when he struck her $600.00 species are going extinct every 24 hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking we want on al-jazeera. china's move to squash hong kong dissent and national security law is passed that could send protest leaders to jail for life. clearly i'm fully back to be a watching al jazeera live from our world headquarters in doha also ahead this is not even close to being over a warning the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is yet to come as many countries rethink their reopening plans. republican politicians

in the u.s. demand action against russia made reports it paid taliban fighters to kill american soldiers. everybody loses the job and britain's prime minister is set to lay out his plan to rescue the 5 john economy we visit one town where unemployment is high to hear what needs to be done. thank you for joining us china's top legislative body has unanimously approved a new national security law to be imposed on hong kong acts of secession subversion terrorism or collusion with foreign forces could lead to a maximum sentence of life in jail critics say the law will be used to stamp out all forms of dissent have been spontaneous protests against the new law it follows months of unrestrained by fear of china's tightening its grip on hong kong the

territory's appeal has a major international financial center stems from its liberal values and independent courts which are now widely perceived to be at risk. escola straight to agent brown in hong kong for reaction agent i understand hong kong's leader carry lamb has been speaking west's has she been saying well she has been speaking but her message was not really directed at hong kong it was directed really to an international audience she sent a video message to a human rights conference organized by the united nations taking place in geneva and essentially it was as you might expect a robust defense of this new national security law she had a few barbs for those countries who've been criticizing this law saying it's an infringement on the one country's 2 systems formula but also threaten human rights and freedom of speech in hong kong she said those countries were essentially being

hypocritical because those countries i'm so have national security laws now earlier on choose day carol lam addressed the media here in hong kong but on that occasion she dodged all questions about this security law she did though attend a meeting at hong kong's central liaison office here in hong kong which is sort of china's defacto embassy where a number of hong kong representatives have now been consulted about this deal because it seems that actually up until a few days ago carol lam herself had not even seen a draft of this legislation according to the local media that there are still a lot of details about this law as you say that are not known but it's a ready having an effect on hong kong's politics a dream. oh absolutely right it's had an immediate and sort of chilling effect joshua warned earlier on tuesday announced that he was retiring from the party he helped to set up joshua one of course one of the most

famous of the pro-democracy activists here in hong kong young pro-democracy activists appears after that the party itself announced that it was desponding and then we heard that 2 other smaller political groups who advocate independence were also dissolved now in many ways that's exactly i think what beijing wants to happen because this law is seen as a warning china is saying you know what are red lines now if you cross those red lines there will be consequences and these are those consequences so i think we're going to see a testing time in the next 24 hours or so because the police have banned one protest group from staging a demonstration on july the 1st that's traditionally the day when there's a large march in hong kong they say that anyone taking part in that march will be taking part in an illegal assembly and will be arrested but some protest groups are

saying they are prepared to test that police ban so july the 1st i think could be potentially potentially a lively day thank you for that adrian adrian brown in hong kong forests yes now here from katrina in beijing she says many people are still waiting for details about the new law. hong kong liaison office in beijing as well as hong kong there is an office in hong kong have been holding parallel closed door meetings officials have gone and those are still taking place we know that hong kong delegates are not to china's national people's congress that is china's polman are in attendance in those meetings and we expect that they are currently being briefed on the details of this new national security law we are yet to hear any announcement from china's state media any confirmation of this but we do know that the legislative affairs commission of the n.p.c. as well as the hong kong office will be holding a press conference wednesday to g.m.t.

that is 10 am local time to announce the details of this national security law to the public so we may have to wait until then to hear more about it certainly if we do that will be a very symbolic for china as that is the anniversary of the handover of hong kong from britain back to the mainland 23 years ago or japan in taiwan armando's condemning the new law by china is brushing concerns aside. china has already made clear its position on the japanese opinion regarding hong kong issues hong kong's affairs a chinese internal affairs that there is no place for foreign interference this improvement of the legal system and its enforcement mechanism for upholding national security in hong kong is in accordance with the one country 2 systems rule . the coronavirus is far from over that's a warning from the world health organization the agency says the pandemic isn't close to being under control as a number of cases continue to search globally the w.h.o.

