on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. business the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes accused of having too much power and stifling competition tech giants on the defensive before the u.s. congress as the president threatens action. the u.s. retreat from a nato ally $12000.00 troops ordered to pull out of germany and the european headquarters moved. scaling back the hard shake coronavirus concerns for saudi arabia to slash numbers on the pilgrimage and muslims from outside. a warning that

millions of people in latin america could go hungry this year because of cooping 90 . and i mean weddings are the sports news as it is a $1500000000.00 relief fund for world football and each of its $211.00 member nations will save a $1000000.00 grant to kick start the game which is being here in the virus with half a 1000000000 h. set aside for women's football. too big to dominant an all too powerful that's what's being levelled at the biggest companies in the us right now in a hearing in washington d.c. u.s. president donald trump is also joined in the criticism threatening to quote bring fairness if congress doesn't take any action the chief executives of facebook google amazon and apple are all being quest. into the hearing of accusations of

anti competitive behavior together their companies are worth almost 5 trillion dollars they're making the case that they are operating fairly and within the rooms but speak to him for issues following the hearings on capitol hill so out of this congressional hearing what could it chief and what weight does it carry. well it certainly is highlighting what many people see as the dominant position that these tech giants have david says lee who is the congressman from rhode island who chairs the committee said that the where the emperors of the online economy and the american people went to vote to vote to them said that they had way too much power at the their dominance was killing small businesses and also diminishing main streets high streets across the united states some people would argue that is a process that's been ongoing for years now the leaders of these tech companies have decided to make their case the opening statements all of them reiterated that look we were following the rules or not is evil as you seem to think we are

although no when used the word evil of good to point out mark zuckerberg said look of all the high tech companies that are here in 10 years if they do it and of it the could be replaced and pointed out that this is being done 10 years ago he'd been dealing with other companies the likes of my space remember them no i don't think anyone does anymore but they were one of the big social media voices about 10 years ago you have tim cook saying look we're not dominant in any market you've jeff bezos of amazon saying we only control 4 percent of the world retail market if you take the retail sales 4 percent is a pretty healthy chunk but he insists that what he is doing is opening the gateway to small businesses getting into the marketplace to be able to market their products through a platform that amazon has built and of course initially developed there will be those in the committee who want to see a look your position is too great there's going to be something we can do of this and this is obviously going to go into other areas we already saw that from jim jordan who's a republican on the committee he raised the idea of what twitter has been

broadcasting over the last few weeks and saying that a number of social media platforms have been very unfair to conservative voices and that has to be addressed as well so this isn't just going to be a core businesses this is going to be about a lot more but is that going to be a huge change probably not before the election. oh i don't thanks very much i don't fish the the hearings outside the hearings i thanks a lot for that let's take this on we can speak to you know free to joins us live on skype from san francisco in california she's the chief tech correspondent and access. bezos tim cook all the big guns of the how important is it that these c.e.o.'s perform well or could they get it wrong there is an opportunity to get it wrong you know this hearing isn't likely to lead to new legislation in congress is it really passing much of anything but a lot of states and the federal government agencies are investigating and i think public perception does hang in the balance that said i think the format being

recorded or broadcasting remotely versus being there live a lot of things away toward the side of them really having a good opportunity not to make a big mistake rugs most of them have testified before a poll from bessel something's not right that is correct and they've testified under more difficult situations i think the fact that all 4 are buying together actually makes it easier for them so it makes you wonder what's the point of this kind of here well i think different people have different points and that came up you know from your correspondent you know jim jordan made it very clear from his opening his issue is in tight conservative bias that he perceives you know this is supposedly an anti trust hearing the fact that there's so much division over what even the issue is again makes it even less likely that they'll be lasting close landed republicans on the panel i believe being briefed to argue with some of them anyway to argue against and the conservative by some how much support is the for

