determine whether geechee really works here the beijing robot maker imposed these steps itself but the beijing city government has rules of its own and they have to be followed before 300 employees are allowed to come back as long as we can keep. a distance and 2.5 square metres space for every stop this office is open for everyone so now. all eyes to 1st. priority now face to face is that this change our way of life now there are fewer group meetings than before and the company's robots have been put to work with new assignments this dancing robot is being sent to han the epicenter of china's coronavirus crisis. there it entertains patients and doctors unlike. other robots clean and disinfect. in ruhani many companies have now resumed production. this is the new normal at car maker honda its factory had been shuttered for 11 weeks now everyone has to wear a mask and observe social distancing and the canteen has also been shut down but how do outside observers feel about china's new economic reality will it be successful in the long run see pretty close to normal economic activity start to happen b

employees can enter the controls are the firm's own in addition it's abiding by regulations if you buy beijing city government so that it's 300 employees can return to work as long as we can keep one me because it is 2002.5 square meters space for every stock based office is open for everyone so now contact less online stuff 1st started with mr number one priority nothing like and that this has changed our way of life. for staff there are fewer meetings but the robot has plenty to do. this dancing robot has been sent to a clinic and move on to get moving again. other types are used to transport food and medicine towards treating active cases. still others clean and disinfect. in the epicenter of the corona outbreak production is starting again workers at this honda factory are adjusting to a new normal after 11 weeks of closer. apple supplier farrakhan is putting its 800000 employees back to work across china . its corporate t.v. channel explains the new thinking measures twice daily temperature reading everyone in math in the cafeteria people behind dividers. they scan the q.r. code so the company

beijing tried to cover up the danger posed by the virus. now china is battling a new outbreak off the corona virus in its north east local infections in the city of hobbit close to the border with russia went up to $52.00 yesterday with most new cases coming from abroad but elsewhere the virus appears to be under control from beijing to the former epicenter that will haunt people going back to work but as we report life looks different to how it was before and fears of a 2nd wave remain. high up in a beijing office tower work at robotics firm cloud mines is resuming but employees 1st have to pass a series of checks their clothes and shoes are disinfected and their temperatures are measured facial recognition ensures that only current employees can enter these controls are the firm's own in addition it's abiding by regulations issued by beijing city government so that its 300 employees can return to work as long as we can keep. your distance and 2.5 square metres space for every stock base office is open for everyone so no contact less. first choice this is number one priority in the face to face this 2nd so this exchange are way off live for s

employees can enter these controls are the firms own in addition it's abiding by regulations issued by beijing city government so that its 300 employees can return to work as long as we can keep. a distance and 2.5 square metres of space for every stop this office is open for everyone so now. first. priority in the face to face is that this us change our way off life for staff there are fewer meetings but for the robots there's plenty to do. this dancing robot has been sent to a clinic in lieu han to get patients moving again. other types are used to transport food and medicine to wards treating active cases. still others clean and disinfect. in the epicenter of the corona outbreak production is also starting again workers at this honda factory are adjusting to a new normal after 11 weeks of closure. apple. supplier foxconn is putting its 800000 employees back to work across china. its corporate t.v. channel explains the new safety measures twice daily temperature readings everyone in masks and the cafeteria people behind dividers they scan the q.r. code so the company knows who ate here and at wha

john sudworth, bbc news, beijing. the city. but anyone who's able to work remotely is still being asked to remain in their residential compound. li kuang is one of those people. he's an english teacher who's been at home since 23 january. hejoins me now from wuhan. you are in lockdown but things are lifting. things are getting better now. the lifting is mainly for the transportation going out of wuhan people have to work on site, they are free but the people like me, our company doesn't need us to work on site yet so we are advised to stay inside. and so many weeks in quarantine. tell us how you've coped. i think i just spent time watching tv series or eating snacks and doing work, nothing much, so that's it. how would you describe the balance that the authorities have got? have they got it right between being too heavy—handed and taking safety into account? i think the government is doing quite ok because of their swift act ‘s, we can be safe now but also we don't feel quite safe now because me myself, even if i can go outsid

