new cases have been reported for nearly a month to live now to betray you she joins us live in beijing katrina sure the world is going to be watching as the you know places start to reopen what effect this may have on the spread of the disease house is going to play out. well the way it's playing out here in china is that this is being hailed as a triumph as a milestone for will one city which of course was the epicenter of the virus here in china the people living in ruhani experience the most severe lockdown measures because of the current virus outbreak so also a lot of relief coming from families there as you mentioned 58000 students are for the 1st time in weeks stepping back into their classrooms they're going to schools more than 120 schools opening doors across the city but it's not classes as they remember as their classes are being split into smaller groups to maintain some sort of social distance between the students they're expected to wear masks at all times and also there will have their temperatures regularly checked at the same time the schools are emptier than usual because it

to him in a moment but let's 1st go to katrina you she's been listening in to that speech in beijing katrina so a rather long and detailed opening statement from really touching but the overriding message from the chinese premier seems to be that china's claiming victory over the coronavirus pandemic and despite the hit to the economy it's back to business as usual. that's why it was quite a long detailed report i've got it here in my hands 23 pages of different issues but as you said mentioned the main issue we tackled was the impact of the coronavirus basically the premier league the child was saying that no results and no measure has been spared in fighting this epidemic in containing. and is saving as many lives as possible that was what he called a price worth paying but because of this the chinese economy has paid a heavy price or as you mentioned it is resilient it is recovering but at the same time it has suffered many losses and for the 1st time since 1988 the chinese government has not sent a g.d.p. target for the year last year was expected to be about 6 percent but this year no g

well we'll have reaction from hong kong with adrian brown very shortly but 1st let's go to katrina you in beijing for us so katrina the national people's congress voting on a draft decision within the hour what are we expecting talk us through the process of how this is going to be enacted. well the national people's congress is the biggest political gathering of the year in china we have $3000.00 members of the communist party gathering in one room along with xi jinping and they discussed various agenda items throughout the week this year it was only 7 days compared to previous years it's been $10.00 to $14.00 days of course one of the top issues that there will be discussing and deliberating over is the national security law in hong kong we haven't heard any details as to what that will include but some officials in beijing have raised that it may ban foreign judges in hong kong from presiding over any national security cases and it may also expand the presence of china's intelligence agency in hong kong so we are waiting to hear details as you mentioned fully they are starting to vote on those

could eventually descend into all out conflict or be staying across those developments katrina you there for us in beijing thank you katrina. hong kong leader has moved to reassure locals that proposed a national security legislation will not affect freedoms in the territory last week china proposed a bill for hong kong that it says aims to tackle the session and that sparked protests on the weekend. we are very free society for the time being people have this freedom to say whatever they want to say but ultimately what is to be provided in this piece of legislation is for or of us to see in order to be assured that hong kong's freedoms will be preserved and hong kong vibrancy and our core values in terms of the rule of law the independence of a traditionally the various rights and freedoms enjoyed by people will continue to be there now the british prime minister is top adviser has defied calls to quit or apologize over accusations that he broke coronavirus lockdown rules addressing a personal storm that and golf to barra's johnson's government dominic coming said he doesn't regret his actions he travell

will become an essential part of life in china for months to come at least with the latest in beijing katrina thank you. new zealand has lifted most of its most of its strict lockdown measures meaning many everyday activities can resume restaurants businesses and shopping malls have reopened children will go back to school on monday. gatherings will be limited to 10 people and social distancing remains in place the government has announced record spending to try to restore the economy of around $3000000000.00 over 4 years is in the north island of k. north island town rather of cambridge and has more on what the government is doing to mitigate the economic damage of the shutdown. the country is beginning to get back to some sort of economic activity but there is a sense that the worst could still be to come because of what the rest of the world is going through in terms of facing economic recessions this is a country that relies heavily on exports and tourism there is some estimates that say that in the tourism sector alone alone around $100000.00 jobs could be lost so even though the country

we've reached a new tipping point because of the security will katrina thank you for katrina the united there in beijing let's get reaction now from hong kong adrian brown is there for us adrian as katrina say the national people's congress approved this draft with no consultation with hong kong's leaders how is this going to go down there. well i think hong kong's getting a sort of firsthand lesson in geopolitics because this city finds itself caught in the middle of a deepening cold war between china and the united states and is katrina mentioned there could be more economic pain on the way from hong kong because of course the united states government is now warning that it might be prepared to end the special special trading relationship that hong kong enjoys with washington now currently hong kong enjoys a trade surplus with the united states to the tune of $26000000000.00 so if the united states is going to invoke the hong kong autonomy act and end those special trading privileges that home kong enjoys then of course that risks jeopardizing you know billions of dollars worth of trade between the 2

