the message if this continues just will be the opportunity for the kurds to recover in between those major. sides are supporting for stronger climate policy from the government to reduce emissions without this the situation on the get worse. hong kong police order the arrest of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile they say the charges are trumped up. and again i'm a star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. puts pressure on popular video outtake talks to separate itself from its chinese owner searching national security and censorship concerns. top u.s.

health officials acknowledge it's taking too long to get caught up in 1000 test results but expressing hope about a vaccine. we feel cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end of this year and as we go into 2021 and a teenager and florida is accused of masterminding the manson family of prominent twitter accounts 2 weeks ago. now hong kong police are reportedly seeking the arrest of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile as china steps up its enforcement of its newly imposed a national security law now they include former u.k. consulate worker simon chang who says he was tortured by chinese authorities for information about hong kong's anti-government protests also all not want to this day as prominent opposition figure nathan law who fled to london over fears of persecution under a new security law. police have declined to comment but it would be the 1st time

they using this legislation to talk activists outside of hong kong i spoke with samuel chu he's a u.s. citizen and one of those activists wanted by hong kong police he told me china's government is acting like a dictatorship that wants to stamp out all forms of opposition i think was outrage and really not surprised but this is so outlandish claim that somehow the jurisdiction of american law being an american government is just completely out of line anyone if they literally anyone could be charged under this new law that would include heads of state for instance you might say things that institute policies that beijing doesn't want to see what kind of reaction are you expecting from the u.s. and potentially other western nations i think i'm not the only person who's out ritually up spoken to a number of congressional offices and i as i said from the very beginning when the

law was if they're going to come after me they must look marched down to capitol hill and the rest of close senator rubio's and everybody in the white house because they too have been. all articles that it is using to charge people like me. secession and colluding with foreign powers and that i think is what they're both not understanding is that they're creating really a perception of how desperate and house they are global of the national influence and some you know i'm curious i mean this is also taking place within the context of a global pandemic right now and all the restrictions that go with that what do you make of the timing of china's actions here. i think there is a lot of areas for china it's the pressure globally in a lot of ways we're in an open season right now against china because of their original response and their reaction to the pentagon mixed spreading and stemming

from china and i think that they're seeing the kind of hooey and censureship the only other service other country but business and spend and the way that they're pushing i think that is starting to create a 99 line won't pushing back and i really think that this shows today's tickling shows the kind of awareness and the fact that they are scared of losing control and they know that it. can continue to play sort of systems it's gretton control all over the mainland and in china all over the place and i think that that is what. some one last question i mean we've also had that legislative council elections are now being postponed in hong kong ostensibly because of coronavirus fares what do you make of that i'd like your reaction i think that

this is what the papers do one day know that they have lost the hearts and minds of their people they go out and disqualify opposition leaders they issue or arrests for dissidents and they delay any sort of from a crowd to practices and process and elections because they want to stall what is it. and i think that they might be able to relate this or appear but all they're really doing is growing their movement and reinforcing the commitment all of us have that once again recently one day. well speaking of pressure on beijing and president trump is leading u.s. pressure on chinese company by dance to sell its american on of its popular video app ticktock u.s. media also reporting that microsoft is in talks to buy tech talk the u.s. government has expressed worries that data collected through that app could end up in the hands of the chinese government. will look you know we may be betting we may

be doing some other things. but a lot of things so we'll see what happens but we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to their. own in a blog post earlier this week tick-tock chief executive kevin mayer wrote the tech industry has received scrutiny but tick talk has received a disproportionate amount because of its chinese origins he says the company is committed to showing the public they follow us laws made goes on to say the tick talk has become the latest target that is not the enemy let's now take a look at the size and operations of take talk the app has over $1000000000.00 active uses more than $100000000.00 of them come from the united states but the majority of its uses are in asia particularly india which has a response which is responsible for a 3rd of all of its downloads but in the band the app last month after its soldiers were killed in fighting along its disputed border with china bite downs the beijing

