And trying to keep the lessons going to meet the pandemic the lengths theyre going to remote areas of indians. And foreign belgians Thomas Peters is new to the lead on day 2 at the u. S. Open hes overtaken Justin Thomas who had a course record in his helping round on their estate. So then taiwan has scrambled 18 fighter jets to track nearby Chinese Military planes in an escalation of tension over the visit of a u. S. Official china says the drills were necessary accusing the United States and taiwan of colluding to stir up trouble from abroad explains. Taiwan scrambling gets jets after 18 Chinese Military aircraft entered its Defense Identification Zone before turning back. As its done previously in the Taiwan Strait this military exercise by china was its way of showing displeasure at increased diplomatic exchanges between the u. S. And taiwan it comes as u. S. Undersecretary keith crock the most Senior State Department official in decades continues his visit to the island that follows another visit last month by u. S. Health secretary alex asia as part of what beijing has condemned as a dangerous trend. Of our whether it is to control china using taiwan as leverage or solicit foreign support its all Wishful Thinking and destined to be a dead end those who play with fire will burn themselves. Once again taiwan is caught in the middle of worsening china u. S. Relations increasingly the u. S. Is stepping up to back taiwan for a whole range of reasons but to Counter China regionally mainly. Want a democracy as well as its critical job graphic location has assumed an increasingly more Important Role in u. S. Strategy ending the syfy so were likely to see an increasing retching up of tension in the tarrasch rates. Diplomacy with taiwan seems to be part of a wider wreford by the u. S. To rally an International Coalition against what it sees as increasing chinese belligerence with mounting criticism of beijings actions in chin jang and hong kong and its response to covert 19 as well as territorial disputes with its neighbors theres a growing list of countries sharing an anti china grievance china has shown its ready to push back and with growing military power that it can call upon of macbride aljazeera. Now than a surgeon in corona virus cases across the United Kingdom has forced the government to announce more stretch and as infections worldwide top 30000000 official estimates show that the number of new daily cases in england has nearly doubled to around 6000. 00 in just the past week and leaders are warning they could be another full scale lockdown if the situation does not improve new measures to stop the virus spreading are also being rolled out in parts of france and spain and this comes a day after the w. H. O. Warned of an alarming rise in cases across europe and israel has entered a nationwide lockdown for the 2nd time as infections rise this is come at the height of the jewish Holiday Season in a blow to already struggling Business Owners or at hard for to standing by for us in western but 1st lets go to the barber whos there in london for us and many many as i say real concerns there in the u. K. Is numbers rising rapidly. Certainly nic not only of the hospitalizations doubling every 8 days as you were mentioning the Health Secretary is saying but also the number of infections seems to be rising every 7 doubling every 7 to 8 days as well weve already got restrictions in many parts of england which affects around 10000000 people new measures reported in the north. East on 1st thing in our friday more areas including lancashire in Northern England merseyside and places urban centers already under localised lockdown includes a Major Urban Centers like birmingham and manchester the government though seems to be getting the message now that those restrictions are not going to work on their own their advisers from what they call sage the Scientific Advisory group for emergencies have been telling them this week if they dont bring in tougher measures by next month there will be a significant number of covered 19 deaths well now the cabinet is actively considering what some people are calling a Circuit Breaker of perhaps 2 weeks theyre not calling it theyre saying its not a lot down but it will be england wide mainly affecting businesses like pubs and Entertainment Venues with restrictions theyre trying to leave schools and leave play places of work like offices unaffected but the government is being told that its not doing enough to communicate earlier on friday the mayor of this city london city can said that he blamed government incompetence for the fact that so many londoners were unable to get a test for coronavirus when they needed to. Similarly the 1st minister of why all the devolved ministration there had spoken of a vacancy at the heart of the United Kingdom saying that Boris Johnson the Prime Minister wasnt meeting he himself and the other leaders and nicolas sturgeon the 1st minister of scotland has backed him up saying that there needs to be a meeting of whats known as cobra the Emergency Committee that meets for regional and National Crisis he says that happen has to happen within the next few days. Seemed to me yesterday and i have to at the meeting of senior Scottish Government officials and advisers the small. To assess the Current Situation and discussions across the 4 nations of the u. K. Will i hope take