Candidates are required to pledge allegiance to the territory. Well have more on the breaking news the death of congressman john lewis in a few moments here on aljazeera but 1st americans are getting mixed messages about whether or not they should wear mosques to protect themselves from the coronavirus u. S. President donald trump has ruled out making them compulsory at a National Level is what he had to tell fox news earlier on friday. Would you consider what you consider a National Mandate that people need to wear a mask i want people to have a certain freedom and i dont believe in that no and i dont agree with the statement that if everybody were a mask everything just appears a doctor felt she said dont wear a mask or Surgeon General terrific guy said dont worry mask everybody was saying dont worry mask all of a sudden everybodys got to wear a mask and as you know mask those problems too with that being said im a believer in masks i think masks are good but americas top Infectious Diseases expert as they found she is urging state officials to do everything they can to convince people to wear masks the White House Coronavirus task force has identified 18 states a socalled red zones where urgent action is needed i can say as a Public Health official that i would urge the leaders the local political and other leaders in states and cities and towns to be as forceful as possible in getting your citizen tree to wear masks masks are important as part of the physical distance physical distancing is the most important but practically when youre living your life and trying to open up the country you are going to come into contact with people and for that reason we know that masks are really important face coverings are still only mandatory in a little of a hoff of the 50 us states georgias governor is urging the public to wear masks but has banned any efforts to enforce that dr tasha cheeta is from the Johns HopkinsUniversity School of medicine and says that the mosque issue has become political which is preventing the government from taking action. We have other Public Health measures such as seat belts which are managed by law and which people do follow and so i think part of the reason this is unfortunately become so political is from mixed messaging from our federal government as well as our president. Making it into a political issue unfortunately and thats why i think you can see a clearly clearer split in terms of where our place is supporting masking unmasking mandates and where places that are not the u. S. Is made up of states which have a fair amount of states rights i think unfortunately due to overall lack of leadership from the federal government there has not been a move to have a National Unified response and this is left up to the states and you know unfortunately some are some coming to their own pressures from their own political leanings and others are not the World Health Organization says the brazils corona virus infection rates appears to have classes and that it should seize the opportunity to drive down transmission the country remains the epicenter of the pandemic in latin america but as this in human reports theres growing criticism of government responses across the continent. In the admission to chicken about a hospital in money that doctors fight to keep Critical Care patients alive unlike the city of Rio De Janeiro in much of real state of virus infections continue rising infections in brazil have surpassed the 2000000 mark it took 4 months to reach 1000000 infections and less than one to double that number. And the death toll is now well past 75000 yet according to brazils former Health Minister who was sacked by president table so natural the defendant confinement measures authorities and even ordinary citizens are not taking coronavirus seriously enough as business. People have become uncaring 1300 deaths a day is like 5 jets crashing every day but in peoples minds its like they dont understand that theres a 5 jets packed with people who could be your mother my sister your grandson my great grandson. But the w. H. O. Is beginning to see the Glass Half Full saying that infections are plateau ing and no longer spreading exponentially its an opportunity it says to bring the pandemic under control in latin americas largest country whose president is even infected but downplays the severity of the disease. From the largest to one of the smallest countries panama kovan 1000 is causing havoc. Doctors are protesting against what they say is the governments failure to provide sufficient protection money for more money we need more supplies and personnel we dont have enough for the number of patients. For the north in guatemala the death toll is soaring after the government relaxed initial confinement measures hospital Officials Say theyre on the brink of collapse well its whats killing us is not the virus its the indifference of the state it is the indifference of the Health Authorities and as long as governments ignore calls for more energetic measures to control Transmission Health experts warn that initial signs of a slowdown in contagion will not last to see in human aljazeera. A controversial new anti terror law is now being enforced in the philippines that allows police to bypass the court system arrest suspects without a warrant they could be held without charge for up to 24. 