A crackdown by police and federal officers in Portland Oregon. Anger from women and poland as the government expands its conservative social agenda. On the painstaking process of restoring the acropolis in athens as the greek government renews its called for britain to return its ancient freshets. While we begin with the corona virus pandemic which is spreading further and faster every day it took the world 2 weeks to get from 1000000 to 2000000 cases now its taken just 4 days to make the leap from 15 to 16000000 thats according to the u. S. Based Johns Hopkins university it shows the United States brazil and india are leading the surge in new cases take a look at the scratch that shows the number of new cases added daily the curve is clearly rising with more than a quarter of a 1000000 new infections every day globally almost 650000 people are now known to have died. Well now the British Government has reimposed 2 weeks of self quarantine on people returning from spain following a coronavirus outbreak that has had. An unexpected change of plans hours before boarding a flight from spain back to the u. K. These tourists have learned theyll have to quarantine for 14 days on arrival the country was taken off britain say travel list on saturday and the measure took effect at midnight we had a wedding to go to and we help plans to visit friends and family that we havent seen in about a long time and not looking up to cancel all those plans so its really quite upset to the sudden reversal falls or surge of covert 19 infections in spain we cry for straight by to be honest because it fails she feels safer in spain what it did bring me to the u. K. Before we left the u. K. It wasnt monday its rough ice mass in a lot of places. But nearly everybody is wearing them so. Many of the new infections in spain are among young people showing mild or no symptoms lockdowns were imposed in some areas and barcelona bar said curfews and many nightclubs closed the Tourism Industry in spain accounts for about 12 percent of the countrys economy and its again her pairing for a downturn more than 20 percent of its foreign visitors last year were british and now france is recommending people avoid traveling there. So far weve had no cancellations but this may create doubts for people over the coming weeks i hope there are fewer cases but a lot of work has to be done. This sudden reimposition of restrictions is a reminder to many that even though some walk down measures here recently relaxed the pandemic appears to be far from over. And. Well our correspondent joins us live now from London Gatwick airport nadeem what all the british and Spanish Government saying at this stage. Well the Spanish Government the Foreign Ministry put out a statement saying that they respect britains decision but in the last 24 hours or thirtys in spain have been stressing that they think their country means a safe place and that they are on top of what they call localized outbreaks now the British Government has been on the defensive in the last couple of hours because people have been questioning why it was brought in this reimposition of coron team with such short notice and theres also an argument about the infection rates some of the Spanish Press have been arguing that this is unfair because although. On friday the number of new covered cases in spain was around 100 its still in the hundreds here in the u. K. And by some estimates its far higher possibly higher than in spain will britains foreign secretary dominic rob has been on television in the last couple of hours stressing that they got the information on friday but they only assessed it on saturday and that they had to act quickly in order to avoid the possibility of what he called a 2nd wave of coverage here in the u. K. It has angered the airline and the travel industry the biggest m consortium of travel agents here in the u. K. Has said that theyre disappointed to which is europes largest Tour Operator has cancelled or holidays to spain for the next 2 weeks although people will be able to go to the belly eric highlands and to the Canary Islands from monday in that company is questioning is saying theyre asking government why. The coroner scene is just is imposed on people coming back from those places when theyre not advising the British Government to not advise. Using britains knots to travel to the bali eric highlands in the Canary Islands when the demon as you say this seems to have been really quite a sudden decision until people have been caught off guard just how much of a surprise was this whole rule change. It was a total surprise for lets face it thousands or at least hundreds of people that weve talked to people arriving here at gatwick who had planned to go to spain one couple now flying in states to edinburgh for a short break they couldnt afford one of them would say a teacher here in the u. K. So a key worker and telling us they couldnt afford to have the 2 weeks off work when they got back from spain other people saying that they were going to try to delay their journeys but there were also family reunions involved with british people whose relatives live out in spain and so on so its an emotional cost as well for some people it will be financial the airlines are offering refunds or vouchers for later flights at the moment. Across all those latest developments for us i cant work airports in london thanks so much andy well al jazeera is a restart is on the Spanish Island of minorcan he was among those who were caught out by these new rules. I was on the runway at Dublin Airport about the takeoff so at that point there was very little turning back to be honest so my father called me and just said have you seen