just. an end to hong kong special status the u.s. says the territory has lost its autonomy as china prepares a new security. hello again i missed on the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up munching against police brutality protests in 2 major u.s. cities over the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of law enforcement. the u.s. becomes the first c country to see the death toll from the coronavirus pos 100000

but businesses are reopening across the country. and a no go for space x. a mission to launch american astronauts to orbit from u.s. soil for the 1st time in nearly a decade is called off. now the u.s. says hong kong's autonomy is gone the declaration by secretary of state mike pompei effectively ends the territory's longstanding special status with the united states and risks its position as a major financial and trade hub now pompei are told congress that china was trying to model hong kong off to itself by imposing a new security law he said hong kong special trade and economic treatment by the u.s. should end as protests in hong kong continue china has rejected a request for an emergency meeting of the un security council it's un ambassador called the us the trouble maker of the wild the hong kong security bill is set to

be voted through on thursday about the final day of the national people's congress in the chinese capital al-jazeera is how these are castro reports from washington d.c. . the united states' special economic relationship with hong kong dates back to the territory's time under british rule since then and even after hong kong's return to china in 1907 the us has granted hong kong special trade protections helping it become a global commercial hub where international companies operate freely and u.s. tariffs and visa requirements imposed on mainland china don't touch but now that could change u.s. secretary of state mike pump alles report to congress on wednesday means president trump is now free to revoke hong kong special status and treat it like the rest of china seems to be quite frustrated and angry with china about the spread of 19 around the world and blames the chinese. so he may be willing to go ahead and do

this seems. just to be less interested in making progress with china trump has been less vocal about the aggressive police response to pro-democracy protests in hong kong but the state department says with a new national security law set to be imposed by mainland china the territory of hong kong no longer enjoys a high degree of autonomy and thus no longer deserves special treatment well my guess is that the trumpet administration would like to deter china from going ahead with passing this law sanctions on hong kong would be harmful to mainland china but suffering the most would be the people of hong kong themselves after months of brutal police crackdowns and a pandemic that's put its economy on thin ice the island is now squeezed between beijing's promise of even harsher security crackdowns and washington's threat to

undermine its prosperity. castro al-jazeera washington while leading pro-democracy activist joshua wang supports that move by the u.s. now because. pressure from. securing our borders. our mandate from the secretary. of state i can. look up to the right person and look at the. perspective that this is the. region given the size of. the trouble pretty long and. hard. they are. feeling. like i am not. saying. you. are right. i could train

a year has more from beijing beijing seems determined to go ahead with this national security law despite a barrage of international criticism right now 3000 of china's communist party members are meeting in beijing for the last day of the national people's congress and this afternoon local time they're going to vote to pass a variety of laws including the national security law and it's certainly going to go through the last few days we've had the same line from beijing that it is a job of the central government to enforce national security and that this will be good for hong kong stability which is really emphasize this huge disconnect between beijing and what the people hong kong want in the thiele but beijing has shown simply no interest in the sending to pro-democracy activists pro-democracy politicians all the u.s. on this issue and in regard to the u.s. request to convene a u.n. security council meeting while china's ambassador to the u.n. has bonded to this request saying that it rejects this that is this is an internal affair has nothing to do with the u.n. security council and as i asked the u.s.

to stop what it calls bullying practices. well hong kong's legislative council has been suspended after an incident you can see here a man entered the chamber on thursday morning and threw a bag on to the final session was poised to clean up the area tensions are high as the legislature considers a controversial bill to protect china's national anthem in hong kong well there have also been developments on another issue that's causing us china tension a canadian court has ruled an extradition case against why wait chief financial officer can go ahead she's wanted in the u.s. on charges of misleading a major bank on hallways dealings with iran. anger is spreading in the united states over the death of an unarmed black man who was pinned to the ground by police in minneapolis and just in the past few hours protesters demanding justice for george floyd have come out in their hundreds in downtown los angeles they

