So assad bombing in northern afghanistan the taliban has claimed responsibility and accused of war crimes cause of all surprises and touchy is interviewed by a special prosecutor at the hague. And on the wings of the sports news as munches the citys european bond is overturned and washingtons on a full turn drop for a controversial redskins mon after pressure from sponsors and social justice campaigns. Thank you for joining us the World Health Organization is warning that the world want to be returning to normal life for the foreseeable future it says a Global Coronavirus Fund demick is only going to get worse if basic health care precautions are not followed nearly 13000000 people worldwide have now to. Said positive and have been more than half a 1000000 deaths globally many governments which had begun easing lockdown measures are now being forced to bring them back and the head of the w. H. O. Says too many countries are seeing their infection numbers heading in the wrong direction the situation were seeing is countries that overcame the 1st because of the outbreak but having is that restrictions are now struggling with a new peaks and accelerating cases in several countries across the world we are now seeing dangerous increases in cases and hospital wards feeling again it would appear that many countries are losing gains made as proven measures to reduce risk are not implemented or followed for more than a quarter of the worlds recorded covered 1000 cases are in the United States over the weekend 7 states set daily case records and florida added more infections in a day than any state had previously but as the cases mount the trumpet ministration seems to be targeting its own Infectious Diseases experts lets bring in our White House CorrespondentKimberly Halkett for more on this kimberly the white house has been trying to discredit dr anthony found cheney but is pushing back against our suggestion. Yeah the White House Press secretary kaley mcenaney just wrapping up her briefing and in it she pushed back on the notion that the white house has been discrediting dr anthony foushee in fact she said that the only reason the information was sent to one news outlet here in the United States pointing out some of the socalled mistakes that he had made as the top Infectious Disease specialist was that because this was a response in her words to a press query now having said that the u. S. President has as he has been since april been retreating even calls to fire dr anthony career Civil Servants something the president cannot do even today on twitter he once again retreated suggestions that many of the people who have different opinion from him including dr foushee that this was something done to try and do rail his efforts for reelection in the november election now the white house is denying all of this in fact when asked directly kelly back in to the press secretary said simply that she believes that the president dr anthony found she had a solid relationship it shes still not is that there has been any sort of animosity between the 2 even as they have also admitted in the past week that they have not been in the same room together in more than a month for any sort of briefing plan and as weve seen this weekend kimberly the u. S. Is setting records in terms of covert 1000 cases florida for instance how is the white house defending you know this well what are they saying about these cases and the fact that things are getting worse and not better. Yes she was the press secretary was asked this directly and the response was a bit surprising given the fact that the white house the strategy for the most part has been to kind of push the states to take a lead on dealing with covert 19 in their own states but the press secretary saying that she has believe that theres been a strong federal response that its been working the knowledge that there are hot spots that there have been health and Human Services officials that have been dispatched to these states including dr Deborah Burks who is on the Coronavirus Task force and once again the press secretary reiterating what the president has said and that is that the reason there are such high numbers of positive cases is because there has been an increase in testing saying there have now been 40000000 tests that have been conducted she also acknowledged there have been what she called embers and fires but the white house is defending its response saying that mortality rates have come down thank you for that kimberly how good life or as the white house for south africa is a worst hit country on the african continent with over a quarter of a 1000000 people infected the government is reintroducing lockdown restrictions to try to combat the soaring numbers from e. To miller reports from johannesburg. President still ramapo says claims gatherings like this and what he calls drinking sprees for a surge in covert 19 infections with more than 270000 cases south africa has one of the highest rates of infection in the world the government has again banned the sale of alcohol after allowing its sale to resume just 2 weeks ago there is no clear evidence that the resumption of course means as a result of it in stop saying short pressure being put on hospitals including trauma and i. C. U. Units due to Motor Vehicle accidents violence. As well as related trauma. Injuries. Family visits and other social activities have also been banned but people can meet at restaurants malls and other public areas and parks have been reopened for exercise while wearing