A recent upturn in violence in chicago. Its not too late if we can act now new fears of famine in yemen where the u. N. Says its seeing alarming levels of Food Insecurity. The selfconfessed middleman in the murder of a maltese journalist is found with severe knife wounds just hours before he was due to give evidence in court. And only well into the sports news as the tensions between china the u. S. And britain spill into the sporting arena chinas state broadcaster has announced that it will stop showing English Premier League matches. We begin the news hour with a dramatic escalation in the growing tensions between the United States and china the u. S. Government has ordered beijing to close its consulate in Houston Texas saying its to protect American Intellectual property a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign ministry has denied media reports that staff had been burning documents inside the building and accuse the u. S. Of violating International Law china is threatening to close the american consulate in ruin in response its also warned the Chinese Students in the u. S. To be on guard for what it calls arbitrary interrogations. Were going. On july 21st the u. S. Abruptly demanded we close our consulate general this was unilaterally initiated by the u. S. Side we demand the u. S. Withdraw this decision we will respond well a spokesperson for the Chinese ForeignMinistry Says bomb and Death Threats have been made against their Washington Embassy in washington watching young blame the u. S. Government tweeting that the threats were a result of what she called smears and hatred catrina you in one has more. Certainly beijing is furious about this chinas Foreign Ministry spokesperson one when been spoke on wednesday afternoon calling this outrageous unjustified and said it was an unprecedented escalation even listed a number of actions he said the Us Government had taken against Chinese People in the u. S. In recent months he said that chinese diplomats there had been subjected to intimidation harassment in some cases detention he also said that Chinese Students were increasingly being interrogated that personal Electronic Devices were being confiscated and searched he also said that there would incident at least one chinese diplomatic stop had extra restrictions imposed on them that diplomatic pouches was searched without permission that chinese official items were also confiscated both of these would be violations of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations one woman also said that the Chinese Embassy in the u. S. Had received a number of bomb threats and Death Threats and he accused the Trump Administration of fanning the flames of hatred against china only in the u. S. But overseas as well and certainly this is just the next escalation the newest escalation what has to be a diplomatic freefall in terms of relations between the u. S. And china in various fronts been going on National SecurityLaw Technology and trade and beijing says if the u. S. Does not pull back from this decision it will take what it has called legitimate and necessary counter measures. Well china u. S. Secretary of state michael pale says they will keep taking action over china to protect the American People. Were not going to allow this to continue to happen where they have seen the remarks that. Mask a visor brian gave that f. B. I. Director a 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. Jordan has been following the situation from virginia and she says the consulate closure will only worsen relations sions to close this consulate which happens to be the 1st consulate that the Chinese Government opened in the u. S. After it renewed diplomatic ties with the United States back in 1979 the u. S. Has also been imposing sanctions on Chinese Government officials on students on businesspeople its trying to bring to the United States for trial the number 2 of way she is fighting extradition from canada to the United States as we speak the Chinese Government in turn has kicked out reporters has strongly surveilled people who have been working inside that country has closed off parts of the country she was westerners and 2 in particular 2 americans so you can only expect that this back and forth over tit for tat is going to continue and you can expect barbara to see the relationship between the 2 countries simply grow worse dr zachary a is a Southeast Asia political expert at the National War College and he joins us live from the state of vermont source thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera we heard a correspondent saying that the cost of the closure will only worsen relations between the 2 countries out do you read this latest escalation. Yeah i agree with that that the administration has gone down this path and that it will necessarily invoke a chinese response likely the closure of one of our consulates in china if not more. You know everything the administration does to china they are able to respond in kind and theres a lot of issues that have escalated the tensions between the u. S. And china trade obviously intellectual property a while way cove theyd obviously be one of the factor is is it possible to go back to any kind of normalize the relationship considering that the prost just seems to have broken down you know youre absolutely right there is a host of issues that the United States is clearly unhappy with about china from kuwait right now but the control over the future of the internet 5 she way that that of intellectual Property Trade deficits in the past currency manipulation chinese aggression in the South China Sea the 1000000 readers in concentration camps the crackdown in hong kong. The problem is this administration right now really is on able to prioritize we cant take trying to. Firm all of those issues but you can also i mean its china that had acted in ways that perhaps of this means that the west of the u. S. Before so have chinese actions changed or has the american response to them changed well both i mean the chinese have definitely become more assertive in proactive. Especially because the United States to step back from a leadership role around the world weve walked away from International Treaties and organizations weve left our allies and partners questioning our reliability and our commitment to those alliances. So you know into the the voice steps china and weve definitely seen a much more assertive chinese diplomatic presence in the region and you know this is its really disheartening because for any one of those issues that i mentioned america cannot go it alone the route requires a multilateral response and we have just so alienated our allies and partners in the past 3 and a half years if he i mean you mentioned 3 and a half years of course thats the time that president has been the leader of the usa do you think that now relations have broken down to the point that even if joe biden does become the next president ultimately you can never really try to put together that relationship again. Look these are the 1st and 2nd largest economies in the world we are fully insured interdependent with one another we have to have a working relationship with the 2 countries and i think we can take on certain issues and if in administrating is able to prioritize and say look were going to focus on values and focus on a common readers were going to focus on 5 g. In the future of the internet you know but we cant do it all and we cant go it alone and so pop part of what any administration has to do is start to rebuild a working relationship and coordinated effort with our allies and partners and certainly doesnt seem to be happening now the office acarya Southeast Asia political expert at the National War College joining us from vermont sir thank you. Now the British Government meanwhile says it will open a special pathway to citizenship for 3000000. 