the point of view. well it's very popular within their base i mean there's a reason they're making the argument there's no evidence to support it and indeed you know when voices are taken down it's because they violated the rules so if you approach putting up speech that is hate speech it may well be taken down regardless of what political perspective you come from always being this concerned about the size and perceived power of these tech companies and there's really no argument against how can they defend themselves from that accusation well you know these are there's no question they have a lot of power but you know it's only illegal in the united states to abuse your monopoly to have a monopoly and abuse it and they all have different arguments for why they have significant competition their arguments against it but you know you heard each of them mark zuckerberg just spoke in his intro and he's talking about how much power google has an apple and amazon and how they all compete with each other and they do compete with each other but at the margins each of them is in control of

a fairly significant business and so they have these clever arguments of why their power is limited but you know they each have pretty strong control over their part of the market it is sense you can say that that was still in the coming days a social media and how it works he legally and it is crucial ultimately to set out the promises that would for everybody well i mean you raise an important point which is there are other ways other than if you trust we are early in technology one of the issues has been privacy laws or laws about speech you could tackle this in ways other than using in trust you could set rules and i think even the tech companies have said we're open to rules now granted they would like rules that are a lot softer than a lot of other people but there are ways other than antitrust you could set legislation on how companies have to operate the data are great to get your perspective and expertise in this do appreciate that you know speaking from access

thank you. thank you. now the united states is revising charges against former twitter employees and another individual accused of spying for saudi arabia the 3 men. only. meant tarty were originally charged with accessing the personal account information of more than $6000.00 twitter users include problem critics of the saudi royal family they now stand accused of 7 fences offenses instead of 2. ok president trump has dollar 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 nearly $12000.00 troops a 3rd of those based in germany they will be withdrawn around half will be sent to other bases in europe and the rest will head back to the united states white house correspondent can be held joins us live now and kimberly so more clarity on the details we did expect this to happen. yeah the u.s.

president said he would do something like this last month and now we're getting an idea of what it's going to look like and what the u.s. president talked about this at the white house he was very clear about his motivations that this is 100 percent his view because germany has not lived up to the expectation of nato members and that is to contribute 2 percent of your gross domestic product in terms of the amount you spend on military spending so as a result after many warnings this you have to remember is a campaign promise from 2016 the u.s. president making good on the threat now moving some of those troops out of germany now as the u.s. president was saying this just prior to that when this announcement was made by the defense secretary he insisted that the motivations for this were really strategic it was for pushing back against russia it was for strengthening the alliance but the concern that all of this from i should point out not just democrats but also republicans is this is going to do just the opposite so there is

a lot of concern about this announcement adding to that there really is a question nick about whether or not it will even happen because you have to remember this is going to make or sort of cost billions of dollars to execute it's going to take a very long time possibly even years and of course we have a u.s. election in november and if president doesn't win reelection it's likely the whole announcement the plans could be scrapped kimberly thanks very much indeed could be how could the reporting from washington d.c. . when is enough from going to tell you who's in berlin and he says that the german government had been expecting this move for some time. instant reaction from parliament from the conservative chairman of the foreign affairs committee. 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 so 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. more still ahead on news hour including lining up for the life lines and the billions of dollars in government handouts reduce extreme poverty in brazil but how long. a scathing report on covert 19 in the u.k. reveals how tens of thousands were sent back to elderly cat homes without being tested. and they corona virus outbreak in major league baseball season new york yankees make the big data we'll explain all in school. so countries and cities in asia praised for effectively tackling the pandemic and now raising alarms over new infections says every city and province is at risk of an outbreak of the being virus free for months in hong kong chief executive kerry

is warning the city is on the verge of a large scale outbreak and the hospital system is at risk of collapse and scott hardly has more enough back. 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 denying 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 in 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 went out of the old provinces and doing high risk all provinces should raise their level chairman and general secretaries of each province should take action

how should the entire political system. one case in the capitol hill no it was a worker at a pizza restaurant who had returned from a trip today despite these cases some feel that the government has the ability to control the potential next wave of covert 19. ministry over how it has gained much more experience in combating to fire us and its face waves this time i think that i'm 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 19 that's because the government here has also encouraged domestic travel and tourism to help the ailing economy al-jazeera bangkok. when they mirror a new report says more than half of the people in mumbai slums have had coronavirus . is a professor at the tata institute a fundamental studies he's also the principal investigator for the study and he explains how a shanty towns in india are being affected by the pandemic. a complex demographic like india. for example even when by and for that matter any city in the in the world is not a homogeneous population to have a densities which are different socio economic factors and conditions going to be hugely heterogeneous study actually wanted to capture population density increases the prevailing and other factors that i just mentioned and seems to be that that's likely the case because the slums seems to have a higher prevalence and in the same area the nonce lumps seem to have low approval

