California and texas record their highest single day tolls and a dream shattered are families still seeking answers about how their teenage son died while in training for the time military. The heads of some of the worlds biggest tech giants have faced a 5 hour grilling on the way they do business Facebook Google amazon and apple are accused of stifling competition and monopolizing the industry is the end of a year long investigation by the u. S. Congress which claims to outline how current laws allow the companies to avoid liabilities alan fischer reports the Ranking Member fittingly the tech giants appeared virtually to face questions the subcommittee chairman making clear he sees a problem their dominance is killing Small Businesses and you factoring in the overall dynamism of the engines the. Merican economy their ability to dictate terms call the shots up and entire sectors and inspire fear represent the powers of a private government this was meant to be an inquiry into Business Practices do the 4 Companies Google amazon apple and facebook stifle rivals and kill competition one republican immediately made clear he also wanted to talk about bias online we love the fact that these are American Companies but whats not great is censoring people censoring conserves and trying to impact elections and if it doesnt end there has to be consequences from each of the 4 bosses a common theme they were innovators job creators the definition of american excellence theres room in retail for multiple winners we compete against large established players like target costco kroger and of course walmart a company more than twice amazon size our goal is the best not the most in fact we dont have a dominant share in any market or in any product category where we do business facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg face questions about the participant other social media platform instagram this said one congressman went to the heart of the inquiry basic story is the game is a threat that could potentially siphon business away from baseball and so rather than compete with it facebook put it this is exactly the type of into a competitive acquisition at the end they just those were designed to prevent Mark Zuckerberg was asked about hate speech appearing on his site he insisted he was committed to intercepting it before most users saw it he said that this excess street was Company Running it 89 percent but he wanted to get that up to 99 percent. Zuckerberg also talked about the recent removal of misleading content or uncovered 1000. 00 and treatments dangerous he said we do prohibit content that will lead to imminent risk of harm and stating that there is a proven cure for coke and when there is in fact none might encourage them to go take something that could have some adverse effect so we do take that down the subcommittee says it will hold new hearings is that this is not the end for the take giants its the start and it puts them on notice if they dont look at their operations legislators will alan fischer aljazeera capitol hill for the 1st time Hong Kong Police have used a new National Security law to crackdown on prodemocracy activists online for students belonging to a group called student localism have been arrested they were accused of posting content that called for hong kongs independence the controversial law was imposed on hong kong 4 weeks ago it makes subversion and secession criminal offenses and it grants Police Powers to arrest suspects without a warrant they have a some decoration for them so for example they wanted to be a stoppage of hong kong country and also they wanted to be use all demands. To keep doing this face and finally they wanted to do you know that all of that you having looked at home home. Will be able to promote the independence of the hong kong thats all its about infinity built so far we have. To go along as in hong kong and she says many are worried the case may set a precedent for more arrests in the future. They had previously had a group that im vacated independence for hong kong they had used social media they tried to gather support from overseas to try and make it republic of hong kong but they disbanded that group on june 30th that was exactly a day before the National Security law came into place which very clearly says that anyone who advocates any kind of secession from hong kong to break away from the rest of china will be punished but the concern here is once again is the fact that there the police are using that latest communications and social media to make these arrests the fact that they already had said that they were no longer participating in this kind of activity but now police are saying that messages on their social media that that communication means that they are still continuing these i 70 also the main worry here now is what happens next this is im president said hong kong 3 go system has not been subject to these kinds of cases before and with this new National Security law theres a completely parallel system set up to deal with such cases which would even allow these students and these young people to be sent to Mainland China and face justice there so theres a lot of concern around the. This term in the state of victoria has reported 723 new infections and 13 deaths the highest one day tally since a coronavirus pandemic was declared victoria is the epicenter of australias 2nd wave of the virus almost 10000 people have tested positive with more than 300 hospitalized the patio says many of the new cases have been traced to aged care facilities in a as a type a locked and