i've been covering all of that in america but in my career like it's the like and it's my job to light on how and why. the rest of the. national security law. students are held in hong kong accused of posting content in support of independence. matheson and this is i was there live from doha also coming up titans of technology accused of an abuse of power the heads of facebook google amazon and apple face a grilling at a congressional hearing. more than 150000 americans are confirmed dead from coronavirus florida california and texas record their highest single day tolls. and

a dream shattered the family is still seeking answers about how their teenage son died while training with the time military. for the 1st time hong kong police have used a new national security law to crack down on social media posts by pro-democracy activists for students belonging to a group called student localism have been arrested they're accused of posting content that called for hong kong's independence the controversial law was imposed in hong kong 4 weeks ago but it makes subversion and secession criminal offenses and it grants police powers to arrest suspects without a warrant. they have some doctor recently that say for example they wanted to be a stuffy a hong kong country and also they wanted to be jews all demands to to

keep doing get spanked and finally they wanted to to deny that all of it in the pending books in hong kong. will be able to promote the independence of the hong kong that's what it's about the things they do so probably have ok for more let's go to do be a good holiday in hong kong divya let's talk about the arrests 1st of all just give us some of the background to that. as he said there rob this is the 1st time such arrests have been made there have been arrests from protests previously with people holding out flags or shouting slogans advocating hong kong's independence but this is the 1st time we're seeing the police go into someone's house and arrest them on the basis of statements made online that the allegedly leader of the group is a 19 year old he is said to have been the leader of a group previously advocating for such independence and secession of hong kong that

group disbanded on the night of june 30th just hours before the national security law came into place on july 1st but since then police say they have been continuing their activities by calling on other organizations calling for independence asking them to come together even those overseas to help promote independence of hong kong under the national security law that is illegal and can be penalized up to life in prison meant also the national security law has no boundaries which means that even those abroad calling for hong kong secession can also be penalized under that law now they're concerned with this case is the fact that police have used that provision that they could search homes without a warrant so this has been used now also the fact that online statements online communication and even personal communication is said to be infiltrated and police that have the right to intercept that kind of communication and overriding people's

personal privacy so there's a lot of concern from this not just from the fact that these young people are now coming under the scrutiny of this national security law they could be tried either in hong kong or even in the courts of mainland china now that this law opens a pathway for them to be transferred over to courts across the border so that is also causing concern but in general the main concern over this is the fact that home comes from them a speech is. now and freedom of expression will definitely come under scrutiny and it will definitely be at risk let me ask you about local media reports in hong kong that is saying that there were supposed to be elections to the legislative council in hong kong in september but i understand that there is a suggestion that those may well be delayed for about a year and the government is blaming coronavirus what's the story behind that. we're right so tomorrow friday will be the last day that for the nominations for

those legislative council elections and the hong kong government is expected to hold a meeting at some point after tomorrow to talk about whether these legislative council elections should be postponed and they're saying under the current corona virus outbreak where we're seeing a steady increase in new infections it is too risky to hold those elections but here's the problem those elections are still a month away hong kong has previously been able to contain the coronavirus outbreaks quite effectively and so critics are saying that this is being used as an excuse because the government is concerned about the support for the pro-democracy camp there's a lot of concern for that for the 1st time ever if these elections go ahead the pro-democracy camp could get a majority and this would definitely infuriate beijing which means that a lot of hong kong's inner workings of the government a lot of bills that need to be passed will have a definite say or a definite way to with the promote majority camp so there are concerns that the

government is using the cover of coronavirus to postpone these elections and under the constitution hong kong selections these elections can be postponed by the chief executive in extreme cases but only for 2 weeks and the government is now saying that they would like to postpone these elections for at least a year so there are many questions as to why the government would take this step whether their concerns are valid and whether this is a plan to put the pro-democracy candidates on the back foot rob do a poem talking to us from hong kong to be a thank you very much indeed. restrictions are tightening in this trillion state of victoria after a record day of corona virus infections and deaths it's reported 723 new cases and 13 deaths in the states the epicenter was truly the 2nd wave of the virus almost 10000 people have tested positive with more than 300 hospitalized victoria's premis says many of the new cases have been traced to aged care facilities mosques

