Millions of people in latin america could go hungry this year because of cooping 90. And i mean weddings are the sports news as it is a 1500000000. 00 relief fund for World Football and each of its 211. 00 member nations will save a 1000000. 00 grant to kick start the game which is being here in the virus with half a 1000000000 h. Set aside for womens football. Too big to dominant an all too powerful thats whats being levelled at the Biggest Companies in the us right now in a hearing in washington d. C. U. S. President donald trump is also joined in the criticism threatening to quote bring fairness if congress doesnt take any action the chief executives of Facebook Google amazon and apple are all being quest. Into the hearing of accusations of anti competitive behavior together their companies are worth almost 5 trillion dollars theyre making the case that they are operating fairly and within the rooms but speak to him for issues following the hearings on capitol hill so out of this congressional hearing what could it chief and what weight does it carry. Well it certainly is highlighting what many people see as the dominant position that these tech giants have david says lee who is the congressman from rhode island who chairs the Committee Said that the where the emperors of the online economy and the American People went to vote to vote to them said that they had way too much power at the their dominance was killing Small Businesses and also diminishing main streets high streets across the United States some people would argue that is a process thats been ongoing for years now the leaders of these Tech Companies have decided to make their case the Opening Statements all of them reiterated that look we were following the rules or not is evil as you seem to think we are although no when used the word evil of good to point out Mark Zuckerberg said look of all the high Tech Companies that are here in 10 years if they do it and of it the could be replaced and pointed out that this is being done 10 years ago hed been dealing with other companies the likes of my space remember them no i dont think anyone does anymore but they were one of the big social media voices about 10 years ago you have tim cook saying look were not dominant in any market youve jeff bezos of amazon saying we only control 4 percent of the world Retail Market if you take the retail sales 4 percent is a Pretty Healthy chunk but he insists that what he is doing is opening the gateway to Small Businesses getting into the marketplace to be able to market their products through a platform that amazon has built and of course initially developed there will be those in the committee who want to see a look your position is too great theres going to be something we can do of this and this is obviously going to go into other areas we already saw that from jim jordan whos a republican on the committee he raised the idea of what twitter has been broadcasting over the last few weeks and saying that a number of social media platforms have been very unfair to conservative voices and that has to be addressed as well so this isnt just going to be a core businesses this is going to be about a lot more but is that going to be a huge change probably not before the election. Oh i dont thanks very much i dont fish the the hearings outside the hearings i thanks a lot for that lets take this on we can speak to you know free to joins us live on skype from San Francisco in california shes the chief tech correspondent and access. Bezos tim cook all the big guns of the how important is it that these c. E. O. s perform well or could they get it wrong there is an opportunity to get it wrong you know this hearing isnt likely to lead to new legislation in congress is it really passing much of anything but a lot of states and the federal Government Agencies are investigating and i think Public Perception does hang in the balance that said i think the format being recorded or broadcasting remotely versus being there live a lot of things away toward the side of them really having a Good Opportunity not to make a big mistake rugs most of them have testified before a poll from bessel somethings not right that is correct and theyve testified under more difficult situations i think the fact that all 4 are buying together actually makes it easier for them so it makes you wonder whats the point of this kind of here well i think different people have different points and that came up you know from your correspondent you know jim jordan made it very clear from his opening his issue is in tight conservative bias that he perceives you know this is supposedly an anti trust hearing the fact that theres so Much Division over what even the issue is again makes it even less likely that theyll be lasting close landed republicans on the panel i believe being briefed to argue with some of them anyway to argue against and the conservative by some how much support is the for the point of view. Well its very popular within their base i mean theres a reason theyre making the argument theres no evidence to support it and indeed you know when voices are taken down its because they violated the rules so if you approach putting up speech that is hate speech it may well be taken down regardless of what political perspective you come from always being this concerned about the size and perceived power of these Tech Companies and theres really no argument against how can they defend themselves from that accusation well you know these are theres no question they have a lot of power but you know its only illegal in the United States to abuse your monopoly to have a monopoly and abuse it and they all have different