the lucky. to get. 0. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes the coronavirus pandemic continues to weigh heavily in the u.s. more than 1000000 more people out of work as the rate of transmission continues to grow. a question of numbers in south africa coronavirus deaths are rising but i think being reported accurately as unrest continues in mali west african leaders

try to broker a deal between the president and the opposition. and the race to the red planet gathers momentum china becomes the latest nation to launch a mission to mars only willing to dispose news of what would have been the the needs of the tokyo lympics that's been put forward a year but this one is turning but the court might tyson is coming out of retirement for an exhibition fight against. the staggering impact of covert 19 on the united states shows no sign of easing new numbers released on thursday highlight the twin tragedies of the corona virus infections across the u.s. have now topped 4000000 on average that's 2600 people testing positive every hour and the economic cost there is just this huge more than 1400000 people claimed

unemployment benefits in just the past week it's the 18th week in a row that the number has topped a 1000000 economists estimate that 25000000 people are now out of a chill. republicans are preparing to reveal the one trillion dollar coronavirus rescue package but that accredits say it isn't adequate house speaker nancy pelosi is heavily criticize the package saying that more can be done but we have a real challenge for getting politics through getting partisanship this is patriotism for our country we're up to 4000000 people and a matter of just over 2 weeks from the 3000000 mark we have to act and what they're proposing falls far short well meanwhile enhanced benefits brought in because of the coronavirus are due to expire at the end of the month the white house says it's working on extending the scheme but that's little comfort for those

still waiting for money they had already been promised gabriel is on the reports now from new york before sunrise hundreds of people line up outside an unemployment office in midwest city oklahoma they've all lost their jobs amid the economic recession caused by coronavirus and are now waiting to get help and be laid unemployment checks deidre blakely used to work at a hotel casino in milwaukee wisconsin she was laid off in march and has yet to receive for unemployment benefits it's been over 3 months with no income i've been really stressed lately. bills are piling up. i worried all the time. sometimes i went it got to be a little bit of a habit when i woke up in the morning to look at my front door and see if there was an eviction notice on there but deidre blakely is just one of more than

$50000000.00 americans who've lost their jobs since a pandemic hit the u.s. in march congress passed a pandemic aid package that included an extra $600.00 a week for anyone left unemployed by the pen demick the problem the money still hasn't reached many who need it so why are so many americans still waiting for their unemployment money i posed that question to jesse ross dean the former chief economist at the u.s. department of labor he said the federal government and state governments are facing an tidal wave of unprecedented demand and that the systems set up in the 1970 s. to distribute unemployment money simply have not been updated and can't keep up when you triple or quadruple the volume of claims that come in the system the computer systems can't keep up and then to the extent that people need to be involved we don't have enough people to keep up with that and so the whole the

whole mechanism of the system is set up for a time that's very different from now and that leads to difficulties in getting payments out in times like this and with the pandemic still spreading across america and more states closing down again after reopening it's feared the unemployment lines could grow along with the frustrations of those still waiting for help he rolls on dough al-jazeera in new york. well the u.s. state of florida is reporting its highest a single day increase of covert $1000.00 deaths it's also added more than $10000.00 new infections for the 8th consecutive day the state is now the worst within the u.s. and has been criticized for closing slowly and reopening to quickly most recently florida governor run the scientists resisted implementing a statewide facemask order but in miami they've increased the amount of that people can be fined for not wearing a mask a fine of $100.00 will be given for the 1st offense double the unishe all $50.00

fine when face coverings became mandatory there several weeks ago and the gallagher is in miami for us now so florida as we were saying one of the states that's worst hit by the coronavirus a pellet give us a little bit more detail about what the situation there is like now. well a dog day for this state with 174 deaths reported on thursday that is a state record and for about the past 10 days the number of you cases has been at least 10000 in fact on july the 12th it was closer 215000 in total 5600 residents of this state have now lost their lives and we're still facing this patchwork approach to tackling the pandemic here you've got ron dissenters the governor of this state a close ally of president trump giving a press conference this morning saying he won't reconsidering warning consider closing down businesses and scaling things back when it comes to schools something

on the mind of many parents here he's encouraging as is donald trump to get kids back into school saying they are at least not risk but of course there is a risk to the teachers in those schools and to the people at the homes where the children return to and in fact just yesterday we had a 10 year old girl die here in the state of florida from coronavirus complications so it is still a very dire situation here when it comes to testing that is becoming a real. problem i can try to corona virus about 4 weeks ago myself so you have to tell everyone around you that you've had it they then go and get tested and most of the people around me that got tested out to wait at least 10 days for those test results to come through there are other reports suggesting 2 weeks no obviously that kind of weight is not recommended the c.d.c. says it should just take 2 days and in that period of time you can actually contract covert 19 making those test results all but useless so this state continues to face many challenges and whilst gov run to scientists won't mandate

