higher purpose. this one is ours. confronting a new reality no growth targets from china as it reveals how it's going to make an economic comeback from coronavirus. and its outlined a new security law for hong kong with a clampdown on anything it calls subversive. i'm not matheson this is all you see of a live from doha also coming up trouble in the skies the u.s. plans to pull out of a treaty that allows surveillance flights among 35 countries blaming russia for the

decision. unemployed stranded and relying on handouts thailand's migrant workers face up a carious future as the country emerges from coronavirus restrictions. so for the 1st time in decades china won't set a growth target as it works to repair an economy badly hit by the corona virus pandemic premier league has shange laid out of the country's plans for the next year in his opening address to the annual national people's congress he also told the 3000 delegates that beijing would introduce laws to ensure national security in hong kong the proposed new legislation which targets pro-democracy protesters in the territory empowers mainland china to set punishments for the activities its considers subversive well agent. brown's in hong kong we're going to be speaking to

him in a moment 1st let's go to trina you who's been listening to that speech in beijing katrina it sounded to me as though the message from the premier as far as covert 19 was concerned was quite confident but when it came to the economy it was a bit more cautious. that's why roll over roll cautious was the tour and it's quite a server and speech have got it in my hands here 23 pages which sounds have but in fact that's the shortest speech we've had from the premier in years here in china and as you mentioned indeed he talked about how the current virus has had a huge impact on china triumphant in a sense that the government he said sped no measure nor results in making sure that that outbreak was contained as fast as possible and premier league called that a price worth paying but as you mentioned the economy has suffered heavy losses and because of this because of continuing uncertainty when it comes to the pandemic

spreading around the world and uncertainty with trade for the 1st time since 1988 the chinese government has not set a g.d.p. growth target for this year last year was expected to be 6 percent but this year we do not have one hill so we're going to speak about several measures to help bolster the chinese economy one being to stabilize employment now this was a key priority it was mentioned new as times over the speech the government intends to introduce $9000000.00 urban jobs and also boost investment in rural areas and rule projects boost agricultural production for the chinese government maintaining jobs is a key key priority because unemployment is increasing the risk of social instability here in china the government also intends to issue $140000000000.00 worth of government bonds to help tackle carved 19 and you also talked about the defense budget now this year that was is going to be raised by 6.6 percent now that's not

very small it's significant that that growth rate is much lower than previous years and then we had the most telling instruction he said that all levels of government here in communist china will be told to tighten their belts some on. the positive news some good points the government will continue that goal that 2020 goal of eradicating extreme poverty by the end of the year and also continue to try to implement the phase one of the trade deal and continue negotiations with washington but doesn't sound like that's going to be easy so overall this speech had a very different tone compared to previous opening speeches for the n.p.c. we had a lot less of a flourish a lot less language which was talking about triumph and power instead he had a very pragmatic a list of different measures that the government are going to have to impose to help recover the economy and it seems that the premier league is really ushering in a new period of austerity here in china and the economy as you were saying of

course is a key element of a president xi jinping the leadership but of course the leadership has also been accused of being sluggish in terms of the early dealing with the early stages of coronavirus and so on now we're seeing an economy which has gone from 6.8 percent expansion to nothing at all they're not as you say setting a g.d.p. figure where do you think the credibility of the government is at the moment with regard to the people of china itself. well that's an interesting question on the one hand many people across china are extremely grateful for the way the chinese government actually handled and clamp down and put in measures to prevent the spread of the corinna virus i think if you go into many smaller cities in the countryside which is the majority of time is $1400000000.00 population many of them will be full of praise for the chinese chinese government and how they handled that and acted quickly but at the same time

he go into urban areas there are millions of people who've either had to take pay cuts or who have lost their jobs and those people are extremely disgruntled i think the chinese population already expected the economy to be slowing so they were already bracing for that at the beginning of the year but nobody expected like many around the world nobody expected that the chinese economy would suffer such heavy losses now that people's lives are very personally impacted people really questioning how they're going to recover their livelihoods that there are murmurs of criticism targeting the chinese government targeting president xi jinping so he's really going to need to reassure the people that the economic worth of the country is in hand i think that's very much what premium leakage chung tried to do with this message a sort of bulls of confidence in the government that he said look they've admitted that this has had a huge impact on china but we do recognize what needs to be done and whatever can

