Ruling 80 easy party leading in the parliamentary election amid a recession and the coronavirus pandemic. Wellings with the sports news is found bottomless when is the exciting comeback price. And the driver is joined together to protest against racism in the not all of them took the name details coming up this hour. Iran says its no Times Nuclear facility was significantly damaged by a fog that broke out on thursday but the countrys Nuclear Spokesman says it could slow development of advanced centrifuges in the medium term in the past week a number of sensitive sites have been hit by fires including a petrochemical plant a Weapons Development they. Post station of more on this im joined now by aljazeera. The iran has been using the development of centrifuges as a big piece of leverage when it comes to Nuclear Talks with the u. S. And europe and so on what kind of impact is this likely to have on that leverage well its not likely to have much impact because this was a development and production a program add in the towns Nuclear Facility this was not part of the negotiating factors at the time of 2015 what iran has done since is theyve reduced their commitment to the nuclear deal and this was part of that trying to advance their centrifuges that they have the centrifuges that theyre working on is part of the advance system that they dont really need in the next few years this is something they were looking at to develop down the line but what is significant about this development by the spokesperson of Irans Atomic Energy Organization is that this has slowed down their process for now but he was adamant kemah vendi that they will continue to make up all the last time that they were going to have as a result of this incident that took place at natanz on friday this is something thats not thats not the 1st time such such a thing has happened if you remember in 2010 there was a computer virus by the name of stocks that attacked the reactors at the towns centrifuges and it destroyed nearly a 1000 of them what it managed to do is just slow down the Development Process but not really deter iran from Going Forward with it as i mentioned before this is one of 2 or 3 similar attacks on very sensitive sites is there any significance in the fight that this is happening at a point when were seeing the foreign minister zarif being heckled in parliament for example. Well there is certainly no love lost between the foreign minister and members of the new parliament who are all very conservative they came into power in 2 in the past few months after the elections earlier this year but. As a veteran politician he knows how to handle the very hardline voices that are coming at him and have been coming at him for the past few years specifically since the u. S. Withdrew from the deal in 2018 but the foreign minister has been tasked by the president and with the full support of the Supreme Leader to carry out the dialogue between iran and the western powers when it comes to this Nuclear Program and the nuclear deal that they have and its unlikely that this will really change his position this is more serve internal politics playing out at the moment and zarif is really no stranger to these voices and he certainly knows how to handle them. Giving is that up the door so thank you very much ok lets move on to the increasing number of covert 19 cases worldwide saturday so the biggest single day rise since the pandemic began with more than 200 12000. 00 new infections globally the majority of those were in latin america which is now got more cases than europe mexico has been reporting record new infections its not got the 5th highest death toll in the world in israel officials have ordered thousands of people back into quarantine as they deal with the worst surge in new cases since the outbreak began the government has also resumed its controversial phone Surveillance Program to track cases and has a Record Number of new cases in the philippines its government has been easing quarantine restrictions ok for more on the situation in latin america lets go to out of sound of a dump yeti whos live for us in bogota lets talk about mexico 1st of all these numbers in mexico are very very big whats happening there. Yes very worrying numbers as you were saying Record Numbers of record confirmed cases on saturday in mexico 6914 which brings the total there to more than 252 towers in that obviously this is very worrisome very worrying for many people in mexico especially since the government insisted for weeks that the country had already reached the peak weeks ago that hasnt been the case the numbers continue to go up the government has also confirmed that those numbers are probably smaller than the reality a lack of testing means that probably there is the reporting when we look at the number of both the confirmed cases and the number of deaths yet while all this is happening the government in system president a lot with obrador insists on the need to continue to reopen sectors. Economy however some of the expected reopening expression in mexico city over this weekend have been reversed that was because huge crowds that arrived in downtown mexico city on friday and the fact that some of these stores of the put in place the kind of gene measures that the government had requested that the mayor of mexico city said that this is just a pause and that she hopes that they will be able to restart these reopening at some point this week. This is also affecting the popularity of both president. Door and the secretary of health held there because of the fact that the. I feel that the government has in the really been able to understand the curve of the pandemic in the country and finally theres a lot of warre in northern mexico and states on the border with the us that ive also seen an increase in past days sandra as i mentioned before youre talking to us from the border to tell us what the situation is in colombia because i understand theres been a limited reopening in parts of the country as well. Yes there has been a reopening faced reopening that story is now a month ago and what has happened is that we have seen an increase in cases and unfortunately in the number of hospitalizations in dates since. 