Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240712

Better or worse antigovernment anger is building even in the president s traditional heartland. And in sports the Milwaukee Bucks and boycotted their n. B. A. Playoff game the team ready to face the Orlando Magic by didnt show up as part of the a protest against Racial Injustice. Could be the most powerful storm to hit the u. S. This year is just hours away from making landfall Hurrican Laura is already a category 4 storm and Officials Say it could be catastrophic its power grew by nearly 70 percent in just 24 hours this is what it looks like from space as it crackles with lightning and races towards texas and louisiana 2 states that are also grappling with coronavirus authorities have warned a storm that could churn flood waters as high as 6 meters making it unsurvivable around 620000 people have been told to leave their homes with hurricane Warnings Issued to those living as far as 322 kilometers inland. And again it is live for us from miami and it is strong seems to be strengthening all the time what are the forecast the saying now while calling this storm unsurvivable is language you have never heard come out of the National Hurricane center here in miami because this storm seems to have broken all predictions when i was reporting on this on tuesday it was a category one here we are just hours before landfall its now a category 4 and could get Even Stronger before it slams into the coastlines of louisiana and texas right on the border between those 2 states so forecasters are really making no bones about it they are saying get out of the way of hurricane lore this could bring storm surges of 6 meters that may go inland as much as 50 kilometers so that is how dire the situation is at the moment so more than half a 1000000 people have already been evacuated many arriving in places like austin texas already have a tens of millions of people are now under threat from this storm remember these are very low lying coastal areas that are prone to flooding under the best of circumstances Hurricane Harvey in 2007 killed 68 people in houston when the floodwaters deluge that citys that gives you some kind of idea of what people off a saying now it could make landfall on wednesday evening into the early hours of thursday morning if it does it on the early hours of thursday morning that will coincide with the high tide which potentially could make things even worse and and aside from the evacuations what preparations are these 2 states making. Well theyre doing all they can to scramble were now getting down to the last few hours in louisiana they have deployed the entire National Guard something thats never happened before as i said more than half a 1000000 people have already evacuated you always get those people who are determined to ride these storms out because these areas are used to getting powerful hurricanes coming in but the governor of louisiana john bellowed said look if i cant make this any clearer please listen to these warnings and please heed these warnings and get out of the way so it will hit tonight or in the early hours of thursday morning and they are already preparing for a huge search and rescue operations all anyone in both the states now can do is make a last minute preparations and then just wait and see what laura will bring and it kind of thank you very much indeed a teenage suspect has been arrested after 2 people were shot dead attempt lacked lives matter protests in the u. S. City of connection as the nation grapples with unrest over Police Brutality video footage from the scene showed a young white man armed with a semiautomatic rifle i think in the middle of the street protesters had been defying an overnight curfew for the 3rd evening in a row after police shot an unarmed black man 7 times at close range on sunday the shooting of take a break has reignited anger at Police Brutality against black people were set up were going to do the curfew until some on a sunday right now we can change this is all fluid were going to do some pm curfew until sunday and it may continue afterwards it was before it was for is this point its the interstate east or the 7 pm curfew for those that. Put hardship on im sorry i really really am but its something we have to do. John hendren is following the story from chicago. There was a conflict between some protesters and individual who was armed and theres video of this the man is down on the ground he gets up and he fires at various protesters. According to police 3 people were shot 2 of them are dead one of them he is wounded but expected to recover so this is now or Homicide Investigation this is really the 1st blood from the protests that have followed the the killing of mr Blake Jacob Blake the 29 year old man whose killing at the hands of police set off all of this and so for 3 nights protesters have owned much of the streets while police have really guarded the government buildings in one central area of downtown and that is what continue to happen last night and now police are hoping that with the massive more numbers theyre going to be able to recapture control of the streets we saw that in minneapolis but it happened much more quickly because they brought in more support quickly because its a bigger city this is a small city of about 100000. 