against devastating tsunami one o one east investigates of nature can be contained the wall will expose commutes to greater danger. on al-jazeera. the coronavirus pandemic shatters the global economy with record plunges in the u.s. europe and latin america. and our intent of this is our 0 live from london also coming up. donald trump proposes delaying the u.s. presidential election to avoid fraud but critics say it's just another distraction . crackdown in hong kong activists are arrested and leading democratic voices are barred from running for election. and during where no

man or machine has gone before nasa launches its most sophisticated mission yet to find life on mars. the coronavirus pandemic is crushing the world's most powerful economies and any recovery is being threatened by a new surge in cases the u.s. recorded 1400 fatalities from code 19 on wednesday around one death a minute and is now reporting its worst economic decline on record output collapsed by 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter of the year europe's largest economy germany saw a decade of growth all but wiped out as g.d.p. shrank by more than 10 percent in a country that avoided the worst health problems but it's in developing nations where people are likely to suffer the most by mexico where the economy has shrunk

by a staggering 17.3 percent in fact there's a warning that the entire economy of latin america and the caribbean could contract by more than 9 percent this year roscoe to algiers daniel shauna who joins us live from buenos aires and there's a terrible numbers for latin america particularly mexico what more can you tell us . i mean the numbers are grim right across the region the numbers in mexico they're talking about up to 10000000 people they're being plunged into poverty but what coverage 19 pandemic has done in many ways is exacerbated already existing problem problems with infrastructure with unemployment with poverty and with gross inequalities indian distribution of wealth that is thought to have got much worse during the pandemic we're talking about numbers have been released today by the economic committee for latin america and the caribbean which talks about 45000000 more people being plunged into poverty bringing the figures up to 231000000 people across the region also large numbers being plunged into extreme

poverty as well as these unemployment figures are rising dramatically so it looks grim across the region to see inequality also getting. very little in the way of solutions being put forward just people talking about better a better quality better distribution of wealth people sharing a little bit more but they're pretty conveyed solutions to which are very very grim predictions for the next few years and meantime latin america also now leads the world in 19 cases what's what's happening with the outbreak. we should continue to rise i mean right across the region we're having record numbers of fatalities in 24 in 24 hour periods we had 1600 people dying on wednesday in brazil bringing their number of fatalities from the pandemic up 290000 we had record numbers here in argentina in bolivia so right across the region the numbers

of people dying and being infected getting much much worse at the same time the strain on the infrastructure in hospitals or the intensive care beds is getting much worse as well i mean we have the president of brazil for instance job also naro who himself has spent the last 3 weeks recovering from cobbett 19 he was back at work today on the same day that we heard his wife michelle has tested positive as has his minister for technology and science are markers put in this also tested positive we've heard that the president of bolivia. near earth is also recovering from corporate 19 doctors dying policeman policemen and women dying having to deal with the crisis it's a grim figures right across the region. we've mentioned the economy really just being made worse by the rising in numbers in the in this pandemic when you try to thank you very much. germany managed to control its corona virus

outbreak care to much better degree than its neighbors but its economy has still been hammered dominant cane is in berlin he says the future is dependent on keeping a lid on infections. this is the worst quarterly performance for 50 years for the the german economy because 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 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. officials say at least 18 people have been killed and 30 injured in a suicide bombing in eastern afghanistan a warning there are pictures of the injured to coming up locals in logar province

say the incident was caused by a car bomb it comes ahead of the major muslim holiday of. the taliban has denied responsibility in forcing a 3 day ceasefire to cont coincide with the holiday the group is expected to join the afghan government for talks in the coming weeks. president donald trump has ignited another political firestorm by suggesting that november's presidential election be delayed to avoid fraud our white house correspondent kimberly joins us now kimberly why is he suggested this and is it even possible. well it's not possible the president does not have the authority it's congress that can do that to set the date for voting but with regard to the timing of the president's incendiary tweet why is he suggesting that there could be voter fraud that the election possibly needs to be delayed will might have

a lot to do with some other headlines that are coming out of the united states economic numbers that are not particularly good for the president the u.s. g.d.p. plunging 32.9 percent that's a measurement kind of specific to the united states but this one isn't and you can put this up against any other country in terms of a contraction of the quarterly last 9.5 percent where if we seen this we've seen this across the board but mostly in personal spending merican just aren't buying cars they're not buying clothing and they're not going to restaurants we're also seeing exports and investments and now the president for his part is masterful at kind of redirecting the news cycle and almost as soon as these gloomy economic numbers came out the u.s. president sent out this tweet that really redirected the news cycle but what is concerning to so many in the united states is the fact that we're really about 95 days from voting day and what the president has done essentially is set up least

