A Historic Mission for 2 nasa astronauts heralding a new era in commercial space travel. People around the world are facing heavy new coronavirus rules and restrictions governments are trying to stamp out rising infection rates while avoiding the full economic shutdowns they imposed earlier this year a global tally from the Johns HopkinsUniversity Shows the number of reported cases edging towards 18000010600000 have recovered about 690000 people have died its estimated that more than 200000 of those deaths are in latin america mexico has overtaken the u. K. With the 3rd highest confirm number of fatalities after the United States and brazil the Mexican Government did begin lifting restrictions in may to restart the economy its looking like it will have to reverse that course has more. Her new cases of corona virus show no signs of slowing down in latin america. In argentina which had largely kept the outbreak under control this is meant a return to lock down restrictions for 2 weeks as cases there are once again on the rise. And you know we dont argue with anyone else the big problem we kept having the last 15 days is that we all relaxed we all felt that the situation was contained and the situation is not contained. A lockdown in colombia was also recently extended through the end of august colombia is among the countries in south america showing the most alarming rates of contagion that is going to you know. There are people who dont follow the rules to go out even without a mask or use it incorrectly so were in a complicated phase of the pandemic and theres a lot of contagion. Latin america is home to an estimated 8 percent of the worlds population but accounts for nearly a 3rd of the worlds coronavirus deaths with brazil and mexico making up a majority of the fatalities in the region. In the case of brazil the government has faced heavy criticism for lacking a unified approach to containment efforts with president. Who cant cope with 900 himself often appearing in public without a mask. The same is true in mexico where the countrys president often makes statements that contradict Health Officials such as the recommendation that people wear masks to prevent the spread of the virus. You know when im going to put on a mask when theres no corruption and it will then ill put on a mosque they will stop talking about. The u. N. Warns the impact of the pandemic on latin american economies could amount to a 10 year setback in terms of g. D. P. Yet as countries work to reopen businesses the seemingly unstoppable wave of contagion thats gripped the region is making these efforts near impossible. Al jazeera. Tougher restrictions are being reimposed in and around manila the reported infections in the philippines jumps to more than 100000. 00 as of tuesday businesses and public transport are expected to close and people will need special passes to leave their homes groups representing nurses and doctors have been pushing the president roderigo to say to tighten controls saying the country is losing its fight against the virus. I have heard the call of different groups from the medical community for it to us gone the unit the quarantine is c. Q. In manila a fully understand where you are thought of paris would lead to us for such a time period they have been in the front lines for months and exhausted. To manila and al jazeera correspondent major men unning duggan jamila what kind of impact so these new restrictions having on people. Well there are the requests by medical workers hundreds of them came over the weekend they went online they basically reminded everyone that the medical Community Hospitals are overburdened and frontline or doctors are actually at the breaking point now what they asked for was an enhanced Community Quarantine which is a total lockdown of megaman a law that was already imposed nicholas for 3 months one of the worlds strongest most trick this lock downs in the world was implemented here in the philippines where over 15000000 people were in the entire region of luzon were made to see and forced to stay at home now slowly over the past 2 months the government has eased that but they see that the number of coronavirus cases continue go up to go up so last night the president came forward and basically said that the has listened to the calls of frontline years but he wont be an enhanced Community Quarantine or a thought the lockdown but rather something in between it means though that domestic flights are unlikely to resume anymore transportations will remain closed schools will not are open until january january until there is a vaccine and plans to slowly open the economy is going to be put on hold until august 13th where they will review again the Current Situation now the Philippine Government has under is under immense pressure basically to reopen the economy an economy thats not officially on the recession where millions of filipinos have already lost their jobs what the people critics are actually asking is what is entirely really the governments plan and how it intends to deal with with the uncertainty of the coming situation the government the president himself yesterday said that the government is broke that its on able to provide any more emergency cash aid its given that over the past few months and basically what its asking for for the filipino people is to be patient it remains to be seen how this 2 week a lockdown would. Change anything but the cause from the very beginning was not just a thought a lockdown but much more aggressive Contact Tracing and isolation and building of quarantine facilities across different areas in the philippines if it means how this