Now. This super market reevaluated its plan to extend hours by one hour because of the alert and will continue its antivirus measures. Its really disappointing. Another spike in new infections at this point is disheartening. This driving school reopened on monday after being closed for about seven weeks. Instructors are busy giving driving lessonsns and the schoo is accepting an average of ten newcomers every day. Every day we have to think about how we fight the virus. Japans professional baseball leagues are going ahead with plans to open june 19th without anyone in the stands. They started practice matches on tuesday but one game has already been cancelled after two players with the tokyo based giants contracted the virus and a player with the professional soccer t team also tested positive. The club has suspended Team Practice that just started on monday. Meanwhile, japanese experts are shedding more light on who is more vulnerable to krrcovid19. Researchers at child health and development analyze data for more thann 2,0,000 coronaviviru patients. People with asthma are not at a higher risk of becoming seriouslsly ill. Ththeyre alslso looking at a conditionn where the immunune sysystem attacks not only virus but normal sells. Its been discovered that conditions inclulude inflammati and abnormal blood coagagulatio throughout the body. Blood clots and information effect various organs including the liver and kidneys. Experts are warning young people without any underlying conditions can become very seriously ill. Brazil recorded the most single day coronavirus cases and deaths in the world. It comes as the country eases its economic lock down. Brazil confronts more than 28,000 new cases and 1,262 new deaths on tuesday surpassing the tally in the United States. The total number of confirmed cases stands at more than 555,000 with over 31,000 deaths. Infections are concentrated in the deathly populated slums. The largest city has been hardest hit by the virus bit its partially reopened to Economic Activity since the start of this month. Authorities are allowing some businesses including large shopping malls to resume operation in certain areas saying hospitals are prepared to deal with coronavirus cases but concerns about the further spread of the virus were made with t the World Health Organization warning the outbreak in brazil has yet to reach its peak. Now to the United States where protests sparked by the death of george floyd continue to ripple across the nation. Neyork has seeeen another night of unrest as some demonstrators heheld an hour long standoff wi the police defying the citys cucurfew. Tensioions were h high when protestors packed the Manhattan Bridge facing off against police. They splintered from a larger group demonstrated in brooklyn. Similar protests were held across the country. Mostly peaceful but some resorting to violence and vandalism. About 1,600 active duty soldiers were flown into bases in the washington d. C. Area over the past 24 hours. President donald trump has been calling on governors for a stricter crack down after labeling himself the president of law and order. He tweeted d. C. Had no problems last night. Many arrests. Great job done by all. Former Vice President joe biden expressed empathy for the peaceful protestors and drew a line between him and his r riva trump. I wont traffic in fear and division. I wont fame the flames of hate. Ill seek to heal the racial wounds that long plagued our country a and not use them for political gain. Ill do my job and i will take responsibility. I wont blame others. Biden paused in Person Campaign activities after the Coronavirus Spread throughout the United States. This first major address in months comes from a motion fraught by the protests and health and economic fall out from the pandemic. Twitter has suspended an account belonging to an organization that called for violence related to the nationwide protests. U. S. Media outlets say the accountt claimed to represent antifa but a twitter spokesperson said it was run by a White Supremacy group. During protests over the weekend, tonights the night comrades. We move into the residential areas. The account breached twitters platform that bans the setting up of fake accounts. On sunday trump tweeted he will designate antifa as a terrorist organization. Employees with facebook went on a virtual strike monday calling for executives to appropriately check posts by trump that could be regarded as violent. On friday trump posted on facebook and twitter he would respond to protestors with military force. He said when the looting starts the shooting starts. Unlike Twitter Facebook did not touch the president s post. Ceo Mark Zuckerberg said they read it as a warning about state action and people need to know if the government is planning to deploy force. The philippines says it will keep allowing u. S. Forces to train in the country shelelving previous plans to scrap a military pact between the nations. Manila told the United States in february it would terminate the socalled visiting forces agreement in august. That came after washington refused to issue a visa for a philippine senator loyal to the president. But the philippines now says its delaying endingg the agreement by at least four months due to what it describes as political and other developmpments in the region. In a letterr to the u. S. They also said the suspension could be extended by a further half year. The u. S. Embassy in manila welcomed the move. The planned termination of the 2 decade old pact triggered widespread concern among government officials in the philippines. They fear it would weaken their defense against china and lets say beijings growing military forced manila to change course. The coronavirus pandemic is pushing more daily activity ononline from shoppining and wo. Forr some peoplee that included searching for r a spouse. Hi. This iss a an o online get together f for singlgle peoeopl aing to find a future spououse. Translator i amm r ready fo summerer. Translator i am isolating on my own and feeling lonely. I am more