acknowledged that there was a human to human transmission ok that's the in question reporting in beijing and. now cities across china may be nifty lockdowns but curled a virus has done significant damage to the nation's economy. by almost a save in this age in the 1st 3 months of this year it's the 1st decline in 3 decades as china's factories shops and transport closed down. china's economy has virtually come to a screeching halt. car sales at 1st dropped and then plummeted down 21.6 percent in january then down 92 percent in february according to the china association of automobile manufacturers. their industrial production also contract it dropping 13.5 percent in february year on year. the chinese are once again venturing outdoors many workers have returned to the factory and businesses have reopened but it will take time for global supply chains to recover especially since other large industrialized nations are still in lockdown and there's little demand for goods and supply parts from china. the impact will be felt everywhere given that china's share of the global g.d.p. is almost 1000 percent mor

pandemic are beginning to reopen students have been welcomed back to class in the capital beijing and those in the city of what hardware the outbreak began will start heading back to school as early as next week al-jazeera is our clock is in hong kong she says social distancing measures are still in place as china is trying to prevent a 2nd wave of infections. is a milestone in china on the grounds that the schools have been locked down it's been a nationwide lockdown for about 3 months or so the schools in some provinces and some of the major cities are turning some schools have already opened and that was in march in the beginning of april but some of those cities that are reopening on monday shanghai beijing and one joe in the focus is really on the senior and the middle school students particular the final year classes that are preparing for the end of school exams and this role that's been happening and will happen over the next month will so with the primary schools to return in mind all schools are required to have various contingency plans in place the teachers have been trained to deal with em

from beijing and hundreds of other towns and cities sirens sounded so called martyrs day china says it's curb the spread of the virus but some restrictions have been tightened again to prevent another wave of infections trinny you has more from beijing. this is to really to remember the lives of those who have lost their life to covert 9000 here in china more than 3000 people according to official figures and it's also to honor the lives of 14 health workers doctors and nurses who have been designated as national masses who are who lost their lives while they were treating coronavirus patients mostly into bay province and that list includes dr lee when lee young who was famously one of the 1st whistleblower doctors to call attention to the outbreak late last year when it was 1st beginning the number of people who have died from corona virus across europe has now exceeded 40000 italy and spain account for more than harmful those. headlines the news continues after inside story stay with us. how much is the coronavirus on the stock market affecting the race to the white house looking to. s

beijing. over recent days, chinese officials seeing the city have been making increasingly belligerent noises.ound in local elections later this year. in this climate, it is hard not to see this coordinated series of arrests as anything less than a warning of beijing's's intention to tighten its grip on hong kong. david campanale, bbc news. you are watching bbc news — these are the headlines this hour. the uk goverment admits ppe is in short supply in england and that more needs to be done to secure stock. president trump insists that the united states is performing better than other rich countries in its response to the virus — and can relax the lockdown soon. vladimir putin has warned russians that, as the number of coronavirus cases rises, covid—19 continues to pose a high risk to his country. russia has seen its biggest daily increase in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases, up nearly five thousand from yesterday. our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg has this report. rarely has moscow felt so calm. bells chime. so quiet. so empty. in lockdown, a city of 12 million people so peacef

beijing. over recent days, chinese officials seeing the city have been making increasingly belligerent noises.this year. in this climate, it's hard not to see this coordinated series of arrests as anything less than a warning of beijing's intention to tighten its grip on hong kong. david campanale, bbc news. now, sports fans around the world may not be able to watch their favourite player or club in the current climate, but one team in taiwan is being watched by more than half a million baseball fans around the world. and despite playing behind closed doors, there's not an empty seat in the stadium. russell trott explains. they take their baseball very seriously in taiwan. so when coronavirus caused most professional sport to be postponed or cancelled, the rakuten monkeys decided the show must go on. translation: the shouts and cheers from the fans help us get excited about the game, so when there is no audience, we still have to deliver the performance that we are expected to show no matter if it's to be quite calm attitude, so that we have the same feeling as if there was an audience. the ca