for his supporters the possibility of rejecting the results of the november presidential poll and convey how republicans and democrats reacting to all this well not surprisingly many are pretty concerned about it and have had some rather sharp words that includes members of the president's own republican party on capitol hill you know top ballet lindsey graham in the u.s. senate has said look this isn't a good idea nother top congressman saying that this might be about trying to get press attention but isn't likely to get any traction but the strongest words came from the top republican in the u.s. senate mitch mcconnell here's what he had to say. well never in the history of the country through wars depressions and civil war if we ever not had a. lection on time and we'll find a way to do that again this november 3rd we'll cope with whatever the situation is and the election on november 3rd or to schedule. now we should point

out that the president himself has also said he may not accept the results of the november poll we're going to see what more the president has to say he'll be holding a crowd a virus taskforce briefing at 2130 g.m.t. here at the white house can be healthcare thank you very much indeed. i mean up on al-jazeera but russia's president says a russian missouri's were plotting attacks in his country just a prediction ploy. severe and frequent prodding in india's as time region is trying to drive the rare one on dry news to extinction. still plenty of nice warm weather across most southern areas of europe and despite

all that cloud statement across some much of the old west we've actually got some sunshine across the u.k. scotland idea as well and not quite as subtle as it has been in some areas or this up into switzerland some very nice kiss guys must cool water as well and of course through the eastern end of the mediterranean cyprus is warm and sunny as you would expect this time of year however not quite the woman sunny despite the fact to some across into the east of in these dog storm clouds looming across the dublin the and this is why you can see on friday as well is actually plenty of rain on its way but it doesn't make a great deal of headway because we've got this little ridge of high pressure nudging up across the u.k. it keeps conditions dry and also fairly warm there's a scorching showers across italy towards the balkans working the way for the east is that really for the most part friday one of the better days to end the week now by saturday that system will actually begin to push across the ridge of high pressure told is very short lived the cloud pushes a want to 2 showers a few showers further to the south through areas of france as well and still the shah's working the way across as

a ukraine into western as russia but this is where the warm is and it does mean as a say london we've got the pretty good weather conditions maybe the rain pushing in there by monday when it is warm and sunny for the next few days. kidnappings and murders in crimea. is forced an extension of the black sea for sure . i don't understand why it's called. schools of crime into tas have been arrested tortured and killed. most believe by russian security forces. crimea russia's dark secret on al-jazeera. the.

mind of the top stories here on jazeera the coronavirus pandemic is still having a devastating impact on the global economy the u.s. saw its worst economic decline on record with output collapsing by 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter of the year. u.s. president donald trump has suggested november's presidential election should be postponed trump says increased pressure voting due to the growing a virus pandemic could lead to fraud and inaccurate results. officials say at least 18 people have been killed and 30 injured in a search side bombing in eastern afghanistan locals in logar province say the incident was caused by a car bomb. 12 pro-democracy candidates in hong kong's upcoming election have been barred from running the government said it was for their opposition to

a controversial new security law but it's being seen as a way to exercise more control and dilute the territories freedoms to make up our reports from hong kong. taken from their homes and arrested late at night before students aged between 16 and 21 are accused of violating hong kong's newly imposed national security law we found at that. fish. alright station pros. in the united so show media about their stuff which an offer of a bit of a new party that would be pomo that the independence of the home there from a disbanded political group student localism which advocated for hong kong's independence on june 30th just hours before the law took effect the group seized all their operations in hong kong but continued to call for support from abroad police here said the arrests were carried out by a newly formed national security department they also confiscated phones computers

and documents oh without a warrant they arrest marked the 1st time the new law has been used against activity on the internet there are now many questions of what kind of a president it sets and how much it will affect freedom of speech and political rights in hong kong opposition to the national security law was also used as a basis to disqualify at least a dozen pro-democracy candidates including activists joshua long from the legislative council elections in september clearly beijing show a total disregard for the will for all or whole colas tramples upon the city's loss of famishing autonomy and attempt to keep hong kong legislators under it for however in order to save got the city's future hall callers will not surrender and our resistance will continue and we hope the world can stand with us in the

upcoming battle this month hundreds of thousands of people voted in an unprecedented but unofficial primary election organized by the democratic camp to consolidate their support. they said the turnout indicated their chances of winning a majority of the legislative council seats the prospect that would be welcome in beijing authorities say more candidates could be disqualified and i think today we are seeing the results of the relentless oppression that this regime is starting. not only just to take away the basic fundamental rights and freedom that was once enjoyed by all known people hong kong has political freedoms and rights not seen in mainland china but activists say the national security law is rapidly eroding its teaches and taking away the very qualities which set it apart from the rest of the country to be gopalan are just there are hong kong. taiwan this 1st

