Justice department pushes prosecutors to charge protesters in portland with a rarely used law. Hello a visit to taiwan by a high ranking u. S. Official has led to fighter jets being scrambled and seen china launch Major Military drills Taiwans Defense Ministry says it have to send up jets to track approaching Chinese Air Force planes they crossed the sensitive midline of the Taiwan Straits which lies between china and the islands chinas minister of defense justified fridays new drills saying theyre necessary to protect what it calls National Sovereignty and territorial integrity it accuses the u. S. And taiwans really party of colluding to stir up trouble. Recently the United States and the Democratic Progressive Party authorities have stepped up their collusion and frequent. To stir up trouble whether its using taiwan to contain china or rely on foreign powers to threaten others it is Wishful Thinking and is destined to be dead and who plays with fire will get burnt the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army has firm will full confidence in sufficient ability to pour it all external interference and separatist acts of Taiwan Independence and resolutely defend National Sovereignty and territorial integrity well the u. S. Undersecretary for Economic AffairsKeith Crocker arrived in taiwan on thursday hes the most Senior State Department official to travel there in 40 years but hes the 2nd prominent official to visit in 2 months rob mcbride is following the story from seoul. All of this military activity friday really ratcheting up the tension level in this part of the world the chinas Defense Ministry says its exercise was reasonable and necessary it says it but it was necessary for them to from taiwans point of view to scramble its interceptor jets when it says it detected multiple military aircraft from chinas Peoples Liberation army a crossing over the midline thats the mid line that separates the Taiwan Strait that separates taiwan from Mainland China also deploying taiwan says its missiles and defense missiles before those aircraft turned back china taiwan president ial office has called for self restraint has been very critical of this action this sort of military exercise is often used by Mainland China to show its displeasure and of course it comes as this visit takes place by keith crack from the u. S. State Department One of the most senior officials to visit taiwan it is the visit is meant for the u. S. To pay respects at a Memorial Service to the dont way a former president of taiwan but during this visit cracked will be meeting with the current president sighing way in which does not please Mainland China the ministry the chinese Defense MinistrySpokes Person who is very critical of u. S. Policy did not refer specifically to this visit but talked about the what they china sees as a very worrying trend of increased diplomatic exchanges. 15 prodemocracy activists in hong kong are back in court for their role in last years protests among them as newspaper publisher and businessman jimmy lie there facing charges of inciting organizing or participating in an authorized demonstrations outside the court one of the movements leading figure is said Hong Kong Police have banned protests for almost a year. I want to tell you well then we. Can write im going to pay for the primary vote all right. Civil and Political RightsInternational Coming out. And this is what happened a long gone sanitation facilities at a new refugee camp in greece have already started to break down thousands have begun to settle into the camp on the island of lesbos but they fear that conditions will be as poor as they were in their old camp which burned down last week 12000 people had been living there but it was only designed to hold a quarter of that the new site has space for 8000 people so far there are stuffing deckers and lesbos and says those moving into the new camp or afraid theyll be trouble there. Many people feel reluctant because they feel that theyre starting all over again they want to leave the island and they know that once they enter this camp it is a closed camp they wont be allowed to leave and again theyre going to have the question of when are their papers going to be finished and can they actually get off the island from what we understand we had some video. That we saw yesterday the toilets are ready but we did see more toilets being brought in today by the aid organizations that are helping the greek authorities set up this camp we understand that some containers of water has been brought in because a lot of the good the complaints of the refugees and migrants have been that theres no Running Water people havent been able to take a shower for the polish 9 days just imagine that you know some of the girls were explaining that to me they started giggling feeling so they said we havent even been able to wash i mean the simple things that you and i take absolutely for granted so were going to have to wait and see how this camp takes 3 huge influx of people that youre seeing now i mean yesterday it was 4000 came in today i think definitely a couple of 1000 by the end of the day and then were going to have to wait and see. How the camp takes boarders criticizing having a statement this morning saying that greece should not be building more what it called containment camps that these people should be allowed off the island as soon as possible but thats a tricky process that has to do with paperwork with the asylum process and we know that that certainly isnt something that goes very fast for a number of people being admitted to british hospitals with coronaviruses doubling every 8 days thats according to Health Secretary matt hang about he wont say whether that means another nation wide locks on will be enforced it comes as officials in france and spain tighten restrictions because of a rise in coburg 1000 cases there w. H. O. Has expressed alarm over the surge and infections across europe and joining us from london lets 1st talk about whats going on in the u. K. And talk us through the numbers and how concerned is the government there. The governments extremely concerned as our Health Officials its worth pointing out that many parts of england are already under localised lockdowns or localized restrictions a total of around 10000000. 