And the drive to attract tourists back to one of the worlds most visited cities but there are of course safety concerns. So then china is planning to push through National Security laws on hong kong following months of mass protests against the Central Government the draw floor is expected to be a rubber stamp to chinas biggest political gathering in beijing activists fear it could be used to limit its Political Freedoms as katrina you know reports 2. On the eve of Chinas National Peoples Congress the announcement of the National Security law which criminalizes secession foreign interference and a subversion of state power in hong kong. Could be shins entry 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. The new law would bypass hong kongs regiment of counsel and is beijings response to months of dissent and sometimes violent part of the protests in hong kong the draft legislation will be discussed when chinas leaders meet over the next week here in beijing its likely to further isolate president xi jinping he already faces a tide of International Criticism because of the Chinese Governments handling of the coronavirus pandemic led by its biggest trading partner the Us Donald Trump accuses china of covering up the outbreak beijing denies this but the argument is pushing the 2 countries closer to confrontation and phase one of the deal to end their 2 year trade war hangs in the balance hes mixing politics economics and also Security Issues very very dangerous mixture any kind of miscalculation could result in a real tragedy. Another thought in chinas side u. S. Support for taiwan wednesdays inauguration of president when has pushed beijings goal of reunification further away as chinas n. P. C. Over the next week surging and to China Sentiment abroad isnt it or only a challenge at home leaders must tackle a slowing economy rising unemployment and new clusters of the coronavirus new outbreaks in rouhani and in chinas northeast have struck fears of a 2nd wave of infections and in rural areas millions wait for an end to the life of poverty 2020 is the government deadline to create what. Cause a moderately well off society. No previous n. P. C. Has ever had to bear all these conflicts and difficulties like that. There are too many tasks its mission impossible. But when the National Congress problems will make way for pageantry as a 1400000000 chinese look to president xi to pave a path through what many see as an increasingly precarious future. Aljazeera beijing. In hong kong with more people there are a lot. 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 kwok he 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 19 outbreak as cover to further clamp down on hong kong now 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 pompei o the us 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 emily lau is a leading member of hong kongs Democratic Party and she says the public is concerned about what they see as chinas encroachment on hong kong as 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 by straying 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 british 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 the 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 the pandemic beijings views that many countries which used to be supportive of hong kong and 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 the canadians they are not thinking at what the media so its a very International City so if something so bomb badly happens i hope the International Community will tell china to stop it. Lets move on to yemen now where Doctors Without Borders is warning of what it calls an unfolding catastrophe at his hospital in southern yemen the aid group is calling for urgent help from the United Nations following the deaths of more than a 3rd of cova 1000 patients recently admitted to it center in the port city of aden it is the only dedicated virus treatment clinic in southern yemen and talked to say there is short of personal protective equipment in virus tests Johns HopkinsUniversity Says there are 30 reported deaths in yemen but Doctors Without Borders says the total could be much higher or the u. N. Secretarys a spokesman stephane do churches says its slightly covert 1000. 00 cases are under reported in yemen we have to look at that specific missteps request obviously as weve been reporting here almost on or on a daily basis u. N. Staff both in and out of yemen have been working to deliver critical programs. To help deal with the humanitarian situation especially the covert cases its clear to us that number of cases are probably underreported given the state of affairs it know in yemen and that this again this should serve as yet another reminder of why we need to see a stepped up political process. Well lets speak now to a clear hard draw on whose Doctors Without Borders head of mission in yemen she joins us from sana on the phone claire perhaps you can fight can provide some clarity on this is very difficult to get precise information obviously but youre youre seeing things up close tell us more about whats going on as far as youre concerned. We manage to major. In many. Ways mean identity. And we can be very severe cases where theres to be a case that being referred to us and clearly are going. To be a case that our need the ice. Cases that come to us quite neat. Because the. Behind that can be sure that they know when they come very late. And when admission well to. Know. Then. Given that. Heads we are close to being or so so we think that. We do it quite. Positionally so you would say definitively more than the official figure as i mentioned on the john hopkins Johns HopkinsUniversity Track which is one of the official figures around the world only 30 deaths listed for the whole of yemen what do you make of that. What i think is that there is. This issue of if didnt where many people have a few. Days very few facts and they were very daft very few people that weve come to think. And. I think at the present time im saying that i thought that they were musicals so they did reach out those who tested and there were very few Testing Center will. Keep it in day after ive seen flu symptoms in the context thats the rule of the time being. So its more likely that much more. To buy copies than and much more deaths