Soldiers in afghanistan. And egypt says its dispute with ethiopia over its megaton project on the nile could lead to a conflict if the u. N. Fails to intervene. Into the program its the development hong kongs prodemocracy movement feared the most chinas top legislative body has unanimously approved a National Security law for the territory that may crush Political Freedoms acts of secession subversion terrorism or collusion with Foreign Forces could face a maximum sentence of life in jail now critics say itll be used to stamp out all forms of dissent it comes after months of mass unrest sparked by fear of chinas tightening grip on the whole cold legislation aims to cement beijings control over the 77 autonomous territory and reshape the future of. One of the worlds major financial sentence adrian brown is standing by for us with reaction out of hong kong but 1st lets cross over to beijing where katrina you is there forcing between or just talk us through the process in terms of what we know is going on in beijing with regards to this legislation or where it stands in terms of the committee process. Well we know that chinas Standing Committee its top legislative body met today local time at 9 am to vote on this law and it was unanimously passed shortly after that there are 162 members of that committee but only one of those members is actually from hong kong but we do know that theyve been discussing this law since sunday and during the discussions the Standing Committee was split into 6 different teams to discuss different parts of the law and each team were assigned to observe the members from hong kong now we know it is a hefty law recording to state media there are 6 different chapters and 66. 00 articles included in that war and it remarks on 3 broad crimes subversion secession and colluding with Foreign Forces now have a list im most worried about what many legal experts are worried about is that state media have flagged to the fact that beijing will have jurisdiction over a few of those crimes meaning that extradition to Mainland China will be possible if some people are found guilty of those very few crimes and we still dont know exactly what crimes those are were still waiting on details but that is a matter of concern for many legal experts in hong kong we also know that the heaviest penalty of her being found guilty of crimes under the National Security law will also be life imprisonment now Going Forward there will be the set up a National Security office in hong kong most likely that will be headed by somebody from Chinas Ministry of Public Security somebody whos familiar with intelligence so there will be a political aspect to that and analysts that weve spoken to earlier say that there could be an aspect of political policing involved in this law now theres still a few steps to go through before it gets implemented in hong kong but essentially it will be. Ultimately inserted into hong kongs mini constitution its basically completely bypassing hong kong or in legislative process now this whole thing has been tremendously fast tracked its been. About 40 days only since this law was 1st announced during Chinas National Peoples Congress the opening speech made by leakage and normally these laws take years at least one year for these things to be passed and that really does short of beijings determination to pass this law and stamp out some of these prodemocracy protests that weve seen occurring since last year analysts say that these prodemocracy protests are simply too much of a threat to beijings power in hong kong while chinas leaders say that these protests themselves are a threat to hong kong stability and prosperity and that this law is designed to protect to that Going Forward that beijing really has been ultimately frustrated with these protests its been embarrassing its been frustrating for chinas leaders and its very symbolic that this law has been passed just the day before the anniversary of hong kongs handover from britain back to Mainland China which is july the 1st and that itself seems to be symbolic it seems to be beijing telling the people that at the end of the day it is china that is in charge in hong kong and chinas leaders will do what is at whatever they deem necessary to to move things forward and to protect hong kong and they will do that with the necessary speed on so whats the view from beijing katrina thank you lets get reaction from hong kong our correspondent adrian brown is standing by for that really expect some sort of reaction from hong kong considering this lore is in all intents and purposes been passed but it really does come as no surprise perhaps to the city and that will be the real reaction. Yes no surprise so hell but still lets remember the most Dramatic Development to happen here since the handover 23 years ago tomorrow we heard on choose day morning from joshua long a young prodemocracy activist well known of course around the world and he announced he was resigning from the Political Party he helped as stablish he said to continue my practices my beliefs in private so joshua long has decided in a sense to fall on his sword another leading member of that party nathan law has also said hes resigning the chief executive of hong kong kerianne who is katrina pointed out has been completely bypassed in this process held her regular Media Conference on Tuesday Morning but she dodged questions about the new law saying she wouldnt comment on it until it had been confirmed but its not just carolina who of course has been exposed as being impotent in this process suit so too has the Hong Kong Legislature and of course remember the hong kong people have had absolutely no say in all of this they havent seen even a draft of the legislation which is being rushed through in record time as to what happens now well various protest groups have been applying to stage a march on july the 1st symbolically there are always protests here on july the 1st that has been denied by the police but i guess well have to wait and see so help whether these groups are still prepared to test that ban on july the 1st certainly the police are leaving nothing to chance 4000 officers are going to be deployed on july the 1st but for the moment everything in the city is reasonably peaceful even brown there in hong kong for us thank you. Lets reach our other top story now and the worst is yet to come thats the warning from the World Health Organization on the corona virus pandemic the w. H. O. Says it is far from being under control as the number of cases continue to search globally its sending a team to china next week to investigate the origins of the disease which is still unknown we are on one this to be over we all want to get on with our lives but the hard reality is this is not even close to being over although many countries have made some progress globally the pandemic is actually speeding up. A surge in new coronavirus cases in the u. S. Is causing at least a dozen states and cities to rethink their opening strategies the countrys top expert on Infectious Diseases says the increases largely because people are ignoring Health Guidelines dr anthony found she has called it a recipe for disaster kristen salumi has more. With long lines for tests and new coronavirus cases surging texas and other u. S. States that were some of the quickest to reopen for business are now worried that their hospitals are approaching capacity and rethinking their strategy and floridas Broward County the famous Fort Lauderdale beach will be closed for independent state july 4th im hearing from our hospitals that there have been a large number of patient influx and if we dont control the spread we might have a situation where we have to ration health care for someone who is ill and that is definitely not a place that we want to be same for california beaches many people. Were not necessarily being as responsible as they otherwise as we would like them to be