A massive recovery package. The show must go on a tough year ahead for hollywood production number a pandemic could mean higher costs some longer waits for movies and t. V. Shows. The United States is still struggling to contain the worlds biggest corona Virus Outbreak infections are surging in many parts of the country including florida and california theyve been 3700000. 00 cases nationwide and more than 140000 dead but President Trump has been downplaying the epidemic falls to claiming in an interview that the u. S. Has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world and fisher reports from northern virginia. What they described as embers has become a blaze the u. S. Navy seeing around 70000 new cases of cold meat at the the president s own Health Experts expressing concern my. It has become a political issue now here we are not only with 70000 new cases almost every day but from my perspective also quite concerning the number of hospitalizations which is very close to being as high in the country as it was in back in april so yeah we got a really dollar down here the number of deaths is rising to arizona and florida breaking new records the residents here are terrified and im terrified for the 1st time in my career because there is a lack of leadership Johns Hopkins university has been tracking the virus since day one it says the us has the 7th highest mortality rate in the world a figure disputed by the president in an interview with an american t. V. Network i heard we have one of the lowest maybe the lowest mortality rate anywhere in the world you have the numbers from us because i heard we had the best word salad there were republicans governor has warned his state could be the new florida keys numbers are heading in the wrong direction but hes still not ready to issue a statewide order telling people to wear masks really in the message is that you were the mask for other people you were the mask to to protect your grandmother you were the mast too and so its not just the orders the orders are obviously important but getting people to buying and to understand and theres a warning there may have to be a new low tones across the country meanwhile its been reported that the white house is trying to block billions of dollars for increased testing and Contact Tracing democrats want 75000000000. 00 and many republicans are now saying that they would support the move if that would help bring the Coronavirus Crisis in the United States under control alan fischer aljazeera northern virginia. Hong kong is imposing tighter restrictions after recording its highest one day increase in virus cases since the pandemic began the territories need to carry lamb announced the measures after more than 100 new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says theres no sign its coming under control agent brown joins us live now from Hong Kong Adrian so until now on kongs no infection rate made it the envy of the world so whats gone wrong. Absolutely down in hong kong in many way to set the Gold Standard in how to deal with this corona Virus Outbreak along with places like taiwan vietnam and new zealand what has gone wrong well that is hard to say we have to remember that there are a number of people coming into hong kong daryn who are exempt from the strict quarantine rules those include people like pilots flight crews as well as drivers bringing in Food Supplies from Mainland China of course everything need hong kong needs for its survival has to be import that includes things like you know vegetable milk and water without that of course things would be very critical here so i think its very hard for the government to sort of continue you know ensuring that those people are restricted while at the same time not affecting the food that hong kong needs to survive so thats a dilemma from hong kong you know on the one hand it wants to do its best to control this virus but it cant go too far because if it does it would risk the food supply to this place needs now lets put things into perspective yes you know the infection rate is rising but still the infection rate would be the envy of many other places like the United States brazil and india in the past 2 weeks weve had more than 500 confirmed cases but you know up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording 0 infections now in. Meantime carrie lamb has said that we are reintroducing stricter social distancing rules particularly in bars and restaurants they can have to close at 6 pm in the evening and from monday Civil Servants 180000 of them will have to work from home also the government is beefing up arrangements at various quarantine facilities in hong kong they have several 1000 units of the moment but if things continue the way they are there of course going to need many more beds many more places to put people who are confirmed cases as well as places to put people who are recovering from the coronavirus now carol lam has said that the situation is grave and she doesnt know you know how long its going to be before this covert outbreak is brought under control now whats really worrying is that 40 percent of the recent confirmed infections are not known to have any source so you know we dont know where those sources where that outbreak has come from in that 40 percent of cases the government is now beginning mass testing across the territory and they are focusing very much on the high risk workers work has been deemed to be high risk people like taxi drivers as well as restaurant workers now the moment the new restrictions down will remain in place for about a week to carry lamb is warning she might extend that by another week if necessary all right to adrian brown live for us there in hong kong agent thank you mean all deadlock and division are gripping the European Union right now as its leaders struggle to compromise on a Major Economic rescue package due to the coronavirus pandemic the baka has more on efforts to avoid what could be one of the worst european recessions in decades. How to share 857000000000. 