china and the united states from around the world are the government close to bankruptcy many say such initiatives will not be enough to deal with what prime minister has sanjay warns could be a major food crisis. a bombshell from the former u.s. national security advisor john bolton's new book says donald trump asked for china's help to get reelected. i'm convinced this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. beijing warns of consequences after the u.s. congress passes a law targeting chinese officials involved in detaining muslim week it's. china's decision making body takes up hong kong's controversial security bill despite

criticism by world leaders. and while lebanon's economic crisis could be made worse by u.s. sanctions targeting syria's government. result with sensational accusations against the u.s. president made by his former national security advisor john bolton says donald trump asked foreign leaders including china's president for help to get reelected in november it's just one of a number of accusations made in exits of bolton's new book said to be released next week i cannot reports from washington. the democrat controlled house of representatives impeached president trump for his dealings with ukraine ruling that he'd withheld aid to leverage information about his political opponent joe biden john bolton refused an invitation to testify before the house but now alleges that this action was typical of president trump's dealing with

a number of countries and he criticizes the house for limiting its investigation to ukraine had they taken the time to inquire more systematically about trump's behavior across its entire foreign policy john bolton writes the impeachment outcome would have been different in published excerpts from his book bolton alleges that president trumps all favors from foreign leaders like taylor over one of turkey and in particular president xi of china bolton recounts president comes conversation when he met the chinese president in a saga on the 29th of june last year trump then stunningly turned the conversation to the coming u.s. presidential election alluding to china's economic capability and pleading with sheet to ensure he did when he stressed the importance of farmers and increased chinese purchases of story being said wheat in the electoral outcome balsam continues i would print trumps exact words but the government's pre-publication

review process has decided otherwise despite bolton's confirmation that the manuscript has been vetted by the national security council the department of justice has asked a federal court to block publication. 50 years ago the supreme court held that a similar attempt by the nixon administration to block publication of the pentagon papers amounted to censorship the widespread publication of passages from the book is likely to reinforce the federal court in applying precedent and rejecting the trumpet ministrations case next week it's likely the public will be able to read the full account of a white house which practices in john bolton's words obstruction of justice as a way of life my kind of al-jazeera washington and in the last hour china's foreign ministry addressed those accusations of interference from the scene

we're going to need to know and. china pursues a principle of noninterference in others internal affairs we have no intention to interfere in u.s. internal affairs or a mere election. bill schneider is a professor of public policy at george mason university he says it's too late for trying to contain the fallout from the new book. whatever this is going to happen it's to me the book is already out there it's not in stores yet but it's been sent to media outlets like to be york times reviews have been published more reviews are coming it's too late you can't kill a book like this my take on it is that it's shocking it's not anything dramatically new but what it really demonstrates is john bolton's argument that donald trump is motivated primarily by his personal interest in everything right now that means his personal interest in getting reelected he seems to be putting his personal interest ahead of the national interest or at least defining the national interest and his

personal political interest as one in the same that is a very damaging charge and it's actually a scandalous charge some people would call it reasonable charge but it's a very strong charge part of it is trump's shocking unfamiliarity with some of the basic facts about international affairs he wonders whether he asked that one point old reports whether finland is actually a part of russia he doesn't know he seems to be surprised that great britain is a nuclear power he didn't seem to know that there are many occasions there where his lack of knowledge is really quite surprising he also does some embarrassing things like he presses people to deliver a gift an elton john musical cd of a song call rocket man he asks people to deliver that to the leader of north korea who he likes to call rocket man i mean the whole thing is a bit embarrassing. bolton also says president trump told china's leaders using

thing that he approved of beijing's repression of muslim weak it sent other minorities while publicly condemning the mass detentions and early on wednesday trump signed into law and acts that calls for sanctions against chinese officials who are involved the united nations says up to a minion week have been detained in camps china's government says the fed has provide vocational training. beijing has reacted with anger the chinese foreign ministry says china will resolutely back the u.s. will bear the burden of all subsequent consequences katrina here joins us now live from beijing so katrina the chinese are not happy about this. no not at all and now 4 different arms of the chinese government has have responded to the passing of this bill firing back at the us reflecting a strongly worded statement by china's foreign ministry which says that the us is violating international law attacking china policy and also interfering in china's