mask wearing here in miami dade which has been hit worst of all in this state there is now a mandated mask rule applied if people get caught near about 40 plus officers out on the streets trying to put this in place you will get fined and could potentially face jail that does seem to be working here in the city of miami because the cases are trending downwards but overall the state is still in the middle of a very serious pandemic gallagher with the latest there from miami in florida and they thank you it's going to bolivia now the country is postponing its presidential election because of a rising number of coronavirus cases there the vote will now be held in october 5 months after the initial may date but libya's interim president has a name and theirs and many of our cabinet have tested positive for covert 19 the delay has been criticized by bolivia's former leftist and 1st indigenous leader ever morales who resigned in november after mass protests. let's go live now to

that is a bow is in the. forest so it's been bad enough to postpone the presidential election yet again just how bad is the situation in bolivia. when is very very serious as we know as you say earlier today via lecturer tribunal announced that they postponing the elections from september 6 am till october 18th that's about a month and i have there's this has been a story that has been on going since i committee advised the health ministry that elections could not happen in bolivia right now that the peak of the virus will head to livia probably by late july and it will last for a while and probably remain in the country throughout all this and that's why they're saying that elections are not in a way we're commendable at this point what we know right now is that hospitals in the capital of boss in cities like some tacos have completely collapsed funeral services have also collapsed the police have reported that they're picking up the

bodies of people on the street so it's a very very dire situation on the ground at least 6 political parties in the country have been requesting to the elections to be postponed able more movement towards socialism party has been saying that the elections need to happen right now that it is a threat to bolivia as democracy let's not forget what happened in bolivia last year it will what i just was forced to resign after protests took over their elections were suspended what i just had to leave the country and that's why many many in bolivia are saying that the elections should happen right now but the situation if extremely difficult at this point i said before 2500 people have lost their lives are saying that that figure could be much higher but many human rights groups we have spoken to are saying that elections are necessary in order in a way to get transparent elections are necessary in order to guarantee that the political tension that exists in bolivia right now can be decreased

a lot of issues there that need to be balanced and you mentioned how you know how horrible the numbers are 1 and really when you look at latin america as a whole some of the numbers are staggering there have been 800000 cases in latin america in just 24 hours. that's correct and the impact in latin america is romantic because of the problems of the endemic problems that latin america has overcrowding in many of the major cities the lack of access to public health inequality among many others and 100000 cases in this fast 24 hours that's at the center of this epidemic in the region is brazil with 67000 confirmed cases in this past a feel for how in the past 24 hours with the virus reaching to the amazon rain forest affecting indigenous communities affecting people living in brazil's favelas with as i said before problems of poverty overcrowding access to public health 2nd

the amount 2nd amount of infections we've seen an incredible rise in argentina with over 5000 cases argentina was one of the 1st countries in the region to impose a very strict lockdown with security forces on the ground but in the past few days the cities of one aside and greater will cite is where around 12000000 people live testart it to open up some businesses and shops have started to open up and the cases have increased and also another country that's been affected is the rule it's the 2nd country with the largest amount of cases in latin america and we're seeing that the amount of infections are moving towards the south the city of akiba they have reported over 10000 cases in this past 24 hours doctors have been protesting there that they don't know how do not have enough supplies in order to cope with what's happening in the country so most definitely that america is deeply affected with what is going on not only because of the amount of loss of life but also because of the impact that it will have on those region's economy. with the latest

there from what a scientist that is as always thank you. well it's not just lashing america there has been a surge of new coronavirus cases in france and spain and new cases in france rose by a 1000 on thursday as a 66 percent increase in 3 weeks. with 10 deaths and regional authorities across spain introduced fresh coronavirus restrictions after more than 2 and a half 1000 people tested positive in june that was an average of $132.00 new cases per day. the number of coronavirus cases in south africa meanwhile has surged past 400000 and that has prompted the president of syria. to shut schools for the next 4 weeks the announcement comes as scientists warn that there's a huge discrepancy between the number of reported kovan 1000 deaths and deaths from natural causes an independent committee found about 17000 extra deaths on wednesday

south africa recorded a record 572 corona virus that's pushing its total near 6000 it's also got the 5th highest number of infections in the world that we bradshaw is the chief specialist scientist at the south african medical research council she's also the co-author of the council's weekly report on deaths in south africa she says the number of deaths over the last few weeks has been well above that of previous years . we began tracking at the medical research council we've been tracking green number of total deaths which we can. turn to those for natural causes and those we unnaturally excellence and homicides and the will plot only against what we will expect from previous years and you know we will not surprise that we know there's

