extrapolate that across the country and the spread of coronavirus it appears. than anyone. confronting a new reality no growth target from china as it reveals how it's going to make an economic comeback from coronavirus. and it's outlined a new security law for hong kong with a clampdown on anything it calls subversive. i'm not matheson this is all just your life from doha also coming up trouble in the skies the u.s. plans to pull out of a treaty the rugs and surveillance flights some 135 countries blaming russia for

the decision. parts of eastern india and bangladesh are picking up the pieces after a powerful cycle and sweeps through killing at least 96 people. china's unveiled plans to rebuild an economy badly hit by coronavirus and clamp down on the protest movement in hong kong premier league has shown that laid out the program for the next year in the opening address to the annual national people's congress a few hours ago he didn't set a growth target for the economy that's the 1st time that's happened in decades he also told more than $3000.00 delegates that new laws would be introduced to ensure national security in hong kong katrina use in beijing with the details of that economic plan. the theme was that the chrono virus has had a huge impact on china they've managed to get that under control they're still

fighting the war no measures no resources have been spared but because of this the economy has suffered heavy losses but in premier league the chinese words that was a price worth paying and because of this and because of the uncertainties due to the pandemic and trade no g.d.p. target has been set in china for the 1st time since 1988 he went on then to elaborate on a few measures that will be implemented to bolster the slowing economy the 1st being to stabilize employment that is key and he repeated that throughout the speech $9000000.00 jobs will be introduced and they will also invest in group projects and boost agricultural related jobs as well $140000000000.00 worth of government bonds will be issued to tackle card 19 and a defense budget was also raised 6.6 percent it will be by 6.6 percent this year that's actually the lowest worth rate we've had in recent years and the more

is telling instruction of wall all communist government officials all levels of government here in china will be told to tighten their belts there was some good news though the 2020 goal of eradicating extreme poverty will still stand and the government will continue to try to implement the phase one trade deal with washington but of course many economic difficulties in this field setting a very different torrent a lot less flowery language a lot less triumphant language and it seems that a leak a chunk here is really ushering in a new era of of stairs she here in china. ok let's go to a dream brought in hong kong agents of the government to the chinese government saying it is claimed going to clamp down on anything it's coles subversive now that's going to raise questions about how you interpret subversive what's the reaction been like in hong kong. well it was interesting when you listen to what premier league chang had to say in his work report when he referred to this new proposed security law for hong kong he made reference to what

he said and enforcement mechanism to ensure the law is implemented now that sounds to me like china may want to establish some sort of new entity or office in hong kong to ensure that this new law is implemented and carried out the way that they would wish as for the reaction what we've been hearing from people like the former governor of hong kong who has called this a wholesale assault on hong kong freedoms and autonomy as you'd expect from chris patten also from tanya chan from the pro-democracy camp she said that depriving hong kong of the ability to scrutinise legislation really meant the end of one country 2 systems and what we have now was one country and one system but people like c y alone who is a former chief executive of hong kong obviously very close to the beijing leadership he has said that in fact china's opponents here in hong kong have no one else to blame but their selves because they have continually tried to block security legislation being introduced we got some morning actually rob that this

was coming just a few months ago when the man who is the new head of china's liaison office here in hong kong said that china wanted hong kong to enact a security law as soon as possible to stop in his words the political virus that was spreading here that is now going to happen the n.p.c. are reviewing this draft resolution it's going to be discussed on friday and then we expect a vote will be taken at the national people's congress on may the 28th and then this thing actually could be law 2 months after that and i understand that has been a small pro-democracy protests which has been taking place just within the last hour or so near to the chinese liaison office there in hong kong will be watching that develops but i want to talk to you. taiwan because it was interesting just after the the statements by the chinese premier taiwan came out and said that it was urging china to have negotiations with people in hong kong to try to find some

sort of resolution to this what do we read into the fact that taiwan has chosen this moment to do this i think taiwan chose this moment because it wanted to rattle beijing's cage taiwan like hong kong knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of mouth frothing from the leadership and of course just a few days ago president zine when whose independence leaning party that she leads that was led to her being reelected president of taiwan in january she has basically said there's absolutely no way that taiwan will ever adopt the one country 2 systems formula that hong kong has and in fact she holds hong kong up as almost an advert of why taiwan will not follow the hong kong route she says we're not going to end up in hong kong's coffin and of course as all this is happening taiwan appears to be moving closer and closer to the united states the u.s.

