after 2 nights of protests over a possible weekend lockdown serbia's government backtracks and says it will not happen. spiritual worshippers who normally climb japan's mount fuji this time of year have to make plans because of the coronavirus pandemic. and sporting a silent gesture that major league soccer hopes will act go throughout the world players unite against racial injustice ahead of the competition 3 start in florida . the u.n. special repertory on extra judicial killings has presented her annual report to the human rights council and is raising concerns about the growing use of armed drones photogs and killings i guess kalamata had earlier declared the u.s. drone strike in january that killed top iranian general cost them so you money illegal she said the international community faces the prospect of some countries eliminating military targets outside of what she calls no wooden walls. drawn so becoming stealthier speedier smaller more lethal and can be operated by teams look it is thousands of kilometers away and in my opinion and the opinion of all the experts i have consu

what started as kosovo's bid for independence from serbia escalated into open conflict. and was brought to an end by nato air strikes in 1909. soon after hundreds of thousands of. refugees poort into neighboring countries telling of massacres both sides were accused of war crimes 6 serbian officials were found guilty and last month the course of a president. was indicted on crimes charges. today cause of almost invisible the country declared independence in 2008 but a type of cold war continues with serbia repeatedly blocking kosovo as attempts to join the united nations the european union has spent 9 years trying to normalize relations between the 2 sides with little progress in 2018 talks stalled completely . since then angle merkel and emanuel have led countless efforts to smooth over differences and restart the dialogue recently some success the cost of a removing its 100 percent trade tariffs on serbia but in return pristina wants belgrade to finally recognize its independence if serbia does that it wants membership to the e.u. . i believe that at the end of the man

that's despite serbia recording its highest single day of covid—related deaths. paul hawkis reports. chanting. anger outside the serbian parliament in the capital, belgrade. thousands stormed the building, chanting for the president to resign after announcing the reintroduction of lockdown measures this weekend. translation: the situation in belgrade is critical, therefore we will take the following measures. after consulting with dr kon and the whole team, we decided to ban all gatherings of more than five people in public places and to impose a long curfew from friday to monday. then we'll see what to do next. pet owners, mothers with children, and pensioners will be allowed out of their homes at certain times. on tuesday night, serbia announced 13 covid—related deaths in the past 24 hours. its highest daily death toll, bringing the total number of deaths to 330 with over 16,000 cases. it went from having one of europe's strictest lockdowns at the start of the pandemic in easter to a near—complete reopening at the beginning of may. no phased reopenings here

here in serbia's capital of the lockdown is a broad.

anger in serbia over the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and curfew is now in downs. why muslims are worried about a demographic shift after thousands of people are granted residency in indian administered kashmir. and turkish troops in libya helped to clear land mines left by forces loyal to the world khalifa. and in sports event is to lose the game and their rivals to lose control lot c.-o. have a player sent off for biting as italy's top 2 teams suffer a surprise defeat. aid workers have called a move by russia and china to restrict a deliveries into syria reprehensible both countries permanent members of the u.n. security council have vetoed a resolution that would have extended cross border humanitarian aid to 3000000 syrians for a year more than 11000000 syrians need emergency aid just to survive which comes from the u.n. the country's economy education sanitation protection services and health care all crumbling under the pressures of conflict u.n. officials have made a plea to countries to help end the crisis by investing money manpower political promises $5.

being with us the accusations against toci as we heard relate to kosovo's independence war against serbia what do you think are the chances that the case will go to trial is there a strong case against. well actually you know the indictment. still remains until the judge decided on whether to open a case is secret so we don't really know in detail what's in the case but i mean this case has been pending for years and even the kates so there is a strong case for assuming that the that the very decision that the prosecutors went with the indictment to the core that they really have a strong case for trying mr touch the allegations being looked at include ones that the possible uber ation army which was fighting for independence committed war crimes just remind us of what happened during the war at and you know what international laws were violated by the kosovo liberation army led by touching. well you will might remember that for a decade in the $99.00 the coast of albany and in the violent ethnic prick up of yugoslavia ver the we come of the militia which regime there was monday kate of a