internal affairs now it was a very strongly worded statement that they released and the main gist that is saying that china believes that these are not issues of human rights or racial or religious discrimination but china says that these are issues of terrorism and national security and therefore the state has every right to impose these kind of policies now beijing of course is referring to a number of incidents and attacks that took place. up until 3 years ago and the chinese government has been accused because of this of importing several policies that really discriminate or try to eliminate some of the religion and the culture of the we go new muslim population of the north western province including holding up to 1000000 say the united nations in detention camps against their will now beijing denies this saying that they have occasional training centers but they have been many other policies that are applied. that are not applied elsewhere in the country including some very intense surveillance policies and different measures

now beijing has said that if the u.s. does not pull back from this law it will suffer some countermeasures and consequences though it hasn't specified yet what those might be certainly this war does. enormously strained tensions between the 2 governments washington in beijing already disagree on a variety of issues recently the national security law in hong kong being among them as well as issues around the handling of the chrono virus outbreak and taiwan now these were all topics that were discussed between u.s. secretary of state and china's top diplomat young sure during the meeting the. that meeting was described as constructive by both sides but still we haven't had any real indication from either side that that meeting was able to improve relations between the 2 countries as yet. katrina you were there live from beijing thank you. and the market a senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization he says there's

an element of duplicity in the white house response to china to recognize that issues of oriel walls are a red line or any. plan to take a look. at. it. and this is. well used to play that off on us all because i think trying to cause us to work what 7 schools in the mouth of national security strategy was to us when we naming a plane in washington as is. that i think china has a little. once to talk a little plan of running was exactly what we will or should. we were friends with a lever i think is also a very pragmatic and was letting you know why the wall meaning that i think this is where western media and went over it was. the choice of things and or.

is we've always said of the off situation in that there are elements of his that will spray some more in october trial i think you know much more pragmatic the more interesting to watch all the movies that. i could be panicked that actually. all this plan is doing in singles actually the right things on all channels and so there is an element of i will see what's in the certainly what i think they think what the administration with thinks and what the polls. china's top decision making body the national people's congress has passed the draft of a national security legislation for hong kong the legislation has been strongly criticized g 7 foreign ministers calling on beijing to reconsider the proposed law finance and of the legislation in may lead to renewed protests in hong kong she

said and they did say they have grave concerns the proposed law would threaten hong kong's freedoms. long reboot the hong kong is a very important partner for our country with close economic relations and personal exchanges japan's position is consistent this is important to maintain a free and open system under the one country 2 systems principle and to develop in a stable democratic manner. let's go live now to adrian brown who is standing by for us in hong kong so adrian. chiles national people's congress has passed this draft this all seems to be moving very quickly. that's right the standing committee of the national people's congress which is the highest most powerful legislative body in china has been reviewing this national legislation for hong kong security legislation they began that on thursday morning in fact up until wednesday this wasn't even included on the agenda it was inserted

it seems right at the last moment is china in a hurry well yes or no we have elections here in hong kong in september and i think this new security legislation enables china to in a sense create the conditions that would make it possible to despise our candidates the china hong kong government deemed to be disloyal as to when this will become law well an obvious state is july the 1st that's china's national day just a few weeks off from now a lot has been happening today to do with this not proposed law or the law that's going to happen earlier on might pompei of the u.s. secretary of state met with china's top diplomat in hawaii and after that meeting young g. she made it quite plain that he wanted the united states to stop in his words interfering in hong kong as well as taiwan affairs he also said that the united states had to trust china's position with

a problem is the united states as well as the foreign ministers of the g 7 nations do not trust china on this they are calling on china to rethink this move to impose this law on hong kong so there is in many ways now international pressure mounting on china but i think china will simply deflect that pressure away it is intent on ensuring that this new security legislation is imposed on hong kong as soon as possible and we've been hearing actually from someone who is hong kong's only delegate to the standing committee of the national people's congress and he said on wednesday that in fact it would be possible for a hong kong suspect to be sent to the. mainland from hong kong if they were accused of threatening national security so that looks to many people here like a sort of reverse engineering of the extradition build a ball so many people out into the streets of hong kong a year ago. thank you that update there adrian brown live for us in hong kong.

