A waste of space wills keeps building offices back over 19 is prompting a push to get more people working from home permanently. Hello taiwan says its had to scramble fighter jets to track approaching Chinese Air Force planes as the visit of a u. S. Official brings new tension Taiwans Defense Ministry says they were sent up as chinese jets crossed the midline of the Taiwan Strait china began military drills close to taiwan after the arrival there of a top u. S. State Department Official well china is accusing the u. S. On taiwans ruling party of colluding to stir up trouble and says the exercises in the Taiwan Strait are to protect what it sees as its territorial sovereignty and the u. S. Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Keith Crocker is the most senior state Department Official to land in taiwan and decades marks the 2nd visit by a u. S. Official in 2 months the Chinese Government condemned the trips and says diplomatic relations between taiwan on the u. S. Will lead to a dead end road mcbride is following the story for us from seoul so how tense is the situation around the Taiwan Strait rob. I mean all of this military activity friday really ratcheting up the tension level in this part of the world the chinas Defense Ministry says its exercise was reasonable and necessary it says but it was necessary for them to from taiwans point of view to scramble its interceptor jets when it says it detected multiple military aircraft from Chinas Peoples Liberation Army crossing over the midline thats the mid line that separates the Taiwan Strait that separates taiwan from Mainland China also deploying taiwan says its missiles and defense missiles before those aircraft are turned back china taiwans president ial office has called for self restraint has been very critical of this action this sort of military exercise is often used by Mainland China to show its displeasure and of course it comes as this visit takes place by keith crack from the u. S. State Department One of the most senior officials to visit taiwan it is the visit is meant for the u. S. To pay respects at a Memorial Service to the dont way a former president of taiwan but during this visit cracked will be meeting with the current president signing way in which does not please Mainland China the ministry the chinese Defense Ministry Spokes Person who was very critical of u. S. Policy did not refer specifically to this visit but talked about the what they china sees as a very worrying trend of increased diplomatic exchanges this is what they had to say earlier friday. Me recently the United States and the Democratic Progressive Party authorities have set up their collusion and frequently stir up trouble whether its using taiwan to contain china or rely on foreign powers to threaten others it is Wishful Thinking and is destined to be a dead end who plays with fire will get burnt the chinese Peoples Liberation army has firm will full confidence in sufficient ability to thwart all external interference and separatist acts of Taiwan Independence and resolutely defend National Sovereignty and territorial integrity so what is the u. S. Saying that its hoping to achieve with this visits. It does seem to be part of a strategy by the u. S. Of really using its relationship a controversial relationship with taiwan almost to go to Mainland China we saw last month a visit by alex as are the u. S. Health secretary a stent simply to talk to the taiwanese about the coronavirus but again that was being seen as very much of the u. S. Using its relationship to put pressure on china of course it is involved in this very souring of relations with china and it seems to be using taiwan it also seems to be part of a wider strategy by the u. S. At the moment to almost build a coalition of countries that have a grievance with Mainland China to try to isolate it and put pressure on it internationally and obviously we are seeing from Mainland China itself a pushback they do not like this kind of pressure evidence the kind of military exercises that theyve been conducting friday all right robin wright thank you for that update from seoul. 15 prodemocracy activists in hong kong are back in court for their role in last years protests among the newspaper publisher and businessman jimmy lie they are facing charges of some sites in organizing or because dissipating an unauthorized demonstrations outside the court one of the movements leading figures said Hong Kong Police have banned protests for almost a year. I want to tell you well know that we. Can write im going to basically the prior vote all right. Whatever go right International Coming out. And this is what happening along. More than 5000 refugees have settled into a new camp on the greek island of lesbos and thousands more are continuing to move in the money have been reluctant to go to the new site they fear the conditions will be as poor as those in the overcrowded maurya burned down last week aid agencies say the refugees must be allowed off the island as soon as possible the European Union needs to rethink its asylum policy Stephanie Decker is live there for us we see the queues of refugees behind you what kind of numbers have you been seeing this morning. When i think certainly around a 1000 probably more and this is just a very rough estimate we have all sed some of the people who are running the camp and they havent got a final number yet in terms of what they process how many people they process this morning its very hard and also the reason for this delays yes of course they have to register everyone but at the same time you know there is corona so everyone is having to undergo theyre doing what is called a rapid test understand around 300. 