seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the us elections on a. 0 . 000 honor and taylor this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. the coronavirus pandemic shatters the global economy with record plunges in the u.s. europe and latin america. 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 forces are barred from running for election. and going where

no man or machine has gone before launch is its most sophisticated mission yet to find life on mars. with 4 stories today including criminal proceedings in switzerland against the president a deadline for russia to avoid exclusion from. saudi arabian investors pull. united after months of premier league scrutiny. 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's avoided the worst health problems but it's in developing nations where people are likely to suffer the most likely. 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 or more in latin america with daniel schorr in a moment he's in his ariz but 1st to cover and his own dough in new york and historic decline in the u.s. so not seen since the great depression what now. you know what now essentially is that it's very clear now that the u.s. economy is not going to come back in till the u.s.

can get to get control of the coronavirus pandemic that continues to really overtake many parts of the country right now in the us and i mean back in march the u.s. economy essentially shut down close economy and in april congress injected trillions of dollars into the economy which helped people and helped businesses basically stay alive if you will during those terrible months april may or so but the idea was from the white house and many lawmakers in washington was that trillions of dollars would go into the economy and then the expectation was is that come july coronavirus would be under control and that the u.s. economy would be roaring back to life well it turns out that that was a big miscalculation because that simply has not happened for a whole host of reasons and now you're seeing the economic decline in the u.s. continuing i mean just looking at the unemployment numbers the new numbers came out

that in the past week 1400000 americans filed for unemployment benefits in the last week now putting that in context that's the 19th straight week in the u.s. that the unemployment numbers have been over 1000000 people filing for and point employment claims so you can you see how staggering those numbers are clearly this is not going to get better the economy until the u.s. can get hold of coronavirus and get it under control and then just as that those warnings come that the recovery might be frightened by a new surge in cases that that appears to be what's happening what's happening now across america that with the outbreak. yeah in short there are still dozens of states where the numbers are going up as we know florida texas in the south it was going up quite a bit but the new area now that everyone is worried about is the midwest we've seen

numbers increasing in the last day or 2 from states like ohio illinois wisconsin the governor there calling for a mandatory mask mask to be worn in public and dr anthony fauci the head of the infectious disease department of the c.d.c. has said the midwest is now where they're seeing. the most increases of potential cases but they're also keeping a close eye of course in california texas arizona and florida as well u.s. is still has many many states that are seeing rising numbers of cases and also rising numbers of deaths a reason to thank you very much indeed and let's go now to there is that daniel sharma who joins us live from what desire is some polling numbers for latin america particularly mexico what more can you tell us about what's happening there. what will make secure as you mentioned more than the economy shrinking by more than

17 percent in. april may and june of this year this follows the economy already struggling in months previous to that and that obviously translates into businesses closing jobs being lost and some of talked about as many as $10000000.00 people joining those suffering from poverty traditionally when people have suffered from poverty in mexico and central america they've gone to the united states to look for work but there's. just told us that is unlikely to be an option in the future with the in the in the near future certainly with the united states economy suffering also right across latin america we've heard that g.d.p. is likely to shrink by over 9 percent this year that will put any progress back. in so far as development of economy is going is creating unemployment is going as much as 10 years as what economists are saying so there's

a lot of ground to be made up there and as we heard from the united states similar situation here the numbers of people suffering from cobbett 19 is only going up we've had record numbers on wednesday of the number of people dying in the 24 hour period in brazil where there's now been more than 90000 deaths here in argentina in bolivia so the numbers keep going up at the same time of governments because the economies are struggling or asking people to go back to work we had a president job also not all who's just gone over 3 weeks of suffering from cope with 19 back out on the trail in northeastern brazil urging people to go back to work the economy to get back on its feet so you've got these 2 pauls the economy shrinking people falling into poverty and the numbers of corporate 900 suffers going up daniel sheiner thank you very much indeed. germany managed to control its coronavirus outbreak much better than its neighbors but its economy has still been