based parent company of the app is thought to be the most valuable startup company in the wild it's values at around $110000000000.00 the leading u.s. infectious diseases expert says he is cautiously optimistic that a coronavirus vaccine will be produced in the coming months dr anthony found she appeared before a congressional committee at a time of deep political division over how to reopen schools and businesses mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . that the test from the outset it was clear that the hearing would reflect the country's bitter political divide the democratic chair outlining what was supposed to be the prime intention today i'm calling for the administration to finally give america a comprehensive national plan prior times the science over politics the ranking republican member waving reams of paper contended that

president trump did in fact have a national plan let me thank you on behalf of the millions of american people who are alive today that wouldn't be alive if you weren't carrying out president trump's effective plan to keep americans safe as we learned about this virus as we work to get a cure for this virus a picture of the president placed behind him to emphasize on whose behalf he was speaking the chair also produced his own prop a graph showing the dramatic discrepancy between the rates of infection in the united states and in europe the president immediately tweeting a response in real time including a gratuitous insult somebody please tell congressman clyburn who doesn't have a clue that the chart he put up indicating more cases for the u.s. than europe is because we do much more testing than any other country in the world if we had no testing or bad testing he continues we would show very few cases.

dr pao she said the early opening of many states was one reason along with the differences in the initial response if you look at what happened in europe when they shut down or locked down or went to shelter in place however you want to describe it they really did it to the tune of about 95 plus percent of the country did that when you actually look at what we did even though we shut down even though it created a great deal of difficulty we really functionally shut down only about 50 percent in the sense of the totality of the country your system secretary of health confirmed there was a disturbing legging getting test results saying it was taking on average $3.00 to $5.00 days and in a few cases up to 15 and the director of the centers for disease control stated he had not been consulted in the administration's decision to shift the focus of data collection from the c.d.c. to the health department in washington the centers for disease control has been the

focal point in the fight against every previous pandemic the fact that the director was cut out of the loop in this crucial decision is yet another example of the degree to which the administration has sidelined the c.d.c. in the fight against this virus ultimately a hearing that was designed to formulate a national strategy revealed instead how bitter partisanship complicates any unified response to be as yet uncontrolled spread of the virus mike hanna al jazeera washington we haven't and now millions of americans in the wake of this continent could be set for a new hardship a $600.00 a week benefit is about to end and attempts to agree on a new federal relief fund stalled our white house correspondent can be how god has all the latest. the major obstacles are really a couple of things number one is the amount that should be given to americans who

are out of work and struggling as a result of coke at 19 the democrats believe that it should continue to be $600.00 a week republicans say it should be $200.00 a week and till september and then it should be 70 percent of your previous wages they say this is just a really high price tag can't keep going as we have been for the last few months now the other big sticking point is over liability protection republicans are insisting that there should be protection for hospitals for governments for businesses you name it anything that kind of facilitates the public they can't be blamed if someone says i got covert 19 well in your facility democrats say that's not going to work that they don't want that liability protection in place instead what they want to see is something for state and local governments giving them more resources so the really arguing about different things very far apart in terms of

the amounts and as you mentioned the checks that are currently in place running out and there is no sort of measure to move forward now republicans have said look let's just put in place some sort of short term stopgap legislation that democrats are saying we're not going to do that in fact we gave you legislation 2 months ago you stalled so look at the 2 sides really very far apart but at least they're still talking and this is significant because they were supposed to go on vacation as of today now we understand that vacation is on hold until they work this out. well now mexico is about to overtake the united kingdom as the country with the wealth that highest crime the virus death toll on friday mexican officials announced a new agreement with the united nations to patches medical equipment and supplies as the country struggles to catch the contagion among your powder has more from mexico city. but mexico is a country in desperate need covert 19 has killed more than 46000 of its citizens so

on friday president under. signed an agreement with the united nations for international assistance the $6800000000.00 deal will cover a wide range of medicines medical equipment and future back scenes from global suppliers is to see me this means we are going to obtain all the medicine from countries across the world good quality medicine at low prices and without corruption. officials also announced the creation of a new government agency tasked with the distribution of those medicines as the health crisis continues to worsen nationwide the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in mexico is here in the country's capital were locked down restrictions have been lifted and many non essential services have been allowed to reopen. many now fear worsening contagion will force local officials to announce new law down measures in the days to come it was important because they react it's important for it to be now and if we don't change the trend than there could be exponential