00 the questions confounded e. U. Leaders for days and deepened all divisions within the bloc in one camp nations known as the frugal for austria denmark sweden and the netherlands the wealthy northern states pay the most per capita into the e. U. Shared reserves they want strict controls on how the Recovery Fund is shared prefer ing to loan countries money the positions at odds with spain and italy both economies were hit hard by the pandemic they want generous grants from the bloc that dont need to be repaid the german chancellor Angela Merkel and french president emmanuel mccrone have been trying to broker a compromise by offering e. U. Countries a combination of loans and grants but a you leaders cant agree on how to do this. More nucifora by these compromises and i say these very clearly will not be made at the cost of european goals not out of principle but will be made because we are facing an Unprecedented Health economic and social crisis and because our countrys needed european unity needs it the mission a fierce argument also erupted between the dutch Prime Minister mark rotter and his hung garion counterpart viktor orban over whether money should be withheld from countries that fail to live up to the e. U. s core values in recent years victor or bans governments been accused of attacks on the media minorities and the rule of law charges which he denies i dont know what is the person all reason for the dutch Prime Minister to meet me or hungary but hes attacking saul harshly and making very clear that because hungary in his opinion does not respect the rule of law must be punished financially thats his position which is not acceptable you have faces its deepest recession since the 2nd world war the road to recovery hangs on solidarity need aljazeera. Or David Harrison horn is chief brussels correspondent of Politico Magazine he says relations between e. U. Member states are as fragile as the economic outlook. The e. U. Budget 7 year Financial Plan in this case amounting to approximately one trillion euro more than that obviously in dollars is always the most controversial negotiation that leaders leaders go through 27. 00 countries in this case all have to agree on what programs theyre going to lay out how theyre going to set their priorities over the course of the next 7 years add into that this historic situation with the coronavirus pandemic and the worst economic shock since the Great Depression now theyre looking at this recovery effort a really new concept for the e. U. Which is to borrow giant sums of money on the Financial Markets together and then give grants to the countries that need help this means that the e. U. Would borrow together but then give to countries where recovery is most needed it will be of course hard hit spain they are feeling very left alone in certain respects and what they want to remind the netherlands and austria. Denmark and sweden is that those countries manufacture things they sell things its great that they had to terrific Rainy Day Fund saved up they were in a much stronger financial position to have that umbrella open and be ready for the storm when it hit but in fact theyll be standing out there alone under their umbrella unless they make sure that italy spain france all these countries are also able to recover in the same way so what you hear is a lot of talk about divergence germany has recognized this how quickly did germany was able to unleash more than a trillion euro in support of its own economy other countries have not been able to do that theyre already saddled with debt so they need this help and theyre trying to explain that all together that you can make sure they recover in a much more cohesive way than if they struggle on their own. Mollies opposition has called for more protests after rejecting International Mediation efforts a delegation from the west African Regional bloc ecowas held days of discussions with the governing party and the opposition bloc proposed a power sharing government and a new Constitutional Court for the june 5 Opposition Group says the plan doesnt go far enough well under the proposal the current Ruling Coalition would make up 50 percent of the unity government while 30 percent would be members of the opposition the other 20 percent from Civil Society groups the mediators also say new judges should be appointed to the Constitutional Court to resolve the disputed march election results. You did mention that made it very clear and indeed where they live is very clear that has. Been elected democratically elected president. Has more on the oppositions demands from dakar neighboring senegal. Well members of the opposition have dismissed it some leaders of the 5 movement this Coalition Members of Civil Society and trade unionists and opposition political opposition have described it as a failure from the get go weve seen that some of them some of these leaders wouldnt even step in into the negotiation room they said that 1st there needed to be an investigation on why the government deployed commando trained by the e. U. Meant to fight armed groups such as al qaeda and the stomach state greater affiliates in northern mali well why were those troops used to deployed against protesters last weekend number of them were