Warns foreign interference in libya has reached unprecedented levels. Forgetting insults of the power the u. S. President hails what he describes as a tremendous relationship with mexico. And said he as president delays new coronavirus restrictions as protesters keep up the pressure over his handling of the pandemic. Well as we said every cause is facing new Political Uncertainty after the sudden death of its Prime Minister ahmed who gone badly collapsed during a Cabinet Meeting just 3 months before he was supposed to run for president has a report. Moments before his death Prime Minister ahmed to go on the appeared upbeat as he entered a Cabinet Meeting chosen by the ruling party as its president ial candidate he just tweeted to have a vision is not about church and political gains but careful planning for decades to come but inside the meeting he suffered a coughing fit collapsed and died no official cause has been given but he suspected of having suffered a heart attack. Last thursday he was welcomed home by president ouattara after spending 2 months in france for medical treatment over his heart condition the 61 year old was what he has chosen successor. Im back to take my place alongside the president to continue the work of development and construction of our country the ivory coast. In address to the nation what are described as his younger brother his son. With the death of. Ivory coast loses a mugging for the youth an example of competence and persistence. After the tribute to the political fighting his death creates a political vacuum with many eager to take his place and become the ruling partys candidate for octobers president ial elections the president s spokesman. And defense minister. Favorites while the countrys economy back on track critics accuse him of failing to address the deep grievances that led to the 2011 civil war 3000 people died after former president refused to concede defeat to ouattara. Whoever replaces it will have to put up a Strong Campaign against experience rivals including former Prime Minister and Opposition Leader oh he could all be a former president with elections just 4 months away the sudden death of puts ivory coast into a new period of Political UncertaintyNicolas Hawke aljazeera. Director. Explains what political challenges may lie ahead. The main problems occurring now you know we will be watching what really happened because we we can reckon with a lot of tensions and also maybe president wiped out our will say when it comes to sion allows me to run again and facing that situation we have a note the fall of president 86 years old mrs romney and yet another tension we dont unite about candidates. Within my property so maybe our own meisner president what or who was not in a great comfortable position to do to begin with but now with this openly everybody all the political also may feel that means this signal to come up with their own ambitions and theyre really i mean it may be great tense in other world news the u. N. Secretary general is warning of unprecedented levels of foreign interference in libya antonia protests is edging warring parties and their International Back as to end the political stalemate and agree to a cease fire a diplomatic editor jane spays has more from u. N. Headquarters in new york. 2020 was the year the u. N. And the International Community said they would bring peace to libya instead violence has intensified with repeated war crimes mass graves and civilian casualties there are new risks as well as opportunities for peace now that general have to forces have been pushed all the way to say that science is not on our side in libya. The conflict is and the new phase is foreign interference reaching and dissident levels including in the delivery of sophisticated equipment and the number of mercenaries involved in the fighting. Germany has been leading International Efforts in january it pulled together key players at a conference in birth in germany now has the presidency of both the e. U. And of the Un Security Council its foreign minister was blunt some of the countries who signed up to the berlin communique 6 months ago have been undermining it ever since with their actions current interference in may and the main driver of the conflict in libya it must be projects to an end that means no more plaints no more tanks no more trucks or cargo ships full of weapons and no more lights so will those directly involved in libya now back down representatives of russia egypt and the United Arab Emirates said they support the u. N. Position even though theyre widely believed to back general have to militarily france has a growing Strategic Partnership with the u. A. E. And was strongly critical of fellow nato member turkey the main supporter of the government of National Accord. The problem is this poor general have to know hes now in a much we can position may want to bolster his military standing before any negotiations all the other side supporters of the government of National Accord battle with half it would be very bloody good off to be an open road to the part of libya where much of the countrys Oil Infrastructure is based james aljazeera the United Nations and libyas un recognized government says its found a prison used by warlords highly for have taught to torture opponents government leaders in tripoli a calling on the un to investigate mass graves found near the prison the discovery was made into hona forces of the government of National Accord captured the city from have ties fighters in june as believe the warlords forces buried the torture