be done to recover growth we will do it katrina you live in beijing let's go to adrian brown in hong kong adrian the china's draw for hong kong's legislation says hong kong is government and legal bodies should effectively prevent stop and punish activities that endangered national security that's a strong message for hong kong isn't it. it's very strong language and i think later today we're going to get more of an idea about exactly what the details of this proposed security bill are is going to be debated in the national people's congress on friday but as you say you know what we don't really know at the moment is exactly what the jail terms are going to be for the various offenses that are going to be outlined i mean what will happen to someone for instance who desecrates china's national flag or or damages one of china's national symbols or lampoons president xi jinping but i think it's fair to assume that the

jail terms are going to be much higher than they are at the moment for those offenses i mean i've covered a lot of protests here in hong kong during the past 11 months and you see protesters holding up signs calling for not just an independent hong kong but also a free tibet now under this new law that of course is going to be against the law so you know the punishments could be you know anything up from 5 to 10 years according to some legal experts for those sorts of offenses you know i've been living and working in hong kong on and off now for 31 years and i can tell you the mood today is as dark as it was in the days and weeks following the crackdown in beijing in 1989 you know in 1907 people here really did believe the trauma that china was going to on earth you know it's one country 2 systems pledge again today the premier league chang said that china would fully and faithfully implement the one country 2 systems formula but to

a lot of people here particularly those here in the pro-democracy camp in hong kong those words are beginning to ring rather hollow and indeed the the former governor of hong kong chris patten has really hit out today he tweeted that the comprehend that what china had done amounted to a comprehensive assault on hong kong's autonomy and fundamental freedoms tanya chan also from the pro-democracy camp said that depriving hong kong of the. right to scrutinize legislation amounts to an end of the one country 2 systems formula but those who support beijing including the former chief executive see why alone has said that actually china's critics here in hong kong only have themselves to blame because they have blocked this law from being passed for the past 17 years and what we're seeing actually overall is is the leadership in beijing finally running out of patience with hong kong they ripped they have recently appointed

a new senior representative here in hong kong a man who runs the central liaison office he's very close to president xi jinping and he warned actually 2 months ago that it was time for hong kong to have a new national security law and beijing would not sit by and allow what he called the political virus to continue spreading so we had a warning 2 months ago that this was coming the age and of course there was also a clear warning to anybody supporting independence for taiwan probably saying that china would encourage taiwan's people to join us in opposing taiwan independence promoting china's reunification. yeah that's right i mean actually you know the premier didn't really have an awful lot of good news to report in the moment and certainly the news on taiwan is almost as bad as it is with hong kong it's almost as if you know china has perhaps its leaders have privately given up actually on the idea of having getting ever getting

taiwan back any time soon i mean you know zion when who's leads an independence leaning party she was reelected in elections in january she remains president of taiwan and this week she said there was no way that taiwan was ever going to adopt the one country 2 systems formula that hong kong has that of course will further anger beijing and what we're seeing of course is the united states now in many ways strengthening its ties with taiwan this week it announced it was going to be selling torpedoes to taiwan's navy so you know at the moment taiwan and hong kong are in a sense caught in the middle of what is a deepening cold war between china and the united states and we're beginning to see the fallout from that adrian things very much indeed that's a jim brown in hong kong the u.s. has announced it's pulling out of a major international arms or court the open skies treaty allows the $35.00

participating countries to conduct an arms surveillance flights over each other's territory president trump says russia has routinely violated the terms of the deal brunell's reports. the open skies treaty ratified by $34.00 countries allows unarmed military surveillance flights over each country's territory it was primarily intended to promote openness and transparency between nuclear superpowers the u.s. and russia allowing both nations to gather information about each other's military forces and activities now president donald trump is withdrawing from the agreement saying russia took unfair advantage of it russia didn't adhere to the treaty so until they are here we will pull out but there's a very good chance will make a new agreement or do something to put that agreement back together among other things u.s. officials say russia barred u.s. flights over certain heavily militarized territories use the treaty to attempt to

