Composers the Ennio Morricone best known for his western film scores has died at the age of 91. Now nearly 11 and a half 1000000 people are now confirmed to have or have had coronavirus around the wilds india has surged past russia with about 700000 cases making it the west hit country on the globe its reporting close to 25000 new cases every day close 220000 people have died there so far and many indian cities are now tightening restrictions to try to halt a new spike in cases fallen astray at the border between its 2 most populous states is due to close on tuesday theres been a rise in cases in victoria prompting that decision to shut the border with New South Wales indefinitely and israel is closing all boss night clubs engines off to a set of new infections their Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says re imposing restrictions is necessary to avoid a wider lockdown while correspondent elizabeth purana is in indias capital new delhi she says the country is a ramping up its efforts against the coronavirus. The Indian Government says that it has is continuing to expand testing in fact it says its tested 10000000 people at its testing 300000 people every day and what the worst hit states are doing is that they continue to test more people. Expand their facilities here and. The results of the series to determine the spread the virus we also heard from delhis chief minister a few hours ago and he was positive about the situation despite the fact that delhi has reached needy 100000 cases and thats because he says that only a 3rd of the regions 15000 beds commonly in use you remember a few weeks ago delhi had a real problem. But he says that most people are now recovering at home having said that he pleaded with those who. Think that the worst hit cities are doing as they really promoting plasma therapy as a way of treating patients and so people are trying to the government states are trying to deal with this by expanding testing expanding facilities but you can also see behind me im at. One of the most popular tourist sites in the country on the 1st day that monuments around the country have been allowed to open and despite the fact that Something Like 8000 visitors would come to put the every day theres been about 50 who come to visit in the last 8 hours that its been opened and the reason being is people are not going out for non essential things because of that rise in the number of cases. Well lets bring in more now on israel correspondent for such as. He says the new restrictions that on not a surprise. We knew that the coronavirus cabinet socalled was meeting on monday theres been a lot of talk about the way the numbers have been spiking in recent days and weeks hovering at around 1000 a day there were 817 on sunday not 107 overnight and there is real fear in the government that despite what was seen as a relatively successful early lockdown you remember israel shut its borders and went into a pretty extreme set of measures very early in the pandemic that even now if there is a 2nd wave as a seems to be and indeed government officials are talking about a 2nd wave that the Health System could come under extremely severe strain if new restrictions on to imposed in this couldnt this might not be the end of it now isnt yos talking the Prime Minister about being on the step of imposing another lockdown but so far the restrictions are as follows or clubs at the close all bars at the close gyms as well all cultural events there was we understand some serious talk about closing all synagogues as well because again the docks communities in israel have been a major area of hotspots of infection it is understood the health the interior ministry. Minister rather not all docs politician argued for synagogues to remain open but they will be limited from down from 50 to a maximum of 1000 people allowed in a synagogue at any one time as weve been saying the border between a strain is 2 most populous states is closing indefinitely as Coronavirus Infection and so on one side with r. T. Is in victoria ask rambling to try to bring the spike in case members down in the state looking down residents and bringing in more social distancing measures our correspondent nick clegg age reports from the countrys capital canberra. Trapped in their holmes unable to leave for any reason 3000 residents and 9 Public Housing tao is in no been will remain. Inside their flats for at least 5 days an unprecedented lockdown for stray after the buildings were linked to dozens of coronavirus cases its very very challenging but it is far preferable to saying vast numbers of people with on the long Health Conditions infected with this virus spreading it between the each other for many inside english is their 2nd language food and essential items are being delivered in this 24 hour Police Surveillance but some of question the fairness of the tough measures only affecting nose in the Public Housing blocks its a massive prickly relationship. With individuals and now can find words that allow to leave except for very few exceptions and were not saying that exceptions being exercised astray or has been relatively successful in suppressing coronavirus but in the past week infections in the state of victoria have soared it recorded 127 new cases on sunday prompting the closure of its border with neighboring state New South Wales indefinitely this is the 1st time in 100 years the border between australia is true most populous states with horrors several towns straddle the truce sought some residents though it will be given exemptions and permits allowing them to travel across its a decision that will no doubt be a huge setback for australias economic recovery as it heads into a recession we have done this based on Health Advice and