welcome to the program on comes leader kerry lam has defended the controversial new security law that china imposed on the city last week she said it would make conkling safer by preventing violent protests she also warned citizens not to break the law so the government will break grizzly implement this law and i for one those radicals are not to attempt to while it. all crossing the red line because the consequences of breaking this law are bearing serious. critics fear the no will and freedom of speech and as did every speech he called reports many activists the suppression of dissent will be stepped up. colorado for years now every one has joined fellow members of his party on the 1st of july to mark hong kong's hang over to chinese troops but everything changed last week it isn't uncommon for such serious more peaceful protests to have a 100 plus police to search a dozen office i guess this will be the new normal you may never see the picture of me then hong kong is on the street like a lot because we are content not because. we are now happy with the government just because we ha

has recorded its highest one day increase in virus cases since the pandemic began chief executive kerry lam announced new restrictions to contain the spread after 180 new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical in says there's no sign that it's coming under control nonessential workers have been ordered to work from home and the testing will be increased supporters of brazil's president jalal sonar are back on the streets rallying against the virus restrictions the president has that positive for kovan 1000 last week and this still sick with the virus but he continues to criticize lockdown measures also not a says restrictions will lead to even more deaths with unemployed people dying of hunger brazil has reported more than 2000000 infections it's the 2nd worst affected country after the united states alice on that amputee is following developments from book with time colombia and sent us this update. support in general in brazil phrasing them both as been coming down as as he has responded. to the pandemic in in a way that some brazilians can see there h

has recorded its highest one day increase in virus cases since the pandemic began chief executive kerry lam announced new restrictions to contain the spread after 100 inmates new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says there is no sign that it's coming under control on essential workers have been ordered to work from home and testing will be increased . south africa's government mean i meanwhile has confirmed the country has just passed the 5000 coronavirus related deaths more than 364000 people have been infected the health minister is urging people to follow the recommended hygiene measures. supporters of brazil's president jay you both so that you are back on the streets rallying against virus restrictions the president has that positive for covert 1000 last week and is still sick with the virus but he continues to criticize lockdown measures also that are says restrictions will lead to even more deaths with unemployed people dying of hunger brazil is reported more than $2000000.00 infections it's the 2nd worst affected country after the unite

the 1st meeting of the national security committee which is chaired by hong kong's chief executive kerry lam that meeting was also attended by a beijing's top official in hong kong and this is when they unveiled these new powers that they granting police and there's a range of new powers sweeping new range and include being at the police being able to enter the premises without a warrant and this is in extraordinary circumstances they can restrict the movement or freeze assets of a potential suspect and they can order social media and internet giants of firms to delete electronic messages or contents that they doing a critique of the national security of hong kong and china now i should say the legal fraternity has responded to some of these new sweeping powers are granted to police a one barrister in particular has described it as scary and he's indicated that these powers should be held by the legal jurisdiction or the judicial system not the police but the the fines are that you if you don't comply with these particular police powers the failure to comply you could incur a $13000.00 fine

hong kong's chief executive kerry lam has defended that controversial new security law imposed on the chinese territory by beijing last week lamb says that the changes will make hong kong safer by preventing violent protests and she is warning people not to break the law so the. crystal. balls law on i for one those radicals not to attempt to hold. all crossing the red line because the consequences of breaking this law. thought was curious speaking earlier today western governments have a problem when deciding how to react to this new security law they do not like it but they have to tread carefully because china remains an important trading partner . street battles and angry crowds in hong kong but in europe the protest has so far come in words alone the e.u. has criticised the hong kong security law that several european countries have new economic ties with china for instance through the belgian road initiative which could make them reluctant to point a finger at beijing. germany which no holds the e.u. council presidency might be expected to use its leverage to get tough with chin

hong kong's leader kerry lam has postponed september's legislative council elections by one year citing the risk of corona virus infection the vote would have been hong kong's 1st since a controversial security law was brought into effect. u.s. president donald trump has threatened to ban the chinese own video tick-tock in the u.s. citing national security concerns american media reports suggest trump could.

