brown so adrian until now hong kong's low infection rate made it the envy of the world what's gone wrong. well it's interesting isn't it adrian if this was the united states india or brazil an infection rate of just over $100.00 a day would be considered you know a good day but that's not the case in hong kong because of course up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks we've had more than 500 new infections now as to why that has happened well there are different interpretations certainly some commentators are suggesting that it's complacency hong kong that it's guard down after social distancing rules were relaxed several weeks ago that meant that people returned enthusiastically to bars restaurants and of course to the beaches medical experts offer a different view they point to hong kong's existing quarantine arrangements which exempt from quarantine people like pilots and crew america sailors as well as the drivers of lorries bring essential food supplies into hong kong now the hong kong government argues that if they were to plac

go to sirius adrian brown reporting live there from hong kong adrian many thanks indeed. the united states is still struggling to contain the world's biggest corona virus outbreak infections surging in many parts of the country including arizona florida and california the $3700000.00 cases nationwide and more than 140000 deaths but president trump has downplayed the epidemic falsely claiming in an interview that the u.s. has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world alan fischer reports from northern virginia. what the white house described as embers has become a blaze the us now is seeing around $70000.00 new cases of cold meat at the the president's own health expense expressing concern masking has become a political issue now here we are not only with 70000 new cases almost every day but from my perspective also quite concerning the number of hospitalizations which is very close to being as high in the country as it was in back in april so yeah we got a really dollar down here a number of deaths is rising to arizona and florida breaking new records the residents h

brown reporting live from hong kong adrian many thanks indeed as we reported a few minutes ago u.s. congressman and civil rights movement icon john lewis has died at the age of 80 he was a disciple of martin luther king jr and a key figure in the fight for black voting rights to see him as heidi joe castro looks back at his life we can i give up the can i give out. we cannot give you. john lewis was born into the segregated world of rural alabama in 1940 when i was growing up i saw those lines that white men colored men white women colored women white the son of black sharecroppers lewis devoured books as a child the words of dr martin luther king jr spoke to him loudest seem like he was saying to me john lewis you too can do something and i would as my mother asked my father my grandparents my great grandparents why segregation why racial discrimination it was the best way it is don't get in a way don't get in trouble but trouble would find him many times as a student leader in nashville tennessee lewis was beaten for peacefully protesting segregation at restaurants and on buses in

brown who's been following the protests in the territory adrian there was a lot more detail about this law when it was issued than people had expected how do people there think it's going to change their lives. well rob i think people feel that this law is possibly going to be a lot more far reaching than they imagine but as you mentioned in your introduction this law was only in acted basically a few minutes before midnight it's now middle of the morning here in hong kong so people will slowly be going to wading through the details of this law and trying to find out how it's going to impact on their lives because make no mistake this is a law that is going to affect everyone here in hong kong what caught my eye roll was actually article 9 of this new legislation which says the government a hunk of hong kong has to take measures to strengthen supervision and regulation of the media schools and social organizations and the internet now it's not clear what it means by social organizations that could refer to human rights groups like amnesty international which operate here in hong kong a

brown al-jazeera hong kong. florida has and during the worst corona virus outbreak in the united states new cases of sore past 10000 for a 6th day in a row that's a figure higher than most countries california and texas are also experiencing surges it takes the nationwide infection total to nearly $3800000.00 with 140000 deaths president trump says he will resume white house briefings from tuesday and he has in miami he says there's been a lot of confusion surrounding the situation. the governor of the state ron dissenters a close ally of president trump is refusing to even talk about shutting down the economy once again but as before many of the local leaders are taking a different tact here the mare of miami is talking about possibly closing down the economy once again if things don't get any better there's already a curfew in place here where i am from 10 pm till 6 am in the morning as for the emergency wards there are about 75 percent full in miami dade county some of the other parts of the state it is almos

brown in hong kong outlines the possible reasons behind the recent spike in cases. up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks we've had more than 500 new infections now as to why that has happened well there are different interpretations certainly some commentators are suggesting that it's complacency hong kong that its guard down after social distancing rules were relaxed several weeks ago that meant that people returned enthusiastically to bars restaurants and of course to the beaches medical experts offer a different view they point to hong kong's existing quarantine arrangements which exempt from quarantine people like pilots and crew mariners sailors as well as the drivers of lorries bring essential food supplies into hong kong now the hong kong government argues that if they were to place that category of workers into the current quarantine restrictions it would effectively put hong kong's food supply of risk and they're not prepared to do that so i don't think that's going to change meanwhile the media on t