you who is live for us in beijing katrina china has always been criticized for the way it's handled this pandemic and president xi in his speech a short while ago was very defensive. that's right i think president xi is well aware of this brawling and china sentiment around the world because of the spread of the coronavirus 1000000 you know hundreds of. lots of people have lost their lives and you know there has been millions lost in terms of economic damage worldwide because of this current virus and he's taken a very peaceful stance during his speech he said that china will donate $2000000000.00 to the world health organization to help relieve this response against the pandemic that china will help to develop a vaccine for the global good he also called for other countries to support the world health organization and very interesting lee he actually said that he supports a comprehensive review into the outbreak once this virus is under control as long as it is led by the world health organization now this is something that

you she's in beijing katrina this is a hugely controversial legislation remember back in 2003 the last time it was on the table it brought a 1000000 people onto the streets of hong kong and then china backed off so why are we seeing this now. well basically you know hong kong's basic law which is like hong kong has many constitution it really should be a hong kong legislators introducing any kind of national security law but precisely because of the kind of protests that you mentioned that happened in 2003 this law hasn't been passed by the legislators in hong kong so what we're hearing reports that beijing is going to take matters into its are in hand so according to hong kong media. china's leaders are going to introduce a draft legislation that's going to ban secession foreign interference and any attempt to topple the central government and this is really going to happen through a kind of legal back door where beijing can introduce an annexation or an amendment to this basic local situation apparently they've

since april no new cases have been reported for nearly a month it's going down to katrina you who's live for us in beijing. let me correct myself a katrina 58000 students and 120 schools so tell us how all this is expected to play out. that's right and so far the students seem to be happy and relieved this is certainly being sold as a milestone by the government in rwanda and indeed the government here in china was the at the center of the alfred and experience the most severe lockdown measures that the country experienced during this time so we now have these thousands of students going back to school in war han they're attending 121 different schools across the city and that's really being trumpeted across china and state media here as as a triumph really of the government's ability to control the outbreak and for these students though they weren't be going back to class as they remember it well the class groups have been divided into smaller groups to allow the students to maintain some level of distance between each other they have to wear masks at all times and they have to have that temperatures reg

you now joins us from beijing katrina so today is effectively a rubber stamping process for this storm despite all the opposition we've seen that's right voting seems determined to go ahead with this national security law despite of international criticism right now 3000 china's communist party members are meeting in beijing for the last day of the national people's congress and this afternoon local time they're going to vote to pass a variety of laws including the national security law and it's certainly going to go through the last few days we've had the same line from beijing that it is a job of the central government to enforce national security and that this will be good for hong kong stability which is really emphasize this huge disconnect between beijing and what the people hong kong want and feel but beijing has shown simply no interest in listening to pro-democracy activists pro-democracy politicians all the u.s. on this issue and in regard to the u.s. request to convene a u.n. security council meeting well china

expected to announce plans to tackle the economic fallout will katrina you joins us live now from beijing katrina this national people's congress was originally proposed because of the corona virus and how important is this year's event given that beijing would want to show that it's back to business as usual and claim victory over the pandemic. well that's extremely important and the main audience for the chinese government is the 1400000000 chinese people we have to remember that the epicenter of this coronavirus 10 demick is china and people here have been dealing with it since january and the chinese people have because of this experience months of loss both personal and economic and really this is a chance with this n.p.c. for the government to restore confidence with the chinese people who are more been experiencing a lot of bands uncertainty and a lot of fear it's a chance for them to really tell the people that they have the country in hand despite the plethora of difficulties that the government is facing and it's not just local challenges like economic economic slowdown all rising unemp

life in one hand and surrounding province so let's go now to katrina you she joins us live from beijing katrina is this being seen as perhaps the final hurdle in the return to normal life. certainly one of the final hurdles i think these students have been horrible and not be able to attend class for more than 3 months now and certainly it's really seen as a key indicator among the people here in china of things really improving of the outbreak coming under control so we're seeing today 60000 students able to attend class for the 1st time as you said from 100 more than 120 schools but this isn't all the students many stalls schools still remain closed in particular primary school still close and also younger high still high school students are still not able to attend classes now these students that we're seeing going into class these are the oldest high school students and they've been prioritised because they have to prepare for the university entrance exams the gulf as it's known here in china which is taking place in june and they will join a 9 high school students of their same level aroun

