let's go live now to adrian brown who is standing by for us in hong kong so adrian. chiles national people's congress has passed this draft this all seems to be moving very quickly. that's right the standing committee of the national people's congress which is the highest most powerful legislative body in china has been reviewing this national legislation for hong kong security legislation they began that on thursday morning in fact up until wednesday this wasn't even included on the agenda it was inserted it seems right at the last moment is china in a hurry well yes or no we have elections here in hong kong in september and i think this new security legislation enables china to in a sense create the conditions that would make it possible to despise our candidates the china hong kong government deemed to be disloyal as to when this will become law well an obvious state is july the 1st that's china's national day just a few weeks off from now a lot has been happening today to do with this not proposed law or the law that's going to happen earlier on might pompei of t

and we have correspondents in beijing and hong kong on the story adrian brown will be with us in just a moment but 1st let's go to try to you who is in the chinese capital catrina run us through china's motions here and what the next steps are. hi kim well it seems that they doing is essentially taking matters into its own hands chinese government leaders have been increasingly frustrated and embarrassed by these protests which have rocked hong kong since last june these anti-government pro-democracy protests but according to beijing they believe that these protests have been fueled by people intent on splitting hong kong from mainland china and they also say that these protests are a threat to hong kong stability and prosperity but critics would say that beijing is simply trying to silence voices that are increasingly glowered in terms of their criticism against the chinese government so today on china's national people's congress its standing committee reviewed this draft registration legislation of this national security law and basically what they're doing is that they're passing

own legislature to impose the bill directly on to the city let's get reaction out of hong kong adrian brown's live for us now we've seen significant and often violent protests in hall against this bill and other positions of chinese authority in hong kong over the last few months how do you think that people are going to react today . well i think this law is going to have a chilling effect on people here in hong kong as to whether there are going to be any protests that his hard to say i think the spark has really gone out of the protest movement that much is clear and that's partly down to the police acting in a much more assertive way now this law of course is going to come as no surprise to the people of hong kong we knew $33.00 days ago exactly what the intentions of the chinese government was now this is all happened as i say in just $33.00 days normally it takes china's parliament perhaps years to get a law like this passed but you know china's parliament has done this in record time and that i think is a reflection of just how impatient china's leaders are for this law to take effect

let's turn now to our top story the controversial national security bill phone call adrian brown tells us how the legislation will affect people. you find it off a busy street up a narrow staircase where walls are 1st student with stickers advocating hong kong separatism and mocking china's leaders the building is home to a bookstore specializing in literature sympathetic to hong kong's protest movement and that the only concedes makes him a potential target for china's new security law something pops especially the us. where folks there were typos on safra to some of the hong kong and instead we sell so all these might be things that got us in trouble some time later he has reason to worry in 2015 another hong kong bookseller disappeared into chinese custody for 6 months following a visit to the mainland the clock is ticking for the imposition of a law that journalists say could severely restrict freedom of speech in shrines in the deal that britain and china did before the handover in 1900. 7 so we're concerned over many questions as to whether we can interview prone to pen and you k

of more on that let's speak now to adrian brown who is live for us in hong kong adrian after bypassing hong kong's a legislator it seems beijing is moving very quickly on this why is that. well kim i think for a number of reasons firstly i think they want to ensure this becomes law before the elections in september because that would in a sense create the conditions for china to perhaps disqualify those candidates that it considers to be disloyal also i think china would if possible like this security legislation in place by haps by july the 1st which is the national day here in hong kong and of course across the border in the mainland so those are some of the reasons why i think china is anxious to get this legislation passed and passed soon but of course china is now coming under mounting international pressure as you mentioned before mike pompei of the u.s. secretary of state has met china's top diplomat young chee in hawaii hong kong was discussed we know it was on the agenda because after their discussions young came out and said that the united states should stop interfering in c

