closed extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. spying claims and the mysterious fire china's order to shut its consular office in the u.s. city of houston as the diplomatic war intensifies. it's all rommany what you want is there a life my headquarters here in doha also coming up the u.k. settles on a way to turn millions of hong kong residents into british citizens if they want to escape china's new security law. was. the protestors call on israel's prime minister to resign over corruption charges and

his handling of coronavirus. they can't waste a drop we look at why water so vital to ethiopia as a controversial one fills up. into the program they've exchanged threats and criticism over covert 19 trade and the south china sea now the diplomatic war between china and the us has a new front china has been given 72 hours to shut its consular office in the city of houston the u.s. says the move is to protect american intellectual property and it comes after fire fighters in the city were denied entry to the premises following reports that staff were burning documents china's foreign ministry denies that arctic using the us are violating international law it's warned the chinese students in the u.s.

to be on their guard for what it calls arbitrary interrogations this was us secretary of state my pompei is speaking in denmark earlier we're not going to allow this to continue to happen where they have seen their remarks that that brian gave that be i direct reggae even that attorney general barr has given we are setting out clear expertise as for how the chinese communist party is going to behave and when they don't who are going to take actions that protect the american people protect our security our national security and also protect our economy and jobs well china has threatened to close the u.s. consular office and rouhani in retaliation katrina you has the latest for us. certainly beijing is furious about this china's foreign ministry spokesperson one when been spoke on wednesday afternoon calling this outrageous unjustified and said it was an unprecedented escalation even listed a number of actions he said the us government had taken against chinese people in

the u.s. in recent months he said that chinese diplomats there had been subjected to intimidation harassment in some cases detention he also said that chinese students were increasingly being interrogated that personal electronic devices were being confiscated and searched he also said that there would be incidents at least were chinese diplomatic stop had extra restrictions imposed on them that diplomatic pouches were searched without permission that chinese official items were also confiscated both of these would be violations of the vienna convention on diplomatic relations one woman also said that the chinese embassy in the u.s. had received a number of bomb threats and death threats and he accused the administration of fanning the flames of hatred against china only in the u.s. but overseas as well and certainly this is just the next escalation the newest escalation was a diplomatic freefall in terms of relations between u.s. and china in various fronts in gung ho national security law technology and trade

and beijing says if the u.s. does not pull back from this decision it will take what it has called legitimate and necessary countermeasures. they don't call is a fully u.s. deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats he explains the timing of the decision. well we are in a spiraling crisis certainly relations between the u.s. and china have been deteriorating for some time and trump has clearly chosen to make china a bogeyman in his campaign since everything else gone wrong you know if you blame someone else then that's helped you so that's part of the story i think that's the political background now the events specifically that led to the decision to close the consulate probably actually occurred there's it's not

a secret that chinese intelligence has been increasingly aggressive in the united states in the last 5 years and there been more than 154 arrests by the f.b.i. for chinese espionage. episodes so these events occur but it's fundamentally a political decision when to take this kind of a step the multi-channels have been revealed on british government plans to open a special pathway to citizenship full $3000000.00 whole cole residents saucing in january now those eligible will lot have to have a job before going to the united kingdom it applies to people with british national overseas passports and their immediate families the new rules are in response to a national security low china is imposing on the whole kolisch critics say freedoms chalons as in london with more on the immigration plan. what we now have is the

detail or at least some of the detail about how british nationals overseas in hong kong these 3000000 or so hong kong was going to go about getting a british citizenship when the system opens in january 2021 and the part as outlined by proceed to tell the home secretary is this that with no jobs lined up or any other particular criteria they can come to the u.k. for 5 years of limited leave to remain they have to be financially secure and independence while they are here they're not going to get government handouts etc after those 5 years are up they can apply for what's called settled status and after a year of settled status then they can apply for british citizenship they can

