yeah. some of the key players in the peace process talked out 0. this is al-jazeera. out of there on the clock this is it is our life into a whole coming up in the next 60 taiwan scrambles fighter jets as chinese warplanes approaches the territory a visit by a top u.s. official is taking regional tensions to a new level. the u.s. steps up its tech war with china banning the download to talk and we chat. from admissions in doubling every 8 days concerns grow over a sharp increase in pay for $1000.00 cases in the u.k.

. and trying to keep the lessons going to meet the pandemic the lengths they're going to remote areas of indians. and foreign belgians thomas peters is new to the lead on day 2 at the u.s. open he's overtaken justin thomas who had a course record in his helping round on their estate. so then taiwan has scrambled 18 fighter jets to track nearby chinese military planes in an escalation of tension over the visit of a u.s. official china says the drills were necessary accusing the united states and taiwan of colluding to stir up trouble from abroad explains. taiwan scrambling gets jets after 18 chinese military aircraft entered its defense identification zone before turning back. as it's done previously in the taiwan strait this

military exercise by china was its way of showing displeasure at increased diplomatic exchanges between the u.s. and taiwan it comes as u.s. undersecretary keith crock the most senior state department official in decades continues his visit to the island that follows another visit last month by u.s. health secretary alex asia as part of what beijing has condemned as a dangerous trend. of our whether it is to control china using taiwan as leverage or solicit foreign support it's all wishful thinking and destined to be a dead end those who play with fire will burn themselves. once again taiwan is caught in the middle of worsening china u.s. relations increasingly the u.s. is stepping up to back taiwan for a whole range of reasons but to counter china regionally mainly. want

a democracy as well as its critical job graphic location has assumed an increasingly more important role in u.s. strategy ending the syfy so we're likely to see an increasing retching up of tension in the tarrasch rates. diplomacy with taiwan seems to be part of a wider wreford by the u.s. to rally an international coalition against what it sees as increasing chinese belligerence with mounting criticism of beijing's actions in chin jang and hong kong and its response to covert 19 as well as territorial disputes with its neighbors there's a growing list of countries sharing an anti china grievance china has shown it's ready to push back and with growing military power that it can call upon of macbride al-jazeera. now than a surgeon in corona virus cases across the united kingdom has forced the government to announce more stretch and as infections worldwide top 30000000 official

estimates show that the number of new daily cases in england has nearly doubled to around $6000.00 in just the past week and leaders are warning they could be another full scale lockdown if the situation does not improve new measures to stop the virus spreading are also being rolled out in parts of france and spain and this comes a day after the w.h.o. warned of an alarming rise in cases across europe and israel has entered a nationwide lockdown for the 2nd time as infections rise this is come at the height of the jewish holiday season in a blow to already struggling business owners or at hard for to standing by for us in western but 1st let's go to the barber who's there in london for us and many many as i say real concerns there in the u.k. is numbers rising rapidly. certainly nic not only of the hospitalizations doubling every 8 days as you were mentioning the health secretary is saying but also the number of infections seems

to be rising every 7 doubling every 7 to 8 days as well we've already got restrictions in many parts of england which affects around 10000000 people new measures reported in the north. east on 1st thing in our friday more areas including lancashire in northern england merseyside and places urban centers already under localised lockdown includes a major urban centers like birmingham and manchester the government though seems to be getting the message now that those restrictions are not going to work on their own their advisers from what they call sage the scientific advisory group for emergencies have been telling them this week if they don't bring in tougher measures by next month there will be a significant number of covered 19 deaths well now the cabinet is actively considering what some people are calling a circuit breaker of perhaps 2 weeks they're not calling it they're saying it's not

a lot down but it will be england wide mainly affecting businesses like pubs and entertainment venues with restrictions they're trying to leave schools and leave play places of work like offices unaffected but the government is being told that it's not doing enough to communicate earlier on friday the mayor of this city london city can said that he blamed government incompetence for the fact that so many londoners were unable to get a test for coronavirus when they needed to. similarly the 1st minister of why all the devolved ministration there had spoken of a vacancy at the heart of the united kingdom saying that boris johnson the prime minister wasn't meeting he himself and the other leaders and nicolas sturgeon the 1st minister of scotland has backed him up saying that there needs to be

a meeting of what's known as cobra the emergency committee that meets for regional and national crisis he says that happen has to happen within the next few days. seemed to me yesterday and i have to at the meeting of senior scottish government officials and advisers the small. to assess the current situation and discussions across the 4 nations of the u.k. will i hope take place in the coming days i've a small mind asked the prime minister to convene a cobra meeting over this weekend so today i want to give the nation advance notice that the coming days are likely to see some hard but necessary decisions and it is not just the u.k. that is in trouble is real concern across europe to. there isn't so much so that other countries are having to bring in very restrictive measures in response to rising cases france for example on thursday it had

