oh. there were. 0 sum acts express yourself. the way. donald trump is condemned for suggesting november's election be delayed as he steps up claims the results will be rigged by mail and ballots but no do i want to see a date changed but i don't want to see a group election. i don't care i missed here today and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. economy suffers its in largest decline on record as a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic forces businesses to close for a 2nd time. opposition supporters and valorous hold their biggest rally in years

ahead of next month's elections they say president bush and his claim of a russian subversion for office as a shadow. not some launches its mites to the mystic asia admission yet to find life on mars. now donald trump has been condemned by democrats and senior republicans suggesting that november's presidential election be delayed many states want to make personal voting is it due to coronavirus health concerns but trump insists without evidence that mail in voting will lead to a rigged result our white house correspondent jim to help us has more. even by his old standards his tweet was nothing short of astonishing thursday u.s. president donald trump suggested the november presidential election should be postponed alleging. little fraud associated with mail in voting trump tweeted delay

the election until people can properly securely and safely vote the president has no legal authority to change the election date leading even members of trump's own republican party in congress to scoff at the prospect well never in the history of the country through wars depressions and the civil war if we ever not had a federal. election on time and we'll find a way to do that again most nov 3rd no way should we ever not hold an election from claims that voters identity can't be verified and that a voter my cast more than one ballot i don't want to delay i want to have the election but i also don't want to have to wait for 3 months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything this was going to happen see if it's common sense so we're asking for a lot of trouble and no do i want to see a day change no but i don't want to see

a crooked election but president trump may have had another motive for his incendiary tweet up ending negative news headlines it's been another week of gloomy economic numbers for a president hoping to cruise to reelection on a strong economy now obliterated by business shutdowns caused by colvin 19 poll numbers are also not trump's favor most show him trailing the presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden by double digits on thursday will biden didn't address trump's push to delay the election he did blame trump for the historic job losses that have left more than 20000000 americans without work. because trump so badly mishandled the covert virus and caused the spiral that you there is no money to be able to keep necessary people employed it's not the 1st

time trump has expressed reservations about the upcoming presidential election earlier this month he said he may not accept the results of the november poll can you give a direct answer you will accept the election to see look you have to say oh i'm not going to just say yes i'm not a sinner and i did last time either with less than $95.00 days until election day the president suggestions are causing consternation for an already an easy electorate looking to uphold the american tradition of a peaceful transfer of power can really help get al-jazeera the white house a former u.s. president barack obama has taken aim at donald trump over his response to the recent protests on voting rights he referenced trump's efforts to discourage a male invasion during this pandemic without mentioning him by name a bomb a says the same forces that opposed civil rights are now working to restrict black americans from various saying he was speaking at the funeral service of civil rights icon john. we may no longer have to guess the number of jelly beans in

a jar in order to cast a ballot. but even as we sit here there are those in power who are doing their darndest. to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and totaling mongolia's and still with restrictive i.d. law and attacking our voting rights the surgical precision even undermining the test case service in the lead up to election. that's going to be dependent on mail in ballots so people don't get a sec. let's now speak to elizabeth anchors she's an associate professor of american studies and special science at george washington university and she joins us now from washington d.c. elizabeth so just to be careful here as president trump cannot change the election date on their multiple constitutional reasons why and presumably he knows that so

is this then a tactic what's he trying to do here. i think there are a few things that trump is trying to do he certainly trying to. divert attention from the fact that his own poll numbers are very low that economy is doing badly which is partly what he thought he was going to be able to run on to secure a 2nd term and we also know that trump personally and big difficulty actually accepting failure or taking responsibility for things so why already setting the thieves to make claims about voter fraud it's another way for him not to have to chip responsibility for. or whether or not he's actually going to lose the election but we do know that this kind of rhetoric even if it's being used as a deflection tactic can have very dangerous effect because it continues to undermine people's trust in the democratic process the trust that has already been frayed and elizabeth i i say that even some conservative commentators even fox news

