yes. that's what. america's retreat from a nato ally president trump ordered $12000.00 troops out of germany and a european headquarters moved. around the clock this is out there and live from doha also coming up standing by the hudson occurring of our concerns for saudi arabia to slash numbers on the pilgrimage and bomb muslims from outside. of warning that millions of people in

latin america could go hungry this year because of covert 19. after weeks of protests u.s. federal agents may be pulling out of court. u.s. president ali trump has long accused germany of not pulling its weight in the nato alliance and now he's taking action against it he's ordered a major scaling back of the u.s. military presence there maybe 12000 troops a 3rd of those based in germany will be withdrawn around half will be sent to other bases in europe the rest will head to the united states the european command and special operations h.q. would also be moved from germany to belgium changes are expected to cost us billions of dollars. as anyone can see the repositioning of our forces in europe constitutes a major strategic and positive shift wholly in line with the n.d.s. and consistent with other adjustments to the united states just much the united

states has made within nato in previous times these changes will achieve the core principles of enhancing u.s. and nato deterrence of russia strengthening nato reassuring allies and improving u.s. strategic flexibility. a white house correspondent can really help at this mall and . that there is broad concern about this move even from some members of the president's own republican party who agree with the president in his assertion that germany has not been paying its fair share of nato obligations but they also believe that this has offered stability having u.s. troops positioned there and that's why many are concerned still the u.s. president not only giving us a clear picture of what this is going to look like knowing that there will be a withdrawal of at least 12000 troops that it will be a mix of army ed air force soldiers but also giving us a clearer picture of why in fact the u.s.

president speaking from the white house as he left and departed for texas very angry pointing the finger at germany saying that for too long people leaves that it is taken the united states for granted take a listen. now in terms of how this might play out you have to remember there's a u.s. election in november and the timeline we understand for this will take far beyond that so in terms of whether or not this will really happen it's still unclear the u.s. president says that he's pushing ahead but again that may not be the case should his opponent in the upcoming presidential election joe biden when the white house when it came is in berlin and he says the german government had been expecting this

move for some time. instant reaction from parliament from the conservative chairman of the foreign affairs committee norbert an influential member of angle america's ruling conservatives here in germany saying that rather than strengthening nato in europe he believes that this decision will weaken nato within europe and clearly people have been expecting that there would be something like this for some considerable time given the sorts of language coming from the trumpet ministration for many years to trumpet ministration angry with germany for its failure to meet the 2 percent of its budget on defense the interesting thing here is that the fear of this troop withdrawal extends far within germany for prime ministers of states which have big u.s. bases in them have already taken the step of writing to members of the united

states congress to see if they could do whatever can be done to reduce the damage a withdrawal of u.s. troops of u.s. bases would have on their states within the federal republic and clearly overall the german government is frustrated by the sorts of language it's been hearing from the u.s. government and this step now will not encourage them will not help them in their mission to try to mend fences as it were with the u.s. government or some countries and cities in asia praised for effectively tackling the pandemic and raising the alarm over new infections vietnam says every city and province is at risk of an outbreak of to be virus free for months hong kong is a leader is also warning the city is on the verge of a large scale outbreak that the hospital system is at risk of collapsing so tightly has more from bangkok. vietnam has been viewed as a success story during the coded 1000 pandemic through centralized quarantine and strict contact tracing the country of 95000000 people had no deaths from the

disease with the borders sealed the government encouraged to travel. but things took a turn for the worse last weekend when the central city of the neighing was hit by an outbreak the 1st cases of local transmission in months the city was locked down and domestic tourists were sent home just before the airport was shut for 2 weeks and now there are cases linked to denying and vietnam's 2 largest cities and city and even in the central highlands the prime minister has called on all regions to be on alert but in the old provinces and doing high risk all provinces should raise their level chairman and general secretaries of each province should take action should the entire political system one case in the capital who know it was a worker at a pizza restaurant who had returned from a trip to denying despite these cases some feel that the government has the ability to control the potential next wave of covert 19. ministry of health has gained much

