A tricky balancing act as they seek to reopen to tourists without driving out the current virus infection rates again. China is planning to impose tough National Security laws on hong kong following months of mass protests against the Central Government the draft law is expected to be rubber stamped to chinas biggest political gathering in beijing but activists fear it will be used to crackdown on hong kongs Political Freedoms and is likely to make relations with the u. S. Even worse american senators say and introduce legislation to impose sanctions on chinese officials for violating hong kongs autonomy continue reports from beijing 2. On the eve of Chinas National Peoples Congress the announcement of the National Security law which criminalizes the session foreign interference and the subversion of state power in hong kong. Could be additions and treat 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 and tried 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 5 plus Hong Kongs Legislative Council and is. 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. Over the next week surging and 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 behind 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 it calls a moderately well off society. No previous n. P. C. Has ever had to bear all these conflicts and difficulties like the one this year there are too many tasks its mission impossible. But when the National Congress problems. Pageantry as a 1400000000 chinese look to president xi to pave a path maybe see as an increasingly precarious future. Aljazeera beijing of position lawmakers in hong kong are warning that china is betraying its promise to maintain the citys special status as one a state of the International Community of. Business that of one country 2 systems make no mistake about it but painting the front of peoples government has completely break its promise to the hong kong people a promise that was inscribed in the final pretty stark aeration the basic law and they are now completely on their obligation all people theres a 3rd. Make no mistake about it. Our poor thing but International Status of hong kong after 30 International City will be gone very certain. Age and brown is in hong kong with more on what this announcement is likely to trigger new protests. 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 900. 00 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 mike pompei oh 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. At least 84 people are being killed by the most powerful cycle in to hit eastern india and bangladesh in more than a decade 2nd on pan made landfall on wednesday approaching thousands of trees and destroying power lines there now fears that corona virus will spread in shelters housing millions of evacuees it is about per annum reports from new delhi. A shower is a for. In mourning his 13 year old daughter much me died when parts of the 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. 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 or destroying homes vehicles and much else in its path in the city of course cutter people assess the damage after the storm passed also 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 the no dissent 2000000 and bangor there was. 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 tiger is elizabeth aljazeera. Time to chandras in bangladesh capital dhaka he says around 5000000 people have been left without power. Now we know for sure that the hundreds and thousands of houses are on the delta plane have been destroyed or washed away oxfam reported the same about thousands of my houses were washed away by the tidal wave and we also know about 5000000. 00 people are out of power and this area of the southwestern bangladesh which took the biggest hit is in a a where there is a large aquatic farming as well as regular farming so a lot of this people are going to suffer from this destruction of the farmland now we also know that the country is fighting through the. 1000 pandemic due to the shutdown there is an Economic Loss so there is a major challenge ahead this is also a monsoon rehabilitation work is going to take time by and large we still have a lot of reports to see what comes up but the damage has been very severe this is one of the hardest gone since 1972007 so well know farther down the road at least 3 women you think killed in a stampede in sri lanka as people rushed to collect an 8. 00 cash handout around a 1000 people had queued outside a businessmans warehouse in colombo for his annual handout during ramadan now i know that people were injured the area has a large Muslim Population and many of its residents have been unable to do their usual work as laborers during the pandemic the men handing out the money have been arrested for ignoring the lockdown. The job of the government of the north and we need to go around people govern in numbers and then people fell down businessmen took about 10 people to the hospital in his vehicle. A security sources told our jazeera that palestine has officially informed israel its ending all Security Cooperation just in president would have us declared an end to security agreements with israel and the us on tuesday over israeli plans to annex 30 percent of the occupied west bank and this time is also stopped sharing intelligence with the cia Palestinian Authority is now withdrawing Security Forces from some places where it had to operate with israeli approval. The u. S. Is pulling out of a treaty with 34. 