a fee for weld cup and they were prefabricated, some of them contain toilets, others contain concession stands, and also some are referee changing rooms. now off to the well cup, this will all be taken apart. it'll take about a year to take, all of those shipping, attain as a pot and will be sent overseas. and that's part of what the organizes promised when they bid for this well cup that there would be a legacy left behind. after the 1st middle east world cub, ah, i know you're watching out his ear and these are the top stories this our scotland and the netherlands have confirmed on me crone was in europe before south africa alerted the world health organization last week. the dutch health authorities say they have to take to the new cove at 19 very, and in 2 samples from november 19 south career is reporting a new daily record of nearly 5200 corona virus cases. there it's strained. health

care system has prompted the government to shelve plans to further relax restrictions. doctor alice tan is an internist at ms. medi women's hospital. she says the worst thing situation is concerning. overnight we had news of the 1st suspected cases of the i'm a con variant. of course, this is a huge concern for south korea because unfortunately we put our perhaps in the worst possible position right now. the reproductive number is 1.19, that coverage mission is on the ice in our country and our hospital capacity is at its lowest level. and so the concern level is very, very high. in honduras left his opposition candidate, sam myra castro is said to become the country's 1st female president. arrival from the ruling national party conceded defeat on tuesday. 2 days after voters went to

the polls. uganda is deploying troops across the border into democratic republic of congo as a battles and armed groups. it follows a strong against the allied democratic forces out of a joint operation with the con, the leaves army beyond group is based in east in congo and has pledged allegiance to i, phone, european diplomats have sharon to show it serious about salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal on tuesday, representatives from russia, china, germany, france, and the u. k. met with iranian officials in vienna, around one sanctions lifted in return for limits on its nuclear program. and the u . s. and helen have concluded 2 days of meetings here in kata. the taliban has asked us to unfreeze assets and remove sanctions. those are the headlines. i'm emily angland states you now for the listening post. in the light of the open seas heights a dark secret men forced to work without paying enslaved

for years. but a glimmer of hope remained for the forgotten fisherman as a group of activists stove deep into the illegal fishing industry, demanding justice. and freedom goes fleet, a witness documentary on al jazeera. hey, hello, i'm richard gilbert and you're watching a special edition of the listening post. this week. we are focusing on hong kong, the city, and it's transformation. july 1st marked 24 years since the united kingdom handed. it's commonly back to china. with that hand over came a set of promises, begging would stay out of hong kong, internal affairs, keep its hands of its freedoms, including it's free press. but for many hong kong,

the question was not if, but when china's communist party leaders would break that promise. and the answer appears to be. now, over the past 2 years, bay ging has intensified the stamping out of political descent in hong kong through new laws drawn up in the name of security, the jailing of critics and the reigning in of the news media. in the 2nd half of this program, we speak to 3 hong congress whose work and lives have been severely affected by the cities, loss of autonomy. but 1st, johanna who's on how hong kong got here from a city of liberties to one that's under a songs ah. 2 don't go on, always enjoyed the most open, liberal press in the region. oh, well what we're seeing over the last year or 2 has been more like a death by a 1000 cuts on young. why ye, guy, cherry target. hi paul

o young wake at joyce. hi. gay, i was actually all nail even the most optimistic jo, this found it difficult to have reason for optimism. now. journalist may have to pay a price for the effort to seek the tool hung cone, a place once known for its openness and civil liberties. now a place of political persecution and a correct on free speech. a city that in the last 2 years alone seem more than 10000 protesters and rested, and dozens of disciplines killed. the result of the transformation that's been 24 years in the making since july, the 1st 1997. ah, today the united kingdom, which had ruled him come for more than 150 years,

returned its colony to china. handing hong kong back to china was weird. construct. you had this kind of free open capitalist city this enclave. and so you're handing it back to a country that's controlled by a authoritarian communist party. and the way that the 2 sides, the british in the chinese side were able to make it work as they came up with this amazing formula that said, we'll have one country. but it'll be 2 systems. by the way, why co op o things, i mean, but been, i'm case a hung gotten that way. they could, they thought it alongside got up. hey, i wouldn't tell you see, going as it's a hey monica, somebody, john, while the been far all year. i've been built on hong kong. tom dolack, i'm case that i got a game. oh yes. it's a merced maya type. so you, why your legal, that guy we are the men from china did not become like hong kong. if anything in

