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a 13 year old who's taken on the job of filling teacher in gaza during the pandemic . after months of protests in hong kong against the central government china plans to introduce a new nor to clamp down on protesters it's expected to rubber stamp national security laws at its biggest political gathering the u.s. has warned that it will respond strongly in beijing to respect on kong's autonomy katrina you reports. on the eve of china's national people's congress the announcement of a terrorist national security law which criminalizes secession foreign interference and a subversion of state power in hong kong jungle could be asians entry hong kong as an inseparable part of the people's republic of china the m.p.c.

is the highest organ of state power in light of new circumstances and need the n.p.c. is exercising the power enshrined in the constitution to establish and improve at the state level a legal framework and enforcement mechanism for safeguarding national security in hong kong. the new law would 5 plus hong kong's legislative council and is beijing's response to months of dissent and sometimes. iowan pro-democracy protests in hong kong the draft legislation will be discussed when china's leaders meet over the next week here in beijing it's likely to further isolate president xi jinping. reddy faces a tide of international criticism because of the chinese government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic led by its biggest trading partner the us donald trump accuses china of covering up the outbreak beijing denies this but the argument is pushing the 2 countries closer to confrontation and phase one of the deal to end

their 2 year trade war hangs in the balance he's mixing politics economics and also security issues very very dangerous mixture any kind of miscalculation could result in a real tragedy. another thought in china's side u.s. support for taiwan wednesday's inauguration of president when has pushed beijing's goal of reunification further away as china's. over the next week surging and china sentiment abroad isn't or only a challenge at home leaders must tackle a slowing economy rising unemployment and new clusters of the coronavirus new outbreaks in rouhani and in china's northeast have stoked fears of a 2nd wave of infections and in rural areas millions wait for an end to the life of poverty 2020 is the government deadline to create what it calls a moderately well off society. previous n.p.c.

has ever had to bear all these conflicts and difficulties like that this year there are too many tasks it's mission impossible. but when the national congress opens problems will make way for pageantry as a 1400000000 chinese look to president xi to pave a path through what many see as an increasingly precarious future. al-jazeera beijing. well emily lau is a leading member of hong kong's democratic party she says the public is troubled by what it sees as china's encroachments on hong kong's autonomy. i can assure you that people here are very very concerned and very alarmed and very disturbed because they fear such legislation would take away our freedoms would take away the personal safety and the rule of law and the people are very very nervous indeed because they fear that there is so much silly by straying and so much clashes in

our legislature that day they try to push something through that it could take a long time so they sing the credit just do it and forced it on us but this is terrible if you want to enact legislation affecting people's freedoms and save the rule of law certainly is up to our legislature to do their job and that's exactly what is said in a basic law which is our mini constitution promulgated by beijing it says we should legislate on our own but now it seems they have breaking up all of the promises and they want to legislate for us well some people say that because of a pandemic beijing feels that many countries which used to be supportive of hong kong and they're now too busy with their own hands crisis so they will not want to spare time to look at home car and so there is this chinese expression when there's

a fire they will come in and kill and hoping that nobody will notice it is really very bad and but i hope the international community you will care because there are many many internet many foreign citizens living yet there are many americans brand new zealand the canadians they are not going care what the media so it's a very international city so if something so bombed badly happens i hope the international community would tell china to stop it. cleanup operations are underway in india and bangladesh after the most powerful cyclon to the bay of bengal in 20 years. killed at least 84 people and destroyed thousands of homes there are now concerns about the spread of coronavirus in the murderous shelters where millions of people sought safety there's a purana reports from new delhi. that i'm a shell is

a father in mourning his 13 year old daughter much me died when parts of the home collapsed on her during cycling on wednesday after. she was in class when at a good school she told me dad i want to study close by don't send me away to start you know she was so good at her school work and love to draw. much me was one of dozens of people killed in the state of west bengal where i am pan made landfall with wind speeds of 165 kilometers an hour. the cycloid tore through west bengal and neighboring odysseus state uprooting trees destroying homes vehicles and much else in its path. in the city of call kata people assessed the damage after the storm passed also brought hours of heavy rain flooded neighborhoods. thousands of homes were also flattened to bombay. when the storm started we managed to

