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companies pull their advertising from. 23 years ago that sovereignty was handed over to china hong kong sovereignty and with 190 arrests earlier in the day this wednesday and now up to 300 it appears that rule is tighter than ever demonstrators were out protesting the strict new security law imposed by china they were met by a heavy police presence in hong kong have been forcing that new law targets the session terrorism subversion and collusion with foreign forces but those opposed say defectively marks the end of the one country 2 systems structure which has given hong kong its autonomy from the chinese mainland. some for home on one thing the central authorities are determined to see an end to the chaos and riots over the past year and secondly the central authorities a determined to protect the majority of law abiding. citizens in hong kong they

should be protected from a handful of people who are causing harm and damage the british prime minister bars johnson has said the law threatens the rights protected by the agreement between china and the u.k. and he's told parliament he will offer those people with british national status a path to citizenship. but if trying to continue down this path we would reach introduce a new route for those with british nationals overseas status to enter the u.k. granting them limited lead to remain with the ability to live and work in the u.k. and thereafter to apply for citizenship and that is precisely what we will do. so as i mentioned all of this on the anniversary of when britain handed hong kong back to china the autonomy was guaranteed under the 104 green zone brown now reports. 23 years after hong kong returned to chinese rule the mainland government has moved swiftly to tighten its control over the city. hours after

a sweeping new security law was enacted hong kong and chinese dignitaries attended a ceremony marking the handover anniversary hording exhorting the new law providing the backdrop the chief executive who was sidelined during the drafting of this law said it was timely and necessary the arts here laugh at the enactment of the national law is regarded as the most significant development in the relationship between the central authorities and hong kong since its return to the motherland out to test the new law a small group of protesters who tried to march on the venue but were blocked by police well. they called for an end to one party rule one of them said he was aware their actions could now amount to a violation of the law the law enforcement in hong kong what they always of this you allowed to protest. interrupting that report to take you to washington sectors

that might compare speaking on china for doing to speak think freely through why has been eviscerated and as always the chinese communist party fears its own people more than anything else. the united states is deeply concerned about the last sweeping provisions in the safety of everyone living in the territory including americans article $38.00 of the new law also purports to apply to offenses committed outside of hong kong by non residents of hong kong and this likely includes 'd americans this is outrageous and an affront to all nations on friday we implemented based restrictions on those responsible for the hong kong crackdown on monday we'd announced that we would and defense equipment and dual use technology exports of u.s. originate going to the territory we will continue to implement president trumps directive to end hong kong's special status other federal agencies are involved as well i applaud f.c.c.

chairman as as for destiny designating weiwei and z t as national security risks or also continue to take take action to build on president from signing of the weaker human rights policy act today the united states department of state along with treasury commerce and v.h.s. or wishing a business advisory to companies with supply chain links to entities complicit in forced labor another human rights abuses and should jiang and throughout china c.e.o.'s should read this notice closely and be aware of the reputational economic and legal risks of supporting such assaults on human dignity i want to call attention to recent credible and deeply disturbing new reports that the chinese communist party is imposing forced sterilization and abortions on wiggers and other minorities in western china this shocking news is sadly consistent with the c.c.p. decades long callous disregard for the sanctity of human life the call on all

nations women that because religious groups and human rights organizations to stand up for the chinese people's basic human dignity. the chinese communist party's brutality affects the rest of the world too we welcome india's ban on certain mobile apps that can serve as an appendages of the c.c.p. surveillance state india's clean app approach will boost india's sovereignty it will also boost india's integrity and national security as the indian government cell itself has stated today canada's national day celebrations are dimmed by the c.c.p. as recent decision to bring trumped up espionage charges against michael coreg and michael spot for the c.c.p. is probably get us have implied that these 2 canadian citizens are hostages held in retaliation for canada's lawful arrest of always executive she is charged by the partner of justice with bank fraud wire fraud and conspiracy to commit bank and

