Elizabeths role as head of state barbados push to become a republic reopens the debate in several caribbean countries. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has now passed the 30000000 worldwide and the World Health Organization is sounding the alarm over the rising rate of transmissions across europe that have been more than 300000 infections there in the past week the w. H. O. And surging d countries not to cut quarantine periods warning that could waste the sacrifices being made and the British Government has admitted Testing Capacity there is an satisfactory that in baba reports from london. Newcastle northeast england major city and now part of a huge region on the new covered restrictions from friday more than 1500000 residents cant socialize with people outside their household or social bubble and bars and restaurants have to close by 10 in the evening the u. K. Government says it agreed to measures with local councils following a sharp rise in infections i think you should follow the rules to make a go we cant. Think people not really follow their instructions we shoot yeah but im quite happy about it you know do whatever we need to do. Here to stop the virus and dont think the household things are in fact because then it can go away with. Other people on from the household but i cant socialise with bands such as me make sense nationally in the u. K. Infection rates are going in the wrong direction daily new cases number in the thousands with experts saying the truth could be in the 10s of thousands and after Prime Minister bars johnson admitted Testing Capacity isnt good enough the Health Secretary not for the 1st time appeared to blame the public when he appeared before parliament the challenge is that demand has gone up faster and they can say on the other side no its not what they call defy the facts and the most important thing for everybody across the country to hear from all of their elected representatives if they are interested in helping this country get through this pandemic is that if you have symptoms test if you dont have sanctions please do not come forward to get a test unless youre specifically britains far from the only european nation worried about rising infections and deaths thats prompted the World Health Organization to issue a new warning to governments not to reduce quarantine periods from its recommended 14 days in the spring and early summer we were able to see the impact of strict look down measures. Efforts over a 2nd phase as a day off. In june patients hit an all time low the september cage numbers however should serve as a break up call for all of us old all these numbers reflect more comprehensive testing it also shows a lot of the rates of transmission across the region in italy the Alitalia Airline is now trying to domestic coronavirus free flights per day passengers are offered a covered 19 test at the airport before flying the results come within a half an hour only those tested negative can fly here in the u. K. The pressing need is for the general public to be able to access covered 19 tests quickly and for all fortys to improve the Contact Tracing system with winter approaching the challenges for the politicians and for Health Professionals are enormous nadeem barber al jazeera. Bolivias interim president is withdrawing from elections one month before theyre held shane and yes he says its a bit to avoid splitting the vote and to keep the socialist party of former president evo morales from winning he was forced into exile last year following weeks of violent protests over his disputed reelection or in their heart a level meeting today i put inside my candidacy for the presidency of bolivia to take care of democracy its not a sacrifice its an honor i do this because of the risk of the democratic vote being divided among several candidates and as a result of that division the mass party could end up winning the election was called out of to manual apollo whos following this from mexico city and thats where it will not alice 1st took refuge after leaving bolivia whats the reaction to all of this. So this announcement by libyas interim president cheney not yet withdraw her candidature for presidency in the Upcoming Elections isnt really seeing as as too much of a surprise in bolivia and there are a number of reasons why the elections are coming up fairly soon were about a month away october october 18th is is the date that the elections are scheduled to be held and anyone yes is trailing in 4th place in the polls so what were hearing from political analysts in bolivia is that this announcement to withdraw from the candidacy is a is a strategic move to sort of unify the political opposition in bolivia anyone who is against. Mortalities under this sort of rallying cry and thats the way that this is being painted by the interim president is this rallying cry to preserve democracy in bolivia but we should know that janine and yes is a very polarizing figure in bolivia shes been widely criticized for the interim governments handling of the ongoing coronavirus coronavirus pandemic in the country so many are seeing this announcement to to withdraw her bid for the presidency as a sort of as part of that strategy to regain some of the popularity that shes lost in recent months there lets talk about the impact of the coronavirus because it hasnt stopped elections and other possible latin america is going to make any difference or have any impact bolivia. Not likely but there is a concern as there would be in any country of a possible resurgence. In the virus but it will go on the latest numbers in bolivia there as of thursday evening 128872 confirmed cases 7478 confirmed deaths due to cope with 1000 but the country is showing signs of improvement following a peak in contagion a peak in daily deaths that occurred sometime in august but we should note the World Health Organization did issue a warning earlier this week for latin american countries saying that many economies are opening up too soon this is true in several countries that are showing alarming rates of contagion even here where i am now in mexico city but in bolivia specifically there is concern that a reopening of a dick of the economy especially now in september could potentially lead to that contagion rate going back up and could potentially lead to a resurgence of the virus in the south American Country thats one of apollo bring us up to date from mexico city michael thanks very much indeed but as president was going to face an impeachment hearing on friday after the Constitutional Court rejected his appeal for the delay martin viscosity is accused of interfering in a corruption probe looking into nearly 50000. 