offered by south korea basically framing it as kind of a form of compensation for south korea's role allegedly in sparking an outbreak in north korea josh smith no doubt we'll be hearing more about this case from you thank you so much thank you. britain has imposed a 2 week quarantine on travelers arriving from spain after surgeon covered 900 cases there europe had only recently reopened most of its borders to travel nightlife in the spanish region of catalonia is shutting down once more while national authorities are introducing measures against the recent spike in infections the new restrictions are causing new disruption to the travel industry and. the u.k.'s sudden decision to take spain off a safe travel list left travelers with no time to prepare for its consequences to this through turning her environment airport were frustrated they had come on holiday with the understanding bay would not have to quarantine upon their return. i think it's pretty bad because it's just all of a sudden it's not given much time to prepare. for everyone's help on the cane and i also think everyone

offered by south korea basically framing it as kind of a form of compensation for south korea's role allegedly in sparking an outbreak in north korea josh smith no doubt we'll be hearing more about this case from you thank you so much a small research lab in southwestern nigeria is working hard to develop new solutions to tackle the krona virus and prepared to battle future epidemics it could soon turn into one of africa's largest to nomi research centers its founder supports young african scientists and wants to strengthen local research his efforts are already paying all. the fever and that of the corona virus this research lab in edges southwestern nigeria has been at the forefront in the fight against killer diseases these scientists were the 1st to establish the genetic profile of the new corona virus in africa when the 1st case showed up in lagos the force behind this place this professor christian happy raised in cameroon he studied molecular biology at harvard then he returned to africa to set up a lab. this year every mind at his research center has been focused on covert 19

offered by south korea basically framing it as kind of a form of compensation for south korea's role of allegedly and sparking an outbreak in north korea josh smith no doubt we'll be hearing more about this case from you thank you so much. britain has imposed a 2 week quarantine on travelers arriving from spain after a surgeon covered 1000 cases there europe had only recently reopened most of its borders to travel nightlife in the spanish region of catalonia is shutting down once more while national authorities are introducing measures against the recent spike in infections the new restrictions are causing disruption to the travel industry and to tour. the u.k.'s sudden decision to take spain off a safe travel list left travelers with a night time to prepare for its consequences 2 ists returning home environment broods as an airport were frustrated they had come on holiday with the understanding bay would not have to quarantine upon their return. i think it's pretty bad because it's just all of a sudden it's not given much time to prepare. for everyone's help on the king and i also t

korea is in a pretty good place right now they are dropping restrictions for example south korea is one of the countries on that list in europe where you can now travel to the problem is of course getting back here into south korea having to face 2 weeks of quarantine most people here in south korea only get 2 weeks holiday so if your choice is spending that time in quarantine or spending it on the beach then it's a bit of a no brainer ok rob many things robin brought our correspondent reporting live from the beach in tucson. egypt plans to hold the 1st election for its recently revived senate next month 2 thirds of senators will be chosen by the public and the president will appoint the rest of the $300.00 member chamber was dropped from egypt's constitution and 2014 it was brought back under amendments approved in a referendum last year those constitutional changes also a load of bill fattah el-sisi to stay in power until 2030 stuffer is the founder and chairman of the british arab network he says the political situation in egypt does not fit with the selection. if you've got 7000

offered by south korea basically framing it as kind of a form of compensation for south korea's role allegedly in sparking an outbreak in north korea josh smith no doubt we'll be hearing more about this case from you thank you so much thank you. britain has imposed quarantine on travelers arriving from spain after a surge in covert 1000 cases there europe had only recently reopened most of its borders to travel nightlife in the spanish region of catalonia is shutting down once more well national authorities are introducing measures against the recent spike in infections the new restrictions are causing renewed disruption to the travel industry and. the u.k.'s sudden decision to take spain off a safe travel list left travelers with no time to prepare for its consequences 2 is to returning home environment breeds barajas an airport were frustrated they had come on holiday with the understanding they would not have to quarantine upon their return. i think it's pretty bad because it's just all of a sudden it's not given much time to prepare. for everyone so i'll probably came and i also

offered by south korea basically framing it as kind of a form of compensation for south korea's role allegedly and sparking an outbreak in north korea. well one of the keys to stopping the spread of the current virus is early detection and isolation of carriers of the disease but before symptoms of here there's no way of knowing if someone's infected it just by looking at the problem that might soon be solved with the help of some super sensitive noses. can these canines help detect coded 19. or 20 german army program in to achieve the service dogs working with dedicated trainers and the head over university of veterinary medicine cannot sniff out the virus itself but they are able to detect biochemical changes in body fluids caused by the virus in tests the dogs were successful in detecting those changes 94 percent of the time. they were trained with a rewards based system. the dogs get tricks if they identify saliva affected by the virus and no treats for sniffing out healthy saliva. promising as these initial results are there's still a long way to go. i want to make clear here th