are near potential oil and gas reserves which fishing grounds and important shipping lanes as adrian brown reports the move by japan set to increase tension with china. at the southern tip of the japanese archipelago a cluster of uninhabited islands now on the frontline of what may be a new flashpoint they lie close to significant oil and gas deposits strategic shipping routes and lucrative fishing grounds to japan they are the cuckoo islands china calls them the dar use but for 50 years they've been administered and controlled by tokyo taiwan also claims ownership china's government had warned japan against changing the status of the islands and is now reportedly deployed coast guard vessels to the area as it has done many times before. it's a serious purgation against china's territorial sovereignty at a japanese site possibility in the name it's illegal and invalid it cannot change the fact that though you island blogged china we formally oppose the 11 move made with japanese side china at large. with japan the diplomatic channels and a 3rd of the right to further react. the rising tens

president xi jinping and is now in force critics say the legislation erodes hong kong's freedoms adrian brown reports. it normally takes a year for china's parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time just 40 days the new security law completed its passage after a vote by the country's most powerful political body the standing committee of the national people's congress in hong kong china supporters were also celebrating before the news that even being confirmed. a contentious measure that spits it he divided the city was once more defended by its chief executive the legislation oppose imposing legal principles such as presumption of innocence and protection of the rights of the sox that it will have no race respectively fact the critics here say the new law now threatens to stifle even small displays of dissent like this one in a local shopping mall on tuesday china is just causing passing a law without without even asking of. police and not going to the proper procedures the laws passing had an immediate political impact democracy activist joshua wang announced he was

leaders to disqualify candidates that they consider disloyal or a threat to national security adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. the volunteer arrest of a nurse at a protest in paris is causing outrage in france police were filmed removing the woman from a crowd of demonstrating health workers who were demanding better pay for their work during the pandemic police say she was arrested for throwing objects has been . posted online video of this arrest caused a flurry of indignation on social media a nurse at a protest in paris will choose day is held down by police officers surround her before school in her own way blood is again on her face health workers were demonstrating for higher pay their dedication has been revealed to during the convict pandemic so the image of a nurse being roughly handled by police sparked outrage the nurse is due to tweeted this woman is my mother 50 years old a nurse she's worked 12 to 14 hours a day for 3 months she had covert. made to further pictures emerged at the nurse moments before her arrest this time throwing stones at police officers outside the polic

summit is due to be held adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. some of iraq's most traditional craftwork is risk of dying out his cheap imports from china and india drive prices down the government hopes direct state support will help local enterprises thrive and in turn help when the economy off it's the pendency on oil so wonderful to reports from back that. since he was a child a bus column has built for additional furniture from palm fronds his precise moves are the result of generations of expertise passed down from his father and grandfather but now the trade is addressed of dying out or not the more. my children haven't learned it and they don't want to learn it my eldest son abbas he tried but he prefers to work as a porter at construction sites. during saddam hussein's time chairs and beds made of palm fronds where household item in iraq their mesh designs suited for a country summer heat but out of the 20 shops that used to be here only 4 are left cheap imports from turkey and china have eroded demand for iraq he made goods if you want

adrian brown live for us in hong kong adrian thank you and yes president donald trump's former national security adviser has written a book that makes insatiable accusations about president among those accusations john bolton says trump asked foreign leaders including china's president to help him get reelected this year that's based on excerpts released to the media early war will be revealed obviously with the because out that's next week in the meantime mike hanna reports from washington. the democrat controlled house of representatives impeach president trump for his dealings with ukraine ruling that he'd withheld aid to leverage information about his political opponent joe biden john bolton refused an invitation to testify before the house but now alleges that this action was typical of president trump's dealing with a number of countries and he criticizes the house for limiting its investigation to use crain had they taken the time to inquire more systematically about trump's behavior crosses entire foreign policy john bolton writes the impeachment outcome would have been differen

against the announcement very different of course to the protests we've seen in the last few months adrian brown life for us in hong kong adrian thank you the united states top expert on infectious diseases is warning the number of corona virus cases across the country is likely to get much worse if people don't follow health recommendations dr anthony 5 he also says there is no guarantee of an effective vaccine more than 126000 americans have died california texas and florida have all reimposed some restrictions after reporting a record increase in infections. it is going to be very disturbing i will guarantee you that because when you have an outbreak in one part of the country even though in other parts of the country they're doing well they are vulnerable i made that point very clearly we are now having 40 plus 1000 new cases a day i would not be surprised if we go up to $100000.00 a day if this does not turn around ok i want to bring in brett broun from washington d.c. he's the president of the global situation room it's a political consultancy and he's also the former director of global en

