Changes to the governments and how counterfeit cash printed in russia is making its way around libya and funding the offensives of the warlord khalifa haftar. In a country far and away the worst affected by the corona virus pandemic the u. S. State of florida has broken some worrying new ground this sunday it has recorded more than 15000 new infections in 24 hours shattering the Previous National record held by california overall in florida nearly 270000 cases have been reported excuse me and more than 4000 people have died many of the cities in florida have now reimposed their lock down restrictions that were relaxed back in may youll be familiar with this the u. S. Based John Hopkins University map which. Keeps a tally of cases all over the world but in this case through every American County and what youre looking at is basically the darker the shade of purple the more severe the infection rate is so its clear to see if you start way up in the northeast come down through new york through the carolinas and then down into florida birmingham alabama you can see their planet georgia new orleans louisiana all of that they have very very high infection rates they high to up in chicago in the north over in the west phoenix in california as well were talking about all tolled 3200000 people in the United States who have tested positive and out of that dont forget 130000 deaths as well so a bad situation that is only getting worse mike hanna in washington d. C. Is monitoring it for us mike these numbers and i know you can dig into a bit more they quite frightening given how deep we are into this pandemic already. Well very much indeed and theres a direct correlation between florida being one of the states opening up early and the spike in the virus basically florida opened up in mid may under immense pressure from President Trump the Florida Governor is a republican and a close friend of President Trump now at the time that they opened up Johns Hopkins graphs indicate that exactly 2 weeks later which is the period incidence of a disease started to spike that has carrying on going upwards ever since then another very significant statistic that is coming emerging at the moment is the increase in testing in florida now they have increased testing from 25000 a day 250008 day over the past 2 months but the significance to to stick in all of those is that a month ago only 5 percent of those being tested tested positive now in the past week that figure is closer to 20 percent so this once again puts a lie to President Trumps claim that theres an increase in these cases because of the increased testing the statistics indicate that that is not the case that what is happening is that the virus is spreading quicker it has now got to communities spread and certainly this is the case in florida which has become the unfortunate picture boy of getting things wrong from the start of the pandemic to the middle of that to where we are now must be such a confusing picture for americans mike youve got the federal government saying one thing and donald trump certainly playing things down then each state can make its own decisions and some states clearly take it will seriously than others it comes down to you know who do you want to believe. Well indeed yes sense since the beginning of this pandemic the federal government has been largely absent it is left to the states to provide personal protection gear to establish testing protocols and of course the very important element now to do Contact Tracing now in florida for example Contact Tracing is lagging behind the testing protocols still are not properly in place Health Officials say that testing needs to increase by some 50 percent more than being tested at the moment now this is all being left up to the states or in some cases to individual counties within the states not what the federal government has been doing or more to the point what the president has been doing is pushing the states to open up he has pushed for example to move the Republican Convention to florida from North Carolina because North Carolina insisted on mitigating measures during that convention florida says you dont need mitigating measures so the convention has been moved to Jacksonville Florida it will be taking place in a state in which this disease is once again peaking then you have the governor who insists despite this massive surge in the virus that schools are going to open and at the end of the summer and not only that but they will be open full time 5 days a week this is against the advice of Health Experts who are saying that other measures have got to be looked at perhaps staggered to return to school in various cases maybe 2 days a week all of these options are being explored by other states but this is just why they say that florida is getting in the pocus now because of this massive and drip really disastrous record but also because of the stages that has lifted here but lets just move away from florida and look at the big picture in the United States as a whole and thats not particularly encouraging either kemal there has been in the United States as a whole a 52 percent increase in confirmed cases of corona virus and very very tragically a 25 percent increase in deaths. Thank you mike hanna in washington d. C. Theyre. Very pleased to welcome david neil to the news hour hes a star for us at the miami herald in florida on skype from there look i mean mikes just been running through those numbers for us and it just it must be frightening being in florida seeing this spike and also seeing leadership which doesnt seem to really acknowledge how bad it is. As a resident which you know we need people are really people who are not residents of our communities so its a little jarring when i look at my own zip code and i may. In each case of a hot spot im sort of in the hot spot of hot spots and i like on the sun when it comes to that and its a little jarring to watch the numbers just in Miami Dade County where miami. Beach. Be right now the i. C. U. Beds intensive care unit beds were made in the county right now are under well under 10 percent. Because of covert 900 patients the number of the last 14 days the average daily. 