00 worth of ever going to government contracts awarded to a center the homes of several government officials were raided on saturday as part of the investigation the president has rejected the allegations. A u. S. Judge has temporarily blocked what hes calling politically motivated changes to the Postal Service ahead of the november election the case is being brought by 14 states who say the changes threaten the delivery time of mail in ballots the judge says some harm has already been done there was widespread outbreak back in june when the changes were announced by the head of the Postal Service lou it is joyce who has made large donations to u. S. President Donald Trumps campaign. The u. S. President has announced a series of measures to promote what he calls Patrick Arctic education in a speech at the National Archives museum he said the new socalled 776. 00 commission would quote teach our youth to love america he criticized what he called leftwing indoctrination which he said use every issue through the lens of race the movie is a response to the New York Times 6019 project it highlights the long term consequences of slavery and the contributions of black americans trump has already threatened to cut off funding from schools that have incorporated elements of the 16000. 00 project into their classes Jason Nichols is a senior lecturer in the africanamerican studies department at the university of Maryland College park he thinks Donald Trumps plan is going to hurt students. I think its terrifying i think whenever you talk about Patriotic Education it means that you wont acknowledge the mistakes that the nation has made throughout its history and when you dont acknowledge mistakes youre doomed to repeat them so this is another culture war tactic that the president is using and its actually more divisive than inclusive and its something that i think is very dangerous when you start limiting knowledge and limiting what people are exposed to and he mentioned howard zinn which i think is so important because howard zinn said one of the most important statements of the 20th century and that is that dissent is the highest form of patriotism thats what patriotism is to love your country so much that she wanted to be the best it can be not just that you will blindly praise the historians are saying they love the idea of the 69000. 00 project they just think that it could be more historically accurate and i think that thats fine but when you Start Talking about you know ideological differences and which ideology you like best thats when you start diving into propaganda and thats what it is a reminder of a lot of things weve seen around the world when young people are actually indoctrinated and i will also remind your audience that the 1619 project is never been conceived or was never conceived to be a primary teaching tool it was a supplemental teaching tool and something that had articles that teachers could grab from and they could discuss with their students and thats the way it should be. The u. S. City of portland has seen protests over Police Brutality every night for months donald trump has portrayed the city as a chaotic battleground for on a case to bolster his law and order platform now the Justice Department has reportedly been pushing prosecutors to charge violent protests as well the rarely used sedition law well brunells reports from portland. Portland has become the flashpoint of americas culture wars. There have been well over 100 consecutive days of black lives matter protests demanding justice for george floyd Briana Taylor and other black People Killed by police. Right. Now the moment i heard george drake. Was. Me or. George no no no no what are you doing President Donald Trump sent in federal Law Enforcement in late july a stance oblique to protect a federal courthouse that intensified the protests some of which went from peaceful to violent. Police arrested school hours of people in recent days protesters say the number of demonstrators has decreased sharply but the trumpet ministration is contemplating a new legal crackdown in response to the protests here and in other cities the u. S. Attorney general william barr has reportedly urged federal prosecutors to bring charges of sedition against some of the people involved thats a rarely invoked federal law designed to punish people who try to overthrow the government of the united states. Legal scholars question whether such. Narges would hold up in court on if you look at the most recent examples where sedition has been charged under this act its not been successful i think juries and judges alike tend not like to convict on this unless there is real hard evidence to show that there is an imminent threat the government being experts say aggressive prosecution could stifle legitimate free speech and political expression which are protected under the Us Constitution i think the threat of the erast alone would be sufficient to make some people feel it is not safe for me to go out on the street and exercise my 1st amendment rights and the thought that the government would yield its power in a way that would curtail or chill or silence that type of speech should be really frustrating upsetting threatening to us as american citizens trump is using the protest to drum up his law and order platform during the Election Campaign but a report by Princeton University shows 93 percent of all protests since floyds death have been peaceful robert oulds aljazeera portland. Still ahead on aljazeera children in brazil are going back to School Despite the country remaining the worlds 3rd largest covered 19 hot spot. However same yet more heavy rain flooding into parts of Central China recently you see this big band of cloud as stationary front that has brought some big downpours in across the region 130 millimeters of rain here in the space of 24 hours not wet weather staying in place as we go on through the next 24 hours or so pulsing out into the East China Sea heading towards japan will see some we have a downpours coming in here for a time and itll pass further once again as we go on through saturday another pulse of very heavy rain pushing through but japan starting to poke through brighter skies coming back in things starting to dry out not too bad across the korean potential that will in areas of china not too bad but for the south we are looking at some big downpours at the moment it all links up pasty all with at Tropical Storm moore which is making its way towards central parts of vietnam putting the west whether away from the philippines as it does say that cloud on the right coming into Central Vietnam gradually pushing across laos lots of very heavy rain there across a good part of indochina heavy rain to wincey western parts of india a lot of cloud of the western side of the more heavy cloud heavy rain there pushing into bangladesh and staying very wet for a good part of nepal. Close your eyes. Listen. To the muslim i never thought id be singing a column in with the poor i never dreamt of it where the words fail music speaks to short films about how music can knock down holes and inspire hope for a better life a. J. Selects on aljazeera. We want your visitor a reminder of our top stories this hour the World Health Organization says its concerned about the alarming rate of new infections in europe that have been more than 300000 covered 1000. 