is sending a team to china next week to investigate the origins of the disease we all know this to be over we all want to get on with our lives but the heart of reality is. this is not even close to being over although many countries have made some progress globally it's the pandemic is actually speeding up all the increase in infections in the u.s. is forcing at least a dozen states and cities to rethink their reopening strategies the country's top expert on infectious diseases bain's people for ignoring health guidelines dr anthony found she has called it a recipe for disaster obvious errors christensen only has more. with long lines for

tests and new coronavirus cases surging texas and other u.s. states that were some of the quickest to reopen for business are now worried that their hospitals are approaching capacity and rethinking their strategy and florida's broward county the famous fort lauderdale beach will be closed for independent state july 4th i'm hearing from our hospitals that there have been a large number of patient influx and if we don't control the spread we might have a situation where we have to ration health care for someone who is ill and that is definitely not a place that we want to be same for california beaches many people. were not necessarily being as responsible as they otherwise as we would like them to be as a relates to practicing physical distance and social distancing people that weren't wearing their face masks and in california and arizona as well as texas they're closing bars and nightclubs after seeing infections rising people under 40 and

masks will now be required in public and all of kansas and in jacksonville florida the city where the republican party plans to hold some of its national convention new york governor andrew cuomo blamed president trump for pushing states to reopen too quickly and called on him to issue an executive order requiring maston public nationwide states that were recalcitrant governors who said we don't need to do this. masks don't work or the political nonsense we heard now they're doing a 180 and you have the same states now wearing masks. he unveiled a model to simulate the mountain of corona virus cases that new york has overcome with new infections and fatality rates now at their lowest levels since the start of the pandemic and continuing to trend downward one leading global health. the expert says the states must act quickly and aggressively if we think about the

things that are really risky most of the states are open when their underlying level of cases was really so high they weren't coming down so i can get in meet the white house's own guidelines experts say even with these new measures in place it may now take weeks to start to see infection rates in these areas decline cristen salumi al-jazeera the white house says it will brief democratic politicians on reports that russia paid taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan democrats were left out of an intelligence briefing on monday the kremlin and the white house are denying the reports alan fisher has more. from the white house podium a denial the president was ever briefed on the so-called bowing to kills the now say this that the u.s. receives thousands of reports a day on intelligence america subject to strict scrutiny while the white house does not routinely comment on alleged intelligence or internal deliberations the cia

director n.s.a. national security adviser in the chief of staff can offer confirm and either the president nor the vice president were briefed on the alleged russian russian bounty intelligence. afghanistan is america's longest war american troops have been there for 19 years and despite talks of a peace deal there's no indication to leave anytime soon america helped contribute weapons to push russia out of the country in the 1980 s. and killed russian mercenaries in syria 2 years ago no according to the new york times it's payback type newspaper says the russians offered cash for kills coalition soldiers and general american soldiers in particular but from the kremlin another denial. 1st of all those statements are laws secondly if in the united states special services are still answerable to the u.s. president then i suggest focusing on president trump statement he really gave an appraisal of those reports he did in

a tweet intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible and therefore did not report to me or v.p. possibly another fabricated russia hoax that says the white house explains why there has been no response from the american side the story didn't stand up on capitol hill lawmakers have demanded an intelligence be focused on who knew what and when and if the president was in fact briefed intelligence sources tell media outlets not only is the information solid it was given to the highest level of the white house but there's still a lot of unanswered questions remain unanswered there lies a potential risk to a president who's had a difficult relationship with russia from even before he took office alan fischer al jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera why the israeli prime minister's front to annex the occupied west bank maybe on homes. afraid of potentially of this

proportion and ethiopia's dam disputes with sudan in egypt take center stage at the u.n. . and of. much of the end of asia lots of. as we go through wednesday the rains will be gathering around the gulf of thailand very heavy across cambodia on it towards vietnam scattered showers throughout the philippines and some heavy downpours into northern and western areas of borneo a bit of a paint really all those day the shadows a still very heavy across born here but also because. heavier calls into pseudo se much more scattered across the many peninsula sumatra and down across into java aftermaths was australia and new zealand in this rather windy weather system working its way across the great by pushing across into the southeast of australia

