shed light on the green cultural types. down in africa a witness documentary on al-jazeera. china becomes the 1st major economy to record positive growth figures since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. i know you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to ball also coming up ethiopia denies reports it started filming a controversial down that spawn a dispute with sudan in egypt. we want the world to see our determination and efforts to protect our country taiwan's annual military drill takes on added

significance as tension between the u.s. and china escalates over hong kong and the south china sea and a major hike of twitter fake messages appear on some of the most followed accounts including bill gates barack obama and iran mosque. china has become the 1st major economy to report growth since assad of the kovac 19 pandemic official data shows its economy grew at an unexpected 3.2 percent in the 2nd quarter after shrinking the most in nearly 50 years while some industries are nearly back to normal consumer spending is still down. the epidemic is still spreading faster overseas the restart recovery of the world economy and trade has been very difficult domestically the recovery have to modest slowed the pressures of stabilizing and surprises and safeguarding residential employment a huge katrina you is in beijing for us joins us now live some unexpected numbers

katrina growth much better compared to the rest of the world in china what is driving this. well the authorities here say that this is because the government has been able to get the coronavirus out very largely under control and we had a new cluster in beijing that was concerning at the end of may beginning of june but the government moved quickly put some local neighborhoods into lockdown and now we have had more than 10 days of 0 local transmissions and local transmissions nationwide have remained in the single digits for some time now on top of that the government has also tried to kick start the economy by putting to put into place some targeted fiscal measures so they wanted a blanketed stimulus but they have done things like ramping up infrastructure investment building a lot of subways and train stations around the country as well as cutting bank loan rates for different businesses and because of that we have seen this 3.2 percent

growth in this last quarter which is quite a sharp rebound from the previous quarter where we saw 6.8 percent contraction which was the the worst the most the biggest decline or that we've seen in china for decades now chinese state media are hugh hailing this 3.2 percent as a big celebration as a sign of hope for other economies around the world but we do have to take that with a grain of salt because these figures are of course difficult if not impossible to verify but it does look like in major cities things are back to normal people are out and shops restaurants going back to the office and travel restrictions have also eased domestically as well but there's still a lot of uncertainty as you see especially with tensions with the u.s. rising and the u.s. imposing sanctions on chinese tech companies could that derail things for china. it definitely could folly and i think this is underscored by the fact that today and thursday even though we had this good news that 3.2 percent of china's stock

market did not reflect this actually the shanghai index fell by more than 4 percent in shenzhen it fell by more than 5 percent and analysts say that really is because of fears that many investors have or over worsening ties between washington and beijing now china's foreign minister foreign ministry spokesperson watchin you also front to the media this afternoon on thursday and she mentioned that china still does intend to go forward with the trade deal the phase one trade deal negotiated by the 2 countries despite these worsening ties and despite what she described as the u.s. trying to press chinese businesses the same time there is a lot of pessimism around out around that all but still china's national bureau of statistics say that they are quite optimistic that this most recent growth has laid the groundwork for continued growth to the end of the year they're expecting 5 percent g.d.p. growth which does sound quite hopeful but there are some figures to support that in

particular we had industrial output in germany rise by 4.8 percent which is quite positive but at the same time as you mentioned earlier it's been patchy progress because domestic consumption retail sales that still really dragging its feet still china as a major economy is one of the few that is expected to avoid a recession but chinese authorities still for all these reasons playing it quite safe and this is why because of the end of this uncertainty that they have scrapped this g.d.p. growth target at all for the entire year of 2020 thank you katrina for that katrina you live there from beijing. ok in other news a state some money has been held in spain to honor those who have died during the coronavirus pandemic the event was attended by the country's king and top officials from the european union and the world health organization spain is one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic with over 28000 deaths in the united states

secret on a virus spawn demick is continuing to spike with over 67000 new cases reported on wednesday more than a quarter of those infected are in 3 republican controlled states florida texas and arizona which were quick to lift restrictions and as rob reynolds reports from florida florida has become the latest hot spot. florida saw a record number of corona virus deaths among its citizens this week the state has surpassed 300000 cases of covered 19 in total with more than 10000 new cases reported on wednesday hospitals are scrambling to make room for the sick emergency rooms that are backing up and it is quite a feat now for the administrators to find an appropriate bed for an emergency room patient to go to one that fits their covert needs florida was one of the earliest states to reopen for business now that is looking like a terrible mistake it's a complete failure of the public health system and we didn't. hear the population