in 2008 serbia doesn't recognize it as a country. or smaller speak to do son heard she nikolaevitch live in belgrade so what are the chances of the chances of progress at these talks. well the choice of progress that is the talks in this video conference which i was able to to notice is ended for today well chosen for any progress or small because . those those negotiations or a long term deal they started in 2018 when they were they were then stalled because sort of didn't want to negotiate with the with the corso side after course of all the taxes and serbian high taxes and serbian goodson this is the 1st time the sides met there were supposed to meet a norm the 27th of june in washington. with the president donald trump of the president of course of hushing touchable supposed to meet both. president of the of course it was accused of war crimes and then that was postponed so this is the 1st meeting all through 2018 and everybody even president of france manuel mccrone who is one of the negotiators and the german chancellor angela

anger in serbia over the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak up plans curfew is now in doubt. and pulling out thousands caught in the flood waters china's war han province back on high alert. the u.n. security council is holding a virtual session to discuss the war in libya as the conflict enters a new phase the head of the session russia's foreign minister says he's in talks with his counterparts in turkey about a possible cease fire this isn't the 1st time that welcome for hof doc has considered a ceasefire it is so last month after his forces began losing their major strongholds the libyan conflicts been fueled by a number of international backers. the u.n. recognized government in tripoli has been backed by turkey will have to report from russia egypt and the u.a.e. let's go live to a diplomatic editor james bays who's at the united nations james going from the list of people that are going to be on this at this meeting we're going to have countries there that are supporting opposing sides in this conflict what is the tone going to be like when we hear the secretary

i would think talking today about you know serbia doesn't accept this as a genocide how is the fabric of genocidal politics and policies still present in the area today about how does that affect it. it's a it's a it's a very be no problem and unfortunately believe it or not about the end has to go into da we have survived and mend their experience genocide are we are the only country in the region which does not have the law which prevents general the national defense and your denial of holocaust so we are becoming some sort of you know really a zone or a country in which the extremists can to arash with their statements and the hate speech with these he speech is encouraged by their local politicians especially coming from the some of the so political parties in the in the early the ships and this has not be condemned in any way even by serbia so this is extremely difficult for the survivors and their families not only the in lost loved ones but they're also they're united the truth about the fate of the other ones there were so many theories which were developed by the deniers over

to watch al-jazeera live from london i'm dead and also ahead protesters in serbia defy lockdown again as they try to storm parliament accusing the president of for tarion as a. celebrations in turkey and certain other quarters as istanbul's historic i.s.o. fia has its status as a mosque restored. and al jazeera journalist.

strong units of police special and there is the curator of police of serbia john their merry regular police cavalry they're all at that size for the last i don't know hour or so they're having sort of small clashes some point the demonstrators would go towards the police then the police would respond to those clashes and that's the situation at this point but most of the demonstrators are now out of the series the police cleared everything everything started this afternoon at 6 pm when people started to gather around for the 2nd day in a row because of the measures that president voters wanted to impose for the following weekend so everything started that at that point for the a while hours everything was calm but then. things started to escalate and there is still a last thing everybody thought for tonight because the police were sort of patient in the 1st hour of the closures that everything will be over of much faster than it was last night because last night the closures where the police did some i don't know about 3 am it looks like that this is also going to be a long night but

and serbia's government is set to announce new coronavirus restrictions on after the president said a weekend curfew may not go ahead thousands of people protested across belgrade for a 2nd night against the government's handling of the pandemic. as a whole for scottish independence is higher than it's ever been polling is consistently suggesting well over 50 percent of scots want to be the united kingdom it's been attributed to scotland success in controlling coronavirus compared to england and the overwhelming hostility to break sets of foreign state reports from scotland bert's has been dreaming of scottish independence for as long as he can remember he regards the english establishment as imperialists who stamped all over scotland just as that is the colors the fact of the independence campaign narrowly lost the referendum 6 years ago doesn't matter to him because he believes his day will still come to the us people who are still there there's still a strong as to where the people are marching the people march and march he's in glasgow and edinburgh and all over they're still ther

the 31—year—old serbia international joined from chelsea in 2017 and is in the last year of his contract. he's made 114 appearances for united and says he "still has a lot more to give and achieve in his career". the english rugby football union are cutting a quarter of its workforce to help cope with a potential £100 million financial hole due to the pandemic. chief executive bill sweeney says the union need to "completely remodel their business" and thinks it will take up to five years for the rfu to recover. they will make 139 positions redundant. a decision is expected in the next couple fo weeks about the autumn internationals, with the home unions making contingecy plans for a six nations style tounament if those games can't take place. one of britain's most decorated female divers, alicia blagg, has been forced to retire at the age of 23. the two—time olympian, who specialises on the springboard, struggled with depression and anxiety in recent years following previous wrist problems, but now a shoulder injury means she will have to give up for good and miss the tokyo games next

