Back to the polls for a rerun of the president ial front. The rate of covered 9000 infections in the u. S. As soon as across southern and southwestern states new cases of the virus spiked web restaurants and other businesses reopened there are questions about whether restrictions have been lifted too soon rob reynolds reports in los angeles. 29 u. S. States and territories are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases several including arizona california oklahoma and texas reported record high single day infections governor rhonda scientist says worrying numbers of new cases involve young people who were previously thought to be at lesser risk huge huge numbers of people particularly in that 20 to 30 cohort who are testing but then testing positive 62 percent of all new cases in florida for the week of june 7th are. Or the age of 45 dissenters says some younger people have let down their guard i think that weve started to see you know some erosion in the social distancing from probably some of the younger population many bars in tampa have shut down after staff tested positive in Texas Governor greg abbott displayed a graph showing a sharp spike in hospitalizations 3200. 00 per day to state the obvious coben 1000. 00 is now spreading at an unacceptable rate in texas and it must be corralled in arizona people stood in lines several kilometers long to get tested the state recorded more than 3000 new cases over the weekend bringing arizonas total confirmed cases to more than 50000. 00 President Donald Trump reportedly was furious when his oklahoma rally on saturday flopped with a much smaller crowd than anticipated trump plans another Campaign Event in phoenix arizona on tuesday at his tulsa rally trump said he told officials to slow down testing because the numbers looked bad the white house spokesperson claimed trump was just making a joke and cast blame on the media it was a comment that he made and yes its common that he made and passing for specifically with regard to the Media Coverage and pointing out the fact that the media never acknowledges that we have more cases because when you test more people you find more cases trump appeared serious not joking when he made the comment if it really was a joke many observers found it odd that the president would find humor in a pandemic that has killed 120000 people in the United States robert oulds al jazeera. For new york city was once considered the epicenter of the u. S. Outbreak now its cautiously reopening and the virus seems to be under control that restaurants bars on the hassle of welcomed the 1st customers since theyve since march mid march christensen to me. Some of the most important and visible sectors of the new york economy are now able to reopen for business the mayor of the city predicts anywhere from 1500023000 extension 00 workers will be back on the job this week right now im on 5th avenue in midtown manhattan where some of the most iconic high end Shopping Centers exist and what were seeing is a bit of a mixed bag weve got open stores Clothing Stores here theres one open followed by another thats open followed up by a boarded up shop and in fact the rest of the block is still closed for business with some stores only doing curbside pick up. As for the citys 27000. 00 restaurants they are allowed to have Outdoor Dining with table space 6 feet apart these are restrictions that are difficult for many establishment to adhere to nevertheless the mayor is hopeful that this will prevent some 5000 restaurants from permanently shutting their doors and 45000 people from losing their jobs Office Workers also allowed to go back on the job today but at 5050 percent capacity in their Office Buildings all of this with strict social distancing measures still in place anywhere inside or outside where you cant be more than 6 feet away from people masks are still required a cautious approach moving forward for the city of new york. Donald trump is threatening protesters who are attempting to topple a statue of former u. S. President to the white house with 10 years in jail demonstrators tied ropes around the statue as they tried to bring it down around the. Jackson has been targeted recently for his legacy of. Courting slavery and forcing native americans off their land from percent he considers the former president a hero sees similarities between himself and jackson. Says he delayed imposing sanctions on chinese officials over the massed attention of Muslim Leaders to protect the trade deal with china in an interview with a news website the us president admitted he did not want to upset negotiations with beijing china has rounded up around a 1000000 illegals and other ethnic groups communist Party Officials have rejected accusations of abuse saying the prison camps are necessary for National Security. Now china says the risk that it will end up in a military conflict with the United States is growing thats one of the findings of a new report released on tuesday chinas National Institute for South China Sea studies says the increased u. S. Naval presence in the pacific could break peace in the region the report says washington and beijing have been locked in a power struggle similar to the cold war since Trump Took Office in 2017 lets get more on this now from katrina you who joins us live from beijing katrina so this is a paper by a chinese think tank so what more do we know about the reports. Thats right downs ive got the report here in my hand its called the u. S. Military presence in Asia Pacific Report 2020 its about 100 pages long and really what it