if. there's room out of. yemen war profiteers on al-jazeera. punishing china for its actions in hong kong u.s. president donald trump imposes new sanctions and ends the territories special status. alex a whole drama you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up hanging up on war way the u.k. blocks the chinese tech giant from involvement in its new 5 g. network. illegal winter cats are over the banning of its planes from neighboring airspace the u.s. highest court rules against 4 arab countries and fears of a major flare up between armenia and azerbaijan as fighting intensifies over

a disputed region. welcome to the program u.s. president told trump has signed an executive order to hold china accountable for its treatment of hong kong this comes after a new national security law was imposed on the territory that critics say is intended to squash dissent trump also said he's ending hole calls preferential status that means it will lot receive any special privileges or economic treatment to their side legislation and an executive order to hold china accountable for its oppressive actions against the people of hong kong. the hong kong or tanami act which i signed this afternoon passed unanimously through congress this law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals and

the entities involved in extinguishing hong kong's freedom we've all watch what happened not a good situation their freedoms been taken away their rights have been taken away and with it goes hong kong in my opinion because it will no longer be able to compete with free markets of course but like kind of his life for us in washington d.c. following events like it was really another run bling press conference all in all but what else was the president supposed to speak about apart from china and what did he speak about. well he spent probably 3 minutes at the top of his address talking about china that legislation that he signed which had been passed by congress the beginning of the month and the executive order which essentially means that in future hong kong will be treated exactly the same as mainland china all the preferential treatment that hong kong has received in terms of its relationship with the united states will no longer exist but as i said

that was a few minutes at the top of the speech president then went into a meandering to put it kindly as possible campaign speech in is in effect he went on about how well his administration has done in terms of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic he used the term for example in relation to china that it unleashed the virus on the world holding china he says completely responsible for the spread of this pandemic basically it was vintage trump but it's a trend that we've been seeing a campaign rallies certainly very rare for a president standing in the rose garden making what was to be an official address about the signing of legislation and turning it into a lengthy rambling meandering campaign speech and keeping all the theme of a campaign speech or really mike there was a great deal of emphasis i believe on his opponent in the upcoming november

election joe biden. we just seem to have lost like sound quality there was trying to get him back later in the program moving on. trump also praise the united kingdom ban on the chinese tech giant wall way but it won't be allowed any involvement in the development of a new high speed network the u.k. government says it can ensure the security it can't ensure the security of water weighs equipment and he says the decision was politicize the explains from london. a u. turn by the u.k. government but one it says was driven by practicalities not politics. announcing the total ban on huawei kitted britain's planned 5 g. network by 2027 the culture minister said u.s. sanctions blocking quote ways use of american microchips would make the company less reliable in future the best way to secure our networks is for operators to

stop using new affected huawei quick meant to build the u.k.'s future 5 g. networks said to be clear from the end of this year telecoms operators must not buy any 5 g. equipment from while away and once the telecom security bill is passed it will be illegal for them to do so. the move against way will please washington which has been pressuring the u.k. to act the company had expected it it's warning u.k. mobile users will lose out in a statement it says regrettably our future in the u.k. has become politicized this is about u.s. trade policy and not security over the past 20 years while way has focused on building a better connected u.k. as a responsible business we will continue to support our customers as we always have done. the british government hopes the announcement will convince other suppliers to enter the market and fill the gap meanwhile the china skeptics among boris

johnson's conservative party are largely happy they say national security must trump worries about an already damaged relationship or relations with strained over hong kong where china has behaved disgracefully so. anyone thinking you know when we're still in a golden era of relations with china is clearly wrong but so be it i think this is the right decision and we should be calm we want to continue trading with continue commercial relations with the chinese but we've got to be firm of the same time it's not clear how quickly or how angrily china will react to britain's decision to get rid of quote way kit but other countries will be watching carefully as they to deliberate on whether to ban the company. al-jazeera london nigel inkster is a senior advisor at the international institute for strategic studies and a former director of operations at british intelligence agency and my 6 he explains