00 infections in the past week some countries have reintroduced lockdowns in hard hit cities. Bolivias interim president is withdrawing from elections but one month before their held journey 9 years says its an effort to avoid splitting the folks and to keep the party of former president even what alice from winning it was forced into exile last year. U. S. President trump has announced a series of measures to promote what he calls Patriotic Education in a speech at the National Archives museum he said the new socalled 776. 00 commission would quote teach our youth to love america. Barbados push this week to drop Queen Elizabeth the 2nd as their head of state has revived a debate among former british colonies in the caribbean whether to become republics the barbadian government has lost its latest attempt saying the time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind recently britains reputation in the caribbean took a battering because of the windrush scandal thats when british kind of beings who lived and works in the u. K. For decades or wrongly targeted for deportation. B. D. s want about b. D. And head of state this is the ultimate statement of confidence and we are what we are capable of achieving hence but it is the next logical step towards full sovereignty and become a republic. By that i mean we celebrate our 55th st anniversary of independents david colmer song is joining us live from barbados hes ambassador of barbados to the Caribbean Community welcome to our visitors so thank you very much indeed for joining us this isnt a new idea for barbados why is it taken so long. Good question you know it was really long over its you it came up in a very definite sweet approximately 70 years the school the Political Class back then was ready to pull forward and they are it is a republic but there was some pushback it was a push back particularly from b b have. A small our white house might not go to see population in barbados but since strong economically and there was a push back from them it was also pushed back from all of. Our indian sparky its the next i sent me but all of that black market eons would have some of it in the a little and you know iraq some of the pushback was the Political Class to put this on pause button over the last 20 years there has been an evolution in barbados and so much so that not only are we removing the queen of england as a whole head of state but we have also made the decision to tear down the statue of lord nelson at her notes and the famous british admiral thats that she was thats 13 so this is a new assertion of consciousness on the part of the barbadian people a feeling that we have come into our whole all the once a complete the structure of our own state just as an independent nation whats the significance of removing the lord nelson statue. Well you know it was 200 years of bull barry the plan to blast you must know the history of barbados barbados was the 1st black lives society and so lord nelson back in 8013 was a hero the white latin class this is a different barbados this is a barbados of you not read imminently that nation and the new sense of what our National Values are who are all heroes are are what values and principles they want to hold and said great so the decision has been taken that the notices that you will pull ins are the museum it will be treated as and missed that rather than as a statue through which the s. N. P. Greeting lord nelson and whats. Going to be so for British Empire and me and of maintenance this is the us navy free those are not 21st century barbadian bottoms that we want simple you know hold that one cant imagine that the process of choosing a new head of state is going to be particularly easy how concerned are you that it might end up actually bugging barbados part politics down or with political infighting and a certain amount of leverage searching as people try to get their own candidates into place hows it going to work to think. Well you know our Prime Minister has said she wants every little barbadian already and there are so hire some some dude be the head of state of barbados but this is a very well run a very Orderly Society we are that time live nation were on when you know fundament so interests are at stake the whole be coalesce and so you know you have a long history of running a lot of fears and in a very orderly struck to manage so thats not thats not a concern at all and you know and the other thing is that barbados is a member of the Caribbean Community of nations 15 nation states that had to join to get her out organization known as the Caribbean Community carry palm and were in the process of transit develop a caribbean civilization. And so interest in groups that we want to develop a civilization but its midwinter all done so the symbol of the being of england as our head of state so that you know this is part of our Natural Evolution as well functional of our sovereignty we xpress well confidence in our all ability to quarterly manage our National Affairs we really appreciate you giving a serious thoughts on this david commerce and thank you very much for joining us on knowledge as if. It was my pleasure thank you york citys mayor has once again delayed children returning to classrooms due to a shortage of stuff and safety concerns most servants were meant to return on monday but the blasio says it looks more likely to happen at the start of a towbar teachers unions raise concern schools did not have the required stuff and capacity. Schools in the brazilian city of Rio De Janeiro have reopened but nobody knows for how long legal disputes between mayors governors and trade unions have left students and teachers in limbo all