00 days critics are concerned that itll in dangerous Civil Liberties and may be abused to target opponents of president to say the government richard hereon is a political scientist and author he says the laws definition of terrorism is very broad. To begin with there are safeguards within this law with regards to abuses of human rights but the problem is the political and institutional environment in the philippines i mean you have reports of thousands of extra judicial killings in the country despite the fact that you have very strict laws that theyre supposed to ensure jew process and human rights and the problem with this new law is that even though there are certain legal safeguards its definition of terrorism is extremely broad and if you look at section 4 of the proposed law for instance in the initial draft it says that if Security Forces deem certain exercises of civil and Political Rights as posing risk to Public Safety then that could be defined as terrorism gives tremendous amount of rain to a quite an authoritarian leaning government this is what the critics are saying to add to tag anyone as terrorists even if that person started being subverted the state institutions nominations opened in hong kong for candidates of the upcoming Legislative Council election the vote is set to take place in september prodemocracy groups hoping to get a majority but they could face major challenges getting on the ballot the government has the power to disqualify people for their political views its also the 1st election since a new security law was imposed by beijing which critics say restricts freedoms in the territory lets go live now to hong kong and to aljazeera adrian brown adrian given the whats happening in hong kong right now is it possible that these elections might actually not happen. Well adrian the picture behind me speaks of prosperity but its also a picture that in many ways but lies the mood right now here in hong kong and i would categorize that mood by being one of suffocation suffocation from the effects of this new Draconian National security law and also suffocation from the restrictions arising from covert 90 min mixed in with all of that weve also. Seen displays of the defiance on saturday as candidates begin submitting their nominations for those elections due to be held in exactly 50 days time on sunday september the 6 but not all candidates adrian submitted their nominations on saturday especially those from the more radical wing of the pan democrats including people like josh what was wrong and less to shroom thats because at the moment the lore in hong kong stipulates the people who want to stand for parliament have to swear allegiance to the basic lure of hong kong as well as the government of the special Administrative Region of hong kong and these younger candidates quite quite sort of align themselves with that but of course it may not even come to that they could be qualified in the disqualified in the days to come and the nomination period by the way runs for 2 weeks because some of these legislators would be devastated as took part in protests in the legislative chamber and of course they also participated in that unofficial primary. Election last weekend which saw more than 600000 people vote here in hong kong to decide who they would like to represent them in the democratic camp so at the moment things remain uncertain but to answer your question will the election happen you know anythings possible in hong kong at the moment but for the moment the beijing seems to be saying yes the election will happen i think its much more fearful as to what the outcome of that election will be if there are disqualifications between now and that election does that mean that more confrontation looms on the horizon for hong kong. I think thats certainly possible i think what were looking at adrian is a scenario where we could have on the one hand a discredited Legislative Assembly or a dysfunctional Legislative Assembly dysfunctional because if the the pan democratic camp achieved this socalled 35. 00 plus in other words they get a majority in the 70 seat legislature then be able to block you know things like you know the budget public funding and that would lead to the dysfunction that of course beijing fears but on the other hand if you know so many of these popular young candidates from the pan democratic camp are disqualified or prevented from running then youre going to have a discredited parliament and the question is which one would pitching prefer one important footnote to add adrian overnight the president of the Supreme Court in britain remember britain was the former colonial power here announce that you know its possible the british judges may no longer be able to serve in hong kong if Judicial Independence is strengthened by this new National Security little aljazeera as adrian brown reporting live from Hong Kong Adrian many thanks indeed as we reported a few minutes ago u. S. Congressman and Civil Rights Movement icon john lewis has died at the age of 80 he was a disciple of Martin Luther king jr and a key figure in the fight for black Voting Rights to see him as heidi joe castro looks back at his life we can i give up the can i give out. We cannot give you. John lewis was born into the segregated world of rural alabama in 1940 when i was growing up i saw those lines that white men colored men white women colored women white the son of black sharecroppers lewis devoured books as a child the words of dr Martin Luther king jr spoke to him loudest seem like he was saying to me john lewis you too can do something and i would as my mother asked my father my grandparents my great grandparents why segregation why Racial Discrimination it was the best way it is dont get in a way dont get in trouble but trouble would find him many times as a student leader in nashville tennessee lewis was beaten for peacefully protesting segregation at restaurants and on buses in selma Alabama Police cracked his skull as he led a 600. 