enough so that we were able to convince them once we opened up things could not be back to normal florida governor rhonda santas a republican closely allied to president donald trump pushed for an early opening and he has not mandated mask wearing or issued any stay at home orders despite the surge part of the reason we have more positive tests is because we're doing so much testing at a recent event the governor was heckled shame on you you are an embarrassment doctor say the message to the public about mask wearing and hygiene has been inadequate if everyone's nose and mouth were covered we wouldn't be facing this this research is the problem of course is that it's been politicized and there are parts of the country and pockets with then even even parts of the country except masts that that believe that it's somehow a political statement or

a sign of weakness or a disbelief in god to wear masks and that's simply not true florida schools are reopening causing some parents concern but the anti mask movement is still loudly proclaiming its distrust of public health advice yeah right this is. right there where i. doubt is disease experts say changes in public policy from the top down must happen fast we need to take a deep dive into ourselves look at what we've been doing and why we have been doing so poorly in this outbreak and realize that it's 'd time for this introspection and this time for change and we've got to do it right away or we're just heading for you or more success some public health experts say florida's coated 1000 surge may not reach its peak until september rob reynolds al-jazeera.

president martin vickery has told us cabinet as a country desperately tries to get on top of its worsening coronavirus crisis a number of deaths is rapidly rising and is hitting disadvantaged peruvians to harvest by anna sanchez reports from lima. peruvians honoring their dead a tradition from the highlands where music is played in beer poured to symbolically refresh them for their new journey. to manage. this cemetery for the poor in northern lima families are increasingly reluctant to see their loved ones died of cold at 19 but their caskets are wrapped in plastic to prevent any contagion. coronavirus has become a stigma among the poor the outbreak has hit them hardest we hope. we are

torn with pain and our hearts are destroyed i don't say goodbye you just left before us unfortunately that's how life goes. many are dying at home and are not tested for the virus the government says more than 12000 peruvians have died since the 1st case of march but experts say the real number is at least 3 times as much or doesn't bother me others many don't have the means to get to a hospital only hospitals can't receive more cases that's why only one 3rd of deaths are actually reported. compared to the past 4 years the mortality excess rate the number of deaths above what is expected in normal conditions has rocketed from one percent to 149 percent the national death registry shows more than 40000 extra deaths one of the highest rates in the world. that increase in a short period of time only happens with the war or something the cause is

a great destruction like a pandemic our projections that we will enjoy with 45 or 50000. the government won't confirm those projections but doesn't deny the toll could reach that officials acknowledge the account for corporate related deaths has not been accurate in the end it means the government is dealing with a pandemic based on imprecise facts and that may have cost proceeded to shuffle his cabinet on wednesday a sign it's brought see of the need to change strategy in fighting the pandemic. we need everything it's as if a car from the mentioned fifty's s to go 1000 kilometers it to get there but you have to push. officials say the number of deaths will likely fall in the next few weeks to one of the strictest lockdowns in latin america but restrictions on no been lifted and with millions out in the streets trying to make ends meet and you fear it will be long before told starts climbing again but again the sun just.

be too. in other world news ethiopia says it has not filling africa's largest dam on the blue nile denying earlier reports it says an increase in the dams water levels is due to heavy rain is here tend to be in seeking urgent the ethiopian state media reported on wednesday that the filling of the ground renaissance dam had begun. reduce water supplies downstream and don't want the river dammed until they reach an agreement where they theo pia has more on the confusion surrounding the status of the dam. it's difficult to know what's going on at the damage because there was no access to it by international media no experts are visiting no foreign delegations are visiting the damn site so we can only hear from the europeans and they said something when they came back and said something different we can only analyze that particularly this this situation since yesterday