especially given the fact that when our nation had those hard number of cases back in february and march the vast majority of those cases were the by the space travelers all the direct contacts what is happening in victoria is very different which is why they actually take this case a serious step astray has fared better than many countries during this pandemic. With about i 1500 cases so far but the melbourne outbreak has consumed many a clear example of how quickly you can return and spread. Aljazeera camera. To some other news now and china has detained a law professor who strongly criticized president xi jinping over the pandemic and his efforts to consolidate power in an essay titled the viral alarm one fury overcomes fear shows young woman wrote the cause of all of these lies ultimately is the axle thats a reference to xi jinping and the cabal that surrounds him it began with the imposition of stern bans on the reporting of Accurate Information about the virus which serves to embolden deception that every level of government i spoke to william yan he is a journalist and also the Vice President of Taiwan ForeignCorrespondents Club he says sure young ones recent criticism attracted a lot of attention and it was only a matter of time until china reacted. Ever since he published those series of articles criticizing of the Chinese Government is jumping is handling of the agenda make it has been a looming at the back of many of the chinese observers mind that there will come a point when the Chinese Government decides to act and detain in reston he has been very outspoken since 2018 criticizing the abolishment of the president ial term and also later on other serious moves that xi jinping has been trying to do to consolidate to date has power and hes articles and consider as one of the most of the retailers critique on the Chinese Government and also xi jinping itself so a lot of the liberals and also critiques of the Chinese Communist party has been viewing him as one of the most influential intellectual ever sins of the deceased. Nobel peace prize laureate illusional or because of the same way that hes willing to go at length criticize the Chinese Government and also at the same time he is very familiar with chinas legal system in political system and a lot of the present that he has been making over the last few years are in fact being consider as aiming at the heart of the problem in china well as are saying numbers of the crying of virus cases climbing in india and the Southern State of carolina which had been widely applauded for its initial success and containing the coronavirus has now put its capital into lockdown for one week carola has recorded 193 new infections pushing the state total to more than 5600. 00 public transport and the regional capital thiruvananthapuram has stopped running and only pharmacies are allowed to open face masks are now compulsory for the next 12 months while we can speak to our truth katty is the Deputy Editor for news 18 and caroline he joins us now on skype from the state capital that i believe that they are calling the strategy there a triple locked down how does that work. Thats right that the cypriots out in. The has authorities and the police let them together still enforce 3 different kinds of lockdown the one would be the best fix you know movements of the Public Holiday shopping clothes including those big bills. Although that they have relaxed some of the satisfaction by this the only medical file for a lot of bills and so thats the 1st place the 2nd law i think call it in was a containment zone thing as more of a lever in the population of 2 and then with it so these can be primarily the areas that they have found but weve been positive cases. The place of the lot of. Those. Patients you know the positive lesions and whether the people who are in contact with them to family members and. You know we have one policeman deployed outside the home and you know one of the people who are in im home quite on time and especially in you know one of the levy is that you know. They would be conduct not fish and weve had a lot of you know contact sensations or something up in the past few days. With the authorities a few leads to a Community Show so if i understand it correctly most people are really not supposed to leave their homes at all so how are they getting food in essential supplies during this week. The. Problem you think you know. The people get a lot earlier but for. Most of the workers who logged on probably because of molly really fall if you know if you have. According to the who will you know those people who are not about to open you have a number and the police would come and you know if you thought of the believe they would come and deliver the brightly you know if youd like. But you know theyve refined it out. For the 1st. Time pick up. The title from of those that you know allowed some of the. Those who are your potential to not going to be a problem for. Panic out there the Deputy Editor for news 18 and caroline where they are experiencing a and another very Strict Lockdown thank you very much for joining us here and as you. Are. Still ahead here on aljazeera. We still have a lot of world to know that that if you had to stand or fall on. Hong kongs prodemocracy activists just one appears in course accused of all going ising an illegal protest last stand. And we take a look at how swedens other farming operation is growing from strength to strength. The seasonal rains are nigh particularly heavy and deadly thats particularly true in japan in the last 2 or 3 days enough rain has a form in q shoot for at least one of the burst its banks that is the result people still being well looked for to be honest and they were suggest in the forecast as more rain to come for q she and honshu but maybe the concentration of the heavy stuff has moved back to whats already been flooded areas around new han in china thats true for both cheese day and wednesday its a slow moving system it pulses every rain part of its length from china to japan south of all this youd think it would be drier but theres a good scattering of showers which anywhere now the heaviest ones have showed themselves in sort of y. C. But also true in borneo is a malaysian sumatra one place you think would be dry would be java but theres been a few showers in jakarta and there are a few in the forecast as well monsoon rain is concentrating in this total development here just west of gujarat that contains the potential for 400. 