story offering a fresh look at the changes and challenges, but the bob way face today. despite going tension with agency dance, e p o p, a reset for the next phase of filling them on the blue nile. july on a j. o, i am warning against corona virus complacency, a world health organization expert says, countries are opening up way too quickly. you've made a very premature run, rushed back to full normality and i think we're going to pay a price for that. ah, hello, i'm down, jordan, this is al jazeera ly from della also coming up, concerns are being raised of a changes to a data privacy law in hong kong. and the impact it could have on tech companies.

and increasing concerns about the advances made by taliban fighters, enough ganeth on off to foreign troops pull out the world health organization has worn governments against using cobra 19 restrictions to soon criticizing what it calls a promot. you rush back to full normality. several countries in europe are relaxing rules, despite concerns over the highly contagious delta variant. but the w h o says the pandemic isn't over yet. and further waves of infection could arrive later in the year. all of the countries of the america, we still have nearly 1000000 cases. week 1000000 a week up. it is an over am and the same in europe, in europe, in region, we've half a 1000000 cases week like this thing has gone away. so i summers of the sense that everyone thinks it's all over and we're just getting on. and to an extent,

i understand the sentiment, understand why people want to feel that way. but for a lot of the world, unfortunately this thing is only getting started. we just need to be a little more patient. remember last summer where we had everything got good and then everyone kind of relaxed. and then we kind of arrived in september or october and ended up in huge trouble. but i think that's where we're going again with a much more transmissible variant this time around. well, that morning came on the same day. the u. k. prime minister confirmed most cove at 19 restrictions in england would be lifted in 2 weeks. people won't have to wear face masks in most places or maintain social distancing. bar johnson admit the move could drive up infections that says people have to learn to live with the virus. some of the reports now. on monday, a solemn start to the day for the prime minister, commemorating the 73rd birthday. if you case national health service,

i mean event honoring the organization and the efforts of its workers during the pandemic. that always took the prime ministers life nearly a year. and a half since cove, it arrived here, the locked downs and restrictions that was since put in place had become part of daily life. but the time to discuss those protections is close by according to the government. because of the u. k. successful vaccination program, we must be honest with ourselves that if we can't reopen our society in the next few weeks, when we will be helped by the arrival of summer and by the the school holidays, then miss ourselves. when will we be able to return to normal? well, the government has said that where mosque would be a question of personal responsibility. the drastic human cost has left some records sent to quit wearing them altogether. for the foreseeable future person, i'm probably going to keep it on because from kind of mind,

somebody's more about protecting and looking off to others that might be more vulnerable with it. it is good that i put it in the power of the people in a way, but i personally think they should still be on the country braces itself to repulse the law and social distance. thing questions remain over really what's best the sake of public health and the prime minister himself has been under pressure by members of his own party and the restrictions as quickly as possible make of the economy. he's prepared to do that despite a 74 percent rise and infections in the last week alone. be increasing page numbers have had many in the medical community worried about the outcome of on blocking later this month, especially as hospitalizations have also been rising. we are an experiment in itself of how do we live with high vaccination rate, a new barrier delta, lots of children who are undocumented under the age of 18, and case numbers increasing, as well as a significant locking. there are lots of things happening right now that make it

difficult to assess. so far, children have mostly escaped, the more severe forms of the disease, but they are unvaccinated and more at risk of a new delta variant that is currently dominant. the problem that we have right now is the government is allowing the virus lose literally lives on the agenda to do whatever it wants. they're just letting the virus. so this is, this is hurting unity by the, by the other course. the concern is that the u. k. could become a petri dish and you variance that would potentially be more resistant to the current crop of vaccines. but now the vaccination campaign has been a success. the worry or the progress coming undone of a pandemic is still very much with us. so need i? yeah, go, i'll just sarah london. large parts of malaysia are under a severe lockdown as it baffles a new wave of cobra. 19 about 6000 cases are now being reported daily. and a new online campaign is helping those who are struggling. people have been hanging

