child labor is working in a $100000000000.00 industry well over half of the country's cocoa producers live below the poverty line. an al-jazeera. staff ordered to leave a chinese consulate in the u.s. begin to move out as beijing retaliate same kind. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to go also coming out . the 1st friday prayers are held inside turkey's iconic i guess sophia as it reverses to a mosque as care in the skies over syria passengers are heard on any rainy and plane as it takes its tail by a u.s.

fighter jets and running out of oxygen in bolivia how relatives of corn a virus patients are having to get their own supply. chinese stuff are moving out of their consulate in the u.s. city of texas as relations between the world's super powers deteriorates further they've met an order from the u.s. government to leave within 72 hours after the mission was ordered to close on tuesday these are the latest pictures coming to us from texas washington described it as a necessary move to protect american intellectual property by beijing did not see it as a violation of international law and in a tit for tat measure china ordered the u.s. to shut down its consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu the chinese government says the u.s. is to blame for the deteriorating deterioration in relations between the 2 powers

it with you. china's measure is a legitimate 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 and by less room relations is not what china wants to see and the us is responsible for all of this has bring in our white house correspondent kimberly how cats live in washington kimberly this is quite a significant u.s. consulate that beijing decided to close what's the response from the white house. have we gotten it in about the last minute or so from the national security council it says that it is calling on the. chinese come in communist party or c.c.p. to cease its malign actions rather than engage in tit for tat retaliations so that is the latest coming from the white house national security council now when it comes for to tit for tat actions while the latest has been these closures

of the chinese consulate in houston where we understand they are now we are getting reports that there are moving vans there that they are sending packed boxes out something that is consistent with the requirement of the united states to shut that down we've of course also have the so-called tit for tat of the closure of the u.s. consulate in chengdu now in the midst of all this you have to as tensions are spiral spiraling say when did these tit for tat start because you have to remember that china is alleging that it was donald trump that started all of this when he became president said he wanted to have a resetting our relations with the trade relationship and we saw that escalating trade war the tariffs being lobbed 1st by the united states responded to by china but then things really seemed to have a resolution there and then cope with 19 hit and of course that obliterated the world's largest economy the united states the u.s. president looking for someone to blame accusing china of not being transparent and

allowing this to come instead of containing it at the source so the bottom line is in all of this you know both sides now accusing the other of tit for tat but where that starting point is really depends on which side you're on in this increasingly tense relationship yeah and we've seen as you said the chinese leaving the consummate in houston you know what ultimately is the trumpet ministration trying to achieve with this china policy on you know the pressure on china what is it trying to achieve ultimately. well ultimately this is a bipartisan issue i mean there has been a. agreement in the united states for a very long time that china has not been autistic completely transparent about the relationship there have been accusations from the house speaker nancy pelosi 2 top republicans on capitol hill that china has been conducting backdoor espionage

through technology intellectual property theft and really taking advantage of the trade relationship with china so this is sort of a question of when to pull the trigger if you will on countering these actions this president campaigned that he was going to be the one to do it and he's followed through on that but again it does have broad implications because there is a very large investment in the trade relationship the business relationship in fact that's where this how this consulate in china that is being closed you know the united states has been asked to have that close the united states has to close that cazalet. you know that was a big major how a commercial sector for the united states so you know where this is had it is still unclear but there's no question it's going to have brought impacts on both sides thank you very much for kimberly how good life or is the white house. the consummate closures are the latest as we said in a series of disputes saying to donald trump blaming china for the worldwide

coronavirus pandemic china accuses the u.s. president of trying to deflect attention from his own mishandling of the crisis china's president xi jinping imposed a steep tariff in a series of tit for tat measures in their trade war they've since managed to move ahead with the so-called phase one trade deal but further negotiations a stalled then there's while wait china denies a telecoms company is a security france and the us has banned while we convince imus such as the u.k. to do the same drew thompson is a senior research fellow at the national university of singapore he says the u.s. china relationship is souring but hasn't reached a point of no return. at this point certainly the relationship is declining it's deteriorating and i don't think we've seen the bottom of the relationship yet so we can expect more such tit for tat moves i think what's notable here is the united states government across many different parts of government are now taking very seriously their role in competing with china so we noted this week that the

