President trump says is the point hundreds of federal agents after a recent upturn in violence in chicago plus. Its not too late if we can acknowledge new fears of famine in yemen where the u. N. Says its seeing alarming levels of Food Insecurity. And protesters keep up the pressure on israels Prime Minister to quit over corruption and his handling of the coronavirus. Hello welcome to the program theres been a dramatic escalation in tension between the United States and china the u. S. Government has ordered beijing to close its called soulish in Houston Texas saying its to protect American Intellectual property a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign ministry has denied media reports that staff had been burning documents inside the building and accuse the u. S. Of violating International Law chinas threatening to close the american consulate in one in response its also warned the Chinese Students in the u. S. To be on guard for what it calls arbitrary interrogations. Sure on july 21st the u. S. Abruptly demanded we close our consulate general this was unilaterally initiated by the u. S. Side we demand the u. S. Withdraw this decision we will respond well a spokesperson for the Chinese ForeignMinistry Says boman Death Threats have been made against their Washington Embassy who are watching and blamed the u. S. Government tweeting that the threats were a result of what she called smears and hatred katrina you is in rwanda and has more now on the chinese response to the closure order. Certainly beijing is furious about this chinas Foreign Ministry spokesperson one when been spoke on wednesday afternoon calling this outrageous unjustified and said it was an unprecedented escalation even listed a number of actions he said the Us Government had taken against Chinese People in the u. S. In recent months he said that chinese diplomats there had been subjected to intimidation harassment in some cases detention he also said that Chinese Students were increasingly being interrogated that personal Electronic Devices were being confiscated and searched he also said that there would incident at least one chinese diplomatic stop had extra restrictions imposed on them that diplomatic pouches was searched without permission that chinese official items were also confiscated both of these would be violations of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations one woman also said that the Chinese Embassy in the u. S. Had received a number of bomb threats and Death Threats and he accused the Trump Administration of fanning the flames of hatred against china only in the u. S. But overseas as well and certainly this is just the next escalation the newest escalation was indeed a diplomatic freefall in terms of relations between the u. S. And china in various fronts been going on National SecurityLaw Technology and trade and beijing says if the u. S. Does not pull back from this decision it will take what it has cooled legitimate and necessary countermeasures. U. S. Secretary of state my post says they will keep keep taking action over china to protect the American People. Were not going to allow this to continue to happen where they have seen the remarks that nascar divisor brian gave that f. B. I. Director ray gave him that attorney general barr has given we are setting out clear expert taishan for how the Chinese Communist party is going to behave and when they dont were going to take actions that protect the American People protect our security our National Security and also protect our economy and jobs wasnt jordan has been following the situation from virginia she says the consulate closure will only worsen relations. The decision to close this consulate which happens to be the 1st consulate that the Chinese Government opened in the u. S. After it renewed diplomatic ties with the United States back in 1979 the u. S. Has also been imposing sanctions on Chinese Government officials on students on businesspeople its trying to bring to the United States for trial the number 2 of way she is fighting extradition from canada to the United States as we speak the Chinese Government in turn has kicked out reporters has strongly surveilled people who have been working inside that country has closed off parts of the country westerners and to in particular to americans so you can only expect that this back and forth over tit for tat is going to continue and you can expect barbara to see the relationship between the 2 countries simply grow worse. Well the relationship between the u. K. And china has been more singing as well and now the British Government says it will open a special pathway to citizenship for 3000000 hong kong residents from january those eligible will not have to have a job before going to the u. K. It applies to those with British National overseas passports and their immediate families the new rules are in response to a National Security law that china is imposing on hong kong which critics say curbs freedoms. He must present donald trump has announced hundreds of federal agents will be deployed in chicago after a surge in violence in recent weeks officers have also been deployed to albuquerque and new mexico as part of trumps law and Order Campaign trump says is that ministration is ready to assist any other state or city that request. This bloodshed must stand this pledge it will end today im announcing a surge of federal Law Enforcement into American Communities plagued by Violent Crime will work every single day to restore Public Safety protect our nations children and bring violent perpetrators to justice chicagos mayor is calling a witnesses to come forward after a shoot out of a funeral left 15 people injured mourners or shot at by gang members who were driving by on chicagos south side several targets of the shooting returned fire packers fled after crushing their car beat a 160 murders in chicago between late june and july. Is a symptom a symptom of communities that are crying out young men who dont believe that they have a future other than being part of one of these games or factions or cliques who believe that their future only lives on a corner and not college or career. Well meanwhile protests in portland are entering their 56 the day this fight President Trumps the point of the federal police in the city where than a 1000 people protested against racism and Police Brutality on tuesday trump says the officers are protecting federal property but theyve been accused of seizing protesters from the streets in unmarked vehicles and the taining them without justification several lawsuits have been filed against the trumpet ministration questioning its broad use of police powers. My cat joins us live now from washington d. C. And mike this fully looks like trump is showing that hes strong on law and order obviously of course heading into the election campaign. Well very much so President Trump has tweeted repeatedly in recent months in all caps law and order so this very much is part of his mantra part of his agenda as we near the election time and certainly what is given this a nother and wider political issue is the fact that President Trump has singled out cities that are led by democratic mayors hes turned this into a political issue as much as a civil policing one and certainly theres been a response from a number of cities that 6 of the major cities have got together and sent a letter to the attorney general protesting President Trumps decision to deploy federal agents in this cities without any form of collaboration or cooperation with local Police Forces now one must mention as well but its not unusual for federal forces to link up with city forces in terms of policing activity what is unusual and virtually unprecedented is for them to be sent in without consultation of law and order groups within the cities within the areas themselves so this is why theres such an interest