that will be arriving at throughout wednesday some fairly brisk winds that mostly clear across both islands of new zealand then we've got caring conditions widens day on thursday across western australia 19 degrees on thursday with sunny skies in between the class but again are all the west's on a windy day across much tasmania and in particular victoria this system on its way across that the tasman say now the next few days in both islands of new zealand how much is going to be on the low side below the average for this time of year is showers as you can see of the next couple days in christ church time which is below freezing in the overnight hours and also they will be snow to the mountains to the north and the south island. is a popular filming location in france when it comes to stories about drugs crime and radicalization tired of negative stereotypes. it's nanny do you mean it's reclaiming gets in the edge by putting its younger incidents behind the camera.

this truth be don't often hear. by the people who them. in movies but this is you out on al-jazeera. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera china's top legislative body has unanimously approved in national security law for hong kong it will make acts of dissent illegal with heavy penalties for those who break the law critics say this is beijing's way of washing dissent. the w.h.o.

is warning the coronavirus is far from being under control as cases continue to search globally there's been a recent spike in the u.s. and the country's top expert on infectious diseases says that's because people are ignoring social distancing guidelines and the white house says democrats will be briefed on reports that russia paid taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan it's been revealed senior officials knew about the allegations months ago but the president says he wasn't informed. now there are reports that israel's top leaders from minister benjamin netanyahu and his main coalition partner benny gantz are at odds about the country's planned onyx ation of the occupied west bank it's now was said to move forward with the plan as early as this week but gans says a priority should be on fighting coronavirus harry fossett has more on this from jerusalem. benny gantz isn't yet coming out with an absolutely firm declaration of his party and his own position on this but he has been in recent days been giving

hints at least pretty broad ones that he wants to see at least a delay in any immediate moves on friday he released a statement talking about his parameters among which were ensuring that any palestinians who would be subject to annex a sion living in to be annexed lands would get equal rights saying that he would advance bilateral moves with palestinians if an exception were to proceed and then on monday in talks with senior u.s. officials who are here ahead of this july the 1st state which is the 1st state from which netanyahu can move ahead with annexation plans he said in that he said to them at that date was not sacred and later in the day saying that everything that isn't to do with fighting the coronavirus can wait until after the coronavirus now netanyahu came back against that pretty sharply almost immediately saying that blue and white the party of dance was not really

a major factor in annexation again in talks this morning tuesday morning with the u.s. official brian hook the envoy on iran affairs at the meeting on iran during a brief statement ahead of that he said that there were some things that were important enough even to talk about and deal with during coronavirus making a pretty broad illusion that. now the french president has accuse its nato ally turkey of criminal responsibility for its intervention in libya turkish forces have been assisting the un recognized government in pushing back the forces of warlord highly for halftime france which has been accused of supporting have to assess turkey's involvement is undermining diplomatic efforts to stabilize the country and end the conflict with the art of annoying so you're going to be the 1st external interventionist in libya is turkey and i think that today it doesn't respect any of the commitments taken during the burden conference it has strengthened its military presence in libya and has massively imported jihadi combatants from syria i think

this is a historical and criminal responsibility for someone who is said to be a nicer member. police in bangladesh are filed charges against 7 people over a ferry accident on monday at least $33.00 people died and several are still missing the owner and captain of the boat that cause it to capsize face murder charges the ferry was carrying nearly 100 people on board when it was struck by a larger vessel and capsized in the. age of tests all the united nations it faces an existential threat from a hydroelectric dam that ethiopia is building on the blue nile river if yoga is expected to start filling the grand renaissance down with water next month diplomatic editor jane space reports from un headquarters in new york this massive dam project has been a long running source of regional tension but is the date for if you start filling the now completed down nears its becoming