a coronavirus. and. for me sitting in the way some cave problems you can kick and carting are and the numbers of days we have seen the last few weeks have been rising well above the previous few. numbers the u.n. says arab countries must show more mutual support by creating regional solidarity funds to support economies impacted by the coronavirus the course came as iraq recorded more than 100000 infections and 4100 and $22.00 deaths baghdad international airport has reopened for shuttle commercial flights after months of closure during the covert $1000.00 pandemic the u.n. warns the arab world faces a deep and long lasting economic consequences as a result of the coronavirus. cost sammis shekau is from the international

federation of red cross and the red crescent he says western advice to stay at home and self isolate simply doesn't work for those hardest hit in the middle east and throughout the arab world. corona is just the last crisis that now makes things just much worse the unemployment the effects on the health care sector the collapse of economies we're seeing it right now and this isn't something we project we're living it across the region some countries are affected more than others i was in syria last week to monitor the situation to look at the health care sector to look at the vale ability of protection material for the health stuff on the volunteers and is devastating the situation we're doing absolutely our best to provide the supplies needed as humanitarians but that is clearly insufficient this requires absolutely regional and global leadership and partnerships to at least

stem the growth of the corona virus which is probably what we're seeing now is the tip of the iceberg and the messages that are across the world are global now you know stay at home self isolate and so on are meaningless for a father or mother who would that you would the where the children are hungry of course they're not going to self isolate unless somebody provides them with the food and the water. to where they are and sometimes it's a refugee camps or slum areas or congested neighborhoods so this is what we work with with the local red cross and red crescent so cross the region. and we've come up with all kinds of practical messages to replace water with for example rubbing your hands with just sun and even coffee grounds and so forth there's a lot of public health messages that deal in context july's these preventive measures to the population or to the camp or to the slum area where this this coronavirus is growing and we were constantly saying nobody is safe until everybody

is safe and those are the most vulnerable communities that we are targeting in that sense and you're absolutely right to say this is not just about funding as well what we have seen with this type of pandemic is in fact there's a deficit in in the exchange of the latest science and medicine and it's the narrative is in fact being written as we speak and it changes every week there's a deficit in bodies on the ground volunteers are are critical are crucial the men and women in the streets that are going and how do you trust that access into the communities to change the behaviors for the healthier or the more hygenic behaviors are critical so it's not just about money it's multiple multiple trucks that that have to be activated to kill this pandemic coming up on al-jazeera no breakthrough or breakdown but the e.u. warns of bracks a trade deal by september that is unlikely. farmers in sudan's blue nile state

worry that he has grand when a project will leave them high and dry and then sport once again tokyo marks one year to go to the olympics even though uncertainty still hangs over the games. 5 west african heads of state capital bamako to try to mediate 2 weeks of political crisis they've been holding talks with miley's president abraham. as well as the country's opposition the unrest in mali is threatening to destabilize the region there have been protests for 6 weeks with tens of thousands of people that step down reports. nigeria senegal ghana ivory coast and the share their president on an extraordinary mission in bamako

aimed at ending mollies political crisis. we are here to meet president key to the various parties concerned to bring peace and ensure that mali returns to the paths to stability for the sake of the whole region outside their meeting demonstrators supporting mullion opposition leaders to my list he remains missing after being abducted during the parliamentary elections in april it is time for these african heads of state to intervene in the actions of you become and his government to bring back to his family safe and sound as soon as possible in his absence and unprecedented protest movement calling itself the find among its leader. but also leaders of the opposition in civil society all calling for president. to resign. police fired bullets in july as demonstrators attempted to set fire to the national assembly building roadblocks and seize control of the national t.v.

station the west african regional organization echo osce made a series of recommendations on sunday to end the crisis including setting up a new constitutional court to rule over $31.00 contested parliamentary seats and creating a national unity government but the m 5 rejected the recommendations and demands that the resignation of president. nothing has moved for the moment and they told us nothing truly i wanted to have something to say i said and i will say again we are standing as a people were not resigned we are not submitting we are not lying down i would prefer to die as a martyr than to die as a traitor the young people who have lost their lives have not died in vain. millions of millions fled years of fighting between mali's army and armed groups linked to al-qaeda and i still in the north and center of the country it turns in mali in neighboring countries continue despite 14000 french and un troops based in