00 people and later on friday are expecting to hear new restrictions for the county of lancashire in Northern England possibly merseyside near liverpool Major Urban Centers already under restrictions like birmingham the u. K. s 2nd city on thursday much of the northeast came under new restrictions but the press is full of reporting but the government has been told by its advisory groups a Scientific Advisory group for emergencies that in october recommends a 2 week circuit break across england new measures new restrictions not as harsh as the full lockdown that came in in late march but notably affecting things like hubs and and Entertainment Venues while trying to keep schools open and trying to keep offices open to keep the economy going in the governments i. E. S. Matt hancock hasnt ruled out this kind of 2 weeks break he has been sailing under pressure over the track and trace system which has seen many many people are unable to book a copy of 19 tests and also meet the government not beating its targets on tracing contacts hes saying that people who dont have symptoms shouldnt be coming forward well many experts are saying thats not the real problem the problem is that there is not the capacity and it really has to be improved in the in the next few weeks and what is the situation in other countries across europe and. Well the World Health Organization issued an urgent warning on thursday for all european governments saying that this is a critical time on friday already weve seen new measures brought in in france a country which sorts a Record Number of new carpet infections on thursday since the pandemic started over 11000 that was now in the last few hours nice on the south coast there has said that people can gather in more than groups of more than 10 in spain were expecting more look down restrictions in the madrid area where one in 5 hospital beds is now dedicated to a couple patients so things going in the wrong direction in the Czech Republic they saw 3000 new cases on thursday thats almost the total number they saw back in march when things were at their most acute figures like this do raise alarm bells for the Health Sectors in those countries and also. Remind us of the question of open borders again we weve been seeing for example in italy theyve been introducing domestic flights where people can get an instant test so allow them to fly but whats going to happen further afield so the worry is that the Health Services the Health Systems in those countries will be overwhelmed once again unless new restrictions are brought in very fast to get on top of these these outbreaks right now jeanne bob i thank you for reporting from london and the current virus crisis is causing a rethink about working an office says and assessed to being based at home has benefits such as reducing traffic pollution and improve Mental Health because of less Office Stress some governments such as in wales are proposing radical ideas to make the switch permanent lawrence lee reports from cardiff. What to do with all this offices all over the world mostly deserted for months and cardiff is no exception yet as elsewhere people have been prepared to work just as hard from the comfort of their own homes fill john dean is a partner in a law firm which put most of his 150 staff on home working in march has been a revelation to him and has altered the way he sees his business in the future everyone in who occupies an office is looking right now at not not at their Office Requirements and how much space do we need and more importantly what quality of space to be need so i think a lot of us believe theres going to be a flight to quality where people are maybe taking less space but better space all sorts of Business Leaders have been saying theyre now thinking about spending less on office rents and more on their employees but as more profound thinking going on as well making a virtue out of the crisis is clearly the best thing that could happen after coronavirus clearly working from home all the time is fantastic news for people who have a lot of land and terrible news if youre in a tiny apartments but certainly reorganizing the way that people use city senses is suddenly being seen as a massive opportunity. Just around the corner from the empty offices are all the signs of whats happened to high streets across the u. K. In recent years something needs to happen urgently to rescue small independent businesses wellss 1st minister had the idea to keep a full 3rd of the workforce on retainer at home permanently part on the grounds that it spreads the money around cities far more successfully than making most people come into the center every single day even in wales we have people spending up to a whole working day you can write it up over the whole week just in the car going to and from where they live and