department of justice has indicted 2 chinese hackers accused of using cyberspace to seal technology there's other stories of researchers in the united states being ejected and being arrested for misrepresenting themselves when in fact they work for government or military bodies so the government and the united states is really standing up to china and that's forcing china to respond but they are doing it reciprocally and proportionally which means the option is on the table eventually to start walking these actions back but it's really you have to recognize that we're also only 4 months away from the election so china doesn't want to do anything that they can't undo in the next administration if that administration changes and we have a much more conciliatory administration in place. the u.s. investment bank goldman sachs has agreed to pay malaysia $3900000000.00 over its

role in a massive corruption scandal the payout will see all criminal charges against a bank dropped the scandal involved the theft of billions of dollars from malaysia's sovereign wealth fund prosecutors say the money went to former prime minister najib razak and his inner circle it led to his ousting in 2018. it's a world famous landmark that surveyed by both muslims and christians. i guess ophelia is back in the religious spotlight. thousands gathered in istanbul where friday of prayers took place for the 1st time inside the building in nearly 86 years to his present to one who attended the fed last week that the structure over originally built as an orthodox christian cathedral will once again be converted into a mosque following a court order here's what he had to say after the friday previous. clues to make

a great people were eager to pray here thousands of participated in the prayers we came here to give that to probe the government and the authorities concerned and do the necessary renovations the new hug us a few more school be something great that makes us very proud to always be open for all citizens visitors and the tourists as well well the high guess of fear has changed several times since it was built 1500 years ago it was originally the largest church in the eastern roman empire in the christian city of constantinople which is now called istanbul in 1453 the city fell to the ottomans after a 55 day siege i guess sophia was converted into a mosque almost 500 years later in 1935 it became a secular museum reflecting the inclusive vision of istanbul after the fall of the ottoman empire turkey's highest court ordered the conversion of the unesco world heritage site back to a mosque earlier this month. on support of the switch which angered christian

religious leaders and politicians around the world cinema is in istanbul and says a day's being seen as a victory for the sovereignty of turkey and its leaders. prisons are the was the primary gas of years of fear today he had around 1000 invitees some of them were even poor and politicians from other muslim countries there was a high level delegation among the turkish politics but thousands gathered here just to be able to attend in the 1st prayer to witness this historical moment in their terms and they some of them even even crying. just because they were able to share this moment with tradition. and the. hunger sophia was turned to a museum and during 86 years there were just. some minor prayers inside is people feel like they are taking a sample back from a foreign force or something because some of the people that i have spoken to they

compare prisons are down with a part of the mom at the computer of example an optional pair and they're saying that rigid type are drawn to get sophia back when you ask from whom they say it was supposed to be a mosque. iran's foreign minister says the interception of any raining passenger jet by u.s. warplane over syria risks disaster say it's our vision says several passengers were injured as he addresses pilots took evasion evasive action u.s. sanctions for supporting iran's revolutionary guard and hezbollah fighters in lebanon then a 100 reports from beirut. a state of panic among passengers on board flight 1152 the air bus was flying from iran's capital to her on to beirut in lebanon on thursday night when the iranians say it was harassed by fighter jets

data recorded show the airliner climb from 34000 feet to 34600 feet in less than 2 minutes before descending to 34000 feet a minute later iran's state t.v. says several passengers were injured due to the sudden changes in altitude the jet landed safely in the lebanese capital. want to diminish when we reached the airspace of syria a fighter jet approached a monoplane in order to avoid colliding with that jet the pilot rapidly decreased altitude and it caused injury for some passengers. hours later the u.s. central command confirmed a u.s. f. 15 was involved in the incident and not israeli warplanes as 1st suspected the u.s. said the f. 15 was on a routine air mission near the town of coalition base in syria the war plane conducted a standard visual inspection of the airliner at a safe distance says the u.s. and want to identified the f. 15 opened distance from the aircraft in line with international standards.