the new measures that have been implemented. And to be honest you know i was surprised but i wasnt hugely surprised id seen the numbers creeping up in mainland spain and i figured this was something that could happen but i never anticipated it actually happening before id even taken all of that was quite a surprise i mean the numbers here in minorca are very low i think its only been about 100 or so people contracted coated since the outbreak began so it is a little bit surprising that were going to have to quarantine as well i can understand it would be extremely frustrating to these people i mean we were quite frustrated when we heard the news the numbers here as ive just said are very low theyve implemented a very Strict Lockdown here pandemic broke out very very strict one and people have not been able to leave their houses and theyve done really well in heap in the numbers down here in minorca i think you know that the death rate across the political islands i think is lower than 300. 00 since this began and so i think theres only a handful of cases here in hospitals now so you know we would have come here unless we thought it was safe you know we live in a world now where you know the goalposts constantly being moved when it comes to you know the measures you have to adhere to but yeah i mean i can imagine a lot of people are going to be very frustrated because you know they would have come here in the state thought that it was a safe place to come and that they would have to take this quarantine when they get home which is extremely inconvenient when across the atlantic the u. S. Has recorded more than 73000 new infections just in the past 24 hours and the countrys top Infectious Diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci is again urging state governments to help poor family i think the states of florida texas and california remain some of the west hit and many in florida are blaming the governor easing locked on measures too soon hundreds or castro reports from maryland. The death toll in florida is rising as well about one person in florida is dying a covert every 10 minutes and florida certainly is not alone 18 states in the United States have broken totals and as far as cases or deaths in this past week in florida its governor rick des santa is a heavy strong is strong supporter and he has been praised by the president even now for his response to the pandemic florida was one of the 1st states to reopen and now critics are seeing whats happening with these numbers resurging and saying that that move was prioritizing the economy over peoples lives and this similar story repeated across the country much of the south now including the state of texas where along its border with mexico were seeing dire situation with what hospitals begging for more supplies the military responding there with their resources and refrigerated morgues parked behind those hospitals the same scenes we have seen in new york not so long ago unfortunately repeated now in new hot spots across the u. S. Well protests against racism and Police Brutality in the u. S. City of portland have now entered the 9th week the demonstrations started in response to the killing of george floyd in minneapolis but anger has also been growing over the president Donald Trumps decision to send federal agents to the city has the story. Demonstrations like these have been held in Portland Oregon for the last 2 months. Protesters supporting the black lives Matter Movement demanding racial equality and in to Police Brutality throughout their profile they can get their message across but were not backing down and were not just im here for a very very good job if the 3 of you we dont get our police before. The protests intensified this week after u. S. President do. Trump sent federal agents into the city organs attorney general applied for a temporary restraining order against what she described as their unconstitutional tactics but that was rejected by a federal judge. Local politicians and democrats in congress accuse the officers of using Excessive Force even still more people are joining the demonstrations have been. Basically the president target to make an example of the city has absolutely brought a broader base to the to the protests were there at the beginning them after you know a month or so of the protests were getting a little bit smaller and this is only brought about everyone that would have been out at the beginning. Federal agents were also sent to the neighboring state of washington. On saturday fighting broke out during protests in seattle dozens of people were arrested and officers wounded. Despite the criticism and unrest President Trump said hes ready to send hundreds more federal officers to cities across the country leon harding aljazeera. Well poland is pulling out of the european treaty and at preventing violence against women thousands protested against the planned withdrawal in cities across the country the Justice Minister says the treaty violates parents rights requiring schools to teach children about genda. Is the e usual man a professor at Stanford University in balad and he says polands move is part of a wider trend emerging in some Eastern European countries. This is what we thought in the west its the liberal agenda of the European Union but now we see that governments in hungary and in poland self confidentially state that their understanding of europe and what values means and what the role of the family is and how secular the whole project should be is a subject of debate they want a different europe and they choose the timing wisely because we just finished negotiations on the largest package of saudi garrity that was directed linked to the rule of law and the state of democracy and the polish delegation walked home with 160000000000 euros to keep on modernizing the country and its society and now they send a signal to the electorate like the conservative electorate we do what we want and we define what our principles and priorities are that is simple convention is not a European Union convention its a concept of Europe Convention its is confusing because they even share the same flag but its an independent organization with different members so it doesnt do directly harm with the membership of the European Union but one would expect that potent is as committed as everybody else but the government has a slightly different interpretation of this. Still ahead on aljazeera 6 months on from the fast covered 1000. 