and stability and the practice of one country 2 systems from all the spring in katrina you in beijing katrina sounds like beijing is not in the mood to take any kind of conciliatory approach from hong kong . that's right at the press conference today one he is not budging one bit in fact he almost expressed some surprise that people around the world and certainly in hong kong were making such a big deal of this he was actually saying that the hong kong government and all relevant parties have voiced support for this national security law he also said that hong kong is a part of china and it is the responsibility of the central government to enact security laws for the whole country and this is a wide practice around the world and this is really just beijing doing its job he also said he singled out these protesters not as the masses not as the majority of people hong kong but he called them radical moyle ist escalating violence and even terrorist activity so very much sidelining them as extremists and he said that this law would be good for hong kong stability and people should stop worrying

believe that they've got it wrong so what's been the chinese response to this let's go live to katrina use in beijing and katrina strong words from chinese state media i think in response to my pump what are they saying. that's what there's been a back and forth between the u.s. and china on this topic for months now and this latest editorial from the global times which is a chinese state media newspaper really just adds fuel to that fire and has some very strong words for u.s. secretary of state mike pompei attacking him really calling him a liar saying that he's engaging in filthy behavior to mislead the public and saying that he has lost his moral compass and that's in response to the comments we just heard of the secretary of state saying this significant evidence that carbon 1000 originated in a chinese lab in the wall in situ to roll a g. and beijing has a flat out denied this it says that washington is really spreading political virus by spreading this what it calls a rumor and that there is no evidence it's also denied any accusations that it's engaging in a just information campaign or a cov

speaking to him in a moment 1st let's go to trina you who's been listening to that speech in beijing katrina it sounded to me as though the message from the premier as far as covert 19 was concerned was quite confident but when it came to the economy it was a bit more cautious. that's why roll over roll cautious was the tour and it's quite a server and speech have got it in my hands here 23 pages which sounds have but in fact that's the shortest speech we've had from the premier in years here in china and as you mentioned indeed he talked about how the current virus has had a huge impact on china triumphant in a sense that the government he said sped no measure nor results in making sure that that outbreak was contained as fast as possible and premier league called that a price worth paying but as you mentioned the economy has suffered heavy losses and because of this because of continuing uncertainty when it comes to the pandemic spreading around the world and uncertainty with trade for the 1st time since 1988 the chinese government has not set a g.d.p. growth target for this year last year

rule of beijing's rule so they're really weaving forward with this so we are expecting to hear more details as this is discussed over the next few days and we'll be staying across them indeed katrina you there for us in beijing let's now go to adrian brown he's in hong kong for us adrian do you think this is likely to bring people out onto the streets again there as we saw back in 2003 the last time they tried to do this. well it's possible it might in the next few weeks but for now we have these social distancing rules still in force which means that groups of no more than 8 people are allowed to congregate on the streets of hong kong and of course the timing of this is very significant isn't it because it may well be that you know a decision was taken by the datas human beijing to push through that status later now because of course it's difficult for people to protest in hong kong right now certainly it is a dramatic escalation of beijing's efforts to rein in dissent and to reign in the protests here in hong kong and we have to see it also in the context of all that's been happening here in the past few weeks on monday 15 veteran pro democracy activists appeared in court at the

market and will hand to the outbreak of the corona virus pandemic turning you is live for us in beijing katrina how is this going to system going to work. well so far the authorities have released what they've called a phase one list of 14 different wildlife animals including civet score versus rational snakes chinese deer and wild geese and the breeders for handing it into the governments will receive different amounts of compensation from $11.00 per animal to just over $300.00 and the idea is that the breeders will then take this money and convert their facilities into producing agricultural goods such as tea leaves or crops so producing other animals for example now this policy so far has been introduced in 3 different provinces junk she and quinn and which neighbor who by province the original at the center of the outbreak and guangdong it's important to say that the majority of chinese people do not eat wildlife but it has been part of the diet of some communities particularly in the south for centuries and the government has tried since february this year to crack down on the wildlife tra

you with the latest from beijing katrina thank you. yes president's handling of the crime of virus crisis is under greater scrutiny after accusations he sought quick fixes by using and proven drugs on patients and as the death toll passes 70000 in the u.s. says he's considering winding down the virus task or set up to respond to the pandemic i can as the latest from washington no facemask for the president while visiting an aerospace company repurposed to produce masks this in defiance of his administration's guidelines that masks should be worn in public at all times the president confirmed reports that he was considering shutting down the coronavirus task force that has been responsible for the federal response to the pandemic as far as the task force my pension the task force and done a great job but we're now looking at a little bit of a different form and their former safety and opening and we'll. have a different group probably set up for them are you saying mission accomplished no no no no the mission accomplished is

