Something i dont like saying. A steroid with a lifesaving boosts the drug being tested in britain thats being hailed as a breakthrough treatment for covert 19 patients. Livelihoods on the line in indian administered kashmir why people say theyre no longer getting their fair share of mineral resources. A vote expected in coming hours that will give israels government increased powers to impose coronavirus restrictions across the country the move comes as protests grow louder against Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is handling of the pandemic dozens of demonstrators have been arrested after chaining themselves together and blocking people from entering parliament and western of them are a force that has more. Benjamin netanyahu is where the protest before so called the. Clarke activists have waged a years Long Campaign against what they call his anti democratic rule but in the last 2 weeks the protests have changed and grown as israelis buckling under a 2nd wave of coronavirus turn their anger on the government. Netanyahu has admitted to reopening the economy too quickly allowing gatherings of too many people others point to the governments failure to expand the system of testing and tracing as the 1st wave leaving it ill equipped to stop the 2nd author and journalist Roden Bergman has investigated that Decision Making he says the Health Ministry went against expert advice you need to know as soon as possible if that person is ill or not you need to test that person immediately after he is a good fight is so the suspect so if if you do not been sharing of infection he goes on and on if you are not able to cut it the government itself said it needed a 48 hour turnaround from suspected case to test results even now its taking 6. 00 to 8. 00 days the concern now is that its simply too late in terms of testing to catch up with the sheer scale of this 2nd wave israels missed opportunity on testing and tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure to tackle the pandemic under pressure the Prime Minister has been announcing measures only to announce them from a 1750000000. 00 package of cash handouts 1st universal now means tested too in order to close restaurants postponed within hours to weekend closures of beaches and pools reversed within days the one constant is insistence on avoiding a 2nd full lockdown because. Ive requested each ministries plan for a safe exit from the current virus restrictions meaning that if we straighten the coven reach the goals that we see it for the determined number of cases per day that we can work with over time in the coronavirus routing. But the head spinning policy shifts. Have undermined belief in a Prime Minister also on trial in 3 separate Corruption Cases one survey this month put public trust in him at just 29 percent and the problem that. There is really. That its not creating trust and trust is crucial. In order to move ahead because its a situation where theyre talking about trustees both thrust of the Public Interest of experts just weeks ago squashed the 1st wave of coded 19 and neutralized his most serious political rival benny gantz inside an Emergency Coalition now hes fighting to beat down a resurgent virus and restore his diminishing political capital. On television as we mentioned netanyahu is response to the pandemic as one of the reasons for the protests against him is much still a corruption trial got underway earlier this year that in yahoos charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases that and yahoo denies those charges and a High Court Ruling has cleared the way for him to remain in office in april he ended a power sharing agreement with the blue and white parties benny gantz that followed 3 inconclusive elections and more than a year of political deadlock michel baraka is a political analysts and hes also a former advisor to president shimon peres and Prime Minister ariel sharon he says netanyahu has reason to be worried as protests have never been this while and. Yeah i think this is much different because you have people who are actually being arrested you didnt have that or every night people are coming out theyre being arrested there are those that are kneeling down and holding their hand and theyre taking Water Cannons and horses and theyre theyre really starting feeling it that now has to go and its a combination of factors there are some people that are out there protesting the corruption there are other people that are out there think the lack of policy for the coronavirus some people are going to go they have some food and they cant pay their rent or their mortgage so you have a lot of theres a lot of different issues that are coming and the annexation you know Prime Minister has yet spend most of the month of june in the run up for july 1st which was you know except that he was going to start some kind of an extension so the Prime Minister then that many other things including the corona. Population group here you know that these doing something wrong and theyre all getting together. The United States says its hold of the closure of the chinese consulate in Houston Texas in order to protect American Intellectual property and the reports of a fire at the building late on tuesday a