hes made masks mandatory james trial as head of the epidemiological modeling unit for the school of Public Health and preventative medicine at Monash University is joining us on skype from melbourne thank you very much indeed for being with us how concerning is it that this these latest figures include people who have been an Elderly Care Facilities yes its very concerning i mean the numbers still seem to be going up even a week or 2 after weve implemented the most restrictive lockdowns that weve seen in victoria for a couple of months now and the numbers are still rising clearly the elderly are absolutely Critical Group to protect and. Actions are being taken in order to protect them as best we can and the considerable number of Nursing Homes that have been affected in melbourne is a very great cause for concern because there will be a length between when the cases occur and when the deaths occur so we can expect more patients from these facilities to be admitted to hospital and potentially have their bad outcomes in the coming weeks so it is very concerning given the fact that efforts were made to protect them why do you think the virus has been able to get to the aged care homes. Well some efforts a bit made to protect them but there are also systemic problems in in achieving and implementing those protections which it means seen in other countries pricing now certainly sweden and canada have been countries that have really grappled with these issues around how best to protect elderly people in Nursing Homes and one issue certainly that the the nature of employment of the started work in this in homes often means that. They actually are employed in multiple homes and so the star can spread the infection from place to place and thats a major problem which is sort of structural its related to the Employment Conditions of the people working there and it can and its very difficult to change overnight and yet we still do have to really try to change that obviously the the elderly people in the homes are only part of the Bigger Picture why is it do you think that the state is seeing such a significant rise in the number of people who are getting the virus now. Its very hard to know really where its so concentrated in melbourne its initially been concentrated particularly in certain postcodes in certain areas of knowledge than i initially it seemed to be located around or concentrated around some disadvantaged groups and certainly the Living Conditions around disadvantaged groups means that the virus can take off in those settings a lot faster than in other places but the reason why for example weve seen such it much been a problem in melbourne and sydney is much harder to put our finger on and i think possibly something thats going on is that winter is much considerably calm it down here in melbourne than what it is in sydney. Has recently said that theres not yet evidence that theres a strong effect of season on transmission of the virus but theres not too much else that even we want to explain why its so concentrated in one of the men as well as making masks mandatory and the other precautions that are being taken when weve been covering the story over the last few months the thing that repeatedly comes up is the level of testing are we going to see a change in the level of testing that the states going to be doing well victoria has had very good testing and we even had a testing drive just a month or so ago where we tested thousands of additional people in order to really try to get the virus levels down to very very low levels so compared to a lot of places compared to places like that u. K. Parts of europe publicised early on weve had very good Testing Capacity even early on and so actually the concern now is that as the case numbers increase that we may need to have even greater Testing Capacity than what we have had and that the current Testing Capacity could get overwhelmed in the coming weeks and so that could mean that things get worse than what they are for they get better really interesting to get your point of view on this jim we appreciate your time sir thank you very much indeed. My pleasure. The 2nd worst affected country in the world brazil has reported a record daily jump in infections and deaths only 70000 new cases and 1600 fatalities were confirmed in the past day that brings the total number of infections to more than 2500000 more than 100000 people have died brazilian president has attended his 1st government event since recovering from corona virus both in our water mosques throughout the ceremony and said he wouldnt address the audience the president has repeatedly done played the severity of the pandemic and has called the virus a little flu he tested positive for covert 19 and had been in isolation until last saturday and its getting worse by the day in the u. S. Its has the highest number of coronavirus fatalities of any nation by far nearly a quarter of the global tawny and 3 most populous states california texas and florida of a quarter the largest single day death tolls mike hanna reports from washington. With more than 150000. 