and indicating crowding share facilities intermingling seems to be the driving force. it's quite likely that the slum population will reach herd immunity sooner than later but i would like to make give a kaviak to that and we still don't understand how long the immunity last in population and studies are still emerging today that's better about how long you're protected and whether it's going to be the cell based immunity or otherwise and also if people are susceptible to the infection so given that. still i think it's fair to assume that at this thread. slumps might reach herd immunity sooner than later but again the minute is a question. the annual muslim pilgrimage to mecca known as it has begun and a very different circumstances the millions you see travel to saudi arabia for for

the 1st time in modern history worshippers from abroad and not allowed to take part tamala 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 died from 2 factors that guest one is the horse and because the dual in laws and the organizer of the mosque in washington ritual and it is just a joining us alan just as. 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 until 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 their 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. let's hear now from joe with a nanny who is an economist and former deputy prime minister in jordan and he says the decision to limit her will have a huge impact on saudi arabia's economy. it's estimated between $10.00 to $20000000000.00 that would be saudi arabia as income from really just noticeable

this year i don't see that there were milk even 110th or one wealth of that simply because of the growing crisis and because of the spot that you but. yet another frustrating fact all is the fact that. 'd you know the saudi government has been investing heavily in the infrastructure on hotels and also in improving the sites and expanding its capacity especially on top story in a way what happened this year is that 'd you know this this it was a could be a much higher year than that here and actually by saudi projections and that reciprocation plan in their 'd year 2000 put it to what they were supposed to make 110 feet to go up as high as $160000000.00 right now until

2090 the hype. about 6.7 percent of their none of their top a g.p. and about 20 percent of their money all of g.d.p. . now 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 as more than 4 times the number of people who experience of it severe food insecurity last year and many of those at risk are in full workers who make up a large part of latin america's workforce the u.n. agency is aging governments to expand relief efforts. co-dependent nick has just been devastating in latin america i mean we're already dealing with economic deterioration in many different issues but covert has come on top of it just in the areas where p. in this region alone we've seen a substantial increase in overall 11000000 people that are marching toward the break of starvation so it's devastated it's why we must act and we must act now so that we can bring some pope to people otherwise you'll have political

destabilization mass migration economic deterioration supply chain disruption many people starve in addition to covert itself well in brazil which is the world's 2nd worst outbreak emergency financial relief transfer now at least pulled some people out of extreme poverty and that's the final report by the county of august foundation which is a leading think tank and university and it says the number of brazilians living on less than $2.00 a day has fallen by around half this year to 3.3 percent of the population that is the lowest level since the late 1970 s. since april the government has been handing out $115.00 a month to informal workers and some small businesses affected by the pandemic but the report warns that extreme poverty levels are likely to bounce back after the last payments which is currently scheduled for august let's speak to gustav over a bio who is the founder of the online news magazine the brazilian report joins us now from brazilian gustavo welcome to the program 1st of all this think give us

a picture painted picture for us of what it stream poverty in brazil looks like what kind of lives being led. well we're talking about people who cannot afford their basic needs who live in areas with poor or no urbanization at all they don't have access to basic sanitation and people who live the most miserable kind of life we can imagine. poverty rates had been going down in brazil in. 2000 and then after 2014 when brazil entered its worst recession on record and still depends amec they have climbed back and thanks to this monthly stipend now they are falling but as you mentioned the government is not scheduled to continue to spain many people within the administration say there's not enough money to

continue the payments so now the future of these people remains very much on certain so yes indeed this this stipend as you put it the federal handout it must help to a great deal to those who are in the situation. exactly because brazil has a very informal economy so we're talking about people who have to go to work every day and who depend on the in person economy to make ends meet with quarantine with the pens and make a lot of people were deprived off. their bread making activities bread earning activities so this stipend helped millions tens of millions of people over 40 percent of brazilian households receive that stipend on jew in june and it has had major positive effect politically for president durable so another one was that 1st resistance to this benefits and now the future of his presidency also hinges

