And also. We do it was. Done Little People can get sick. And the u. N. Investigator says the u. S. Drone strike that killed a rainy and general cassim sort of money was unlawful. Welcome to the program the president who repeatedly downplayed coronavirus is now in quarantine at his home in brazil after testing positive tribal sonera has canceled his show jewel for the next few days but insists that hes still in good health hes one of nearly 1700000 people infected in brazil the 2nd worst affected country in the world are latin america editor Lucien Newman reports. World leaders have defied a cold in 1000 like brazils jade. For months the president tempted fate and turned to doctors he scorned calls to respect social distancing he seemed to relish defying even his own advisors always pressing the flesh and rarely using a face mask many members of his cabinet had become infected even his wifes grandmother. Some joked hed made a pact with the devil until what was probably the inevitable happened but wolf i thought of you a kid in my field the west side. Everybody knew that sooner or later current of our sort of reach an important part of population a lot of people like me for example if i would not have done the test i would not know about a result that was positive yes it was positive. So far bosso not has admitted to having a feeder and body aches but continues to brush off the severity of an illness he once described as a little trouble even taking off his face mask after testing positive. For the bureaucratic of the theft ok so you can see my face who wants to see my face im fine calm thank god. Thanks that i was there prayed for me were supporting me im fine thank god. Its not just bill so not his health but his political reputation thats at stake hes waged war against lockdowns saying theyre more harmful than the illness a. Hes clashed with governors who ordered businesses closed and the Supreme Court which recently felt compelled to order the president to wear a face mask or pay a steep fine thank you for taking his cue from donald trump also not who has threatened to withdraw from the w. H. O. And has ordered that Brazils Health system distribute the anti malaria drug docs a chloroquine despite warnings that its not safe or proven to be effective thing treating coronavirus hes in fact using it now himself. Nevertheless wishes he while im a speedy and full recovery. From this disease or leaders around the world have have had similar experiences and i think it brings home. The reality of this wires. That will likely depend on how president polson i dont fence on whether hell become seriously ill as was he produced Prime MinisterBoris Johnson or whether hell be back at work in a week or 2 telling everyone i told him so. All this despite the more than 65000 positions lost their lives so far so called little. You see in human aljazeera carmichael kinkel is an associate professor at the paul difficult Catholic University of Rio De Janeiro he says illness could work and its safer this is not a man of deep insights i think and also it also true its also extraordinary convenient for him in some ways indeed if it stays our late course right hell be able to continue on his narrative that its just a flu and can be cured easily he was also scheduled to be deposed by the federal police on its allegations of the new influence taking next week so the timing is not known and one stays late course the time is not altogether bad if it stays within these sort of 85 percent that are the life forces and it will likely strengthen those who are. Who are doubting the severity of the outbreak in the hospital it may actually end up lowering the adhesion to a cutting into it getting to the side of this and signatures here which isnt that great to begin with weve seen this kind of catastrophic responsibly that the country is had has to deal with a total lack of leadership from the federal right for brazil had every possibility of having an absolutely model response to this pandemic we have a very strong public Health System we have highly trained doctors we have good i. C. U. Density we have experience with pandemics treatment of hiv and aids here is actually quite quite advanced so you know its a sign of failure of leadership in the federal level this that this is turned out the way that. Thousands of protesters have tried to storm serbias palm and angry about tough coronavirus restrictions president alexander vic church put a weekend curfew back in place after the countrys worst day yet of the pandemic with 13 deaths alexia brian reports. Protesters and Police Battle on the streets around serbias parliament was found strike to storm the building some briefly managing to get inside before being pushed back was theyre angry at president aleksander church and his decision to reimpose coronavirus restrictions. Some chanted calling him a thing was others demanded his resignation or government are trying for the 2nd time. Put the cell phones to impose current theory. For which it is only a serious possibility because they made all the mistakes was. The mistake they say was lifting what was one of europes strictest lockdowns. We gathered here to protest because our president lifted the state of emergency because of the election and now he wants to impose it again. Critics say the president lifted restrictions so he could hold parliamentary