killed shot in the head or in the stomach so in order for a discussion to happen there needs to be an investigation 1st which which then the Prime Minister would happen. They say. The offers made by the echo was was more about trying to solve an electoral crisis but what theyre saying here is its a crisis of government thats happening in a crisis of trust thats happening in mali they they want to see the dissolution of the National Assembly they want to see. Resign or be stripped of his powers down just just now weve heard that there is discussion about what theyre going to do next so they say that they will continue their movement of a civil disobedience and they describe what they will do as a day in french. Which means a day of ghost town will they will they will block the capital bamako bring it down still. Lots more still to come here and aljazeera including coronavirus cases in colombia sold medical workers call for knockdowns to be reimposed to bring infections under control. Was he was. On the feminist battle cry that went global now the chilean woman behind it is being accused of inciting violence against police more on that stay with us. How the rain has just left japan alone now you see it going out of the way and theres a change of orientation a break in the flow if you like this is still sees no rain still the east asian monsoon but its going up so the Korean Peninsula the northeastern china and eastern siberia they will be more to come the next development over down in sichuan or thereabouts and itll probably follow a similar course the tail end of that frontal system does give you rain on the northern shores of honshu or into carder during tuesday south of this as a good scratching issue even in what should be fairly dry season in tunisia theyre all over the patient you know have fishes they could be having done what they did to soloway cygnus in a way hes not bone dry inhabit the heaviest showers are further west in borneo and they be in sumatra the fastpass of thailand but much of its tied up with the southwest monsoon much of the moisture now which is once again being driven up into the northeast so we did have it down in maharashtra the southwest monsoon that makes sense but unfortunately forecasts wise the next 2 or 3 days youve got big showers up in the poor bhutan and all the way back to fall north of pakistan is a persistent deadly events flooding ensues. Whos to blame for the mishandling of the coronavirus kunda make in the United States ill be putting the tough questions to trump surrogate Jack Kingston and former Democratic Party official just oconnell in a special edition of head to head we are not even through wave one as a result of a lack of leadership here i said to my people slowed the testing down please that is criminally negligent and i will sit there and i thought it was hilarious head to head on algis iraq. War. World. Welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour u. S. President donald trump is defending his handling of the coronavirus pandemic going so far as to say the nation has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world those false claims comes by surging infection rates in florida and california has been 3700000 cases across the country and more than 140000 deaths. Hongkong is reimposing coronavirus restrictions after recording the highest one day increase in new patients and and then it began more than 500 sections have been confirmed in the last 2 days European Union leaders of so far failed to agree on a coronavirus economic rescue package for a 3rd straight day some of the bloc are pushing for stricter controls on the 860000000000. 00 fund. A surge in corona virus infections as forced authours is to impose new restrictions in a number of cities in colombia more than 190000 cases of been reported across the country and in the capital but what are many of the citys poorest neighborhoods are suffering as hospitals become increasingly overwhelmed and petty reports. Soldiers and city workers losing fix their streets after bogo time poses a new coronavirus lock down its the 1st of a series of rolling measures restricting almost a 3rd of the citys 8000000. 00 residents for 2 weeks at a time but it is a more important than thing i think that it is very important that people are aware and keep washing their hands the front of the house clean the shoes before entering their home we need to stop the virus together. Entered what experts believe will be the worst phase of the pandemic and the outbreak is hitting the poorest neighborhoods the hardest where few people can afford to stay home when the. Next Street VendorAlberto Blendon who had just started recovering financially after 4 months of. Restrictions were eased but case i think you know make it is accepted by the landlord wants to kick us out i live with my mother my mother in law too young brother in laws and my pregnant wife i dont have anything to pay her with except what i managed to make on the streets across these Neighborhood Small Businesses including here salons that had reopened a few weeks ago have closed their shutters once again. The mayor says the new restrictions have been planned to minimize direct impact and pledged government aid to 700000 People Living in the newly quarantined areas. The mayor hopes to avoid stretching hospitals to their limit but intensive care units are already more than 90 percent full. Doctors associations have repeatedly sounded the alarm saying that the Health System could collapse any day at this point and after called tory to reimpose district locked down in the entire city for a least 2 weeks. We know that the various hospitals in