a record number of new cases almost 11000 higher than at any time during the pandemic and now the city of nice on the southern coast has brought in measures which say that no more than 10 people can gather in public spaces in austria they're telling the public that they can't meet in groups of more than 10 indoors in spain we're waiting to hear more restrictive measures for the madrid area there one in 5 hospital beds now being occupied by a copied 19 patient so they're very worried about a return to the dreadful scenes that we saw in march and april where there really was extreme pressure on the health services in countries like spain and in italy which at that time were recording the largest numbers of deaths but had seemed to have turned the tide in recent months and so the message from the world health organization to european governments is you need to act much more quickly to stop localized outbreaks do what it takes in terms of these local lock downs out also

keep the quarantine period at our recommended 14 days countries like france and the u.k. and ireland have all reduced their times but the world health organization saying we really need to be much more careful about these measures because we cannot afford to go into what they're calling a 2nd wave of covered now tim thanks very much indeed for that reporting from london big problems in israel to the nation reimposing nationwide curbs let's go to harry for 6 standing by for us in western hussam harry said numbers there to have been growing and growing the government clearly thinks that this 2nd lockdown is the only way forward. indeed the situation here is very similar to what he was just talking about in europe but. if you think about $6000.00 new cases a day in the u.k. up to 5 an hour or so here it is really on the basis of a small population and so that is the reason that these measures have been imposed

they were imposed a couple of hours ago 7000 police and soldiers on the streets trying to ensure that the restrictions are followed these restrictions include not being allowed more than a kilometer from your front door that was something that was only changed at the last minute last night by the prime minister after the representation it was meant to be 500 meters there was talk of even tighter restrictions being imposed prime minister netanyahu says that he reserves the right to do that in the next few days so it's this continuing story of slightly mixed even contradictory messages coming from the government and that's one reason that people are concerned that israelis who have been pretty fed up by the situation and confused by the instructions coming from their government simply might not follow these rules to the letter and there are particular areas and cultures and religions that. there is a concern as well particularly high infection rates among palestinian israelis

during the wedding season in those areas that has now started to slow but the other area of concern was the very high rates among ultra-orthodox israelis as well and indeed one of the reasons that there weren't targeted localized shutdowns earlier is because of the political power of those ultra-orthodox parties saying they should not be discriminated against that's one reason that we have this sweeping nationwide lockdown instead the 1st developed nation in the world to go back into a 2nd nationwide measure of this kind now the reports coming from the meeting last night the cabinet meeting last night suggested that the coronavirus. darr is concerned that these measures are strict as they are they still have exceptions within them to keep businesses running they might only get the numbers down to 3 or $4000.00 new cases of day so that's not really a huge benefit for such a big cost especially when the health ministry is saying that they need to get down

to 1000 a day if they're going to start really loosening these measures are you thanks for that to her force there in west jerusalem let's bring now to martin nuri who's associate professor of epidemiology at brown university joins us by skype from providence in rhode island welcome to the program at this age in europe was it always lightly given the holidays that have been taken the flights and journeys that are being made across borders in the north and some. i think we've learned if we've learned one thing we've learned if we ease up on restrictions too early that is before there is adequate community control of the virus then we're really looking for trouble in resurgence is likely to happen and i think that's what we're seeing in many places in europe and certainly in places in the united states we ended a lockdown much too early before the virus was significantly under control and we're paying a price for that now with the continued and stubborn persistence of around

$40000.00 new cases a day in the united states so any as you'll sense then that we're going to see more and more lock downs having to be enforced as things get worse again. i think in many places we are moving in that direction. there's no doubt and i think there's now good scientific evidence that lock downs are effective at slowing the spread of transmission so therefore it stands to reason that reversing lockdowns has has potentially the opposite impact especially when there's significant transmission occurring acetic that the trick is that lock down river re removing lock downs can be safe and effective but only when community transmission is under control when you do it prematurely then you're looking for trouble and that's where we are in many places in the world right now and how worried then should we be about what's to come in the winter months in the northern hemisphere to what degree could that worsen things yeah i think we should be quite