elections last month has passed on an overwhelming victory not clubs were back in action it was a tennis tournament shops were open and 25000 fans packed a belgrade stadium for the countrys most popular football match at the station slammed by an epidemiologist as an enormous totally unjustified risk the president now says the situation in belgrade is critical after his from over we made lots of mistakes we have probably relaxed too much everyone thought it was all over scituate you know the situation in belgrade is alarming and its serious in 4 more cities in serbia but belgrade is really in a critical situation. The capitals hospitals are almost full so the military has been building temporary facilities gatherings of more than 5 people are now banned and the u. K. Few this weekend before they and the anger against the church means the crowds are unlikely to stay at home. Brian aljazeera coronavirus cases continues to climb in the u. S. The number of dead has passed 130000 infections are surging in states that push to reopen early but President Trump is still downplaying the pandemic and insists he wont schools to reopen after the summer break like how the reports now from washington d. C. Texas is one of the 1st states to use its mitigating measures responding to pressure from President Trump in mid april who insisted he wanted states to open up to restart the economy. Now with stealing with a massive increase in infections joining florida and reporting more than 10000 cases in a day a figure matched only by new york state in the early stages of the pandemic in the next 2 weeks were probably going to end up being what new york was 2 months ago i think thats whats going to happen trying to ingraham has been an i. C. U. Nurse for 17 years last week she went from caring for patients to becoming a patient herself after testing positive i really at one point in time asked god to take me the pain was ridiculous. It was a clue i mean in my mind i couldnt breathe think i didnt have to be proud of ventilator the republican governor who ordered the early opening of texas is now dialing back and reimposing mitigating measures including the wearing off masks we wore not have to shut it down if everyone will follow this very simple rule and that is to get a mascot this where it make sure that you dont get covered 18 and you dont give it to anybody else but the u. S. President continues to be masculists and even as the cases surges now are putting pressure on governors to open schools for the new year at the end of august what we want to do is we want to get our schools open we want to get them open quickly beautifully in the fall and the as you know this is a disease its a horrible disease but young people do extraordinarily well the reaction from teachers was furious that is so callous and him so callous we do it wrong people die Little People can get sick you had asthma youve got bad allergies and youre 6 years old you could die if we do this ron there was anger too among many in congress which was officially notified that President Trump is pulling the United States out of the World Health Organization the notice period is 12 months so the u. S. Will actually only leave the w. H. O. Interlined next year between then and now is an election and president ial candidate joe biden says one of his 1st acts as president will be to reverse the decision effectively it will be up to the voters to decide mike hanna aljazeera washington. Well still ahead here on aljazeera well have the latest will stray away its 2nd largest cities being forced back into lockdown. And on the defense of mexicos president is accused of selling out plans to meet donald trump at the white house. However still plenty of moisture around for the mountains of a man to generate thunderstorms and they are quite good ones when they happen and equally the on shore breeze and salon has made it more or less continually continuously have a cast was just every now and again but not continues to which is yet this brown stain you see is a hint of dust carried in the air coming down from iraq is nothing. In fact dohas 40 indicates rather more humid weather in the immediate future where the wind picks up the dust again from syria into iraq once while temperatures here have hit 50 in the last couple days were still in the high fortys clearly much nicer the further west you go with that on shore breeze from the mediterranean now the driving force of the monsoon is once more generating big showers and are on the way to the coast maybe of somalia more likely tanzania thats the orange suggesting some pretty heavy downpours its been dry here for a while so that im sure a breeze makes a significant difference the big showers where you are expected to be south sudans in the wet season so this is a moment so juba is going to forecast next 3 days about the rain or thunderstorms the temperature up to 30. 00 to 34. 00 degrees it drops standard 23. 