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the government backtracked on plans to force them out if classes are taught online . and you me and you mean it on fear betrayers most of us have repeat polls question. now china is evaluating retaliation after moves by the governments of the u.s. and the u.k. on 2 different fronts president donald trump has announced sanctions against chinese officials over the new national security law that's been imposed on hong kong signing an executive order to hold beijing accountable hong kong is being stripped of its special trade in economic status and banks that deal with some chinese officials will also face sanctions. 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 and the u.k. announced it was banning chinese tech giant while away from being involved in the development of its new high speed my about network fighting concerns about security well let's now speak to our correspondent katrina you she joins us live from beijing katrina i want to start here with while way this is quite the reversal what's beijing had to say. we're still waiting on an official response from the foreign ministry here and they do expect that shortly but we have already had a response from the u.k. ambassador or the chinese ambassador to the u.k. you know shamming who responded in a tweet saying that he was disappointed with this what he called the wrong decision and he also raised questions about the fairness of the environment in the u.k.

for foreign businesses operating there now this is a sentiment largely echoed in qual ways or in statements where they said that they were disappointed by this move that this move is bad for the u.k. it only said it sets it on the slower road when it comes to developing its technology that it increases the digital divide and deprives u.k. citizens of the best and latest 5 g. technology way has also reiterated its stance that it is not a security threat to the u.k. or any other government and it does not provide any sort of back door for the chinese government that sort of fund stars are the strongest response we've had is actually from state media the global times which is one of the government mouthpiece newspapers in an editorial mentioned that this was a blow while away but it was quite a very much attacking the u.k. saying china shouldn't worry about this because the u.k. is a weak link it said when it comes to the different 5 i allies it also said that china is within its rights to retaliate because if it doesn't retaliate that it will send

out the wrong message that they doing is easy to bully by other western powers so we are waiting to see if china does hit back and what kind of form that retaliation might take speaking of western powers katrina dramatic but not unexpected escalation especially when it comes to tensions with the u.s. over what else is beijing threatening their. that's right when it comes to beijing and washington there's a new move every day almost it seems beijing's foreign ministry has released a strongly worded statement condemning the administration's move saying that it maliciously slanders the hong kong national security law that the u.s. should stop meddling in china's internal affairs and back away from this act it also goes on to justify this law saying that this is crucial for hong kong security for its stability and prosperity moving forward and that this is something that the hong kong people in the people in china generally want and accept of course that is

not the truth on the ground there is a vast disconnect between what the sentiment is in home and in beijing but still chinese authorities have shown no willingness at all to waiver on the slow it seems like this law is here to stay and right now we know that they are contemplating some sort of response some sort of counter measure for the trumpet in this ration again we're waiting on what form that might take but we do know it appears that that will be some sort of sanctions on u.s. officials or personnel catrina you that with all the reaction from the chinese capital beijing thank you very much katrina well you had about a disconnect between beijing and hong kong let's get the view from hong kong with devika part and she joins us from there. now that the u.s. is removing hong kong special status can you talk us through what that actually means we're already seeing a start of a potential exodus of businesses. that's right i just spoke to an analyst just a few minutes ago and they told me that many companies had already had contingency

plans for this particularly because this has been had been weeks in the making in the u.s. congress and just needed president trump to sign off which he finally did but also he said that it eventually will affect parts of hong kong's economy although that is not the entire story if you speak to hong kong's chief financial secretary he says that it's the u.s. that has more to lose than hong kong does economically given that hong kong is the u.s. biggest single bilateral trading partner partner with surplus rather so which means that the u.s. gains more from exporting to hong kong than the other way around as far as cash flow goes but many companies here are losing confidence in the city not just because of the latest directive from the u.s. but also because of the national security law and so companies like the new york times media company the media company has already announced today itself that is going to move a large number of its staff over to seoul in light of this new national security