of causes than searches for sure i know its very hard to put a number on it but would you estimate that the number must be hundreds. But yes 500 for sure because were hearing about barrel statistics as well and normally i think its in aden correct me if im wrong but normally youd have a number of 10 burials and now its 80. Yes i mean. d most of their patients that were receiving may then i think theyre going to have died and all of them very. Systems that really look can i could not all of them with teeth that they had theyre very strict and when you know. Films that are very specific to cause people will be assumed. But we can never be sure. The u. N. Say they are working to deliver critical programs to help deal with the humanitarian situation as a whole but especially with covert cases is not what youre seeing it does more need to be done. Yes. For a long time we. Respond very quickly to country women. Because for a long time the country. Couldnt. You know. That was a very rare event that there. Was that where there you go really other that we can. Really feel. It we can be terrible. Right well we wish you well with your ongoing fight that. Do appreciate your time thank you well cleanup operations have begun in india and in bangladesh after the most powerful cycling to go in 20 years cycling on point killed at least 84 people and destroyed thousands of homes there are now concerns about the spread of coronavirus and emergency shelters where millions of people sought safety india correspondent elizabeth paranoia reports now from new delhi. Is a father in mourning his 13 year old daughter much me died when parts of the han 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 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 palm made landfall with wind speeds of 165 kilometers an hour. The cycloid tore through west bengal and neighboring a dismissed 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. Brought hours of heavy rain flooding 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 then a descent 2000000 and bank of the 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 their bonds mangroves region home to many rare animals including endangered bengal tigers elizabeth aljazeera. Moves in kolkata the where the damage is still. Damaged excess program has seen as massive and something which chief minister about angie defy 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 the bengal has seen right now and what is also something which is overwhelming for the state of ministration is a what 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 ole now vitus up on the mic is also something that the state administration is grappling with having close to 3000 cases and 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 breast the goal 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 off the cycle. Well plenty more still ahead on the news hour including why an iranian shipment of venezuela fuels the threat of a showdown with the United States. Right now. Yes we meet a 13 year old whos taken on the job of teacher and during the pandemic. High level talks have been held a very controversial mega dam being built by the Prime Ministers ovi theo p. And sudan held a Video Conference to discuss the issues between them as sudan and egypt fear the 4 point 6000000000. 00 nile River Project will trap their essential water supply ethiopia says the dam will bring economic benefits to all 3 countries the discussions are set to continue here morgan joins us live from the sudanese capital of khartoum inhibit the set of sydneys Prime Minister was in talks with egypt on tuesday now with the theo pins so they clearly some kind of go between was the latest. Well this all started when if you propose that sudan if you and egypt sign an initial agreement because it wants to start filling the dam by july now that is something that sudan last week has rejected and said that all 3 sides should come to the negotiating table but because of the Global Pandemic the coronavirus they are going to have to do it virtually and that is what has happened over the past few days now today in the state of the Prime Minister of sudan and the Prime Minister of if your health talks along with the ministers of irrigation and National Security and intelligence from the 2 countries and it follows talks between say ministers from from egypt and sudan on tuesday and theyve all agreed that they will go back to the negotiating table now the question is when will they do that that is yet to be decided the 3 sides have met before theyve held several rounds of talks here in the sudanese capital how to live also help talks in washington d. C. And were set to sign a deal in late february but if you can withdrew during the final moments saying that it needed further consultations with its leadership now before with growing the 3 sides have said that theyve agreed on the schedule for filling the dam as well as mccann isms of drought and dry periods but they were not able to determine or identify or come to an agreement on the terms of drought and dry periods so lots of things to be discussed theres also the issue of safety and with the sudanese Prime Minister trying to do right now is trying to bring the 3 to try to bring the 3 sides so we know that if you care has set its mind to try to start filling the dam by july but what we do not know is how soon will the 3 sides come together and if that will happen if those virtual talks that has been proposed by the sudanese Prime Minister abdullah will happen before if he appears thoughtful in early july what about further International Intervention could there be mediators from the United States. Well that weve already seen that nic weve seen the United States intervening in late december january and february and weve seen the 3 sides making several rounds of trips to the washington d. C. Meeting with state secretaries basically coming to some kind of an agreement before one side seems to be backing off and thats why these talks have been held going on for years now sudan is not a mediator lets make that very clear sudan is a stakeholder in this dam because so dan has the flu now flowing through it and then on words to egypt and thats something the state minister for Foreign Affairs made very clear early in the afternoon whe