white flags outside their homes as a sign they are running short of food or other necessities. neighbors and businesses are offering help using the hash tag, white flag on social media. now, an industry group that includes facebook, twitter and google says tech johns could stop offering their services and hong kong proposed changes to data privacy laws. amendments target the malicious sharing of people's information known as doc thing. but the asia internet coalition says, well, it's against doc thing. the drop laws, vague wording could leave local, stop, open to face criminal investigations and prosecution. hong kong chief executive, kerry lamb says the territory is willing to listen to the concerns of the tech companies face vodka. hate i? like the amendment exercise needs to address the issue of doc, saying that the privacy commissioner has the power to take action and carry out investigation. if online companies express their concern, i'm sure that the privacy commissioner is happy to meet with them and listen to

their concerns. so let's bring michael caster. he's the age that digital program manager with article 19, that's a group which campaigns the freedom of information. he joins us via skype from the ty, capital bank of michael goods, happy with a. so how significant that are these proposed changes to hong kong privacy law and what does it mean for user rights on that data? do you think? thank you, darren. of course, i think we need to respect that. we're in a period right now. we're online privacy rights and user rights are really at jeopardy, and that there need to be more protections for privacy globally. but this is not necessarily the way to do it. these changes are broad and vague, and as much as they're about addressing privacy rights, they're about curbing the freedom of expression and access to information. and international law is clear that restrictions on the freedom of expression or other fundamental human rights for that matter, must be prescribed by law in pursuit of

a legitimate aim and necessary and proportionate. and what we see with these changes that they clearly fail to meet this 3 part taft. also i think that what we need to see that this is not only a matter of protecting privacy or restricting expression rights in going after tech companies and going after social media platforms and going after the hosts of this potentially offending content. what the law proposes to do is to violate a fundamental norm called intern, intermediary liability principles, which would not hold the host of this 3rd party content accountable for what users might put put online. yeah, and that's an important point your mike mike up because the concern here has been doc thing, which is this practice of sharing people's data online without the consent and to be fair, this has happened in the past in the hong kong. so is there a genuine need to change the law, or is this more about beijing cracking down on big tech?

more generally, do you think? i think it's a combination of all of a number of things. certainly, we can see the need for improving data protection and user privacy rights. some of this comes about from the fact that in the last few years, during and during pro democracy demonstrations, hong kong police used excessive force and violation of international norms and standards. regulating the behavior and content of police from the excessive use a tear gas and water count him as well as hiding their identity, hiding their badge numbers, which makes it difficult to document where police are violating or breaking laws out of this was born a process of online, social media users pointing out where a certain hong kong police were in violation of these standards. michael, so hong kong chief executive kerry lamb says she's willing to listen to the concerns of the tech companies. but how is big tech going to react? i mean, many of them, like apple, for instance, have

a significant markets in china. that's absolutely right. well, we see it from apple. we've seen from access in china is that they've been willing really to make a number of concessions in terms of privacy rights or surveillance, right. of their users, both in china and around the world. and i think in terms of assessing what to see from tech companies and responding and hong kong, perhaps we'll see barely noticeable split in terms of how different companies respond based on how their underlying market share is, may be affected by existing access and china. just a final quick thought to michael because we're running out of time, this asian industry group. it includes google, facebook, twitter, as well, and the tech companies could stop operating in hong kong. if that happens, what would be the why the impact on investment and big, big tech services and ultimately of course, as you mentioned freedoms in hong kong. well we've already seen in the last year since it was imposed in june on june 30th of 2020. as the national security law has

been used to really strip away a number of fundamental freedoms that were unique in hong kong, making it a unique place compared to mainland china. and among those is providing hong kong authorities with the ability to access sensitive information. warrantless we enter a premises or even press association and we see that this was used to close down apple daily. for example, i think what's happening right now is really part of a larger campaign, orchestrated by beijing to carve away any of the remaining fundamental freedoms of expression and access information and others in hong kong and early turn, hong kong from the relatively free society that it was into an authoritarian state model, preferred by beijing. micro costs are really, really good to get your thoughts. thank you about talking to al jazeera. thank you . thank you. now i've got to the sounds, government is sending reinforcements to the north of the country where taliban fighters forced more than a 1000 troops to flee across the border. their advance is raising fears. the