more experience in combating to virus and its face wave this time i think you also pos quite soon because we have experience and in hong kong which so far has been spared from a high number of cases the city's leader is warning of a potential large scale outbreak after local transmissions surged the most strict measures since the outbreak began were enacted on wednesday for at least a week no gatherings of more than 2 people and no dining in restaurants. thailand has also been viewed as a success story with no locally transmitted cases in more than 60 days time officials are no doubt looking nervously at their neighbors after these recent spikes in cases of covert 90 mm that's because the government here has also encouraged domestic travel and tourism to help the ailing economy al-jazeera bangkok. the u.k. government is being criticised by saying m.p.'s for discharging thousands of patients from hospitals into care homes without testing them 1st across policy

committee report says the initial decision was reckless and appalling and accuse ministers of being slow to support social k. during the crisis around 25000 patients were sent to care homes in england in march and april to free up hospital beds it was an appalling area just to 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 you know the government has perhaps weren't sure about what 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 where the world food program is warning at least 14000000 people could go hungry in latin america this year as region reels from the impact of the pandemic that's more than 4 times the number of people who experienced severe food insecurity last year many of those at risk are informal workers make up a large part of latin america's workforce the u.n.

agency is urging governments to expand relief efforts well as the pandemic in latin america shows no sign of easing governments which had started to reopen their economies are facing the prospect of renewed or extended lock downs in a republican has more now from excuses. one of the biggest concerns specifically where we are right now is that it is striking that balance between the health of the public and the health of the economy it's a problem that countries all over the world are facing but mexico continues to to see worsening contagion happen at the same time we're seeing the economy start to open up here in mexico city and in several other parts of the country and what we're hearing from public health policy experts is that while that is necessary the gains made in terms of poverty relief in mexico could have easily been a race for the past 10 years 10 years worth of gains erased because of the pandemic there is a sort of sense that there's an inevitability that a lockdown

a new renewed lockdown will happen here in mexico city in other parts of the country and that's happening in several other countries in latin america we're placing we're keeping a close eye on colombia for example which is just recently surpassed $9000.00 deaths nationwide and the government has just announced that the lockdown there will be extended through august 30th but again this is something that's happening in several countries across latin america an extension to lockdowns an extension to calls for quarantine and even renewed lockdowns were gains were being made economy started to open back up but now are being forced to go back into lockdown. the annual muslim pilgrimage to mecca known as it has just begun and a very different circumstances this year millions usually travel to saudi arabia but for the 1st time in modern history worshippers from a broader not allowed to take part to myla shell has this report. they've been coming in their millions every year from all over the world muslim pilgrims fulfilling a lifetime dream to perform one of their religion's 5 main pillars. the

sea of people waves upon waves and gulf in the city of mecca has become an image synonymous with the holy city. but this year it's completely different the coronavirus pandemic has meant the pilgrims are not able to travel saudi authorities have put under lockdown they've said only $1000.00 people will be allowed to perform hajj all of them either nationals or residents of saudi arabia the annual pilgrimage is a huge source of revenue for the saudi government although there is little transparency from riyadh on how much exactly it brings in estimates put the figure in the billions of dollars. losing out on that as well as all the money from those who would usually perform the smaller pilgrimage of during the rest of the year is a big setback i think it's very significant because saudi arabia standing and influence in the islamic world is mainly it arrived from 2 factors that guest one

is the horse and the cost to avoid him was and the organizer of the mosque in washington ritual and religious ritual is i'll just. 2020 has already been a tough year for the kingdom with oil prices reaching an all time low after a trade war with russia that saw the price of a barrel go as low as 27 dollars to make things even worse the covert 1000 pandemic has increased economic pressure on saudi arabia even more forcing the government to increase taxes and reduce salaries while many are commending saudi authorities for their decision to prohibit pilgrims to travel to mecca this year there are those who are critical questions are being asked about how the 1000 people being allowed to perform hajj are chosen and will there be a fair distribution of house passes to all nationalities living in the kingdom and so on now or thirties have failed to provide any information. in the past people of scrutinize saudi arabia for failing to deal with the huge crowds that converge on

