china hits back at the united states shutting down the u.s. consulate in chengdu days after beijing was ordered to close its mission in houston . i'm right about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up drama in the skies over syria passengers are hurt on an iranian plane as it tailed by a u.s. fighter jet. it's just not the right time for the donald trump cancels the main republican convention event in florida as coronavirus cases continue to rise. the

1st friday prayers in istanbul's iconic of fear after being a museum for nearly $86.00 nears. i may begin with the escalating tension between the united states and china beijing has ordered the u.s. to shut down its consulate in the southwestern chinese city of chengdu the chinese foreign ministry says it's had to hit back at what it's calling an unjustified act look what you. china's measure is a legitimate and necessary response to unjust acts of the u.s. it conforms with international law basic norms and international relations and customary diplomatic practices the current situation in bilateral relations is not what china wants to see and the u.s. is responsible for all of this on tuesday washington gave beijing 72 hours to leave

its consulate in houston texas china has called the move a violation of international law but the u.s. says it's necessary to protect american intellectual property the u.s. secretary of state might bump aoe has now double dying on the allegations describing china's houston consulate as a hub of spying katrina you has more from mohan. unwin been who's a foreign ministry spokesperson in beijing he fronted the press to basically reiterated the the message that was released by the former foreign ministry earlier today on friday but he also then said that the some officials working in the chung do consulate had been engaging in activities which do not accord with their identities and that china has raised this several times to the u.s. and the u.s. is aware of this when he was pushed further on exactly what he meant he didn't give anything the details but quite a vague statement there we don't know if that accusation is leveled at the chinese

stop all 50 all the of the 50 american u.s. officials who work in the time do office but it does give some insight as to why they've targeted that particular consulate at the moment we do know there are about 200 staff working there and that is have quite a colorful history as well in 2012 the party secretary of of the chain which is a big region that both she lived his right hand man one legion actually fled to that consulate in time do to try to seek asylum after he levels of accusations against bush he lied was later found guilty in china that could be one reason that wasn't mentioned by china's foreign ministry but that is what many people think of when they think of the. also because of its location in the southwest of china it's also considered to be quite listening post for the u.s. when it comes to any happening is the issues around tibet ocean junk so that's also possibly why it was targeted. a number of recent developments have put a strain in relations between china and the us the white house's brain china for

the global coronavirus pandemic of beijing says president trump is trying to deflect attention from his own mishandling of the crisis trump on chinese president xi jinping have imposed steep tariffs in a series of tit for tat measures on trade the 2 have since managed to move ahead with a so-called phase one trade deal but negotiations are now stalled and then there's holloway the chinese tech giant has been severely restricted in key u.s. market and the u.s. is convinced other countries to band aid to the u.s. also wants to extradite one of hallways top executives from canada and it sang and virus's the chinese government on political and economic affairs and he says trump is manufacturing a crisis to boost his chances of re-election. at this point there is a scowl is going on in people's mind that donald trump has about 3 more months as an act president and then 3 months when hopefully he will step down from the

presidency no one's really sure about that from the chinese perspective understand that this is all about reelection and that donald trump is trying to push their buttons trying to manufacture an incident so that he can then claim that if you don't vote for him you're not patriotic this would require him to get some sort of you know if a boat rams into an american boat or something like that but it seems like he's really pushing that in addition to all of these things between what pompei i was saying between the actions which blindsided everybody i don't think anybody would accept that they were about to close the houston consulate there is this issue of more boats sailing into disputed waters of the south china seas more navigation acts the scene calculated in order to create an incident which donald trump thinks would be to key to his reelection it's clear that donald trump will continue with

these types of actions he wants surprise he wants to get a reaction it's also very good way of taking attention away from the coast that 19 deaths and infections and he has heart in it the pentagon has confirmed one of its fighter jets intercepted an iranian passenger plane over syria it says the f. 15 conducted a visual inspection of the modern airplane from a safe distance it wasn't a hostile aircraft several passengers were injured when the commercial plane pilots abruptly changed to altitude their bus loaded safely in beirut. but just out of hand as a research fellow at the lowy institute for international policy he says this incident could worsen already strained ties between washington and tehran. yes says accusations that. are from that airline i used to ferry the just 6 support for running back forces in the region so that may well have they

