Of normandy ranked 1st in the water breaks it will deny them access to water has destroyed the livelihoods. Of them to the royal we begin in hong kong where an ongoing political crisis is deepening further the citys leader has invoked emergency laws to postpone septembers legislative election by a full year. Coronavirus as the reason for the delay she also said it will be up to beijing to decide how to fill the vacuum in the citys legislature caused by the delay it comes after beijing imposed a Controversial National security law on hold called a major blow to the citys prodemocracy movement. Thing the announcement i have to make today is the most difficult decision ive made in the past 7 months the Legislative Council general election is held every 4 years it is really a tough decision to delay it but we want to ensure fairness we want to ensure Public Safety and health. If your partner has more. Constitution gives no provisions to delay these elections for more than 2 weeks which means that theyre know. That they know there will be lots of administrative and legal issues that will go again go along with delaying these elections so hong kongs government will have to defer to the Standing Committee to the government in beijing and they will have to intervene now and override hong kongs constitution infernal lot already from opposition groups mainly due to the fact that about 12 of the democracy candidates and some of them very popular ones were disqualified just yesterday from running in these elections and in fact georgia won hong kongs one of hong kongs best known democracy democracy activists was on that list he was disqualified on the grounds that he had conferred or had encouraged foreign interference in hong kongs affairs amongst other things and not supported that National Security law he has reacted quite angrily and quite forcefully to those suggestions and to the disqualification and heres what he had to say. Your and it out is the most scandalous Election Fraud ever in hong kong history they could this qualify us they could arrest us everyone is into care they could even call of the election and create a Puppet Parliament elsewhere just gather with beijing loyalists however long of this overturned a strong mandate for modest 600000 hong kong who had passed the bailiffs the citys 1st ever primaries early this month i will boyce is clear allow to the world by our vote the latest development weve heard that hong kongs director of Public Prosecutions within the Justice Department has just resigned saying that he has been sidelined in the implementation of the National Security law so the hogans government seems to be facing issues on all sides not just from the democracy camp from all within and this is just adding to hong kongs political turmoil and uncertainty that many people here are facing now. Is the chairperson of the International Affairs committee saul the Democratic Party she says the government is acting in the interests of Political Parties in hong kong. The government had appointed full medical doctors and professes as experts and yes the day one of the experts said they have not met with the administration for 3 weeks so if they make such an important decision on medical and Health Grounds how come the medical and Health Experts have not been consulted the Political Parties associated with aging as their people have been saying for quite a number of weeks that they dont think the election should be held because they have freight that it will lose because they know bemba last year we had a District Council election which is a local election and they lost it was a landslide complete landslide by the pen democrats so they are afraid it will happen again in september we are inviting beijing to interfere again because we are unable to have to solve the problems that the government has created and so if they extend it for one year where is the parliament where is the Legislative Council in the coming 13 months will they only meet when they asked someone or would they actually can act as legislator. Americas top Infectious Disease expert has just given his opening remarks before a congressional subcommittee talked into the search his appearance comes despite president Donald Trumps administration initially refusing to let him testify years a warning the whole system is under pressure due to the coronavirus pandemic and will be burdened further during the upcoming winter flu season michaela has been following events for us from washington d. C. Lets just begin with what dr chee to say in his opening remarks. Well dr outlined 4 areas in which the whole situation has to be dealt with and that is find out what actually caused the virus identify what he saw referred to as the spike in the protein and then talk about the development of diagnostic care in other words testing the use of therapeutics how do you treat people who are actually suffering from the virus and the development of vaccines now on the last point he was cautiously optimistic and i use that word cautiously that one of the 3 platforms that are currently under development there may be some result in coming months hes referring to phase 3 trials being taking place for one of the potential vaccines some 30000 people will be involved in that trial but dr fox you making very clear that this is a long term situation its a matter of months it certainly is not an instantaneous production of that scene and others have pointed out to that