al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. there are this is a new life and coming up in the next 60 minutes. china's new power to quash hong kong dissent a national security law will come into force within hours. the call for a 1000000 man march in sudan protesters want faster reform from the transitional government. u.s. politicians demand action as russia denies paying taliban fighters in afghanistan

to kill american soldiers. even if. we visit a town in britain where work is becoming increasingly scarce. outlines his plan to rescue the economy and his for the africa cup of nations has been postponed by you to coronavirus the consonance biggest sporting event in cameroon in 2022. all right then china is about to impose a new security law on hong kong 23 years after it took back control and promised a one country 2 systems policy well it's now been signed by president xi jinping and will be enforced in the coming hours and i think it defines as acts of secession subversion terrorism or collusion with foreign forces could lead to life in prison critics say the law will be used to stamp out all forms of dissent. there

have already been spontaneous protests in hong kong and some opposition parties have announced that they are disbanding the u.k. the e.u. japan and taiwan have all criticized the more but china has dismissed their concerns as interference in internal affairs let's get reaction straight away out of hong kong major brown is live for us there and adrian so we've heard from the chief executive kerry and what she had to say. well kerry was addressing not so much the people of hong kong she was projecting her words to an international audience that's to say a gathering of human rights delegates at a conference in geneva organized by the united nations again interesting time in the kerry should be addressing this conference on this of all days now jury in her address to these delegates she wanted to assure them that hong kong's freedoms would remain she said that this new law would not be applied retroactively and she said that this was

a law there was going to make hong kong's legal system so much better let's listen more to what the chief executive had to say no central government could turn a blind eye to such threats to suffer n.t. and national security as well as results of their ship of state power or in or these acts have crossed the one country red line and called for a wrestler to action as the highest organ of state power in china the national people's congress has to constitutional power and the duty to enact national security legislation for the hong kong as they are so a journey the law is only just been signed but it's already having its effect in hong kong. you know that's right this law could take effect in just a few hours time certainly in time for the july the 1st handover anniversary of course that happening exactly 23 years ago yes it has been having a chilling and immediate political impact here in hong kong joshua wang the young

leader of the pro-democracy demo sisto party has announced he's resigning from the party but then just a few hours after that the party announced it was dissolved 2 other smaller political groups that have advocated independence for hong kong of also announced they're being disbanded so the mood here is i suppose depending on who you talk to it's a mood of commiseration on one side celebration on the other when we spoke to ordinary people rather try to speak to ordinary people in the streets of hong kong today nobody wanted to offer a view about this new law a few days ago i met a guy 43 years old 2 children married he's planning to leave hong kong joining the brain drain he didn't want to give his name because he's worried about the impact that would have on his application to leave the country for canada and of course he has his family here but he said that talking to me he felt like a criminal

a dissident and the fact that he felt compelled to say that is a measure of the atmosphere we now have in hong kong but of course we don't really know what's going to happen that the devil is in the detail on this floor it is a vast floor that extends to many pages and the coming months weeks days as i say will determine whether this is simply just a warning to groups in hong kong who have been calling for independence secession or whether china is really going to carry through with this or a journey of their ferment agent brown reporting from hong kong. to sudan now where security forces have used tear gas against protesters demanding economic and political reform. yes activists organize marches right across the country to paul pressure on the transitional government some are calling for justice for those killed in the violent dispersal of the sit in last year supporters of the former president. also holding

a rifle or rallies let's speak now to have a morgan who's in the sudanese capital of culture human just monitoring events. the 1st anniversary of the power sharing deal between the military and civilians so it's more about what's going on. well nicholas 1st of all be clear this is not the 1st anniversary of the power sharing agreement between the protest movement and the transitional ministry council president i want to share but this is the 1st anniversary of the 30th of june protests that took place last year which forced the protest movement and the transitional minutes relievers to come together to negotiate an agreement which was eventually signed in august 29th seen now protesters have taken to the streets today after days of calls and mobilization by various political actors and civil society actors including the sudanese professional association now that's the body that has been spearheading calls for protests since december 28th which eventually led to the overthrow of president i'm