00 marchers across a bridge to montgomery would. Never know what he was at age 23 lewis was the youngest leader of the march on washington 2 years later president Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights act into law protecting black americans from discrimination at the polls the act would foreshadow lewiss own political career he was elected to the u. S. House of representatives in 1986 his consistent defense of human rights during his decades of service earning him the title the conscience of Congress John r. Lewis has dedicated in 2011 who has received the medal of freedom from barack obama the nations 1st black president a moment lewis called amazing and unbelievable and in 2016 he was honored at the opening of the National Museum of africanAmerican History the museum lewis had proposed nearly 30 years prior but even then the statesmans work was not done louis continued to champion liberal causes like universe. Well health care and the rights of undocumented immigrants will not be. Never. Remembered as both fiercely partisan toward his Democratic Party and fiercely independent lewiss legacy is his bravery in the face of perceived injustice have this abiding they have Better Things that are so right so good so necessary if youre willing to die for. You not a for an only freedom ride now following his mentor Martin Luther king jr to his final rest john lewis was the last of the great civil rights leaders that shaped modern American History leaving another tall shadow for the next generation to fill. John lewis has died at the age of 80 still to come here on aljazeera a ban on a controversial symbol of u. S. Military bases puts the defense secretary a collision course with the president. Despite the deaths of protesters mediation efforts the campaign to oust mali as president continues. To. This is the right time the year to have rein of some so from the amount coast represents such as you well know but you dont often see this sort of thing happen with shows spinning off sunstone spinning off making landfall in amman this is on saturday and on sunday that keep moving west through the Empty Quarter and catching yemen as well the most active weather in this part of the world otherwise its a bit of bit of breeze its still quite hot 40 to 50 slackly west in iran and maybe in kuwait the bit of dust in the air but not in a huge amount. South of this and the wind running up against the high ground the coast of kenya or somalia will bring some more rain with it it comes through impulses like the monsoon rains or so weve got something on the coast of tanzania bit of a break then for a good part of kenya you pick up the biggest showers in south sudan which drift west into was the gulf of guinea but mostly from Lake Victoria sides of this town here it is dry now sometimes its quite active we had some pretty nasty weather run through cape town recently we hard pressed to see very much beyond a few showers at the moment so the wind direction is critical for lizabeth showing 25 degrees the moment which is really quite warm before car support lizabeth which is 5 degrees above average does take it back down to average fairly swiftly at the end the weekend. This is the government the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues that we listen i still think that at travel is the safest mode of travel and the spending we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on how does their own. Be the hero world right. Washing. Well again this is al jazeera lets remind you of the main news this hour u. S. President donald trump has ruled out a National Mandate on wearing face masks thats despite a top Infectious Disease expert dr anthony found she calling on state officials to be as forceful as possible in getting people to wear face coverings. The World Health Organization says brazils Coronavirus Infection rate appears to have plateaued and it should seize the opportunity to drive down transmission brazil is the epicenter of the virus in latin america 34000. 00 new cases were registered on friday. And u. S. Congressman john lewis has died at the age of 80 he was one of the youngest leaders in the Civil Rights Movement at organizers of the 1963 march on washington lewis announced in december that he had pancreatic cancer in. The u. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has just paid tribute to john lewis she described him as a titan of the Civil Rights Movement his goodness faith and bravery transformed america she went on to say that every day of his life was dedicated to bringing freedom and justice to all the Confederate Flag has been effectively banned from the u. S. Military sites following months of anti racism protests defense secretary mark asper announced the policy telling commanders that only flags that promote unity and respect all the rise to the Confederate Flag was flown during the civil war by breakaway Southern States that wanted slavery to continue its seen by many as a reminder of the enslavement of black americans as a symbol of White SupremacyAshley Lawrence sanders is assistant professor of africanAmerican History at the university of dayton ohio she says that the listing the Confederate Flag by name in the new policy sidesteps the wider issue. I think it actually was a political move to fry its well no dissent obviously within the military about the constant usage of the y. Which has been a historic descent africanamericans have complained about the use of the Confederate Flag in the military since at least world war 2 and the korean war where if who oversees actually among troops they dont want to upset trump i think it makes you think and better why directly would have set off some sort of alarm bells when we just had the president earlier this week in last week defending people who were lying to better like saying that it was an issue of free