offered by south korea basically framing it as kind of a form of compensation for south korea's role allegedly and sparking an outbreak in north korea. i was reuters journalist and josh smith in seoul well germany is renowned for its sense of public order so much so that towns and cities have a public order department to ensure that all the rules of daily life are followed a berliner can be another story it's known for its wild nightlife and while officials often turn a blind eye to excesses that's not always possible with the coronavirus surging again. are you all from the same household no one and a half metres apart please otherwise we'll take all of your personal details and issue a citation so if no one is listening i'll start taking down names. 10 pm at one of berlin's busiest squares public order and police officers are on patrol they know where to look. so look at this here yeah we have a different situation i'm wondering if we should go in and ask some questions. is a public order officer in berlin she counts 69 people inside this bar and many other violations. as if when i

offered by south korea basically framing it as kind of a form of compensation for south korea's role allegedly and sparking an outbreak in north korea. that was josh smith in seoul and that was your news update at this hour don't forget you can always get the latest on our web site to do that in your dot com or follow us on twitter or instagram at state of the news and by richardson in berlin thanks for watching. today don't miss our highlights. program online d.w. dark heart large. piece for me. is for you. as for health. he told her. he took his 1st.

in slaves sexually during the japanese colonial period here in south korea he's also was was head of south korea's largest n.g.o.s for several years and let's remember he said 3 term mayor he was reelected twice and he's also been put forward as a strong candidate for the presidency of south korea will be a presidential election in 2022 so what does this controversy the controversy around him and his this tell us about south korea today. well if we assume that. charges or allegations against him have some substance it's questionable whether south korea is really come that far. the mayor of tucson resigned earlier this year amid sexual assault allegations a governor in south korea year and a half ago was given a 3 and a half year sentence for rape and sexual assault of his former secretary and the big news today there was this afternoon when representatives of the former secretary came forward and said that they wanted to see you know her protected by the law and she initially wanted to see an apology from the mayor and even express some remorse she had allegedly been abused by the ma

by 10 years south korea's 1st female president was impeached 3 years ago following huge protests and convicted of bribery embezzlement and abuse of power our correspondent robert bryant has more from seoul is this all dates back of course to park your own haze disgraced time in office you remember it became mired in this corruption scandal in 2016 as she was forced out of office early 2017 impeached and then prosecuted through the courts found guilty on a whole range of charges of bribery extortion abuse of power and in the original sentencing she was given a very hefty 32 years total for all of these offenses now last year the supreme court here in south korea sent this back to the high court saying it wasn't happy with the way sentencing are being carried out and there was an expectation that she could have faced actually more prison time in fact the prosecution was asking for it to be increased to 35 years well the opposite seems to have happened with the this court and now reducing the total time that she is been sentenced to for all the charges although her sent crimes in office

not iran is asking south korea to release billions of dollars it owes for oil exports in transactions dating back several years speaking to his ear at the foreign ministry spokesman said iran is currently negotiating with south korea on getting the money back as bring in our correspondent in tehran. tell us more about what the foreign ministry spokesman told you and why the south koreans are holding on to this iranian money. but all this goes back to before we went before the united states pulled out that 2015 nuclear deal no nuclear deal was supposed to curb iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief not the donald trump administration that don't trump pulled the u.s. out of the deal in 2018 and impose sanctions against iran but before that happened several. countries were still trading with iran south korea was one of them and they purchased iranian oil to the tune of around $7000000000.00 but there's one problem they haven't paid now iran says that's because in the u.s. pressure specifically saying that given to us boiling now we spoke to foreign ministry spokesman abb

if you rules as has been held for the mayor of south korea's capital seoul amid controversy well that half a 1000000 people signed an online petition opposing the publicly funded ceremony which was also streamed online one suit was found dead on a mountainside on friday and the parents suicides that was days after his former secretary far the criminal complaint against him that was reported to involve sexual harassment as mayor of seoul park was on a south korea's most powerful political figures. of more on that let's cross to seoul and our correspondent frank smith frank why is this funeral so controversial well it's going to be a 5 day funeral a 5 day memorial service for the former deceased mayor now there is that online petition that you mentioned also another conservative group tried to have an injunction put in place to prevent this 5 day funeral from taking place it's a soul city fuel in the position suggested and conservatives have suggested that it would be more appropriate given the nature of his death and the allegations against him that there be a much more subdued 3 days

career put them through a lengthy review was it time for south korea to keep it here and say well ok you're making the offer decades are going on here knows the time that we settle this what was wrong with it as far as south korea is concerned. yes or no administration the current south korean administration practically deal that was made under the past ministration they do not think that it was sincere enough apology and comfort women themselves the survivors today do not think they did not want money they said that what they want is not money they want to have legal responsibility and they say that i'm not telling the last about just that they will not be satisfied with any kind of agreement that the government's signed. gabriela but no accrued of make of the time to be with us today much appreciated see again sort of a good day. here thank you and thank you for being with us too i can tell you that's the way things are looking so far for the use of this are we keeping a fully covered of course throughout the day our various studios and great anchors i have to say that we'll be kee