arguments for why they have significant competition their arguments against it but you know you heard each of them Mark Zuckerberg just spoke in his intro and hes talking about how much power google has an apple and amazon and how they all compete with each other and they do compete with each other but at the margins each of them is in control of a fairly significant business and so they have these clever arguments of why their power is limited but you know they each have pretty strong control over their part of the market it is sense you can say that that was still in the coming days a social media and how it works he legally and it is crucial ultimately to set out the promises that would for everybody well i mean you raise an important point which is there are other ways other than if you trust we are early in Technology One of the issues has been privacy laws or laws about speech you could tackle this in ways other than using in trust you could set rules and i think even the Tech Companies have said were open to rules now granted they would like rules that are a lot softer than a lot of other people but there are ways other than antitrust you could set legislation on how companies have to operate the data are great to get your perspective and expertise in this do appreciate that you know speaking from access thank you. Thank you. Now the United States is revising charges against former twitter employees and another individual accused of spying for saudi arabia the 3 men. Only. Meant tarty were originally charged with accessing the personal account information of more than 6000. 00 twitter users include problem critics of the saudi royal family they now stand accused of 7 fences offenses instead of 2. Ok President Trump has dollar accused germany of not pulling its weight in the Nato Alliance and now hes taking action against it hes ordered a major scaling back of the u. S. Military presence there nearly 12000. 00 troops a 3rd of those based in germany they will be withdrawn around half will be sent to other bases in europe and the rest will head back to the United StatesWhite House Correspondent can be held joins us live now and kimberly so more clarity on the details we did expect this to happen. Yeah the u. S. President said he would do Something Like this last month and now were getting an idea of what its going to look like and what the u. S. President talked about this at the white house he was very clear about his motivations that this is 100 percent his view because germany has not lived up to the expectation of nato members and that is to contribute 2 percent of your Gross Domestic Product in terms of the amount you spend on military spending so as a result after many warnings this you have to remember is a Campaign Promise from 2016 the u. S. President making good on the threat now moving some of those troops out of germany now as the u. S. President was saying this just prior to that when this announcement was made by the defense secretary he insisted that the motivations for this were really strategic it was for pushing back against russia it was for strengthening the alliance but the concern that all of this from i should point out not just democrats but also republicans is this is going to do just the opposite so there is a lot of concern about this announcement adding to that there really is a question nick about whether or not it will even happen because you have to remember this is going to make or sort of cost billions of dollars to execute its going to take a very long time possibly even years and of course we have a u. S. Election in november and if president doesnt win reelection its likely the whole announcement the plans could be scrapped kimberly thanks very much indeed could be how could the reporting from washington d. C. When is enough from going to tell you whos in berlin and he says that the German Government had been expecting this move for some time. Instant reaction from parliament from the conservative chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee. An influential member of angle americas ruling conservatives here in germany saying that rather than strengthening nato in europe he believes that this decision will weaken nato within europe and clearly people have been expecting that there would be Something Like this for some considerable time given the sorts of language coming from the trumpet ministration for many years to trumpet ministration angry with germany for its failure to meet the 2 percent of its budget on defense the interesting thing here is that the fear of this troop withdrawal extends far within germany so for Prime Ministers of states which have big u. S. Bases in them have already taken the step of writing to members of the United States congress to see if they could do whatever can be done to reduce the damage a withdrawal of u. S. Troops of u. S. Bases would have on their states within the federal republic and clearly overall the German Government is frustrated by the sorts of language its been hearing from the u. S. Government and this step now will not encourage them will not help them in their mission to try to mend fences as it were with the u. S. Government. More still ahead on news hour including lining up for the life lines and the billions of dollars in government handouts reduce extreme poverty in brazil but how long. A scathing report on covert 19 in the u. K. Reveals how tens of thousands were sent back to elderly cat homes without being tested. And they corona Virus Outbreak in Major League Baseball season new york yankees make the big data well explain all in school. So countries and cities in asia praised for effectively tackling