Chinese ForeignMinistry Spokesman denied media reports of stuff or burning documents and accuses the u. S. Of violating International Law all. Tchula on july 21st the u. S. Abruptly demanded we close our consulate general this was unilaterally initiated by the u. S. Side and we demand the u. S. Withdraw this decision or we will respond. In another dispute chinas Foreign Ministers urged the u. S. To stop making slanderous accusations about cyber crimes to chinese men have been charged in the u. S. For hacking hundreds of Companies Including firms developing coronavirus vaccines prosecutors say the pair acted on behalf of chinese intelligence as part of a long Espionage Campaign targeting Global Defense and Energy Industries the hikers are also accused of trade secret theft and wire fraud conspiracy allegations come a week after the u. S. The u. K. And canada accused russia of trying to steal covert 19 data u. S. President donald trump has won the corona Virus Outbreak there is likely to get worse before it gets better its a month departure from the optimistic picture hes projected so far even as cases continue to rise in many States Mike Hanna has more from washington d. C. In the past president himself as americas cheerleader making rosy predictions about the course of the pandemic that were often at odds with the facts but this was a more subdued president than on previous occasions it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better something i dont like saying about things but thats the way it is and a complete reversal on the use of mosques something that in the 1st few months of the pandemic the president often derided at one stage even expressing support for anti mosque protests in a number of states this to it seems a thing of the past i have no problem with the masks i view it this way anything that potentially can help and that certainly can potentially help is a good thing i have no problem i carry it i wear it you saw me wearing it a number of times and ill continue there were some familiar claims that the u. S. Is leading the world in testing in that small teletoon rate is lower than anywhere both assertions declared false by most health experts. A little comment about a startling report from the centers for Disease Control it says the official figure of some 3600000. 00 cases of coronavirus in the u. S. Is dramatically less than what it now is to mates could be as many as 38000000 cases. Its not clear whether the president s new embrace of reality rests in recognition not because such as these or whether hes seeking to reverse what are politically damaging polling figures about the publics view of the way hes handled the crisis mike hanna aljazeera Washington Police in bolivia have recovered the bodies of more than 400 d people thought to have died from corona virus the bodies were picked up from streets and vehicles from homes over the past 5 days more than 60000 people have tested positive for the virus since the outbreak was identified in bolivia and more than 2000 have died the governments been advised to delay president ial elections due in september. And the lady has Health Ministers opposing a controversial plan to allow the use of a bleach like substance to treat the virus the Senate Passed the measure last week people are lining up to buy bottles of chlorine dioxide despite a warning from the Health Ministry that its not fit for human Consumption Health authorities including the u. S. Food and Drug Administration say the bleaching agent is dangerous and people whove taken it experienced serious side effects. Isnt google book a must see that. This is a product that has not been approved by the ministry weve published a resolution opposed to the substances approval and said it is not appropriate for human consumption and that it can have grave consequences for human beings and for the body we have even seen cases of chlorine dioxide poisoning. Scientists in the u. K. Are conducting the worlds biggest a randomized drug trial to see which existing medications might counter covert 19 show that a chip off the shelf steroids can work in many cases saving the lives of one 3rd of critically ill patients in the 2nd of our series inside scottish clinics john hall meets the medical staff at a hospital in hairmyres in East Kilbride whove been on the front line of the british trials. This is the intensive care unit. This is a 10 bed intensity and where we had all our covert patients with envy at the height of the pandemic the place would be in fill of medical staff not the staff as your therapist the coded 1000 pandemic in the u. K. May have subsided for now but its accelerating in many parts of the world so the search for treatments alongside a vaccine remains as urgent as ever and the drug trial has revealed the steroid dexamethasone to be effective in reducing deaths by up to a 3rd a lot of patients and he commented intensive care unit they have a hyper immune response so theyre going system goes into overdrive because its the hyper immune response actually causes a lot of the illness the damage to the lungs so dex a mess one hopes that is going to dampen although 56 year old eddie hughes believes dexa method saved his life of what it was the function actions machines