Of the 10s of thousands of people who fled killings and kidnappings by an armed group in north. And in sport african football bosses will be making some Big Decisions in the coming hours next years cup of nations in cameroon may have to be postponed due to the impact of coronavirus. So then china is about to impose a new security law in hong kong 23 years after it took back control and promised a one country 2 systems policy the controversial law was passed unanimously in beijing just 40 days after it was proposed anything it defines as acts of secession subversion terrorism or collusion with Foreign Forces could lead to life in prison and critics say the law will be used to stamp out all forms of dissent that have already been spontaneous protests in hong kong and some opposition parties or theyve announced that they are going to disband the u. K. The e. U. Japan taiwan theyve all criticized the law but china has dismissed their concerns as interference in internal affairs while were going to be speaking to a jim Brown Hong Kong just a few minutes but 1st to katrina you in beijing and katrina meetings have been going on i guess hes a briefings right now because the law has been passed but were still waiting for precise details only. Thats right we know the Standing Committee voted to pass this law about 9 am local time today on tuesday and this afternoon 3 pm local time we had Chinas Hong KongLiaison Office hold power alone meetings one in beijing and one in hong kong to discuss this law now we understand that all the hong kong delegates to chinas n. P. C. The National Peoples congress which is chinas polman were attending those meetings it seemed to not be a very long meeting perhaps when for about an alice and the delegates exit in and spoke to the media saying that they didnt hear specific details but they were more briefed on the spirit. The spirit of the law than the law in some nation so were not given any details yet but we have heard from beijings commission for legislative affairs and the Hong Kong Macau Office saying that they will give a press Conference Tomorrow morning wednesday local time at 10 am so we may have to wait for more details then and certainly that would be enormously symbolic for the Chinese Government because its july the 1st it is the anniversary of the handover of hong kong from britain back to china 23 years ago right and thats going to be one to watch sure tomorrow and wednesday the International Community very critical of this u. S. Threatening issue all sorts of threats the u. K. Doing the same and we could be Regional Response as well and you wonder how beijing is going to reply to them thats right we havent heard details yet but many foreign governments are suspecting that this law is going to crush hong kongs freedoms and rights and theyve made complaints they have their condemnation of this leaders in taiwan the u. K. And japan have spoken about this now Chinas Foreign Ministry are very displeased with this reaction the general spokesperson spoke to the press earlier today and this is what he had to say in response. So. China has already made clear its position on the japanese opinion regarding hong kong issues hong kongs affairs a chinese internal affairs that there is no place for foreign interference this improvement of the legal system and its enforcement mechanism for upholding National Security in hong kong is in accordance with the one country 2 systems rule. The Chinese Government has been at pains to try to convince the International Community and the public that this law is good for hong kong and they say that this is designed to defend whole coast ability its prosperity of course its having a very hard time doing that and not only have we had these criticisms the us has actually said in the lead up to this law being possibly a will potentially remove some of the special conditions given to hong kong which allow it to function as a Global InternationalFinancial Center now china has been furious with this response saying that they will not be intimidated by this and they will retaliate although as you get we dont know exactly what countermeasures they might put into play or a katrina thats the picture in beijing katrina you there lets gets reaction out of Hong Kong Adrian brown is there in the asian as katrina was saying we have to watch what happens on july the 1st thats tomorrow thats wednesday which is the anniversary of the policy from britain to chinese mainland but the passing of this law has already had an effect on how people are going to operate in hong kong. Absolutely its been a chilling and as you say an immediate political impact the young prodemocracy activist joshua one of course known all around the world announced on tuesday that he was resigning from the party he helped to found just a few hours later the party itself was dissolved also to smaller political groups that advocate independence to hong kong also announced they were desponding so that is a measure of the sort of atmosphere there is in hong kong at the moment we went out in the streets earlier on today just to speak to ordinary people at lunchtime to try and gauge their opinions their feelings about this law but none of them wanted to come and thats very unusual here in hong kong now the chief executive carol lam who wouldnt speak to the media about this new law on choose day morning has though been speaking in an international address for the United Nations human rights conference thats taking place in geneva she as you might expect defended this law saying it was going to improve hong kongs legal system and significantly she said this new law would not be used retroactively so people who have committed offenses like you