i'm going to account as we examine the u.s. its role in the war on a 0 'd. vietnam's pandemic success story comes to an end as the prime minister warns that every province and city is at risk of corona virus infection and a scathing report on coverage 19 in the u.k. reveals how tens of thousands were sent back to elderly cat homes without being tested. they're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back t. ball also ahead separatists in southern yemen who are backed by the united arab emirates say they're abandoning demands for self rule. and dying to defend the

environment or find out why hundreds of activists have been killed in the last year . some countries and cities in asia praise for effectively tackling the coronavirus pandemic and now raising the alarm over new infections after being virus free for months vietnam says it's making preparations for a major wave of infections thousands of cases have been before today in the central city of dunn non where a strict slow down is now in place meanwhile hong kong's leader carry now says it's hospital system could face collapse as it deals with a shop rise in cases i spoke to our correspondent scott hydra who has more on the situation in vietnam and hong kong. so you look at the last 3 months there what wasn't one case of locally transmitted coded positive case so obviously when we saw

what happened over the weekend and then last weekend there was there was infection rate that's why the the government took the step of evacuating most tourists there about 80000 tourists were evacuated from demand because it was something that they hadn't seen in quite some time so there is great concern about that and now we're seeing in the 2 largest cities this in these infections from they believe in being spread elsewhere in the country that's why there is such an alarm bell being wrong by the prime minister today no what's interesting when you look at that and the reason there are so many people there and the reason so many were evacuated is these were local tourist they were tourists the enemies tourists inside the country this is something a move that vietnam did to try to spur some type of economic recovery by getting people to travel inside the country the borders are still sealed a very large border with china but they seal the border so they wanted to start the economy by encouraging people to start traveling in country and then they saw this

outbreak in denying and that's why you saw about 20000 people go to host city and to one of those the 2 largest cities and that's where this concern is right now i mean a 446 total cases right now in vietnam seems to be a relatively low number when you look at the last 3 months that's why there is such a big concern and also this case is going to be a big concern for other countries like thailand who in a similar situation was viewed as a positive case of coded they are in a similar situation lock the borders down and they're encouraging ties to travel within thailand so obviously thai officials are looking at what happened in vietnam very very closely and hong kong also caught another city that had done very well and is now said to be on the verge of a notch scale outbreak other cities leader kerry lamb has really expressed concern that they're on the verge of a major outbreak of covert $900.00 they too were looked at as a success story. when it comes to containing covert $9000.00 spread particularly since its bordering china in the early days there was concern that there would be

a massive spike in hong kong that didn't happen but what they've seen over the last several days over 100 locally transmitted cases each day that is very concerning to them today wednesday you know they've ratcheted up their their control of the potential spread of the virus one thing they have done is now mandatory face masks in any public area and also no dining dining in the in hong kong city at all so these are some restrictions they put into place to hopefully curb this kerry lamb also expressing concern if there is a surge of cases there's concern about what will happen with the hospital and the health care in the city because they haven't had that spike so they're really not prepared for it so there's concern with that the u.k. government is being criticized by its own end pays for discharging thousands of patients from hospitals into care homes without testing them 1st across many reports says the initial decision was called reckless and appalling around 25000 patients were sent to k. homes in england in march and april to free up hospital beds the government made to

say it all patients would be tested live to rome in china ends in london very this is a pretty damning report on the government's coronavirus response to us more about what's its fund. well the public accounts committee is a cross party group of m.p.'s and they basically look at government activity and work out whether it's efficient in terms of good the results that it produces and also that the spending that's involved in it this particular report was looking at the government's pandemic response across the health care social care sectors and essentially what they're doing is trying to make sure that the deficiencies of the government's initial response to corona virus outbreaks in the u.k. are repeated for any 2nd wave so they were looking at the p p they were looking at

the testing they're looking at the with the architecture of governments and how responded they were to their most harsh words something for the policy that said by the end of march and the 1st half vital to where the n.h.s. was trying to free up as many beds as possible in hospitals for the expected onslaught of coronavirus victims and one of the things it did to free up those beds was to discharge elderly people who were considered to be fit back into the care homes that they come from without testing them to see whether they were taking coronavirus back into the care homes with them it is being described as a reckless policy by who's on the chair of the public accounts committee we can hear exactly how to describe it now. it was an appalling era just assume you could take people out of hospital which was in itself not a bad thing but then just to put them into care homes without the right protection around them and what was really bad was when this became more apparent so the