law and perhaps now because hong kong no longer has that special status that specialities status includes trade extradition treaties and other economic and human rights issues that once buffered hong kong from the rest of china and what trump is now essentially saying is that that buffer are no longer exists so the u.s. it's too risky for the u.s. to carry on with that special relationship with hong kong and all of this clearly has huge consequences for the people of hong kong and i imagine they are very keen to have their say in the september ledger coalesce actions especially if the turnout for the primaries was anything to go by i see we're getting those results now. that's right where their results are coming in and what they seem to indicate is the the candidates in these primaries so basically the democratic party's got together all the democratic well a large majority of the democratic candidates i should say got together and decided what they're going to do is test the waters and figure out who will best represent

them and the legislative council elections in september as previously they were 2 fractured and what they're hearing now from that 600000 turnout that participated is that there's a lot of support for what they call the localist candidates the more radical candidates the ones that were involved in last year's protests the much younger ones and the more traditional staunch staunch democrats who would be seen as more moderate and perhaps more acceptable to beijing and the government are seeing seeming to be pushed out now in light of this we've heard several comments in the run up to this including from hong kong's chief executive saying that the kids are what they have done could particularly violate that national security law and the china liaison office here in hong kong the beijing liaison office which monitors events in hong kong has also said that this could be a blatant disregard for the national security law when as you can see that press conference is happening live now with those pro-democracy activists will be bringing you all the latest from magic of holland there for us in hong kong thanks to you. now the united nations is warning that tens of thousands of migrants

mostly ethiopians are stranded and water in yemen at least 14 and a half 1000 have been rounded up forcibly moved around the country and some detained for fear that they're spreading private 19 how hard has this report. trapped in yemen one of the most dangerous countries in the world there's little these ethiopian migrants can do except pray to the hot sun most were headed to saudi arabia for work hoping it could pull them out of poverty about the pandemic stop them in their trucks now they're among tens of thousands of migrants stuck in the country in its 6th year of war cope with 19 it's made the situation worse i think you're scapegoated as carriers of the virus and as a result suffer exclusion and violence in addition to the forced removals fears about 19 have left departments in yemen experience verbal physical harassment

increased tension and movement restrictions the majority of migrants in yemen are. most have been forced to sleep rough or even shelter in abandoned buildings my. i don't have a place to stay no sleep no food there's nothing we're all tired very tired there's no food or water or anything to sleep we use cardboard and sleep at the traffic lights i'm tired the international organization for migration says more than 14000 migrants have been forcibly transferred to cities like god and vulnerable and stigmatized many are being held in extremely on hygienic detention senses with little food or water. last week the world food program warned of a potential famine across yemen with around 10000000 people facing acute food shortages its health system has collapsed and the u.n. believes the number of cave 19 cases is much higher than reported. all adding to

the concerns of the migrants now trapped in the world's worst humanitarian crisis of modern times. 11 soldiers from azerbaijan and to from on niña have been killed in the latest fighting at the border that began on sunday now the 2 former soviet republics went to war in the 1990 s. over the disputed region of nagano karabakh and tension assim and ever since robin forrester walka reports i. in these are very capital crowds demanded vengeance for a major general the most senior servicemen to have died in clashes on azerbaijan's border with armenia only just very. 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. 'd are going to wal-mart the fighting which began on sunday has so far claimed more than a dozen lives and clued in at least one civilian what i think many me say with the whole story of them going question is whether it was the very area in stansell appropriated by significant religious are like it it's right next to the military trains or between that and was extremely important because it enough are the 1st one to suffer probably that all korean. military activity. the region is situated north of the disputed territory of the going to occur about

internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan it's controlled by armenian forces how do you go to think in the armenian prime minister has accused. azerbaijan's in danger in regional stability as a by johns president says international peace talks have led nowhere. there is a risk of a wider conflict if the fighting continues to turkey says it stands with barcoo russia which brokered a cease fire in the past may be needed once again to bring the 2 sides back from the brink robin 1st year walka al-jazeera. i had to hear from you on al-jazeera rising inflation and higher than 1009 geria leaving many struggling to feed their family.

