Beauty business she originally. Investigates. On aljazeera. Hello im saying this is counting the cost on your look at the world of business and economics this week a special from iran that iran has always been able to work around crippling sanctions but the coronavirus pandemic that killed thousands has trashed the economy what kind of economy will emerge. No country in the middle east was hit harder by the corona virus pandemic than iran. Its recorded more deaths than anywhere in the region and total infections are still rising overall rates are slowing down but an officially the numbers are widely believed to be much higher. And the government initially downplayed the pandemic in a speech in the early days of the outbreak Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described it as a non emergency and said the United States remains the biggest threat to the country. And during the 1st meeting of a Task Force President Hassan Rouhani set up to respond to the crisis he predicted the emergency
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Matter what you see aljazeera will bring you the needs and Current Affairs that matter to you. Aljazeera. Hello im saying this is counting the cost on your look at the world of business and economics this week a special from iran that iran has always been able to work around crippling sanctions but the coronavirus pandemic that killed thousands has trashed the economy what kind of economy will emerge. No country in the middle east was hit harder by the corona virus pandemic than iran its recorded more deaths than anywhere in the region and total infections are still rising overall rates are slowing down but an officially the numbers are widely believed to be much higher. And the government initially downplayed the pandemic in a speech in the early days of the outbreak Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described it as a non emergency and said the United States remains the biggest threat to the country. And during the 1st meeting of a Task Force President Hassan Rouhani set up to res
And covert 19 infections skyrocket across brazil worst affected country in latin america. We begin in hong kong where police have 5 volleys of tear gas and demonstrators after thousands turned out to protest against chinas proposed National Security law demonstrators blocked the streets a popular shopping district causeway bay the bill would ban all activities considered subversive activists say it would be the end of hong kongs autonomy. Over now to adrian brown it joins us live from hong kong the streets look like now adrian. As you can see behind me this is. The busiest part of is in hong kong the police are still trying to clear it of protesters those protests. Began several hours ago in fact this is the biggest protest hong kong the seen really since kovac 1000 arrived in hong kong in january and of course these protests have grown really because of the decision by Chinas National Peoples Congress to impose a new security law on hong it is demonstrating here i think that what were