hammered dominic kane is in berlin he says the future is dependent on keeping a lid on infection. 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. world's biggest plane maker has posted a net loss of $2200000000.00 in the 1st half of this year losses in the face of the coronavirus pandemic a larger than expected its revenue has fallen by almost 40 percent as the travel

industry struggles to recover from a near total collapse the european company is getting rid of $15000.00 employees and has cut production of its most popular jet the a $35025.00 a month. officials say at least 18 people have been killed and 30 injured in a suicide bombing in eastern afghanistan locals in logar province say the incident was caused by a car bomb it comes ahead of the major muslim holiday of each other the taliban is denying responsibility and forcing a 3 day cease fire to coincide with a holiday coming up around 0 this news hour. president says russian mercenaries were plotting attacks in his country but is it just a pre-election ploy. playing in poison the warning that hundreds of millions of the world's children are at risk from lead. and in sport prosecutors in switzerland

open a criminal case against the head of world football president jenny in frontino. donald trump has ignited another political firestorm by suggesting november's presidential election be delayed just to avoid fraud u.s. states want to make postal voting easier due to public health concerns over coronavirus a white house course from can really help it says many are concerned by trump suggestion including senior republicans. the president for his part is masterful 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 many are pretty concerned about it and have had some rather sharp words that includes members of the president's own republican party i capitol hill you know you have top ally 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 the civil war if we ever have to really. look you know and then we'll find a way to do that again this november 3rd we will cope with whatever the situation is and the look and all over but there are already scheduled now we should point out that the president himself has also said he may not accept the results of the

november poll of minister in a speech to lawrence douglas who's a constitutional law expert he's also the author of will he go to president trump and the looming election meltdown in 2020 he joins us on skype from sunderland in massachusetts thanks so much indeed for being with us so there is some pushback on all sides against this idea of president trump but just to go back to the original twitter mention what was he trying to achieve anything with this. well 1st of all i mean i have a pair of viewers realize that he can't do what he claims to want to do that is to delay the election itself and that's what they did his authority as president election day said by federal law so only congress would be able to actually change the day of election and in terms of the politics behind this kind of claim i suppose there are 2 things one is it's kind of an unusual. usual feature of donald trump style that he often diverts attention from one horrible thing by doing

something else that's also pretty bad and so it's possible that he was trying to divert attention from the economic news by tweeting out this kind of remarkably destabilizing statement on the other hand they do think it's part of this larger politics that he really has kind of laid out in advance of the election in which he could arguably challenge the result so on that to that in the last few minutes he then he then treated it must know the actual results on the night election not days months or even years later and that's something that you've needed to in iraq explain to us why why that could be an issue. right so it's a little bit granular but you have to bear in mind it's going to be tens of millions of americans who in order to avoid the health risks associated with in person voting are going to be selling batman ballots and that tend to be people in densely populated urban areas and we know that people in densely populated urban areas but overwhelmingly democratic and we also know that those votes are not going

to be counted until days or even weeks after the election that's not a sign that the electoral system is not functioning properly that just the reality caused by a large influx of mail and ballots so it's certainly possible that trump could have a lead on november 3rd but only because of the 10s of these hundreds of thousands or millions of mail in ballots in swing states not having been counted and so i think again it's part of kind of a preemptive strike and his part to insist that whatever lead he might enjoy on november 3rd actually represents the final result of the election rather than just a tentative result pending the count of these mail in ballots that are on the cell phone and he hasn't had any support really from from leading republicans and on the contrary what messenger to think that will send him to president trump. of the cure

for really sense much of the message at all you know even with the lindsey graham coming back and saying well the idea of delaying the election is not such a great idea i mean that's a pretty weak pushback relatively speaking i mean one would hope that even republican lawmakers would say a this is a heinous idea and b. mr president you don't have the authority to do it but i do think that many republican lawmakers if in november election turns on a relatively narrow margins in a handful of swing states and those margins only become clear with the count of mail in ballots you could find many republican lawmakers actually accepting trump's claim that you should be the new to reelect the president based on a narrow lead under the reserve and just before you mention the fact that he's going to have distracting him and that the fact that we're talking about this as