the pandemic and now raising alarms over new infections says every city and province is at risk of an outbreak of the being virus free for months in hong kong chief executive kerry is warning the city is on the verge of a large scale outbreak and the Hospital System is at risk of collapse and scott hardly has more enough back. Vietnam has been viewed as a Success Story during the coded 1000 pandemic through centralized quarantine and strict Contact Tracing the country of 95000000 people had no deaths from the disease with the borders sealed the government encouraged to travel. But things took a turn for the worse last weekend when the central city of denying was hit by an outbreak the 1st cases of local transmission in months the city was locked down and domestic tourists were sent home just before the airport was shut for 2 weeks and now there are cases linked to denying in vietnams 2 largest cities and city and even in the Central Highlands the Prime Minister has called on all regions to be on alert went out of the old provinces and doing high risk all provinces should raise their level chairman and general secretaries of each province should take action how should the entire political system. One case in the capitol hill no it was a worker at a pizza restaurant who had returned from a trip today despite these cases some feel that the government has the ability to control the potential next wave of covert 19. Ministry over how it has gained much more experience in combating to fire us and its face waves this time i think that im also pos quite soon because we have experience and in hong kong which so far has been spared from a high number of cases the citys leader is warning of a potential large scale outbreak after local transmissions surged the most strict measures since the outbreak began were enacted on wednesday for at least a week no gatherings of more than 2 people and no dining in restaurants thailand has also been viewed as a Success Story with no locally transmitted cases in more than 60 days time officials are no doubt looking nervously at their neighbors after these recent spikes in cases of 19 thats because the government here has also encouraged Domestic Travel and tourism to help the ailing economy aljazeera bangkok. When they mirror a new report says more than half of the people in mumbai slums have had coronavirus. Is a professor at the Tata Institute a fundamental studies hes also the Principal Investigator for the study and he explains how a shanty towns in india are being affected by the pandemic. A complex demographic like india. For example even when by and for that matter any city in the in the world is not a homogeneous population to have a densities which are different Socio Economic factors and conditions going to be hugely heterogeneous study actually wanted to capture population density increases the prevailing and other factors that i just mentioned and seems to be that thats likely the case because the slums seems to have a higher prevalence and in the same area the nonce lumps seem to have low approval and indicating crowding share facilities intermingling seems to be the driving force. Its quite likely that the slum population will reach herd immunity sooner than later but i would like to make give a kaviak to that and we still dont understand how long the immunity last in population and studies are still emerging today thats better about how long youre protected and whether its going to be the cell based immunity or otherwise and also if people are susceptible to the infection so given that. Still i think its fair to assume that at this thread. Slumps might reach herd immunity sooner than later but again the minute is a question. The annual muslim pilgrimage to mecca known as it has begun and a very different circumstances the millions you see travel to saudi arabia for for the 1st time in modern history worshippers from abroad and not allowed to take part tamala shell has this report. Theyve been coming in their millions every year from all over the world muslim pilgrims fulfilling a lifetime dream to perform one of their religions 5 main pillars. The sea of people waves upon waves and gulf in the city of mecca has become an image synonymous with the holy city. But this year its completely different the coronavirus pandemic has meant the pilgrims are not able to travel saudi authorities have put under lockdown theyve said only 1000. 00 people will be allowed to perform hajj all of them either nationals or residents of saudi arabia the annual pilgrimage is a huge source of revenue for the saudi government although there is little transparency from riyadh on how much exactly it brings in estimates put the figure in the billions of dollars. Losing out on that as well as all the money from those who would usually perform the smaller pilgrimage of during the rest of the year is a big setback i think its very significant because saudi arabia standing and influence in the islamic world is mainly died from 2 factors that guest one is the horse and because the dual in laws and the organizer of the mosque in washington ritual and it is just a joining us alan just as. 2020 has already been a tough year for the kingdom with oil prices reaching an all time low after a trade war with russia that saw the price of a barrel go as low as 27 dollars to make things even worse the covert 1000 pandemic has increased economic pressure on saudi arabia even more forcing the government to increase taxes and reduce salaries while many are commending saudi authorities for their decision to prohibit pilgrims to travel to mecca this year there are those who are critical questions are being asked about h