claim defected to south korea 3 years ago and just now returned to north korea what are we to make of that. it is somewhat interesting scenario on several levels south korean authorities here say that they're still. figuring out whether that story is credible but they have said there's actually a good chance that someone didn't turn to north korea recently at the same time it's unclear whether that person actually had covert of any type and so it's something that we'll never know the actual details of that in the past north korea has sometimes mixed a bit of facts and. facts and fiction together and that may be the case that we're looking at here. in seoul thank you. britain has imposed a 2 week orange teen on travelers arriving from spain after a surgeon covert 900 cases then europe had only recently reopened most of its borders to travel nightlife in the spanish region of catalonia is shutting down once more while national authorities are introducing measures against the recent spike in infections as well the new restrictions are causing renewed disruption to the travel industry to

by 10 years south korea's 1st female president was impeached 3 years ago following huge protests and conviction of bribery embarrassment and abuse of power. and has more and in the original sentencing she was given a very hefty 32 years total for all of these offenses now last year the supreme court here in south korea sent this back to the high court saying it wasn't happy with the way sentencing are being carried out and there was an expectation that she could have faced actually more prison time in fact the prosecution was asking for it to be increased to 35 years well the opposite seems to have happened with the this court and now reducing the total time that she is been sentenced to for all the charges although has sent crimes in office to 22 years the most populous state in india will be put into a weekend long down from friday evening at the pradesh reported more than 1200 new cases on thursday india recorded more than 26000 new infections in the past day that's a record high voting is underway in singapore's general election with strict health measures in place the prime mini

claimed defected to south korea 3 years ago and just now returned to north korea what are we to make of. it is somewhat interesting scenario on several levels south korean authorities here say that they're still. figuring out whether that story does credible but they have said there's actually a good chance that someone didn't return to north korea recently at the same time it's unclear whether that person actually had covert of any type and so it's something that we'll never know the actual details of that in the past north korea has sometimes mixed a bit of facts and. fact and fiction together and that may be the case that we're looking at here. in seoul thank you. britain has imposed a 2 week 14 on travelers arriving from spain after a surge in covert 19 cases that europe had only recently reopened most of its borders to travel nightlife in the spanish region of catalonia is shutting down once more while national authorities are introducing measures against the recent spike in infections as well the new restrictions are causing disruption to the travel industry and to tourists for

ago for attending illegally last week south korea says it's 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 china's 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 week's 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 i've lost sort of. almost all of size stock died in just a few days he lost more than a year's 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 city's 11000000 residents flooding purses a new

by south korea basically framing it as kind of a form of compensation for south korea's role allegedly in sparking an outbreak in north korea. i was josh smith in saul well one of the keys to stopping the spread of the corona virus is early detection and isolation of carriers of the disease but before symptoms of here there's no way of knowing if someone's in fact is just by looking at them the problem that might soon be solved with the help of some super sensitive know says. can these canines help detect coded 19 yeah that's what a german army program in to achieve the service dogs working with dedicated trainers and the head over university of medicine cannot sniff out the virus itself but they are able to detect biochemical changes in body fluids caused by the virus in tests the dogs were successful in detecting those changes 94 percent of the time . they were trained with a rewards based system. the dogs get tricked if they identify saliva affected by the virus and no treats for sniffing out healthy saliva. promising as these initial results are there's still a long way to go. of a

by south korea basically framing it as kind of a form of compensation for south korea's role allegedly in sparking an outbreak in north korea. a small research lab in southwestern nigeria is working hard to develop new solutions to tackle the corona virus and to prepare to battle future epidemics it could soon turn into one of africa's largest anomic research centers its founder supports young african scientists and wants to strengthen local research is the efforts are already paying off. the fever and that of the coronavirus based research lab in edges southwestern nigeria has been at the forefront in the fight against killer diseases these scientists were the 1st to establish the genetic profile of the new corona virus in africa when the 1st case showed up in lagos the force behind this place is professor christian happy raised in cameroon he studied molecular biology at harvard then he returned to africa to set up a lab. this year every mind his research center has been focused on coded 19. the way. he says it isn't the 1st covert 19 virus in africa and it's locked in for ca's hours