privately owned air has been under u.s. sanctions for years accused by washington of providing financial material and technological support to iran's couldst force which includes the lebanese group hezbollah. accusations that. from that. very juicy support for running back forces in the region. that may well have been one of the reasons why the u.s. started taking a close look. at u.s. troops are in the l town of area near syria's borders with iraq in jordan the base was 1st established to fight eisel in 2016 it has since become an outpost to counter iran's expansion in the region as its on a supply route linking to herat to beirut that passes through syria the researchers say this order as basically

a no go zone for the rainy weather also the weather any other person's reach the incident could have been an unfortunate encounter but many believe it was a method the fact that it came at a time of heightened tensions between iran and the united states in the region caused concern that there have been numerous occasions that the risk of an all out conflict. so far to iran and washington have avoided all out confrontation this latest incident in the sky is a reminder that the potential for an escalation is real. the growing standoff in space is accused of launching an untie satellite weapon. from delivering to being in intensive care. the 1st powerful britain's prime minister.

hello there still some very heavy rains in the fall calls across areas of japan in particular but the rains have yet to hear to clear the korean peninsula you can see this world of chad that area of low pressure on my goodness the rains were to run should they cause this flooding as you can see him busan which is in the southeast of south korea 2 people died in these floods the rains were combined with the high tides and that is when the reasons that the floods was so dramatic but you can see where the rain will be through saturday still more of that rain across the korean peninsula but heavier across central as of japan and china back over while into the central southeastern areas of china sunday the rains once again very heavy through central china say that will just exacerbate the flooding even further but then the rains really quite heavy through pushing into western honshu on sunday but

a much better day generally throughout the korean peninsula and we've got some slightly better weather in prospect for the next couple of days across the northeast over end bangladesh as well across into nepal there is still some rain in the 4 cars but you can see it's much lighter and in fact the heavier rains are going to be further to the west central areas down across into canada and really through saturday and sunday and also maharastra seeing some of the heavier downpours i could see some flooding across into mumbai. jump into this stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on hand will online be part of the debate any person you see coming steve when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic problems that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way to see which way to do

business if we're going to adapt to climate break down this street on out to 0. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for a reminder of our top stories chinese style from moving out of their consulate in the u.s. city of houston in texas they have met a demand from the u.s. government to leave within 72 hours after the mission was ordered to close on tuesday washington described it as a necessary move to protect american intellectual property china has retaliated by ordering the u.s. to shut down its consulate in the southwest into the of chengdu the chinese

government says the u.s. is to blame for strained relations between the 2 countries and friday prayers have been held in turkey's i guess o.c.s. for the 1st time in 86 years as after turkey's fries and bedouin declared the structure or originally built as an orthodox christian cathedral would once again be converted into a mosque following a court order. that present donald trump has called off the republican party convention in florida where a recognizer of coronavirus tests are being reported infections are also soaring in dozens of other u.s. states how does your costs are reports from washington. the world's richest nation has now surpassed its 4000000 known case of coping 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. 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 the president trying to try to downplay the threat saying that problems and hotspots will all work out you also see 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 lifesaving equipment is running out we have no. gods we are not anybody to be got a season of who should lead or who should die however when you have what he's call a mass casualty situation there are guidelines to be followed all of that makes you war you know a more efficient manner and to save their mosque not a bed of people meanwhile the u.s. economy nears another precipice with expanded unemployment benefits expiring at the end of the month and he vixens resuming at the end of the week congress will debate yet another rescue measure in coming days. al-jazeera washington. brazil has the world's 2nd highest rate of covert $1000.00 infections president jade about an hour has been diagnosed as having the virus for a 3rd time and says there's no way to stop it spreading it was even a 4th of the anyone living in society exuma related 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. and the pandemic has dealt a new 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 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 the most remarkable of the folks 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 is 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. 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 that pic 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 then excused 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.

australia is sending army officers to question some of the people who've tested positive for covert 19 in the southern state of victoria soldiers have been ordered to go to the homes of infected people haven't answered phone calls from authorities a lack of contact tracing is slowing down efforts to contain the outbreak in the state capital melbourne the state government has imposed a partial lockdown ensnarled mandatory to wear a mask. new zealand has granted asylum to a kurdish iranian writer who fled iran fearing persecution in 2013 they rules which chinee was detained while trying to reach australia by boat and imprisoned on man assignments for 6 years upon his release in november he went to a literary festival in christchurch on a month's a visa and never left the city his really police have made dozens of a rest area in the latest protests demanding the resignation of prime minister benjamin netanyahu police fired want to cannon and demonstrators outside of the