a mask is mandatory the government says people are not following the rules and theres concern that Health Facilities cant cope some Health Workers a using social media to speak out its an absolute hear us i have had 3 deers in this race all in is than 2 hours birth period was the most shocking i just find out that the family has remained. Always for recreation or is. He remains with us the bridge repair place is packed away crazy we dont even have any oxygen cords to put the patients on additional facilities and quarantine areas have been set up across the country the governments allocated 37000 beds for quarantine and securing thousands of into latest an oxygen for those who need them while more than 4000 people have died here africa does of one of the lowest death rates compared to other countries but it might not stay that way a quarter of those deaths were recorded in the last week alone estimates indicate they could be between 40 and 50000 deaths in the months to come. Yet the government says its reluctant to return to full lockdown millions of dollars and thousands of jobs were lost when it did that in march the government insists its trying to revive the economy while at the same time protecting lives but with 500 new infections every hour the speed with which the virus is spreading may make that more difficult for me aljazeera johannesburg. Lets now speak to jeffs chills the director for the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University is via skype from Manchester Connecticut thank you so much for being with us on aljazeera so weve had this new warning today from the w. H. O. Do you think countries will heed this warning or you know do they still try to w. H. O. Or to lead them out of this crisis always every country simply doing what they think is best for them. You know i would hope that countries heed this warning and the w. H. O. Is absolutely right that we need to follow the evidence and we need to have a really robust layered implementation strategies to keep the disease transmission as low as possible but a lot of countries including the United States have chosen to maybe take out their failures on the w. H. O. As well as to highlight some shortcomings that have you h. O. As an excuse for not getting the job done at home and unfortunately that is going to be measured in lives lost because of his missed opportunities to prevent the spread and to reduce the spread as we see it climbing in the United States we have president ial im saying is willing to consider additional aid to reopen schools but many states including florida as we saw this weekend have battling a spike in cases are they a fact is that appear to help or hinder the reopening of schools you know have countries been able to open schools to be able to control the pandemic. You know 1st and foremost you need to get Community Transmission as low as possible that opens up more options for schools and for the economy you can have more people commingling in spaces if you have lower chances of a transmitting because less people have it but to do that you need masks you need to be able to reimplement social distancing and physical distancing when necessary so its one thing to say in one soundbite that its aspirational to try and provide aid to reopen schools but the real aid thats needed is consistent messaging and consistent policy thats driven by evidence to prevent people from congregating to reduce the spread to have the Contact Tracing and the testing to detect cases so that you have more options for schools and for the economy and ultimately have less lives lost as a result of this pandemic why has there been such a say in in the us caseload any deaths. So i think there are a couple of factors one of them is that you have some states that are simply not following the guidance and then you have other states and localities where maybe the Political Institutions in the Public Institutions are implementing the guidance but its not necessarily being followed and of course this isnt helped by the mix messaging thats out there but where we do see robust evidence driven strategies as as as limited as that evidence is right now where theyre following the science thats available to take a very methodical approach we are seeing traction in states like new york and in the northeast that have really worked together to try to keep transmission low in areas that are slow to act in areas that are getting particularly mixed message in from their elected officials in terms of what to do and what not to do theyre having a much harder time and then any virus that is introduced just has that much more opportunity to spread because of that i thank you very much for talking to us about this. Directive from the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University ray appreciate your insight. Thanks for having me. In other world news silence have been protesting in the democratic republic of congo against the appointment of a new Election Commission chief all sam alone does nomination has angered many opposition politicians have accused him of being complicit in rigging previous elections they say milan days biased towards former president Joseph Kabila welcome bila stepped down last year after nearly 2 decades in office but his allies hold a parliamentary majority and control most cabinet ministries just last month proposed judicial reforms that also sparked protests the reforms that have given the Justice Minister more power over judges and prosecutors president kennedy rejected them and the