Prosecutors in russia seek a 6 year sentence for a high profile film director on the bezel new charges as the borders say the case is listed as a base in school sternness world number one of a joke which is facing criticism through players involved in events these organized in the balkans have now tested positive for corona virus. But we begin this hour in the United States where the death toll from the corona virus has now reached 120008 new infections are soaring in several states which have reopened their economies now the daily number of cases is at its highest level in almost 2 months a dozen states including arizona florida and texas all experienced record increases in new cases in the last week but it is a different picture in new york city once the epicenter of the outbreak after 3 months of lockdown offices restaurants and hair salons are reopening in americas biggest city but across the wilds there were 183000. 00 new infections reported on sunday thats the west day yet as the total nears 9000000 while in brazil the number of deaths there past 50000 and indian authorities reported the highest daily jump in new infections this. 15000 now despite the rising cases restrictions that continue to be relaxed and weve got 3 reporters standing by to isabeau 1 isnt argentinas capital Christensen Amy will have all the latest from new york shortly but 1st we go to los angeles and rob reynolds rob weve been seeing wreck or being broken in california whats driving them well here in Los Angeles County. The total number of new coronavirus cases recorded over the last 24 hours is 1784 with 11 people having died from code 19 all together in this area this metropolitan area of 10000000 people there are 80000. Positive cases confirmed since the beginning of the pandemic with 3120. 00 deaths this comes as los angeles like many other parts of california are in various phases of reopening businesses factories Public Places bars restaurants nail salons gyms and the like but what people here in this county are saying is that much of the increase is due to ramped up testing of testing its very widely available in Los Angeles County there are drive up centers all over the cities its quite a vailable to people in all areas and so many many people are getting tested and these tests are available to people who are not showing symptoms as well so Officials Say that there are other key data points including hospitalizations and the total number of deaths which indicate that the situation is not quite as dire as the naked numbers show in fact barbara for rare who is the l. A. County director of health says that the most important data continue to point to the fact that the area remains fairly stable in terms of Community Spread and that in fact efforts underway continue to slow the spread of covert 19 not the case in some other parts of the country however i want to ask you exactly about that rob weve been seeing these spikes across the south of the country how is that being addressed. Well its its comes again in the midst of this gradual reopening in some cases states like arizona there wasnt much closure or to begin with but were so were seeing daily new infection counts in the United States on some days last week exceeding 30000. 00 nationwide there are at least 8 states including florida arizona texas utah South Carolina that reported single day new highs in infections and several of those states were the ones that started to open up earliest the states are seeing increased positivity in testing and in many cases increased hospitalization and its interesting that this upsurge has actually led some Business Owners to voluntarily shut down again at least we know of at least a dozen restaurants and other businesses in texas for example that have closed their doors because they feel their patrons or their staff of. Acquired the virus and tested positive but as far as the revamp any new nationwide effort or National Strategy emanating from the white house from the president there is none again states are as they have been since the beginning of the pandemic essentially on their own to craft the route strategies as to how to try to suppress the disease robins that speaking to us from los angeles thank you very much trouble thats now cross to Christensen Amy shes joining me live from new york city as it reopens kristen are people getting out and about i see people Walking Around behind you a little bit more traffic now later on in the morning people must feel like this is a bit of a reprieve after so many months of lockdown. Definitely a lot more traffic but i have. In the last few hours its early afternoon here in new york weve been able to walk around midtown midtown manhattan a bit i have to say ive seen half as many stores or just as many stores that are still closed as opened so were entering phase 2 here in new york that means that retail outlets can reopen for instore shopping but many of them im seeing are still closed restaurants as well there are allowed to reopen for Outdoor Dining there are some 27000 restaurants in new york city but many of them are very small and tight and the requirements for them to open include be not only being outside but having tables 6 feet apart its very difficult. Requirements that have to be met by the restaurants here so many of them still are not open weve seen anecdotally just here in midtown manhattan. The mayor when he announced in entering this phase said that he thought reopening even in this limited capacity for restaurants would allow some 5000 of 27000 restaurants could possibly prevent them from closing permanently it might save some 45000 jobs thats why they chose to move forward in this way the hope today or the expectation was that anywhere from 150000 