beijing. over recent days, chinese officials seeing the city have been making increasingly belligerent noises. ground in local elections later this year. in this climate, it is hard not to see this coordinated series of arrests as anything less than a warning of beijing's's intention to tighten its grip on hong kong. i'm joined now by chris patten, who served as the last governor of hong kong and oversaw its transfer to china. in1987, in 1987, china guaranteed to you in the uk that hong kong's freedom for the uk that hong kong's freedom for the next 50 years of one country to systems. we are only 23 years into that 50 years. china appears to be dismantling that guarantee. do you look back and feel that you were hoodwinked? i think the world was hoodwinked? i think the world was hoodwinked and the people of hong kong were hoodwinked. dictatorship. by kong were hoodwinked. dictatorship. by using the cover. china very concerned and how to deal with the covid—19 epidemic. concerned and how to deal with the covid-19 epidemic. your line has cracked up a little bit. we will see if we can reestablish

almost weekly demonstrations for greater democracy and less control from beijing. 0ver recent days, chinese officials seeing the cityut losing ground in local elections later this year. in this climate, it's hard not to see this coordinated series of arrests as anything less than a warning of beijing's intention to tighten its grip on hong kong. david campanale, bbc news. there is to be no gun salute on queen elizabeth's 94th birthday next week because of the virus. buckingham palace said that her majesty decided it would not be appropriate at this time. it is the first time in her reign of 68 years that they will be no salute, which normally takes place at hyde park and the tower of london. captain tom moore will be the guest of honour at the opening of a new nightingale hospital in yorkshire next week. the 99—year—old war veteran will appear by video—link. it's been announced that the £25 million — that's $31 million usd — raised by captain tom will be used to buy food parcels and counselling sessions for national health service staff, as well as electronic tablets to allow patients to talk to their families. let'

beijing. over recent days, chinese officials seeing the city have been making increasingly belligerent noises. elections later this year. in this climate, it is hard not to see this coordinated series of arrests as anything less than a warning of beijing's's intention to tighten its grip on hong kong. a global concert to support frontline healthcare workers and the world health organisation to raise funds for equipment to help fight the spread of the coroanvirus is being televised and live—streamed around the world. the one world together at home features a range of musicians performing from their homes. the pre—show for the gig, which has been pulled together by lady gaga, is currently underway, while the main event takes place later. among the artists who will perform are the rolling stones, stevie wonder, billie eilish, paul mccartney and the concert pianist lang lang, who spoke to us earlier. the musicians we're talking about, they‘ re absolutely the best of their field. and to be with them, it's a really... i think it's not hard to find the position because piano has some sort of a good b

have been arrested for taking part in unauthorized protests last year it comes after beijing's top office in the city made an unprecedented death aeration over its rights to handle hong kong's a face when used as always on our website at al-jazeera dot com and i'll have more for you after the program piano history of a revolution as corona virus continues to devastate the united states the race to the white house goes on joe biden is in but secured his place is the democratic nominee but can he still trump joining us for continuing coverage of the u.s. election 2020 on al-jazeera. 148 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. setting up an independent palestinian organization was not easy. the 1st challenge the palestinians faced.