wire fraud i commend the canadian government for standing firm and backing their independent legal system hostage taking for political gains puts china in the lead with the iran's and venezuela's of the world the 2 mix need to come home now in the middle east at the forced brussels conference on syria yesterday the united states announced almost $700000000.00 in humanitarian assistance to support syrians inside the country and displaced abroad bringing our toll funding to just over $11300000000.00 since the conflict began more than 9 years ago. iraq i want to commend so might compare moving on to other issues the middle east and beyond there but the bulk of his speech there about china on what is both the anniversary of the hand back to. hong kong back to china and also the new security law in hong kong which he calls outrageous and an affront to all nations he says the united states will continue to put the pressure on china and will also continue to end

hong kong's special status we'll talk more about this a little later in the broadcast but this has been my pump they are speaking about the new security will coming into effect today in hong kong. because our correspondent in hong kong she sent us this update on the police arrests today. they have now arrested $300.00 people at today's a wednesday's protests and this is with regards to illegal assembly of course today's protests it was deemed illegal the organizers and this they tried to request permission to go ahead for this march from causeway bay into central but of course the police denied that and therefore anyone taking part in today's rally was considered taking part in an illegal activity we can also confirm we now have 9 people who were arrested under the national security laws these the laws that were fast tracked by beijing and introduced on july 1st being the 23rd anniversary of the handover from british rule of hong kong to china and now we can also report

that one of those 9 was as young as 15 years of age there was a huge police presence in the people the protesters tried together at the initial starting point and march but they were met with the police line water cannon the walkout was fired a number of times we had tear gas a number of a canisters of tear gas was also fired pepper spray and pepper bullets a number of people of protesters mainly dispersed but the place was still able to move in and make a large number of arrests of those people they had trapped in those various areas some streets are still blocked we still have a large number of police on the streets trying to keep the protesters off and we do believe most have gone home but as i mentioned thousands did rally and that's defined the police band that went ahead so it shows that the sizable number of people are still angry about the introduction of the national security laws but if you compare it to last july 1st where we had 500000 people gathered you can see that clearly these national security laws have been a deterrent from hong kong we go to beijing katrina you who's been monitoring the

reaction from china. china's foreign ministry came out on wednesday afternoon justifying and defending this law explaining that this was crucial to host ability it's crucial for its future prosperity and early a beijing government officials said that the west often misconstrues this idea of one country 2 systems it's not about the central government having a hands off approach in hong kong it's actually about the central government taking control when it needs to especially when it comes to issues so important as national security going forward beijing's message to the people in hong kong is that the buck stops with beijing the highest authority in hong kong is the chinese government and we see this manifest in the way this national mall security law is written hong kong police are very much the public face of this they're enforcing this law on the ground but behind the scenes it's chinese intelligence security agents who are pulling strings perhaps what him behind the scenes surveilling those suspected of violating the rules again kerry lamb when it comes to courts and cases

presided over in hong kong she will select the judges but it is the mainland that has the last say when it comes to the more severe cases these cases will be heard by beijing behind closed doors and the effect of this is very clear beijing wants to send a strong message that this law is a deterrent and they're going to be looking to hong kong police to ruthlessly apply this law in order to set an example to the people of hong kong going forward also spoke to emily lau a little bit earlier who is the chairperson of the democratic party's international affairs committee and all she saw was people are doing what they feel they have to in order to protect their freedoms. the hong kong people some of them are not going to be intimidated but of course there are others who are really frightened and they actually want to get out of hong kong so we have all kinds of people here but there are those young and old who are determined to fight and to defend our free

lifestyle and some may won independence but i don't think too many of them do but we want to defend the last 3 lifestyle and we want beijing and not to remain on the promise of one country 2 systems if it is really true that our free lifestyle our personal safety our rule of law is not at stake why would so many people be risking safety out in the streets confronting the police of course it is something very very wrong so no matter what they say i think many people in the international community will not be fooled and i i want to use this opportunity to tell the international community that hong kong people are very very angry we're very frightened and we want to we want beijing to keep the promise we want hong kong to carry on as