government has a 1st we perhaps weren't sure about it well you can argue about that but when it became more apparent there wasn't really then a solution on the proper support and yet the minister was talking about a ring of support around care homes they feel empty words now when you know what happened people dying alone without their family there and very very poor stat britain's thinking about adding more countries in addition to sprain to its quarantine lists what more are you hearing about this. yeah they're warning space of the the me what do you listen to what boris johnson has been saying at the moment as an added any specific countries to that list yet. the expectation is that there will be some over the coming days perhaps croatia perhaps belgium perhaps luxembourg because the talk from the pm is the 2nd wave is underway already in europe of course this does lead to huge amounts of confusion from people who are either on holiday already having to go away in the next few

days not knowing whether the country they are either in or about to go to might be added to the list of that they're for they'll have to quarantine for 2 weeks when they get back the travel industry and it is also screaming for a different approach they're asking for maybe testing to be done to airports the boss of heathrow was also that there is also a recommendation that the testing is done of return these a week after they get back perhaps reducing the amount of course seen by hauff there's also a request for more targeted approach these cities koren see restrictions that it's not a blanket ban on a country but you know if you come back from a specific region the you have to quarantine but no other regions of the country it's a confusing time for people who are thinking about traveling overseas in the moment in the u.k. thank you for that really challenge for us there in london. in india health experts say the main shopping craze in the number of corona virus infections

knowledge need you to poor infrastructure nearly 40000 cases were reported on tuesday bringing the total number to more than 1500000 in regions of delhi maharashtra and tamil nadu account for more than half the new cases and as a 3rd worst affected nation after the u.s. and brazil where more than 34000 deaths and is a bit random is in new delhi and explains why india's infection rates may be far higher than official figures. the results are very much a reflection of what independent health experts have been saying for a long time now which is that because india is still not conducting enough tests it has one of the lowest per capita testing in the world that the railroad number of infections and india are at least 10 times the reported number and possibly even up to 40 times while the official number for mumbai is around 110000 again it's a fraction of the millions who the survey shows who the survey says have antibodies

in the surveys very much in line with the last one which was done in the capital new delhi with the results last week showed that a quarter of its 20000000 people have antibodies have had coronavirus and here in delhi the cases have been coming down over the last few weeks bought yesterday on tuesday. the local government to explain why it's conducting hof the number of the most accurate swap tests known as the 2 p.c.r. test that it's capable of and conducting twice that number of and tests which as accurate so government has been voicing that its numbers are coming down the high court is just to conduct more tests and to conduct more tests all over the country the prime minister promised in that in the more. retesting centers in mumbai not far from here in new delhi in a place called noida and also in kolkata to continue with this drive to test more people to have

a more accurate picture of the situation in the country. the annual muslim pilgrimage to mecca known as the hyatt has begun under very different circumstances millions usually travel to the arabia but for the 1st time in modern history worshippers from abroad and not allowed to take on more than $1000.00 local to are expected to attend the kingdom 2nd biggest source of revenue after or oil bringing in billions of $1.06 in yemen u.a.e. banks southern separatists say they're giving up attempts at self rule and will work on a stalled peace deal the 7 transitional council says it's to give an opportunity to end a rift among its allies against the who of these the announcement follows one by saudi arabia saying it will present ways to implement last year's power sharing deal between rival factions in the south georgia o'keeffe hero is from the gulf state on a minute's risk consultancy he thinks there are several obstacles that could get in the way of the alliance. this resolution is the basis of some

hope for officials in riyadh as well as washington who wanted to see the riyadh agreement successfully implemented but simply just declaring in a resolution that efforts will be accelerated to implement the riyadh agreements. doesn't mean it's going to be easy to do so the reason why it's been so difficult to implement it. since it was signed last year has to do with the fact that there are so many obstacles that make implementation very difficult the party those have very different interpretations of the riyadh agreement there are sensitive issues that the parties do not see eye to eye on i think the future of this relationship will be a very difficult one there are numerous reasons why that's the case one of them