one of the reasons why the u.s. side to take a close look at the aircraft to check out where there were passengers on board well it's interesting we have to see what the pentagon has and said why they set up near craft. to look at this passenger plane where as our lead to blow the other passenger planes fly this route and have a brain intercept lou in the past but there is a kind of heightened. tension in a relationship that is always a bit fraught an explosion at natanz nuclear facility or a range of fires at industrial plants some of which are explained by accidents others of which appear to be a bit more mysterious so there's a sense that that something is perhaps in by way that hasn't been kleiber for that additional pressure is being put on iran i'm not sure that these 2 are linked but

the problem always is when there's a heightened. series of tensions and actions that something like this gets just adds to the a somewhat volatile mix the staggering impact of covert 19 in the united states shows no sign of easing the number of infections across the country has crossed 4000000 president trump has called off the main republican convention events in florida because of coronavirus figures i did jocasta reports. the world's richest nation has now surpassed it's 4000000. 19 and it's feared the number will only soar what's important about that is the steamroller that it is. the acceleration that this has the rate of new cases is trending upward in 39 states with a record number of deaths reported in florida that's where president trump had planned to speak before

a massive crowd at the republican national convention in august an important moment for his reelection campaign but now those events are canceled i care deeply about the people of florida and everywhere else frankly in this country and even in the world who would be coming into the state and i don't want to do anything to upset it 143000 people have died of the corona virus in the united states and medical experts warn many more deaths are to come those numbers tend to rise about a month after an uptick in cases but president trump trying to downplay the threat saying that problems and hot spots will all work out your 'd sissie a lot of the country is has has no problem whatsoever trump also claims states have all the emergency supplies they could possibly need despite pleas from some doctors that life saving equipment is running out we have no.

god we are not anybody to to go decision of who should lead or who should die however when you have what he's called a mass casualty situation there are 99 has to be filed all of that makes you war in a more efficient manner and say there must not a bit of people meanwhile the us economy nears another precipice with expanded unemployment benefits expiring at the end of the month and the vixens resuming at the end of the week congress will debate yet another rescue measure in coming days . castro al-jazeera washington. friday prayers are to take place in turkey's iconic caius affair for the 1st time in nearly 86 years people have been gathering in the last few hours among them turkish president. and last week he controversially declared the hardness of fear a mosque after a court ruled its conversion into a museum in the 1930 s.

had been illegal it was built 1500 years ago as an orthodox christian cathedral before it was converted to a mosque and then to a museum and across the hall is joining us now live from istanbul where understand that a great many people as i say have been gathering this morning we've just been pictures of the turkish president heading into the the building just talk us through what's been happening this morning. right here outside i.s.o. fiar for the prayer that is going to last throughout the years and. finding little things like this in the way. here out this is a very long. facility called service and. yet lawmakers present 'd on the on the islamic. summits.

in terms of the global trend people like him have always said that that chains of bias of the cutout minister fish should be open for prayers and for nationalist and conservative society electorate of turkey this is a very important moment every cause that he will be able to operate inside it after 8 to 5 years since the morning there are 20000 security personnel here trying to hide security and from the minarets of the building the governor's office now are making good now spends for the citizens. making warnings about cope with measures to wear masks and preserve the source of this there is a huge crowd and even just one hour ago and all they are real was all over the world and the governor's own is still not the answer to that and there is a very new strain me and i me and him and that will mean

a school of nipple who are here of course that this is the moment. president barack obama will sat no need to turn a civil we have. a muslim to this he made this decision to muslims all of a he is not to write that to say because their attitude martin is it which i will of the not so far to say they are one of them says satisfy the former prime minister and the other one is established by the. sign a centrist or a minister so in terms of turkish national politics this means have the vision and out party is most in another upcoming election even an early election is meant by the way i saw some people discuss that activists like the console of the antis. say that this was old and they needed into so cite the people who are writing to great ideas of the and who like in one. it will be this time forward to friday prayer