people 2300000 people would be getting back to work here in manhattan so itll be interesting when we get more solid numbers to see if it lives up to that expectation one thing we did hear last week leading into this was that Restaurant Owners and retail outlets but Restaurant Owners in particular were frustrated at the lack of clarity it was kind of a last minute announcement about reopening this week so it may be that they just havent had the chance yet to get their staff back to get stocked up and so forth because. As i said the traffic has picked up substantially and im seeing delivery trucks up and down some of the streets that we were driving around so it may just be a more gradual reopening here and certainly people are hoping that things will continue to move in a positive direction in terms of business because the Unemployment Rate here is now at 18 percent but of course concerns about the corona virus are also on everyones mind and vigilance is being warned even though here in new york the new infections the new hospitalizations the fatality rate all continued to creep downward and now are at the lowest rates weve seen since the 2nd week of march so now the question is can the economy recover at the same time as our Public Health is recovering kristensen amy there with all the latest from new york city thank you very much kristen well as you had brazil has now recorded more than 50000 deaths from the virus the World Health Organization is warning of worrying increases throughout latin america well we can all speak to reason bushies and what is or isnt watching the whole region for us and to reason weve been seeing protests on the streets in brazil as well and has had quite a bit to say what is their take on the situation. Well the World Health Organization denounced the vet in the past 24 hours theres been a 54000 infections in brazil this brings up the figure to over 1000000 people that have coronavirus in the country over 50000 people have died some experts are saying that actually those figures are much higher because of lack of testing because of the difficulties to reach some of reserves most remote areas we know so far that at least 82 municipalities in brazil already have confirmed cases of coronavirus many of those me to see if i leave these are located for example in the amazon rain forest where indigenous communities are denouncing that the virus is spreading there and theyre fearing extinction all of this is happening in the middle of a huge political crisis thats protests are happening in many of brazils major cities many of them are asking or demanding the resignation of president. Theres also protests over force one out of supporters many of them are happening in the capital brasilia people criticizing the Supreme Court congress among others are saying that those institutions are not allowing president to carry out many of those reforms of the voice when i go since the very beginning has opposed lockdowns he has been seen getting some of his supporters appearing without a mask saying im calling coronavirus a little through saying that hes athletic and that he wont get ill so this has been the press is precedents attitude something that has forced him to clash with the Supreme Court with congress with at least 2 of his Health Ministers but also with powerful governors in brazil with the governor of the with the governor of religion aid or who from the very beginning wanted to impose lockdown in their cities to prevent the spread of coral and of virus what were seeing right now is many of those cities in spite of the surging cases in spite of the search in deaths theyre still trying to open up the. Because of the consequences that the president has repeatedly said that lock downs will have in the economy well theyre starting to open up now experts are saying that this is not the time to open up that there is a surge in cases a surge in deaths and that at this point the lockdown should be in place in order to prevent further loss of life and to reza were also seeing these surges and several other countries across the region how are they coping. Well let me marry guys right now the at the center of corona virus so were seeing a surge of cases almost everywhere but the biggest amount of those cases are happening in many of the countries that did not implement a lockdown from the very beginning in mexico for example 21000 people have died she posed a lockdown but only initially in the city of santiago where theres been a surge in cases and in fact the government was forced to adopt the figure of those who died initially it was around 3500. 00 while that figure has gone up to almost 7000. 00 because many of those who died had not been steps tested so they had to readjust were also seeing a surge in cases in countries like you why paraguayan argentina the situation has been completely different argentina was one of the 1st countries to impose a lot down one of the strictest lockdowns in the world with Security Forces on the ground which require permits to leave peoples house with the president asking people to stay in their homes this has had an enormous impact on argentinas economy because at this point negotiating and trying to prevent the fall that has inflation recession among many other things but at this point the president is considering extending thats quarantine at least in greater one off site is home to around 14000000 people so theres lots of questioning about whats going to happen in latin america once this is so over what the world bank is saying theres going to be a contraction of the economy of around 6 percent so most of the governments in the region with a lockdown or without it are fearing whats coming next and for many is a raise a rise in