2400000 new unemployment claims in the past week. Drive to attract tourists back to one of the worlds most visited cities but there are safety concerns. And support that a catalyst. Committing imbalance to keep the event affordable for barack. Is not pricing out supporters has become more important to Economic Impact at the coronavirus. So than china is planning to push through National Security laws on hong kong following months of mass protests against the Central Government and this comes as chinas biggest political gathering of the year kicks off in beijing the draft legislation will almost certainly be rubber stamped by the National Peoples congress is Spokesman Says the new law serves the fundamental interests of both china and hong kong activists fear it could be used to limit the Political Freedoms in hong kong. Xanga could be. Hong kong as an inseparable part of the peoples republic of china the m. P. C. Is the highest organ of state power in light of new circumstances and need the n. P. C. Is exercising the power in trying to in the constitution to establish and improve at the state level a Legal Framework and enforcement mechanism for safeguarding National Security in hong kong and uphold and improve the institutional framework of one country 2 systems which is highly necessary well lets explore this further adrian brown is standing by for us in hong kong but 1st lets go to contribute whos in beijing a country to tell us more about this and why its happening now. Well you just heard just then from dung its way whos the spokesperson for the National Peoples congress thats chinas biggest political gathering of the year and were just on the eve of that thats taking place or opening on friday and theyre going to discuss various items to set the tone and direction for the future of china 9 different items were listed for discussion of the next few days and one of those items was the discussion of this National Security law the hong kong it says its to be discussed but many of these items already preapproved policies so its highly likely that this will be passed into legislation so what from what we understand it the n. P. C. Is using a sort of legal backdoor to make a change to hong kong is basic law which is hong kong has many constitution and this allows it to bypass the usual legislative processes in hong kong to make this move and in a sense what china is doing its taking matters into its or in hands weve seen purses happening for almost a year now sometimes violent protests and these protests have been a huge thorn in beijing side they undermine the credibility of beijing theyve been hugely embarrassing and this is really its solution for ending those protests once and for all and this really is the biggest direct attack on hong kongs of autonomy possibly you since the handover of the british calmly in 1997 and what this really means is hong kong is one step closer to looking and feeling more like just another chinese province and of course beijing can expect more backlash from the International Community for enacting this quite dramatic move on katrina i think im right in saying they always had the power to enact this National Security law into basic law but it has refrained from doing so so far. Thats right well quite is the basic law in hong kong that legal power should be in the hands of hong kongs lawmakers and this isnt the 1st time that this security law has been discussed in hong kong in 2003 a National Security law was also discussed and hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in hong kong and it was never really discussed in a serious way again now because of this protest beijing really wants to and what it sees as chaos and instability and its really using this power and what it sees as sort of really extreme circumstances they dont want this these protests to go on any further and as they see it the simply too much opposition in Hong Kongs Legislative Council from prodemocracy will make is to enable this National Security law to happen internally any time soon and sore because of that theyre taking this rather drastic step and making this move during its National PeoplesCongress Drew thanks very much indeed thats katrina in beijing or lets go to adrian brown now whos in hong kong and of course beijing will will no you would imagine that by doing this they could inspire the very protests they need to stop. Yes thats absolutely right nic its hard to see those major protests flaring up again because of course social distancing rules are still being rigorously enforced here in hong kong by the police and of course for that reason this announcement from beijing may not be a coincidence after all the timing is very interesting indeed to say the least well be getting some reaction from prodemocracy figures here in hong kong including denis corkey says the news from beijing has left him speechless he says he believes that the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Government are actually using the covert 1000. 