President trump threatens to shut down social media platforms after twitter labels 2 of his tweets unsubstantiated as brazils best told heads towards 25000 a poll finds that 60 percent of brazilians have supported stricter social distancing measures. And despite Stormy Weather a space x. Prepares to become the 1st private company to send astronauts to the International Space station. Hello thank you for joining us the u. S. Secretary of state has the leverage a withering statement on china saying its abandoning its commitment to preserve hong kongs autonomy might compel says the proposed National Security legislation for hong kong is a disastrous decision and means the city no longer warrants especially economic treatment thats a move that puts at risk billions of dollars in trade in a statement from peo said no reasonable person can assert today that hong kong maintain maintains a high degree of autonomy from china given facts on the ground he want all the saying it is now clear that china is modeling hong kong after itself from bill finished with the promise that the United States stands with the people of hong kong as they struggle against the Chinese Communist partys increasing the nihil of the autonomy that they will promise to live now to White House Correspondent kimberly how kimberly good to see you how is this likely to affect the u. S. China relationship which is tenuous at best right now. Yeah well theres no question that this makes it much more complicated in terms of the fact that the tensions between the worlds 2 largest economies just continue to ask you have to remember that the backdrop of all of this are those trade tensions between the 2 countries the fact that there was this tit for tat trade war the tariffs against once one another and well there was phase one of that trade deal that was put into effect its not fully clear that that phase one is actually being implemented in follow through so you have that in the United States president for his part has from day one railed against china pointing a finger at it accusing the United States of not being traded or treated fairly by china essential in pushing for manufacturing to come back to the United States is sort of encourage less reliance when it comes to manufacturing but at the same time its not just trade you have to remember in the midst of this corona virus pandemic the u. S. President has used very harsh words again just this past weekend accusing china of not showing enough transparency of not doing enough to stop the spread of covert 19 that he blames now for wreaking havoc on the u. S. Economy so this is only going to complicate matters more this is been as you point out a tenuous relationship at best this is certainly not going to help given the fact that the u. S. Secretary of state has essentially made this claim that hong kong can no longer be declared a total mess and you have to remember too that this declaration comes on the heels of the very strong condemnation that the secretary of state put out late last week in fact he said that this proposed National Security law would be the death knell of hong kongs economy and he is urging beijing to reconsider i mean how could with the latest from the white house thank you and earlier 360 protesters were arrested in hong kong as thousands. Rallied against the reading of a contentious bill criminalizing abuse of chinas National Anthem the bill is part of beijings National Security legislation imposed on the semi autonomous territory them straight here say the laws are aimed at bringing the city further under chinese control adrian brown reports now from home call. Lunchtime in Hong Kong Central business district. Police firing pedophile its to disperse protesters. Bringing traffic in one of the worlds busiest star affairs to a standstill. Police say this was an Illegal Assembly this crowd shouted prodemocracy slogans and insults at the emotional up not everyone is against them though. Im from china and i support the police screams this woman whos from the mainland the protest is intended target was hong kongs Legislative Assembly but a heavy security presence prevented their attempts to reach the building inside legislators were debating a bill that would punish those who disrespect the National Anthem. This is what supporters of the bill want to stop the booing that drowned out the march of the volunteers before a recent football match those convicted under the planned law would face a fine of more than 6 and a half 1000. 00 and up to 3 years in jail there were many arrests on wednesday with at least one as young as 14 years old detentions that could now Risk University and Career Prospects opponents of this National Anthem will call it a not upload on the front street of any comes ahead of a move by Chinas Parliament to impose a new National Security law on this city. Chinas Rubber Stamp Parliament the National Peoples congress is expected to approve draft legislation on thursday when more details of the proposed security law will be known in the meantime Hong Kong Government officials are trying to ease fears. It will be conducive to the long term stability and prosperity of hong kong and also helpful to safeguarding the legitimate rights of hong kong people many home kong people arent reassured. And they now know the risk but daring to demonstrate their opposition adrian brown al jazeera homegrown. A Canadian Court has ruled that the u. S. Extradition case so far away chief Financial Officer mang ones who can proceed the judge said it met the standard of double criminality meaning the u. S. Charges are also crimes in canada its a huge blow to the ted giant huawei which had hoped to drop the case and