kenneth roth welcome to conflict zone thanks for having me. there are very immediate needs amid this coronavirus pandemic hundreds of thousands have already died a qana means have been hit hard many people are losing their jobs some are even trying to figure out how to put food on the table in these extraordinary times how do you put human rights at the top of the agenda. well i think it's important sara to note that human rights allow certain extraordinary governmental powers in time of a genuine public emergency or crisis like we're facing now so you know nobody objects from a human rights perspective to the efforts to limit our trouble to inforce social distancing to do the things that are necessary and proportionate to our public health needs but when autocrats say oh we need you does violate your human rights left and right in order to protect you that's a very dangerous message it's wrong not only as a matter of principle but it actually undermines our public health and that's something that human rights watch has been finding over and o

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pat toomey, the republican representative and human rights executive director, kenneth roth, grover namedmong those 11 people. the foreign ministry spokesperson in beijing saying this is in response to wrong behaviors of the united states who behaved badly on hong kong related issues. again, unspecified what is going to be in those sanctions. our chiefphen engle, correspondent, the latest in this tussle between beijing and washington. we are getting some breaking news when it comes to daily case numbers out of victoria. casesing 331 new covid-19 in the past 24 hours. also, reporting 19 more people have died from the virus. that would equal the worst day for fatalities that was sent yesterday as well. we are hearing from the northern territory chief minister saying their borders will remain closed for the rest of us truly the next 18 months and definitely closed for victoria. an indication of how big of a hit that will be when it comes to tourism and travel restrictions impacting everyone across the aviation and tourism sector with those borders to remain closed. still ahead, we are gettin

marco rubio, ted cruz and tom cotton, plus a republican representative, pat toomey, as well as kenneth rothroth was denied entry to hong kong back in january when he tried to come here. the foreign ministry spokesperson saying this is in response to the sanctions on 11 americans to the wrong behaviors of the united states who in his estimation behaved badly on the hong kong related issues. however, they did not get into specifics on when these sanctions would entail. the sanctions that the united states imposed on the 11 chinese and hong kong officials including the freezing of bank accounts as well as any potential assets that those officials might have in the united states. we are already hearing from people close to the matter that some banks in hong kong, including citibank, starting to step up scrutiny of bank accounts in hong kong. anotherf course, flashpoint in u.s.-china relations as the visit to taiwan this week of the u.s. health secretary alex azar. what came out of that? stephen: yeah, that again is another flashpoint. beijing reiterating its opposition to this visit by alex aza

and the human rights watch executive director, kenneth roth. we do not know the extent of the sanctions. the u.s. sanctions on hong kong and chinese officials would include the freezing a bank accounts and property assets if they had them in the united states, putting banks based in hong kong in a bind, who have to comply with u.s. sanctions and the national security law of china. a lot of banks in hong kong are reviewing their client lists and figuring out how to assuage the fears of those nations. basically the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson saying they had to do the sanctions in response to what they call the wrong behaviors of the united states, who behaved badly on hong kong related issues. haslinda: speaking of review, we learned some banks in hong kong are scrutinizing accounts of city officials. what do we know? stephen: we know according to people familiar with the situation that citigroup and other banks has begun stepping up their scrutiny of bank clients in hong kong. we need to know how far they can follow theseo to u.s. san