Environment or find out why hundreds of activists have been killed in the last year. Some countries and cities in asia praise for effectively tackling the coronavirus pandemic and now raising the alarm over new infections after being virus free for months vietnam says its making preparations for a major wave of infections thousands of cases have been before today in the central city of dunn non where a strict slow down is now in place meanwhile hong kongs leader carry now says its Hospital System could face collapse as it deals with a shop rise in cases i spoke to our correspondent scott hydra who has more on the situation in vietnam and hong kong. So you look at the last 3 months there what wasnt one case of locally transmitted coded positive case so obviously when we saw what happened over the weekend and then last weekend there was there was infection rate thats why the the government took the step of evacuating most tourists there about 80000 tourists were evacuated from demand because it was something that they hadnt seen in quite some time so there is great concern about that and now were seeing in the 2 largest cities this in these infections from they believe in being spread elsewhere in the country thats why there is such an alarm bell being wrong by the Prime Minister today no whats interesting when you look at that and the reason there are so many people there and the reason so many were evacuated is these were local tourist they were tourists the enemies tourists inside the country this is something a move that vietnam did to try to spur some type of economic recovery by getting people to travel inside the country the borders are still sealed a very large border with china but they seal the border so they wanted to start the economy by encouraging people to start traveling in country and then they saw this outbreak in denying and thats why you saw about 20000 people go to host city and to one of those the 2 largest cities and thats where this concern is right now i mean a 446 total cases right now in vietnam seems to be a relatively low number when you look at the last 3 months thats why there is such a big concern and also this case is going to be a big concern for other countries like thailand who in a similar situation was viewed as a positive case of coded they are in a similar situation lock the borders down and theyre encouraging ties to travel within thailand so obviously thai officials are looking at what happened in vietnam very very closely and hong kong also caught another city that had done very well and is now said to be on the verge of a notch scale outbreak other cities leader kerry lamb has really expressed concern that theyre on the verge of a major outbreak of covert 900. 00 they too were looked at as a Success Story. When it comes to containing covert 9000. 00 spread particularly since its bordering china in the early days there was concern that there would be a massive spike in hong kong that didnt happen but what theyve seen over the last several days over 100 locally transmitted cases each day that is very concerning to them today wednesday you know theyve ratcheted up their their control of the potential spread of the virus one thing they have done is now mandatory face masks in any public area and also no dining dining in the in Hong Kong City at all so these are some restrictions they put into place to hopefully curb this kerry lamb also expressing concern if there is a surge of cases theres concern about what will happen with the hospital and the health care in the city because they havent had that spike so theyre really not prepared for it so theres concern with that the u. K. Government is being criticized by its own end pays for discharging thousands of patients from hospitals into care homes without testing them 1st across many reports says the initial decision was called reckless and appalling around 25000 patients were sent to k. Homes in england in march and april to free up hospital beds the government made to say it all patients would be tested live to rome in china ends in london very this is a pretty damning report on the governments Coronavirus Response to us more about whats its fund. Well the Public Accounts Committee is a Cross Party Group of m. P. s and they basically look at government activity and work out whether its efficient in terms of good the results that it produces and also that the spending thats involved in it this particular report was looking at the governments Pandemic Response across the Health Care Social care sectors and essentially what theyre doing is trying to make sure that the deficiencies of the governments initial response to corona virus outbreaks in the u. K. Are repeated for any 2nd wave so they were looking at the p p they were looking at the testing theyre looking at the with the architecture of governments and how responded they were to their most harsh words something for the policy that said by the end of march and the 1st half vital to where the n. H. S. Was trying to free up as many beds as possible in hospitals for the expected onslaught of coronavirus victims and one of the things it did to free up those beds was to discharge elderly people who were considered to be fit back into the care homes that they come from without testing them to see whether they were taking coronavirus back into the care homes with them it is being described as a reckless policy by whos on the chair