Water is why its the perfect home for the seas gentle giants. China has become the 1st major economy to report growth since the start of the cold in 1000. 00 pandemic official data shows its economy grew an unexpected 3. 2 percent in the 2nd quarter after shrinking the most seem nearly 50 years while some industries are nearly back to normal Consumer Spending is still down. The epidemic is still spreading faster overseas the restart recovery of the World Economy and trade has been very difficult domestically the recovery have to modest slow the pressures of stabilizing and surprises and safeguarding residential employment a huge life took a turn in beijing for as katrinas surprising numbers there whats driving this growth in china. Well the Chinese Government says its because theyve been largely able to contain the corona Virus Outbreak here in china we did have a new cluster in beijing that was concerning at the end of may beginning of june but the government moved quickly locked down some neighborhoods and now in beijing weve had 0 local transmissions for the last 10 days and this is kind of reflected throughout the rest of the country very low numbers 0 or Single Digits in terms of new infections secondly the government has been ramping up spending when it comes to infrastructure building a lots of railroads a subway stations around the country as well as making it much easier for businesses around the country to borrow money to invest back into their business so there is a some of the the reason that weve seen the government avoided any large scale stimulus package but has been putting in place these fiscal measures that it seems to have worked and thats why weve seen this 3. 2 percent growth this last quarter even better than some analysts predicted they were predicting around the 22. 00 and a half percent mark and a big turnaround from the 6. 8 percent contraction that we saw in the 1st quarter during the height of the pandemic here in china then Chinese State media hailing this as a big success and a big symbol of hope for the rest of the world over we do have to take this figure with a grain of salt the Chinese Government figures its impossible to verify but its true if you go in the streets of china and many areas people do seem to be back to business as normal and restaurants and shops are open many people are back to the office and even Domestic Travel seems to be resuming but theres still a lot of uncertainty katrina and the tensions with the u. S. And sanctions on Chinese Companies that companies could derail things for china. Thats right so even though weve had this positive news today 3. 2 percent this happiness was not reflected by chinese investors in fact we saw big plunges in the chinese stock market in shanghai it dropped by more than 4 percent body end of the day and in shenzhen more than 5 percent and i think the really does reflect a lot of fear and anxiety that chinese investors have over worsening ties with the u. S. We also have this trade deal that hangs in the balance many people arent sure where this trade deal is going to go or what Chinas Foreign Ministry spokesperson this afternoon on thursday said that china still intended to follow through with its obligations for this trade deal despite what she called as the u. S. Is determination to oppress Chinese Companies all the same chinas National Statistics bureau says theyre quite optimistic Going Forward and that theres growth that weve seen in the last few months is laying the groundwork for a continued growth for the rest of the year and theyre expecting up to a 5 percent growth of for the 2nd half of the year in china some figures do support that for example industrial output in june was up by 4. 8 percent but progress has been patchy as you mentioned earlier domestic consumption is still down retail sales are still down as well and for that reason chinese authorities are still quite optimistic despite the fact china is expected to be the only major economy to avoid a recession this year the Chinese Government has decided to scrap any g. D. P. Growth target for 20 twentieths together thank you very much katrina you live there in beijing. The corner of. One of indias forests is a native region to go into a number of covered 9000 infections across the country approaches 1000000 more than 600 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours and the red cross is warning the virus is spreading at an alarming rate throughout south asia and is a correspondent in you delhi she joins us now live so a number of local lock downs coming into effect snow is bihar was already struggling to deal with floods and not has to go into lockdown to get. The latest region to go into lockdown and its also really significant because its one of the most impoverished states in india but its also one of the most populous that has a population of nearly 130000000 people and theyre going into a full lockdown for 2 weeks you know last weekend we saw the most populous state going into a lockdown but that was just for the weekend behind is going into it for 2 weeks its also significant because bihar has some of the worst Public Health care infrastructure in the entire country and because you remember there was that mass exodus of Migrant Workers. At the beginning of the National Lockdown in late march early april will many of those Migrant Workers be hard and so many of these people have actually come back into that state for all those reasons because the case is going up the behind government says that it has to impose a lot down to break the chain of transmission but one of the criticisms of these lockdowns whether its in bihar elsewhere is that theres very Little Information that accompanies using such a harsh measure lockdowns were only supposed to be a tool to buy time whereas in bihar we havent heard are they going to increase testing are they going to improve Contact Tracing things like that as we mentioned the heart is the latest area there are a number of places in the. Country which are already under lock down the major cities. Theyre under complete lockdown today when on the. In the northeast many areas affected areas of the state of west bengal but despite the situation the government when they do talk about coronavirus theyre very positive about it we actually heard from the Health Minister today and he said that you know despite indias Large Population its handled the outbreak perhaps better than any other country and has a mortality rate of 2. 