 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world, our headlines. U.S. records close over 70,000 COVID-19 cases in one day, while India's overall case count crosses 1 million. Cancers trick in Palestine prisoner Kamal Abuwar contracts COVID-19, Louisville City Administration and State Attorney General are under fire for sluggish investigation of the murder of a black woman, UN Special Envoy calls for international investigation in the recent Saudi airstrike on Yemen. We begin with an update on the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of infections around the world has reached nearly 14 million cases with close to 600,000 fatalities reported as of today afternoon. Yesterday, nearly a quarter million cases were added in the day, with the U.S. breaking its own record by recording over 70,000 new cases. Meanwhile, India has become the third country to have more than a million cases, while Brazil is expected to cross the 2 million mark over the weekend. In the meanwhile, the matter of political prisoners and their vulnerability to the pandemic has come to the fore with two cases. A Palestinian prisoner in Israel suffering from cancer who contracted COVID-19 last week is seriously ill. This was reported by the Palestinian Prisoner Society on Thursday. The PPS said that after prisoner Kamal Abdulwar tested positive at the Asaf Haroufe Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Abuwar's family was told by authorities that he is under intubation and he will remain asleep for an unknown number of days as he is under heavy medication. The PPS has issued an urgent appeal to international organizations such as the WHO and the Red Cross, among others, calling for intervention. Abuwar suffers from throat cancer and has been serving a life sentence since 2003. Meanwhile, in India, poet and political prisoner Varavar Rao has been also contracted COVID-19. The 79-year-old activist was in jail in the infamous Elgar Parishad case in which 11 prominent activists and critics of the government have been arrested. These activists are charged with having links with the banned Communist Party of India, Maoist. Varavar Rao's health deteriorated badly and he had begun hallucinating. Following appeals from his family and outreach across the country, he was moved from the prison to a hospital on Monday, following which he tested positive for COVID-19. Political parties and activist groups have demanded that he be released immediately on bail. In our next story, protests are intensifying over the slow pace of the probe into the police murder of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. The city administration led by Mayor Greg Fisher and Kentucky State Attorney General Daniel Cameron has been facing the heat over the alleged bungling of the investigation over the past three months. Breonna Taylor was a 26-year-old black woman who was shot dead in an apartment in March by the police who forcibly entered the wrong house during a drug raid. City residents have been demanding a fair investigation on the matter. The three officers involved are yet to face any charges even as Cameron has been investigating the case for over two months. On Tuesday, dozens protested outside the Attorney General's office demanding that the officers be charged. 87 protesters were arrested from the site. The government oversight and audit committee of the Louisville Metro Council has initiated an investigation on the action and inaction of the Fisher administration. The investigation comes after nearly three months of widespread protests and discontent against the administration. In our next story, the UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffith has called for an investigation into a Saudi-led coalition's airstrike in a civilian area. The dead include women and children. At least 11 people were killed according to the UN. The attack took place on Wednesday. The Houthi-led administration, however, says that 24 people have died. The bombing was carried out at a house in Al-Hazm city in the northern Alja of province. According to locals quoted by the Middle East side, the area apparently has no military bases in the proximity. When his airstrike was the second one this week, on Sunday, in a similar airstrike, nine people including seven children and two women were killed in the northern province of Hajjah. When his airstrike was the third such airstrike since he entered the ceasefire declared after the outbreak of COVID-19. The ceasefire ended in June. The Houthi-led government in the capital Sanaa has accused the Saudi-led coalition calling Wednesday's airstrike as war crimes. It has said that Saudi Arabia is deliberately targeting civilians in their airstrikes which have been going on since 2015. The Saudi coalition often called such deaths an accident. And finally, July 16 marked the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear explosion in the world. The Trinity explosion was a test which was conducted in the United States in New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project which is developing the atom bomb. Just a few weeks later, atom bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki causing uncalculable misery. News Clips, Pepe Purkayasar talks about the history of the test and the peace movement. Pepe, thank you so much for joining us. So could you first talk a bit about the context in which the devil, it just took place as well as how the origin of the protest and anti-nuclear movements almost began from that time itself. The history of the Manhattan Project is interesting because it starts with, officially, Zillard using Einstein who