00 and they simply have not been prepared for the kind of onslaught that they have seen the democratic president ial nominee joe biden has promised Justice Jacob blake in a video statement biden said hed spoken to the 27 year olds family and that the video showing blake being shot to make him sick the president ial hopeful has backed peaceful protests against Police Brutality but warned against needless violence. Were now joined by byron dandre or a professor of Political Science at the at Jackson State University thanks very much indeed for being with us so already its several nights of violence what you think would calm the situation down. The only thing i can come situation back release times you have the least start going down on every american civilians you know weve seen this time and time and time and time again ive been reasonably over and over and over and over again and were were part of the saying they want to leave dont leave the socialist Police Killings are you know were going to continue to have no justice no peace and im so the 3 offices at the scene what were placed on administrative leave and no details been given yet for the reasons for having fire on jacob why did why did theres been so Little Information in the often off well i maybe dont live but the video Camera Police know speaks for itself to some extent i mean you know shoot someone in the back. I dont know what might have certainly looked red but ive learned in my research but the primary purpose of not Police Officers has reduced the threat and you know based on what i saw there wasnt much threat and so maybe they have some of emotion that just the bear was right but it doesnt bode well to the American Public to continue to see that you know these are going to occur and they are here were leaving our eyes at least theres no threat what about the presence of. White vigilantes what do you think that spells and how dangerous is the situation. Well i think it is true testament of the world who how the current president hasnt bolden d be able to you know seriously you know trying to take over is are they are are the staple of the police also Law Enforcement if you will mayors you know Police Citizens or whatnot. So. I dont i dont know why that is the case but you know if its consistent with what i have you know. General you know well you know but we. Dont moan and say good you know hold signs were people bonus local and it wasnt is it really. About restraint you know criticism gives. A visual and is almost like resembling them continue to. Do on one point to the political response mean so we heard earlier that biden has condemned the shooting of jake blake and trump so far we havent heard from him about that but neither of them has commented on the presence of. White vigilantes and weve had one democrat whos run for congress in new york jamal bowman saying calling on the partys president ial ticket to actually do more in response to these events in in connection saying we need to joe biden and coming to harris to condemn the on militias that killed 2 people in question yesterday these militias are domestic terrorists looking to incite a race war do you think that the democratic leadership does need to say more about this and do you also agree that there is a to attempt to take to create conditions for a race for north by you should definitely come on beach greatly are there so you know what is this in me is in terms of not only visiting. Killing itself he needs to come out and be very clear in the state. Where there maybe some love i guess hesitancy if you will on the 2. Candidates the 1968 you know as well the double the year that dr Martin Luther king was assassinated and once he was assassinated africanamericans took the streets in protest just as americans do in terms of all the political just patient and those protests got violent and these were uprisings clearly they were not you know just out of protest it was like a protest but they were accumulated events that occurred based on you know systemic racism so and so for and thats what youre saying here. The point to me so you made here i guess is that there used to be. Not so if you will crumble systemic racism issues have evolved and now they have been the lumen they did with the death of george lloyd but now there needs to be some you know implementation we know what needs to be done but now we need to execute have a particularly we need to. Figure out what it is that where we can minimize black people in america as being a threat simply because of the way they look. All right thank you very much you dont have to take time to talk to us now share thank you thank you for having. Coming up on this news hour from london the territorial dispute between turkey and greece continues to intensify and neither side is showing signs of compromise. And answers and it will it be enough justice for what has happened at the hands of materialist survivors and relatives of victims from new zealands worst mass shooting testify in court while the white supremacist responsible awaits his sentence. And in sports arena williams suffers a setback ahead of the u. S. Open arms here with that story. Iran has agreed to give the uns Nuclear Watchdog access to 2 sites its thought were used for prohibited Nuclear Activities the decision ends of a months long standoff over the inspections International Atomic Energy Authority at 1st demanded access to the sites in january because its thought they were used for explosives testing in the early to thousands president has on rouhani also promised to continue cooperation even though iran has openly flouted the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal since the u. S. Pulled out the inspectors will have access to these sites we have agreed on day. For these we have agreed on the basis. For these extremely important we have all sorts agreed that all recognize that these. Activities that we are going to have there are related to Nuclear Material or possible related to Nuclear Activities as had begun in tehran and says iran wants the visits to end speculation. If there was some tension between the i. A. E. A. And iran over these 2 sites and the head of the grocer you had met with irans head of irans atomic agency. He met with the foreign minister divides the reef and also the president hassan rowhani. Wanted access to these 2 sides that they said it was a. Nuclear material how to be stored