center that was set up to coordinate the activities of a number of ministries including the foreign ministry the ministry of digital development communications and mass media provided digital platforms and tools for the program the ministry of internal affairs was in charge of all migration issues the ministry of transport and the federal consumer rights protection agency was also a part of the effort he was in charge of its own mission all the key decisions on restrictive measures and then the reopening plans were made with the key input from the health ministry the federal consumer rights protection agency and the emergency response center team not what they when they become clear the russia has about 250000 people who need help to get home out of people who have purchased international took packages were quite easy to bring home and the bulk of work we had to do was for our citizens who were brought for other reasons that must be pointed out that the majority of these people were tourists too i'm sorry there were 2 types of tourists which were different as you're saying could you possibly

elizabeth brian joins me now live from new delhi liz china's foreign ministry is saying beijing doesn't want more clashes but obviously there's a high death toll in the indian side at least is that creating any pressure for india to react. absolutely kim the indian government is under a lot of pressure right now to answer questions about what's really been happening at the border and whether they have the situation under control promised in that in the morning has just announced that he's going to hold a meeting with all major political parties on friday to discuss the situation he's already held meetings with his ministers and with defense chiefs and we've heard from the chinese foreign ministry they've reiterated their position that indian troops trespassed on chinese territory and attack chinese soldiers yes they did say that they are open to result in this through dialogue through communication bodge they also said that the sovereignty of the area with the clashes took place on monday night the galaga valley has always belonged to china while that is going to

does the government think lean the foreign ministry pass any judgment these russians acted recklessly when they went on vacation abroad didn't they as russia's foreign minister my job is not to possible judgment but to act in line with the russian constitution the constitution does not apply to any of those russians back home of the government's expense again it is the realm of moral judgments as a private individual i could have an opinion on whether it is reckless or not to go to see results in the 2nd half of march despite multiple media reports on the pandemic and i also have my own attitude to those who helped the pentagon as tourists out of mercy rather than by the force of the constitution places the fishes he's a traitor are you aware that people are going abroad through batteries now turkey has opened its borders and behavior flies there we can't forbid people to use this option but of course the decision should be taken based on common sense and caution where did you expect such person involvement by our embassy and consulate staff have some experience working abroad or know

vehemently denied by moscow the russian ambassador to germany has been invited to the german foreign ministry to discuss this issue further our europe correspondent peter all of our bring us up to date on what is known at this stage thanks peter well let's get some reaction let's delve a little bit deeper into this story and the ramifications of it with political commentator i care i care is in her own over i could germany is making a serious accusation against russia how likely are prosecutors to to back up with public evidence because it does seem that the main proof right now is a claim by the actual suspect. well i think there is much more behind this and there is as you know german prosecutor are a political people so we have not a lot of system where you prosecutors accuse something that is against the law 'd or the politics and always the last were to do it so i think in this case you have to dig a little bit deeper this is in alliance with the long agenda to how we germany and russia why. this guy was an international terrorist the worst fighting against russia so there must be some p

the german foreign ministry saying that they weren't co-operative in the investigation now. feeley was 'd wanted in russia as a terrorist suspect. a georgian a citizen of chechen heritage he had fought against russian troops in chechnya prosecutors say that the suspect approached. back in august of last year on a bicycle from behind and shot him 3 times the suspect was arrested not far away from the scene and has been held in custody ever since now prior to this latest development we have heard from russian president vladimir putin on the case involving really multiple times president putin said this he petitioned of russia petitioned germany for the arrest and extradition of found us really who was wanted on terror charges in russia so this certainly set to develop so far but the very latest murder charge against a russian citizen claims this murder was carried out at the behest of the russian government relating to a killing in a central berlijn park in august of last year. yeah peter thanks for bring us right up to dates all month story peter all of our environment. a. po

countries now the arrest has been met with heavy criticism from venezuela where the country's foreign ministry arguing that sob should be released because he was taken into custody while on a business trip to iran to obtain food and medicine for venezuelans battling the coronavirus menace well and president nicolas maduro is facing his own battle with the u.s. and after months of trying to ministration officials increasing sanctions and pushing for the leader to be overthrown the justice department charged with narco terrorism and drug smuggling in march the state department then offered a reward of $15000000.00 for information leading to mature as arrest meanwhile the u.s. is also calling on canada to extradite wall ways cheat. financial officer after she was arrested in december 28th seen main ones though the daughter of wall ways founder stands accused of attempting to undermine u.s. sanctions by pursuing business dealings in iran but she is now fighting back and arguing that the case should be dropped because the u.s. abused extradition process by presenting inaccurate and false informatio