still ahead on al-jazeera. coronavirus cases in the u.s. will continue to rise since many ignore social distancing. the right to. reorient. and outrage across france of the way police treated a protester who was accused of throwing objects in offices. ally we caught yet more thundery downpours across a good part of your loss of clout showing up on the satellite page but warm sunshine in between fact hot sunshine i've tools that west inside of russia have a dragon in subtly wind that's been picking the temperatures up moscow so temperatures get up to 31.4 celsius on wednesday afternoon a new record here records go back well over 100 years 28 celsius in moscow as we go

through thursday giles wanted to showers west of weather will be into the heart of europe that we're going to see more heavy showers there into poland will see the showers still getting down into rumania some very heavy rain also across a good pasta for ons certainly seeing some more thundery downpours across a good part of england and wales are going to see some localized flooding here as well hopefully things will quiet down as we go on through the next couple of days but still it's also some showers pushing in across the british isles still some west or whether they're making its way across denmark i would tools at least assad if you have 26 celsius in moscow so a little cooler 31 celsius in all slow the heat continues across a good pasta scandinavia will see pleasant sunshine there across the mediterranean temperatures here around the 30 degree mark or rather 30 degree much here across a good part of north africa heavy showers continue for much of west africa.

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differ help in his reelection beijing says it has no intention of interfering in the vote. also in also says trump told paying that he approved of china's repression of muslim weakest while publicly condemning the mass detentions trump inside and into north sanctions against chinese officials who are involved. china's top decision making body has passed the draft of the national security legislation for hong kong the legislation has been strongly criticized and there to renewed protests earlier this month. adrian brown now tells us how the legislation will affect the people of hong kong. you find it of a busy street up a narrow staircase where walls are 1st student with stickers advocating hong kong separatism and mocking china's leaders the building is home to a bookstore specializing in literature sympathetic to hong kong's protest movement and that the only concedes makes him

a potential target for china's new security law something pops especially the us. where folks there are tight toes on safra to some on the hong kong and ins that we sell so these might be things that got us in trouble some time later he has reason to worry in 2015 another hong kong bookseller disappeared into chinese custody for 6 months following a visit to the mainland the clock is ticking for the imposition of a law that journalists say could severely restrict freedom of speech in shrines in the deal that britain and china did before the handover in 1997 so we're concerned over many questions as to whether we can interview a parent advocate you know film people calling for an end to one porta potti rule or criticizing the government but beyond that we're concerned that we won't get on to the top of these questions and this law is going to be vaguely worded broadly

applied in the same way that it is in the mainland to stifle dissent. not so say china's leaders they insist the new law will only target a minority of what are termed troublemakers who threaten china's national security . but in a sign of what may be to come 15 veteran pro-democracy figures have gone on trial accused of taking part in an illegal assembly they include albert ho who says he's prepared for jail i may have to risk my safety. liberty that is something i'm prepared for but i won't give it up the new security law could be in place by july the 1st the 23rd anniversary of hong kong's return to chinese rule the timing of this new law comes ahead of elections which are due in september critics say it creates the conditions for china's leaders to disqualify candidates that they

consider disloyal or a threat to national security adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. senior military officers from india and china are expected to hold talks after 20 indian soldiers died in a border skirmish it comes a day after seeing the diplomats from the 2 countries spoke of the phone and agreed to come tensions the incident on monday in the girl one valley region in the himalayas was the worst border confrontation in decades nepal's government is said to adopt a new map including areas of land disputed with india of houses and poles parliament approved changes to the country's map india which controls the region had earlier rejected the map saying it was not based on historical facts or evidence the region includes the dura the and call upon the areas. the u.s. has introduced more sanctions against syria's government and its backers warning it won't stop until president bashar assad ends the war against his own people some of

those targeted are in neighboring lebanon and this is expected to worsen its economic crisis as the government seeks help from the international monetary fund said a hoard of reports from beirut. lebanon strictly poor it was getting ready to play a role in the rebuilding of syria a few kilometers from the border it's well placed to become a logistics hub for local and international companies but any foreign investment or business dealings with president bashar assad's government will now be punishable by u.s. sanctions the measure targets assets political and economic backers some of them are in lebanon i think it would be very difficult for lebanon to keep maintaining his relationships with the syrian regime it's going to be difficult they will not be able to reconcile before syria is the only functioning land border lebanon has trade might be affected lignin would this make this a lebanon isn't an economic crisis what this means is lebanon will be isolated