eager now to find someone to marry. But she is not alone. More japanese people these days are spending time at home rather than heading out so datingg agencies are respondnding by offering new online services. Translator i wasnt sure whether anyone would actually show up to these online meetings, but the numbers are growing. I think people want a partner to live with through this difficult time of isolation during the pandemic. He started looking for a spouse this spring. He participated in five online meetings so far. I wanant a woman who express her opinions clearly. At first, he felt strange about going online to find a partner. But not only has he gotten used to it, he now believes it offers certain advantages. I can focus because we communicate only through our facial expressions and voices. Another thing that has changed is his expectations. He says the experience has broadened his horizons offering the chance to meet People Living far away. Translator i used to believe just being with someone else was all i needed but through meeting people onlinee i realize that its important to have shared interest and to enjoy talking with each other. One expertrt thinks the new dating trerend could be a sign thingsgs to come inn many other areas. Translator after covid19 well likely live in a drastically Different Society and economy with the i iernet as the founundation. Thisis search for partners may commmmicate in the fufuture. Covid19 iss having a big impact on the way we work, play, and spend time with loved ones. The pandemic may already be radically changing the way people approach marriage. Moving now to check on World Weather with our meteorologist jonathan oh. Strong storms are expected to strike the northern parts of the United States. So jonathan, whats the latest . We are talking about a pattern, a low pressure system moving across the midwest and moving into the Great Lakes Region and that will continue to be a concern for us because you may notice the clouds are like building upright there. Those are stronger thunderstorms and this pattern will still be apart of the story as we go through wednesday and into thursday as well. So theres the core front sweeping across the region. So, be on the look out for this. The reason why were seeing such intense storms is not only the cold air from the north but feeding into warm air from the south. Its quite juicy as well as highs from upper 20s to around 30. Thats going to be the clash point for the storms. So possible thunderstorms as we go through wednesday. Down toward the yucatan peninsula is a tropical system having a hard time moving along so its going to take a few days for it to move into the gulf of mexico but it will still be an issue when it comes to strong winds, high waves and heavy rain and be on the look out for that and the cold front will be moving through. So showers and thunderstorms extending from chicago into winnipeg. 28 for the high in winnipeg. Thats the high side there. Toronto 26 and d. C. Looking for a high of 35 on wednesday. Much warmer than were supposed to see this time of the year. Across japan, a relatively warm day as well. Highs in the upper 20s in tokyo. We have the front nearby with a low pressure developing and thats been bringing rain and the concern is that theres a lot of rain with this as it is expected. You may be dealing with landslides as we go through thursday. The wet weather pattern will still be in place. Tokyo cooler but still looking at highs in the mid to upper 20s as we go through thursday. More showers expected with heavier rain possible in southern areas of china as we go through thursday. Theres a look at your forecast. I hope that you have a good day where ever you are. And that concludes this edition of nhk newsline. Theres much more to come here on nhk world japan. So please, do stay with us. Welcome to newsline index. We come to you from tokyo from the roof of nhk headquarters. Behind me, japans capital is slowly coming back to life after the lifting of the state of emergency. The world has become a strangely different place since covid19 arrived on the scene. Working from home, wearing face masks, and spacingng apart in supermarket queues are just part of new normal we are living today. Acknowledging this new reality, the newsline industry has come out here in the open air looking for the big picture. Today we bring you an exclusive interview with t the historian. At this t time of great anxiety and uncertainty, questions are being asked about how we should all position to the post pandemic world. He is a historian and the best setting author of sapiens and speaking to me in skype interview in april he warned that the pandemic poses a threat to democracacy, leaving uss wit some i important choices to mak. We know t that the democrcra collapse, usualally not in norm times but a always collapse in emergencies. But in emergencies is the time whwhen we most need democracy. Theyre handing out billions and trillions and we need supervision otherwise a Single Person can be sign the cocorporatioions of his friends supporters by letting other businesses fall. So yes, we need emergency measures, defininitely. But even in emergencies, wee still n need checkcks and balan and we still need supervisionn o make suree that the government s really serving the interests of everybody and not just of those connected to power. Uhhuh. Is it often the case when during the time of the emergency the people tend to prefer stability over disruption. They are bound to even support dr args drac draconian measures. This is an emergency. People are afraid for their lives and a lot of also economic concerns. People are losing their jobs, businesses are collapsing, entire induststries, the touour industry are collapsing. So a lot of people are, b becau they are so afraid thehey just want somebody wise and powerful to takee over l like some kind father figure and this is very dangerous because if you give so much power to one person and that person makes a mistake the consequences are far, far worse. He says citizens can and should speak out on