just a in in effect he kind of he wins that game more often than not by and by moving me on to something else other than the coronavirus biggest sale or the economy yeah i mean he is a genius of distraction and the fact that we're discussing this really is a testament to that genius on the other hand i do think it is part of a consistent politics of trying to prepare at least his base to discount any electoral results in which he loses as a result of the large influx of mail in ballots and that's a very dangerous thing it has been emerged as a kind of consistent pattern of his electoral strategy and arthritis thank you very much indeed for taking the time to talk to us not just here my pleasure. india has reported more than $50000.00 new cases of corona virus in a single day for the 1st time a surge of infections is mostly in rural areas where the government has been easing

restrictions india has the world's 3rd largest the 3rd highest number of cases with more than one and a half 1000000 nearly 35000 have died the british government says people from separate households can't meet indoors in manchester parts of lancashire and west yorkshire the health secretary says it's to tackle a surge in cases in northern england on thursday the u.k. reported 846 new infections its highest number for a month prime minister paris johnson has warned people against thinking the crisis was over 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 a spike in infections in spain is continuing to grow more than 1200 new cases were reported in the past day is the biggest one day rise since the national lockdown was lifted in june it's also the 2nd day in a row the country has topped a 1000 cases of resurgence in cases of e. mainly confined to the catalonia and aragon regions. more than 21000 people in vietnam's capital hanoi have been ordered to take a coronavirus test the country is scrambling to contain a new outbreak of covert 19 after almost 100 days of no community transmission and not a single death vietnam had been seen as a global success story that all changed last thursday when a man tested positive for the virus in the coastal town of denying since then there have been 48 cases. when i heard the news that denying had been hit with a new outbreak those are traveling to myself a grave body that of hanoi is also hit with one of the jobs and daily activities of

me my family and all of society. nasa has sent what it's calling the most sophisticated mars rover ever launched to seek out life on the red planet perseverance will take rock samples that will one day make their way back to earth comes at a point of intense interest with similar missions from china and the u.a.e. also on route and got to reports 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 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. but bring the samples back murdering 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 on the gallacher of his era miami florida well the race to the red planet has been heating up in the united arab emirates nourse its 1st ever mars mission 11 days ago the craft called alemao meaning hope

won't land on the planet but will orbit for a whole martian year that's $687.00 earth days china followed suit sending the young when one rover to mars exactly a week ago reaching the planet in february it will circle for a time before landing to analyze rocks and search for water but nasa says its perseverance rover is the most sophisticated of the 3 loaded with cameras drills and lasers it will collect specimens of the martian landscape which will then send back to earth arriving in 11 years time. it was a fearsome is an astrophysicist she joins us from bristol via skype thank you very much for being with us so that the 3rd mission to mars in 11 days what would you think stands out particular about this one. with the perseverance rover and mars 2020 as a whole it's the beginning steps of something that planetary scientists have been trying to do for decades since we 1st trying to get try to get going to mars

back in the seventy's which is to bring samples back to earth where we can study them on earth and i think that's the bit that makes this particular mission really exciting the fact that we're finally beginning that process of bringing these samples back to earth so to the collective it is that which bit of it is more difficult the collecting of it all the bringing them back it's putting them back is probably going to be the trickiest bit that's actually going to probably require at least 2 missions maybe more but i think the current plan is to have 2 separate spacecraft go out there so what perseverance is going to do is it's going to go around and scoop up rocks and dust put them into these the old test tube sized containers and create little treasure troves another mission is going to come along another rover pick up that will then put it into a rocket which will send it to all bit where all get caught by yet another