the holy city on far too many occasions people have died due to stampede or failure by the government to safeguard the security like when a construction crane fell on worshippers in 2015 this year the criticism is over the odds failure to deal with small crowds in a clear and transparent manner. are just. so here it out 02 powerful the big 4 tech companies the united states are about to face questions in congress. as temperatures rise across iraq trying to over rolling power cuts is reaching a boiling point. hello there yet more hoarse and dry weather throughout much of the middle east of course further to the south i've been talking about the rain has really been impacting the

far west of yemen but also this quarter of a saudi arabia as well and sure enough the rains have been heavy at times and also very continuous so we've now got flooding in the streets the sonic the vehicles struggling to make their way through the waters which were quite deep this morning the forecast on thursday at that again will just potentially to the flooding that the already in place to the north of gevo got to bits and pieces of cloud some fairly strong winds through iraq in the town which is a son in the high side 52 in baghdad the high forty's in kuwait again those winds are quite strong so maybe get some sand and dust and all the while these rain showers these heavy downpours continuing across much of yemen and saudi arabia then down into southern africa 1st of all madagascar we were watching some very heavy rain and also few days you can see the continuing to just southwards that will take away the heaviest rain as well want to show through thursday some heavier showers along coastal as the towns and air tools kenya continuing up to this coast as well and all the while we could see want to pulsing showers really along the far south

coast of south africa touches a little bit of it by friday it should be fine and dry with a high of 900 in cape town. frank assessments what are you saying back in yemen to 6 percent of the relations why did we see if this was an informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown many parts of the old immediate region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after is a proxy because not the result of the interest of the if you people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.

reminder for all top stories in the united states and withdrawal of $12000.00 troops from germany maybe health will be repositioned to other locations in europe officials say the move will cost billions of dollars and take years to complete. the world food program is warning at least 14000000 people could go hungry in latin america this year due to the coronavirus kind demick many of those at risk or informal workers who make up a large part of the americans work for. the annual muslim pilgrimage known as has been drastically scaled back this year because of coronavirus 1st time in modern history for broadwell not to be allowed to take. well millions of muslims around the world have been impacted by that decision and here are some of the stories. of the many. i already bought to go to the celebration before going to i voted some

religious leaders we made a stage we spent around $1000.00 u.s. dollars is there because normally when. we go out but this. event few friends. or even children been restricted to a public outing. they all know want to be able to feeling very sad that you've worked very hard for house and i was selected for highs but it's canceled due to corona. was. old when i watch mccall on t.v. it's sad to see the people around it doesn't feel like. we still listen to prayers to at least feel those are the last days before. i run

a. company. and we've had several bookings before. but off to. stop the visas and then that's how it was a bit late in. stating that they're not going to have anybody go to. my parents and i registered in 2012 we've been waiting for 8 years when it's finally time for us to go this pandemic happens as human beings we're very disappointed but this is god's will so we accept it. this year i'm not so disappointed when i failed to leave in 2019 that was devastating i hope in 2021 i will still be healthy then i can go to. so. this is because of covert 19 but also because of god's will i did expect that i could go this year but this is happening to the whole world so we just have to accept it. the u.s. department of homeland security says federal offices will start pulling out of the

u.s. city of portland off to months of protests they were called in to help control and see racism and police brutality demonstrations but i quickly shifted towards their presence and claims that they were using excessive force speak to join 100 joins us from chicago and join 1st what's behind these this pullout. but that portland model has been widely considered a failure what you had was a group of federal agents visibly present in camouflage gear combat gear with military style vehicles surrounding this one block courthouse which is the federal presence in portland oregon and they were they were said to have exacerbated tensions their presence alone seemed to excite the demonstrators and of course they were extremely aggressive reaction but taunting people at those tear gas and rubber bullets all seemed to be. masterbate the problem there is that what's

happening now is what the governor kate brown calls a phased withdrawal all the v.h.s. secretary wolf the department of homeland security secretary that is he says those troops are leaving gradually the president trump does not seem to have gotten the message he was asked about this before he went off to texas earlier this morning and he said that those troops will remain there he said we're not leaving until they see sure their cities are there seems to be something of a delay in getting that message to the president but this is dramatically different from what is happening in other cities around the country where there is a federal presence because the reaction has been so violent there trump and bill bars attorney general both call that portland model a success but they're very much in the minority most people believe that that is antagonize not just the protesters but much of the nation and these these other