growth that would take us to a table with hospitalizations that's a greater than what we had in june. mexico has now overtaken britain as the nation with the 3rd highest coronavirus death toll in the world just behind brazil and the united states. mexican health officials have stepped up coated 900 testing efforts as even federal authorities admit the real infection statistics and death tolls are likely much higher than what's being reported. up a low al-jazeera mexico city. well still ahead here on al-jazeera a packed beach is ok but prayers are a problem the u.k. government is accused of mixed messages with a new coronavirus clampdown. and a different set of ration muslims around the wild monkey with many under strict pandemic restrictions.

hello there more heavy rain set in the forecast across the korean peninsula as we go through the next couple days exude the cloud beginning to gather and this is where the rain will push and as we go through saturday as that rain heads across the korean peninsula it is at least east was away from japan and generally throughout much of central china the rains a little bit lighter but to the south they are not we've got some very heavy rain here it's all tied to an air of low pressure that will bring heavy rain across into high non southern china and on into vietnam and laos and then through sunday the rains again gathering through eastern china and again working away across the yellow sea so we could well see some flooding in the korean peninsula before the weekend is over then down tools in tunisia of course the bulk of the rains will be to the north are being dragged up with these strong winds around that area of low pressure so some fairly heavy rain through the northern philippines the south as well but really the bulk of the south across the march of the mill a peninsula born here is mostly dry because of that system pushing and pulling all

that rain up towards the north and you can see that rain extending into northern areas of thailand as we go through sunday and then in india the rains here of course very well scattered havea again as we go through saturday across the upper deshon extending east was as well or dishes seeing some heavy downpours and you notice the rain still very heavy out tools maharastra by sunday down the western ghats. but. kidnappings and murders in crimea says russia's forced an accession of the black sea financial. i don't understand why the speed now. scores of crimean to toss have been arrested tortured and killed. most believe by russian security forces. crime man russia's dark secret on al-jazeera.

to the end. hello again i'm a star that's remind you about top stories here the salad police are reportedly seeking the arrest of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile as china steps up its enforcement of its newly imposed national security or this would be the 1st time police are targeting activists outside the territory under that law. the u.s. is reportedly planning on ordering the chinese company by dom's to sell its american division of tech talk of a national security concerns u.s. media also reporting that microsoft is in the talks to buy about popular video at. the world health organization has want to be effects of the growing

a virus pandemic will be felt for decades to come. as the top u.s. virus expert says he's cautiously optimistic a vaccine will be available within. and one of the worst affected american states in this pandemic florida has also been forced to close several testing site says hurricane approaches the hurricane is currently lashing the bahamas bringing heavy rain and strong winds it's expected to hit florida over the weekend as i was has already caused severe flooding and power outages in puerto rico are now the surviving boston marathon bomber has had his death sentence overturned by a u.s. appeals court the court says the judge who presided over a socket saw they have case allow jurors who already thought he was guilty a lower court will re-evaluate what sentence he should now receive some have and his brother set off homemade bombs near the boston marathon finish line and 20. 3 people were killed more than 260 others were injured his brother was subsequently

killed in a gunfight with police. well 3 men including a teenager have been charged over huge twitter hack that targeted high profile accounts a couple of weeks ago they took over accounts belonging to former u.s. president barack obama and tesla basilan mask before tracing out a fake bitcoin dealer that crypto currency scam raised more than $100000.00 in one day our correspondent andy gallagher has already town in terms of cyber crimes this one was pretty or day they hiked into about 34 accounts including as he said people like jeff bezos people like kim carr dash in the former president barack obama joe biden the list really reads like a who's who now how they did it was shows you a measure of just how sophisticated this was they phone finished members of staff who work at twitter managing to get the tools unwittingly from members of staff at twitter to then just hack into those accounts they then used each account to put

out what looked like a charitable message saying if you send me whatever amount i pledge i will you know whatever amount you pledge i will double it and essentially using the big corn accounts belonging to these 3 people to line their own pockets the 17 year old who was arrested here in florida on friday is said to be the mastermind behind this he's only 17 so we can't name him for legal reasons but he only just graduated from high school here so this is a sophisticated hack on a level on a scale that hasn't really been seen before and prosecutors are now charging the 3017 year old with 30 felony charges. now corona virus restrictions have been reimposed and parts of northern england after an increase in infections their pubs restaurants gyms and cafes remain open but some people feel that they're being unfairly targeted our correspondent or how reports of them that's near manchester.

