Who were shot by police has died. Despite why the u. S. Sanctions aimed at the Syrian Government activists say it doesnt bring justice for those whove been tortured and killed. Im new orleans with the sports news a 16 n. B. A. Basketball players test positive for corona virus and the celebrations continue for liverpool who won their 1st league title at 30 years well hear from their coach jurgen klopp whos already tell getting more trophies. We begin the news in the u. S. Where the corona virus infection rate is surging in places 40000 new cases were reported on thursday the the highest daily number since the pandemic began for the 1st time. And 2 months the White House Coronavirus task force has been giving a public briefing on the situation Vice President mike pence said that while the overall infection rate is declining 16 states have seen spikes recently he also called on people to follow Health Recommendations like following social distancing as the president made clear we we want to open our economy up and we want to move America Forward even while we take and continue to take the steps necessary to protect lives and the health of the American People top us Infectious Disease expert to answer the phone directly addressed young people who he says are following Health Guidelines you have an individual responsibility to yourself but you have a societal responsibility because if we want to end this outbreak really end it and then hopefully win a vaccine comes and puts the nail in the coffin weve got to realize that we are part of the process so when the Vice President went back pulling back a couple of months ago when we showed about the guidelines to safely reopen the country weve got to make sure we drop back a few yards and think about that that this is part of a process that we can be either part of the solution or part of the problem out as verizon for sure is at the white house and washington what else did we learn from that briefing. Well there was a great deal of my pain saying how well the administration had done up to this point said that they were flattening that car and the 50 states where reopening for business with sales roaring in jobs coming back the reality is that just in the last couple of hours weve heard from texas that the governor there is pulling back some of the easing of restrictions for example pubs bars are being closed restaurants are going to have cut capacity and the number of people allowed it gatherings is also going to be limited 16 states across the south many of the states that were late to shutdown and airlie to reopen theyre the ones that seem to be seeing the surge the likes of where the governor there just a week or so ago was saying that the green light was there for no telling people who live in arizona to stay at home one of the most contentious exchanges when someone asked the Vice President who had said follow the advice of local Health Officials isnt that a case of do what we see not do what we do pointing specifically at the rally that the Trump Campaign held in tulsa oklahoma last saturday and then a white house event earlier this week in out of sooner which resembled a rally where people were allowed into the hall with facemasks despite the local authorities saying that thats hope people should approach this event well he answered really saying that this is all about the 1st amendment and that in an election period not directly and answering that question he also said that people should follow the advice and that they should pray at no point and i may be wrong in this but at no point did i hear them see please wear face masks which is the experts tell is cut the possibility of infection by at least a factor of 5 out of their looks so they have the covert crisis could be taking a toll on the president trumps reelection chances of a slew of new polls showing him way behind joe biden right now. And its also taking a toll those plans for the weekend these cancel those plans to travel to its golf course in new jersey obviously with a spike in cases he didnt want to be seen to be golfing but youre right if youre on the trunk campaign these polls that have been issued over the last 2448 hours would not make comfortable reading not only is donald trump behind nationally hes behind the in key swing states like wisconsin and michigan 2 states he won last time around but the biggest concern will be not only is he behind in florida d another key swing state but also behind in georgia thought to be reliably republican and texas which is thought to be betty right reliably republican now if youre behind in texas theres a real problem for your campaign because youve got to spend time money and energy campaigning there whereas before you could really just leave it to itself and if youve got to do that just to shore up your base youre not spending time money and effort in swing states so if youve got to concentrate on your base it becomes a much harder election if youre a trump supporter and youre looking at these polls and youre looking for a bit of comfort the only comfort you will get was the ask if the election was held today the election isnt held in june remember its november the thought i was here as alan fischer live at the white house in washington i learned many things. Mexico citys chief of police has been injured in an assassination attempt in the capital. It happened in an upscale neighborhood in the citys west the police chief ascends tweeted accused members of the drug cartel of being behind the attack on please 12 people have been arrested aljazeera is manuel right below reports now from mexico city. Approximately 6 38 am local time there was a coordinated attack against mexico citys Public Security secretary to get