00 infection in ruhani the citys residents are now facing a new threats. Shot dead during lockdown power coronavirus containment measures are exposing please pretend a scene in argentina. Or. How i once again welcome so the look at International Focus will reign in the full cost for japan south korea and of course into central parts of china the seasonal rays c. M. I. A front still bring some pulses of heavier rain through Central China easing through the East China Sea the yellow sea pushing up towards south korea some very wet weather coming in heres you go on through monday we could see some localized flooding in the west so weather will gradually make its way over towards northern parts of honshu as we go on through tuesday finally a shower to the south of that into q shoes and dry weather coming back into south korea at this stage still a few showers there into north korea added to northern parts of china down towards the south well he made weather will continue for hong kong temperatures here at around 33. 00 celsius with some heavy pulses of rain from time to time heavy pulses of rain continuing into northeastern areas of india northern parts of me im on the west and get still see some really big downpours of course with the seasonal rise the monsoon downpours continuing to push their way through just notice a little system that was nicobar odyssey out of an audience and whats the weather coming in here as we go on through each is day we are seeing some very heavy rain once again with the threat of flooding for the poll ample time. Frank assessments what are you saying back in yemen the 6 percent of the new poll relation why it didnt suit this its an informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown in many parts of the omeo region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate of that is a proxy because not the result of the enters the bill of your people indepth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on aljazeera. You know again im a star and thats for much of our top stories here the salah 1000000 people have been infected with the coronavirus just in the last 4 days bringing the global total to more than 16000000 the United States brazil and india are leading a surge in new cases and the u. K. Has begun imposing a 2 week quarantine for travelers returning from spain that policy began at midnight on sunday leaving many tourists scrambling to get home. And there have been more scuffles until gas on the streets of the u. S. City of portland as protests continue there against Police Brutality the demonstration sparked by the killing of george floyd have now been going on for more than 8 s. Now argentinas government deployed thousands of security personnel and marched to enforce a nationwide lockdown to try to contain the krajina virus but reports of abuse and violence have been on the rise as out to reason by reports from buenos aires. Cindy i dont says her brother knew class was killed by the police on july 9th the day he turned 18 believing. Our working class neighborhood integrated one of. Us was shocked when he left his parents home to buy a drink to work out of work this was 2 blocks away and we were on a motorcycle the police car crashed into them and threw them on the ground he had a bullet in the middle of his chest i dont know why they did it lucas was so happy to be turning 18 he wanted to get a drivers license and help our family. Loved horses and like to compete in races around the province his friend brian brown medo was with him that night he says they did not mean to violate the lockdown and never thought things would end up the way they did but to get on a limb. Now we cannot trust the police they dont take care of us they kill us we have to take care of each other because we cannot expect anything from them. But many say look us in the only victim of the Security Forces its been 4 months since argentina imposed a lockdown to prevent the spread of colgate 19 but critics say that the government has given too much power to Security Forces on the ground who are in charge of patrolling the streets Security Forces that have been involved in abuses in the past human Rights Groups say that at least 12 people have been either killed or disappeared by argentinas Security Forces 22 year old. Went missing in april he told his mother he was going to see his girlfriend 200 kilometers away in the province of when. He was never seen again Security Forces have been patrolling the area where he went missing for the past few weeks to try to find him the United Nations is demanding a full investigation into what could have been and then forced disappearance human Rights Groups say the incidents in the past months are not isolated. This is nothing new and shows again that there is a structural problem during koren 1000 Security Forces acquired greater protectionism because they are in charge of hosing the lock down