the. 7 years after becoming president peters critics say he's failed to deliver peace and is unable to unite millions who are seeking a better future because halting al-jazeera. french president of minimum across on has warned turkey against maneuvers in the eastern mediterranean and this calling for the e.u. to consider sanctions it follows and has moved to send ships into the water as an energy source mission the conflict in libya has proved to be another source of tension between the 2 countries turkey backs the un recognize government of national accord in tripoli while france has been accused of providing military support to the warlord telephone half that. has more now from paris. the french president was meeting his counterpart from the republic of cyprus at the lease and he made some statements before the 2 leaders went in for their

discussions now he said that he believed that the e.u. needed to respond more strongly to what he called provocations in the eastern mediterranean and he was talking about turkey's continue drilling for oil and gas off the coast of cyprus the republic of cyprus is part of the e.u. the north of cyprus the breakaway north is pro turkey now the e.u. says this oil and gas drilling is illegal it has called on turkey in the past to stop and there are e.u. sanctions on ankara for this france would like to see more sanctions imposed and tensions flared even further just on wednesday when turkish warships actually accompanied a turkish submarine being used for this oil and gas exploration in the area again violating what michael said was violation i should say of maritime law u.s. secretary of state my compost says the chinese consulate in houston was

a hub of spying and intellectual property theft the u.s. justice has said the department has said it charged for chinese nationals with visa fraud the arrests were made a day after ordering the closure of the houston consulate justice department says it has arrested 3 people and the seeking a force person. mike hanna joins us now from washington d.c. so mike all of this happened yesterday of course what more do we know about these arrests. well the arrests were actually made in a staggered fashion one of the arrest was made in mid june it's only become public knowledge the other arrests were made during various stages within july but each of these individuals came into the u.s. on a j. one visa claiming to be academic researchers about the department of justice's set following interviews by the f.b.i. it became apparent that all of them were ranking members of the people's liberation

army they were military officers and they had met it during interrogation according to the justice department that their purpose in the united states was to spy on various facilities they were enrolled at different universities one u.c.l.a. in southern in san francisco studying their bio arctics another one was looking at various other aspects in different university at stanford so they were different universities and important to note that at least one of them has taken shelter in the consulate in san francisco justice department says that f.b.i. agents are waiting there to arrest this person should he emerged from the consulate so if they are found guilty there's a statutory sentence of 10 years along with a 250 $1000.00 fine now the only interesting thing really is why justice department took so long to make these arrests and the information public given that at least

one of them was arrested and questioned last month but the f.b.i. also says it has questioned chinese visa holders in some 25 u.s. cities so this is a massive investigation that is ongoing right camera with the latest there from washington d.c. mike thank you neal. still to come on al-jazeera this news hour france's foreign minister warns lebanon to end the corruption to secure a much needed i.m.s. loan and major league baseball as usual return after 4 months suspension will be here with the latest in scored 000. 0 the pensive crowd across areas of europe some thunderstorms further to the south on the east and while you're quite

a blanket of cloud across areas in the northwest that's where the rain will be but there is rain elsewhere as in some rain showers and some thunderstorms through western russia so people sheltering from the rain in moscow but sunny skies down into the south of france and also sunny skies across into the valley erik's now that is where the sunshine should continue but as you can see elsewhere not quite to the same story plenty of rain working its way through scandinavia trading back into hours a germany the low countries france not about day friday across the u.k. quite cloudy tom it is not faring too badly and the rain again gathering across the sections of northern italy on towards the balkans then on saturday that system works its way eastward so it does clear across northern areas over italy but some very heavy amounts of rain really impacting romania pushing on the towards hungry cloudy skies behind and a very unsettled across the u.k. in northern france and the winds also fairly strong at the same time so when it comes weather conditions in london over the next few days expect some rather heavy rain showers on saturday the system calls coming in with the strong winds and then you should care certainly for the 2nd part of the weekend but by monday there is

a very much back in the forecast but of course south of france it is warm and sunny temperatures typically in the low thirty's with sunshine. regie omar investigates the brick kiln slaves of pakistan some of the most shocking and appalling working conditions anywhere in south asia up to 1000000 chinese bugs that is not known for despair for hundreds virtually no one speaks for them they suffer but they suffer in silence with no hope of escape what do you say to those allegations and hurts working conditions in the industry is equivalent to modern slavery slavery a 21st century from continues with bonded slaves announces their. al-jazeera

. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera corona virus infections across the u.s. have now topped 4000000000 and more than 1400000 people claimed that employment benefits in the past week 25000000 people are sought to be out of work 5 west african heads of state are meeting in mali to try to resolve the deepening

political crisis the leaders are due to hold talks with president. as well as the country's opposition and just a day after ordering the closure of china's consulate in houston the u.s. justice department says it is charged of 4 chinese nationals with visa fraud it says 3 people have been arrested and is seeking a force. china meanwhile says it's considering ways to stop the recognition of british national overseas passports held by many people who call it's in response to the u.k.'s decision to open a special pathway to citizenship for 3000000 hong kong residents starting in january the british government and china are accusing each other of breaching the commitments they made during negotiations that resulted in the return of hong kong to chinese rule in 1997. the european union's chief breaks it negotiator has warned the trade deal with the u.k.