00 tests in an hour and it takes about 15 minutes for a result so at the moment from around just over 3000 people most 4000 people who came in yesterday we understand around 150. Were tested positive in. Theyve been taken in for quarantine so this adds just an extra layer of time of frustration a time consuming process is that these people have to go to now this is of course the consequence of that operation the police and the authorities undertook yesterday it started at 630 to move people off the streets because they are thora he said they cannot remain office on the streets we called provide for you can provide shelter so this camp is the only place for you to go but as you were mentioning yes many people still reluctant because they feel that theyre starting all over again they want to leave the island and they know that once they enter this camp it is a closed camp they wont be allowed to leave and again theyre going to have the question of when are their papers going to be finished and can they actually get off the island and what are you hearing about the conditions in this particular calm because the criticism of maurya was that the conditions were quite poor there. Yes they were terrible and i think thats also why so many people are traumatized and theyre lining up now to enter yet another camp from what we understand we had some video. That we saw yesterday the toilets are ready but we did see more toilets being brought in today by the aid organizations that are helping the greek authorities set up this camp we understand that some containers of water has been brought in because a lot of the good the complaints of the refugees and migrants have been that theres no Running Water people havent been able to take a shower juried for the polish 9 days just imagine that you know some of the girls were explaining that to me they started giving feeling so they said we havent even been able to wash i mean a simple things that you and i take absolutely for granted so were going to have to wait and see how this camp takes 3 huge influx of people that youre seeing now i mean yesterday it was 4000 came in today i think definitely a couple of 1000 by the end of the day and then were going to have to wait and see you know how the camp takes it as you were mentioning Doctors Without Borders criticizing having a statement this morning saying that greece should not be building more what it called containment camps that these people should be allowed off the idea of as soon as possible but thats a tricky process that has to do with paperwork with the asylum process and we know that that certainly isnt something that goes very fast ok Stephanie Decker thank you for that update from lesbos to greece. Tropical storm sally has moved to the eastern United States after causing widespread flooding on the gold coast to rental rain has fallen in virginia in the carolinas where tornadoes threatened and further south boats are being used to rescue people cut off by floodwaters in alabama and the Florida Panhandle reporter jay gray seen these storm damage in pensacola florida. A full day after the storm has moved through and were getting a better idea of the devastation i want to give you a look at what sally did here in pensacola these 2 huge boats pushed up on to the ground here along with other debris from the water you see the chaser boat there in a piece of the dock that was picked up and pulled ashore when you get back to the water though this is amazing devastation you see all the boats that are crammed together the piers that have been splintered and thrown on top of each other understand that before the storm this little inlet this little area was empty there were no boats here there were no piers here all pushed from hundreds of yards away into this area again just a testimony to how strong this storm was when it made landfall Current Situation on the ground youve got more than a half a 1000000 people without power and thats going to take some time to come back flooding the water still rising in some areas and rescues still going on right now a full 24 hours or more after the storm moved through the system is going to continue with slow march to the east coast and as it goes still dumping water well see flash flooding associated with this for the next couple of days heavy rain and further flooding as for cost and parts of sudan in the coming week and will worsen the situation for residents in the capital khartoum but a 3rd of sudans flood victims live in sonora states water levels in the blue nile river have fallen after submerging thousands of homes but there is the threat of water borne diseases as families take shelter in schools reports from one of those schools and 7 are states where hundreds of people are sheltering. And they have been living in very squalid conditions in these schools some government buildings that they sought shelter in they scorned just been in the rooms every classroom in this Primary School holds up to 10 families and you can imagine theres no electricity and people here say they long for the day they will be able to go back to their homes that is those who still have homes to speak of and the numbers keep on increasing the number of comes around single keep on increasing not just in numbers but also in sizes are small people heeding the government warnings of more floods along the blue nile have been making their way to these comes the people will outrightly tell you that they do not expect much from the government because of not only the Economic Situation the country is in but also the economic sanctions which is making it quite difficult for sudan to provide relief to the people now that almost is on you and agencies like the World Food Program unicef the International Federation of the red cross and the red cross societies as well as other aid agencies who have been at the forefront since these floods begun they say the food