spacecraft that will then bring it back to earth so it's a very long process and each bit of it has its own complications and its own problems but nasa and the european space agency who've been are going to help out with that but for that mission i've been working on this stuff for years they know what they're doing so hopefully it should all go to plan and in the search for signs of life what sort of things are they are they aiming for. the big thing that's really governed the search for life on mars is is following the water it's called for the last 2 decades of research on mars it's always been about going where the water used to be and following it that's why perseverance is going to touch down on a form a lake bed. and that's because where on earth you find water you find life so we think it's one of the fundamental things for at least earth kind of life that said

that a lot of those things like organic chemicals which are things that contain hydrogen and carbon and so we'll be looking for those as well and you mention the kind of complicated to arrangements for trying to bring back the samples once they've collected them it does all that prepare for future human missions to mars. one of those things that people are building towards if you can land something big and heavy like the curiosity rover and person before perseverance and perseverance itself then you can start laying down the infrastructure and there's actually be a really interesting experiment on perseverance called moxy and what that's going to be doing is it's going to try and it's going to suck in the carbon dioxide atmosphere of mars and strip out the carbon and try and create oxygen which will be useful as a because people can breathe that b. you can also use it as rocket fuel so that was going to be an interesting experiment that might be actively building towards putting people down on mars elizabeth thank you very much indeed for taking time to just thank you. still to

come on al-jazeera this news hour our hour over fishing rights could sink any hopes of a break sit trade deal. you want to treat china as our last hour on. the price of china's warning to the u.k. if it doesn't want to work together. and world tennis number one actually party pulls out of the u.s. open we will be here to tell you why in sport. still plenty of nice weather across the 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 being in some areas of this up

into switzerland some very nice 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 as 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 fall 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 it wanted to shows 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 so pretty good weather conditions maybe the rain pushing in there by monday. it is warm and sunny for the next few days.

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afghan officials say at least. 30 injured in a. province. 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 is being seen as a way to exercise more control and dilute the territories freedoms ports 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. all right station pros. in the united so show media about their stuff which an offer of a bit of a new party that we need to hold at 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 or for their will for all or whole colas tramples upon the city's loss of punishing 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 uphill 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 a prospect that won't be welcomed in beijing. authorities say more candidates could be disqualified and i think today we are seeing the results of the relentless pressure 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 averting its status and taking away the very qualities which set it apart from the rest of the country the bigger palin are just there hong kong. china has warned the u.k. you either with us or against us and the country's ambassador in london said disagreements over hong kong and while away had poisoned relations but it didn't specify how china could make life difficult economically for a chance report from london for. a cold war mentality poisoning relations interfering in chinese internal affairs those were a few of the accusations leveled at the u.k. by china's ambassador in london on thursday i think they called my remarks. as. china want to be you france. china

want to be. if you do not want to be. and our friends want to treat china as a hostile and. you'll call a price there simply is very clear that means you are laws your laws about or to in china as often it is at the front in recent weeks the u.k. government has taken several steps against perceived chinese threats and transgressions. because of beijing's new security law for hong kong the u.k. has suspended an extradition treaty with its former territory it's also offered $3000000.00 hong kong as a path to u.k. citizenship tech security concerns have prompted prime minister boris johnson to promise her war way will be a victim from britain's 5 g. networks by 2027 china is mulling how to respond so this analyst i think what the chinese community tries to do is to found ways that will be hurtful to the u.k.

that were harmed. not hung china is sell the sins the most important part of the u.k. china relationship is economic it is very difficult for the chinese to find ways to punish the u.k. economically with help punishing them so a proportionate response might be tolerable for london steve told me anything harsher might push the u.k. to take further steps then row economic times the importance of chinese trade gives it superior power but the ability of the united kingdom to help ordinary ate with the united states and other parts of the anglo-saxon world and with europe means that it does still have relievers that it can poll if it feels the need rory's hellens al-jazeera london. time is running out for the e.u. and the u.k. to agree any sort of framework for a brecht's it trade deal before the end of the year nothing is more polarizing in