place in the coming days ive a small mind asked the Prime Minister to convene a cobra meeting over this weekend so today i want to give the nation advance notice that the coming days are likely to see some hard but necessary decisions and it is not just the u. K. That is in trouble is real concern across europe to. There isnt so much so that other countries are having to bring in very restrictive measures in response to rising cases france for example on thursday it had a Record Number of new cases almost 11000 higher than at any time during the pandemic and now the city of nice on the Southern Coast has brought in measures which say that no more than 10 people can gather in public spaces in austria theyre telling the public that they cant meet in groups of more than 10 indoors in spain were waiting to hear more restrictive measures for the madrid area there one in 5 hospital beds now being occupied by a copied 19 patient so theyre very worried about a return to the dreadful scenes that we saw in march and april where there really was extreme pressure on the Health Services in countries like spain and in italy which at that time were recording the largest numbers of deaths but had seemed to have turned the tide in recent months and so the message from the World Health Organization to european governments is you need to act much more quickly to stop localized outbreaks do what it takes in terms of these local lock downs out also keep the quarantine period at our recommended 14 days countries like france and the u. K. And ireland have all reduced their times but the World Health Organization saying we really need to be much more careful about these measures because we cannot afford to go into what theyre calling a 2nd wave of covered now tim thanks very much indeed for that reporting from london big problems in israel to the nation reimposing nationwide curbs lets go to harry for 6 standing by for us in western hussam harry said numbers there to have been growing and growing the government clearly thinks that this 2nd lockdown is the only way forward. Indeed the situation here is very similar to what he was just talking about in europe but. If you think about 6000. 00 new cases a day in the u. K. Up to 5 an hour or so here it is really on the basis of a small population and so that is the reason that these measures have been imposed they were imposed a couple of hours ago 7000 police and soldiers on the streets trying to ensure that the restrictions are followed these restrictions include not being allowed more than a kilometer from your front door that was something that was only changed at the last minute last night by the Prime Minister after the representation it was meant to be 500 meters there was talk of even tighter restrictions being imposed Prime Minister netanyahu says that he reserves the right to do that in the next few days so its this continuing story of slightly mixed even contradictory messages coming from the government and thats one reason that people are concerned that israelis who have been pretty fed up by the situation and confused by the instructions coming from their government simply might not follow these rules to the letter and there are particular areas and cultures and religions that. There is a concern as well particularly high infection rates among palestinian israelis during the wedding season in those areas that has now started to slow but the other area of concern was the very high rates among ultraorthodox israelis as well and indeed one of the reasons that there werent targeted localized shutdowns earlier is because of the political power of those ultraorthodox parties saying they should not be discriminated against thats one reason that we have this sweeping nationwide lockdown instead the 1st developed nation in the world to go back into a 2nd nationwide measure of this kind now the reports coming from the meeting last night the Cabinet Meeting last night suggested that the coronavirus. Darr is concerned that these measures are strict as they are they still have exceptions within them to keep businesses running they might only get the numbers down to 3 or 4000. 00 new cases of day so thats not really a huge benefit for such a big cost especially when the Health Ministry is saying that they need to get down to 1000 a day if theyre going to start really loosening these measures are you thanks for that to her force there in west jerusalem lets bring now to martin nuri whos associate professor of epidemiology at Brown University joins us by skype from providence in rhode island welcome to the program at this age in europe was it always lightly given the holidays that have been taken the flights and journeys that are being made across borders in the north and some. I think weve learned if weve learned one thing weve learned if we ease up on restrictions too early that is before there is adequate Community Control of the virus then were really looking for trouble in resurgence is likely to happen and i think thats what were seeing in many places in europe and certainly in places in the United States we ended a lockdown much too early before the virus was significantly under control and were paying a price for that now with the continued and stubborn persistence of around 40000. 