localized restrictions affecting millions of people in northern england who have come at a worse time for the large muslim population they came into effect on the. other one of islam's holiest dates that i had for all night oh it's a lockdown kind of. you know what is what's going on is that another log that really confused people that this faith leaders say the community feels let down having done everything possible to mitigate the spread of the virus there is a kind of confusion. and i want to say hate but i would say that the people are shocked with that kind of immediate action that's taken place the prime minister has warned of the need to act fast in the face of rising infection rates a possible 2nd wave he said it was time to put the brakes on a return to normality our assessment is that we should now squeeze that brake pedal

squeeze that brake pedal in order to keep the virus under control i know that the steps that we're taking will be a real blow to many people everyone obviously whose wedding plans have been disrupted or who cannot now celebrate aid in the way that they would wish and i'm really really sorry about that but we simply cannot take the risk the deputy leader of oldham council one of the areas affected says the measures are necessary even if their introduction was missed and the model messages from national government are just not helpful at all the create a lawful society and in the way that they've been delivered what he has done is create division in our commune. and i something that's i'd really don't appreciate the opposition says it's a new low in government communications during this crisis though there's no denying that infection rates are on the rise but among the questions the muslim community here has is why private households are a problem while drinking in pubs and bars is not i think if it was in the

pope it be fine i think that's really the message they sent i think if it was on the seaside it would be fine and i think what we need to really do is address the question why is everyone feeling angry and it's not some people in the community it's everyone everyone feels that it's been targeted at them this was the scene during friday's heat wave on the english south coast so call it prejudice others pass it off as incompetence but it does seem that in parts of the country code 19 and the government's handling of the crisis is opening up a bitter community divides join a whole al-jazeera oldham in the north of england now hundreds have valid in portugal to demand justice for a black actor who was killed in a busy street last week for no condé was reportedly shot several times by an elderly white man just downside less than a suspect has been arrested and is awaiting trial can his family claim the suspect

had threatened to kill him 3 days before and used racist slurs police are still investigating the motive behind the attack now the afghan government has freed more taliban prisoners their release coincides with a 3 day cease fire during. both sides have signaled that peace talks could start when the holiday ends talks originally scheduled for february were delayed because of disagreement about prisoner swaps. well in libya dozens of captured teenage fighters have also been released as part of an amnesty for the holiday they were among hundreds taken prisoner during her if i have to fail battle to seize the capital tripoli 41 young men have been set free as i had reports from the we're. celebrating the release of her son mohammed from prison in a city worst of tripoli she came from the libyan coastal city of so brought her to

meet him. he had been detained along with other young fighters recruited by the warlord have to one day and i mean you know the ending up with his father and i never wanted him to join the forces but he did it behind our backs we will never allow that to happen again mohammed was among nearly 200 pro have to the fighters from a man cities they were captured by government forces in western tripoli in april last year some of them were only 17 years old. says he had just finished high school and received a month and a half of military training in surprise. before he was sent to the frontline. i just need to live as a civilian and move on with my life i don't want to be part of any conflict i learned the lesson the hard way. the holiday of aid is an occasion for forgiveness in muslim countries government officials here say they release the fighters because

they are prisoners are the victims themselves. we have taken the initiative to let them reunite with their families on this holy occasion we hope we can exchange the rest of the prisoners with their fighters who are kicked and have to as prisons. the release of the prisoners was achieved through reconciliation between cities in western libya other approach after inmates who are from other parts of libya along with foreign mercenaries will lay clear remain here in detention until the conflict is resolved nearly 350 inmates including foreign nationals are kept here in this maximum security prison they were part of the field to military campaign to take control of tripoli some of these teens say they were deceived into joining the conflict others say financial incentives