both foreign ministries have released statements saying that they are going to deescalate the situation on the border as soon as possible that follows a phone conversation between the foreign ministers but what's really interesting is that they continue to blame each other for what happened for the violence in the strongest possible terms both sides maintaining that it was the other that trespassed on their territory started the violence and also that it was the other that broke the june 6th agreement to deescalate here and the of the government is under pressure to both explain how 20 soldiers were killed along the border for the 1st time in 45 years and also to take action against what happened because for the past 10 days the government had been assuring people that any border disputes could be solved through dialogue and wall many defense experts were accusing china of encroaching on andy as territory the government said that the situation was under control now we are seeing those protests will be a small in many cities around and here with the burning of chinese flags but we've als

troops the army's clash of the spirit of galle one valley territory in the himalayas india's foreign ministry described the fighting as a violent faceoff and was the result of an attempt by beijing to unilaterally change the status quo there the nuclear armed neighbors have been locked in a standoff on the border for several weeks while the border dispute between india and china goes back decades but the tension has increased recently the area known as the x.i.i. chain like the uk and it's located along the himalayas the territory has been disputed since 1962 but there are these are the 1st casualties in 45 years as a result of fighting between the nuclear armed neighbors for weeks now beijing in new delhi of increased their military presence on both sides of the border they've accused one another of overstock stepping the so-called line of actual control that separates the. well my colleagues are here raman has reported extensively in india joins me now from doha swale good to see you what more can you tell us about the situation and also how this latest escalation fits into one of with as w

and this spokesman of the foreign ministry of hamad we said that the foreign ministry is again. the call from egypt as you know sami to this follows the threats made by the egyptian president of the sisi to conduct a direct military intervention in libya in case the government forces proceed the city of joy for a line in the center of libya now as you know that also libya's ambassador at the u.n. also spoke against the speech by. assisi blaming egypt for supporting the warlord khalifa haftar and all saw only lying only on the tribes in the eastern libya now as you know that egypt is not the egyptian regime there is no confidence in the egyptian regime by the government. government given the fact that it has been a major supporter of the warlords. and now with that wondering why egypt. is now calling for peace not calling for this collation after his allies in western libya have been defeated namely the military campaign led by have to his forces on tripoli and that. also. distillation on the ground is a kind of a stalemate especially allowance unit after the russian military or

well so far we don't have any details but chinese foreign ministry spokesperson jen said that china would hit back if the trump administration followed through on its threats he also used some of the strong language that we've come become accustomed to hearing from china's foreign ministry these past few months when it comes to the u.s. he said that the u.s. should be reminded that hong kong is part of china and that beijing had the right to make what he called improvements to defective national security legislation in hong kong he also said that any intervention from the u.s. would be a violation of international law and international principles when it comes to diplomacy and he said that this would any changes to the trading status with hong kong would also undermine the bilateral relationship the wider relationship between china and the u.s. potentially the trading relationship and any trade negotiations between the 2 between china and the u.s. he said that this would also harm u.s. companies doing business with china and in hong kong now the trumpet mr asian has also made other threat

for passing this bill or flipping the statement from china's foreign ministry which says that the us is violating international war by passing this bill it says it's an attack on china's shinji on policy interference in its international affairs that was a quite a lengthy strongly worded statement but the main gist was china was saying that its policies have nothing to do with human rights or discrimination or indeed religion but they're solely a matter of national security and that therefore the state has every right to pass these policies and to protect its people now. china has been long criticized for its treatment of muslim we goes in its northwestern junge province not only $1000000.00 said to be in detention camps which china calls vocational training centers against their will the chinese government has also been accused of trying to really dismiss or downplay or eliminate the their religion and their culture via various policies now the chinese government has said if the u.s. does not pull back from this bill it will suffer the consequences of via some counter measures thoug