going bashir protesters are saying that the revolution is incomplete that there are so many things they've been demanding since the beginning of the revolution that has not been achieved including justice for the people who were killed during demonstrations and during the sit in during the attack on the sit in on june 3rd they're also saying that their demands of the civilian government is incomplete because there is no legislative kindly transitional a transitional legislative assembly and there are no civilian governors so lots of demands by process that we're also seeing some members some supporters of the former ruling party taking part in those protests the together with those who are demanding the correction as they say correction of the south of the revolution they're saying that the economic situation has not improved in fact it has deteriorated so they're demanding that the government step down and bring power back to the former ruling party supporters. the former president are also holding these rival protests. how much support is this bill for bush years.

what we've seen over the past few months are several 100 thinking to the street thing that again because of the economic situation they feel like the government has failed and that the former going to party should come back to power or that the military should take complete control so it's obvious that the former ruling party does still have support on the ground but if you look at the turnout for when they called for protest and for that and look at the turnout today which is nationwide it's clear that people morsy support the transitional government now they have repeated that this is not a call to overthrow this is a call to make sure that the government is pressurized to make sure that the demands of the revolution of freedom justice and peace is met and is implemented as for the goals of the revolution or have a thanks for that update here morgan speeches from car to. putting more still ahead here on the including unprecedented acknowledgment from the king a belgian those countries don't pass. the israeli prime minister's plans to annex the occupied west bank may be on hold. because coming up to the 1st

challenger for a place in next year's america's cup it's arrived in new zealand. so donald trump's relationship with vladimir putin is again being scrutinized after russia denied making bounty payments to taliban fighters in afghanistan to kill u.s. soldiers the u.s. director of national intelligence says the allegations were still being investigated president trump said he wasn't told of the intelligence reports because they were deemed to be credible. rubble it's a little bit we can speak to a white house correspondent kimberly harkat so kimberly 1st what's the white house been saying about its allegations. yeah well the white house is briefing democratic members of congress at least a select group just hours after it did the same thing for republicans late on

monday evening but in the midst of all of this the white house continues to deny that the president was briefed about this alleged scheme by russia to pay the taliban linked fighters to essentially kill u.s. service members in afghanistan now well the white house is denying that the president was briefed on this to intelligence officials anonymously have come forward saying that they in fact briefed the president about this that the president knew about this in the least late february and also that this was included in the president's daily intelligence briefing and in fact this was considered to be so serious that this was disseminated more broadly to the wider intelligence community as late as it may now the focus of this has really been a concern that this scheme may have in fact led to the deaths of at least 3 americans in afghanistan following a car bomb attack that went back to a full of 2019 now the taliban is denying involvement russia has also denied

involvement through a spokesperson for the russian president vladimir putin but we can tell you that in fact the white house is instead of sort of trying to say that it knew anything about this is tot trying to discredit this story in fact really pushing back on the source of these leaks saying that they jeopardize national security and also the pentagon saying that it is investigating and says so far it has no corroborating evidence to validate these allegations. how serious is this food donald trump who are you pretty good at sweeping stuff aside isn't he is this something he can do this time round. oh it's just goes back to what you alluded to at the start of the segment it's this ongoing * question with donald trump and his relationship with russia and that is what many of the questions are coming from and not just democratic members of congress but also some concerns coming from republican members of congress they say that they remain very concerned about russian activity

in afghanistan they say they need more details more briefings and that they want to vigorously pursue this situation and democrats are saying they want to know what specifically the president knew when he knew it and they want all members of congress to know this information they really just once again sort of ask that lingering question that has haunted donald trump from the beginning of his administration and that is why is he not tougher on russia and given these revelations if they are proven to be true will he hold the russian president to account or it can be things where much of it can be how could there the white house that is the u.s. perspective let's get the other side of the russian perspective puzzle folks in how as defense military analyst and columnist for the know you because i tell you joins us now from moscow. the russian side of the crimean also denying this of course so tell us more about the position. well moscow is denying very very with a lot of energy a lot of emphasis that this is

