The weather holds the 1st launch of u. S. Astronauts by a private company. Back into the program hong kongs long standing special status with the United States is that to come to an end the u. S. Secretary of state might pompei as told congress the territory no longer has a high degree of autonomy from china and shouldnt get special treatment including business advantages pay or has accused china of trying to model hong kong after itself as it prepares to impose a new security law well more than 1300 u. S. Companies have Business Operations in whole goal including nearly every major Financial Firm in 2018 u. S. Foreign investment in hong kong was worth 82500000000. 00 and that number was rising with business activity. Heavily regulated in China Chinese Companies also set up in hong kong to attract Foreign Investment but china is less reliant on whole called trade exports through hong kong have dropped from 45 percent in 1902 to just 12 percent last year. Robert scott is a Senior International economist at the Economic Policy institute in washington d. C. He says the fallout may not affect chinas strategic goals in the region but could derail u. S. Operations and home call i think is why it worries u. S. Investors particularly the banks they may have to move their operations elsewhere in the region they may have less easy access to china for example they have to work from singapore instead of from hong kong i think this is part of chinas larger plan in its 2025 programmes. Indigenization a taking over chinese operation of many of the foreign operations that theyve relied on the past to build up their economy china is now a very large and very wealthy country and theyre using that wealth and they feel they no longer need to rely on one Foreign Investors as much as perfectly happy to elect a foreign capital migrate around the region as long as it remains the controlling hand. That is you know the puppet master moving the strings in the background and its tremendous wealth its resources to this china sitting on a on a pool of foreign currency reserves that is worth in excess of 4 trillion dollars in money around the world to acquire technology in financial. Positions in a wide range of firms that enhanced its control in a global economy. Well the new security by china will be voted on in beijing on thursday afternoon in hong kong was and 300 people were arrested a wednesday amid protests over another controversial law as adrian brown explains. Lunchtime in Hong Kong Central business district. Police firing pedophile its to disperse protesters. Bringing traffic in one of the worlds busiest star affairs to a standstill. Police say this was an Illegal Assembly this crowd shouted prodemocracy slogans and insults at them in the know not everyone is against them though. Im from china and i support the police screams this woman whos from the mainland the protest is intended target was hong kongs Legislative Assembly but a heavy security presence prevented their attempts to reach the building inside legislators were debating a bill that would punish those who disrespect the National Anthem. This is what supporters of the bill want to stop the booing that drowned out the march of the volunteers before a recent football match those convicted under the planned law would face a fine of more than 6 and a half 1000. 00 and up to 3 years in jail there were many arrests on wednesday with at least one as young as 14 years old detentions that could now Risk University and Career Prospects opponents of this National Anthem will call it another load on funds freedom and he comes ahead of a move by Chinas Parliament to impose a new National Security law on this city. Chinas Rubber Stamp Parliament the National Peoples congress is expected to approve legislation on thursday when more details of the proposed security law will be known in the meantime Hong Kong Government officials are trying to ease fears. It will be conducive to the long term stability and prosperity of hong kong and also helpful to safeguarding the legitimate rights of hong kong people. Many home calm people arent reassured and they now know the risk for daring to demonstrate their opposition adrian brown aljazeera hong kong. Been developments on another issue causing us china tension and thats a Canadian Court has ruled that the extradition case against ways chief Financial Officer may 1 joe can proceed the judge said it met the standard for socalled double criminality meaning that the u. S. Charges are also crimes in canada is a huge blow to the tech giant which had hoped to drop the case and bring them back to china the u. S. Wants going on charges of bank fraud and misleading a major bank on war ways dealings with iran which was arrested in vancouver in 28000. 00 at the request of washington d. C. The United States has become the 1st country in the world to record 100000 deaths from corona virus the total number of infections in the u. S. Is just shy of 1700000. 