will change but there are growing concerns over just how much the government can actually take on this pressure in the coming months this is unlikely to go away any time soon cliff jamila thanks very much australias 2nd biggest city melbourne has undergone its 1st night of curfew is one of several emergency measures introduced in the state of victoria after cases to record highs last week there were 671 new cases and 7 songs on the melbourne was already under a 6 week stay at home order victoria has added a ban on big gatherings of reintroduction of Online Learning and people are being ordered to stay within 5 kilometers of their homes nicola gage is monitoring developments for us out of sydney so nick lowe is the day after the night before the in melbourne what kind of impact is it having. Well its very similar to what weve seen over the past 3 weeks but these restrictions are just ramping up and it really does show you just how quickly the situation can change during this pandemic it was only a few months ago that a strongly it was one of the leading countries in the world for tackling covert non tain and now this 2nd wave of infections just doesnt seem to be going away fast enough of course people in melbourne already werent allowed to leave their homes unless it was for essential reasons like work but the number of coronavirus cases have stayed in the triple digits weve same 4050600 cases in melbourne and victoria every day why has this happened well weve saved issues in Quarantine Hotel quarantine when. Have returned from overseas there have also been problems with tracing and testing people with the corona virus and also some have been flouting the rules police have been travelling to peoples homes for you have tested positive to the virus and they havent been there and they have been in the community where Community Transmission has been occurring and thats what the premier Daniel Andrews said that the tightening of these restrictions was absolutely needed so this is the 1st time really in a no no peace time era where weve seen a curfew other than the bushfires as well so people arent allowed to leave their homes unless its for Health Reasons between the hours of 8 pm and thought i am schools are again closed we will be hearing today for the business closures as well so this really is a ramping up of restrictions to make sure that we can get this virus under control but thats the big question so these new measures will be in place for 6 weeks but the big question. That whether those numbers will be able to drop until then we have seen the wearing of both a small 6 become mandatory and there has been somewhat of flattening of the curve when it comes to numbers but the trick deck strip check to really is just not going down which is what is needed nicholas thanks very much nicholas cage there reporting live for us out of sydney australia. Irans reported its highs daily number of infections in nearly a month more than 2600. 00 the government says almost all provinces are seeing a resurgence irans had some of the worst outbreaks across the middle east manchester in Northern England has declared a Major Incident as it deals with more infections now that means there will be a Central Command structure to deal with the situation there and it enables agencies involved to ask for more resources Media Outlets had already been reporting the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson is looking at perspiring plans to ease restrictions as he tries to avoid another nationwide lockdown jonah hall has more now from central london. Hopes that the worst of the covert 1000 crisis may be behind the u. K. This autumn appear to be fading infection rates are rising for the 1st time since may not to the heights of a pandemic in april but nevertheless going up and the government has warned it may have to go further than the localised restrictions in place to control local spikes where they happen there are reports that the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has commissioned a plan for a london wide lockdown including restrictions on movement in and out of the m 25 ring road asking people over the age of 15 who may have a vulnerable condition to the virus to shelter at home and with schools due to return in just a few weeks time in september scientists are warning that any further reopening of the economy may mean other parts of the economy have got to shut again to maintain balance and the finger is being pointed at the Hospitality Industry will take a look at where i am now in the heart of london. A normally vibrant buzzing Entertainment District full of londoners locals tourists the bars restaurants and pubs that have been allowed to reopen their doors have their tables and chairs spilling out across the pavement and onto the road desperate for custom but there are no tourists around a lot of londoners on venturing out all that much and the reports suggest that the price of getting children back into the classrooms may well be that some of these businesses have to shut their doors again and Business Owners are warning they have survived one lock down many will not survive the 2nd. Still to come in the next few minutes or your suspicion is the team from Mainland China arrives in hong kong to help the territory deal with whats being described as a 3rd wave of coronavirus also. Im rob mcbride in and on south korea the countrys cultural heartland as it celebrates its World Heritage trash. Hello has been more damage from heavy rain in south korea some roads washed away but maybe the thing to notice for the next 2 or 3 days is how group it is coming across tiring to us in Southern