leaders of serbia and kosovo have met for the 1st time in nearly 2 years the talks were held it in you headquarters in brussels with a bloc praising the 2 countries for resuming discussions which have been frozen since november 28th in serbia has refused to recognize kosovo's sovereignty since it declared independence in 20082 main rivals to the better roost president have thrown their election support behind the wife of an anti government blogger banker victoria very code was arrested last month and subsequently barred from the race because of a criminal case against him former ambassador valerie said carlo was also disqualified after his supporting petition was not a fide they're now backings for atlanta you can know your skier who is continuing her husband's political campaign as he faces up to 3 years in prison for threatening public order. still ahead this news out formula one drivers get ready for their 3rd race in as many weeks as a sport with andy. you . all. know is andy with all sports. thank you so much lauren round madrid of won the spanish league title for a record 34th ti

union hungary's foreign minister ling to do it as when 2 recent conservative victories in croatia and serbia saying the european right wing had once again beaten what he called the liberal mainstream. let's talk to voice axis of the ski he's editor in chief of the security insight is joining us on skype from warsaw thank you very much indeed for being with us to what extent was the narrowness of the margin by which due to a one a surprise no it was not a surprise we knew that the race is going to be very close all the polls the last polls that were announced before election silence on friday indicated that just asking of them not only it is not only marginal or so they've got to do that doesn't come as a surprise that much especially also that it also is also narrow and the difference between the 2 is. is it has just been. given the amount of opposition that seems to have had at least in terms of this election are we likely to see him and his party changing or modifying their their plans for the next few years. no p.a.'s government laid low in terms of its ambitions to change the country and

of the militia which regime there was monday kate of a defacto untile being an apartheid regime of serbia over across the wall that poked for us peaceful resistance that as it became more unsustainable turned into a violent resistance led by a by a that caylee and there are serious indictments that could not or serious indications that were not successful to be tried because of various problems both at the u.n. war crimes trial new tribunals and nothing costs all by the rule of law mission ulick's that the in the context of that war of course the systematic ethnic cleansing had been applied by the serbian side and serbian president milosevic indicted for this in the hague that there have been also crimes committed in kosovo on the albanian sites against costa will serve minority and partly also crimes political crimes killings of political opponents among cost of albanians. still ahead on the news hour one of malaysia's leading independent news outlets faces contempt of court proceedings will tell you why fast a close result following a better campaign 102 does presidential rain in poland

is saying long stalled talks between serbia and kosovo back on track after a video meeting between the 2 leaders kosovo's prime minister abdullah hati and the serbian president alexander which held a virtual meeting chaired by senior officials on sunday kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008 belgrade refuses to recognize it tensions of symmetry of a sins with the leaders now set and now meeting face to face in brussels on thursday. yep sins of the solution is hampering the development of the site we know that this not a new super us this has never been but that is to work to do worse peace and prosperity put to see who the government future. pope francis says that he was pained by turkey's decision to allow the ioseph a museum to become a mosque on friday of course allow the istanbul landmark which has previously been a christian church to be converted takesh president. said the 1st pres would be help there on july 24th while council of churches has called on him to reverse the decision. investigators in iran is saying that a misaligned missile battery was among the errors th

that seems to be true because even as the list lunches, it has been —— serbia has been taken off the list because ofa has been taken off the list because of a rise of infections. portugal did not come in at the start because the government was concerned by the infection rate there and a couple of outbreaks, although it is relatively small. i would expect, outbreaks, although it is relatively small. iwould expect, i outbreaks, although it is relatively small. i would expect, i would hope that portugal will be back on that list and you will be able to take that holiday to portugal in the short term, in the next couple of weeks, but unfortunately it is impossible to give a date just yet. another one that is evolving and could change. a question for felicity from matthew. concerning insurance. iam felicity from matthew. concerning insurance. i am due to go on a family holiday to spain in late august. all of the holiday insurance i have looked at is currently not covering coronavirus unless the policy was taken in advance of the pandemic. is that right? yes, so this is a real problem. lot