the south of the city are already facing the who to save who gets a ventilator and who doesnt partial lockdown will not be enough to stop the spread of the threat. Returning to a total lockdown is a tough choice in a city with so many people in need but it might become unavoidable if you fictions continue to rise and listen to. The coronavirus pandemic is being used to reduce Civil Liberties thats the warning from feminist groups in chile who say womens rights are especially at risk the chilean collective last test this is being sued for allegedly instigating violence against the same police force they accuse of abuses the sydney woman reports now from santiago. Last november no one had heard of last until the chilean groups before next of a rapist in your path turned into the. World wide. 2 words denouncing violence and sexual abuse against women including by police has been translated into almost every language. It was performed again in paris just last week during protests against the interior minister accused of rape. While the chance. Has become a battle cry for the rights of abused women here in chile the 4 members of last bases are being accused of abusing the police with their words in their new manifesto theyre being sued for allegedly threatening and inciting violence against police in this video released on social media in late may that game we see this not only as an attack against us and art but the right to freedom of expression against all the women who have taken part in our performances its clear censorship and a threat to everyone who wants to use art as a way to denounce abuses the manifesto was filmed in front of a Police Station and was done in collaboration with the Latin American Branch of russias feminist group pussy riot. It denounces increased Domestic Violence during the pandemic but it also says police are all rapists assassins and inhumane not the law but also in a scene or not of course you can say that individually not all cops are assassins or rapist suppose were referring to the institution thats forms to carry out violence its not literal. Justice he says they and their Legal Counsel havent yet been given access to the investigation or even presented formally with the charges we asked the police for clarification on a number of occasions the response has been the because this is a traditional matter there will be no comment which is rather unusual that one of the lawsuit has hit a sensitive chord some see it as a reprisal for a rapist in your path which went viral during widespread demonstrations here last year they gave really its pathetic that after all the well documented Human Rights Violations that chiles police have committed they now play the victim at our expense they blame our work which is artistic of being the cause of violence against them when that is not 3. With demonstrations now severely curtailed because of a nationwide curfew and lockdowns the group is warning that Civil Liberties and artistic expressions like theirs could be even further limited after the pandemic is all. You see in human aljazeera santiago. Hundreds of protesters are demanding the dissolution of parliament in the democratic republic of congo the demonstrations in kinshasa organized by the Catholic Church as supporters Say Parliament is blocking meaningful reforms theres malcolm what. The Catholic Church and its supporters Say Parliament in the democratic republic of congo is not the teeth are meant. Hundreds marched to the Parliament Building in the capital kinshasa this morning. We are the owners of parliament we have noticed that m. P. s are not play. By the rules simply because they were not elected by us in the last election they are serving the interests of individuals this is why we are marching to demand the dissolution of this parliament and calling for deep electoral reform. The protesters say the last elections were rigged by an Electoral Commission that favors former president Joseph Kabila they demanding electoral reforms before the next election in 3 years time. Could be listed down in the last election about 18 months ago but hes widely seen to still be the most powerful person in congo. Felix to secure he took over he was announced the winner although leaked documents show he lost to opposition. Carries power depends on a Fragile Alliance with kabila and his party. The protests are happening is the alliance has increasingly strained by factions want to control the Electoral Commission known as sanny im not sure i phrase to caylees own question will really like to air fully independent Electoral Commission one thing. To remember with this is that the results. Was very short. Please stop the demonstration when it reached the road leading to parliament this time it ended peacefully Catholic Church is influential in congo you have millions of supporters you can call them to the street its promised weekly protest but dissolution of parliament looks on likely for now it could be his party still firmly in control malcolm web aljazeera. Saudi arabian state media is reporting that king solomon has been admitted to hospital for medical checkups yet a 4 year old monica was taken to a kingsize old Specialist Hospital in the capital riyadh early on monday for an apparent information of the gallbladder. Well staying with saudi arabia on a prominent journalist has died after contracting with 19 just 2 months after he was released from prison thats according to local media reports. He was sentenced to 5 years in jail in 2018 for insulting the royal court after a t. V. Appearance criticizing corruption in the kingdom he once worked on the murder of saudi journalist. The us