that they had kept in stoles before the floods began all of the only sort of the floods have all run out and now they need more and more supplies and they are appealing to bonus for donations still ahead on aljazeera are black lives matter protests guilty of sedition against the Us Government we have the latest from portland and we look at the lands remote communities are going to intervene to keep classrooms. Hello there also cloud a lot of rain across northern sections of indonesia all this they can say hey this is the remnants of what was our Tropical Storm now of course its been producing to run across the philippines and then on into vietnam and it will work its way west across much of thailand and eventually on the tools Still Producing some very heavy amounts of rain but as it moves away the rains back in the fall calls across much of the borneo down across into and again working their way down some asha and eventually more in the way of showers across areas of java with more of the scattered showers and thunderstorms across much of the philippines and then to the southeast of australia some rain the 4 calls to plenty of cloud as you can see in the last few hours people have still been enjoying the fine weather in signal there not quite as warm as it was look at this the south a day 22 is the high with a chance of a few showers and then this rain system a very widespread quite heavy rain working its way into these Western Areas of New South Wales trading down across into victoria as well that will work its way east as sunday quite a cloudy day quite a blustery day as well with those winds and then another system is this really beginning to wind up here in the great by it so it does mean weve got cloudy conditions a mason shot blustery winds in puff and eventually that rain on its way towards tells mania as we head off to the start of the week. For decades criminals made millions tracking droughts through thailand wonder what needs to explore his way the country has now become the 1st in Southeast Asia to legalize medical marijuana. On aljazeera. The hero world needs right. The all the all. Bellowing on the headlines on aljazeera taiwanese fighter jets have scrambled multiple times on friday morning after a chinese aircraft were said to have approached taiwans airspace china has begun military drills close to taiwan to protect what it sees as its territorial sovereignty. More than 5000 refugees have settled into a new camp on the greek island of les posen hundreds are moving in there among the 12000 left homeless when the overcrowded morea can burn down last week. Tropical storm sally has moved to the eastern United States after causing widespread flooding on the gulf coast to rancho rain has fallen in virginia and the carolinas with tornadoes threaten. The u. N. Human Rights Council is meeting on the continuing unrest umbrella roosts the focus will be the governments crackdown on the opposition and its supporters following a disputed president ial election stuff osten is following developments from mints. Hundreds of cases have been documented and gruesome details have come out of these reports victims have been talking about extreme beatings when they were detained some have received electric electric shocks one case at least of rape committed with the police stake they have been taken to a Detention Centers like the one here behind me are question now where the torture also have been taken place during the nights screaming was heard from the outside so bad and when they were released the people have. Came out with brain injuries which fracture so with serious injury times of them had to be taken to hospitals some of them are still recovering or some will have to burn and injuries when these reports have been released at one of the main human rights organizations here in belo rousseau was very active in document thing this case is one of their members now this morning has been reported to be detained she is now facing financing and coordinating mass unrest which is a really serious accusation out of the serious most serious weve heard so far her whereabouts at the moment are still unknown the u. S. Justice department is reported to be looking to use a rarely used addition law against black lives matter protesters and portland the city has seen 2 months of Police Brutality demonstrations following the death of george floyd brunells reports from oregon. Portland has become the flashpoint of americas culture wars. There have been well over 100 consecutive days of black lives matter protests demanding justice for george floyd Briana Taylor and other black People Killed by police. Who was no no no no youre youre right. Me or does she want to know where you know me what are you doing President Donald Trump sent in federal Law Enforcement in late july a stance of lee to protect a federal courthouse that intensified the protests some of which went from peaceful to violence. Police arrested school hours of people in recent days protesters say the number of demonstrators has decreased sharply but the trumpet ministration is contemplating a new legal crackdown in response to the protests here and in other cities the u. S. Attorney general william barr has reportedly urged federal prosecutors to bring charges of sedition against some of the people involved thats a rarely invoked federal law designed to punish people who try to overthrow the government of the United States. Legal scholars question whether such charges would hold up in court and if you look at the most recent examples where sedition has been charged under this act its not been successful i think juries and judges alike and not like to convict on this unless there is real hard evidence to show that there is an imminent threat the government. Experts say aggressive prosecution could