the concerns around chinese espionage. the united kingdom government has had a cell operating in that car for several years now looking at all our components and software would go into the u.k. mobile networks and by the way i think it's worth reminding your viewers that our is not a monopoly supplier to the u.k. mobile networks all of them use equipment from around the riots of suppliers precisely in order to avoid being overly dependent on one. when it comes to espionage or threat of espionage well you know that that is a real and present threat already china is doing a lot of industrial cyber espionage and stayed on state espionage and it does so very effectively without having to rely on our way to quit. but there are broader longer term issues here about the extent to which quite

a way dominance in this sector would potentially give china access to large sophisticated data sets which taken together with other data sets and put through ai programs might to potentially reveal things about ourselves that we ourselves don't know but would certainly not want another power to find out about the un's top courters ruled in favor of cattle in a dispute with for arab countries they imposed a blockade on the gulf states and prevented qatari craft from flying over that space the international court of justice roll to the un civil aviation agency does have jurisdiction in the case step bason has more from the hague. it was a complicated case and covert 19 restrictions did not make it any easier only a few representatives of each country were allowed inside the court building known as the peace palace but the ruling read by the president of the international court

of justice did not leave any doubt because. one. of the. by the king of. egypt the king. and the united. the court also ruled that the international civil aviation organization the kerio has jurisdiction in the case filed a complaint at the council in 2017 saying saudi arabia bahrain egypt and the u.a.e. violated in 1944 cheap cargo convention dealing with free passage of passenger planes through foreign airspace parties now have to go back to the council now that the council decision has been affirmed the go back to the council and continue the case and that's when we get to the real heart of the matter the real issues about.

services been dropped. not only did the 4 countries impose an air blockade on katha 3 years ago but they also stopped all traffic over sea and over land this left qatari aircraft having to make detours to fly in and out of the last year the i.c.j. also ruled in favor of kata saying the u.s. was killed 3 of racial discrimination by expelling qatari citizens and separating families there are certain sanctions that the council me grant the state of qatar for example not allowing the member states to vote in the general council or even to certain extent participate in certain important meetings and that will have its own. harsh side effect on those states a clear decision by the international court of justice and a clear victory for qatar but despite this win in the long legal battle there still no reason to celebrate just yet this is another step in the 3 year long dispute

with blockading nations although a significant one representatives of the 4 blockading nations left court without making any statements with the backing of the unanimous i.c.j. ruling gattaca now are their governments to compensated for the financial losses it endured because of the blockade step class and al-jazeera the hague. and to from our media have been killed as fighting escalates at the border tension between the former soviet republics has been escalating for several years as they battle over a disputed region weapon forestay walker reports. in these airy capital crowds demanded vengeance for a major general the most senior servicemen to have died in clashes on azerbaijan's border with media only just. unlike the enemy our generals and officers do not hide behind the backs of soldiers they adequately carry out their

combat missions unfortunately battles are not without losses. both sides accuse each other of starting the latest hostilities. both sides releasing videos of their high tech weaponry as ery missile strikes on armenian positions. armenians shooting down azeri drones. on the fighting which began on sunday has so far claimed more than a dozen lives including at least one civilian what i think many many with whole story of them going precious in right ways the very area. by significant religious are like marks onto a train or between that and was extremely important because it enough are the 1st one to suffer from that all korean. military activity. the region

is situated north of the disputed territory of the goanna kyra back internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan it's controlled by armenian forces how to go to think in the armenian prime minister has accused as a by johns the danger in regional stability as a by john's. the president says international peace talks have led nowhere. there is a risk of a wider conflict if the fighting continues turkey says it stands with. russia which brokered a cease fire in the past may be needed once again to bring the 2 sides back from the brink of adversity a walk out 0. well still ahead here on al-jazeera 3 british socialite charged with trafficking girls to jeffrey epstein makes her 1st court appearance on the

