Military says it has proof that russia is violating a u. N. Arms embargo in libya. And fishermen in sudan struggling to catch enough power Hydroelectric Dam Development in ethiopia has many worried about Water Supplies. And. Plant a record extending 30 of the french cup title brazilian star neymar scores the when i get sent it out in front of the limited number of fans as football it turns to fast after a 4 month break. Welcome to the news of signs of the increasingly fraught relationship between the u. S. And china have been playing out in the chinese city of chengdu staff at the u. S. Consulate that have been leaving with their bags packed after it was ordered to be closed by chinas government it was in response to washington closing the chinese consulate in Houston Texas a live update shortly from the u. S. But 1st lets get this report from aljazeera katrina you in chengdu. In chengdu work has begun dismantling the u. S. Consulate thats founded in the southwestern chinese city in 1985 Chinese State media says have until monday morning to vacate the premises beijing blames the u. S. For the escalating tensions and has accused the trumpet ministration. Stirring up trouble and anti China Sentiment around the world theyve waited 2 days to do this theyre trying to appear very measured and theyve also extended a number all branches of the last few days indicating that they were for talks rather than to this kind of unilateral action remember theyre doing this because they need to look like they are willing to defend themselves on the other side of the globe a group of men reportedly federal agents false to open a back door of the chinese consulate in houston workers left the building on friday after appearing to been documents earlier in the week there vixen ordered by american officials who say the consulate was a hub of chinese espionage and accusation beijing denies china ripped out of our price intellectual property and trey zwicker is causing millions of jobs all across america for washington the list of issues is long the u. S. Has arrested for chinese scientists accusing them of working secretly for the chinese military. Special trade status with the u. S. Has been revoked after china imposed a new security rule and washington has imposed sanctions on chinese officials over the alleged persecution of ethnic muslims as the coronavirus President Trump has increasingly pointed to china as being responsible a tactic seen as shifting blame away from what critics say has been his own failed response to the pandemic and finally qual way the chinese telecoms giant accused of posing security threats now banned in the u. S. And person. We are slipping he appears into a new cold war and its this strange combination that we have right now in our american politics which is the domestic political pressure combined with longstanding grievances and concerns between the United States and china once the u. S. Continent here in town to close this there will be full remaining on chinas mainland but beijing says it wont hesitate to shut down another to washington to retaliate further against Chinese Missions in the rest continue aljazeera to just say at the very latest when we got our correspondent in miami and weve seen her read activity really at consular offices both in chengdu and houston whats going on certainly in houston bring us up to speed on what we know. While the deadline for the consulate to close in houston was on friday and about 40 minutes after the deadline passed state officials moved in and the police barricaded off the entire building as people gathered around but before all that happened im reading reports that the fire crews were called there because the consulate staff were burning documents dumping other shredded documents into bins outside the consulate but a very hurried scene in houston and i think we look at the wider picture here it seems that this is almost certainly going to be an issue in the upcoming president ial election weve already heard President Donald Trump blaming china front and center for this pandemic calling it the china flu calling it the chinese pandemic so it seems this will become a an issue in the president ial election of course you got mike pompei it was speech as well in which he was criticized in some ways by many experts for using a very simplistic cold war type language but if you just look at the month of july these tit for tat now youve got the u. S. Government saying china has no right to any anything in the china sea moving. Military ships into that region of course theres a situation in hong kong as well and thats just in the month of july so this perhaps is being seen by experts as a new low in china u. S. Relations since both countries normalize diplomatic relations in the late seventys and you all sort of coverage is this story getting across the u. S. Because youve got covert 19 as a huge story protests going on in oregon of which the president says hes trying to clamp down on a horrific scenes overnight how do you assess where the where does the china story come in all of this. Well i think you know for President Trumps supporters they may see trump as the only man to take on the giant that is china but i think overwhelmingly people in this country are preoccupied by the pandemic particularly here in florida which is the worst state at the moment facing this but i think Business People across the u. S. Will be extremely worried by this breakdown in relations because of course many manufacturers have bases in china get their products made cheaply in china so that will be a concern to those in the Business Community but for the wider public