democratically elected president who pushed for independence from mainland china has died aged $97.00 the tang who he oversaw taiwan's transition from dictatorship to democracy during his 12 year rule which began in 1908 has pushed for taiwan to be a to be treated as a sovereign state angered china intimidating military maneuvers by suffering from multiple organ failure after being in hospital for more than 5 months. italy's former interior minister is set to face trial after he was stripped of immunity from prosecution but ourselves enough faces a 2nd trial for blocking a migrant ship from docking in the country last year if it is up to 15 years in jail if he's found guilty after the country's senate voted to lift immunity he received as a member of parliament prosecutors accuse the right wing politician of illegally detaining 100 migrants after he stopped

a spanish ship which was carrying them from docking on the island of lampedusa for 19 days. your because after hearing your speeches this morning if anyone thinks they're going to scare me the center right and my movement with a politically motivated trial then you've got the wrong man and the wrong party on the contrary you give me more strength to defend our ideals. russia is denying trying to destabilize that belarus ahead of its upcoming presidential election after 32 bit citizens were detained. by the russian president. has accused the men of being necessary sent by moscow to incite riots and or subject but. the allegations were raised to the meeting of the better ruse security council by the head of the state security agency said 32 russian citizens have been detained and they were members of a private security company indicating they were messengers president alexander

lukashenko said he was demanding an immediate explanation from russia if you just know too many of these are so young and i'm already seeing the reaction by the russian already making excuses saying things such as we invited them here it is obvious 30 intentions have to be justified. media reports say up to 200 mercenaries were in the country suspected of planning to destabilize the country ahead of presidential elections one of the guys the 9th and the security sources reported as saying 14 of the suspects had fought in the donbass region of ukraine since 2014 ukraine's military has been in conflict with russian backed forces that the allegations against russia have been dismissed by the kremlin spokesman dmitri peskov said we don't know of any illegal activity that would be grounds for detention. an ice hockey fan has caused widespread protests in

better routes by dismissing covert 19 as a threat. he is however still the favorite to win the election having had quarter of a century in power. but many observers believe the president seen here with putin at a military parade in moscow in june can ill afford a spats with the russian president and through simmons. at least one person is reported to have died after floods hit a city in central south korea hundreds of homes and dozens of cars have been submerged in the city of daraa june which recorded its 4th highest amount of rainfall ever emergency personnel are evacuating residents from their homes including dozens from a flooded apartment complex south korea's national weather agency as now lifted a heavy rain warning for the city and neighboring areas. devastating floods in northeastern india have killed dozens of wild animals including rare one horned

rhinos around 60 percent of the rangar national park in the state of assam is underwater you know a world heritage site is home to the world's largest population of one horn runners 16 of which have died in the floods there's a fear on him reports from new delhi. taking refuge from the floods $100.00 rhinos gather on artificially built highlands in india's cuz it on the national park more than half of the 1000 square kilometer wildlife reserve is underwater heavy monsoon rains in the northeast and state have killed $143.00 of the park's inhabitants of the past month including 16 rhinos. the 2 who were records are not the political situation is what he many were learning about how gone to the hills looking for the highland grass but it's not enough.

flood so an annual occurrence during the monsoon season but conservationists say they are becoming more severe. it is it is right or seriousness a real phenomenon or it is it's a human induced lot also because there are so many dams in upstate. is not only home to the world's biggest population of the $100.00 but many other protected species including elephants and tigers. government has built artificial highlands for the animals but there are concerns the changes will turn into a dry habitat in the long run making it unsuitable for many of its wildlife. park officials also say many animals prefer to leave the reserves for natural highlands conservationists suggest clearing paths to allow them to move to the cabbie on long hills during floods so that they don't have to cross a national highway there are many many many things in be doing them a surveillance and

a park and they get disoriented because they're necessary to make this and birds are brought to do certain development activities. live so that we young babies. especially that i know they get separated from their mother. rather than bobbins organization has been rescuing wild animals for the past 20 years in that time the status of one horn rhinos has improved from endangered to vulnerable but with severe flooding becoming increasingly frequent he says more needs to be done to ensure the rhino story remains one of conservation success elizabeth parata al-jazeera new delhi india has reported more than 50000 new cases of corona virus in a single day for the 1st time a surge in infections is mostly in rural areas where the government has been easing restrictions india has the world's 3rd highest number of cases with more than one