were basically for faster seemed to keep me alive in the way from family and little to nothing else is what weve lost and to lose lets try it after he had to dismiss all these options dont even started to steal dont started to get at least. For the 1st time it was the end of started to be talk of wean him off the team 3 times and that was just we just couldnt even believe that and he was given decks of methadone here at hairmyres hospital in scotland one of a large number taking part in the u. K. Wide randomised drug trial being run by scientists at Oxford University the aim to test a number of widely available off the shelf drugs with the hope of finding one or a combination that might work to ease some of the worst symptoms of covert 98 hughes return from the brink of death contributed to data that has seen dexamethasone approved as a breakthrough treatment for some of the worst cases of covered 19 States Methicillin has been. That. Result and no means that any comment theyre being treated or are not can be scraped up and been able to be. The recovery trial has also been successful in ruling out the malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine once hailed as a game changer by President Donald Trump but found instead to be useless in treating covert 19 as the world waits for a safe and effective vaccine that may yet be a long way off recovery continues to look for treatments that will help us live with the virus possibly for years to come join a whole al jazeera scotland. And our series on surviving coronavirus continues on thursday join me jonah hall for the concluding part in our coven 19 series looking at the lingering effects on the long road back to full health. Still ahead on aljazeera ethiopia says heavy rain has begun filling its controversial blue nile as the government continues to negotiate with its neighbors in egypt and sudan. And the shock of his life and we hear from a teenage footballer who was struck by lightning. Or. Hello the rain still fairly intense in china and its been a its pretty wet season as you know the yangtze still seeing rain over but the development in the next day or so is just offshore a circulation of proper circulation the yellow sea is on its way to the Korean Peninsula is pretty intense rain for both north and south korea that means less intense rain further west in fact youve got a couple of runs to be dr days in china for the next systems or next pulse starts develop in situ on the same time this rain will spread into the southern part of honshu and probably q shoe this is during friday leaving still wet weather in places like seoul maybe pyongyang but a dry picture generally for south korea and where weve seen a couple of days of intense rainfall in assam over the brahmaputra whos already flooded as it moves here more in the way of rain in south bangladesh so thats the north on the southeast have fairly wet showers also a pretty widespread that includes Northern Iraq the lesser in the west and gets in pretty widespread showers admittedly but the concentration is still further east and you might want this time of the year. 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The United States is set as all of the closure of the chinese consulate in Houston Texas in order to quote protect American Intellectual property that china Foreign Ministry spokesman denied media reports to staff and began burning documents and accuses the u. S. Of violating International Law. U. S. President donald trump has warned the corona Virus Outbreak there is likely to get worse before it gets better is urging the public to wear masks and promise to deliver a vaccine as soon as possible. If the o. P. s says its reached its yearly finning target for the grand renee souls down after weeks of heavy rain that says the government held Virtual Meetings with its dense 2 neighbors promising to continue talks to find a solution to the dispute over the mega project reports on the complex regional politics surrounding the dam. If she continues to build and cost close to 5000000000. 00 if you o. P. s flagship Infrastructure Project is a great source of national pride. But the grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the blue nile has caused tension with downstream countries sudan and egypt from the start be coping government says the hydroelectric dam is vital for the development of this immense landlocked country which is a population of around 108000000 the country plans to expulsion kristie across the region and says the dam will stop seasonal flooding in neighboring sudan. But egypt says there are a number of outstanding legal issues that need resolving and filling the reservoir too quickly could reduce its water supply and may pose an existential threat agent does have legitimate concerns i mean that egypt relies on the nile for 90 percent of its fresh water needs and the largest share of the river runs through each direction or tree and what we have has had in egypt is a situation where they have a significant gap between the amounts of water they produce and the amount of water they can shoot. And with a rapidly growing population of over 100000000. To this problem only getting worse ethiopia also has strong claims because its the source of the bl