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And the trumpet ministration under fire for allegedly ignoring intelligence reports suggesting russia offered a bounty to have u. S. Forces killed in afghanistan and the Indian Government has revamped its strategy aimed at slowing the countrys rising coronavirus cases but does that have any impact. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program hong kongs former colonial ruler the u. K. Is offering a safe haven to a round 3000000 eligible residents as fears grow over political oppression in the territory london says that it would grant residency rights to those born before 997 while hong kong was still under british rule. This announcement coming as Hong Kong Police made hundreds of arrests under a sweeping new security law imposed by beijing. Hong kong activists say their freedoms are being eroded however beijing says the law is necessary for the city to prosper and that many countries welcomed this. Move on behalf of 53. 00 countries cuba welcome to the law of the peoples republic of china on safeguarding National Security in hong kong at the session of the United Nations Human Rights Council the belief that the lord who had the sustained and steady implementation of one country 2 systems. A principle within which a high degree of autonomy was supposed to be guaranteed in hong kong for at least 50 years when britain handed back its former colony to china in 1997 the new law is a flagrant breach of the agreement says the citys last u. K. Gov. Theyre even. Starting a new cold war with just making absolutely clear we will call out. The u. K. Now says it would uphold its historic duty and offer a route for up to 3000000 residents to settle in a country that could make citizenship possible of this National Security law across the atlantic the u. S. Has punitively revoked on constitutional financial and business status washington says its not only concerned about the safety of hong kong this but also that of americans. Article 38. 00 of the new law also purports to apply to offenses committed outside of hong kong by non residents of hong kong and this likely includes d americans this is outrageous and an affront to all nations the you meanwhile has said its discussing with International Partners possible meshes in response German Foreign minister heiko moscow has called developments in hong kong exceptionally worrying. These protest is a worry too but theyve pledged to try as hard as they can to keep their voices heard. And d. W. Correspondent Karen Maginnis is following the story for us she has the reaction from brussels georg weve been seeing this International Reaction to the new National Security law in hong kong its been mixed where does brussels stand sara not a lot of pressure coming from brussels in a way you rather have the expected statements you have to chose if the relative Foreign Policy chief is saying that it was essential that existing rights remain observed in hong kong you had was enough on the line the head of the European Commission adding that National Security law does not conform with hong kong basic law and that they are seriously concerned about it and seriously concerned about it says it all theres no implications of sanctions Foreign Ministers debated that in their last meeting in may and they came to the conclusion that it was not political because it would not solve the problem why is the e. U. Not doing more. Oh a number of reasons really here when it comes to Foreign Policy this is not the sharpest tool of the e. U. Foreign policy falls within the individual Member States the sovereignty of those 27 Member States and their various interests big economic interests of course including germany and then of course you have wrecked it and you know the e. U. Has lost i would say one of its most committed members when it comes to the question of hong kong which is the u. K. And then finally you have the corona crisis and here really you have a situation where the you currently is trying to put together a rescue fund and the last thing they need or the last thing that the german presidency which started yesterday wants to see is a rout an economic row over sanctions with china so its all about the money when time how is your a viewing the latest move in terms of human rights and basic fundamental freedoms of course human rights is a particular field that has been of course addressed by e. U. Officials so 27 countries declaration arches china to avoid undermining hong kong as i talk to me and particularly emphasizes a civil and Political Rights and that is also the argument that the u. S. For instance has put forward although they are much closer to sanctions then the e. U. Now the difference being many observers have said is simply that the u. S. Is almost on the edge of a trade war if not a cold war with china and the e. U. Is trying to revolve it exactly that being drawn into that conflict matus in brussels thank you well hong kong is one of the worlds Financial Hubs of course even as mainland markets like shenzhen and shanghai have grown rich hong kong is still seen as the gateway to Financial Markets in china and the rest of asia but that too is now under threat. Over the past few decades 2 trends have shaped the fortunes of hong kong one is the rise in chinese wealth the other the boom in Global Finance when these 2 currents converged hong kong grew rich but months of unrest driven by prodemocracy protests and now the introduction of a new security law have raised fears that could all change among the concerns that capital will leave as china tightens its grip that talent will go on that enterprise itself will leave polls have suggested that some International Firms would consider moving regional offices depending on the implementation of the law. So far theres been little evidence to support those fears more capital has entered hong kong in recent months that has left thanks to china deep pockets. Local businesses have by and large given their blessing to the new law and even larger firms like britains h. S. B. C. Appear ready to accept. Adding to the wind in hong kong sales more Chinese Companies are likely to list on the citys exchange as new u. S. Rules make chinese i. P. O. There