does is it looks at the u. S. Military presence visa view china and helps to inform the Chinese Military about its future Strategic Direction now its quite a hefty report but the main line is saying that since Trump Took Office in 2017 theres been an increased risk of conflict and confrontation and it says that the reason for this is because the trump since trump came to power theres been a distinct shift it says in the u. S. Military a Defense Strategy instead of focusing on countering global terrorism its now focusing on maintaining u. S. Supremacy and containing china and it says its in in doing this its been very fing up both the quality and the quantity of its military forces it says since 2017 theres been a 17 percent in u. S. Military joint exercises many of those taking place in the asia pacific and it also says that every year since 2017 theres been an increasing number of foreign ups or freedom of navigation exercises in the South China Sea and it says and i quote that this deterioration is likely to false to further conflict and competition now converse lee it says that china does not see the u. S. As a rival and china does not want war and the neighbors in the South China Sea area do not want war zone because they dont want to have to choose between either side and it also says that flies will have to manage any skirmishes or conflicts in this area in order to prevent any regional conflict now it is true that in the past week the u. S. Sent 3 aircraft carriers near to india the senior near taiwan and this was seen as provocative and aggressive by china no reason was given by the u. S. Military but many analysts believe its because the u. S. Is increasingly disturbed by some words china has been making in the South China Sea. Despite what this report says china has been quite active in the South China Sea recently for example in may and in april chinese coast guard ship rand into animal a malaysian drill ship near borneo theres also been many chinese ships warming a theater which is an island claimed by the philippines and just recently as well over the past few months china recently named to a new administration of districts in both the paracel and the Spratly Islands which is over all part of the South China Sea disputed territory as well so according to the us china itself is not innocent at all its it says its been using actually the core of a 19 pandemic as a cover up or some sort of international distraction in order ringback to increase its or in hostile or aggressive activity in the Asian Pacific or to continue their invasion lifeforce katrina thank you hong kongs truth executive has sought to reassure the public about the National Security law that Mainland China is preparing for the territory kerry lamb admitted she hadnt seen full details of the nor but said Judicial Independence freedom of the press and the right to protest will continue to be protected legal. In the content published so far its stated clearly that the law must respect and protect human rights and for human rights and freedoms to be protected the law is in line with the International Covenant on civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on economic social and cultural rights its also stated clearly that these rights include press freedom and freedom of assembly well emily now is from hong kongs Democratic Party she says caroline cant guarantee that the law protects human rights. And no one in hong kong including carrie lamb has seen that the bill its kept secret and what they are saying is that the law may be passed in the next few days maybe on sunday all following monday and then it will be revealed i mean have you heard of anything more ridiculous if youre going to pass a law on hong kong i think common decency would mean that the hong kong people should be consulted and be allowed to express their views but they say the draft law is as secret so nobody can see it so without seeing it how can carry lamb come out and fool everybody by saying oh dont worry a human rights will be protected independence of the judiciary will be intact i think thats nonsense the former chief justice of the quarter final appeal mr andrew levy has made in those statements its published in todays and chinese newspapers and he has and fact he made some comments last month but now he is expressing concern because there is a suggestion that kerry lamb would be allowed to pick the judges to try these National Security cases which of course is unheard of in our judicial system and theres also suggestion and very very worrying suggestion that in certain cases the communist party set very small number of people who are charged with offenses could be sent to Mainland China for it so they would not get protection of the hong kong legal system. Still to come here not just here including venezuelas battle to unlock billions of dollars of gold reserves moves to Britains High Court plus. Im scott heiler in bangkok thailand while the people here are intensely proud of their unique culture there is growing concern of the erosion of the citys heritage and the culprit is urbanization. But. However i see precious little cloud in the sky this as you see here but not really enough to build any significant share has been the case in oman of the last few days so i think well probably call it dry an increasing likelihood of the cloud sitting over salada im not sure how it is quite in yet but hes trying to establish itself and i will see the wind is still blowing down from iraq south with the law as strong as it was but certainly dusty full of dust from dancers