concerned about that the truth is that we're not going to have a vaccine any time in the near future despite promises from some of our political leaders and so we have to learn to live with the virus we have to learn to co-exist with the virus certainly in winter months in the north where people will be more indoors or social distancing will be more difficult to achieve and when the pressure to reopen is extreme i think it is going to lead us down a corridor that we really don't want to go right i say i guess you're of the view like the health officials in the united states are saying that 2nd or 3rd quarter of next year is really very likely time that a vaccine could start rolling out but what about yet what about testing out the saliva test could which could enable travel to become easier around the world could that happen. yeah i mean i think you're right that the vaccine are still

quite a long way off but that doesn't mean that we're doomed until the end that many things that we could be doing and we've learned very simple lessons from public health about things that are successful so more square and frequent testing as you refer to allows us to identify cases early and start transmission by isolating those people and contacting their partners so there are things there that can be done that are successful that can get us at least to the point where we have a vaccine many months from now but it's going to take more sacrifice and frankly many people are tired and fatigued of the lockdown and it's a difficult call to i see people to lock down and yet know after they've been through such extreme sacrifices in the 1st lockdown but the truth is without a vaccine that's our only hope of getting through this endemic right now right it

seems it could be a long road ahead yep all right larry thanks a lot but more still ahead on the news including you can't do the mail in ballots because you can have tremendous fraud. despite trump's words the united states is scrambling for a 1st class mail in vote service in time for november's presidential election. will it be a waste of space whales to keep the building offices but covert 19 is prompting a push to get more people working from home permanently. we've got support coming up to the u.s. open champion would be willing any more major titles this year will tell us why. the 2 of the most popular chinese in the abs in the world to talk and we chat to be to be blocked from downloading the united states within days president trump is ordering they be removed from google and apple stores will come to force on sunday

video sharing app to talk has 80000000 active users in the united states alone as a popular messaging service and is used for mobile payments all transactions through the apps will also be blocked let's cross now to white house press when it can be how its end complete said tell us more about this is a complex story is native of ownership and perceived national security. yeah that's the concern by the u.s. government seems to be motivating this this isn't a new concern this is just the latest manifestation of it and in a divided washington we should point out that democrats as well as republicans in the united states seem to support this on the least on capitol hill in terms of the concern that china has been using a number of backdoor technologies the latest concern being we chat as well as tic toc in order to steal user data and essentially surveil americans so back in august

the u.s. government essentially the top administration saying look at we're going to need a u.s. buyer if you want to continue to have this very popular platform operating in the united states so that we can protect national security that kind of set off this kind of bidding war back and forth with a number of companies microsoft oracle as well as even wal-mart it looks like oracle's the one that's going to take this on they've put in a proposal to the commerce department but it hasn't been approved by the u.s. government hasn't been approved by the chinese government and in the midst of all of this there are still these lingering questions about security and it seems that that is kind of what's prompted this escalation by the commerce department as you point out now halting the downloads any sort of business transactions as of sunday for this very popular app in the united states or is it will be brewing for a very long time as you say how long it's going to take before we have some kind of resolution. well this is really just the latest manifestation in

a much broader war we've been covering here in al-jazeera for years the tit for tat trade war since donald trump came into office with china there have been the concerns more recently in the action taken by this government flagging the concern about the treatment of chinese muslims known as weak there's also been the concern about the national security law in hong kong different a number of actions that have been taken and of course there have been the tit for tat tariffs that have been going on it really seems to be personal for donald trump this is a campaign promise for him we have to remind our viewers that or in campaign season once again in 2020 he wants to tough on china the question becomes whether this is a political gamble for the president given the fact that this is so popular especially with among younger voters that this president needs or can rethink what can be how washington. heavy rain in for the flooding is for crossing parts of

sudan in the coming week since july floods have ravaged nearly every single state killing at least 115 people and the united nations is scaling up emergency food assistance and hundreds of thousands are living in desperate conditions in makeshift camps 100 reports now from cynthia in southwestern sudan it's one of the areas worst affected by the floods. this primary school in seen just town is now home to some of sudan's numerous flood victims at least a 1000 people are holed up here every classroom hold several families there's no electricity and say they long for the moment they could return home was one of the handed to them we've been here for 13 days the floods hit our village early in the morning we tried to build fences to protect our homes but the winds were too strong so we decided to salvage what we could and fled brought the tapes a village on the banks of the blue nile was completely destroyed but then that and

novellas we've lost all hope the floods destroyed our homes and swept away our livestock and everything we owned we have nothing left the worst floods in sudan in a century continue to displace thousands a total of 18 villages in sonata state ruined by the flood waters and cut off from the rest of the state there's a lot of concern for the safety of the people who continue to live in both villages some of the aid it does as i've been trying to have a quick those who are willing to leave their homes most of them have been finding themselves in camps like this one. comes for the displaced are growing in number and size on the outskirts of single town that when they come 1st they need the basic humanitarian needs the food. scene. the food including the nutrition and also. some of them are my thighs and no heart