see how the food is essentially the police chief for the mexican capital now i want to make one thing clear here you tacked actually took place in downtown mexico city less than a block away from aljazeera is Mexico City Bureau so it was it was practically right out right outside that in itself is big news this is not the sort of thing that residents of mexico city are used to seeing there are pockets of instability in different parts of the country where different organized groups and cartels operate and control territory but its simply not the sort of thing that were used to seeing take place here in mexico city this a curious secretary was traveling in Armored Vehicle and in a Sport Utility vehicle when a group of heavily armed men opened fire from another Vehicle Police say that the attackers were using high caliber weapons 50 caliber rifles as well as grenades so again this is an audacious attack that people here are simply not used to seeing several casualties have been reported we do not yet have a number of how many people died during this attack but we can confirm that at least 2 Police Officers that were accompanying the security secretary were killed during the attack as well as one bystander the police chief recently tweeted that hes placing the blame on the got a highly skilled move it and that they were highly skilled move ahead of us here in new Generation Cartel that in itself is also big news mexico city authorities have long hair. That there has not been operating in mexico city though the cartel did post our you tube video in february claiming that they were operating here in mexico city the attack that took place earlier today appears to be evidence of that police in the scottish city of glasgow say that a stabbing incident is not being treated as terrorism itzhak reportedly happened in the stairwell of a hotel 6 people are in hospital including a Police Officer the suspect died after being shot by Police Authorities say theyre not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident scotlands 1st minister nicholas sturgeon spoke a short time ago i went to space my thanks to the police for what appears to me to be the very common traditional way that the responded to this incident and undoubtedly ensured that a very very serious incident didnt become much worse than a thought should 1st and foremost be with the 6 individuals who are in hospital and our thoughts and our gratitude should be with our Police Officers particularly the Police Officer who sustained injuries trying to keep the rest of the public safe and lets focus on thinking of them out of service lawrence lee is live for us in london lawrence take us through what happened today in glasgow. Well you know as you heard nicholas sturgeon say there as the day has worn on its ended up being quite a lot less bad thankfully than was originally feared for a starts the suggestion that 3 people have been stabbed to death in the incident which is attributed to Police Sources in scotland now seems to have turned out to be wrong the police said a short time ago that there were 6 people in hospital the youngest 173 of them 20 or. Younger than 20 and a 42 year old Police Officer is one of the most seriously injured hes critically ill and has been the subject of a great deal of praise by politicians because obviously he tried to end the situation and is now very ill as a result of it. So so no one dead as calling the police at the moment other than the suspected attacker whos motivation we still dont know except this is as youve said terrorism is not being ruled out by the police and thats very significant politically as much as anything else because it obviously makes the incident much less inflammatory politically than the than it would otherwise have been so very shocking for the city of glaus go which prides itself on is inclusive at sea and very many people. Expressing their shock about the whole thing but in terms less bad as a say than than was originally feared lawrence many thanks due to israels also the Prime Minister benny gantz as outlined a proposal with regards to israels controversial plan to annex parts of the occupied west bank in a Facebook Post on friday afternoon he suggested that any palestinians in future an experience be granted equal rights it comes as israel looks to roll out its plans starting july 1st aljazeera is harry force that has been following the story from western. Of course next week could be a very momentous one with the july the 1st date which is the earliest possible date under the deal between him and netanyahu the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu for this Coalition Government thats the 1st date under which the Movement Towards annexation can be advanced and he sets out what could be read as something of a toughened tone in against netanyahu in terms of saying that that he would be willing to speak to the palestinians at any time even tomorrow if they wanted to seriously that there would be no annexation in a palestinian area or least an area with a large palestinian population or where their movement would be severely curtailed if there were palestinians inside such an area they would be granted equal rights that there would be security and diplomatic groundwork that went in place ahead of any annexation to preempt any petition potential Security Problems and also said that he would advance moves towards bilateral negotiations with the palestinians as part of this as well and all of this he says is part of the American Peace plan the trump plan but really when you look at it it doesnt really reject anything that looks within the bounds of what might well happen in any case the indications that weve been getting from Benjamin