speech not mentioning the Confederate Flag directly really sidesteps directly addressing with the Confederate Flag me it avoids a conversation about the history behind the flag with the better suit was this are still this lingering idea that its here and had to not eat that you know if people want to fly can better fly theyre not flying it because they support White Supremacy theyre doing it because theyre proud of their Southern Heritage how this argument is still floating let alone from the highest office in the United States in 2020 is beyond me i hear its not heat was very popular and seventies eighties and nineties around the Confederate Flag is sort of allowed better like iconography to see it as long as it did i just dont think its sustainable for anyone to hear the confederacy with anything other than White Supremacy a lawsuit has been filed over the use of federal agents touring protests in the u. S. City of portland and oregon states the local unit of the american Civil Liberties union is targeting the department of Homeland Security of the u. S. Marshal service it wants to block federal agents from dispersing arresting or using force against journalists and legal observers they were among the struck by tear gas and rubber bullets during black lives massive protests in oregon the states governor says that federal agents only added to the tension on the streets she wants them withdrawn as well brunells reports. As knightly protests over systemic racism and Police Violence continue in portland a disturbing new development has emerged this week witnesses say federal agents in unmarked vans are grabbing protestors off the streets and detaining them without clear cause. This video shows a man being grabbed by armed men in military fatigues without name tags and without any indication of what agency they work for he is marched to a vehicle and driven away several protesters say they were grabbed put in cells in the federal courthouse and then let go without being placed under arrest or charged with any offense that it will marshals denied any knowledge of the incidents and the department of Homeland Security has refused to comment in an interview on friday oregon gov kate brown says she wants President Trump to pull federal agents out of her state earlier brown said the armed agents were making the situation worse. Trump troops in portland are definitely not the answer as we saw this on the escalates the tension. And we need dialogue and deescalation trump has boasted about how federal officers he deployed routed portland demonstrators i guess we have many people right now in jail and we very much quelled it and its so its again well quality again very easily acting Homeland Security secretary chad wolf called the protesters lawless an archivist says oregon democratic senator ron wyden accused trump and wolf of provoking violence for political gain. The demonstrators focus has been on the downtown area federal courthouse which falls outside local Police Jurisdiction federal officers there have fired tear gas smoke grenades and socalled nonlethal munitions at protesters. In one incident widely viewed online a federal agent fired on a protester hitting him in the head with a projectile and leaving blood on the pavement the man 26 year old donovan la bella needed surgery and is hospitalized in serious condition rob reynolds aljazeera the former boss of mexicos state run oil company has been taken to hospital shortly after his extradition from spain emilio is to in course in mexicos wants a corruption bribery a Money Laundering charges when he was chief executive of pemex the 45 year old is said to develop a new assault for gas problems as well it was also a close aide of former president and rick opinion in a pen and yet and his administration was linked to the scandal the largest kickback scandal in south america. Oppositionist in insisting that the president must quit despite International Mediation efforts the west African Regional bloc echo was a been hopeful of making a breakthrough with the june 5 movements but the protest group led by the cleric marco dicko described the talks as a total failure Nicholas Hawk reports. For the dead 15 year old isa my god died from a bullet in the head when Security Forces stormed the influential muslim cleric mosque in bamako outside 27 year old how it was walking home when a stray bullet struck her in the stomach in. The way they were killed was barbaric they were shot at close range some in the head others in the belly the attack was gruesome and we had many severely injured and. Prime minister. And is calling for an investigation after at least 12 protesters were killed when a Commando Unit fired live rounds against demonstrators protesting against the president last week and. I am hopeful that this political process will lead us to a solution and the way out of the crisis is for the well being of older people of mali but despite mediation efforts from the west african body ecowas led by former nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan the nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement continues the demonstrators who call themselves the m 5 Movement Want president. To resign and the newly elected National Assembly dissolved. And they. Want to solve the problems. In didnt. We. But it appears the crisis is deepening while the president calls for a National Unity government the m 5 Movement Want a Transitional Government that would strip kate of his powers accuses the president of abuse of powers and naming family members and friends to keep positions without oversight this video circulating on social media of the president s son an elected m. P. On a luxury holiday has caused uproar among the millions half of