surveillance operation in colombia the journalists a is a threat to democracy those stories after the break. and they're trying to still make initials across more eastern areas of the united states you can see here also a line of thunderstorms working their way across the northern and central plains but as i say some pretty good strong winds so it has still mavis and good waves just off the coast of maryland and just have a look at this watch what happens all of this captured on the camera outside this person's house lucky of course he just managed to miss that to track that tree as it came down there's been some very strong storms in wisconsin more rain as they go through wednesday and you can see quite a developing system here with the potential for us and severe storms really across those central areas all of that will work its way east as throughout thursday is

a clearing picture behind it's a warm picture as well 30 celsius in minneapolis and still across the south it really is about the heat really dealing with a heat wave of texas as have several cities beat their all time record high temperatures there is a warm day as well into our zone a 43 is a high there on thursday then down into central america and the carabineers going to be florida where we see the very heavy rain on wednesday you can see it develops later in the day some heavy. downpours as well 3 q but the bahamas elsewhere mostly showers some heaviest spells of rain into costa rica panama as well as we go on into thursday and there is a say everything about the palm as in the cuba where we see the heavy rain. but. the ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis we doe as have any gailey mike that joining with the military to impose that deadly political agenda we have to protect our nation what

has happened to the engine that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. this is not religion this is a politic myanmar an unholy alliance on al-jazeera. root. welcome back you're watching officer with misa hall run a reminder of our top stories u.s. president donald trump her signed legislation to put sanctions on china over the national security law it imposed on the hong kong trump also signed an executive order ending hong kong's preferential treatment trump also praised the u.k. ban on while way the chinese tech giant won't be allowed to develop new high speed

mobile networks the u.k. government says it can ensure the security of one way quickly. and 11 soldiers was by john 2 from armenia have been killed as fighting escalates a border the 2 former soviet republics have been in conflict over and play insiders about are controlled by ethnic armenians. the former girlfriend and alleged accomplice of convicted sex offender geoffrey epstein has been denied bail by a judge in new york british socialite gill a maxwell appeared by video of her hearing accused of helping epstein recruit girls for abuse she's also accused of perjury maxwells lawyers say she's protected by a plea agreement that epstein signed in 2007 covering any potential coconspirators but prosecutors argue against her bail request saying that all posed a flight risk due to her financial status gabriel is older who is outside the court

in new york where the hearing took place he says the prosecutor cited maxwell's wealth and multiple passports as reasons to deny her bail. the judge has denied the request for bail for delaying maxwell so she will not be leaving the jail she is currently being held and held for the over a week now in the metropolitan detention center in brooklyn about 3 or 4 kilometers of where i'm at right now outside this federal court her defense lawyers head or view that she should be released on bail arguing that she is not a flight risk and also that she potentially has had health risk at in jail because of covert 19 however the prosecution had argued during this court hearing. that she is very much a flight risk that she has access to tens of millions of dollars and more than a dozen bank accounts linked to her name and that with 3 passports from france the

u.k. and the united states that she could there was no guarantee that if she was to be granted bail that she would come back for a potential trial or court proceedings alternately the judge heard both sides of the argument as i mentioned for more than 2 hours and just ruled that bail will be denied for the lane maxwell. a man accused of torturing women and destroying ancient monuments in mali has gone on trial for war crimes at the international criminal court in the hague prosecutors say. zs committed the crimes and timbuktu while he was part of an al qaeda linked group that took control of the city in 2012 he refused to enter a plea his lawyers say he's mentally unfit to stand trial and this is the 2nd fighter to face trial of the i.c.c. for the destruction of the timbuktu shrines. the plan and design was to impose