recording artist kanye west has held his 1st Campaign Event in the state of South Carolina he announced plans to run for president early this month its unclear if he met the deadline to appear on the states ballot west made a federal filing declaring himself as an independent candidate for his newly formed birthday party. Now for millions of people movies and t. V. Have been an escape from the stress of boredom of lockdown but covered 19 managed to stop the Entertainment Industry in its tracks with some films forced to delay their release states thousands of crew have found themselves out of work on directors are trying to find other ways to continue production reports now from los angeles. Veteran actor ray a brute so has had a long career on stage in movies and television including the acclaimed series the sopranos and i know my old man could be a tough nut to crack and i want to know he says with the pandemic work has dried up its basically nonexistent 19 put in a broad and 2 movie making which is uniquely unsuited to social distancing the nature of filming and such and such an intimate thing i mean you have the wardrobe people addressing you have hair people you have makeup people you have sound guys wiring you everybody and then there are the scenes that you play with another rock there where youre always in close proximity thats just the nature of what we do. Before the pandemic the u. S. Film and sound Recording Industry employed 456000 people now producers in locations scouts are scrambling to find relatively safe places where they can film but at the moment is almost completely shut down some things are opening up so you see some places ceilidh iceland some places in europe theyre starting to be opened most of it at the moment is still local production producer jogia near runs capital arts productions a vast space with 20 standing sets where movie and t. V. Production companies shoot scenes there before crews are departments you know grip aleck trick coming and cameras going this way that way all production things that would happen in t. V. And film happen out stage and now its all quiet. Its very quiet now yeah he says the industry and its unions have been developing new safety protocols you need to outline you know where p. P. Is being distributed the testing and testing is a big part of all of it you know your disinfectant protocol your cleaning protocol where is your when does your hygiene crew come in still to be worked out are issues including how does shoot romantic scenes with social distancing all of these new safety protocols are absolutely necessary for the movie business to revive but they will also mean that Film Productions will take longer and become much more expensive theres going to be a big line item in pretty much everyones budget about what has to be spent for people to feel safe going back to work well its definitely going to be different and everythings going to be different i do think eventually it will come back it may take some time but to paraphrase hollywoods favorite saying the show must go on even in a pandemic robert oulds Al Jazeera Los Angeles financial the Arab Emirates has launched its 1st space mission. To. The Emirates Mars Mission also known as hoped to come from japans space center its expected to reach mars in february next. Time for a quick check of the top stories here on the aljazeera u. S. President donald trump is defending his handling of the coronavirus pandemic going so far as to say the nation has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world well those false claims come despite surging infection rates in florida and california has been 3700000 cases across the country and more than 140000 deaths. When you talk about mortality rates i think its the opposite i think we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the week well were going to tackle we had 900 deaths on a single day we will take on this week ready you can surely get me the mortality rate here i heard we have one of the lowest maybe the lowest mortality rate anywhere in the world you have the numbers because i heard we had the best word. Number number one a little more generally it hong kong is reimposing tighter restrictions are the recording its highest one day increase in virus cases since the pandemic began the churchs leader carolan announced the measures after more than 100 new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says theres no sign its coming under control European Union leaders of so far failed to agree on a cut coronavirus economic rescue package for a 3rd straight day some of the bloc are pushing for stricter controls on the 857000000000. 00 fund a surge in virus infections as forstall thirtys to impose new restrictions in number of cities in colombia more than 190000 cases have been reported across the country mollies opposition has called for more protests after rejecting International Mediation efforts the delegation from the west African Regional bloc echo us have days of discussions with the governing party on the opposition the bloc proposed a power sharing government and a new Constitutional Court. Saudi arabian state media is reporting that king solomon has been admitted to hospital for medical checkups the 84 year old monarch was taken to king faisal Specialist Hospital in the capital riyadh early on monday for an apparent inflammation of the gall bladder. So those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera to talk to us their life now. Aljazeera. Where every you. See. 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 Ronald Reagans administration back in the 1980 s. Bolten built a career as a solid can