the debate than fishing rights in the 1st of 2 reports nurse leigh has been speaking to fishermen in the south east of england who welcomed a no deal breck's it. fisherman work harder than nearly anyone it's just after 5 in the morning and wink walpole is doing what he does most days travelling out of the mouth of the thames estuary towards the english channel to look for a catch but he has a big problem the far larger dutch trawlers which not only stealing war says but which sometimes used techniques like the mass electrocution of fish to take the lion share if the cold and the soul don't make it up to the estuary his chances last we shipped up aficionados. would typically be fishing for 2025 stone and. one of our friends when last. i think up about 6 start you know i wouldn't pay for wonder why our industry is

falling apart. so. fishing rights have become arguably the most totemic issue of all for supporters of brics it's the small boats became a photo opportunity in support of no deal the argument being that a line had to be drawn in the sea to offer proper separation from a europe which gains far more than the u.k. from the current arrangements that votes that was taken to westminster belongs to this man who is as convinced now as he ever was that bracks it must be used to support the u.k.'s broken fishing industry we've said we could potentially have an industry where fight 1000000000 pounds if fission in st u.k. where there's a moment it's in a 1000000000. that's. more employment there's an awful lot more you know no model for my 1st little towns you know around the coast in a stress way so rip out so this is one of the more difficult arguments for critics of no deal that while it might look catastrophic for other industries for the

owners of small fishing boats it could be hugely significant opponents of brecht's it often points out that fishing is only worth half a percent of the whole british economy but in communities like this that cuts no ice at all for them it's certainly not about nationalism it's only a bits about solvency one anything else is about trying to make a living. when cars come back in with just a small catch he will sell it partly to local wholesalers and partly from his own shop to locals who support him but he has none of the power of the big fishing corporations but he and many others like him genuinely believe the whole point of bricks it is to stand up for the little guy or 3 al-jazeera in southeastern england . i will be crossing the channel on friday for the other side of the story our desires natasha butler has been to normandy in northern france where fishermen say they're worried losing access to british waters could mean they lose their

livelihoods. italy's former interior minister is set to face trial after he was stripped of immunity from prosecution mato salvini now faces a 2nd trial for blocking a migrant ship from docking in the country last year he faces 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 would $100.00 migrants after he stopped a spanish ship which was carrying them from docking on the island of lampedusa for the 19 days. you're on record to go 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's denying trying to destabilize better reuss ahead of its upcoming presidential election

after 32 bit citizens were detained in a minsk the belarusian president has accused the men of being mercenaries sent by moscow to incite riots relations between the 2 countries have become strained sitting on russia's doorstep battery's has been one of its most reliable allies since the fall of the soviet union that dimia putin's government has been pushing to implement a union deal signed 20 years ago to create a single currency parliament and courts joining both countries but more recently relations with the west have thought might compare being the 1st u.s. extra state to visit minsk since the early 1990 s. and the friendship to the east has deteriorated with president xander question accusing russia of plotting to overthrow him under simmons reports. the allegations were raised to the meeting of the better rues security council and 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 want to let reaction to see you and i'm already seeing the reaction by the russian side and 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 on august 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. and i saki 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 let him have putin at a military parade in moscow in june can ill afford a spat with the russian president and through simmons al-jazeera. up to one in 3 of all children across the welder being poisoned by lead the u.n. warns that pollution from metal in the air and water is a massive and previously unknown health crisis lead poisoning can be fatal and cause long term damage in children it can. it into adult hood oregon money reports an. 8 year old actor love sport but it has suffered as

a result of years of exposure to the toxic metal lead in the bangladeshi village of kut gora there's no sign there was once a battery was cycling plantinga workers abandon the plant a few years ago taking everything with them but an external suffers from the effects of the lead use that oh. i love playing football i play on the field in front of our school it's because they burn a lid there so if i went there i would have fallen sick i forget a lot of things when i'm studying the knicks mother said the lead poisoning has killed her life stalk. her to our door when we asked them they told us they were making a battery factory over their lives and our trees used to be covered in suit every morning one of our cows died and a lot of goats tied to the nick had a lot of blood in his body. a report from the u.n. an advocacy group called pure math says one in 3 children are being affected by