00 other countries accusing russia of violating the deal the open skies treaty allows unarmed surveillance flights over signature nations and is supposed to foster transparency on military activity but the white house has reportedly accused russia of breaking its terms and contributing to military threats against the u. S. And its allies its not the 1st time the trumpet ministration has pulled out of an agreement and blamed russia last august the us withdrew from a bilateral pact that banned intermediate range Nuclear Missiles theyre now fears that hell also pull out of the last major arms treaty with russia new start for both countries only 1550 deployed Nuclear Missiles each it expires weeks after the next president ial inauguration. Russia said develop burgard relationship or you know we worked on the oil problem to gather i think we have a very Good Relationship with russia but russia didnt adhere to the treaty so our job they are here we will pull out but theres a very good judge will make a new agreement or do something to put that agreement back together i cannot has more from washington d. C. This is part of an ongoing process by the Trump Administration to disentangle themselves from International Agreement this is the 3rd arms agreement that the trumpet ministration has pulled out of the 1st was the Iran Nuclear Deal then the Strategic Nuclear one and now youve got this 3rd one but there has been Immediate Reaction in Congress Eliot Engel the chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee points out that President Trump is unable to do this without giving congress 120. 00 days notice which he has not done this is and turns off an aunt that President Trump signed back in 2019 so there is already criticism from democrats in congress but it is yet another move by trump and to diminish the relationships with the International Community and nato allies for example are going to be absolutely incensed by this decision a unilateral decision what happens next is that once the u. S. Says it all at once this formally they are 60 days during which all signatories to the agreement must meet there is some speculation that a new deal could be agreed to but thats very unlikely at this particular point. Still ahead this half hour a disaster in southern yemen as the creative virus rips through the only dedicated clinic in the region of the world and brazils president recommends it to america as president has been taking it now front line elsewhere is going to be given a malaria drug to see if it works against corona virus. Or. Hello after having been stormy and cold in the southeast of australia we still got some storms around for the circulation developing off the coast of New South Wales that sort of stopped of these tracks further west is a light on shore breeze its takfiri warm and melbourne but no is it much of anything else the wet weather there has been quite significant thats a strong wind which i think is on its way out there the whole thing is winding up a disappearing slowly eastwards you see the significant rain up in queens and mostly tropical queensland but nothing much in perth its cooling down a little bit but at 27 whos going to complain now the forecast the camber indicates those showers might well make it in that as far as camera for sunday but beyond that it because of the content has to run about the 14 mark significant rain in China Southern china thunderstorm showing up here not so much in japan japan remains relatively quiet cloudy little bit of rain but not much this is significant there flooding seems likely from hong kong east Research Taiwan the bulk of Mainland China are cheesed looking fairly fine by the time we get into friday or even saturday but rain is returning to beijing makes no difference the temperature is still up around the 24 back and warm. From. The 1st hand glimpse of the challenges faced by journalists in the age of donald trump we are fighting the fake tears fake phony the enemy of the be blown through the eyes of a federal White House Correspondent what do you base your legs only sales are down the press is not after a truck is after the fact were not the enemy of the people we are the people usa the current battleground whose truth is it anyway on. Amount of the top stories here not just 0 china says it will impose a new National Security law on hong kong after months of often violent demonstrations last year the planned legislation would strengthen the states in foresman powers. At least 84 people have been killed by the most powerful cycling to hit eastern india and bangladesh in more than a decade large areas remain flooded and millions of people are without power. And President Trump is pulling us out of the open skies treaty which lets governments try surveillance flights over member countries the white house says russia has repeatedly violated the terms of the deal. Almost 2 and a half 1000000 more americans of filed for Unemployment Benefits over the past week that means an unprecedented 38600000 people lost their jobs since lockdown restrictions were imposed in march economists say the most recent layoffs are the most concerning the happening at a time when states a beginning to reopen some Small Businesses in america are having to find new ways to survive the Economic Conditions which have been described as the worst since the Great Depression gabriel is on the reports from montclair new jersey. At Montclair Book Center rows of every book imaginable from the new title just published to that dusty an obscure old book if you look hard enough youll probably find it here what you wont find is customers browsing the aisles in march all nonessential businesses were closed because of coronavirus the bookstore staff faced hard decisions closed down after 35 years in business or find a way to keep selling nobody wanted to close. We just had to figure out the best way to keep everybody safe and healthy while also continuing to serve our customer base. They ramped up taking orders by phone and also online sales and business has been so good nobody has been laid off everybody in fact is busy in a normal week when it was when we were open. Wed maybe have 10 internet or 10 online orders a day but now we come in and we have at least 50 if we have anything under under 50 thats it thats a light day for us this boy by the front door stacks of packages of books waiting to be shipped out to customers a small sign of a Success Story in an economy where there have been few when many people think about business in america they think of Big Companies such as General Motors apple or maybe even walmart but truth be told more than 95 percent of americans work at Small Businesses like this defined as those with less than 500. 00 employees its Small Business that is the backbone of the American Economy that Sma