And its tightening border controls after detaining suspected russian mercenaries accused of attempting to disrupt next months election. Also more trouble for the Airline Industry the worlds biggest plane maker a net loss of 2200000000. 00 in the 1st half of this year. And yet again just go with the sports world number one ashley party pulls out of the u. S. Open saying the risk of catching coronavirus right. Into the program we begin the news are in whole call opposition politicians have been disqualified from running in septembers legislative election leading prodemocracy activists joshua warmed is one of those disqualified he says it shows a total disregard for the people of hong kong authorities said asked the candidates about their views on. Beijings National Security law and u. S. Sanctions now the move has been denounced by the opposition as a political witch hunt and for the 1st time in Hong Kong Police also use the National Security law to crackdown on prodemocracy activists on
Lemonis theres massive devastation. This is a street. An entire main street underwater. Oh, my goodness. I met the mayor. We toured the city the only way we could, by boat. Its okay. Roads closed and businesses wiped out. Look at this. Kim oh, my god. Lemonis . A severe burden on the local economy. Peter so im on the city council, and so we are gonna have some serious budget problems like never seen before. Lemonis and with relentless rain, well, its paralyzed this town. Man 2 what i was afraid of. Lemonis as for the people who live here, theyve had enough. How do you recover from a disaster like this and restore enough hope that people who live here dont abandon everything . The reason that i wanted to come to the Mississippi River is, as i think about it, it almost feels like the most important freeway in america, right . It goes from minnesota all the way down to new orleans. Its how Farmers Transport things. Its how ships get up and down throughout the country, and its, quite frank
Fighting for his life. We have Team Coverage for you tonight. Lets start with roz plater whos at the federal courthouse in oakland. Roz. Reporter we are indeed here, terry. Im going to step out of the way for a minute so you can see the flowers and candles folks have been leaving here. Weve seen crime scene investigators around this site and spotted some bullet holes as youll see in this guard shack. Tonight the feds say they are indeed beefing up security. Now, those two officers were at oaklands Federal Building providing security during last nights protest. Homeland Security Officials say just before 10 00, someone pulled up in a vehicle and opened fire on those two federal protective Service Officers. One of them died. The other is in critical condition. It comes as the department of Homeland Security says there have been threats leveled across the country. An assassin cowardly shot two federal Service Officers as they stood watch. That wont be tolerated and it wont succeed anywher
Off nearly 15000 people as a deal to the crisis made worse by Coronavirus Health for 2000000 of spains poorest to part by the pandemic the government approves a plan for a minimum income. Crowds of people are out protesting in cities across the u. S. Calling for justice over the death of a black man who are going to rest in the city of minneapolis a policeman has been charged with the murder of george floyd but that has not quell the anger of a curfew is now in force in minneapolis but protesters are showing no signs of abiding by it and nor in threats of a fine or even jail time the mayor of minneapolis ordered a curfew after 3 days of protests which is seen buildings burned and looted protests are continuing into the night at the white house as well scuffles have broken out between demonstrators and. Police groups been there for several hours and earlier the white house was briefly locked down lets go to brooklyn now Brooklyn New York protesters there are chanting no justice no peace
A partly stadium and inspiration were also held around the new york supreme court. Go back to minneapolis now where Al Jazeera John hendren is joining us live all this started because the death of george floyd so john tell us what more about this more about whats happening with that National Guard coming in apparently. Well we havent seen the National Guard where i am but we have seen Police Moving in and we think there are state police that may be what people are talking about weve noticed them so if you look just past the fire that was set on the crane here which exploded not long ago police have moved forward they have moved up the block theyve used tear gas there was some complaint from someone i talked to that she had been hit by a rubber coated bullet i did not see that but been even if you look down in the distance you can see that there is a business that is completely engulfed in flames at the electrical wires went off recently and even further to the left of that is a kmart s