psychosocial supposed ongoing we use the community the local communities we provide they provided some food and as we compliment. workers here and i just seen it in recent days the government has issued new warnings to communities living on the banks of the nile that reigns in the highlands of neighboring ethiopia could lead to more flooding along the river according to the government's humanitarian aid commission 650000 have directly been affected since the start of the rainy season in mid july millions others are facing hard ship as the cost of food and transport soars across the country prices of some staple foods like bread and sugar have increased by 50 percent over the past few weeks and their warnings this crisis will only wasson. singa south western

sudan. tropical storm sally has moved to the eastern united states after causing widespread flooding on the gulf coast. has fallen in virginia and in the carolinas with tornadoes threaten further south but it's a big used to rescue people cut off by floodwaters in alabama and the florida panhandle reported jay gray has seen the storm damage in pensacola in florida. a full day after the storm has moved through and we're getting a better idea of the devastation i want to give you a look at what sally did here in pensacola these 2 huge boats pushed up on to the ground here along with other debris from the water you see the. chaser boat there in a piece of the dock that was picked up and pulled ashore when you get back to the water though this is amazing devastation you see all the boats that are crammed together the piers that have been splintered and thrown on top of each other understand that before the storm this little inlet this little area was empty there were no boats

here there were no piers here all pushed from hundreds of yards away into this area again just a testimony to how strong this storm was when it made landfall current situation on the ground you've got more than a half a 1000000 people without power and that's going to take some time to come back flooding the water still rising in some areas and rescues still going on right now a full 24 hours or more after the storm moved through the system is going to continue with slow march to the east coast and as it goes still dumping water we'll see flash flooding associated with this for the next couple of days and it is not just settle and take storms causing damage as it really is and in fact this storm you talk about its i am also is medicaid in this way is causing damage very widespread across every callan's here's a satellite there it isn't worth it we just come in close if you can actually see it in more detail it's been coming onshore literally in the last few hours and already the damage has been done have a look at this is the island of zante the ways of course just bashing the shoreline

again as deputy everywhere and just look at this the force of these winds we're talking about harken force winds here and then of course also the island of careful ania again the waves the storm surge look at all this water that's come actually in land and then on the eastern side of catalonia again just look at this we've got boats here already just just really badly damaged of course and then little bit moment you'll just see in the distance again some more yachts just literally have been sunk because of the power the force of this storm so this is it moving very very slowly it's eventually sort of pushing further to the south but as a say we've got these hurricane force winds sustained about 125 kilometers an hour and it's moving. it is going to produce and tarantula minds over amy could be saying in some areas as much as $400.00 millimeters of rain already the have been power outages as you might expect this is the movement as we go through today and as i say moving very very slowly south it's really by sunday it's going to head across areas of crete bring the rains there the strong winds and obviously over the

next couple of days the rainfall will accumulate says a say some areas could see as much as $400.00 millimeters but certainly most average is seeing at least $200.00 so i think unfortunately nick we're going to see more damage as well in the next couple of big problems in that part of the med thanks a lot thank you. still ahead here on al-jazeera. i'm wayne hay in bangkok where anti-government protesters are preparing to gather in big numbers here at the site of one of thailand's dockets days i don't sport the miami heat once again proved the comeback kids will have actually from the n.b.a. playoffs look at life in prison. corruption it is the invisible behind a wall of silence. against. corruption is not something to be told that it. is a african. country he's even on let's destroy this war.

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i don't get your watching 0 amount of our top stories and a surge in coronavirus cases across the united kingdom has forced the government to announce more restrictions to infections worldwide top 30000000 the number of people being admitted to british hospitals with coronavirus is doubling every 8 days. chinese owned apps to talk and we chatted to be blocked from downloading the united states within days to talk has 80000000 active us use we chat is a popular messaging with connections in china all transactions through the apps could also be blocked. 18 taiwanese fighter jets have been scrambled multiple times to intercept chinese aircraft and to taiwan's airspace and china has launched military drills in response to a senior u.s. officials a visit to taipei beijing says the drills are to protect what it sees as his talent

or offer to be. let's explore this further we can take a closer look at why the tension between china and taiwan is flaring up beijing has claimed sovereignty over the island ever since the chinese civil war of the 940 s. the 2 sides have been ruled separately since then but china insists they will eventually unify relations have soured after signing when it was elected as president in 2016 she leads taiwan's pro independence democratic progressive party taiwan has introduced laws to shield itself from what it sees as growing interference from china china's president hasn't ruled out taking taiwan by force if necessary and she paying has been building up his country's military capabilities. so that's the history to speak now to graham on the web as a research fellow at one young technological university where he specializes in the geo politics of the asia pacific joins us by skype from singapore graham welcome to the program so taiwan is a prickly issue with china so this this visit by a top u.s.