reach the cycling cinta now our heart is not there anymore it's gone we're going back to see what we can salvage. millions remain without power and. the people in the densely populated low lying areas around the bay of bengal are used to cyclons but emergency workers say the aftermath of will be harder to manage as they try to stop the spread to the coronavirus 650000 people were evacuated to emergency shelters in west bengal then a descent 2000000 and bunker things was that there are too many people here it's impossible to maintain social distancing i'm very concerned we couldn't stay at home because of the storm and here we are worried about corona i'm just trying to dodge both and with communication lines cut all their concerns about the extent of the damage in hard to reach areas including the ecologically fragile sun their bonds mangroves region home to many rare animals including endangered bengal tigers

elizabeth al-jazeera. the u.s. plans to pull out of a treaty that allows aerial surveillance flights of another countries jurisdiction the open skies treaty came into effect in 2002 has been signed by 35 different nations washington has accused russia of repeatedly violating the deal. russia has not said developed very good relationship or you know we worked on the oil problem together i think we have a very good relationship with russia but russia didn't adhere to the treaty so our job they are here we will pull out but there's a very good chance or make a new agreement or do something to put that agreement back together. the nato ambassadors are due to meet on friday to discuss the withdrawal mike hanna has more from washington d.c. he explains the president's strategy is this part of an ongoing process by the trump administration to disentangle themselves from international agreement this is the 3rd arms agreement that the trumpet ministration has pulled out of the 1st was

the iran nuclear deal then the strategic nuclear one and now you've got this 3rd one but there has been immediate reaction in congress eliot engel the chair of the house foreign relations committee points out that president trump is unable to do this without giving congress $120.00 days notice which he has not done this isn't terms of an aunt that president trump signed back in 2019 so there is already criticism from democrats in congress but it is yet another move by trump and to diminish the relationships with the international community and nato allies for example are going to be absolutely incensed by this decision a unilateral decision what happens next is that once the u.s. says all at once this formally they are 60 days during which all signatories to the agreement must meet there is some speculation that a new deal could be agreed to but that's very unlikely at this particular point doctors without borders is warning of what it calls an unfolding catastrophe at its

hospital in southern yemen they'd groups called into urgent help from the united nations after the deaths of more than a 3rd of cope with 1000 patients admitted in the port city of aden is the only dedicated virus treatment clinic in the south of the country star say they're short of personal protective equipment and virus tests 33 deaths have been officially reported nationwide but clear hardon is the head of mission in yemen for doctors without borders she says many people thought they were immune. i thought that they were. and there were very few. people 'd. more likely that they are much more. that. they could be. more. iran's health ministry says more than 10000

health workers have been infected since the corona virus outbreak began the country has been one of the worst hit by the virus with nearly 127000 infections more than 7000 people are poor to have died during the outbreak. well it's back to rain in the far north of china but not a lot of the concentration is within the tropical air this always gathered around

the south this time the anywhere from those vietnam through the south the ground over to hong kong and taiwan is like to see some heavy downpours on both friday and saturday then it goes across the south and small japanese arms into the water know also that in between the 2 systems you go to they'll be the clouds and rain maybe in tokyo chair or 2 they're more than not i don't think at the rate itself will move away from hong kong on saturdays the showers will be nothing like as heavy south of that and there's also been quite a concentration recently around sort of ways in the southern philippines i think that tend to thin out a bit although this is an area for cost showers there are as many as they were similar to the same story is the case not quite as active as it was but daily thunderstorms seemed likely column and singapore just the 2 examples. one point is no longer visible as a proper storm is this massive cloud here system vast amounts of rain to come very often old in bangladesh more likely the northeast of india just touching time as well after that things are much drier the reserves is dropped out of the rest of

india is exception of carola it's dry increasingly hot. the latest news as it breaks the mine sits within a valley surrounded by bush land and most of the operations have been about 500 made his way to the surface with detailed coverage from malaysian navy recently prevented a boat carrying around $200.00 range of refugees from landing from around the world government leaders are accusing the opponents of trying to topple that by tampering with financial stability.