on the continuation of some sort of aids program to help. the poorest part of resilience to cope with the economic recession with the job crisis we are facing and we will continue to face in the coming months but our spirit is not helping much though if as you say in the report says that extreme poverty levels are likely to bounce back once that payment stops and some indeed say the poverty could even get worse than it was before. yes yes because the economic activity is very is it was already a sluggish before the pens i make it now we have fallen into a very uncertain territory but the government is trying to do at least has announced it is splendid on the benefits program that will replace the world renowned bosso for me in that which is a cash transfer program condition for families who put their kids in school so we would be a sort of revamped version of that in the clear strategy by

a terrible sin either to change his political base from business elites who are kind of abandoning him as a free as a recently to these more low income poorly educated voters who depend a lot on how the government can help them. lift them from poverty. appreciate your perspective on this thanks very much indeed the cost of over barbara thank you. boeing says it will cut more jobs and slow production of some planes off to bigger than expected losses revenue in the 2nd quarter was down 25 percent to $2400000000.00 the pandemic has intensified its troubles 737 months aircraft was involved in 2 crashes killing 346 people denounce plans to cut 16000 jobs in april. still ahead here announcer.

after weeks of protests in the u.s. if you courtney some of the security officials who've been helping keep the peace may be pulling out but explain why. temperatures rise across iraq and go to really a power cuts is reaching a boiling point. that we'll hear from a basketball star le bron james one day before the n.b.a. season the response of business. hello there yet more hot and dry weather throughout much of the middle east circles further to the south i mean talk 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 4 calls on thursday at that again will just potentially to the flooding that so already in place to the north of gevo got to bits and pieces a cloud some fairly strong winds through iraq in the town which is a sudden 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 tools kenya continuing up to the saudi coast as well and all the while we could see want to pulsing showers really along the south coast of south africa temperatures at little bit lower but by friday should be fine and dry with a high of 19 cells in cape town. but

. beyond going fight between donald trump and the golden state because of trans philosophy he is indelibly drawn into conflict with california exposes contrasting ideologies on immigration the environment economic and cultural issues trump is calling attention to the failure of the blue state model key battlegrounds for the 2020 an excellent people in power reports on trump plus his california on al-jazeera. japan is building a method to protect against devastating tsunami one o one east investigative nature can be can time or if the war will expose commuters to greater danger. on al-jazeera. as protests rage over police brutality and coronavirus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand

of politics to americans before the votes follow the u.s. elections on a. form . but are you watching out there are a lot of our top stories this hour and the c.e.o.'s of the largest tech companies in the u.s. are being questioned by politicians at a hearing in washington d.c. they're accused of antitrust practices including buying out competitors and unfairly dominating the online appetising market president all trump is trying to action against them of congress does not act. united states is announcing withdrawal of $12000.00 troops from germany nearly hoff will be repositioned to other locations in europe for. will say the move will cost billions of dollars and take years to complete. the annual muslim pilgrimage notice how it has been

drastically scaled back this year because of creative artists for the 1st time in modern history worshippers from appalled will not be allowed to take on. 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 protest they were called in to help control anti racism and police brutality demonstrations but i quickly shifted towards that presence and claims they were using excessive force activists have been demanding they leave it's looking more and for swinton state troopers will take over the police see the protests john hendren is in chicago one of several other cities where federal agents have also been deployed but he says their operations won't be on the same scale as important chicago kansas city and albuquerque were in these last phases federal troops deployment what's going on now what has just been announced in the past few hours is troops 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 $25.00 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. yemen's president has named a leader of the southern transitional council as the new governor of aden that's after the u.a.e. backed southern separatists say that giving up attempts at self rule will work on

