reports that china's top decision body has approved a draft of hong kong's controversial security bill we'll have live updates from beijing and hong kong. 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 some weak it's. a bombshell from the former u.s. national security adviser john bolton's new book says donald trump asks for china's help to get reelected plus.

anger among help workers in peru about a mark of protective gear as the nation records the 7 highest number of covert 90 cases in the world. there are reports china's top decision making body has passed a draft of a security bill for hong kong the controversial legislation was announced in may and sponsor weeks of protests in hong kong it's been widely criticized amid fears it will curb freedoms in hong kong something that authorizes have dismissed. and we have correspondents in beijing and hong kong on the story adrian brown will be with us in just a moment but 1st let's go to try to you who is in the chinese capital catrina run us through china's motions here and what the next steps are. hi kim well it seems that they doing is essentially taking matters into its own hands chinese government leaders have been increasingly frustrated and embarrassed

by these protests which have rocked hong kong since last june these anti-government pro-democracy protests but according to beijing they believe that these protests have been fueled by people intent on splitting hong kong from mainland china and they also say that these protests are a threat to hong kong stability and prosperity but critics would say that beijing is simply trying to silence voices that are increasingly glowered in terms of their criticism against the chinese government so today on china's national people's congress its standing committee reviewed this draft registration legislation of this national security law and basically what they're doing is that they're passing this law in order to make a change to the hong kong's mini constitution its basic war passing it in a way that bypasses hong kong's usual legislative voices legislative process and bypassing those usual critical voices as well now according to state media the

standing committee here in beijing diff discussed and defined for different crimes under that national security law all those crimes were suppressed active separatist activity state subversion terrorist activity and collusion with foreign forces they also reportedly defined punishments for those 4 crimes don't we yet to hear any details of this but once this is what this comes to light more critics expect that really what it means is hong kong is one step closer to looking and feeling more like just any chinese mainland province where any criticism of the government is censored or severely punished now we know that china that g 7 leaders came out with a statement criticizing this move asking beijing to step back from this because it will road hong kong's fundamental rights but they do as foreign minister hit back at that statement saying that they oppose and poor's this move saying that this is a national security and internal affairs issue then that they will go forward with

this and certainly it looks like beijing is not going to pull back from the store anytime soon. thank you for that katrina you're live from beijing let's get the other side now and go to adrian brown who joins us from hong kong adrian the tabling and reported in the passing of this draft law does it clear up any of the uncertainties in hong kong around what exactly this will mean. well kim i think people here in hong kong feel that the devil really years in the detail and we just don't have enough details about this new security law for instance we don't know what china's definition for sedition. foreign interference these things haven't been explained because of that lack of detail we've had plenty of speculation here about what the law is going to mean of chinese officials continue to put out soothing messages that this law will only really target a narrow group of crimes but people here really are beginning to fear the worst

particularly journalists there is a survey out today by the main association representing journalists in hong kong overwhelmingly 87 percent of them said they now felt that the press freedom was endangered some saying they were preparing to in fact quick to perfect their profession altogether because they were so worried about what the weeks months and years ahead would now involve as katrina mentioned the g. 7 foreign ministers have come out and called on china to rethink their security law pointing out that this is a breach not just of hong kong's basic law the law of hong kong but also of the agreement that china signed with britain before the handover in 1970 a legally binding document that is now lodged with the united nations but china is intended seems on asserting its authority in hong kong and it has defied the growing calls of the international community to drop this law as i've been finding

out it's not just journalists who are worried about what about what now lies ahead . 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 are there were folks there were tight toes on safra to some on the whole kit 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 part party rule or criticising 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 we 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 who they consider disloyal or a threat to national security adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. for accusations u.s. president donald trump told china's leader that he approved of beijing's repression of muslim weak is and other minorities excerpts from a yet to be released book by the former national security advisor john bolton so trump agreed with china while publicly condemning the mass detentions those allegations come as trump signed into law an ax that calls for sanctions against chinese officials who are involved united nations says up to a 1000000

a week as have been detained in camps china's government says the sentence provide vocational training beijing has reacted with anger the chinese foreign ministry says china will resolutely hit back and the u.s. will bear the burden of all subsequent consequences and the mark is 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 slaloms we are a red line for any. plane to take a look look at. and this is. well used to play the last thing on us we always. try to cause us to do all the works that we feel well 7 school with move down schools national security strategy was the us when we meaning plant in washington.