whom depend on humanitarian aid for food while millions continue to flee the ongoing Armed Conflict involving al qaeda and Islamic State affiliates protesters say the death should not go in vain promising more actions ahead as continues to spread they say the future of mali is at stake because hawk al jazeera. The un is demanding an International Investigation into the disappearance of a libyan politician and womens rights defender activists say that. Was violently abducted from a home by a warlord Khalifa Haftar forces a year ago shes an m. P. In the alternative Eastern Parliament which is backed by after but had been critical of his military operations amorality crown Prince Mohammed bin ziad is reportedly being investigated for complicity in acts of torture in yemen according to use agency a. F. P. A french judge is looking into crimes perpetrated in yemeni prisons by the us forces the proceedings name havent been ziad as the commander in chief of the armed forces a major Health Center in lebanon has had to lay off hundreds of stuff the American University of Beirut Medical Center is a Crucial Health hub for the city it has reportedly let go of more than 500 workers mostly from the administrative and nursing departments the universitys president had warned of staff cuts due to lebanons financial crisis and the impact of the coronavirus. Living to lead if you didnt have a baby daughter who i need to get food water and pay vaccines for i would have left by myself and if i knew that my 100. 00 a month salary would bother them i would have left we got the short end of the stick we who have nobody to back us or help us they fired us and those who are backed by Political Parties or movements we kept them its all favoritism European Union leaders have failed to make progress during the 1st to have negotiations on a coronavirus stimulus deal they met in brussels for the 1st time in months a proposed 858000000000 dollar rescue package is aimed at pulling the block out of what could be its deepest ever recession but theres disagreement over the overall size of the funding and how it will be distributed and the british war veteran who raised 40000000. 00 for the u. K. S National Health Service has been knighted by the queen. Captains told more walked 100. 00 laps of his garden his 100th birthday initially set out to raise 1200. 00 but the nations kept flooding in the ceremony was Queen Elizabeths 1st face to face meeting with a member of the public since the lockdown began in march. It is good to have you with us hello adrian for the going here in doha the headlines on aljazeera u. S. Congressman john lewis has died at the age of 80 he was one of the youngest leaders in the Civil Rights Movement as an organizer of the 1963 march on washington lewis announced in december that he had cancer u. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has paid this tribute to john lewis she described him as a type of the Civil Rights Movement whose goodness faith and bravery transformed america she went on to say that every day of his life was dedicated to bringing freedom and justice to. The u. S. President donald trump has ruled out the nation will a National Mandates on wearing mosques thats despite a top Infectious Disease expert dr anthony found she calling on state officials to be as forceful as possible in getting people to wear face coverings new infections rose by 77000 in the u. S. On thursday. Would you consider well you consider a National Mandate that people need to wear a mask i want people to have a certain freedom and i dont believe in that no and i dont agree with the statement that if everybody were a mask everything it just appears a doctor felt she said dont wear a mask or Surgeon General terrific guy said dont worry mask everybody was saying dont worry mask all of a sudden everybodys got to wear a mask and as you know mask cause problems too with that being said im a believer in masks i think masks. The World Health Organization says brazil is corona virus infection rate appears to have plateaued and that it should seize the opportunity to drive down transmission brazil is the epicenter of the pandemic in latin america 34000. 00 new cases were registered on friday nominations opened in hong kong for candidates in Legislative Council election to be held in september the prodemocracy groups could face disqualification for their political views it will be the 1st election since a new security law was imposed by beijing which critics say restricts freedoms a controversial new anti terror law is now being enforced in the philippines that allows police to bypass the court system and arrest suspects without a warrant they can be held without charge for up to 24. 00 days critics are concerned that it will endanger Civil Liberties and those are the headlines the news continues here on out is there off to talk to us as era next. We understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound. Center matter where you call high and aljazeera bringing you the news and Current Affairs that matter to tease. Out is there. All the workers here. Hes one of the most divisive figures in american Politics Today to some hes washingtons most famous warmonger to others a fearless defender of u. S. Interests john boltons decades of conservative Foreign Policy have influenced the position and actions of the United States in conflicts worldwide. From iraq to iran syria and north korea to mention just a few. Ever since 1st serving on the president ron break ins administration back in the 1980 s. Bolton built a career as a solid conservative republican politician. He was assistant secretary of state for International Organization when president george h. W. Bush was in the white house and when his son