voluntary but at some point it may be rolled out on a compulsory basis all right katrina you live in beijing katrina thank you it's the lenders will be able to do everything every day things again such as going to restaurants and shopping malls as well as businesses reopening children are being allowed to go back to school on monday social distancing rules do remain a most gatherings are restricted to 10 people governments announce record spending of around $40000000000.00 over 4 years to revive the economy or correspondent wayne hay has more from the town of cambridge on north island. the country is beginning to get back to some sort of economic activity but there is a sense that the worst could still be to come because of what the rest of the world is going through in terms of facing economic recessions this is a country that relies heavily on exports and tourism there is some estimates that say that in the tourism sector alone around $100000.00 jobs could be lost so even though the country is opening up opening up economically there is a sense as a say that they could be more pain to come the gov

battered demond globally let's get more on this now from katrina you should join us live from beijing katrina so china's export trade figures are up just like months of lock down what more do we know. that's right so we've just gotten the figures in the last few hours and overall trade for china is down by 0.7 percent year on year and that's no surprise considering the extent of this pandemic but what is a surprise as you mentioned daryn is that exports in april are up they're actually up by 8.2 percent year on years of that 8.2 percent increase compared to last year and a 3.5 percent increase compared to march and now this is also compare your huge think seeing that we did see a drop of exports in general for be a combined drop of about 17 percent and also drop of about 6.6 percent in march so there is some real recovery in chinese trade in this is really a surprise to many analysts they were predicting up to an 11 percent drop and some people are attributing this to the fact that perhaps during april there was an increase in exports of p.p. e.u. or protective medical gear such as masks and

or attacked as they were at the beginning of the pandemic for not doing enough and katrina you there for us in beijing thank you katrina. well thousands of people across england have headed back to work for the 1st time in more than 7 weeks it's part of a plan to relax restrictions which have now been in place since late march people can now spend as much time as they want outdoors as long as they follow social distancing rules but leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland have rejected the changes saying it's too early to ease measures while our correspondent now joins us live from london joiner you were standing outside what's usually a very bustling victoria station just how busy has it been this morning. well it's pretty much as you see it things have been extremely quiet here marginally busier of course than throughout the last 7 weeks of lockdown there certainly is an uptick of people out and about but this is not a rush back to work it's a very very slow start to the lifting of lockdown here and in very specific circumstances the government as you say in england the devolved administration

you there for us in beijing thank you very much katrina well for more on the national people's congress we can also speak to michael pettis he's a professor of finance at picking university's school of management he joins us now from the chinese capital michael this year's congress is obviously taking place in the middle of a global pandemic and massive economic downturn what kind of turn do you think are we likely to hear from leaders when it comes to growth. well i think it's pretty clear that there's a tremendous debate going on and by now i assume it's resolved because they have so little time left as to exactly how they're going to respond to the pandemic we know that most of the the good sources of growth in china the sustainable sources which are consumption exports and private sector business and aimed at serving consumption and exports are almost certainly going to be negative this year so if you want positive growth and they do want positive growth then they're going to have to rely on that on the old work courses which are mostl

government and that's exactly what she jinping is trying to address during his speech here katrina you there for us in beijing and of course we'll be bringing you much more coverage of that w.h.o. missing here on al-jazeera thank you katrina. off and out sport is next here on out there and live gold for a chance to t.v. but some of the wild best players have to carry their own bags. well it is now time for sports and here's joe and i thank you and we start in germany where defending champions by in munich have made a winning restarts of the league after more than 2 months out because of the current virus stoppage buy in return to the pitch to face union beilin on sunday it was strict health restrictions in place and no fans were allowed in to watch the. same robot leavened offs he gave by in the lead in the 40th minute from the penalty spot it was his 14th goal of the season benjamin provide snuck in late to score seconds as teammates briefly forgot their social distancing rules during the celebration to know when put spine back 4 points clear of percy dormant before he was weird to be playing without the fan