a fake story that this is a provocation by the democrats by and the mare russian forces in the united states and basically the moscow officials in the moscow press are very much quote president from band the white house who are also discrediting the story and saying that this is not cooperated that this is not true and that has been the moscow line that we never did then you such things and this is just a lie a provocation aimed that trump and that russia at the same time is it the sort of thing that could happen in the theater of war that a military intelligence unit would offer taliban linked militants bounties to kill u.s. troops could happen. well it's not clear from where this information actually came possibly there were some or

a force that this could be. taliban prisoners during interrogation giving up such a story where there was a true and was it not it's not easy to actually prove and the pantry russia actually didn't want the americans to move out of ghana stand didn't want them to have an agreement with the taliban and those trying to sabotage such an agreement that could be a plausible story theoretically but was it really happening or not that's a different thing there are different kind of interactions between different forces in the field in afghanistan and rather strange bedfellows actually sometimes appears they're right these ongoing questions about donald trump and his relationship with vladimir putin his relationship with russia how is that viewed within russia itself that what the people make of the.

donald trump is seeing as kind of basically pro russian though his rule has be very cruelly to say so and hopes that were in the beginning in 60 end of $1617.00 that there's going to be. some kind of major rip pressure between washington and moscow never materialized no one is accepting that and they're hoping for that but if he is ripped waste by a democratic administration by your obeid nary wonder stands that true ation ships' of washington most likely will take a serious turn to the worse but again russian officials say that they relations are right now so bad it's hard to make them much worse than they are already been a could get worse couldn't it because this could spiral and the president met with some republicans yesterday meeting democrats today and the republicans and they

expressed alarm that this sort of thing might have happened in calling for action to be taken against president putin and against russia well there can be more serious sanctions against russia from during his rule actually is talking a lot about sanctions and there were legislation passed by congress but nothing really that much happened the man the very serious sanctions the last ones were in december 16 by the outgoing bomb administration so yes there could be sanctions that get it russia. the russian financial sector and that's understood that there are things could get worse it's a bit of a broad when russian officials say they can't get worse so they can and they would pummel 'd appreciate that pavel felgenhauer from the vehicles at the thank you very much. now the u.k.'s prime minister johnson says the britons cannot continue to be

in his words a prisoners of the coronavirus crisis he's outlined his vision for boosting the devastated because to me after the pandemic the full roadmap will be unveiled next week but he says it focuses on attracting investment not cutting spending we must work fast because we've already seen the vertiginous drop in g.d.p. and we know that people are worried now about their jobs and their businesses and we're waiting as if between the flash of lightning and the thunder clap with our hearts in our mouths for the full economic reverberations to appear. well there are affairs unemployment in the u.k. could rise to levels not seen since 1980 s. in the wake of the pandemic now there is largely now brings us the story of the u.k.

town with the 2nd highest unemployment rate in the country he reports from the run valley in south wales where there are now more than 60 people chasing every job every shuttered shop every collapsed business tells a story of last hope there's barely a soul around volleyed hasn't had a single customer all day so he's closing early it's not that somebody closing down this shop. all with. but. they're going to help us. do you pretend it's for 34 months this is ok. if you know you lose everything everybody lose their job. randa valley 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 communities are 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 here 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 dhea of infrastructure spending looks like it's directly at odds with what the run the 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're more likely to stay in these communities and i see no

reason it or why government comp 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 centralized inclusive britain then you have to turn the other than just spend money on projects it's all about ensuring communities can be sustainable and thrive and people can find prosperity in every 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 wrong. so the king of belgium has for the 1st time