also bring over their dependents who are classed as normal british nationals overseas this is going to amplify i think the that the showdown between the british government and the chinese government when britain suspended its extradition treaty with hong kong yesterday. the chinese government said that this was again. something of a hostile act and that the british would be having to bear the consequence of it so yes this is an amplification of the showdown with with china. the british government has denied ignoring warnings that russia was attempting to meddle in its elections prime minister boris johnson told parliament the u.k. was more vigilant than any other country against threats from russia a report on tuesday concluded authorities actively avoided looking into evidence the kremlin tried to interfere in several votes including the brics it

a referendum. the people of the took this country didn't vote to leave the e.u. because of pressure from russia and russia interfered they voted because they wanted to take back control of my money and my trade policy of almost well turkey and russia have agreed to work together tooled a lasting cease fire in libya turkey supports the u.n. recognize government in tripoli while russia backs its rival warlord keith i have to who's based in the east delegations from turkey and russia met a 9 grow with more talks planned in most case they say remains the only solution to the cold flicked tell them one is a fulminant special envoy to debian he says that russia and turkey will need to work together to bring stability to the region they both have good in thousands of mercenaries into libya to fight the war and if turkey and russia decide to stop the fighting and have their mercenaries no longer fight or withdraw from the church or

leave the country well that's going to be a good thing for libya libyans do need to get together and negotiate a sustainable way forward with the u.n. process before have decided to tripoli in april 2019 there was supposed to be a national conference which would have involved a lot of libyans for a lot of different places to find it out for it fought by the u.n. and that was about to make sure real progress after a spanish military mission if this effort to conquer the country become a dictator stopped all that it's going to be hard to put it back together again but there's no alternative they will ultimately need to have in the fight national force some come military council or civilian role those kinds of things will be and should be negotiating and foreign countries should be supporting what the russia and turkey potentially dose is reduce the risk of a proxy war and by reducing the risk of a proxy war it is creating a. reduced threat to the country and to the region and that's

a good thing. the vote is expected in the coming hours that will give israel's government increased powers to impose krenov iris restrictions across the country the move comes as protests grow louder against prime minister benjamin netanyahu is handling of the pandemic dozens of demonstrators have been arrested after chaining themselves together and blocking people from entering parliament in west jerusalem ari forces as well. benjamin netanyahu is where the protest before so called black flag activists have waged a years long campaign against what they call his anti democratic rule but in the last 2 weeks the protests have changed and grown as israelis buckling under a 2nd wave of coronavirus turn their anger on the government. netanyahu has admitted to reopening the economy too quickly allowing gatherings of too many people others point to the government's failure to expand the system of testing and tracing as the 1st wave leaving it ill equipped to stop the 2nd author and

journalist roden bergman has investigated that decision making he says the health ministry went against expert advice you need to know as soon as possible if that person is ill or not you need this person immediately after he is a fight is so the suspect so even if you do not been sharing of infection it goes on and on if you are not able to cut it the government itself said it needed a 48 hour turnaround from suspected case to test result even now it's taking $6.00 to $8.00 days the concern now is that it's simply too late in terms of testing to catch up with the sheer scale of this 2nd wave israel's missed opportunity on testing and tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure to tackle the pandemic under pressure the prime minister has been announcing measures only to announce them from a one point $75000000000.00 package of cash handouts 1st universal now means tested

too in order to close restaurants postponed. an hours to weekend closures of beaches and pools reversed within days the one constant is insistence on avoiding a 2nd full lockdown. in the school so i've requested each ministries plan for a safe exit from the current virus restrictions meaning that if we straighten the coven reach the goals that we see it for the determined number of cases per day that we can work with over time in the coronavirus routine. but the head spinning policy shifts have undermined belief in a prime minister also on trial in 3 separate corruption cases one survey this month put public trust in him at just 29 percent and the problem that. there's really this back and that it's not creating trust and trust is groucho. in order to move ahead because it's a long term situation where they're talking about trustees both thrust of the public and trust of experts just weeks ago netanyahu had squashed the 1st wave of

