Tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Santa maria this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week india Prime Minister Narendra Modi rushes through the labor reforms as the pandemic and his own economic failures crash the indian jobs markets also from a trade war to a new cold war china time who its grip on hong kong the United States sanctions chinese officials through it all can hong kong remain ages number one Financial Center. And modern shout and skin design of the types of roles which might once have been called passing fads. Now some of the thousands of jobs being created in the virtual world. All about to come on this weeks show but we are starting in india where Prime Minister Narendra Modis stunned many last year with his expansive election victory a victory and
China the court system is not independent here in the vast majority of cases like these are found guilty and if they are found guilty these 2 men could face up to life time in prison strength as Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the country is being targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack he wouldnt say whos behind it but there are suspicions its part of a growing rift with china what i simply can confirm is there are not a large number of state by state actors that can engage in this type of activity and it is created by strongly advise that we have received that this has been done by i start by stacked with very very significant type abilities the clear gauges in the australian capital of camber and she says the attack is widespread. From health and education through to Critical Infrastructure organize ations and this is something that the Prime Minister says is happening more frequently and on a lot just scale and he said that was the reason why he was announcing it to the public
Reaching a much more far reaching i think than many people anticipated and as you mentioned in your introduction in parts the that the law is very very vaguely worded and the worry is its not going to be very broadly applied one legal expert says that yes beijing is only going to have jurisdiction in a few number of cases but it still gives beijing a high degree of discretion so i think there will be on these and also remember this law is going to touch not just every person here in hong kong but potentially people outside of the special Administrative Region so if people for instance in countries like the United States britain europe start to advocate hong kong independence or support the idea of separatism those people could be targeted but again the law doesnt make clear exactly what would happen to those people whether they would try and seek their extradition its not clear so it opens many more questions than it answers frankly the United States top expert on Infectious Diseases i
Weeks and people got complacent people got a little overly confident in our ability to manage you know more normally and people started like it was summer and they started to act like they want to go back to parties knew lots of big things and its coming back and its quite fresh in florida where hundreds are lining up for testing as the state sees more than 5000 cases in a single day and in North Carolina where the opening up of the state has been rapidly reversed so today im announcing that North Carolina will pause and continue our safe or at home phase 2 for another 3 weeks this is not where we planned to be or wanted to be but it is one of 2 important decisions that we need to may to effectively fight this disease. The other important decision is to make the wearing off masks meant day 3 a measure now being implemented in a number of other states including california to mandate in the state of california because it not only protects you it protects others and it sends a message to
Center. And modern shock and skin design of the types of roles which might once have been called passing fads. Now some of the thousands of jobs being created in the virtual world. All about to come on this weeks show but we are starting in india where Prime Minister Narendra Modis stunned many last year with his expansive election victory a victory and a mandate which he has really used 1st there was a populist hindu nationalist programme then taking a firm grip on kashmir rolling out that divisive citizenship role and doing little to stop the mob attacks on protesters surely the economy has prospered right. Well modi promised to create 10000000 jobs a year but he didnt and his plan to tackle corruption with a ban on certain banknotes hit the poorest the hardest on his make in India Campaign has really struggled for any traction he announced a 266000000000. 00 Stimulus Program to see the economy through the pandemic but when all was said and done economists crunched the numbers to fin