victims. After months of taking aim at mexico the u. S. President has welcomed his mexican counterpart to the white house and raise money and Lopez Obrador has been criticized for holding talks with donald trump who remains a divisive figure in mexico over his immigration policies and border wall the leftist leader defended the trip best trade related some democrats say trump wants to use the occasion to drum up support among hispanic voters ahead of novembers election. The relationship between the United States and mexico has never been closer than it is right now and as the president said a little while ago people were betting against that they were actually betting against it. But its never been stronger never been closer were doing tremendous job together were cherished friends partners and neighbors our cooperation is founded on mutual trust and Mutual Respect between the 2 of us and between our 2 countries hed book a yes but i say i decided to come because it was very important for us to launch this new agreement but i also wanted to thank the people of the u. S. Government and you President Trump for being increasingly respectful of awful and mexicans and for your personal support in acquiring medical equipment to treat coronavirus patients thats why im here to express to the American People that their president has treated us with kindness and respect long live the friendship of our 2 nations christopher well send is the Deputy Director of the Mexico Institute at the Wilson Center he says a relationship between the 2 leaders is not reflects the 2 countries policies. The policy isnt rhetoric from president from on a day to day basis have not changed that much he still is pushing mexico to be an extension of u. S. Immigration policy howards migrants seeking asylum in the United States where other cases are processed use the National Guard in mexico to block migrants from among through mexico to the United States and generally speaking in rather aggressive terms of about the country now he doesnt speak that way about the president himself there is respect and this is what the 2 president s are talking about between each other as individuals perhaps even some sort of strange come robbery because of their similar populist styles of governing and distaste for institutions but the relationship itself i mean when i hear the 2 president s today speaking from the rose garden about how wonderful the relationship is i just have to ask myself what world theyre living in because its not the same one that im living in watching these policies unfold and watching really harm be done to us mexico relations as a result of the policies the us has seen the biggest increase in cone of ice cases recorded by any country in a single day more than half the states are seeing a rise in the number of covert 1000 infections despite that secretary of state my pump says the world is looking to the u. S. For guidance as a Global Leader in the fight against a pandemic came in his home to has more from new york. In states like new york where im at in new jersey the neighboring states the numbers have come way down but overall in the United States its a much much different story 35 states right now in the u. S. Currently are seeing their numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases increasing and theres only 3 states that see the numbers decreasing of the numbers of the states that are hardest hit ill just give you a few anecdotes from california the governor just said there that in the last 2 weeks the number of hospitals ations has gone up by over 40 percent in arizona theyre saying only 145 i. C. U. Beds are available left in the state in texas more than 10000 confirmed cases there on tuesday a record for the state for 24 hour period and in florida the epicenter of a chorus outbreak in the u. S. Right now there are 42 hospitals that say they have no longer have the i. C. U. Beds available for patients anymore so you look at these numbers and they are not very good theyre trending in the wrong direction nevertheless as you mentioned secretary of state mike pompei o says and claims that the u. S. Is a model for the rest of the world still ahead on aljazeera. As a country. Restrictions the steps a government says its taking to keep. Hello one there for q. She was the rain is coming back again this system been very active in the last week or so producing floods throughout this part of china thats the yangtze size and devastating floods with loss of life in some parts of japan q shes been the real target in the rain is building up again and queues you with a proper way suggesting rain taken into science career the training front produces more of a cue shoot from the less the honcho youll notice so once again is where we dont want it to chinese and as you say it hasnt moved very much but i think its going to move slowly north come the weekend south of all its quite active again for the philippines borneo and summer way see if youre in java chances are you get a dried day passing shower maybe you can see the constructions to the north and singapores include the not daily shower tally but not so much in vietnam or ptolemy america become rather dry here the concentration the rain is a bit further north certainly the north east of India Running up through the plain to whats new delhi and beyond its been sherry whether theres more to come just off the coast of the remains of what has been 5 days of persistent rain is finally disappearing for a dry weekend. In india identity politics on the rise what were seeing is the construction of politicians