police brutality and corona virus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and so big brand of politics to americans before the fall follow the u.s. election on in just. the in the in. china charges a former canadian diplomat and a businessman with spying is it retaliation for the case against huawei executives . player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to book also ahead australia is targeted in a major cyber attack the prime minister says it's state sponsored but won't say who he thinks is to blame. a

reprieve for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants in the u.s. the supreme court rejects president trump's plan to end the program that protects them and we hear from coronavirus survivors in the democratic republic of congo who say they're being ostracized. thank you for joining us 2 canadians detained in china have been formally charged with espionage former diplomat michael called drake and businessman michael spada or have been hell since 2018 their arrest has been seen as a tit for tat response by beijing after a candid arrested while executive. she is facing proceedings that could see her extradited to the united states on fraud charges as bring in katrina you in beijing for us secretary to tell us 1st about these charges and what happens next in the

case of these 2 canadians. so as we understand it fully the cases of michael covert and michael spade will have now been handed over to chinese prosecutors is in beijing and the northeastern state northeastern province of leon ng respectively now this is the the formal beginning of legal proceedings against the 2 more than $550.00 days after they were arrested and let me just give you the technical charge here for both men michael coverage has been charged with spying on national secrets and providing intelligence to foreign agencies and foreign entities and michael spago has also been charged with spying and providing state secrets to foreign entities now this is not good news because before these formal charges were made there was a chance that procure agents here in china could have thrown out the case against these 2 men and have had them released now that clearly is not going to happen as these case between these 2 cases between those 4 those 2 men are now going forward

now analysts say because of this it could be months if not years that these 2 remain locked up here in china as their case is heard and we have to remember also this is a system here in china where the vast majority of people who face cases like this are found guilty and if these 2 men are found guilty they could face up to life in prison and their loved ones are understandably distraught they're extremely concerned these 2 men are said to be have to be kept in quite inhospitable conditions michael spot or said to be kept in a ship a cell which is shared with other men and which is lit 24 hours a day forth are also have not been given access to lawyers all loved ones and they're only given one conceal a visit from the canadian embassy of per month catrina this move is being seen as retaliatory after the arrests of executive men one also in canada is that the case . well that's what supporters are saying they're saying that

michael spade or michael coverage have been used as political pawns by china and even the canadian government says that there detentions seem to be obvious free now beijing has denied this consistently since their arrest but it is very difficult not to draw parallels between the arrest of these 2 men and the arrest of a flow executive mung one joe joe was arrested in december 28th and these 2 men were arrested very shortly after before the end of the year also the legal proceedings also seem to have a bit of a parallel under face court morris recently in canada at the end of last month and it was then decided that her extradition case would go forward china complained about this they said that she herself was being used as a political pawn they demanded her release and look at it one a few weeks later michael spadeful and michael coverage have seen both of their cases also intensified in escalated here in china now beijing says that the whole

case against mung one joe is unfair that she's been used herself as a political pawn and she's been called to do political tensions between china and the u.s. she herself has been charged for bank fraud and also for doing deals with iran via qual way canada has said that china simply does not understand that the judicial system in canada is independent is not linked to any government or any political agenda but still here in china they're furious about this and they're continuing to put pressure on canada to release mung one joe and it's not hard to imagine that the proceedings against michael coverage and michael spencer are not also perhaps linked to this or an indirect way that the chinese government is trying to put pressure on the canadian government cheney thank you for katrina you live for us there in beijing. australia's prime minister has warned that only evidence of

government and business is a facing a threat from a major a cyber attack scott morrison says a sophisticated state based actor is behind the campaign but stopped short of identifying the culprit the speculation the attacks may be part of a growing rift with china but morrison did not confirm that what i simply can confirm is there are not a large number of state by state actors that can engage in this type of activity and it is clear by strongly advised that we have received that this has been done by i started by stick to with very very significant type abilities make a gauge is in camera and she explains just how widespread the attack is. from health and education through to critical infrastructure organize ations and this is something that the prime minister says is happening more frequently and on a lot just scale and he said the reason why he was announcing it to the public wasn't