what direction their government should take at this time. He believes peoples voices can carry weight in this increasingly fragmented world. In the absence of v viable leadership would you think theylll be able t to fill p pa the void. Yes but alslso by exerting political pressure on their own governments. If the public tells the gogovernment, we dont caree ab anybody else, we just want you to get as many ventilators as possible for o our country and you have t to fht other cocountrieies for itit, we won it. If the p public is m more responsible and shows greer sosolidaririty and people tell government, look, this is an emergency, we need m medical equipment butut we know that otr countries are in even worse situation then we w want to be more resesponsible and show greater solidarityy so please help the other countries. We are willing to carry the burden of it and t then governments, at least in some cocountries will response to it. And i hope that well see this greater Global Solidarity not just because its essential already dealing with thiss criss but also because but because it will effect the world after the crisis. If countries are just fighting each other, it will poison International Relations for years to come. The countries fighting each other inn a crisis is all too familiar to us. We have already witnessed china blocking taiwan from attending the w. H. O. Emergency meetings and the u. S. Blaming china for the spread of what it sometimes called the wuhan virus. Ththe news is not all gloomy. The w. H. O. Is considering a new mission to investigate the source of the coronavirus in china and is in discussions with beijining. Which roaoad do they take . Corporation or coconflict . To fight this Global Challenge will have an enduring impact on future. If human kind learns the lesesss of histotory then getting our a together is the only way forward. In previousandemics like the black death in the middle ages, the biggest problem of human kind was that we didnt know what we were facing. It took us just two weeks to identify the virus causing the new disease and develop an affected test to know who has it and who doesnt. Sciencee now is a much stronong position than in any previous time in history so there is no question that we will defeat this virus provided that humans all over the world cooperate effectively. Some say that the key lies in deglobalizatation if this pandec was the result or outcome of globalization. Obviously youou do not agree. No. Pandemics occurred long beforee in t the middlee ages there are airplan airplanes, no big cruise ships, you neeeed to goo all t the way to the stone age and we cant go back there. So the real antidote is not isolation. Its cooperation and information. Our biggestst advantage is that humans can cooperate in ways that viruss cannot a virus in china cannot give information to a virus i in the u. S. A. About h to avoid the immunune system. But a doctotor in chihina can g advice to the gernment of the u. U. S. They can form a common plan of how to fight the virus. If we dont use this the virus will be worse. As long as the epidemic spreads in any country it endangers the whole of human kind. The fundamental problem about fighting a war against the coronavirus, the invisible enemy is that its hard to know when the battle is over. But successfully validating the pandemic requires a new mind set and that includes dropping metaphors of war. If you could define victory hohow would you defifine it bec coronavivirus is not something that can b be eradicated. We shouldnt think about it as a war. Its the wng metaphor. In a war you have soldiers with gun killing each other. This is a very different kind of situati situation. The herer in thiss situation is nurse in hospipital changingg b sheets. The wlele criss isbobout taking care of people not aut killing and winning. We need to win against the virus but no human being should be seen as a an enemy. So i think that we should leave aside this metaphor of the war and victorory. We take care o of all humans al over the world. If we protect humans all over the world from the sprpread of e viruss and i if we protect huma all over the w world frorom the economic consequences of the crisis. If we protect people just in our country i would not define that as auk sesz. The long history of humanan beings, what i is the sigignife of this coronapandemic. Well, human kind will obviously survive it. Wewe are strtronger than this v and we have survived much more serious epipidemics in ththe pao ththeres no q question about i. Ultimately the impact off this epidemic is notot predetermined. Its up to us. If we choose to distrust science and believe conspiracy theories the result will be catastrophic, millions of people dying, economic crisis, political history. If we choose wisely, if we choose global solidadarity, if choose democratic responsibility, if we choose to believe in Scientific Authority then despite the death, despite the susuffering, this will actually with hindsight look lilike a good m moment f for hu kind. A moment whenn we overcame not just the v virus but a moment wn we overcameme our own internal demonsns. The momoment when we overcame hatred, the m moment when we overcameme illusions andnd delus and came out as much s stronger and m more unifieded species. He reminds us that the post coronavirus world is not about eradicating covid19 because t e virus is not going to go away. We have no choice but to learn to live with it, where ever that takes us, but we doo have other choices and we need to make them wisely because they are going to define a way of life for many years to come. Thats it for todays newsline index. Thank you for watching and see you again next time. Continue to express anger on the streets after the death of george floyd. Many defying curfews. Police in several cities firing tear gas. In paris, a protest through more than 20,000 people. Some setting fires and clashing with police as night fell. Passls covid19 deaths 30,000. The president still downplaying the pandemic. Parts of the country have partially reopened