isco well i've got a hong kong of the series adrian brown as adrian scion when has been speaking within the last hour what more did she have to say well when you are leader of taiwan you have to do what you can to raise your international profile because of course there are just 15 countries that recognize taiwan was dying when on wednesday was addressing the hudson institute that's a conservative think tank in washington and she had many themes to her through her addressed but i think the central one were her comments about hong kong she said that the world had been saddened to see that the beacon of freedom of being extinguished in hong kong she said that the ties between hong kong and taiwan go back many years and she also said and this was her only real reference to china without naming china she said that while some countries while the world has been distracted by covert 19 other countries have been targeting democracies around the world now why does all this matter well you know at the moment taiwan is a country which is basically regarded by china as a breakaway province to be ta

adrian brown reports.aded as police continued to build their case a against the high-profile businessmen. he is suspected of colluding with foreign powers, a crime punishable by life in prison. but staff at his apple daily newspaper insists the tabloids often critical coverage of chinese command will go on. it is one of hong kong's most popular newspapers on tuesday morning, it became the city's most sought after. normally, with a print run of 50,000 copies a day, the figure was almost 10 times that. investor activism has also seen the share price of the paper's parent company increased 11 fold in two days. copy now amounts to an act of defiance. >> what the police did brutally interfered with press freedom. all hong kongers with a conscience have to support hong kong today, apple daily, hong kong. >> the hong kong i know is not like this. suddenly, political persecution and white terror has become more blatant. i think it is out of line. what an ordinary citizen can do is very little. maybe i can just buy

a worried about beijing's new security law as well as the economic retaliation from washington adrian brown reports. during the past few weeks so much has happened so quickly in hong kong none of it good according to more and more foreign leaders who worry about the city's future as a business hub caught in the middle of the dispute between mainland china and the united states a small exporters like this watch manufacturer from the end of next month hong kong exports destined for the united states would have to show they were instead made in china a largely symbolic move but critics say still a setback for hong kong's identity oh it's pretty end of the so i mean it's all very disappointing because. i spend my last 4 to 6 years trying to create a bradley. bring to the world what i believe is a quality side of it in hong kong president donald trump says he's ending his country's special trading relationship with hong kong retaliate for a sweeping national security law that china's government imposed on the city more than 6 weeks ago on thursday trump warned that hong kong's days as a global f

is the highest profile person to be arrested under this new legislation in the background now adrian brown has this report. jimmy lie was once more paraded before the cameras on tuesday as police continue to build a case against a high profile businessman he's suspected of colluding with foreign powers a crime punishable by life in prison but started his apple daily newspaper insists the tabloids often highly critical coverage of china's government will go on it's one of hong kong's most popular newspapers on tuesday morning it became the city's most sought after normally with a print run of $50000.00 copies a day the figure was almost 10 times that investor activism has also seen the share price of the paper's parent company increase $11.00 fold in 2 days buying a copy now amounts to an act of defiance there you know what the police did brutally interfered with press freedom all home college or home college with a conscience have to support hong kong today support apple daily support hong kong . morning to hong kong i know it's not like this suddenly the political persecution and white te

kong's freedoms in jeopardy and the trumpet ministration of doing the same to this city's economy adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines analysis here of the president of belarus a sort help from russia as protests group calling for him to step down thousands gathered at the spot where a man died on monday during a violent crackdown on demonstrators. the u.s. postal service is warning that it can't guarantee all ballots cast by mail in november's presidential election will arrive in time to be counted president trump has continued to back his pick for postmaster general despite protests against him . here is president trump continuing to back his pick for postmaster general despite the protests against him yes he's a fantastic man he wants to he wants to make the post office great again you ever hear the expression he wants to make the post office great again i don't know what he's doing i can only tell you he's a very smart man he'll be a great postmaster general and he needs obviously if you're going to do these millio

are worried about beijing's new security law as well as the economic retaliation from washington adrian brown reports. during the past few weeks so much has happened so quickly in hong kong none of it good according to more and more foreign leaders who worry about the city's future as a business hub caught in the middle of the dispute between mainland china and the united states a small exporters like this watch manufacturer from the end of next month hong kong exports destined for the united states would have to show they were instead made in china a largely symbolic move but critics say still a setback for hong kong's identity i was pretty angry of the so i mean it's all very disappointing because. i spend my last 4 to 6 years trying to create a brand. bring to the world what i believe is the quality side of it in hong kong president donald trump says he's ending his country's special trading relationship with hong kong retaliate for a sweeping national security law that china's government imposed on the city more than 6 weeks ago on thursday trump warned that hong kong's days as a global f