coded 19 and neutralized his most serious political rival benny gantz inside an emergency coalition now he's fighting to beat down a resurgent virus and restore his diminishing political capital are a force at al-jazeera television. well still ahead here on al-jazeera a pessimistic president told friends dramatic change of message on masks and coronavirus. also a steroid with a lifesaving boost the drug being tested in britain that's being hailed as a breakthrough treatment the cave of 19 patients. hello the korean peninsula in for a soaking now i think the seasonal rains of change their orientation a little bit of proper circulation developing in that line which takes you across the yellow sea towards both north and south korea the orange scent is just some

intense slow moving heavy rain it's still part of a system that links back across the yangtze where it's now dry in the forecast as it back towards sichuan where the next bit will stuff develop this however unfolds so you've got still rain in the korean peninsula spreading across towards the south of japan and probably just touching shanghai for a brief while as well. still he would of course you get scattered thunderstorms in little clumps is one obvious one towards the vietnamese coast the next couple days in fact. pretty wet looking areas of deep sandstorms here there are a few a salute sort of way sea and fewer than there were in sumatra and sudden thailand peninsular malaysia the monsoon rains pretty widespread throughout india bangladesh and to some degree pakistan we still got the brahmaputra being rained upon that's in full flood but equally there's a hint of suggest suggestion of significant rain in southern bangladesh coming up.

mexico's coded 1000 death toll is one of those one type with one in 5 of its inhabitants living in the capital with the deadly upsurge inevitable take it off a 1000000 visitors every day there's really no way that they can focus on things going without food. or has the governments on all the drug strategy lead to unnecessary suffering frontline mexica the fight against 19 on al-jazeera. world world.

of market watch al-jazeera with me said the reminder of our top stories the u.s. government has ordered beijing to close its consular office in houston texas saying it's to protect american intellectual property a spokesman for the chinese foreign ministry has denied reports that star had been burning documents inside the building the british government will open a special pathway to citizenship for 3000000 hong kong residents starting in january the new rules are in response to a national security law china is imposing on hong kong which critics say curb freedoms and a vote is expected in the coming hours that will give israel's government increased powers to impose credible restrictions more than 30 people were arrested after protests calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to resign. qatar airways has launched a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against 4 arab countries that have imposed

a blockade on the gulf state banning qatari aircraft from their air space the airline seeking $5000000000.00 in compensation from egypt saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates now the country's impose a land sea and air blockade in 2017 and the un's top court ruled last week in favor of cattle approving the jurisdiction of the international civil aviation organization to hear the case kyle daly joins me now live on skype from butler in new jersey in the u.s. he's a pilot and an aviation analyst so we're heading to the courts yet again another legal case one wonders what the chances of success will be for qatar and how the blockading countries who seem to perhaps have lost the argument were able to fight this case. some right now there are basically 4 arbitrations they're going with who are. the authorities and they're going to decide the fate of this and

this simple thing is you know. the body who's going to decide these arbitrations has to determine if there is a clear breach of civil aviation conventions and right now which is too hard to tell how the court will decide you know. the airline is going after $5000000000.00 or $5000000000.00 u.s. dollars in damages. you know from last profit but there are some other obstacles here like the the coronavirus and previous. u.s. china embargo this has been going on since 2017 so you know of that a war of that $5000000000.00 it will be interesting to see if the court will award got full amount because i'll be see there are other things out there besides this blockade that are interfering with the lack of profitability of the arrow of time as a whole the pilots i mean of the ways is claiming. 5 but he was

a huge amounts of money for things such as i presume the extra mileage that they've had to india to droops in the costs of flying over other countries when they need to add to the fuel costs of coles with the fluctuations in fuel costs the global market in flying time which also adds to the extra costs for cabin crew pilots is huge amounts of money and unusual in terms of the sort of cases never come to court before the claims that asking for really the 1st time that any court would have heard about them. that is correct and like i said that was $5000000000.00 that's a lot of money on average these diversions are costing the airline about 25 minutes on average time to perform these demur regions around the airspace and it's not just an airspace blockade but they're actually also preventing. the yard prayer

