Florida and california record the highest single day toll more restrictions in the australian state of victoria as coronavirus cases hit a record high and a dream shattered a family still seeking answers about how their teenage son died while training with the time military. Thank you very much for joining us for the 1st time Hong Kong Police have used a new National Security law imposed by china to crackdown on prodemocracy activists online for students belonging to a group called student localism have been arrested theyre accused of posting content that called for hong kongs independence the controversial law was imposed by beijing 4 weeks ago it makes observe a version and secession criminal offenses and it grants Police Powers to arrest the suspects without a warrant. They have a some decoration for them so for example they wanted to be a scottish hong kong country and also they wanted to be loose all the means to to keep doing this strange and finally they wanted to to united all the independent groups in hong kong. With a view to promote the independence of the hong kong thats all hes about in things to do so far we have. Well lets get the latest now with davey a gopalan in hong kong for is so devious a 1st on the National Security law has been used on Online Communications tell us 1st about the group thats been arrested. Thats right the law had been used on other people previously who were taking part in protests holing up slogan slogans or chanting slogans for hong kongs independence but as he said this is the 1st time weve seen this being used for online or comments in cyberspace the group is said to be led by a 19 year old who had established a group. Calling for the independence or the session upon kong a few years ago and they had been quite active in trying to recruit other people but not very successful until in the last few months but on the night before the National Security law was imposed the group broke up they pulled down all their slogans their posts because they were worried about this law but according to police since then they have once again resurfaced under a different guise calling for the depends upon call not just from groups in hong kong but also from overseas groups now the one thing about the National Security law is that it has no boundaries so whether youre in hong kong or rather youre elsewhere you will still come under the jurisdiction and still be penalized by this law and that is what the police are going with according to local media and other pows that have gone viral the police went into calling themselves National Security officers are part of this new. And for some in the agency that formed to enforce this National Agents security law they went into this young mans house searched his home and arrested him and 3 others and all this is causing a lot of concern here fully mainly due to the fact that the police can go into peoples houses without warrants can track communication and now even online speech or comments posted online can now be policed in such a way where you can be penalized so theyre very. A lot of concern about freedom of expression in hong kong in cyberspace also divya and local media reports suggesting that the Legislative Council elections that are scheduled for september might be delayed because of the koran a virus according to the government what more can you tell us about this. Right so the government says that they are likely to meet tomorrow on friday tomorrow is the last day of campaigning for these Legislative Council elections and they are likely to make a decision about postponing these elections they say under the risk of coronavirus or outbreak spreading they would prefer not to hold these elections but there are a lot of people that are questioning this move given the fact that hong kong the elections are still a month away hong kong has in the past been able to contain the outbreak quite effectively and also critics say that this seems to be a reaction from the government particularly after a few weeks ago the prodemocracy camp did a mac moratorium or primary elections to see what kind of support they had and had quite a turnout theres concern they say that the government that the prodemocracy camp or have a majority for the 1st time in these elections which means that they would have a lot more weight and a lot more. Be able to influence a lot more influence in the setting of bells or hong kongs Judicial Authority process governments all processes so the concern here from critics of the government and from the opposition is that the government wants to do this because they want to make sure that they shore up their own support and perhaps disqualify many of those proud prodemocracy campaigners or those that may be taking part in the election to make sure that the probating campbell have an advantage going into these elections and the government is likely or is saying that they could delay it for up to a year which will give them plenty more time to be able to put their defenses in place for going into these elections thank you for that dva go palin live for us there in hong kong. The United States now has the highest number of coronavirus fatality of any nation by far 150000 people have died thats nearly a quarter of the global tally and is 3 most populous states california texas and florida have recorded their largest single day death toll mike hanna reports from washington with more than 150000 deaths in the country the wearing of mosques is finally made mandatory in the house of representatives