now appears unlikely michele made the comments at the latest round of negotiations in london the sides remain far apart on how to ensure a level playing field between e.u. and u.k. businesses as well as on fishing rights british officials say it's for the e.u. to make the next move but they say a deal is possible by september al-jazeera sleeve barker is in london he says both sides of knowledge very little has been achieved to date. according to downing street there hasn't been a breakthrough nor has there been a breakdown so the question is well what has been achieved the answer very very little according to the u.k. chief negotiator david frost he says that the differences between the e.u. in the u.k. are substantial nevertheless he is hopeful of a free trade agreement being reached by september the east chief negotiator michel barnier much less optimistic he has slammed the u.k.

saying that britain has not shown readiness to find solutions to the e.u.'s questions and in these talks there will be an emergency round of talks next month but according to one british newspaper the british government may already be getting ready to blame the e.u. for the failure of that forthcoming round of talks just to remind you where we are we're in the transition period the u.k. left officially the e.u. in january this period has been likened to a departure lounge and by the end of the year by the 31st of december the u.k. leaves the single market and the customs union it's hoping to have a free trade agreement in place if it doesn't we could see trade barriers we could see friction on the border and we could also see a tremendous amount of uncertainty given the overwhelming uncertainty we've seen as a result of the pandemic you do get the feeling the public opinion is now putting pressure on the british government to reach an agreement become its official stance

is that it doesn't heed won't one but it's also said to the e.u. that we would be prepared to leave the single market and the customs union without one. well for this i'm joined now by ed west in london he is the deputy editor of the news website unheard search thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera obviously since the referendum the u.k. was deeply divided between breaks its supporters and people who wanted to remain considering everything that's happened especially in the past few months since bikes actually happened with the pandemic would you say that the country is a stripe all now as it was even just a few months ago. that the kind of virus is likely. not only in a good way but i suspect it will come back after a while because as you know it's not really over. and it unleashed a very unusually triangle divide in this breaks it and they remain trying

far more strongly felt the previous neighbor concerts it allegiances and it's not unusual thing in britain it was unpleasant for most people i think there's a sense in december those finally over that you know one way or the other we're going to be able it was going to happen now and we were just going to except it then of course you know something of an exciting few years. along and now we seem to be back in you know uncertain serious whether you know this will make it less likely all more likely there we are the all at least some i was own or any other situation we don't know in that. you don't have very interesting article on the on the on the herd website where you sort of say the tribes are roughly speaking nationalist on one side globalist on another but it away that they're almost misaligned with the way that the world is changing now both the e.u. what i guess the rest of the world as well tell us a little bit more about the points you made in the article. well my point was that

you know the break so you can main was a mixture of so very different visions of brits britain on one hand it was quite socially conservative you know people once restrictions immigration you want to slow down globalization and on the other was the source of the free trade is there within the tory party that has the liberals 'd who want to open up britain's the wells and they consider you know been shuttling them when it be trading or india and china other countries and they often use the sorts of. seafaring metaphors that airing trade going in and the east. coast on which. you know a lot. of the fear is great so not threats it will you know make us more nationalistic and more. unpleasant for the us in emergency. since basically the countries are much more liberal as we

try to press the it's not at the same time the e.u. is maybe becoming less liberal britain was one most liberal members i mean the interesting point was i found is why france and turkey are on this very difficult stage at the moment. and set a point of conflict but they are very correlations and at the same time britain is making these trade deal with turkey outside of sort of you know europe which is much more sort of civilization states in the way it's acting right now so when at my point was the sort of globalize. more global minded remainders and. you were actually on the wrong sites it was the other way around. it's interesting this li immigration was a key point is one of the key issues in the debate and we've just heard for example that the british government is offering a special pathway to citizenship for $3000000.00 residents in hong kong this trade

deal with turkey as well could have implications for immigration do you think that that is something perhaps that the average breaks it voter didn't expect and potentially doesn't want. well you know some a case of them because i mean both great sit and remain votes that is. even liberations not here immigration which is a paradox of the whole thing but i know you have your hands on since the right vote even occasions when down but not even action for as long as guns hugely up but at same time they haven't been any sort of major. reaction against this bracks about it's basically. stopped any kind of populist and immigration mood strax is going to be suffocated this which isn't so not a point in my article which is not the case in the conference. if we did allow 3000000 unc and chinese the i mean not that many of those are come but the numbers are still be very very significant as they would certainly lead to record numbers