00 outbreak as cover to further clamp down on hong kong now this bill nick is in direct response as katrina said to you know 11 months of unrest here in hong kong but also some important context the mood here in hong kong really began to change earlier this year in january when beijing appointed a new head of their Central Liaison Office and also a new head of the hong kong and Macau Affair Office those are the 2 beijing bodies that handle chinas affairs here in hong kong and since then weve had the round up of some 15 veteran prodemocracy politicians weve had the Police Commissioner warning that hong kong is facing a serious terrorism threat in his words and now of course we have you know might compare the u. S. Secretary of state this week warning that perhaps hong kongs special trading status with the United States may not be able to continue if he feels that hong kongs autonomy continues to be threatened and also this week Nick Chris Patten the former governor of hong kong has also been speaking out saying its quite clear that beijing is continuing to interfere in Hong Kong Affairs and violating things like the basic law these are powerful words coming from influential figures so you know i think there is going to be a price to pay. For what beijing is doing but its difficult to anticipate what there will be just yet and leave the ferment thanks very much later brown there in Hong Kong Well emily lau is a leading member of hong kongs Democratic Party and she says the public is concerned about what they see is chinas encroachment on hong kongs autonomy. I can assure you that people here are very very concerned and very alarmed and very disturbed because they fear such legislation would take away our freedoms would take away the personal safety and the rule of law and the people are very very nervous indeed because they fear that there is so much silly bus training and so much clashes in our legislature that if they try to push something through there it could take a long time so they sing the bridge just do it and forced it on us but this is terrible if you want to enact legislation affecting peoples freedoms and save the rule of law certainly is up to our legislature to do their job and thats exactly what is said in the basic law which is our mini constitution promulgated by beijing it says we should legislate on our own but now it seems they have breaking up all of the promises and they want to legislate for us well some people say that because of a pandemic beijing feels that many countries which used to be supportive of hong kong theyre now too busy with their own hands crisis so they will not want to spare time to look at home car and so there is this chinese expression when theres a fire they will come in and kill and hoping that nobody will notice it is really very bad and but i hope the International Community you will care because there are many many internet many foreign citizens living yet there are Many Americans brand new zealand canadians they are not thinking at what the media so its a very International City so if somethings obama badly happens i hope the International Community will tell china to stop it. Other trade up operations have begun in india and in bangladesh after the most powerful cyclon to hit the bear bankole in 20 years so i can on one killed at least 84 people and destroyed thousands of homes there are now concerns about the spread of corona virus in emergency shelters where millions of people sought safety india correspondent in the reports from new delhi. But im a shell is a father in mourning his 13 year old daughter much me died when parts of their home collapsed on her during cycling on wednesday. She was in class when at a good school she told me dad i want to study close by dont send me away to start you know she was so good at her school work and love to draw. Much me was one of dozens of People Killed in the state of west bengal where i am pan made landfall with wind speeds of 165 kilometers an hour the cycloid tore through west bengal and neighboring odysseus state uprooting trees destroying homes vehicles and much else in its path. In the city of course people assessed the damage after the storm passed also brought allens of heavy rain flooded neighborhoods. Thousands of homes were also flattened by the day. When the storm started we managed to reach the Cycling Center now our harlem is not there anymore its gone were going back to see what we can salvage. Millions remain without power and. People in the densely populated low lying areas around the bay of bengal are used to cyclons but emergency workers say the aftermath of will be harder to manage as they try to stop the spread of the corona virus 650000 people were evacuated to emergency shelters in west bengal and discern 2000000 and bank of the finding was that there are too many people here its impossible to maintain social distancing im very concerned we couldnt stay at home because of the storm and here we are worried about corona im just trying to dodge both. And with communication lines cut all their concerns about the extent of the damage and hard to reach areas including the ecologically fragile so there bonds mangroves region home to many rare animals including endangered bengal tigers elizabeth aljazeera. Ok lets hear now from whos in kolkata where the damage is still being assessed. The kind of damage that best program has seen is massive and something which chief minister about angie. She defines this as something that shes never seen in many many years before this bengal was witness to cyclon i love which was in 2009 but it was not at this you know magnitude the kind of devastation that bengal has seen right now and what is also something which is overwhelming for the sake of ministration is a walk was anticipated was that some districts would be affect it but the cycle has affected many more districts which means a lot more work for the state administration to do and also the kind of areas they need to reach to assess the situation before restoration work and to get that all fallen trees on the roads there are no line cables that are walls that have collapsed in