish in the area there are a lot of hotels also in the area who market which market these. sites in order to get clients and you have a lot of people who only livelihoods also on the loan leader say is to 1st time the 1300000 islanders have been faced with an environmental crisis of this kind experts fear the ship could break up causing an even greater fuel leak and inflicting catastrophic damage to marine life at least 20 well speaking of catastrophic damage the last intact ice shelf in canada has crashed into the arctic ocean have a look at this satellite footage shows the moment the 4000 year old mill shelf collapsed to form huge ice specks canada used to have a continuous ice shelf running across the northern coast as mere island but it's broken up over the last few decades because of global warming and in europe fears the glacier in the italian alps is about to collapse due to rising temperatures subsiding earlier this week a resort near the italian french border was on high alert over concerns that a chunk of ice the size of a cathedral was about to drop people living nearby were forced to leave their homes . thousands across the u.s. are traveling to the state of south dakota for an annual motorcycle rally despite concerns it could spread corona virus infections organizers say they expect up 225-0000 people during the 10 day event south dakota's new cases remain under $100.00 per day but they are rising the state's governor never imposed the law and has resisted making masks compulsory. elderly homeless in a victorious station in a stray accounted for half the 12 daily deaths on saturday $466.00 daily infections were reported but doctors say the total is stabilizing a record surge recently put a strain the 2nd biggest city in melbourne back under lockdown and an overnight curfew the states of queensland and new south wales close their borders to try to contain the spread. of 19 has left pacific island nations relatively untouched but an increase in infections and pup in new guinea is straining its already fragile health system nicholas cage has the story. outside a sports stadium in port moresby people white to be tested at 19 inside a makeshift hospital has been set up to treat a rising number of paypal with the coronavirus until now pup when you get he has avoided a large scale outbreak but in recent weeks it has spread to new provinces forcing the closure of a massive copper and gold mine and many health workers are testing positive protective medical equipment is being distributed and international health teams flowing in but there are concerns the already fragile health system going to cope for all we know there are some great things going on behind the scenes the communication between government health department and then down to the people that hasn't happened the government has brought down missions including closing its border with indonesia but in many areas social distancing is a challenge and with huge numbers living below the poverty line access to clean water for handwashing is limited what we can find a way. which . to wash their hands while few cases have been recorded in other pacific island nations they are now facing economic devastation due to the collapse of trade and tourism and countries like some a still reeling from recent deadly measles outbreak so many of the nations in the region relied on tourism people coming to visit to really sustain their economies and i just don't have that capacity now a huge economic impact for the nations right across the region that's going to last for years the asian development bank says the number of people living in extreme poverty in the region could increase by up to 40 percent in the short term many pacific island nations who need help to keep their economies afloat gauge al-jazeera. now protests have been held across colombia after the supreme court put former president of the river on the house arrest his supporters have been rallying in their cars across major cities with a detention day printing press corps divisions. to report from the capital. they came out in force in the 4 wheeled protest to abide by current restrictions got their only. their stanch supporters of former colombian president. who for them will always be the country savior no matter what. needle and upper class conservatives forever grateful to an ex-president who improved security in a nation battered by a long and bloody civil conflict one doctor what america did we disagree with this and just don't remember we couldn't leave the house with it still counts who gave us freedom. for them the supreme court decision to detain libby on witness tampering and fraud charges this week is an outrage and thousands of former good fighters have gone 3 tanks 282016 peace deal you know i read an article it's not fair that they keep him like a vile criminal when those guerrilla fighters are sitting in the senate it's not fair not fair. but to others here it's who you are who is the criminal a man with alleged ties to drug traffickers and paramilitary groups with no regard to human rights whose war against marxist insurgents left thousands of innocent civilians dead. the opposition against a hard fought peace deal with fired rebels that is predecessor a one man way to santa is achieved leaving the country split in 2 now even tension promises to defend these divisions there threatening the possibility of requests in an already deeply wounded country. would have this party in this political protests current president have attacked the courts the citizen even calling for an overhaul of the justice system and a change to the constitution. for many political commentators the current crisis this testing the country's institutions in society one of the basic questions here is whether or not the political structure can hold this attack that it's being done against its legitimacy against this sort dorothy. per better or for worse. dominated colombia's political landscape for decades and will likely continue to do so as a symbol of a deeply polarized country still trying to reconcile itself with its past alison that impunity. now a court in thailand's capital has granted bail to 2 anti-government protest leaders who were arrested on friday night dozens of supporters gathered outside that court in bangkok demanding their release they were held in connection with pro-democracy protests and our correspondent wayne hay is in bangkok and he says the recent rally is have been the most significant since the military crew of 2014. if the police thought the arrest of the 2 protest leaders was going to scare the rest of the protesters off the streets it clearly didn't have the desired effect this rally in the heart of bangkok shopping district just one of many that have taken place in recent weeks not only in the capital city but in other parts of thailand is as well the been fairly small protests led mainly by students but they have been significant in fact this is the most significant protest movement we've seen since the military coup in 2014 the protesters have a set of demands they want this government gone they want new elections called and they want the military draft constitution to be written they basically feel that little if anything has changed in thailand since the coup despite the fact that an election was held in march last year basically we still have the same people who led the coup running the government today. still ahead here on al-jazeera gulfs 1st a major and over here gets its 1st chinese leader that's coming up badly in support . of counting the cost russia war planes and space to seize control of libya's biggest will be lost lebanon's take a look around it's a devastating explosion because it's time for. weaponize and this information to manipulate elections. counting the costs of al-jazeera understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world no matter. when you will be in the news and current affairs that matter to you the slums of mindanao home to an 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