members and staff will be required to wear masks at all times and the whole of the house on tuesday texas representative Louie Gohmert had arrived with the attorney general for a house hearing without a mosque he was then admonished for not keeping his makeshift mosque on during the hearing early wednesday he tested positive on a rival at the white house hed been due to accompany president crumple in the crypt to his home state but is now in self quarantine President Trump appeared with no mosque during a number of the events in texas seen here in close proximity to his former secretary of Energy Rick Perry also masculists. And you continue to hype a vaccine that he wrote in your sleep claims has entered final Clinical Trials this is the fastest a vaccine has ever been developed together we will end the plague from john doe we will defeat the virus the president also continued to defend the video he had retreated earlier in the week from a controversial doctor who claimed there is a fork over 1000 and that face masks necessary for protection. Thank you. Once again he was publicly contradicted by a member of his Coronavirus Task force citing multiple studies that the cumulative data on on trials Clinical Trials that were valid namely Clinical Trials that were randomized and controlled in the proper way all of those trials show consistently that hydroxy chloroquine is not effective in the treatment of coronavirus disease or cold 19 and in Congress Republicans and democrats are nowhere near agreement on a new Coronavirus Relief bill. While millions of American Families continue to struggle with the physical and economic effects of the virus a leading medical organization has issued an urgent warning the American Association of medical colleges says and i quote decisive coordinated action is urgently needed to save lives it continues if the nation does not change its course and soon deaths in the United States could be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands. Micah aljazeera washington. The 2nd worst affected country in the world is brazil and its lifting its ban on foreigners arriving by air the move comes despite reporting a record daily jump in infections and deaths nearly 70000 new cases and 1600 fatalities were confirmed in the past day that brings the total number of infections to more than 2500000 more than 1000 people have died and president has attended his 1st government event since recovering from covert 19 votes in our war a mosque throughout the ceremony and said he would not address the audience the president has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the pandemic and has called the virus a little flu he tested positive for call 1003 weeks ago and had been in isolation until saturday. Russia says it could begin producing a Coronavirus Vaccine as early as september 2 candidate treatments are being trialed in the country the 1st could be approved by regulators next month and will be provided to Frontline Health care workers soon after theres been criticism that a push to be the 1st to develop a successful back scene means corners are being cut by the head of the funding body denied safety was being compromised. Still ahead on aljazeera the u. S. Retreat from a nato ally the ally right there 12000. 00 american soldiers poured out of germany and they hear pain headquarters is to be able to. Speak great promising season and despite good rainfall d and for a time soil fruit and business has left a sour taste. Building across much of western europe as we go on through the next couple of days largely clear skies a big area of High Pressure just as we go on through the next couple days that says a little the atmosphere keeps the skies clear and that the hot july sunshine will burst through we do still have some wet weather further east this weather system is for the front just making as well little further east which will be some showers the just around the alps pushing over tools that eastern side of russia but coming in behind over towards the west theres a fine dry and hot weather temperature the past few days in spite of me getting up into the fortys that heat not going up from spite across france bordeaux touching 41 celsius on thursday often a high of 32 in paris 27 and rising there for london will get up to 32 in london as we go on into friday west where the waiting in the wings will cool things off as we go on through the weekend but still plenty warm enough not a warm weather there across western parts sent still a few showers over towards the east biloxi fine dry and sunny right across the mediterranean and across much of north africa plenty a shot was there across central parts of africa i shall is just not a little further north than they usually do just pushing into the saheli be some showers into senegal and also some showers for the gap. Frank assessments what are you seeing back in yemen the 6 percent of the relation why it didnt suit this wasnt informed opinions is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown many parts of the overall media region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after is a proxy because look at a recent enters the bill of your people indepth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on aljazeera. Youre watching al jazeera live from doha with me for a reminder of our top stories this hour police in hong kong have used a National Security law to crack down on social media poll spy prodemocracy activists or students from a group called students localism have