official is bound to raise the hackles in the u.s. objective here. what we call it we can rule that possibility out but this is clearly by design in a deliberate attempt by the current common ministration tool really draw a line in the sense of speak on where the current administration stands on the on the issue of firearm in all respects i want to as well as a functioning society. if you will and you know everything that i want to so that represents in terms of the aspirations of all of the trauma in this region so this posturing between the 2 nations the 'd dangers of of this actually spilling out into conflict. under the dangers are clearly very significant as your news report just articulator these ongoing.

aerial responses of or apparently cite an article in response to incursions by people's liberation army fighter jets crossing the median life is definitely a very harrowing sorry because no matter what all the sides of who are on or off the fence will speak see that they're trying to preserve us already all of the conflict i think what's happening on the ground is entirely different there he's moving past these developments are just increasing the effects of people in an incomplete because our economies actually end up launching and and promise our against our time zachariah and yet the times aircraft i think the public will quickly spiral out of control and i think that's the real worry here there are many things on the ground and simply can't control who can calculate or rise if that

were to happen it could be very dangerous. thing is tried is never likely to back down from its claim over taiwan and it wants to reunify as it would put it so what will it take to deescalate the situation. well i think. it looks like it would be that the u.s. administration or the tentative of backing off or sort of like are you know sort of cutting cutting the chinese some slack if you will i mean mind you what we're seeing right now are just part and also the larger picture liers and leah's of michael michael conflicts that are have been unfolding over the course of the common restriction one can even argue that some of these tensions and all these are these restrictions are actually a stand on from the past as well i mean prior administrations are proud to see him being in private with president trump right here you can just just cutting each other some slack i think with all along we in trying to determine the very

important pick that i think you may end up having because of these ongoing responses happening at sea and all the. space between china and taiwan growing on when it's a great get your experts on expertise on this or not thank you very much rick. said attention facilities at a new refugee camp in greece have already started to break thousands have begun to settle into the camp of the island of lesbos but they fear the conditions will be as poor as they were in the old count which burned down last week 12000 people had been living there but it's only designed to hold a quarter of a new site has space for 8000 people so stephanie decker is live for us now and stuff i can see behind you there are many many more people who have been over the last couple of days going into that you. know that's a good. that's right i think it's safe to say that most of the people have now moved off the street next. they're now you know the last of the day really making

their way registering having to be tested for the greater virus we managed to get to the area where they had been living on the streets for the past 10 days or so and you did still have a nice time people in corona sort of house suits telling the last people to go we saw people trying to argue with them telling them they didn't want to come here but really the people have been left with no choice and as you were mentioning you can see them carrying all their belongings any way they can dismantle housing problems or an office chair others are putting them on trains and and now you'll see a big truck. with construction material which also tells you that they're continuing to work on this count as they're finding it and that is the concern of many people make is that the count's employee isn't ready to house so many people we spoke to the head of the m.s.f. mission that's doctors without borders the greek country had any business he was concerned about this is what he had to say. what is the purpose of this care are we

talking about a 2nd more what people are going piled up for months and then or even us is this part of the continuous containment policy policy of collective punishment for making. you know some form of push back of. because this is extremely worrying as such and we want to know now what is europe. that's the big question now whether these people are going to be whether they are going to be about how long they're going to be here for the paperwork needs to be expedited in the greek authorities and made it clear that unless you're in this town your paperwork will not be resumed but it's the conditions that people are concerned about and i think the next few days even be crucial make when it comes to how this council is going to cope with this amount of people we are already hearing that there's no running water really they're still setting that up that the toilets

are already dirty how are trying to communicate to the refugees we've been in touch with already inside to see how the next 3 days are going to pan out with so many people around 7000 people in that cap now there are still some coming in but certainly i think by the end of the day the majority of those who had been sleeping on the streets here will be in the capital. for now thanks very much the flood update have from greece the libyan war lord has announced he will allow oil production to resume since friday have to forces in eastern libya have imposed a blockade on oil facilities since january but libya's national oil corporation says it won't resume exports until its facilities all demilitarised when. it has been decided that the resumption of the production and exportation of oil with all the necessary conditions and measures be put in place in order to guarantee a fair distribution of the financial proceeds and not to utilize it supporting terrorism or subjected to being stolen or squandered we will make sure that the production and exportation will be done properly in order to improve the standard