case was a defector who fled to south korea years ago before returning illegally last week south korea is investigating. against the israeli prime minister to confrontations with the police in west jerusalem water cannons to disperse crowds near his residence demonstrators are calling for his resignation. over his handling of the pandemic and his corruption trial. has been named in his years new prime minister the former interior minister has a month to form a government a confidence vote in parliament if he fails new elections will be called the last prime minister. resigned earlier this month he came under scrutiny for a conflict of interest within his personal business dealings you are right up to speed with all the top stories 30 minutes of world news in 30 minutes between now and then it's inside story. time in the recent history saudi arabia. visit is from. continues to disrupt people's lives this decision and big impact on the saudi economy. 2020. this involved way cracking down on dissent a prominent journalist whose expose corruption is arrested the government says he's inciti

host: 100,000 square kilometers -- that's roughly the surface area of south korea. and it can be a useful comparison when considering the devastation experienced during australia's harrowing summer. at least 100,000 square kilometers of australia -- so, the size of south korea -- were destroyed during the last forest fire season. all states were affected. in p particular, new south wals and victoria in the southeastern part of t the country.y. the fires peaked in december and early january, by which time many were out of control. a total of 33 people died, and, sasaestimates,s, around a bibin mamammals, birds, anand repti. entire harvests were destroyed. and then came the coronavirus. how are peoplele there doingng? robertrt: so this s is a small b batch or the remainders of a small batch of pinot noir. reporter: inececembe 2019,9,obert coleman's vineneyard came clce to b being destroyoyed by a bushfire. the flameses were just 1 100 ms fromom his vines. the grapapes survived, b but e badly afaffected by smsmoke ta. robert: didisgusting. rerepoe: cocoleman's vineneya

claim defected to south korea 3 years ago and just now returned to north korea what are we to make of that. it is somewhat interesting scenario on several levels south korean authorities here say that they're still. figuring out whether that story is credible but they have said there's actually a good chance that someone didn't turn to north korea recently at the same time it's unclear whether that person actually had cohered of any type and so it's something that we'll never know the actual details of that in the past north korea has sometimes mixed a bit of facts and. facts and fiction together and that may be the case that we're looking at here. in seoul thank you. ferkin has imposed a 2 weeks' quarantine on travelers arriving from spain after a surge in covert 900 cases that europe had only recently reopened most of its borders to travel nightlife in the spanish region of catalonia shutting down once more while national authorities are introducing measures against the recent spike and infections the new restrictions are causing renewed district disruption to the travel industry an

legally from south korea. for more on that story i'm not joined by just smithies a reuters correspondent in seoul in south korea if can fund this will be the 1st case officially acknowledged by north korean authorities how credible is that there has been a lot of suspicion cast on north korea's claims to have no confirmed cases so far not least because information is so difficult to get out of north korea in any kind of independent fashion obviously there's a lot of control on any kind of media access and even international institutions like the w. h. o. have only had relied on numbers given to them by the north korean government and so while it's been a lot of suspicions that there is some kind of outbreak there we also have no confirmation that there has been any kind of outbreak and in recent weeks north korea had actually sums shown signs of lifting some of the restrictions that it imposed there and so at this point it's really unclear and as you said this would be the 1st confirmation and so that's someth

if the media reports are true, it will have a severe impact on japan/south korea ties. >> suga added the government will continue to demand that south korea steadily implement a 2015 bilateral agreement that the issue of comfort women has been finally and irreversibly resolved. >>> tensions between the united states and iran may heat up again after iran reportedly moved a mockup of a u.s. aircraft carrier to the straight of who muse likely for target practice. media outlets including the associated press reported it was moved from band har abbas to the strategic shipping channel through which 20% of the world's oil passes. they cited satellite imagery taken on sunday. the fake carrier is about 200 meters long and 50 meters wide. it carries 16 momockups of fighr jets. there's been no official word from tehran about the development. in 2015 iran conducted a military exercise involving a similar vessel being destroyed by missiles. relations between iran and the u.s. have been strained since washington withdrew from a nuclear agreement in 2018 and reimposed the punishing economic sanctio

korea years ago before returning illegally last week south korea says it's investigating sarah clarke is following that story from hong kong she says it's unclear whether the patient was tested for corona virus. well this person who defected 3 years ago to south korea the return date back to north korea was on july 19th and he suspected or he or she is suspected of having covert 19 other reports don't indicate if he or she has had the official coronavirus test and said that the suggestion is that there's been several medical checkups showing respect symptoms that are linked to ward a similar to those that you have with the crowd a virus that if confirmed as you mentioned this would be the 1st case officially acknowledged by north korea and i can join on has had the emergency meeting has declared a state of emergency also that border city of case one has been put into a lockdown as it was got as a result he's described it as a critical situation a report released by the state run media says it's a dangerous situation in case some that may lead to a deadly and destructive disaster now n