as a relates to practicing physical distance and social distancing people that werent wearing their face masks and in california and arizona as well as texas theyre closing bars and nightclubs after seeing infections rising people under 40 and masks will now be required in public and all of kansas and in Jacksonville Florida the city where the Republican Party plans to hold some of its National Convention new York Governor Andrew Cuomo blamed President Trump for pushing states to reopen too quickly and called on him to issue an executive order requiring maston public nationwide states that were recalcitrant governors who said we dont need to do this. Masks dont work all the political nonsense we heard now theyre doing a 180 and you have the same states now wearing masks. He unveiled a model to simulate the mountain of coronavirus cases that new york has overcome with new infections and fatality rates now at their lowest levels since the start of the pandemic and continuing to trend downward one leading global health. The expert says the states must act quickly and aggressively if we think about the things that are really risky most of the states are open when their underlying level of cases was really so high they werent coming down so i think it is meet the white houses own guidelines experts say even with these new measures in place it may now take weeks to start to see infection rates in these areas decline kristen salumi aljazeera has been revealed that senior white house officials were made aware last year of intelligence information that russia was offering to pay taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan now this contradicts statements from the u. S. President that he hadnt been briefed on the reports alan fischer. From the white house podium a denial the president was ever briefed on the socalled bowing to kills the now say this that the u. S. Receives thousands of reports a day on intelligence and they are subject to strict scrutiny while the white house does not routinely comment on alleged intelligence or internal deliberations the cia director n. S. A. National security adviser in the chief of staff can all confirm and either the president nor the Vice President were briefed on the alleged russian russian bounty intelligence. Afghanistan is americas longest war american troops have been there for 19 years and despite talks of a peace deal theres no indication to leave anytime soon america helped contribute weapons to push russia out of the country in the 1980 s. And killed russian mercenaries in syria 2 years ago now according to the New York Times its payback time newspaper says the russians offered cash for kills Coalition Soldiers and general american soldiers in particular but from the kremlin another denial. 1st of all those statements are laws secondly if in the United States special services are still answerable to the u. S. President then i suggest focusing on President Trump statement he really gave an appraisal of those reports he did in a tweet intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible and therefore did not report to me or v. P. Possibly another fabricated russia hoax that says the white house explains why there has been no response from the american side the story didnt stand up on capitol hill lawmakers have demanded an intelligence be focused on who knew what and when and if the president was in fact briefed intelligence sources tell Media Outlets not only is the information solid it was given to the highest level of the white house but theres still a lot of Unanswered Questions and while there remain unanswered there lies a potential risk to a president whos had a difficult relationship with russia from even before he took office alan fischer aljazeera. Well still ahead here on aljazeera why all coronavirus restrictions coming back into one of englands most diverse cities even as the rest of the country is about to relax about that story after the break. Hello the course is very hot across much of the middle east and the Arabian Peninsula the winds have been strong of the last few days little bit lighter as we move forward over the next couple of days not much at all in the way of cloud you see want to 2 showers very lightly scattered throughout areas of turkey theyll continue eastwards as we go through choose a temperatures fairly high most areas of the again weve got some showers up into northern afghanistan so 28 is the high in kabul elsewhere those how much is all on the high side 46 in it q 8 and again the winds are strong coming through the interior and then through wednesday the time which is again its in the sort of levels generally in the low fortys doha 4144 calls in to dubai a bit warmer back into riyadh and then through the eastern end of the matter again these temperatures maintaining that nice level the high twentys maybe 30 celsius in a jerusalem then down into Southern Africa and have some pretty strong storms of course into where the western cape in the last day or so those winds have certainly eased but the showers astelin the 4 calls just running up the east coast and also beginning to push up into more coastal areas im a zombie and also to the north of there but he wants the child and thunderstorms across today or conga and still pushing out across the west little bit lighter on the gulf of guinea for the next couple of days that very heavy off the west coast of africa and is warming up as a sunny skies returning to Port Elizabeth with a high of 24. 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The World Health Organization is warning that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is yet to come the us is the hardest hit country its top Infectious Disease expert says the recent surge is because people are ignoring the guidelines and its been revealed that senior white house officials were made aware of last years intelligence information that russia was offering to pay taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan and this contradicts statements from the u. S. President. To Popular Online social platforms of suspended content related to u. S. President donald trump in an attempt to restrict the spread of hate speech video streaming platform twitch has temporarily blocked trumps channel and social media site reddit has set down a forum page popular with his supporters the Tech Industry is facing mounting pressure to address racial inequality. The u. S. Supreme court has struck down a law the places restrictions on doctors who perform abortions in the state of louisiana the surprise decision comes despite fierce opposition from conservative justices the vote was 5 to 4 with conservative chief Justice John Roberts voting with the 4 liberal members of the court is the 1st big Abortion Case since trump appointed 2 new justices shifting the courts political balance to the right egypt has told the United Nations it faces an existential threat from a hydroelectric dam that ethiopias building on the blue nile river ethiopia is expected to start filling the ground renees on stand with water next month but at a Virtual Meeting of the Security Council egypt warned of conflict if the un doesnt intervene our diplomatic editor james bays reports now from new york this massive dam project has been a long running source of regional tension but as the date for if you start filling the now completed dam nears its becoming a major crisis with International Dimensions it was the us that called for the 1st Security Council meeting on the issue after being urged to do so by egypt which relies on the oil for 90 percent of its water the matter of which i am addressing you. Is the group of consequence people and require like our efforts to combat Global Pandemic it commitment to uphold the theory of cooperation and to recognise that no nation is an island. But the ethiopian ambassador countered that the un was not the place to discuss this the spirit let me be clear that h