of living of the citizens. the u.s. postal service has warned that millions of mail in votes may not arrive in time to be counted on presidential election day november the 3rd so states are scrambling to install ballots drop boxes to encourage any voting that is despite president donald trump's claims without evidence that mail in voting is susceptible to fraud and official reports now from maryland. with a global pandemic many people want to avoid scenes like these on election day lining up for hours to vote not sure if the person next to them is a carrier to make things easier mail in voting is becoming much more important many states expanded it for the primaries and saw a rise in time not expect more in november selection but the president doesn't like that idea you can't do that you can't do the mail in ballots because you can have tremendous fraud and remember what i said they'll be grabbing a from mailboxes they'll even be printing on there use the same paper the same

machines and they'll be printing ballots illegally and they'll be sending them in by the hundreds of thousands and nobody is going to know the difference jim sialic at a public can help from elections in montgomery county in maryland he doesn't buy when the president say it's we think the election will be very secure without fraud certainly when you mail someone a ballot there's always a risk that someone in the family or a friend or somebody could vote for that person and mail it back to us but we don't see a widespread problem at all the $24000.00 study found there were just $31.00 credible cases of voter fraud in a 14 year stretch which included more than $1000000000.00 votes cast but there's a warning that a surge in 1000000 votes might leave the post office already under pressure struggling to cope these are going to become a common sight across america this election season drop boxes where people can leave their mail in ballots particularly if they're concerned the post office won't

get them there on time many authorities are placing them across voting precincts they'll be emptied at least twice a day when early voting starts they'll be under 24 hour surveillance for one company their boxes can no be found in several states and of what to ensure every vote cast is protected we've done everything we can to minimize the opportunity. for us. somebody to tamper with. the boxes themselves and whatever is inside the box during the election season. 4 years ago a quarter of all votes cast 33000000 of them were sent by mail it's predicted this year that number will push closer if not be greater than 50 percent here's the don't say mail in ballots must have the date stamped on them i don't know them by the 3rd or before that most places alone up to 10 days for them to arrive in a tight election it could be several days before the final result is confirmed alan

fischer al jazeera petersburg maryland. 15 pro-democracy activists in hong kong back in court for their role in last year's protests among them is newspaper publisher and businessman jimmy lai facing charges of inciting organizing or participating in an authorised demonstrations outside court one of the movement's leading figures said that hong kong police have banned protests from icy yeah i want to tell the world that we are the pride of our country you can write under a basic law the primary vote all right then the civil war and political rights international coming on i think maybe out and this is what happened a long gone. thailand's antigovernment protesters come out again on saturday for months they've been calling for a new election and constitution the movement is led mainly by students this time around will gather at a university which is wayne hale reports now from bangkok has a history of political activism and violence i'm politics in

thailand's universities can be a colorful affair parades before events like football games are often used to criticize the government or highlight social issues students from thomas out university in bangkok are thailand's most politically active and there are again leading protests against the governments. but 44 years ago they were at the center of one of thailand's darkest moments when when i had to run 2 bullets ahead and saw bullets ricocheting and hitting buildings around me when i tried to leave the campus in 1976 ip 9 and other students were inside thomas aren't protesting against the return from exile of a former military ruler. they were surrounded by police and royalists who opened fire killing almost 50 people although other reports put the death toll higher. the tipping point was a student play that featured a mock hanging of. the royalists allege he was chosen at the time because he looked

like the crown prince who's now thailand's king long corn. spent 2 years in prison without charge and says any resemblance was a coincidence today student protesters are continuing the call of the a pretty to sis is for structural political change but they're also making unprecedented demands for reform of the monarchy including a call to reduce the political power of the king it's a dangerous move in a country where the royal family is supposed to be untouchable and beyond criticism several pro-government politicians and activists have warned that because the students are targeting the monarchy the violence of $976.00 could happen again. and they believe the young protesters are being used by corrupt politicians fake nails that fake news is being used to discredit the monarchy for political gain to make thailand weak and to cause conflict between people. they also allege the students

are being funded by foreign governments trying to destabilize thailand a form of protest is accused of being communists in 1976 say that's a familiar tactic and are proud the new generation is continuing to fight for change i think that it's normal for thomas at students to come out and good for them to come out there are problems in our society so i support their movements we need a new driving force to fix those issues. so far the protests have been peaceful and the government says it won't try to stop them but history suggests that as they grow their patience may run out when hey al jazeera bangkok. overcrowding in the coronavirus risk one of the busiest maternity hospitals in the philippines is worrying health care workers and new mothers patients are forced to share beds at the dr jose for bear hospital in manila a stress on mothers is rising as more than 3000 new infections are being reported