to hong kong chief executive kerry lam has defended the controversial new security law imposed on the chinese territory by beijing last week the slum said the changes could make all call safer by preventing violent protests and she warned people not to break the law so the hunger as our government will be crystal implement this law and i for one those radicals not to attempt to wild this law or crossing the red line because the consequences of breaking this law. critics have warned that this new law will and freedom of speech in the territory and many pro-democracy activists fear an increase suppression of dissent. become reports. oh for years now every one has joined fellow members of his party on the 1st of july to mark hong kong's handover to chinese troops but everything changed last week it isn't uncommon for such a race more peaceful protests to have a 100 plus police to search a dozen office i guess this will be the new law you may never see the picture of me then hong kong is on the street ok because we are content not because. we are now happy with the government is because n

and against chinese influence overwhelmed hong kong and embarrassed or thirties hong kong's leader kerry lam told the united nations the law was nothing to worry about it will only target an extremely small minority of people who have preached the law while the life and property basic rights and freedoms of the overwhelming majority of hong kong residents will be protected but fear is reaching pro-democracy activists joshua one is now in hiding but expects to be arrested he says he's resigned from his group to protect them as saying if my voice will not be heard soon i hope that the international community will continue to speak up for hong kong and step up concrete efforts to defend our last bit of freedom. the last cool to support hong kong was and the scared new world. the 2021 africa cup of nations has been postponed to january 202022 the confederation of american football african football rather postpone the tournaments due to the covert 1000 health crisis which had disrupted paul fish qualification games across the continent a biennial cup of nations was due to kick off on january 9th

has recorded its highest one day increase in virus cases since the pandemic began chief executive kerry lam announced new restrictions to contain the spread after 108 new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says there's no sign that it's coming under control not essential workers have been ordered to work from home and testing will be increased supporters of brazil's president are back on the streets rallying against virus restrictions jean-paul so that it has that positive for covert 1000 last week and this is still sick but he continues to criticize lockdown measures also that us says restrictions will lead to even more deaths with unemployed people dying of hunger brazil has reported more than 2000000 infections international mediators in mali have recommended the formation of a unity government to ease tensions between opposing parties the west african regional bloc ico also has been leading several days of talks and vocal it recommend that have to propose government be made up from the current ruling coalition the other half would be split be

life for berlin democracy delayed elections in hong kong our 1st phone for a year chief executive kerry lams the search in court of our worst cases is the reason a controversial decision deals another blow to the territory's already beleaguered pro-democracy movement also coming up as a sea of red virus plunges the eurozone into the deep and shrinking the g.d.p. only 12 percent in the 2nd quarter it's the worst downturn on record.

plus hong kong's leader kerry lam issuing a harsh warning to anyone called violating the new controversial security law for democracy activists fear that there will be more suppression of dissent and that security law it's causing tech giants such as soon facebook and twitter to reconsider being in hong kong even ticked off the chinese own video clip that says it's pulling out of the territory. i'm bring to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome under his face mask it was not clear whether brazil's president. was red faced with embarrassment or anger but tonight we know with certainty the man who has ridiculed steps to contain the coronavirus that man has tested positive for himself will have to wait and see whether he still believes as he has said before that measures to prevent his fellow countrymen from catching could 19 whether those efforts are not worth the. from the very beginning of the outbreak of which i have also repeatedly played down the risks of the corona virus and initially described this as a little flu he also flouted social distancing

national security committee now this particular committee is chaired by hong kong's chief executive kerry lam it's also attended by beijing's top official in hong kong as you mentioned some of the key 2 powers introduced granted to the police they can now conduct searches without warrants in special circumstances they can order social media to remove various content they blamed believe threatens our hong kong or china's national security they can also see a quick note from social media giants and they can demand information from political operations which have been operating outside of on kong and failure to comply with these new laws carrying to a 13000 dollar fine as well as 2 years now we've had a swift reaction also from the legal jurisdiction some say these powers are broad and lacked proper oversight another barrister described the miscarry stating that these powers should be within the legal jurisdiction not granted to police to conduct and the critics more that this is simply a way of china silencing its dissenting voices and its critics that kerry lam she's defended the new laws and