00 hong kong residents from january those eligible will not have to have a job before going to the u. K. It applies to those with British National overseas passports and their immediate families the new rules are in response to a National Security law that china is imposing on hong kong which critics say curbs freedoms. U. S. President donald trump has announced that hundreds of federal agents will be the poison chicago after a surge in violence in recent weeks officers have also been the ploy to albuquerque in new mexico as part of his socalled law and Order Campaign trump says his administration is ready to assist any other state or city which requests help the moment this bloodshed must stand displayed jed will and today im announcing a surge of federal Law Enforcement into American Communities plagued by Violent Crime will work every single day to restore Public Safety protect our nations children and bring violent perpetrators to justice well chicagos mayor has called on witnesses to come forward after an overnight shootout at a funeral left 15 people injured mourners were shot at by gang members who were driving by on chicagos south side several targets of the shooting returned fire attackers fled after crashing their car every 160 murders in chicago between late june and july. Is a symptom a symptom of communities that are crying out young men who dont believe that they have a future other than being part of one of these games or factions or cliques who believe that their future only lives on a corner and not college or career. Meanwhile protests in portland are entering a 56 that they despite President Trumps controversial deployment of the federal police there more than a 1000 protesters gathered against racism and Police Brutality on tuesday trump says the officers are protecting federal property but theyve been accused of seizing protesters from the streets and unmarked vehicles and detaining them without justification several lawsuits have been filed against the trunk of ministration questioning its full use of Police Powers. For this son joined by bruce fein whos a former u. S. Associate Deputy Attorney general sir thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera so. The ministration effectively being questioned by the broad use of Police Powers what do you think of the way that theyve used the police force and the federal officers there. But i think there are 2 separate questions one is the authority to deploy federal Law Enforcement to enforce federal laws and to protect federal property that i think is uncontroversial the federal laws are independent of the state local laws the Authority Law is there the 2nd issue as well is the response at the level that justifies this rather intense in some ways on precedent and federal presence in the various localities and and also simply because theres authority to dispatch federal Law Enforcement officials doesnt give them license to violate the 4th amendment engage in unreasonable searches and seizures and arrests those are separate questions and there have been of the some instances where it seems that the federal officers like state officers that weve seen on video have overstepped the bounds and used Excessive Force against those who are demonstrating i believe that you have to consider the decision in the context of the 2020 alexion campaign and President Trumps effort to bolster his base if you will and by putting a federal Law Enforcement presence out there will there is going to be at least some kind of collision hes trying to make an issue of the campaign him being the candidate of law and order and his opponent mr biden being someone who soft on crime so i think by and large it is redundant the federal Law Enforcement is sufficient to protect federal interest theres no need for a socalled surge the violence that weve seen in the city says been in violation of state and local laws not largely in federal violations but to make it a campaign issue. He feels that this decision is appropriate but do you think that its appropriate when there are accusations from just using Excessive Force and seizing protesters from the streets putting them in on mark vehicles that taking them without justification all sorts of things that and shouldnt really happen in of the moccasin let alone in the United States are you worried that were going to see a repeat of those incidents in other cities as perhaps the federal officers get involved more widely. But they may be i think we have. Various Law Enforcement called special agents in charge in 73. 00 areas for the f. B. I. Is largely the federal presence there although here are using gauges officers and otherwise and the local commanders are the ones who are immediately responsible for ensuring compliance with the 4th amendment which again not only protects against sex osa force but obvious you dont resummon when there is not probable cause to believe that a violation of of law has occurred. I think its premature to decide whether these kinds of incidents will be more than isolated and become systemic i think its its problematic and worrisome when we saw some of the same Excessive Force used in Lafayette Park across from the white house on that infamous date where the president almost ready to see walked across the park and then held the bible up upside down it served really no legitimate government purpose other than to say you know we can push you away if we want to just one final point forgive me for interrupting its just that were running out of time i mean you mentioned the 2020 is an Election Year we still have several months to go before november so in light of the things that we have seen from the administration are you warming up. Theres no doubt that theres cause for worry and its not just the last months the entire administration of President Donald Trump has been one where violations of law have become a way of life and thats really to borrow a phrase from john boltons former National Security advisor with whom i mainly disagree and its unfortunately its not just these last months its systemic from the beginning and i think we need to be very alert during the last months of this campaign but it could escalate further bruce fein former u. S. Associate Deputy Attorney general sir thank you so much for sharing your views with us. Now coming up on this news hour from london the mexicos coronavirus test toll passes 40000. 00 with fears the situation could be far worse than reported claim zimbabwes government is infringing on human rights by locking up a journalist and imposing a dusk to dawn curfew and then sports for ari are forced to make changes after a poor start to the formula one season. Now airstrikes in eastern afghanistan have killed 45. 00 people including civilians and members of the taliban the governor of this street in the province of herat says at least 8 civilians were among the dead the Afghan Defense ministry is investigating the attacks which were carried out by its forces the United States says it was not involved in wednesdays all. The un says fears of famine in yemen are resurfacing just as the World Food Program has had the scale back relief efforts due to a lack of funding Nutrition Services for 2 and a half 1000000 children could stop by the end of august coronavirus restrictions reduced remittances locusts floods and significant underfunding of this years aid response have compounded the hunger crisis after 5 years of war this by un peace efforts there