troop strength in south korea. the seoul said no discussions on the matter took place during the phone call, nor has it been discussed in the past. >>> international fallout from china passing the new hong kong national security law continues. the british government says it's suspending an expedition treaty with its former colony and it will take immediate effect. >> we would not consider reactivating those arrangements unless and until there are clear and robust safeguards which are able to prevent expedition from it being misused under the new national security legislation. >> australia and canada have already taken similar steps. the u.k. announcement floegs the decision to remove products made by chinese telecon msk ha way from his 5g networks by 2027. the government is also working on giving people in hong kong who have a british national ovoverseas passport a path to st ship. china is criticizing the moves and urged the uk to avoid further damaging bilateral relations. >> translator: britain's measures on hon

heezy yang in south korea. you are watching coronavirus: your stories. i'm philippa thomas and we are looking this week at virus and prejudice. next, a young photographer in new york city sees a rise in abuse directed at asian—american basis. so i was waiting in line to enter a grocery store a day after the shelter—in—place order was officially announced here in new york city, and there were clear signs for social distancing but the man behind me was hovering right behind me so close to the point where i could almost feel his breath, and he didn't have a mask on. i politely asked him for some space to which he responded, "what did you say to me, chink?" and proceeded to cut in front of me. at this point, i was already anticipating an increase in hate crimes against asian—americans since trump had made his first reference to a chinese virus about four days prior to my incident but i wanted to believe my experience was kind of an isolated incident since i live in such a racially and culturally diverse city like new york city. so haruka, that happen

but north and south korea are technically still at war. according to south korean media reports this was the 1st time that victory day had been celebrated with a military parade since 1903 with thousands of soldiers marching past and driving by in tanks. gasoline. vehicles with loudspeakers had been driving through the city all week. even days later the continuous racket took some getting used to north korea's armed forces were. that. night we were always alone in the bus because we had booked in individual trips because that means we had the whole tour bus to ourselves apart from our omnipresent minders anything to. north korea get support from the world hunger relief organization have you heard that there is a true. shoal of nearly all developing countries getting help. but i don't really know a lot of them he doesn't play such a bleak role looking at the fleet because i don't know where world hunger aid actually operates from. i don't know where the whole people live off. at least a few months he didn't mean you don't see them now no. w

illegally last week south korea says it's investigating sarah clarke is following that story out of hong kong she says it is unclear whether the patient was tested for corona virus well this person who defected 3 years ago to south korea the return date back to north korea was on july 19th and he suspected or he or she is suspected of having covert 19 other reports indicate if he or she has had the official coronavirus test and said that the suggestion is that there's been several medical checkups showing respect for the symptoms that are linked to or a similar to those that you have with the crowd a virus that if confirmed as you mentioned this would be the 1st case officially acknowledged by north korea kim jong un has had the emergency meeting has declared a state of emergency also that border city of k song has been put into a lockdown as it was got as a result he's described it as a critical situation a report released by the state run media says it's a dangerous situation in case some that may lead to a deadly and destructive disaster now north korea has received thousands of

host: 100,000 square kilometers -- that's roughly the surface area of south korea. and it can be a useful comparison when considering the devastation experienced during australia's harrowing summer. at least 100,000 square kilometers of australia -- so, the size of south korea -- were destroyed during the last forest fire season. all states were affected. in pararticular, new south wals and victoria in the southeastern part of thehe country. the fires peaked in december and early january, by which time many were out of control. a total of 33 people died, and, say estimates, a around a billn mammmmals, birds, and d repti. entire harvests were destroyed. and then came the coronavirus. how are people t there doing?? robert:: so this isis a small batatch or the remainders of a small batch of pinot noir. reporter: in demember,019, r rert coleman's vineyayard came cloe to beieing destroyeded by a bubushfire. the flames w were just 10000 ms from h his vines. the grapeses survived, butut e badly affefected by smokoke ta. robert: disgsgusting. repopor: coleleman's vineyayard

south korea's former president. has had her 32 year prison sentence for corruption reduced by 10 years south korea's 1st female president was impeached 3 years ago following widespread protests and convictions of bribery investment and abuse of power. the most popular state in india is to be put into a weekend lockdown from friday evening but the pradesh has reported a jump in corona virus infections india now has nearly 800000 cases. philippine politicians a voted against renewing the license of the country. largest television network effectively taking it off air permanently the move affirms an earlier government order to shut down the a.b.s. the b.n. corporation the government accuses the network of violating its previous license and using tax avoidance schemes critics say the closure is a major blow to press freedom in the philippines voting is underway in singapore's general election with strict health measures in place prime minister lease a new miss party is expected to hold on to power the election comes jus

he goes down offer for there for us the next story about a statue in it botanic garden in south korea this rig knighted no result bitter war time with japan let me tell you more it shows a man kneeling in front of a girl whose symbolizes military sex slaves euphemistically called comfort women for japan's imperial colonial era nearly a century ago but what's really annoying japan about it right now is that the man looks just a little bit well you could judge for yourself like prime minister shinzo himself no stranger to said argumentive flabby with the way to japan says it is based on it was seriously and relations with south korea. does god or god deal with it and i think such a thing is unforgivable in terms of international courtesy if the reports are accurate it will have a decisive impact on japan and south korea relations. well we'll see what happens on that but the bigger issue behind this is over reparations for the so-called comfort stations in use from 1032 to the end of the 2nd world war women were lured with the offer of work only to be forced into providing sexual service