mandatory james trower but as head of the epidemiological modeling unit for the school of public health and preventative medicine at monash university he says it's likely more nursing home residents will succumb to the virus in coming weeks. the numbers still seem to be going up even a week or 2 after we've implemented the most restrictive lock downs that we've seen in victoria for a couple of months now and though the numbers are still rising clearly the elderly the absolutely critical group to protect and. actions are being taken in order to protect them as best we can the considerable number of nursing homes that have been affected in melbourne is a very great cause for concern because there will be a lag between when the cases occur and when the deaths occurred so we can expect more patients from these facilities to be admitted to hospital and potentially have their bad outcomes in the coming weeks swayed and canada have been countries that have really grappled with these issues around how best to protect elderly people in

nursing homes and one issue is certainly that that the nature of employment of the start and work in this ng homes often means that they they actually are employed in multiple homes and so the staff can spread the infection from place to place and that's a that's a major problem which is sort of structural it's related to the employment conditions of the people working there and it can't it's very difficult to change overnight and yet we still do have to really try to change that the reason why for example we've seen such it much being a problem and no one in sydney is much harder to put our finger on i think possibly something that's going on is that winter is much considerably counted down here in melbourne than what it is in sydney. has recently said that there's not yet evidence that there's a strong effect of the season on transmission of the virus but there's not too much else that you can we want to explain why it's so concentrated in moment at the moment. heads of some of the world's biggest tech giants have faced a 5 hour grilling on the way they do business facebook google amazon and apple are

accused of stifling competition and monopolizing the industry it's the end of a year long investigation by the u.s. congress which claims to outline how current laws allow the companies to avoid liabilities alan fischer reports now is the ranking member of fittingly the tech giants appeared virtually to face questions the subcommittee chairman making clear he sees a problem their dominance is killing the small businesses and you factoring in the overall dynamism of the engines the american economy their ability to dictate terms call the shots up and entire sectors and inspire fear represent the powers of a private government this was meant to be an inquiry into business practices do the 4 companies google amazon apple and facebook stifle rivals and kill competition one republican immediately made clear he also wanted to talk about bias online we love the fact that these are american companies but what's not great is censoring people

censoring conserves and trying to impact elections and if it doesn't end there has to be consequences from each of the 4 bosses a common theme they were innovators job creators the definition of american excellence there's room in retail for multiple winners we compete against large established players like target costco kroger and of course wal-mart a company more than twice amazon size our goal is the best not the most in fact we don't have a dominant share in any market or in any product category where we do business facebook boss mark zuckerberg face questions about the part just of another social media platform instagram this said one congressman went to the heart of the inquiry basic story is the game is a threat that could potentially side in business away from baseball and so rather than compete with it basic good this is exactly the type of into competitive acquisition. at the end they just those were designed to prevent mark zuckerberg was asked about hate speech appearing on his site he insisted he was committed to

intercepting it before most users saw it he said that this excess street was company running it 89 percent but he wanted to get that up to 99 percent zuckerberg also talked about the recent removal of misleading content or uncovered $1000.00 and treatments dangerous he said we do prohibit content that will lead to imminent risk of harm and stating that there is a proven cure for when there is in fact none might encourage them to go take something that could have some adverse effect so we do take that down the subcommittee says it will hold new hearings is that this is not the end for the tech giants it's the start and it puts them on notice if they don't look at their operations legislators will alan fischer al-jazeera capitol hill the treatment of militant militant cadets in thailand there is under scrutiny as thousands take part in an annual recruitment drive the armed forces have been accused of allowing abusive initiation rituals and some families of dead cadets

speaking out scott had reports from bangkok. ever since he was a schoolboy upon the tonya kahn wanted to become an army officer at 18 he was well on his way to that dream when he suddenly died at an army training school after his death 3 years ago community children made a book of drawings for his family army officials said pick up on died of sudden cardiac arrest his parents skeptical ordered a 2nd autopsy it revealed that his major organs were removed further examination showed evidence consistent with physical abuse how. the royal thai forces have to take responsibility because stay on in charge of military they have to answer to why my brother is dead accusations of a military cover ups world entire media after pack up on this case became public again raising attention to the tradition of abuse of initiation or hazing rituals