or used now iran had blocked access to these sites in june of this year the i. A. E. A. Passed a resolution that was put forward by germany france the United Kingdom demanding access now over the last few days it seemed like iran was changing his position it said that they would crack texas if it would end questions once and for all now this joint statement seems that these conditions with these kind of vague preconditions have been met now in the statement says that they dont have any more questions or access regarding sites and sites that iran has already declared but even more so what theyve said is that they will take Iran Security concerns into consideration the greek Prime Minister says hes ready to help deescalate tensions with turkey over offshore Energy Reserves and a call with the u. S. President to carry across nato takis said turkey would 1st have to provocations earlier the turkish president said he would not compromise on territory in the aegean and Mediterranean Sea both nations have been holding military exercises near patch of water they both claim and in which a turkish ship is carrying out during recess. Nato has voiced its concern about the growing tensions between the 2 sectors general yet stoltenberg called for deescalation and dialogue between the 2 nato allies during a meeting of European Union defense ministers that summit is also expected to discuss the tense situation better race is an issue that germanys defense minister used as an example of the need for europe to increase the capacity to protect its own security john mccain has more from that in. The point about this meeting has been what the e. U. Is calling its 2 year strategic compass and in effect this meeting has been all points east and southeastern europe specifically this situation building up in the Eastern Mediterranean how to resolve the tensions in a peaceful way between greece and turkey the problem being that given that its an e. U. Meeting turkey is not part of the e. U. And therefore is not in these meetings whereas greece and cyprus are as Member States of the European Union both those countries in broiled in this tension with the turkish government and although the turkish government has no representation at this meeting the comments the views from the turkish government from president out of one very much at that meeting interesting me the e. U. Has no military role of substance in this area whereas nato does and of course turkey and greece are members of nato and so un shortened work the general secretary of nato who was at this meeting in berlin on wednesday was calling upon both countries to step back to try to to ease the tensions between them the interesting thing is that there will be further such meetings but this time involving Foreign Ministers of e. U. Countries in berlin on thursday where again this topic will certainly be to the forefront. Police have detained dozens of demonstrators and questioned a Nobel Prize Winning author as a crackdown on protesters challenging the president said law is part of an Opposition Council created to discuss a transition of power after Alexander Lukashenko has disputed election victory earlier this month prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the council accusing its members of putting National Security at risk but alex a rich refused to answer the investigators questions he also who won the nobel prize for literature in 2015 also called on russias president to intervene on the steps of government and now look because speaks only to put we need him to speak to the people maybe the world can help us so that negotiate with somebody the more we Stay Together the stronger we will be and the greater chance really you have of me cue the Dorothy Stork to our. Demonstrations against the president rule draw hundreds of thousands of protesters to the streets of the capital its a different story in rural areas as the former boss of a collective farm and it sounded like a shaker remains popular among people in the country countryside for now a step fashion reports his support could be waning. Outside the capital minsk life seems to have been standing still soviet style collective farms name call code is still exist here although theyre not as prosperous as in the old days a former call goes direct to himself this is president look or sound goes heartland villages are reluctant to talk about the mass protests against him events happening in the cities worry them protesters take stones from the pavement and attack a policeman. The time of revolutions is gone nato wants war they will make profit from it on the bench an assassin gets this information from watching state television. A new person in power will not bring any changes that will never happen only young people are protesting old people are supporting look at sankoh a sort of news like him many and of a lot of to get by on a small pension or income life has been difficult here but at least its been stable worried about what might come next from say they rather stick to the devil they know meaning look at shankar but even here he is losing support flooded me who does not give us his full name make some extra money growing fused to be astounded 4th of look at but those days are over. In the ninetys he was a necessary leader he saved and presumably factories of the chamber has come up from his knees but his successes have expired you must understand that he isnt able to be the country into something nearer the less good. Like many in belarus he doesnt believe the president will go peacefully pictures of look at shankar and body armor carrying a rifle during a mass rally last sunday well widely watched here for larry gar believe it you wrote a book about him fierce hes aiming for more violence to look at poor who. Is a person who in politics relies on strength and violence you have been cruel he uses