Ethiopias dam. Ninene people left dead after gunmen storm pakistans largest Stock Exchange. The weld Fourth Organization has warned the coronavirus pandemic is far from utter control in the worst is yet to come. It is sending a team to china next week to investigate the origins of the disease which are still unknown. Want this to be over. We all want to get on with our but the harsh reality is this is not even close to being over. Although many countries have made some progress, globally, the pandemic is actually speeding up. Barbara americas top Infectious Disease experts says the recent surge in u. S. Coronavirus cases is largely down to people ignoring Health Guidelines on Wearing Masks and socially distancing. Many southern and western states which push the reopen to economies is seeing a spike in infections. Dr. Anthony fauci has called the Community Spread a recipe for disaster. California, texas and florida have reimposed some restrictions, including ordering bars to close. Jacksonville, the florida city hosting the Republican National convention in august, has now mandated the use of face masks. Joined live now from new york. We heard some measures that the states in the south and west are thinking of implement a. What else are they thinking about what it comes to their opening strategies . Well, they are thinking that for the last several days, the United States has seen a big surge in new infections, about 40,000 of them per day. Many local leaders, governors, mayors and so on our expressing concerns about their Hospital Systems reaching capacity and the possibility of having to ration health care. You talked about florida, you talked about california. And california, the governor has ordered eight counties to close their bars after allowing bars to reopen. After they did that, in the next weekend, they saw a 40 increase in infections among young people between 18 and 40 years old. The government said many places were not adhering to the requirements to wear masks and social distance. So, he took the step of closing down bars and threatened to do so in other counties as well that are on the borderline of seeing a lot of infections in their hospitals become also close to capacity. In florida, not only did the city where the Republican Convention is going to be held announced a requirement for masks in places you cannot social distance, we heard in broward county, home to the famous Fort Lauderdale beach, they will close the beach for the independence day, july 4 holiday. That was not something, i can assure you, that the leaders there did lightly. That is a major source of revenue. A major source of entertainment for people. But again, the mayor of the town said that the infection rate was just getting too dangerously high and they were worried about the hospitals being overwhelmed. And then you have texas, another state where you have seen a resistance to mandatory masks. There was a full speed ahead to reopen and the government also dialing back, closing some bars. Some bar owners threatening to sue him for shutting them down. There is worry about these rising numbers. Barbara how would you say their approach compares with the one in new york where you are . Well, it is night and day. New york has some of the strictest lockdown restrictions. We were under a lockdown order longer than much of the country. But now, things are gradually reopening. Here, the infection rate remains going up peaking and for 42 days. We are now seeing fatality rates and new infection rates that are not what they were in early march, at the beginning of this. The trend continues to go in the right direction. Masks requirements are in place here as the state proceeds forward cautiously. We heard the governor of new york, andrew cuomo, saying that texas, he applauded the governor of texas saying this is the step he should be taking. He called on President Trump to issue mandatory mass wearing in public throughout the country. He claims that the difference between what new york has done and what these other areas are doing. The mask is making the difference in controlling the spread. So that debate continues at a national level. Barbara the latest from new york. Thank you. Agreed onan union has a draft list of countries it will open its borders to from july 1. Travelers from 15 countries will be allowed in, including australia, japan and canada. But people coming from the u. S. , turkey, brazil and russia will remain barred as their virus infection rates are still too high. People from the u. K. Will be allowed in despite the country having more cases than any eu nation. It is still in the brexit transition period. A finalist is expect it to be announced on tuesday. Health workers in india have a report of the biggest single day increased in coronavirus infections. Several states re imposing or extending their lockdowns after nearly 20,000 new cases were confirmed. More than half a Million People have been infected. Almost 100,000 of them in the past week alone. Both the kremlin and the white house are denying newspaper reports that russia offered the taliban a bouncy for american soldiers killed in afghanistan. At a white house news briefing, the press secretary insisted President Trump was never briefed on the alleged program. Alan fisher reports. Alan from the white house podium, a denial the president was ever briefed on the socalled bounty. Thousands. Receives of reports a day on intelligence and they are subject to strict scrutiny. While the white house does not routinely comment on alleged intelligence or internal deliberations, the cia director, nsa, National Security visor, and chief of staff all confirmed that neither