a safe and free and vibrant city and we hope our friends in the international community will speak out maybe by doing so this time you can interview me maybe i would have been arrested i don't know but i mean we just have to do things that we believe then on to other news and recovery operations are under way in turkey after a boat capsized in a lake in the south of the country at least 6 bodies have been recovered it's believed around 60 markets were on board the vessel which was crossing my van. in istanbul and says police have spoken to a witness to the incident. the rescue teams are still trying to reach the boat and the rest of the bodies that are believed to be that who have who are who are who are believed to have droned on the night of such a day this is this is not the 1st incident on lake one because a van is a border border city with iran and from afghanistan bangladesh pakistan and iran

there are always irregular migrants crossing the sport of regularly and they are there is a me is actually to cross turkey and reach to europe. via agency there is a witness about this incident and 11 people were detained linked to this incident and that witness is actually one of the human traffickers who range the boat for those people and according to his statement that he gave to the police he was in the boat and the boat was capsized because its capacity was for $25.00 people but there were at this $55.00 to $60.00 according to his statement and after it was capsized he and his cousin who was in walden this trafficking jumped into water and if they were just 8 kilometers from the course that he was able to swim to the coast what while the cousin was wasn't able to make it but the police sources that i have spoken to tell me that his statement is conflict and conflicting and

probably those irregular migrants on the boat they were locked in a room and they didn't have any chance to get out. in the news ahead we'll update the headlines and then a delay in israel's plan to begin the process of an exciting parts of the occupied west bank. there's been a flood risk for central honshu for about day and a half and to get might continue though the looks of the cloud is going offshore here forecast wise it is briefly and turkey gets a wet day on thursday but the rain ends up drawing up afterwards before the chinese and there's more developing so it'll be for the yangtze valley more or less science with potentially quite wet and then this orange goes back up towards parts of

honshu not given the forecasts that may not be entirely accurate so i suggest the rain still be a bit of a problem and further south as though it should be dry season throughout indonesia there are quite a few showers now and in the forecast for sort of i say in west papua across borneo sumatra and some bits of jobs or at least during thursday jakarta included during friday that looks like less of a likelihood is much drier looking picture there were obviously not buying dry the dry does season doesn't mean no rain just means very little rain as for monsoon rain well that sort of settled down to where you might expected to be up in bits in bangladesh but the foot forecast and the focus given southwest the wind is like to be through maharastra and all part science that's true for both thursday and friday with scattered showers elsewhere of course. but. short films of hope. and inspiration.

a series of short stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. al-jazeera selects. or. play. it with al jazeera these are the top stories protestors in hong kong have been defying a new security in the post by china just hours after it came into effect and

$300.00 people have been arrested so far those violating the law could face life in prison. u.s. secretary state might pompei i was speaking right now he has already said he is concerned about the safety of people living in hong kong. at the state department briefing maintains that he will continue president trump's directive to and hong kong's special status. recovery operations are underway in turkey after a boat capsized in a lake in the south of the country at least 6 bodies have been recovered it's believed around $6060.00 migrants were aboard the vessel which was crossing like. russians have begun their final day of voting on constitutional changes that could keep a person in power for years the amendments will allow president putin to run for another 2 terms in office that could potentially keep him in the role 2036 these are the most sweeping constitutional changes since the end of the soviet union and

it's widely expected to pass the support from charlie rangel or. brewing disobedience alexander can overload cafes stayed open during lockdown in st petersburg despite government directives to close. so did his beauty salons the largest network in the city once loyal to president putin the businessman has lost his faith he says coronavirus measures were inconsistent illogical and unfair and this vote to change the constitution is the last straw for me and i was not just loyal to him like so many russians for me he was almost an idol my attitude to the president began to change even before the coronavirus when they began to introduce this amendments to the reset of his terms my friends and i have one question why did he lie that he wouldn't do this for many years he said that he would not change the constitution in order to remain in power and this is exactly what he's doing russians have spent the last week voting on a package of constitutional amendments the headlines

a new benefits but varied in the text is permission for president putin to rule until 2036 if you continue to win the votes you're still nervous there are many things that i like about this amendments to protect our territory to support and restore our culture children education social support animals. with entire package on wednesday putin made an unprecedented plea. we're not just voting for amendments that are laid out in clear legal norms we vote for the country we want to live in with modern education and health care with reliable social protection of citizen. with an effective government that is accountable to society we vote for the country we work for and we want to pass it on to our children. the new rules created for this vote are also unprecedented exit polls were announced midway and polling stations popped up everywhere from fields to car