global infections are on the path to hit 4000000 let's begin our coverage with katrina you joins us now live from beijing how has the 1st day back at school and mohan city gone katrina. well this is being hailed as a milestone here in china. at the center of the outbreak here the residents had to experience the strictest measures in terms of lock down controls this year and more state of the deaths and cases of the current virus took place in 100 city and now for the 1st time students are streaming into their classrooms after weeks of not being able to go to school and there is a lot of relief and excitement from the students being able to go back to classes but as you mentioned it's not classes as they remember them they are now going to smaller classes as groups sizes have been reduced they're wearing masks at all times they haven't had that temperatures checked and classes are also staggered and there are much fewer students only the oldest high school students will be attending class the seniors they've been per pirate us as they have to prepare for their university entrance exams that are taking pla

for the national people's congress to impose national security rules in hong kong live to katrina you in beijing for us or katrina as expected the national people's congress has approved plans for a security law for hong kong what happens next. that's where the national people's congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of passing this law no surprise there was a pre-approved policy now from here on we know that the details will now be discussed and put into place over the next few weeks we know generally that this law will allow beijing to have a heavier hand in clamping down on those pro-democracy protests which have been a thorn in beijing side since they began last june and that they will apply changes to hong kong's basic law its many constitution and doing in doing this they will completely bypass the hong kong legislative process now we do know so far that this law has 7 articles which bans as you mentioned earlier secession any subversion it also bans foreign interference and it will also include the setting up of chinese security offices in hong kong as well as enhancing patriotic educatio

those suspected or diagnose with all the 19 won't be able to go back let's speak to katrina you our correspondent in beijing about this katrina why have these batteries become such an issue now well the chinese authorities are saying that it's because of concerns related to the pandemic simply it's not safe in india anymore and would they would rather the citizens be back home in china now and we know there are about $5000.00 chinese citizens currently in india tourists as well as business people it's a popular destination for many in china but that 5000 is just a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of chinese currently stuck abroad estimates of about 1400000 chinese currently unable to get home because of the pandemic at the moment china has some very strict travel restrictions in place only one airline per country per week is allowed to land in china so those flight tickets are extremely difficult to come by and if you do come by them they're extremely expensive so there's a lot of actually anger from people from chinese people who are stuck abroad about this move questioning why those in india are b

thank you very much for about katrina you live for us in beijing now brazil's amazon region has become the new front line in the battle against 19 infections are rising quickly leaving hospitals overwhelmed in the city of man hours but president continues to don play the pandemic alice on the run ph he has a report. a face mask is projected on the statue of christ the redeemer the symbol of. it's a call for awareness as the number of cases keep rising across brazil. has been marking from the start keeps hugging and shaking hands with supporters. on sunday he once again led a protest in the capital against stay at home ordered by local governors as he fights against corruption from the country's congress and supreme court. we want the true independence of the 3 powers not only a fraction of the constitution we don't want that enough with interference we want to admit any more interference i'm being very clear patience has run out. last week replace the country's most popular anti corruption crusader former justice minister . who now accuses him of t

leave those suspected or diagnose with gold in 19 won't be able to go back and speak to katrina correspondent in beijing about this so katrina why have these or patrie ations become such an urgent issue now. well according to the chinese government they have concerns about the pandemic they say that simply it's no longer safe for their citizens to be in india we know there are roughly about $5000.00 chinese currently in india who are tourists or business people it's a popular destination for chinese travelers but this $5000.00 is just a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of chinese currently stuck abroad because of the pandemic estimates of about one point $4000000.00 are currently unable to return because at the moment the chinese government has very strict travel restrictions in place they've got a rule which says only one airline per country pope week is allowed to go into china making those tickets very expensive and very difficult to come by so these chinese tourists or business people stuck in india say that they're very lucky but it has provoked anger among chinese who are stuck in other co

reported speak to our china correspondent katrina hughes joining us here on the news hour out of beijing katrina hi there what are the authorities so worried about when it comes to this cluster in jilin province. well what is concerning is that this cluster is slowly growing and it's starting to spread outside of jail into other areas in the country so in the last 24 hours we had 3 new cases reported one more in julian city but in the neighboring province of liaoning now in total we know this cluster has about 2 dozen cases confirmed and there are more than 700 people who have been isolated or are being monitored in hospital facilities that because they've been in contact with these confirmed cases and authorities are urging the public to come forward if they've had any symptoms or know that they've been in contact with these cases as well and what this does seem to suggest is that the authorities suspect that this cluster was growing undetected for some time and that's why you see this reaction shutting down the studio locking down a city of 4 and a half 1000000 people just because of 20 or so