according to the stumble look inside man to. 1000 people in the rain sat alone with presidents act on and after that not to and we are the measures are going to be lifted and this insistence that we'll be able to go inside beyond and visit and not grandstand to call everything in terms of the now doing this not the standing of innovations inside of. 'd the i guess of me everything is going to be shut down for 6 months. sin and thanks very much indeed as they progress we're obviously going to be checking back in with you but for now thanks very much indeed these are live pictures from inside the sofia which cinemas mentioning had been in a museum for about smear least 86 years having been originally converted to change from a mosque to museum run about 1035 we saw earlier president received one heading inside the building their reaction to his controversial decision to declare it

a lost after that initial court ruling which said that the decision to change it to a museum had been legal has been significant across the world pope francis has said he is very pained by the decision to change it back into a place of worship the world council of churches has apparently expressed grief and dismay but we will be returning to the occasion inside the high you sophia as the morning progresses. still ahead on al-jazeera taking matters into their own hands bolivians bring oxygen cylinders for covert hit family bombers as hospitals run out of supplies. from promising drugs it to ending up in intensive care we take a look at the 1st year and hour of britain's prime minister but his johnson.

i know there are plenty of scott a chance and much of indonesia's a rather a strong powerful thunderstorms at times across areas of the philippines as well but some particularly heavy downpours in and around thailand this is bankole just how much rain has it come down some very strong thunderstorms at times fairly typical for this time of year and a slightly more in the forecast on saturday you can see here those raising standing right there down the apron and so the heavy at times and again across into much of the northern and western civ march i mean while we've got cyclic conditions across much of java it will stay dry and fine as it go through sunday as well elsewhere will see more of those the thunderstorms and the showers now down across central strader we've seen some very heavy rain through coastal areas of queensland that is about to clear you can see the system working its way further towards the south in the east but what will happen on saturday as we see quite a scattering of rain much of new south wales they dismiss showers into the southern

portions of the south island of new zealand but it's sunday really that the rain becomes very heavy and there is no pressure just developing off the new south wales coast that will bring some very strong winds as well along these coastal areas where of course just recently we saw the erosion that took place meanwhile out across much of the west the rain had. to find sunday. a team of chinese scientists in town. deep sea mission searching for rare is also. one who want to produce china's underwater 0. 000 this is the government not taking the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that at travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the

stories that matter does their own. marginal to 0 mind over top stories this hour china's foreign ministry has all of the closure of the u.s. consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu it's a response to washington's order to shut the chinese consulate in houston. the pentagon has confirmed to one of its fighter jets intercepted and they're ready in passenger planes over syria to make sure it wasn't a hostile aircraft several passengers were injured in the commercial plane changed altitude during the incident. friday prayers are taking place in turkey his cock is a feel for the 1st time in nearly 86 years past week president out of one

controversially declared the hardness of fear on mosque after a court ruled it's conversion into a museum of being illegal. ok let's go back to the latest diplomatic sparring between china and the united states this time they're shutting down each other's consulates but the tension is also playing out at the world health organization the u.n. health body has rejected allegations by the u.s. secretary of state that questioned its independence from china. our soul focus and the focus of the international the entire organization is on saving lives if there is one thing that really matters to us and which should matter to the entire international community it's saving lives and deadly joe will not be distracted by these comments and we don't want the entire the international community also to be discrete distracted. the coronavirus

pandemic has dealt a fresh blow to bolivia's plans to restore political stability general elections have been postponed for the 2nd time this year while the virus continues to spread hospitals are being overwhelmed to risible reports. one by one vehicles enter the central cemetery in. the cars and vans are carrying victims of covert 19 relatives are not allowed inside the cemetery. in the sandia nation coronavirus cases have soared in recent days collapse in many hospitals and funeral services in bolivia's capital of the most remote of of the phone in the last few weeks things have collapsed we don't have coffins and the only help we're getting is with cremations families don't want to deal with the fact this has exploded we're doing what we can. outside this hospital relatives of the victims have been forced to bring their own oxygen for family members or 40 say