a major crisis with international dimensions it was the us that called for the 1st security council meeting on the issue of to being urged to do so but egypt which relies on the oil for 90 percent of its water use. the marker or wood. is the group of consequence people. and requires like our efforts to combat this global pandemic a commitment to uphold the theory of cooperation and to recognize that no nation is an island unto itself but the theo puno ambassador countered that the un was not the place to discuss this the speed let me be clear that he doesn't believe the issues being discussed really has a legitimate list in the security council it is bound to set a buyout precedent and open a pandora's box this council should not be

a forum for exerting diplomatic pressure if you're in a dispute with the choice of mediators you probably choose the one that you think is going to give you the best result diplomats believe egypt gambled on internationalizing this conflict hoping that the presence of the u.s. a permanent member of the security council with a veto would help its case for now that hasn't worked. this weekend the african union convened fresh talks and many council members believe it's those efforts that should take priority for now although the dispute is becoming angrier one analyst says he believes it's unlikely any of the countries involved will resort to force ultimately especially in the long run the only way through egypt to secure those supplies is by cooperation with its upstream neighbors very much including you know if this escalated into any form of conflict it's going to make

it much much ward difficult for the parties to overcome the remaining obstacles to reaching an agreement on that and it really could set back relations in the long term at the end of the meeting both egypt and ethiopia asked for the floor again disputing the other's position when the diplomats believe the only way to resolve things is for all 3 countries egypt ethiopia and sudan to return to the negotiating table and make concessions in this dispute no one's going to get exactly what they want james al-jazeera at the united nations. now for the 1st time in belgium's history a king has expressed regret for his colonial rule over what is now the democratic republic of congo king felipe of knowledge that acts of violence and cruelty were committed he said the wounds of the past were still being felt the message was sent to the congolese president felix just a kitty on the country's 60th anniversary of independence from belgium a belgium's king leopold sees parts of central africa in 1905 and run it for

personal profit historians say as many as 10000000 people died during his rule from murderous starvation or disease after his ownership of congo ended in 1008 he handed the country over to the belgian state several statues of leopold have been vandalized or torn down in recent weeks as part of protests against racism that during a belgium's colonial rule mixed race children were kidnapped from their families and placed in orphanages 5 of them have filed a lawsuit against the belgian state accusing it of crimes against humanity their lawyer says babies born to belgian and congolese parents were known as shoulder and of shame. that didn't want to see it comes back again so much that it remains angut painful when we were small we did not realize because we lived we survived in a way off to with distance it is painful and much of the english hospitality sector

is due to reopen on saturday but probs and restaurants in one city will remain closed for an extended period government officials have recommended the current lockdown measures stay in place unless for an extra 2 weeks due to a surge in covert 1000 cases john a whole report some mess. in the english midlands the 1st major test of the government's ability to deal with post blocked outbreaks of coronavirus. enhanced testing here has revealed worrying numbers almost 900 new cases in just 2 weeks with clusters detected recently reopened schools a supermarket and a sandwich factory there are concerns the disease is spreading through multigenerational households in the cities large asian community i've been hearing of entire families being affected by 19 and clearly this requires us to take extra caution back to where we are with regards to proper lockdown see how we can.

prevent the spread of this virus and i hope that the government will take note of such a kind of scenario and give us guidelines with large parts of the economy said to reopen on july the 4th the lockdown in leicester is instead being extended and strengthened with schools and non-essential shops having to close again but local officials have complained that there isn't sufficient data upon which to base an appropriate response the government themselves in this report that acknowledged readily when you do more testing you get more positives the levels of testing are a few 100 per day and in a city that has a population in the whole urban area of the best part of $600000.00 only a very small proportion of the people in the city are actually being tested and as a result of that it's very difficult to draw conclusions about the presence of the

virus within the community that may point to an essential floor in prime minister boris johnson's plan to reopen the economy safely. the contact tracing doesn't seem to be happening as well as it should be of new again there are various reasons although we do need those super tight just trace selection policy will need them can we continue such look at the government's test trace and isolate program is supposed to be the ultimate safeguard against localized outbreaks like this one in leicester spreading out of control but while testing numbers have greatly improved there are still big gaps in contact tracing and an app designed specifically to help has now been delayed until the autumn that's why accurate data is lacking about exactly where the lister outbreak may have originated or where it's heading next and why scientists have warned that the lockdown in england has been eased too

