1st major economy to record positive growth figures since the sought of the florida virus pandemic. Become specifically for the fish. And feasting in qatars water is why its the perfect home for the seas gentle giants. Thank you very much for joining us europes top court has cropped up data sharing privacy agreement with the United States the case was brought by austrian privacy activist max trends over the way facebook sent private information around the world the ruling and whats known as the Privacy Shield its supposed to protect europeans data when its transferred to america the course says a deal is no longer valid because many u. S. Tech companies are obliged to give some macs. As to the government surveillance the case began when tribes challenge Facebook Status safeguards it says some personal information hasnt been protected when its transferred from europe to other parts of the world but this case has wider implications it could shake up the way thousands of european and american businesses transfer dates or overseas in 2015 screens one another case ending a similar e. U. U. S. Deal called safe harbor both cases stemmed from revelations by american whistleblower Edward Snowden of mass surveillance by the u. S. Catalina go on to is codirector of the maastricht law and she says the ruling will have far reaching consequences and the case is basically about 2 decisions of the European Commission one from 2016 and one from 2010 and particularly the one from 2016 that has been squashed 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 marks 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 need reform and need serious reform so in a nutshell this case is about 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 carland so the answer to that is that its not going to be that easy twitter meanwhile is scrambling to fix a major hacking of a system that has seen fake messages posted to some of the most followed accounts in the world among those hacks our former u. S. President barack obama president ial nominee joe biden and amazon boss jeff bezos victoria good to be every force. The fake tweets were only on screen for a few minutes but long enough for people to capture screenshots of several before they were removed which is confirmed and identified hackers broke into the accounts of high profile politicians tech company 1000000000 as and celebrities in a scam apparently designed to leo people into sending money to an anonymous bitcoin account twitter followers were offered 2000. 00 for every 1000. 00 they sent this was an account all about opportunity and what youre seeing is you know very high profile people reach a lot of people very quickly because you know something that can be turned into cash very quickly anonymously so i think somebody found a very clever way to extract a lot of money from people in a very quick amount of talent that might also be a demonstration of twitters weak Security Control as campaigning steps up for the president ial election in november a contest in which twitter is likely to play an influential role u. S. President Donald Trumps account which has more than 83000000. 00 followers was not among those hacked chief executive jet doocy said tough day for us at twitter we all feel terrible this happened we diagnosing and well share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened i think were probably very lucky that people who took it very chose to use it as a crude scam really i think it could have been very much more impactful. I cant really imagine different ways it could have played out i think we were quite lucky responsibilities been surfaced in way that was relatively benign the bitcoin account mentioned in the fake tweets received 12. 9 bitcoins by the end of wednesday equivalent to around 114000. 00 roughly half that in bitcoin was withdrawn from the account the same day Victoria Gate and be aljazeera. And other world news a British Court of appeal. Has ruled that a schoolgirl who traveled to syria to join eisold should be allowed to return to the u. K. Shamima big old who is now 20 years old had her citizenship revoked in 2019 she wants to return to challenge that decision as bring in sunny a day ago in london for sonya this has been a very controversial case give us the background to this ruling and what have been the reactions. Absolutely she was one of 3 schoolgirls who at the age of 15 left the u. K. To go to eisele when she arrived there she was married to a dutch convert and until she was found last year by a journalist in a refugee camp in northern syria. Relatively little or nothing at all was really known of her at all now she said that what she was trying to do was get back. For her return to go back to the u. K. How ever it sprouted off a huge political controversy whereby the home secretary at the time was saying that because she broke the law and ran away to be with eisel that therefore in the interests of National Security the British State has the right to revoke her citizenship containing the fact that she wouldnt be left stateless because through her mother she they maintain that she would have had automatic bangladeshi citizenship and now this is where it gets complicated because then bangladesh says the foreign minister of bangladesh at the time said that she would absolutely not be allowed into the country in fact she would be executed as a terrorist and that the case of human bigger more was really a case for the u. K. Itself the special tribunal that deals with these issues such as revoking citizenship maintain the legality of the sigebert citing this bangladesh socalled bloodline law that would have entitled her to that but thats not really an option for her at the moment and it seems that according to the legality of this as well she has the right to contest that this is whats being dealt with here now she will have the right to come back to the u. K. To be able to put forward her appeal that her sit. And ship should not have been revoked in the 1st place its absolutely not certain whether she will still maintain that u. K. Citizenship if it can be proved otherwise that she sed still has an entitlement to bangladeshi citizenship ali thank you very much for that sonia go live for us in london. China is the 1st major economy to report growth since the start of the covert 19 pandemic government statistics show a unexpected 3. 2 percent increase in the 2nd quarter after the worlds 2nd largest economy suffered its worst slump in nearly 50 years during lockdowns some industries are nearly back to normal but Consumer Spending remains 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 monticello the pressures of stabilizing enterprises and safeguarding residential employment a huge katrina you has more from beijing on how the government explains its economic turnaround. Well the Chinese Government has attributed it to being able to control the corona Virus Outbreak now we did have a new cluster in beijing at the end of may beginning of june that was very concerning so many neighborhoods put back into lockdown but since then some draconian measures put in place by the government seem to worked and now were back to Single Digits in terms of no local transmissions in the last few weeks also the government has been ramping up their spending of infrastructure as well weve seen new rail projects of the building projects subway stations built in beijing and other major cities and the government has also been making it easier for businesses to borrow money from banks to invest in their businesses so these a the reasons that the government is stating that weve seen this 3. 