from landing at the airports within these 4 countries so it will be interesting when the court decides you know quite possibly you know it could be a full ruling or a partial ruling perhaps they might say fly overs are permitted by you cannot land in these countries perhaps. you might say that you now have full access where the airline has to be permitted to fly over and land which will be obviously a victory for the airlines but it will be interesting to see how the court rules in this case indeed of course winning a cold case like this can be a legal and a moral victory the test of the you might say the test of the pudding is in the eating do you think cats i'll use it wins its case would have a recoup any of those funds would they be would the blockading countries be legally obliged to actually 100 over the kind of. well and you know this will also go back to you know what. the airline is owner owned by the state and you know they

are right now just accusing the state of being a little bit too close to iran and possibly in involved in terrorist activity so you know there is a burden of proof there and this will all have to be proven or can they physically prove this in the court of law or in this case to the arbitration body so that will be interesting to see also about you know as you know how courts work everything is factory been in evidence trim so there really isn't a burden of proof to prove legitimately that you know that this state is potentially engaging in you know terroristic activities and we should see what does have been told by mccullough bailey joining us from new jersey thank you todd thank you. but he was president double trouble posable the crime vote is not break is likely to get worse before it gets better it's the most departure from the

optimistic picture he's projected so far even as cases continue to rise in many u.s. states mike hanna has more from the capital washington d.c. . in the past president cost him self as america's cheerleader making rosy predictions about the course of the pandemic that were often at odds with the facts but this was a more subdued president than on previous occasions it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better something i don't like saying about things but that's the way it is and a complete reversal on the use of mosques something that in the 1st few months of the pandemic the president often derided at one stage even expressing support for anti mosque protests in a number of states this to it seems a thing of the past i have no problem with the masks i view it this way anything that potentially can help and that certainly can potentially help is a good thing i have no problem i carry it i wear it you saw me wearing it

a number of times and i'll continue if there were some familiar claims that the u.s. is leading the world in testing and that it's mortality rate is lower than anywhere both assertions declared false by most health experts and little comment about a startling report from the centers for disease control it says the official figure of some $3600000.00 cases of coronavirus in the us is dramatically less than what it now is to mates could be as many as $38000000.00 cases it's not clear whether the president's new embrace of reality rests in a recognition not because such as these or whether he's seeking to reverse what are politically damaging polling figures about the public's view of the way he's handled the crisis mike hanna al-jazeera washington. the scientists in the u.k. are conducting the world's largest random drug trial to see which existing medications could counter covert 19 though it's shown that cheap off the shelf

steroids could work in many cases saving the lives of one 3rd of critically ill patients in the 2nd of our series inside scottish clinics jonah hold meets staff at hairmyres hospital in east kilbride. this is the intensive care unit. this is a 10 bed intensity and where we had all our covert patients with envy at the height of the pandemic the place would be in fill of medical staff not the staff as your therapist the coded 1000 pandemic in the u.k. may have subsided for now but it's accelerating in many parts of the world so the search for treatments alongside a vaccine remains as urgent as ever and the drug trial has revealed the steroid dexamethasone to be effective in reducing deaths by up to a 3rd a lot of patients and he commented intensive care unit they have a hyper immune response so they begin system goes into overdrive because if the

hyper immune spawns actually causes a lot of the illness the damage to the lungs so decks a mess one hopes it is going to dampen all day 56 year old eddie hughes believes dexter methods saved his life a body was functional actions machines would basically run faster seem to keep me alive in the way from family and little to nothing else is what if not an to lose let's try it after you have to fix me this one is optional and started to stay don't start to take at least. for the 1st time it was the end of started to be talk of wean him off the team 3 times and that was just we just couldn't even believe that and he was given deck's of methadone here at hairmyres hospital in scotland one of a large number taking part in the u.k. wide randomised drug trial being run by scientists at oxford university the aim to test a number of widely available off the shelf drugs with the hope of finding one or a combination that might work to ease some of the worst symptoms of covert 98

hughes return from the brink of death contributed to data that has seen dexamethasone approved as a breakthrough treatment for some of the worst cases of covered 19 states methicillin has been. and. there. can be scraped up and been able to be. the recovery trial has also been successful in ruling out the malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine once hailed as a game changer by president donald trump but found instead to be useless in treating covert 19 as the world waits for a safe and effective vaccine that may yet be a long way off recovery continues to look for treatments that will help us live with the virus possibly for years to come join a whole al-jazeera scotland. but i think if you says heavy rains selling parts of