5 percent and a recovery rate of more than 60 percent but most independent Health Experts will say that despite testing more than 300000 people a day it seems like a very large number india is still testing nowhere near enough what the worst affected countries did and not enough to know the real the real picture of infections all deaths in the country thank you very much for that Elizabeth Ron live for us in new day. A solemn ceremony has been held in spain to pay tribute to corona virus victims and Health Care Workers who risked their lives to take care of patients the king and queen joined top u. N. World Health Organization officials at the state Memorial Service in madrid also there were some relatives of the 28000 people in spain who died during the pandemic in one of europes hardest hit countries ended with a minute silence. In other world news europes top court has cropped a data sharing agreement with the u. S. In a ruling that could disrupt hundreds of thousands of companies the case was brought by austrian author max trends over the way facebook sent private information around the world the ruling ends whats known as the Privacy Shield which is supposed to protect European Data when its transferred to america the court says the deal is no longer valid because of u. S. Surveillance laws that speak to catalina go on about this she is assistant professor in private law at mass creates university and codirector of the maastricht law and tech lab and is via skype from the netherlands thank you very much for being with us so the ruling today says that privacy issue doesnt work and has to be struck down how significant is this and what is it going to mean for users and companies. Its a good morning and its really interesting its a very interesting day in europe because max france has already made history once more and we have this new case from the court of justice of the European Union that is definitely going to have far reaching effects the case is basically about 2 decisions of the European Commission one from 2016142010 and particularly the one for 2 sept 2016 that has been quashed by the court this is the Privacy Shield that you were referring to earlier this has been seen as the way in which the European Commission has bowed down to u. S. Influence and mocks has been mentioning that this case really shows how the European Union as a whole really needs to take into account that u. S. Surveillance laws need the need to reform and need serious reform so in a nutshell this case is about to 2 very procedural decisions but from a practical perspective its about the situation when a user concludes a contract with facebook which is going to be Facebook Ireland for users from the European Union and then the question is how can it facebook us get access to data from facebook heartland so the answer to that is that its not going to be that easy right so just to understand it better so if people go online now theyre not going to notice a difference but the way their data will be handled will be different have Companies Like facebook found ways to ensure data privacy. Indeed Privacy Shield was supposed to be an expression of how the European Commission and the United States had agreed on such a formula however the court of justice claims that this formally out is not enough so what happens now with the Privacy Shield is that a lot of data transfers are going to have to be stopped so imagine the situation where may be in the in the absence of a moratorium on facial recognition facebook us wants to have access to photos uploaded on the facebook servers of Facebook Ireland and in the current framework and after this decision this is simply not going to be possible so now probably its going to be a matter of the European Commission going back to the drawing board and trying to draft a new Framework Agreement for data transfers to the u. S. And the ruling i understand doesnt just apply to data between the u. S. And the e. U. But also to non other e. U. Countries what are the implications of this. The implications are quite straightforward the court of justice says that for any kind of laws. 3rd parties 3rd states we will need to apply the same standards that we have as we have in European Union so standards that are equivalent to the g. D. P. Are and that is really a way in which the court of justice is ascertaining the the importance of reform that we have achieved in the European Union and the fact that we need to maintain this standard of protection also in dealing with 3rd countries thank you very much for talking to us about this we appreciate your insights and that was go on to professor of law and joining us a from mass strict in the netherlands. Fighting has broken out once again on the azerbaijan armenia border despite both sides saying theyre trying to find a peaceful solution both countries say their villages are being shelled by Opposition Forces at least 16 people have been killed since border clashes erupted on sunday tension between the famous soviet republics has been escalating for several years as a fight