bride al-jazeera and south korea. still ahead here on al-jazeera people flock to bars as part of a relaxation of restrictions in the u.k. but it's being called risky business and we report on how residents in the philippine capital are coping that every 3 months of. how the weather stays hot and dry across the middle east no great changing conditions here still one or 2 little puffs of cloud across the far south of the arabian peninsula but not too much in the way of any wetter weather might catch a shower or 2 just around that western side of the gulf of aden maybe into yemen but elsewhere it's about the way in still quite a brisk wind driving out of iraq the wind continues to drive its way down to us here in qatar but the winds in the process of easing says shouldn't feel too dusty as we go on through the next couple days temperatures here around 45 celsius kuwait could well touch 50 degrees and the sunshine extends further north up towards the black sea the eastern side of the med sunshine and showers meanwhile acr

they also share a border with south korea. which in the early days of the pandemic was the worst hit, apart from china, around the world for some days and weeks. so clearly they do border two countries which were very heavily hit and impacted by this. now, they were able to shut down the borders in a way that very few countries, in fact, i don't think any other country around the world is able to do, to make sure people weren't coming in and out. diplomatic sources told me they believed in pyongyang, at least, that they had confidence that they had a control of the virus. but, of course, they knew very little of outside pyongyang itself. outside the capital, what was happening in the other cities, what was happening in the rural areas. they pointed out people were wearing masks, they were having some degree of social distancing, but as of may time, schools have gone back and pyongyang was running fairly as it was normally. so it is very difficult to know exactly how bad the situation is. the w.h.o., world heath organization re

korea south korea used location data which is incredibly intrusive you know if you basically were revealed to the public every place you went in the course of the day you're really really revealing a huge parts about your private life and indeed we saw that you know south korea would publicize you so once i was in this location and you know secret liaisons would be revealed to them like it was actually quite horrible the debate has now completely moved away from location data the reason we're talking about this bluetooth technology is because the public so checks the use of location data. so privacy is one issue but we also have around the world people struggling to get just the basics fleeing their homes perhaps because of violence persecution hunger we have the situation for refugees around the world and the united nations says the following the core principles of refugee protection are being put to a test and it states the following statistics that 167 countries have so far fully or partially closed their borders can to contain the spread of the virus and at least 57 states are making n

do you know what the number was in south korea? it was five. what in the us was 264 in south korea was 5, 5.03 to be precise. what is the difference? the difference is their response from the beginning was -- followed the science and did contract tracing and isolation and all the steps that he eventually ended up doing, they are right from the start. they did things like that. the number is not as good as in south korea, 95 deaths per million, germany has a population of 83 million people. they responded and follow the science. >> we have time for one more question. i'm going to take sydney's question. sydney asks what would be your answer to someone who doesn't agree with the consensus on global warming which i know you talked about some. for the people in our own lives, not just global warming but not keen to look to science as part of culture or decision-making. how would you respond to people in our own life like that? >> what can i say? i show those graphs. this is totally nonpartisan. those graphs speak to themselves. we see that - i'm no

south korea has never really locked down in the same way other countries have. the trace, test and treat method of controlling the coronavirus pandemic has been widely praised, and case numbers remain relatively low. even so, the country is still battling persistent outbreaks, triggering even tighter social distancing measures. some augmented reality technology is already available via phone apps, and there's no guarantee once you've taken the products home that you'll fall in love with the real experience. but south korea's innovative technological solutions do give an insight into how the future shopping experience might look in the age of covid—i9. reged ahmad, bbc news. two divers in mexico have found evidence of prehistoric mining from 11,000 years ago in a cave deep beneath the yucatan peninsula. to get into the cave, divers had to squeeze through a gap of seventy centimetres. they found navigational markers, digging tools and fire pits. you can reach me on twitter, i'm @lvaughanjones. i'm lewis vaughan—jones, this is bbc news. hello there. there's no

korea south korea used location data which is incredibly intrusive you know if you basically will reveal to the public every place you went in the course of the day you're really really revealing huge parts about your private life and if you saw that you know south korea would publicize you so once i was in this location and you know secretly exams would be revealed and like it was actually quite horrible the debate is now completely moved away from location data the reason we're talking about this bluetooth technology is because the public so checks the use of location data. so privacy is one issue but we also have around the world people struggling to get just the basics fleeing their homes perhaps because of violence persecution hunger we have the situation for refugees around the world and the united nations says the following the core principles of refugee protection are being put to a test and it states the following statistics that 167 countries have so far fully or partially closed their borders continue to contain the spread of the virus and at least 57 states are making no exce