of the Public Accounts Committee we can hear exactly how to describe it now. It was an appalling era just assume you could take people out of hospital which was in itself not a bad thing but then just to put them into care homes without the right protection around them and what was really bad was when this became more apparent so the government has a 1st we perhaps werent sure about it well you can argue about that but when it became more apparent there wasnt really then a solution on the proper support and yet the minister was talking about a ring of support around care homes they feel empty words now when you know what happened people dying alone without their family there and very very poor stat britains thinking about adding more countries in addition to sprain to its quarantine lists what more are you hearing about this. Yeah theyre warning space of the the me what do you listen to what Boris Johnson has been saying at the moment as an added any specific countries to that list yet. The expectation is that there will be some over the coming days perhaps croatia perhaps belgium perhaps luxembourg because the talk from the pm is the 2nd wave is underway already in europe of course this does lead to huge amounts of confusion from people who are either on holiday already having to go away in the next few days not knowing whether the country they are either in or about to go to might be added to the list of that theyre for theyll have to quarantine for 2 weeks when they get back the travel industry and it is also screaming for a different approach theyre asking for maybe testing to be done to airports the boss of heathrow was also that there is also a recommendation that the testing is done of return these a week after they get back perhaps reducing the amount of course seen by hauff theres also a request for more targeted approach these cities koren see restrictions that its not a blanket ban on a country but you know if you come back from a specific region the you have to quarantine but no other regions of the country its a confusing time for people who are thinking about traveling overseas in the moment in the u. K. Thank you for that really challenge for us there in london. In india Health Experts say the main shopping craze in the number of corona virus infections knowledge need you to poor infrastructure nearly 40000 cases were reported on tuesday bringing the total number to more than 1500000 in regions of delhi maharashtra and tamil nadu account for more than half the new cases and as a 3rd worst affected nation after the u. S. And brazil where more than 34000 deaths and is a bit random is in new delhi and explains why indias infection rates may be far higher than official figures. The results are very much a reflection of what independent Health Experts have been saying for a long time now which is that because india is still not conducting enough tests it has one of the Lowest Per Capita testing in the world that the railroad number of infections and india are at least 10 times the reported number and possibly even up to 40 times while the official number for mumbai is around 110000 again its a fraction of the millions who the survey shows who the survey says have antibodies in the surveys very much in line with the last one which was done in the capital new delhi with the results last week showed that a quarter of its 20000000 people have antibodies have had coronavirus and here in delhi the cases have been coming down over the last few weeks bought yesterday on tuesday. The local government to explain why its conducting hof the number of the most accurate swap tests known as the 2 p. C. R. Test that its capable of and conducting twice that number of and tests which as accurate so government has been voicing that its numbers are coming down the high court is just to conduct more tests and to conduct more tests all over the country the Prime Minister promised in that in the more. Retesting centers in mumbai not far from here in new delhi in a place called noida and also in kolkata to continue with this drive to test more people to have a more accurate picture of the situation in the country. The annual muslim pilgrimage to mecca known as the hyatt has begun under very different circumstances millions usually travel to the arabia but for the 1st time in modern history worshippers from abroad and not allowed to take on more than 1000. 00 local to are expected to attend the kingdom 2nd biggest source of revenue after or oil bringing in billions of 1. 06 in yemen u. A. E. Banks southern separatists say theyre giving up attempts at self rule and will work on a stalled peace deal the 7 Transitional Council says its to give an opportunity to end a rift among its allies against the who of these the announcement follows one by saudi arabia saying it will present ways to implement last years power sharing deal between rival factions in the south Georgia Okeeffe hero is from the gulf state on a minutes Risk Consultancy he thinks there are several obstacles that could get in the way of the alliance. This resolution is the basis of some hope for officials in riyadh as well as washington who wanted to see the riyadh agreement successfully implemented but simply just declaring in a resolution that efforts will be accelerated to implement the riyadh agreements. Doesnt mean its going to be easy to do so the reason why its been so difficult to implement it. Since it was signed