case against him are once he's put on trial because that trial could well be held in secret. 0 adrian brown reporting live from hong kong a very many things. taiwan's foreign minister is accusing china of trying to turn the island into the next hong kong joseph who issued the warning on the 3rd and final day of a visit by the u.s. health secretary onyx who's the most senior u.s. official in decades to visit the island which china considers to be a renegade province he's praised the 23000000 taiwanese for successfully combusting covert 19 i've been a witness to the harmful and counterproductive results of excluding taiwan from these international settings in the spring of 2800 for instance the world health organization put out an urgent call for funding to respond to an ebola outbreak in the western democratic republic of the congo taiwan offered a $1000000.00 for this important fight no strings no conditions but the political bullying over taiwan status at the w.h.o. ended up making this donation impossible especially during a pandemic but at all times international organizations should not

reported a loss of more than a $1000000000.00 adrian brown has more now from hong kong. i'm in hong kong international airport there have been plenty of picture metaphors during this crisis over the past 6 months and this is another one of them as you can see it's like a vast empty mostly and right now i remember this is one of the world's busiest international airport well things have eased a little bit on saturday as you rightly point out passengers arriving from mainland china are now able to transit in hong kong for up to 24 hours although they can't leave the airport terminal now why is hong kong doing that well it seems that there are so many university students in china who have to get back to europe or north america for the start of the university year there simply aren't enough flights in china because of the restrictions on sched jewels to to help them so the mainland authorities have turned to hong kong where from here of course you can still fly to most places in the world or be it with a greatly restricted shuttle so that's that's one reason now it's going t

stop people from voting several opposition candidates have been banned from running for office adrian brown in hong kong joining us live this half hour adrian this move on the part of the authorities in beijing what does that mean for democracy in hong kong. well it means i think that at least we know that the current parliament is going to be extended for another 12 months which is when the election's a jew to take place they were perspire owned by kerry lam several weeks ago citing covert 19 well once more china's national people's congress the standing in the of the national people's congress has one small ruled on the future the political future of hong kong and they have said that the current session of hong kong's parliament can now be extended now what happens is when hong kong's government you know meets a political roadblock its default position is to go to beijing and seek clarification and when karen am announced that she was you know postponing the elections for 12 months then everyone here said what's going to happen you know who's going to rule hong kong for the next 12 months

stop people from voting several opposition candidates have been banned from running for office adrian brown is in hong kong. when the hong kong government you know hits a sort of political roadblock they tend to seek help from the standing committee of the national people's congress in beijing which is the most important political body in china now what happened is that when kerry lam decided to postpone elections here in hong kong for another year citing co that 19 that meant there was potentially going to be a political vacuum here in hong kong in other words what was going to happen to the current parliament so what happened is that the committee basically decided on choose day to extend the current of the hong kong parliament for another year what is less clear is whether a number of incumbent opposition legislators who were disqualified by election officials because of this new national security law will indeed be able to continue in the extended parliament it seems that the national people's congress may well have left it to hong kong government to decide what to do with these that is

for position lawmakers who've been banned from seeking reelection to remain in the legislature adrian brownal-jazeera hong kong. these political crisis is growing as thousands of demonstrators continue to rally in defiance of the government protesters have been demanding the resignation of president abraham little cock a to since june accusing him of failing to deal with a weak economy insecurity and collapse and the alliance of west african states has now stepped in to mediate is following the story from the car in neighboring senegal so protests determined to keep the pressure on the government how how widespread are these demonstrations i mean we're talking miriam thousands of people the independence square in the capital of burma co right now just sitting there and they're going to spend the night there because the influential current mahmoud said their way to protest is to do a sit in so you can see thousands of people spending the night on the streets of the main independence square in a show of defiance against the power in place and president this comes just a day after the swearing

back into the fold that would make him you know one of china's most venerated leaders of 0 as adrian brown reporting live from hong kong a very many thanks indeed. more rain ahead for the korean peninsula so says major it was just some folks who's with us now i'm afraid that's the truth i dream yeah last week of course we had the floods we had the mudslides just around the korean peninsula north and south korea suffering there's more rain on the rain on the way we had a little bit of a pretty flat spot see this area cloud here this big area cloud just sliding outs of. a mongolia pushing down a little further south where it's the periphery of pressure following seasonal rains in my you front that's making its way back down into the hearts of china and then ahead of that well we've got more rain on the way in fights in a province just to the south of beijing right close to beijing we saw around $100.00 millimeters of rain coming down in just a few hours and this was the result as you can see there has been further flooding here that wet weather is now on its way further race was it will slid