in thailand's armed forces a police investigation is ongoing amnesty international recently conducted an investigation on abuse in thailand's military we interviewed 19 new recruits between november 2016 and july 2019 spread across about 9 different provinces. different training cycles and yet we found consistent patterns very creepy patterns of distance the call mental and sexual abuse since the 1950 s. thailand has held a lottery for its draft in which around 100000 young men are conscripted into military service for up to 2 years this takes place every year usually in april because of code 19 this year it's been pushed back after the young men are given a basic physical check up and a review of their paperwork the rest is up to chance whether they will be called up to serve the move forward party says they are the only political party truly

pushing for reform in the recruitment process. that's the guy in order to stop the violence who introduced a military service below they so want to system we want to make sure that those who want to see who suffer as a professional offices not as a 7th offices. 2 years ago a memo was circulated at the top levels of the military calling for closer examination of cadet abuse claims but no major changes have been made al-jazeera is interview requests for military response on cadet abuse went unanswered and if the military continues to ignore voices of concern there's a chance more mothers will only have photos to remind them of their sons it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. still ahead an al-jazeera fears about censorship and the controversy surrounding a new social media law in turkey and there's usually a flock of people in the sheep markets why that's not happening during this year's

eve celebration. how low they still have some rather wet weather affecting parts of yemen the moment just on the southern end of the red sea receipts and stormy conditions here for really on and off over a week and we have seen flooding into western yemen the fos out west of saudi arabia still some showers in the forecast as we go on through the next couple of days the unusually wet weather does look set to continue further north is about to hit 52 celsius a possibility in baghdad some record breaking heat into parts of iraq over the next couple of days and further south here in doha to just pull away a touch and he'd be 38 celsius the top temperature here on friday night was still there into western yemen and on the other side of the red sea stretched across

central parts of africa rolling across ethiopian highlands through south sudan and over towards the gulf of guinea some more big down poles coming in here from time to time as we go on through the next couple of days will see some heavy showers there it's in northern parts of the democratic republic of congo still a few showers just around eastern areas of kenya as well but to the south of that is generally fine and trials of pleasant sunshine coming through just a few showers into eastern areas of madagascar but nothing much to speak of you might see a little bit of rain just for the eastern cape. for . capturing a moment in time. snapshots of all the lives. of the stories one people are desperate to talk to one track and then provided a glimpse into someone else's was the new uk pursuing in the dream of coffee

a life inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witness on al-jazeera. you're watching on his ear a reminder of our top stories this hour on call police have used a new national security law to crack down on social media posts by pro-democracy activists for students belonging to a group called student localism have been arrested accused of posting content online that supports hong kong independence. restrictions are tightening in the australian state of victoria after a record day of corona virus infections and dance it's reported 723 new cases and

13 people have died. the chief executives of facebook google amazon and apple have been defending their business practices that in u.s. congressional hearing there accused of stifling competition and avoiding liability under current laws. millions of children and both wealthy and poor countries are at risk of a vast civil health damage because of lead poisoning the study by the u.n. agency unicef as well as an environmental group found nearly one in 3 children has high levels of lead in their blood this can impair brain development never systems of vital organs it blames inadequate recycling of lead acid batteries paint in homes and contaminated food. japan's government has been ordered to recognize victims exposed to radioactive black rain after the attack on head in 1945 dozens of plaintive said approach the codes after they developed illnesses linked

to radiation exposure before the ruling they weren't satisfied atomic bomb victims because they were originally located in areas deemed safe by the authorities next week will be the 75th anniversary of the u.s. attack and head off that killed 148000 people. the u.s. is setting more unwelcome records in its fight against corona virus it has the highest number of covert 900 for taliban's of any nation by far nearly a quarter of the global tally now of the 3 states with the greatest number of people california texas and florida are recorded their largest single day death tolls by kind of reports from washington with more than 150000 deaths in the country the wearing of mosques is finally made mandatory in the house of representatives members and staff will be required to wear masks at all