one of the world's major financial sentence adrian brown is standing by for us with reaction out of hong kong but 1st let's cross over to beijing where katrina you is there forcing between or just talk us through the process in terms of what we know is going on in beijing with regards to this legislation or where it stands in terms of the committee process. well we know that china's standing committee its top legislative body met today local time at 9 am to vote on this law and it was unanimously passed shortly after that there are 162 members of that committee but only one of those members is actually from hong kong but we do know that they've been discussing this law since sunday and during the discussions the standing committee was split into 6 different teams to discuss different parts of the law and each team were assigned to observe the members from hong kong now we know it is a hefty law recording to state media there are 6 different chapters and $66.00 articles included in that war and it remarks on 3 broad crimes subversion secession and colluding with foreign forces now have a

ok adrian thank you for that adrian brown live for us in hong kong. the corona virus is far from over that's the warning from the world health organization the agency says a pandemic isn't close to being under control as a number of cases continue to search globally the w.h.o. is sending a team to china next week to investigate the origins of the disease we all know this to be over we all want to get on with our lives but the hard reality is this is not even close to being over although many countries have made some progress globally the pond is actually speeding up the increase in infections in the u.s. is forcing at least a dozen states and cities to rethink their reopening strategies a country's top expert on infectious diseases brains people for ignoring health guidelines dr anthony found she has called it a recipe for disaster al jazeera is christian salome has more. with long lines for tests and new coronavirus cases surging texas and other u.s. states that were some of the quickest to reopen for business are now worried that their hospitals are

in prison and those suspected of endangering national security will be put under surveillance adrian brown reports it normally takes a year for china's parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time just 40 days the new security law completed its passage after a vote by the country's most powerful political body the standing committee of the national people's congress in hong kong china supporters were also celebrating before the news had even been confirmed. a contentious measure that spitzer he divided the city was once more defended by its chief executive the legislation oppose imported legal principles such as presumption of innocence and protection of the rights of the sox but it will have no race respective effect. the critics here say the new law now threatens to stifle even small displays of dissent like this one in a local shopping mall on tuesday china is causing passing a law without without even asking. opponents and not going to the proper procedures the law's passing had an immediate political impact democracy activist joshua long announced he was resigni

in the coming hours critics say the legislation erodes hong kong's freedoms our correspondent adrian brown reports. it normally takes a year for china's parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time just 40 days the new security law completed its passage after a vote by the country's most powerful political body the standing committee of the national people's congress in hong kong china supporters were also celebrating before the news had even being confirmed. a contentious measure the busy divided the city was once more defended by its chief executive the legislation oppose imposing legal principles such as presumption of innocence and protection of the rights of the sox that it will have no race respectively fact the critics here say the new law now threatens to stifle even small displays of dissent like this one in a local shopping mall on tuesday china is just causing passing a law without without even asking. for this and not going to the proper procedures the laws passing had an immediate political impact democracy activist joshua long announced he was resigning

the coronavirus and the potential for violence several groups though are vowing to test the ban adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. i'm joined now via skype by jonny patterson who is the director of the human rights organisation hall call sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera we just heard in that report that many people think that what is happening with this new law is effectively china breaking that promise it made when hong kong was handed back 23 years ago that it would remain independent for 50 years do you see it that way do you see the slow as a broken promise effectively yes yes i do and the law reduces as the report said these charges to burgeon secession and collusion which are also very broadly defined they simply shattered the human rights sic gods on comes constitution and there's a there's a famous nobel peace laureate called new jumbo who is he was sentenced to 12 years in jail in mainland china for a century being a pro-democracy activist groups law introduces a burgeoning into hong kong's constitution that means that people like joshua wang people like marti