of invasion. in britain and obviously this is not what some bricks of votes is but it's all but a long winded lot of this in a member 3rd of the minorities in britain both bret's it and among the 3 there is no thought you know. people from india iraq or africa but a lot of little consolation have the same nation rights as germans or french people . so again it was a very complicated. head west apologist we're also having some issues with that year mike so we're going to have to leave it there but thank you for your time ed west deputy editor of the news website and hurt. thank you more now from the u.s. for president donald trump has just announced that the maine that republican convention that was supposed to go ahead in jacksonville florida well now not be held because of the surge in coronavirus numbers there in the state let's listen in to provide $105000000000.00 to schools as part of the next

coronavirus relief bill. this funding will support mitigation measures such as smaller class sizes more teachers and teacher it's repurpose ing spaces to practice social distancing and crucially mask wearing this money is in addition to the $30000000000.00 we secured for schools and universities earlier this year that money we have some is distributed and some is not distributed if schools do not reopen the funding should go to parents to send their child to public private charter religious or home school of their choice to keyword being choice if the school is closed the money should follow the student so the parents and families are in control of their own decisions so would like the money to go to the parents of the student this way they can make the decision that's best for them we

cannot indefinitely stop 50000000 american children from going to school harming their mental physical and emotional development reopening our schools is also critical to ensuring that parents can go to work and provide for their families the council of economic advisors estimates that $5600000.00 parents will be unable to return to work if schools did not reopen this year it's a tremendous problem it's a tremendous problem schools have to open safely they have to open more than a dozen european countries as well as south korea taiwan and many others have already reopened schools and cases have not risen we can achieve the same goal if we unite together follow the best medical practices and apply common sense we'll continue to support states and cities in the current hot spots in the south southwest and west. the governors i know i'm all they're all very very capable

they're doing a very good job they're working so hard would even believe that we have nearly 30000 federal personnel deployed in the states that need assistance we're helping with doctors and nurses medical personnel of all kinds as a p.p. update we're in close communication with governors in states we have supplies everything they could possibly need were very strong and supplies remember i used to say the cupboards were bare well now the cupboards are the opposite due to our historic efforts to increase both the national stockpile and the state stockpiles the vast majority of the states have 60 days worth of supplies on hand and most importantly they have ventilators because the ventilators are. very very hard to come by at least in the past now we're making thousands of ventilators a month and supplying them in many cases to other countries for states that are

making requests we're rapidly delivering in the last 24 hours fema has the cloyd more than 1500000 masks upon request 1700000 gallons and 600000. well let me change that we've created about 600000 different supplies we have 600 ventilators to arizona north carolina pennsylvania colorado. and washington i think the numbers 600 with a check that it will give it to you in a little while but we've we've got a stockpile of thousands of ventilators i think we've sent out about 600 just recently the united states is now conducted more than 51000000 tests which is more then any other country in the world by far roughly half of the tests are either the rapid point of care test which frankly solves

a lot of problem and delay 5 to 15 minutes instead of waiting for service both ways in both directions and then at the lab but roughly half of them now which is a tremendous increase are 5 to 15 minute tests or tests done in a hospital where you get the results back in less than a day some cases immediately we're continuing to surge testing to current hospital hotspots such as miami and phoenix to detect those with the virus and take steps to stop it from spreading it further there's a copy of the map and this is you have it right behind me that's. really very much indicating where the problem you see from them that it's in great shape lots of it the northeast has become very clean the country is in very good shape other than if you look south and west some problems that will work out one

therapies we've worked with florida to ensure that over 40000 viles of rome to severe arriving this week it's a lot it's a really it's a lot they're working around the clock to make it it's had a tremendous impact we've also shift thousands of viles to arizona california and texas over the past 2 weeks arizona's doing very well it's heading down numbers are heading down think very quickly governor has done a great job they've all done a great they've all done a great work in or will continue to monitor the areas rising and with respect to cases in we ask all americans to exercise vigilance practice social distancing wear a mask do whatever is necessary so we get rid of this horrible situation this horrible disease that was sent to us by china it should not have been sent they should have stopped it they could have stopped it they didn't and the entire world

has gotten infected and a lot of countries are going through a lot right now this morning i spoke with president putin of russia and they're going through a very hard time with this in moscow in particular and i spoke to the crown prince of saudi arabia and they're doing well but they're going through a lot everybody is going through a lot yesterday i spoke to the heads of 4 different countries. all 4 are going through a lot going through a hard time this could have been stopped it could have been stopped quickly and easily but for some reason it wasn't. and we'll figure out what that reason was so with that if you have any questions please. and we're simply not convinced that the people. i just felt it was wrong steve to have people going to what turned out to be a hot spot you know when we chose it it was not at all hot it was free and all of