fast too soon jonah hill al-jazeera leicester and the british prime minister will outline how his government plans to restock the economy in a few hours they are fears an employment could rise to levels not seen since the 1980 s. in the wake of coronavirus lawrence seaway force on the iran devalue in south wales where they are now more than 60 people chasing every job. every shouted shop every collapsed business tells a story of lost hope there's barely a soul around volleyed hasn't had a single customer all day so he's closing early if not. all raise. but. they're going to help. give you. 34 months this is ok. if you know losing everything everybody lose their job. used to be thriving the largest coal seam in britain led to the villages being

built around the mines but it's all been gone for 40 years and the community is a stranded there are now $63.00 people chasing every job here is the 2nd highest unemployment rate in the entire u.k. boris johnson's government was elected on an express promise to what he called level up provide vast amounts of financial support to the left behind communities around the u.k. like this and that was in december before the virus even came in all that's done is to massively amplify enormous problems that were already there many of these places don't even have a railway line connecting them to the big cities but even if that's what the government side via of infrastructure spending looks like it's directly at odds with what the rhonda says it really needs which is a new sustainable local economy to replace the one that disappeared we've suffered in the past where jobs have been created by large companies are coming in and taking grants and exploited no wage labor and then up sticks and left as soon as

the economic conditions change if we were able to invest in people owning their own businesses in the form of cooperatives people actually own in the means of production then they more likely to stay in these communities and i see no reason it or why government can't be investing in that way now and what will johnson do to immediately replace all those jobs lost in the. 1st half of this year big infrastructure plans take years to get off the ground if you want economics to represent a kind of the centralized inclusive britain then you have to think other than just spend money on projects it's all about ensuring communities can be sustainable and thrive and people can find prosperity in a very part of every kind of community in every city in every region of the u.k. goes a long way beyond pouring concrete the economic situation in places like this is so dire that arguably anything is better than nothing but if what's on offer is

something like a new railway line to get people out it isn't the same as finding ways they can stay largely al-jazeera in the role of early one of the biggest say in the world is fighting for its survival sic just so they is set to file for bankruptcy protection at quebec superior court in canada on tuesday has been forced to cancel all its shows around the world because of the pandemic the montreal's based firm says it will cut $3500.00 jobs that's 95 percent of its staff. now again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera china's top legislative body has unanimously approved in national security law for hong kong it will make acts of dissent illegal with heavy penalties for those who break the law beijing bypath the territory's legislature to impose the law on county for

executive carry nam says since last june the territory has been traumatized by escalating violence found by external forces. no central government could turn a blind eye to such threats to suffer n.t. and national security as well as results of the ship of state powell all in all these acts have crossed the one country red line and called for resolute action as the highest organ of state power in china the national people's congress has to constitutional and the duty to elect national security legislation for the hong kong as a all w.h.o. is warning coronavirus is far from being under control as cases continue to surge globally there's been a recent spike in the u.s. and that's forcing at least a dozen states and cities to rethink their reopening strategies as a u.k. prepares to lift more restrictions the city of leicester will remain under lockdown prime minister boris johnson has ordered all schools and non-essential stores to

shut after a recent spike in cases a new local measures will be revealed in 2 weeks the white house says democrats will be briefed on reports that russia paid taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan they were initially left out of a briefing on monday it's been revealed that senior officials knew about the allegations months ago but president says he wasn't informed and they are reports that israel's top leaders prime minister binyamin it's now and his main coalition partner benny gantz are at odds about the country's brand an extension of the occupied west bank as you know was said to move forward with the plan as early as this week but gantt says the priority should be on fighting the coronavirus pandemic those are the headlines on al jazeera nick will be reviewing under 30 minutes right after this is europe stay with us. 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. was looking at. the law this.