a lockdown after serbia sorts highest daily number of deaths from cavan 19 he's been accused of restrictions so that he could hold an election last month which he won. coming up on this news hour from london. he was driven by basically literally about asylum seekers trapped in lockdown in dirty hotels with inedible food. the un's expert on extrajudicial killings says the u.s. drone strike that killed a top iranian commander assim sort of money was on all fours. and child amputees return to the sport they love has grown a virus restrictions and lifted in gaza is coming up in sport or at least. talk has announced it's pulling out of hong kong this is some of the world's largest social media companies review their operations in the city in light of the new security rules imposed by china zuma has joined tech giants such as facebook microsoft and google in suspending requests for user data by the city's wealth or cheese that worried the new law will let the chinese state access sensitive information because more from hong kong. a week after the introduction of the new national security law in ho

we are talking about serbia and kosovo. health officials in kosovo are warning hospitals are already overwhelmed. it is a bleak situation. we know about north—eastern spain already and the impact that is having on british tourists. i guess the thing we take from all of these is that it is clearly a very difficult time in all of the countries we are talking about, but if you are trying to take about, but if you are trying to take a holiday this year, if your plans we re a holiday this year, if your plans were already postponed, it's looking like 2020 is the year were nothing can be planned with any certainty. nick beake reporting. the uk's biggest tour operator, tui, is closing more than 160 high st stores. it is responding to changes in customer behaviour. ben thompson explained how the move followed a changing consumer behaviour. further evidence today, if we needed it, that as we change the way we shop, business has to change the way that it operates. therefore, in the case of chile, 70% of all the bookings they take ar

now, in the balkans, serbia, kosovo and romania are experiencing worrying outbreaks. here's nick beake again. if you listen to that health care officials can kodovo, they say the hospitals are already overwhelmed, they are dealing with us now and struggling. that is an area of real concern. if you look at places like italy, extremely badly hit in the early wave back a few months ago. everyone saw what happen in italy was a sort of a pre—runner to what other people experience. they made great strides in rome and bringing down the number of cases across the country, particularly in the very badly affected north. butjust yesterday, they've extended the state of emergency because there is a feeling among the government and other european governments that you really can't be complacent with this, can't take your eye off the ball or the consequences will be devastating. iceland claimed major success against covid—19, but there are concerns the virus is once again spreading through the community. ten new infections were recorded in the past 24 hours, taking the number of

case that the worst affected part of europe is the southeast balkan region, so we are talking about serbia and kosovo, and health missions in kosovo are warning that hospitals are already overwhelmed so it's a pretty bleak situation —— health officials in kosovo. we know about northeast spain on the impact that's having on british tourists andi that's having on british tourists and i guess the thing we take from all of this is that it's clearly a very difficult time in all of the countries we are talking about but if you were trying to take a holiday this year, if your plans have already been postponed, it's looking like 2020 is the year when nothing can be planned with any certainty. our correspondent in brussels, nick beake, thank you. the uk's biggest tour operator, tui, is closing more than 160 high street stores. it says it's responding to changes in customer behaviour. let's talk to our business correspondent, ben thompson. is this about consumer behaviour rather than because of the pandemic? yeah, ithink rather than because of the pandemic? yeah, i think today further evidence,

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president aleksander to resign rallies began on tuesday after attempts to reimpose restrictions on friday serbia did see its highest daily death toll. germany and belgium are working on a last ditch initiative to get cross border into syria after the un security council failed to reach an agreement to keep deliveries going to separate proposals did not pass the 1st was vetoed by russia and china they want to cut the number of crossings used into syria aid agencies are warning of dying consequences though for people living in camps many in northwestern syria depend on aid coming in from turkey just to have a little look at these cross border a deliveries the u.n. and humanitarian groups say 2800000 people in syria's rebel held north west depend on those just to crossings for aid russia insists only one is necessary at the border because it accounts for 85 percent of aid deliveries but the u.s. says 1300000 people living in northern aleppo depend on the other crossing which is known as. his senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school who says divisions are an extension of bigger divisions over the

poorest district in hong kong a 5th consecutive nights of anti-government protests has been held in serbia with demonstrators again calling on the president to resign saturday's rally was peaceful in contrast to the previous night when police fired tear gas rallies were sparked by anger of the government's handling of the pandemic but have grown into other dons. thousands of people have blocked traffic in bulgaria as capital so fear and protest against corruption for a 3rd day demonstrators called on the prime minister and the chief prosecutor to resign angle was sparked on the day after the offices of the president were raided in spite of 2 separate investigations president truman radebe has also been a vocal critic of the prime minister's cabinet. a protest in eastern russia against the arrest of a governor accused of murder has entered a 2nd day demonstrators a calling for serco for a girl to be released from custody criminal investigators have linked him to crimes committed 15 years ago before he entered politics he denies any involvement for gore won the race for governor by a landsli

