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as the country with the highest coronavirus death toll. and a 17 year old is accused of masterminding a massive twister hacked his targets included bronc obama joe biden and bill gates . now hong kong police are reported the seeking the arrest of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile as china steps up its enforcement of its newly imposed national security or now they include a 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 on that wanted list is prominent opposition figure nathan law who fled to london over fears of persecution under that new security deal now the police have declined to comment that it would be the 1st time they're using this legislation to target activists outside hong

kong earlier i spoke to samuel chewed he's a u.s. citizen and one of those activists wanted by hong kong police and he told me that china's government is acting like a dictatorship that wants to stamp out all forms of opposition. i think it was outrage and really not surprised this is so outlandish claim that somehow they have jurisdiction an american citizen lobbying an american government is just completely out of line anyone if they literally anyone could be charged under this new no 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 what if they're going to come after me they must love marched down to capitol

hill and the rest. senator rubio and everybody in the white house because they too have been that this is all articles go 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 carter and some you know i'm curious i mean this is 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 that 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 repent that mixed spreading and stemming from china and i think that they're seeing the kind of who who are leading and

censorship the only other service other country but business and spend and the way that the pushing i think that is starting to create a 99 line won't work pushing back and i really think that this shows today's ruling shows the kind of awareness and the fact that they are scared of losing control and they know that it. can continue to play certain 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

people they go out and disqualify opposition leaders. issue or about rest before decisions and they delay any sort of democratic practices and process in elections because they want to stall what is it with production and i think that they might be able to lead us for a year but all of that are really doing is growing their movement and reinforcing the commitment all of us have that once again. one day. well pro-democracy activists in hong kong as well as the white house have also condemned the chief executive kerry lamb's decision to postpone september's legislative election for one year lam says the rise in coronavirus cases forced her to invoke emergency laws now after that announcement germany became the latest western country to suspend its extradition agreement with the territory has the story. the legislative council election has been held every 4 years since hong

kong's handover from british to chinese rule in 1997 this is the 1st time voting has been postponed to such an extent. the decision to postpone the trainee trained election has nothing to do with politics has nothing to do with the likely outcome of this round of elections it is purely on the basis of protecting the health and safety of the hong kong people lam so the delay was necessary because of the rising numbers of corona virus infections but her use of emergency powers raises legal and administrative issues delay would mean that china's parliament would have to step in to approve any issues that could contravene hong kong's basic law its many constitution. we are inviting beijing to interfere again because we are unable to help you or solve the problem that the government has

created foreign governments including the u.s. and the u.k. one that postponing the election further threatens hong kong's autonomy china's leaders repeated their warning for the international community to stay out of chinese affairs which is. what i want to tell you is that the election of the legislative council the hong kong special administrative region is a local election in china and it's purely china's internal affairs. it's a consistent message particularly after china's government imposed the national security law in hong kong on july 1st. secession subversion terrorism and collusion with foreign elements are punishable with up to life in prison critics say the laws draconian they can open to interpretation and on thursday it was on this basis 12 democratic candidates were disqualified one of hong kong's best known democracy activists joshua long was among those deemed in eligible for not supporting the

last implementation because sandra. my qualification to come in and the democracy movement in hong kong and that's the reason they can kill us all even they try to prosecute us to run for office and silence our voice we wish to try our best left out of what's being heard around the world to prove democracy cam says the latest moves by hong kong government are motivated by china's concerns that democrats would have gained a majority in the legislative council the legislative council election is the only way people in hong kong can influence who will run their city legislative councillors are partially responsible for choosing the chief executive and monitoring their performance in recent years china's leaders have been accused of interfering in this process and with the disqualifications and the delay in elections there are concerns whether another basic right is being stripped away the

vehicle pollen arches or hong kong. well president trump is leading u.s. pressure on chinese company by dance to sell the american arm of its popular video out to talk us media also reporting microsoft is in talks to buy a tick tock the u.s. government has expressed worries that days they collected through that up 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 there. now in a blog post earlier this week to tick talk chief executive kevin mayer wrote the tech industry has received scrutiny but to talk has received a disproportionate amount because of its chinese origins he says the company is committed to showing the public they follow u.s. laws may goes on to say tick talk has become the latest target but is not the enemy

