Thousands of protesters call on the israeli Prime Minister to resign over corruption charges and his handling of the pandemic. And the steroid with a life saving boost the drug being tested in britain thats been hailed as a breakthrough treatment for covert 19 patients. And i mean wellings of the sports news is the u. S. Tries to overcome setbacks to get its major leagues underway the n. F. L. Has now agreed to scrap the 2020 preseason games as another 95 players test positive for corona virus. Welcome to the news are they traded threats and criticism over the covert pandemic hong kong and the South China Sea now the diplomatic war between china and the us has a new focus chinas been given 72 hours to shut down its Consular Office in the u. S. City of houston the u. S. Says its to protect American Intellectual property and americans private information adding to the mystery firefighters were denied entry to the building amid reports of documents being burnt. Were not going to allow this to continue to happen where they have seen the remarks that nash kid advisor brian gave that f. B. I. Director ray gave him that attorney general barr has given we are setting out clear expert taishan for how the Chinese Communist party is going to behave and when they dont were going to take actions that protect the American People protect our security our National Security and also protect our economy and jobs. Chinas Foreign Ministry has accused the u. S. Of violating International Law and says no documents were burnt in retaliation its threatening to close the u. S. Consular office in hand at the same time the u. K. Is joining criticism of china for minutes dominic rob expressing concern about allegations that china has been involved in Cyber Attacks aimed at trying to steal research into coronavirus vaccines well well have more all night from london in a moment but 1st lets cross over to the u. S. And developments there was Rosalind Joel whos a role as the secretary of state really speaking but whats really behind the closure of the Chinese Mission in houston. Well as so held as you just alluded this is part of an ongoing up Pressure Campaign by the trumpet ministration against what it considers untoward and uncivil behavior by the Central Government in beijing this is going to from everything involving human rights namely the ethnic leader population in western china to the crackdown on Civil Liberties and hong kongs political autonomy to the situation with clay and tech talk and other uses of Technology Uses which the u. S. Alleges is a way of trying to steal not just intellectual property in the United States but also americans private information of perhaps the most serious trying to steal government secrets and so the u. S. Has been really trying to put pressure on beijing to change its behavior at this hour the deputy secretary of state stephen began is before the Senate ForeignRelations Committee to talk about u. S. Chinese relations and certainly this is something that is a growing concern here in washington the status of relations between the u. S. And china and of course the secretary of state has been talking about building a coalition of like. Mines whos in london 24 hours ago hes currently in copenhagen at the moment he says we want you to write a new chapter in American History to try and find International Partners of like minds that would support the u. S. In the fight as they would say against china. Well this has been going on for some time even as the u. S. Has been imposing sanctions on certain Chinese Government officials investigating alleged acts of espionage intellectual and industrial espionage it hasnt gotten as much attention but the trumpet ministration has been spending a considerable amount of time lobbying countries particularly those in the e. U. In order to build support for its campaign of imposing these sanctions and trying to enact other punishments against beijing its only notable because of the pandemic that the secretary of state hasnt been doing much International Travel and so its noteworthy that we are talking about this at a time when he is with the. Foreign minister in the u. K. And with the foreign minister in copenhagen today roslyn thanks for the update for us in the u. S. So lets cross over to rory challenge in london and rory lets just go back to the British Foreign minister he has been speaking in the last few hours about the u. K. s relationship with china whats he been saying. Well the statement from dominic robb is that the u. K. Is put it deeply concerned by the evidence that was announced yesterday that china is engaged in militia Cyber Attacks against commercial medical and academic institutions including those working to respond to the corona virus pandemic he goes on to say that the u. K. Will counter them and work with allies to hold perpetrators to account and deter future malicious activity around the world the u. K. I think is keen to stress at the moment the u. K. Government is it has been calling out china and other axes for some time when it comes to malicious Cyber Attacks the Foreign Office is referring back to an announcement from may the 5th in which the u. K. And the u. S. Warns International Health care and medical organizations involved in the coronavirus Pandemic Response that they were being targeted by malicious Cyber Attacks essentially what they call passwords spraying attacks attempts to access a large number of accounts using commonly known passwords and the Foreign Office always go or also goes back further than that says the c. E. O. Back in december 2018 the u. K. Was warning that the Chinese Government was responsible for an extensive Cyber Campaign targeting intellectual property and commercial data so the u. K. Trying to position itself i think it has both a longstanding opponents a chinese cyber activity and a strong opponent of it too and of course urrea another issue thats going to cause the chinese is more clarification the british are now giving about how they are offering the potential possibility of those from hong kong to reside in the united kingdom. Yeah this all stems stems from the new security law that china has imposed on hong kong which the u. K. Thinks is a kind of dereliction of the of the agreements that it had with china when it handed hong kong back to china going back to 997 and whats the u. K. Has announced today is further detail on something that it announced a few weeks ago which essentially is offering a path to citizenship for some 3000000 hong kong was people who the u. K. Classifies as british nationals overseas and what we understand now is that from january 2021 they will be allowed to come to the u. K. 5 year limited leave to remain classification and they can do this with without having to have a job although they will have to be financially secure when they get here they were to be subject to any kind of caps on numbers or anything like that once they are here and theyve done their 5 is limited leave to remain they can then apply to settle status and after a year of settled status they can then up apply for full citizenship so it is basically a way for the u. K. To offer citizenship to a log number of hong kong and it of course annoying the chinese considerably. Thanks for the update in london for a celeb get more on this than picket with roderick y. An associate fellow a chance and houses Asia Pacific Program joins us now via skype from norfolk in the u. K. Good to have you with us on the program again mr wyman that he really is being turned upon china and asia and we presume they will be ready to retaliate the larger question is how. Well we are still waiting to see i mean yes they add make noises. As far as the pay is good. That