deployments elsewhere would you anticipate seeing similar violent confrontations. well the model elsewhere is a very different i'm here in chicago chicago kansas city in albuquerque where in this last phase of federal troop deployment what's going on now what has just been announced in the past few hours is troops and federal agents being deployed to cleveland detroit and milwaukee but that's a very different program i spoke to a federal law enforcement official here in chicago he spoke to me anonymously but he said that what's happening is they're really sending in a lot of department of homeland security investigators and other people who are here to investigate existing crimes he says you won't see these people on the street there are perhaps 200 perhaps a little fewer here in chicago about the same number in kansas city but the numbers that we're looking at in other cities are paltry cleveland 25 detroit 40 to milwaukee 25 of those federal agents. so it is clear by those numbers alone you

won't see their presence out in the street in the way that we have in portland that they would be investigating at previous cases and doing other things from desks behind the scenes trying to knock down a crime rate that has really been exacerbated here in chicago the murder rate has increased dramatically and this looks to be one of the worst years for murders here in several years and this same is happening in several other other cities where violent crime has gone up and the president would like to attach that violent crime to the protesters but that's not really connected what we're talking about is murders here in chicago much of it is gang related some of it is just sort of neighborhood anx too many guns on the street and it's warm weather where people come into contact with each other but the president is trying to sell this as a law and order issue he's within $100.00 days of the election and this is really part of his campaign or john thanks so much john hendren that in chicago. a bridge

in the u.s. state of arizona has partially collapsed after a freight train derailed and caught fire the train's location as well as a thick black smoke has slowed firefighters efforts to extinguish the place still yet known if anybody was injured in the crotch. turkey's parliament is possible social media law but human rights groups warn it will give the government even more control of the media landscape sites like facebook and twitter will be required to have local representatives in turkey that also need to store users dates or inside the country making it easier for prosecutors on the authorities to access the companies could face fines or essentially be blocked under the new law. here's president donald trump has threatened to quote bring a friend this to tech companies of congress does not take action the c.e.o.'s of apple facebook and google have been begun defending their businesses before congress they've been accused of anti trust practices including buying out

competitors and unfairly dominating the online advertising market has run companies worth almost a total of 5 trillion dollars that testimony via video conference is being seen as one of the most aggressive shows against tech companies in decades unofficial joins us live now for more on the hearing from washington d.c. and surprise surprise donald trump has weighed in and not entirely sure what he means by the action that he's going to take is he talking about fairness as regards twitter which he's complained about in the past is he talking about fair business practices as always with donald trump is very much in the year so it's not entirely clear and taking executive action which will be challenged in the courts it's hard to see exactly what he can do at this point so by sending a message that he's going to do something he's perhaps trying to flee a marker for the election period the hearing with the tech giants is literally just

got under way at the top of the oh it was delayed for an hour all the cleared the hearing room clean that the hearing room there was a hearing that run over from the last time around a david cicilline is the democrat who chairs the antitrust subcommittee he said that there was too much power with the people he described as the emperors of the online economy and said that because of that it stifled innovation and also stifled entrepreneurship was taking an impact on the high streets across the united states the mean streets and the small mom and pop shops that have. live there for years but perhaps some critics would argue that the ship has already sailed and the damage has been done to the main streets across the united states at this point as for the leading republican on the committee said look biggest and necessarily a bad thing that's been always the message here in the united states that we need

to be big that you want to be successful you can come here and you can make it but he said people have to be protected so the 4 tech giants are being looked at where they really threat throttling their their opposition where the using their dominant market position at to harm their rivals or that is what is being discussed of course to look at amazon and whether or not they haven't done enough to promote 3rd party sellers on their website to look at our poll and whether or not their dominant position on the app store and the commission that they charge is stopping others from being innovative with facebook we know the facebook position it is the biggest social media platform in the world and then there is google and whether or not it manipulates its algorithms to promote setting ads over others those that spend money with google those that don't this is all about anti trust and business practices but given that there are 15 members there is no doubt that this conversation it will we waver off into areas such as what prominence is given to