reforming the police is a death since argentina returned to democracy because even though there have been attempts of reform the real problems were never tackled. The 2 Police Officers involved in the killing of god on are under investigation his family is hoping justice will be served. One of. The north korea has put the border city of quetta song into lockdown saying its 1st case of corona virus may have been brought in from south korea pictures were broadcast of kim jong un chairing a meeting to announce the measures state media say the suspected cases a defector who fled to south korea years ago for attending illegally last week south korea says its investigating. And now Chinese People in the city of one hand have a new emergency to deal with 6 months since the coronavirus outbreak forced its 11000000 residents into lockdown flooding has now submerged parts of chinas worst affected city as well as other parts of a province katrina you reports for. There used to be a part where 100. 00 follow town now walks but last weeks to wrenshaw rains changed that flooding and pollution is crayfish and crab ponds gotta hold imo much the coronavirus this year already impact my business when the operate was contained i worked really hard to recover the business but just before the harvest time this flock am ive lost sort of. Almost all of size stock died in just a few days he lost more than a years of with of income. He says 2020 has so far been a year of disasters the Coronavirus Crisis forced his farm on the outskirts of ohio to close for much of the 1st half of the year infections have eased but for the citys 11000000 residents flooding purses a new threat 6 months off was 1st put in lockdown because it was like this time. Body parts of the city are the way the governor was but it wasnt. So bad more than 1000. 00 rivers in the region have breached Flood Warning levels more heavy rain is expected. While some a worried about the future Old John Lake and think about the past her father died suddenly and without diagnosis in early february despite having symptoms of carbon 90 a fever and breathing difficulties the authorities never formally acknowledged him is a victim. Remember what happened to my father that day it was so tough taking him to the hospital there was no car no help he was in the hospital waiting room then a few minutes later he stopped breathing then a doctor came and told my mom he passed away the government says about 3800 people died after contracting corona virus with 50000 infected beijing says it successfully contain the outbreak but its source remains unknown World Health Organization Officials Say theyve launched an investigation but the u. N. Agency isnt saying what progress is being made while the virus crisis in the hunt is over at least for now. The scars remain. So my life has completely changed i dont think we can ever go back to normal. Side what tao was great for his family survived the outbreak he says hes now trying to shift his focus from counting his losses to making do with whats left katrina you aljazeera on. Now once is seen as a Success Story a stray or has just had its highest daily death toll since the pandemic began 10 people died in 24 hours in the South Eastern State of victoria the epicenter of a resurging outbreak that case numbers have been growing by several 100 per day for the past 3 weeks as straightly had largely brought the coronavirus under control back in april. You have to say that these numbers are far too hort was there is some relative in our stretch the term relative stability were not saying a w w game were not dealing with thousands of cases of die which is what the modeling tells us we would have had to deal with if wed not go into the start story start harm. Weve got to drive those numbers down to some other news and malaysian Opposition Leader on what uber him says now is not the time for the country to be holding a general election theres been speculation that Prime Minister im weird and yes and may call a snap poll in the coming months and on one says the decision to deport a government critic who featured in a recent aljazeera documentary proves that there are issues that need to be addressed. Environment is certainly a call of duty for elections we have called it may be will be digital gambian we have policies know is that it. Was up well they may disagree without the right to. Disagree and come out with a statement but headers against journalists is not acceptable. This is whats happening in this country you know. Now Security Forces in jordan have arrested leaders of the Teachers Union affiliated to opposition parties that the Teachers Syndicate has been shut down now for 2 years as part of a corruption investigation and the unions acting head has been charged with inciting members against government teachers marched in the capital amman on wednesday to demand the government on a last years agreement to increase Salaries Police and fronts have charged a refugee from rwanda with arson after last weeks fires which damage the 15th century cathedral the 39 year old volunteer was in charge of locking up the cathedral and nuns now he was initially questioned a week ago and released hes admitted to starting 3 fires which shattered stained glass windows and destroyed a 400 year old orgon. Greece has made the return of the puffin and models from the British Museum in london one of its Top Priorities in the meantime a restoration project is underway to undo the damage done to the building when a british aristocrat removed their sculptures in the early 19th century john strapless reports from the great council. This mobile block is being cut out to make history it will eventually form