times and the whole of the house on tuesday texas representative louie gohmert had arrived at the attorney general for a house hearing without a mask. he was then admonished for not keeping his makeshift mosque on during the hearing early wednesday he tested positive on arrival at the white house he'd been due to accompany president crumple on the crypt to his home state but is now in self quarantine president trump appeared with no mosque during a number of the events in texas seen here in close proximity to his former secretary of energy rick perry also masculist and he continued to hyper vaccine that he wrote in your sleep claims has entered final clinical trials this is the fastest a vaccine has ever been developed together we will end the plague from jon we will defeat the virus the president also continued to defend the video he had

retreated earlier in the week from a controversial doctor who claimed there is a fork over 1000 and that face masks are necessary for protection. thank god we are. once again he was publicly contradicted by a member of his coronavirus task force citing multiple studies the cumulative data on on trials clinical trials that were valid namely clinical trials that were randomized and controlled in the proper way all of those trials show consistently that hydroxy chloroquine is not effective in the treatment of coronavirus disease or cold 19 and in congress republicans and democrats so no way near agreement on a new coronavirus relief bill. while millions of american families continue to struggle with the physical and economic effects of the virus

a leading medical organization has issued an urgent warning the american association of medical colleges says and i quote decisive coordinated action is urgently needed to save lives it continues if the nation does not change its course and. deaths in the united states could be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands my canada al-jazeera washington. the 2nd worst affected country in the world brazil is lifting its ban on foreigners arriving by air despite reporting a records daily jump in infections and deaths at least 70000 new cases and 1600 fatalities were confirmed in the past day that brings the total number of infections to more than 2500000 more than 1000 people have died but children's hospital in northern mexico has been flooded in the aftermath of tropical storm hanna workers rushed to move beds out of rooms swamped with water

with the hospital in the city of the no sun at least 3 people died in mexico during the storm. firefighters in brazil are trying to put out more than $4000.00 blazes in the world's biggest tropical weapons authorities say there will be more than double the usual number of fires in the pantano region this year it's declared an environmental emergency president just about scenario introduced a fire ban last month but environmental groups say illegal burn off so continuing. egypt's president has approved a new law restricting soldiers from running for office current and former military personnel will now need the backing of the highest ranking officers to run for parliament or the presidency critics say is an attempt to prevent any one challenging of the c.c. for the top job constitutional amendments made last year could see the president stay in power until 2030 opponents say turkish authorities will be

able to censor social media after parliament passed a new law to regulate foreign platforms the government says the legislation is needed to prevent cybercrime but the opposition alleges it could be used to stifle political dissent and criticism sin and christiane has more from istanbul. inside turkey's parliament m.p.'s voted to pass a law that aims to control what many have said is uncontrollable social media critics say it's another attempt to silence dissenting voices and threaten the freedom of expression the government argues the law is needed to enhance they come to belittle a foreign platforms. and many worry says the majority of the mainstream media here are already under government control there is no more platform left for free debate trying to learn english through the whole barrel restriction everything it's because they are being criticised on social media we are all against it as often the 1st the bill requires social media platforms with more than $1000000.00

domestic daily users such as facebook twitter and you tube top and offices in turkey they're also required to appoint local representatives to implement the government's request to block and promote certain content if they don't comply they'll face stiff fines along with possible data speed cuts. woman rights watch amnesty international and the un have campaigned against the law on the grounds it would lead to censorship and silence dissent. the governing party and says the new law will balance freedoms and obligations it says it doesn't want the closure of social media providers but wants to end what it considers insults bad language and harrison social media. the governing party insists the new law will balance freedoms and obligations it says it doesn't want the closure of social media providers but wants to end what it considers insults bad language and harassment on social media borders and. this regulation doesn't aim any ban on