Netanyahu and his officials are that he wants 1st to declare israeli sovereignty as they put it on major israeli illegal settlements close to the green line close to here just south of jerusalem and that they would be the 1st phase. This is the news hour from our series still to come on the program safe for now i was 0 meets a group of ringer refugees sheltering in indonesia after weeks at sea. Uncovering the truth for the victims of war crimes the chief prosecutor at the hague speaks to aljazeera about a widening investigation. And in sport yet another positive coronavirus case linked to the event joke of a controversial tour of the balkans. The u. S. Is calling on libyas warring factions to stop fighting and allow oil fields to resume operations it comes up to Libyas National Oil Corporation reported that russia and other foreign mercenaries stormed its shura oil field blocking the resumption of oil exports from the site after a months long blockade theres been no response from moscow on the incident most of the countrys main oil fields are now under the control of the Libyan National army based in brook the International Criminal court is expanding its investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in libya speaking exclusively to aljazeera the courts top prosecutor said that the discovery of mass graves into huna was a particular area of concern one of warlord Khalifa Haftar is commanders mahmud ali is wanted by the i. C. C. And shes calling for him to be handed over. That. We just. Facility. Action that he account. For. This purported thats the. Last time time you will concrete and progressive steps. And this is something that has already been found by the chamber. Investigations in octave William Lawrence a senior and joint professor real lecturer at the school of International Service of the American University he joins us now live from washington good to have you with us do you have any clear idea as to what actually happened in. Not precisely we know that 190 bodies were found in mass graves in wells in containers and at a hospital and we know that it was connected to one of the more ruthless commanders in libya because the county and its brothers who changed sides in the war from being for the western government to for the eastern government and in that way were involved in 2 attacks on tripoli at different times theyre particularly ruthless and they are score settling and the fact that some of these sound like towns like tarhouni. Switch sides and have some of the population of one side and somewhat in other made it critically fractious and particularly lethal when it comes to score settling even some of the county it forces were killed as the Government Forces came in and that was is for settling as well so all of these investigations are starting up they have to secure the sites they have to identify the bodies and to turn the cause of tent and then give them back to their families this is a process that will go on for months and perhaps even years you describe these these people as ruthless some are right in thinking that while the conflict itself has been violence there have been many many deaths it hasnt been particularly a bloody conflict as it. Thats correct and its very difficult in libyan battle since the 2nd civil war started in 2015 and even before that to schumer each others heads to make more phone calls to their enemies to leave the more lethal work like sniper work to foreign mercenaries the russians mercenaries are or planes flown by foreign mercenary pilots and these former sinners are more willing to kill on the other side and we knew that would be the war is much lower than say siri or yen part because libyans unwillingness to kill each other but now thats all changing in the last month 2 months because from beginning to see these current massacres themselves are going to make it much more difficult for the 2 sides to trust each other in peace negotiations which are supposed to start up hopefully quite soon so who should step up and make sure that these people handed to the International Criminal court. Well obviously the libyans will have to be arrested libyans because i dont think anyone will be sending International Peacekeepers anything. And there are certainly a lot of different alicias a lot of different factions did your militias have their jails for example say this land could not his son was held in different shells various times i mean there is a prison population held up by all sides and certainly there can be arrests made by militias and there is even due process to some degree there are courts. What the i. C. C. Wants is for the 2 of after his bloodiest lieutenants were folly and another gentleman to be handed over the years these cases have already been developed and some of the massacres were on a film on you tube and the videos are available you can watch them if you are so inclined and so the ones for which there are clear evidence these need to be turned over hopefully at some point that could be portable peace negotiations as well and for the others who are still going to be sending in u. N. Teams to have build up that evidentiary case against the perpetrators those are really good to talk to so many thanks indeed William Lawrence there in washington its been a week since the u. S. Imposed its toughest sanctions yet on syrias president bashar assad and his allies central to those sanctions was evidence that syrian prisoners were tortured provided by a military defacto syrian activists say that the u. S. Action force short of delivering justice just a warning that you may find some images and Priyanka Gupta this report disturbing. In this gallery in syrias its lips city lies evidence of atrocities inside pre