to concern them but to say for all of those organizations they should be making sure that they have the critical infrastructure in place to thwart an attack but of course the big question here is who is behind this and already many analysts are pointing to the potential of china being the likely source of these threats interesting lee much of the rhetoric from scott morrison's press conference seem to be more aimed at the international community rather than the astray in public he was saying that it needs to protect its soul for and its national interest and he stopped short of bringing china into this he said that he wouldn't be saying who the government thought was behind this but of course this comes at a time of heightened tensions between cound and beijing there have been trade issues in the agricultural sector where. the beijing and chinese government have

been putting trade sanctions on bali imports so interesting way this is really raising the focus on beijing and its trial relationship even though we don't know who was behind this attack. yes present donald trump has lashed out at the supreme court after hold against him for the 2nd time this week a judge is wrong to end a program that stops hundreds of thousands of immigrants from being deported mike hanna has our report from washington. jubilant crowds gathered outside the u.s. supreme court many here are so-called dreamers the children of undocumented immigrants who are now assured of the right to residence for the foreseeable future between 7 and 800000 people are affected by the supreme court decision and dark eyes since i was 1516 years old and it's allowed me to go to college it's allowed

me to get a full time job and i could have all been stripped away had the corner decided to different. joining the celebrations was the senate minority leader chuck schumer this is just the beginning you are going to become american citizens and great american citizens. there was a vastly different reaction from a disgruntled president who lashed out on twitter do you get the impression that the supreme court doesn't like me he asked plaintively these horrible and politically charged decisions coming out of the supreme court or shotgun blast in the face of people that are proud to call themselves republicans or conservatives he continued we need more justices we will lose our 2nd amendment and everything else in writing the majority decision chief justice roberts made clear here 15 to administer to failures in the trump legislation not the policy itself this is

similar to the trump travel ban that was rejected by the court for the same reasons but then approved when it was reintroduced in an amended form theoretically the administration's lawyers could read draft the repeal to address the court's concerns and then introduce it again. the only long term guarantee of the dream as rights is immigration reform in congress we need real solutions you need real relief from congress and from all parties because that's the only way that we can. get our path to citizenship and actually can't fool acknowledgment of all our contributions to this country this is a minimally acceptable program and congress can not feel good about themselves even throughout this is that correct this entire period they have failed to produce comprehensive immigration reform so we are we are still going to continue to hold

them accountable but that is all in the future of the earth day at this place it's a time to celebrate no matter how mero the court's decision mike hanna al-jazeera washington. u.s. secretary of state mike on pale has a key is former national security advisor john bolton of being a traitor he is reacting to bolton's new book which says president trump try to enlist the help of a for a foreign leaders to win reelection alton's not being targeted on social media from pale has used unusually strong language in a series of tweets he accused bolton of spreading lies and outright falsehoods and labeled him a traitor pompei went on to criticize him for violating the people's trust and damaging america. legal battle over the book is now in a federal court the trump administration has asked for a temporary restraining order to prevent his release by bolton is asking the court

to dismiss the case and speak of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi says the allegations in bolton's book prove that trump is unfit to save alan fisher has more from washington. from the white house a mixed reaction to the impending release of the john bolton book from the president a tweet bolton's book which is getting terrible reviews is a compilation of lies and made up stories all intended to make me look but from his press secretary a different approach the book is full of classified information he is. a misguided hawk on foreign policy and a weak government author and this is despicable that he chose to publish this book without fully going through the review process chromos top treated visor a personal attack by the it's the washington swamps equivalent of revenge when he got fired because he did not obey the chain of command because his views were totally out of sync with the president down jay trump with respect to how to how to handle international fairs john bolton's been working on the book for months the