welcome back if you come out of our top stories here on al-jazeera china has been paring new security laws for hong kong after months of pro-democracy demonstrations last year they'll be tabled at the annual national people's congress which opens in beijing in just over an hour's time. clean up operations are underway in eastern india and bangladesh after one of the most powerful psychos hit the bay of bengal in 20 years at least 84 people have been killed. and donald trump is pulling the u.s. out of the open skies treaty it allows more than 30 participating countries to conduct an armed surveillance flights of at each other's territory the president says russia has repeatedly violated the deal. talks have been held over a controversial mega dam being built by ethiopia by ministers of sudan and ethiopia met via video conference sit down in egypt fear that the $4600000000.00 knowledge

or a project will trap their essential water supply ethiopia says the dam will bring economic benefits to all 3 countries even morgan has more from the sudanese capital khartoum . this all started when if you propose that sudan if you and egypt sign an initial agreement because it wants to start filling the dam by july now that is something that sudan last week has rejected and said that all 3 sides should come to the negotiating table but because of the global pandemic the coronavirus they are going to have to do it virtually and that is what has happened over the past few days now today in the state the prime minister of sudan and the prime minister of if you have your health talks along with the ministers of irrigation and national security and intelligence from the 2 countries and it follows talks between say ministers from from egypt and sudan on tuesday and they've all agreed that they will go back to the negotiating table now the question is when will they do that that is yet to be decided that the 3 sides have met before they've held

several rounds of talks here in the sudanese capital houghton they've also held talks in washington d.c. and were set to sign a deal in late february but if you can withdrew during the final moment think that it needed further consultations with its leadership now before withdrawing the 3 sides had said that they've agreed on the schedule fulfilling the dam as well as mccann isms for drought and dry periods but they were not able to determine or identify or come to an agreement on the terms of drought and dry periods libya's un recognised government to seize control of another town in western libya forces allied to the warlords and even have to last 9 fighters before deciding to surrender the town of sabah is being seen as a major blow for after all as the town is on an important supply route for his troops they've been waging a yearlong campaign to seize the capital of the tripoli government and significant gains in the last week capturing several towns and major boats with a civilian death toll mounting the un 2nd a general spokesman has called on both sides to stop the fighting. the un's

response is very clear stop the bombing stop the fighting the civilians of libya especially those in and around tripoli now suffer tremendously. especially in the last in the last months as this campaign has grown. in value now at least 3 women have been killed in a stampede i'm sure lanka as people rushed to collect an $8.00 cash handout about a 1000 people had killed outside a business men's warehouse in colombo for his annual handout during ramadan and 9 other people were injured the area has a large muslim population and many of its residents have been unable to do their usual work as laborers during the coronavirus pandemic and then handing out the money have been arrested for ignoring lockdown measures not a sign of a former saudi intelligence officer says his family is being targeted in a bid to force his father's return to the kingdom according to the new york times

sada jobbery has been fearing for his life since moving to canada in 2017 his son khalid told the newspaper that his brother sister and uncle have been arrested by saudi security forces since march and haven't been seen since. well the report says saddam jobby worked in the interior ministry for nearly 40 years and was the right hand man for prince mohammed bin nayef the crown prince his cousin deny f. was arrested in march apparently because he'd been complaining about the crown prince mohammed bin solomon sada job a son told the new york times the crown prince known as m.b.a.'s feared the former intelligence officer knew too much since m.b.'s became crown prince and 2017 several well known critics have gone missing saudi journalist was killed in the kingdom's embassy in turkey and 2018 the cia says the crown prince ordered the operation let's bring in sigurd new bowings the gulf affairs analyst and joins us live now from washington d.c. via skype let's talk 1st about saddam jabber himself he was one of saudi arabia's

