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BBC News with Aaron Safir

The United Nations says the number of zoonotic diseases, those that jump from animals to humans, is on the rise and will continue to increase without concerted action to protect wildlife and preserve the environment. The report says the trend is driven by our increase demand for animal protein, unsustainable agricultural practices and climate change.

A new World Health Organization survey has found that 73 countries are at risk of running out of medicines needed to treat people who are HIV positive because of the coronavirus pandemic. The UN agency said about 1/3 of all people reliant on the anti-retroviral drugs lived in countries now experiencing supply shortages.

More details have been published the power given to Hong Kong police under Beijing’s new security law. These include the right to search people’s home without a warrant, restrict suspect’s movement, and force internet service providers to remove information.

Britain has announced independent sanctions against those involved in human right abuses. The targets include people accused of having had a role in the killing of Russian tax advisor Sergei Magnitsky and the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The British woman Ghislaine Maxwell who has been charged with helping the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to groom underage girls for sex has been moved to a jail in New York. She’ll appear in court later this week. She’s previously denied any wrongdoing.

Russia says it’s keeping all options available following Washington’s decision to withdraw from the Open Sky’s Treaty. The 1992 agreement allows short notice over flights of more than 30 countries to monitor military activity.

The publisher of a tell-all memoir by Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece, say it will be published next week. A New York state court earlier lifted a judge’s ruling, which temporarily blocked the publication of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.

BBC news.