a saying that this reeks of desperation only really reminds people of trying this weak position in the polls could this backfire. i think there are many ways that it can backfire we've already seen a huge amount book republicans who are currently serving in congress republicans who are commentators people in the field who have generally supported trump throughout his presidency who are all saying that this is incredibly intimate democratic that it goes too far and that it does make trump look weak so i think we can see that but again we also know there are a lot of people for whom trump's words ring true they feel that their voices may not be heard of trump is not present any more and so they will believe that you know of that comes about in trump is not real left and that is because of the fraud that trump is beginning to allude to even when there is no if that's for the sort of fraud that he is claiming might happen i'm thinking well we've also now seen former president obama weigh in on this and we just heard him speak very pointed

political speech as he delivered that eulogy at one point comparing segregationist america and the jim crow to trump's america today i mean he's suggesting voting reform that increase representation well looking at such a divided country now how are people feeling heading towards november. i think many people are worried we have already seen in the news that there have been serious groups made up of politicians and academics and journalists who are already gaming out concerns for what might happen if trump loses the election but refuses to give up power or if the election is close and a lot of claims about whether or not the election that's fair start to buckle up so we there has been a lot of concern i think across the political spectrum in both legitimate and less legitimate ways about what might be happening now we do know there's also as obama had mentioned a huge amount of voter suppression that we're see up close things like where

polling places in minority neighborhoods where there used to be 50 to. 50 polling places let's say 10 years ago are now down to 5 polling place that is and so we're seeing that shrinkage particularly in poor and minority neighborhoods and combined with a lot of that attempt to restrict voting there are you know serious concerns about voter suppression though usually for the groups who have already been marginalized from u.s. politics and as i think that most analysts now agree that if the election were held today biden would win but we obviously don't know what's going to happen between now and november could these poll numbers that we've been saying with biden's double digit lead in this meeting and potentially even discourage people from coming out to vote i mean they're also living through a pandemic at the moment. i think that where trump's claims are starting to take hold i think i don't think that it will discourage people from voting for biden but i do think that trump's claims about voter fraud happening through mail in ballots

might make people begin to distrust the whole process of mailing a ballot especially if there becomes no trail for where they go or whether or not they're even counted so we do see some of that concern and i think we also see the waves just in which voters across the spectrum ever since 26000 have been distrustful of holes and there's good reason for that given that you know virtually every poll predicted hillary clinton would win however i have tried to accommodate that part of the problem with that people who are traditionally who voted for trump were not traditional voters but now those people or be counted in polls so some of those numbers might be more accurate than they were in 2016 but of course as we know anything is that for grabs right now is indeed elizabeth and get that from george washington university great to get your insights here on out of there thanks for being with us as. well as it is both are saying trump did suggest that the election be delayed just minutes after

a staggering new figures were released showing the u.s. economy experienced its sharpest downturn since the 1940 s. g.d.p. shrank 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter triggered by this pandemic while another 1400000 americans filed jobless claims just last week was under has more from new york. to see how badly the u.s. economy is doing all you have to do is look at this parking lot full of empty new york city taxis because of the pandemic and slow economic recovery ridership was down over 90 percent last month. there are 15000 taxis in new york city 4 out of every 5 of them are parked because of a lack of passengers leaving thousands of drivers without a livelihood nobody is working because nobody in the road. is not a normal life in april congress pumped trillions of dollars into the u.s.

economy with the expectation that come july coronavirus would be over and there'd be a major upswing in economic activity that as it turns out was a miscalculation and didn't happen even in new york city the normally bustling streets remain mostly quiet with economic activity way below its prepared to make levels this even after new york wants to cope with epicenter but no more unlike much of the rest of america the virus is mostly contained in new york with a one percent infection rate the lowest anywhere in the u.s. still for ashok kumar even though his flour store reopened after being closed for months during the shutdown things are not back to normal far from it still bad i have. got to put 30 to 40. 60 percent of the loss the business because

all of that stuff that everything is for now few people have money to spend and those who can choosing not to and an economy still in deep recession. new york. well the u.s. state of florida is reporting yet another record number of new coded 19 deaths for the 3rd straight day now 253 more deaths have been confirmed on thursday with nearly 10000 new cases it's one of the worst hit states in the u.s. but it's republican governor has refused to impose widespread lockdowns the stages also shut down some testing senses due to a looming tropical storm expected to make landfall in the coming days france has reported nearly 1400 new coronavirus cases for a 2nd day in a row there's also been a rise in the number of patients admitted to intensive care for the 1st time in 4 months health officials say the virus is spreading faster than ever since funds eased back in may and spain has also seen its highest daily jump in new cases since