they have no oxygen or supplies sylvana brought her father in law to the hospital in a van the 56 year old man died in the vehicle while awaiting treatment. we were at another hospital and he turned blue and started throwing up we asked a nurse to take him out and pay attention to us then we came here with him in the car nobody is allowing us inside he just died he died in the car he was a half human he was sporty and now he is dead. a similar situation is ongoing in other cities like santa claus bolivia was expected to hold presidential elections in september. last year the country's 1st indigenous president it will morales resigned from office after weeks of protests over an election that international observers said was marred by irregularities since then interim president any 9 years has been leading the country 2 weeks ago she tested

positive took over 19 on thursday election officials postponed the election until oct 18th the pick of the pandemic is expected to happen later this month. this electoral tribunal is asking citizens state powers political forces civil society and the media to accompany this decision to show their respect for institutions and their commitment to democracy and the sense of common good former president evo morales said on twitter postponing the elections is a mistake and an excuse by the interim administration to hold on to power elections are crucial in bolivia to bring down the political tension that exists in the country since moralist up down from office but the dramatic situation caused by the pandemic has changed priorities at least for now. i'll just see. brazil has the 2nd highest rate of cover 19 infections in the world but it's president who's got the virus says there's no way to stop it spreading can probably

really for anyone living in society exonerate later will get infected by covert there's no way to avoid the death related to that in brazil from what i know nobody died from not having medical attention. dozens of people have been arrested in overnight anti-government protests in israel but he's used water counts to disperse demonstrators outside the prime minister's residence in jerusalem israelis have held a series of protests in recent weeks calling on benjamin netanyahu to resign they're angry about a worsening coronavirus crisis and corruption charges against him. protesters in bulgaria calling for their prime minister to quit accusing him of turning a blind eye to corruption. boyko body so reshuffled his cabinet on thursday to try to clamp down on anti corruption protests that have continued for more than 2 weeks but demonstrating bug ariens

also want him to step down president rouhani is a vocal critic of broader self is encourage protesters to keep up their rallies. now it's been one year since bought us johnson became british prime minister he took office on the promise to deliver brags that he found himself battling the covert $1000.00 pandemic from within parliament and intensive care jonjo regan looks back at what's been achieved mulcher us 12 months. boris johnson in ways wanted to be prime minister and this mantra made it possible we can get bricks it done now his arrival in downing street came with ruthless sackings all of the top jobs went to his pro bricks its supporters and bricks it was done it had split the country and the conservative party. but then within a month came the biggest crisis facing any prime minister in post-war u.k. history coded 19 toweled did johnson handle it certainly has

a lot of question marks around it there's a widespread acceptance and probably thinking government that the u.k. maybe looks down too late and he's been slow to come out of that before the virus struck johnson was absent from 5 crises briefings i'm shaking hands can decide that i was at a hospital the other night i think the review the rush if you create a virus a patient and i sure can deliver a body temperature. yet the prime minister himself became a coded victim narrowly escaping death polls show how much of the public sympathy for his plight waned rapidly it was reaction to blunders costing thousands of lives such as frontline health workers without protective gear and no attempts to protect the elderly in nursing homes. add to that johnson's refusal to sack chief advisor dominic cummings have broken lock down rules. talks over a trade deal with the you

a stalled and johnson refuses to break his promise not to extend talks into the new year is certainly a very few ulcers if you like to believe in what they say is a clean break has been best for 'd the british colony in the long term there's also the brics that referendum in 2016 taking center stage in another major issue facing johnson and his government johnson's government is accused of refusing to investigate what the report called successful russian interference in u.k. democracy like to watch out for this man here starmer took pile on the pressure is the new leader of the labor opposition party he's leading in the polls and many in his party see him as a serious threat john j. regan al-jazeera russian prosecutors are inspecting a facility that's supposed to be treating a toxic chemical leak from an abandoned mine in the oral mountains images