know desecrating chinas flag or desecrated one of chinas symbols will not be prosecuted but this is more of what she had to say to that United Nations conference no Central Government could turn a blind eye to such threats to suffer n. T. And National Security as well as christophes of their ship of state power all in all these acts have crossed the one country red line and court for a wrestler to action as the highest organ of state power in china the National Peoples congress has to constitutional power and the duty to enact National Security legislation for the hong kong as they are. Well nick more than 30 years ago i covered the run up to the handover here in hong kong and i can remember doing many stories about people leaving in hong kong joining what was called the brain drain well the same thing is happening now i spoke to a young man a few days ago who is leaving with his 2 children and wife he sat there in front of me saying i feel like im a criminal a dissident talking to you about why i want to leave hong kong which is why he also didnt want to give his identity but the fact that he felt compelled to say that again gives you a measure of the atmosphere in hong kong at the moment now people like him are going to be leaving i think in their droves theyre going to be voting with their feet you know for him times that 510203040 perhaps 50000 and this is the brightest and best of hong kong what will happen well almost certainly that void will be filled by skilled workers speaking english from across the mainland yeah its a very big day isnt a settlement no doubt brown thanks very much indeed im pleased to say were joined now by martin lee hes the founding chairman of the united democrats which became the Democratic Party of Hong Kong Martin lee welcome to the program and now the New York Times recently wrote a view that youve dedicated your life to bringing democracy to hong kong while still working within the system youre described as a moderate yet even you were arrested in april how do you assess this day. Well my party will stay on and i will stay and of course we realize that the prospects of being put into prison would be very high but the passage of this law but what is really frustrating is that even though be known this law will be operative tomorrow none of us have seen a copy of it so we dont know what sort of a friend says we might be committing tomorrow i mean this is ridiculous but im not too concerned about the actual contents of all because i expect them to leave the cold and and reasonable but the real impact on is much further much more serious than that what this piece of legislation in fact for me means one. Is that when the British Government returned. To the people of china 23 years ago it was on the promise of dumb shopping then paramount ahead of china they said would be run by hong kong people but a high degree of autonomy which means that apart from defense and Foreign Affairs we the people of hong kong will be masters of our own house in terms of the executive legislative and judicial now with the president of this not everything is changing instead of hong kong people who are in hong kong is now the communist party boarding instead of being enjoyed a high degree of autonomy now the communist party will be ruling with comprehensive power control so do you think its do you think this is a statement is this it is there no way back now. Well that they are now actually defining the new position. Which this is just another chinese city we have no. Degree of economy and all that is this is a problem they have complete control of even our courts this is what they would do not read every case but they they could at the ready there is they should do some small number of cases china may actually decide. Will you continue to fight we continue to take the risk perhaps of life imprisonment were already seeing disbanding of some you say that your party is going to stay but some democratic parties have been disbanded already i know were going to stay no doubt about it we have done nothing wrong all these years everything i did is farm calm and ive been following the basic law keeping the basic law which is i mean the constitution but it now appears that the one country 2 systems called assessment change china which is google with comprehensive power of control they can do anything but our government our government is completely on its knees look at our chief executive she should be defending our system is supposed to be a different system could china but she is not she was not entirely on her knees and so is the majority are legit it is entirely. The minority of the democrats very much at their mercy but we are going to stay do you think the International Community can bring any influence to bear i mean the u. S. Has threatened to eliminate the special conditions to allow to allow hong kong to operate as a Financial Center of the u. K. Offering up the possibility of life in the u. K. For residents of hong kong the e. U. Today saying it deplores the lauren we need to decide what to do they say the question is is all of that going to make a difference im sorry the question is is all of that going to make any difference. I dont know. One person in china the head will decide what you do and of course the connection is sure china to go back to dumb show promise to let it go through with a high degree of autonomy that was a promise which the British Government returned to china and that congress has to be here to. Militarily we appreciate your time chairman of the united democrats thank you very much i pretty well the head of the World Health Organization has warned the coronavirus pandemic is not even close to ending and in some areas the