00 at night so its not especially humid. An image can change the way we see the world it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful it can obscure truth forged narratives and rewrite them to listening post gives you the frank picture on a. Frank assessments tourism but income stream is dead in the water whats been the result received perching go up quite significantly and indepth analysis of the dates global headlines inside story on aljazeera. The. But the backyard of me said holroyd the reminder of our top news stories brazils president has canceled his show jools all the coming days after testing positive to cope with 19 giant ball sonora whos now in quarantine at home has repeatedly downplayed the threat from the virus was also thousands of protesters outside serbias parliament over plans to reimpose tough provirus restrictions president alexander is putting a curfew back in place after 13 deaths on shoes state worse day yet the pandemic lifted restrictions in the weeks before last months general election. And the Top Administration has begun the formal process of withdrawing the us from the World Health Organization the president has been critical of the w. H. O. Over its handling of the corona Virus Outbreak accusing it of being influenced by china. The u. S. Drone strike that killed top iranian general kasim zillah body in january was illegal thats the conclusion of the un special rapporteur on extra judicial killings Agnes Keller Maher says the assassination in iraqs capital was against the u. N. Charter laura birdman lee has more. Top iranian general cousin solomon he was popular among many in iran but was considered a dangerous threat to the u. S. By present on trump that was the justification for drone attack on some the moneys convoy as he left Baghdad Airport on january the 3rd killing him an iraqi commander the among hundreds among others a killing thats been called a new fool by u. N. Investigators act as kind of the special rubber to an extradition killing said in reports on tuesday in light of the evidence that the u. S. Has provided states the targeting of general stolen money and the deaths of those accompanying him constitution treat killing which under International HumanRights School the us is responsible just attack is different from all the drone strikes the United States has engaged in because it targeted senior figure in the iranian government so whatever you want to say about solmonese history and his alleged offenses against the United States and other countries he was a senior figure in the Iranian Military and we kill them. At a time when were not at war with iran so it seems like an act of war against iran or under other definitions of assassination so money was the leader of the could fools the overseas of the Iranian Revolutionary guard corps. He hopes 20 runs ties with the armed Group Hezbollah are backed by shalah found in syria and his food has played a key role in fighting i still in syria and rock. Person trance accusation the son of man he was planning to attack u. S. Targets who is legally justifying an attack based on self defense. Kalam arthurs those insufficient evidence provided of an ongoing or imminent attack kalama says the killing by an armed drone violated the un charter meaning it was breaking International Law dont try to pull the us out of the Human Rights Council in 2018. The report will be presented to it on thursday the u. S. May were largely ignore it but its color points out in her report it may lead to International Pressure for greater regulation of targeted killings but andreas noura bose im only. Russia and china her vetoes a u. N. Security Council Resolution would have extended cross border humanitarian aid to 3000000. 00 syrians for the next year the operation which is also rise until friday brings in supplies from turkey without interference from the Syrian Government aid workers have called the veto reprehensible our diplomatic editor james bays reports from u. N. Headquarters in new york. Earlier this year the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Kelly craft visited one of the border crossings used to bring much needed aid into syria accompanied by the uns top humanitarian official marc local she was shown the bubble how a crossing considered a vital lifeline for the people in the last main opposition enclave in the province of idlib speaking on a Facebook Live link up with a young Syrian Ambassador kraft appealed to the other members of the Security Council to renew permission to deliver aid across the border we must ensure that the Syrian People get life saving food and medicine and this is just a basic need this is. A result distance between life and that actually not stress the importance of this weeks vote on across borders. This wasnt the only appeal to the u. N. Security council in the hours before the vote a u. N. Commission of inquiry has released its latest report on human rights abuses in syria giving a damning assessment of what it describes as acts amounting to war crimes the chairman of the commission added this the very least the Security Council can do now is to renew industry infant the cross border and cross the line into operations pandemics no no borders nor should we need those pleas went unanswered the result of the voting is as follows 13 go out in favor or 2 votes against no abstentions the draft resolution has not been adopted or into the negative thoughts of 2 permanent member of members of the council both russia and china use their veto power was seeing a repeat of what happened 6 months ago until that point the un had for border crossings authorized for a delivery after using its veto in december russia managed to get that reduced to 2 crossings with the clock now ticking until the existing authorizations run out on friday having