cruel words like he wanted to take a hands off their heads off because she has more chances to win than the opposition in case of his victory there would be large consequences. The consequences are already felt in the cities where the belorussian rubble is falling in value during the crackdown on protesters and here in the villages many are also worried about what comes next step fasten aljazeera month of all. Republicans are gearing up for the 3rd night of the Partys National Convention Vice president mike pence is expected to make the case that his boss President Trump will ensure the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic but the convention has been criticized for its disregard of protocol with several unusual features in the 2nd evening newscast our White House Correspondent kimberly health gets a Committee Welcome expect. Well we know 2 that the marquee speaker this evening will be the Vice President of the United States mike pence this is a bit of vindication for him given the fact that there had been speculation that he would be dropped from the ticket as the president made a run for a 2nd term so the fact that he is going to be appearing underscores not only that donald trump believes that he is the right person for the job but also that he still feels that that evangelical base that is so important to his reelection is critical and that is something as an even joke a christian that mike pence brings to this ticket now what he does bring as well are some challenges and that is he has of the Coronavirus Task force and of course more than 177000 americans have died from cope with 19 and many have accused this administration and mike pence of being too slow to react so those will be some of the challenges that will have to be overcome in the speech at the same time we expect once again that there will be an attempt to project optimism through this speech it wont just be mike pence will be speaking as well his wife karen pence will be speaking and the advisor to the president Kellyanne Conway who was very instrumental in seeing the president elected in 2016 but has decided to step down from her role at the white house at the end of the month with a fine and some protests in wisconsin donation headlines not can we expect they are and she addressed that tonight. Yeah i think so weve certainly seen that addresses in the previous 2 nights that have touched on this not in the normal sway but we do know from the campaign the Trump Campaign has said that it condemns what has occurred to 29 year old jacob blake but what they stopped short on is indorsing the violence that has resulted in no way is this connected they believe in terms of what this message should be so condemning the rest in terms of the violence the looting the destruction of property and we should point out thats consistent with the message coming from joe bidens Democratic Campaign as well but theres no question as the Vice President speaks from fort henry in baltimore where he is speaking at an outdoor venue he may touch on this theme we know the u. S. President has already done so on twitter when he talked about sending in the National Guard at the request of wisconsins governor once again the overarching theme has been throughout these 2 nights now into the 3rd is projecting law and order something the president believes will to make him distinct from his democratic rival can really help his thank you very much indeed california firefighters are racing to take advantage of cooler weather as the u. S. State grapples with some of the worst wildfires in its history on the left all the active blazes which have burnt 95000 square kilometers of land evacuation orders are in place for 120000 people and at least 7 people have died and there arent enough firefighters 600. 00 extra troops being brought in from the National Guard 15. 00 crew had to drive 643 kilometers to battle blazes that were threatening californias famed finance brunells joins us live from a sanitys iraq california governor gave a briefing on the fires a short while ago wont want to say. Well governor gavin newsom spoke about the status of the fires giving us the latest and its certainly a good news bad news type of situation the good news is that while more than 500000 hectors have burned in these fires that have been burning all over the state now up to 700 individual fires the the amount of containment has increased so firefighters as you said are using a respite in the bad weather. Higher higher humidity less wind slightly lower temperatures in the fire zones in order to achieve greater levels of containment what containment means is that they surround the fire and they prevent it from gas from from moving into new areas so all of those are very good signs however the bad news the governor said is that this is still a historic fire conditions. Unprecedented and that as firefighters and other crews make their way into the more remote areas that have burned they will probably find more than the current number of. About 1200 houses that have burned and unfortunately they may also find more fatalities as you mentioned 7 people have died in the fires according to the official count but there are a number of people missing and when weve been out into these rugged areas firefighters have said its its a very painstaking process to go up remote a sort of valley and mountain roads to find all of the homesteads up there that that may have been affected so the death toll may increase and the other thing we have to bear in mind is its only august usually the fire season in california really kicks into high gear in october and november so theres not a lot to look forward to in terms of these now quite thinly stretched firefighters and the people who live in fire prone areas thank you very much indeed. Still to come on out of their news hour our exclusive investigation into