drove them to risk their lives. while millions of muslims worldwide celebration the holiday and marks the end of one of the 5 pillars of islam the hard to imagine mecca but events in saudi arabia and elsewhere are very different here because of credit 19 reports of all the. muslims on every continent scott afraid of how prayer is between major differences facing one direction they pray new unity but stand separated by coronavirus forced by a pandemic through social distance even in worship something no muslim ever thought they'd have to do. standing shoulder to shoulder is integrity to islamic prayer is an important show of equality regardless of age race to even say shoe status but

that's no longer possible with coronavirus restrictions in place the everyday i have no need for this year's eve is totally different from any other year we're following social distancing rules and we can't even greet people closely we even have to bring our own prayer mats and less people are attending this year the and for the 1st time in modern history fewer than 10000 pilgrims are in saudi arabia a far cry from last year's nearly 2 and a half 1000000 more parts of the world but the emergency hasn't stopped the elation the few taking part. a lot here has an enormous interest and today is a glorious day it's eed we're sad our families aren't with us and we miss celebrating with them but we thank god for being able to attend the hardest this year in other countries such as considering crowds of worship or spilling out of mosques are a thing of the past gatherings have been banned for 10 days after

a record 16 deaths on thursday not everyone agrees that the full lockdown chairperson here told me after georges and i have prayed here for 50 years i don't understand why they stopped us during our festivities the mosque should stay open. rules on reopening are constantly changing britain's prime minister boris johnson announced a delay to the planned easing of restrictions on august 1st i know the steps that we're taking will be a real blow to many people everyone obviously whose wedding plans have been disrupted or who cannot now celebrate aid in the way that they would wish and i'm really really sorry about that but we simply cannot take the risk. while the mood is subdued worldwide some good news day for hundreds of turks able to attend a praise that had just a fear for the 1st time in 86 years. as it is

controversial converted from a museum back into a mosque just a week. and despite the low key festivities this year these children have still been enjoying some wine traditions if only briefly. al-jazeera. had and this is al jazeera and these are the headlines police are reportedly saying the arrest of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile as china steps suspect enforcement of its nearly imposed national security law is be the 1st time police are targeting activists outside the territory under that law well i spoke to samuel sure he's a u.s. citizen and one of those activists wanted by hong kong police he says many american politicians are also angry over china's suppression of freedoms in hong kong. i'm

not the only person who's out ritually up spoken to a number of congressional offices and i saw the very beginning when the law was if they're going to come after me they must look. closely so that rubio everybody in the white house because they too have. all articles that it is using to charge people like me. secession and colluding with foreign powers and that is what. well not creating really a perception of how desperate. they are local national includes and. now the u.s. is reportedly planning on ordering a chinese company by dance to sell its american division of tick tock of a national security concerns u.s. media also reporting microsoft is in talks to buy the popular video at the world

health organization has warned the effects of the corona virus pandemic will be felt for decades to come that's as the top u.s. virus expert says he's cautiously optimistic a vaccine will be available within months and one of the west affected u.s. states florida they've been forced to close several testing site says hurricane approaches the hurricane is currently lashing the bahamas bringing heavy rains and strong winds it's expected to hit florida over the weekend has already caused severe flooding and power outages in puerto rico 3 men including an alleged teen mastermind have been charged of a huge twitter hack that targeted high profile accounts a couple of weeks ago they took over accounts belonging to former u.s. president barack obama and tesla busk iran must before tweeting out a fake bitcoin deal well those are the headlines i will have another news update for you here on al-jazeera after in 5 story stay with us.

could the u.s. presidential election be delayed donald trump is criticized for suggesting postponing the vote in november but could mail in ballots and the coronavirus pandemic spoil the result this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the u.s. presidential election is planned to happen just over 3 months from now with the number of corona virus infections still rising in the world's worst affected

country many states are making postal voting easier so americans won't need to queue polling stations.