2 weeks or 3 weeks ago now and this is has become very. Complicated especially here in. The number of intensive care Units Available becomes smaller and smaller now more than 80 percent of the intensive care units in this city are fooled or have been more ventilators that have been bought by the National Government they have arrived here but the problem is that there arent enough doctors that have that have been trained to be able to operate these ventilators operate these intensive care units so with the numbers growing that there is a war you have what could happen in the next couple of weeks out these are also very worried of the situation on the caribbean coast same particularly in. The city. And the state atlantico there have been 1400 deaths there almost double the ones the here in the capital even if it. Has roughly a 3rd of the population compared to the population. And Health Authorities there are also saying that there could be the reporting especially on the number of dates a lot of people who are dying in their house that never make it to the hospital and dont get tested so thats also where you worry so its also unclear when we will reach the peak here in colombia some of these are saying probably around the end of july beginning of august it will probably be at different times in there for in cities what is clear is that. Were still weeks away from reaching that peak and did this stress on the Health System is clearly showing at this point and solid sound around p. S. G. Giving us the latest on the pandemic in mexico and colombia thanks very much israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says the country is in need of stricter measures to tackle a surging coronavirus cases officials are recording nearly a 1000 new cases every day and the government has reauthorized the use of a controversial phone Surveillance Technology once deployed to prevent attacks on a faucet is in west jerusalem with more. And this is the time that the internal Security Service it is religion that has been sanctioned to. Monitor peoples phones this isnt some absolute you voluntarily download this is the Security Services monitoring where people are being who theyve been associating with and then sending them a text message to tell them to quarantine it its assessed that they need to do so now this is through out the use of this tactic it has caused some outrage from human Rights Groups liberty groups but it has been deemed necessary to be put in place again we are its newspaper has reported that some 30000 people received such Text Messages since this began again on thursday and those who have some doubt of it want to repeal it they are finding it very difficult to get through to the ministry of Health Hotline which is being swamped with such calls as well as that there are further measures that are coming into force 50 people maximum in places of worship in bars and in events spaces things like weddings and there are further measures under consideration the cabinet has been meeting today and there are things such as restaurants and other potential names the trouble for the Israeli Government is that they obviously dont want to be reimposed locked down for economic reasons netanyahu did say if the cases got back up to 100. 00 a day he would reimpose lock down well now theyre on a 1000 a day and he still seems unwilling to do so south africa has the most number of coronavirus cases on the african continent the daily tally from saturday showed more than 10000 new infections thats the highest jump in 24 hours so far all spittles across the country have come under pressure as beds quickly fill up theres been a steady increase in cases since restrictions gradually and may Health Care Workers have criticized the governments handling of the pandemic saying their safety has not been a priority. Knight who is a researcher at the institute for Global Dialogue and Society African think tank she explains why restrictions will continue to be lifted even as cases rise the thinking is that the going to the theres this was to actually kind of be biassed time by the Public Health department and the government time in order for the keep now what is happening is that is argument or rather thinking that people in the full picture a lot need to be able to pull out of the problem you need to start the adjusting and the kind of reason people need to get well we lost i mean and we just a lot of unemployment in the u. K. You just need to amplify that and that happened to the apostles at the moment and so i think that that the find it but also i think that every view of the government wants us to something the clock. In our own behavior and behavior change so it was inevitable because there were conditions and well told by the government if it wanted just like theres a kind of you accept whoever won that once we open up the cloud of us we know the point where the heist is actually happened on saturday we have to prepare for ourselves were at the peak and this peak is not coming and then in some provinces where im based in the western cape. We are beginning to see a kind of stagnation that need to meet you faction in a conception but the few