longstanding viruses such as hiv still do not have a vaccine they have curative treatment but there is no vaccine so dr power to you well aware of this is not predicting the imminent arrival of the vaccine hes saying that theres a possibility and hes cautiously optimistic about that particular point but i must mention too as well the degree to which this hearing has already been politicized the the chairman of the. Committee a democrat james quite burned said in his Opening Statement that the reason for this hearing is to create a National Plan that prioritizes science over politics what we had from the Ranking Member a republican steven skinnys was essentially a defense of President Trumps position at the moment hes been speaking with a photo of President Trump which has been mountain behind him he has grilled dr apology on points of agreement he had with the president over a period of time so you have at the outset a degree of politicize ation on this committee which appears to be undercutting its basic function and that is to formulate a National Plan given that the republican representatives even skinny she says well there is a National Plan in place any theatrically demonstrated a whole pile of papers to show what he said was President Trumps plan but what was in fact guidelines by various agencies such as the centers for Disease Control but the importance of this hearing is that its the 1st time the public is hearing directly from the 3 individuals who are at the very forefront of combating this pandemic within the United States and of course that was the main point for the American Public is that theyre hearing this from the horses mouth and theyre hearing things such as you know where are immersed social distance to the elderly be careful if youre in crowded spaces its the same message that weve been hearing from the medical and scientific teams from day one. Its well the director for the centers of Disease Research in his Opening Statements made very clear there are 5 very simple points where a mask wash your hands keith away from crowded places etc etc now this has been repeated by well Health Professionals since the beginning of the pandemic however President Trump has gone on given some of these guidelines very federally at one stage even encouraging and protests in a number of states now another very important point that was brought up by the chair of the committee James Cliburn he put up a graph which showed the development of the pandemic within the United States as opposed to in europe and you see very clearly that massive spike that occurred in the United States as the prevalence of cases within europe sank dramatically now dr he was asked directly how does he account for the difference in terms of experience and doctor found she was cautious he said its a very complex answer but then he stated very clearly European Countries shut down some 95 percent capacity the United States shut down and originally 50 percent of its capacity European Countries opened up slowly the United States opened up prematurely in a number of areas dr politics position some states did very well some states did exceedingly bad but you are looking at a situation where regardless of the politics involved you have a market discrepancy in terms of what is happening in the United States and what has happened in europe and that is what this committee hopefully regardless of its political positions will attempt to explore further. For the update thank you. Vietnam hers had its 1st covert 1000. 00 related death and a record daily high of 45. 00 new cases to being a virus free for a month the Prime Minister is warning that outbreaks are possible nationwide the 1st fatality was a 70 year old man in the city of dinner and more than 1000 vietnamese infected in the past week in a city also connected to the same hospital. There are restrictions also being imposed in parts of Northern England because a resurgence of infections more than 4000000 people who live in different homes are being asked not to meet others indoors and the restrictions in the areas where many Muslim States coincide with the start of the either holiday u. K. Prime minister paris johnson says the recent increase in cases is change the government approach to virus restrictions our assessment is that we should now squeeze that brake pedal squeeze that brake pedal in order to keep the virus under control on saturday the 1st of august you remember we had hoped to reopen in england a number of the higher risk settings that had remained closed and today im afraid were perspiring those changes for at least a fortnight i know that the steps that were taking will be a real blow to many people everyone obviously whose wedding plans have been disrupted or who cannot now celebrate aid in the way that they would wish and im really really sorry about that but we simply cannot take the risk. Well still ahead here on aljazeera caught up in libyas battle to tripoli why teenage prisoners recruited by a warlord have been released. Does the elderly turns to the court the players use that platform to advance social justice issues the stories after the break. 