00 but its still loosening restrictions aimed at stopping the pandemic kristen salumi has more the beginning of summer in the u. S. And a cautious reopening of beaches along the popular new jersey shore in new York City Parks sun seekers are kept apart with circles on the grass outside San Francisco city hall the homeless are space to abide by social distancing guidelines all part of the new normal as the country emerges from lockdown. But amid the slow reopening a grim milestone the death toll from coded 19 has now claimed more than 100000 american lives a far cry from the confident statements just a few months ago from the u. S. President will see what happens but we have the greatest doctors in the world we have a very bad just a good rock preexisting way weve had the u. S. Accounts for almost a 3rd of the worlds coded 1000 deaths a damning statistic some say for the worlds richest country it says a lot about our Public Health system and it says a lot about how seriously we took this at the beginning. It says a lot about what we need to improve for the future this is really a wait and a time to be even to realize how important Public Health by comparison code in 1000 has proven to be worse than other recent virus outbreaks the 2003 sars epidemic did not claim a single life in the u. S. In 2009 the age one n one pandemic claimed the lives of 12469 americans with cove of 19 no one can say for certain what the final u. S. Death toll will be. Since march citizens have had to endure weeks of restrictions and lots of distress trying to stay safe from the virus but a new Columbia University study found that imposing a lockdown even a week earlier could have saved tens of thousands more lives based on the overall premise that lives could have been saved had social distancing been in place earlier yes in theory we waited too long to implement those social distancing measures hindsight is always 2020 so of course we know that now i think at the time there was it wasnt clear how widespread the virus was with the vaccine still a long way from being available its clear the threat from covert 19 would linger over a summer shaping up to be unlike any other in living memory christian salumi aljazeera the European Commission is calling for a Recovery Fund of some 825000000000. 00 to help the e. U. Nations tackle the pandemic president live on the land awards to transform the rock central finances to allow it to raise money from Capital Markets it would then 100. 00 grants and loans for Member States but some countries including austria the natalines denmark and sweden are opposed to taking on debt for other countries the International LaborOrganization Says young people will be hardest hit by credit virus job losses more than one in 6 have already stopped working and it says the pandemic risks creating a lockdown generation with many under 24 facing long career setbacks. We run the risk of creating a situation in this sort of snapshot a pandemic which will have lasting effects no as we recover from pandemics well a lot of young people are simply going to be left behind. And big numbers and the danger is and again this is the lesson of experience is that this initial shock to young people will last a decade or longer than a decade it will affect the trajectory of working people and young working people throughout their working lives the doctors in argentina hard amending better pay and more protective gear for treating covert 1000 patients they demonstrated in point as ariz as passing drivers honked their support they say many of their colleagues are getting sick because they dont have the right gear to protect themselves from the virus most brazilians support stricter social distancing measures to tackle the spread of covert 1000 once according to a survey is in stark contrast to what the president wants desirable sonora has repeatedly criticized locked down saying unemployment and hunger would kill more than the outbreak itself or brazil is the worst affected country in latin america with more than 24 and a half 1000 deaths a temporary krone virus hospital has opened in the brazilian city of minerals to help treat indigenous populations despite their isolation the virus has been slowly spreading through indigenous communities some critical patients from remote parts of the amazon rain forest have been lifted to hospitals in without the citys mayor has accused boston aura of impeding efforts to stop the spread of the virus will need all the usual dish and im not going to stop saying that the president did not interfere of course he did in his speeches all the time saying it was just a flute and at the same time sending people out onto the street he boycotted all the efforts that we have done here to get to a stage of good social isolation. When will repel or its following developments from mexico city president is facing more pressure every single day hes at the center of this political controversy in brazil he continues to downplay the severity of the outbreak in his country and hes continuing to make more enemies every day with state governors on tuesday evening we heard about the police raids against 2 of the residents of the governor of the state of Rio De Janeiro were hearing more raids took place earlier on wednesday against against some of the president s critics so this is some of the response that were seeing in terms of of the backlash against the do in dealing support base within the bill sonars government the governor. Has now cycled through 2 Different Health ministers one of them resigned the other one quit again the president is still sort of downplaying the severity of this crisis and theres a snare that could play out were both so narrow is ousted from office before hes able to finish his term in office if these allegations that he is a threat to Public Safety turn into charges we could potentially see impeachment proceedings against not 0. Well still ahead here on aljazeera police fired tear gas at minneapolis protesters demanding justice for the killing of george florey. And he was one of the worlds most wanted man a Court Decides where a top suspect in the rwandan genocide should be tried. At 0 then also by picture generally across much of the northeast of asia plenty of trout want to see shots that very well scattered says the case for thursday where the bulk of the rain once again will be through the southern areas