social media but to protect the basic rights and freedoms of the 55000000 turkish users on social media to protect their information and stop misinformation. in 2016 turkey tightened its quip on the internet after members of the outer. accused of plotting that year's failed coup launched an online attack against president. last year dozens of people were detained after speaking out online against turkey's military operations in northern syria. when a court asks for user details from that social platform it can await sharing this puts the company judiciary and is wrong that freedom of expression must surely be protected in turkey many iran and maintain so-called full groups on social media platforms how they use these accounts with fake names and automated bots to attack their opponents this includes the government opposition and the outpolled groups

like the p.k. k. and movement for now it is not clear how the turkish government is going to implement its new law but the rights groups i worry if they could target government critics at the cost of democracy and freedom off expression his solo al-jazeera stumble. coronaviruses changing the way muslims around the world celebrate. maalik trainer visited the libyan city of misrata where residents and traders are trying to keep a positive outlook. as is no spends his evening selling handmade traditional items. he says during a deal in previous years business was good but this year it's different. i don't think that i'll ever get to start moving at the moment people aren't really buying the market is slow maybe some people on my products to show their kids how their grandparents used to live. he'd known as the festival of the sacrifice is

the holiest of the 2 main islamic holidays for muslims it honors the willingness of abraham to sacrifice his son as my do as an act of obedience to god's command. muslims believe god replaced with a lamb. the holidays usually spent with families and friends gathering and spending the day we can in the evening together but the cove with 19th and has forced many to spend the holiday alone. but. this year isn't like every year as we will have to take precautions and evan is worried instead of extended family who would be spending it with our immediate family. abdulhamid else there is a sheep farmer and seller with rising prices and the health crisis he says the market has changed to the government's 75. before buying a sheep was

a family occasion now the father comes by himself because of covered 19 it's harder to import wheat and food so it's more expensive that's also had an impact on the market. in any other year this market would have been busy crowded with customers trying to find the perfect sheep for their families but the covert 19 pandemic and libya's years long conflict have made that difficult which means this year's eve holiday will be significantly less the. prices of basic commodities have also gone up making it even more difficult for libyan families. here have done most of this year residents are in a difficult position many fathers are going to be embarrassed in front of their families because they can't afford a sheep and he displaced because of the fighting we're dealing with coronavirus and the prices are really expensive for many the sheep cost them 3 to 4 months salary so. that at the roundabout is determined to keep it positive outlook

and says people need to find happiness through the hardships but for some here that may not be as easy as it sounds now the trainer al-jazeera misrata of. this is al jazeera these are the top stories hong kong police have used a new national security law to crackdown on social media posts by pro-democracy activists for students belonging to a group called student localism have been arrested they're accused of posting content online that supports hong kong independence they pick up on and has more from hong kong. this is the 1st time the national security law has been used this ific lee for this for this accusation that this group was trying to advocate an independent hong kong now this group is are all students they're very young ages

between $16.21 the leader is said to be 19 years old and was arrested and according to a video that was going viral and social media and being shown on local media a police officer plain clothes police officer went into this young man's home and said that he was a new officer from the national security team and arrested him restrictions are tightening in this tourney in the state of victoria after a record day of corona virus infections and it's and supported 723 new cases 13 people have died but tory is premier says many of the new cases have been traced to aged care facilities. the death toll from the corona virus pandemic is now more than 150000 in the united states that's the highest number of fatalities in any nation by far it accounts for nearly a quarter of virus related deaths around the world. the 2nd worst affected country in the world has had a record daily increase in infections and deaths brazil's reported nearly 70000 new

cases and 1600 fatalities 4 of america's biggest tech companies have been accused of being too dominant and powerful the chief executives of facebook google amazon and apple have been defending their business practices at a u.s. congressional hearing they're accused of stifling competition and avoiding liability under cover laws egypt's president has approved a new law restricting soldiers from running for office current or former military personnel will no need the backing of the highest ranking officers to contest parliament or the presidency critics say as an attempt to prevent anyone challenging c.c. for the top job. and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera off to witness goodbye. incarcerated. in russia's toughest prisons stripped off their liberties. and unexpected

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