stifle legitimate free speech and political expression which are protected under the u. S. Constitution i think the threat of the erast alone would be sufficient to make some people feel it is not safe for me to go out on the street and exercise my 1st amendment rights and the thought that the government would yield it our in a way that would yell or chill or silence that type of speech should be really frustrating and upsetting threatening to us as american citizens trump is using the protest to drum up his law and order platform during the Election Campaign but a report by Princeton University shows 93 percent of all protests since floyds death have been peaceful robert oulds aljazeera portland. Olivias interim president as withdrawing from next months president ial election join in on a as says she wants to avoid splitting the vote sandra vente the socialist party of the former president ever more or less from winning he was forced into exile last year following his disputed reelection result with provoked weeks of often violent protests. Only they have their level today i piss inside my candidacy for the presidency of bolivia to take care of democracy its not a sacrifice its an honor i do this because at the risk of the democratic vote being divided among several candidates and as a result of that division the mass party could end up winning the election when our upper low is covering this for us from mexico city this announcement by libyas interim president. To withdraw her candidature for presidency in the Upcoming Elections isnt really seeing as as too much of a surprise in bolivia and there are a number of reasons why the elections are coming up fairly soon were about a month away october 5th october 18th is is the date that the elections are scheduled to be held and anyone yes is trailing in 4th place in the polls so what were hearing from political analysts in bolivia is that this announcement to withdraw from the candidacy is a is a strategic move to sort of unify the political opposition in bolivia anyone who is against him or more dallies under this sort of rallying cry and thats the way that this is being painted by the interim president is this rallying cry to preserve democracy in bolivia but we should note that janine and yes is a very polarizing figure in bolivia shes been widely criticized for the interim governments handling of the ongoing coronavirus coronavirus pandemic in the country so many are seeing this announcement to to withdraw her bid for the presidency as a sort of as part of that strategy to regain some of the popularity that shes lost in recent months. A surgeon daily coronavirus cases in several countries has driven the global number of infections to more than 30000000 india is one of the hot spots with more than 96000 new infections the Czech Republic has seen a record 3000. 00 daily cases but better news in new zealand reporting no new cases for the 1st time in more than a month and israel has become one of the 1st countries to implement a nationwide lockdown for the 2nd time protesters in tel aviv rallied against fridays starts whats expected to be a 3 week shutdown after being forced to close a march many shop owners say they wont survive this time millions of childrens education has been disrupted in indonesia and people in remote communities dont have Internet Access so teachers are going the extra mile to support students but is just to washington reports from tehran even those close to the capital are struggling. With it seems nothing can get between these teachers and their students from monday to friday they travel. Into though this school is closed because of precautions class is still in session. We cannot do Online Learning because theres no Internet Access and people dont have Computers Laptops or mobile devices the teachers go from village to village using makeshift outdoor classrooms with covert 900 Safety Measures in mind. They say they are trying their best and limited resources to leave it at 30 like us we are thankful that even though the road to a village is bad and its very far away the teach is still willing to come and teach us schools in this Community Like many across indonesia have been shot since march the teachers took it upon themselves to stop visiting the villages of the students knowing that without Internet Access and often no electricity Online Learning was never a viable option for most children here. The pandemic has disrupted the education of millions of indonesian children and its not just remote provinces experiencing difficulties with Distance Learning but cities close to the capital as well. In tiger on the western border with jakarta schools are closed and these children have no Internet Access at home. The local government has set up an internet hotspot in this classroom the children to do their homework. That he would not had we started Online Learning in march i really miss my school and i would like to go back the education Ministry Says it sees the need to change the system. Before we already have a plan that we didnt like 3 years olds. Meaning that. The teachers without those resources its a challenging time because of the make teachers a working twice as hard whipping over what some schools have reopened but for many teachers theres no sign when the challenge of teaching without a classroom. Just to washington aljazeera tuggeranong indonesia. The Coronavirus Crisis is causing a rethink about working in offices and the shift to being based at home has benefits such as reducing traffic pollution and less Office Stress improving Mental Health some governments such as a wales are proposing radical ideas to make the switch permanent lawrence the reports from cardiff what to do with all this offices all over the world with mostly deserted for months and cardiff is no