25 percent. These are these are very jarring numbers and it has made people very concerned about you know doing any some people there ok but that is where there are some people who are very concerned about doing anything and there are other people who are kind of you know what were tired of being locked down here and thats understandable its difficult for everyone being locked down like that but it just seems that once again politics is taking over here it becomes about the interactions of the Florida Governor with the president and those sorts of things taking precedence over peoples health. Well there is a. Whether or not you know hes taking his lead from donald trump there is a definite definitely say its about the dollar right that when people talk about opening up their talk about we have to get our business going again its. You know we have to we have to live by getting emails from real estate people saying you know weve got to eat and our the problem florida is that a lot of floridas economy based on real estate tourism i jokingly call a ponzi scheme economy you know real estate has to be built and sold. Its hard to bit build and sell real estate you know if you cant if youre you know construction sites cant work if its hard to sell real estate you know in a in a place the hot spot for a pandemic and started by people to a place where its a hot spot for endemic so its not surprising that iran the santas would say theres got to be a problem at disney world when it opens up because you know ringback frankly i mean what other you know business wise its its a minor disaster for florida cruise lines are way people all you know thats why is it a very dependable business it is so this is very tough on florida because there are 2 there are 2 basic. Industries does it highlight for you the the problem i guess in the United States of the disconnect between federal direction and state direction i was saying to our correspondent full states can effectively do what they want but i mean state boards the they they bleed into the other you can just do what you want in one state and think that it wont affect others. Thats and. Thats kind of we also have a problem with that. Theres. No i dont want to wear masks i dont want to you know kind of go by the rules that have been set up there is kind of this you know were independent were americans we have our rights that its. Mine my body my rule theres not understanding what youre doing that someone else both on a micro level you know person to person and a macro level of states they say you know. Right northern part of florida northern part of florida might as well be what is true as they call south florida alabama mississippi its very easy to go to its easy to go from tallahassee to alabama that is. By any. State capital is to mississippi so its not quite you know theres not a lot of bleed over there. So thats a significant circle or it could be a base of the midwest and then northeast same thing you guys you know you go 5 hours hit 3 states here if you look United States that say they the keys in the name is david mayo from the miami herald thank you so much for joining us we do appreciate it thank you very much for having me. For torie and ill south africa where the president is announcing you locked on restrictions a spike of cases there as well 50. 00 and thats before the end of this year we must make it our single most important task to prove these projections wrong through our own actions s. Individuals as families as communities we cab and we must change the cause of this pandemic in our country we buy a novel or familia with what we need to do to protect ourselves and others from infection. We need to be aware that we must wear a cross mask that covers our nose and mouths when ever we leave home some people complain that they have Cyril Ramaphosa as the South African president outlining some of the new measures that he had been speaking for some time so well check in with phillida miller our correspondent in johannesburg has been keeping across that what changes are coming because as we said and its as it has so many places in the world this this new spike this 2nd wave of cases in south africa. And the great expectation by the South African government is they would delay the search allowing Health Facilities to adequately prepare themselves for what the government as a many occasions called a covert 900. 00 storm and now they say its here now president is speaking to South Africans as weve just heard hes yet to announce what will happen next south africa did have a very Strict Lockdown for more than 21 days some of those restrictions have been eased but that is of course of great concern now from a post i did begin his address this evening with pretty strong statement saying that at this stage we have 276000 infections and also just to put that into perspective that is one of the top 10 rate of infections in the world along with countries like brazil and the United States at this point south africas even surpassed iran at the height of its infections and just to break that down further hes spoken about an average of 12000. 00 new infections every day and to break that down further thats 500. 