lead poisoning around the world may be hard to live in south asia. lead can come from many sources including leaded petrol as a battery house paint and lead place partially children are often poisoned by inhaling or in just saying lead particles and they are most at risk because that bodies easily absorb the metal as they can there's no state. of it's incredibly toxic substance what they get and which out their cognitive development mohamed lived till kabir has been working with the pure group to clean up the area and cut gura he says it was a success after testing 75 children a superfluity 2 percent reduction in lead levels in the bloodstream appeared out try to identify i wanted to get his side and and he has a side that means that this a class at one dentists place and after that we start to bring the

visible plastics made bricks used plastics and used to better the phillips. but more what needs to be done in the nearby town of downright there's another lead battery recycling factory still in operation. and children play nearby. the. malaysia's former prime minister has filed an appeal against a 12 year jail sentence a court found guilty of corruption on tuesday in the 1st trial related to a multi-billion dollar investment fund scandal it was also find nearly 50 $1000000.00 for illegally receiving $10000000.00 from the one n.d.b. fund is due to face for more corruption trials. supporters of thailand's monarchy have held protests against the country's pro-democracy movement

fewer than $100.00 people were reported to have turned out compared to larger anti-government marches in recent weeks the pro-democracy activists have directed their anger at the prime minister as demonstrations against the royal family would be punishable with a prison sentence. taiwan's 1st democratically elected president who pushed for independence from mainland china has died aged $97.00 the tanguy oversaw taiwan's transition from dictatorship to democracy during his 12 year rule which began in 1908 is push for taiwan to be treated as a sovereign state china leading to intimidated military maneuvers has been suffering from multiple organ failure after being in hospital for more than 5 months. america was told we live in a better a noble a country today because of john lewis tributes have been paid to the late congressman and civil rights champion at his funeral in atlanta former presidents

george w. bush bill clinton and barack obama joined john lewis's family and other dignitaries to pay their last respects to the funeral service and almost $2.00 weeks of memorials which began after the 8 year old died of pancreatic cancer. the life of john lewis was in so many ways the exception then the. the faith in our founding redeemed that faith that most american of ideas the idea that any of us ordinary people without rank or well or title or fame can somehow point out the imperfections of this nation and come together and

challenge the status quo and the sun that is in our power to remake this country that we love until it more closely aligned with our highest ideals what a radical idea. still to come one notch there this news out in sports coronavirus hits formula one they get in as one of the dr as tests positive details on the way woodley.

time for all sports history and least of any major sports stories today what's the big stories today lauren let's start with the saudi arabian backed consortium trying to buy newcastle united football club which is withdrawn its bid the group which include saudi arabia's sovereign wealth fund has made a $391000000.00 offer to buy new castle from british businessman mike ashley but after waiting months for the premier league to give the green light the offer has now been withdrawn in a statement the consortium said ultimately during the unforeseeable prolonged process the commercial agreement between the investment group and the club's owners expired and our investment thesis could not be sustained particularly with 9 carroty as to the circumstances under which the next season will start this deal was heavily scrutinized with the premier league forced to consider saudi's backing of pirate ball cost to be out q which steals content from one of the league's mine partners be in sports who had asked for the deal to be blocked and also human

rights issues around with the fiance of murdered saudi journalist jamal khashoggi also calling for the takeover to be rejected simon chadwick is a professor of eurasian sport he's been following the takeover story closely and always doubted it would have a go for. not a phrase that many people probably use but poor premier league they were caught between a rock and a hard place obviously are a very powerful buy with significant economic interests linked to britain but at the same time obviously the premier league has a commercial partner in b.n. that it needs to protect for its own credibility and legitimacy obviously the commercial partners need to trust the premier league at the same time you have a club that has gone through a fairly fractious period in its history where the owners attracted a great deal of can criticism and so 'd for the premier league for a long time it was no way forward no way back and my sense was always that there would be some kind of negotiated exit from the situation but it was always unclear

