the usa is always of in the people world people pay attention to what goes on here and how does it is very good at bringing the news to the world from here. battered by a pandemic the us economy suffers its biggest downturn since 1948 and the job queues get longer. but i'm not like this is out there and live from doha also coming up donald trump suggests delaying november's presidential election is that what he says is concerned that men in voting will result in fraud. suspected russian mercenaries are detained in bellary security trying to disrupt an upcoming vote.

and on a mission to search for signs of life in space because mars rover blasts off in florida heading for the bridge. so there's more proof of the devastating impact of the pandemic on the united states on wednesday one person died nearly every minute from cave 19 and it's seeing its worst financial slump since the 940 s. its economy has shrunk at the fastest pace on record it is down 9 and a half percent between april and june in the past week another 1400000 people applied for jobless benefits at the same time europe's biggest economy that's germany has plunged into recession shrinking by record 10 percent the pandemics wiped out nearly a decade of growth and now u.s. president on trump news talked of the strength of his country's economy is asking whether november's election should be postponed ok let's get more on that in

a moment from our white house correspondent can we hug it but 1st to gabriel as i know who's standing by for us in new york at 1st up those figures there very broad numbers out there but what have you been seeing what parts of the economy hurting the most. well pretty much all sectors of the u.s. economy have been hurting and are hurting very badly but some of the key ones are tourists of travels the service sector retail and even manufacturing those are some of the big ones that have been really hit particularly hard the travel industry in the u.s. remains for all intents and purposes shut down retail is suffering very very badly manufacturing as well what essentially is going on here is this the u.s. economy as a whole pretty much shut down in march and then congress pumped in trillions of dollars to the u.s. economy thinking that this pandemic would be pretty much over in the u.s.

by late june or july and there would be a quick uptick in the economy the economy would come in the words of president roaring back well that just simply hasn't happened for a whole host of reasons so what you're seeing now is this steep decline in g.d.p. is a response to the initial closing of the economy and now the fact that it is not coming back nearly as fast as anyone could have imagined just on an anecdotal of point just here in new york city that was at one time the epicenter of the crop virus pandemic now it no longer is it's new york pretty much has a virus contained if you will the infection rate is only about one percent nevertheless even here in new york city where corona virus is still not a major problem as it is and many other states or cities in the u.s. midtown manhattan for example is still pretty much empty major high rise buildings still pretty much empty of employees that just simply have not come back to work

because their offices are said simply stay away many businesses here in new york companies in new york and elsewhere in the east coast of the u.s. have already told their employees don't plan to come back to the office at least until january of 2021 so it gives you an idea of how slow this recovery is roy and then you have the government bailout which was hoped to stall this bleeding by pour you trillions of dollars into the economy you've got to ask what happens when that supported. yeah that's right there's a $600.00 weekly stipend that was given to people who were unemployed that was a real lifeline if you will a financial lifeline to millions of americans and that has helped to sustain many many people millions of people in the u.s. that statement is set to expire this week and congress is quite frankly split on if they're going to remove that or not republicans don't democrats do if that is

allowed to expire that's going to leave millions of americans very financially vulnerable and this is what congress was is now essentially facing the jobless numbers are 1400000 americans filed for new unemployment claims just in the last week that's the 19th straight week that unemployment has increased by over a 1000000 here in the u.s. so there's a lot of dark clouds on the economic horizon here in the u.s. and no good solutions on how to fix it and more importantly what it might end or again thanks very much deborah is on the new york was all pretty much bad news and that is that bad news on the u.s. economy came through the president's went on twitter to talk about something completely different but will trump suggested the lane november's presidential election repeats you know that increase in postal voting will result in fraud white house correspondent can we help get as more from washington these. with one single

tweet the president really kind of blew up the news cycle with a tweet if you want to read along with me he said with universal mail in voting not absentee voting which is good 2020 will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history it will be a great embarrassment to the usa delaying the election until people can properly securely and safely vote what the president has done is essentially suggested that the contest will be flawed now we know that there are some legitimate security issues not just with mail in voting but also foreign interference but at the same time it's astounding that the u.s. president has suggested without any sort of authority to do so that perhaps the election should be delayed and this is what is getting so much pushback especially when there are just $95.00 days until the election what this president has done is kind of redirected our attention off of those horrible economic numbers but at the