00 new infections every hour so the president has used this address to alert South Africans to just how serious the situation is he says its of great concern and also his worries that many South Africans arent at your ring to the regulations that are still in place such as not being part of large gatherings not attending large funerals in fact funerals are supposed to be restricted to more not more than 50 people we know that they are still going on that have even a 1000 people attending there are a number of social gatherings and what the president has also said has called drinking sprees he says all of this is contributing to the surgeon infections and now were just waiting to hear what he says happens next if some of the restrictions are put back into place if there will be the further restrictions around the safe sale of alcohol. All we know this was a big issue for the government in the previous months in that the government had wanted to decrease the amount of instances of situations that the consumption of alcohol leads to that of course leads to trauma flooding the hospitals wanting to keep hospitals open for covert 19 patients at this point we are waiting to hear what from a post that says next many South Africans concerned that south africa may return to a Strict Lockdown from at imola keeping across developments in south africa this sunday thank you for media lets have a look at whats coming up field on this news hour. Parliamentary heckling of irans foreign minister its provoked a stern warning from the Supreme Leader also why a vote for a largely ceremonial role in poland could actually bring a big shakeup to its politics and the sport will hear well bron james has declined to take part in the n. B. A. s latest social justice campaign. A single u. N. Security Council Decision could immediately affect more than a 1000000 syrians living in rebel held territory members have agreed on a compromise it will only allow one Border Crossing with turkey to remain open for humanitarian deliveries that was a deal made after russia and china pushed to close off the other crossing their argument is the age should be limited because its not being done in cooperation with syrias government the concern is that this will create a bottleneck they a just wont get through because actually across all of syria including these sorts of camps more than 11000000 people rely on that humanitarian aid and the german ambassador to the United Nations well he didnt hold back with his criticism have a listen these 500000 troops. Will wake up tomorrow morning. And well realize that we have let them down tell them that the german ambassador asked are those people who gave the instructions to give instructions to cut out the 8 of 500000 children if they are ready to look into the mirror tomorrow. Theres 2 things compounding the situation one is the demand for assistance its been rising there were more than 1700 a truck which crossed the Syrian Border in may which is the highest number since the war began and then youve got the spread of corona virus threatening to make things even worse several 100 cases have been detected but it is likely to be so many more given the testing is severely limited and neither is this the 1st time that the number of aid routes into syria has been cut off you go back to 2014 this is how it looked when the Security Council authorized aid to go through for Border Crossings you got to in turkey one coming in from iraq one from jordan in january this year it was opposition from russia and china which forced the routes in iraq in jordan to be closed so youre just left with the 2 turkish crossings which were allowed to continue for another 6 months that brings us up to now where once again at the insistence of russia and china that its been reduced to a single point it is called bubble how. Has our report on this. There been nearly a decade of conflict the syrians are now facing even more uncertainty nearly 4000000 are in camps stranded on the border with turkey they live in a rebel held territory in the north west while relying on International Aid bubble however is a lifeline for the 3000000 syrians in the province. Which was the main entry point for a channel to civilians in jobless and i freend has been shut down after russian pressure for many civilians this could have catastrophic consequences in the end the product that is it will prevent humanitarian aid reaching us thats all we have to live on and we have to fight for us with itis things will never work well die of hunger and the. Provisions the families here get a basically enough for a week or 10. Days is not enough if the regime or russia wants to cut this aid in close these borders will have a humanitarian crisis and people will try and head to the borders humanitarian aid agencies worry that reducing the number of crossing points will further choke off vital a for years the un ran its humanitarian operations through 4 crossing points 2 in turkey one in iraq and one in jordan. The International Organization warns stop being cross border aid delivery will cause suffering and death now this is happening at a time when the humanitarian crisis in the country has actually got worse we had almost a 1000000 people displaced earlier this year so we are very concerned that the amount of access for humanitarian aid is being refused at the very time when we actually need more access stranded and surviving mainly through a serious face another major crisis with covert 19 spreading in opposition territory limiting aid delivery to one Border Crossing will also likely further delay much needed medical supplies to contain the outbreak for now russia will have a bigger say over cross Border Operations and for many displaced syrians a push by the army to retake rebel held areas will leave them with 2 options face starvation or surrender or al jazeera. In mali prayers are being held