brown is there adrian until now hong kong's low infection rate made it the envy of the world what's gone wrong. it's interesting isn't it adrian if we were talking about india or the united states recording more than $100.00 new infections in one day that would be seen as a good day but things are relative aren't they for hong kong that was a very bad day on sunday they've had almost 500 infections during the past 2 weeks we're not quite sure what has caused this sudden uptick in infections but medical experts point to loopholes in hong kong's quarantine arrangements which means that pilots mariners sailors as well as lorry drivers bringing essential food supplies into hong kong don't have to undergo quarantine or indeed testing of any kind they're saying that it has to change but of course that would possibly put at risk hong kong's and threaten hong kong's food supply the other thing i think that may have caused this rise in infections is basically complacency after social distancing regulations were relaxed a few years few weeks ago people rip.

brown al-jazeera hong kong. as promised his sarah clarke now in hong kong looks quieter certainly compared to some of your earlier live reports but there is still a very heavy police presence there. it certainly is and i cannot tell you with the latest figures that we got from the place with regards to the number of a risk we've had 190 people arrested so far are wednesday july 1st and these are for legal assembly they've also had 7 people arrested under these new national security laws the place that violated those laws an example would be one person who was arrested when they found him in possession of a flag in his backpack which said independence and as a result these people have been rested under these new laws could face heavy fines as a result of where we are now this is caused by by this is the start of what where the march began on wednesday we still have a very heavy police presence on the coaches and the last couple of hours we've seen a number of tactics used by the place to try to disperse the crowd

adrian brown in hong kong outlines the possible reasons behind the recent spike in cases. up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks we've had more than 500 new infections now as to why that has happened well there are different interpretations certainly some commentators are suggesting that it's complacency hong kong that its guard down after social distancing rules were relaxed several weeks ago that meant that people returned enthusiastically to bars restaurants and of course to the beaches medical experts offer a different view they point to hong kong's existing quarantine arrangements which exempt from quarantine people like pilots air crew mariners sailors as well as the drivers of lorries bring essential food supplies into hong kong now the hong kong government argues that if they were to place that category of workers into the current quarantine restrictions it would effectively put hong kong's food supply driscoll and.

brown has more from hong kong. up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks we've had more than 500 new infections now as to why that has happened well there are different interpretations certainly some commentators are suggesting that it's complacency kong's food supply driscoll and they're not prepared to do that so i don't think that's going to change meanwhile the media on the mainland says that they believe the recent protests as well as an unofficial poll that happened here in hong kong last weekend in which more than 610000 people took part is an although known source south africa's death toll from the corona virus has passed 5000 with more than 360000 infections it has around half of the continent's confirmed cases ministry of health is warning that people are not following guidelines on social distancing and masks the outbreak there is expected to peak in the coming weeks. affaires chile has been hailed as one america's most successful free market economy

our desire as adrian brown reporting live from hong kong adrian many thanks indeed. weather update next here on al-jazeera then a ban on a controversial symbol of u.s. military bases puts the defense secretary on a collision course with the president. despite the deaths of protesters mediation efforts the campaign to oust mollies president continues. hello there are warnings of extreme heat in the finals east of the u.s. now a cold front has apparently gone through there and when you combine the heat with a cold front attentive you some pretty vicious thunderstorms and in the north of new york state that looks like damage from a tornado from just that frontal system that's quite localized on the edge of lake erie and it's gone through now but the temperatures are rising again the forecast is in the middle to high thirty's of both saturday and sunday so the air is heat wave territory elsewhere it's quite warm but not the same extreme except down in for example phoenix arizona 44 degrees which is on the high and a very should be because the fire risk is still there but

joins us live now from hong kong adrian so until now on kong's no infection rate made it the envy of the world so what's gone wrong. absolutely down in hong kong in many way to set the gold standard in how to deal with this corona virus outbreak along with places like taiwan vietnam and new zealand what has gone wrong well that is hard to say we have to remember that there are a number of people coming into hong kong daryn who are exempt from the strict quarantine rules those include people like pilots flight crews as well as drivers bringing in food supplies from mainland china of course everything need hong kong needs for its survival has to be import that includes things like you know vegetable milk and water without that of course things would be very critical here so i think it's very hard for the government to sort of continue you know ensuring that those people are restricted while at the same time not affecting the food that hong kong needs to survive so that's a dilemma from hong kong you know on the one hand it wants to do its best to control this virus but it can't go too