a large scale environmental damage went viral on social media last week so i hired out to ports and it's more like the landscape of another planet they sticks you see in the ground who wants trees in a forest and rushes mountains and so now sydney from a couple sulfide mind destroyed everything in its path. the mind has been close to 16 years but the environmental threats from it has never stopped and last week there was an outrage across russia when a blow because images of the polluted waters named by went viral forcing russian prosecutors to investigate. this lake is near the mine a mixture of water and acid flow from the old mine and right into here that's why it's this color and accident in 1997 caused the mind to floods and it hasn't stopped leaking a toxic mix ever since. so few rick acid reaction is taking place here the acid is continuing to burn everything in the area the soil the trees the grass

and fish to all these heavy metals are soluble and shouldn't be in the water. 10 years ago the local prosecutor's office revealed a high concentration of pollutants in the water especially reservoir was built to contain and filter the water leaking from the mine but those living nearby say is has had little effect because he previously there was a variety of fish in this like but no this is all we have for. sure how can this not be poison all these acids going into the river there's no fish left there's nothing there. all the way to the reservoir the entire bosom is covered clearly not a single plant grew there. was a she said the anger over the mine comes after a major oil spill in the arctic circle forced russian president vladimir putin to declare a state of emergency so the really good company he accused local authorities of not

informing moscow the disaster in may when 20000 tons of diesel leaked from a power plant in order to escape. already one of the most polluted cities in the world it's mayor resigned on monday the design also has renewed public debate over the lack of government action against those responsible it says that goes on it's the environment that continues to suffer sort of. al-jazeera. a mass grave for the bodies of 28 sudanese soldiers has been found in on that a man after 3 weeks arch prosecutors say the officers were involved in a failed coup against former president obama bashir in 1990 they were executed in mysterious circumstances after a quick military trial earlier this month another mass grave of trainees soldiers was uncovered. and he wave of violence in south sudan has forced thousands of people to flee their homes in the eastern region of people armed groups attacked

a village in the region on wednesday night around 6000 families have taken refuge at a nearby u.n. base the country's emerging from a 6 year civil war that's killed $380000.00 people and displaced millions former heavyweight boxing champion mike tyson's coming out of retirement. the 54 year old been in training for weeks and was teased fans with clips of social media has agreed to fight avoid jones jr in the fine exhibition back in september tyson has fought his 2000. this is all jazeera these are the top stories china's foreign minister is ordered the closure of the u.s. consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu the chinese foreign ministry says it's had to hit back at what it's calling an unjustified act it's

a response to washington's order to shut the chinese consulate in houston look what you've. china's measure is a legitimate and necessary response to unjust acts of the us it conforms with international law basic norms and international relations and customary diplomatic practices the current situation in bilateral relations is not what china wants to see and the u.s. is responsible for all of this. the pentagon has confirmed one of its fighter jets intercepted an iranian passenger plane over syria it says their 15 conducted a visual inspection of the modern airplane from a safe distance to ensure it wasn't a hostile aircraft several passengers were injured when the commercial plane abruptly changed altitude their bus landed safely in beirut friday prayers are taking place in turkey's higher sophia for the 1st time in nearly 86 years people have been gathering in the last few hours president of egypt tayyip erdogan has

joined the congregation last week he controversially declared the hockey sophia a mosque after a court ruled its conversion into a museum in the 1930 s. and being in legal. u.s. president donald trump has canceled the main republican party convention due to be held in florida next month because of the coronavirus threat states being one of the worst affected by the pandemic on thursday the number of infections nationwide passed 4000000. dozens of people have been arrested in overnight anti-government protests in israel israelis have held a series of protests in recent weeks calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to resign they're angry about a worsening coronavirus crisis and corruption charges against him those are the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera it's one a one east of buy. on the counting the cost this week rich countries a quarter of the market for covert $19.00 vaccines but want to step in for the

world's paul we'll look at the coronavirus treatments off a low income nations and check out the real price of developing. challenging the cost on al-jazeera. a team of chinese scientists are traveling to places no human is it would be. embarking on a daring deep sea mission in the hunt for red resistance and new spaces. on this episode of one a 18th we go on board some of china's top engineers and scientists as they explore the depths of the indian ocean.