China and the remains further west is unlucky which is a Tropical Storm commonly over North Vietnam a lot of rain thats going to die out but how good it will carry on not sickly strong winds but with this tarantula right in there for flash flood risk across northern taiwan at least into china which means the seasonal rains dont do very much is a line that you can follow but by i but its not particularly heavy weather and most of charring between his right to be dry same is true of japan the same is true actually south of the soft South China Sea the southern philippines so in a way sea weve seen charity the last 2 days theyre still there trying to drift further west woods into boring. But most aboard your job most assume youre looking dry and as the monsoons take you much of the moisture up into thailand. Because monsoon rains spread all over the place theyve been up in eastern afghanistan northern pakistan most heavily further east the northeast of india but theyre concentrating at the moment in maharashtra and sas was down the Western Ghats for days on end. But. The us is the richest country in the world yet it still doesnt have a universal Health Care System ill be asking why not to influential republican lani chan some Top Democrats say it in a special edition of head to head in 68500 miles a year we would save under medicare so all the study this doesnt happen in canada or france or spain or australia people dont die because they cant afford insulin well they die because they cant get access to care head to head on aljazeera. Youre watching aljazeera welcome if youre just joining us your top stories so for people around the world are facing new coronavirus restrictions as the global tally rises to more than 18000000 reported cases more than 690000 people died nearly a 3rd of them in latin america. Tougher restrictions are being reimposed in and around manila after reported infections in the philippines jumped to more than 100000 from tuesday businesses and public transport are expected to close and people will need special passes to leave home. Australias 2nd biggest city melbourne has undergone its 1st months of curfew thats part of several emergency measures introduced in the state of victoria with hundreds of new cases being reported daily. Health workers and experts from Mainland China have been sent in to help the territory deal with its latest outbreak however as difficult pollen reports the arrival is also provoking concern and suspicion. Hundreds of beds ready for patients a whole next to the International Airport once used for exhibitions and conventions now converted to a hospital hong kong is facing its 3rd and worst wave of corona virus with daily new infections in the triple digits the government says hospitals are reaching capacity Testing Centers are overwhelmed and so Health Workers and experts from Mainland China have stepped in to help their woman say she was compartments we understand the feelings of residents in one cong so we were deploying medical teams to support them 7 medics from a 60 strong team are the 1st to arrive from neighboring Guangdong Province they will be based at the makeshift hospital at the asia world expo at the height of the outbreak in Mainland China experts built temporary hospitals from the ground up in record time to treat thousands of patients it is that expertise the Hong Kong Government says it is drawing on but many are also questioning why the city would need external help given it had managed to swiftly and successfully contain previous outbreaks critics say the public were not consulted and the decision to bring mainland experts bypass the Legislative Council some activists have voiced concern that this is just another way for beijing to interfere in hong kongs affairs. The governments plan to offer free testing for all of the people in the territory has also raised suspicion with some in social media alleging this could be a way for beijing to access peoples d. N. A. Samples for surveillance purposes but many of hong kongs Health Professionals have welcomed the extra help from paul monk our staff has almost been working around the clock and its good to hear that the Central Government will dispatch professionals to share our workload and more mainland assistance is on the way 6 experts from will hand the city where the fire is 1st surfaced last year to help build the coronavirus facility from scratch to compliment the asia world expo site this is the 1st time mainland officials have assisted in hong kongs battle to control the current Virus Outbreak while it may have divided opinion with the territory under its strictest and most restrictive social distancing measures yet many years say they are united in their determination to overcome the latest outbreak theyve got pollen are just there of hong kong. At least 3 people have been killed and 24 others were injured during an attack on a prison in eastern afghanistan. Officials say there were several explosions including a suicide car bomb outside the prison in the city of jalalabad Afghan Security forces were locked in a gun battle with the attackers several prisoners escaped during the fighting i saw claimed responsibility a lot so while he is a freelance journalist in kabul he says it does appear to have been a revenge attack by eyesore. I was able to speak to an end mate in the political block who said a number of inmates are wounded several security towers are being controlled by the militants its still not clear how they got so much weapons and ammunitions into the heart of jalalabad the city but few days ago the Afghan Intelligence service announced that they have killed the head o