that i think is very important to keep in mind pertains to all is slaw which is the muslim brotherhoods yemeni franchise of islam has played an important role as an ally of the hardy governments but the s.t.c. views the muslim brotherhood linked group in yemen as a very dangerous group and is a big threat to the s.t.c. and if hadi is government in the s.t.c. will ever be able to see eye to eye on this question of what role is sly's to play in the future of yemen we don't know. still ahead on al-jazeera a controversial social media bill passed in turkey sparks concerns about freedom of expression class. i'm going hey in bangkok we will tell you about the link between the energy drink company red bull and the death of a policeman and why the attorney general in chief of police have been summoned to parliament.

and are there plenty of rain of course in the folk also across much of the northeast of asia japan has seeing some heavy downpours that all see as the cloud still steaming across but also taking with it quite a lot of the heavy rain meanwhile back into central china just seen off the scene of this of course along the banks of the yangtze river and as far as the eye can see the flood water is now as we go through the rest of the day and there's more rain across central china heading tools east some heavy downpours at times through southern sections of the korean peninsula not a bad day generally across much of honshu there is some rain in the forecast but not these really torrential downpours too much is a little bit lower as well but coming back up on friday set in tokyo high of 29 degrees meanwhile in seoul 28 with more rain in the forecast and you can see why discussion of rain showers across the eastern areas and some heavy downpours on the

way towards shandong province as well and then across into south asia these a monsoon rains particularly active in the last few hours exactly it's a blanket of cloud across these areas to the north and that's where we can see some very heavy rain on thursday pradesh bringing up some heavy downpours but again across into the pool eastwards bangladesh seeing a fair amount of rain and all the while maharashtra picked up some heavy pulls those day and fridays there are plenty of showers in the 4 calls for mumbai. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against these demands we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound

energy solutions for future generations no breastpin pioneering future energy. the end. i'm fully back to go a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera this hour after being virus for you for months yet mom is bracing for a wave of cold 1000 infections dozens of cases have been reported in the central city of the non meanwhile hong kong's leader carry nam says it's hospital system could face collapse as it deals with a shop rise in case it's the u.k. government is under pressure for discharging thousands of patients from hospitals

into english homes without testing them some m.p.'s have called the decision reckless and appalling and in yemen u.a.e. back 7 separatists have announcer abandoning demands for self rule they say is to give an opportunity to and a rift among their allies. turkey's fundament has passed a controversial social media law but human rights groups warn it will give the government even more control over the media landscape sides like facebook and twitter will be required to have local representatives in turkey that also need to store users data inside the country making it easier for prosecutors and forty's to access the companies could face fines or essentially be blocked under the new deal . has more from istanbul. basically the turkish government says if something is a crime according to turkish though that it is a crime on social media as well the bill has some positive sides but especially on

the possibilities of restricting personal freedom of speech and restricting journalism suppressing journalism many international organizations hooman rights groups and also even the united nations have reacted against the social media bill saying that it would harm. this freedom of speech in turkey in turkey even the mainstream media is currently under government control so the media it's not wrong to say that media is. not dick and that's why many fear that this could cause more marginal marginalization in media but on the other hand it turkey has been fighting with our people to kurdistan workers' party and to glenna scrips who the government accuses of trying to overthrow the government in 2016 a so and they are all using fake accounts and brute accounts that might be helpful for the security institutions to find out what kind of people are trying to

manipulate or this inform the public now everybody's curious whether the government is going to apply this bill in an appropriate way or whether the government is going to use it exploited as a means to suppress its power over all media and all its critics. the c.e.o.'s of amazon apple facebook and google are expected to testify together before the u.s. congress on wednesday to defend their powerful business practices they run companies worth a total of around $4.00 trillion dollars the video conference meeting is expected to be one of the most aggressive shows against tech companies in decades rob reynolds reports. for small tech companies being featured in apple's i phone app store is essential to getting customers but apple squeezes these companies hard

says david hanson chief technology officer for the project management company base camp we were shaken down by our own home showed up and demand to be handled by 30 percent of. our homes taxis. sometimes complaints about monopolistic practices prompted the house judiciary anti trusts of committee to hold a virtual hearing with tech bosses calling on amazon's jeff bezos apple's tim cook facebook's mark zuckerberg and google's. it is apparent that the dominant platforms are increasingly using their gatekeeper power in abusive and coercive ways the c.e.o.'s will be questioned by lawmakers who have carefully prepared for months and terry you know i didn't just i don't know where a lot of these numbers and study. is corporations incident me for the better your