in the United States at the moment their every waking moment is taken up with dealing with this horrible pandemic and you go here in miami thank you australia has added to the arguments over the South China Sea saying china has no legal claims to the area cambra made the declaration to the United Nations bringing it further into line with washington the u. S. Has long opposed beijings claims but avoided calling them illegal until last week china claims about 90 percent of the South China Sea including ownership of the Spratly Islands which is disputed by the philippines vietnam and others the scrubber show is claimed by china and the philippines and that disagreement escalated 8 years ago when the Philippine Navy apprehended 8 mainland chinese fishing vessels. Well u. S. Federal agents sent to portland by President Trump public and fired tear gas a protest us and made arrests demonstrators have rallied every night for 8 weeks in the west coast city demanding Police Reforms well leaders in oregon state say the agents in riot gear only making things worse. The. Federal agents again firing tear gas at black lives matter demonstrators in downtown portland. The protesters have spent weeks demanding racial equality in america while others are calling for Police Reforms and an end to brutality by officers the City Center Court house is the focus of the anger in portland. That anger increased when President Donald Trump ordered federal agents to be sent to the city to protect the port 18 arrests have been made this week fireworks were aimed at the building and several fires lit the federal agents responded with tear gas was the was like i was right out he was the. Organ state officials opposed federal Law Enforcement in portland they say federal agents in riot gear only making the situation worse. Than. The reverse. On what you want to protest across the us began in may after the Police Killing of unarmed black american george clooney. Has promised to back the police and stop the protests in a speech this week he said he will be sending hundreds of federal troops to cities all across america americans was hold their city leaders accountable they must insist that Community Officials fully support fully back and fully fund their local Police Departments there is simply no substitute for a policed. Parp and that has the strong backing of city leaders. As well as the tear gas fired during the latest unrest important Peaceful Protesters released balloons and bubbles. I pad more protests are expected the authority aljazeera. The u. S. Military has released what it says is proof that russia is violating a u. N. Arms embargo in libya the pentagon claims the satellite pictures show Russian Military equipment being used on the frontlines of the conflict these include find Defense Systems and vehicles the u. S. Says russia has basting support for a lot of hostile correspondent monic training joins me now live from misrata the satellite imagery is quite revealing and with the on going threats by egypt to intervene in the struggle the clashes in libya far from over. Weve been seeing recently after forces building up reinforcing their positions in sirte and the jenae military has been saying all along that mercenaries belonging to the Russian Wagner group are position in the city of sirte the u. S. Africa command also in may pointed out that orders or posted images of fighter jets russian fighter jets moving to just that South Central libya and the idea is that these are russian state jets obviously wagner group or mercenary groups dont really have their own air force so this is saying that the russians are building up their influence in libya we also saw the russian and the turks suggesting that there is a work in creating a working group to sort of deescalate the situation. And at the same time on monday President Donald Trump and. C. C. Discussed in a phone call about the escalating the situation but at the same time the Egyptian Parliament unanimously approved sending troops abroad now many people here think that if president c. C. Was to deploy troops it would further escalate the situation and would further destabilize the country and have to say the feeling here is that libyans are increasingly being taken out of the Decision Making process i mean were seeing these meetings in moscow and across european capitals and so here the people here feel that theyre not in the Decision Making process and. In the solution to to solving the libyan conflict indeed there are also moving parts to this story right now all of the days what the u. N. Recognized government in tripoli is saying about any intended assault because it is the red line so both sides. Well thats right i mean the jury in the military is saying that they are going to enter syria i mean whether thats done politically through these negotiations and and through these peace negotiations is yet to be seen but they they are adamant about entering the city of sirte and turkey who supports the g. N. A. T. Also agree with that sentiment they say that any negotiations or any negotiations on the cease fire will have to be after the g. N. A. T. Take control of the city of sirte in the city of. Military commanders i spoken to here in misrata say they are adamant about entering the city of sirte and and really these are the 1st is that know the city of sirte very well i mean theyve they fought in around sirte. Quite a quite a lot in the 2011 they went into sirte and killed and. Gadhafi long time we dont want gadhafi and in 2016 they went in again to liberate the city from isis so these are 1st primarily here from misrata but also we saw convoys coming