a stalled peace deal the i.c.c. says it's to give an opportunity to end a rift among the allies the announcement follows one by saudi arabia so it will present ways to implement last year's power sharing deal between rival factions in the south the us is impose further sanctions on syria and its blacklisting anybody doing business with the government of president bashar al assad until he supports a negotiated end to the country's 9 year war assad son of his is one of 14 individuals and entities named in the new measures follows a round of sanctions last month targeting the president's inner circle including his wife asma it is time for assad's needless brutal work you know and this is above all is what our sanctions campaign is not to bring about a political solution under resolution 2254 is the only credible path to peace the syrian people deserve the u.k. government has been criticized by its own m.p.'s for discharging thousands of

patients from hospitals into care homes without testing them 1st across party committee report says the initial decision was reckless and appalling and accuse ministers of being slow to support social care 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. well rory challenges in london with more on the british report into the release of coded 1000 patients into can use cross party group of m.p.'s. essentially it's haast

with scrutinizing government policy and working out whether a sufficient and effective they look at spending they look and see how well the policy is actually done and in this report they've been looking at the health and social care sectors and how government policy they will die used to react well or badly to the coronavirus pandemic and they were looking at lots of different things by various different recommendations toughest language and they're most strident criticism was to do with this policy that was put into practice late march and the 1st half of april and this was a time when they were everyone was expecting a huge onslaught of coronavirus patients to hit the national health service and so the government was frantically trying to free up beds inside the n.h.s. and one of the things they did to free up beds was to ask hospitals to discharge

patients who would be medically fit many of those were elderly and many of those people had come from care homes and then were sent back into care homes and crucially they were sent back into care homes without being tested so we don't know how many people died as a result of this but we do know that their care home sector was. dramatically hits by coronavirus with a huge number of deaths maybe some of those were avoidable. ok labor health charities are accusing rich countries of scrambling to hold future covert 900 vaccines or wednesday the u.k. announced its latest deal to secure advance supplies of potential vaccines from glaxo smith kline and sanofi the u.s. and e.u. have also made purchasing agreements with pharma companies that are working on vaccines international health organizations say is undermining efforts to ensure supplies for every country medicine software into calls it

a dangerous trend of vaccine nationalism takes on we can speak to dr any spare who's an assistant professor at the mt sinai hospital if you can school of medicine joins us on skype from geneva. welcome to the program we should just make it clear of course there is no vaccine at this moment in time but people are kind of deciding deals for the potential of a vaccine and it makes you wonder is it really the case that no major country in the world is really taking any consideration whatsoever of the poor countries in the millions who would be vulnerable without a vaccine should we get one. this is a huge issue of that scene and then vaccine protection is in here what we've seen with the e.u. it does for 90. $71000000.00 worth of treatment. to be at now that's going to treat 30000 patients and bearing in mind this is not a virus that hiv treatment actually transmission because most of the transmission

of could have actually happened before it to be pm and then of course in the u.k. which now bought another 90000000 doses and shows that you know here we had this little bidding war over the vaccines which don't even exist yet and we don't know whether they're going to. have about 70 percent protection from a vaccine but probably they can't be rowed out until. spring or summer next year and we don't know how long now what we've seen already that antibodies weighing very quickly in those who had the disease and that even though they. have show and clinical data but you see antibodies and t. so 10 does this is not a correlate of protection in the right and we don't know and to actually get it now meantime you know what has happened in the countries where they simply took enough themselves that's not happened is not going to look after a pandemic in a globalized economy we're not safe to do we're all safe and it's much matter to figure out who the vulnerable who and to actually protect those that is the way to

control and meanwhile his image if they already pointed out this sets a very dangerous precedent you know this is just a best pandemic i know it feels like a pandemic of the century but it's only that there is pandemic what happens when we get to 25 over the next few you know 27 it's it's it's a very poor choice of how to spend money that 71000000 pounds that or us that you have spent could fund a prime we have in uganda and tanzania right exactly what put it. in your view what what should happen should arrive tomorrow or. say 3 months time what should happen in terms of supplying the most vulnerable nations all those federal communities it would help mail this pandemic. absolutely i mean we know that the volume of groups out they are everyone over the age of 60 in the. health care workers are very much on the front lines and teachers are vulnerable and you