in the country's history expressed what he calls his deepest regrets for colonial rule in africa king felipe acknowledged that acts of violence and cruelty were committed and the wounds are still being felt in what is now the democratic republic of congo his message was sent to president for the security on the 60th anniversary of independence for belgium's king leopold seize part of central africa in 885 and run it for personal profit historians say as many as 10000000 people died during his rule for murder starvation or disease after his ownership of congo ended in 1800 of the country over to the belgian state several studies of leopold have been vandalized or torn down in recent weeks as part of protests against racism during belgians 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 and lawyers says babies born to belgium congolese parents were known as children of shame because i. didn't want to see it comes back again so much that it remains

ankit painful when we were small we did not realize because we lived we survived in a way off to with distance it is painful. let's speak now to benedict who is a historian and a congolese political activist joins us now from geneva benedict's welcome to the program so we have this the king expressing regrets but does that go far enough. thank you for having me i think that is are not an art because we cannot just stop there. maybe excuses are a beginning but we need to make we need to think the story and we need to try to teach the story about what happened in the congo and unfortunately when we look at belgian there is no sign of the government or the belgians

themselves to try to charm dissent while art that story was what it called in their lives and to african people and congolese people here in particular within the d r c itself what is the sense there of the colonial past of the relationship for people with the colonial past. well we need to go back in history a little bit i didn't dependence what happened in a stat we tired. of st that's where we moved in one 169611264. the cities were renamed also and the statues all the emergency of our communities and was taken away by what happened in a certain way is sad all the all all that imagery from colonial lives and was we experienced. the structures of power in the congo realized i actually

very much on the lee of portland state and the it's gone until today so it is quite difficult for congolese people to really reflect on but in particular because education. is a disaster and that memory is not contradicted and at least people didn't have to put in it until march and write their holy history so it is difficult to reflect on those issues and of the congolese state today didn't take time to really try to tackle those problems right so it's about education within within the r.c. but also outside of course the reeducation you give you it into school curriculums . belgium and you're really across the world. yes i think so because what is interest saying with all what happened in the world after the death of our

george florida is sad the world was confronted with the question of racism and then racism has a long history that begins with slavery and unfolds until today so in a sense what happened in belgium world with those that choose being boxed up is that the african diaspora or the belgian that have held a congolese army or congolese people living in that particular space. found a way to challenge that now or to leave about colonization and also challenge in the rest of the experience in belgium and it was of course are i think natural to address. the figure of new york called the 2nd. the beacon of fatalities subjugation and exploitation. very she talking to benedict's do

appreciate your time ability to enjoy good talking to us there from geneva thank you thank you. time for the weather now it's we're getting into the while farsi is not we yeah it is across the southwest the u.s. embassy and they've been burning for a while actually there not that bad at the moment let me just say but yeah it's been hot it's been very dry and i think particularly windy and actually this region here across the southwest in particular the 4 corners region we got to thunderstorms elsewhere but actually some of these thunderstorms across northern sections of the 4 corners have actually produced a light and cause no rain with it so some of the lightning has actually produced some of the fires that have a look at this is colorado this is a fire that actually did mean residents locally had to be evacuated from their homes nobody was injured and in fact the firefighters managed to protect the structures and then look at this massive fire you'll notice all these fires the most do get names of the people know what's being talked about this one in nevada huge 500000 acres only 10 percent is actually contained and then look at this is

huge plane dumping the fire retardant on this particular fire that actually started along the sides of a big interstate now as i say as we go through tuesday it's actually not too bad across this region the winds are beginning to ease we could again have some lightning some dry lightning we call it across the northern areas but in actual fact is going to be through the central plains where the heat really is on we've got the rain the thunderstorms the southeast we've got some very strong storms potentially across the northern section and then in between we've got this very very warm throughout wednesday those storms are likely to really develop across the southeast and as i say meanwhile across central areas we have got the heat very much in play. but you very much know the increase in corona virus infections of the united states it's forcing at least a dozen states to rethink their strategies to reopen businesses america's leading expert on infectious diseases blames people for ignoring health guidelines thrown to the front she is warning that ignoring social distancing or not wearing a mask is a recipe for disaster kristen salumi 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 well 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 masks and 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 fees are really risky most of the states open when their underlying level of cases was really so high they weren't coming down so i think it is 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 kristen salumi al-jazeera. a lot more still ahead here on al-jazeera it's not safe to go home we meet some of the 10s of thousands of people who fled killings and kidnappings an armed group in northern mozambique. why mango farmers in pakistan are facing a better harvest. in sports sporting makes a big minutes in the institute in the portuguese me talking plenty will be here with.