same time he's caused a lot of attention and even some alarm over the suggestion he may not accept the results of the poll in november but enough and when it came to berlin he says there's concern that a 2nd wave of infections could make things even worse for the german economy. this is the worst quarterly performance for 50 years for the the german economy that refers back to the west german economy rather than to the east german economy but nonetheless it is very bad news but as was alluded to this is needed this needs to be seeing through the prism of what had already been predicted for the quarter and several months ago once the 2nd quarter was underway once the pandemic was really here taking hold of the economy of the country the predictions had been that they would be expected that the economy would shrink by almost 10 percent in the event it's a bit more than 10 percent but not much more than that and so there's very much the

sense coming from ministerial circles that they feel that they've kept a lid on it that they've prevented it from being much worse than they possibly imagined and indeed there are elements certain sectors in the economy that's are rebounding already from the worst. problems caused by the pandemic and the economy minister several weeks ago was talking about his hope that the economy would rebound in 2021 but obviously all of that optimism is predicated on there being no 2nd wave of corona in this country that's why over the course of the past few days and indeed over the course of the past few weeks we've seen a succession of state prime ministers of federal ministers trying to urge caution trying to urge people around the country for not doing things that might cause corona to come back. or the world's biggest play makers posted a net loss of $2200000000.00 in the 1st half of this year seen

a fall in demand because of the global pandemic is rival burning announced a similar loss on wednesday tasha butler has more from paris. terrible figures for air bus the european plane made a $2200000000.00 of net losses in the 1st 6 months of this year they've had to deliver half the amount of aircraft in the 1st half of this year that they had planned on and also in the 2nd quarter revenue tumbling by 55 percent so whatever us are saying is that they have had to cut production by 40 percent which of course have a huge impact on the company on staff across the europe who work for us all the suppliers the whole industry that is always linked to any one company now what they're saying is that this is due of course to the coronavirus pandemic the fact that during the lockdowns people pretty much didn't fly airlines were grounded and even after the restore restrictions have been lifted in some places. travel has

been severely reduced in fact us are saying their visibility for the future is very limited indeed they may not be forecasting in the short term because the airline travel industry isn't really expected to get back on its feet at least preplanned demick levels until 20232025 so that's a long way off indeed and it's something of course it will affect as i said all these industries that are connected to the european playmakers are bad news indeed out of france today. to the world health organization says the countries must learn to live with grown averse conference launching a new behavioral science taskforce the director general said people cannot afford to let their guard down warned that young people may be driving. we have said it before and we will show you the game young people are remote. young people can be infected young people. and young people can

transmit the virus to others. that's why young people must stick this same precautions to protect themselves and protect others as everyone else but 12 opposition politicians in hong kong have been disqualified from running in september's council election leading pro-democracy activists to joshua one is one of those disqualified he says it shows a total disregard for the people of hong kong electoral authorities had asked the kind of it's about their views on beijing's national security law and u.s. sanctions move has been denounced by the opposition as a political witch hunt and for the 1st time police in hong kong have used the national security law to crackdown on pro-democracy activists online 4 students have been arrested they're accused of posting content that calls for hong kong's independence from china beijing imposed its controversial law 4 weeks ago saying it's needed to restore order. a car bomb in eastern afghanistan has killed at least

18 people and injured more than 30 others explosion happened in the city in logar province it comes after chooses announcement by the taliban to hold a cease fire during. no one has claimed responsibility. we live in a better and noble a country today because of john lewis the late last just one of the tributes being a paid to the late congressman and civil rights champion at his funeral in atlanta 4 presidents george w. bush and the bill clinton have joined loses family and other dignitaries to pay their last respects if you don't service ends almost $2.00 weeks of morals which began after the 80 year old died of pancreatic cancer. still ahead here in our desert expect more extreme poverty adar warning for latin america and the region struggles to contain coronavirus. and saudi arabian investors pull out of a bid to buy english premier league club newcastle united after months of scrutiny