more difficult. Lets bring in Business Correspondent Clifford Coonan whos joining us here in the studio how much longer can hong kong remain a Financial Hub well this is the big question i mean this is this is the law here and ive been going through it and over the last over the last day or so im talking to analysts and what theyre saying is generally that they feel that there is a real danger that hong kong could become just like another chinese city that this law will be quite good for domestic listings on for companies that have a big interest in china but the International Dimension is under threat and i think thats where were really looking out in 10 years weve weve you know were not going to see pictures like weve seen pictures of protests i cant really see that happening in 10 years time so theres a lot of a lot of fear around the moment a lot of uncertainty where will the money go where will the people go well weve seen that some will go to maybe go to britain australia has also said that its going to take some people capital at the moment the question the people are saying if i need to have my money why would i have it in hong kong when theres now uncertainty when the heavy hand of china is in evidence when i could put it in places like singapore and also taiwan taiwan is emerging again as the place where a lot of people will be looking and i think were going to see a lot of growth there too what do you make of the International Reaction its been very interesting i mean the u. S. Has been was very quick to move the e. U. As you just heard has been. Has been quick to condemn but hasnt really done anything yet i think for a long time people have been enjoying the Economic Growth that weve seen in china and they wanted a piece of but what we havent really seen is people realizing that that comes at a certain cost and one of those costs is the notion of freedom and democracy in hong kong so increasingly youre going to see people having to weigh up these things and when we have you look at. Some analysts were saying yesterday that maybe people are going to start looking at the hong kong question and asking is it going to be like investing into bacco in the seventys is of me investing in china going to come with a cost china is becoming incredibly aggressive in the last few months its on the cover of covert its introduced various measures so possibly i think that we could see real changes in that way and. A different way of thinking about how investing in china happens largely driven by the hong kong situation so the name of the game Going Forward uncertainty Clifford Cloonan from business thank you. Is that a check of some other stories making news around the world authorities in myanmar say that at least 100 people have died in the landslide at a jade mine seen here in 2015 it happened after heavy rain buried workers under a wave of mud deadly landslides are common in the poorly regulated mines in this area. Gunman in mexico have killed 24 people in what is being described as a massacre in the north of the Country Police say that the attackers burst into a Drug Rehabilitation Center and shot everyone inside the areas home to rival drug gangs and its currently the most violent in mexico. Uganda has temporarily opened its borders to thousands of people fleeing violence in the eastern democratic republic of congo border crossings have stopped because of the pandemic even refugees suck in a remote area the u. N. Says that violence in the eastern d r c has displaced over a 1000000 people since january. California has imposed partial lockdowns in most of the state amid a spike in coronavirus cases many of the states beaches will be closed this weekend to minimize the spread during the 4th of july celebrations the state has already very close bars theaters and indoor restaurant dining. Russians have approved changes to the constitution that allow president Vladimir Putin to run for 2 more terms in office few observers have been surprised by the results of the weeklong vote Election Officials say that almost 80 percent backed the proposals that were put forward by putin the Opposition Leader alexina vali has slammed the result as quote a huge lie that did not reflect public opinion. President Vladimir Putin was probably the only person who came to this moscow polling station without a mask it was the last day of the nationwide vote the kremlin even declared a bank holiday so that as many people as possible could take part in the constitutional reform had already been formally approved by the countrys national and regional parliaments putin turned to a public vote to validate the move the amendments and shrine many popular social changes including regular pension increases and. The minimum wage but theyll also allow putin to keep running for president directly he could remain in office till 2036 this men voted no he says i dont need a new tsar. I like it because im afraid of change whenever things change in russia we end up worse off than before and you think some voters only had to show their passports as proof of identity election observers were not allowed complete access and well voting was still in progress the 1st results were published through the procedure is highly questionable the vote itself the whole process was invented solely for this purpose a referendum like this is not even provided for in the constitution. And to no ones surprise official results say the vote was a landslide in putins favor. And only sure when has been covering the referendum in moscow she told us more about reports of irregularities in the voting process while the author already is here in russia took a lot of measures to kind of ensure the safety of this vote during the pandemic including spreading out the election over 7 days allowing online voting allowing people to vote at home and independent monitors here from for example the monitors goalless they say that a lot of those measures actually make it easier to manipulate the vote so if the vote is spread out over 7 days that means fewer people are at the ballot box that means its easier to carry out ballot stuffing there have been polling stations outside with kind of the ballots basically visible to view there have been a lot of stories about the online voting thats been taking place here in moscow and get another city as well because people have sort of gone and voted twice theres been several reports about that here once online and once at the polling station the Central Electoral Commission on the other hand has said that there have been basically no big violations and that many of the reports on violations are fake. And later when theyre in moscow now did russia offer a bounty to taliban linked fighters to kill u. S. Troops in afghanistan u. S. President donald trump says no he has rejected claims that his administration failed to take seriously intelligence relating to those allegations nevertheless the white house is coming under increasing pressure from lawmakers of both parties to provide answers. 