the president nor the Vice President were briefed on the alleged russian bounty intelligence. Alan afghanistan is americas longest war. For 19 years, american troops have been there. Theres no indication that will leave anytime soon. America helps contribute weapons to keep russia out of the country in the 1980s and killed russian mercenaries. Now according to the new york times, its payback time. The newspaper says the russians offered cash for kills. Coalition soldiers and american soldiers in particular. From the kremlin, another denial. First of all, those statements are lies. Secondly if in the United States special services are still answerable to the u. S. President , then i suggest focusing on President Trumps statement. He already gave an appraisal of those reports. Alan he did i nn a tweet. Intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible so therefore did not reported to me or v. P. Possibly another fabricated russia hoax. That says the white house explains why there has been numerous from the american side. The story did not stand up. On capitol hill, lawmakers demanded an intelligence briefing focused on what and when. And if the president was in fact briefs. Intelligence sources tell me not only is the information solid, it was given to the highest level of the white house. Theres still a lot of unanswered questions. While they remain unanswered, there lies potential risk with president who had a difficult relationship with russia from even before he took office. Alan fisher, al jazeera. Barbara the u. S. Supreme court has struck down a louisiana law that places restrictions on doctors who perform abortions. The surprise decision to defend the procedure and abortion rights comes after fierce opposition from conservative justices. The vote was 54 with chief Justice John Roberts voting with the courts four member liberal wing. The first big Abortion Case since trump appointed two new justices, shifting the court to the right. Egypt has told the United Nations it faces an existential threat from ethiopias construction of a hydroelectric dam on the blue nile river. Ethiopia begin construction of the dam nine years ago and is expected to start filling it next month. Egypt, which is almost entirely dependent on the nile for its freshwater supply, is deeply concerned that once the u. N. Can intervene. Earlier, is secure to counsel discussed the Security Council discussed the project in a virtual meeting. Potentially existential proportions have emerged that was encroached on the Single Source of livelihood of over 100 million egyptians. The grand ethiopian renaissance dam, a colossal project that ethiopia has constructed across the blue nile could endanger the security and very survival of an imperiling itsy wellsprings. Barbara ethiopias foreign minister saying the Security Council should not be used as a forum for asserting diplomatic pressure. History, it has never caused a threat to any country. It has instead been contributing through active participation and peace building since the early days of the United Nations. That ethiopiar believes the issue being less thantoday has the Security Council. It is bound to set a bad precedent and open a pandoras box. This council should not be a forum for exerting diplomatic pressure. Darbara still to come, force abortions and state sanctioned sterilizations. An investigation uncovered about china enforcing its Birth Control policies on women. The former French Foreign minister and his wife are given jail sentences over a fake jobs scandal. Quite a bit of clouds across the southeast of australia and across into new zealand. That is where the showers are. Not to many showers across the southeast. City with a bright start to the day. The sun was rising. There is quite a bit through the day on tuesday yea. One or two showers into southern areas of australia and victoria. This system brings very heavy rain and strong wind. Several thousand people without any power. This also has some strong winds within it. Working those wins into south australia. Showers along the coast but it should be a better day wednesday. Perth at 17 degrees. The rain is on its way towards the southeast. It is cool across both islands of new zealand with one or two showers. About five degrees below the average for this time of year. Up into asia, it is all about the rain into more central areas. , at leastve landslide 12 people have died. 10 people are missing. You can see the mud that is left behind. The rescuers working hard. More rain and that will eventually push towards japan. Barbara welcome back. A reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. The head of the World Health Organization has warned the coronavirus pandemic is far from undercontrol, but the worst is yet to come. Its sending a team to china next week to investigate the origins of the disease which are still not known. Pressure is mounting on the u. S. President over allegations that russiaia paid the taliban to target u. S. Soldiers in afghanistan. Donald trump says the Intelligence Briefings never reached him because the agencies did not think they were credible. The u. S. Supreme court has unexpectedly struck down a louisiana law that places restrictions on doctors who perform abortions. Despite fierce opposition from conservative justices. Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the courts fourmember liberal wing. Forcing be accused of sterilization, abortions and Birth Control on hundreds of thousands of uyghur women to slash birthrates. An investigation by the ap has shown evidence of a fouryear campaign in northwestern provinces. Experts say it is a form of demographic genocide. Chinas government denies the allegation. Alexi obrien reports. Alexi she says she will never forget the day chinese authorities told her her third child was illegal. She says she was threatened, told to pay a fine of more than 2500 or she would be locked up in an internment camp. They give shots and remove fetuses forcefully. If they say it is illegal, that make you an abortion. Those who do not are sent to the camps. Now people are terrified of giving birth. Alexi the Associated Press investigation is based on government statistics, documents and interviews with women who say they knew people jailed for having too many children. Many received a prison sentence of years, even decades. Government efforts to reduce birthrates are both systematic and ruthless. Forcedtalking the insertion of contraceptive devices. We are talking threats of internment for those who violate Birth Control policies. Alexi the brutal crackdown is part of government efforts to control the uyghur people, many of whom are muslim, to purge them of their faith and identity. The investigation found the government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Birth Control in the province, the northwest china. Birthrates decreased by about 24 last year compared with 4 nationwide. Ey want to eliminate us but they cant kill all of us. It is not possible because the world is watching so they are doing it stepbystep with policies like sterilization, imprisonment or separating men and women and making them work as forced laborers. Alexi china says s the camps ae for reeducation, part of what it calls a struggle against terrorism. Rights groups accused beijing of locking up more than one Million People to brainwash and punish them. Those not attained are spied on. She says her neighborhood felt like an open air prison. She tells how she was forcibly sterilized, along with about 200 other uyghur women. Body,lost a part of our we lost our identity as women. We will never be able to have children again. Alexi some women say they have been left with longterm injuries. A bitter reminder of everything theyve lost. Alexi obrien, al jazeera. Barbara two ferries have collided in the bangladeshi capital, killing 32 people. One ferry capsized when it was struck by a larger boat which then left the area. Three children were among the dead. We have a report from the scene of the accident. Reporter anger and despair on the banks of the river. As relatives wait for news, rescuers search the murky waters hoping for survivors, but finding many bodies instead. He is my younger brother. Every day he comes, but today this has happened. I want to see his body. Collided two ferries during the morning rushhour. Making it from the largest riverboat outside the capital. The ship capsized after it was hit. Around 30 people who were on top of the ship swim and by the help of the surrounding boats, managed to get onto the bank. However, people inside the ship could not get out and drowned. The river carries people and goods up and down the hundreds of waterways which crisscross the country. This is the largest passenger Ferry Terminal in bangladesh. The accident happened on the south bank of the passenger terminal. Now the coast guard personnel told al jazeera that the rescue operation will continue until it is salvaged. Accidents are frequently blamed on poor weather or overcrowding. This accident is very heartbreaking. We will investigate the people responsible and arrange for a punishment so this kind of thing never happens again. Reporter but critics say while investigations are often promised, corruption or the lack of manpower means degrees are rarely completed. This morning, relatives may not get the answers they are looking for. At least nine people were killed when gunmen armed with grenades stormed pakistans Stock Exchange. The four attackers who were among the dead rated the building in an attempt to take hostages. Separatists from the Southwest Province have claimed response ability. Police helicopter hovers above the gunbattle in pakistans Stock Exchange. It is surrounded by a thick wall and heavily guarded. At, the attackers detonated grenade as they entered the ground. They were unable to get into the main building. Security forces quickly reached the scene and fought the attackers, killing all four of them. The Stock Exchange director. Despite the gunbattle outside, brokers huddled it together inside and trading continued. The terrorists were killed at the main gate. The others were killed at the south gate. The four terrorist were killed at the main entrance gate of the building. The Law Enforcement agencies cleared in combating this attack. He Stock Exchange with dozens of hand grenades and ammunition found at the scene, the heavily Armed Security forces believe they stopped the attackers from of lifting more damage at the largest talk exchange in pakistan. They started collecting evidence at the scene and have searched the car used by the gunmen. 