official residence in west jerusalem on thursday they have been weeks of demonstrations over the worsening coronavirus crisis and netanyahu has corruption trial. russia is denying american and british allegations that it fired an anti-satellite weapon into space britain warned the launch posed a threat to satellites the world depends on russia's foreign ministry says the tests complied with international norms alexander seeking says a research fellow in space policy and security at the royal united services institute in britain she says it appears russia is ramping up its space program i think it's important 1st not necessary to refer to it as a weapon. characteristics that could potentially be a weapon i'm due to its relative velocity. i mean i don't i think what we see. the recognition that space is becoming a much more important strategic environment or military operations and so it's no

surprise that states are developing capabilities that could deny there of both series access to that space assets but it's also important to recognize that this isn't new. you know from the beginnings of the use of space states have looked at how to develop these capabilities so i think it's we need to not move too fast with narratives about weaponization of space and of space race and just take a bit of caution with that so many different states are developing capabilities we know china has anti satellite capabilities india tested a missile last year and we certainly have seen i guess a resurgence of russia. in terms of these programs coming back and you know when you look at the rhetoric for example coming from the united states and with the creation of a space force talks of space being a war fighting domain any state that has significant space assets is going to be

looking at how to protect its own assets and also how to ensure that it provides a certain level of deterrence against act you know there are persons who might wish to talk of. protesters involved area have again call for the resignation of prime minister boyko borys software they accuse of turning a blind eye to corruption. he reshuffled his cabinet on thursday to try to quell 2 weeks of anti-corruption protests president woman rod is a vocal critic of course often is encouraging more protests. now boris johnson has gone from fighting breck said to fighting for his life in the past year he had made say u.k. government has at times been slow to act on coronavirus in his 1st 12 months as prime minister and while he expects the country to be over the worst of it by mid 2021 he says the threat of a 2nd wave remains high jonjo weakened reports. 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 sucking all of the top jobs went to his pro bricks its supporters and bricks it was done it would 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 why it's that exceptions like obviously in government that the u.k. maybe looks down too late and has 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 criticize the patient's

life you can't live with what is a bridge. yet the prime minister himself became a coded victim narrowly escaping day 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 and broke lock down rules that will talks over a trade deal with the a stalled and johnson refuses to break his promise not to extend talks into the new year is suddenly a very. old says if you like to believe in what they say is a clean break has been best. 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 to watch out for this man here starmer to 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. well again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera chinese stuff and moving out of their consulate in the u.s. city of houston they have met a demand from the u.s. government to leave within 72 hours after the mission was ordered to close on tuesday washington described it as a necessary move to protect american intellectual property while china has retaliated by ordering the u.s. to shut down its consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu the chinese

government says the u.s. is to blame for strained relations between the 2 countries our white house correspondent has more on the reaction from the u.s. . it is calling on the chinese coming communist party or c.c.p. to cease its malign actions rather than a gauge in tit for tat retaliations so that is the latest coming from the white house national security council now when it comes to tip for tat actions while the latest has been these closures of the chinese consulate in houston where we understand they are now we are getting reports that there are moving vans there that they are sending packed boxes out something that is consistent with the requirement of the united states friday prayers have been held in turkey is high i guess a feel for the 1st time in nearly 8060 is that's not to take he's president. of the structure built as an old docs christian cathedral old once again be converted into a mosque following a cold. u.s.

investment bank goldman sachs has agreed to pay malaysia $3900000000.00 over its role in a massive corruption scandal the payout will see all criminal charges against a bank dropped a scandal involved the theft of billions of dollars from malaysia's sovereign wealth fund sponsored cuter to say the money went to former prime minister najib razak and his inner circle. iran's foreign minister says the interception of any rainy and passenger jets by u.s. warplane over syria risks disaster the pentagon has confirmed that one of its fighter jets intercepted the plane to make sure it wasn't a hostile craft several passengers were injured during the incident those saw the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera it's a stream do stay with us. the u.s. is a tipping point. that we. as the world's leading to

a complete solution. taking matters into their. looks like it's going to something kills people and that it kills people. both sides with the people. they're welcome to the stream home edition i'm josh rushing sitting in for the irreplaceable for me ok and i'm coming to you from my home today in fairfax virginia and i have a question for you well 1st let's talk about you're watching this on you tube look over here and up box right there that's actually a live view to chat and we have a stream producer there now waiting for your comments in your questions so look at them to me and i can get into the panelist during the show so i hope that you engage here in the.