brown al jazeera hong kong. india has begun human clinical trials for a potential corona virus vaccine but these 40000 people have tested positive there in just 24 hours in the total number of recorded infections is now more than 1100000 from new delhi here's elizabeth her on him. the 1st human clinical trials all of a vaccine called kovacs and begin today with 375 people taking part and the director of the all india institute of medical sciences where a large part of the trial is taking place so that regardless of which country comes up with the vaccine 1st india has the ability to mass produce a given its history the fact that it is the world's largest producer of generic drugs and speaking about the situation in the country he said that some places like delhi where cases have been coming down for the last 2 weeks seem to have passed their peak whereas other places especially the southern states are going through their peak now now india did record yet another single highest a rise in cases more than 40000 cas

brown reports from hong kong. the picture behind me speaks of prosperity but it's also a picture that in many ways belies the mood right now here in hong kong and i would categorize that mood by being one of suffocation suffocation from the effects of this new draconian national security law and also suffocation from the restrictions arising from covert 19 with mixed in with all of that we've also seen displays of the defiance on saturday as candidates begin submitting their nominations for those elections due to be held in exactly 50 days time on sunday september the 6 but not all candidates submitted their nominations on saturday especially those from the more radical wing of the pan democrats including people like joshua wong and lester shroom that's because at the moment the law in hong kong stipulates the people who want to stand for parliament have to swear allegiance to the basic law of hong kong as well as the government of the special administrative region of hong kong and these younger candidates quant c

brown al-jazeera hong kong. sarah clarke is live for us from hong kong sara how when we last time we spoke there were demonstrations kicking off it looks like judging by what's going on behind you the police may be more in control of the situation what is it like there now. but certainly 7 pm hong kong time at the moment of the does appear that most of the protesters have dispersed across a huge area around where we are which is where the march was meant to go ahead from course into central starts between one try at times square and course right by also victoria park now we still have a huge police presence on the street so much as you can see behind me but they've pretty much cordoned off this whole area almost penina some of these protesters and and doing identification checks and arrest so we can confirm so far that we've had a 180 arrests made on wednesday july 1st and those people were arrested for being part of taking part in an illegal assembly and that being because this rally wasn't given the go ahead b

ok let's bring in adrian brown who's in hong kong for us to mention just a moment ago the on this day normally we would see large scale protests earlier on we did see pictures of a very small protest what's been the reaction to this national security law 1st of all. that small protest you referred to is actually going on just above me on this overhead walkway a very small protest but significantly some of these protests are calling for an end to one party rule and also carrying banners saying much the same thing so i guess technically they're not just testing this new law they are breaking this new law now we saw at least one person being taken away it was unclear whether he'd been arrested but certainly there were many more police and media than protesters now the group are now making their way slowly towards the convention center they won't be able to get inside the convention center of course where that ceremony is now taking place but this is the 1st test as i say of the new law so a little tiny moment of history on a day of major history as to the reaction so far well as you migh

brown al jazeera hong kong. as the united states struggles to contain the world's biggest corona virus outbreak president trump says he will resume the white house briefings from tuesday the president held a daily public ratings at the start of the pandemic but suspended them in april after widespread criticism of misleading statements have been 83800000 cases across america and more than 140000 deaths. let's go to andy calicos live for us in miami florida florida's one of the worst hit states what's the situation there now. well lauren more than 10000 new cases reported today here on monday now 360000 people have been tested in this state and around 15 percent of them are testing for covert 19 but perhaps the most shocking figure is this state has now lost more than 5000 of its residents to covert 99 to put all that into perspective about 3 and a half to 4 weeks ago by contract to the virus myself which is why i've not been standing here reporting on this state being ravaged by covert 19 and back then we were t