used its veto once again russia is now likely to push for just one approved checkpoint greatly reducing the amount of aid that can be delivered to opposition areas james outages era at the united nations. A car bombing in northeastern syria has killed at least 7 people 3 children are months the day the explosion happened in town near the Turkish Border dozens of people are being killed by a car bombs in the region since turkey drove the kurdish why p. G. Armed group in october. The United Kingdom says it will resume and selling weapons to saudi arabia more than a year after it was forced to stop because of alleged war crimes in yemen the British Government says the saudis have now agreed to comply with International Law this decision comes just a day after the u. K. Impose sanctions on 20 saudis over the murder of journalist Jamal KhashoggiCharlie Rangel has more from london. Over a year ago a British Court ordered the u. K. To stop the new licenses of arms sales to saudi and to review the decisions surrounding preexisting ones that review is now concluded its taken over a year and the government is saying while there were possible breaches of International Humanitarian law these were exceptions and not a pattern its not clear what methodology they used it certainly contradicts that u. N. Panel of experts who found widespread possible war crimes in the conflict between saudi and yemen and its not clear how many isolated incidents it would take to constitute a patent but the u. K. Has concluded that the saudi government is demonstrating a commitment to comply with International Humanitarian door and i quote there is therefore no clear risk that arms and military equipment exported to saudi might be used in serious contraventions of International Humanitarian law so what this means is the government is now going to be processing that backlog of orders from saudia includes a multimillion dollar deal for typhoon fighter jets and earlier i spoke to the campaign against arms trade who really spearheaded the original case against the government they said they are baffled by this decision theyve theyve described it as morally bankrupt and reprehensible of they said that their lawyers and now going to be looking into ways to challenge it. China has opened an office to enforce the National Security laws imposing in hong kong but itll serve as a base for chinese spies to operate in the city the office was converted from a hotel they have Victoria Park a location known for hosting prodemocracy protests to decades police blocked roads and set up barriers for the inauguration ceremony while we also heard here the new law in hong kong fixes a loophole in chinas National Security preventing curbing and punishing 4 types of acts against National Security it is a turning point to stop the violence and chaos in hong kong theres no hope that stability will be restored and the freedom and rights of hong kong residents will be better protected. Security forces have been sent to the border between australias most populous states to enforce a lockdown in victoria drivers that without a travel permit can be fined or face jail time its all because of a surge in corona virus cases with 5000000 people are now been ordered back into law for another 6 weeks bars restaurants hairdressers and gyms will close from wednesday we know they were asking a lot of victorians and we know of course that we didnt want to be in the position that we are in but thats the reality that we confront this is the challenge that we have to we have to make and i think that if we all Work Together over the next 6 weeks is fine phone frustrating and difficult is that we will be able to get to the other side of this stay at home period well be able to then reconvince there opening up in the course is why. Zimbabwes Health Minister has been fired for Inappropriate Conduct a statement announcing your. Dismissal did not elaborate further was arrested last month over allegations of corruption is related to the cube and a 60000000. 00 worth of coronavirus tests and equipment prosecutors claim 2 companies were illegally awarded government contracts without a competitive tender process. The 1st copies of a new book by doldrums nice have been distributed. A trained psychologist alleges the president is a lawyer whose worldview was shaped by his fathers disapproval or one times correspondent. Mary trump the president s niece has made some scathing criticisms of donald trump accusing the president of being a sociopath power and that this has much to do with his upbringing particularly the hounds of his father that it was a toxic family dynamic that created the donald trump that we know today now it is important to know that mary trump the president s niece her father did die of alcohol related related diseases that he was depressed and the president for his part speaks very fondly about his brother but what makes some of her criticisms particularly credible given the fact that you know families do have squabbles is the fact that as you mentioned shes a clinical psychologist so she feels particularly well suited to tell this story she says that shes releasing this both because she could no longer remain silent she claims that donald trump destroyed her family but she does not want him to destroy her country so shes putting this out in advance of the u. S. Election now this comes