summit is due to be held adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. so look i'm on the al jazeera news hour made to iraq hopes a government initiative might save traditional craft from dying out. we were at a distance so he was just like i hope i didn't get too close you're all stop call 1st react after the 1st positive coronavirus case on the p.g.a. tour that's coming up with glee in sport. old is he right explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how libraries influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights america. through just miles over a barrel of chris martin luther king and continue to make roles to be different that's what you mean by about malcolm x. and martin luther king face to face on 00. 000 and you. the on the old. some of iraq's most traditional craftwork is a risk of dying out as cheap imports from china and india drive prices down the government hopes the direct state support will help local enterprises thrive and in turn help when the economy off it's the pendency on oil one of f

a china in you summit is due to be held adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong well china has renewed its claim of a disputed border region where 20 indian soldiers were killed last week beijing says the ga one value region is entirely inside china and accused indian troops of entering its territory india's government has rejected china's claims saying its troops are familiar with the line of control or speaking of disputes and ethiopia has rejected egypt's call for international intervention to resolve their dispute over a controversial dam on the river nile on friday cairo called on the united nations security council for a fair and balanced solution while the majority of the grand ethiopian renee's on stem is complete few lingering issues are storming the massive project or may cost him explains it's a dispute over the amount of water that can be pumped into this reservoir or on the blue nile that's told the latest round of talks between egypt and the guy. if he wants it filled within 7 years egypt which relies on the nile for 90 percent of its water proposes a much longer p.d.s. . it

previously failed to pass in hong kong's legislature because of a strong backlash let's speak to adrian brown in hong kong for us adrian hong kong was already a divided city before china announced it was imposing this security law how wide is that gulf now. where you certainly send saudi the gulf is widening this week and we're in one tyson which is traditionally a place where people come to have their fortunes told in hong kong but of course no income predict to the moment when this new security law is going to take effect we're outside a church a catholic church which has been turned into a makeshift polling station for this vote and workers are being asked to support a general strike now these workers represent you know people working in about 20 different industries here in hong kong not just staff student. they're also being urged to support a classroom boycott now the results of this photo shoot at the release sometime over the weekend on the other side of hong kong on saturday morning we met people who are in support of this new security legislation their approach beijing group and the

the coronavirus and the potential for violence several groups though are vowing to test the ban adrian brown al jazeera hong kong well let's now take a closer look at some of the main elements of this legislation china will set up a national security agency in hong kong and it what will not be surprised if advised by the local government that agency will have jurisdiction over what the law describes as serious cases trials involving national security secrets can now be conducted behind closed doors a maximum sentence life in prison and local government will also set up a national security committee chaired by the chief executive and decisions made by that body cannot be challenged in local courts monson lee is the founding chairman of the united democrats which then became the democratic party of hong kong he was also the face of the democracy movement before the handover in 1997 and he explains how hong kong's power is being eroded. my party will stay on and i will stay in hong kong of course we realize that the prospects of being put into prison would be very high but the prestige of this

and szell centers adrian brown is standing by for us with reaction out of hong kong the 1st us cross over to beijing where katrina new is waiting for us in katrina really just talk us through the process of what we know about how this law and legislation has been discussed in beijing. we know that china's standing committee its top legislative body met at 9 am today on to say to discuss this and shortly after to vote on this or and shortly after it was passed unanimously now only one member of that standing committee is a is from hong kong but they did have 12 observers from hong kong during the discussion of this law which has taken place since sunday now we know it's a hefty law it consists of 6 chapters with 66 different articles underneath that and what is most concerning some legal experts is that state media here have flagged the fact that big gene will have jurisdiction over very few of those crimes meeting that extradition to the mainland will be possible also we know that life imprisonment could be one of the heavier or the heaviest penalties for breaking any of these crimes