normalize its forced annexation of crimea and tried to gather nonmilitary information about critical u.s. infrastructure with a possible view toward disabling it during a conflict in moscow a senior foreign ministry official said the us was not behaving as a reliable partner and that abandoning the treaty will force russia to employ what he called a plan b. without elaborating another official called the u.s. action unjustified meanwhile the troop administration wants to begin a new 3 way arms control dialogue including china along with russia trump is optimistic we're probably going to make a deal with russia our arms treaty and china will be maybe included in that we'll see what happens u.s. officials say both countries are aggressively expanding their nuclear arsenals regarding russia a white house official says they've adopted

a highly provocative nuclear doctrine that embraces early ask lation and use of nuclear weapons what the russian military is calling escalate to when the u.s. and china have not. arms negotiations and there are no signs that beijing is interested in 3 way party arms talks beijing like moscow is intent on building up its nuclear forces and using us forces to try to intimidate united states and our friends and our allies u.s. officials say they will strongly press russia to help bring the chinese to the negotiating table robert oulds al-jazeera. at least 84 people have been killed by the most powerful cycling to hit eastern india and bangladesh in more than a decade so i phone porn made landfall on biden stay up routine thousands of trees and destroying power lines large swathes of land were also left underwater officials say the scale of the damage won't be fully known until communications are

restored and are concerns about the spread of coronavirus and emergency shelters where millions of people sought safety the number of covered 900 cases in thailand remains low since it's lifted some domestic restrictions last week shopping malls and department stores have reopened and its nightly curfew is an hour shorter a state of emergency remains in place until the end of the month it's called tyler's joining us now for a market in bangkok scott good news as far as that covert $1000.00 is concerned but less good news of course for many who have lost their jobs as a result. exactly robbie i work here at one of the largest wholesale markets here in bangkok a lot of the vendors here are telling us that they are struggling they're barely making a profit some days particularly here they are hit because as you mention the state of emergency still in place that and one of the aspects of that is that there's a nighttime curfew and this market is usually the busiest in the middle of the

middle of the night now this is something that obviously is going on right across thailand you know the malls and some of the businesses were allowed to open last sunday this is phase 2 of the easing of these restrictions because of covert 1900 seeing a little bit more activity on the streets but obviously a lot still suffering in one analyst's group says that the economy here the downturn in the economy is expected to be worse than the asian financial crisis 22 years ago obviously that's very bad for the country but even worse for the vulnerable populations here. about an hour south of bangkok is some so called the hub for thailand's seafood industry and home to the largest population of migrant workers in the country primarily from me and more right now because of the coded 1000 shutdown many are without jobs and are relying on food handouts to prevent the spread of the virus thailand sealed its borders with neighboring countries back in march stranding tens of thousands of migrant workers

mostly without any assistance from the thai government. mom omo had been a garment factory worker here for 9 years she lost her job when the shutdown started to take hold any day a common ham i don't know this crisis is probably the worst one that i've experienced there are no jobs in the market and i couldn't find work i haven't paid my rent for the past 2 months. she only has another few weeks to pay what she owes before she and her family are kicked out they want to go home to mandalay in myanmar but can't the average daily salary for my coworkers here in some province is only $10.00 that goes for those who are working on fishing boats the factory workers now there's growing concern that jobs like this could become a few are once thailand fully reopened for business suit tony gallic lies says thousands of workers have called her migrant worker rights network seeking help the organisation has been providing food bags for families but suit up to any admits even if the migrants are able to get to their home countries they'll end up coming back to thailand once there's work she says they'll return even more vulnerable