been arrested accused of posting content that supports on kongs independence from china the death toll from the corona virus pandemic is now more than 150000 indian ited states thats the highest number of fatalities in any nation by far the accounts were nearly a quarter of virus related deaths around the world. And brazil is easing its entry ban on International Flights despite a record increase in calls in 1000 cases and fatalities the death toll has surpassed 90000 meanwhile shade course now the president has attended his 1st public event since recovering from kovi at 19. And the United States has announced plans to pull nearly a 3rd of its military personnel out of germany in a growing dispute over defense spending nearly half of the trial 1000 troops will be moved to other locations in europe including italy and belgium our White House CorrespondentKimberly Hockett explains the air making good on its threat to us announced a withdrawal of almost 12000 u. S. Soldiers from germany its a move the defense secretary insists will improve the military partnership between north american and european allies. I think we are we are excited about where were going and what it will mean in terms of our ability to enhance to turn strengthen up the straight to the lines in the process the cuts will reduce us forces unsurety by about a 3rd about 25000. 00 will remain some soldiers will be repositioned within nato countries including belgium and italy the rest will return to the United States the u. S. European command will also move to belgium but speaking to reporters on wednesday outside the white house u. S. President trump offered a different explanation for the move he said it was to punish germany for not contributing 2 percent of its g. D. P. As required for members of the north atlantic treaty organization. That they. Would like. Well germanys military spending is up its still smaller relative to other nato allies as a driver of europes economy republicans and democrats in the u. S. Congress have long held germany should be paying more for share defense but most oppose removing u. S. Troops from germany fearing it will weaken regional stability and nato is capacity to push back against russia. The plan to withdraw u. S. Troops from germany is expected to cost billions and could take years to execute and could be reversed if president does not win reelection in november cant really help it aljazeera the white house. The embattled chinese tech giant huawei has become the Worlds Largest producer of south phones while way has overtaken samsung and apple for the 1st time most of the demand for while we phones d in the 2nd quarter came from the Chinese Market while International Sales took a hit from sanctions while he has been at the center of u. S. China tensions with the white house pressuring allies to ban the tech firm from their 5 g. Network. The worlds biggest plane maker has posted a net loss of 2200000000. 00 in the 1st half of this year seen a fall in demand because of the Global Pandemic it says its cut production of its most popular a free 50. 00 to 5. 00 a month rival boeing earlier post today 2400000000. 00 quarterly loss and announced significant job cuts coronavirus or sections are tightening in the australian state of victoria after record day of infections and deaths its reform at 723 new cases and 13 deaths the states the center of australia 2nd wave of the virus almost 10000 people have tested positive with more than 300 hospitalized. We have now been in this locked in now for some weeks and we are not getting the results we would hope for and as a result through the measures that are tight in the certainly necessary they will come at an impact to the economy we understand that but equally nor can timing. Will have that effect also and so its important we continue to Work Together to get on top of this and type whatever actions are necessary. That speak to sendai asinine yaka who is an associate professor of medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Australian National university has via skype from canberra thank you so much for being with us australia had prided itself on rapidly containing the National Outbreak of call the 1000 why are the numbers going up in victoria when this been unlocked down in pace for weeks now yes australia did quite well in the initial part of the outbreak we still have pockets of Community Transmission though a low rate city places like city and melbourne you could say we have control but not elimination in those areas but as you said a few weeks ago there was a big surge in cases in that toria they were instituted in melbourne and the ritual shire their region lot about 4 states 3 restrictions about 3 weeks ago in a and less than 2 weeks ago made mass mandatory and yesterday we actually saw a big drop in cases data to 50 but today we saw a record a crease in cases now we need to see whether this is a train or whether this is a one out number and the other thing to remember once you put in restrictions as we are it could take at least 4 weeks for things to turn around ok so where are the known hotspots right now and who is affected who are the people who are infected. Right so if we start with the tory or so we think more of the city of melbourne being affected and unfortunately a number of residential aged care. Residences are involved so elderly people with chronic comorbidities said then obviously from a point of view getting a bad outcome with cove it is a Major Concerns and i believe there are almost a 