last year has to do with the fact that there are so many obstacles that make implementation very difficult the party those have very different interpretations of the riyadh agreement there are sensitive issues that the parties do not see eye to eye on i think the future of this relationship will be a very difficult one there are numerous reasons why thats the case one of them that i think is very important to keep in mind pertains to all is slaw which is the Muslim Brotherhoods yemeni franchise of islam has played an Important Role as an ally of the hardy governments but the s. T. C. Views the Muslim Brotherhood linked group in yemen as a very dangerous group and is a big threat to the s. T. C. And if hadi is government in the s. T. C. Will ever be able to see eye to eye on this question of what role is slys to play in the future of yemen we dont know. Still ahead on aljazeera a controversial social media bill passed in turkey sparks concerns about freedom of expression class. Im going hey in bangkok we will tell you about the link between the Energy Drink Company red bull and the death of a policeman and why the attorney general in chief of police have been summoned to parliament. And are there plenty of rain of course in the folk also across much of the northeast of asia japan has seeing some heavy downpours that all see as the cloud still steaming across but also taking with it quite a lot of the heavy rain meanwhile back into Central China just seen off the scene of this of course along the banks of the Yangtze River and as far as the eye can see the flood water is now as we go through the rest of the day and theres more rain across Central China heading tools east some heavy downpours at times through southern sections of the Korean Peninsula not a bad day generally across much of honshu there is some rain in the forecast but not these really torrential downpours too much is a little bit lower as well but coming back up on friday set in tokyo high of 29 degrees meanwhile in seoul 28 with more rain in the forecast and you can see why discussion of rain showers across the eastern areas and some heavy downpours on the way towards shandong province as well and then across into south asia these a monsoon rains particularly active in the last few hours exactly its a blanket of cloud across these areas to the north and thats where we can see some very heavy rain on thursday pradesh bringing up some heavy downpours but again across into the pool eastwards bangladesh seeing a fair amount of rain and all the while maharashtra picked up some heavy pulls those day and fridays there are plenty of showers in the 4 calls for mumbai. 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P. s have called the decision reckless and appalling and in yemen u. A. E. Back 7 separatists have announcer abandoning demands for self rule they say is to give an opportunity to and a rift among their allies. Turkeys fundament has passed a controversial social media law but human Rights Groups warn it will give the government even more control over the media landscape sides like facebook and twitter will be required to have local representatives in turkey that also need to store users data inside the country making it easier for prosecutors and fortys to access the companies could face fines or essentially be blocked under the new deal. Has more from istanbul. Basically the turkish government says if something is a crime according to turkish though that it is a crime on social media as well the bill has some positive sides but especially on the possibilities of restricting personal freedom of speech and restricting journalism suppressing journalism Many International organizations hooman Rights Groups and also even the United Nations have reacted against the social media bill saying that it would harm. This freedom of speech in turkey in turkey even the Mainstream Media is currently under government control so the media its not wrong to say that media is. Not dick and thats why many fear that this could cause more marginal marginalization in media but on the other hand it turkey has been fighting with our people to Kurdistan Workers Party and to glenna scrips who the government accuses of trying to overthrow the government in 2016 a so and they are all using fake accounts and brute accounts that might be helpful for the security institutions to find out what kind of people are trying to manipulate or this inform the public now everybodys curious whether the government is going to apply this bill in an appropriate way or whether the government is going to use it exploited as a means to suppress its power over all media and all its critics. The c. E. O. s of amazon apple facebook and google are expected to testify together before the u. S. Congress on wednesday to defend their powerful Business Practices they run Companies Worth a total of around 4. 00 trillion dollars the Video Conference meeting is expected to be one of the most aggressive shows against Tech Companies in decades rob reynolds reports. For small Tech Companies being featured in apples i phone app store is essential to getting customers but apple squeezes these companies hard says david hanson chief Technology Officer for the project Management Company base camp we were shaken down by our own home showed up and demand to be handled by 30 percent of. Our homes taxis. Sometimes complaints about monopolistic practices prompted the