beijing had been infected domestically. of those, 394 had already been released from medical care. in other words, in a city billion people, only 22 hospital patients in beijing contracted the coronavirus in china, the country where it started. so literally one out of every million people. it is not believable? western media outlets believed it. they repeated that claim as fact. the chinese government clearly knew better than that. for the very next day, china closed every movie theater in the country. this monday, two days ago, authorities in shanghai shut down the two most popular tourist attractions, for indefinite period. that is not the behavior of a government that believes it has a claim to the outbreak. no, it's an expression of fear. the rest of us should be afraid, too. china's largest country in the world. in the chinese distort critical data sets like how many people are infected or how many are dying, that directly affects how every other country in the world responds to the disease. we may have wasted months assuming things about the coronavirus that were not true. there's a cost to that. more

and it has takaken the focus awy from wuhan, in many ways, because it is the fault of entry, cities like beijing and shanghai, where these impoported cases aree arrivining, and thats really prompting a lot of concern.n. besides that, therere has alslso been thihis new development as well that has happened in central china, , in an and province, and that is an area where a population of around 600,000 people, there appears to be several thousand new cases they are, and that is prompting concern also about the potential second wave of the disease comiming bk k to hau china, , you like. so therere are verery sort of md feelings right now. china, we have hearing -- we have been hearing about this ststory abouout how china a hasn recovering and t the countryry s successfullyly reverse thehe spd of t the disease, , but it is tt the time to let its guard down, and there is a lot of concern about what happens moving forward. anchor: patrick, thank you very much for the update. patrick fox reporting for us from beijing. to nicholas can go .ocker, expert virologist thank you for joining us on "france 24."

disease had emerged from a different place in southern china and gone to different cities than toronto, hanoi, beijing, and singapore might the history have been different? those are command and control cities with a lot of strong government, a lot of good public health, affluent facilities. if that disease emerged in the province of the democratic republic of the congo, i love the congo but had a lot of disadvantages would have been probably consequential if something like sars had come out of there. >> you have spoken about the wildlife aspect. comment about the role of the livestock industry in terms of control and prevention of these diseases but also potential spread? >> factory farming, huge operations like pig farms in malaysia are part of what makes this more urgent and dangerous, part of what makes us, the human population and our extensions a forest of dried tinder waiting for a spark. i mentioned the case in malaysia, the fact that pigs were kept in outdoor compounds and were arranged in a particular way with fruit trees was part of what resulted in that spillover. huge aggregations of wild

beijing. so what cities unlocked and schools closed and children at home in families and caregivers around the world are facing a challenge how to talk to their kids about corona virus like c.e.o. brian has been getting some tips from a few experts. on the streets of gaza human sized virus mix around raising awareness about $119.00. an effort to make learning about the virus engaging and accessible was it's a challenge caregivers around the world are facing as they try to explain the battle against an invisible enemy the pandemic is keeping around a 1000000000 children away from school it's really important to be honest and tell the truth and sometimes people say well how can i tell the truth my child or so young and that's ok we can tell the truth using age appropriate language watching our children's reaction being sensitive to the level of anxiety unicef has helped publish a story called my hero is you to help adults who may be struggling to find their own words to explain why the world has been turned upside down so the virus has basic wrote look today under a microscope it looks like a wa

city and the surrounding region other news now and over a dozen pro-democracy politicians and activists in hong kong have been arrested for taking part in unauthorized protests last year it comes after beijing's top office in the city made an unprecedented declaration over its rights to handle hong kong's affairs. the philippines government has promised to retaliate after 11 soldiers were killed by fighters the attack happened in the solve as a soldiers were carrying out security operations against a fight is in so little province and nasir has set the date for its 1st manned mission launched from u.s. soil in the decade 2 astronauts will be sent to the international space station on may 27th and i walk it owned by the company space x. those are the headlines on al-jazeera witness continues next to stay with us. otis kay argued you name it low you guy kewney i'm look we're like a pair of you boys in a neck and. you didn't got general i bought a hat which had a. locket i need to meet him not live it down. we do business cause he is huge i got me part behaves need to get it good you know on i don't operate by dr who often a day when i went out the other back home to 108 i. didn't examine. you s

