yeah i was there and i thought it was hilarious. i didn't cover all of that the america for most of my career but healthy is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why. just hours before a closure deadline china clears out its consulate in houston while retaliating with a shut down order for the us. hello i'm so roman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes friday prayers are back inside the stumbles i guess of fear after more than 8 decades on the turkish president says it remains open for all. safety fears over the world's top selling passenger plane there's concern about engine failure on the boeing 737 to grounded by the coronavirus

fallout. also a scare in the skies over syria passengers injured on an israeli in the plane as it tailed by a u.s. fighter jet. welcome to the program trying is being accused of using its diplomatic missions for widespread spying across the united states and the u.s. justice department says the consular office in houston was one of the worst offenders chinese staff and are moving out of that consular office after washington told beijing to shut it down the u.s. says it's to protect american intellectual property china's foreign ministry called it unjustified in retaliation beijing has ordered the american consular office in the southwestern city of chengdu to close and china's most senior diplomat has blamed. u.s.

for all of the current tension he says he still hopes that china and the u.s. can reach a solution which benefits both countries well for the very latest join kimberly hellcats our white house correspondent and kimberly breaking news coming out of some francisco this last few hours about an arrest which is directly or indirectly depending on your point of view related to the impasse between the u.s. and china. yeah mark the escalation in tensions u.s. officials reporting that they have in fact arrested a chinese research are now just to give you a little backstory and context this researcher says that she was in the united states working at the university of california davis doing biology research but u.s. officials questioned her a couple of days ago the f.b.i. in fact it was after that interview that she saw safe harbor in the chinese consulate in san francisco now the allegations against her are not just charges of visa fraud but the united states says that she is was in the united states under

false pretenses essentially that she has been working with the chinese military and was not conducting the biology research that she says she was doing now this again mark to escalation in the tensions we are watching very carefully to see what more the united states might have to say about this given the fact that the united states has released a statement with regard to these sort of tit for tat closures of consulates in both houston and in chengdu the statement coming out of the national security council that these actions of by the united states in texas were to protect american intellectual property americans private information urging the chinese communist party to cease its malign actions rather than engage in tit for tat retaliation but of course the united states seeing china's actions as doing just that and we should point out very quickly that the press secretary here at the white house kelly mcinerney set to conduct her briefing watching very carefully to see what more of

the united states may have to say about this case indeed a war of words ranging from technology to coronavirus i should say not to play missy and. you know if this is closing down will wonder what the long term game is because at the end of the eighty's the 2 superpowers they need to talk to each other they trade with each other and they have to move forward quickly agree on a lot of things besides what's going on right now. yeah there's no question that donald trump came into office guns blazing if you will but in terms of his foreign policy towards china he was set to reset the relationship after 40 years of kind of strategic competition because he felt that it was one side is that the united states was no longer benefiting and he wanted to change that in terms of the trade relations we saw this tit for tat trade war tariffs being lobbed * at either side and there was a phase one deal that was put in place but then cope at night can hit obliterated

the economy and that's why we've kind of seeing now the united states taking china head on in terms of its relationship for the moment thanks for joining us from the want to skip the whole caboodle correspondent in the u.s. . let's cross over to katrina you because your office in chengdu in china with me. here in downtown chengdu and this is the new as consulate and there are a lot of policemen here that doesn't police officers also are monitoring the crowds in this entire street has been blocked off to cars since the chinese foreign ministry made the announcement that the u.s. consulate here would have to close but the best rooms are allowed to walk behind are quite a few of them passing by taking photos taking selfies it's become quite a tourist destination now china hasn't said exactly why it's targeting this consulate all it said though is that there are some u.s. officials who work here with they say have been engaged in activities that are not consistent with their capacity we also know that it's quite significant operation