. hello scorchingly hot is not a surprising description of the weather in the middle east in summer sometimes it gets sundry as well has been doing that recently but the heat set a new record in baghdad on tuesday we might do the same again today possibly even on friday that he's accompanied by a bit of a breeze and it's all being taken south through kuwait towards the eastern side of saudi as you can see this bright and the blue suggest still plenty of moisture some pretty big thunderstorms down there in the mountains the southwest of saudi and western side of yemen less so in amman surprisingly the moment the dust itself is showing it was the orange glow at $38.00 in doha that's not what he was a humid sticky fear with the breeze coming off the gulf. you watch clusters of

thunderstorms this time of the year in north africa and there is one running into nigeria as you can see that will keep study moving westwards with another one that's just going off the coast run off as far north as banjo even beyond and the next 24 hours you'll see something further south in liberia and sierra leone north of all that and of course it's just a quite an hot picture even in egypt despite the breezes 45 up in aswan. frank assessments saying that 76 percent of the relation of life is being suited to informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of breakdown many cots are the only every 10 are actually under a defacto state of emergency and critical debate of that is

a proxy because not every sunday enters the bolivian people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. or. you watching i desire remind of our top stories this hour and the u.s. economy shrank at the fastest pace on record between april and june it fell 9 and a half percent as a surge in coronavirus cases for more businesses shut down and forced millions of people out of work. donald trump has suggested delaying november's presidential election repeating unsubstantiated allegations of an increase in postal voting will result in fraud democrats and some within trump's republican party have rejected

the idea. 12 opposition politicians have been disqualified from running in hong kong legislative election in september leading pro-democracy activists joshua wong is one of those disqualified. becomes the students were detained under the new national security law. russia is denying trying to destabilize belarus the head of its upcoming election after 38 citizens were detained near minsk but president alexander lukashenko as accuse the men of being mercenaries sent by moscow to incite riots being investigated for working with his critics jailed opposition politician that bitch and blogger sergey kind of ski have been named in the case. bellary says being one of russia's most reliable allies since the fall of the soviet union. have been strained in recent years moscow wants to implement a union agreement which was signed in 1909 that would create a single currency constitution parliament and court system between them but the

president lukashenko blames moscow for domestic discontent and is accused of plotting to overthrow him meanwhile relations with the west have improved in february pump a became the 1st u.s. secretary of state to visit minsk since the early 1990 s. after that washington appointed its 1st ambassador in every decade and then i'm a better resorted to oil from the us for the 1st time after failing to agree a price to buy from russia or i haul ass the piña is a fellow at the russia and eurasia program in chatham house which is a british foreign affairs think tank and he says this is part of a wider attempt to hold on to power by luke ashamed. actually not so many people in belarus believe that these people came to belarus of the civilized many people in belarus i jailed on the freight charges and previously below sneath ortiz several times he used possible terrorist attacks as a tool to suppress them

a credit activity this year in the election campaigns so what most people believe is that this mess their wrists were going to do the middle east africa through valorous because of the problems with connections caused by the pandemic so presently i do not see much point for russia to into fact into this presidential election and to send 10 messages here we can imagine that gramley become the measure of what grommets wants to see as a result of the selection that belarus will destroy links with them as that the well west will introduce sanctions against dollars that bill or civil society will be in depressions the political system will be the bush demise and that the bill or some economy will be very weak and dependent on russia so actually question is deliver in during this presidential election after seeing what's coming towards because he's oppressing everyone now in the country and the west will have no other choice but to tell you some sanctions against. a rise in unemployment and more

extreme poverty is being predicted across latin america in the caribbean the u.n. economic commission for the region says its economy could shrink more than 9 percent this year as a result of the pandemic on top of that 44000000 people are expected to be without work and that is more than double last year's number the commission warns all of this will drive millions more into poverty. following developments across the region for us from one of the areas and daniel 1st up of course already at extreme levels in latin america this is going to be a real problem. certainly i mean they're pretty dramatic figures that we've seen being released by the by the commission i mean just looking at it in the in the numbers i mean percentages can be a little bit vague at times but the the number of people who are thought to be sinking into poverty by the end of the year as a result of the pandemic is 230000000 people across the whole region latin america and the caribbean and another $96000000.00 people going into extreme poverty so