just wrong it's good to have you on the program let me 1st start by asking you what do you make of kerry lam today threatening harsh consequences for people who violate this new security law. but it is to be expected the new law was introduced to intimidate people in hong kong and they're full it is understandable that the chief executive would be making a statement like that in order to intimidate people there do you see this law as part of the process that beijing is now forcing to reclaim hong kong that's going to take us to the end of this period of 2 systems one state. well one country 2 system opposed to hong kong has effectively been pushed to and the chinese government who will say as it has already set that it is to strengthen in one country 2 system what they really meant is that's the strengthening in one country 2 systems as the communist party of china understands it and he finds it but that's not the way how people in hong kong would understand it is not the way how any objective analyst would understand it or what does that mean the mr song for the people in hong kong for thos

measures for at least one week to help combat a sudden spike in corona virus infections chief executive kerry lam says james beauty salons and knight files will close again from wednesday. now the new sounds of been protesting in the democratic republic of congo against the appointment of a new electoral commission chief opposition politicians are accused of being complicit in rigging previously lections the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack in northern afghanistan in the province or some one gun 12 people were killed 11 of them afghan intelligence forces authorities say a suicide bomber targeting their office set off the expulsion those are the headlines on al-jazeera i'll have more news for you after counting the cost stay with us. hello i'm adrian finighan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a look at the world of business and economics this week war games in the south china sea washington sends an aircraft carrier is as beijing use its economic might to expand its territorial ambitions. big oil gets ready for a post covert world with billions in nigeria gets ready to export

kong legislative elections scheduled for september have been postponed for a year chief executive kerry lam says the delay is necessary due to a surge in coronavirus cases but opposition lawmakers are not convinced they accuse the government of using the pandemic as a pretext to the pro-democracy movement. hong kong's election 4 years ago it should happen again in september instead the poll has been pushed back by a full year not how sailing at the well off but it was a very very difficult decision to postpone the legislative council election which takes place every 4 years but it's necessary to fight off the coronavirus to protect people's health and up hold public safety we also have to ensure the election process is fair and open. thing. ironically to curb the pro-democracy protests on const chief executive has activated a rarely used nearly century old emergency power dating from the british colonial times. that allows for short term only delays to elections. the decision to postpone the trainee trente electrical election has nothing to do with politics has nothing to do with the likely

hello i'm christie want to welcome to the program hong kong's lead a kerry lam has defended the controversial new security law that china imposed on the city last week she said it would make hong kong safer by preventing violent protests she also wants citizens not to break. so the government will vigorously implement this law and i forewarn. those radicals not to attempt to violate this law or crossing the red line because the consequences are breaching this law very serious. critics fear the new bill will end freedom of speech in hong kong has. reports many activists fear the suppression of the saints will be stepped up close though for years now everyone has joined fellow members of his party on the 1st of july to mark hong kong's handover to chinese troops but everything changed last week it isn't uncommon for such race more peaceful protests to have 100 plus police to search it doesn't offer i guess this will be the new normal you may never see the picture of a 1000000 hong kong as on the street like a lot because we are content not because. we are now happy with the company it's because

a controversial security law was brought into effect at a press conference earlier today leader kerry lam cited the spike in coronavirus cases as the reason for the delay basile position lawmakers accuse the government of using the outbreak to slow their pro-democracy movement which is what lam had to say at the press conference. we are going to invoke emergency regulations all dinner and this is in. 3 d. laid off the elections and the certainty of course the main content off to. do. justice to somebody to a greater unknown foreign only we have the support of the central government in making this decision. or correspondent t.v. kong is full of events in. and joins us now from there. has just announced that the coming elections are being delayed what are the reactions to the. well for the opposition can they come the government's decision to postpone the election for the post time the one calls history they criticized as like creating a constitutional crisis like from that perspective they think the government is making use of the epidemic to stop them from going because part majority in t