know those of the keep on the groups we also see an increased mortality in minority groups now there isn't any plan don't government regulations because they need as an example distribution within countries such as the u.s. so the u.k. where we know that these minority groups have high death rates nor is say they have government regulation in place study that countries countries do allocate that seems to poor countries how do you get a cheap access to the vaccine which should be affordable it should be directly accessible in cities and in rural areas it should be accessible to minorities and. it's putting all of that exam one boston your cup of busted as it were when it's what you know we are creating it's good city and that's the name of the market is not the market has winners and losers but in a pandemic that kind of attitude means everyone dilutes. how do you regulate against. i mean that scarcity is a made out pino would we want to do

a trip where we think this is like that friday when you have to be. going to get that get the deals but you dunce gives these made up concept of course we have the ability to make more of that we just haven't chosen to do so we need the political will and you know bearing in mind that this is not a success story you know in times where people are away over the. feeling of major of and. anyway remembering a child the way it used to cost $10000.00 great hand and it it was just unavoidable for me demeaning to bet the condemned team enough content to die before that $10000.00 treatment a person in the north was being made available at $300.00 per person and we had begun that but that's in our recent history but you know there's that to know the solution you can have open source to make the recipe available because you know that way if you want it so much when having a vaccine you want to control it and you even get to a stage where you have to trust that you've really made so many countries and populations angry that they don't trust you enough to take it because mexicans don't bet tonight ok well it's

a very important dimension all many levels isn't it so the whole story of this pandemic and the potential for vaccine appreciate your time thanks. parliament has passed a controversial social media law that human rights groups warn it will give the government even more control over the media landscape sites like facebook and twitter will be required to have local representatives into that also need to store users dates or inside the country make it easier for prosecutors it will hurt his to access companies could face fines all essentially be brought on to the new law has more now 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 old kurdistan workers party and the callender scrips who the government accuses of trying to overthrow the government in 2016 a saw 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 informed 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. police in thailand a role should reverse to go into the home killing of a high profile has run case there's been a public outcry of the charges against the grown son of the creator of the red bull energy drink were dropped. 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 and united as you know we have received a final order from the attorney general to not prosecute were 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 times are there 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 have faith in the law. i think the outcome of the case is very strange we didn't really see how the investigation went the inquiries are being welcome. but they may fail to change the sense among many in thailand that justice is not equal wayne hey al jazeera bangkok . protesters across southern iraq are demanding stable electricity supplies last week temperatures there reached 54 degrees centigrade the increased demand on the grid has led to frequent power cuts simona 4th in the reports 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 sweet 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 no i think that is the incentive that we are not the ones deciding on the price we charge per ampere that'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 see one

a faltering al-jazeera baghdad. well still ahead here now there are all the sports including plenty of bad blood between these 2 baseball teams and they will be here to explain why a. pool

. or. let's cross over to me has got the ball. thank you let's start with football which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic around the world that has substantial financial relief on the way from the sport's governing body has just approved

a 1500000000 dollars fund which will see each of its $211.00 men donations to save a $1000000.00 grant to kick start the game and another half a 1000000 each just for women's football faithful will also offer interest free loans of up to $5000000.00 to alleviate the impact of the pandemic a fast thinker with spanish side severe has tested positive for codeine he's not been named but is displaying no symptoms in self isolation at home severe temporarily shut down training disinfected facilities and carried out further testing of all which have so far come back negative and they are in the europa league last 16 1st by. science by in barcelona is still training as they look to avoid their 1st season without a trophy since 201314 they've missed out on the league title the copper their way and super cop out but they are still fighting in the european champions league week on saturday it's the 2nd leg of their last 16 tie against napoli with the scores level 11 had been 2 points out of vera madrid when the league or we started but it

was raul who won the title by 5 points to a star in the champions league with a trial one nil heading into the 2nd leg against manchester city in. now major league baseball continues despite the miami marlins being put out of action by a corner virus pandemic and there was plenty of drama as the l.a. dodgers met they used an astros to sides who haven't got much time for each other this was their 1st meeting since it was revealed who still is starting pitching signs using a video camera when playing the dodgers on their way to win the 2017 world series after things calm down it was the dodgers who won this guy seems quiet again not on wednesday brace yourself as for the marlins shutout until at least sunday is the attempt to control their coverage 19 crisis 17 players and staff are tested positive which means they're stranded in philadelphia after playing the fearless but there is good news at the very least because all of their tests have come back