at a particularly difficult time for the u. S. President because of course this is the latest in a sort of tell all book to be released weve also had just weeks ago the tell all that was also critical of the president from the former National Security advisor john bolton and we should add to that that this is a difficult time for president struggling to deal with corona virus and also of course the poll numbers that show him lagging in the polls next to the contender for President Joe Biden the democratic president ial nominee. Its a meeting this officially about trade but the summit in washington in the coming hours between the u. S. And mexican president s is already provoking. And bewilderment when will the pelosi explains. Mexican president under this one. Is meeting with u. S. President donald trump this week at the invitation of the white house but what would normally be a standard meeting between 2 World Leaders has stirred criticisms but if you buy sickly there is an election season underway in the United States and the mexican president s visit could be misinterpreted but also over the years President Trump has expressed many offensive things toward mexico and mexicans this is why many people have a deep distrust and reject the way President Trump has treated us. President trump is not very well liked in mexico and much of that has to do with his past rhetoric regarding the mexican people when mexico sends its people theyre not sending their best theyre bringing drugs theyre bringing crime theyre rapists and mexico will pay for the wall. One to do attitude soured further in 2019 when President Trump threatened mexico with export tariffs unless mexico agreed to carry out a strict militarized Immigration Enforcement policy since the start of his administration 1000 months ago mexican president under disciplinary Lopez Obrador has sought to avoid a political conflict with President Trump opting instead for a relationship built on pragmatism we had a way that the visit scheduled for wednesday is the 1st time the 2 president s will meet in person does visit out of the we can talk about baseball we can talk about a lot of things everything without confrontation because its a political meeting. Critics of Lopez Obrador to say the mexican president is making a mistake by sitting down with trump who many in mexico regard as racist and anti mexican a recent poll however found that while few mexicans are fans of trump a majority favor lopez over the meeting with the u. S. President with many hoping the trip will. Help improve a bad economy if you were going on in mexico there are many who do not look kindly at our president attending this meeting but there are those who understand the weight of the economic agenda and recognizes the economys the result of political negotiations between leaders theres not such a thing as friendships between countries and geopolitically their own interests. President lopez or whatever says the focus of his u. S. Visit is to mark the launch of the us mexico canada trade agreement or u. S. M. C. A. A replacement to nafta that mexicos president has said will generate jobs and help reactivate the mexican economy when read up a little mexico city. Your child is there with me as a whole romney reminder of our top news stories brazils president has canceled his shuttle for the next few days after testing positive a covert 19 jiah ball sonora in corinth at home hes repeatedly downplayed the virus go towards. The west side here everybody knew that sooner or later a significant part of the population would get it it happened im an example myself if i hadnt taken the test i wouldnt have known the result and it turned out positive i just got a positive result yes its positive so it all began on sunday when i started feeling slightly ill and it worsened on monday i felt tired with muscle pain and had a fever that reached 38 degrees hospitals in several u. S. States say there intensive care units are reaching capacity as coronavirus cases continue to jump california reported more than 10000 cases in a single day on tuesday infections have been surging in states which push to reopen early including texas and florida but the president wants schools to reopen after the summer break. The trumpet ministration has begun the formal process of withdrawing the us from the World Health Organization the president has been critical of the w. H. O. For its handling of the current Virus Outbreak accusing it of being influenced by china. Thousands of protesters as parliament against plans to reimpose tough coronavirus restrictions theyve called for the resignation of president alexander veatch it hes put a weekend curfew back in place after the worst day of the pandemic with 13 deaths. Russia and china have vetoed a u. N. Security Council Resolution that would have extended cross border humanitarian aid to 3000000. 00 syrians for a year the operation which is also revised until friday brings in supplies from turkey without interference from the Syrian Government china has opened an office to enforce the National Security law its imposing in hong kong that will serve as a base for chinese spies to operate in the city. Those were the headlights im back with more news here on aljazeera in half an hour but next on our there its the listening post do stay with us. 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