that i think china has a little always wanted to talk a little plainer writing was exactly what we will or should. we were friends with a lever i think is also a very pragmatic and was letting people like wall meaning that i think this is where western media some friends over. the china things and. is going to way is probably all situation in that there are elements of his that will spray some more classic which i think you know is much more pragmatic the more interesting the wombles that we. get the manacles that actually says. that all this plan is doing well in singles actually the right things the on all channels and so there is an element of i will see those and certainly what i

think they think what the administration with thinking. what. and the excerpts from bolton's book also contain a number of other accusations against trump include allegations the u.s. president asked foreign leaders including china's president for help to get reelected in november mike hanna reports from washington. the democrat controlled house of representatives impeach 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 t.f. 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 she to ensure he did when he stressed the importance of farmers and increased chinese purchases of story being said wheat in the electoral outcome bolton 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 china has reacted to those allegations saying there is no intention to meddle in november's about. going to lead to. china pursues a principle of noninterference in others internal affairs we have no intention to interfere in us internal affairs all remain really action. joel rubin is a former united states deputy assistant secretary of state and the president of

washington strategy group he says it's yet another example of the president using his office for personal gain. well these revelations are damning and it clearly shows the president trump sold us out for his own personal political gain he made requests of china for example about their requesting that they interfere in our democratic elections to help him win in order for him to to safely stay in the presidency asking for a foreign power to help one be the american president is deeply problematic and that is why he got impeached so these are damning revelations they're not surprising for those of us who have been arguing for years that donald trump is corrupting the presidency and it is disappointing that john bolton is only putting these on the book now president having taken a principled stand when he could have done something about it and that's what the president's men do and that's what we've seen them do throughout its presidency

when they leave suddenly they find courage like general mattis finding courage to speak out about donald trump's failure to address racism in this country and worse so it's a real problem to see this administration continually deny that the president is engaged in illegal behavior with foreign governments to help him win politically and where there's smoke there's fire so lighthouses argument really doesn't stand much chance and john bolton's got the records i think to prove it. still ahead here on al-jazeera why there are concerns that lebanon's economic crisis could be made worse by u.s. move targeting syria's government. on a back seat to the black people and america. and the father of george floyd makes a plea to the u.n. human rights council as a police officer is charged another african american death in custody.

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completely faultline america's pandemic workers on a. gorging on desire a reminder of our top stories this hour there are reports that china's top decision making body has passed a draft of a controversial national security bill for hong kong denouncement in meg sparked criticism and protests amid fears a book heard freedom's. new book by be former u.s. national security advisor says donald trump told china's president he approved of the mass detention of muslim weekends while publicly condemning it comes as trump has signed into law sanctions for officials of the repression of weakness. there

also accusations made in john bolton's book donald trump if asked the chinese leader for help in his reelection says it has no intention of interfering in the vaults. 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 how to 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 asserts 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. lebanon is in 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. is one way for for for him for smuggling for exchanging. some. trade

lebanon is a line along one of the long sought to through sanctions also apply to any force operating in a military capacity for or on behalf of the syrian regime that would include hezbollah the armed iranian backed group that controls political power in lebanon. it's calling for restoring relations with damascus when the. 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 how it's government survive the new sanctions may not be directed at lebanon but lebanese business owners companies politicians even the

state could be targeted. beirut. the united nations says the number of people displaced is at the highest level since its records began war persecution and human rights abuses forced millions of people to make a life or death decision every year to stay or to go displacement of nearly doubled over the last decade approaching 80000000 people by the end of last year that's one percent of the global population in just 5 countries account for 2 thirds of those displacements syria venezuela afghanistan south sudan and meanwhile there is no doll that the. countries that war the. people be the refugees displaced people but coming to see ordinary civilians are more stark risk for example libya where we continue to work the u.n. and n.g.o.s continue to work in those countries but our movements are limited. has

placed another layer of constraints in a situation where already war conflict and violence limits our action. the poles government is said to adopt a new map including areas of land disputed with india both aus the 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 limpia duda. and to come upon the areas the poles president still needs to approve the map toward floyd's brother has urged the un human rights council to work for justice for black people in the u.s. in a rare urgent debate on racism and police brutality the group of 54 african nations called for action and diplomatic editor james bays has more. this was a meeting that was only organized in the last few days we're here this afternoon to

hold a not some debate on the current racially inspired human rights violations no mention of the u.s. or the protests following the killing of george floyd in minneapolis last month but that was the main focus more of the main speakers by video message was mr floyd's brother you and your matinee says are your brothers or sisters keep of america and you have the power to help worse get justice for barbara that there are slower acts that you can help heal our exit you to help me i have access to help earth black people and america it was a number of african nations that organized this last minute meeting and it was the most senior african in the u.n. secretary at the deputy secretary general of the united nations i mean a mohammed who addressed the gathering by video link from here u.n. headquarters in new york she described the fight against racism as today's sacred