venice canal getting clearer, we see a jelly fish going by, a reduction of pollution in new york city, in beijing. talk about how the shelter in place has dramatically improved the air quality and plewes leve -- pollution levels everywhere and in the bait area. we've seen dramatic reductions in the atmosphere. typically they go up during the traffic times and we've seen a complete flattening of that as a result of us not driving our cars and some factories slowing down. so here in the bay area throughout the country and the world we've seen the air quality improve a lot. you know, that's a great thing, although to be honest, this is the no the way we want to achieve those kind of outcomes. >> i was going to say, are you surprised at all by how quickly we saw this chang dramatically it happened? it takes a long time for humans to change. just the fact that we saw results so quickly, what does that mean? >> it was surprising. the first images we saw came out of china, which have really, really rare air quality in the urban areas. we saw before and after just over two to three weeks and we do know t

in harbin, a city of 10 million people, 1,400 miles from wuhan, a full quarantine has just been declared. in the capital beijing, gyms and swimming pools under a shutdown order through next week. and temperature checks for shoppers. in both cities, officials point to individuals returning from abroad as the cause of those reportedly small outbreaks. putting officials on edge is the example of singapore, where a seemingly successful effort to stop the virus has now gone into reverse. infections are climbing again, after social distancing rules were eased. today, china reported no new deaths for 11 days in a row. but the international community has accused china of not being transparent with its number of cases or about what happened in the early days of the pandemic. accusations it denies. tom? >> the world will be watching. all right, julia, thank you. >>> next tonight, the international mystery. north korean leader kim jong-un has not been seen in two weeks. at the same time, speculation grows over his health. here's abc's senior foreign correspondent ian pannell with what we know. >> reporter: tonight, where

underreporting deaths 2 days ago authorities in hand raised the official death toll in the city by 50 percent beijing has hit the back of fear is coming out of washington. trying to focus attention on the possible source of the virus every attend to me knows that they are trying to cause confusion to distract and to shift responsibility. that's a clear dig at u.s. president don would trump who is being criticized at home for his handling of the crisis relations between the u.s. and china was strained before. now vote very even worse. more than 260000000 orthodox christians in russia eastern europe and the middle east are celebrating easter this weekend a week after most other christians in most countries church leaders urged worship 1st to stay at home to avoid spreading the new coronavirus but in some places the faithful did attend services believing that god simply wearing a mask would protect them. in georgia some churches were open but because of the nationwide curfew orthodox worship has had to stay it services the whole night long from 9 on saturday evening until 6 in the morning. looking out i

operate and of underreporting deaths 2 days ago had raised the official death toll in the city by 50 percent beijing has hit the back of a theory is coming out of washington. been. there and trying to focus attention on the possible source of the virus every attentive knows that they are trying to cause confusion to distract and to shift responsibility. that's a clear dig at u.s. president donald trump who is being criticized at home for his handling of the crisis relations between the u.s. and china was strained before he operates now vo ever even worse. and we are joined now by political correspondent alexander in washington alexander why is there this debate about the coronavirus starting in a chinese lab when leading scientists say it's unfounded. you are right we are hearing those rumors conspiracy theories we are seeing those reports in some you asked media and even president trump has announced that his administration is looking into the issue and that they have started an investigation and to understand why we have to see the whole issue in the context of the growing china sentiment here in

and raised the official death toll in the city by 50 percent beijing has hit the back of a theory is coming out of washington. they don't try to focus attention on the possible source of the virus every attentively knows that they are trying to cause confusion to distract and to shift responsibility. thank you very much that's a clear dig at us presidents don't know trump who is being criticized at home for his handling of the crisis relations between the u.s. and china was strained before break now even worse. now to some of the other stories making news around the world in the u.s. west coast state of washington some 2 and a half 1000 protested against us to put in place by democratic governor jay inslee the rally in the state capital in libya defied the gatherings of 50 or more people . in canada a man wearing a police uniform has killed at least 16 people including a police officer in the eastern province of nova scotia the gunman went on a rampage shooting people in several locations he's now dead after pictures on busy highways. there is also spreading in south america colombia