according to customs we export more than we import about $400000000.00 and. it's not clear whether commodities for which taxes have to be paid will be considered aid to the government but what is clear is that syria will find it harder to rely on lebanon to avoid sanctions it has used it to access dollars in banks for international trade levanon is one way for for for him for smuggling for exchanging. some. trade lebanon is a line along one of the long sought to breathe through sanctions also apply to any force operating in a military capacity for or on behalf of the syrian regime that would include has been. the armed iranian backed group that controls political power in lebanon. it's calling for restoring relations with damascus. lebanon is in

a difficult position the government risks sanctions if it supports syria's collapsing economy or doesn't move away from the syria iran account talks with the international monetary fund for a much needed financial aid to help deal with a deep economic crisis will also be affected. authorities will be required to stop the smuggling of goods like fuel and wheat into syria which the united states believes is helping us hurts government survive the new sanctions may not be directed at lebanon but lebanese business owners companies politicians even the state could be targeted. beirut. lawyers in malawi have staged a protest against what they say is government interference in the judiciary president. has said the country's chief justice into early retirement just 2 weeks before an election rerun the president had only attended to overturn a court ruling that

a new election last count. kazakhstan's former president nursultan nazarbayev has tested positive for corona virus a statement from the 79 year old's office says he's in isolation and there is no cause for concern. stepped down last year after nearly 3 decades in power and the hunger and president has also contracted grown a virus on orlando hernandez says both he and his wife had the illness and that he was feeling better doctors say he also has pneumonia and is being treated in hospital as a u.s. forges ahead with reopening its economy several states have reported a record rise in daily infections texas and california among both seeing a surge in coronavirus cases and there are concerns that many people are choosing to ignore medical advice as rob reynolds reports. social distancing and mask wearing are being ignored by many americans with predictable results more than $20000.00 testing positive per day with large spikes in several states including

arizona texas florida and oklahoma where president donald trump plans to hold a mass campaign rally on saturday. florida now has more than 82000 cases a 17 percent jump in just the last week they include a group of 16 friends in jacksonville who took advantage of the state's decision to reopen bars to have a night out all have since tested positive and the bar is closed again it was one of. more than 3000 people in florida have died from the virus hospitals are filling up we know already that social distancing and wearing of masks helps to prevent this disease and we're not seeing that right now. weeks of protests over police brutality and systemic racism may have led to more infections in massachusetts the governor ordered new pop up test sites for demonstrators in

arizona cases are surging with record high numbers reported the state's republican governor threw open businesses bars and other public places in mid may in nevada the democratic governor as opted for safety halting the state's next phase of reopening now is not the time to abandon these protective measures it is a time to double down on them we can only stay open if we stay safe please for caution. often going unheeded rob reynolds al-jazeera. and the government of chile is clamping down worried that its previous restrictions have not worked in the capital santiago people are now only allowed to name the homes twice a week those who break the rules could be jailed for up to 5 news today as recorded more than 220000 cars and 19 infections and 3600 deaths. the arrest

of a nurse at a protest in paris is cause an outrage across france police were filmed violently removing the 50 year old woman from a crowd of demonstrating help workers but they say she attacked them before her arrest natasha butler has more. posted online video of this arrest caused a flurry of indignation on social media a nurse at a protest in paris will choose day is held down by police officers surround her before school in her own way blood is again on her face health workers were demonstrating for higher pay their dedication has been revealed to during the convict pandemic so the image of a nurse being roughly handled by police sparked outrage. the nurse's daughter tweeted this woman is my mother 50 years old a nurse she's worked 12 to 14 hours a day for 3 months she had conveyed. later further pictures emerged at the nurse moments before her arrest this time throwing stones at police officers outside the