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but again you're watching auxerre our mind about top stories this hour and china is about to impose a new security law on hong kong that's 23 years after to control and promised a one country 2 systems policy the president xi jinping has signed into law but it's fair it will erode hong kong resorts on the me. security forces in sudan have fired tear gas at protesters demanding reforms from the transitional government supporters of deposed president and i'll bashir holding a rifle ronnie's. britain's prime minister says the british people cannot continue to be prisoners of the coronavirus crisis johnson says the recovery of the economy

will focus on a try to investment not more austerity. israel's leaders reported to be at all it's about the planned annexation of parts of the occupied west bank the prime minister benjamin netanyahu was set to move forward within the next 24 hours but benny gantz says their priority should be on fighting coronavirus let's get more on this from hard force it who's in at west jerusalem and harry obvious tensions between netanyahu and benny gantz over this. how is it going to develop. well yes differing messages coming from both of them we've just heard from benjamin netanyahu he's finished his talks with the u.s. envoy berkovitz who's been here for the last few days for discussions with senior israeli is also known to have not run of talks the israeli at the u.s. ambassador david friedman as well and netanyahu tweeting that that he'd had these

talks on the issue of as israelis call it extending sovereignty to parts of the west bank and that the work is continuing and would continue in the coming days so perhaps a signal that nothing major may well be announced on the 1st day available to netanyahu to start making moves on an exception july the 1st as for benny gantz he again has been saying that the priorities should lie elsewhere in a t.v. interview he said that the 1000000 people who'd be left unemployed during the coronavirus economic consequences and the problems that the pandemic had caused in that arena that they weren't worried about annexation and the government should commit itself to working on the economy netanyahu again saying that the government could handle both dealing with the coronavirus of the economic consequences while at the same time acting on other important matters namely or at least very broadly

hinted at being an expression so the 2 men are very much at odds they've also been arguing about netanyahu legal case he's been told by the attorney general that he can't have a $2900000.00 gift from a wealthy friend in order to fight his case whereas gantz has been has been saying that the judiciary should not be defeated with netanyahu has been accusing the attorney general of overstepping his bounds and having a conflict of interest so there is a real separation between these 2 men at the heart of the israeli government the question is exactly. how that will be viewed by the united states whether it still wants consensus between them before it can greenlight any onyx ation going forward and this is a kind of intractability very much result of the power sharing deal isn't it was it you imagine that if benjamin netanyahu was on his own that he was the sole prime minister then things would be very much proceeding on july 1st more

well that's right and even within the power sharing deal netanyahu does have the rights or at least the ability to go ahead there is no explicit veto that is given to benny gantz and his blue and white party and netanyahu said as much very openly on monday saying that they're not a factor in whether we go ahead with an extension it is up to us and the united states in the deal netanyahu can bring an accession to the cabinet and or to the israeli parliament so he has 2 separate routes he can bypass dance but the question is whether the u.s. will stand by the indications that had been making the leaks that had come out suggesting that it wanted to see a consensus within the israeli government before it would go ahead and green light an exception also on the genders whether netanyahu will publicly commit himself to the other half of the annexation deal as far as the trump plan is concerned. mainly

