Heavyweight boxing champion mike tyson is coming out of retirement for an exhibition bout against another all time great boxer. Ok lets begin with the escalating tension between the United States and china beijing has ordered the u. S. To shut down its consulate in the southwestern chinese city of saying do the Chinese ForeignMinistry Says its had to hit back at what its calling an unjustified act look what youve. Chinas measure is a legitimate and necessary response to unjust acts of the u. S. It conforms with International Law basic norms and International Relations and customary diplomatic practices the Current Situation in bilateral relations is not what china wants to see and the u. S. Is responsible for all of this. Well on tuesday washington gave beijing 72 hours to leave its consulate in Houston Texas chinas called the move a violation of International Law but the u. S. Says its necessary to protect American Intellectual property and u. S. Secretary of state mike pump aoe has now doubled down and allegations describing chinas houston consulate as a hub of spying well a number of recent developments have put a strain on relations between china and the u. S. The white house has blamed china for the global coronavirus pandemic of beijing says President Trump is simply trying to deflect attention from his own mishandling of the crisis trump and chinese president xi jinping have imposed steep tariffs in a series of tit for tat measures the 2 have since managed to move ahead with a socalled phase one trade deal but negotiations are now stalled and then those highway the chinese tech giants been severely restricted in the key u. S. Market and the u. S. Is convinced other countries dubonnet to the United States also wants to extradite one of hallways top executives from canada. Well i know its high and advises the Chinese Government on political and Economic Affairs and he says trump is manufacturing a crisis to boost his chances of reelection. At this point there is a scowl chillis going on in peoples mind that donald trump has about 3 more months as an act president and then 3 months when hopefully he will step down from the presidency no ones really sure about that from the chinese perspective they understand that this is all about reelection and that donald trump is trying to push their buttons trying to manufacture an incident so that he can then claim that if you dont vote for him youre not patriotic this would require him to get some sort of you know boat rams into an American VoterSomething Like that but it seems like hes really pushing that in addition to all of these things between what pompei i was saying between the actions which blindsided everybody i dont think anybody would accept that they were about to close the houston consulate there is this issue of more boats sailing into disputed waters of the south china seas more navigation at the scene calculated in order to create an incident which donald trump thinks would be to key to his reelection its clear that donald trump will continue with these types of actions he wants surprise he wants to get a reaction its also very good way of taking attention away from the covert 19 deaths and infections and his part in it attorney is joining us live now from katrina this wasnt really unexpected was a because we are in this kind of tit for tat situation is where we were talking about but has such china give any indication as to why it decided to choose the chengdu u. S. Consulate. It has so weve just heard from one when bin whos a Foreign Ministry spokesperson in beijing he front of the press he basically reiterated the the message that was released by the form or not history earlier today on friday but he also then said that some officials working in the chung do consulate have been engaging in activities which do not accord with their identities and that china has raised this several times to the u. S. And the u. S. Is aware of this when he was pushed further on exactly what he meant he didnt give any further details but quite a vague statement that we dont know if that accusation is leveled at chinese stoffel 50 or the 50 american u. S. Officials who work in the tongue do office but it does give some insight as to why theyve targeted that particular consulate at the moment we do know there are about 200 stopped working there and that is have quite a colorful history as well in 2012 the Party Secretary of of the chanting which is a big reason that both. His right hand man one legion actually fled to that consulate in chengdu to try to seek asylum after he levels accusations against was later found guilty in china that could be one reason that wasnt mentioned by chinas Foreign Ministry but that is what many people think of when they think of the chengdu consulate also because of its location in the southwest of china its also considered to be quite listening post for the u. S. When it comes to any happening is the issues around tibet ocean junk so thats also possibly why it was target its quite a significant consulate its quite a its one of 5. 