a personal religious and ideological vision by force with a great deal of brutality and abuses constitution crimes against humanity and war crimes under the roma statues this is the heart of the present case to use violence the commission of crimes against inhabitants who are belittled humiliated assaulted and subjected to a real persecution on religious and sexist grounds to which there was no end and during which all her son was the thinking and acting so all of the islamic police and played a central role in libya's going to recognize government has condemned the proposal authorizing egypt to intervene in the libyan conflict the motion was passed by the eastern based parliament that backs all of cleaver hafter after the turkish military helped to push back his forces tripoli politicians of color requests for egypt intervene a violation of libya's sovereignty the pan american health organization has voiced

concern over the high current virus mortality rate across the americas the washington based agency says deaths are rising particularly in brazil and mexico and the u.s. on sunday mexico over to italy to become the country with the 4th highest death toll worldwide model repeller has more from mexico city. the region this week surpassed 3000000 confirmed cases were seeing some of the worst infection numbers coming out of brazil peru as well as chill a surprisingly chilly given that it was expected to be an outlier at the beginning of this pandemic it's been an especially difficult week for brazil as it's very close to approaching 70000 confirmed deaths in the country and of course more regional leaders falling ill with coronavirus the top administration has reversed its immigration policy that would have deported international students whose courses move fully online because of the coronavirus pandemic the decision follows 8 federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities thousands of

foreign students travel to the u.s. to study every year and are a significant source of revenue university leaders believe the rule was part of trump's the effort to pressure the nation's schools and colleges to reopen this fall even as new infections rise. a judge in colombia has ordered the defense minister to reveal the full list of journalists politicians and judges who are illegally monitored by military intelligence the scandal has forced the retirement of the army commander the firing of 11 senior officers but as alison reports investigations on the extent of the spying have since told. the word winning independent journalist. plays a recorded phone conversation of accused drug trafficker. is part of a treasure trove of recordings that helped him uncover is related scoop the possible use of illegal funds for the election of president. yet who says as an

investigative reporter as come with a price. on june 10th the director of colombia's freedom a depressed foundation called me to say they found out that the military had to follow me last january the weekly semana revealed the army intelligence had been illegally intercepting the communications of dozens of foreign m colombian journalists supreme court justices in opposition politicians. it reminded many of the legal surveillance a decade ago during the presidency of his perceived enemies that led the government to dismantle the dust colombia's intelligence service. the same journalist that was spied on diana being spied on now this time by the army would have same tactics of department of security so i think this is afraid to democracy because they are spying on us frighten us following us listening to our conversations reading our chats then tell agents units involved in the scandal are also accused that they us

intended to fight cocaine trafficking from colombia to illegally collecting information on journalists and others. the oil the government promised a toroid investigation against those they describe as bad apples in the military but have so far rejected calls for reform the military feels texted by the current government in power which has really sought to uphold some of the least reformist generals which has promoted some of the less reformist officials there really has been not enough rethinking of military doctrine. the government assigned martina's a bodyguard after you received death threats despite mainstream media in the country not offering him a job he sold his car and uses crowd funding to continue his work better you could

ok but. we need to continue because society has changed it's not as willing to look the other way when governments commit crimes difficult if you can't find a money order for it to continue we might be forced to stop and that something martinez says can only harm colombian society as a whole i listen that m.p.'s and just. france's bastille day ceremony in paris has taken place in the shadow of the coronavirus crisis. the fireworks display lit up the sky over the eiffel tower july the 14th marks the storming of the bastille prison in $17189.00 of the beginning of the french revolution this year the event was scaled back included special tributes to france's health workers. but some of them say their inclusion in the festivities is not enough to save the country's overstretched hospitals as natasha reports. all

the pomp and ceremony of france's traditional bastille day celebrations but on a much smaller scale the french president inspected troops on paris's elegant plastic court but for the 1st time in more than 4 decades there was no military parade on the famous charles you say a paid back event because the coronavirus crisis and to make room for a homage to the bravery and dedication to france's health workers. towards the end of the ceremony an unexpected moment a banner floated in full view accusing macro a failing to invest in france's hospitals opponents say the president mishandled the health crisis in a read television interview and macro admitted he had made some mistakes at the start but that france was now ready for a possible 2nd wave if it could only push instrumental although i hope in the following weeks mass will be mandatory in all enclosed spaces it's already the case in public transport but it's been