was his mentor and with whom he had worked earlier to draft, send a letter to Roosevelt, President Roosevelt. And Zillard was worried about the possibility of, after Otto Hahn and others had published a paper about chain reaction was worried that the Germans would get the nuclear bomb and that would change completely the world that he knew. He was a Hungarian scientist, was a emigre into the United States so he was very keen that therefore they should be contributing at least activities, bomb making by which it could be balanced and therefore his approach in Einstein. Einstein was also active in the peace movement in Germany in the first World War. So he had a history of the peace movement and Zillard later devoted all his life to the peace movement. So it's really a tragedy of the first order that these two people who were both constitutionally peaceniks, they were the ones who also become the originators of the idea of the bomb. Not that they were the only ones but that's the most publicized one because Einstein had that authority and his writing to Roosevelt meant that if it reached Roosevelt, Roosevelt would take it seriously. So that is the origin of the, some people would say the Manhattan Project itself because Roosevelt then initiates it, then Einstein writes a second letter and that accelerates the development then we have finally the formation of the Manhattan Project and what you said the July, today is the anniversary of that event that darkness of a thousand suns is what we called it when we did a issue we actually brought out a booklet on the nuclear bomb and saying why it should not be there, the part of our science and peace movement. So this is the background of that but you know when Germany surrenders, then Zillard and Zillard by the time had already fallen out with the general who was commanding the Manhattan Project, General Grobe, he had realized that the bomb was not something that was going to be used against Germany and Germany was not actually in a position to make the bomb, that had become clear that Germany was not really making the bomb, later on we learned that Otto Hahn and others had been cooperated with Nazi Germany and therefore they didn't want to really build the bomb. So with that Zillard was thinking that now the Manhattan Project should not really have the objective of the bomb, when he discovered and this is what he talked about that General Grobe said that this is against the Soviet Union, this is not against Germany. So then he was very worried how do we prevent the bomb to be dropped then on Japan if it becomes a functional bomb and on July 16th we have the demonstration and on 17 Zillard then writes a letter to Roosevelt and he's able to reach Eleanor Roosevelt, Roosevelt's wife who says that she will meet him, but unfortunately Roosevelt dies and then Truman becomes the President of the United States, Einstein did write to him, Zillard did meet not Truman but he met people that Truman wanted him to meet on this issue by the time it was clear that the mind had been made up in the United States highest levels that they would drop the bomb as not as demonstration as Zillard's letter and Seinwer 74 scientists had written that do a demonstration, give Japan a chance to surrender and then if it doesn't happen then think about using it, don't use it first but by the time it was clear that it was going to be used before any demonstration, before declaring that they had such a bomb because the objective was not the surrender of Japan, objective was really the post-war scenario that would emerge and it was really directed at preeminence of the United States in global scenario because they would have the bomb and others would not and they actually calculated this would probably last 10 to 15 years and this would then allow them to set up the whole post-war scenario in a way that would be advantageous completely to the western parts led essentially by the United States. This is the background and it's also very interesting what you said this is also the start of the peace movement because once the scientific community who had actually been involved in the Manhattan Project realized that this was not for deterring Germany but this now was an instrument of coercion which was going to be used by others with the sole atomic bomb being in the possession of the United States. They then turned against the bomb completely and then of course Einstein who was deeply remorseful as well as Zillian both of them were deeply remorseful that they had initiated in some sense the bomb project then team up with others on the on how it has to be at least contained how we can get a position where nuclear weapons would not be used what could you do for an atomic piece these then become their objective and Zillian spent the rest of his life as a basically working for the peace movement it becomes one of the activists of the Pugwash movement which is as you know the scientific community's answer to the bomb and raises the for the first time all of them put together raised the question what is the social responsibility of the scientists what is called as the Einstein Russell manifesto which was signed by a number of leading scientists from both sides at that point and this is something that then occupies Einstein it occupies a whole lot of galaxy of scientific thinkers as well as a lot the in that sense the originator if you will the original mover of the proposal to build the atom bomb and therefore the Manhattan project that's all your time for today we'll be back on Monday with major news developments from across the world until then keep watching People's Dispatch you