where they work and if we can make some inroads into that then its much more than economics it is about the environment it is about quality of life it is about making places where people live more important to them economically socially and environmentally this argument also suggests that big Infrastructure Projects so beloved of the government in london like this new rail line into cardiff may become a bit redundancy fall they do is move more and more people into city senses when they might be better off staying working and spending money in the area they live in you know what you really want the different sorts of people coming into getting moved and louis both cities in the u. K. Havent as not allowed that to happen so now yes what were seeing is really call into question have that model of agglomeration of of crowding together people or in large quite boring service jobs is actually giving us the benefits we need if its not going with the benefits we need while we stand all the past no doubt temples to Corporate Culture like london will resist this sort of thinking and in cardiff to the offices are still going up what isnt clear is if anyone is going to want to move into them Lawrence Leigh aljazeera in cardiff. Coming up on aljazeera more u. S. States began mopping up as Tropical Storm sally in the eaves a trail of destruction. And pieces of history we look at all that remains of the 1st mayan slave ship to ever be identified. And thats been a fairly unsubtle few days across much of japan and certainly back into most central and southern areas of china sinclair skies to the north of there and it should stay dry as we go through saturday touches on the rise again 27 in beijing but feeling quite cool in harbin just 16 degrees lots of clouds and those showers and thunderstorms but it got across the Korean Peninsula a similar story across much of japan but as you can see these rain still very heavy really lying along the coast in china and as we move on into sunday the rain once again back in the focus is a trailing front which will work its way into more eastern sections of honshu but staying clear of the Korean Peninsula still there they are down towards the south 30 celsius in hong kong with a chunk of rain showers and thunderstorms then on to south asia the razor being particularly heavy of the last few days back into the northeast of india heres the streets in assam you can see here well under water as a say the rains being quite heavy and also extending south was across much of bangladesh but if you drive failed to things on saturday not so across central areas in southern again down the west and gas right there down tools cowardice some very heavy amounts of rain they will begin to cumin ice we could have more flooding through the next couple of days and then once again those rains very heavy and beginning to push into southern areas of bangladesh. The biggest in history. As powerful nations lay claim to territories under the oceans 21. 00 geologists are secretly plotting new borders was as the struggle for resources intensifies some of the worlds most powerful scientists speak out. Ocean as monopoly on a 0. The. Again the top stories on aljazeera taiwanese fighter jets have been scrambled multiple times to intercept chinese aircraft that entered taiwans or space chinas launched military drills in response to a senior u. S. Official visit to taipei beijing says the drills are to protect what it sees as its territorial sovereignty. Sanitation facilities are already starting to break down in a new refugee camp on the greek island of us both people moving into it fear conditions will be as poor as those in the old overcrowded camp that burned down last week. The number of people being admitted to british hospitals with coronaviruses doubling every day days thats according to the Health Secretary might hancock but he wont say if the government would consider another nation wide lockdown. Heavy rain and further flooding is forecast in parts of sudan in the coming week since july floods have ravaged nearly every single state killing at least 115 people the United Nations is scaling up emergency Food Assistance and hundreds of thousands are living in desperate conditions in makeshift camps mohamad video reports and in southwestern sudan its one of the areas worst affected by the floods. This Primary School in seen jokes home is no home to some of sudans numerous flood victims at least a 1000 people holed up here every classroom he and several families theres no electricity and save the longed for the moment they could return home. To them weve been here for 13 days. The floods hit our village early in the morning we tried to build defenses to protect our homes but the winds were too strong so we decided to salvage wash we could and fled bro the. Village on the banks of the blue nile was completely destroyed then and then when they went to fight us weve lost all hope the floods destroyed our homes and swept away our livestock and everything we owned we have nothing left the worst floods in sudan in a century continue to displace thousands a total of 18 villages in sonora state im ruined by the flood waters and cut off from the rest of the state theres a lot of concern for the safety of the people who continue to live in both villages some of the aid agencies have been trying to acquit those who are willing to leave their homes most of them have been finding themselves in comps like this one comes for the displaced are growing in number and size on the outskirts of single town that when they come 1st they need th