the coronavirus and the potential for violence several groups though are vowing to test the ban adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. martin lee is the founding chairman of the united democrats which became the democratic party of hong kong he explains how hong kong's power is being eroded. my party will stay on and i will stay in hong kong of course we realize that the prospects of our being put into prison would be very high but the passage of this law what this piece of legislation in fact for me means one. is that when the british government returned. to the people's republic of china 23 years ago it was on the promise of dumb show pink the then paramount head of china that hong kong will be run by hong kong people with a high degree of autonomy which means that apart from defense and foreign affairs we the people of hong kong will be masters of our own house in terms of the executive power educated power and judicial power now that a person who does not everything is cheap instead of hong kong people born in hong kong is now the communist. instead of being enjoy a high degree of autonomy n

so july the 1st i think could be potentially potentially a lively day thank you for that adrian adrian brown in hong kong forests yes now here from katrina in beijing she says many people are still waiting for details about the new law. hong kong liaison office in beijing as well as hong kong there is an office in hong kong have been holding parallel closed door meetings officials have gone and those are still taking place we know that hong kong delegates are not to china's national people's congress that is china's polman are in attendance in those meetings and we expect that they are currently being briefed on the details of this new national security law we are yet to hear any announcement from china's state media any confirmation of this but we do know that the legislative affairs commission of the n.p.c. as well as the hong kong office will be holding a press conference wednesday to g.m.t. that is 10 am local time to announce the details of this national security law to the public so we may have to wait until then to hear more about it certainly if we do that will be a very symbolic for

united states to defend japan if it's attacked it's a treaty that's yet to be seriously tested adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. well still ahead on al-jazeera preparing a message for south korea and the north's plan to fight millions of leaflets across the border in the biggest ever propaganda campaign and dozens of migrants rescued from the mediterranean and he says they are part of an upsurge in numbers trying to make their way to europe. and the heavy rain through will central and eastern areas of china this huge swathe of catechise is where most of the rain is and for the most part it's actually not carrying away from east and northern sections of japan so showers in the 4 coastal jesus that nichols in to take care and also a bad day choosing across much the korean peninsula however that is set to change and it's because of this mass of rain you can see is on its way across the n.s.a. and study by wednesday it is going to produce a very heavy downpours and you can see it is extremely widespread we could have a similar thing still want to see showers across into central honshu no doubt

the coronavirus and the potential for violence several groups though of vowing to test the back adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. u.s. them across say that despite a briefing from the white house they still haven't received the information that they need on russia's alleged bounties on american soldiers in afghanistan they're calling for a full briefing from the intelligence community the president called this a hoax publicly nothing in the briefing that we have just received led me to believe it is a hoax. there may be 2 different judgments as to the level of credibility but there was no assertion that the information we had was a hoax. michaela is in washington d.c. following the story for us so they did have a briefing from the white house obviously feel they don't have a enough information do we know what the timeline is for what's going to happen next. we seem to be having problems with my cannas connection in washington d.c. we're going to perseverance you know i think it's actually unfortunately we will of course be following the story in the coming hours and hope to get the latest f

legislation previously failed to pass through hong kong's legislature after a strong public backlash adrian brown has more from hong kong. we're in one tyson which is traditionally a place where people come to have their fortunes told in hong kong but of course knowing can predict at the moment when this new security law is going to take effect we're outside a church a catholic church which has been turned into a makeshift polling station for this vote and workers are being asked to support a general strike now these workers represent you know people working in about 20 different industries here in hong kong not just that students are also being urged to support a classroom boycott now the results of this vote are huge at the release sometime over the weekend on the other side of hong kong on saturday morning we met people who are in support of this new security legislation their probation group and they maintain they claim that so far they've collected more than 3000000 signatures in support of that legislation now that represents about 40 percent of hong kong's population now they claim that a

united states to defend japan if it's a target it's a treaty that's yet to be seriously tested adrian brown al-jazeera on cong. still to come on al-jazeera tensions rise on the korean peninsula as both the north and the fact is in the south the belief that campaigns had to vicki anniversary. president time to stop the country's election being rerun it cannot go smoothly during a pandemic. hello big thunder soulsby wandering around central and eastern europe it seems the days now despite the current cloud behind my head this is the active area now i think for tuesday it is quite a specific line that takes you through ukraine towards her mania just missing hungry and that was the song balkans and northern greece this is all fairly humid air quite warm but the storms have been damaging the bottom get to wednesday this bit of a break in that line the focus is more into poland slovakia the bits of austria but again anywhere is prone to at least a few showers and all this time that our west the sun's been apart from want to shout maybe in spain we just see a rising in temperatures are just overla