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Hello its time for yet more rain fairly heavy rain for the Korean Peninsula this is the time the year when you get the rains the season runs about fun also going to go with significance that you get rain further north but this is where it tends to be persistent and repeatable is north korea but it also come as far south as seoul i think during both saturday and indeed sunday and then run east was another one develops to the west now if you take our eye further back theres not much developing over such one so the yangtze is looking as though it will start to decrease in his flood level and in japan as well apart from a few showers its looking a generally dry picture so the forecast for us all 3 days of overcast and wet weather flooding seems inevitable in the South China Sea this revolution which may or may not into something that we can name is taking a lot of the more sure into it so its bringing the potential i think realization of wet weather in vietnam northern laos and probably minbar as well and allowing quite a lot of rain in the south of town and but anything south of that is a relatively dry looking picture the exception probably the philippines and so the ways in west papua where we will see a fair spread is showers but the significant rain is going to be in this part of southeast asia. Every war makes a devastating impact on Music Artists earthrise explores some of the efforts to recover what was lost from the syrian scientists safeguarding one of our most valuable resources these are important southpaws a we have to make sure there are surviving to the refugees striving to coexist with nature ok so whats going on there if we have simulating what happens when an elephant because life after conflict on aljazeera. But back to watching observe makes the whole run a reminder of our top stories on cons the to carry land has postponed septembers Legislative Council election for a year in a major blow to the prodemocracy camp she described it as the hardest decision shes made in months and cited krone virus as the reason that opposition politicians say the decision is politically motivated. The top Infectious Disease expert in the u. S. Has just begun testifying before a few professional subcommittee dr g. s appearance comes after president Donald Trumps administration initially refused to let him appear. That vietnam has now reported its 1st krona virus after being virus free for months the victim was an elderly man in denying city where the virus reemerged and in Melbourne Australia and australia hundreds of hundreds of cases were recorded on friday despite a 3 week lock down. The full impact of months of covert 19 lock downs and limitations on trade in euro zone countries is being revealed figures just really show the eurozone has shrunk by more than 12 percent over the past 3 months thats the biggest drop on record for the bloc of 19 nations spain is the hardest hit its economy shrinking by 18 and a half percent italy and portugal have also seen big downturns european leaders are trying to counter the effects with massive stimulus packages that both national and the level that includes an 850000000000. 00 recovery front our economics editor arbitrarily breaks it down for us. They are terrible numbers i mean this has really crushed any hopes of a reshaped recovery which some people in the markets and some economists were kind of predicting so thats the at the window right now and much of the recovery really depends on governments now in the United States obviously you know the come to the end dont want to miss craven which was quickly top 3 trillion dollars and in new york they have into it going to be to use in this new status that you we just spoke about which is the 7 a 50000000000 euro and so that should help the economy in europe and base a lot of money shifting away from the u. S. Markets and going to once europe and that can be seen in the dollar euro. Comparison which shows that the dollar has formed by 6 percent in probably the last month or so so theres real theres theres real hope that europe will make a stronger recovery because its healthy response to the Health Crisis was a lot better than what the United States has done and the u. S. Now we has to step up and they have to come through with another stimulus package possibly one trillion to 2 trillion dollars to really help the u. S. Economy because u. S. Economy is really useful and helpful to the rest of the world because when it rises it lifts all other counties with it because it sucks in imports so if you take take a look at germany jammed german exports are poor and priced 16 percent to the United States so. You can see that the United States is really crucial to any kind of recovery your president rather well being jobless numbers really low and thats because theyve had these. Programs. In process right now which are keeping about 26000000 people in jobs who might otherwise have been made unemployed so this seems less its really important and consumer confidence. Joy over 31st as british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson selfimposed deadline to have the outline of a brics a trade deal but a no deal breaks it is still looming because britain and the e. U. Remain at loggerheads on various key issues the e. U. Wants one comprehensive deal not just trade britain sees that as an attempt to keep it tied more closely to europe than it once and is seeking a series of separate agreements the e. U. Insists that if the u. K. Wants tariff free access to the European Market it must commit to a bang certain e. U. Laws britain says those demands are unreasonable fishing rights his major Sticking Point british fishermen want full access to the market in return to you both want to co