blocked parts of a freeway and surrounded highway patrol cars and in minneapolis large crowds are out again 4 police officers there have been fired but floyd's family and the city's mayor are calling for criminal charges protesters have surrounded the police precinct where the forward based and there's also been the looting of a nearby store while the protests then now into this 2nd day and as new video emerges the lawyer for george lloyd's family has spoken of a pandemic of racism john hendren reports. the minneapolis police more cheat on demonstrators firing rubber bullets and chemical gas leaving them in govt in searing flames the protesters gathered by the hundreds despite a state wide coronavirus lockdown to mark the death of another unarmed black man in police custody at the british. believed to be about george floyd accused of forgery cries out in pain a policeman's knee on his neck. even

during. bystanders plead with the officers. floyd later dies in police custody on it would really help them yes maybe you'll get me on the road police say he had been resisting arrest but in this newly released surveillance video taken before floyd was forced to the ground he's shown handcuffed and apparently cooperative this was not a nice thing this is part of an ingrained systemic cycle of injustice is still exists which cuts at the very heart more sacred least of all americans are equal rights. the 4 officers on the scene were fired on tuesday but floyd's family says that's not enough absolutely for those. to be charged with murder because that's exactly what they did they murdered my. minneapolis is

mayor joined in the demand for criminal charges an offense took place that you or i or many other people through our city would have been behind bars if they did yet this particular individual this officer was it could be months before it's clear whether charges will be filed the f.b.i. is investigating the incident as a possible civil rights violation murder convictions of on duty police officers are very rare but they do happen. demonstrators note a contrast when armed white protesters occupy michigan state house to oppose the coronavirus lockdown police offer little resistance. in minneapolis this largely black crowd is met with gas canisters and rubber bullets but some vowed to remain in the streets to insist that no other unarmed african-american in the u.s. is killed by police john hendren al jazeera chicago well our robin has more from.

there were several 100 protesters they converged on the downtown area and marched around the civic center in los angeles and several. group of the protesters then broke away and entered a freeway a large highway that courses through the center of the city block both sides of the highway and were then fronted by police a patrol car attempted to drive through the crowd and from videos of the scene from the from the scene it appears that the one of those police cars analyzed one of the protesters during the confrontation one protester who had climbed onto the police vehicle was injured after he fell off the vehicle of the way that protester then received medical attention eventually the marchers left the

freeway but continued to protest in the downtown area the los angeles police chief michael moore issued a statement earlier calling the video of george lloyd's. apprehension by minnesota minneapolis police department disturbing so whether this continues that all. 'd is a matter of conjecture but it certainly seems that it has struck a nerve not only in minnesota not only minneapolis but across the country well the united states has become the best country in the wild to record $100000.00 deaths from the credit virus the total number of infections in the u.s. is just shy of $1700000.00 but it's still losing restrictions and it's stopping the pandemic kristensen any ripple. the beginning of summer in the u.s.

and a cautious reopening of beaches along the popular new jersey shore in new york city parks sun seekers are kept apart with circles on the grass while outside san francisco city hall the homeless are space to abide by social distancing guidelines all part of a new normal as the country emerges from lockdown but amid the slow reopening a grim milestone the death toll from coated 19 has now claimed more than 100000 american lives a far cry from the confidence statements just a few months ago from the u.s. president will see what happens but we have the greatest doctors in the world we have a very bad just to grow very aggressively we've had the u.s. accounts for almost a 3rd of the world's coded 1000 deaths a damning statistic some say for the world's richest country it says a lot about our public health system and it says

a lot about how seriously we took this unique. it says a lot about what we need to improve for the future this is really a wait and a time to be even to realize how important public health by comparison coded 19 has proven to be worse than other recent virus outbreaks the 2003 sars epidemic did not claim a single life in the u.s. in 2009 the each one n one pandemic claimed the lives of 12469 americans with covert 19 no one can say for certain what the final u.s. death toll will be. since march citizens have had to endure weeks of restrictions and lots of distress trying to stay safe from the virus but a new columbia university study found that imposing the lockdown even a week earlier could have saved tens of thousands more lives based on the overall premise that lives could have been saved had social distancing been in place

earlier yes in theory we waited too long to implement those social distancing measures hindsight is always 2020 so of course we know that now i think at the time there was it wasn't clear how widespread the virus was with the vaccine still a long way from being available it's clear the threat from covert 19 would linger over a summer shaping up to be unlike any other in living memory christian salumi al-jazeera . also ahead on al-jazeera the $1000000000.00 economic plan to help the states recover from the pandemic. and a new survey suggests that brazil's president may have misjudged the public word on social distancing.