a bit erratic indoors at this stage. later in the city health workers but this time for a protest the coronavirus price is highlighting the budget of medical workers and the government to respond for pay rise while the extra money and the july 14th deal they are is not. others i think not enough to say the country's hospitals well john . we want a government to stop reducing the number of beds in hospitals and stop closing smaller hospitals and cutting services it's a catastrophe is a real test of the settlement of most of the pay raises aaron what we asked for there are too many hospital cuts doctors and nurses are quitting the job because we have the lowest salaries for medical workers who you are up michael will hope that his choice to what health workers all such an important day for france will foster a sense of national unity and rally people behind him the protest reveals the

challenges he faces critics say his reforms are hurting the poor he's promised to reinvent himself and be closer to the people with less than 2 years until the presidential election it's clear he's aiming to convince voters as he projects into the future with al jazeera powers. saudi arabia is still trying to force through a takeover of premier league club newcastle united but it's just cancelled one of the league's biggest broadcasts partners is permanently ending the license of qatar to be in sports in the kingdom not be in is the main rights holder in the region but has been barred from broadcasting in saudi arabia since 2017 when the country along with the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt imposed a blockade on cata not saadi arabia has also backed the pirate broadcaster b. out q which has been stealing copyrighted content from b.

and sports lobby and sports has released this statement in response saying the decision was reached through legal proceedings that violated being due process rights be in sports also question how saudi citizens can watch premier league matches legally in saudi arabia with this permanent ban on the premier league's licensed broadcaster. but native american community leaders are calling on other sports teams to change their names after washington's n.f.l. team dropped its redskins name and logo the decision was made after decades of criticism and major sponsors also also pressured the team to do so a new name has yet to be announced and this is just a license to like all the other leaves and all of the other you know the leagues and the teams that are out there don't wait for people to knock down your door and do the right thing you should take some leadership. and to be honest if you're that

if you're the kansas city chiefs or the cleveland indians or the atlanta braves the chicago blackhawks the list goes on or are there is the opportunity for you just to step out to do the right thing and to be honest it's probably the best thing for your brand it's probably the best thing for your league because if you're not you're going to be cleaned as well as a chemist and a racist and you don't think actually you are. your child is there with me sell robbed or wind of our top stories u.s. president donald trump has signed legislation to put sanctions on china over the national security though it imposed on the whole goal trump also signed an executive order ending home calls preferential status michaela has more from washington d.c. at the top of the speech president trump then went into a meandering to put it kindly as possible campaign speech in effect he went

on about how well his administration has done in terms of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic he used the term for example in relation to china that it unleashed the virus on the world holding china he says completely responsible for the spread of this pandemic. president truman praised the united kingdom ban on chinese tech giant war way it won't be allowed to develop a new high speed mobile network the u.k. government says that it can't ensure the security of war way equipment glenn maxwell the alleged accomplice of convicted sex offender geoffrey epstein has been denied bail by a judge in new york the british socialite pleaded not guilty to charges that she helped epstein recruit girls for abuse 11 soldiers from azerbaijan and 2 from armenia have been killed as fighting escalates at the border the 2 former soviet republics have been in conflict over an enclave inside azerbaijan controlled by ethnic armenians and the man accused of torturing women and destroying ancient

monuments in mali has gone on trial for war crimes at the international criminal court at the hague. doulas ease refused to enter a plea his lawyers say he's mentally unfit to stand trial. the pan american health organization has voiced concern over the high coronavirus mortality rate across the americas the washington based agency says deaths are rising particularly in brazil mexico and the u.s. for answers but still day ceremony in paris has taken place in the shadow of the coronavirus a fireworks display lit up the sky above the eiffel tower this year the event was scaled back and included special tributes to france's health workers those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next it's one of the least do 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

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