a situation of confusion at least for people outside the chopper can benefit each opens they want probably to test not only the dams capacity if indeed they try to fill it they began to feel the lake that's a technical test for the dam itself whether it works or not and this could be the biggest or the most important test because there were concerns technically speaking about whether the dam can really support this idea of you know holding up to 74000000000 cubic meters so a test will be good a test or saw of the actions of the countries downstream sudan and egypt and the international community and particularly the u.s. and the u.n. and the world bank who have been partners in the negotiations to resolve this dispute so they can gather a lot of. conclusions from what happened yesterday and that's going to benefit them going ahead because they have to know what to do in these tough negotiations

fighting has broken out once again on the azerbaijan armenia border despite both sides saying they're trying to find a peaceful solution both countries say their villages are being shelled by opposition forces at least 16 people have been killed since border clashes erupted on sunday tension between the former soviet republics has been escalating for several years as a fight over the disputed region of mega. still ahead on the program why u.s. policy on the south china sea is giving hope to fishermen in the philippines. hello there still a lot of a good picture across much of europe pensive clad and touches have been some water but in between the cloudy styles there is

a some sunshine this is in west germany can see the cloud is still very much sunny spells in between but better weather sunny and warmer across into lisbon as you can see people enjoying the beach meanwhile into southern italy into a sicily just look at this this is in pelham now there was a huge thunderstorm and reports of more than 80 millimeters of rain in less than an hour and this is what it did just a deluge half the streets many many feet under water now to spend more on across central areas which he's got a chance for much of a click and town towards the city as well but the rain coming heavy later in the day as you can see working its way steadily eastwards not seep out across much of france and the best weather radio again across into much of portugal and spain this is of on friday doing its best to bring more rain across areas of the u.k. certain across northern areas and really quite a cloudy picture and more rain pushing up towards areas of the scandinavia as well so temperature wise at temperatures are not too bad the average in london is $23.00 for july single sunny skies on friday that's the best day then it really does become all the cloudy time which is close to the average is warm and bright of the

paris in fact a very warm and bright weekend ahead. jump into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on air online be part of the debate let me put some you tube comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic arlen's that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to be to transform lives the way he treats human equating business if we're going to adapt to climate breakout this street on al-jazeera. earth.

welcome back our top stories on our air at this hour china has become the 1st major economy to report growth since the start of the kovac 19 pandemic official data shows its economy grew 3.2 percent in the 2nd quarter after shrinking the most in nearly 50 years a state ceremony has been held in spain to honor those who have died during the call a virus pandemic event was attended by the country's king and top officials from the european union and the world health organisation and ethiopia says it has not deliberately started filling africa's largest dam on the blue nile denying earlier reports it says an increase in the downs water level is due to heavy rain. and the european union's court top court has cropped an agreement with the u.s. that tech companies used to transfer data outside the block this could disrupt

hundreds of thousands of businesses the case was brought by austrian noir max shrem is over the way facebook sent private information around the world the e.u. us privacy shield was set up in 2016 to protect european europeans data when transfer to america but the court says the deal is no longer valid because of u.s. laws on digital spying while the case began when challenge facebook status safeguard saying personal information wasn't protected when transferred from europe to other parts of the world but the case has wider implications it could shake up the way thousands of europeans and american businesses transfer data overseas in 2015 square one another case ending a u.s. you e.u. deal called safe harbor this latest case relates to its success in both cases sent from revelations by american whistleblower edward snowden on massive alien spy the united states. twitter is scrambling to fix

a major hacking of its system that has seen fake messages posted to some of the most followed accounts in the world they began appearing a few hours ago asking follow us to donate to a big corn account with the promise their mound would be matched among those hacked our former u.s. president barack obama where the message says donations would go to those affected by over 1000 presidential candidate joe biden amazon boss jeff bezos microsoft founder bill gates apple and tesla have also been hits to the c.e.o. jack dorsey has issued a statement on the platform in it he says it was a tough day for everyone on twitter and they feel terrible at what happened there diagnosing the cause of the problem and will share more information when they have a better understanding of how it happens in a free day is a chief technology correspondent for oxtails she explains why some twitter users could have fallen for the hock. well i think you know this was an account all about opportunity and what you're seeing is you know very high profile people reach