underreporting deaths 2 days ago or thought is it will hand raised to be official death toll in the city by 50 percent beijing though has hit the back of fear is coming out of washington. they are enjoying to focus attention on the possible source of the virus every attentively. that they are trying to cause confusion to distract and to shift responsibility. thank you very much that is a clear dig at u.s. president donald trump who is being criticized at home for his handling of the crisis relations between the u.s. and china was strained before break now vo. in football bundesliga clubs are feeling the financial strain grow with each passing week of the league suspension with no clear end date in sight clubs are hoping that the season can resume in may but for some the suspension has exposed the frailties of the football business. the bundesliga has been suspended for more than a month which is left clubs in financial limbo. last month the german football league the d.f.l. held a general meeting. 13 out of $36.00 clubs said they would be at risk of insolvency. from t.v. deals who plays an important role in t

beijing. meanwhile other cities all over europe and the united states have been brought to their knees by theirus. how could this be? it doesn't seem to make any sense at all. for some reason almost nobody in the american media has even asked about it. that's strange. at this point we have no real explanation to why the coronavirus spread out the west but not throughout china. we should find that out. and that's not the only thing we don't understand about the pandemic. how about the most basic question at all, how deadly is it? in italy, 10% of people with confirmed cases have died. in germany, just 2% have died. both of these numbers probably overstate the reality of the death rate given that most people are not tested until they are already sick. it's a very skewed sample. more competence of testing in one town in germany suggests a death rate of just .37%. what that number hold in every place or could it be that town was infected with may be a milder form of virus? or is it possible that some of those people are more vulnerable to illness than others. is that true with this virus? we don'

emerged from a different place than southern china and hong kong and had gone to different cities than toronto, beijing and singapore, like the whole history have been different. think about those cities, their command and control cities with a lot of strong government. a lot of good public health, affluent facilities. if that disease emerged in the democratic republic of congo, i love the congo but it has a lot of disadvantages and they would have been probably very consequential if something like sars had come out of there. >> you spoke about wildlife aspect of the disease, could you comment on the role of the livestock industry both in terms of the control and prevention of disease but also the potential spread? >> factory farming, huge operations like pick firms in malaysia are part of what makes this problem urgent and more dangerous. part of what makes us, the human population and extension, a forest dry tender waiting for a spark. i mentioned the case in malaysia, the fact that the pigs were kept in these huge outdoor compound and that they were arranged in a particular way with fruit trees was

beijing's treachery. on january 23rd, they shut down air travel from wuhan to every other chinese city, couldn't go to beijinguldn't go to shanghai, but you could still travel to any city around the world direct flights from wuhan to include new york and san francisco. that meant that thousands of cases were being seated all around the world before the w.h.o. and china were even acknowledging human to human transmission. china was looking out for its own people by shutting down domestic travel while continuing to let this virus spread all around the world. >> bill: the issue now, or soon to be, if the doctor from the university of washington is right saying the worst is behind us and we put a bigger focus on the economy, you've got a catch-22. our economies are so linked to one another, what do you do about that? what do you do about supply lines, what action do you think is appropriate? >> it's time to start delinking our two economies. this happened over 30 years as a result of deliberate policy choices made in washington, those were bad choices. we can reverse it through good choices, legislation will brin

it's a satellite city of beijing to improve the currencies functionality so joining us to discuss and probably explain boom bust co-host investigative journalist ben swan ok ben so explain this to us this is a digital currency it sounds a lot like crypto currency like bitcoin is it or is it different. it only sounds like it in every other way other than being a digital currency it's nothing like crypto currency it's more like facebook's libra because that's also not a crypto currency and the big difference is clearly the fact that you have the people's bank of china which will be issuing this they don't even have a name for it yet they're calling it d.c. for digital currency or e.c. for electronic currency and essentially it would you know be set up as a digital currency but there's no privacy there's no way of not being tracked through it in fact the chinese government would not only be able to track everything you're doing with it but would have access to your bank accounts that you're putting these funds in to be able to monitor those bank accounts at all times so it's nothing like