parks making it impossible to ensure the vote is fair or free from tampering. exposing the flaws in the system a number of journalists deliberately voted twice and there have been numerous reports of coercion and vote buying. putin's approval ratings are at 59 percent an all time low but analysts say the true figure could be even lower. where we see a drop in support from 79 to 59 percent in north or a theory in countries it means that support in society is actually much lower because the numbers are distorted we see put his charisma is eroding and ratings are declining but this is not yet accompanied by protests so support is weak but there are not so many reasons for the population to rebel and yet they predict amendments will pass granting putin the opportunity to rule russia until he's 83 years old charlie angela al-jazeera. democrats say a white house briefing didn't provide the information they need on russia's alleged

bounties on american soldiers in afghanistan repeatedly denied he was informed saying the information wasn't verified by this report from the new york times or veges trump received a written briefing in february democrats are calling for a full account from the intelligence community. police in seattle of moved in on an area protesters have taken over and called the autonomous soden people of occupied several city blocks for nearly a month now following demonstrations against police brutality a seattle police department precinct is inside that area the city's mayor has ordered the evacuation of police reported the deaths of 2 people as well as robberies and assaults in the past few weeks france is temporarily pulling out of a nato operation in the mediterranean amid tensions with turkey france said it asks nato for response on hell fellow member state turkey is handling the u.n. arms embargo to libya the official said in a letter to nato that france had made for dumond's to clarify turkey's role

a french defense official said the patrol was temporary. there is uncertainty over just when israel will begin its planned an explosion in the occupied west bank debate on the issue is due to begin today july 1st but prime minister benjamin netanyahu says talks with the us about the plans are ongoing coalition partner benny gantz a suggested this should all be put on hold while the government deals with coronavirus without the berkowitz ambassador friedman and members of the delegation i spoke about the question of sovereignty which we are working on now and over the coming days our forces and western islam for us with information on what prime minister netanyahu has to do next. he needs u.s. coordination as per the coalition deal he made with benny gantz and his blue and white party under the terms of that deal this is the 1st day that he can actually physically make advances towards annexation either bring it up for debate and vote in the cabinet in government or and or to the israeli parliament the knesset but

the talks would be going on with the united states in the coming days and there have been other comments from some of his ministers suggesting it might well be longer than that one minister saying that israelis should hope for a next ation within the next months or weeks another minister saying that he was sure it would take place during the course of this month but there are still significant obstacles i think the main one being exactly what the united states also once you know who to pledge or to do at the same time is making whatever an expression moves he ends up deciding upon there is a report that the united states wants to see some kind of gesture towards the palestinians in the shape of transferring some land in the occupied west bank from an area c. designation which is under full israeli military control to potentially an area be does ignition which is under palestinian civil control perhaps allowing for more palestinian building in such an area that is one report but it does suggest that

the united states is interested in the whole trump plan rather than a limited onix ation kind of ignoring the trump plan which is what netanyahu might have to do to try to satisfy some of those on his right. it's been some international reaction the british prime minister has called on israel to return to the negotiating table rather than move forward with the annexation plans boris johnson told an israeli newspaper the only way to achieve peace in the region is through a solution that allows security and justice for both sides and he warned israel's plans would be a violation of international law and more than a dozen u.s. democrats have signed a letter against israel's annexation plans and warned of consequences alexandria. spearheaded the effort which threatens to impose conditions on the $3800000000.00 of annual military assistance given to israel the statement been endorsed by more than 20 advocacy groups but was denounced by

a pac the american israel public affairs committee police initially said they've seized the world's largest whole of amphetamines produced by eiseley in syria 14 tons of found hidden inside machinery in the port of south of naples valued at about 1 point one $1000000000.00 syria's become a major producer of amphetamines during its nearly 10 year war the narcotics have been used by eisel fighters and have also been sold on for profit mexican prosecutors of issued arrest warrants for 46 officials who were working in the state of when a group of students disappeared and 2014 they're accused of organized crime and ducting 43 trainee teachers who were attending a protest in the town of. an initial government report concluded the students were killed by a gang that mistook them for members of a rival group report though it's been described by independent investigations as deeply flawed schools across thailand of reopened as the government eases more coronavirus restrictions schools are put in place health measures like social