a sudden it happen quickly it happens quickly and it goes away and it goes away quickly the key is we wanted to go away without a lot of debt without a lot of problems and we're learning so much about the disease that's why we're we're very cognizant of dissing homes who are watching them very carefully and people over a certain age and especially people over certain age with diabetes or or heart disease in particular but with a problem so we didn't want to take any chances so we had a lot of people we have the dell delegates want to be there we're going to do a fairly reasonably quick meeting in north carolina the nomination will be produced and then we'll announce what we're doing how we're doing it whether it's. something that's done online guess you could call it online so they can nothing they could be nothing like our last convention unfortunately that was a great convention and in a great place as you know we had it we had

a great time great time in cleveland but it's a different world and it will be for a little while we want to get the world back to what it was and i think we'll have that including great job numbers including that so many things that are happening so positive i have to say the stock market is close to records for nasdaq it it is a record it's already exceeded its highest numbers. but we want to get our country back to what it was. a sentence of one of the worst we haven't said yet see we'll have that we'll probably announce it over the next few days. for you but we've done a great job we built the greatest economy in the world nobody close not china not anybody we had to close it we saved millions of lives there we opened it but we had the best numbers in history for african americans hispanic americans asian americans every group you want in the young people without

a diploma or young people with a high school diploma with a college diploma anything you want to name just by listening to president trump holding that briefing about the coronavirus a few announcements he has said that the maine republican convention that was supposed to go ahead in jacksonville florida will not now go ahead because of the surge of numbers of coronavirus in the state of florida that we were talking about a little earlier in the program he also emphasized that schools should reopen if they don't reopen federal funds should go to schools of parents choice and he also said that the c.d.c. the center for disease control will provide additional guidance on how schools can reopen safely so that's there speaking we'll bring you. we'll keep an eye on what he is saying and bring you more developments as they occur now china's 1st independent mission to mars is on its way if all goes well early next year

a rover vehicle will touch down to begin searching for water that's on the ceci of the planet is ever to become an alternative home for a bird and manly reports. i think when one which translates to questions to heaven hopes to find some answers on mars where the red planet can sustain human life. lost sofas from the island of heinen in southern china the long march by brocade carrying the team when one craft. it's the optimum launch window the 2 planets are at their closest the 26 months essentially shortening the journey from 9 to 7 months. and it's a busy time for travelling to mars the united arab emirates 1st mars launch by a middle east country quote a mile or hope closer from japan on monday and now say aims to launch its most sophisticated monsoreau ever next week the u.s.

has had 8 successful missions to mars so far 6 on the spacecraft are exploring mars from orbit 3 american 2 european and one from india considered the nature of space exploration in the fifty's and sixty's all of this is on doubt with a sense of national pride or countries such as china are looking to conceive as another way in which he can demonstrate the world its technological sophistication and growing sense of it being a 1st world power china's 1st man's mission includes all of the equipment needed to survey the red planet 1st an orbiter would be released into the atmosphere then detach a landing probe it's to take 7 minutes to touchdown in an area called utopia plan this year that's where the u.s. viking to craft landed in 1976 once on the surface

a run pull slide open releasing china's rover vehicle the old it is carrying 7 instruments to survey the planet's geology as well as searching for underground i see. determining a water source that could sustain life a future colonies of people from the us is so far the only country to have a long term on the planet's almost half of all other nations failed china's leader has more space ambitions paying hopes to send a manned mission to the moon in the next 10 years the last time anyone did that was a u.s. in 1972 china is also aiming to build a space station in earth orbit by 2022 if the mission is a success china could counter its rival the u.s. in future space ambitions. laura bowden manly al-jazeera. ok now it's time to get all the sports news from me and we start with italian football yes and

a surprise in italian football because you ventus have missed the chance to wrap up the sorry a football title and it's like it had looked as if this would be the night they clinched it victory denies it would have been enough for them to climb their 9th straight championship and they took the lead that matches the light just before half time of the latest however back came the home side with an equaliser early in the 2nd half. without one. in the 92nd minute regionalizing one it was a goal from psycho for far this is a great solo effort and it means events of one of the one in the past 5 but they are still going strong position 6 points clear of 2nd place after a long time with 3 games now. one of the most feared boxers of all time is coming out of retirement mike tyson the former heavyweight champion has been in training for weight and is teased fines were clips on social media is now a greater fight voyde jones jr in an exhibition bout in september tyson is 54 years old is not since 2005 his fellow american john jr has won titles of 4 different