in large convoys reinforcing those positions from western libya and so they think they want to go into sirte they say theyre waiting for the command theyre waiting for phases. Of the jna. In advance whether this militarily or through these political negotiations yet its yet to be seen. In misrata thanks for joining us. In the Syrian Military targets the army says its retaliation emotions being fined towards the Israeli OccupiedGolan Heights tension has been high after hezbollah was killed in an israeli airstrike need to mask is on monday the Lebanese Group is wrong also is deployed in syria to support president bush. Well still ahead here on the aljazeera news hour the world. Was speaking out against the silencing your hungry as media thousands protest accusing the government of crushing a popular news website plus. Another show of defiance for a 3rd straight week protesters in russia call for the release of the arrested regional governor. And in sports i will explain why this goal has all but ended the race to the italian champions. Somalias parliament has voted to remove Prime Minister her son. Theres been growing criticism over his handling of security the very tall so it comes during a dispute with regional leaders over the timing of a National Election due to take place early next year. Now the psyching of the editor of a leading news website and hungry has provoked a mass march by antigovernment protesters and that followed the must walk out of journalists in support of the editor who warned that government interference is in danger and Media Freedom tower leg was more. About god they came out in their thousands to voice their anger at what they say is the latest silencing of hungarys press more than 80 journalists from the countrys most read news site called index have resigned from their jobs after their editor in chief was sacked last month he publicly raised the alarm over political interference in the uk its operations for many the dismissal was seen as a government directive and the last rule if elephant for you took the telephone on the list we called him on the phone and said we would like to initiate the end that we no longer want to work at index after this about 60 members of the 90 people on the staff at the same they also resigned and are ending their work at index. Index has long been regarded as hungarys key independent media outlet but it is also been a target of this man hungarys Prime Minister viktor orban who once branded a fake news factory one of his allies recently took charge of its sales are perhaps a sign of things to come. Critics say the government is trying to bring as many independent Media Outlets under its control. And we are of the Editorial Staff which today probably made one of the biggest sacrifices and risks to shine a spotlight on whats happening on how a newsroom can be destroyed how even the strongest and most read news portals can be ruined in hungary. One popular columnist who reminded the crowd of the 2800 quote in defense of free speech from mr orban himself me sure. We would never have the adult city personas those who dont agree with us and yet. Across Central Europe its not only hungry that seen the steady decline of independent news outlets and to steer toward autocratic rule a major Sticking Point in the debate over the e. U. s Pandemic Recovery fund last week was whether poland and hungary should be penalized financially for their behavior but in the end the money came through and viktor orban claimed what he called a huge victory many say the latest developments at home look like yet another win for the hungary and leader curry leg aljazeera. Lawyers an analyst at hunger in think tank the center for political analysis joins me now from edmonton in canada could have you with us on the program so really its quite interesting that a website can be so influential. Yes but that is the case because most of the most of the hunger in us papers are already either close to the government or not really widely read and the online media has been surging and im going to guess that it has everywhere else and index has been by far the most popular honey area news that site for the past 20 years basically so its really important that it was it was really important that it was independent. Like certain other news sites and now it seems that its in the process of becoming more and more progovernment are you surprised about the public turn out to protest about what the government. Is doing and what their role might be in the way that trying to influence this website its a bit surprising yes because all spend the make and the weather was very good so the turnout was pretty high for such a such session use because it wasnt something that. Was economically important for people it was something that is mostly a symbolic thing at this point so we dont know if its quite high but overall its not enough to really put any pressure on the government on this issue i mean the right wing populist government told that to all by and have continued to clash with the e. U. Western institutions opposition groups in the country over the basic issues of freedoms as well as the un charter the e. U. Charter do you think he can really ignore the warnings domestically and internationally can he still keep fighting head told with these institutions and get away with it. Thats exactly what he what his politics is based on he likes clashes he likes the battles he will he use his own back directory very very often he likes to present himself as the savior hungry from other organized organizations that do undermined not just his rule but hunger area well being in general and the