00 new cases a day in the United States so any as youll sense then that were going to see more and more lock downs having to be enforced as things get worse again. I think in many places we are moving in that direction. Theres no doubt and i think theres now good Scientific Evidence that lock downs are effective at slowing the spread of transmission so therefore it stands to reason that reversing lockdowns has has potentially the opposite impact especially when theres significant transmission occurring acetic that the trick is that lock down river re removing lock downs can be safe and effective but only when Community Transmission is under control when you do it prematurely then youre looking for trouble and thats where we are in many places in the world right now and how worried then should we be about whats to come in the winter months in the Northern Hemisphere to what degree could that worsen things yeah i think we should be quite concerned about that the truth is that were not going to have a vaccine any time in the near future despite promises from some of our political leaders and so we have to learn to live with the virus we have to learn to coexist with the virus certainly in winter months in the north where people will be more indoors or social distancing will be more difficult to achieve and when the pressure to reopen is extreme i think it is going to lead us down a corridor that we really dont want to go right i say i guess youre of the view like the Health Officials in the United States are saying that 2nd or 3rd quarter of next year is really very likely time that a vaccine could start rolling out but what about yet what about testing out the saliva test could which could enable travel to become easier around the world could that happen. Yeah i mean i think youre right that the vaccine are still quite a long way off but that doesnt mean that were doomed until the end that many things that we could be doing and weve learned very simple lessons from Public Health about things that are successful so more square and frequent testing as you refer to allows us to identify cases early and start transmission by isolating those people and contacting their partners so there are things there that can be done that are successful that can get us at least to the point where we have a vaccine many months from now but its going to take more sacrifice and frankly many people are tired and fatigued of the lockdown and its a difficult call to i see people to lock down and yet know after theyve been through such extreme sacrifices in the 1st lockdown but the truth is without a vaccine thats our only hope of getting through this endemic right now right it seems it could be a long road ahead yep all right larry thanks a lot but more still ahead on the news including you cant do the mail in ballots because you can have tremendous fraud. Despite trumps words the United States is scrambling for a 1st class mail in vote service in time for novembers president ial election. Will it be a waste of space whales to keep the building offices but covert 19 is prompting a push to get more people working from home permanently. Weve got support coming up to the u. S. Open champion would be willing any more major titles this year will tell us why. The 2 of the most popular chinese in the abs in the world to talk and we chat to be to be blocked from downloading the United States within days President Trump is ordering they be removed from google and apple stores will come to force on sunday video sharing app to talk has 80000000 active users in the United States alone as a popular messaging service and is used for mobile payments all transactions through the apps will also be blocked lets cross now to White House Press when it can be how its end complete said tell us more about this is a complex story is native of ownership and perceived National Security. Yeah thats the concern by the u. S. Government seems to be motivating this this isnt a new concern this is just the latest manifestation of it and in a divided washington we should point out that democrats as well as republicans in the United States seem to support this on the least on capitol hill in terms of the concern that china has been using a number of backdoor technologies the latest concern being we chat as well as tic toc in order to steal user data and essentially surveil americans so back in august the u. S. Government essentially the Top Administration saying look at were going to need a u. S. Buyer if you want to continue to have this very Popular Platform operating in the United States so that we can protect National Security that kind of set off this kind of bidding war back and forth with a number of Companies Microsoft oracle as well as even walmart it looks like oracles the one thats going to take this on theyve put in a proposal to the Commerce Department but it hasnt been approved by the u. S. Government hasnt been approved by the Chinese Government and in the midst of all of this there are still these lingering questions about security and it seems that that is kind of whats prompted this escalation by the Commerce Department as you point out now halting the downloads any sort of business transactions as of sunday for this very popular app in the United States or is it will be brewing for a very long time as you say how long its going to take before we have some kind of resolution. Well this is really just the latest manifestation in a much broader war weve been covering here in aljazeer