a palestinian state even one which the palestinians say is not sufficient and very much constricted and not within the bounds of what they would accept it is nonetheless a palestinian state and those to the right have not and you know don't even want to see that so will the americans one allow for an expression without a full and explicit commitment to that and 2 will they allow an expression without a full consensus between gantz and netanyahu that's what we'll be looking out for in the coming days we'll see how things develop harry for meantime thanks very much indeed harmful so there must have been. journalist accused of spying and instigating protests in iran 3 years ago has been sentenced to death. run a channel on the popular messaging at telegram he used the platform to post videos and information about protests in the country arrested in 2019 after returning from paris where he lived in exile ethiopian prime minister is calling for calm after a popular singer was shot dead thousands of fans followed. him to protest against

his killing the police are investigating what happened to the notion he's known for political songs about the rights of the oram of people. ethiopia's largest ethnic group that they've often complained about discrimination in. the army and northern mozambique is struggling to stop attacks by fighters affiliated to weisel hundreds of people have been killed and 200000 have fled their homes in a couple of delgado province in the past 3 years and soldiers sent to confront the fighters battling for an islamic state have been accused of abuses now where is this report. beheadings kidnappings and torching of homes is what these people fled now they live in this camp in northern maine. an armed group has been attacking village. province nearly 3 years. the boys nearby not only it was about 5 in the afternoon when the attackers came

and started burning houses i ran with my wife and i shot her they killed her in front of me i managed to escape they came with guns and machetes and started burning houses. he's been fighting back but information is scarce journalists and research is found in the conflict zone arrested. so social media videos like this one film by a soldier can be seen from outside. and i haven't been going well for the army. posted by fighters from the group chose a military vehicle they captured. 2 years the group attacked only remote villages and said nothing. then 3 months ago he started attacking and briefly occupying towns in this message a fight of rejects the government and calls people to fight on the run i still flag

i still is claimed responsibility for some of the attacks it's not clear if there's any real link between the groups but it is clear there are deep local grievances. mozambique's growing oil and gas industry is part of it one of the world's largest natural gas reserves has been found off the coast of copper delgado oil companies have moved in but people have remained poor was analysts say years of government neglect in the province have proved toxic. tended. to state. just the international. companies. and. communities particularly in the u.s. that. the army's response hasn't always helped here the soldier filming orders

others to set fire to an enemy camp yes soldiers have been accused of executing any man they suspect of collaborating with the armed group of the army and the government didn't respond to our request for comment. as the violence escalates more people flee there's little support in the camps and a shortage of food but it's not safe to go home malcolm webb al-jazeera. from david autor who's a security consultant to specializes in counterterrorism and organized crime and he says that the group has been increasingly successful. they have activated themselves in the slavic states and now pre-teen in the know being part of a couple of you've got a problem you know why they've taken over a lot of the territory in most about cryo that of course you understand the nature of this territory one that. was one of about

3000 kilometers it's also a natural forest region and you don't think when someone if one interval it will be consumed you will you know probably you know have given piece of them as a human. kind of perceive him and the creating somehow like you know the wave around the gun breaking in rome in nigeria in the in the compound they have the incident teach you out to recruit we did this region there's a lot of multimillion companies around that and creating these we don't have someone being to trial they receive. you know well you know guys you know one of the most reaches we can you know if i may say i think what they you know the president you know a president that live in music should do it by wearing new cannot be soon learned that these are going to do anything great finish to you is to hit back and you know perhaps how equal that's a human need that the nigerian government and that you're in defense ministry i'm

especially on that you will promise that we scorn the fighting against what we're around in a similar way you cannot get a right price and i think they need to have that kind of an african populace so you know what is happening in mozambique. now been harmful practices against women and girls undermining gender equality that's what the un's population fund said in a new report young girls in some developing countries are still being forced into marriage an estimated 650000000 girls and women were married as children while there's been a years long campaign to end female genital mutilation nearly 4100000 girls and women are still at risk and more than 140000000 females are missing as a consequence of gender bias this is resulted in forced abortions abandonment or nutrition and lack of education and there are now physical of it 19 is delaying prevention programs to stop these practices let's take this on we can speak to the