there is a very dramatic figures there only estimates at this stage and we're already beginning to see more people on the streets around latin america even here in cyrus it's purely anecdotal but coming into the into work today i certainly saw more people sleeping in shop doorways mattresses laid out on the street and i think we're seeing that right across the region so yes dramatic figures with the the economic committee for latin america and the caribbean talking about measures to try to alleviate this to some extent but we already had very weak infrastructure in many countries in the region already had quite severe poverty this is really just exacerbating what was already a pretty dire situation dramatic numbers 2 in terms of cases what's happening in the region despite that in terms of reopening. we're pretty much going up everywhere right across the region we had the highest numbers in one day

a number of deaths in one day in brazil on wednesday they now have more than 90000 people who have died from the virus here in argentina we had record numbers of just over 100 or so on wednesday but lydia 88 people died another record number so the peak is the numbers are certainly going up right across the region as you say at the time when the commies are opening brazil announced that it wants to open flights to foreigners in the next few days ecuador has increased the number of flights it's going to allow into the country on the presentation of a certificate to say that people are ok but it still means the pressure is on right across the region to open the economy because of those figures we talked about earlier rising unemployment 9 percent drop in in g.d.p. right across the region so there are these 2 strands across the region the pressure to open the economy that means people mixing up means infection spreading at the

same time you know those numbers of shooting up so it's a dramatic situation with very soon few solutions in sight or doing things for emotional during which one of the. british prime minister boris johnson says the pandemic is slowly being brought under control there but he's warning people to keep up safety measures or risk another wave. numbers of deaths so well don but i have to tell you that we're looking at a resurgence of the virus in some other european countries you can see what's been happening in the united states and so it is absolutely vital as a country that we continue to keep our focus and discipline and that we don't delude ourselves that somehow we're out of the woods or that this is all over because it isn't all over. lawyers for malays whose former prime minister najib razak had filed an appeal against his conviction for corruption and she was sentenced to 12 years in prison and find nearly $50000000.00 tuesday for his role

in a multibillion dollar scandal the state fund one m.t.p. and millions and billions i should say had been stolen from the fund and spent on everything from high end real estate to work. muslims around the world preparing for. to celebrate the end of the heights pilgrimage the effects of the pandemic are already being felt globally ahead of the festivities so heart disease. plenty of cows at this floating market in the bangladeshi capital dhaka. not enough customers . we should have been the busiest day in the most in calendar fly stock traders and they're running out of time to start a very view of how holidays small spice altering and distributing mood to poor communities because it 19 restrictions and lock downs have hurt sales. in ivory coast meat prices of nearly doubled since last year the global economic downturn has meant many muslim families globally simply called to cling to buy even

assess it seems you know their work you know me here that's where we buy the sheep from over there it's expensive so when we sell them here buyers complain the sheep are expensive but we have no choice it's not our fault. so many muslim communities aid would be celebrated under lockdown shops in iraq city of mosul are mostly posed by in place for children a staple the tradition isn't possible for many people living here are stark but our law look at mach one of those people buying food but not clothes were not in the mood to pay for it people aren't happy they're overwhelmed with growing of ours and a look down that will be imposed on mosul. the world health organization has called on countries in eastern mediterranean region especially to take necessary measures ahead of the upcoming holiday and prevent the spread of throwing a virus and what we recommend all countries consider banning gatherings during it

at heart and implement strict measures for the selling of animals and distributing their meat. and it's because of these restrictions some entrepreneurs say they have found new and safe ways of making money. in the pakistani city of karachi. has switched from cleaning all wheels to 4 legged animals during the pandemic that is 1000000. animals from the poor from dirty markets so when i bought mine i brought it here and washed it myself to make sure which is clean and safe people saw me and wanted to do the same with their animals this is how the train began. and in the world's biggest majority country indeed many are still forms of going online and they're seeing a sales being the head of aid may lead to. facebook we mainly sell the animals on instagram facebook to talk so that people don't have to physically visit the farm.

raids is a time of prayer is gatherings and celebrations with family. millions of muslims worldwide this year's eve will likely be remembered for a very different reason so the height of. the saudi arabian banks consortium trying to buy english premier league football club costs united has withdrawn its bid for the group which included saudi arabia's sovereign wealth fund and made a $390000000.00 offer to buy new castle from british businessman mike ashley the premier league has spent months considering piracy and human rights concerns around the bid sports correspondent leigh welling's has more now from london the pressure was coming from all directions of course you have the issue of television parisi and the boatwright organization saying that b. out kid was coming from saudi arabia that was stealing content from. be in sports there's also the pressure of protests from the fiance of the murder journalist.