to the southwest of china deals with us this is nearby acts as an active listening post for events taking place and and tibet now the chinese foreign ministry has said that they do not want to do this it did not want to have to close the consulate here but they were false by the u.s. one year china's top diplomat has laid the blame for the worsening ties between time and u.s. completely at the foot of washington and he says that it's up to washington now to mend and rebuild those ties and china says if the u.s. does not pull back from the station to close the embassy in texas that china will have no choice but to hit back measure for measure. joel rubin is a former deputy assistant secretary of state and president barack obama he says the u.s. china relationship is becoming more strained and will be difficult to repair. we are slipping into piers into a new cold war and it's this strange combination that we have right now in our american politics which is the domestic political pressure combined with

longstanding grievances and concerns between the united states and china and it's really dynamic that doesn't seem to have any brakes on it or there are no guardrails what the administration is doing is clearly a coordinated campaign right now from inside the trump ministration to attack china on multiple fronts but the goal is not clear and there's a broad critique that essentially boils down to reading those dates of failed china is getting away with things that they shouldn't be and we have to stop it and that's about where it ends secretary pompei oh it's not called for regime change in china but he is constantly attacking the chinese communist party in language that is very reminiscent of that kind of objective and where does that take us it's not clear and with president trump getting more desperate in this election season and very concerning that his rhetoric will continue to be very hostile to china president trump is now heading on the path the appears to be heading on he's going

to be very concerned about politically looking like he's giving to china so he may be asking china like he did ask apparently according to john bolton's book they're trying to help him get reelected and maybe hope come up with a breakthrough but that's very that's very much guesswork which means that we could see this kind of rhetoric all the way through the election and then a lot of repair work to be done regardless of who's in the white house after november. it's a world famous landmark revered by both muslims and christians now turkey's hagia sophia has gone from museum to mosque. hundreds of thousands gathered in istanbul for friday prayers held inside the building in 8 decades last week turkish president reza turbo to announce the conversion of the building after a court ruling. we go ticklish to make great people were eager to pray here

thousands participated in the prison we came together to pray the government and the authorities consume and do the necessary renovations the new 100 years a few more school be something great that makes us very proud to always be open for our citizens visitors and the tourists as well and they have years 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 stumble in $1453.00 the city fell to the ottomans after a $55.00 day siege against severe was converted into a mosque almost 500 years later and 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 and present one supported the switch which angered

christian religious leaders and politicians across the world. is in istanbul and says the day is being seen as a victory for the sovereignty of turkey and its leaders. president are gone was the primary guest of sophia today he had around 1000 invitees some of them were even foreign politicians from other muslim countries there was a high level delegation among the turkish politics but thousands gathered here there just to be able to attend in the 1st prayer to witness this historical moment in their terms and some of them were even quiet and. just because they were able to share this moment with president. sophia was turned to a museum and during 86 years there were just. some minor prayers inside it people feel like they are taking a stumbled back from

a foreign force or something because some of the people that i have spoken to they compare prisons are gone with. the killer of istanbul and ultimately. they're saying that ridge of paper are gone to sophia back when you ask from whom they say it was supposed to be a mosque now the u.s. has ordered inspections of 2000 boeing planes grounded by the pandemic the emergency directive from the federal aviation administration applies to u.s. registered 737 next generation classic craft not flown for at least a week the regulator warned the jets may have corrosion could lead to engine failure after it received full reports of unexpected shutdowns territory is now unsafe to commentator and former pilot he says engineers should have enough time to fix the issue given the slowdown of aviation. it's going to cause a bit of france you can't seriously i imagine i mean fortunately the slowdown in

aviation 'd will help them a little bit in as much as it is only aircraft stores are affected and it's not as if it's a major structural erosion issue it's a do with leader well in the engine which should be possible to rectify fairly easily any aircraft that was coming out of storage 'd was very carefully checked in generic department the pilots preflight checks are really related to observing the outside of the aircraft to make sure that there's nothing or yes we have a mess no release no damage no contamination in the way of ice or anything like that. but engineering stuff like engine belts is something that you wouldn't know about until you had a problem in the federal aviation administration. so probably got

a little bit of wake up call washing off to the max a bottle and i imagine that they're being very careful u.s. investment bank goldman sachs has agreed to pay malaysia 3900000000 dollars over its role in a massive corruption scandal the payout all criminal charges against the bank dropped the scandal involves the theft of billions of dollars from malaysian sovereign wealth fund prosecutors say the money went to former prime minister najib razak counters in a circle it led to his ousting in 28. still ahead here on out is there a growing standoff in space russia is accused of launching an anti satellite weapon . taking matters into their own hands bolivians bring doxygen cylinders ok with his family members just hospitals run out of stories after the break.