tali condom who's executive director of the united nations population fund and she joins us now from brooklyn new york natalia condom welcome to the program but this report really does make you reading especially given well for one this campaign to end female genital mutilation which has been going on for some time. is still not having the effect that you would want it what is it $4100000.00 girls and women still at risk it will countries and regions is that. well thank you nic you know the harm that these practices do is discrimination not just for today but it's trauma for a lifetime and female genital mutilation is one that we need to break the silence on it is prevalent primarily in africa a country like to duty or good or mali where more than 90 percent of women have had the. practice however numerically a country like indonesia because of the big population size and because girls under

the age of 11 half of them have undergone f.g. i am also contributes and people move and culture moves so in fact even in europe in the americas we see this practice there was another statistic that was just read out actually that was interesting and i disliked it is a bit more about the fact that more than 140000000 females a missing as a consequence of gender bias can explain that a bit well absolutely you know. girls are equal to voice men and women are equal but this is an every statute the united nations the pope's however the son preference that is evident in so many places around the world leads to decisions and technology as an aider and abettor of a decision as to whether or not a girl male or female foetus will survive so as we look at the world population

today knowing that normally there is a balance between men and women male and female we see that fully 114000000 females are missing when we look at the world population census this is deep seated inequality that has to change then by missing the mean they weren't allowed to exist. well in fact now what we see is whether in a rural area or in an urban area with techniques like ultrasound to detect whether the fetus is male or female selective abortion against girls is occurring sadly infanticide against baby girls is still occurring in this world and even the normal sense of duty a woman will have a 4th 5th and 6th child to please whoever it is in the family that feels if you don't have a boy you haven't succeeded this is wrong it's discrimination and i think it's time

for a website and it's chilling isn't it ended just one more brief question if you would at the impact of covert 19 what effect is that having it's having a colossal effect on the practices that we're describing which is really a pandemic whatever pandemic with the destruction of health systems were pleading for attention to be paid don't marry the girl child off as a solution to poverty it's not she should be educated go back to school and be able to fulfill her potential. nataly kind and we do appreciate your time when the so important story as metallic on him from the u.n. thank you jennifer thank you. the mango season in pakistan is looking bleak for farmers they've been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and locust attacks have severely damage the fruit suspended flights and high freight charges have brought down exports. as this report says it's the busiest time of the year this market.

creates are packed and shipped from. the local and international buyers. but 2020 has not been a great year for farmers and retailers we have export quality mangoes but due to the lock down we won't be able to export our mangoes to any country and faced the losses this year pharmacy a double blow from coronavirus related health issues and locust infestations has already cut their exports by half and that's been compounded by export restrictions you travel bans even that 50 percent is not going to be exported because buddhism's fear shipment ferry is going to be used and also there are a lot of recipes in different countries so it's going to be a disaster i think for the crops last year pakistan's mangoes raked in one $1000000.00 as the food exporters association says they were able to export $130.00 metric tons the prospect of not being able to sell means many have not even

harvested their fruit the loss of exports has also cut local jobs in some of the most impoverished parts of pakistan. the world bank estimates pakistan's export for me dropped around a 3rd because of global economic shock widening budget deficits high inflation and shrinking foreign investment is dragging the economy even further down analysts predict pakistan will need to borrow $15000000000.00 to cover costs using what it has the government plans to push so-called mango diplomacy to try and open up new markets it's offered incentives to mangle farmers to encourage exports where they have the best. sound ever made was. looking for a new market. but officials need to act fast as a fruit is highly perishable as the mango season peaks in july dozens of available varieties have already been affected by changing weather restricted flight and

border closures with iran and afghanistan people in pakistan call it the king of fruits at the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and even spirit royalty some of enjoy. their. place in bangladesh have charged the ferry boat and its captain with murder following monday's river disaster at least 33 passengers drowned and several remain missing after 2 ferries collided near the capital 5 others have been charged in connection with the sinking of the river. senators in dubbo no voted to decriminalize homosexuality 12 months after banning same sex relationships and the proposed law is being sent to the president for approval it is one of the few african countries to reverse the bad decisions to fighting opinion in the country where his sexuality is widely regarded as. as still ahead here in sports the next edition of african football's biggest tournament has been postponed and it will be him into the full.