23 peoplet least have been killed under attack in a crowded market in southern afghanistan. Hundreds of people were at the market when multiple explosions tore through the site. The taliban and Afghan Military are blaming each other for the attack. The military says the taliban used a car bomb and mortar shells to target civilians, while the taliban says the army fired rockets into the market. Dozens of people were wounded in the attack. More than one Million People have fled their homes and at least two people have died in heavy flooding triggered by a monsoon rain in northeast india. The crisis is worsening by the hour. The floods began during the weekend when one of the Worlds Largest rivers burst its banks. More than 2000 villages have been submerged by water with more rain forecast over the next three days. The france favorite to win the french presidency three years ago but that a fake job scandal involving his wife blew the election wide open, paving the way for macrons victory. Now the former Prime Minister has been found guilty of fraud and sentenced to five years in prison. Natosha butler reports from paris. Natosha former french Prime Minister arrived in court in paris with his wife pennetta pleat for the verdict in the trial. Judge found him guilty of fraud and misusing public money when he was an mp, paying his wife for a job she never did. He was sentenced to five years in prison, with resuspended. His wife received a three year suspended term. Their lawyer called the verdict a disgrace. Naturally, this decision which is unfair to be appealed. We are in the process of doing so and there will be another trial. Natosha the Corruption Scandal surfaced during frances 2017 president ial race. The conservative candidate was widely expected to win when a french newspaper alleged it paid its wife more than 1 million in taxpayers money as a parliamentary assistant. The couple were placed under investigation. The campaign was destroyed along with his political career. The trial was closely watched by many people in france not only because he such a wellknown public figure, but also because politicians often abuse their privileges that are so rarely held accountable. Iny people express would not say happiness, but find that justice was done. Showed that is what has the french people because not only they took a lot of money but he took it for his family. That is something which is very, very shocking for so many people because many french people see that their own family have problems. Natosha during his trial, he said he was convicted of a political smear campaign. A theory that was both earlier this month when president macron ordered an inquiry into his investigation after claims magistrates have been put under pressure to fasttrack it. That has had no impact on the courts decision to punish him. A politician who for decades projected an image of propriety. Natosha butler, al jazeera, paris. Barbara macron has promised to spend more than 16 billion on measures to help tackle the climate crisis. The french president made the announcement a day after the green party made major gains in local elections, something his party failed to do. He says he also plans to hold a referendum on whether to introduce the eco side for harming the environment. The south pole, consider to be the coldest point on earth, is getting hotter at three times the Global Warming rate. Researchers compare temperatures over the past three decades. There watching the continent, concerned that ice walls will lead to higher sea levels worldwide. Some of the heating is believed to be due to cyclones propelling tropical western pacific water south towards the antarctic peninsula. The rest is being credited to humaninduced climate change. Returning to the coronavirus pandemic, and thousands of foreign food pickers are in limbo in chile because their savings are gone and the Virus Outbreak means borders are closed. Many are from bolivia does not have full diplomatic ties with its neighbor because of a longrunning territorial dispute. In the third part of our series on people stranded by the pandemic, our latin american editor reports from santiago. Traveled some have thousands of kilometers from southern chile to get to this school in santiago. A refuge for stranded bolivians. Here, they are given a mattress and blankets. A classroom where they join the others. Most are Seasonal Workers who come to chile each year to pick fruit from october to march when summer ends. Now it is winter, it is raining and cold. Like the rest, the family has not been able to leave. Bolivia closed the borders and declared a quarantine. They did not let buses or anyone cross, not even us bolivians. Reporter for three months, they camped outside the consulate asking for help, but just like thousands of venezuelan, cuban, colombian and bolivian migrant stranded, they had to depend on charity now that their savings are gone. Food ande mattresses, a roof over our heads now, but no thanks to the bolivian government. It has abandoned us. That is what hurts the most. We were working in southern chile but they declared lockdowns there too so we had to come here. We dont know when we can go home. Reporter three women have given birth while waiting to return to bolivia. Four others are pregnant. The 300 people here have been told following dinner, no one else will be able to enter. After that, the plan is to put this full school under quarantine so that everybody whos in here can be given to you to be covid free after 14 days. They will be taken by bus to the border with bolivia but at this point theres no guarantee that authorities there will open the borders to allow these people to go back home. In the last month, they have allowed 2000 bolivian to have undergone certified quarantines to reenter, but with a number of coronavirus cases in chile, now one of the worlds highest, many countries are understandably less eager to speed up repatriations. All this while the number of people stranded here gross. Grows. There is a permanent flow of new people. We are only just beginning to see the economic effects of this pandemic on migrants and temporary workers. Reporter for many, the weight is not the worst part. It is the feeling of being trapped and the fear of not knowing if the virus might take their lives or those of family members back in bolivia before they can make it home