bring mang back to china the u. S. Is seeking her on charges of bank fraud and misleading a major bank on while weighs the illegals with iran she was arrested in vancouver in 2018 at washingtons with qwest to get more now from our correspondent roslyn jordan at roseland what more can you tell us about the story. Well essentially barbara what this means is that money wants to have to remain in vancouver British Columbia which is where this extradition fight has been taking place definitely through the middle of june that is when she is expected to return to court to continue dealing with the effort to not be extradited to the United States to be prosecuted on these charges the u. S. Has been pressuring the canadian government to hand her over because of existing treaties around extradition however beijing has already accused the canadian government of for the ministry of Justin Trudeau of essentially kowtow and to u. S. Demands of not being independent of violating its own laws in terms of determining whether or not monkey was you should be brought to the u. S. For prosecution and this also is going to exacerbate i would think the already strained relationship between beijing because the Chinese Government has said from the beginning that ms martin is not guilty of the charges. Of misleading a global bank h. S. B. C. In terms of financing trying to do Business Inside iran that would be in contravention of u. S. And canadian sanctions so this is a really a major win as it were in the process for the United States but this is not over because of this months lawyers have already said that theyre going to try to get her out of freedom using other legal means. Of jordan with the latest on those developments was lin thank you. U. S. President donald trump s rise in the big action against twitter after its fact check the statement that he made twitter described transposed as misleading after he said postal votes would lead to fraud its the 1st time that such a qualification has been added to a president ial tweet from hit back saying the company was sniveling free speech and threatened to shut it and other social media platforms bound. And one value history expression should be. The u. S. President threatening to close down media question it falls. This is what u. S. Diplomats regularly object to iran who are tarrying states like china and russia and. The new survey has found that 60 percent of brazilians support stricter social distancing measures to help curb the spread of coronavirus thats in stark contrast to their president who consistently attacked state and city lockdown measures j. To both said i dont has called the shelter in place policies a poison which could kill it more through unemployment and hunger and the outbreak itself brazil is the worst affected country in latin america with more than 24500 deaths and 391000 confirmed infections well a temporary coronavirus hospital has been opened in the brazilian city of right now is to help treat the countrys indigenous population the hospital is the 1st of its kind in visit mixing standard medicine with traditional customs from the regions tribes this by their isolation the virus has been slowly spreading through indigenous communities which are ill prepared for the pandemic the citys mayor has accused ball so narrow of impeding efforts to stop the spread of the virus. Well you need will. Im not going to stop saying that the president did not interfere of course he did well in these speeches all the time saying it was just a fluke and at the same time sending people out onto the street he boycotted all the efforts that we have done here to get to a stage of good social isolation. On tuesday brazil surpassed the United States and the number of daily coronavirus faith ality and i know where that upper low joins us live now from mexico city and i know the pressure just seems to keep growing on the brazils president do you think he could actually become the 1st world leader and thats toppled the by the corona Virus Outbreak thats a question thats being asked both brazil and outside of of brazil the fact that the country is become one of the worst hit in the world by the coronavirus pandemic is definitely the driving force behind it the political crisis in the country but its president also know who is at the center of that crisis hes made friends hes made enemies meet with state governors hes cycled through 2 Health Ministers in less than a month one of them resigned the other one was was fired hes consistently downplayed the severity of the of the outbreak in brazil and many are asking that the question over whether or not president also not all will be able to finish his his term in office there is a scenario that could play out were allegations could turn into into charges and he could face impeachment over what many are seeing is a threat to Public Safety this is what were hearing from state governors this is what were hearing from analysts and it is apparent it is easy to observe the president also not it continues to see dwindling support even among his most loyal followers barbara at the medal its interesting how the virus seems to have spread you know 1st china then europe the u. S. And now the focus really best seem to be on latin america not just brazil mexico has Just Announced the most daily deaths from coronavirus since the start of the outbreak so how are things looking like there. Well latin america was the last place that was infected by the corona virus pandemic so what we are seeing other parts of the world some countries even here in the region where things are starting to get better a lot of places things are still getting worst certainly the case in brazil its certainly