military will collapse, one's foreign forces complete their withdrawal. in september, while the group has been gaining ground across afghanistan, district shaded in orange on government controlled, contested districts are in green and the air is in purple or under taliban control . this means that taliban fighters may have surrounded population centers, including strategically important cities. a number of districts and who control them is disputed under ship out reform. things are quiet at bagram air base. once the nerve center of america's longest running war, 800000 us troops were here during the course of the past 20 years. the final once leaving quietly on friday, the afghans are in charge now. but the question is, which atkins and for how long? shopkeepers, nearby are worried about more than their source of income for the pollution. why does your issues affect our sales? it's not a problem for us. if there are 4 enforces here or if they leave. but the fact that

the taliban are taking over the district at any moment affects our work now on. if i thought of sales on very good i, most shopkeepers won't invest in these shops because they are worried about the countries future. and don't know what will happen. they are also worried that wall will break out. other shops in the southern province of kandahar are closing in families, leaving as the front line approaches. and what is now more clearly a war between the afghan government and the taliban. taliban fighters are making inroads in kandahar after taking over abandon outposts the fighters share their spoils. elsewhere in couple province, u. s. armed vehicles and weapons which could potentially be used in the fight against the afghan government forces. taliban are capitalizing over that vacuum which has been created by the withdrawal. now. so that is why we have intensified the, the, the conflict and are having fast battlefield games,

particularly in the north of atlantis. done this with these battlefield gains will definitely strengthen the taliban position. in any coming negotiations, if that is to happen and as well as this has thinned, shock waves from the moral perspective within the government, rank and file across the north of us can a stand government troops have to render districts without a fight more than $1000.00 fled to neighboring ticket stand on monday that prompted touching president. m. o. molly ross man to call up 20000 reserve troops to the border with afghan. stan, it is quite quite remarkable. the collapse that we have seen during june and now into july. beyond, beyond this of their the either the best expectations of the taliban or the worst expectations of the afghan government under the here. and the americans, the tele bonds making gains every day. so where does that leave afghanistan and the

post us era and are chappelle out here? confessional break here. now just here, i want to get back, get the job or lose your job. why refusing to be back in a to could be costly for some employees. returning to the office in the us, stuck between a conflict upon demick children in yemen, not falling behind in their school. the fun i hello, we got the burning re continuing across the middle east. we got lost a clear skies, but notice some storms rumbling away just around the black sea. we'll still see some showers there into northern parts of turkey. just want to shout soon to northern areas of afghanistan, 33 celsius, the in couple temperatures have doha about where they should be around 42 sales has

been look a little further north, and we're not too far off at 50 degree, month, q, weight, and foot bag that over the next day or so. pretty much dry where you are, but there will be some showers just around the caucuses. georgia, i mean as a by john cassie, a shower or 2 as we go into the middle part of the week. just wanted to shout just around the southern end of the red sea as well as she was just gathering now around the opium highlands as they should halting their way quite nicely across south sit down, pushing over towards the gulf of guinea, some shop down pools, just coming through here, as a result of that, we'll see some wet weather to enter the democratic republic of congo, some showers just the round, the rift valley. south of that it is looking generally dry and fine, pleasant sunshine coming through for the most part. that sunshine standing all the way down because much of south africa. but as we go into the 2nd half of the week, a chance of rain, the cake town, the

country that coast site is challenging the political establishment in latin america as a pandemic. thanks millions into poverty and fuel prices and drawing up the fruits . and where is the lease mex tech unicorn? can see the cost on l $20.00 o play an important role checking in with the. ringback in the a welcome back, kicked him out of the top stories here. this, the world health organization has warned governments against eating code 1900

instructions to soon criticizing what it called a premature rush. that's a full amount of thing. it says the time demick isn't over yet, and further waves of infection could arrive later in the in. the morning came the u . k. as prime minister concerns most cobit 19 restrictions in england would be lifted in 2 weeks. people will have to wear face not in most places or maintain social distances, or was johnston missed them. we could drive up infections. an asian industry group says tech johns could stop offering their services in hong kong, or the proposed changes to data privacy laws. and the draft loads vague wording could lead local stuff as interface criminal investigations and prosecution on china, cyberspace regulator has ordered the removal of the nation's leading ride hailing from online stores, dd that used of illegally collecting and using personal data. katrina, you report from beijing for millions of people in china. there's only one way to book a cab using the smartphone up known locally as dd. but the app has become the latest