of china and in particular across into taiwan some rather heavy rain that developing in the day now by friday again is mostly fine if a temperature is beginning to rise again 27 in seoul the same across in to take a there we could just see one or 2 scattered showers that by far the bulk of the rains only through central and eastern china this new front working its way eastward so sunny bringing the rain to shanghai later in the day thank you very much further to the south particularly through thailand cambodia vietnam. In the day notice a bad day thursday across much of borneo similar to the Malay Peninsula but actually by friday we could see more rain back in the 4 calls into march and developing late in the day into reston areas of the bornean also very widespread throughout much of the philippines the rather heavy downpours at times and heavy rain continues through much of the all these of india pushing across into myanmar further to the south as well but really the main story in india has to be the heat it is extremely high temperatures in the mid to high fortys celsius so not just these 2 states but many states through Central Regions out to the northwest under an intense heat wave itll stay hot and dry there with more rain down to the south in kerala. In the cold in the cinema. Just one man provided the soundtrack for a nation out is 0 well to me its the musical composer for over 350. 00 movies music for entertainment escapees in and conflict. A prolific composer who brought the joy to millions allie ismail egypts musical maestro on aljazeera. World ive. Done. My. Book about what you all deserve me several romney remind of our top stories the u. S. Secretary of state has told congress of Hong Kong Special status with america shouldnt as its no longer autonomous from china it comes as beijing prepares to impose a new security law on hong kong just bought mass protests. And the number of credit virus deaths in the United States has passed 100000 it comes as the country continues to loosen restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the illness. The white house says u. S. President donald trump is expected to sign an executive order on social Media Companies in the coming hours that comes after twitter labeled 2 tweets same which he said postal votes would lead to fraud as misleading is the 1st time such a qualification has been added to a president ial tweet trump hit back saying the company was stifling free speech and threatened to shut it down. Well police in the u. S. Also have fired tear gas in minneapolis a protest as rallying against the death of the unarmed black man theres been widespread outrage after a video showed an office a using his knee to pin george floyd to the ground for policemen have been fined and there were no calls them to be facing criminal charges filed 100 reports. Minneapolis police marched on demonstrators firing rubber bullets and chemical gas leaving them in govt in searing flames the protesters gathered by the hundreds despite a state wide coronavirus lockdown to mark the death of another unarmed black man in Police Custody. The. George floyd accused of forgery cries out in pain a policemans knee on his neck. You remember. Bystanders plead with the officers. Floyd later dies in Police Custody oh yah that would really help them he just really youll get me broke police say he had been resisting arrest but in this newly released Surveillance Video taken before floyd was forced to the ground hes shown handcuffed and apparently cooperative this was not a nice thing it is part of an ingrained systemic cycle of injustices still exist in this country cuts at the very heart more sacred beliefs that all americans are equal in rights and. The 4 officers on the scene were fired on tuesday but floyds family says thats not enough our like for those office apps to be charged with murder. Because thats exactly what they think marty threat. Minneapolis mayor joined in the demand for criminal charges and offense took place that you or i or many other people through our city would have been behind bars if they did yet this particular individual this officer was it could be months before its clear whether charges will be filed the f. B. I. Is investigating the incident as a possible civil rights violation murder convictions of on Duty Police Officers are very rare but they do happen. Demonstrators note a contrast when armed white protesters occupy Michigan State house to oppose the coronavirus Lockdown Police offer little resistance. In minneapolis this largely black crowd is met with gas canisters and rubber bullets but some valid to remain in the streets to insist that no other unarmed africanamerican in the u. S. Is killed by police John Hendren Al Jazeera chicago the french court has refused to grant bail to rwandan genocide suspect of affairs that he would flee listened to because lawyers said he should be released because of paul health hes accused of bankrolling the groups who massacred 800000 tootsies and multitude whos in 1904 big was arrested in a paris suburb always 2 weeks ago with us about laos will. Well at the end of the hearing the court rejected felice or cougars request to be released under Court Surveillance because of poor health and the cord said that his health was good enough for him to remain in detention there was also the risk that he could have scorned or cougar was at large for more than a quarter century when he was arrested in paris earlier this month he is accused of being one of the main finances of the wrong one genocide now when the charges were read out to him during this hearing rejected the more he called them all lies now his defense lawyers say that