top intelligence officials so how much of a threat would he posed to the crown prince given our job is vast knowledge of the saudi intelligence apparatus. well lo is not the most senior saudi official that has been arrested by the crown prince mohamed let's just remember. the king's brother prince ahmed returned from voluntary exile in the u.k. after all red hot shoji killing and he would he was promised that he would have done not be arrested. for that condition for his return and he has now been arrested so. the. saga if we may call it so it's just delayed as example all of the senior members of. the saudi establishment and of the royal family going all the way up to the king's brother who are now languishing in in prisons and out as really undermining the social

contract if you will between the saudi royal family and the people and reports that one of saddam japanese sons has hired a lobbying reform a trump campaign advisor and lobby for immigration of foreign nationals for humanitarian reasons what do you think is the thinking behind this. well i think that the tactical approach is to obviously to draw as much attention as possible in the united states to these high level individuals including 2 princes boston ma who is also senior member of the saudi royal family who's who has also retained a u.s. lobbyist close to president trump so the tactical approach is to draw as much attention as possible i think the long game here is really tied to the upcoming u.s. presidential election and india and joe biden. wins i think that we can see

a whole sale of releases of high profile or sell the this events and members of the royal family president trump as we know yes personalized his relationship with. crown prince mom it and it is there for unlikely that any sort of lobbying will we really sway him in the immediate to long term but these developments are unfortunately are only adding to the already severely damaged reputation that saudi arabia has at united states the killing of the saudi journalists from off the shelves by saudi agents and istanbul back in 2018 that's clearly raise the stakes for people like sadat jabbered because it means that even though you're outside the kingdom your safety is not guaranteed. yes it also a case that was was so unique because as we know he was learning into did that fanatic facilities of the saudi state. represented of course as we know it that the

saudi consulate in istanbul other saudi nationals and dissidents i think that day are in less danger operate if they don't enter into saudi diplomatic facilities in the west including in canada i think that the saudi arabia does not have the capability knew more about the political will to assassinate dissidents abroad just a final thought from you as you say u.s. president donald trump and his son in law are extremely close to the saudis prince mohammed bin solomon do you think the saudis a lot to get the u.s. administration on the side to help pressure the canadians to send out. no i don't think the united states would do that i think if anything the united states has put its foot down just 2 weeks ago when saudi arabia and russia were engaged in the

oil war which severely hampered the u.s. energy industry and president trump put significant pressure on the saudi leadership. to bring that to an end and the president trump succeeded in that regard when it comes to applying pressure on the kenyan government to actually sounded as events to saudi arabia i think that that's highly unlikely so don't know about thank you very much indeed for talking to us. thank you you have a good night. now the u.k. government says it will rely on traditional tracking methods while technical issues delayed a wider release of its corona virus tracing is currently being trialled on the isle of wight and was due to be rolled out across the country by the middle of may and effective tracking system is seen as crucial for preventing a 2nd wave of infections john holl explains that the less. well this is the very picturesque setting the isle of wight off the south coast of england for the piloting of the initial version of the national health service smartphone app designed to be used in conjunction with human tracing and

a vastly expanded testing regime to make what boris johnson hopes will be a world beating test trace and isolate system in place by the 1st of june the app or so the trial is going on we understand from government ministers and downing street who've made it all but clear that the app is not going to be ready for that 1st of june deadline issues still being worked out says downing street those issues may have to do with privacy and data collection we'll spend the next day or 2 trying to find out they will roll out 1st the human elements of tracing an army of 25000 new recruits newly trained by the 1st of june able to deal with 10000 new cases a day says the prime minister and the testing regime scaled up to 200000 tests a day by the end of the month we are promised in terms of that issue that pledge that it will be a world beating system while the u.k. seems to have a long way to go to beat the likes of south korea a country that by early this month had registered 0 new infections until suddenly

an outbreak was noted in a soul night club of that country's very aggressive and effective test trace and isolate system went into immediate action 65000 contacts were traced and contacted tested as well of those who'd been in the nightclub $170.00 of them were found to be infected they were immediately isolated and within days that. break was declared contained that's what a world beating system looks like the u.k. at this point does appear to have some way to go now millions of children around the world have missed school for months because of the pandemic in gaza a teenage girl has overcome the restrictions by becoming a teacher herself so. every child in this wooden shack in gaza city has lived under the israeli blockade since they were born so them going to school is more than just learning it's rest bite from the daily difficulties they face outside. when the global pandemic shut gaza schools in march 13 year old