president's long serving handpicked national security adviser was present during key moments of the trump presidency the summit with north korea and singapore the meeting with russian president vladimir putin in finland g 7 g 20 and nato gatherings around the world bolton says trump is easily flattered by authoritarian leaders who try to manipulate him and america's strategic interests are less important than winning reelection in a longer interview to iran american t.v. this weekend he says donald trump isn't fit to be president i don't think he's fit for office so i don't think he has the competence to carry out the job there really isn't any guiding principle that i was able to discern other than what's good for donald trump's reelection both and was called to give evidence from congress held impeachment hearings for donald trump he took legal steps to avoid doing that the democratic leader of the house of representatives says he's no hero telling his stories no president trump is clearly ethically and fit and intellectually

unprepared to be the president of the united states that doesn't seem to matter to . the republicans in the united states senate didn't seem to matter to john bolton he chose royalty over lot over patriotism the trump administration is taking legal action to stop publication of the book which is due to hit the shelves on tuesday but there are many copies already in circulation and it's rare for the court to issue such injunctions in the next few weeks another book on trump is expected to be published it's written by his niece who is also a psychologist and it's expected also to be highly critical of the president alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. still ahead on al-jazeera waiting to return we hear from. stranded abroad because of coronavirus. in mali have joined

the growing movement calling for the president to resign. however we have seen some very heavy rain into parts of central and western europe lots of clouds showing up on the satellite here we have got to live for thundery weather across much of england and wales associated with this area of low pressure lightly packed ice about us here so what we call a flabby area of low pressure and that's why the thunderstorms have been moving very very slowly this is the same in london as you can see on the sign there welcome back i think it's a welcome back to the rain along with the shoppers we have got that wet weather staying in place nothing a little further north which as we go through friday will see some wetter weather continuing over towards the eastern part as well into poland running right down into rumania still pretty warm there in moscow temperatures getting up to around 26

celsius with a chance of water to showers as we go on into the weekend it will cool off a little into moscow as we go through sas stan that rain will turn heavy for a time heavy showers continuing there just around that western side of russia 3 belarus dry weather starts to make its way back in across the british isles but wet weather will sweep in through the 2nd half of the weekend it should turn dry in place to say as we go into next week they stay striker's a good part of northern africa want to showers around northern areas of algeria with more showers for west africa. if you're in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when miss. does that somehow time is aiming to replace america and go around the world college chinese and not that stupid things guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like

a preparation for our 1st president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part one on a jersey you know. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories china has formally filed charges of espionage against the canadians former diplomat michael called reagan businessman michael schiavo or has been how since 2018 their arrest has been seen as a tit for tat response by beijing after canada detained while executive model one general australia's prime minister says the country is being targeted by

a sophisticated cyber attack but scott morrison stopped short of saying who's behind it it dyke is telling all levels of government essential services and critical infrastructure and us secretary of state mike on bail has called former national security advisor john bolton a traitor over his new book end it all to make us president trump of trying to enlist the help of foreign leaders to win reelection. now coronavirus survivors in the democratic republic of congo say they are being ostracised because of the illness there more than $5000.00 confirmed cases in the d.r. c. but there are fears many more may be hiding their symptoms shall a better course. covered 19 checkpoints on the streets of can show are in full sun protection issues survivors here warry it won't be enough for a few people hiding the symptoms of a fear of being ostracized he says yellow stigmatism there's the stigma when you know it's cold but you're stigmatized my children were nicknamed cold it in the

neighborhood they're called corona when a child goes out to buy something from the corner store they call my children corona that's the kind of behavior that drives people into hiding. some congolese are scared of survivors believing they could still spread the virus to unit wants the government to combat ignorance and push people to seek medical help don't want to work and we need to raise awareness and consciousness so that people understand that this is not a disease of shame you can be cured. infection numbers are low in the democratic republic of congo well survivors flag many may be too scared to come food it was also a lack of testing in the 3 months since the 1st case just 900000 tourists have been conducted for a population of 900000000 the world health organization except snit's not unique to the d.l.c. it believes large numbers of infections and covert related deaths are being missed