but north and south korea are technically still at war. according to south korean media reports this was the 1st time that victory day had been celebrated with a military parade since 1903 with thousands of soldiers marching past and driving by in tanks. gasoline. vehicles with loudspeakers had been driving through the city all week. even days later. took some getting used to north korea's armed forces were on the present. that. night we were always alone in the bus because we had booked in individual trips because that means we had the whole tour bus to ourselves apart from our on the present minders leith. north korea get support from the world hunger relief organization have you heard that is a true. shoal. nearly all developing countries getting help. but i don't really know the launch system he doesn't play such a big role model the 6th fleet. i don't know where world hunger aid actually operates from. i don't know where the whole people live off. the. mean you don't see them now no. we soon realised that conversations of this kind we

korea with a fund to compensate victims but it didn't go far enough for many in south korea and that deal to almost fell apart campaigners say there's still therefore a lot of unfinished business here. we will never have peace and asia until japan brings this chapter chokeholds and finally unconditionally make an apology through its legislative body with just a high the sculptor also says that she named the sculptor eternal at home and it could be mr abu it could be any man it could even be the survival of our most ugly need to do there instead of trying to change our memore knows his shit stand up. like a man and on the word dependent and her age isis and bring justice and. culture to the survivors and the victims of this horrendous history. outdoor diners of france are going to have to start wrapping up from next year the countries buying those comfy terrace eaters to meet emissions targets roof sending a chill through business owners though say it's going to put off customers when they're needed more than ever of the covert ensuring covert. reports from perth. is it famed for its

a funeral service has been held for the mayor of south korea's capital seoul amidst controversy more than half a 1000000 people signed an online petition opposing publicly funded ceremonies for the man which was also streamlined streamed online park one soon was found dead on a mountainside friday an apparent suicide that was days after his former secretary filed a criminal complaint against him it was reported to involve sexual harassment charges as mayor of seoul park was one of south korea's most powerful political leaders. earlier i asked correspondent frank smith in seoul why this funeral became so controversial so quickly there was debate whether it should be a 3 day sort of more family oriented mourning period in funeral or a 5 day city civil city sponsored funeral there was actually as well as a petition online there was a court injunction saw a conservative group that was put down by a judge earlier today or or yesterday centered on that controversy are the allegations that you mention that reports and rumors suggest now involve some some in inappropriate touching as well as

south korea has never really locked down in the same way other countries have. the trace, test and treat method of controlling the coronavirus pandemic has been widely praised, and case numbers remain relatively low. even so, the country is still battling persistent outbreaks, triggering even tighter social distancing measures. some augmented reality technology is already available via phone apps, and there's no guarantee once you've taken the products home that you'll fall in love with the real experience. but south korea's innovative technological solutions do give an insight into how the future shopping experience might look in the age of covid—19. reged ahmad, bbc news. that's it from me. i will be back with the headlines in just a couple of minutes. you can reach me on twitter, i'm @lvaughanjones. i'm lewis vaughan—jones and this is bbc news. goodbye. hello there. there's no sign of our weather settling down any time soon. and this weekend it stays certainly unsettled with cloud and rain on the way and there will be some strong winds as well, particular

but north and south korea are technically still at war. according to south korean media reports this was the 1st time that victory day had been celebrated with a military parade since 1903 with thousands of soldiers marching past and driving by in tanks. horribly of gasoline. vehicles with loudspeakers had been driving through the city all week. even days later the continuous racket took some getting used to north korea's armed forces were. ah. that a. night we were always alone in the bus because we had booked in individual trips because that means we had the whole tour bus to ourselves apart from our on the present minders lethal. to north korea get support from the world hunger relief organization have you heard that is a true. schol. nearly all developing countries getting help. but i don't really know a lot of it doesn't play such a bleak role looking to sleep because i don't know where world hunger aid actually operates from. i don't know where the whole people live on. nothing. at least a few months he didn't mean you don't see them

heezy yang in south korea. you are watching coronavirus: your stories. i'm philippa thomas and we are looking this week at virus and prejudice. next, a young photographer in new york city sees a rise in abuse directed at asian—american basis. —— a rise in abuse directed at asian—american faces. so i was waiting in line to enter a grocery store a day after the shelter—in—place order was officially announced here in new york city, and there were clear signs for social distancing but the man behind me was hovering right behind me so close to the point where i could almost i politely asked him for some space to which he responded, "what did you say to me, bleep?" and proceeded to cut in front of me. at this point, i was already anticipating an increase in hate crimes against asian—americans since trump had made his first reference to a chinese virus about four days prior to my incident but i wanted to believe my experience was kind of an isolated incident since i live in such a racially and culturally diverse city like new york city. so haruka,