than before the pandemic. i'm worried that the workers will be forced to work for no longer alice for a smaller wage they're quite vulnerable unlike us who have more rights and more power i think fewer will be employed but. the thai government has opened a selected border checkpoints for a limited number of workers to return home each day but many don't have the money to travel. a few fortunate ones are able to get some work but most remain stuck on land facing mounting debt they'll have to be paid back when they do finally find a job. so that means obvious see that they're going to be the last jobs for these market workers there are some groups coming out saying that it will be at least at least 3 years for the economy here to get back on track to what it was in $21000.00 and it wasn't even that doing that well then so that means there's going to be a slowdown in production a slowdown in those industries where those migrant workers have been working in

obviously if that means are going to be fewer jobs many more workers coming back once the borders open so there's going to be high competition for those you jobs scott hyla bringing us up to date on the situation in thailand from bangkok scott thanks very much indeed. still ahead on al-jazeera and leading medical charity warns of a looming coronavirus catastrophe in yemen. millions more people in the u.s. lose their jobs but some stores are surviving without laying off staff. hell of the flooding in michigan was a result of a burst dam or 2 were to but of course they have floodwaters behind them i'm pleased to say that's don't the case in the forecast the storms look for further

west than the plains states and still not carolinas and in virginia now that's slowly improving the rates are falling as but these showers still move the are becoming rather more substantial in texas maybe oklahoma missouri and they're all drifting slowly east was slow moving and fairly well scattered i think not particularly organized which means if they can forecast for somewhere like nashville you like to get thunderstorms in that focus at 30 degrees for saturday sunday and monday. substantial showers that we see recently heavy thunderstorms in cuber and bahamas there tends to move this direction that's the line that so culminates in nicaragua honduras area i think will be heavy rain flooding seemed likely here so 2 days for the seemed likely with the continued likelihood of building showers in cuba or florida or hispaniola just dock quite as wise for as they were but this is definitely a concentration band see flooding down here even down in costa rica rather less

likely i think in panama. i had my car in for does the weather and. the med that i was there could live to see and i mean what. bad as with cattle on the other end. going to be and most are there. that can and not all of her from the most other than bob about how the ledger. they were carrying the map out a couple of feet have been asthma what men and to medical school. good good. good.

you're watching are just here a reminder of our top stories this hour china's primarily because shawn says beijing will not set a growth target as it works to repair an economy badly hit by the coronavirus and demick he's also told the national congress that to beijing would introduce laws to ensure national security in hong kong. donald trump is pulling the u.s. out of the open skies treating it allows more than 30 participating countries to conduct on surveillance flights over each other's territory the president says russia has repeatedly violated the deal. the number of covered 1000 cases in thailand remains low since it lifted some domestic restrictions last week shopping malls and department stores have reopened and its nightly curfew is an hour shorter and state of emergency remains in place until the end of the month. the son 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 subtle job he has been feeling for his life since moving to canada in 2017 his son khalida told the newspaper that his brother sister and uncle have been arrested by saudi security forces since march and they haven't been seen the reports says aside al shaab he worked in the interior ministry for nearly 40 years and was the right hand man for prince muhammad bin from the crown prince's cousin been the f. was arrested in march of partly because he'd been complaining about the crown prince muhammad in solemn subtle job his son told the new york times that the crown prince known as m b 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 journalists from all his shows he was killed in the kingdom's embassy in turkey in 2018 the cia says

the crown prince ordered the operation. gulf affairs analyst signaled nobody says that intentions are tarnishing saudi arabia's international reputation. the al jobbery 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 summer saudi royal family and the people 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 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 sound the dissidents and members of the royal family president trump as we know yes personalized his relationship with the crown prince mahmut and it is there for unlikely that any sort of lobbying will be really sway him in the immediate to long term but these developments on fortunately are only adding to the already severely damaged reputation that saudi arabia has a united states doctors without borders is warning of what it calls an unfolding catastrophe at its hospital in southern yemen it groups calling for urgent help from the united nations to the deaths of more than a 3rd of covered 900 patients admitted in the port city of aden it's the only dedicated virus trippin clinic in the south of the country stuff say they're short of personal protective equipment and virus tests 33 deaths have been officially