distancing and masks despite going 37 days without any new domestic cases the thai government is extended an emergency decree until the end of july. and britain's prime minister's announced $6000000000.00 worth of new infrastructure projects to boost the economy a post locked boris johnson said britain's can't continue to be prison is the coronavirus he's pledged to improve education to protect hospitals and improve roads and railings he also promised to cut planning bureaucracy and to speed up the building of new homes one of the world's largest social media platform facebook is facing an unprecedented advertising boycott more than 400 brands say they will stop advertising this month a campaign aimed at forcing facebook to crack down on hate speech and racist content on its pages priyanka gupta has more. it was an ominous warning by the u.s. president during mass protests against the police killing of george broad shortly

after donald trump's tweet twitter issued a warning for the 1st time saying his message to revive violence facebook didn't follow suit sparking a reporter asked by some stuff if you see you know other attack platforms not all social networks but reddit made a notable change youtube made some notable 20 changes a twitch which is a gaming platform owned by amazon made some notable movement and facebook clearly has been sort of at one end of the spectrum compared to what the other companies have been doing now a campaign by wide screwups urging companies to stop advertising on facebook during july is gaining momentum more than $400.00 brands including added us coca-cola ford honda and unilever one of the world's largest advertisers of consumer goods are posing their ad campaigns the boy call it is aimed at causing enough financial damage to force this bank sucker berg into changing his policy with more than

2000000000 users facebook has long been accused of not doing enough to stop misinformation think news propaganda from spreading among its uses we're going to start labeling content last friday that a big announce at facebook with start flooding use with the content the violet's truth and take violent content down among other measures. on tuesday facebook announced that it is battling a u.s. based violent attic on the network broadly connected to the book a new movement but stopped short of banning all references to the far right program network whose supporters believe violence could lead to a 2nd u.s. civil war overall tech in terms of the landscape as she given regulatory worries this has really come at the wrong time and i think investors have started stacking that risk and so we're going to be it's a watershed moment how. can this going forward these wildfires reds

the july boycott seems to have got suckered books attention but it remains to be seen if it will have enough impact on facebook's profits to force more meaningful action. on to say or. how fast they are on al-jazeera these are the headlines protesters in hong kong have been defying a new security law imposed by china just hours after it came into effect at least $300.00 people and arrested so far and those violating the law could face up to life in prison. u.s. secretary state my pompei a says he's concerned about the safety of people living in hong kong and he is continuing with his state department briefing from washington right now but earlier maintained that he would continue president trumps directive to and hong kong's special status free hong kong was one of the world's most stable prosperous and

dynamic cities now now we've just another communist run city were its people we subject to the party elites wimps said. indeed this is already happening security forces are already rounding up on collars for doing to speak and think freely the rule of law has been eviscerated and as always the chinese communist party fears its own people more than anything else in other news recovery operations are under way in turkey after a boat capsized in a lake in the south of the country at least 6 bodies have been recovered but it's believed around 60 migrants were on board the vessel which was crossing like the one russians are voting for a final day on sweeping constitutional changes which if approved could keep president vladimir putin in power until the year 2036 there is uncertainty over when israel will begin its planned in the occupied west bank debate on the issue is

due to begin july 1st but prime minister benjamin netanyahu says talks with the us about the plans are still going his coalition partner benny gantz and suggested it should all be put on hold while the government deals with coronavirus without the berkowitz ambassador friedman and members of the delegation i spoke about the question of sovereignty which we are working on now and over the coming days and more than a dozen u.s. democrats have signed a letter against israel's annexation plans and warned of consequences xander. spearheaded the latter which threatens to impose conditions on the $3800000000.00 worth of annual military assistance which is given to israel that's my lot for the day thanks for your company the stream is coming up next and then it's the news hour about 25 minutes with criminal. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of

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