mostly house and dry throughout much of the middle east but no so everywhere we've seen some showers and thunderstorms across the southwest a soggy but also very persistent hours of rain across far southwest portion of yemen so some dramatic thunderstorms at the same time you can see here just the evening skies and it doesn't look like a lot of rain but it has been a fairly steady and persistent in the last few days on there is more in the 4 call so it could actually lead to some flooding in the streets of santa this will rain as you can see here through saturday to the north of there it is mostly fine mostly clia i should say k. there is some blowing sand and dust and the winds are changing direction so it's feeling very humid and in fact as we go through sunday the touch is noticeably low into kuwait just 44 degrees celsius the winds coming in off the warm waters of the gulf and still some blowing sand and dust and also a particularly good day then down into southern africa now the joint typhoon

warning center so watching this very closely say it could develop into a tropical cyclone it is very close to the north of madagascar going to bring some heavy amounts of rain there some strong gusty winds as well but it is very close it is a look as if it's going to develop into a tropical cyclone and then across it to south africa front just sliding by the breezy go through the weekend and maybe going to 2 shows across into port elizabeth . county because this week. which countries a quarter of the market for courbet 19 vaccines but want to step in for the world's poll we'll look at the coronavirus treatments an awful glowing of beijing is and check out the real price of developing drugs charging the cost on al-jazeera we understand the differences in the semantics of cultures across the land so no matter what we need to win using the kind of hands that matter to you.

looks like you're watching officer of news the whole rama reminder of our top stories trying to start a moving out of the consular office in the u.s. city of houston after being ordered to close it washington described it as a necessary move to protect american intellectual property. china has retaliated by ordering the u.s. to shut down its consular office in the southwestern city of chengdu the chinese government says the u.s. is this to blame for the strained relations between the 2 countries. but friday prayers have been held in turkey's home give us a feel for the 1st time in nearly 86 years it's up to turkey's president rest of

the bird one declared that the structure of originally built us and all the dogs christian cathedral once again be converted into a mosque following a court ruling. iran's foreign minister has warned that the interception of an iranian passenger jet by a u.s. warplane over syria risk disaster iranian state television says several passengers were injured as the pilots took evasive action while hard is on the u.s. sanctions list for supporting iran's revolutionary guard and hezbollah fighters in lebanon zain hada reports from beirut. a state of panic among passengers on board flight 1152 the air bus was flying from iran's capital tehran to beirut in lebanon on thursday night when the iranians say it was harassed by fighter jets data recorded showed 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 back to jim oberg bali last minute damaged as you see 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 identified the f. 15 opened distance from the aircraft in line with international standards a privately owned mahaan 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. graph from that airliner used very logistics support for running back forces in the region. that may well have been one of the reasons why the u.s. side are taking a closer look at. u.s. troops are in the 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 iran to be a route that passes through syria the message as a start this or ignores basically a no go zone for the. weather also the weather any other

presence which 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 risk 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. beirut. israeli police have made dozens of or a string the latest protest amending the resignation of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu police followed water cannon the demonstrators outside his official residence in west jerusalem on thursday been weeks of demonstrations over the worsening coronavirus crisis and netanyahu corruption trial. a course in zimbabwe has denied bail for a prominent journalist stands in opposition leader who had been speaking out against government corruption hope and jacob anger for whom have been accused of

