As far as indoor restaurants and churches to close us coronavirus cases keep surging across the u. S. And thousands in the dea or c. Protest against the nomination of a new election chief considered too close to former president joseph. I mean well into the sports news as much as the city is european ban is overturned and washingtons n. F. L. Team dropped their controversial redskins name after pressure from sponsors and social justice come. The United States has toughened that stance on chinas disputed claims to offshore resources and most of the South China Sea calling them completely unlawful secretary of state might pompei or has released a statement saying beijing has no legal grounds to unilaterally impose its will on the region the movies likely to further increase tensions between the 2 nations says the us champions what he calls a free and open in the pacific his statement said the u. S. Wants to make it clear the beijings claims to offshore resources across most of the South China Sea are completely unlawful as is its campaign of bull. To control them the South China Sea claims by china include ownership of the Spratly Islands which are also claimed by the philippines vietnam and others the scarboro reef is claimed by china and the philippines and that this feud began began 8 years ago when the Philippine Navy apprehend that 8 mainland chinese Fishing Vessels the shoal compares announcement came hours after china sanctioned that u. S. Officials in retaliation for washington blacklisting a number of chinese politicians over beijings treatment of its we are minority those targeted include senators ted cruz and marco rubio both supported legislation that president obama signed in june calling for sanctions over the repression of leakers the u. N. Says about 1000000 we have been detained in re education camps in xinjiang Chinas Foreign Ministry warned the us to stay out of chinas internal affairs me from south engine pensions the us practice is in serious interference in chinas internal affairs in serious violation of basic norms in governance of International Relations china opposes and strongly condemns that in response to u. S. Wrongdoing china has decided to impose sanctions starting from today. Its get more on all of this from our White House CorrespondentKimberly Halkett so kimberly 1st of all lets start with the secretary of state microcode tell us a little bit about what he said and the wider meaning of it really. You know what i think whats so pronounced about this is the fact that up until now the u. S. Had always maintained that when it came to disputes in these territorial waters and the claims that china has made in those waters that this really needed to be resolved at you and back to arbitration so this is a complete departure from that standpoint the u. S. Secretary of state in his statement as well as his tweets as you mentioned coming out very strong cues in china of bullying accusing china of being completely unlawful of its claims and making clear that the United States is now standing with its Southeast Asian partners in terms of moving forward that they have been concerned for some time about what they call chinas increasing assertiveness and have completely rejected the claims now again this is something that we had expected but what we see is this kind of tit for tat that has been going on for days we heard from the National Security adviser Robert Obrian as late as late last week saying that we could expect tough action towards china its clear that this is the intention of the administration to send a very strong message case so theyre going to be sending this message they have already what kind of impact can we expect it to have it also is there anything to the timing of it because of course china isnt bishan is in the South China Sea are nothing new. Yeah the timing is important because you have to remember in the context of politics the u. S. President has been irate over the fact that he was expecting to come into november and potentially win reelection on a strong u. S. Economy but that has been decimated as a result of covert 19 donald trump specifically but the u. S. Administration has pointed the finger at china accusing it of not being transparent not doing enough to warn the world and specifically the United States one of the hardest hit countries in the world that this was something that was moving forward so theyre angry about that but theyre also angry not just as the treatment of human rights issue involving chinese weakness but also concern about the National Security law that has been put in place in hong kong the fact that this is broad and sweeping and has already put americans living and working there at risk so in terms of the timing that has a lot to do it with respect to the play but at the same time the United States has also been very assertive if you will because what weve seen is the u. S. Putting in place Aircraft Carrier groups in the sort of disputed waters and territories and not just putting them there but conducting military exercises so the United States has done this knowing that it will not be well received and in fact thats exactly what has been the reaction china making very clear it is unhappy with those exercises and with halkett with the latest from the white house kimberley for the moment thank you well to discuss this further were joined by gordon chang a china analyst and author of the coming collapse of china he joins us via skype from new jersey sir thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera obvious escalation of tensions between the u. S. And china many reasons outlined there by the by our correspondent covert 19 the treatment of we go the new National Security law in hong kong where do you see this leading between the 2 countries and do you think we really are seeing a Tipping Point in their relationship. I do believe we have a Tipping Point because the United States and indeed a lot of other countries are deciding that they are not going to ignore unacceptable behavior on the agents part we have seen especially since february of this year china act in ways which are expression dangerous and its pushing against india 6 South China Sea and East China Sea nations the stress of invasion of taiwan the increased tempo of dangerous intercepts of the u. S. Navy in the Global Commons so beijing is driving this now theres a lot of disagreement over why china is doing this but the point is china is doing this ok so we have seen strong winds from mike brown pale on the subject in this case specifically the South China Sea but in the past weve seen the u. S. Administration harden up and stance on china but realistically where would they take it what would you see the next step as well the next step is really going to be up to china i think that the issue is going to be driven in part by chinas purchases under the phase one trade deal that was signed january 15th china has made it clear that its not going to be meeting its schedule of purchase goods and services so that is part of the underlying tension but its also you know chinas geo political moves to try to grab territory and try to grab the global comments so i think this is largely in chinas court because countries including the United States or really reacting to what beijing is doing eventually countries you know along with the United States but if we look at for example whats happening in hong kong with a National Security law yes some countries have offered citizenship for example to some in hong kong but beyond that do you think that china may just think that actually within its fear of influence it doesnt have anything concrete to fear from countries in the west and certainly not in that part of the world. They very well may think that but you know the congress the house and Senate Passed the hong kong autonomy act without a dissenting vote under that theres not only sanctions against officials which china can certainly bear but also authorization for cutting off the chinese banks from the Global Financial system