how criminals and dissidents are buying new citizenship despite warnings of in again a t. Mexicos economy declines the most since the Great Depression as the train of ice pandemic shuts down factories keeps tourists home and devastates trade. And sport will take a look at which clubs could afford to have their no messy in the shed next season. Hello storm frances has moved on quite a big one now opening up so not quite as powerful as it was but its 30 obviously a storm and it really belongs the middle of winter not the end of summer however thats what weve got its moving during the sudden baltic into the Baltic States and better as ukraine leaving behind a bit of a gap in full next one tries to wind up as nothing not the same beast still wet and windy considering were still in august and i think this will expand so although much of central and Southern Europe is enjoying now warm settled sunshine and the showers that were around the u. G. In the adriatic are gone. We are going to see this expand there for sink south was which means youve now got the potential for big storms all the way from the northeast to spade across the French Riviera into the out still the sunshine is the south because this leaves enjoying it but the north africa is as well the temp is quite high in the middle of algeria morocco and tunisia not quite the extremes we had a week ago but there will say. About 31. 00 now sounds of that we have got the band all ready banjo which is called right on the edge of the constant is likely to be wet least 2 or 3 more days these are big thunderstorms. But. The health of humanity is at stake a Global Pandemic requires a global response. W. H. O. 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A suspect has been arrested after 2 people were shot dead in another night of unrest in the u. S. City of connection a 17 year old was held in that neighboring illinois after violence following the Police Shooting an unarmed black. Lets get more on that story of the sheriff of can assure county says that militia members of armed vigilante as had been patrolling the streets in recent nights and there are fears of a growing far right movement in the u. S. Thats attracting people online were now joined by sam jackson assistant professor of Homeland Security and Cyber Security at the university of albany thanks for much for being with us and if you could characterize that the nature of the the threat from far far right extremism in the u. S. Remember were talking about. Its difficult to quantify or to even conceptualize the scale of the far right threat for a few Different Reasons part of it is the far right is so fragmented in the us we have. Racist portions of the far right we also have antigovernment portions of the far right some of whom weve been seeing in can osha and in other. Areas that are experiencing protests were guarding the black lives Matter Movement and im what was it i mean you say that kind of varying agendas but. Do they have agendas that kind of cross over to certainly theres a lot of overlap between different sections of the far right that are motivated by different ideas so some are explicitly motivated by a sense of white racial identity which they might perceive to be threatened by other. Racial groups others or are more concerned about things like tyrannical government government overreach and some of those individuals have been mobilized by some of the Government Action to try to stop the coping 1000 pound demick yes i mean there was an instant recently was known. As to own a procession it wasnt in the State Capitol building in michigan where they sort of raided it tell us a bit about that incident and why that was significant and kind of this movement if you like. I dont have the the memories of that particular incident fresh in my mind but weve seen a few things like that in i believe states michigan and ohio and in fact theres been an ongoing. Sort of this type of behavior over the past couple of days in idaho where ammon bundy who gained some renown a few years ago for some of his activism that led to criminal charges which ultimately were dismissed he was. Not found guilty of those criminal charges hes been in idaho protesting these kinds of things as well. Now one of one of the states new jersey has said that has put the threat from these groups as well from the white supremacist extremists i should say too high which is higher than iceland and alqaeda why was that decision made in huge news that new jersey and and in general is that the kind of level of threat that they consider across the United States was that of a particular case do you think im not privy to the information that new jersey used to make that decision what i will say is theres been a growing recognition over the past decade or so that the far right in the u. S. Poses a greater threat than we realized and the Security Apparatus has been. Robust shall we say in responding to perceived threats from various foreign actors whether it be terrorist organizations like the socalled of Islamic State or others but the security at institutions havent been so good at targeting the far right which is allowed that threat to grow and you think that you know this pushback against actually dealing with offenses that what youre saying im sorry did you think as you think theres actually a kind of a reluctance to knowledge that at the level of the threat and and to actually do anything about it theres a range of responses some individuals in Law Enforcement organizations are increasingly recognizing the threat and encouraging responses to it others in Law Enforcement are much more reluctant to see the threat and much more reluctant to do anything about it and i think weve seen this in some of the protests happening around the country where Law Enforcement officers who are actually deployed on the streets seem to have friendly interactions with some of the armed rightwing individuals who come out to oppose the black lives matter protesters sam jackson thank you very much indeed for taking time childress on out there if you share time thank you for having me. And the gunman who carried out new zealands worst mass shooting has faced survivors and relatives on the 3rd day of his sentencing hearing brenton tyrant killed 51. 