the 24 year since to hand over. it's hong kong that's become more like mainland china. under british rule, the city didn't have a democracy, but it did have robust civil liberties, a well functioning justice system. and one of the free is media environments in the region. the one country to systems agreement was supposed to safeguard this, at least until 2047. and in the initial years after the handover, beijing held up its end of the bargain. that was at least partly because china was unwilling to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. as the british colony on comb had grown into a global financial hub and its thriving port, air links and access to foreign investment enabled china to generate about 20 percent of its g d p to the city. it made economic sense for beijing to be relatively hands off. however, as china grew into an economic superpower in the early 2 thousands,

beijing started to re think it's hong kong strategy. beginning perhaps from 20 all 3, when there's marked change of tactics and up aging to us to was a hong kong mall control. more innovations and more presence in the way we govern the media isn't not immune to those strange of strategy. so beginning from that, we've seen that media on dumble direct in direct oh pressure or the hifi will. yep . through that pilot yancey. we hate to hang on. stop phones. i am a little was i will enjoy all holmes and cbl in aren't wait one sums. i, they, they, joe, real topical goldman. hi, lee, what you go homemaking and i tell my gums. i ed sedley with my my like in the ohio the me, me good being bama. china's tougher approach to hong kong was solidified in 2012 . when siege in ping was appointed general secretary of the communist party in

2014 c, radically changed the election process for the cities. my senior political representative, the chief executive janaya, you will get out to what a 5 all grade you're going to um guide a sure sure sure. we jumped on the cushion enable. sure, sure. don't go and they don't. oh, that change. infuriated home commerce and for 79 days, mass protests called the umbrella movement, paralyzed the city. beijing responded by ratcheting up it's correct down on descent . more than a 1000 people were arrested for their ruined demonstrations and at least 127 were convicted. china also intensified it to suit on hong kong media since 2014, at least 5 major mainstream media outlets got new pro beijing owners,

including hong kong, dominic broadcaster t v b, and it's leading english newspaper, the south china, more post for those outlets that managed to hold out against a pressure, beijing wielded it considerable commercial muscle boycotting advertisements and pro democracy tabloids like apple daily. regardless, hold and chow, the vice chairman of the largest pro beijing party in hong kong government, denies any crack down on the cities, media freedoms, iving his time for me to we've built these. i'm cool and unwarranted accusations the media enjoy all the freedom of press. nothing less than before is all by brendan, very diverse, people with smear or ongoing by saying that while all the past few years is seems that there are some sort of crack down on the sand and stuff like that. of course they smearing. i think those us confluence of events here that made this

crack down kind of inevitable here in hong kong. she didn't think came into power with a very hard line attitude. and then you have people here start pushing for more democracy that really got, shook them up in beijing, they realised that hong kong suddenly was a problem. and then along come the 2019 protests and that's where i think china lost its patience. those 2019 protests were the biggest in hong kong history. more than 2000000 people about a quarter of the population took to the streets, risking arrest for 10 consecutive months. whom police tried hard to quell the protests at times with brutal force. beijing seized on the year long unrest to introduce legislation, a strict new national security law, designed to curb dissent in hong kong once and for all implemented in june

2020, the law outlaws, secession, subversion, and collusion with foreign forces. eager to find offences that carried maximum sentences of life imprisonment. the new law has proven effective at silence and critics. so for $54.00 people have been charged including jimmy ly, the owner of the apple daily newspaper. the paper has been repeatedly targeted by the authorities. the final straw came on june 17th, when its officers were rated. the editor in chief was arrested, and the company's assets are frozen. within a week of that rate, apple daily published its last and final edition all thought straight them, and sometimes they told me might be all got you boy code only a lot for money. got thing. how could you call you when we want

a hey thing and then come via for me that you joy thomas? i'm going to have more seattle game we'll be may we both both eager go ahead and double click on the telephone number. they feel her casey, john, i'll like why i think as long as you are bader law, you don't coco against national security. i see nothing that they need to feel very let me take an example. apple daily is not only a pap roy, but it's also a prop, again, that done against the central government. so if you are running a media with an agenda to sort of and thing during our countries national security, there's something wrong, isn't it? the social alterations or the things have odl on. why don't we see how our old or her to be in your conference? you can leave his lease on her phone. you want to go home, see him,