in prison and those suspected of endangering national security will be put under surveillance adrian brown reports. it normally takes a year for china's parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time just 40 days the new security law completed its passage after a vote by the country's most powerful political body the standing committee of the national people's congress in hong kong china supporters were also celebrating before the news that even being confirmed. a contentious measure the busy divided the city was once more defended by its chief executive the legislation oppose imposing legal principles such as presumption of innocence and protection of the rights of the sox that it will have no race respectively fact her critics here say the new law now threatens to stifle even small displays of dissent like this one in a local shopping mall on tuesday china is just causing passing a law without without even asking. police and not going to the proper procedures the laws passing had an immediate political impact.

united states to defend japan if it's attacked it's a treaty that's yet to be seriously tested adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. north korea is being urged to call off plans to launch thousands of balloons into the south in the biggest ever propaganda campaign against its neighbor it follows a week of rapidly deteriorating relations between the 2 states i'm so bright has the story north korea says it has 12000000 propaganda leaflets printed and 3000 balloons ready to carry them south across the border depicting south korean president moon j.n. pyongyang says they represent the wrath and anger of the north korean people up we do not have any intention to reconsider or change our plan at a time when north south relations have already broken down last week north korea demolished a joint liaison office on its side of the demilitarized zone in the surest sign yet of relations unraveling. the office was opened after a successful summit in 2018 which also agreed to stop provocative propaganda moves by either side. north korea has accused the south of breaking that agreement by allowing defectors

leaders to disqualify candidates that they consider disloyal or a threat to national security adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. the u.s. has introduced more sanctions against syria's government warning it won't stop until president bashar al assad ends the war against his own people and you know well known as the season includes a raft of financial penalties for any person or entity that does business with assad and those close to him assad's wife asma is among those on the list well the u.s. says the sanctions are designed to restrict the syrian government's ability to trade and get money from abroad those targeted face the threat of arrest or travel bans they could be politicians military personnel or people in business banking and the oil and gas industry allies like hezbollah in lebanon as well as iran and russia may also be hit with sanctions which is a syrian doctor at the university of illinois in chicago he says president assad and his allies are responsible for syria's humanitarian crisis. what's happening right now in syria and what i mean it's very and crisis is related to the

the coronavirus and the potential for violence several groups though are vowing to test the ban adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. martin lee is founding chairman of the united democrats which became the democratic party of hong kong it was also the face of the democracy movement before the handover in 1970 and he explains how hong kong's power is being eroded. my party will stay on and i will stay in hong kong of course we realize that the prospects of our being put into prison would be very high with the passage of this law but what is really frustrating is that even though b. no this law will be operative tomorrow none of us have seen a copy of it so we don't know what sort of offenses we might be committing tomorrow i mean this is ridiculous but i'm not too concerned about the actual contents of it because i expect them to be very good code in and and reasonable but the real impact on is much further it is much more serious than that what this piece of legislation in fact for me means. is that when the british government returned hong kong to the people's republic of china 23 years ago i

it is fear the lord will drastically increase china's control over the semi autonomous region adrian brown is in hong kong he says there are still many questions around how the law would be used. the devil is in the detail and we simply don't have enough details meet china's definition of what's a version what is sedition what is succession is very different from other governments the worry here is that hong kong is going to have imposed on it a vaguely worded law the could be broadly applied now in china they have a charge known as picking quarrels and provoking troubles not is the go to weapon of the authorities when they want to go after dissidents human rights groups journalists the worry is the same thing could happen here we've been hearing from journalist groups here in hong kong today who have carried out a survey 150 journalists were were questioned 87 percent of them said they now have grave fears about freedom of speech the future of freedom of speech in hong kong and some journalists are saying they might well quit the profession rather than remaining as a journalist we heard a