00 millimeters of rain to fall simply in western gojira in the next 48 hours or so was scattered big showers elsewhere in india. Talk to old usera winners let me also you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we listen this is the moment to stop old military action this is the moment to concentrate on fighting over why didnt we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the edges there are. Investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on aljazeera. I know again im a star thats remind you of our top stories this hour. India has overtaken russia to become the 3rd one head country from the current virus pandemic is reporting nearly 25000 new cases every day with nearly 700000 infections now confirmed nationwide and. Israel is immediately closing all the bonds nightclubs gyms and event holes. In new infections that Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says re imposing restrictions if necessary to avoid a wider lockdown. And china has arrested a professor who published essays criticizing president xi jinping handling of the pandemic choose young ones friends say he was taken from his home in beijing by more than a dozen offices on monday. Now 3 high profile hong kong activists have appeared in court charged with organizing an illegal protest last year the trio included prodemocracy leader joshua wong who denies the charges his Political Party was disbanded last week after china imposed a Controversial National security law on the hong kong he said activists would be prime targets of the new north which bans any activity that beijing considers subversive outside because he said protesters should not give up. With the risk of our personal safety with the fresh off life sentence that we might be worried also. By beijing but we also encourage the. Local community to let all voice be heard in the world once we still have every possibility we still have to let the world to know that that is the home and now is the cry for home home and keep our momentum and now Hong Kong Court has denied bail to the fast person who was charged under the bat. New National Security you know 23 year old tonguing kid is accused of driving his motorcycle into Police Officers during a protest last wednesday he was holding a banner that read liberate hong kong revolution of our times a slogan thats now banned by the government for inciting separatism and subversion. Thousands of people are feared dead in southern japan as torrential rain and severe flooding continues across several Asian Countries many of the victims there were elders who have been staying as a nursing home in the region rescue teams are still on the lookout for survivors from the bride has all the latest in. A weekend of punishing rains across the Southern Japanese island of q shu and this is the result. Wide scale flooding and landslides especially along the swollen cooma river which burst its banks as the rains intensified thousands of people were urged to leave their homes but some opted to stay fearing the coronavirus despite assurances from the authorities that theyd be safe one elderly care home was inundated with a number of its residents presumed dead or missing rescue teams have been sent to the area to help look for missing people and to help with the clean up i wish there was someone who can help us says this Restaurant Owner the government says it to mobilize in all resources to tackle the emergency. Over 40000 members from the units of the Police Fire DepartmentSelf Defense Forces and coast guard are putting all their effort into searching in rescuing to see peoples lives. For japan its the worst Natural Disaster since a typhoon struck last october which killed around 90 people. She is used to powerful some of flux and has in place strong defenses against them but with more range forecast those defenses seem to be over worlds problems broad. Now returning to the coronavirus pandemic and kenyas president has announced a phased reopening of the country with International Flights now set to resume on the festival next month hes under pressure to kick start the countrys ailing economy after 24 months of coronavirus restrictions correspondent catherine so he has more from the capital nairobi. 1000 is still a very big threat to the people of kenya as of now we have 8000 confirmed cases 164 people dead we have had reports that some private hospitals are you know feeling the pinch of feeling overwhelmed current implicitly to the full the government looking into how it can enforce self quarantine so all those things the president has said he has looked into that and then on the other side this is a quantum which is basically down on its knees thousands and thousands of people have lost their jobs shotty companies are shutting down so he said after weighing that thats how it was decided to leave this assist the station of movement in and out of nairobi and. The coastal town of mumbai you also said that charges and mosques can reopen conditions not more than 100 people can go to service those wh