over the disputed region of nagano caught about. And still ahead on aljazeera a major hoch of twitter fake messages that appear on some of the most followed accounts including bill gates iraq obamas and even mosque. And a warm welcome but an uncertain future how mexicos Tourism Industry is adapting to the reality of coronavirus. Head of the cloud throughout much of indonesia some fairly hefty down pools again at times you can see thunder constantly streaming across the philippines now when it comes to silhouettes see the recent mudslide which and go to the west you can see there is no rain in the focus on friday not as heavy heavy downpours across into borneo throughout much as the mountain felt some heaviest falls there across into the fall southwest and then by saturday there is some heavy rain back in the forecast this will not help obviously with the situation there in borneo again seeing some fairly hefty downpours me want across the philippines scattered showers and scattered showers real way from southern myanmar right the way across towards vietnam then down tools australia well across the southeast we got a mix of cloud and wanted to shout but this system has Still Producing some very very strong winds just off the coast of sydney said people out and about enjoying the fine weather and theyre looking at this there are dozens of surfers out there enjoying these huge ways but in fact the metal his house goes and warnings in place because the waves are dangerous they are very strong so that when situation friday some showers across into the north island of new zealand and i went into perth this is tim is working quite quickly across the great by taking the rain away with this a saturday should be a dry a bright today but those showers in the 4 calls across the southeast and is not too bad on an improving day in sydney today. In the conclusion of the 2 part series people in power and vesta gates allegations that Irish Catholic nuns facilitated the traffic of babies the torture realized that babies that are the could be sold to america as cowered in quite a nice and reveals shocking new evidence of how and where religious orders disposed of those who died breaking torn in the system like this one church and state are clear to keep the truth from coming helps islands mother in baby scandal on aljazeera. Move the order form the old. The end. Welcome back im fully back to bill with the top stories on aljazeera this hour china has become the 1st major economy to report growth since the start of the corvee 1000. 00 pandemic official data shows its economy grew 3. 2 percent in the 2nd quarter d after shrinking the most in nearly 50 years. One of indias poorest states bihar is the latest region under lockdown as the number of covered 1000 infections across the country nears 1000000 more than 600 deaths were reported in just the last 24 hours and europe stopped or has cropped a data sharing agreement with the u. S. In a ruling that prevents Tech Companies from transferring data of european citizens to america the court says a Privacy Shield deal is no longer valid because of u. S. Surveillance laws. Twitter is scrambling to fix a major hacking of its system that has seen fake messages posted to some of the most followed accounts in the world they began appearing a few hours ago asking followers to donate to a big coin account with the promise their amount would be matched among those hatari former u. S. President barack obama where the message says donations would go to those affected by it 19 president ial contender joe biden his own boss jeff bezos microsoft founder bill gates apple ober and tesla have also been hit. 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Is it has not deliberately sought it filling africas largest dam on the blue nile it says an increase in the dams water levels since due to heavy rain and is a natural part of the construction process egypt has been seeking agent clarification after Ethiopian State Television reported on wednesday that the feeling of the grand renaissance dam had begun egypt and sudan fear reduced Water Supplies downstream and dont want the river dammed until they reach an agreement with ethiopia well the 5000000000. 00 dam has calls nearly a decade of tension between the 3 countries the project is a centerpiece of ethiopias bid to become africas biggest power exporter the country is the source of the blue nile which flows through sudan and merges with the white nile up through egypt Ethiopian Government is at full capacity that will be able to turn on the lights was 70000000. 00 ethiopians who have no electricity but egypts relies on the 9 for 90 percent of its water for a population of 100000000 mom advice has more on the confusion surrounding the satis of the. Its difficult to know whats going on at the dam itself because there was no access to it by International Media no experts are visiting no foreign delegations are visiting the damn site so we can only hear from the choppiness and they said something when they came back and said Something Different we can only analyze that particularly this this situation since yesterday a situation of confusion at least for people outside the chopper can benefit each opens they want probably to test not only the dams capacity if indeed they try to fill it they began to fill the lake thats a technical test for the dam itself whether it works or not and this could be the biggest or the most important test because there were concerns technically speaking about whether the dam can really support this idea of you know holding up to 74000000000 cubic meters so a test will be good a test or saw of the actions of the countries downstream sudan and egypt and the International Community and particularly the u. S. And the u. N. And the world