troops the army's clashed into the spew to gal one valley territory in the himalayas india's foreign ministry described the fighting as a violent faceoff and said it was the result of an attempt by beijing to unilaterally change the status quo there the nuclear armed neighbors have been locked in a standoff on the border for several weeks we have reached a situation relieve got a standing eyeball to eyeball and be sort of built in those couple of your last. this is very sad and that we want government to immediately step in and take some diplomatic action for that does not happen like 62 that small incident got split up to the bigger level and we made. a good action. a little earlier i spoke with michael kugel man a senior associate in south and southeast asia at the woodrow wilson center he says neither country is in a good position for an escalation of tension. these 2 countries really cannot afford to be in a position where they have to worry about an escalation of leading to things borrowing out of control in a conflict so i think that you have to hope that better minds will prevail calme

well not very well china's foreign ministry spokesperson jolly jen mentioned that. that really this would be flying in the face of the current situation here in china china now has jurisdiction in hong kong and the british government doesn't he said that he expressed anger and said that china would be making strong representations to the u.k. government over this offer and over those comments he reflected a bit on the u.k.'s relationship with hong kong historically he said that was an unequal colonial and autocratic relationship and since the handover in 1907 beijing has the authority to enforce these national security laws and that the u.k. should stop interfering in its internal affairs he then used some very strong language saying that the u.k. should pull back from the brink and abandon this cold war mentality now previously we've only heard that from beijing aimed at the u.s. government he also said that in hong kong there was a threat to stability and prosperity because of foreign forces and this is because beijing has has maintained for the longest time that

beijing has reacted with anger the chinese foreign ministry says china will resolutely back the u.s. will bear the burden of all subsequent consequences katrina here joins us now live from beijing so katrina the chinese are not happy about this. no not at all and now 4 different arms of the chinese government has have responded to the passing of this bill firing back at the us reflecting a strongly worded statement by china's foreign ministry which says that the us is violating international law attacking china policy and also interfering in china's internal affairs now it was a very strongly worded statement that they released and the main gist that is saying that china believes that these are not issues of human rights or racial or religious discrimination but china says that these are issues of terrorism and national security and therefore the state has every right to impose these kind of policies now beijing of course is referring to a number of incidents and attacks that took place. up until 3 years ago and the chinese government has been accused because of this of importing sev

against these 2 men more than 550 days after they were detained in china now according to china's foreign ministry they face very serious crimes that they said that their birth charged with gathering intelligence and state secrets for foreign countries and this is not good news at all before they were formally charged there was a chance will be a small chance that the procurator could have taken this case thrown it out and release these 2 men well it seems that that is not going to happen and analysts say that they could be kept locked up in china for months or even years as their case is being heard and what's further concerning is that we have to remember this is china the court system is not independent here in the vast majority of cases like these are found guilty and if they are found guilty these 2 men could face up to life time in prison now their supporters are understandably distraught they say these men are being kept in very difficult uncomfortable conditions they're denied access to lawyers and loved ones and they're only granted one consul a visit per month see song is director of the

china says it's in close communication with india by both diplomatic and military channels foreign ministry spokesperson jolly gen spoke to the media today on wednesday and said that both sides were intent on resolving this dispute through peaceful dialogue and that china did not want to see any further clashes at the same time jolly gen laid the blame for the deadly brawl on monday so we at the feet of india according to beijing the truce lines actually reached a consensus on the border dispute on june 6th but indian troops violated this consensus and he said they provoked and attacked chinese personnel he also went on to urge the indian military to discipline its troops he went on to say further that the location where this altercation took place the golden valley he said that this was and has always been chinese territory something that's heavily disputed by india and he said that clearly it was clear about who was on the right in the wrong side of this clash that resulted in the deaths of those soldiers on monday now according to indian media there were chinese casualties as well but th

well we still don't have an official statement from the iraqi government and we spoke to the ministry of foreign affairs which said that there would not be an additional statement today a day after the ministry some of the turkish ambassador through to voice its concerns over the previous turkish airstrikes on iraqi soil condemning those attacks as a violation of iraqi sovereignty that contravenes international standards the minister of foreign affairs also said on monday that government was open to joint military operations in those border areas to secure them then these operations should be carried out in a way that secures the interests of both sides now today we haven't heard anything from the iraqi government or from kurdish authorities in the autonomous region of iraq kurdistan we have however spoken to local officials and civilians and military officials on the ground and what we understand there were actually 2 separate operations today one which in i'm already touched upon which was this turkish incursion into an area called but we understand that there were around 7 villages affected 6