1000 active cases in the best setting if you go to New South Wales with sydney is sydneys having also an outbreak but it is a much smaller number of outbreaks this seems to be a context tracing but somewhat warring is there are various clusters appearing around the city and in queensland so going further north in greece been unfortunately there has been importation of 2 code 2 cases and i think now 3 cases of coded thought so that outbreak is and its very early stages so we have now a new range of restrictions coming into effect cyclists in the border between states is that going to be enough for Australian Authorities to avoid the country becoming an epicenter like president or the us what l. C. Thing there should be doing right now. So i mean go on 40 we dont have medication that we can give to the population people of the khalif of this we dont have a vaccine so these containment measures are very important dont forget the physical distance seeing people not getting together as large groups of people will remark series of time can be a transmission watching and those things are fundamental to treating this infections so those things are important and targeting areas of high incidence of allowing or not allowing travel for those areas will probably be important too so i think we certainly can get on top of these outbreaks definitely brigitta definitely in sydney and hopefully. Thank you so much for talking to us and said in the uk associate professor of medicine and Infectious Diseases as at the Australian National university in canberra thank you thank you russias ambassador to bella rule says hes been summoned to the Foreign Ministry in a sign of escalating tensions between the 2 neighbors this is after Security Forces detained more than 30 suspected russian mess neris near minsk media reporting that authorities had been told 200 privately contracted fighters had entered the country to destabilize it and of its president ial election next month russia has denied using mess neris in the past. The u. S. Has imposed further sanctions on syria as blacklisting anyone doing business with the government of president bashar assad until he supports a negotiated end to the countrys 9 year war on half as is one of 14 individuals and entities named in the new meshes it follows a round of sanctions last month targeting the president s in a circle including his wife asma. It is time for assads needless brutal work so you know this above all is what our sanctions campaign is not to bring about a political solution and a resolution 2254. 00 is the only credible path to peace the Syrian People deserve japans government has been ordered to recognize victims exposed to radioactive black rain after the attack on hiroshima in 1905 dozens of plaintiffs had approached the courts after they developed illnesses linked to radiation exposure before the ruling they werent satisfied as atomic bomb victims because they were rich mean ok did in areas deemed safe by the authorities next week will be the 75th anniversary of the u. S. Attack on hiroshima that killed 140000 people. Not to thailand where the treatment of military cadets is under scrutiny as thousands take ponton an annual recruitment drive the armed forces have been accused of allowing abusive initiation rituals and some families of dead cadets are speaking out scott has a report from bangkok. Ever since he was a school boy pick up on the tanya kahn wanted to become an army officer at 18 he was well on his way to that dream when he suddenly died at an Army Training school after his death 3 years ago Community Children made a book of drawings for his family Army Officials said talk upon died of a sudden cardiac arrest his parents kept to go ordered a 2nd autopsy revealed that his major organs were removed further examination showed evidence consistent with physical abuse how. The royal thai forces have to take responsibility because stay on in charge of all of the military they have to answer to why my proudest day. Accusations of a military cover ups world entire media after pack of punks case became public again raising attention to the tradition of abuse of initiation or hazing rituals in thailands armed forces a Police Investigation is Ongoing Amnesty International recently conducted an investigation on abuse in thailands military we interviewed 19 new recruits between november 2016 and july 2019 spread across about 9 different provinces. Different training cycles and yet we found consistent patterns very creepy patterns of the physical mental and sexual abuse since the 1950 s. Thailand has held a lottery for its draft in which around 100000 young men are conscripted into military service for up to 2 years this takes place every year usually in april because of code 19 this year its been pushed back. After the young men are given a basic physical check up and a review of their paperwork the rest is up to chance whether they will be called up to serve the move Forward Party says they are the only Political Party truly pushing for reform in the recruitment process that sick guy in order to stop the violence who introduce a military service bill they still want to system we want to make sure that those who want to say we suffer as a professional offices not as a 7th flossy offices. 