inner city and kind of prepared very pointed question among the issues likely to be probed are how google uses its control over advertising on its platform to squelch competition how amazon tries to squeeze out rivals by placing its own products more prominently in its sprawling virtual marketplace apple's role as a gatekeeper for app developers imposing arbitrary conditions on companies trying to reach consumers through its smartphones and how facebook distributes full sinne from asian and hate speech on its platform and what they have said very blatantly very clearly that they intend to be accomplices for misleading the american people ultimately the hearings could lead to anti-trust proceeding. he's with the companies potentially being broken up into multiple parts and that's really what this comes down to an investigation into that kind of fundamental power. humans and

perforations and what the government is going to do about the tech giants plan to argue that they face abundant competition and are therefore not monopolies they have republican allies in congress but big is not necessarily bad and i trust laws do not exist to punish success a hearing that will be closely watched and may have wide ranging consequences rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. u.s. presidential hopeful joe biden is falling to improve racial equality as part of his campaign the democratic contender delivered a speech in his hometown of lemington on tuesday his promise allocate billions of dollars to bulls opportunities for minority work as biden also accuses rival president trump of creating division across the country. the u.s. attorney general william barr has defended the trump administration's response to the black eyes matter protests he testified at

a congressional committee and face heavy criticism for sending federal agents in to cities to quash protests by also face accusations of politicizing the justice department allan fresh air reports from capitol hill. this is a time of turmoil in the united states. protests and riots and questions about the future of policing. when you're about to give issue incorrect against that backdrop the country's top officer facing questions from members of the house of representatives with a lot of going to cover the democratic chair of the judiciary committee made it clear he wasn't a fire. this is ministration has twisted the department of justice into a shadow of its former self capable of serving most americans only after it is 1st served those in power. protests erupted across the country after the killing of george floyd by police in minneapolis and me this year from the attorney general

a defense of the police in the wake of george floyd's dash while violent rioters an anarchist have hijacked a legitimate protest to wreak senseless havoc and destruction on innocent victims that demonization of the police is not only unfair and inconsistent principles all people should be treated as individuals but gravely injury to me or city communities william bar has had to deal with court cases of people linked to the president former national security adviser michael flynn an official campaign advisor roger stone but the attorney general insists he has never politicized his department i agree the president's friends don't deserve special breaks but they also don't deserve to be treated more harshly than other people and sometimes that's a difficult decision to make the attorney general was asked if he believed the upcoming presidential election would be rigged the claim the president has repeatedly made you know plight i have no reason to think it will be. william

barton i protesters were cleared from a park near the white house in june to give donald trump a photo opportunity not something readily accepted by one congressman so it was absolutely necessary the park be cleared for his for his that's had nothing to do with that the plan to move mr mystery planned a mural that really matters here in this park be cleared and it was done and you said get it done this was william bart's 1st appearance before the oversight committee since democrats took control of the house it covered a lot of ground a sign of how important many of these issues will be in the election in november alan fischer of al-jazeera on capitol hill. hundreds of people were killed last year for defending the environment and in some cases for protecting their ancestral lands also the attacks happened in latin america according to a report by the environmental group global witness out of more than $200.00 reported killing $64.00 were in colombia and dozens more in brazil's amazon reachin

the majority of the philippines $43.00 murders were links to agriculture that's an increase of more than 40 percent compared to the year before the report outlined the escalation may be linked to activists becoming more outspoken in fighting trying to change illegal mining and deforestation rachael kohn says a campaigner at global witness she says big business and government are responsible for the increase in violence against environmental activists. much of what is driving a taxi in camber in the philippines is also driving attacks elsewhere in the world communities on the front lines of business projects as speaking out against pollution environmental damage or displacement caused by business projects unethical business culture and global consumer demands together drive a kind of small cost big profit mentality which sees businesses seeking to buy atlanta cheaply and quickly without ensuring affected communities are properly