i know that the heat wave is all across northern sections of the middle east of course the last few as we have got this is larry watching here to the fall south just sitting off the coast of oman and yemen that could bring some rain showers maybe some thunderstorms in the next couple of days it tends to stay off show but it could bring it to coastal areas but look at these conditions across seasonal the areas in particular baghdad down across into kuwait we have got sandwiches in the high forty's even hotter as we go into friday in baghdad $48.00 degrees celsius now the average this time of year is $36.00 degrees so this really is unusual to be this hot as so early in the summer we've also got more showers across areas of talkies a touch is quite low there and anchorage is 15 degrees celsius. beginning to climb $42.00 is the high in doha on friday and the center $42.00 across into dubai central africa pension rains particularly around the gulf of guinea some heavy rain in the 4 calls that you'll stay into gabble on appealing to southern areas of nigeria but also we've got a fair amount of central role that i was mozambique and again to the east coast of

the towns and here and across into kenya now the scene is over low pressure to the south of south africa for the last few days it's still around and sunny the rain is back in the forecast on friday and sunday feeling cooler as well just 17 in capetown. your men killed a mother and son on that way to an appointment sadly the insurgents don't wear uniforms. with the was the american occupation of iraq the house on hold or recurrence to account from tower 2016 how come you didn't mention that meeting to congress and i did i don't know if i got the transcript wrong. i don't think you are that sure that you can tell the difference between a polish guy a french guy or your charming head to head on a 0. hello

again i'm missed as a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. secretary of state has told congress that hong kong special status with america should end since the territory is no longer autonomous from china it comes as beijing prepares to impose a new security law on hong kong which has sparked more protests. growing anger over the death of an unarmed black man in u.s. police custody has spread to los angeles hundreds of protesters have been on the streets there meanwhile in minneapolis where george floyd die as police have used tear gas to disperse demonstrations. in the united states has become the 1st country in the wilds to record 100000 deaths from the corona virus the total number

of infections in the u.s. is just shy of 1700000 and it comes as the country continues to loosen restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the elements. while the european commission has unveiled an ambitious economic plan to help its members recover from the pandemic it needs their approval to borrow $825000000000.00 from the financial markets to be distributed as grants and loans to hard hit countries as a bag reports from london. europe's moment that's what the 825000000000 dollar proposed rescue deal put forward by the use executive commission is being called the union then you're going to those who look at the bold investment today i say that mar the cost of inaction in this crisis will be much more expensive this is about laying the foundations of our future together and at the same time to react appropriately to a clearly defined extraordinary crisis situation through no fault of our own this

new proposal would be in addition to an earlier $592000000000.00 package bring in the entire effort to an estimated 2 trillion dollars it's a financial stimulus that is hoped will kick start economies the proposal still needs to be agreed by all the $27.00 member states but big pairs germany and france have already backed the plans economies have suffered under lock downs but it's the human cost that spain mourn today. politicians and members of the royal family observed a minute's silence for the 27000 who have lost their lives during this pandemic. but as europe begins to slowly move on from the crisis and look to solutions the u.k. prime minister is still under fire over his special advisers alleged contravention of lockdown rules is obviously extremely grilled by members of parliament was johnson was no mood to answer questions over the controversy that has dogged him for 5 days you have

a choice between. cummings and national interests well i think my choices are the choice of the british people i want us to make a bet and that is as far as we possibly can at a late side party. and the national interest but other parts of europe are opening up slowly. dubroca camping facility is one of the 1st to reopen. but it had just 4 guests he is in the limo with you but. we came through the border without problems we booked the camping lot and we had to pay an advance generally we travelled well and we like it if someone came to be a few more people the site has a capacity of over a 1000 traces economy like many others are heavily dependent on tourism. but there's still a long way to go before europe recovers from this pandemic i said big al jazeera london. well as coronavirus restrictions begin to ease some refugees and migrants