battle so people are saying. enough. the united nations has a duty to respond to the anger that has been so many for so long. as the heart of our. equal rights are shined in our founding charter just as we fought to. so rights the hatred oppression and humiliation today. president trump doesn't like other nations involving themselves in u.s. affairs back in 2018 the administration pulled out of the human rights council the united states is officially withdrawing the debate on racism and brutality will continue on thursday and the final declaration document is still being worked on with after intensive work by diplomats from the u.s. and some in geneva it appears the proposal to create a formal commission of inquiry has now been dropped james al-jazeera the united

nations. lawyers in malawi have staged a protest against what they say is government interference in the judiciary president peter mystery has sent the country's chief justice into early retirement just 2 weeks before an election the president had earlier attempted to overturn a court ruling that a new election must be held. 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 as a bear stepped down last year after nearly 3 decades and power the government of chile is clamping down more about its previous restrictions have not worked and its capital something i go people are now only allowed to leave their homes twice a week those who break the rules could be jailed for up to 5 years chile has recorded more than 220000 covert 19 infections and pretty 1600 deaths.

howe care workers in peru have been protesting against the lack of protective equipment they're facing one of the worst rates of covered 19 in south america the government has rushed to test more than 200000 people build makeshift hospitals and 5 doctors around the country many say it's still not doing enough to protect frontline workers but i am a sanchez reports from lima. yes. there is anger and fear in people's public hospitals on wednesday doctors and nurses took turns to protest refusing to leave their patients on attended to demand more and better protective equipment to treat 1000 patients they might force you all are not demanding payments we're asking for solutions to protect our lives. they say they often have to buy their own masks and other equipment because the government doesn't provide enough they feel over exposed and in danger who are probably why we are probably the hardest hit me this morning my friend died he was fighting against the in this together with all

of us he died fighting to help others until the end. at least 45 doctors have died in bed to this is the coronavirus pandemic struck 7 this past weekend alone most in the wards nurse sonya keeps her last name from us because she still working even though she's not sure if she's recovered every damaged and of whatever better i got the virus at work i feel i am cured although i constantly have to catch my breath but i need the money. to steal says only a few of her colleagues have been tested for covert 19. we want to be tested i'm in the emergency ward to be airing the constant contact with current patients and no one has taking tests who knows if they bring the writers to our small children are our parents. around the country hospitals and clinics are overwhelmed not enough beds not enough. oxygen not enough ventilators all covered

in 1000 numbers continue to rise when the pandemic began to have fewer than a 150 intensive care unit beds for 32000000 peruvians it's a sign of just how broken the health care system has been for decades the call that crisis has forced an improvement there are now 5000 beds available many say it's too little too late but why not president matisse got to acknowledge just mistakes have been made since he imposed one of the earliest and strictest lockdowns in the region a recent opinion poll says 70 percent of peruvians support his strategy but only 7 percent think he's done enough to bolster health care and the hospital workers who risk their lives every day but the innocent just. i'm sorry to say it looks like i could be out of a job fairly soon. well you. see.

how good it was because elmo's world swell air of the next few weeks and 13 languages across the world the special episode of sesame street is aimed at helping kids cope with coronavirus and eric idle share activities games and advice on how to manage big feelings like frustration and sadness. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories there are reports china's top decision making body has passed a draft of a controversial national security bill for hong kong you know it's been in may sparked criticism and protests and fears it will curb freedoms 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 religious of 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 and 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 a new book by the former u.s. national security advisor says donald trump told china's president he approved of the mass detention of muslim weakest while publicly condemning it comes as trungpa signed into law sanctions for officials of the repression of weak. there are also accusations made in john bolton's book that donald trump asked the chinese they defend his help and his reelection says it has no intention of interfering in the

vote lawyers in malawi have staged a protest against what they say is government interference in the judiciary president peace 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 an oscillation and there's no cause for concern as a step down last year after nearly 3 decades and poll those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after 4 months ago a. we know what's happening in our region we know how to get the places that others cannot i was just the only here guy by the party the only purpose i did the right at that time he told romney to go live on the i'm going to live to work another

story that may not be mainstream but the fires are still more normatively. by. the way the story is what can make a difference. in march much of america went on lockdown the 19 pandemic was surging the number of dead from the virus growing exponentially . only workers deemed essential were asked to report to work. last several months it's all open their lives to us through video diaries and interviews . today is going to be a busy day for me i picked up the word a few shops some other shops for people who don't want to risk going to the store there.