00 muslim worshippers in Christ Church last year hes lucky to be given life without parole when he reports. For a 3rd straight day Brinton Terence was brought into the high court in christchurch handcuffed and shackled he again set largely emotionless as he listened to and faced family members of people he killed or injured and those who survived his attack i think that the thought of the riemann do pretty well as i feel the government may hear and find in the store. I stayed in that position. The police came in and let this out from the. Ice or big parties on the part of the mobs terence was charged with killing 51. 00 people at 2 mosques in christchurch on the 15th of march last year attempting to murder 40 more and to engaging in an act of terrorism he pleaded guilty to all charges. Im uncertain if that be enough justice for what has happened at the hands of a terrorist. You. However i know one thing for sure that this monster that my father and the other beautiful souls that day much is a coward. On the opening day of the sentencing the court heard how terrence methodically researched the mosques and planned the attacks to when theyd be busy before entering his 1st target the elmore mosque he uploaded a manifesto online detailing his obsession with white supremacy. Tarrant declined to address the court but many of those who were affected by his attack chose to speak directly to him i dont know how this justin system would deal with you but i have peace knowing here are you get what you deserve but the will of the young might not buck beer. When the sentences handed down brenton tyrant is likely to become the 1st person a new zealand to be sentenced to life with no chance of parole wayne hey al jazeera. Aljazeera standing by its exclusive report on cypruss controversial Citizenship Program which the separate government is calling propaganda on basket of unit highlighted confidential documents listing to know how far people who have purchased separate citizenship including criminals and government fugitives around 500 people from china and 350 people from the middle east are among those who paid for the right to live and work in europe Deborah Davis reports. A meeting of president s to discuss greater links between cyprus and china but away from the public glare hundreds of chinese have quietly paid for a personal connection aboard cypriot citizenship a few likely a criminals he sanctioned by the us the laundering stolen cryptocurrency others like tanya politically connected hes boss of the state owned Energy Company the chinese presence is increasingly visible in cyprus 2 and a half 1000000. 00 for citizenship and a passport which can be invested in a luxury home is a modest price for chinas super rich. Young man and has been both have separate passports through her family Real Estate Company Country Garden shes worth an estimated 27000000000. 00 and is often called asias Richest Woman but paying for the passport and moving assets to the island isnt straightforward because china has strong currency controls strictly speaking its all illegal very often they use hong kong as a way for getting their money out of china and there are many creative ways for doing so and they sometimes also used in macau as another way all getting money out of china another category in the cyprus papers includes those we are not naming for their own safety that applies to a woman whose relative was secretly abducted from hong kong by Chinese Security agents and several names from saudi arabia applications for cypriot passports from the kingdom have increased since the rise of crown Prince Mohammed bin salmond like china he announced a crackdown on corruption which critics say only targets his political enemies one member of the bin laden family holds a cyprus passport their Business Empire has been effectively confiscated by the crown prince another is a relative of one of the hundreds of wealthy saudis detained in 2017 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in riyadh without charge until they paid for their release theres also a broker of the Saudi Foreign investment deals although still well connected a cypriot passport provides a potential refuge should the political tide. Deborah davis aljazeera london. The cypriot government insists that it carried out the necessary checks and didnt break any rules. That are going to wouldnt produce the mediator or the interior ministry has investigated all the informational dizzier has given to the public and all the names brought up by the investigation have been looked into when they applied for the visas there were 100 percent entitled to it was no criminal record in their home countries and with there were living we investigated and there were no complaints against them from any other sources or interpol this is deliberate distortion in the simpson of the elements biol dizzier the 5th part of our exclusive report on the cyprus papers will have reaction from the e. U. After a week of revelations about the serious flaws in the cyprus Investment Scheme for passports we have an exclusive interview with the European Unions commissioner for justice did year end as thats thursday from 10 g. M. T. Here in rogers era the greek coast guard is extending a rescue operation after a boat smuggling migrants partially sank in the aegean sea at least 96 people have been pulled from the water so far very ran into trouble 31 kilometers west of the island of hokie authorities arent sure how