Justice Minister was briefly arrested deepening the rift with within the governing coalition aljazeera is catherine soy has more on whats causing the unrest. Walking shuster right now is called police managed to disperse the thousands of protesters who won running battles with the police all afternoon. Dece protests really were organized by an opposition qualification called and in the capital kinshasa we so. Very influential politician with a huge following so he let he was leading this thousands of his supporters they were heading to parliament they were dispatched by police using tear gas and they say that they are angry with this nomination of this the president of the Electoral Commission but they also say that beyond that they are unhappy with the leadership of president leads to security and the correlation he has formed with former president Joseph Kabila they say that this listen has plunged the country in a political and economic crisis and the president needs to act i gently to solve the situation. The taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack in the northern afghan province of salman gun 12 people were killed 11 of them Afghan Intelligence forces Authorities Say a suicide bomber targeting the Intelligence Office said the explosion at least 63 people including children were also injured aljazeera is unis i seen has more from. The explosion happened around noon a taliban suicide bomber ride in a car bomb attack the headquarters of National Directorate of security in a big city the capital of. The province the explosion was big many were killed and tens were rushed to the hospitals taliban has claimed responsibility on this attack and it spokesman. Said that at least 60 people were either killed or wounded during the attack and this happened in the same day when the government has announced that they have released. At least 160 taliban prisoners from the many prisons across the country and also taliban announced in the last 3 days that they have released 42 security Government Security forces from many prisons across afghanistan and why the prison swap continues the clashes that confrontations continue between the government and taliban sources in the ministry of defense told us that last night 18 the Security Forces were killed and 4 taliban members were killed in clashes that lasted all night in the modems province of kunduz plenty more ahead on this news hour including yemens who thiis say theyve killed dozens of high ranking saudi military officers in a cross border attack the u. K. Says it wants to welcome the best 10 brightest talent as it unveils changes to its immigration system and good news for Manchester City as theyre cleared to play in europe next season will be here shortly with all that he talks. Iran is asking south korea to release billions of dollars it alls for oil exports in transactions dating back several years speaking to the Foreign Ministry stroll a spokesman said iran is currently negotiating with south korea on getting the money back as bringing our correspondent in tehran tell us more about what the Foreign Ministry spokesman told you and you know why are the South Koreans holding on to this money. Well all this goes back to before 2018 men u. S. President donald trump pulled the United States out of that 2050 nuclear deal that deal was signed between the United States iran france germany the United Kingdom russia and china and it was decided designed to curb Irans Nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief the u. S. Pull themselves out of that in 2018 and impose sanctions on iran that before them there were several countries that were trading with iran one of those was south korea and they thought iranian oil to the train of around 7000000000. 00 but theres one problem they havent paid for it yet and iran says thats because of u. S. Precious specifically saying its because of u. S. Bullying now we spoke to irans Foreign Ministry spokesman a bus moussavi and he said that the reason given by south korea as to why they are holding on to irans funds is unacceptable to iran so. We will explore all legal and diplomatic avenues to bring this money back to the country its held illegally in south korean banks and their reasoning is totally illegal and irrational the us is putting pressure on them thats not related to us its between them and the us our nation wants the money it earned through illegal trade back weve had a historic and traditional relationship with south korea but these actions have negative impacts on this relationship. Now iran is amidst coronavirus pandemic they would be like this money to regulate their current need to help them help them buy medical equipment and theres also a feeling here in iran that this is a great injustice this money could be used to help keep people indoors not out and about and getting infected by the krona virus but south korea did send medical supplies and testing kits to iran but iran says thats not aid because the 1000000. 00 that cost was deducted from money already owed to iran and its important to note that these United States sanctions are unilateral they are not United Nations sanctions or Security Council sanctions something Abbas Mousavi was. To point out the saying that theres no real obligation for south korea to comply to these however theres always a threat from the United States that any country accompli that does business with iran could be hit hit with fines or sanctions by the United States but the message to south korea from the front is very clear that you