inequality poverty and hunger tourism are there watching the region for us from one of the areas thank you very much tourism all the head of the World Health Organization is warning World Leaders against potential sizing the pandemic saying its undermining efforts to combat the coronavirus he says the lack of Global Leadership is more alarming than the virus itself. The greatest threat we face now is not the virus itself its the lack of Global Solidarity and Global Leadership we cannot defeat this pandemic with a divided world the moral is in desperate need of National Unity and Global Solidarity the politicize asian of the pandemic has exacerbated it ultimately the problem ik i shown that we are humanity one humanity. None of us are. All of wise or of. All theres plenty more ahead on this news hour including why china could become an obstacle in Nuclear Talks between the u. S. And russia how palestinians are stepping up their fight against israels plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank. And in sport despite being banned the Confederate Flag still makes an appearance at the latest nascar motor racing event in the United States. Now yemens government and a Southern Separatist group have agreed to discuss a possible peace deal according to saudi arabia they have agreed to a cease fire in the abyan region and also to deescalate tensions in other areas it comes after the Southern Transitional council took full control of the island of the culture on saturday the internationally recognized government called it a coup the separatists want an independent station south yemen and are backed by the United Arab Emirates well al jazeera has covered the war in yemen extensively and he joins us now are some agonise been a hot spot for some time now talk us through the significance of this agreement well this is something which is just going to further delay any political settlement in yemen it is going to stop the clashes there have been going on particularly has become over the last few months the focal point of this power struggle between the internationally recognized government of our bubble so how do you and the us to see where are the secessionist determined to. Break away from the north they want to take over b. And which is one of the most important. Power bases of president how the for them to move forward towards and if they control. Is the end for. For the its the beginning of reinstating the south and republic of yemen now the saudis have managed to convince the s. T. C. Of all the moment to stop moving towards the end and stop the military operation but i dont think that this is going to make any Significant Impact in the coming days because the as you see backed by the United Arab Emirates is determined its just a matter of time before the southern part of yemen comes under control. And we often talk about the various powers were involved in the multiple conflicts and yelling here the saudis the u. A. E. But how are the yemenis taking this i see that how does government is now saying theyre losing confidence in the saudis reward is losing faith in the in the Saudi Led Coalition in yemen for for multiple reasons 1st of all with the start of the campaign in 2015 the ultimate goal is to defeat the whole things and push them back from the areas to control in 2014 including the capital sanaa and that they will try to ensure there is a power sharing agreement with all the parties the who these the session is over solve the International Government come together and negotiate a transition to democracy what is happening is totally the opposite of the hope these are seeing drop the further expanding taken over province the s. T. C. Is just a matter of time before the reinstate the republic of 1990 in the solve the part of yemen and the one whos doing grown the one whos been here of the one whos been completely abandoned by his own people is a problem and so hard because he thought of the saudis with their own regional weight they will be able to navigate through the complex Political Landscape in yemen and solve its political did this is not happening this explains why a minister yesterday resigned and this explains why many people are saying that if we stay with the saudis yemen is definitely going to be divided in the coming weeks or months. Covers the war for yemen the war in yemen for us very closely thank you very much as. Now hundreds of migrants rescued from smugglers boats in the Mediterranean Sea have arrived safely in sicily and the 1st time a rescue ship has been allowed to dock in italy since the ports were closed in april because of the crying a virus and attic. Reports. Its the 1st time these migrants have slept in days they survived the journey across the mediterranean from libya to europe but only just they were saved by a rescue ship run by the German Aid Organization sea watch as the migrants were brought ashore in sicily their dream of a better life is by no means guaranteed 1st the big transfer to a Quarantine Center where theyll spend the next 2 weeks. The 211 people on board the german ship were rescued from 3 separate boats last week. 70 people mostly africans were crammed into this boat reported to be in distress last wednesday being made. The following night another rescue operation was underway that on friday of the 67 migrants mainly from africa and bangladesh was saved about 70 kilometers off the coast of lampedusa theyve been without water for 2 days this is happening because of the war on the conflict ongoing in libya which pushes a lot of people moving moving on an old necessarily staying in libya to earn. Earn a salary. For years italy was the main route into europe for migrants and refugees but a crackdown on people smugglers in libya lead