let's take a look at the size and operations of tech talk the app has $800000000.00 active users worldwide and is gaining popularity in the u.s. but the majority of its users are in asia particularly india which is responsible for all of its downloads but india also banned the app last month after its soldiers were killed in fighting along its disputed border with china now by dance the beijing based parent company of the app is thought to be the most valuable startup company in the wild it's valued at around $110000000000.00 well let's now speak to in a fried she's the chief technology correspondent at access and she joins us now from san francisco in a tick talk is katie saying it's received this disproportionate scrutiny compared to all these other big tech firms in your mind is that true. i mean it is to a certain degree and it's also the only chinese app start out to make it big in the united states so you know i think it wouldn't be getting the same kind of suit me if it were chinese old adults or wouldn't be getting the same kind of scrutiny if

the u.s. and china were in such a dramatic both trade and intellectual property wars and the chief executive kevin may he left disney if i recall if a tick tock and he's been very keen to distance the app from beijing but i understand he's also actually the chief operating officer of bite oncet self so how true is that well that was a very surprising choice for a company that has been taking steps to distance the 2 companies and i think there is a concern that the 2 companies are very tightly tied even though the app is very separate they have to talk for outside of china and then a separate app inside arena they rely on similar technology so i think there is a large question of how divorced these 2 companies can be turning to politics in a president trump has been saying this is ostensibly about national security and we'll come to that in a moment but there was also that rally in tulsa the one where a campaign conducted on tech talk meant that he was talking to most of the empty seats has that played into things do you think it's really hard to know what's

going on inside certainly inside trump sat inside the government but you know we have seen a lot of political decisions come out that seem to reinforce 'd the president's personal interests and it certainly wouldn't surprise me to find out that tick tocks role 'd in that rally played a part in his valving attitude toward the app so turning now to national security i see a number of other countries have also been considering take talk and the batting tech talk a strangely a full one where we say seeing tensions grow between beijing and a number of governments around the while that many a still insisting this is about privacy a days of protection just how pervasive those concerns. i mean i think as you point out these issues have all become very jumbled security privacy national security it's very hard to separate at the moment certainly there are concerns that tick-tock would either send data to china or give american users' info they have

said obviously that they're going to keep all that data outside of china that know to talk users' data goes to china. you know it's all about trust at this point and trust is pretty low pretty well on both sides of the u.s. china this view one country has already banned to talk india one of the huge number of users that how much has that actually affected tick tocks operations and if there was a ban in the u.s. much smaller proportion of users just how significant would that be i think both are very significant so as you pointed out a lot of talks users are in india that came out of a military dispute and to talk wasn't the only out to be banned it was just the most prominent but a number of chinese apps were banned obviously that's a very significant tick tocks biggest local rival in india has gained substantially in the short term you know in the u.s. i think it's very unclear what a ban would look like and what it would mean you know it's very hard to ban

something that's popular among the use it just you know if your parents tell you not to do something it makes you want to do it more. but you know we'll see we'll see i think before we see it banned i think we might see pressure as we see appears to be coming out today to celtic you know that may well happen there is an investigation underway by the u.s. treasury department syfy is to look and see whether a 2017 deal that paved the way for could be reversed in afraid that the chief technology correspondent access always great to get your insights here on out of there and thanks for being with us again thank you. well now the u.s. has imposed sanctions on a chinese paramilitary group for alleged abuses against weaken muslims the treasury department says all american assets owned by shin junge production and construction corpse will be frozen the u.s. says the company is directly involved with the mass incarceration and torture of week as and other muslim communities according to the u.n.

more than 1000000 week is being held in prison camps china calls them reeducation camps necessary to counter extremism. still ahead here on al-jazeera in bahrain sends out its military to enforce a ban on anti-government protests dozens of people are detained plus. one is in talks about the law of the chemist of normandy with french fishermen worry that breaks it will deny them access to u.k. waters and destroy their livelihoods. and are 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 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 now have 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 odisha sings some heavier downpours and you notice the rain still very heavy out tools maharastra by sunday down the western