many people were on board. Mexicos economy is shrinking rapidly as it struggles to deal with the fallout of coronavirus shrank by nearly 19 percent between april and june compared to the same period last year xico was already in a recession before many activities were prevented by lock down just under 5000 new cases were confirmed on tuesday officials concerned 3 weeks of declines a plateaued. Lets go to John Heilemann whos in mexico city for us so why is the Economic Forecast so bad for mexico. Yeah it is it is pretty awful because economy in the 2nd quarter declined the most since the Great Depression thats a sposed the top line on this now whats happened in mexico is that the president and his manual Lopez Obrador has refused to apply a large stimulus package as weve seen in other countries who are worried about the Economic Impact of coronavirus that might be a surprise to some of our viewers because this is a president who declares himself as a leftist someone hed think might be handing out more state aid not less of it at the moment but also his watchword is or stare at see and he thinks that mexico should be tightening its belt at the moment hes worried about getting the country into debt hes worried about boring from International Finance organizations an economist ive talked to have also said that this is a politician whos been around a long long time and hes seen what happens in the past when the country has borrowed money and that somehow perhaps hasnt got into the right hands it hasnt got to where its needed the most the poorest in the country those who need it most thats probably the why he hasnt gone for this stimulus package but was he right in not doing so we have to look at another economy in the in latin america it should be the regions biggest economy and thats brazil which obviously has a far right president also not 0 but he did unleash a big fiscal spending campaign to try and deal with the impact of covert on the economy and the economy of brazil relatively is not doing anywhere near as badly as mexicos chile as well as a far right wing government also unleased fiscal Spending Program so they sort of went against type as well so the fact that brazil isnt doing so badly is mexico after taking that measure is causing economists to sort of question what president Lopez Obrador has done now the only thing about this is that this could have bought in doubt mates could be on the up as we speak and thats what president and there is more normal Lopez Obrador be hoping that the worst is behind him now gentlemen thank you very much. Gaza has reported its 1st death from coburg 19 since authorities there detected transmission in the community earlier this week 10 new cases were recorded on wednesday as authorities enforced a Strict Lockdown across the palestinian enclave there are fears gazas Health Care System would be quickly overwhelmed if the outbreak were not brought under control. Frances recorded nearly 5 and a half 1000 new cases of code 19 in the past 24 hours is the highest daily total since the countrys lockdown ended with 11 infections not seen since april the number of deaths has not increased significantly with 16 reported on tuesday the last day when figures were available south koreas parliament is temporarily closing after a reporter tested positive for the corona virus well the 50 people are likely to self quarantine after coming into contact with a journalist a number of cases have been confirmed at government buildings over the last few days south korea is on high alert ive been recorded its 13th straight day of triple digit jumps in infections on wednesday thousands of doctors who are striking of reforms have been ordered back to work to deal with the increase. Typhoon vavi has forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights in south korea strong winds of battering the Southern Island of jeju with a typhoon expected to make landfall in north korea early on thursday what mcbride has more from seoul. Typhoon babie is the 8th typhoon of this season to come out of the western pacific and it is shaping up to be one of the strongest ever to hit the Korean Peninsula with wind speeds of over 160 Kilometers Per Hour also expecting to dump hundreds of millimeters of rain it is affected already the southern south korean island of jeju and also the countrys south coast as it moves gradually northwards through the yellow sea that separates the Korean Peninsula from the coast of china it will be passing closest to the most densely populated part of south korea thats the sole metropolitan area during the nighttime hours of wednesday through into thursday and then thursday morning it will be making its landfall in north korea itself now it will have lost some of its intensity but this will still be a very big typhoon barreling into north korea the north Korean Leader kim jong un has already held a meeting this week of his politburo to discuss measures to mitigate the impact of this the country has been put on full alert but this is a north korea is already facing of course merely add problems from the continuing sanctions from the effects of isolating itself because of fears of the coronavirus from the outside world its also had of course the impact of a weeks of heavy rains that have gone on longer than usual the summer rains that have been really impacting its crops that have been flooding its waterways and drenching the ground causing landslips and then on top of all of that of course they now have to deal with the impact of this typhoon 17 dead dolphins have washed up on American Beach a month after an environmental emergency was declared over an oil spill. Environmental organization greenpeace is calling for an investigation last month a japanese ship spilled more than a 1000 tons of oil after hitting a coral reef off the and United Ireland Scientists Say the full