at the same time the ministry of foreign affairs is also some on that uranium ambassador over similar operations that have gone on in the north and that is quite unusual because iran is a country that is seen as wielding quite a lot of influence over past governments here in iraq and someone in the iranian ambassador is quite a departure from previous foreign policies and it signals that the new prime minister must try to create some sort of equivalence in treating all of iraq's neighboring countries in the same way insisting that they have to respect iraq's sovereignty now let's remember what happened during these operations we had 2 separate events going on in the northern kurdistan region and one was an attack by turkey which consisted of both air strikes and the ground incursion and on the iranian border with iraq we also had artillery strikes against an area called in and in fact we heard today that those strikes resulted in at least one civilian casualty as well as other people being injured so some morning they are in an ambassador is quite quite relevant but also significant s

well the article has been slammed by the russian foreign ministry which called the peace deliberate decision for me sion saturday also saw the taleban denying the new york times article as well you've been taking a closer look at the piece in question and asks who could benefit from its publication. it's time to blow off the dust that circled on any smear tactics guide book since the last u.s. election but as democrats are looking to wash away the humiliation of 2016 by trying to bring down trump this time they are resorting to the same auld narrative that failed them in the 1st place russia gate american intelligence officials have concluded that the russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to taliban linked militants for killing coalition forces in afghanistan the peace rests on the familiar pillars of pulitzer winning journalism anonymous sources that believed concluded and desist the claims are said to be based on interrogations of captured afghan militants at least in part the article says well because less than in part well would be nothing at all really the alleged

targets iraq's foreign ministry summoned the turkish ambassador on thursday saying it was a violation of sovereignty the french president in one year mark or has made his 1st overseas trip since the coronavirus outbreak emitt british prime minister boris johnson in downing street on a visit marking 80 years since a child a girl appeared in london for the french people to resist appeal or should say in london for french people to resist nazi occupation china's top decision making body is considering a draft of hong kong's controversial security bill that's caused weeks of protests the standing committee of the national people's congress is reviewing the bill over 3 days. those pitot stories so what i want east is up next likes watching by fire. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. record breaking amounts of methamphetamines are being seized

that was march 12th, a foreign ministry spokesman.n we saw in connection with the george floyd protest all sorts of malicious propaganda, much of it false. so their propaganda has been on everything. it doesn't matter what the subject is, jillian. china's going to go after us hard and it's relentless and cynical and malicious. jillian: let's take a look at what mike pompeo had to say on saturday, this reads, quote, the chinese communist party's propaganda efforts seeking to consistent latconflate the actie denial of basic human rights and freedom should be seen as the fraud they are. the chinese foreign ministry responded with a tweet saying i can't breathe. what do you make of them having anything to say, this is in response to what morgan ortagus tweeted. >> morgan ortagus talked about china's efforts in hong kong to end autonomy and the efforts have gone on a month before ortagus' tweet. what china tried to do was change the topic by saying no, this is about george floyd. in connection with that, they went after speaker pelosi, dis

the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said that russia is simply done responding to each and everyne of these allegations and kind of brushed it off as anti-russian rhetoric in an election year. we are expectingnse of some kind from the kremlin, most likely similarly dismissive. but as we have seen throughout this administration, when there's a trump-russia scandal, moscow's preferred angle is to sit back and watch the chaos unfold in d.c. back to you, philip. >> thank you, matt >>> protests against racial injustice are helping to make sweeping changes across the country. after weeks of mounting pressure, the 120-year-old mississippi state flag is getting a makeover the statehouse and senate voted to remove the confederate battle emably frblem from the flag voters will get the opportunity to improve the design in the november 3rd election. the bill now goes to the governor who says he intends on signing it into law. >>> another protest turned into a fatal shooting in louisville a witness captured the moment a gunman opened fire filled with demonstrators. he appeared to fire several