in africa to new steamboat cash has just recovered from the virus. i am living proof that the disease exists and i will ask people who still have doubts to be very careful because i can prove that i saw that. he's telling his story to educate others the virus should be feared but not its victims dallas. thousands of palestinian stranded abroad because of a pandemic are asking to return home the palestinian foreign ministry says it's working to help some of them but they only border crossing to the occupied west bank has been closed since march because of restrictions. they do so want doesn't know when her husband will come home their houses in nablus in the north of the occupied west bank he finished his ph d. studies in italy and has been stranded there since march he shares recipes with him

through video calls and they try to stay connected the family says it became increasingly difficult when shared his father passed away a couple of weeks ago he says it was already hard enough for him to be studying abroad and his own and his father's death brought immense pain and. i couldn't say goodbye the last image of him was wondering as funeral i watched it online it also hurts me that i can't support my children after this was especially what my father used to live with that shut his grant has come to an end which adds a financial burden on the family but the psychological effects have hit them harder yeah much eric massa want to we couldn't be together during our sadness we are afraid that we won't be able to share our joy we are scared that shaddy will miss our son's high school graduation and. this hole is normally bustling with travelers during the summer time and is almost never empty but now palestinians living locally cannot return home and from abroad ok many palestinians abroad who have

other citizenship to spend their vacation here with friends and family now they can't the majority of palestinians living in the occupied west bank can only travel through a now and crossing with jordan known as the allenby bridge after the 1st coronavirus cases emerged in the region jordan and israel closed that border in march a few 100 have come back already after special co-ordination but more than $6300.00 palestinians are waiting to return most of them are students. their families protested in saying their loved ones have waited long enough. some on social media accused the palestinian authority of neglecting its people now. we are stranded as a country under israeli occupation we don't have airplanes or airports and we rely on other countries to open their borders to let our people in. the foreign ministry

promises to help return those who have been stranded until then families like those are thankful for the technology that is keeping them closer. al-jazeera the occupied west bank. the u.n. mission in colombia says violence remains an issue in some areas of the country despite the coronavirus lock down dozens of former fock rebels and community leaders have been killed since measures began and the government is being criticized for not doing enough to stop the violence. has more from bogota. like many community leaders in rural colombia where they had to flee as farm for a little time after receiving death threats from a paramilitary organization he says he's been trying to protect his community from oil companies wanting to drill or spends almost. we believe in colombia there's still a systematic campaign to exterminate social movements killing a leader has a larger impact and killing 10 people it lowers morale spreads fear and above all

it silences the voices that speak for the community we don't get up on that one time associate by the neda who had fought for alternatives to coca production for subsistence farmers was killed the day the national coronavirus locked down was imposed he was the 1st of many. civil society organizations say that since the start of the quarantine a human rights political or social leader has been killed every other day the worst period since the signing of the peace deal with 5 rebels in 2016 activists say the lockdown has worsened the situation leaving the leaders less protected. these killings have been escalating since mid march is a critical situation. grassroots leaders in remote areas in the getting killed by paul forces interested in the lengthy gold or the cocaine trade.

talking of those who don't want to see the peace deal. to bring more attention. to one of. paper. front page this week into a list of all the leaders killed. there are 446 of them and the list goes on for 3. despite the government assurances to investigate the deaths most end up unsolved a commission for security guarantees the west supposed to work to do. mantle the criminal organizations behind the killings has met only once. been crease of anti-narcotic operations during the pandemic as also worsened the security situation in many areas of the country. and thursday 6 soldiers were ambushed and killed by an armed group. but for 5 b.n. not all dead are equal under the law. when 6 soldiers are killed immediately

serious points from the state during the penn demick we've lost 65 community leaders and it doesn't generate the same kind of response. it's got only as other crisis the like with 19 generates death in fear but that the country seems an able to tackle and listen to them and just you know. a resilient politician at the center of a supreme court investigation has resigned abraham when trump wouldn't discuss his reason for stepping down as education minister but president jade was not as i said he's accepted a job at the world bank it comes a day after the supreme court said it would continue investigating ventra has spotted a case that links paulson are supporters to threats against judges and their families . to mali now as protesters are expected to rally in the coming hours calling for the president to step down it's the latest in a series of demonstrations by opponents of abraham but to accuse him of failing to