police station where the nurse was held overnight campaigners say to her actions didn't justify her treatment why in fam them it's gone to here we have a woman just 5 foot tall held down by 4 heavily armed police officers it's totally disproportionate there's clearly a problem with the orders that are being given to the police and the way they are trained or the nursery that was just released from this police station she had spent the night in custody now we managed to speak to her one on one she was visibly very shaken very traumatized so she didn't want to be filmed but what she did do was tell us a little bit about how she felt very angry very upset she rolled up the sleeves of her jacket and she had bruises all over her arms she said to be very roughly treated in fact she still had a dry blood on her forehead police say the video showed the hostile conditions they face one officers reportedly filed a complaint against the nurse into new it is a measure it seems looking at the images broadcast yesterday and today that this

arrest followed offenses carried out by this woman. the video has come at a time when police violence is in the spotlight in france after a recent anti-racism protests and last year's dealing fest demonstrations whether the videos show the police using a heavy handed approach over recent will force is being fiercely debated in france . al-jazeera paris. the governing body of an oxford university college is backing the removal of a controversial statute oriel college has been under pressure for several years to remove the tribute to 19th century colonialist sessile rhodes activists say the stance you go. racism and is an insult to black students there have been several anti racism protests in the u.k. after the death of george floyd in the u.s. last month. the us police officer who fatally shot a black man in atlanta last week has been charged with murder and assault garrett rolfe shot for a shot brooks in the back on friday during an incident at

a fast food restaurant he was dismissing next day brooks death has heightened racial tension just weeks after the killing of george floyd the classic american pancake insert brand is getting a make over parent company quaker oats says it's dropping the name and logo depicting a black woman the brand is 130 years old and i go to critics who say the image is based on stereotypes. this is all just there and these are the top stories in a new book by former u.s. national security advisor john bolton says donald trump asked the chinese leader for help in his reelection says it has no intention of defaming in the vote alton also says trump told that he approved of china's repression of muslim week while publicly condemning the mesta tensions trump has signed into law sanctions against chinese officials who are involved. trying to stop decision making body has passed

the draft of a national security legislation for hong kong the legislation has been strongly criticised and they had to renew protests earlier this month adrian brown is in hong kong and says beijing appears to be rushing the draft legislation into law. the standing committee of the national people's congress which is the highest most powerful legislative body in china has been reviewing this national legislation for hong kong security legislation they began that on thursday morning in fact up until wednesday this wasn't even included on the agenda it was inserted it seems right at the last moment is china in a hurry well yes or no we have elections here in hong kong in september and i think this new security legislation enables china to in a sense create the conditions that would make it possible to despise our candidates the china hong kong government deemed to be disloyal senior military officers from

india and china are expected to hold talks after 20 indian soldiers died in a border skirmish it comes a day after senior diplomats from the 2 countries spoke over the phone and agreed to come tensions incident on monday was the worst border confrontation in decades lawyers in malawi have staged a protest against what they say is government interference in the judiciary president. has sent the country's chief justice into early retirement just 2 weeks before an election rerun. kazakhstan's former president nursultan nazarbayev has tested positive for corona virus a statement from the 79 year old's office says he's in isolation and there is no cause for concern over the headlines the news continues here on are just there are often the strain they stay with us see save a life. they call them seat date is large property

subdivided into small quarters where one or more families live crammed together is the only option for many haitian migrants in chile and it's public knowledge that they're exploited by unscrupulous landlords and now with the coronavirus pandemic they're being discriminated further. a few weeks ago this day with $88.00 rooms became nationwide news the hard news moved the haitian residents to a special her teen area with better facilities but 1st the results of their broner virus test were published on the municipalities web page violating a patient's right to confidentiality. the neighbors began throwing rocks and whirling insults at the haitians because a few of them had been confirmed to be caring coronavirus now they tell us that they feel even more discriminated and vulnerable than ever. in an isolated time listening post cuts through the noise leaving looking at another side

of the market the information around the outbreak but the truth of it separating propaganda from fact it's reality. exposing the optics try and finish the rhetoric and play but they cannot manipulate the pirate listening post during flight guide to the media on al-jazeera. i am for me ok you're watching the stream and today we're going to delve into pandemic politics in brazil let me start here with an out of. headline brazil's coronavirus death toll now is the world's 2nd highest ninety's behind the united states why is that many a pointing to the leadership on the streets of sao paolo and he got a little taste of why people are unhappy well.