in the foreign ministry said they weren't co-operative enough with the investigation into the case german foreign minister heiko mass has said that further measures could be taken against russia while a spokesperson for angle america's government has reiterated that saying that they reserve the right to further steps being taken by taking this case very seriously according to a government spokes person so this certainly set to develop so far but the very latest a murder charge against a russian citizen claims this murder was carried out at the behest of the russian government relating to a killing in a central berlijn 'd park in august of last year when germany politics commentator told me earlier that suppose that russian government involvement in such a killing makes no political sense. on secret. u.s. so not nothing name does not prove you know nothing and of course the russian government are going to give any proof to give any. then this russian citizen. can they don't have any and that doesn't make any sense for russia to do this in this case you have to dig a little bit deeper this

about to take another step towards ending the catastrophic 2 decades long invasion russia's foreign ministry has dismissed the allegations as fake pointing out that more school has all along been trying to mediate the conflict and have the united states and the taliban in fact sign a peace deal the simple this information clearly illustrates the low intellectual abilities propagandists among american intelligence who have to come up with such nonsense instead of inventing something more reliable however what else can we expect from intelligence which miserably failed in the 20 year war in afghanistan it's russia collusion 2.0 as if that has ever been worth anything more but a house impeachment that left trump unfazed by hey maybe at least robert mueller will have a 2nd shot around 2021 we heard from max abrams a fellow at the quincy institute for responsible state graph in the us who says anonymous intelligence data is always questionable. when i 1st read this story in the new york times i point to go on twitter that it was weakly sourced and a number of people replied and they said yeah but

foreign ministry also says that the foreign ministry is rejecting the call by egypt to hold that session and also is blaming egypt egypt for not consulting the. government in that regard to that session or are mahmoud i'm going to i hope from tripoli. nearly 20 people have been killed in afghanistan after taliban fighters carried out attacks on military posts in 3 different provinces on monday earlier the same day gunman opened fire on a car in kabul belonging to the afghan attorney general's office 5 people were killed in the attack they were all lawyers working to facilitate prisoner releases the releases are intended to build trust between the afghan government and taliban ahead of peace talks. still ahead on al-jazeera why the restrictions lifted too soon rotavirus cases spied consulting us states downplaying concerns hong kong's leaders say the controversial new security law will safeguard human rights. and the usual. widely scattered throughout much of indonesia but also the next couple days we will see more in the way of rain across central and southern areas of the philippines bu

blame for this all to cation slowly at the foot of india now according to jolly jen who is the foreign ministry spokesperson here in beijing he said that because of these intensifying scuffles have been taking place between china and india in recent months but there have been deescalating dialogues that had been taking place in the lead up to june and he said on june 6th a consensus between both sides was reached now we also know that chinese state media say that on that same day chinese military officers and weaponry were sent to the border to also conduct military exercises now according to jolly jan on monday this consensus was broken by the indian side let's have a listen. to what is shocking is that on june 15th the indian troops seriously violated the consensus of the 2 sides crossed the border illegally twice and carried out provocative attacks on chinese personnel resulted in serious physical conflicts between the 2 border forces china is said that it's made some representations to india its dismissed have any responsibility for this and that it will continue peaceful dialogue but at th

the foreign ministry promises to help return those who have been stranded soon until then families like the world are thankful for the technology that is keeping them closer to him. the occupied west bank. where again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the canadian prime minister says he's disappointed that china has charged 2 of his citizens with spying michael coverage and michael spambot have been held since 2018 it's seen as a retaliatory move by beijing off to canada detained while away executive. astray as prime minister says the country is being targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack on all levels of government including critical infrastructure scott morrison wouldn't say who is behind it but they're also specials and part of a growing rift with china what i simply can confirm is there are not a large number of state by state actors that can engage in this type of activity and it is created by strongly advise that we have received that this has been done by i stopped by step with very very significant type abilities now commemorations are being held across the unite

the german foreign ministry that deals with foreign state troops that are stationed here has not commented publicly neither has the german government and we also do not have white house officials or pentagon officials on the record. actually commenting on these reports and this is seen by some german politicians as a sign that this is a matter that is very much a move by donald trump and his people and is possibly not a matter that was decided on by defense experts so little perspective here what are the implications of this move to cut the number of u.s. troops based in germany i would say it depends entirely on where these troops will be moved the polish prime minister has already expressed his hopes that some of these troops will be moved to a neighboring country poland from germany but if these move troops are withdrawn from europe altogether then of course that has implications on the u.s. commitment to european defense under the nato umbrella because that would be significantly reduced but above all it has implications for the u.s. operations in iraq and afghanistan and in africa bec