the city fueling fears of a 2nd wave of outbreaks within china that speak to katrina you who joins us live now from beijing and katrina if the vice mayor is right this is troubling news. that's right so dillon city which is the capital of the northeast in a province of jeilan also the same name which is in the border of china's border with russia that has a population of about 4 a half 1000000 people and that went into lockdown this morning just a few hours ago so no trains the roads are also shut going out of the city and public gatherings have been also banned now that comes after about 6 cases were identified in julian city this week but that has been designated a medium risk area here in china but more unsettling is the satellite city which is under the jurisdiction of julian city of should live on that's a much smaller city about 700000 people live there but 15 cases have been identified there since the beginning of may and should learn since you went into lockdown earlier this week now all of these cases have been traced to a 45 year old woman but it's still a mystery to authorities as to how exactly

measures to kickstart the struggling economy that's been hit hard by the pandemic and speak to katrina you in beijing for is so katrina the advisory board the body department meeting and they talk to a number of issues every year but this year is going to be different isnt it. quite different this afternoon and it's known as the 2 sessions opened here in beijing the advisory body is made up of about 2000 economists and other political political commentators analysts business people and they advise the government and tomorrow we'll have the national people's congress which is a a room full of thousands of the most powerful people here in china including president xi jinping and this year it's different because there are so many challenges that this body faces we've spoken to so many analysts and they've told us never before has the n.p.c. met during such trying times of both internal and external difficulty is that they face internally a slowing economy rising unemployment more businesses going bankrupt and turning to the government to stimulate the economy after the standstill brought about by the co

reopen later this week and secondary schools will return later this month let's bring in katrina you in beijing for as i imagine relief katrina for the people in hong kong tell us more about the new measures announced by carrier. that's right a lot of relief well she attended a press conference and the theme of this was hope on the horizon and it was very aptly named as the government and kerry lamb said that they were very confident that the current virus outbreak in hong kong was under control enough to ease some of these very strict measures that have been in place for weeks most importantly starting on friday people are going to be able to gather in public in groups of up to 8 people now that's double the previous maximum of 4 people and many key businesses key entertainment businesses will also be allowed to open so that includes cinemas and theaters it includes gyms and also beauty salons also key was the announcement that some schools are also going to be able to finally reopen now they're not all going to open at once they're going to be opened in batches starting with the older high sc

being told to continue wearing masks in crowded places like supermarkets and morals and go to katrina you in beijing so where is this the fear is that there would be further waves of curve with 19. well those fears are so very much alive so it's a quite a milestone no new cases that's no local transmissions no asymptomatic cases no imported cases even but it's china is not out of the woods yet we still know of at least 2 active clusters of the current virus one in the original at the center of the out the outbreak earlier this month about $5.00 to $6.00 people were discovered to have covered 19 and that spurred authorities to start mass testing of the entire population of that city 11000000 people and a 2nd cluster pap's more worrying for authorities is in jilin province that's the north east of china and there are 2 cities there which are particularly affected and more than 100 cases have been confirmed there in jilin and 2 cities have been put into lockdown quite severe lockdown public transport has been suspended and many residential compounds have been cordoned off with households only allowed a

growth target premier league said development would be set aside as beijing works to repair an economy badly hit by the coronavirus katrina year reports from beijing . a minute's silence to honor thousands of chinese who lost their lives to the coronavirus set a somber tone for the opening of china's national people's congress delivering the annual government work report premier league a chant hailed the communist party's achievement in containing the outbreak and also acknowledged the heavy economic cost for the 1st time since 1988 no g.d.p. growth target was set change our success has come at a great price the economy posted negative growth in the 1st quarter of this year and a daily life in the work has been greatly affected no mention either of any large scale economic stimulus for the world's 2nd largest economy instead communist officials were told to tighten their belts and focus on stabilizing employment and eradicating poverty. the government plans to create $9000000.00 jobs and kept unemployment at the current rate of 6 percent but analysts say millions of daily wage workers are not included in the official tall

defended beijing as for paul's security laws she says the legislation want to impact hong kong's rights and freedoms and that fierce people will be arrested for speaking out our imagined katrina you was listening to carry lamb speech in beijing. she was at pains to reassure an increasingly anxious public about the consequences of this law saying that these fears are groundless what makes hong kong hong kong what makes it different to any other province in china those things will remain the same the judiciary will be independent and that it will only target a handful of what you called law breakers that the majority she said of peace loving hong kong citizens will not be effective now this of course follows the announcement of this national security law by beijing last thursday. china is preparing to repatriate its citizens in india as corona virus infections advise the chinese embassy in new delhi notified nationals of the plan on monday they have until wednesday to register to leave the world health organization has balls the global trial of the drug. over safety concerns the anti-malarial drug was being tested as a possible treatment focal that 19 a temporary suspension com