of hong kong sports imago secrets has disbanded and several leaders say they're stepping away adrian brown has reaction from hong kong . in the past few hours joshua wong a well known pro-democracy advocate has announced that he is leaving resigning from the party that he helped to found another member of that party is also resigning now joshua wong believes that he's going to be a target of this new law and says it you know wants to continue his beliefs and practices in private another political party that advocates independence but hong kong has also announced its disbanding the former chief executive of hong kong c.-y. long has announced in a facebook message that he will offer $130000.00 u.s. dollars to anybody who can provide it provide evidence of somebody breaking the new national security law so that gives you a flavor of the mood here in hong kong at the moment and i have seen a few minor protests but i think a real test will come on july the 1st when symbolically there is a large mob has happened of course last july the police service denied one protest group an application to ho

condemning what they see as a draconian law that could spell the end to their city's autonomy adrian brown has more from hong kong even before local media and now instead this law had been passed it was already beginning to have a chilling effect now joshua warm a well known young democracy activist has said that he's going to be resigning from the political party help to set up he believes he'll be a target of this new security law and he says he's leaving the party in order to practice his own beliefs privately also another member of the same party nathan law has also announced his resignation and a smaller pro-democracy party called the hong kong national front has also announced it disbanding so you can see the effect already that the law is starting to have a surgeon who coronavirus cases in the u.s. is causing at least a dozen states and cities to rethink their reopening strategies the country's top expert on infectious diseases says it's because people are ignoring health guidelines the head of the world health organization has warned the worst is yet to come it's been revealed that

united states to defend japan if it's attacked it's a treaty that's yet to be seriously tested adrian brown al jazeera hong kong seoul has north korea to abandon plans to send anti south korean leaflets across the border and the plea comes a day after the north threatened to retaliate and start a propaganda campaign following a week of increased tensions between the 2 countries dozens of migrants have been rescued from the mediterranean sea by an italian rescue ship after that but it was reported to be in distress most of the migrants were men from africa and from bangladesh. high court judges in the u.k. are hearing venezuela's bid to force the bank of england to release almost $2000000000.00 of its gold the bank has held on to $31.00 tons of venezuelan bullion for the past 2 years because of british and u.s. sanctions president nicolas maduro says it's needed to buy health care equipment medicine and food during the current virus pandemic the top disease expert in china is expecting a big drop in cope with 19 infections in the capital by the end of the week and have been more than $230.00

united states to defend japan if it's attacked it's a treaty that's yet to be seriously tested adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. north korea is being urged to call off plans to launch thousands of balloons into the south in the biggest have a proper propaganda campaign against its neighbor in 4 hours a week of rapidly deteriorating relations between the 2 states from seoul right mcbride has the story. north korea says it has 12000000 propaganda leaflets printed and 3000 balloons ready to carry them south across the border depicting south korean president moon jay in pyongyang says they represent the wrath and anger of the north korean people up we do not have any intention to reconsider or change our plan at a time when north south relations have already broken down last week north korea demolished a joint liaison office on its side of the demilitarized zone in the surest sign yet of relations unraveling. the office was opened after a successful summit in 2018 which also agreed to stop provocative propaganda moves by either side. north korea has accused the south of breaking that agreement

summit is due to be held adrian brown al-jazeera combe well china has also renewed its claim of a disputed border region where 20 engine soldiers were killed last week beijing says the girl one valley region is entirely inside china and accused indian troops of entering its territory india's government on the other hand has rejected china's claims saying its troops are familiar with the line of control. yeah still ahead on out of there. egypt calls for the u.n. to intervene after ethiopia says it will fail its controversial dam deal or no deal . and u.s. open officials have hit a new 10 after leaving the wheelchair tennis on the szechuan me we'll have all the details. of. how there has been and may yet be flooding in oman is just a bunch of thunderstorms here more or less consistent where the monsoon trough going north through india is throwing off something on the western end however specifically in the forecast for sunday and monday does nothing really the case no shows possibly still the blowing out of iraq security that's or doha one towards us incurring back into society has become du