a lot of people very quickly bitcoin is something that can be turned into cash very quickly anonymously so i think somebody found a very clever way to extract a lot of money from people in a very quick amount of time i mean certainly more people don't fall for it than do but i think when it comes from twitter and twitter caused a little bit of this problem they verify certain high profile users and say this is who you think it is and so that added to the problem is these were for the most part verified account so you look at it you say oh this really is this person and is it a little unusual that barack obama is asking for money yes but in the context of cold relief maybe not so much now with bill gates and some of the others it seemed a little more out of character but you know you think of the your typical e-mail scam and this is actually more plausible than that now again it does say you know you should be where you should think twice and you should never donate money indirectly you should always go to the charity you think you're going to i'm on the

tensions between at the whilst 2 most powerful economies the u.s. says it will paste travel bans on employees of chinese technology giant huawei as well as companies that violate human rights and now the white house is getting involved in a contentious maritime dispute or saying it will back countries who oppose china's territorial claims in the south china sea it's not china's maritime empire if beijing violates international law and free nations do nothing that history shows that the c.c.p. will simply take more territory that happened in the last administration. our statement gives significant support to us in leaders who have declared that the south china sea disputes must be resolved through international law not might makes right what the c.c.p. does to the chinese people is bad enough but the free world shouldn't tolerate beijing's abuses as well while the support from the u.s. has been cautiously welcomed by fishermen in the philippines who say they're being

pushed out by the chinese navy in the then reports from the province of. so near oil or remembers a time when the sketch was far more abundant that was many years ago when he says he was still free to fish inside the lagoon of scarborough shoal just a little over 120 nautical miles from his hometown of machine look in somebody's list province that was until chinese navy warships seized control in 2012. no you can disobey the bigger chain the specials we know we are no much against them we stay far from them government leaders in beijing claimed the south china sea as theirs saying it's been part of chinese territory for thousands of years and china's military continues to build installations such as on the spratly group of islands the trump administration u.s. secretary of state michael b.

is says the chinese claims to the south china sea are completely unlawful. and washington supports 5 asian countries indonesia malaysia the philippines and vietnam to what's been described as their inherent right to exclusive economic zones there. the philippine secretary of defense the finland's on the supports pompey is message to china and there in santa says china should abide by the 2016 ruling when the philippine government won its case against china at the international tribunal in the hague but philippines president really good to tear to has repeatedly said the china is a far more powerful country and doesn't want to risk going to war the u.s. china dispute is seen by many countries as a conflict between 2 competing superpowers but geopolitics isn't the issue here in the philippines for millions of filipinos living in coastal communities like this

one food security is at the heart of the south china sea this. many of the fishermen who sail to scarborough shoal sell their catch in local markets like this one in a box box in the unit the fish used to be delivered to us in crates now fisherman just come and bring supplies in bales it takes about 5 fisherman for us to have this much to sell and the price of fish has tripled filipinos here tell us they find it ironic that they live in a country rich in maritime resources and yet the majority of them can't to regularly afford even just a kilo of fish they welcome the u.s. is backing with cautious optimism but they know that help should come from their own government 1st jim duggan al-jazeera zambales province northern philippines. taiwan's president has watch on your life fire military exercises to demonstrate

its ability to fight invasion sighing when says she wants the world to see the determination to protect the country china considers taiwan as its territory and has been displaying its military strength nearby recently and going. we want the world to see our determination efforts to protect our country national security has never relied on borrowing down or bending the knees to the enemy but relying on the most solid national defense and all our military officers and soldiers are the core of the national defense. there is rob mcbride is following developments from seoul . these exercises are meant to test the readiness of taiwan to defend itself against obviously it's much more powerful neighbor they've been held since the $980.00 s. but also they are intended to send a very strong signal across the straits to the mainland and we have seen in recent months there have been incursions by chinese military aircraft into airspace close

to the island of taiwan that has resulted in the scrambling of aircraft to intercept them so these exercises we've been seeing the these aircraft being tested a defense is ground to air missiles being tested also the testing for the 1st time in more than 10 years of a heavyweight torpedo which has been tested fired against an obsolete frigate obviously taiwan will be concerned about the build up of mainland china's navy in recent years with the addition of aircraft carriers and so on and of course all overseen by saying when the president of taiwan who at the moment is riding on a wave of popularity given her defiance compared with previous taiwanese leaders to mainland china she was reelected earlier this year on a much increased a majority really securing her position in taiwan partly as a result of seeing what's happened in neighboring hong kong with the deep rooted concerns in taiwan that they really have to keep mainland china at an arm's length