things are going to be long enough. Plenty more ahead on the news hour including al jazeera gaining exclusive access to a group accused by the Iraqi Government of attacking u. S. Forces attacks target an air base outside the libyan capital Foreign Forces backing a wall of plea for half to blame. And the baseball player who took keeping an eye on the ball to a new level police going to be here to explain what happened later in sport. The number of people whove died in ethiopia since the killing of a popular singer and activist has nearly doubled to 166 officials blame the deaths on both the response to the unrest by Security Forces and on into Ethnic Violence so how to honduras there was a member of ethiopias Largest Ethnic Group the auto mall in shot dead in addis ababa on monday night. Is a senior lecturer at kill university and hes an analyst on the horn of africa hes joining this funky 0 in the u. K. Thank you very much indeed for being with us how concerning is it that officials are blaming at least in part the response of the Security Forces for these deaths. Nothing that he was coming out of the country is absolutely shocking and its every time it is going to happen. All the early civilians who have absolutely nothing to do with the media political events to get these incidents individuals who are just going about their lives would become victims. Of this. So i think its important that the government take steps to ensure to to him conduct a proper investigation any true or accountability as far as the civilians are concerned but i think the Bigger Picture is an important one the Prime Minister since you are. A hugely good we on the part of the order was in order to either get in groups but if you really miss my need to transition or process those he made everything about. His mind its when he came to power was to be united consensus and pull more out of consolation he didnt do that it was not a discussion of political settlement for the country where that is one of the media thing that the country needs and so that day versus the use of all the wealth you get when you eat as a country and we are if you again needs to move there for the papers people in the country to have it common and one of the future there is no discussion there were orders for national doubt organise courts were not heritage to the Prime Minister basically were due to its the country is all in it and i think that is where the problem is we have an election that was before. That leadership was postponed while i think you know given the motives intuition that happened at the most attrition that continued again its understandable that the government the needed to be. Consensus in terms of how that. Should be cost but also the government shouldnt. Say for example ask you when the election should be had so you know gave the signal government restrictions never. Blunder in terms of cleaning the country forward this is this incident essentially puts the transition a different context given what youve just said about the way that the government in your opinion has been behaving do you think that they that the death of and the deaths of a 166 people might be seen as a Tipping Point in the future and we are actually going to see the start of a greater number of protests by or more who are essentially fed up with the situation that they have been presented with in the country. Now i ask you lee you know the assassination of the prominent or was he going to do such is made a big event in of itself how provoked a major a response but the steps that the government has taken in terms of the Testing Program and put your leaders such as your mohammed. Should go to members of the you often or is congress a member of the room or in front of these individuals an organization was significant following so this in the u. S. Were arrested the Prime Minister of the day after they were arrested. To be distributed to go making the statements really not quite a mystery a lot of. The situation basically. We will be. The individual that they taught in the country and i just dont think that right now that is the way to of course the situation. People and could depend. On a transitional process and i think what the country you used to do now is. All inclusive all stick order participated in kind of national or that would lead to some kind of read our poor or there would be implemented by an angry government and i think thats what the country needs now it is you know if you think the problem is it simply wants to use force and were headed there we. Be doing in our. Country or you know another revolution where appreciate your time thank you very much indeed for joining us on aljazeera. Airstrikes have targeted a libyan air base that was recaptured in may by the un recognized government with the backing of Turkish Forces the attack by unknown aircraft on the our what here base happened overnight the loss of the facility was among a string of recent defeats for war for huffed are pushing him out of large parts of western libya but the other 100 has more from tripoli 5 air strikes targeted by an identified warplanes but the government here in tripoli especially the defense minister just stated saying that. Foreign fighter jets carried out the attacks on Turkish Military facilities in a little. Air base that includes an air Defense System according to. Media outlets we have not. Reported any comment from the Turkish Military as of yet but only the approach. Media outlets that reported that among the Turkish Military facilities in other words targeted by a poor health or fighter jet is an air Defense System units no casualties have been reported but the ministry of defense at the government of national