bank who have been partners in the negotiations to resolve this dispute so they can gather a lot of. Conclusions from what happened yesterday and thats going to benefit them going ahead because they have to know what to do in these tough negotiations they coronavirus pandemic is continuing to spike in the u. S. With over 67000 new cases reported on wednesday in the med so this the white house is distancing itself from a senior advisers caving op ed attacking the countrys top Infectious Disease expert donald trump says the article targeting Dr Anthony Fauci is unacceptable by kind of reports from washington. Weeks of failed white house criticism of dr Anthony Party culminated in an all out attack by Peter NavarroPresident Trumps economics adviser in a newspaper column here cuse the Infectious Diseases expert of being wrong all the time dr fox he responded in a magazine interview saying the country needs to stop this nonsense and focus on the surging virus rather than political games referring to the white house doctor said its only reflecting negatively on them President Trump insisted Peter Navarro was speaking only for himself were all in the same day including dr felt you have a very Good Relationship with dr g. And were all in the same team we want to get rid of this mess that china sent us so everybodys working at the same line it would doing very well this rosy view of the crisis has been one point of disagreement between the president and dr funky whos warned of grave consequences from the beginning of the pandemic i think if you talk to reasonable people in the white house they realize that was a major mistake on their part because it doesnt do anything but reflects poorly on them that there was also disagreement about the easing of mitigating measures as President Trump urged states to open up as quickly as possible and dr fox he advised against large gatherings of people President Trump went ahead with a Campaign Rally in tulsa last month thank you one of those who attended was oklahomas governor kevin stood and hes become the 1st u. S. Governor to test positive for the virus the latest point of disagreement is President Trumps insistence that schools open and should chill discounting doctor found she said vice that the metrics of the pandemic in each area should determine if or in what manner students should go back to school. Thats an opinion shared by many teachers concerned that their own safety is not being taken into account in the administrations desire to return to normal its not only dr fogey who no longer has the president s ear the administration has ordered hospitals to send all coronavirus data directly to the Health Department here in washington not the centers for Disease Control in atlanta effectively sidelining the body that has been at the forefront of the battle against every previous pandemic in an apparent bid to end public concern about dr fall trees diminished role the Vice President tweeted about the latest Coronavirus Task force meeting here at least still appears to be listening to what dr fauci has to say michael. Washington. Mexico meanwhile is beginning to reopen some of its biggest tourist destinations even as it struggles to contain the corona Virus Outbreak but Industry Experts predict it could take years for tourism to recover fully on a rappel reports from mexico city. This is how some hotels along mexicos caribbean coast have welcomed their 1st guests in months was the slow trickle of foreigners is a most welcome sign for the 4500000 workers who make a living from mexicos Tourism Industry when or if i read it its good to know that right now of a restarting jobs and that tourists will come and they see everything here and the hotel sit through of cancun is reopening and we send a general invitation to all the national and International Tourists that they welcome. Pinku was one of the 1st mexican cities to reopen to tourists while national and International Flights to this ideally destination are operating at reduced capacity the city has already welcomed some 70000 visitors since reopening its doors on june 8th. Still a far cry from the packed beaches and busy arrival terminals of the days before cope at 19 as part of. The recovery will not be fast the travel industry has been one of the warsaw hotel sector restaurants the whole change related to travel we dont expect that would be easy but we have to reinvent many things become more efficient more up to mistakes and creative and above everything always always place Public Safety as a top priority. Mexicos travel industry is undergoing a safety overhaul efforts like the adoption of this thermal Imaging System that can koons International Airport our response to the demand for higher sanitation standards while many of mexicos Top Destinations like hank who in acapulco and mexico city have reopened mexico continues to struggle to mitigate contagion of coronavirus. He says of coronavirus are still on the rise such that mexicos government recently extended restrictions on travel across mexicos land borders through july 21st to resume officials however tell al jazeera the Health Crisis is improving but expect it will be years before the industry begins to bounce back. So leave all of us weve met the expectations set by the Health Secretary to control this pandemic based on europes experience with their contagion curves we expect to see a recovery near the end of 2022 to reach the tourist numbers we had before the pandemic. Every year more than 45000000. 