what the negotiated exit would be and what we now know is is is that it is the biased side where the negotiated exodus come from clearly one of the things that all parties will have wanted is is to try and save face as they say it seems of a by as representatives have views the. some of the issues around covert some of the issues around human rights some of the issues around the owners and directors test the the premier league applies as their bases upon which to exit the situation but as i say i'm still skeptical about the precise detail of why this is falling apart and i do question the extent to which this was ever a legitimate attempt by this group of people to try and buy newcastle united. meanwhile a criminal case is being opened against the head of world football for president johnny in front to know in his native switzerland is connected to

a meeting in france to know how did the swiss attorney general market when football's governing body was being investigated for corruption now offered to resign last weight after a court concluded it covered up the meeting and lied to supervisors and in front deny and the wrongdoing remember in france a no became president 4 years ago and said he'd restore the image in respectively but now faces further investigation into his actions and i 3rd big story in the governance of sport to die russia is now under threat of being kicked out of world after x. if he doesn't pay an outstanding fine in the next $2.00 weeks russia's federation i was more than $6000000.00 which was a punishment for breaching anti doping moves they've already missed their 1st deadline now they have until august 15th to pay or they face expulsion if that happens i won't be able to send neutral athletes to compete at world events like the a lympics. for the sake of clean russian athletes the task force hope the payment

will come through as promised and that the remaining conditions be met if so the task force stands ready to work with the members of the reserve commission including representatives of the minister of sport to bring about meaningful reforms in russian things as always lots of coronavirus stories formula one driver sergio perez has tested positive for quite a virus or more missed this weekend's british praised the 1st driver to test positive after we started early this month but is physically well and in good spirits a reserve driver would take his place the writing point before this one is only reported to positive tests for more than 15000 tests carried out across june and july m.b.a.'s basketball season finally returns to the us later on thursday all games will be played inside that disney world bubble but the league's commissioner admits he's anxious and wants the competition could be stopped if they co-wrote a virus spreads. probably if we had any any significant spread or all

we did immediately start one thing we do is try to track those cases to determine where they're coming from and whether there have been spread on the campus i would say alternately we see it completely if we saw that this was spreading around the campus and something more than actually the case was happening and the philadelphia phillies by spontaneous closed their bowl park until further notice off the 2 positive tests among stuff it wipes out they series against the toronto blue jays this weekend the phillies had already perspired 4 other guy names of the plying the miami nolens who are dealing with a mass outbreak and a blow for the u.s. open tennis tournament coming up next month the women's number one he has pulled out because she doesn't want to risk traveling during the pandemic the top 2 men's playas novak djokovic and rafael nadal have also expressed doubts. more

coronavirus concerns in football the president of italian club not really is worried about them traveling to spain for their champions league game against barcelona where there's been a recent spike in cases ready out of n.t.'s would prefer playing in portugal which is where all the quarterfinals semi's on the final will be polite. finally world rugby has approved a temporary covert 19 calendar the northern hemisphere has 6 nations tournament or resume in october after it was suspended in march meanwhile the southern hemisphere won't be championship has been given a 6 week window across november and december and that will be held in one country most likely new zealand's a lot of sports news to dialogue with this party now busy 00 to end people should also not look at a website with sport and news observers here dot com that's it for made our 10 of us news out back in a minute with an awful lot of. trade

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potential problems within postal voting system ahead in the november election and you see what's happening with so many different places they're doing even trial runs or disaster. and i don't want to see an election you know so many years i've been watching elections. and they say the projected winner or the winner of the election i don't want to see that take place in a week after november 3rd or a month or frankly with litigation and everything else that could happen years years or you never even know who won the election yes sending out hundreds of millions of universal mail in ballots hundreds of millions where they go who are they being sent to it's common sense you have to know one of the about politics and the democrats know this the democrats know this steve so i want to.