inciting public violence and calling for people to join to government protests next week how do we toss one has more from. state prosecutors opposed to bail they say that if hope watching one of the feelers journalist was allowed to go home he could use the opportunity to go back on a social media pages and encourage people to demonstrate in next week's planned anti-government demonstrations they also fear that he could also use your opportunity to leave the country when hope wasn't going to was leaving the magistrate's court in the capital harare he said he feels he's been persecuted for only doing his job. right now to consideration of the servant involved with the french reporting one of the organizers of the 31st deadline protested c n n so this is really journalism is being criminalized 105. and look at the back of her struggle against corruption should continue people should not stop they should

carry on with the. critics of the government say officials are using this as an opportunity as an excuse to suppress the media freedom and to stop people from gathering the same these uncovered 900000 denecke as an excuse and human rights organizations are concerned we encourage the government to engage with civil society and other stakeholders to find sustainable solutions to grievances while ensuring the people's rights and freedoms are protected in accordance with zimbabwe's you months of negotiations will include the responsibility in state guarantee economic social and cultural rights the government of zimbabwe denies the allegations it says it's only doing this to protect people it's discouraging people from gathering next week if the planned protest go ahead and they say they feel the people organizing this protest are doing it to undermine the authority of the state . the pandemic has dealt a new blow to bolivia's plans to restore political stability general elections have

been pursued for the 2nd time the show while the virus continues to spread hospitals are being overworld hers to reach the borough explains. 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 from 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 bans and the girls will leave you 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 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. president. of the republican party convention in florida a record number of credit being reported infections are also soaring in dozens of other states. reports now from washington d.c.

. 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 who would be coming into this 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. because we are not anybody to do that a season of who should live or who should die however when you have where he's call a mass casualty situation there are a guy who we fight a war that makes you war you know a more efficient manner and save their mark not a bit 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 how did you castro al-jazeera washington russia has denied allegations by the u.s. and u.k. that it launched an anti satellite weapon into space the u.s. space command says it has evidence that moscow fired the projectile on july the 15th and britain warn the move posed a threat to satellites the world depends on russia's foreign ministry says the test compliant with international law alexandra sticking says a research fellow in space policy and security at the royal united services institute in britain she says it appears that russia is ramping up its space program i think it's important 1st not necessarily to refer to as a weapon it did have characteristics that could potentially be a weapon and due to its relative velocity and satellite from which it came i don't i think what we see is. 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 are those 3 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 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 you know 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 you know there are persons who write to target the. courtyard is there of with means the whole drama in doha round of our top news stories chinese style farm moving out of the consular office in the u.s. city of houston are to be ordered to close at washington described it as a necessary move to protect american intellectual property china's 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 blamed for strained relations between the 2 countries a 4th researcher has not been arrested for alleged visa fraud the u.s.

says they didn't declare their connections to the military are white house correspondent kimberly health care town hall from washington d.c. . the decision by u.s. authorities to make this arrest is a marked escalation in tensions between the 2 sides now the united states alleges that this chinese researcher was concealing her ties to the chinese military in other words she was working allegedly as a biologist at the university of california davis but the united states says that she has committed visa fraud charges again suspected of what the united states has said this is part of a broader malign activity friday prayers have been held in turkey's huggins of feel for the 1st time in nearly 9 decades. hundreds of thousands gathered in istanbul to mark the event last week turkish president recipe the one and it was the conversion of the building after

a court ruling the u.s. has ordered inspections of 2000 boeing planes grounded by the pandemic the emergency directive from the federal aviation administration applies to u.s. registered 737 next generation and classic craft but have not flown for at least a week the regulator warned the jets may have corrosion that could lead to engine failure after it received 4 reports of unexpected shutdowns 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 the bank dropped the scandal involved the theft of billions of dollars from malaysia's sulpher and well fund i'll be back with the al-jazeera news hour in just under half an hour's time next its inside story to stay with us.

why is donald trump sending federal troops to confront protesters in u.s. cities the president says violent crime needs to be controlled opponents denounce what they call a political stunt does the deployment set a dangerous precedent for american democracy this is inside story. hello and welcome 'd to the program i'm wrong. often calls himself the lower note a president it's one of the campaign themes in his bid for re-election less than full months from now is accused some city mayors of failing to rein in.