negative out of caution the team's going against the yankees on tuesday was cancelled anyway which in turn meant to show juve reshuffle for the young prince i now find themselves in baltimore instead ready to start a series where the only ones. we always try to be prepared for it we know that person is coming our way and 2020 is unlike anything we've all experienced and we know going into this we're going to have to prepare for some comfortable situations some difficult times difficult days. you know from a baseball standpoint from a virus standpoint from travels from inconveniences and i do feel like we are uniquely equipped to handle that. and again i think it's one of those things that's going to be critical if you're going to have success on the baseball field this year is you're going to have to be able to deal with you know that the curve balls that you know can likely come on a daily and weekly basis when n.b.a.

basketball has gone for a different approach to buy spin off the film so why that season inside a disney bubble in florida all the time to turn fun chancel together including and on john's and i like his if you back somehow is the bubble in us it is 2020 and you know you know everything is different is that you have to be able to adjust to it so. i don't i don't know as far as you know if it was like a home game at staples center they will have deafening because our fans as give us so much energy our fans give us so much support and we want to try to give that back to them on the floor. but also at the same time we know our fans back in l.a. and all over california over the world want to go for to see us play again. and talk is building up to the start of a shortened season the philadelphia flyers by the pittsburgh penguins in an exhibition game in toronto 24 teams return for veil this much is being played in the 2 canadian help cities of toronto and edmonton earlier this month washington's

footboard same dropped the redskins brand over objections to the 9 but today the english rugby team the ex the chiefs have decided to keep their and i got nearly 4000 people signed a petition calling for them to drop their native american branding but there were also counter petitions arguing against after meeting on wednesday the board said the chiefs logo is highly respectful but i have decided to retire their big chief mascots. so cricket and england unchanged cord for the start of their test series against pakistan the 1st match starts next wednesday at old trafford in manchester the same venue where england wrapped up a 21 series win over the west indies this week this series will also be held in a bio secure bubble with no fans england players have been allowed home for a few days but will be tested continuously. now australia's bad boy of tennis curiosity is again locked in a social media battle with a fellow pro this time it's

a ball of courage one of the players who tested positive for 90 novak djokovic which is a dream at all curious was very critical of the tournament but coverage told a newspaper he doesn't care because curious quote likes to be a general after the battle curious has responded to coverage of twitter questioning his intelligence and i'm sure that one will rumble on. and u.f.c. has announced a huge fight the undefeated lightweight champion could be no mcgonagall face just in game on october 24th and a government of was unable to defend his title in april as he couldn't leave russia because of coronavirus travel restrictions american guy just stepped into. i can be entering champion as a result that's also for for now i can see more light. later on so i said thanks for that stank you for the website i deserve dot com is the address all the news we're covering and lots of comment and analysis to about if this new law in taylor

is standing by with more the day's news from london shortly after. for the 1st time in recent history saudi arabia prohibits overseas visitors from performing the hutch government. has covered 19 continues to disrupt people's lives we look at this decision and big impact on the saudi economy hyde's 2020 on al-jazeera. every war makes a devastating impact costs earthrise explore some of the efforts to recover what was lost from the syrian scientists safeguarding one of our most valuable resources

these are important southpaws we have to make sure they are surviving to the refugees striving to coexist with nature ok so what's going on there simulating what happens when an elephant camas life after conflict on al-jazeera. kidnappings and murders in crimea says russia's forced an extension of the black sea peninsula. i don't understand why the school now. schools of crimean to toss have been arrested and tortured and killed. most believe by russian security forces crimea russia's dark secret on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera right wherever you are right. now. emperors of the online economy the c.e.o.'s of facebook amazon apple and google face a grilling over claims of unfair business practices. and our intelligence is al-jazeera live from london also coming up the u.s. retreat from a nato ally 12000 troops ordered to pull out of germany and a european headquarters moved. virus free for months but now facing a clearly virus reserve vietnam's government warns the whole country is.