this comes after beijing's office in the city asserted its right to intervene in affairs.e the virus is over, i can assure you the protesters will come out again. does notvernment listen to us and engage in dialogue with the masses. let's get over to our chief north asia correspondent. what about the timing here? what she just said runs the risk of inflaming what had been a fairly dormant protest season. because of the coronavirus operate. we saw some momentum in the protests over the previous six or seven months before the outbreak. now with this arrest in a state of emergency, it could inflame things. the u.s. and the u.k. putting out statements condemning these arrests. very well-known people could insight the people to calm back out. when the virus situation dies down. criticism has leveled by mike pompeo. we have heard from nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell as well. china is saying foreign countries have no right. it is an interesting turn at a time when she said beijing is using this as a golden opportunity when the world's attention is focused on the virus. haslinda:

already opened and that was in march the beginning of april but some of those cities that are reopening on monday shanghai beijing and one job in the focus is really on the senior and the middle school students particularly the final year classes that are preparing for the end of school exams and this role that's been happening i will happen over the next month or so with the primary schools to return in mind all schools are required to have various contingency plans in place the teachers have been trained to deal with emergency procedures to try and prevent any outbreak of transmissions the students of course have also been provided with protection as social distancing measures are in place during the lunch breaks and the canteens of also been set up almost like exam rooms to try and separate or divide the students and the reason why these schools are slowly reopening is we've seen a gradual for declining numbers in the number of crowd of cases in china and that's why these schools are reopening the national health commission on monday has reported just 3 cases in china and none of which were hit by province of

beijing. over recent days, chinese officials seeing the city have been making increasingly belligerent noises. local elections later this year. in this climate, it is hard not to see this coordinated series of arrests as anything less than a warning of beijing's's intention to tighten its grip on hong kong. i'm joined now by sir malcolm rifkind, who served as britain's foreign secretary from 1995 to 1997, and oversaw the final negotiations with china over the transfer of hong kong. you helped to design one country, two systems, for hong kong. china promised to keep it in place for 50 yea rs promised to keep it in place for 50 years after the handover. is it now over after just 23 years? years after the handover. is it now over afterjust 23 years? it is not over, but looking as though it might go that way. it is deeply disturbing and cynical what the chinese have done. you will have heard from your own reports that the assemblies that the people were accused of assembling was three years ago. why are they now bringing charges against of the most prominent citizens of hong kong? martin lee, 81 y

have been arrested for taking part in unauthorized protests last year it comes after beijing's top office in the city made an unprecedented death aeration over its rights to handle hong kong's a face when used as always on our website at al-jazeera dot com and i'll have more for you after the program piano history of a revolution as corona virus continues to devastate the united states the race to the white house goes on joe biden is in but secured his place is the democratic nominee but can he be still trying to join us for continuing coverage of the u.s. election 2020 on al-jazeera. 148 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. setting up an independent palestinian organization was not easy. the 1st challenge the palestinians faced was to wrest control of their own destiny from the ad abrasions. in early 1965 a series of attacks were carried out against israeli civilians and infrastructure

beijing. over recent days, chinese officials seeing the city have been making increasingly belligerent noises.s later this year. in this climate, it's hard not to see this coordinated series of arrests as anything less than a warning of beijing's intention to tighten its grip on hong kong. david campanale, bbc news. lockdown condition, many young people are consuming social media like never before. tiktok puzzling bigger stars have decided to isolate together. this is how six of the uk's biggest tiktok stars announce their arrival in the country's tiktok house with a tiktok video of course. i am in the house right now. this collective social media stars moved in together in london in mid march and have been documenting theirjourney mid march and have been documenting their journey in online videos. their aim is to create a kind of reality tv show, but with an important twist. millions of people watching this so far i'm not seeing it on tv. they are glued instead to the online video sharing platform tiktok. this is common in america where you two people live and work together. recently tiktok s