they want cougar to be tried in the future here in france that hes 84 years old and that he is too old and frail to be extradited however the court will decide next week whether or not could be can be extradited to be put in u. N. Custody and eventually face trial in an International CourtNicola Palmer is a senior lecturer in criminal law at Kings College in london she says many rwandans would like to see tried at home. Obviously there have been a large number of individuals who have already been tried at the International Level and convicted so we have over 60 same to nces individuals have been found guilty and 14 cases where individuals have been acquitted by the Un International criminal tribunal which preceded the court that will now detention to try to prove which is the residual mechanism for International Criminal trial you know there is there is just been a Statement Issued by which is the major genocide Survivor Organization which has branches in rwanda and within diaspora communities around the world and they are arguing strongly that the case should be tried in rwanda either before rwandan courts or under the auspices of the un court but in situ so that the proceedings happen inside of the one well the french courts of being deeply skeptical of trials in rwanda and up to now have refused to extradite 20 individuals to face trial 20 suspected its genocide to face trial on concerns that the punishment for genocide was not sufficiently articulated in the rwandan lol at the time that the crimes were committed dozens of people have been killed in the democratic republic of congo fighters from the allied Democratic Forces launched an attack on a village in a tutor province on monday night they stole food and other valuables more than 600 civilians have been killed by a. D. F. Forces in the region since october often in response to offensives by the d. L. C. Is military. The u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson has told m. P. s that its time to move on from the scandal surrounding his top adviser Dominic Cummings traveled with his family from london to northeastern england in march while he and his wife were showing covert 970 s. The Prime Minister says he doesnt think an inquiry into the matter is necessary and says the government needs to focus on dealing with the coronavirus focus on getting the message right which is probably Common Ground with your committee then i think what we need to do really is to move on and to. Get on to our get sorted out a credit market which is really a priority the overwhelming priority of the people of this country we park a house more on the story from london. This is incredibly uncomfortable for the Prime Minister and the government lets not forget that this is day 5 in which the government either senior cabinet ministers or the Prime Minister himself has had to talk about this in detail defending a man that normally is behind the scenes of of government and of course he cummings had to speak for himself on monday in an unusual situation where he was defending the allegations against him in the garden of number 10 downing street now is the time for the Prime Minister to face a grilling from senior m. P. s from different Political Parties including his own an awful lot of Political Capital has been expended in defending Dominic Cummings and question after question has been focusing primarily on whether or not the Prime Minister was satisfied that the story he received from his Senior Adviser was true whether it was legal and whether or not i think full inquiry should be started to find out whether theres more to all of this i think what a lot of people are wondering is why so much energy and effort has been put into defending Dominic Cummings what does this say about how number 10 downing street works and who pulls the strings of power irans president is urging his cabinet to enforce harsher laws to socalled honor killings its all of the nationwide outcry after a man murdered his 14 year old daughter for running away with her boyfriend so rouhani has called for proposed bills protecting women to be adopted faster and iranian members of parliament elected in february have been sworn in the overwhelming majority were conservative the president says he hopes the government and parliament can have a good working relationship for the last year of his term he has more from tehran. He also said that the independence of each branch of government in the country does not necessarily mean that they have to be confrontational that they can cooperate and he said that my administration extend the hand of brotherhood towards the new parliament now his tone was very positive but you look if you look at the context of the relationship between the president s in the parliament in the previous years if you look at the political context of what has happened to president Hassan Rouhani is specially since the collapse of the 2050 nuclear deal then you can understand that perhaps the content of his message the words he used could be seen as defensive this is a president who the Previous Parliament made 10 attempts to impeach ministers in his cabinet and they succeeded in impeaching 3 of his ministerial cabinet this is the Previous Parliament that did this that was relatively more reformist leaning than the Current Parliament and if there are 2 more impeachment if he loses 2 more ministers then this presidency will have to go back to the parliament to achieve a vote of confidence to continue and finish out this last year in power now experts suggest that that is not going to happen that the government all branches all leaders want to see president Johnson Rouhani complete this and