bolinger in beijing thank you. we'll have a developing story just coming in for you now iraqi forces say that they have freed the chairman our curator create crater excuse me hella mavis who was kidnapped by militants in baghdad on tuesday she runs an art program at the iraqi art collective target sources said that she had left her office and was riding her bicycle when she was kidnapped we'll have more on that story as it comes in. well u.s. president donald trump has canceled plans for a large scale republican national convention in florida next month because of the coronavirus pandemic the 4 night celebration was expected to draw some 10000 people to mark trump's formal nomination as the party's candidate for the november election the decision to call off the event comes as the u.s. surpasses $4000000.00 coronavirus cases. a tough decision for a president who loves nothing more than a crowd. donald trump canceled the republican convention in florida amid surging coronavirus cases across the state i looked at my

steal covert 19 vaccine research relations between the powers are at their lowest in 40 years a ts bolinger is standing by for us with a view from beijing that is what war can you tell us. that's pretty much what we know china has ordered the closure of the consulate in chengdu this is one of 5 consulates the u.s. has in the chinese mainland and this was expected 2 days ago the u.s. surprised china by ordering the closure of the consulate in houston and this is now the response that china has 2 days later for its part the united states says that that was due to concerns regarding intellectual property that a close that consulate china has promised retaliation since earlier in the week why did to choose the consulate in chengdu specifically. seems to be the most reciprocal move that they can could take chengdu is covering a big vast region in western china it's an important populous part of china however it is not where most u.s. businesses are if so it's pretty much comparable to euston which covers of course an important region of the us but is not as important as new york san francisco. t