3 American Marines killed by a car bomb in afghanistan planted by the taliban the radical Islamist Group allegedly received a foundry for the april 29th teen attack thats according to a report by the New York Times which details a Money Transfer from Russian Military Intelligence Services to a bank account linked to the taliban the American Secret Services have reportedly known about the transfer for months the allegations have set the white house on the defensive did President Trump know about the alleged russian bounty as the New York Times article suggests. Trump hit back at the allegations on twitter claiming that the report was just another story concocted by the Fake News Media an attempt to hurt the republican party. The white house defended trumps handling of the issue saying that he couldnt have been told about the intelligence reports point one source or an asset to the president does agree and he also consumes intelligence virtually this president ill tell you is the most informed person on planet earth when it comes to the threats that we face the white house said trump was not informed of the alleged county plot because different intelligence agencies had reached different conclusions on the credibility of the information you want nevertheless the information was considered important enough to register according to the u. S. National security adviser we distribute this raw intelligence even though it wasnt verified because we were concerned about it we gave it to u. S. Forces and we gave it to Coalition Forces to make sure they could have force protection that means u. S. Forces in afghanistan would most likely forewarned of a possible russian bounty attack. If trump was privy to the information why did he not confront russia with it political analysts say trumps approach to russian president Vladimir Putin could be characterized as being served and maybe saying his days of doing business in russia could even make trump susceptible to blackmail there must be some financial connection there that is made president from scared of taking any action against a resistance to do so and hence oftentimes when the president is interacting with. You its more like a supplicant like a person who is wanting to keep an investor out be as opposed to someone that is standing up for u. S. Interests over president ial candidate joe biden took the opportunity to take a swipe at trump and then to the idea that somehow he didnt know version being briefed it is a dereliction of duty excessive case and if he was briefed and nothing was done about this thats a very rich and. U. S. Marines killed in action by the taliban have now become embroiled in the controversy as the president ial Election Campaign heats up. And here are some of the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic meantime the u. S. Has seen its largest single daily increase of new infections since the Global Pandemic began a rise of 52000 cases new Zealands Health minister has resigned following a series of personal blunders including defying the countrys strict coronavirus lockdown measures in april and Germanys Health Ministry Says that it currently has enough supplies of rum disappear the only drug licensed so far to treat covert 19 it comes after the us announced that it has secured almost the entire Global Supply for the next 3 months. In india the number of confirmed corona virus infections has now topped 600000 but the Indian Government is striking back at critics who say it hasnt done enough to fight the pen it has introduced a revamped strategy to curb the spread of the virus didnt use money or choudhry brings us this report from the worst hit city delhi a massive door to do so the exercise has been launched in delhi for its entire population of about 20000000 dissidents. This did government is aiming to record the Health Details of each and every household to deal with the spread of aids. The move has come after weeks of scrambling for measures by both the state and the National Government to avoid a Major Health Care disaster in the capital city which has now become the worst hit in the country even the government is nor you know short of. Growth so im a little scared but regard to who. Earlier we could step out a little at least to buy essential some groceries but now were worried that if we step out at all we may get infected as part of its strategy to handle the spread of the Delhi Government is taking a range of measures they include increased testing and Contact Tracing Antibody Testing developing a bank and providing. The government simultaneously is trying to ramp up its Health Care Infrastructure the daily testing for core with 19 has increased significantly. The State Government says that it is now conducting 20000. 00 tests every day apart from plans to stock rapid and teaching testing which allows for foster diagnosis of samples regular testing camps are also being set up especially in cologne or what is hot sports known as containment zones. Something the heart one of delhis largest and most crowded informal settlements has several containment booms the new testing camps there have already started making a difference. During the past week testing has increased many positive cases are getting detected earlier the testing wasnt so regular now its daily some 200. 