have resumed their journeys towards e.u. countries many have been stuck in the balkans for months during the lockdowns and now groups are braving a dangerous mountain pass in bosnia to cross into neighboring croatia it's become one of the last of gateways into the block. or so called to feel that the increase here it's time to get cold we learn they put us through different things each time they throw us in a river and make us suffer a lot of other miseries so everyone has a family in europe a wife is in france with my babies and i was good. now doctors in argentina are demanding better pay and more protective gear for treating private 1000 patients they demonstrate in and what is their ease as passing drivers honks their support they say many of their colleagues are getting sick because they don't have the right equipment to protect themselves from the virus when a temporary coronavirus hospital has now opened in the brazilian city of us to help

treat the indigenous population despite their isolation the virus has been slowly spreading through their communities some critical patients from remote parts of the amazon rain forest have been airlifted to hospitals in the laos the city's mayor has accused president diable sonora of impeding efforts to stop the spread of the virus. well you need will. i'm not going to stop saying that the president did not interfere of course he did it these speeches all the time saying it was just a fluke and at the same time sending people out onto the street he boycotted all the efforts that we have done here to get to a stage of good social isolation while most presidents do support stricter social distancing measures to tackle the spread of 1000 that's according to a sad day and it's also in stark contrast to what both scenario once he's repeatedly criticized knocked down saying unemployment and hunger would kill more than the outbreak itself and brazil is the worst affected country in latin america

now with more than 24500 deaths by now apollo is following developments from mexico . president datable so now is facing more pressure every single day he's at the center of this political controversy in brazil he continues to downplay the severity of the outbreak in his country and he's continuing to make more enemies every day with state governors on tuesday evening we heard about the police raids against 2 of the residents of the governor of the state of. rio de janeiro we're hearing more raids took place earlier on wednesday against against some of the president's critics so this is some of the response that we're seeing in terms of of the backlash against the windowing support base within a poll sonars government the governor. has now cycled through 2 different health ministers one of them resigned the other one quit again the president is still sort of downplaying the severity of this crisis and that there is

a scenario that could play out were both so narrow is ousted from office before he's able to finish his term in office if these allegations that he is a threat to public safety turn into charges we could potentially see impeachment proceedings against 8 bills are not up. well schools universities and sporting events are expected to restart in tanzania next week as it lives lifts coronavirus restrictions there president john legere 40 has repeatedly played down the outbreak but opposition politicians accuse the government of covering up a crisis it's almost a month since the last official data was released then saying there were $480.00 confirmed cases and 16 deaths malcolm webb reports. the peaches doris' along with getting busy again. tanzania didn't have strict lock down measures like some of its neighbors and now it's lifting them. president john mica throughly encourage people to gather and pray in churches and mosques to fight the

coronavirus crowds came out for the eve alpharetta celebration on sunday. still exists and we need to protect ourselves washing our hands with soap and wearing masks with oh i haven't worn a mask now but corona exists the government hasn't released much data for the last month and says the numbers of new cases are going down oh the opposition says the government can't be trusted activists to share videos like this one on social media showing burials at night they say the government's hiding coronavirus death ministry of health has since said the night burials should stop we don't trust the government have figures from the news leave as if it meant in pandemic is not so the government response was their ability supported disappointed very underwhelming and we have so much warning that the their lives of tanzanians will be lost.

this is one of the main hospitals for close it 19 patients in dar es salaam nobody's allowed to film any of them the government denies reports the hospitals are overwhelmed with cases activists have been arrested for. challenging the government's account. some prevention measures are in place but for the large part it's business as usual the u.s. embassy has said evidence suggests the pandemic is growing exponentially in the city president magath consistently played it down. here to talk that maybe to each other if you lock someone up in a house according to the literature we have read the day you let him out his immunity would have reduced by 30 percent so allow him could to neuter interaction help us build immunity and this will help us fight diseases. the freedoms to prey and trade popular among many times the near. towns have