commemorations have been held in north and south korea to mark the signing of the armistice that ended the korean war 67 years ago on facilis rock mcbride reports now from seoul. brought together in remembrance representatives from the $22.00 nations led by the u.s. who came to the defense of south korea the 3 year conflict was brought to an end by a cease fire agreement but a permanent peace treaty still hasn't been signed and reaffirm our commitment to achieve a final peaceful settlement in korea as the signatories of the armistice agreement intended 67 years ago today it's 70 years since the start of the korean war and anniversary that was marked by a series of events here in south korea last month but it's the anniversary of the war's end which is up more significance in north korea which we cards it is a victory over what it claims was a foreign invasion events have been held throughout north korea to honor its veterans it's also a timely opportunity for its leader kim jong learn to reaffirm his close links with the military especially facing increased pressures from the global pa

moscow time coming up here now to international the solar star she would south korea the testing target in tokyo while you will a memorial marking japan's dark past is reviving a decades old dispute tickly the prime minister taking it personally you reveal all about. we go to work soon straight home. so every crisis in america has been packaged as a bond and sold into the junk bond market with a longer maturity at a slightly lower coupon and they've been doing this now for 40 years to the point where america's indebtedness says then they engineered to the point of an extinction event as have many countries as the glow. of the new insured now for the race and police protests in the u.s. city of oregon so crowds to augusta overnight with much of the federal offices said that a try and crack down on it. test is set of professor cells on the receiving end of tig so for ignoring police loudspeaker warnings there's also concern the detained campaign is have been told and only been released if they agree to stay away from further protests as for the federal offices sent in by donald trump the

bride al-jazeera and south korea. well still ahead here on al-jazeera people flock to bars as part of a relaxation of restrictions in the united kingdom but it's being called risky business. and we report on how residents in the philippine capital are coping after nearly 3 months of lockdown. the weather remains extremely hot across central and southern parts of north america at the moment we've also seen some severe storms you can see the thunderheads in the central canada southeastern parts of the sketch one pushing down into north dakota we're seeing some very very heavy rain in the shallows never really too far from here as we go on through sunday a lot of the show is what across the great plains think the wettest weather is likely to be just around louisiana pushing across towards alabama mississippi easing over towards georgia as we go on through the next day or so quite a rash of showers having say temperatures typically up into the thirty's for many hearts are still there for fane exit around $44.00 celsius th

with south korea under total lockdown after a person was found suspected of covert $900.00 symptoms leader kim jong un called an emergency meeting on saturday if confirmed it would be the country's 1st official case north korean state media say the person suspected of having the virus crossed illegally from south korea. for more on that story i'm now joined by josh smithy's are with reuters correspondent in seoul south korea george if confirmed this would be the 1st case officially acknowledged by north korean authorities how credible is that. well as with all things north korea. to. buy anything. there is a near total downer troll based. internet actions like you would have basically rely on the government. for that claim that there has been here or. there that being said well there's a lot of. there's been no confirmation. so that's why this show and not. just i'm afraid we have to break it off right here the audio quality is unfortunately very but the polish apologized to us thank you josh. for britain has imposed a 2 week coroutine on travelers arriving from spain. in covert $900.00 pa

it's illegal in south korea as long as the bear is over 10 korea as long as ar is south over 10 years old. these bears are fed leftover donuts from the krispy kreme fact >> this farm has the mosnybears out ofarm in south korea, so we anticipated it would be in poor condition, but it's a lot worse than what we expected. >> campaigners are phing the government to provide a sanctuary for over 400 of korea's forgotten moon bears and ose down these farms. >> we need to stop this farming culture, especially in this time of coronavirus, when it's important to put distance between wildlife and humans. the smell ofhe bear dung upthat's piled underneath these cages is really overwhelming. we are told sometimes these bears ll fight one another, injure one another, and often they are just left to die. moon bears are not meant to be in cages together. they are solitary anima this is what a happy moon bear looks like. this is a twoear-old in the mountains in the national park. bear bile was once so sought after that these bears were captur extinction. to near dozens have now been reintroduced to th

suspected of having the virus cross illegally from south korea . a little earlier we asked reuters correspondent josh smith in seoul if the information coming out of north korea is in fact credible there has been a lot of suspicion cast on north korea's claims to have no complaint cases so far not least because information is so difficult to get out of north korea in any kind of independent fashion obviously there's a lot of control on any kind of media access and even international institutions like the w. h. o. have only had to rely on numbers given to them by the north korean government and so while it's been a lot of suspicions that there is some kind of outbreak there we also have no confirmation that there has been any kind of outbreak and in recent weeks north korea had actually somes some signs of lifting some of the restrictions that it imposed there and so at this point it's really unclear and as you said this would be the 1st confirmation and so that's something that's going to get a lot of attention if confirmed. britain has imposed a 2