cause a lot of legal issues for the hong kong government so there is can there's now a concern that kerry lam hong kong's chief executive could be consulting with beijing to override hong kong's constitution in order to postpone these elections and we're hearing also that the government could be making an announcement in the coming hours and of course we'll be carrying that announcement live here on al-jazeera diggle pardon for the moment thank you very much for that. donald trump's suggestion that the presidential election be delayed came minutes after news of the sharpest downturn in the u.s. economy since the 1940 s. gross domestic product shrunk 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter as the country struggles to contain the pandemic and another 1400000 americans filed jobless claims last week cable is under has more from new york. to see how badly the u.s. economy is doing all you have to do is look at this parking lot full of empty new york city taxis because of the pandemic and slow economic recovery ridership was down over 90 percent last month. there are 15000 taxis in new york city 4 out of e

has held its 1st meeting in hong kong overnight and it was chaired by the city's chief executive kerry lam it was also attended by beijing's top officials here in hong kong now it's announced a sweeping new powers have been granted to police and authorities and some of those powers include being able to write a premis without a warrant and this is being granted only under exceptional circumstances the city security chief can also apply to courts to freeze or confiscate property belonging to suspects or social media and internet firms they've also been included in these sweeping new laws they've been ordered to delete electronic messages or content deemed a threat to national security the police can also see equipment from social media giants and demand information from political parties operating outside the city and anyone who is to apply or to comply to these new laws could face a $13000.00 fine or 2 years now we've had some reaction from the legal fraternity and one barrister has described these new rules as scary as he said these powers grant authority to the police that would normally

been highly critical of the mainland government for many years as well as being very critical of kerry lam's government as you say carol lam has been speaking this morning her 1st address since this new law was passed she was attending the hand-over anniversary ceremony just behind me in the hong kong and convention center she said this law was necessary and very timely nearby small groups of protesters gathered i emphasize very small but it was significant because this was the 1st time protesters had been able to test the new law and some of those protesters were calling for the end of one party rule now several people were taken away we don't know if they were charged but certainly they were calling for something which you know technically amounts to a violation of this law i think the one thing that's really going to concern you know legislators here in hong kong is the fact the law says. violaters all this new legislation would not be able to run for office adrian thanks very much indeed that's adrian brown giving us the latest from the hong kong i want to bring in katrina you from beiji

leaders invoked emergency rules of his friends to postpone september's legislative election for a year kerry lam cited the rise in coronavirus cases as the reason in ousmane was made just a day off to the territory disqualified 12 pro-democracy candidates from the poll a prominent author and an opposition spokesman are among dozens arrested in zimbabwe as police try to put a stop to anti-government protests police have confirmed 5 people were arrested opposition parties had called for demonstrations against food and fuel shortages corruption and at 700 percent inflation as anger over the corruption though with many targeting the ruling party online with the hash tag zanu p.f. moscow. and then in northeastern nigeria at least 4 people have been killed in an attack official suspect the an armed group used rockets to fire explosives into the city of my degree they say the fighters are trying to disrupt festivities marking the muslim holiday of a several people several 1000000 people live in my degree it's a city previously targeted by boko haram well head to head is the program coming up next featu

to hold their 1st meeting overnight and this committee is chaired by hong kong's chief executive kerry lam it was also attended by beijing's a top official in hong kong now they unveiled these new powers and now granted to police and as you mentioned a couple of them could they conduct can conduct searches without warrants they can order social media to remove content that they believe is under the it threatens the national security laws and police can seize a quick minute from social media giants and demand information from political groups operating out of the city and failure to comply within these laws you can get a 13000 dollar fine or 2 years in jail and we've had some reaction today in hong kong on tuesday other legal experts say these powers are broad and they looked at another described them as scary simply saying that these powers have been granted to the police should be held by an independent judicial system in hong kong so critics are pretty much saying a warning that these are an attempt by china to silence the critics in hong kong that kerry lamb she held her weekly press co

territory leaders invoked emergency laws to face phone septembers legislative election for a year kerry lam cited the rise in corona. case is the reason for that announcement was made just a day after the territory disqualified 12 pro-democracy candidates from the poll they were pollen reports. the legislative council election has been held every 4 years since hong kong's handover from british to chinese rule in 1997 this is the 1st time voting has been postponed to such an extent. the decision to postpone the trainee train theological election has nothing to do with politics has nothing to do with the likely outcome of this round of elections it is purely on the basis of protecting the health and safety of the hong kong people lam said the delay was necessary because of the rising numbers of corona virus infections but her use of emergency powers raises legal and administrative issues delay would mean that china's parliament would have to step in to approve any issues that could contravene hong kong's basic law its many constitution we are inviting beijing to interfere again because we are