economy after the coronavirus outbreak caused the biggest contraction in decades as speak to katrina you in beijing for is so katrina the advisory body department meeting today ahead of the opening of the conference tomorrow every year leaders tackle a number of issues but this year it's a bit different isn't it. that's right so the 2 sessions the long way to 2 sessions began today the c.p.p. c.c. is an advisory body made up of about 2000 business leaders academics and celebrities who advise the government they don't have any real legislative power but tomorrow the national congress will open and that includes 3000 of most powerful people in china including president xi jinping and they meet every year but as you said fully this year is different because we've spoken to many analysts and they all have the same opinion that never before has in 2 sessions met under such challenging circumstances both internal and external internally we have a slowing economy and rising unemployment and more and more businesses knocking on the government's door asking them to do more to stimulate the economy and we ha

thank you very much for that katrina you live for us safe from beijing. ties between china and australia are also under growing strain after beijing impose tariffs center suspended imports of australian agriculture products it's being seen as a retaliation for surliest push for a global investigation into the origins of call that 19 make a gauge reports from a farming town in the state of new south wales. the panics of return to green on this farm in regional new south wales which if henderson looks after $550.00 angus cattle recent rain brought. drought but the multi-billion dollar cattle industry is now in the middle of an installation trade dispute between australia and china putting thousands of jobs at risk this run a certain. things considerably plant crops up to the future and we don't need any potential like this to sort of put the brakes on that china has suspended beef imports from 4 of destroying these major rabbits was but it's being seen by some analysts as china using tried to punish a strong leader for pushing for a global inquiry into the

territory is no longer autonomous from china this comes as beijing has to impose a new security law on hong kong which has sparked more protests katrina you has more from beijing they've been very much defending this showing nor signs of backing down and i think that really demonstrates this boss disconnect between what beijing thinks and what the people in hong kong want and feel and this latest salvo from the u.s. asking the u.n. security council to convene a meeting that has only further infuriated china not had the opposite effect of trying to get it to back down china's ambassador to the u.n. has called this a call ridiculous he said that the u.s. is a troublemaker or a canadian court has ruled an extradition case against twa a chief financial officer in the longo can go ahead she is wanted in the u.s. on charges of misleading a major bank on hallways dealings with iran growing anger over the death of an unarmed black man and u.s. police custody has spread to los angeles hundreds of protesters have been on the streets there meanwhile in minneapolis where george floyd died police have used tear gas to disperse demonstrates his. th

3 and a half 1000000 confirmed cases across the globe so let's begin in hong kong a katrina is live for us in beijing and katrina tell us more about the situations in hong kong is good news lot of relief then no doubt what else about carrie lamb's measures. that's right well the press conference was named the hope on the horizon press conference and it was aptly named because the government and kerry lamb said that they were very confident that hong kong had stabilized its corona virus outbreak enough to be able to ease some of those very strict measures that have been in place for weeks so starting from this friday groups of up to 8 people will be able to gather in public and they'll be able to eat together for example in restaurants previously that maximum group number was for also some key venue some key businesses will finally be able to reopen that includes jims cinemas and fears has some bars as well as beauty parlors and finally they also announce some opening dates for schools which many families have been looking forward to so starting from the 27 older high school kids will be able to atten

centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of jonah are let's get the reaction from beijing and our correspondent katrina you joins us now live so what are they saying in china about the threat to the w.h.o. and also a trump sakis ations. well state media here in china are painting president xi jinping in opposition to donald trump that donald trump is really out for america while she jinping is out for the world as is a leader in trying to restore global order at least that's the image on state media there they've hailed president xi jinping as a speech at the world health assembly online yesterday as a as quote a triumph as a bold move saying that president xi jinping welcomes an international review because china simply has nothing to hide there's also rejected any attempts by the u.s. and donald trump to politicize this probe and to politicize any action from the world health organization and saying indeed that it's a puppet. what we've seen around the world is a foreign media according to state media saying that this program really is a inquiry to hold china to account and state media saying that th