nationwide every day. vegetation of millions of children has been disrupted by the pandemic in indonesia and people in remote communities do not have internet access so teachers are going the extra mile to support students because jesica washington reports from time growing even those close to the capital are struggling. to get into the west teaming it seems nothing can get between these teachers and their students from monday to friday they travel to meet them. and although this school is closed because of covert 19 precautions class is still in session you have any good reason to believe we cannot do online learning because there's no internet access and people don't have computers laptops or mobile devices the teachers go from village to village using makeshift outdoor classrooms with covert 900 safety measures in mind they say they're trying their best and limited resources to leave

it at 30 like us we are thankful that even though the road to a village is bad and it's very far away the teaches still willing to come and teach us schools in this community like many across indonesia have been shot since march the teachers took it upon themselves to stop visiting the villages of the students knowing that without internet access and often no electricity online learning was never a viable option for most children he. the pandemic has disrupted the education of millions of indonesian children and it's not just remote provinces experiencing difficulties with distance learning but cities close to the capital as well. entire on the western border with jakarta schools are closed and these children have no internet access at home. the local government has set up an internet hotspot in this classroom the children to do their homework. that he will not where we started online learning in march i really miss my school and i would like to go back the

education ministry says it sees the need to change the system. before and we already have a plan that we didn't like 3 years. meaning that. the teachers without those resources it's a challenging time because of the link teachers a working twice as hard we're being overworked some schools have reopened but for many teachers there's no sign when the challenge of teaching without a classroom. just a washington al-jazeera tuggeranong indonesia. the cave in 1000 prices is causing a rethink about working in offices the shift to being based at home has benefits such as reducing traffic pollution and improve mental health because of less office stress or something governments such as in wales are proposing radical ideas to make the switch permanent or actually reports now from cardiff. what to do with all

this offices all over the world with mostly deserted for months and cardiff is no exception yet as elsewhere people have been prepared to work just as hard from the comfort of their own homes fill giardina is a partner in a law firm which put most of its 150 staff on home working in march has been a revelation to him and his alter the way he sees his business in the future everyone in who occupies an office is looking right now at not not at their office requirements and how much space do we need and more importantly what quality of space we need and i think a lot of us believe there's going to be a flight to quality where people are maybe taking less space but better space all sorts of business leaders have been saying they're now thinking about spending less on office rents and more on their employees but as more profound thinking going on as well making a virtue out of the crisis is clearly the best thing that could happen after coronavirus clearly working from home all the time is fantastic news for people who

have a lot of land and terrible news if you're in a tiny apartments but certainly reorganizing the way that people use city senses is suddenly being seen as a massive opportunity. just around the corner from the empty offices are all the signs of what's happened to high streets across the u.k. in recent years something needs to happen urgently to rescue small independent businesses wells's 1st minister had the idea to keep a full 3rd of the workforce on retainer at home permanently apart on the grounds that it spreads the money around cities far more successfully than making most people come into the center every single day even in wales we have people spending up to a whole working day you can write it up over the whole week just in the car going to and from where they live and where they work and if we can make some inroads into that then it's much more than economics it is about the environment it is about quality of life it is about making places where people live more important to them economically socially and environmentally this argument also suggests that big

infrastructure projects so beloved of the government in london like this new rail line into cardiff may become a bit redundancy fall they do is move more and more people into city senses when they might be better off staying working and spending money in the area they live in you know what you really want the different sorts of people coming live together moved on louis both cities in the u.k. haven't as not allowed that to happen so now yes what we're seeing is really call into question have that model of a agglomeration of of crowding together people in large quite boring service jobs is actually giving us the benefits we need if it's not getting the benefits we need while we stand all the past no doubt temples to corporate culture like london will resist this sort of thinking and in cardiff to the offices a still going up what isn't clear is if anyone is going to want to move into them lawrence leigh al-jazeera in cardiff. celera non-zero got sport coming up the awfully pitting yes new heights in the poll are over here with the.