2 percent increase in g. D. P. Growth which is quite a sharp turn around from the previous quarter where we saw 6. 8 percent in terms of a contraction the 1st in decades Chinese State media here today on those they are celebrating this saying its a success it proves that the chinese measures to contain the current virus have worked and its also a beacon of hope for other economies that are struggling at the moment but of course we have to take this figure with a grain of salt because its impossible to verify these government figures but it is true if you walk around the major cities here in china certainly in beijing it does appear to be business as usual shops and restaurants are open many people are back to the office and even Domestic Travel is starting to resume. Still ahead on aljazeera from the u. S. Top Infectious Disease expert as the Coronavirus Crisis gets worse across the country. Weve got almost reset this in say ok lets stop this nonsense and figure out how can we get control over this now. And are there a is still very much in the for cross across more central and eastern areas of china its been very good and clear across much the Korean Peninsula and we have seen more rain across areas of japan but just look at this for just one show you nothing but pictures and images for the last several weeks but it really is still hard to really get your head around exactly how much water has come down the damage that has been done and just how wise for that is look at this thousands upon thousands of homes over 3 under water now this morning the 4 calls on friday particularly through the central and eastern areas and as we go through the rest of the day more rain as well into more central and eastern areas of honshu south that is not a good day at all in fact the rain extending all the way from sichuan up towards dong and really some very heavy downpours are expected times a more very heavy rain across areas of india as well its been particularly heavy out across the west for the last few days but also northern pakistan again has some good monsoon rains traffic still moving but the rain coming down a crisis a rate of knots meanwhile across into mumbai yet again the heavy rain the city many areas under water more rain even for cars on friday but the very heavy rain actually working its way westwards thatll eventually had to was coastal areas of oman but still the rains very extensive as you go through saturday and heavy again through much in nepal and up to the northeast. Im allowed when off and. Raised in a chinese buddhist orphanage. Faces a momentous life decision. A personal story of competing identities. The chad light on a growing cultural types. In africa a witness documentary on aljazeera. In the evening. Welcome back a recap of our top stories on aljazeera europes top court has cropped a data sharing privacy agreement with the u. S. In a ruling that prevents Tech Companies from transferring 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 china has become the 1st major economy to report growth since the start of the corner virus pandemic official data shows its economy grew 3. 2 percent in the 2nd quarter up to shrinking the most in nearly 50 years and a British Court of appeal has ruled that a schoolgirl who traveled to syria to join i sall should be allowed to return to the u. K. Had her citizenship revoked in 2019 she wants to return to challenge that decision. Taiwan has held on your military drills meant to show off its readiness to defend itself against an attack from Mainland China present syene win says the war games are important to show determination and efforts to protect the island rob mcbride reports from seoul. As tensions increase with Mainland China a defiant show of strength by taiwan its latest military hardware on display much of it sold by the United States towers undertaken significant investment in military assets over the past few years and these operations give time on a real opportunity to to see and to evaluate their systems to evaluate their chains of command and see how their operations would work in times of crisis in times of peace. In times of in times of conflict Disaster Relief for instance the annual life fire drills held since the 1980s test the islands ability to fight off an attack from its far more powerful neighbor the exercises include air defense and followed by incursions by Chinese Military aircraft in recent months. Watching the war games taiwans president sighing when who is riding a wave of popularity for taking a more defiant stand against beijing and why the hong kong exercise is an annual major event of our military and it shows the combat power of our troops we want the world to see our determination and efforts to protect our country. Chinas growing territorial claims in the South China Sea are being resisted by the United States secretary of state mike pompei o describing the claims as completely unlawful as u. S. Warships continue their exercises in the disputed waters incurring the wrath of chinas government. Well killed religion urge the u. S. Stop stirring up trouble in regards to the South China Sea issue and to not keep going further down the wrong track china will continue to resolutely safeguard its sovereignty and safety set against the background of worsening relations between washington and beijing taiwan can be assured of its continuing support from the us but with these exercises also trusting in its own ability to defend the island if necessary of the bride al jazeera. 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 former soviet republics has been escalating for several years as a fight over the disputed region of my god no kind of bomb. Ethiopia is denying state television reports that has started filling the reservoir of africas largest town the increase in water level is being attributed to seasonal heavy rain and natural part of the construction process on the blue nile river egypt sought urgent clarification of the t. V. Reports both egypt and sudan fear reduce Water Supplies downstream and dont want the river dam then till a binding agreement is reached mom advance has more on the confusion surrounding the status of the dam. Its difficult to know whats going on at the damage 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 feel 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. In 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 iran is reported to have halted the execution of 3 protesters after a mass social Media Campaign demanding a reprieve the men were given death sentences following their restaurant antigovernment protests last november more than 7000000 tweets using the hashtag do not execute were sent following the decision. The family of george florida is suing the city of