virus measures have been pulled back katrina you for the update thanks very much katrina correspondent there in beijing. let's go back to our top story in saudi arabia's tough austerity measures aimed at shoring up her state's finances after battered low oil price is joining me now is. the director of the institute for gulf as joins me via skype from washington d.c. good to have you with us on the program so i mean how expected or unexpected does this move been by the government. it is expected in fact i tweeted about it over 8 days ago. the government can i mean saudi arabia has been under a lot of stress that there is why the government would draw $23000000000.00 from the reserves in march this is the largest withdrawal from the reserves ever in the history of the country so and then moody's obviously downgraded saudi just a few weeks ago so we're looking at continuous back in 0. problems facing the economy and hurdles and not only corona has blocked or stopped there and i'm other than you have but one and a half 1000000 people coming to america and medina during ramadan also had been canceled in add

authorities have warned that there are still some suspected cases let's go live now to zeerust katrina you who's in beijing so quite a milestone for china in its fight against the virus katrina the 1st in how many months is this. the 1st in 5 months the 1st recorded cases of the current virus in china were recorded mid to late january so it is quite a milestone no cases whatsoever last month there was another milestone of no local transmissions but we still saw a new cases in the form of imported cases symptomatic cases and now again there was a local transmissions of these numbers have kind of stayed around the single digit mark but today for the 1st time no recorded cases what sort of a surge is quite a milestone for the government and they'll be very happy to hear about that now they have moved very quickly when they have located new clusters recently that is still an issue and it's by no means means that this is the end to the fight against a virus here in china there with 6 new cases recorded in one hand the epicenter of the virus a few weeks ago and that's the authorities did want to test the entire

told the $3000.00 delegates promoting development would be set aside as beijing repairs an economy badly hit by the pandemic katrina use in beijing with details of the konami plan. the theme was that the chrono virus has had a huge impact on china they've managed to get that under control they're still fighting the war no measures no resources have been spared but because of this the economy has suffered heavy losses but in premier league chung's words that was a price worth paying and because of this and because of the uncertainties due to the pandemic and trade no g.d.p. target has been set in china for the 1st time since 1988 he went on then to elaborate on a few measures that will be implemented to bolster the slowing economy the 1st being to stabilize employment that is key and he repeated that throughout the speech $9000000.00 urban jobs will be introduced and they will also invest in group projects and boost agricultural related jobs as well $114000000000.00 worth of government bonds will be issued to tackle card 19 and a defense budget was also raised 6.6 percent it will be by 6.6 percent this year that's a

and i've lived in beijing for about 7 years now and i'm originally from new york australia. great to have a katrina in the stream hello ya too great to have you tell everybody who while what. i am the actual americans are chair of human rights watch i research and write about rights issues in china in york city right now and your accent or iris. thanks for coming to the stream freesheet it and to see you have got so many stories i know tell everybody who you are welcome to the street. show. on my knees. is a mission technologist signs a sing along and a real evening in london and 'd over 7 years. in china these. humanitarians. days before the. once easy and. the transitions are now syrian. and the muses are. really military put in your room and stories but let me start as all of katrina katrina what is different in your life today that you never would have imagined would be the norm for you now that china is beginning to get out of these who are down mandates what's your life like now. well every day in china now you have to go out and have a mask on if you don't have a mask on you feel naked it's

can resume until then like millions around the world she staying harmed and standing by katrina you al-jazeera beijing. still ahead on al-jazeera vedas in south sudan kill more than 100 people the latest violence in a centuries old dispute between cattle farming try. had other some really heavy rain developing in china is the seasonal right it seems to be completely separated from this line that goes to the east of japan but they're all part of the same system but they tend to pulse and then move on so you've got fine looking weather in japan but look more closely the temperatures mean tokyo 17 in may with a circulation here in sea of japan is likely to be disappointing now the korean peninsula is looking fine the moment there is rain the yellows say but the sea is just a bit breezy as light breeze on shore so your eyes are drawn to this and that is heavy rain developing in southern china running through hong kong and probably drifting offshore through taiwan but staying away from japan where it warms up a bit come friday that active system links up with this from paul on the tropical cyclone that mak

from on this let's bring in katrina hughes she joins us from beijing so the. comments there showing beijing is not taking a very conciliatory tone on hong kong right now. now that's right minister one you showed no sign of giving in to any pressure from these protesters in fact the office said he was quite dismissive of any criticism of this national security law and even expressed some surprise he mentioned that the hong kong government has said that they support this law and reminded the international community that hong kong is a part of china and therefore it's the job of the central government in beijing to enforce national security in its own country he also said that as you heard he called these protesters radical localist very much conveying that the people protesting are not the mainstream are not the the majority of hostesses but rather extremists who are who are out for themselves and who are only interested in destabilizing the region he urged hong kong residents and the international community instead to stop worrying and that this national securi