lifting itself down in june more than 1000 infections were confirmed for a 2nd day in a row 1200 new cases were recorded on thursday mostly from the catalonian arrogant regions in the northeast taiwan's 1st democratically elected president who pushed for independence from mainland china has died aged 97 a oversaw taiwan's transition from dictatorship to democracy during 12 years in power that began in 1988 his push for taiwan to be treated as a sovereign state and good to china leading to intimidating military maneuvers. still ahead here here on al-jazeera raid on pensions millions of chileans try to withdraw a portion of their funds as the impact of coronavirus its home plus. i'm going hey reporting from thailand we will tell you how rubbish washed up on beaches is being used to help fight the spread of coronavirus.

hello there the rains across china very well scattered over the next couple of days not as heavy but still certainly very much in the fore calls meanwhile we've got more very heavy rain on its way to northern areas of honshu the has been some flooding here and the rains pushing on a friday will so you know it's helping of course they could lead to further flooding in of course the danger of mudslides or landslides but it's a better day across the korean peninsula there are those scattered rains across much of central and southern areas of china by saturday that rain once again perhaps that works its way across across the sea and this is where we expect very heavy downpours across much of the korean peninsula but a better day generally across into japan southern china is going to see some very heavy rain in the next couple days and the reason for that is that this is an area of low pressure which possibly could develop into

a tropical cycle but even if it doesn't you can see the direction of these winds just pulling up all this moisture so the philippines picking up some very heavy amounts of the next couple of days and as the system cools pulls its way northward you can see the yellow in the dark blue that is where we can see the very heavy rain so cross into high not southerners the china but the same time across much of it and also cambodia so again of course this could produce some very heavy amounts of rain and the chance of the some flooding but as it does alas it keeps conditions must draw across borneo some arches and down to the south in java. as a weapon of war leaves the very deep. scars so room that the victims men and women can barely talk about. the only witnesses who can help bring about justice al-jazeera tolerance human rights campaigners in libya investigation

since the 2000. unspeakable crime on al-jazeera. the and. hello again i'm the star of the attainder let's remind you of our top stories here this hour donald trump has been condemned by senior democrats and republicans for suggesting november's presidential election be delayed trump insists without evidence that expanded mail in voting is vulnerable to fraud. on those remarks come on the day that new figures reveal the u.s. economy shrank 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter a record shattering another 1400000 americans also filed jobless claims last week.

france and spain have seen larger jumps in new coronavirus cases for 2 days in a row now both countries have seen the virus spread since easing lock down. all the millions of people in chile are dipping into their pension funds to help them get through the financial impacts of this pandemic last friday the government approved changes to the law letting those who've lost their jobs withdraw up to 10 percent of their savings or latin america at a fairly senior in reports from the capital center. on the 1st day the chileans were allowed to withdraw up to 10 percent of their retirement savings and for interest been also wasted no time queuing outside of his private pension fund office. i don't like to dip into my pension but we can't depend on the government for everything so i want to access my own money especially since the private pension funds have filled their pockets at our expense for decades but nothing is more unpopular in chile than the mandatory a.f.p.'s or private retirement funds

which with rare exceptions deliver what most described as starvation pensions. the a.f.p.'s were untouchable to last week when congress approved a landmark constitutional amendment allowing people to access some of their contributions for the next year but if they did my 5 been on medical leave since march and i haven't received any government benefits i'm not getting my full wages to pay for my medicine and my upcoming surgery so this is very necessary for me. outside of this fund mainly migrants queued for hours to ask for a password to access their accounts many of them a haitians out of work and desperate for cash. i have no work anymore but have to keep paying their rent eating and bag necessities without money you can't survive. the process is supposed to be totally online so that people won't have to queue especially under the lockdown that still in force in most of the country but with