brown al-jazeera hong kong. so to talk joins us now from a protest march in hong kong so the last time we spoke it looks like police are trying to push those crowds back how are things looking now. well that's still the case where we are which is in course i by this is a starting point of wednesday's rally this is where the march was meant to begin and we got to behind we've got a number of police they've basically they're checking the identity of the people who are here gathering in this area and they've also made a number of arrests we can confirm about 70 arrests so far and this of course is for a legal assembly we've also got 2 people we can confirm have been arrested under these new national security laws and these are the 1st people to be arrested under these laws so far and those laws were invoked implemented on july 1st now at the moment we've got on one side on my left we've got a very busy thoroughfare from around quarter by 3 to one child and we can confirm the tear gas has been fired pepper bullets h

brown has more now from hong kong . i think almost certainly that this new law is going to occur tale the protest movement it's not necessarily going to end it there was a small protest quite near the venue where the anniversary handover ceremony was taking place on wednesday morning the police blocked these protesters but significantly these protesters were calling for the end of one party rule in china at the end of the dictatorship i spoke to one of the protesters a very own who said that he fully expects to be arrested so these people are out intentionally to test the law now i saw several people being taken away i don't know if they were arrested but the police held back in terms of using the usual sort of assertive actions we've seen during the past few weeks and months carol and the chief executive of hong kong addressed that ceremony that flag raising ceremony on wednesday morning she said this new law was necessary and filled a very big gap she also said the past year had been the most difficult of her career b

brown in hong kong but 1st to katrina you're in beijing where chinese officials are briefing the media about the new security law catrina so what more have officials there been saying about the reaction to this news new security law. so jam we're hearing from the legislative commission of the n.p.c. standing committee and the hong kong mccalla fez office here in beijing and those of the bodies were sponsible formulating this national security law here in china so we've had mainly from a junk shell mean who is the vice director that his press conferences mainly focused on 2 things praising this law and defending it 1st of praise he said that this bill was crucial for maintaining hong kong's prosperity and stability this is been a consistent line from beijing on the stool it's said that the mainland has given a lot to hong kong that hong kong was allowed to thrive mainly in the ninety's in the thousands after it was handed back over to china he says that this war was it is a turning point for hong kong and puts hong kong back on track for that development he also says that many residents

brown al jazeera hong kong. ok let's go back to that developing story out top story this hour that news coming to us out of oxford university in oxfordshire the county bucks which are in the u.k. they've had some pretty positive test results of the back of their plans to develop a vaccine against corona virus this is an online news conference where they're taking us through it with say the developments how significant they are and what they think the direction of travel will be when it comes to developing a full vaccine that offers immunity for perhaps a period of up to 6 months or so let's listen in to what's being set. over to terry's our next phase. thank you and just to reiterate everything that has been said already and reciprocate sighted to see these results as and where this is one step along the way a long journey we are very grateful for all of back sneeze all in tears clinical and not have enabled us to get this are there's lots more testing to do and we're excited to do that if not a bit tired. i'm f

brown al-jazeera hong kong. all right sarah clarke is about protest march in hong kong she joins us live from there now we can see protesters behind you that gives us an idea of their sentiment but i'm also wondering about the people who are not on the streets some afraid to come out on some probe aging at this point. but i will look at the situation of where we are now this is the point where this rally was meant to start this is the march that started in causeway by the plan was to go from here into central now the police have rejected the request by the super human rights front to go ahead with that march but people are still here anyway the police have confirmed we've got about 30 arrests so far but we've also had those people arrested for legal assembly but we also have 2 people have been arrested under the national security law and these are the 1st to be arrested under these new laws which were introduced on july 1st which is today to coincide with this rally now one of those people who was arrested here

brown al-jazeera hong kong. all right sarah clarke is joining us now from that protest march in hong kong protest sara but we understand as well arrest tell us more is going on. we can confirm from the place that they now have been 30 people arrested now this is a legal assembly and we've also had one arrest of the 1st person to be arrested under the national security laws and that was a person who had his identity checked as well as his possessions and within his possession i found a flag stating independence and the others i should say where we are is the starting point where the rally was initially meant to go ahead this was going to be organized by the civil human rights front and that's the organization that organizes the big the big rallies we saw last year one and 2000000 people of course the police rejected a request to go ahead this year on july 1st but of course i gather here anyway i'd like to try to decipher how many people are here but it's sizable and what i think we are seeing is that they have be