target of the chinese government crackdown or technology companies. the country cyberspace regulator says d. d violated personal data laws and chinese apps. doors has been ordered to remove it. the announcement came days after parent company dd global listed shares on the new york stock exchange. the 2nd largest initial public offering by a chinese company in the us. it's big, it's bigger than over. it's one of a dominant player, and it looks like the valuation that was placed on the company was reasonable. i think investors are a little worried about regulatory crackdowns. the company raised almost $4500000000.00 on wednesday, but the share price has since dropped d. d operates in china, and in more than 15 other countries, existing users can continue to use the app. so far they drink has been clamping down on technology companies over anti trust and data security concerns. last

october, regulators quashed the public share offering of ad financial, the largest financial technology company in the world. in april ads, parent company, alibaba was find a record to point $8000000000.00 for anti trust violations. the moves have been seen as the chinese government effort terrain in the power and influence of founded jack mark, who openly criticized paging economic policies, describing them as restrictive the bleeding. entrepreneur has retired from money companies he started and for months has been practically disappeared from public view. the crackdown follow a period of unexpected growth for china technology industry. and it has invested increasingly worried about the risk of getting on the wrong side of the chinese government. authority say the moved unnecessary for reducing risks and protecting consumers, supporters of compared them to efforts to regulate technology giant facebook and google in the us and europe. trade is moving from being one of the least regulated

cyberspace. countries in the world to one of the most that just be most regulated under the most effective dd says it's working with the government to address its concerns and will listen to its guidance. whether or not the move is about tightening. palsy or controlling power. the tech giant has little choice but to comply. katrina, you al jazeera paging ablaze plastics. factory and thailand that killed at least one fire fight and injured more than 30 other people has been contained. the cause of the blast, the start of the fire, still unknown. emergency cruise took several hours to bring it under control. the public spend want to stay out of a 10 kilometer exclusion zone around the facility. on the outskirts of bangkok, a number of people missing on accounted for after a mudslide in central japan as written to more than 80 rescue crews. and tommy are taking advantage of a break in the weather. 2 days after the disaster,

japan's prime minister says the focus is still on finding people alive. 1500 emergency workers and soldiers of their fears, a more mud slides in the region. thousands of people have been advised to evacuate . now education has become one of the greatest casualties of humans war that's according to unicef, more than 2000000 school age girls and boys are making it into classrooms that makes them more vulnerable to early marriage, child labor, and being recruited to fight. unicef says, 170000 teachers haven't been paid for 4 years. pandemic is making things worse. you, an agency is calling for an immediate end to a tax on school that estimates have been more than 230 since the war escalated in early 2015, while fleet do a man lives. unicef representative to human. he says the situation could get even worse. education is challenging multiple ways in the complex that today, the conflict is limiting access to 2 schools because of the,

of the competition of the constantly happening. their children tend to just go to school both who sell by, by, by the space the baseball tradition in their home. people who space within the school saw out of huge because they have been damaged or destroyed by the company. or because they occupied by that home full. so all these together is making 3 municipal you're going to accept the invitation, but one important valuable to that is to present the future in food. as you mentioned, they all know how $70000.00 and each of em, in 2 days, 2 filled up with teacher in the country who have not been paid for at least 4 years . and what if you chose all doing the has to do for the senate to see the income just to make a living just to careful for their families. and so the system is losing, it shows progressively and it's 6 dream need to make sure that we found

ways to focus shows to be paid. fox chose to get access to financial incentives so that they can make a meeting for their families. but they can also play this crucial role in society and in the future for children indications system collaborative today. man, they might be $4000000.00 additional children out of school. and this is a situation no one wants to see because the cookery venezuela's president as accuse the international kovak scheme of failing his country as designed to help poor nations obtain vaccines. but nicholas madura says venezuela hasn't received doses, but it's paid for. teresa bo has more surviving in venezuela has been a challenge for many years. really tell it gotta she received a kidney transplant 17 years ago. but last year her kidneys began to fail again.