and a half 1000000 and 835000 people have died. it's the peak great palmist in season in gaza but farmers say they're barely covering their expenses this year has been particularly difficult for the pandemic and the economic hardship caused by the years long israeli blockade need to bring reports. this year offered good rainfall and a fair trial soil but grieved farmers in the gaza strip are feeling the heat more than a decade of an israeli egyptian blockade has limited people's ability to buy one of gaza's most famous crops farmers hope to sell 7000 tonnes of grapes during the season from july until september but the supply is higher than demand also been out of a lot of evidence it's a great season in terms of the output of grapes but not many people are buying them so we try to bring the prices down and you can also see the nominee people are selling great sear. bad you'll never garzon grapes have

a special taste but i can't buy as much as i used to still i'm one of the lucky ones many people in gaza a poor which means they can't afford to buy grapes and opt for more essential purchases instead like chicken before the blockade gaza's economy florestan exporting fruit vegetables and flowers the siege has made exports rare israel's 3 wars on gaza has devastated its economy and them ridged hundreds of hectares of agricultural land. farmers say they will continue to work even if their revenues are low the current prices in the market are way below the cost of production. we hope that. the the quality the quality of our grapes and the the cost of all grapes can at least make make up for the loss or the loss of prices in the great market this bargain is not guaranteed grapes imported

to gaza from egypt and your q pied west bank are often cheaper than the local produce this is why gaza is agriculture ministry says it's trying to help the farmers by battling the import of grapes during the harvest season. the israeli occupation restricts our ability to source the needed materials for example we can't import pesticides and fertilizers and israel prevents us from exporting our produce outside of gaza which limits the sectors development. in addition to all of these challenges this year added another burden many sectors have had to shut down for months because of coronavirus restrictions the closures have stifled an already fundable economy and made these groups a luxury many can't afford media abrahim al-jazeera the chinese tech giant huawei has overtaken samsung to become the world's largest seller of

smartphones it's the 1st time in 9 years that not a samsung you know apple have dominated the global phone market for way sold almost 56000000 phones between april and june are some some sold almost 54000000 the majority of huawei sales came from china with u.s. sanctions hitting the companies international business. nasa has sent what is calling the most sophisticated mars rover ever launched to seek out life on the red planet perseverance will take rock samples but will one day make their way back to earth it comes at a point of intense martian interest with similar missions to china and the u.a.e. or sound great i got a report from florida. we're. launching on a mission to mars this is the start as nasa is most ambitious project to answer the age old 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 down through 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 and 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 to go a karate 0 miami florida. and one you can catch up anytime on our website the address that is our jazeera dot com. top stories on our shores there they coronavirus pandemic is crushing the world's most powerful economies and the recovery is being threatened by a new surge in cases the u.s. economy sorts worst decline on record with output collapsing by 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter of the year meanwhile europe's largest economy germany saw a decade of growth all but wiped out as g.d.p. shrank by more than 10 percent and the entire economy of latin america and the caribbean is expected to contract by just over 9 percent this year that no one has

more from buenos aires. what covered 19 pandemic has done in many ways exacerbated already existing problem problems with infrastructure with unemployment with poverty. with gross inequalities in the distribution of wealth that is thought to have got much worse during the pandemic we're talking about numbers have been released today by the economic committee for latin america in the caribbean which talks about 45000000 more people been promised into poverty bringing the figures up to 231000000 people across the region with a large number of being plunged into extreme poverty as well as these unemployment figures are rising dramatically u.s. president donald trump has suggested november's presidential election should be postponed saying increased postal voting could lead to fraud and inaccurate results u.s. states want to make postal voting easier due to public health concerns over the coronavirus pandemic but under the constitution trump does not have the authority to perspire

in the vote officials say at least 18 people have been killed and 30 injured in a suicide bombing in eastern afghanistan and just a warning there are graphic pictures coming up locals in logar province say the incident was caused by a car bomb comes ahead of the major muslim holiday of 8 arda the taliban has denied responsibility 12 pro-democracy candidates in hong kong's upcoming elections have been barred from running the government said it was there for their opposition to a controversial new security law that is being seen as a way to exercise more control and dilute the territories freedoms there's a top stories do stay with us and out of there if you can the stream is up next more news for you after that.

hi anthony ok you're watching the stream as a journalist myself and most of my colleagues child would be hard not to be the story just to tell the story but what happens when your black journalists and you're covering issues about race and racism we are still a stream some black journalists around the united states of what it has been like covering the. protests and this is what they told us being allowed general as and general as training but especially when you're working in a predominantly white but any given day that the actions of questions like can i write about yet another legend of a black man or is breaking that law for.