minneapolis in the u. S. Over his killing he died in may after a Police Officer knelt on his neck for almost 9 minutes preventing him from breathing is killing his sponsor global protests lawyers for the family say the city of minneapolis has a history of policies and procedures that promote indifference towards people under arrest in particular black men. Same with the u. S. C. Coronavirus pandemic is continuing to spike there with over 67000 new cases reported on wednesday in the midst of this the white houses distancing itself from a senior advisers caving obaid 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 parky culminated in an all out attack by Peter NavarroPresident Trumps economics adviser in a newspaper column he accused 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 dr fox he 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 she advised against large gatherings of people while 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 on 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 fox has to say mike hanna washington on more than a quarter of those infected with corona virus in the u. S. Are in 3 republican controlled states florida texas and arizona which were quick to nest restrictions as rob reynolds reports florida has become the latest hot spot. Florida saw a Record Number of corona virus deaths among its citizens this week the state has surpassed 300000 cases of covered 19 in total with more than 10000 new cases reported on wednesday hospitals are scrambling to make room for the sick Emergency Rooms that are backing up and it is quite a feat now for the administrators to find an appropriate bed for an emergency room patient to go to one that fits their covert needs florida was one of the earliest states to reopen for business now that is looking like a terrible mistake its a complete failure of the Public Health system and we didnt. Hear the population enough so we were able to convince them once we opened up things could not be back to normal Florida GovernorRhonda Santas a republican closely allied to President Donald Trump pushed for an early opening and he has not mandated mask wearing or issued any stay at home orders despite the surge part of the reason we have more positive tests is because were doing so much testing at a recent event the governor was heckled shame on you you are an embarrassment doctor say the message to the public about mask wearing and hygiene has been inadequate if everyones nose and mouth were covered we wouldnt be facing this this researches the problem of course is that its been politicized and there are parts of the country and pockets with then even even parts of the country except masts that that believe that its somehow a political statement or a sign of weakness or a disbelief in god to wear masks and thats simply not true florida schools are reopening causing some parents concern but the Anti Mask Movement is still loudly proclaiming its distrust of Public Health advice yeah right this. All right well. Disease experts say changes in Public Policy from the top down must happen fast we need to dig deep into ourselves look at what weve been doing and why we have been. In this outbreak and realize that its time for this introspection and this time to change and weve got to do. Or were just heading for you or more disaster some Public Health experts say floridas coburg 1000 surge may not reach its peak until September Rob reynolds aljazeera a solemn ceremony has been held in spain to pay tribute to corona virus victims and Health Care Workers who risked their lives to care for patients the king and queen joined guess at the satan a moyl service in madrid also there was some relatives of the 28000 spaniards who died during the pandemic in one of europes hardest hit countries. Calcuttas waters holds some of the largest gatherings of whale sharks in the world. Stephanie deca got exclusive access to her out to sea and swim with these gentle giants. For scanning the waters but not for these playful visitors. This is incredible theyre. 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 a 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 feeling like tiny insignificant yet privileged guests in their world. Ringback camera man nick porter and i surface after swimming with them for the 1st time. In a critical. Week for a lot of. 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 well you see if you go 5 or 6 kilometers out of this area 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 breed so when they breed or spawn here the shark comes for the broughton 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 spend 4 hours to spot one will show one will sharks and the more and then he 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 you know something you know you sleep now and or hurt them but its still 50 maybe bigger and here the water is below 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. Again im fully bad people with the headlines on aljazeera europes top court has cropped an 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 lolls the u. S. Says its disappointed by the decision twitter meanwhile is scrambling to fix a major hacking of its system that has seen fake messages full sit to some of the most followed accounts in the world among those hot tower former u. S. President barack obama president ial candidate chill biden and amazon boss jeff bezos china has become the 1st major economy to report growth since the start of the coronavirus pandemic official data shows its economy grew 3. 2 percent in the 2nd quarter after shrinking the most in nearly 50 is katrina you has more from beijing a Chinese State media hailing it as a slow fellow 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 in beijing included. Shops and restaurants are open many people have returned to the office and travel restrictions have certainly also. We do have groups now able to operate again domestically as well. Every dish cortez appealed that a British Court appeal rather has ruled that a schoolgirl who traveled to syria to join i sall should be allowed to return to a big old hotter citizenship rico revoked in 2019 she wants to return to challenge that decision taiwans president has watch on your own 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 island and ethiopia says it has not deliberately started filling africas not just dam on the blue nile denying earlier reports it says an increase in the water levels rise due to heavy rain in egypt tends to don fear reduce Water Supplies downstream and dont want the dam failed until they reach an agreement with ethiopia those are the headlines coming up next on inside story. To tell realign is be allowed to restart flights so you go for a blockade in countries the uns top court rejected appealed by saudi arabia the u. A. E. Bahrain and egypt to keep their airspace closed while the verdict changed the course of the diplomatic dispute in the gulf this is it was. A low welcome to the program on the wrong call and millions of passengers on one of the Worlds Largest airlines have spent more than 3 is taking the long way home ways flights have been forced to reroute an extra fuel to avoid the spy