rate of infection is speeding up in australia a testing blitz is underway in melbourne after a spike in cases parts of the city have been locked down again with people only allowed to leave their homes for essential trips rest the country is easing restrictions as infections drop in the u. K. The city of leicester has also been a lot to down almost a 1000 new cases were reported there over 2 weeks known as central shops are shut and most schools will close on thursday the rest of england is preparing to further loosen restrictions and to reopen pubs and restaurants this weekend lets bring in general who joins us live now from leicester and as i say lester reimposing restrictions on the standard laws had to be changed in the process. Yes well managing this localized lock down is going to be key to figuring out how to manage future localised lock downs as they now seem to be inevitable nick in the coming months perhaps longer than that until theres a vaccine and coronavirus finally goes away so lester becomes the 1st u. K. City to go back into lockdown off the back of figures released last night monday night by the Health Secretary matt hancock illustrating quite why one in 10 new infections happening nationwide are now happening here in leicester with 6 to 10 daily hospital admissions as opposed to just one on average in other n. H. S. Trusts and also evidence pointing rather worryingly to the fact that while other localised outbreaks have successfully been snuffed out at source of Food Production facility here a factory there here in leicester they seem to have lost control of their outbreak which is now said to be spreading within the community and particularly through multigenerational households in the large Asian Community in the city so this is a 350000. 00 person city it goes back into lockdown essential travel only in and out of the city nonessential shops closed today schools on thursday the pubs and restaurants wont open on saturday as they will do in the rest of the country and its a sort of giant reminder if you like for people who thought the corona virus was over verde its not and how they manage things here as you say with changing laws giving local authorities greater powers and so on to try and enforce compliance how they do all that is a template now for what may very well happen in other big Population Centers across the country i can see here johnson making a speech on my screen right now in dudley not too far from where you are at the moment talking about how the country how he plans for the country to recover from all this. Quite a contrast isnt it just 50 miles away from here also in the english middens or is johnsons trying it appears to deflect attention away from corona virus and particularly criticism of the governments handling of coronavirus to talk up a sort of bright new post coronavirus future the location is all about the audience hes aiming this speech very much at what is called the formal redbelt the labor Party Working class heartlands of the past one by the conservative party in the election back in december of their promised Boris Johnsons promise to get breaks it down and to level up this part of the country with the rest of the country the socalled left behind here by global capitalism so hes making big infrastructural spending promises here build back better is the latest 3 word slogan aimed at building roads schools hospitals environmental spending as well hes comparing himself in this speech to franklin d. Roosevelt the us president who helped pull the us out of the Great Depression with his big new deal spending promises in the 1930 s. But critics already rounding on the detail of this speech pointing out among other things that the spending just 5000000000. 75 pounds 7000000000. 00 or so is a fraction of what roosevelt spent these are not new promises they come straight out of the Tory Party Manifesto of last year and of course if hes trying to draw attention away from coronavirus well just 50 miles away here in leicester. If its doing anything but exactly theyre in a nutshell is that jenelle thanks very much indeed well there are fears unemployment in the u. K. Could rise to levels not seen since 1800. 00 in the wake of coronavirus currently reports now from around the valley in south wales where there are a number than 60 people chasing every job. Every shouted shop every collapsed business tells a story of lost hope theres barely a soul around volleyed hasnt had a single customer all day so hes closing early if not. All raise. But. Theyre going to help us. Do you pretend its for 34 months this is ok. If you know lose everything everybody lose their job. The valley used to be thriving the largest coal seam in britain led to the villages being built around the mines but its all been gone for 40 years and the community is a stranded there are now 63 people chasing every job here is the 2nd highest Unemployment Rate in the entire u. K. Boris johnsons government was elected on an express promise to what he called level up provide vast amounts of Financial Support to the left behind communities around the u. K. Like this and that was in december before the virus even came here all thats done is to massively amplify enormous problems that were already there. Many of these places dont even have a railway line connecting them to the big cities but even if thats what the government side dhea of Infrastructure Spending looks like its directly at odds with what the rhonda says it really needs which is a new sustainable local economy to replace the one that disappeared weve suffered in the past where jobs have been created by Large Companies who come in and taken grants and exploited no wage labor and then up stic