says talks to resolve one of europe's most deadlocked territorial disputes are back on track between serbia and kosovo e.u. leaders facilitate the 1st meetings between kosovo's prime minister. and the serbian president alexander virtue which since the talks broke down 2 years ago so be it refuses to recognize costs of those declaration of independence the pair are set to meet face to face in brussels on thursday. people in poland are voting in a presidential runoff that could shake up political parties and affect relations with neighbors the office is largely ceremonial but the president can still veto parliamentary legislation or from sun you've got to go. this is a stark choice for voters in poland one which will shape its identity in europe and the rest of the world over the past this is the incumbent crowd pleaser and trade poland's president since 2015 an independent who has the support of the ruling law and justice party is seen as the stall wall of the government's message of nationalism and conservatism has backing of only traditional families and opposition to gay marriage adoption

a 5th consecutive nights of anti-government protests has been held in serbia where the demonstrators again calling on the president to resign saturday's rally was peaceful and contrast to the previous night when police fired tear gas the rallies were sparked by anger over the government's handling of the pandemic but have grown into other dumond's thousands of people have blogs traffic and bone gary is the capital sofia quote test against corruption for a 3rd day demonstrators called on the prime minister and chief prosecutor to resign and it was sparked on thursday off the offices of the president was raided as part of 2 separate investigations president truman that it has also been a vocal critic of the prime minister's cabinet. a protest in eastern russia or against the arrest of a governor accused of murder has ended a 2nd day demonstrators according to a survey for a girl to be released from custody criminal investigators have linked him to crimes committed 15 years ago before he entered politics he denies any involvement won the race for cover governor by a landslide 2018 facin

talks to resolve one of europe's most deadlocked territorial disputes are now back on track between serbia and kosovo e.u. leaders facilitated the 1st meetings between kosovo's prime minister of the o.t. and the serbian president alexander church since the talks broke down 2 years ago so he refuses to recognize kosovo's declaration of independence the pair though are set to meet face to face in brussels on thursday. and in hong kong the pro-democracy parties have been holding a vote to select their candidates for coming elections voter turnout for the primaries been higher than expected its legislative council election happens in september it will be the 1st since beijing imposed its you national security law earlier this month one hong kong government minister warned that participating in the primary vote could amount to a breach of that law i'm puerto ricans are demanding the removal of all symbols commemorating colonialism protesters wearing indigenous clothes demanded a statue of christopher columbus be taken down along with memorials to other colonizers who want to rename city squares

. >> serbia recorded its highest number of coronavirus depths for a single day as the government hit back at protests over its handing of the pandemic. the prime minister said the country recorded a dramatic increase of 18 deaths and 38 new cases. she slammed as i remember responsible protests heard for a third straight day in bell brad and other cities. demonstratesors are protesting against a new 2010-person gathering. so protesters clearly not happen at the handling of the coronavirus by the government. what's the scene right now? >> well, everything seemed to be incident rol but an happened a couple of minutes ago so everything started when a group of protesters tore down the security fence in front of the national assembly building and they were provoking police officers. they were throwing stones on the police but police officers kept didn't respond until a couple of minutes ago and now the situation is quite similar with the ones we've seen couple of days ago. police officers responded with tear gas and that is happening now and protesters are persistent. they are still in fro

but ms sturgeon said spain and serbia would not be exempt from the quarantine measures, at this time, because of the prevalence of the coronavirus there. now i hope we will be able to add spain and serbia to the list, hopefully in part at the next review points on the 20th ofjuly. to that end, will be liaising closely with the relevant authorities as well as airports and airlines to gather more information on control of outbreaks in prevalence and other mitigations, such as testing. that we could possibly put in place as an alternative. manyjudge many judge and are manyjudge and are being left behind because of lack of access the internet. this company is helping to that of the this family from swindon, such cherries and showing mum‘s phone to home—school. but six weeks ago, if donated a tablet. what difference has it made, having another device in the house? we have been able to do loads of homework and we have been sharing, showing better, so it has made a big difference because now i can produce better work. because it was just a phone, it was they were already is arguing, whos