announced this week it was going to be selling torpedoes to taiwan's navy so we are seeing you know on the horizon another flashpoint emerging as a jim brown bringing us up to date from hong kong adrian thank you very much the u.s. has announced it's pulling out of a major international arms accord the open skies 20 allows $35.00 countries to conduct an arm surveillance flights over each other's territory president trump says russia has routinely violated the terms of the deal rob reynolds 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 we'll 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 and these 96 people have been killed by

the most powerful cycling to hit eastern india and bangladesh in more than a decade 2nd on porn made landfall on whedon's day uprooting thousands of trees and destroying power lines large areas were left on the water officials say the full damage won't be known until communications are restored but are concerns coronavirus may spread in emergency shelters where millions of people assault safety town there's choudary is joining us now live from dhaka a ton of fear of course people now face not only with the huge task of rebuilding but also the threat from coronavirus as well. yeah double edged challenge for the government and even the economy has slowed down now what we know so far what's coming information coming from the coastal belt is that relief operation and rescue operation have started you have to realize that a lot of landless farmer lives in remote coastal islands many of the fishermen

actually never came back before the storm those people has to be accounted for hundreds and thousands of houses were damaged damage in the coastal the major impact of the storm actually was done by the stronger modern mangrove forest either way it would be much more $10000000.00 people do not have power 60 percent of the mobile towers damage in those areas of communication is disrupted dikes been washed away. is about one 176000 hectares of farmlands been destroyed 180004 shame farm which in the export oriented industry and that is totally washed away now what's important to realize here that a lot of the relief will be for immediate relief for the poor people in there many many of them will come with no homes to leave their entire livelihood gone and it'll take years for them to recover from that is usually after they made it really

many of them are forgotten and they have to struggle and back i mean years to come we'll bring you more information and update as it comes from the coast about rob. just let me ask you did this is coming at a particularly bad time of course for the economy of both india and bangladesh because of course with the spread of crude coronavirus and the restrictions that followed it those economies were already struggling one day this is going to hit people very hard. indeed i mean there's millions of people out of work especially the daily wage earner's the garment industry particularly hate because the buyers have done there a green men they haven't plays they're taken they're all there so they're left with a lot of stock clothes $3000000000.00 plus orders on stock garment industry is really struggling which is the main export industry of the country 80 percent are free to speak and then now you have the shrimp industry and other major export for

bangladesh so this is a tough time i had for the government and the people in bangladesh. bringing us up to date from dhaka we appreciate it time for thank you. still ahead on al jazeera unemployed stranded and relying on handouts thailand's migrant workers face a precarious future as coronavirus restrictions are in store. and we look at how some stores in the u.s. are surviving without laying off workers as millions are losing their jobs. or. alan hutton quotes a very good description the moment through most of the arabian peninsula there is still cloud visible center all still showers around mostly over iran or whether pumped up over the high ground in the southwest to saudi arabia or west and yemen

there's an increase in the breeze coming in to the divan but it's still pretty warm here $33.00 for example in jerusalem and 40 or more from rocka down through iraq over half of the gulf states where the wind is so light that humidity is also a problem this time is quite sticky moment nothing's going to change the next 2 days to any substantial degree except maybe just eastern turkey and rockets come down with the increase in the clouds an occasional showers. after tropical africa we've seen the showers come and go and we've got them still forming in uganda or d.r. congo well less visible cloud on the coast of kenya or somalia but look at the way in this coming up now as he crossed the indian ocean the start of the southwest monsoon at least the winds change and that carries on quite strongly across the coast of somalia bringing the occasional dropper right nothing much in one join those discussion michel's in the if you have an ethiopian highlands such as this it's largely dry picture this time of year temperatures dropped in port elizabeth

there are a few showers in mozambique. for the. press. asked by a palestinian artist using a symbol of national identity to create postage and passport stamps. was from the sumburgh there is another story during your life there to be a good come fly anywhere sending a message of resistance about the arab israeli conflict are also false come to palestine i am. a stamp of defiance on al-jazeera. to.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour china's premier league has avoided setting a growth target as the country works to repair an economy that badly hit by the pandemic delegates of the national people's congress have also been told a new security law is planned for hong kong and. donald trump is pulling the u.s. out of the open skies treaty it allows more than 30 countries to conduct an armed surveillance flights over each other's territory the president says russia has repeatedly violated the deal. at least 96 people have been killed by the most powerful sight from to hit eastern india and bangladesh in more than a decade in kolkata the airport runway is under water there are also concerns about the spread of her own virus and emergency shelters for millions of people and sought safety. the son of a former saudi intelligence officer says his family is being targeted in a bid to force his father to return to the kingdom according to the new york times

subtle job but he has been feeling for his life since moving to canada in 2017 his son told the newspaper that his brother sister and uncle haven't been seen since they were arrested by saudi security forces in march the report says subtle jobbery worked in the interior ministry for nearly 40 years and he was the right hand man for prince mohammed bin nayef the conference's cousin in the f. was arrested in march of partly because it been complaining about the crown prince mohammed bin solomon so i was up his son told the new york times but the crown prince known as m.b.'s feared the former intelligence officer knew too much. since m.b.a.'s became crown prince in 2017 several well known critics have gone missing saudi journalist. was killed in the kingdom's embassy in turkey in 2018 the cia says the crown prince ordered the operation gulf affairs analyst cigarette no bar