hello there i'm afraid is still not feeling very much like summer across central and northern areas if you're the cloud as well giving it a little bit dull and we've also got one to rain showers meanwhile we've also got some pretty good weather though some places this is in central switzerland look at this is the voice river and you can see here's how she a title river so this writing the bore as it travels up the river to go through wednesday plenty of can throughout much of central europe as i say even if it's not rainy is pretty much is really all below par for this time of year just 19 degrees in london cloudy skies but the rain is generally felt that the central regions germany rather down into northern areas of italy some heavy rain pushing into western as russia as well the temperature actually declining as we go into thursday and really just a very unsettled picture 3 much of mainland europe although slightly improving picture across the northwest the best sunshine will be across portugal and spain

but damage wise london for the next few days it does actually get a little bit milder but it's a very cloudy few days ahead and paris again it does get that will mostly by the end of the week when we should have a some sunshine mixed in with the clouds then down into northern africa we have going to shastri the central med that means algeria and tunisia but despite the shadows it's very warm a high of 31 in tunis on thursday. what is the price of luxury. an undercover team travels deep into the illegal cocoa plantations of the ivory coast simple solutions are very hard to find for something as complicated as the child labor culture chocolates hearts of darkness and count as unpaid child labor as working in a 100000000000 dollar industry well over a hot of the country's cocoa produces live below the poverty line. coming soon.

we move to a. that's remind you about top stories here the south china says it will retaliate after the us president announced new sanctions over the national security at all beijing has imposed on hong kong donald trump also signed an executive order on ending hong kong's preferential treatment. united nations is warning tens of thousands of migrants mostly ethiopians are stranded in war torn yemen at least 14 and a half 1000 people have been rounded up out of fear they are spreading crude that 19. at least 11 soldiers from azerbaijan and 2 from media have been killed as

fighting escalates at the border the 2 former soviet republics have been in conflict over an enclave inside inside azerbaijan controlled by ethnic armenians. and u.s. for such as say the 1st phase of testing experimental cave in $1000.00 vaccine has shown promising safety results and produced an immune response to the human trial run by the biotech company mcdonough tested the vaccine on 45 healthy volunteers now those who received 2 doses had high levels of virus fighting antibodies compared to others who recovered from corona virus no serious side effects were reported. well many in nigeria struggling to feed their families because of rising inflation which has been rising for the past 9 months new figures are expected today the corona virus outbreak has made the situation of jobs vanishing amid address has more from car. felix runs

a spice shop in this market or the oscars of nigeria's capital of the water with the day already gone 8 customers have come to the shop on the 4th of the purchases this movement of booze is very difficult and hard so we have to do money a little. bit biased like rosemary goodwin are forced to pick up the tab she's come to the market to buy the family separate food use rarely we can take beans. weeks which this is very good for the children but now we believe it's been so once a week because. inflation has gotten worse since nigeria shut its land borders of its neighbors in august last year to curb smuggling the government has also restricted the import of the country's staple rice in order to increase local production in me for president cross nigeria rose by 1.42 percent more than the figure for a full there's also been

a significant increase in prayers hospital services and pharmaceuticals from the national bureau of statistics as covered 9000 cases think greece and incomes are hit hard. rising food prices alone accounted for about 60 percent of the country's inflation economists blamed they saw several factors including attacks by armed groups low investor confidence and the crush of global oil prices that fund nigeria's import. as a result of all revenue shortfall the local currency is roosegaarde because the dollar loss of florida. precious. foreign exchange rate. prose pressure on prices especially the grounds are really important to protect the country. very important driver place an. agrarian sector. over 60 said the

nigerian population of forensics. depends on the group culture the likelihood. that at the moment hundreds of thousands of problems have been forced from their lives by continuing attacks by book or out and out armed groups at least say unless the government quickly restores citizens and investor confidence by jerry i will continue to see 2 digit inflation figures of a decrease al-jazeera nigeria. japan is calling on the united states to better manage the spread of the corona virus at its military bases after more than 130 soldiers tested positive in okinawa the local government says he was shocked by the cluster of infection found once a virus prevention measures at the camps to be found this christianized and japan's defense minister says they have discovered a multiple problems with the u.s. military's coronavirus policy but it's big to fight the salami he is live for us