00 thats based here on them in the mainland and much larger than the other consequence of it here in ohio on for example you know it was interesting as you were mentioning there that the fact that the Foreign Ministry spokesman had to use the phrase that some people in the the consulate conducted activities not in line with their identities normally thats translated from diplomatic speak as basically spying and of course that brings us back to the comments that were made by the secretary of state might pompeo who had suggested that the chinese consulate in houston had been quote a hub for spying and intellectual property theft. Thats right and beijing Foreign Ministry have continuously denied these charges saying that theyre trumped up by the truck that mislead station vi mike peo and also the Chinese Foreign ministry has said that this is a position that they did not want to find themselves and that there has been twisted they have been forced into taking this tit for tat action responding otherwise they might appear weak and there has been some commentary from the global times the Chinese State media newspaper saying that if the u. S. Response to this move by closing another chinese consulate in the u. S. China also respond in kind what union has made various comments actually as the Foreign Ministry spokesperson about like pompei of speech shes bigger gotten more assertive in her language responding to the us and she says that theres been increasingly this cold war mentality that has been spread by the trunk that ministration but she says in her words that this will be as futile as an ant shaking a tree and shes also herself cold on the International Community shes what shes called the peace loving people of the International Community to step forward and prevent like pompei of from doing any more damage to World Affairs thats good for you bring us up to date from. The pentagon has confirmed one of its fighter jets intercepted on a rainy and possibly a plane over syria it says the 15 conducted a visual inspection of the mom airplane from a safe distance to ensure it wasnt a hostile aircraft several passengers were injured in the commercial plane pilots abruptly changed all to shoot the air bus and landed safely in beirut well just on one is a Research Fellow at the lower institute for International Policy he says this incident could worsen already strained ties between washington and tehran. Yess accusations that. Are from that airline i used to ferry the just 6 support for running back forces in the region so that may well have been one of the reasons why the us side to take a close look at the aircraft to check out where there were passengers on board well its interesting we have to see what the pentagon has and said why they sent up near craft. To look at this passenger plane where as our letter below the other passenger planes fly this route and have obtained intercept live in the past but there is a kind of heightened. Tension in a relationship that is always a bit fraught and explosion at Natanz Nuclear facility or a range of fires at industrial plants some of which are explained by accidents others of which appear to be a bit more mysterious so theres a sense that that something is perhaps in play that hasnt been implied before that additional pressure is being put on iran im not sure that those 2 are linked but the problem always is when theres a heightened. Series of tensions and actions that Something Like this gets just adds to the a somewhat volatile mix. Friday prayers are set to take place in turkeys highest fear for the 1st time in nearly 86 years dozens of people are already lining up to join the occasion president s vision heard of uncontroversially declared the highest afia a mosque after a court ruled that its conversion into a museum in the 1930 s. Was illegal it was built 1500 years ago as an Orthodox Christian cathedral and then converted to a mosque and then into a museum and of course you will lose joining us live now from istanbul just give us some idea of whats been happening this morning. Rob actually here the crowd is more than expected in istanbul governor Just Announced on twitter thats the area that catered for todays mass prayer every round yes sophia is over it to full and all enter points are locked down right now and no one is going to be allowed inside so the prayer area outside the mosque or a guest of reality must say is already full hundreds of thousands were expected actually what the Governors Office told us a week ago was they were expecting 500000 people just to be praying outside and we know that there are bus the Stores Carrying people from other cities so you stumble just for this day and today inside our guest sophia at this 1000 people who are invited by the president to will be praying with the president are gone inside for the 1st time since 1934 when they are here sophia was converted by a cabinet decision and that we know that among the invitees by the presidency there are lots of politicians foreign politicians from abroad and many leading n. G. O. S present it is again from the most the worst war here today to join this prayer of course there are some reactions like against this must pray or as the call that 19 pandemic us is still very. Very critical across the world including turkey and from the minarets of sophia there are announcements to the citizens that they should maintain at the social distance they should be wearing saw the face masks and they should have the senate ties as with them but people who have been waiting to pray inside i guess sophia for many years they are very eager and they are very excited and since the morning from the minute. Its we are hearing clear on her citations it is live and you can also probably a hear that while im speaking now everybodys waiting for the noon prayers its the time when president s are gone is going to right here and go inside to get sophia for the 1st prayer after 75 years but of course turks are very happy about this decision mainly the conservative and nationalist and the pro islamist segments of the electorate are very happy