that could bring down the chinese banks involved certainly the Banking System the economy even the chinese political system so the u. S. Can do a lot to hurt the communist party and i think in the past theyve counted on us not doing that but if they do push the us too far this isnt going to end very well for china well as you said it will be interesting to see how china responds to all of this for the moment gordon chang china analyst sir thank you so much for having shared your expertise with us thank you barbara coming up on this news hour from London Stores selling alcohol shut up shop in south africa to help Health Facilities struggling to cope with coronavirus cases india imposes coronavirus lockdown measures on kashmir which has been suffering restrictions since the government revoked its autonomy good news from Manchester City is there a clear that to play in europe next season will be here shortly with all the details. The World Health Organization says the coronavirus pandemic will worsen of countries fail to adhere to basic health care precautions it says too many countries are seeing infections rise in there will be no return to the old normal for the forseeable future if local issues do not follow the basic public codes principles of physical distance e and wishing wearing masks. Covering a ticket and staying home when sick if the basics arent followed there is only one way despondent mckees going to go its going to get worse and worse and worse but it does not have to be this way or more than a quarter of the worlds record of virus cases are in the United States its recorded more than 3200000 infections meaning that one in 100 americans have tested positive but as cases mount to the trumpet ministration seems to be targeting its own Infectious Diseases expert dr anthony for criticism president out front has retreated a claim that the u. S. Centers for Disease Control the media the Democratic Party and quote most doctors are lying about the disease. Well this by the sun has insisted he has a very good working relationship with. Well her going to relationship with had for a long time right from the beginning i finally do a very nice person i dont always agree with him i close the border as you know to china close i did the ban on china heavily infected and we saved tens of thousands of seductive you will admit that it was a good decision particularly in joins us live now from maryland for more on this ok so if the president is there saying hes got a Good Relationship with dr anthony. Then what is behind i guess some of the retreating that he had that hes doing. Well if you think about when President Trumps hours on someone in the government or on the staff thats what he does he comes out and says no weve got a great relationship ive a lot of respect for this person then they tend to get fired he cant necessarily do that with Anthony Fauci he can try to sideline him but this is a man who has served 6 u. S. President s hes a career Civil Servant he is not a president ial appointee so he could try to fire him or move him to a Different Department white house sending the message that they have no intention of doing that she might be asking yourself what is going on the most respected Infectious Disease leader inside the government has been sidelined by the president well its quite simple Anthony Phelps has been quite critical of the response he said if you look at other countries can you say that were doing well well were not were just not and this is an administration that once the so the message that things are going back to normal the economy can reopen schools can reopen and he doesnt necessarily like the fact that she is contradicting him and remember this is a president that takes any even the slightest criticism very very personally so what we saw over the weekend is the media and white house media were given what looks like Opposition Research basically white house staffers saying all the ways that they thought. That he felt she had been wrong during this pandemic worth pointing out everything they mentioned is exactly things that the president Vice President said at the exact same time still it became clear that they were trying to send the message they were going to try to discredit and that he felt a doctor fauji worth noting the American People like dr fauji hes been the voice of reason to every Health Crisis for decades a recent poll 67 percent of americans say they trust doctors when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic and just 26 percent trust what President Trump has to say so put all of that together and you can see that dr fauci is on the outs with the white house not briefing the president but the president if you want to try to get rid of him is in kind of a box because hes popular not just with the American Public but with people on capitol hill hes really respected. Listening to him so theyre going to try to make sure he cant talk but i just got notice hes going to do a dr project going to do a web stream for georgetown tomorrow so not quite be as quiet as the white house might have but no definitely not practical hane with the latest from marilyn patti thank you so what is the situation looking like in the states well florida has recorded more than 12600 new coronavirus cases on monday its 2nd highest daily total since the outbreak began and californias governor has ordered new lockdown measures including shutting all bars and banning Indoor Dining at restaurants statewide to combat the surge of infections from great unknowns that joins us live now from los angeles several tell us more about the new announcement by the governor of california i mean its particularly painful to have to kind of lock down again isnt it so what led to it. Yes it is particularly painful barber especially for the Business Owners who got there their shops and and places of business in order and now theyre theyre back with no customers california is essentially shutting down again just a month after beginning its gradual reopening process the governor gavin newsom announced on monday that all bars would be closed Indoor Dining would be banned there would be no access to places of Family Entertainment also zoos museums will be closed and in 30 of the most hard affected counties out of the 58 in this state which includes Los Angeles County the biggest county in the country with 10000000 people there will be further restrictions no gym no Church Services indoors no shopping malls no hair salons and a variety of other things this coming as governors around the country are increasingly pulling back from their reopening efforts and as the debate rages over school. In the autumn term as you noted with with our other correspondents President Trump has been pushing for this very hard well today the Los Angeles Unified School district which is the 2nd largest in the u. S. With about 6 100000. 00 plus students announced the doors wont be open in the fall the kids will be at home doing Distance Learning they said it is just not safe for children staff and other people involved including teachers to send the kids back into school as of today barbara the state of california has recorded 326000 cases positive cases of covert 1000 with 7000 deaths. Terrible figures their proper analysts with the latest there from los angeles from the moment thank you. Well the 30 year old man has died in texas after attending a socalled party the chief medical officer in san antonio as Methodist Hospital says the man believed that the pandemic was a hoax. Her breaking story this week we here who are 30 year old peers in this hospital who told their nurses that the intended who had. This is a party by somebody diagnosed with acute virus and the thought is that people get together and to see if the virus is real and if anyone gets. Well to us naval bases on the japanese island of okinawa have been locked down after a rise in covert 1000 infections local authorities describe the surge in cases as extremely regrettable and expressed serious doubts about u. S. Conta