how you legal haunts id or something you sit on the sea or they can hold all paper and you're saying i'm she was such all your dial. i got up and got i'm gone. yeah, hold on the way tom. some to go which all charm with bow chewy speaks from experience. as a freelance producer for hong kong public broadcast, her radio television, hong kong or r t h k. she's become a target for her reporting. for the last year, she was arrested from her investigation into white police didn't intervene in a violent mob attack on pro democracy protest. her new 2019 what reco sticks. she looked through publicly available vehicle registration databases to track down the attackers. a practice that the prosecution seized on, alleging that by failing to declare that her search was for journalistic purposes,

join knowingly made a false statement. she was find nearly 800 u. s. dollars and cov, oh gosh, how holding up ega obligation lies on what sions hot air supplement on gay eldon's at ease a hike opens up a lot. i my some see her own bowl was always a high gay in these. how was all cold a hard at on both of glass gum and the what's your thought of her hydro? cham were gay call was a man's. yup. it's no longer just beijing that's coming for hong kong media. the city's chief executive carry lamp and will many of called her pro china rubber stamp governments are cracking down to take bow choice employer, artie hage. k, the public broadcast that used to have a reputation for its critical journalism. following the coverage of the 2900 protest including police violence, the hong kong government conducted

a far reaching review of r t h. case management, and editorial direction. it has since replaced his director with a probation bureaucrats and ext various of its programs. all this other call that i love to be seen. yeah. and comes on. he says have things will up sure. high things lawyer who holmes. i see her home, you know the thing. yeah. we got a high ho full moving full height height on jack on the head. a simple to be on ball 2nd. go for we go to me on the scenes the riot back in 2019 o. d h k. have told you some program reporting for suits being very much bias. the government, if they see something wrong done by all j h k o they, they are simply crossing the red line going against the charge of they must, that being is their responsibility to regulate and make sure that our

t k will be back on the right track ah, going by, it's new as political show, a program hosted by the chief executive herself. so there is little doubt as to which direction r t h k is headed in but even with so much of hong kong media and a stranglehold and the political opposition silenced beijing morrison done. in march this year, the communist party rewrote the rules of hong kong electoral system. ensuring only patriots can now run for government. i could well prove the final nail in the coffin of the one country to systems agreement. trial what i'm and i'm going to take one last thing not to see how you hung on gums or hey leo on the coping cycle go on. so you know, we gotta see how you go by her. so she'll come by honda. how old

is your highest goal? say whole my call said awesome. and cl day phone height would be half full function . ok, which direction was? he's among java, 60 white over the phone. hey, die all day, like so long capital. if you don't show your report documents the way china's crack down on hong kong effects journalism there. but the impact these changes have on freedom of expression, they go way beyond news organizations will absolutely take, for example, hong kong publishing industry. and the chinese government owns nearly as 30 publishing houses in the city, and it also controls the majority of the booksellers. there. they only print and sell books that so the official line, they've also made changes to school books, which now teach that at hong kong legislature and this year, every ultimately answer to beijing. then there's of course,

the new national security law, which could be used to target anyone that expresses undesirable views. for example, filmmakers in june this year, the hong kong government announced that it was going to block the distribution of any movie that is deemed to undermine national security. and they're also going to vet art exhibitions and galleries and to really cement their control over hong kong narrative. china is reportedly setting up what they call propaganda departments in the city tasked with controlling media organizations, but also public opinion. so we'll keep an eye on these attempts to control what people read, right? say what they teach, how are citizens, people who have opinions dealing with that? are they going silent? finance. 3 on congress. that exact question, and none of them turn list in the traditional sense, but all people who fallen victim to these new restrictions on freedom of speech, the 1st is leach young. he is the founder of the june 4th museum,

which is an exhibition in hong kong, which is dedicated entirely to telling the truth about the $19809.00 chinaman square massacre. a topic that is completely off limits in china has become a target for his work. just weeks after we interviewed him, he was arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison for what the authorities call organizing an authorized protest. then there is a one chi kwan better known under his 10 name, lindsey. he is a long time political cartoonist who has been forced to navigate these new edits, royal red lines in his drawings. and then also i also spoke to nathan law, a former protest leader and democracy activist who was forced to flee hong kong going tax out in london because the authorities back home were going out of their way to silence in long i thought to the idea of this for museum during the 20th anniversary of the 10 square mosque.