00 deaths in the country the wearing of masks is finally made mandatory in the house of representatives members and staff will be required to wear masks at all times and the hall of the house on tuesday texas representative Louie Gohmert had arrived at the attorney general for a house hearing without a mosque he was then that money for not keeping his makeshift mosque hearing the hearing early wednesday he tested positive on arrival at the white house hed been due to accompany President Trump on a trip to his home state that is now in self quarantine President Trump appeared with no mosque during a number of the events in texas seen here in close proximity to his former secretary of Energy Rick Perry also masculists. And to continue to hype a vaccine that he is the claims has entered final Clinical Trials this is the fastest a vaccine has ever been developed together we will end the plague from jon we will defeat the virus the president also continued to defend the video he had retreated earlier in the week from a controversial doctor who claimed there is a fork over 1000 and that face masks are necessary for protection. Thank god were thinking. Once again he was publicly contradicted by a member of his Coronavirus Task force citing multiple studies that the cumulative data on on trials Clinical Trials that were valid namely Clinical Trials that were randomized and controlled in the proper way all of those trials show consistently that hydroxy chloroquine is not effective in the treatment of coronavirus disease or cold 19 and in Congress Republicans and democrats are nowhere near agreement on a new Coronavirus Relief bill while millions of American Families continue to struggle with the physical and economic effects of the virus leaving medical organization has issued an urgent warning the American Association of medical colleges and i quote decisive coordinated action is urgently needed to save lives it continues if the nation does not change its course and soon deaths in the United States could be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands. Mike hanna aljazeera washington. Still ahead an aljazeera of the u. S. Retreat from a nato ally 12000. 00 troops ordered out of germany and the European Headquarters has to be moved. Plus torture abuse and death well have more on the plight of refugees trying to reach the mediterranean. However got lots of hot weather loss of lives showers too across north america quite a scattering of storms on display here across the plains pushing down towards the southeastern corner eastern seaboard also seeing some wet weather from time to time of the temperatures 37 in d. C. Weakening up to 31 in new york got that heat even pushing north of the border 28 there for toronto what a rush of showers some of them very heavy pushing up towards tennessee towards kentucky around the appalachians we could see some thunder downpours possibly causing some flash flooding from time to time further south across the deep south it should be a little drier than it has been recently but you see the wet weather not really too far away up towards the primaries into central kind of the again some wet weather which was the west coast here is looking fine and dry still very hot in phoenix temperatures could touch 46 celsius on friday the high fire risk remaining across the southwest for the caribbean where we got yet more Stormy Weather coming into the leeward side as we go on through the next couple of days this developing system in may well become a tropical depression if not a Tropical Storm that will bring flooding rains possibly some mudslides a big storm surge towards the less around and also affecting parts of the virgin islands. Every piece of devastating. Thrice explored some of the efforts to recover those lost from the syrian scientists safeguarding one of our most valuable resources these are important cell phones that we have to make sure they are surviving to the refugees striving to coexist with nature ok so lets plan on their simulating what happens when an Elephant College life up to conflict on aljazeera. They want to go to 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour the c. E. O. s of Facebook Google amazon and apple have been defending their Business Practices at a u. S. Congressional hearing accused of stifling competition and avoiding liabilities under current laws. For the 1st time Hong Kong Police have used a new National Security law to crackdown on prodemocracy activity online before students belonging to a group called student localism have been arrested accused of posting content that supports hong kong independence. The death toll from the corona virus pandemic is now more than 150000 in the United States thats the highest number of fatalities in any nation by far it accounts for nearly a quarter of virus related deaths around the world. The treatment of military cadets in thailand is under scrutiny as thousands take part in an annual recruitment drive the armed forces have been accused of allowing abusive initiation rituals and some families of dead kits a speaking out scott highlight reports from bangkok. Ever since he was a schoolboy pick up on the tanya kahn wanted to become an army officer at 18 he was well on his way to that dream when he suddenly died at an Army Training school after his death 3 years ago Community Children made a book of drawings for his family Army Officials said pick up on died of a sudden cardiac arrest his parents skeptical ordered a 2nd autopsy it revealed that his major organs were removed further examination showed evidence consistent with physical abuse. The royal thai forces have to take responsibility because stay on in charge of odd to me terry they have to answer to why my brother is dead. Accusations of a military cover ups world entire media after pocket punks case became public again raising attention to the tradition of abuse of initiation or hazing rituals in thailands armed forces a Police Investigation is Ongoing Amnesty International recently conducted an investigation on abuse in thailands military we i