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business leaders just want to buy the brass power. let's move out of the supporters from nic thank you so much round 2 of the u.s. open is underway in new york american justin thomas had a course record on thursday to secure his spot on the top of the leaderboard and the richardson reports. delayed from jeanne's you to coronavirus the u.s. open is being played with no fans in attendance to witness moments like this.

the opening day of the winged foot course in new york produced 2 holes in one the 2nd by 2018 masters champion patrick reed here in new york of the fans are amazing and you make a u. haul out for the fairway you may call them one that the fans will just go crazy and doesn't force or the fans or america's out of an awesome experience of a same time and ace as an ace i'll take either way. reid has put himself in title contention just one shot behind american compact trick just in some us he shot a 5 in the past 65 the lowest ever u.s. open round at this course for a stroke and a lovely thomas talked to a 2nd career major and 1st of a win in this tournament really solid around the golf as all the best rounds i play in a while to the green you know there's a couple things here and there that definitely could have been better but it just i made sure that all my misses were in the right spot and that's what you have to do to us open. world number 2 john rome of spain had

a good opening day to finish up on one under par. at 47 england's lee westwood is still trying to win his 1st major he's finished 3rd in this event twice and he's in good shape on 3 under he's alongside rory mcilroy on the leaderboard the last of the northern archons 4 major wins came back in 2014 you know 1st round of major always anxious to play well and maybe have over thought of times. and you know i just found out today and you know just took what was what was given to me a little more relaxed and you know played really nicely. 20 years ago tiger woods won the u.s. open by 15 strokes the biggest ever victory margin at a major. the 2020 version of woods he's a chips behind the leader and the richardson al-jazeera the annual meeting of world

football member nations is being held on line for the 1st time ever present johnny infant tino has just made his opening speech the gathering was due to be held in ethiopia back over 19 meant that plan had to be changed invented a remains a subject of a criminal investigation in switzerland over dealings he had with the country's attorney general michael lauder we had all staying much closer to home but until we might be divided geographically we remain united in our purpose to ensure that life goes on and that football goes on and i mean he beat the boston celtics and are now just 2 wins away from reaching the n.b.a. finals they were down by 17 points in the 2nd quarter but had a big 3rd rally past the celtics like they did in game one out of a 0 lead miles come back with 21 foreign jackets scored 25 points topping boston

106280 one slimy leave the eastern conference finals by 2 games to one they last went to the finals in 2014 as the defending champions a loss to the san antonio spurs. this. you know you don't want. that is not a good. well. later on friday le bron james and the l.a. lakers face the demo now gets in game one of their conference finals the lakers got there by beating the houston rockets in 5 games and will be heading to their 1st conference finals in 10 years it's been 11 years since deborah nuggets last made an appearance and they've made history on the way by becoming the 1st n.b.a. team to come back from a 31 series deficit twice in the same postseason it takes

a lot of energy effort a lot of desperation to be able to come back from a $31.00 deficit. and they did it twice. so the respect level is out as well for what we have to do. and that's why we're going to the series understanding. what they came and what they stand. there's ever been a lightning are through to hockey stanley cup final anthony serai scored in overtime as tampa bay the new york islanders 21 in game 6 of the eastern conference finals the win puts the lightning back to the championship decider for the 1st time since 2015 taking on the dallas stars with game one coming up in edmonton on saturday. u.s. open champion gnomeo saga has pulled out of the upcoming french open due to injury saga says she's struggling with a hamstring problem and is still recovering from last saturday's title win in new york the french open is set to start in paris on the 27th of september.

and finally sweden's armande plant has has again shown he's one of the rising stars of athletics the 20 year old has just broken the outdoor world record for the pole vault in rome on thursday night he cleared 6.15 meters to beat the mark set by circuit i book out almost 3 decades ago the plant is also holds the world indoor record. ok and that is all your sport for now nick back to you thanks for thanks very much all right it took the effort of 15 different environmental groups but now dozens of babies. leaving their nests and on their way to see it often is here only one out of 100 loggerhead sea turtles survive in just one in 1000 manage to lay their eggs and they face threats from castaways to fishing and climate change this law made here has to be towards the sea. and that's it for this

news hour we're back in a couple minutes we will. kill you know global community we are i think this conversation over the 2 how crazy that looks like be part of the debate you can jump into the conversation point away when no topic is off the table you're not afraid of anyone taking just what. you see is 3 children richer and the poor getting poorer it's not killing the story the system it's just to look at the system and. modern this street on out is there . keeping law and order is a primary function of any state. when protecting the people became police brutality a domestic incident became a global are. in a country torn apart by racial inequality. can americans find

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al jazeera. and. taiwan scrambles fighter jets and chinese warplanes approaches territory in a visit by a top u.s. official is taking regional tensions to a new level. i recall this al jazeera live from doha also coming up hospital admissions doubling every 8 days concerns growing over a shop increase in covert 19 cases in the u.k. . you know to certain steps up its tech war with china banning the download of to talk and we chat plus. i'm white.