the case here in mexico to reiterate the number that you just said there barbara just hit 500 in one deaths in a single day thats a record breaking numbers is this its important that we say that we have not reached peak contagion mexican Officials Health officials had predicted peak contagion to happen in may and now theyre saying that its not going to happen until june 1st and in a lot of ways mexico just like brazil the leaders are trying to downplay the severity of the crisis at the very least give the apparent the appearance of normalcy were expecting friday to be the day were mexican Health Officials the president of mexico will announce when schools are going to be opening up so at a time when were still seeing. A rise in the in the trend of contagion in the country were also hearing calls from the government to reopen the economy barber by rap along with the latest on all those stories from mexico city thank you. And still ahead in this half hour police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at minneapolis protesters calling for justice for the death of georgia florida. And a minutes silence as spain begins 10 days of mourning for those lost to the coronavirus. And there are still have it east west displays across much of europe battles the west its fun to drive across the east we have the cloud and some showers and scattered thunderstorms but look at these kids skies across portugal spain and say much of the west very nice touches and lets them for the next few days in the late thirtys so people of a 1000000. During a getting out again and enjoying the beaches and also the father to the north of the south coast of england in brighton again plenty people hail that havent has been quite as well as that in the late twentys over the next few days london 22 warmer across into paris weve got plenty of sunshine across much of the west but this is where we see really then subtle weather really 3 will central and east. Towards ukraine in particular thats with very heavy rain on thursday keeping the time which is a little bit lower in the mid to high teens celsius and then really through friday that system in ukraine pushes on into Western Areas over russia some fairly heavy rain over the next couple of days in just radiating a very unsettled picture of widely scattered showers even pushing down through areas of the mediterranean across greece and across into a city as well Northern Africa certainly fine on thursday when its a bit some piece of cloud want to shower as well but then it really is by friday we see more shows developing. Towards. The homes and livelihoods. Some people. Looking inhabitants is still fighting for justice from the fracking company. Courts large to. Great a witness documentary. On iran. The on. The comeback is a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera 360 people have been arrested in hong kong as anger grows over new security laws proposed by china u. S. Secretary of state my comparison is on calling is no longer a promise and no longer warrants special economic treatment jeopardizing billions of dollars of trade a canadian judges rule that an extradition case against the Senior Executive can go forward the decision means the companys a chief Financial Officer rang at one show could face a further charges in the u. S. And u. S. President ial donald President Donald Trump has threatened to shut down twitter and other social media platforms after a statement he made was fact checked. To nasa astronauts are making their final preparations for a special mission thats due to blast off in the next hour this is the scene at the Kennedy Space center in florida where the space x. Falcon 9 rocket is you know liftoff a 2033 g. M. T. The spite the Stormy Weather the americans are the crew for the 1st manned space flight from u. S. Soil in nearly a decade it will also be the 1st time a private company has launched astronauts into orbit mike hanna has. All is ready the falcon 9 rocket poised on the launch pad for Historic Mission that could pave the way for the future of space travel and restart a manned Space Program that was mothballed in sweeping budget cuts by the obama administration. The astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken are space veterans 210 and lift off doug hurley was the pilot of the Space Shuttle atlantis back in 2011 the last manned flight from u. S. Soil you would have never thought you know after we landed atlantis back in 2011 then you know 9 years later we would be where we are in some ways and its its. Better than i would have imagined in so many the mission is the fruit of the unique partnership between the private space x. Company founded by millionaire elon musk and the one thing we have under development that is of the highest priority is launching american astronauts on american rockets from american soil theres always issues space is hard obviously the partnership has not been without its problems in 2015 a full can rocket carrying supplies exploded 139 seconds into its flight and in april last year the dragon capsule was destroyed in a ground explosion. Grim reminders of the dangers a space travel in which 14 u. S. Astronauts lost their lives over the period of the 2 year is there are just so many technical factors and things that we need to focus on to make sure that we pull this off that our place and history or you know even trying to put our names in the same sentence is as the folks who have come before us is it seems premature until until weve until weve pulled it off the space suit different because it will take the astronauts to the launch pad a tesla is branded with the nasa label but if all goes according to plan the one thing that h