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how again i missed on the attack and let's remind you of our top stories here this hour punk police are reportedly seeking the arrest of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile as china steps up its enforcement of its nearly imposed national security deal this would be the 1st time police are targeting activists outside the territory under that. now the u.s. is reportedly planning on ordering chinese company by dogs to sell its american division of tech talk over national security concerns u.s. media also reporting microsoft is in talks to buy a popular video. now moving to the krajina virus pandemic and mexico has just overtaken the u.k. as the country with the wild fad highest coronavirus death toll more than 46 and a half 1000 people have now died there from the virus and on friday mexican officials announced a new agreement with the united nations to buy medical equipment and supplies our power has moved from the capital. but mexico is

a country in desperate need. his killed more than $46000.00 of its citizens so on friday president under. signed an agreement with the united nations for international assistance the $6800000000.00 deal will cover all wide range of medicines medical equipment and future back scenes from global suppliers is jaws. 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 service. 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 it will it's important for it to be known if we don't change the trend than that could be exponential growth that would take us to a taper 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 to cope with 19 testing efforts as even federal authorities admit the real infection statistics and death tolls are likely much higher than what's being reported. up the low al-jazeera mexico city all now around $200.00 nicaraguan migrants stranded at a border city in costa rica have received freak over $1000.00 tests they've been stuck there for nearly 2 weeks the neckar are going to government has refused to allow them back in without proof of a negative test for an condemnation from rights groups and many of the migrants who

worked in costa rica lost their jobs in the midst of this pandemic well moving down to one of the worst affected american states florida which has been forced to close several testing site says hurricane is c.s. approaches the hurricane is currently lashing the bahamas bringing heavy rain and strong winds it's expected to hit florida over the weekend is a as has already caused severe flooding and power outages in puerto rico and a prominent author and an opposition spokeswoman were among dozens are arrested in zimbabwe when police there put a stop to anti-government protests president emerson said the rallies constituted an insurrection by the opposition and banned them or about in many reports. protests have been planned across the board but these scenes were not what opposition groups had hoped for in the capital had out a lot shots in abandoned streets after the government declared the protest illegal a few people tried to defy the ban but were quickly stopped by police and soldiers

we have seen in the past 2 days the army the police being deployed into made bones and even today these areas get brain matter for this city is virtually clear different messages that the government has been passing out in the past week their . intended purpose because a lot of people there had to stay home and you know one day to go out. opposition party transform zimbabwe called for the protests and what but by many other groups which blame president a missing man in god for failing economy and corruption he warned that security forces would be on high alert to appropriately respond the ruling zanu p.f. also threatened to expel the u.s. ambassador accusing him of funding protest organizers. had taken control from president robert mugabe and the 27000 coup promising to kickstart

a failing economy but the opposition say he's done this way to fix it and a kid some of using similar tactics to mugabe to qualification including arresting and abducting opponents. internationally acclaimed zimbabwean author. made her stand but was quickly pounded into a police line. and opposition spokeswoman pad same a hairy filmed as police approached right police are coming at us and be armed. right from the start fronting towards us the protest band does have support has just started to demonstrate it. visiting slaves in the city. was a relief to the idea that it would be. going just needs to be. but hospitals are struggling with a lack of resources to fight through new virus inflation is more than 700 percent

and the world food program has moved that needy 2 thirds of zimbabweans who need food aid approved this plan may be in place but the under the state of zimbabwe isn't likely to have the money to 0. now the youngest son of media mogul rupert murdoch has resigned from the board of news corp citing disagreements over editorial content james murdoch said he disagreed with some strategic decisions made by the company he's previously criticized climate change coverage by some of their outlets accusing them of downplaying the impact of the climate crisis now besides the conservative fox news the group owns a stable of newspapers which includes the wall street journal and the sun newspaper in the u.k. 3 people including an alleged teen mastermind have been charged over a huge twister hacked that targeted high profile accounts just a couple of weeks ago they took over accounts belonging to former u.s. president barack obama and tesla basilan musk before tweeting out