its controversial dam on the blue nile which will start generating power next year the government says the dam is crucial for its economic growth but egypt and sudan lie downstream and say it could reduce their access to water but i'm a valve reports from the source of the blue nile in northern ethiopia. it's called the water tower of africa that's because each open mountains are the 1st african highland to be drenched by the annual monsoon rains from the indian ocean. even after several droughts sits in streams rivers and lakes lake is one of the world's largest and the main source of the blue nile in the past each open didn't seem to need all the water it has lifestyles here were simple large bodies of water where even field. where always. aware of or water is dead in water is if you go to the. marsh

if you go to the area that if you go to the lake some didn't get it wrong in the history of. most of. our tradition preferred the highland living in highland because it's associated with the sea with this stupidity. but it's europeans say they've had to abandon that mentality a steady decrease in and the rainfall has damaged i recall the rapid increase in population every means millions more to feed a wiser use of water has become a necessity priority over the years has been given to hydro power with 18 dams either completed or about to be the largest in africa is the ground each operator name on the blue nile the $5000000000.00 project is designed to produce $6000.00 megawatts of electricity actually it's been a while since it began to harm. the power of the blue nile the famous nile for such

you see behind me receive only 25 percent of what is coming from that he may need $75.00 diverted to hydropower dams which produce a total of 84 megawatts. leaked on a catchment or blue nile solar system is made up of about 40 tributaries they include the sea could get a bite believed to be the real source of the blue nile by. name locals believe a bio runs through leaked on are without mixing with it and that it has healing powers wholly a bite is being required to play a more practical role was old system when use of water source. we lose these ice wars. weisel. benefit from them if you take in the. 100000 hectares put in that 100000 take that any good. that is yet but

this theme city parcel of it is under the use of the strides in hydropower investments haven't been matched with similar progress in agriculture around lake tana rocky terrain is to blame but local authorities say they'll do the impossible to harness both water and land for the benefit of the nation. by lake tana it choppy. you're watching al-jazeera with me said the reminder of our top news stories the u.s. government has ordered beijing to close its consular office in houston texas saying it's to protect american intellectual property a spokesman for the chinese foreign ministry has denied reports that stanford been burning documents inside the building or gone. on july 21st the u.s.

abruptly demanded we closed our consulate general this was unilaterally initiated by the u.s. side and we demand the u.s. withdraw this decision or we will respond we're not going to allow this to continue to happen where they have seen their remarks that. gave that direct reggae even that attorney general bar has given we are setting out clear expertise for how the chinese communist party is going to behave and when they don't who are going to take actions that protect the american people protect our security our national security and also protect our economy and jobs. the british government will open a special pathway to citizenship for up to $3000000.00 hong kong residents starting in january the new rules are in response to a national security law china is imposing on the hong kong which critics say curbs freedoms the british government has denied ignoring warnings that russia was attempting to meddle in its elections prime minister boris johnson told parliament that the u.k. was more vigilant than any other country against threats from russia

a report on tuesday concluded authorities actively avoided looking into evidence the kremlin tried to interfere in several votes. well turkey and russia have agreed to work together towards a lasting cease fire in libya turkey supports the u.n. recognize government in tripoli while russia backs its rival the warlord clique to have to who's based in the east delegations from turkey and russia met in ankara with more talks planned in moscow. a vote is expected in the coming hours that will give israel's government increased powers to impose coronavirus restrictions more than 30 people were arrested after protests calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to resign thanks for the headlines and back to our news inhofe i hear all al-jazeera thanks don al-jazeera its frontline to stay with us.

this is how paramedics we go to come on a concert here we're fine finish the show. racing down the highway the outskirts metzger's city trying to find a hospital for holes in response time covert operation just 39 years of the war on . drugs. hop over the world. to mexico cases are kept rising death toll is now higher than italy and spain. we go to insert here run the government every day trying to help their patients well protecting themselves.