in the hearts and minds of millions of the across the country and as a dark side in detroit is we do see the great philosophical majesty of the him into something more like the team i didnt see of the british today i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of indias soul on aljazeera. What the or hurt or warm. Welcome back our top stories on aljazeera ivory coast this Prime Minister has died after fainting during a Cabinet Meeting a mother gone but he was a ruling partys candidate for the president ial election in october the u. N. Secretary general is warning of unprecedented levels of foreign interference in libya until your protests is aging warning audis and their International Back is to end the political stalemate and agree to a cease fire and the u. S. President has welcomed his mexican counterpart to the white house sundress manolo pays obrador has been criticized for holding talks with donald trump who remains a divisive figure in mexico over his immigration policies and border war. In other news Service President says that we can care if you may not go ahead as his government considers the best way to control a spike in call the 1000 cases thousands of people try to Storm Parliament and protest it across belgrade for a 2nd night over the governments handling of the pandemic protests spread to other cities many calling for president alexander who cheats to resign they blame him for a new surgeon infections after he lifted restrictions ahead of elections last month new measures will be announced on thursday dusan hygiene is in belgrade he says police have managed to clear most of the protesters from the streets we could see the police was about their perth annoyed and they were lost last night yesterday so they had a bit of tactics tonight so they sort of dark the demonstrators there tried to disperse them or rather the National Assembly because most of them were through through through thousands a few 1000 of them are gathered in front of the National Assembly and they pulled them away into the surrounding streets so they made sort of a small portraits of all demonstrators around the National Assembly those made. Easier to remove the demonstrators from the streets so most of the demonstrators went home and there is nobody on the streets but there is also still a group of demonstrators some are in or 500 meters away from the National Assembly and in front of them is a huge amount of police who are they there now in some kind of a standoff. The police is a strong units of Police Special and there is that unit of of police of serbia join their merry regular Police Cavalry theyre all at that side for the last night and all of our or so theyre having sort of small clashes some points the demonstrators would go towards the police then the police would the respond to those clashes and thats been the situation at this point but most of the demonstrators are now of the streets corona virus infections are soaring in central asia former soviet states are suffering a 2nd wave since knocked down destructions were each 2 months ago they tore a gate in the reports. Hospitals in the kurdistan capital bishkek overwhelmed with patients suspected of having the quran if i was those diagnosed with pneumonia but have not yet been tested ok that 19 to be admitted by them with what must quickly oh my what as far as i have seen whomever you call whomever you ask about absolutely everyone is sometimes i think to myself i wonder is there anyone who isnt and people are panicking now since look down measures were relaxed in may more than 8000 people are reported to have tested positive but doctors say the true number of infections is higher a lack of testing and poor quality tests are 2 reasons why caveat 19 isnt being diagnosed isnt counted as a cause of death. Some of. The most difficult period since the pandemic began is right now maybe the last week or 2 when the number of infections increased sharply weve seen an increase in the number of cases of Community Acquired pneumonia even in patients who have a negative test result of covert 19. Despite the increasing cases the government says its not considering a 2nd look down its also admitted that pandemic related aid received from International Donors was used to pay the salaries of state employees rather than to strengthen the Health System kazakstan the richest of the 5 Central Asian states has also seen hospitals overwhelmed with kovac 19 patients its reintroduced some of the lockdown measures 1st imposed in march. The lock down is needed but i dont know how much it will help us now i dont know what we need more lock down or saving jobs anyway i think it should help if it lasts at least 2 weeks so that people stop having posses a neighboring country though continues to insist its virus free they usually secretive turkmenistan welcome to attend a World Health Organization mission on monday which will examine its response to the pandemic victoria is there. Domestic flights in nigeria have resumed after 3 months of call the 1000 Restrictions Force in the capital abuja and the commercial hub lagos have reopened other airports are due to resume flies over the next week reports from abuja. It was a cautious 1st day for nigerian troublous as prosecutors arrived to check and were confronted by new flight and safety rules that werent there before the covered 19 pandemic. Nevertheless john was eager to flake. Just so i dont have to sign so far trust in my Country Trust the efforts put in place so far i expect my country and i believe in trust in the system and i know that its safe