china's leaders to disqualify candidates who they consider disloyal or a threat to national security adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. the tell all book by former u.s. national security advisor john bolton is becoming a cause of major embarrassment for donald trump alton's accuse the u.s. president of asking foreign leaders including side as president to help them get reelected this year that's based on excerpts released to the media early war will be released on the book is out next week mike hanna reports from washington. the democrat controlled house of representatives impeach president trump for his dealings with ukraine ruling that he'd withheld aid to leverage information about his political opponent joe biden john bolton refused an invitation to testify before the house but now alleges that this action was typical of president trump's dealing with a number of countries and he criticizes the house for limiting its investigation to ukraine had they taken the time to inquire more systematically about trump's behavior across its entire foreign policy john bolton writes the impeachment outcome

summit is due to be held adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. to india where the prime minister is downplaying the worst border violence between his forces in china and then half a century ranger made he has denied that chinese troops crossed into indian territory before soldiers from both sides got involved in a hand to hand fight to the border on monday 20 indian soldiers were killed and 70 were injured in the delhi says china also suffered casualties but beijing has not disclosed any numbers no hard boy nobody has intruded into our borders nor have any of our posts been taken of by china our brave soldiers were masses in ladakh but they went off to teaching to listen to those who challenge their mother india. and in response to that border violence one of india's biggest trading associations is calling for a boycott of thousands of chinese made products but cutting trade ties with the world's 2nd largest economy will not be easy as elizabeth for a number of ports. they are. gathering the chinese products from their homes and setting them on f

that will fit the bill to drastically increase china's control over the semi autonomous region adrian brown is in hong kong he says there are still many questions around how the law would be used. the devil is in the detail and we simply don't have enough details meet china's definition of what's a version what is satish and what is succession is very different from other governments the worry here is that hong kong is going to have imposed on it a vaguely worded law that could be broadly applied now in china they have a charge known as picking quarrels and provoking troubles that is the go to weapon of the authorities when they want to go after dissidents human rights groups journalists the worry is the same thing could happen here we've been hearing from journalist groups here in hong kong today who have carried out a survey 150 journalists were were questioned 87 percent of them said they now have grave fears about freedom of speech the future of freedom of speech in hong kong and some journalists are saying they might well quit the profession rather than remaining as a journalist we hea

a katrina that's the picture in beijing katrina you there let's gets reaction out of hong kong adrian brown is there in the asian as katrina was saying we have to watch what happens on july the 1st that's tomorrow that's wednesday which is the anniversary of the policy from britain to chinese mainland but the passing of this law has already had an effect on how people are going to operate in hong kong. absolutely it's been a chilling and as you say an immediate political impact the young pro-democracy activist joshua one of course known all around the world announced on tuesday that he was resigning from the party he helped to found just a few hours later the party itself was dissolved also to smaller political groups that advocate independence to hong kong also announced they were desponding so that is a measure of the sort of atmosphere there is in hong kong at the moment we went out in the streets earlier on today just to speak to ordinary people at lunchtime to try and gauge their opinions their feelings about this law but none of them wanted to come and that's very unusual here in hong

adrian brown remembers playing in her backing band in the 19805 but his family's connections with theof it for a wonderful woman, for people like her — the country is united. i actually think that would be an excellent idea, especially for dover. and i think this is the ideal place to put her. this letter of mine is getting to be sort of a rendezvous where husbands and wives torn apart by war can be brought together by music. it was her decision to entertain the troops fighting in the burma campaign that secured her place in their affections. george batts was there. and i remember so much, sitting in the jungle, winding the thing up and listening, and we would all be sitting around, just listening. and i'm not ashamed to say, a few tears going down. and it really did bring you back home. there's a lot of controversy about memorials now. but hers is one that is deserved, can never be argued against, and would be there for the right purpose. a former head of the british army believes a statue would be a fitting tribute. well, there's a variety of ways to commemorate people but a statue,