have a smooth transition into the next presidency but we have seen the readout from the Supreme Leader a message from him to this new parliament also said that it is the parliaments job to investigate the other branches of government boeing has restarted production of its 737 max planes more than a year after it was grounded following 2 fatal crashes now the jet has flown commercially and every year since the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash oakley after takeoff bearings sense low level production of the 737 max is underway but it still needs to be cleared by regulators before it can fly night comes on the same day that being said it was cutting more than 12000 u. S. Jobs because of coronavirus. The 1st space flight of nasa astronauts from u. S. Soil in nearly a decade has been postponed because of bad weather the countdown was stopped about 17 minutes before the space x. Falcon 9 rocket was juta lift off from the Kennedy Space center in florida the next attempt will be made on saturday the launch will be the 1st time a private company has sent astronauts into orbit. Has moved from Cape Canaveral obviously this is a new page a new chapter in u. S. Space exploration bringing a private company in to that footprint of space is something that has never been done before and frankly when you talk to both sides of this space x. Boeing is involved as well and mass it seems to be working almost seamlessly here of course nasa has complete control over go no go and other primary issues but its a mission team thats run by space x. And because of the growth of viruses those team members only half were actually in their seats in Mission Control the other have working from home here and again it seemed like everything went just the way it should when you talk physically about what it was like here because of code 19 the general viewing area here at Kennedy Space center open to the public closed down no one allowed to come in they are in fact what a lot of the administrators here and the staff here said publicly and really pushed in the weeks ahead of this launch was stay away watch this obviously would love you to be here and see the launch in person but if you cant watch it at home watch it on the internet watching on t. V. Group several of the key viewing spots around Kennedy Space center will close down as well but driving in this morning you still saw people lining the beaches and roadways coming in to k. S. C. And a lot of people just could not stay away so it does mean a lot to a lot of people across the country. Now the American Writer and probably an aids activist larry kramer has died he was a key figure in raising awareness of hate hiv aids in the u. S. When it emerged in the early 1980 s. Kramer later cofounded the act up movement that campaign for treatment and civil rights for People Living with the disease his works include the Award Winning play the normal heart about the early days of the crisis he died of pneumonia on wednesday after enduring illness for much of his life including his own battle with hiv he was 84. Years are with me the whole rom the reminder of our top stories the u. S. Secretary of state has told Congress Hong kong special status with america should end as it no longer is autonomous from china that comes as beijing prepares to impose a new security law on hong kong which has sparked more protests the number of coronavirus deaths in the United States as of the past 100000 it comes as the country continues to loosen restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the illness the European Commission is calling for a recovery package to help e. U. Nations tackle the pandemic fallout 825000000000. 00 worth of bailout money is due to be raised in Capital Markets now some nations are against taking on debt to help other nations this is an urgent and exceptional necessity for an urgent and exceptional crisis the next generation e. U. Will invest in repairing our social fabric truck checked our Single Market health rebalancing Balance Sheets across europe. U. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson has told m. P. s that its time to move on from the scandal surrounding his top adviser Dominic Cummings who traveled with his family from london to northeastern england in march while he and his wife were showing covert 1000. 00 symptoms most brazilians support stricter social distancing measures to tackle the spread of covert 90 and thats according to a survey its a stark contrast to the wishes of president diable sonora whose repeatedly criticized lockdowns and french court has refused to grant bail to a rwandan genocide suspect of affairs that he could flee felicien could because lawyers said he should be released because of poor health hes been accused of bankrolling armed groups who massacred 8 100002 seize and moderate hutus in 1994 because it was arrested in the paris suburb almost 2 weeks ago after being on the run for more than 2 decades and the 1st space flight of nasa astronauts from u. S. Soil in nearly a decade has been perspire and because of bad weather the countdown was stopped around 17 minutes before the space x. Falcon 9 rocket was due to lift off the next attempt will made on saturday those were the headlines of about with more news in half an hour next its inside story with burnitz meth. The u. S. Accuses russia of sending fighter jets to libya moscow says it wants a cease fire that its ally. Suffered losses of to took it from military interventions one of the options the stabilizing libya in an increasingly complex war this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program and its russia is one of the main players in the war in libya