reported nationwide and. dong is the head of the mission in yemen for doctors without borders and she says many people thought they were immune. i thought that they where. they did look out. and there were very few. people who have been flu symptoms. 'd a lot. more likely that they have much more. that that they could do that and much more they libya's u.n. recognize government to seize control of another town in western libya forces allied to warlord khalifa huffed our last 9 fighters before deciding to surrender the tonneau al assad but it's being seen as a major blow for hof dollars the town is on an important supply route for his

troops and they've been waging a year long campaign to seize the capital but the government has significant gains in the last week capturing several towns and a major airbase with the civilian death toll munting a un secretary 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 specially those in and around tripoli now suffer tremendously. especially in the last in the last months as this campaign has grown. in value all those 2 and a half 1000000 more americans have filed for unemployment benefits over the past week that means 38600000 people in the u.s. have lost their jobs since a coronavirus lockdown restrictions were imposed in march small businesses have long been the backbone of the u.s. economy now many are having to find new ways to survive the economic impact of the

coronavirus pandemic get others on the reports from one plant in new jersey. at montclair book center rows of every book imaginable from the new title just published to the dusty an obscure old book if you look hard enough you'll probably find it here what you won't find is customers browsing the aisles in march all non-essential businesses were closed because of coronavirus the bookstore staff faced hard decisions closed down after 35 years in business or find a way to keep selling nobody wanted to close. we just had to figure out the best way to keep everybody safe and healthy while also continuing to serve our customer base. they ramped up taking orders by phone and also online sales and business has been so good nobody has been laid off everybody in fact is busy in

a normal week when it was when we were open. we'd maybe have 10 internet or 10 online orders a day but now we come in and we have at least 50 if we have anything under under 50 that's it that's a light day for us this boy by the front door stacks of packages of books waiting to be shipped out to customers a small sign of a success story in an economy where there have been few when many people think about business in america they think of big companies such as general motors apple or maybe even wal-mart but truth be told more than 95 percent of americans work at small businesses like this defined as those with less than $500.00 employees it's small business that is the backbone of the american economy that small business that has been decimated by coronavirus montclair bookstore sits in the middle of 2 other stores going through much harder times on one side

a hair salon that remains closed on the other side a gift shop also shuttered but in between one store that has made it writing its own story of success gabriel's andu. montclair new jersey. this is al jazeera these are the top stories china's premier league has shown has been outlining the country's plans for the next year at the opening of the national people's congress he said beijing would not set a growth target for 2020 and will step up spending to bolster an economy badly hit by the corona virus pandemic. while recognizing our achievements we are also aware of the difficulties and problems we face the shock of the kofi 1000 pandemic has sent a world economy into severe recession disrupted industry and supply chains and

caused a contraction in international trade and investment and volatility in commodity markets donald trump is pulling the u.s. out of the open skies treaty it allows more than 30 participating countries to conduct surveillance flights over each other's territory the president says russia has repeatedly violated the deal cleanup 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 the number of covered 19 cases in thailand remains low since it lifted some domestic restrictions last week shopping malls and department stores have reopened and its nightly kofi was an hour shorter a state of emergency with mains in place until the end of the month the son 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

but he has been feeling for his life since moving to canada in 2017 his son holly the told the newspaper that is brother sister and uncle have been arrested by saudi security for security forces since march and haven't been seen. doctors without borders is warning of what it's calling an unfolding catastrophe it is hospital in southern yemen it groups asking for help from the un after the deaths of more than a 3rd of covert 900 patients admitted in the port city of aden. libyans libya's u.n. recognize government has seized control of the town in western libya forces allied to a wall of police that coughed or lost 9 fighters before deciding surrender it's being seen as a major blow for softer as the times on an important supply route for his troops those are the headlines now it's faultlines goodbye. when a prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own parliament that call means

a lot to the country's fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we. get breaks it was a slogan that one of the prime minister boris johnson counting the cost on al-jazeera. i'm almost the brain tumor i had to choose between one. of course i was going to choose my mom i had to take my dad out by some work at the time i didn't have the time but i have a customer yelling at me every day people in the 900 states are being forced to make an impossible choice between going to work caring for themselves or their loved ones i was working the day that the twins were delivered by the syrians section and up through 2 months after their birth pretty short for.