arms sales to the island last hour feingold is an analyst on u.s. an age of relations he's joining us live from taiwan's capital taipei by skype thank you very much indeed for being with us given the spread of corona virus in the u.s. is this a slightly strange time for the health secretary for to be traveling. now that's a fair question and to the extent that people in the u.s. might pay attention to this it's a ballot question that's going to be asked but there's the diplomatic in the bilateral relationship aspects between the united states and taiwan that makes this visit appropriate and certainly among politicians in the united states whether democrats or republicans in congress cross the administration there's going to be great support for this visit because policymakers in the u.s. generally favor closer relations between the 2 between the united states and taiwan is this all about covert 19 and the u.s. learning from the experience of taiwan or is there an additional message being sent given the dynamics that are between china and taiwan and

is ar: kathy feingold director of unions in the united states and says employers are using the crisisuse to lay off workers. guest: we are seeing in the garment supply chain there was a report released showing how many of the major brands produced in countries like myanmar, bangladesh, and cambodia, the suppliers are using this opportunity to fire workers, especially workers who have been speaking out against the lack of health and safety protections in these families, the lack of wages owed to them. this is a real crisis. really important that major companies respect work or rights, make sure they are respecting the contracts, and ensure there are safe workplaces for workers. anchor: now to the u.k. economy. it is facing its biggest annual decline in a century. the bank of england's forecast hammers home the impact of the pandemic,, even though there are perhaps some signs of recovery. it could take more than a year to get back to pre-lockdown levels, provided there is not a second surge. it is rush hour, but there is little on the move. this coffee kiosk normally serves long queues

always possible as is common in the internet world that another product will come along anyway russ feingold always good to speak to thanks for joining us from taipei a chinese paramilitary group accused of torturing weaken muslims is having its american assets frozen by the u.s. government the treasury department says the sheen gen production and construction coal is involved in mass imprisonment the u.n. says more than a 1000000 illegal is on in prison comes china calls them reeducation camps necessary to counter muslim extremism police in hong kong demanding the arrests of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile they include former british consular work assignment showing he says he was tortured by chinese agents for information about antigovernment protests also on the wanted list as prominent opposition sit in nathan lord now he fled to london in fear of persecution under the new national security law imposed by china it's the will to be the 1st time police have targeted activists outside the tent a tree under the new legislation has concerns over to view the problem a correspondent i

cathy feingold is director of the largest federation of unions in the united states and says employers say using the coated $1000.00 crisis as an excuse to lay off workers we are seeing in the garment supply chain in particular yesterday there was a report released showing how many of the major brands produced in countries like me and mar bangladesh in cambodia the suppliers are using this opportunity to fire workers especially workers who've been speaking out about the lack of health and safety protection in these factories the lack of wages that are owed to them so this is a real crisis it's really important that major companies respect worker rights make sure the respect union contracts ensure there are state workplaces for workers. well now to the u.k. economy it's facing its biggest annual decline in a century the bank of england's forecast tammas home the impact of the crime virus and then it but even though there are perhaps some signs of recovery it could take more than a year to get back to pre lockdown levels providing there isn't a 2nd surge of coronavirus cases the fokker r

and that's not happening right now especially as we're seeing more and more states reopen cathy feingoldthere the director of the international department at the cia thank you for being with us on al-jazeera great to get your thoughts kathy nick so much. law and breaking news now in india express flight with about 190 passengers from dubai has skidded off the runway while landing. and carola stays now the plane reportedly split into 3 local media reports say the pilot has died more than $100.00 passengers injured we are currently hearing there was no fire but we will be bringing you all the latest as we get it here on al-jazeera. now still ahead on this bus we'll tell you why beliefs in the u.s. as a portland according anti-racism demonstrators attempted madder at us and social distancing is given a new angle and major league baseball piece that will have that story in its. ally one of the circulation is showing itself in the northern arabian sea this massive cloud has already given more than a month's worth of rain in caracas it's not a very wet city as pianist but as more rain to come