been devastating for the poor neighboring countries but here it's still not clear what the cost of those freedoms will be malcolm webb al-jazeera. now moving to some other news and a french court has refused to grant bail to iran or one genocide suspect of affairs that he would flee for lawyers said he should be released because of poor health he is accused of bankrolling armed groups who massacred 800-0028 season modern churches in 1904 arrested in a paris suburb almost 2 weeks ago that has more. well at the end of the hearing the court rejected felice or cougars request to be released under called surveillance because of poor health and the cord said that his health was good enough for him to remain in detention there was also the risk that he could have scorned or who was at large for more than a quarter century when he was arrested in paris earlier this month he is accused of

being one of the main finances all of the wrong one didn't genocide know when the charges were read out to him during this hearing rejected them all he called them all lies now his defense lawyers say that they want to be tried in the future here in france that he's 84 years old and that he is too old and frail to be extradited however the court will decide next week whether or not cougar can be extradited to be put in new in custody and eventually face trial in an international court now the 1st space flight of nasa astronauts from u.s. soil in nearly a decade has been postponed because of bad weather the countdown was stopped around 17 minutes before the space x. falcon 9 rocket was due to lift off from kennedy space center in florida the next attempt will be made on saturday the launch will be the 1st time a private company has sent astronauts into orbit has more from cape canaveral.

obviously this is a new page a new chapter in u.s. space exploration bringing a private company in to that footprint of space is something that has never been done before and frankly when you talk to both sides of this space boeing is involved as well and mass it seems to be working almost seamlessly here of course nasa has complete control over go nogo and other primary issues but it's a mission team that's run by space and because of the growth of virus those team members only half were actually in their seats in mission control the other have working from all here and again it seemed like everything went just the way it should when you talk physically about what it was like here because a cold 19 the general viewing area here at kennedy space center open to the public closed down no one allowed to come in there in fact what a lot of the administrators here in the staff your said publicly and really pushed

in the weeks ahead of this launch was stay away watch this obviously would love you to be here and see the launch in person but if you can't watch it at home watch it on the internet watching on t.v. . several of the key viewing spots are around kennedy space center will close down as well but driving in this morning you still saw people lining the beaches and roadways coming in to k.s.c. and a lot of people just could not stay away so it does mean a lot to a lot of people across the country. but again the says is there and the headlines the u.s. secretary of state has told congress that hong kong special status with america should end as a territory is no longer autonomous from china this comes as beijing prepares to impose a new security no on hong kong which has sparked more protests training here has

more from the chinese capital. they've been very much defending this showing no signs of backing down and i think that really demonstrates his boss' disconnect between what beijing thinks and what the people in hong kong want and feel and this latest salvo from the u.s. asking the u.n. security council to convene a meeting that is only further infuriated china not had the opposite effect of trying to get it to back down china's ambassador to the u.n. has called this call ridiculous you said the u.s. is a troublemaker hong kong's legislative council has just been suspended off an incident a man entered the chamber on thursday morning and threw a bag on to the floor the session was paused to clean the area tensions are high as the legislature considers a controversial bill to protect china's national anthem in hong kong when a canadian court has ruled an extradition case against one way chief financial officer mungo can go ahead she is wanted in the u.s.

on charges of misleading a major bank on hallways dealings with iran growing anger over the death of an unarmed black man in u.s. police custody has spread to los angeles where hundreds of protesters have been on the streets meanwhile in minneapolis where george 4 had died police have used tear gas to disperse demonstrates is the european commission is calling for a recovery package to help nations tackle the pandemic fallout 800 $25000000000.00 of bailout money is to be raised from capital markets but some nations are against taking on debt to help other member states most brazilians support stricter social dancing measures to tackle the spread of 19 that's according to a survey and it's in stark contrast to the wishes of president john abell so narrow who's criticized lockdowns. well those are the headlines i'll have more news here after the string stay with us talk to al-jazeera we heard sort of let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we listen this is

the moment to stop all the 30 action this is the moment also trades on fighting everybody we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the al-jazeera. hi i'm fairly well can i know what's in the street if you're a regular viewer of this program or our desire as a network you know that we continue to go back to the story of the injure many refugees in the southern part of bangladesh you know today is an exception just over a week ago a cycle and went past this settlement in the world refugee center in the well and that was at an andy a miss and then the week before that we heard that couvade 900 had come into the refugee settlements the question is could this.