from the capital take care of some stuff and criticism there of the way that the u.s. is managing all this. yes indeed especially that most of the u.s. bases are located in okinawa chairs on must be free from the virus put a long time now we're. seeing about $148.00 cases of duty in the whole last 4 to 5 months and only 7 deaths so the number of infections inside us bases in what you know well which shows almost 70 percent of u.s. troops there the number now is at the $126.00 so it's almost the same number that. has it accorded and another concern is that. during the 4th of july doing that. in the billions they had abrasions all day and independence day it seems that many

of the u.s. troops there they had parties on beaches that in this sense downtown and there is quite a big concern now that this has caused the cluster in that in the island and this is why they're asking now the u.s. troops there to increase their preventive measures against going up lives and beyond the u.s. bases heidi how is the rest of the country coping with the pandemic and the corresponding economic fallout. well. as you know we've seen a spike in the number of infections during the last 10 days almost specially in tokyo each record of the most hated of the infections in japan that's also the round in the will of the countries about 22000 cases and in tokyo it's more than that more than now 8000 during the last 10 days on the number of infections in tokyo has jumped from one digit to the ships and then we have seen the numbers exceeding $100.00 and during the last fight fight days the number of the infections

that each to hundreds and actually last friday took a record the highest level since the start of the out break in japan which was 243 cases in tokyo the number has decreased now to our around 140 s. but this that you just like in the number of infections is raising much concern especially that japan has. decreased the preventive measures against good on the virus and they would have been betting actually to start something called what is called go to come in it's a company to. think that is it is in sort of tokyo and lot of cities to go to that area country site and now that is the much concern about this coming which should that which should have started should start on the 22nd of this so there is so much who what is especially that they can to me is also now being effected and today the

governor of the bank of japan held up its continents and they downgraded their outlook for the growth of the economy to the minus so now they're expecting minus 4.7 before they were expecting a growth and now they're very obvious that the country is facing this nation but all this comes at a time when the set of a by the public but of course that has showed that people have. interest in getting the government to take measures against. against going to know by this rather than they can and. in the japanese capital take care thank you fadel. now the conduct of souls of late men park one soon is being investigated following allegations of sexual misconduct he was found dead last week in the south korean capital after one of his secretaries filed an abuse claim his funeral took place on monday police have not disclosed how he died. of flash flooding on the in the

the indonesian island of pseudo where he has killed at least 16 people dozens of others a missing and thousands of homes have been destroyed and more through heavy rain triggered landslides burying buildings and roads and mud around 2000 islanders are in temporary shelters and flooding in northeast india has killed at least 77 people there 2000000 indians and as some states have been forced from their homes during 2 weeks of heavy monsoon rains huge areas are underwater because one of the largest rivers best its banks and the heaviest rains for 10 years in bangladesh have stranded or forced more than a 1000000 people from their homes water levels and major rivers are continuing to rise in northwest and central districts the flooding which started late last month has washed away crops and weather experts expect little relief soon protesters have rallied for a 4th day in far east russia and what's said to be the biggest demonstrations there

and 30 year is they're angry at the arrest of their regional governor on murder charges that his supporters say are politically motivated and next year brian reports. the crowds might be smaller but they may surge is the same they demand the regional governor said her go be released. the rallies lasting long into the night in khabarovsk russia's far east there have been protests here since for a girl was detained last week and taken to moscow more than 6000 kilometers away he deployed in court accused of murder but according to the investigation 4 gal was organizing assassination attempts on the murders of a list of business men the charges date back about 15 years before he got into politics he denies the allegations which his supporters say politically motivated because he was popular and beat the candidate from the governing united russia