in such a concern among many of the mayors of the various cities with president trance decision. I can there with the latest there for a washington thinking. I was saying in the u. S. The centers for Disease Control has reported more than 1000 deaths across the country in just 24 hours with california now overtaking new york as the worst hit state on tuesday President Trump admitted the pandemic will probably get worse before it gets better more state governors are making masks mandatory and introducing new restrictions overwhelmed that testing labs and hospitals are now raising the alarm yourself officials have signed a contract with pfizer for 100000000 doses of a potential corona virus faxing its the 2nd vaccine that washington has secured on the basis of promising clinical trials. Its going to brazil now the country has reported more than 67000 new cases of corona virus in the past 24 hours a record one day high over 1200 people have died and brazilian president will celera has tested positive for the corona virus for a 3rd time he 1st tested positive on july 7th also that hes said that hes been taking the antimalarial drug had drugs he chloral quit most studies have found it to be ineffective and actually potentially dangerous for some patients. The u. N. Says fears of famine in yemen are resurfacing just as the World Food Program has as had to scale back relief efforts because of funding shortages Nutrition Services for 2 and a half 1000000 children could stop by the end of august coronavirus restrictions reduced primitive remittances locusts floods and that significant underfunding of this years aid response have compounded the hunger crisis after 5 years of war this by u. N. Peace efforts theres been a resurgence of violence between warring parties in recent weeks. We are very worried because its a no longing situation right now in yemen we of reach our lambing levels alarming driver us of Food Insecurity there are approximately 20000000 people in your men who didnt secure and who struggled to find their next meal. Still to come in this half hour claims zimbabwes government is infringing on human rights by locking up a journalist and imposing a dusk to dawn curfew plus the shock of his life we hear from a teenager footballer struck by lightning. Hello there not bad conditions generally throughout much of the straight listen across into the southeast a break from the recent storms that you see where the clouds and the thunderstorms are really working their way south east was along the queensland coast so through thursday more all the heavy rain the rashis and flash flood warnings in place those showers working their way down tools brisbane a cooler day just 18 degrees celsius but away from that its fine and dry and some nice sunshine sun you cross into sydney both islands of new zealand could just see a scattering of showers the winds coming in from the west and then this front on thursday doing its best to clear through Western Australia heading through the great by the beginning to break down as it does maybe just one or 2 shots into South Australia and it leaves a sunny day on friday with a high of 20 degrees is a little bit womans well in brisbane on friday big and more of those showers and a simple temperature across into sydney a mostly fine and dry throat both alans of new zealand the rain of course continuing through much of the northeast of asia plenty of cloud as you can see the latest city where the evacuations have taken place is here and in fact has been a massive operation more than 10000 residents were actually rescued from that trap build as you can see what was undertaken but the rain is going to very heavy cross the Korean Peninsula and air pressure picking up lots of moisture not about to cross into japan but certainly by friday those rains pushing across towards the west. Coveted beyond wealth. Taken without hesitation. Children died for. Our defines our while we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas we live here we make the rules people and car investigates exposes and questions they use and abuse of power around the globe on aljazeera. The and. Welcome back heres a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera china has denied media reports that staff have been burning documents inside its consulate in Houston Texas after the u. S. Government ordered it to close the facility u. S. President don trump has announced that hundreds of federal agents will be deployed in chicago after a recent surge in violence their officers are also being deployed to albuquerque in new mexico as part of this socalled war and bOrder Campaign and the u. N. He says fears of famine in yemen are resurfacing just as the World Food Program has at the scale back relief efforts because of a funding shortage. Israels parliament has voted to give the government sweeping powers to order anti coronavirus restrictions politicians will only be able to review urgent measures after 24 hours protests have been growing louder against Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu for his handling of the pandemic and his corruption trial opposition figures of called the grand corona law farcical and dictatorial harry force it has more. Benjamin netanyahu has weathered protests before so called black flag activists have waged a years Long Campaign against what they call his anti democratic rule but in the last 2 weeks the protests have changed and grown as israelis buckling under a 2nd wave of coronavirus turn their anger on the government. Netanyahu has admitted to reopening the economy too quickly allowing gatherings of too many people others point to the governments failure to expand the system of testing and tracing as the 1st wave leaving it ill equipped to stop the 2nd author and journalist wrote and bergman has investigated that Decision Making he says the Health Ministry went against expert advice you need to know as soon as possible if that person is ill or not you need to test that person immediately after he is a good fight is suspicion so is the suspect so if if you do not been sharing of infection he goes on and on if you are not able to cut it the government itself said it needed a 48 hour turnaround from suspected case to test result even now its taking 6. 00 to 8. 00 days the concern now is that its simply too late in terms of testing to catch up with the sheer scale of this 2nd wave israels missed opportunity on testing and tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure to tackle the pandemic under pressure the Prime Minister has been announcing measures only to announce them from a 1750000000. 00 package of cash handouts 1st universal now means tested too in order to close restaurants postponed within hours to weekend closures of beaches and pools reversed within days the one constant is insistence on avoiding a 2nd full lockdown because. I have requested each ministries plan for a safe exit from the current virus restrictions meaning that if we straighten the coven reach the goals that we see it for the determined number of cases per day that we can work with over time in the coronavirus routing. But the head spinning policy shifts have undermined belief in a Prime Minister also on trial in 3 separate Corruption Cases one survey this month put public trust in him just 29 percent in the problem that. There is really this back and forth that its not creating trust and trust is grue show. In order to move ahead because its a long term situation where the talking about trust is both thrust of the public and trust of experts just weeks ago squashed the 1st wave of coded 19 and neutralized his most serious political rival benny gantz inside an Emergency Coalition now hes fighting to beat down a resurgent virus and restore his diminishing Political Capital will sit out his Era Television scientists in the u. K. 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