whites and is 3 years younger the bout is sure to take place in los angeles on september 12th. major league baseball is about to return but a few hours before the 1st pitch of the season one of the star players is pulled out of the action washington nationals outfielder one soto tested positive for the coronavirus he is asymptomatic but will need a world series champions the national star to shorten 60 games regular season and i take on the new york yankees now fans will be in the stands of course under the new regulations dr anthony fauci who's been one of the most prominent figures in the u.s. during the covert 19 crisis will throw the ceremonial 1st pitch last night i went out with my wife to one of the schools near my neighborhood in d.c. i live in north with the one of the horace mann and it felt like i was throwing a brick. and if i was because i'm tom brady has arrived at the tampa bay buccaneers

training facility for the 1st time to be tested for coven all players must have 2 negative tests to start their physical training brady won 6 super bowls with the new england patriots and join the bucs in march the n.f.l. season starts september 10th and also dropping the vets skins 9 washington's n.f.l. team will now be called the washington football team until a permanent replacement can be found they plan to remove the formal name from physical and digital spaces by their opening game of the season last september 13th . how did it not blame for the crime of virus we would have been just a few hours away from the tokyo olympics opening ceremony but the 2020 games have of course been pushed back a year organizers have held a special ceremony at the minor impact stadium in the japanese capital to mark one year to go but with the virus far from contained there is no guarantee the games will end up taking place david starks reports. back in the

pool for the 1st time in months like so many olympic athletes brazilian swimmer anna marcela kuhner has been unable to train probably because of the pandemic but with the reopening of facilities in rio she can now refocus on getting ready for the perspiring games in tokyo a year from now. it's a good time for us to go back looking forward to the 2021 of them picks the field and starting over to fill it. brazil is the world's 2nd most infected country with more than 80000 deaths so athletes at the olympic training center must follow strict biosecurity rules but it beats training at home. yeah you present i came back from denmark with a knee problem in june and was in quarantine training at home is not the same as training here i'm very motivated to recover quickly and return 100 percent in preparation for tokyo. a year to go but doubts and uncertainty remain about what

the olympics will look like or if they'll even go ahead at all with a worldwide containment of the coronavirus seemingly some way off it will be a huge challenge to stage qualifying events and then bring 11000 athletes to tokyo not to mention spectators and broadcasters this is a member of the task because we cannot prepare or limpy games as we are used to in fact there we have to prepare for multiple scenarios of the games we have to take all these seem to work out what could happen what may happen the international olympic committee estimates the delay will set them back 800 $1000000.00 but what's less clear is the size of the bill facing japanese taxpayers before the perspire at the games were already set to cost more than $12000000000.00 all $42.00 venues have been secured for next year but if it is stage without fans the loss of ticket revenue will hit hard despite the grim economic landscape though organizers remain

hopeful they can keep hold of existing sponsors and maybe even attract new ones to think is that it businesses are in dire circumstances because of coronavirus but still there are companies who are coming forward to say they want to sponsor the games which we appreciate very much it's a bright piece of news. tokyo last hosted the games in 1964 if they do return in 2021 the unlikely to be such a grand affair with organizers already scaling back their original plan but given the global situation with 365 days to go getting the frame later told would be a victory in itself providing some light at the end of a very dark tunnel david stokes al-jazeera let's hope all is fine for those games to type absolutely especially for the athletes of a heartbreaking postponed again thank you so much and that is it for this news that we do stay with us don't get to be back in just a few minutes was more of the day's news thanks for watching.

as protests rage over police brutality and corona virus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and so very brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the u.s. elections on a. mexico's coded 1000 death toll is one of the world's highest with one in 5 of its inhabitants living in the capital with the deadly upsurge in

evitable to take to get off a 1000000 visitors every day there's really no way that they can go to this of 3 guards without focusing all has the governments on orthodox strategy lead to unnecessary suffering frontline mexico the fight against hiv 19 on al-jazeera. territorial social and ethnic divisions. france has seen some of the biggest recent protests over black lives matter. al-jazeera world goes to some of its least privileged communities. where treatment by the police is still a contentious issue. carries a divided city on al-jazeera. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the well. center magellanic

or hand out as iraq we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter. how does iraq. war. the coronavirus pandemic continues to weigh heavily in the u.s. with cases topping 4000000 president trump cancels the republican convention in florida. alone barbara starr at this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a question of numbers in south africa coronavirus that's are rising but are they being reported accurately as unrest continues in mali west african leaders try to broker a deal between the president and the opposition and the.