party in the 2018 election. was a victory was seen as reflecting a growing public frustration with president vladimir putin and mocked and major setback for putin's policy let it be but there's some kind of disregard for us in general for the citizens of russia it's like we mean nothing our choice doesn't mean anything everyone feels very upset. over the weekend thousands of people were out in this small city near the border with china and what's described as an unprecedented show of to st towards moscow. that's going on in russia is completely outrageous we have become it's a tele terry and society for girls a wrist came just days after president putin oversaw a constitutional vote that could extend his hold on power until 2036. is the belief the kremlin will be hash because if it compromises it will set a bad example for all of the governors that it's possible to blackmail the kremlin

and it cannot allow us that also find and punish those behind the unrest and suppress the protest the region's mayor has warned the rallies are illegal and told people let her go move receive a fair trial but with the governor facing life in prison his supporters are refusing to back down alexia brian al-jazeera. now the u.s. government has reversed its plan to revoke visas from international students if they universities hold classes exclusively online because of the corinna virus that decision follows 8 federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities thousands of foreign students travel to the u.s. every year to study and are a significant source of revenue richard hey daryn is a political scientist and also author of a new book the india pacific trump china and the new struggle for global nostri he says the visa rule would have imposed significant harm on public health. well under

normal conditions of course if you're going to have a student visa you're supposed to meet certain requirements in terms of in person attendance but with the imposition of lockdowns and emergency measures in the united states that's close to impossible and you have an extremely troubling phenomenon whereby some of the students were considering to transfer to other places where they could have in class attendance in order to meet the basic requirements even though that would have meant to reset their life and then potentially spreading the disease daughter people so i think even on the question of public health it was going to be a very difficult argument for trump administration to make and you know this thing is this over the past years even friends and colleagues of mine coming from muslim majority countries nothing but indonesia for instance they were worried that if they get out of the us for a visit to family they couldn't come back and we saw more and more restrictions on students come from china from iran but you know if you look at the foreign students you have more than 2 100000 of them coming from india more than 50000 coming from south korea more than 30000 coming from saudi arabia these are students from countries that are very close to the united states and training the future of

either side of this country also means a lot for american super soft power and its social linkages with this country's. hello again the 5 al-jazeera and these are the headlines china says it will retaliate after the u.s. president announced new sanctions over the national security and post on hong kong donald trump also signed an executive order ending hong kong's preferential treatment and training you has more on more from beijing on the response from the chinese ambassador to the u.k. . he was disappointed with this what he called the wrong decision and he also raised questions about the fairness of the environment in the u.k. for foreign businesses operating there now this is a sentiment largely echoed in qual ways or in statements where they said that they were disappointed by this move that this review is bad for the u.k. it only said it sets it on the slow road when it comes to developing its technology

that it increases the digital divide and deprives u.k. citizens of the best and latest 5 g. technology the united nations is warning tens of thousands of migrants mostly ethiopians stranded in war torn yemen at least 14 and a half 1000 people have been rounded up out of fear they're spreading kovac 19 at least 11 soldiers from azerbaijan and 2 from amenia 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 us for such as say the 1st phase of testing an experimental kovan $1000.00 vaccine has shown promising safety results and produced an immune response the human trials run by the biotech company mcdonough tested the vaccine on 45 healthy volunteers those who received 2 doses had higher levels of virus find the antibodies compared to others who recovered

from the corona virus and no serious side effects were reported japan is calling on the united states to better manage the spread of corona virus at its military bases after more than 130 soldiers tested positive in okinawa the local governor says he was shocked by the cluster of infections and wants a virus prevent prevention measures at the camps to be further scrutinized and japan's defense minister taro kono says they've discovered multiple problems with the u.s. military's coronavirus policy. the conduct of cells man pac one soon is being investigated following allegations of sexual misconduct he was found dead last week in the south korean capital after one of his secretaries filed an abuse claim his funeral took place on monday well those are the headlines i'll have more news for you here on al-jazeera the inside story. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter

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