part of the parthenon where new model is being precisely chiseled to be married to surviving fragments. The reconstructed blocks will be hoisted back into the structure much of the damage to this 2500 year old temple was caused relatively recently just over 200 years ago the 7th removed dozens of sculpted panels to get to them he hosted masonry off the roof and dashed it to the ground yeah not. To remove something you have to dismantle whatevers on top of it its not like pulling a book off the shelf temple construction was like lego they were built from the bottom up this is why theyve lasted each piece is fitted exactly to the pieces around it and that makes them earthquake resistant the sculptures formed part of the structure this quake Proof Technology has lasted world the ancient greeks connected each block of marble to its neighbor with. Over which molten lead was poured insulated and prevent rust and for 25. 00 centuries these clumps absorbed strains when blocks of marble moved against each other during earthquakes and theyve kept this temple from collapsing but earthquakes have done far less damage than people even those who unlike meant well the clumps used in a 19th Century Restoration rusted expanded and split the surrounding marble and venetian francesco who meant to liberate africans from the ottomans 350 years ago did the most damage of all causing an explosion that ripped the parthenon open visitors are divided over how much of the original parthenon should be restored like it was thats better understood i think its better when you have your imagination i would love to see exactly how it was i think it would be amazing id love to see exactly how and maybe we have a 2nd chance that he came here i mean showing future generations what was there this restoration wont go as far as reconstruction its a man is to heal the damage. And maurizio me caused greeks hope that part of that healing will eventually be the return of the sculptures that once the door into the most sacred of monuments jumps out oprah last aljazeera athens. Well lets go back to one of our top stories now and hear more of what protesters on the streets of Portland Oregon to say many remain determined to keep marching until there is real change the time for whats right for not just because its not like people but the Police Brutality. Lowry were saying im not im not one quatrain we want justice and thats what were doing tonight and furthermore. Were here representing sitting here her here right here to executives every. Parent behaviors that the teachers department. Is performing right now its just disgusting. Showing the world that what they were not serious only serious other people not start cutting it like. When i grew up by the ever thought this would ever be a president s never happening but you know every few decades the curtains get drawn back and how all the our country can be and right now were told the curtains open were not going to want to close again. Kind of that this is al jazeera and these are the headlines 1000000 people have been infected with the coronavirus just in the last 4 days bringing the global total to more than 16000000 the United States brazil and india are leading that surge in new cases in the u. K. Has now begun imposing a 2 week quarantine travis returning from spain that follows a surge in corona virus cases there and the reintroduction of lockdowns in some areas the policy began at midnight on sunday leaving many tourists scrambling to try to get home our correspondent bob has this update from Londons Gatwick apples. Britains foreign secretary dominic robb has been on television in the last couple of hours stressing that they got the information on friday but they only assessed it on saturday very hard to act quickly in order to avoid the possibility of what he called a 2nd wave of coverage here in the u. K. It has angered the airline on the travel industry the biggest consumer of travel agents here in the u. K. Has said the disappointed north korea has put the border city of k. Song into lockdown saying its 1st case of corona virus may have been brought in from south korea pictures were broadcast of kim jong un chairing a meeting to announce those measures state media say the suspected case is a defector who fled to south korea years ago before returning illegally last week the strain has recorded its highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began 10 people died just in the last 24 hours in the state of victoria the epicenter of a resurging outbreak there. And there been more scuffles and tear gas on the streets of the u. S. City of portland as protests there continue against Police Brutality the demonstrations sparked by the killing of george floyd have now been going on for more than 2 months poland is pulling out of a european treaty aimed at preventing violence against women thousands protested against the planned withdrawal in cities across the country the Justice Minister says the treaty violates parents rights by requiring schools to teach children about gender well those are the headlines ill be back with more news for you here on aljazeera after inside story stay with us. Its involved way cracking down on dissent a prominent journalist whose expose corruption is arrested the government says hes inciting violence as a number of abductions of critics in recent months what does that tell us about zimbabwe often mcgarvey this is inside story. Hello there and welcome to the program im laura kyle zimbabwes president. Is accused of trying to destroy opposition and silence dissent using covert 19 as an excuse the accusations are not new political arrests and
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