impact of the spill is still unfolding and that it could damage the environment and economy for decades its. Still to come on aljazeera in sport find out why the reigning n. B. A. Champions are threatening to boycott and next playoff game. Time for sport now his fair. Well and thank you so much the Milwaukee Bucks have boycotted there and be a playoff game against their land of magic they team are protesting over the Police Shooting concent resident jacob blake the league has now postponed all of wednesdays games and richard sent reports the Walking Stick got about 4 warm ups a game that could have seen the Milwaukee Bucks advancing in the n. B. A. Playoffs will instead be remembered for the nonappearance the team opting to boycott the fixture with the Orlando Magic as part of a protest against Racial Injustice running n. B. A. Champions the Toronto Raptors have been discussing a possible boycotts with then next opponents the Boston Celtics the teams that used to play on thursday and say the talks began in the aftermath of the shooting of jacob blake in wisconsin but theyre going to be there thats not been the job you know thats starting to get washed out after white black lives matter. Another thing a conversation you know so much of its everywhere you know and i was just. In a daily conversation you know and it was kind of. Sort of why were you not really noticing that the mayor of Los Angeles Clippers coach doc rivers is the son of a Police Officer his team beat the Dallas Mavericks in their playoff game on tuesday he like to gave an emotional response when he was asked about the shooting of blake. This country and this country does not look back and its just its really so sad. I should just coach. This song. Reminds me of my caller you know. Its just really just. Jacob really the black lines match the slogan house being highly visible a game since the n. B. A. Restarts and many players have spoken out on the issue of systemic racism for some seems now it seems woods on no longer enough on the richardson aljazeera board. Barcelona say they have no intention of allowing leno massy to leave the club. On the footballing world by handing in a transfer request on choose day the player in the club looks set for a legal stand off messi believes his contract will allow him to leave on a free transfer barsa insists he is still bound by an 800000000. 00 by a clause barcelona sporting director has said that the club is still planning to build a team around messi and with a basic salary of around 90000000 dollars a year not many clubs are in the running to sign the 33 year old English Premier League side Manchester City offers the chance of a reunion with former barcelona player and manager pep already. He has she might see messi as a player who could help them win their 1st year a paean Champions League his former barsa teammate neymar is already at the club and turmoil and are backed by ambitious chinese owners desperate to and event to event disses dominance in the Italian League the other option for massey is to stay where it is and thats certainly what the majority of barcelona fans are in favor of. Hundreds of supporters have spent the day protesting outside the teams stadium but many calling for the resignation of Club President are to me. To talk of. Leaving their side because i cannot imagine one day that leaving this place because of. His life here on that meant to him to finish his career here because we love him and wish him chelsea have already spent close to 200000000. 00 on new signings ahead of the new season bench oh well is their latest edition the leicester defender has joined the london club in a 70000000. 00 transfer chelsea are also on the verge of a deal with Byron Leverkusen to buy midfielder. And the worlds most expensive defender is dealing with issues off the pitch that united captain Harry Maguire is lodged an appeal against the guilty verdict he received in a green court but i was given a suspended prison sentence following an altercation with Police Last Week in a statement united said under greek law the appeal means that harry is once again presumed innocent until Proven Guilty they are only a soccer came from a set down to move into the last 4 of the western and southern open in new york soccer beating and that qantas of a stone the 2 time grand slam champion is building up to the u. S. Open which starts on monday and so we know williams compared losing her last 16 match on choose day to being stuck in a bad relationship the 23 time grand slam champion made the comment after being knocked out by maria sarky american who struggled with fitness issues during the match went down in 3 sets. I put myself in a bad situation you know its like dating a guy that you know sucks and i think what he. Already doing out here is like i got rid of this guy just makes no sense i know why its frustrating ok and that is all your support for now its now back to laurin and london. Thank you very much and a quick reminder you can always catch up with all the news were covering on our website aljazeera dot com. And thats it for me nontariff this news hour im back with more news in just a minute. 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Singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally vanished its a big business smuggling sample and they will take the say on their own through the sand is our fair to say this beautiful beach but behind it is something thats not so plentiful tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency soundboards at this time on aljazeera. Racially charged protests that and inferred the tragedy 2 people are shot dead in can osho wisconsin a 17 year old is now in custody. And on tape this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. Nor a grows in strength its now a category 4 hurricane with a potential storm surge that officials warn could be