various houses and buildings and that is something which a lot of people have to grapple with apart from the state administration lets not forget the good or not by this a pandemic is also something that the state administration is grappling with having close to 3000 cases at a little over 100 deaths due to the good old of lidice the chief minister has said that due to the cycle in the last 72 deaths that have been reported from west bengal so that is what was then god has to deal with not just the the go on about to spend a big but also the off the back of the cycle. Government forces have taken control of another town in western libya but was handed over after negotiations with forces loyal to her have to the town is on an important supply route for have to troops Government Forces are fighting a Major Campaign in western libya have captured several other towns in a major base in the past week for well the turkey is warning of grave consequences in libya after forces loyal to the warlord who have threatened strikes against turkish interests Turkeys Foreign Ministry warned any attack would result in have to forces being considered legitimate targets Turkish Forces are in libya to support the un recognized government in tripoli now lets bring in use of whos an interNational Security and political analyst for sets a foundation for Political Economic and social research joins us from ankara on skype and mr about i welcome to the program and theres a lot of big talk here isnt there do you think after will attack turkish sites. They do say so but. When you make an analysis as a civilian we should look taking serious because miss mari the sport force not the after so army is making get out the funny explanations they were they but from the point of perspective what we need to reanalyze this should talk down if you should take them serious for this is them. Take the issue serious saw warmest. If it targets that there was action sent interest in sight and if have to is planes should target positions how well prepared is turkey on the ground to respond. Yeah it is very well known that turkey has also air Defense Systems which is. Protecting its a position of interest and special of the cities like tripoli for this reason if. d d their forces try to use the aircrafts in order to get bomb being to the turkish interests and so the position is probably turkish side may not stop back and use the air Defense Systems not only from the libyan soil but the same time from the mediterranean mr key has 2 ships which is waiting. Very well Technology Call armaments on its what do you make of the potential for russian involvement in the story that reports that jets russian jets have been flown in from syria on to have to soil and silver. Sist from the day before yesterday there are many rumors that 6 jets or 6 time jets are inside the libyan soil you know to make an attack for the turkish interest but nis issue specious still not confident but lets consider that there are jets will they be officially belong to the russia is still unknown or the pilot will be a problem the private military construct their beaches also and im only sure but according to my income sources which i make phone calls everyday probably dull jets will fly with the serbian pilots but no private military contractors pilot wants to ply beat those jets because they know that when they fly over the turkish air Defense System probably going to be an active for about a day for the fall down for this isnt the issue who will fly them the 2nd issue also for this is the russian jets turkey because not used as i sat its a Defense System not only from the libyan soil but also probably from the mediterranean the other issue that you know that the russian a or the found system didnt work for this is a me still do not have any idea if the russian aircraft will be the same like their air Defense System or not so it will be a very nice and big testing area also for the Turkish Defense in the already if you already use a front about it said its a complex situation with many players depreciate your footprint when the thanks a lot. Plenty more still ahead on news including why an iranian shipment of venezuela fuels d the threat of a showdown with the United States. Because coming up to there is no sign of social distancing of north americas most popular sport serious car will be hit with. Almost 2 and a half 1000000 americans filed for Unemployment Benefits in the past week close to 39000000 have lost their jobs since lockdown restrictions were imposed in march experts warn the Worlds Largest economy is sinking into the worst recession since the Great Depression in the 1930 s. Lets bring in it can be how could our white house correspondent. Me speak if you said 2 and a half 1000001 week youd say that was almost unbelievable but actually the needs numbers are dropping now arent they but still heading up was towards a 40000000. Yeah thats what we hear from the administration that this is actually a good sign that the number of claims in one week is going down but the cumulative number is hitting almost the 40000000 mark its expected to clive there is a problem now in the United States in that dot only is this economy remaining partially closed but its really in terms of job losses taken a grip on the u. S. Labor market one that is going to be hard to undo and what were learning too is that the reality is setting in for Many Americans who initially thought according to one poll 70 percent of americans thought these jobs are going to be lost temporarily but things will come back quickly