a fake bitcoin deal that crypto currency scam raised more than $100000.00 in one day and you got to has the details from miami florida where 2 of the 3 suspects are from. 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 daschle and 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 the kremlin is demanding the release of $33.00 russian private security contractors detained in belarus belarusian president alexander lukashenko says the men amass in areas who are pressing unrest in the country ahead of presidential elections but russia says the group are simply transiting through meant. as vying for his 6th term and his critics say the detentions are a ploy to shore up support the opposition is mounting a strong campaign and tens of thousands have rallied against in recent days. now

british prime minister barak strikes and self-imposed deadline to have the outline of a rexx a trade deal has just expired the u.k. and e.u. are nowhere close to reaching an agreement and fishing rights remain a major sticking point an effect and that serious natascha about the reports from normandy where french fishermen are threatening to stop british freshman from getting their catches and to the shops. heading into the english channel off the coast of normandy the picture rest cobber of poor receding into the distance the clown has worked as a fisherman for 30 years he's passionate about his job but scared for his future because of breaks it he worries that if britain and the e.u. fail to reach a deal by the end of the year french fishermen like him could be barred from fishing in waters off the u.k. coast. or we're scared because u.k. waters represent 40 to 60 percent of our revenue so for us it would be catastrophic

it's. for decades french fishermen have fished legally in waters off britain where fish are abundant british fishermen have the same rights off the french coast where they mainly gather shellfish drums father was a fisherman his brother runs a seafood restaurant fishing links generations being denied access to u.k. waters would be particularly devastating to the fisherman from the normandy coast because so many of the boats like this one off family owned and run small businesses and that is why so many of the fishermen here say that they won't give up their livelihoods without a fight to corrected with the need to british export some 70 percent of their fish if we get to december 31st and they throws out of their waters then we will block our ports stop the ferries no british french saw the french and british fishermen have clashed before in 2018 around of the scalloped sphere laid up a sea his fishing rep. isn't it dave says that the u.k.'s reliance on the e.u.

as an export market is a valuable bargaining card it breaks in negotiations but is not necessarily a winning hand. the e.u. market needs fish it imports france imports 80 percent of the seafood it consumes so we need u.k. fish so although we can pressure the british press and tarps and border controls is not a long term solution because proficient they need to fish. ties between britain and france run deep on this coast where the d.-day landings took place in the 2nd world war the 2 countries were united against enemy powers few here want the fishing dispute to sour relations with an historic partner but unless britain and france can break the stalemate in the brig's it fishing dispute and reach a compromise that works for both sides france's fischman say they'll be forced to use whatever tactics they can to battle for their survival natasha butler

al-jazeera put on best normandy i claimed british director alan parker has died following a long illness the tear time oscar nominee directed classic films including bugsy malone midnight express and mississippi burning the 76 year old was a founding member of the directors guild of great britain and he was given a knighthood in 2002. hello again says al jazeera and these are the headlines hong kong police are reportedly seeking the arrest of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile as china steps up its enforcement of its new national security deal and the 1st time police have targeted activists outside the territory under that can or. i spoke to. he is a u.s. citizen and one of those wanted activists he says many american politicians are angry about china's suppression of free agents and hong kong i'm not the only

person who's out ritual spoken to a number of congressional offices and i certain the very beginning when the law was if they're going to come after me they must love marched down to capitol hill. so that the rubio everybody in the white house because they too have. all articles that it is using to charge people like me. session 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. they are local and national influence and. well now the u.s. is reportedly planning to order the chinese company by dance to sell its american division of tick tock because of national security concerns u.s. media are reporting that microsoft isn't talks to buy the popular video up. around

200 nicaraguan migrants stranded at a border city in costa rica have now finally received free 19 tests they've been stuck there for nearly 2 weeks the nicaraguan government has refused to allow them back in without proof of a negative test drawing condemnation from rights groups many of the migrants worked and costa rica and lost their jobs in the midst of this pandemic. one of the worst affected american states florida has now been forced to close several in 1000 testing sites as hurricane. approaches the hurricane is currently lashing the bahamas bringing heavy rains and strong winds and it's expected to hit florida over the weekend is a as has already caused severe flooding and power outages and puerto rico or mexico has just overtaken the u.k. as the country with the world's highest coronavirus death toll the health ministry says the tally is now nearly $46700.00 well those are the headlines there will be more news here after a.j.

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