but there are reactions from the world especially the from the west mainly from greece that we will hear their reactions to day around the same times as well but for turkey it is. Al to ring how to get sophia status from museum to a mosque is the has actually become a National Sovereignty issue prisons are done stated before that its our country its our territory and it was a most before and we are not converted from home or to get from church to our most but from a museum to a most back again rob said i know were going to be checking in with you in the next few hours but for norm for an arson in case you want to live from istanbul thank you very much indeed still ahead and aljazeera. To have a Big Convention is not the right time donald trump scraps the main Republican Convention in florida as the state reports its largest single day death toll from the coronavirus. From promising drugs it to landing in intensive care well look at a britains bonus johnsons 1st year in power. Sunshine 3 more southern areas of europe but plenty of plants sweeping across areas to the north we have also seen and will continue to see want to 2 will thunderstorms across the areas of actually but even so sunny skies a sigh across much of Southern France people enjoying the warm sunny weather and also just off the Southern Shores of crete people out enjoying the warm waters meanwhile in rome and the very woman days of people doing what they can to cool down using about fountain now as we go through friday theres actually a fair amount of rain working its way through all northern and central areas over today beginning to push across towards the balkans fairly cloudy elsewhere as you can see another system is waiting in the wings this is going to sweep across the u. K. And Northern Areas of france the low countries as we go through the 1st part of the weekend some pretty strong winds as well at the same time keeping this time which is a little bit lower not seep out across the bulk of europe clearing last across italy and more of that rain quite heavy at times pushing towards the southeast is still fine and dry sunny across much of the southwest damage wise in london weve got want to showers like you with a system on saturday damages not too bad but its a fairly cloudy few days ahead but where it is very warm of course is again across into rome sunny skies for the next few days and maybe my monday feeling better with a high of 29. Jump into the street and julian on Global Community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on and will online be part of the debate. Coming when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic problems that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way to see which way we do business if were going to adapt to climate break down this street on out is the. Root. What about is it a reminder of our top stories this hour chinas foreign minister has ordered the closure of the u. S. Consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu thats a response to washingtons order to shut the chinese consulate in houston. The pentagon has confirmed one of its fighter jets intercepted an iranian passenger plane over syria to make sure it wasnt a hostile aircraft several passengers were injured when the commercial plane changed altitude cheering the incident. Friday prayers are set to take place in turkey is the u. S. Fear for the 1st time in nearly 86 years last week president out of one controversially declared the harness of the last after a court ruled that its conversion into a museum had been illegal. The staggering impact of covert 1000 on the United States shows no sign of easing the number of infections across the country has crossed 4000000 president trunks called off the main Republican Convention events in florida because of coronavirus fears i did jocasta reports the worlds richest nation has now surpassed its 4000000 known case of coping 19 and its feared the number will only soar whats important about that is the steamroller that it is. The acceleration that this had the rate of new cases is trending upward in 39 states with a Record Number of deaths reported in florida thats where President Trump had planned to speak before a massive crowd at the Republican National convention in august an important moment for his Reelection Campaign but now those events are canceled i care deeply about the people of florida and everywhere else frankly in this country and even in the world. Would be coming into the state and i dont want to do anything to upset it 143000 people have died of a corona virus in the United States and medical experts warn many more deaths are to come those numbers tend to rise about a month after an uptick in cases but President Trump tried to downplay the threat saying that problems and hot spots will all work out d. See a lot of the country is as has no problem whatsoever trump also claims states have all the emergency supplies they could possibly need despite pleas from some doctors that life saving equipment is running out we have. Because we are not anybody to think that a season of pool should live or die however when you have well hes call a mass casualty situation there are a guy who we fire one of the mates you wore in a more efficient manner and save them last not a bit of people meanwhile the u. S. Economy nears another precipice with expanded Unemployment Benefits expiring at the end of the month and he vixens resuming at the end of the Week Congress will debate yet another rescue measure in coming days castro aljazeera washington. Brazil already has the 2nd hi