brown has more from hong kong. this is the english version of the new legislation it runs to $39.00 pages an awful lot to read but it's quite clear that this law touches a whole range of things schools foreigners the internet the media it is far reaching a much more far reaching i think than many people anticipated and as you mentioned in your introduction in parts the that the law is very very vaguely worded and the worry is it's not going to be very broadly applied one legal expert says that yes beijing is only going to have jurisdiction in a few number of cases but it still gives beijing a high degree of discretion so i think there will be on these and also remember this law is going to touch not just every person here in hong kong but potentially people outside of the special administrative region so if people for instance in countries like the united states britain europe start to advocate hong kong independence or support the idea of separatism those people could be targeted but again the law doesn't make cle

brown al jazeera hong kong. as the united states struggles to contain the world's biggest corona virus outbreak president trump says he will resume the white house briefings from tuesday the president held a daily public briefings at the start of the pandemic but suspended them in april after widespread criticism of misleading statements they've been nearly 3800000 cases across america and more than 140000 deaths that's going to end a calico who's live in miami florida and the florida one of the worst hit states so what's the situation there now. well aren't today's figures just as shocking of there as they have been for the last few weeks more than 10000 new cases 360000 cases statewide in total but perhaps the most shocking figure now more than 5000 deaths out of all that into perspective about 3 and a half weeks ago are contract and covert 1000 myself i haven't been standing here reporting on how the virus has been ravaging this state but 3 and a half weeks ago in my last report i was talking about 2000 new c

brown al-jazeera hong kong. there's been a protest in gaza city in support of palestinian prisoners who are sick and being held in israeli prisons the march organized by the popular front for the liberation of palestine was held outside the red cross center. director rain and rising river waters of swept across southern and central china and the standard 40 people are dead or missing and nearly 24000000 are affected by the worst floods to hit china in decades katrina you reports from beijing. villages submerged and thousands of homes destroyed a flood looted inundated 24 chinese provinces emergency teams have been sent to rule areas to help trapped a delicious many people have died or are missing and more than 2000000 have been evacuated from their homes in mountainous areas landslides are an added danger i am one of those people afraid of living in their house there's a landslide near the back of the house which is also flooded. urban areas have also been battered in her face city an adequate province roads bec

brown al-jazeera hong kong. several egyptian prisons and police stations are suspected to have virus breaks a report by human rights watch says at least 14 prisoners and detainees have likely died from cope with 1000 complications is calling on the government to improve its testing and medical care about 13000 prisoners have been released since late february egypt's foreign minister has met palestinian leaders in the west bank city of ramallah. reaffirmed egypt's support for a 2 state solution and rejected israel's plan to annex palestinian land the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had said he would begin annex in parts of the west bank and the jordan valley from july the 1st for more on this let's go live to him who's in ramallah is really an expansion plans they seem to be on ice for the time being because of a surge of coronavirus so what's the point of this meeting. it comes as part of the palestinian officials diplomatic efforts to try and pressure the u.s. and israel through the arab countries esp

brown explains the reasons behind the rise in numbers. up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks we've had more than 500 new infections now as to why that has happened well there are different interpretations certainly some commentators are suggesting that it's complacency hong kong that its guard down after social distancing rules were relaxed several weeks ago that meant that people returned enthusiastically to bars restaurants and of course to the beaches medical experts offer a different view they point to hong kong's existing quarantine arrangements which exempt from quarantine people like pilots and crew mariners sailors as well as the drivers of lorries of bring essential food supplies into hong kong now the hong kong government argues that if they were to place that category of workers into the current quarantine restrictions it would affect every put hong kong's food supply driscoll and they're not prepared to do that so i don't think that's going to change meanwhile the media

brown al-jazeera hong kong a little after 9 pm in hong kong and sarah clarke is in our bureau there you're out in the streets earlier today sara what was it like. well can update you on the latest figures from the police they have now arrested 300 people today is a wednesday is protests and this is with regards to illegal assembly of course today's protests it was deemed illegal the organizers initially tried to request permission to go ahead for this march from causeway brain to center but of course the police denied that and therefore anyone taking part in today's rally was considered taking part in an illegal activity we can also confirm we now have 9 people who were arrested under the national security laws these laws that were fast tracked by beijing and introduced on july 1st being the 23rd anniversary of the handover from british rule of hong kong to china and now we can also report that one of those 9 was as young as 15 years of age and you mentioned earlier there was a huge police presence in the people the protesters tried together at the initial starting point and march b