control violence by armed groups nicholas hock reports. please. for dockery mama to come are students there is no simple answer to these questions they were 5 years old when armed groups took over in northern mali then president. promised to bring peace nearly a decade later a 1000000 mostly children are displaced the violence is spreading to the center of the country edging towards the capital bamako camara says president has failed to bring peace and he must resign. if you're going to lead these. there were really. what do you call is simply wrong things can continue like this revolt fretting very low and he has to stall making fair for he's a functioning mom. and her liberties he was among tens of thousands of protesters who surrounded the presidential palace on june 5th inside the president

in panic told his security personnel to disperse the crowd behind this movement is an influential cleric named mahmoud who was once an ally of president kaita last year diego told al jazeera that foreign troops in mali needed to leave but stopped short of calling for the president's resignation and if i love food resigning is not the solution today i think the mauling people have to get together ibrahim boubacar cato's one of us the people elected him for 5 years we will respect what has been done by the people we will help him so that he can take the right path. since then attacks by the eisel affiliate islamic state in the greater sahara and al-qaeda have increased and the president is accused of embezzling millions of dollars from state coffers. is calling on people to unite against the president among the protesters are teachers who have not been paid for months displaced families fleeing the violence and the political opposition accusing the president

of cheating during the last parliamentary elections as a response kate a says he's willing to dissolve the newly appointed national assembly and he's offering a pay rise to teachers he's also calling for a unity government to address the growing discontent but for kamara it's too late with no peace in sight he believes president needs to go he says the future of mali is at stake nicholas hawke al-jazeera. the video has a marriage of an interview recorded 4 months ago featuring ray shot and broke some black man shot dead by police in the us city of atlanta last week his death reignited protests triggered initially by the killing of george floyd in custody in may during the interview brooks opened up about his struggles after being in casa rated saying the justice system treats people like animals a former officer who shot rocks has been charged with mental. some of the system

could you know look at us as individuals we do have lives you know we just a mistake we may you know and you know and not just do us as if we're animals me going through their process it's horrid horrid in me at a ploy you know to like hey you know i have to have my my gorup because the world is cruel you know it took me to seeing different thing you know in the system you know it is just makes you hardened to a point you just called me to be behind here yet i'm trying you know i'm not a person to get. you know and i'm a keep going into i make it to where i want to be. you know again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera china has

formally filed charges of espionage against 2 canadians former diplomat michael coles reagan businessman michael spot or have been held since 2018 their arrest has been seen as a tit for tat response by beijing after canada detained while we executive mon wang joel katrina is in beijing with more on the charges. this is the the formal beginning of legal proceedings against the 2 more than $550.00 days after they were arrested and let me just give you the technical charge here for both men michael coverage has been charged with spying on national secrets and providing intelligence to foreign agencies and foreign entities and michael spago has also been charged with spying and providing state secrets to foreign entities now this is not good news because before these formal charges were made there was a chance that procure ations here in china could have thrown out the case against these 2 men and have had them released now that clearly is not going to happen.

australia's prime minister says a country is being targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack by scott morrison stopped short of saying who is behind it it is hitting all levels of government essential services and critical infrastructure u.s. president donald trump a suffered a setback after the supreme court blocked his plans to end a program that protect immigrants children known as 3 missed from deportation the move of young people in the country illegally a temporary way u.s. secretary of state's mike on bail has accused former national security adviser john bolton of being a traitor as reacting to bolton's new both which says president trump try to enlist foreign leaders to win reelection and a brazilian politician at the center of a supreme ford investigation has resigned abraham when trump said he accepted a job at the world bank it comes a day after the supreme court said he would continue investigate coming up next inside story. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession

and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. once again the korean peninsula is on the edge north korea says it will send troops to the demilitarized border and resume military drills after it blew up a liaison office meant to facilitate talks just how bad is it this time and can the tension be contained this is inside story. hello i'm come all sons of maria it was just 2 years ago when the leaders of north korea and south korea agreed to work towards peace they signed

a pact to stop cross border hosty.