because in china, everyone is started being told a lie about $9089.00 is a complete black out of $89.00 history. so we want the truth to come out. the april 15th 1989, the previous general secretary of the congress body bon die and he was a very popular reformer. and so i problem a lot of students to go and more in depth. and then the morning, beginning to turn into the mind for anti corruption legally, for the proceeds and the soon and begin to come out on march. to

occupy the chairman's way on the audio regina condemn demonstrates the student as an to revolutionary i. and then they decided standing on me and frank donald to today they know official rec, calling them off. how many people are dying in 9089 square. and no one knows me. and the congress body is, of course, trying to suppress all information about what happened. so the idea was since there, so many chinese people coming to hong kong, it would be very, very important to have a physical museum. the future for the museum

is pipe, uncertain, and leach because the, the congress party use in the nation to the law. they are using it in a very arbitrary way. the red line can always shift and they can always strangle sol before. and the nation signal was enact that we started the process of trying to plan for. i'm use the 1st we have the july after that we have and so that you know, that i'll be in the way. if anything happened to this museum in a way, what happened in 89 for the whole after thing, after 32 years is the same regime. and they won't paula rate the sense and democracy and soul. this is very much rather than to day because the fight is due on me

has been drawing for content for almost 40 years trying for such a long time. i could see what has been the life of hong kong before the hand over and afterward. so i think to some extent my, my content has recorded the history of transition. ah, this one is drawn and nearly 40 years ago. but a transition about the hong kong moving back to china actually is just like from one case going back to the other case is a colony of china and from colony a few. there was quite a little bit of lucky for me. i am currently working from daddy and danny. i think these, this is the only 2 newspaper that allowed me to go cartoon. but there are a lot of farther young cotton where it's not the job and they were quite afraid of the new national security law. they don't want to draw the national flag or the

hong kong stack and they won't play with the national anthem. they used to make fun of seeing things so right right now they are afraid of doing as trying to cotton their right life everywhere. and that we won't know where the red line moved on one side from rock direction. and it's actually the case and right now in hong kong. so it's important for us to, to keep on turing, i've got cartoon and to one day, this is a b. if the thing that they're, they're not going to do something i'm asked, but to me as a constant is of course we have to use this opportunity to, to, to continue to express ourselves instead of laying down our pan and surrender

in 2020 june. i'm sorry to leave the hong kong. now it's definitely worried about my personal safety. i had been lift one of the largest national enemy by the state media for very long time with when you go, i couldn't have imagined doing interviewing the okay to be wanted under the national security law and to become an activist. if you know the rigor in should be, she's going to vancouver, you the funds. bobby, we've our funds. if you're around we have gone to friends that we $25.00 people. so a p hope to both country young on the far way. be good if you question gibbons or your way by you the junk bail bond that far. and

in hong kong you just can't talk genuinely about your thoughts towards the beijing government. what the status phone call of human rights activists. not only themselves being intimidated. cultured out their loved ones, including the wife to not be intimidated valence or even also child. so for me, when i realized that i would be leaving hong kong issue statement about differing my ties with my families. so i think i did a very difficult choice, but that choice was for the safety and well being of my family of all allow me to say that mr. nathan lau in front of you is most appro democracy activist is a fugitive from the law of hong kong that beijing government has always been trying to mammy troublemaker fall in fact,

her or anything that they could hundreds. my reputation, of course, targeting you individually, but they are also trying to describe the home movement. who's even in london? i still, i'm still rather cautious about my safety. we all understand how extensive china's reach could be thought being live in a. it's chris live and trying to be protecting myself beneficial phone calls like the shop. my fisher is definitely great, but in the long term future for me as an effort, i'm not main titled to lose hope. my duties to and how people and campaigns, all of our fellows not to give up after almost 25 years of shipping and then hacking away at hong kong freedoms and autonomy. beijing has left their hands off. approach behind the pandemic proved

a useful pretext to clear demonstrators from the streets. the new national security law has made it much harder for them to return. but the fight for hong kong is not over as lee truck yet. from the june 4th museum, put it to the court before getting locked up to live in the truth. that's the path of democracy i choose. you've been watching a special edition of our program on hong kong. how it's changed, and where to go. with the next time here at the list. ah, is paul with people who wrote the world this has been going on for a number with the whole story from an international perspective repricing winkler, global audience, how that could impact your life? this is an important part of the world now to see this very good at bringing the

news to the world from here. ah, hello, i'm emily anglin, into harvey's in the top stories on al jazeera scotland in the netherlands have confirmed the omicron variant was in europe before south africa loaded. busy the world health organization last week attach helpful authority, say they have to take to the variant in 2 samples from november, 19th, or the 20 countries have so far reported cases. the u. s. isn't one of them, but health experts are testing samples to see if it's been detected. they're alan fischer. reports from washington. d. st. be guided by science is a new variant, but familiar advice from the united states. if you're.