feed news what prominence is given to for not tourists who buy ads on facebook and whether or not the united states congress can do anything about it ahead of the election or i don't think so much time for the movement in d.c. . protests across southern iraq are demanding stable electricity supplies last week temperatures in southern iraq reached 54 degrees centigrade that's the highest ever recorded the increased demand on the grid has led to frequent power cuts and cement for reports now from baghdad. under bugged out scorching sun electricity workers go from house to house to collect their dues government electricity in iraq is heavily subsidized hussein's monthly bill is $16.00 but like most iraqis people living in this neighborhood only get a few hours of electricity per day during the summer and amid rising temperatures their anger at the government is boiling over by oh. look at me i'm swishing you

talking to me and i'm full of swift from 2003 into a no god brought these people promise as a punishment with 0 atrocity sleeps that's a state of thieves when the government cuts electricity the family relies on the neighborhoods private generator company that costs the family 4 times as much as they pay the government but the power from the generator is not enough to run the air conditioner so everyone gathers in the living room where only an old air cooler and a fan of her responded from the heat next door hussein's wife prepares the family's lunch with only a small fan to battle the heat tell you this hour every hour the power cuts and we have to run to turn off all the appliances including the fridge and the freezer if i want to run the washing machine i have to turn off everything else it's so difficult the family would be willing to pay more for government electricity if supply was stable some accuse the private generator companies of exploiting people

by charging high tariffs but this provider says his price does not cover the cost of fuel and maintenance they're going to get it done so we are not the ones deciding on the price we charge per ampere it's decided by the mayor and local council and the income is not enough. the poor state of iraq's power infrastructure is the result of decades of war corruption and mismanagement rapid population growth has for added pressure on the grid. it's 48 degrees celsius today and in the hour that we've been filming here electricity has cut 3 times the previous electricity minister told al jazeera a few months ago that the government had added 3500 megawatt to the grid since $2800.00 increasing capacity by 22 percent but many people here say that they're not seeing the difference on the ground earlier this month the parliament formed a committee to investigate corruption in the ministry of electricity the prime minister also announced

a deal to import electricity from the gulf but that will take time. and i wish there was a magic solution but unfortunately many years of sabotage corruption and mismanagement can't be solved overnight it's not fair to ask a government that's been in power for 2 months to pay the bill for the pillaging committed by previous groups and governments as the power cuts push many iraqis to the brink of exhaustion confidence that prime minister mr. government can resolve deeply rooted structural issues is melting away leaving many iraqis to find other ways to escape the stifling heat city want to fall to al-jazeera but get out. for a little recap of the headlines here on out there in the united states has announced the withdrawal of 12000 troops from germany merely hoff will be repositioned to other locations in europe officials say the move will cost billions of dollars and

take years to complete. as anyone can see the repositioning of our forces in europe constitutes a major strategic and positive shift wholly in line with the n.d.s. and consistent with other adjustments to the united states just much the united states has made within nato in previous times these changes will achieve the core principles of enhancing u.s. and nato deterrence of russia strengthening nato reassuring allies and improving u.s. strategic flexibility not being virus free for months vietnam is bracing for a wave of covert 9000 infections dozens of cases have been reported in the central city of denying meanwhile hong kong's leader kerry lamb says its hospital system could face collapse as it deals with a sharp rise in cases the world food program is warning at least 14000000 people could go hungry in latin america this year and the reason reels from the impact of the pandemic many of those at risk are informal workers who make up a large part of latin america's workforce. the annual muslim pilgrimage to mecca

known as 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 part in the u.s. department of homeland security says federal officers will start pulling out of the u.s. city of portland after months of protests they were called in to help control anti racism and police brutality demonstrations local law enforcement and state troopers will take over the policing of the protests. the trumpets threatened to issue executive orders that would in his words bring fairness to major tech companies tweet comes as the c.e.o.'s of apple facebook and google all right now defending their businesses at a u.s. congressional hearing they're expected to be questioned about trust practices. all right what's the headlines go to for news are coming up right after inside story.

but if the defending of the environment the rights group global witness says a record number of activists well killed last year so while an environmentalist being protected this is a story. hello and welcome to the program on the wrong call and around the world environmental activists are being arrested jailed even killed for trying to protect our planet the u. .