this was all building up in the premier league so you wonder if something was actually said quietly that the deal might not go through and this is how saudi arabia fights but where does it leave newcastle united who would have potentially become a super power of european football in the premier league then i would a situation of wonder what's going to happen at the club next. nasa has launched its perseverance rover from cape canaveral in florida to seek out life on mars when it reaches the red planet rover will bio signatures rock samples and fly an experimental helicopter over the planet's surface the launch comes on the heels of similar missions from china the and we've got a report now from florida. we're. launching on a mission to mars this is the start as nasa has most ambitious project to answer the question point are we alone. it will take the perseverance rover

almost 7 months to reach the red planet and if all goes well place the car sized robot safely in the $20.00 crater once they're the rover will spend almost 2 years exploring an ancient martian lake a location scientists say may hold the building blocks to life so one of the key steps that perseverance is taking is collecting samples that can be brought back to earth in the future and then analyzed with all the trust real laboratories we have which should actually provide us a definitive answer to our question. in a 1st in space exploration the rover is equipped with an experimental helicopter called ingenuity it plans to make several hops above the planet's surface something nasa say will be a wright brothers moment in space ingenuity helicopter on the perseverance rover is one of the most exciting aspects of the mission because this will be the 1st time we demonstrate flight on another planet and that's really important as an exploration tool if all goes as planned this would be nasa's 9th rover to land on

mars and so far the most sophisticated perseverance will carry out an experiment to try and generate oxygen for the martian atmosphere drill for rock samples and most importantly look for signs of frozen microbial life if you keep adding more rovers you get incremental increases in. knowledge but bringing the samples back and letting thousands of scientists and hundreds of laboratories look at them that's where the big increase of biology is going to come once the samples are collected nasa plans to retrieve them by launching another mission to the red planet before hopefully returning with them safely to earth what the mission delivers may answer the question did mars ever have life before any of that happens perseverance will have to land on mars a window of time nasa calls 7 minutes of terror that's how long it takes the rover to send a radio signal back to earth the curiosity rover managed in 2012 and if perseverance

does the same it will begin a whole new era in the search for life and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. this is out there these are the top stories and the u.s. economy shrunk the fastest pace on record between april and june it fell not a half percent as a surge in coronavirus cases saw more businesses shut down and falls millions of people out of work carol and it's on the new york where the virus has been contained the economic recovery remains sluggish midtown manhattan for example is still pretty much empty major high rise buildings still pretty much empty of employees that just simply have not come back to work because their offices are said simply stay away many businesses here in new york companies in new york and elsewhere in the east coast of the u.s. have already told their employees don't plan to come back to the office at least

until january of 2021 so it gives you an idea of how slow this recovery is. donald trump has suggested delaying november's presidential election repeated gala geisha incident increase in postal voting as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will result in fraud it is the 1st time the president has publicly floated the idea of pushing back the vote democrats and some within trump's republican party have already rejected the idea the head of the world health organization says that countries must learn to live with corona virus in a conference launched a new behavioral science taskforce the director general said people cannot afford to let their guard down and he warns that young people may be driving the spread 12 opposition politicians have been disqualified from running in hong kong legislative election in september leading pro-democracy activists joshua one is one of those disqualified it comes as 4 students were detained under the new national security law

a car bomb in eastern afghanistan has killed at least 18 people and injured more than 30 others the explosion happened in police city in logar province it comes after tuesday's announcement by the taliban to hold a ceasefire during. no one has claimed responsibility we live in a better country today because of john nurse is just one of the tributes being paid to the late congressman and civil rights champion at his funeral in atlanta former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton have joined his family and other dignitaries to pay their last respects the funeral service ends almost 2 weeks of memorials. all right up to date with the headlines here on al-jazeera news are coming up in 20 or so minutes right after inside story.

big mistrust of big tech the u.s. congress questions that heads of apple amazon google and facebook on anti competitive behavior how the internet giants become too powerful and is that a need if the new rules to regulate them this is inside story. hello welcome to the program on amazon apple google and facebook for companies that have changed the way we live show up and stay in touch with our friends and family but the american tech giants have long been accused of abusing their power to.