maid knew she had to do something when. she formed her own classroom and started to teach others well i'm not the one have been in the as if i wanted to bring them here and teach them this is my talent i have one girl in 1st grade and if she's absent from school chill forget how to hold a pen and how to write so i wanted to help them develop and to make sure they don't forget what they've already learned school. she only had 4 students to begin with now she has 15 today's lesson is arabic but also teaches english and math. and i can only. keep up with my classes here as well as on the ministry of education website where they post videos so i watch those 2. it's not the 1st time gaza $700.00 or so schools have been forced to close thousands of children

missed out last year because of his radio strikes. this year all teachers were prepared well before the 1st coded 19 case was recorded they started giving lessons online and using the radio. for the state of emergency extended to june a 5th of the schools have been turned into quarantine centers while this classroom set up may be small pleasure is dreaming big. as she hopes to open her own educational center one day to help other marginalized children so to hire. costa rica has become the 1st country in the americas to resume professional football matches the central american nation is credited with having one of the best coronavirus strategies in the region to the running for football fans money reports. this week marked the return of 1st division football in costa rica after the country suspended matches on march 17th. it may not be

a return to the packed stadiums of the past but the sport is back at least on screen the 1st matches are being held in empty stadiums but in easing of restrictions given the relatively low coronavirus contagion rate in the country means people can watch from other public spaces in the mall and. people come to restaurants to share and celebrate the same us in the stadium reopening the full tournament means a light at the end of the tunnel a light that gives us hope players have been able to resume regular training and complete the remaining 7 rounds of the regular season albeit under strict new rules though many footballers just seem glad to be back on the pitch some of them form the person we were trying before but it was without contact and it was in the sorry today we were afraid to let the 1st day of school come again to training having contact having some time on the pitch these things we used to do thank god we're back. it will still be some time before fans can return to watch live games and

authorities say that while the coronavirus remains a threat extreme sanitation measures will remain in place if. you have to draft a manual for procedures to meet the sanitary guidelines set by the health ministry this includes disinfecting stadiums why games a plague the need for spectators to wear masks and social distancing inside the stadium. football is considered as national pastime and the government's decision to reopen the regular season has been widely applauded. for media. thousands of families make a living directly or indirectly from football and in costa rica football is a feeling a passion it's a joy that the country has been without for 2 months and we as a federation are obliged to try to stabilize its economy. it was the 1st country in central america to rid your rival it could hit 90 widespread here it's by the

general public to containment rules and guidelines appear to have paid on. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera china is preparing new security laws for hong kong after months of pro-democracy demonstrations last year they'll be tabled at the annual national people's congress which opens in beijing shortly the u.s. is urging china to respect hong kong's autonomy clean up operations are underway in eastern india and bangladesh after one of the most powerful cyclons hit the bay of bengal in 20 years at least 84 people have been killed donald trump's putting the u.s. out of the open skies treaty that allows $35.00 participating countries to conduct an arm surveillance flights over each other's territory the president says russia has repeatedly violated the deal michaela has more from washington remember that the trumpet ministration has pulled out of the 1st was the iran nuclear deal then

the strategic nuclear one and now you've got this 3rd one but there has been immediate reaction in congress eliot engel the chair of the house foreign relations committee points out that president trump is unable to do this without giving congress $120.00 days notice which he has not done this isn't term soften and that president trump signed back in 2019 so there is already criticism from democrats in congress but it is yet another move by trump to diminish the relationships with the international community. doctors without borders is warning of what it calls an unfolding catastrophe at its hospital in southern yemen the aid groups calling for help from the united nations well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story let's take you down to watching.

what's going to happen to higher education in the middle of a pandemic universities are scrambling to get their lectures online as coronavirus lockdowns lock out students but what will dot do to the quality of education this is inside story. hello welcome to the program on. the coronavirus pandemic is disrupting higher education worldwide lockdowns of closed university and call.