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business leaders is both to find a brass path. for . starters for now is a big thank you so much and it will be africa cup of nations has been postponed by 12 months to 2 coronavirus the consonance biggest sporting event will now kick off in cameroon in january 2022 confederation of african football has just made the announcement after a video conference meeting qualifiers for the tournament with due to finish in september but for now all international football on the continent is suspended well cover nations jutes a starts in cameroon next january at the moment for the 6 rounds of qualifying yet

to happen the tournament is crucial to the finances of african football the 2940 minutes in egypt generated revenue of more than $80000000.00 the women's africa cup of nations which was due to happen later this year has been cancelled more positively at club level a women's champions league is to start in 2021 well we've been talking to african football right somehow mazhar here about the complexities of organizing international games on the continents while the pandemic is ongoing. yeah i mean you're talking about a massive continent of more than 1000000000 people in 50 countries and each of them are dealing with this coronavirus very very differently see how it goes it ranges from you know your tanzania's your group these. are a little more lax about the virus and maybe i don't have as strict measures to a country like where i am and all shares and alterio where the president said we're not going to open up any of our borders and so the virus has been begun so

international travel is not only very very expensive due to the core infrastructure but. the way that it's countries handling things is very different and because it's such a large area of space you can sound like you can bring all the national teams together and said you know a contact area and play some sort of chinamen tend to get runs through the qualifying matches so if the logistics of that are extremely extremely difficult and very very pricey as well but the africa cup of nations is the flagship training mentor for the confederation that can football for the continent in general but at the same time i think everybody understands the dangers of this virus and it's i think unfair to expect a country like cameroon that is set to host this tournaments to really put everything on its back and try to push through trying if they're not ready to deal with the virus and if they haven't sort of eradicate it by some their own territory because they're going to be welcoming a lot of different people from a lot of different press world. now the head of the english premier league richard masters says his organization isn't facing political pressure to approve the saudi

backed takeover of newcastle united saudi arabia's public investment fund will take a majority stake in the club if the deal is approved earlier this month the world trade organization ruled that the country helped break international piracy laws and was allowing a saudi based t.v. channel to illegally stream premier league games on masters has been taking questions from u.k. politicians about the recent restarts of the leak. i cannot comment in terms of timing or is just a fix on any particular takeover but in a perfect world takeovers would happen. legally clearly and in a in a in a in a timely fashion sometimes things get complicated courts have made a big move in the race to win the portuguese league title they beat us a faro one nail on monday night to move 6 points clear of been secret top of the table hungry defender and so member with the goal defending champions benfica where

they lost to nelson martino their 2nd straight defeat the top so you have 5 games left in their season is. now n.b.a. players d'andre jordan and spencer dinwiddie of the brooklyn nets say they've both tested positive for corona virus the news comes as the league prepares to resume the 2020 season next month the venues within disney world in orlando florida teams have already started arriving there head of the july 30th restarts i was very child like i said i've been trying to think positive bobby just think about ways you. lost while staying say you know. maybe video games maybe dog so many of my teammates. soso this. is going to be a challenge and i think that's what makes this one make it on or nay. well the remainder of the rugby sevens world series has been cancelled due to coronavirus events in hong kong singapore canada london and paris had previously just been

postponed new zealand have been declared by feet men's and women's champions. it seems tops the standings when the series was suspended after 6 rounds. and the 1st challenge has arrived in new zealand ahead of next year's america's cup the racing boat built for the new york your club american magic team has arrived in oakland ahead of the elimination series that will decide who takes on the royal new zealand your squadron in the surf 36 america's cup the main events that is due to take place next march. during these last few months with the uncertainty of the events getting cancelled with cope with 19 with the unsettled world. just to get our guys on the ground to get the buy here on the water is going to be going to be amazing if we're able to go spring units that. ok. i do thanks very much david for this news i'll be back in

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