dorian lao from amnesty international hong kong speaking to us earlier. now what do you do if you're a wild water canoe slalom racer but you can't train because of the corona virus outbreak argentina's about to come up with a solution he's been practicing by tying himself to 2 palm trees and splashing around in his girlfriend's swimming pool she won silver at the pan american games last year and is now targeting targeting success at the tokyo olympics which have been postponed until 2021 because of a pandemic. and 2 russian cosmonauts on the international space station have been testing their mental agility with a game of chess against grand master circuit carjack and the match was broadcast on the you tube channel the russian space agency anatolia even issue and yvonne wagner used a tablet at the fair pretty well against one of the top names and just coming away with an incredible draw cardiac and was playing from moscow at the space museum there. you're watching t.v. coming up as our 19th special we're talking about how aerosols transmit the novel coron

earlier i spoke to dorian lao from amnesty international hong kong and i asked her whether hong kong's pro-democracy movement could survive if beijing's new security law comes into force we can see in the past year that. the protest movement in hungary is actually a vibrant of course there are people who use files but it seems that many including the government make such a specially to go to. put straight protest movement as one that is particularly violent but let's not forget too many people actually took to the street last year siri peacefully to say no to the extradition bill and when called at 900 broke out and actually before that event we can see protesters adopting different strategies of ways express their opinions for example yellow economic circle or different screenings talks so what we worry is that with a national security deal with the rethink terms it can lead to a lot open to abuse and. petition bank and crackdown on sea don't piece peaceful assembly and freedom of expression so many ways to holcombe people have been using to express their opinions peacefully will be l

sides to run for the legislative council ok election in coming to south will have to leave it there dorian lao from amnesty international hong kong and thank you for joining us thank you let's check in now and some other stories from around the world north korea's state news agency says the country will cut its hotlines with south korea as a 1st step to shutting off all contact with seoul john yang is threatening to sever ties with the south if it does not stop defectors from sending leaflets and other materials into the north. while fires have been spreading across the u.s. state of california due to high winds and dry weather water dropping helicopters worked through the night to put out a brush fire in los angeles county the national weather service issued red flag warnings for several regions in the state. and new zealanders are returning to life without social distancing restrictions a day after the country was declared free of the coronavirus residents have flocked back to cafes to catch up with friends or gone back to sports classes that were cancelled during the lockdown. of the corona