kong label that's one more piece of bad news from the united states for hong kong al-jazeera is adrian brown live in hong kong adrian many thanks taiwan's foreign minister has accused china of trying to turn the island into the next hong kong joseph who issued the warning on the 3rd day of visits by the u.s. health secretary a trainee reports from beijing but. on the 3rd day of its visit designed to spotlight u.s. support the taiwan the u.s. health and human services secretary alex gave a speech to university students in the capital type pain the highest level american business here in 4 decades lauded taiwan success in containing coverage 19 and accused the world health organization of political 1000000000 by excluding the island from being a member of the united states i want it to be recognized in the world. and that taiwan should be able to hear these lessons and that it will or. i've made that point repeatedly and the world health organization from which taiwan has. the last 4 years taiwan's foreign minister joseph who thanked the u.s. sports friendship highlighting shed democratic valu

for position lawmakers who've been banned from seeking reelection to remain in the legislature adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. taiwan's foreign minister has accused china of trying to turn the island into the next hong kong thrust of were issued the warning during a visit by the us health secretary to try to hear reports from beijing. on the 3rd day of its visit designed to spotlight u.s. support the taiwan the us health and human services secretary alex plays out give a speech to university students in the capital taipei the highest level american visitor and for decades lauded taiwan success in containing coverage 19 and accused the world health organization of political 1000000000 by excluding the island from being a member of the united states believes that i wanted to be recognized on the world stage and that taiwan should be able to share these lessons and expertise in international fora. i've made that point repeatedly and the world health organization from which taiwan has been excluded for the last 4 years taiwan's foreign minister joseph who thanked the us sports friendship hig

adrian brown has more now from hong kong. when you are leader of taiwan you have to do what you can to raise your international profile because of course there are just 15 countries that recognize taiwan was dying when on wednesday was addressing the hudson institute that's a conservative think tank in washington and she had many themes to her addressed but i think the central one were her comments about hong kong she said that the world had been saddened to see that the beacon of freedom of been extinguished in hong kong she said that the ties between hong kong and taiwan go back many years and she also said and this was her only real reference to china without naming china she said that while some countries well the world has been distracted by covert 19 other countries have been targeting democracies around the world now why does all this matter well you know at the moment taiwan is a country which is basically regarded by china as a breakaway province to be taken back from by force if necessary president xi jinping had wa

kong's freedoms in jeopardy and the trumpet ministration of doing the same to this city's economy adrian brown al jazeera hong kong and the opposition in ivory coast is warning of more protests to denounce the president's decision to seek a 3rd term another day of demonstrations on friday turned violent protesters accused. of breaking a 2 term limit but he insists a new constitution allows him to run again amid are reports. this is what remains of a police station in the southeastern town of. as opposition supporters clash with security forces. it's the latest in a series of demonstrations taking place across ivory coast for a 3rd consecutive day the protests threatened to plunge the country once an island of stability into its biggest political crisis since the civil war of 2010. the contention is a declaration by president and i said what to run again. we are protesting for the president what to go because the constitution has been violated and we don't want to accept a 3rd term we call on the entire population of our records to join us in making what time i leave. in a broadcast last week t

for position lawmakers who've been banned from seeking reelection to remain in the legislature adrian brownal-jazeera hong kong. the ship which has an estimated 1000 tons of oil into the ocean just off the coast of mischa's had been declared safe by a japanese inspection body those are some of the latest reports about the vessel the m.v. walker show paused its annual checks in march but then struck a coral reef on the 25th of july and started leaking oil last week the vessel is still carrying 2000 tons of oil and is expected to eventually break up the prime minister of malaysia says declared a state of emergency the japanese government is sending a team to assist in a massive cleanup operation. the u.k. and france a working on new measures to stop migrants from crossing the english channel so far this year more than 4000 people have successfully made the journey on small boats and since thursday at least 600 people have been intercepted making the crossing you came the question minister chris phil is in paris for talks with french officials about this. he says the 2 nations work at pace to

administration before the elections on november the everything in a sense connected to that adrian thanks very much aaron brown our correspondent there reporting live from hong kong. still to come on this program here on al-jazeera volunteers pitching in to clean up oil that's blackened the pristine waters of marissa's as salvage crews race to prevent another spill. have it still hot in most of your far above where the average would take the temperatures but it's not as hot as it was is an increasing amount of clouds there longer a capping area of high pressure now there's a leakage of humidity certain might feel hotter for places and the research the thunderstorms around not where they were down the southeast europe of virtually anywhere in act and they could be prompted by the alps and the higher ground in spain admittedly but those blues represent are the showers all thunderstorms and they're slow moving just to make the summer feel like summer now and that's something interesting happening just north of space was the thunderstorms continue elsewhere this is a proper little spinning low unusual for the midd