national security committee now this particular committee is chaired by hong kong's chief executive kerry lam it's also attended by beijing's top official in hong kong some of the key new powers introduced granted to the police they can now conduct searches without warrants in special circumstances they can order social media to remove various content they blamed believe threatens our hong kong or china's national security they can also see equipment from social media giants and they can demand information from political operations which happen operating outside of on kong and failure to comply with these new laws. a $13000.00 fine as well as 2 years now we've had a swift reaction also from the legal jurisdiction some say these powers are broad and lacked proper oversight another a barrister described them as scary stating that these powers should be within the legal jurisdiction not granted to police to conduct and the critics more that this is simply a way of china silencing its dissenting voices and its critics that carry land she's defended the new laws and she told her weekly press confe

has recorded its highest one day increase in cases since the pandemic began the terrorist leader kerry lam announced new restrictions after more than 100 new infections were confirmed on sunday non-essential workers have been ordered to stay home and testing is being increased a surge in virus infections as forestalls origins to impose new restrictions on the number of cities in colombia more than 190000 cases have been reported across the country the opposition in mali is calling for more protests rejected a plan put forward by regional mediators which called for a power sharing government and a new constitutional court mollies in weeks of protests against the president abraham. us house democrats are demanding an internal investigation into the use of federal police to crackdown on protesters and follows the volunteer arrest of several after this and the city of portland on saturday democrats say the trumpet ministrations is abusing the use of emergency authorities and suppressing the right to peaceful protests those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after al-jazeera wor

national security committee now this particular committee is chaired by hong kong's chief executive kerry lam it's also attended by beijing's top official in hong kong some of the key new powers introduced granted to the police they can now conduct searches without warrants in special circumstances they can order social media to remove various content they blamed believe triptans are hong kong or china's national security they can also see a quick note from social media giants and they can demand information from political operations which happen operating outside of on common failure to comply with these new laws carrying a $13000.00 fine as well as to use now we've had a swift reaction also from the legal jurisdiction some say these powers are broad and lacked proper oversight another a barrister described them as scary stating that these powers should be within the legal jurisdiction not granted to police to conduct and the critics more that this is simply a way of china silencing its dissenting voices and its critics not kerry lamb she's defended the new laws and she held her weekly press

thought pent up anger frustration and in typical day there were it would make things even worse for kerry lam at this time next year ok of course she cited the rise in corona virus cases as the reason it is true that hong kong has now been hit by another wave of infections in fact a record number of factions and probably on the verge of a large scale outbreak there is undoubtedly a health issue in the territory well i wouldn't say things are not bad here as far as the virus is concerned it's just bad but it's not that mad comparatively speaking especially when the the local population has been blaming mrs lamb for not conducting any law and the social justin's in louis nowra down to or up to rather 2 persons many you see who go well with you can't go out really as a family except for so the whole thing it's so forced that you can't know that it's all meant to introduce. shock and all and well doom and gloom on the political front to try to count down hong kong forcefully but. that's not going to work you say things will get more difficult now for carla because of this but in what sense becaus

kong's leader has invoked emergency laws to perspire in september's legislative election for one year kerry lam said the rise in corona virus cases was behind that decision and this comes just a day after the territory disqualified 12 pro-democracy candidates from the poll devika pollan has this. the legislative council election has been held every 4 years since hong kong's handover from british to chinese rule in 1970 this is the 1st time voting has been postponed to such an extent that the decision to postpone the trainee trente electrical election has nothing to do with politics has nothing to do with the likely outcome of this round of elections it is purely on the basis of protecting the health and safety of the hong kong people lamb said the delay was necessary because of the rising numbers of coronavirus infections in her years of emergency powers raises legal and administrative issues delay would mean that china's parliament would have to step in to approve any issues that could contravene hong kong's basic law its many constitution. we are inviting beijing to interfere again at because