and like thousands of other high risk patients in the country, she's hoping to get her 2nd covered 19 vaccine those soon. so when i say, man, it's been a week since i was supposed to get my 2nd dose. i have no clue what's going on. i don't know why they didn't do everything right. why can't they do it right for once? the same thing with transplants for years without a transplant for all patients like me or in the hands of god, i need $42.02 pay for medications and my pension is $1.00. and i need to have 2 jobs. got many really struggling with us sanctions and an economic crisis that is impacting its ability to fight against the disease. the south american nation is part of the kovak system, which is a collaborative effort designed to help countries like venezuela get access to axioms. but that's proving to be a challenge. so far, it has only received around $3500000.00 doses from china and russia. and the countries currently testing thousands of dollars of that seen from cuba. 2 months

ago. cool that announced payments made to the system by venezuela had been blocked by the swiss bank u b. s. even though the bite and registration said all related golwood purchases were exempted from the sanctions. on sunday president, my daughter said the callback system have failed venezuela. not thought or a company more, ask them if we fulfilled our promises 2 months ago, we gave them all our money by doing magic to liberate funds that were blocked the government of the united states and then unblocked more money for us. and that money is there in an account on the co vaccines failed the people that wayland, either you give us the vaccines or return or money earlier this year, when it will be rejected around $2000000.00 after sending vaccines from kovacs due to safety concerns. but a proficient figure, say benny will, i could be accessing vaccines for free. miguel beserra who is currently on excel say, nicole, my ludo is to blame, let us like and so don't know the name in the future when

a piece of the reasons why we don't have access to free vaccines like countries like syria sit down with yemen. countries that humanitarian emergency knowledge by the united nations reason is the obscurity of statistics. numbers in front of the world bank, a numbers that show when banners, wherein jordan o bonanza. and that's not the case anymore. but i mean law as politicians bigger over who is to blame for the hardships in the country. millions of venezuelans are impatiently waiting for an opportunity to get the vaccine. people like mighty, gotta struggling with a life threatening the see says, it's her only chance of surviving coven 19. that is, i will, and defeated more than a year and a half. since the start of the pandemic, people who been working remotely are gradually returning to the office, but in the us, some of those who refuse to get vaccinated risk losing their jobs. gabriel is on the report from new york in new york city with coven well under control,

and more than 50 percent of the population fully vaccinated. workers are slowly beginning to return to the office. but with study showing as many as 25 percent of american saying they have no plans to get the jab. can employers demanded? the short answer is yes. employers have a lot of freedom. employers in the u. s. can demand records the vaccination of proof of vaccination? they can of course, ask employees if they've been vaccinated. employers can even go one step further and in require vaccination of their employees. the hospital houston did just that back seen mandate for employees. over a $150.00 health care workers are refused, were fired or resigned. eve klein has been practicing labor and employment law for over 30 years. she tells me there are only 3 groups of people that can not be fired from their job for refusing the vaccine. someone with the disability, for example, somebody who is immunocompromised may not be able to get vaccinated or if they get

vaccinated, it, they may not have the anti bodies that are necessary to keep them likely to be covered free. let's say somebody on chemotherapy. so that might be somebody who either can't be ex nader or vaccinated, but still needs precautions. they might be of the work with the others, protected from firing or not getting vaccinated or pregnant women. and anybody who's religious belief prevents vaccines for now, u. s. companies are still treading carefully. delta airlines is requiring new hires get vaccinated, but not explicitly demanding it of current employees. mcdonalds is offering 4 hours of paid time off from police to get the jad while new hires at amazon are given a $100.00 bonus on their 1st day. after showing proof of explanation. complicating matters further that delta variant, the highly infectious strain, now accounts for a quarter of all new cobit cases in the us and has seen some countries holt or even

reversed their reopening plants. there is no one size fits all approach. of course labor laws differ. country by country, but with the majority of us companies planning to call back employees to the office in the coming weeks. the us could be a test case on what works. and perhaps what doesn't. gabriel's condo, i'll just say to new york, ah, top check headlines here on, i'll just say over the world health organization has worn governments against eating cove at 900 restrictions to soon criticizing what it calls a premature rush back to full normality. it says the pandemic isn't over yet down further, waves of infection could arrive late in the year. we just need to be a little more patient. remember last summer where we had everything got good and then everyone kind of relaxed and then we kind of arrived in september,

october and ended up in huge trouble. i think that's where we're going again with a much more transmissible variant this time around. while the warning came as the you.