2 years ago a memo was circulated at the top levels of the military calling for closer examination of cadet abuse claims but no major changes have been made aljazeera has interview requests for military response on cadet abuse went unanswered and if the military continues to ignore voices of concern theres a chance more mothers will only have photos to remind them of their sons its got harder aljazeera bangkok. The peak grape harvesting season in gaza but farmers say theyre barely covering their expenses this year has been particularly difficult because of the coronavirus pandemic an Economic Hardship caused by the israeli blockade and a brain has a story. This year offered good rainfall and a fertile soil but grieved farmers in the gaza strip are feeling the heat more than a decade of an israeli egyptian blockade has limited peoples ability to buy one of gazas most famous crops farmers hope to sell 7000 tonnes of grapes during the season from july until september but the supply is higher the demand also been out of some of the novelist its a great season in terms of the output of grapes but not many people are buying them so we try to bring the prices down and you can also see the nominee people are selling great sear. Badly on the whole garden and grapes have a special taste but i cant buy as much as i used to still im one of the lucky ones many people in gaza a poor which means they cant afford to buy grapes and opt for more essential purchases instead like chicken before the blockade gazas economy florist on exporting fruit vegetables and flowers the siege has made exports rare israels 3 wars on gaza has devastated its economy and them ridged hundreds of hectares of agricultural land. Farmers say they will continue to work even if their revenues are low the current prices in the market are way below the cost of production. We hope that. The quality the quality of our grapes and the the cost of all grapes can at least make make up for the lost or the loss of prices and the grape market this bargain is not guaranteed grapes imported to gaza from egypt and the occupied west bank are often cheaper than the local produce this is why gazas Agriculture Ministry says its trying to help the farmers by banning the import of grapes during the harvest season. The whole of the Israeli Occupation restricts our ability to source the needed materials for example we cant import pesticides and fertilizers and israel prevents us from exporting our producer outside of gaza which limits the Sectors Development in addition to all of these challenges this year added another burden many sectors have had to shut down for months because of coronavirus restrictions the closures have stifled an already fundable economy and made these groups a luxury many cant afford media abrahim aljazeera. Well again im fully back with the headlines on aljazeera police in hong kong have used a new National Security law to crackdown on social media pulse by prodemocracy activists for students around group called students localism have been detained over supporting hong kong independence and you know grants Police Powers to arrest suspects without a warrant to go palin has more from hong kong. This is the 1st time the National Security law has been used sufficiently for this for this accusation that this group was trying to advocate an independent hong kong now this group is are all students there very young ages between 16. 21 the leader is said to be 19 years old and was arrested and according to video that was going viral in social media and being shown on local media a Police Officer planes clothes Police Officer went into this young mans home and said that he was a new officer from the National Security team and arrested him the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is now more than 150000 in the United States the highest number of fatalities in any nation by far it accounts for nearly a quarter of virus related deaths around the world brazil meanwhile is easing its entry ban on International Flights says spied a record increase in calls 1000 cases and fatalities the death toll has surpassed 90000 present boss narrow attended his 1st public event since recovering from call the 19 on wednesday russia says it could begin producing a Coronavirus Vaccine as early as september 2 candidate treatments are being child in the country theres been criticism that a push to be the 1st to develop a successful vaccine means corners are being cut but the head of the funding body denied safety was being compromised russia has seen the worlds 4th highest virus caseload. The worlds biggest plane maker has posed to the net loss of 2200000000. 00 in the 1st half of this year airbus has seen a fall in demand because of the cone of ice funday make it says it has cut production of its most popular jet the a 350. 00 to 5. 00 a month rival boeing earlier pulse of a 2400000000. 00 quarterly loss and announced significant job cuts those are the headlines coming up next on aljazeera inside story. 10 years ago a mining disaster in chile trapped sooty 3 men the world watched as a 2 month rescue turns need tragedy into a miracle i guess here a revisits the men once celebrated as National Hero and asks how this ordeal changed their lives chilean miners after the rescue on a. Budget for defending the environment the rights Group Global Witness says a Record Number of activists what killed last year so why arent environmentalists being protected this is a pledge to. Hello welcome to the program i mean wrong kong around the World Environmental activists are being arrested jailed even killed for trying to protect our planet the u. K. Based Group Global Witness has recorded the highest number of murders since it began its annual survey a decade ago 212 People Killed in 2