saudi keeping the temperatures in the fortys maybe not the high fortys but the fortys or the siren baghdads above 46 the cool air stream still keeping you rather more present at under 30 degrees running sas if you follow the line of the monsoon winds you pick up clouds here coming off the coast of tanzania and kenya before they turn off and take the monsoon of course into india but you get a pulse of write every now and again in his the latest one really it is on the coast of tanzania not so much inland in somalia other mogadishu market share too and there are bigger showers but when the ethiopian hardens where you might expect to be and in south sudan jeepers forecast for the next 3 days is sunder storms again with fairly light winds obviously not much rain falls in south sudan so this is probably welcome. But. Its saudi arabia publicly championing womens rights so david is committed to empowering its empowering women while privately punishing those who step out of line theyve been aided. From day when if there was taking to the security gate pointed out is there a world examine feel ledge detention and torture of saudis women activists the only charges against relate to their talking to foreign organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International saudi women reform or repression on aljazeera. Welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour in the u. S. The number of deaths from corona virus has passed 120000 new cases of spiked over the weekend in several states across america south and southwest. Hong kongs chief executive has sought to reassure the public about the National Security and all that china is drafting for the territory carried out by admitted she hadnt seen full details of an orbit said it will protect human rights. China says the risks that it would end up in a military conflict with the u. S. Is growing the report by chinas National Institute for South China Sea study says the increased u. S. Naval presence in the pacific could break the peace in the region. Now an activist group made up mainly of north korean defectors have managed to evade south Korean Police on fly propaganda balloons carrying leaflets and money into the north the government in seoul had tried to stop them to prevent relations with the north from getting worse young young has announced it as millions of propaganda leaflets some thousands of balloons ready to fly across the border the 2 sides have agreed to stop provocations like these during a successful summit in 2018 rob ryan has more now from salt. The defected group involved is claiming this as a success it says that this launch took place during the hours of darkness monday through into tuesday from the city of paid you which adjoins the Demilitarized Zone separating the 2 koreas they say that on board these balloons that flew off northwards were around 500000 leaflets also hundreds of booklets and s. D. Cards all different different ways of carrying propaganda they hoped to be scattered across the countryside of north korea from the ordinary North Koreans to get hold of these things and for them to be able to get their message across as you might expect its pretty inflammatory stuff these leaflets attack in by name kim il sung he is the founding father of north korea a very revered figure but these leaflets talk about him being the slaughter of the nation this is pretty low read stuff it comes at a very sensitive time this week as the 70th anniversary of the start of the korean war so the group obviously wants to get its message across it says it had favorable winds and that these balloons work carried to north having said that the Yonhap News Agency here in south korea was reporting that a number of these leaflets have been found in the south so it remains to be seen just how far and wide these propaganda messages have spread the french president says turkey is playing a dangerous game in libya that can no longer be tolerated one your macro sense and cause actions are not schooled to securing a ceasefire nor birdman as more the discovery of move in southern tripoli the military says the bodies belong to people kidnapped by forces of warlords the have to. And its not the 1st the uns top rights body ordered a Fact Finding Mission after the discovery of mass graves in dar huna previously a stronghold of have to and its forces. After a 14 month military campaign to take control of the capital after failed the internationally recognized government recently recaptured term along with other towns in western libya and on monday the chief International CriminalCourt Prosecutor said in the statement she would not hesitate to expand investigations and potential prosecutions to cover any new instances of crimes. But there is a possibility of more violence to come libyas Government Forces in opposition to the west of so that the demand to have to retreat from the strategic city. On monday the u. S. Ambassador to tripoli and the head of Africa Command met with libyas Prime Minister fayyad as. They discussed efforts to stabilize the country but also how egypt has weighed in on the conflict egypts president of the fatah seems to have threatened military intervention if jan a forces opponents to it so that. His government calls a threat a declaration of war on the u. N. Spokesman gave this warning. The last thing that libya needs right now is more fighting more. More military mobilization more transfer of weapons more presence of either foreign fighters or mercenaries and thats been more than the pointing in the fischel meeting with president keiser eat fren