00 tourists visit mexicos beaches historic cities and world famous or theological sites ranking the country among the top 10 most visited on the planet and moved up a little aljazeera mexico city. As waters holes some of the new launches gatherings of whale sharks in the world whale shock saw the planets biggest facia and researchers found that they come here to feed on the abundance of fish eggs in the waters 70 deca got exclusive access to head out to sea and swim with these gentle sea giants. For scanning the waters but not for these playful visitors. Missing out of their hunting we ought to have more with still many of them. Weve travelled almost 2 hours off the qatari coast to find these majestic animals the whale shark the biggest fish in the world and they gather here in huge numbers mohammed el jaida the head of the Whale Shark Research project here explains the biggest emitter we recorded by a drone is 350 with one shot but in our database we have more than 600 record the. World record. A bucket list moment as they say. Our 1st glimpse of these enormous gentle giants. Its hard to describe the feeling of swimming alongside them watching them feed a feeling like tiny insignificant yet privileged guests in their world. Ringback cameraman nick porter and i surface after swimming with them for the 1st time. In a critical. Week for. The scale of what we are witnessing only really becomes apparent once you take to the sky and why do they come here the main thing in this area is the temperature the war you see if you go 5 or 6 kilometers out of this the water temperature is about between 32 to 34 average 32 degrees centigrade in this area here. About 2728. 00 its the best or the ideal temperature for fish to bring in so when they breed or spawn here the shark comes with a broken you know they come specifically for the fish you know the caviar you know. Part of the shark family they are filter feeders and they are categorized as endangered unsurprisingly mostly due to mans activities. Research had been going on into this population since 2010 together with some of the Major Energy Companies but has been put on hold in the last few years the local teams are keen to get things moving again back on the boat so how was it just unbelievable to see how many will sharks. And this area here also eager to join us on our trip. A qatari world traveler he has never seen such a gathering before and the maldives we were to go in and we spend 4 hours to spot one will show one will sharks and the money and the chef and the it is like everywhere everywhere only miss will shock. The doctors as though there were the other one is coming that theyre not going i mean saying its not enough something you know you see now when theyre hurt them but its still 50 maybe a degree and here the water is you know 30 feet im not and were going to be you know we get back into the water its hard to end such a unique and special experience for now there is no way for the public to come here but were told its being looked into raising awareness could also be a way to ensure more protection and more research into this whale shark population. It is a privilege to host these graceful sea giants and we all have a g. G. To play our part in protecting them Stephanie Decker aljazeera of the qatari coast. You know again back to bill with the headlines on aljazeera china has become the 1st major economy to report growth since the start of the cove in 1000 pandemic official data shows its economy grew 3. 2 percent in the 2nd quarter after shrinking the most seen nearly 50 is katrina you has more from beijing a Chinese State media hailing it as a still sell a time to celebrate as a sign of hope to other economies but we do also have to take this figure with a grain of salt its difficult or impossible to verify that figure of course but definitely if you go walk around into the major cities in china fading included. Shops and restaurants are open many people have returned to the office and travel restrictions have certainly also. Eased to read you have the groups now able to operate again domestically as well. One of indias forestay says the latest in the region under lockdown as the number of covered 900. 1000000000 biharis already struggling to tackle floods states and money has been held in spain to honor those who have died during the corner spun demick the event was attended by the countrys king in top officials from the European Union and the world Health Organization europes top courts has data sharing agreement with the u. S. Never willing that prevents Tech Companies from chance ring data of european citizens to the u. S. The court says a Privacy Shield deal is no longer valid because of u. S. Surveillance laws twitter is scrambling to fix a major hacking of its system that has seen fake messages posted to some of the most followed accounts in the world they began appearing a few hours ago asking followers to donate to a bit coy an account with a promise their mount would be matched among those hot former u. S. President barack obama where the message says donations would go to those affected by coal that 19. And taiwans president has watch on your live fire military exercises to demonstrate the islands ability to fight invasion sighing when says she wants the world to see the determination to protect the country. Those are the headlines on aljazeera coming up next people in power just stay with us. We understand the differences in similarities of cultures across the wound so no matter how you take it out just to bring you the news and Current Affairs that matter to you. Now to 0. 6 years ago an oil and secret mass grave for babies was discovered near a home for unmarried pregnant women an institution run by Roman Catholic nuns to find set off a scandal that has raised deeply disturbing questions about the relationship between the irish state in the Catholic Church and the distressing state of thousands of children who died in their care in this 2nd part of our investigation correspondent orange me reveals shocking new evidence for