consulted or compensated so behind many of the attacks. trends also in the restriction of of civil space and by that i mean the ability of communities to peacefully protest or voice criticism against government or companies. and we're seeing increasing use of force both by state forces and by private. private act to kind of quietly sabotage the freedoms of communities that speak out so you know we've seen that particularly when it comes to the philippines in recent legislation that's been passed like the anti terror law. governments to really label any critics as a terrorist and you know as unbelievable as that sounds that climate activists today can be deemed as a threat to national security we know that just last week members of legitimate human rights organizations people that global witness has worked with have seen

their faces parted on posters calling them terrorists police in thailand have launched an investigation over their handling of a high profile hit and run case there's been a public outcry after charges were dropped against the grandson of the creator of the red bull energy drink has led thailand 8 years ago after a fatal crash in which a police officer was killed when he has a story. just hours after a fatal crash in bangkok type police detained a suspect you would say yeah was questioned by police over the death of a policeman in a hit and run incident but he was soon released and 8 years on police have announced the case is closed. you cannot go to see that we have received a final order from the attorney general to not prosecute were you on charges of reckless driving and causing the death of this war you admitted being behind the wheel of his ferrari when it crashed at high speed into the policeman's motorbike but for years he failed to appear in court after being summoned and was out of the

country when arrest warrants were issued he's the grandson of the inventor of red bull the parent company in thailand issued a statement distancing itself from the case saying t.c.p. group would like to clarify that mr worry you would has never assumed any role in the management and daily operations of t.c.p. group was never a shareholder nor has he held any executive position within a group now several investigations have been launched including one by a parliamentary committee into how the case was handled i hereby. their people are thinking that the law is not fair we want to change that notion we want to make people equal in the eye of the law whether they are rich or poor. but in thailand many believe that's often not the case in communities like this there's always been a broad sense of injustice and double standards and the decision to drop the case against a member of one of thailand's wealthiest families will be viewed by many as just

another example of the impunity enjoyed by the rich and powerful. in one of the capital city's poorest suburbs people wondered why the police didn't do more. harm i can see that something is wrong with this case we can't put a faith in the law you know i think the outcome of the case is very strange we didn't really see how the investigation went the inquiries are being well. but they may fail to change the sense among many in thailand that justice is not equal when hey al jazeera bangkok. again i'm fully back to where the headlines on al-jazeera after being virus free for months yet nom is bracing for a wave of call that 9000 infections thousands of cases have been reported in the central city of don meanwhile hong kong's leader carrier says its hospital system could face cannot as it deals with

a shop rise in cases scott haidar has more from bangkok the city's leader kerry lamb has really expressed concern that they're on the verge of a major outbreak of covert $1000.00 know they too were looked at as a success story when it comes to containing covert $1000.00 spread particularly since its bordering china in the early days there was concern that there would be a massive spike in hong kong that didn't happen but what they've seen over the last several days over $100.00 locally transmitted cases each day that is very concerning to them today wednesday you know they ratcheted up their their control of the potential spread of the virus. the u.k. government is under pressure after distance are discharging thousands of patients from hospitals into english care homes without testing them some m.p.'s have called the decision reckless and appalling in india health experts say there's been a shopping crease in the number of corona virus infections largely due to or infrastructure nearly 40000 new cases were reported on tuesday the regions of delhi

maharashtra and tamil nadu account for more than half the cases the annual muslim pilgrimage to mecca known as the house has begun under very different circumstances this year millions usually travel to saudi arabia but for the 1st time in modern history worshippers from abroad are not allowed to take on more than $1000.00 people are expected to attend the kingdom 2nd biggest source of revenue after or oil bringing in billions of dollars. and yemen's president has named a leader of the u.a.e. back 7 separatists as a new governor of aden after the group announced their banding demands for self-will they say is to give an opportunity to end a rift among their allies those are the headlines on al-jazeera will have more news for you after inside story to serious.

guilty all the corruption full malaysian prime minister a sentence of more than a decade in prison. for leds and involvement in the one scandal so could this be a step towards rooting out croft in malaysia and what if any of the political ramifications this is inside story. hello there and welcome to the program i'm nor a cause for you is the one m.t.b. scandal has shaken malaysia billions of dollars were allegedly looted from a state fund set up to promote.