says the detentions are tarnishing saudi arabia's international reputation. 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 that as really undermining the social contract if you will between the 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 in the jewels 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 aid groups calling for urgent help from the united nations after the deaths of more than a 3rd of covert 19 patients admitted in the port city of aden is the only dedicated virus treatment clinic in the south of the country stuff say they are short of personal protective equipment and virus tests 33 deaths have been officially reported nationwide care how dong is the head of the mission in yemen for doctors

without borders she says many people felt they were immune. i thought that they where. we did look out. and there were very few. people who. think 'd that. more likely that that dad much more. that they could do that and much more. libya's u.n. recognize government to seize control of another town in western libya forces allied to wall khalifa last 9 fighters before surrounding the town of. it's being seen as a major blow for hoffa as the town's on an important supply route for his troops may have been waging a yearlong campaign to seize the capital but the tripoli government has made significant gains in the last week capturing several tons and

a major air base with a civilian death toll munting the u.n. 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 especially those in and around tripoli now suffer tremendously. especially in the last in the last months as this campaign has grown his role in involve. moment on the we'll have reports from the ton of an assault by forces loyal to libya's you and medicaid nased a government of national accord are now in full control of the town of about 120 kilometers south of the capital tripoli after heavy fighting with forces loyal to the world a lot of khalifa haftar by taken control of the town of alice about they can now

secure the back line of the city the mountainous strategic city of their yan that half the us forces lost months ago and they tried several times to recapture it but they failed have those forces have been losing momentum recently especially after they lost the strategic air base of i would say any of the tunisian border only a few days ago and also at 730 dick cities and towns along the western coast in mid april. thailand's 4000000 migrant workers and more vulnerable than ever after recent layoffs due to the covert 1000 pandemic with most borders closed to thousands of stranded and relying on and outs and that all fears the situation could get worse once the country fully returns to work scott high the reports from selma stockholm. about an hour south of bangkok is some suck on the hub for thailand's seafood industry and home to the largest population of migrant

workers in the country primarily from me and more. 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 combination am 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. says thousands of workers have

called her migrant worker rights network seeking help the organisation has been providing food bags for families but suit don't see 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 longer hours for a smaller wage they're quite vulnerable unlike us who have more rights and more power i think fewer workers 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 it's got harder al-jazeera some thailand. the u.k.

government says it will rely on traditional tracking methods while technical issues delayed the wider release of its corona virus tracing up is currently being trialled on the isle of wight and it 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 hall explains the delay. 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 apis 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 of 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 outbreak

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. facebook says up to half of its 50000 staff could be working from home within the next 5 to 10 years the company plans to expand remote working is coronavirus lockdowns ease it follows a similar announcement by social media rival twitter which is allowing employees to work from home indefinitely. almost 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 the lockdowns 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 pandemic give others on the reports from monk in new jersey. at montclair book

center rows of every book imaginable from the new title just published to that 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 customers . 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 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. and you can find a lot more on all these stories at a website the address for that is w w w dot al-jazeera dot com that's all it is iran dot com. this is all just here these are the top stories china's premier league control on the 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 strengthen an economy badly hit by the pandemic. that should give me a while recognizing our achievements we are also aware of the difficulties and problems we face the shock of the coven 1000 pandemic has sent the world economy

into severe recession disrupted industry and supply chains and caused a contraction in international trade and investment and volatility in commodity markets pro-democracy activists in hong kong have condemned a new national security legislation planned by beijing they say it marks the end of one country 2 systems governance a small number of protesters marched to the chinese liaison office in the territories surrounded by police. donald trump is pulling the u.s. out of the open skies treaty it allows more than 30 countries to conduct surveillance flights over each other's territory the president says russia has repeatedly violated the deal clean up operations are underway in eastern india and bangladesh after one of the most powerful cycles to hit the bay of bengal in 20 years at least 96 people have been killed. the son of a former saudi intelligence of offices says his family is being targeted in

a bid to force his father to return to the kingdom according to the new york times subtle jobbery has feared for his life since moving to canada in 2017 years and how he told the newspaper his brother sister and uncle haven't been seen since they were arrested by saudi security forces in march. doctors without borders is warning of what it calls an unfolding catastrophe at its hospital in southern yemen aid groups asking for help from the dead the un after the deaths of more than a 3rd of covert 900 patients admitted in the port city of aden. that is un recognized government has seized control of al sabah that town in western libya forces allied to what i was calling for huffed are surrendered after 9 of their fighters were killed is being seen as a major blow for hoffa as the time was used to supply his troops those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after football rebels goodbye. in uncertain and isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise you've been

looking at another side of this story now from our information around the outbreak but the misinformation the listening post on al-jazeera. has been going into. this from people. that went on the concept it could be. that you don't. think. there is also see fruit. in washington but it is. true body decided that. this will be the.