you know the we are we will be responsible for their. Outcomes the consequence is a lot of our actions but they havent yet as far as i know maybe quite well those consequences will be although i guess they will be probably targeted like profile u. K. Businesses to make like was more difficult but there have been dealings with hong kong and china when there are diplomatic spens between countries we often see this issue of Consular Offices or conceal a stand being closed or moved whats your analysis of this particular situation between the british the americans and the chinese and houston. Well i mean the american is saying that it isnt it. Can turn activities. That were directed at industrial essentially industrial espionage and i just dont know i mean it seems like that part that you need. To put a stop to that kind of activity its a political gesture and its a strong diplomatic political gesture of displeasure by the United States that the behavior of china and we can i think confidently expect that the chinese will retaliate in the u. S. Consulate in china so now we have this rather interesting situation where the secretary of state might pompei or has been visiting london and now copenhagen to try and garner a coalition of like minded governments are successful do you think hes going to be considering the u. S. Has in the past bullied these nations on issues of e. U. And trade and nato contributions washington cant quite bully them into submission here though it does certainly seem to have the u. K. On side. Hes got quite a mountain to climb and this goes to the trumpet ministration now being very dour on his european allies previously and i think theres a lot of confidence that needs to be rebuilt people that they. Are willing to. Take care take the cac who are the United States. That that is that and the u. K. Has taken a number of actions against against china for all Different Reasons but we do are willing to be completely drawn into this u. S. Confrontation with the child with the chinese that we have our interests to maintain in china as do the europeans that we dont want to be doing exactly what the americans do because our interests are quite frankly not exactly the same as those of the i mean how much of a game changer have issues of huawei the weakness in cian Jiang Hong Kong and territorial disputes over the South China Sea been for beijing because in terms of South China Sea were seeing many of the countries in asia pacific become emboldened in standing up to china because for once you might say america seems to be interested in the subject. Yes part of the problem i think is that the American Interest waxes and wanes and it is very difficult for countries in the region to be confident of their the long term u. S. Interest i think it may do we need to push back against china because china has been as a demand recently promoting its own interests i dont think this is going to change the situation in the china sea the chinese thought indications and constructions are there and will remain there and the chinese will continue to enforce try to enforce their claims in the region be interesting to see what happens i mean for the moment roderick was always good to get your insight thanks for joining us from norfolk in the u. K. Thank you. A vote is expected in the coming hours that will give israels government increased powers to impose coronavirus restrictions across the country the move comes as protests grow louder against Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is handling of the pandemic their home according to israeli daily newspaper haaretz might announce a snap election as early as november how the force that has more. Benjamin netanyahu has weathered protest before so called black flag activists have waged a years Long Campaign against what they call his anti democratic rule but in the last 2 weeks the protests have changed and grown as israelis buckling under a 2nd wave of coronavirus turn their anger on the government. Netanyahu has admitted to reopening the economy too quickly allowing gatherings of too many people others point to the governments failure to expand the system of testing and tracing as the 1st wave airbed leaving it ill equipped to stop the 2nd author and journalist Roden Bergman has investigated that Decision Making he says the Health Ministry went against expert advice you need to know as soon as possible if that person is not you need this person immediately after he is they didnt fight is so the suspect so even if you do not been sharing of infection it goes on and on if you are not able to cut it the government itself said it needed a 48 hour turnaround from suspected case to test results even now its taking 6. 00 to 8. 00 days the concern now is that its simply too late in terms of testing to catch up with the sheer scale of this 2nd wave israels missed opportunity on testing and tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure to tackle the pandemic under pressure the Prime Minister has been announcing measures only to announce them from a one point 75000000000. 00 package of cash handouts 1st universal now means tested too in order to close restaurants postponed within hours to week. Closures of beaches and pools reversed within days the one constant is insistence on avoiding a 2nd full lockdown questioning the school or so ive requested each ministries plan for a safe exit from the current virus restrictions meaning that if we straighten the curve and reach the goals that we see it for the determined number of cases per day that we can work with over time in the coronavirus routing. But the head spinning policy shifts have undermined belief in a Prime Minister also on trial in 3 separate Corruption Cases one survey this month put public trust in him at just 29 percent and the problem that. There is really this back and that its not creating trust and trust is group show. In order to move ahead because its a long term situation where theyre talking about trustees both ross of the public and trust of experts just weeks ago netanyahu had squashed the 1st wave of covert 19 and neutralized his most serious political rival benny gantz inside an Emergency Coalition now hes fighting to beat down a resurgent virus and restore his diminishing Political Capital are a force at Aljazeera Television zimbabwes government has imposed a nighttime curfew and tightened other measures to tackle rising crime virus infections but the opposition says the new steps are linked to antigovernment protests planned for next week her metacity has more from harare. 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To the street with a dangerous regime instead of the change the norm is safe. The government imposed a dawn to dusk curfew saying its only trying to tackle rising coronavirus interactions we know within or position we should mention this in 2 respects causing violence which. Place in spreading. To spread because the voters living so that will does. That route. We will not allow it into blue sending that message loud and clear to the opposition we will not allow it human rights activists worry they could be more arrests people dont work happy birthday home they can only come out to buy food medical facilities and public gatherings are bad girls who do have jobs im not trying to get home. Here but there isnt enough public transport for now only transport operators approved by the state are allowed to work many here fear they might not make it home in time. Aljazeera. David cowan is the director of the Democracy Program at the Carter Center of the explain how some countries are using the pandemic to curtail democratic freedoms this is a situation thats happening all around the world in m