exception yet as elsewhere people have been prepared to work just as hard from the comfort of their own homes still john dean is a partner in a law firm which put most of his 150 staff on home working in march has been a revelation to him and has altered the way he sees his business in the future everyone in who occupies an office is looking right now at not not at their Office Requirements of how much space do we need and more importantly what quality of space to be need so i think a lot of us believe theres going to be a flight to quality where people are maybe taking less space but better space all sorts of Business Leaders have been saying theyre now thinking about spending less on office rents and more on their employees but its more profound thinking going on as well making a virtue out of the crisis is clearly the best thing that could happen after coronavirus clearly working from home all the time is fantastic news for people who have a lot of land and terrible news if youre in a tiny apartments but certainly reorganizing the way that people use city senses is suddenly being seen as a massive opportunity. Just around the corner from the empty offices are all the signs of whats happened to high streets across the u. K. In recent years something needs to happen urgently to rescue small independent businesses wellss 1st minister had the idea to keep a full 3rd of the workforce on retainer sion at home permanently apart on the grounds that it spreads the money around cities far more successfully than making most people come into the center every single day even in wales we have people spending up to a whole working day you can write it up over the whole week just in the car going to and from where they live and where they work and if we can make some inroads into that their needs much more than economics it is about the environment it is about quality of life it is about making places where people live more important to them economically socially and environmentally this argument also suggests that big Infrastructure Projects so beloved of the government in london like this new rail line into cardiff may become a bit redundancy full they do is move more and more people into city senses when they might be better off staying working and spending money in the area they live in you know what you really want the different sorts of people coming into getting moved and the evil cities in the u. K. Havent as not allowed that to happen so now yes what were seeing is really called into question why that model of a agglomeration of of crowding together people in large quite boring service jobs is actually giving us the benefits we need if its not going with the benefits we need while we stand all the past no doubt temples to Corporate Culture like london will resist this sort of thinking and in cardiff to the offices a still going up what isnt clear is if anyone is going to want to move into them lawrence Lee Al Jazeera in cardiff. Again the headlines on aljazeera are taiwanese fighter jets and scramble multiple times on friday morning thats after a chinese aircraft are. Approach taiwans airspace china has begun military drills close to taiwan after the arrival there of a top u. S. State Department Official china says the move is to protect what it sees as its territorial sovereignty is following the story from seoul. This intense military activity in and around the Taiwan Strait really ratcheting up the tension level in this part of the world of the chinese Defense Ministry has said that this exercise is necessary and reasonable but we know now from taiwans military that in response they have had to scramble friday that intercept jets when they say that they detected a number of multiple Chinese Military aircraft crossing over the hoff white line in the straits of taiwan that separates taiwan from Mainland China 15 prodemocracy activists are back in court in hong kong to face charges for their role in last years protests theyre facing charges of inciting organizing or participating in unauthorized demonstrations more than 5000 refugees have settled into a new camp on the greek island of lesbos and hundreds more are moving in there among the 12000 left homeless when the overcrowded maurya can burn down last. Tropical storm sally has moved to the eastern United States after causing widespread flooding on the gulf coast through and so rain has fallen in virginia and the carolinas mature natos threatened further south boats are being used to rescue people cut off by floodwaters in alabama and the Florida Panhandle heavy rain and further flooding is forecast in parts of sudan in the coming week it will worsen the situation for residents in the capital khartoum but a 3rd of sudans flood victims live in sin are states and there is the threat of water borne diseases. Bolivias interim president is withdrawing from next months president ial election jeanine ideas says she wants to avoid splitting the votes and prevent the socialist party of former president s from winning more news coming up with a clarke and half an hour after want to thanks for watching by. Russia now seems to be going off to the main Economic Resource which is of course or we bring you the stories in developments that are rapidly changing the world living president s america 1st policy trigger the troy war that morphed into a technological war come to close on aljazeera. Literally. For decades drug kingpins made millions trafficking heroin opium and cannabis through thailand. In response thailands longest became top. Top its prisons are bursting at the seams. But theres the. Coliseum. Even government ministers are extolling the virtues of cannabis we have seen that. But that would not only kill people it would become a major income all people
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