over 1000 cases remain high on opinion reports. The deadly pandemic kept this School Closed for 200 days but not anymore children are back in class despite brazil remaining the worlds 3rd largest cope with 19 hot spot thing im afraid but we have to take a risk rice not all students have returned but 10 year old isabella has decided to take the plunge shes taking precautionary measures against coronavirus and says she prefers being back at school than at Home Learning online but isabellas 1st class in 6 months maybe one of her last summer and weve had 4 injunctions in 48 hours we dont know what will happen next all over brazil decisions are taken one day and radically change the next week political squabbles have turned brazils educational system into a shambles bell us family of 5 is struggling to get used to the pandemic and to the changing guidelines i have given them the only rule in brazil is that there is no rule whether to grandma or not whether to reopen the schools or not men say one thing governess in another trade unions fight back and the federal government has no policy every family is on its own isabellas daughters study at a private school but lessons will remain online person but will know was accepted by a Public University free of charge he had one week of classes before the pandemic shut down his college his father fabio is a teacher at the state funded school for the hearing impaired this is the 1st time he has stepped into the building in 6 months and it is still empty now when the new medium. A huge percentage of Public School and College Students have access to internet or the means to follow online courses. But many in brazil say children should be back in class and have staged protests to make their point if bar stores and Shopping Centers have reopened they say in schools should be allowed to do the same before the pandemic this school had 180 through the 1st day it reopened only 38 showed up the 2nd day only 5 resilience arent sure if schools should be open or not if its legal to do it or not theres only one rule everybody seems to agree with playgrounds like this one are off limits the owner says she followed all the safety procedures but brazilian authorities keep going back and forth this is getting some parents need to leave their children here because they have to go to work and dont have good Internet Connection for online classes but they dont know who to trust and meanwhile bills keep coming and since there has been no final decision if schools should reopen in Rio De Janeiro or elsewhere in brazil students teachers and parents from maine in limbo monica inactive all just sirrah Rio De Janeiro. And indonesia millions of childrens education has been disrupted and people in remote communities dont have Internet Access jessica washington travelled to taiwan and has this report. Into the west timor it seems nothing can get between these teachers and their students from monday to friday they travel to meet them. And although this school is closed because of covered 900 precautions class is still in session you have any good reason to believe we cannot do Online Learning because theres no Internet Access and people dont have Computers Laptops or mobile devices the teachers go from village to village using makeshift outdoor classrooms with covert 900 Safety Measures in mind they say they are trying their best and limited resources to leave it at 30 like us we are thankful that even though the road to a village is bad and its very far away the teaches still willing to come and teach us schools in this Community Like many across indonesia have been shot since march the teachers took it upon themselves to stop visiting the villages of the students knowing that without Internet Access and offering no electricity Online Learning was never a viable option for most children he. The pandemic has disrupted the education of millions of indonesian children and its not just remote provinces experiencing difficulties with Distance Learning but cities close to the capital as well. Entire on the western border with jakarta schools are closed and these children have no Internet Access at home. The local government has set up an internet hotspot in this classroom the children to do their homework. We started Online Learning in march i really miss my school and i would like to go back the Education Ministry says it feels the need to change the system. Before and we already have a plan that we did like 3 years olds. Meaning that. The teachers without those resources its a challenging time because of the link teaches a working twice as hard with being overworked. Some schools have reopened but for many teachers theres no sign when the challenge of teaching without a classroom. Just to washington aljazeera tuggeranong indonesia. This is all it is or are these other top stories the number of coronavirus cases has not passed 13000000 worldwide and the World Health Organization says its concerned about the alarming rate of new infections in europe that have been more than 300000 infections in the past week some countries have reintroduced lockdowns and hard hit cities but libyas interim president is withdrawing from the elections one month before theyre held jimmying and yes it says its an effort to avoid splitting the vote and to keep the party of former president evo but alice from winning it was forced into exile last year by no apollos in mexico city with more. What were hearing from political analysts in bolivia is that this announcement to withdraw from the candidacy is a is a strategic move to sort of unify the political opposition in bolivia anyone who is against it will mortalities under this sort of rallying cry and thats the way that this is being painted by the interim president is this rallying cry to preserve democracy in bolivia perus president will face an impeachment hearing on friday after the Constitutional Court rejected his appeal for the delay a lot of discover is accused of interfering in a corruption probe looking into nearly 50000. 00 worth of irregular government contracts the homes of several government officials were raided on saturday as part of the investigation the president has rejected the allegations barbados push this week to drop Queen Elizabeth the 2nd as their head of state has revived the debate among former british colonies in the caribbean whether to become republics the barbadian governments launched his latest attempt saying the time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after what men make science for by. 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