00 people are tested at each camp youre dealing anybody testing positive is immediately taken to makeshift quarantined centers crucial for their home isolation is not an option. The Delhi Government has projected that the number of cases in the capital rise up to half a 1000000 by the end of july. To handle such a case load some specious venues in the city are also being converted into covert care facilities. This is being prepared to become one of the boys largest public to centers essentially an isolation facility it has a capacity of 10000. 00 beds most of which are made of prefabricated cardboard material. Once opened it will provide john the clock medical supervision for miles and moderate cases there is pressure on the general Good Health Care system it is a new day the is one that we were not fully equipped to deal with when it began and it became a pandemic and we have to supplement that under Health Care System even though lockdown restrictions have been eased to some extent in delhi there is still much confusion and insight amongst its residents as the capital continues to formulate and implement new strategies it has a tough task ahead of itself as the challenge of cool. One of those has now turned into a crisis. And lets get more i am joined now by our correspondent in delhi manoora chowdhury who submitted that report for us a youve looked at these measures taken by the government in order to contain the virus yet were seeing a spike in daily cases does that mean the measures have failed well one big reason that the spike in the number of cases of the is being actually view to do is that it lacks sufficient in the log down to the light and returning back to normalcy a lot of Economic Activities have revealed markets have opened up and delhi being a very densely populated city this kind of transmission when a lot of people do it as the on their daily work its quite possible but another side of the story is also that after this became evident that delhi is seen a lot of cases that testing in trees now delhi is destined a lot more than a lot of other cities were just in testing around 7 or 8000 people then it is now testing 20000 about so because of this increase testing more and more cases are being detected now so we are seeing a lot of numbers coming over because of increased testing as well are those tests is only accessible to everyone who needs them who wants them. Well now the dressing facility you have increase you can go and get tested in hospitals and of water shrews but you do need to be sure about your symptoms you dont need a doctors prescription because at the moment only hydrous captivating people and people who are showing sort of symptoms are being encouraged to go and get tested and of the containment have we saw in my report in form a 2nd glance which are crowded the government is overnighting these regular testing camps where about 200 or 200 people are getting tested every day you and the deaths being used are rapid and dejan tests which are showing results in about 5 15 to 20 minutes so positive cases are quickly being either which in isolation in home or taken to pour into incentives tell us a little bit more about those containment areas that you reported on for the infected what is what is the state of social stigma surrounding that do people feel stigmatized do they feel comfortable going there where the definition of dumb countrymans own have been tweaked a little in the past couple of months that essentially means an area where i have been detected and its from the government its important to demagogue these areas because to map local Traffic Mission and to even prevent transmission so moment of the stick did not of those many activities are allowed at in other areas and people do understand the importance of these songs but people who do feel a little stigma are those you know are outside forms. Being used to those who are coming out positive and who are being put on the whole by solution for a phone call to let people outside their home which are going to declare what time theyre supposed to be in quantum. Coming from there by the government through these portals are important because it gives them a sense of urgency under sponsibility mere child 3 in delhi thank you. To soccer now and record european champions real madrid will finally have their own female Team Next Season they previously agreed to buy a local womens club in the spanish capital and they have now been given the go ahead to rebrand the team as frail madrid. Along with germanys dortmunds the spanish giants were the only major european mens club without a female team. In indonesia a rare javan rhinoceros has been spotted on Surveillance Video check this out this is quite a muddy about for the right now who is legally rolling around in the tropical waters of this National Park it has gone viral on social media as you might imagine because its just so cute there are only 72. 00 of the endangered species left in the wild indonesias environment minister who post the video of the rhino was taking his money to regulate his body temperature. Good for him and with that now youre up to date on date everything is dont forget theres always more in our website to have you dot com you can also follow us on social media take care and stacy. Illegal expulsion. And theyre not shut to what keeps hearing about the dollars she wants for a Refugee Aid Organization in greece near the time. They can die there and we have no more migrants tell us its very troubling. She set out to investigate. The. Focus on europe. Next on d w. 2 the conflict zone and sebastian indias government is in the firing line a time when the brewers refused to stop me coming but coronavirus on lying about abusive stockholders in its own truth and Chinese Forces in the faunal my guest this week from new delhi is sudan to share brady a member of the alpha house a columnist for the National Spokesperson for the v. J. Cufflinks. 60 minutes funky double. Locked. Going to. Meet you thank you thank you hello and welcome to focus on europe alice show and its great to have you with us human Rights Groups are issuing warnings over the humanitarian situation at the border in the Mediterranean Sea some migrants who try to make the journey by boat from turkey to the e. U. Country greece tell us they were illegally pushed back to turkish waters mobile phone footage like