. libya's warring sides have conducted a prisoner swap the un recognized government of national accord and forces loyal to waller $24.00 have to exchange 8 prisoners each in misrata where the help of more to follow manic trainer reports. well wishers welcomed home for rose a little runt is one of the prisoners from misrata released by warlords forces in eastern libya. the men loyal to the internationally recognized government of national accord were jinnie. in tripoli for exchange for aid of have to prisoners. swap have been near elsewhere and is that south of the front lines with the help of tribal leaders. well the rot was taken prisoner in southern tripoli last december during have theirs failed campaign to capture the capital he was then transported to a jail in benghazi in the eastern libya. after nearly 7 months in captivity he's among

his family and friends again back home in misrata well. i'm so happy it feels like i'm reborn i can't explain how happy i am i wasn't expecting to make it back home i hope all the families of prisoners from both sides can feel this kind of happiness his uncle mohammed is a prominent jian a military leader also from misrata he says the exchange may be followed by more. than. this was the 1st exchange between misrata and the east since the fighting almost every family in eastern libya has a prisoner here in western libya and we have prisoners there these occasions bring us closer to each other and are signs of a possible reconciliation process officials in libya's 3rd largest city say of 2750 men from misrata have been killed in the fighting would have to forces so far but. the city of misrata suffered so much from death occasions like this fill our hearts

with joy and happiness may god help all those who helped bring these people home but for family and friends of the 8 prisoners who have been able to make it back home here in misrata it's a joyous occasion it remains to be seen whether prisoner releases such as this one can help fuel a serious reconsideration process and bring about a peaceful solution to the libyan conflict traina al jazeera misrata. the family of george 4 oid is suing the city of minneapolis in the u.s. over his killing he died in may after a police officer knelt on his neck for most 9 minutes preventing him from breathing his killing has sponsored global protests lawyers for the family say the city of minneapolis has a history of policies and procedures that promote indifference towards people under arrest in britain black men. u.s. president donald trump has fired his campaign manager in a major shake up of his reelection drive brad has been replaced by his deputy bill

stepien came under increasing pressure after a rally in tulsa last month just over 6000 people turned up despite more than 1000000 applications for tickets donald trump tweeted that pascal will remain on board as a senior advisor to his digital teams. the and. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera china has become the 1st major economy to report growth since the start of the kovac $1000.00 pandemic official data shows its economy grew 3.2 percent in the 2nd quarter 'd after shrinking the most in nearly 50 is katrina you has more from beijing. a chinese state media handling it as a time to celebrate as a sign of hope to other economies but we do also have to take this figure with a grain of salt it's difficult or impossible to verify that figure of course but

definitely if you go walk around into the major cities in china and beijing included. shops and restaurants are open many people have returned to the office and travel restrictions have certainly also. eased to read you have groups now able to operate again domestically as well as say ceremony has been held in spain to honor those who've died during the coronavirus pandemic the event was attended by the country's skiing and top officials from the european union and the world health organization spain is one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic with over 28000 deaths coronavirus infections in the u.s. are continuing to spike with over 67000 new cases reported on wednesday the country's top health expert is urging the white house to solve attacks on him and focus on the virus instead ethiopia says it has not started filling africa's largest dam on the blue nile denying earlier reports age of 10 sudan fear reduce

water supplies downstream and don't want the dam filled until they reach an agreement with ethiopia fighting has broken out again on the azerbaijan armenia border despite both sides saying they're trying to find a peaceful solution both countries say their villages are being shelled by opposition forces at least 16 people have been killed since border clashes erupted on sunday tension between the former soviet republics has been escalating for several years as they fight over the disputed region of nagano credible. and taiwan's president as watch annual live fire military exercises sighing when says she wants the world to see the determination to protect the island from invasion china considers taiwan as its territory and as displayed this military strength nearby recently those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next it's a stream. we understand the differences and similarities have cultures across the land. mass i want to see al-jazeera

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