more than a 1000000 people trying to access their money simultaneously on just the 1st day the process is painfully slow as i'm finding out right here in some cases the funds web pages have crashed completely or in this case it says there are more than a 1065000 people ahead of me. whether it's in line or on line people are being told to be patient something not so easy when resorting to your life savings has. become option. to see a new al-jazeera. paraguayan has had to reconsider quarantine restrictions there after riots broke out close to its border with brazil protesters faced off with police after the government declared a strict state home quarantine for syria. a city that relies on cross border trade about 60 people were arrested brazilian president says he's now taking

antibiotics for an infection that left him feeling weak he didn't clarify what that infection is both in our recently recovered from the corona virus but it's now confirmed that his wife has tested positive the science and technology minister also says he's infected making him the 5th cabinet member to catch private 19 both sonora has repeatedly downplayed the severity of this pandemic but brazil is the 2nd worst affected nation in the wild more than $91000.00 people have died there of that 19 now moving on and a stray leader has taken another step towards forcing google and facebook to pay for news content published on its platforms the government has given the tech giants 3 months to negotiate a fair deal with a straight media companies it released a draft mandatory code of conduct which aims to increase competition protect consumers and create a sustainable media landscape belarus has detained 32 russian citizens who it says on mercenaries sent by moscow to incite riots and destabilize its upcoming

presidential election the kremlin has denied that allegation andrew symonds has more. the allegations were raised at the meeting of the better ruse 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 me ask you these are so young i'm already seeing the reaction by the russians they are already making excuses saying things such as we invited them here it is obvious dirty intentions have to be justified. the roots 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. because shinku an ice hockey fan has caused widespread protests in better ruse by dismissing curve it 19 as a stretch he is however still the favorite to win the election having had quarter of a century in power. that many observers believe the president seen here with not a mere putin at a military parade in moscow in june can ill afford a spot with the russian president and to simmons' al-jazeera. while an opposition political rally in belarus described as the biggest since independence from the soviet union has been held in the capital minsk thousands turned out and supporters

footlong a tick and a skier who's challenging alexander lukashenko his bed for a 6th term and next month's elections the government has accused the opposition of collaborating with moscow to cause civil unrest ahead of that vote the opposition says the claims of russian subversion are a sham. saudi arabia's king solomon has been discharged from hospital after having his gallbladder removed there's a 4 year old monarch was admitted last week prompting concerns about his health and also the future of the kingdom. yemen 33 rebels have released 6 members of the baha'i faith following months of international pressure they are part of a group of 20 bahais who were arrested 2 years ago in the capital which the who these captured in 2014 rights groups accuse the group these religious persecution now the u.s. is calling on pakistan to take action over the killing of an american man accused of blasphemy to hear ahmed in a scene was shot dead inside a courtroom in the northern city of peshawar he allegedly claimed to be a prophet

a crime punishable by death there the u.s. state department says in a seam is a member of the ahmadiyya minority the ahmadiyya have long faced violence in pakistan. now nasa says its mars bound missile has run into technical difficulties all but essential systems on the perseverance rover has now been switched off because of a drop in temperature but the space agency hopes the issue will soon be resolved as planning to put the rover on to the red planet to take samples and fly an experimental helicopter over at surface and reality reports from miami. 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 that 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 london 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 bring the samples for the wedding 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 agalloch are all does there are miami

florida. now the fishing industry is a major part of thailand's economy but it's also one of the main contributors to marine pollution and particulate plastic now a charity organization has combined with private enterprise to recycle fishman's damaged nets and then turn these are being made into products used to fight the spread of the coronavirus reports. many of thailand's beaches are not the idyllic white sand slices of paradise sold to tourists instead littered with rubbish much of it coming from those who rely on the ocean for income and food thinking small fishing boats always sponsible for a lot of the garbage but large fishing vessels also do a lot into the ocean because of a lack of a proper waste management system tourists also done a lot of trust on the beaches were. probably the most damaging debris are discarded fishing nets they can easily harm marine life now instead of throwing their broken

or old nets overboard or leaving them on the beach fisherman are selling them for cash. we actually train law officers to create and collect and adds and dan we link them up with recycling sectors like you know recycling companies and use their common make them into an exciting product it's estimated around 8000000 tonnes of plastic including nylon fishing nets into the world's oceans each year and thailand is one of the largest contributors it's clear thailand has a big problem with rubbish ending up in its oceans and on its beaches so much so that it's highly likely some of the products that are being made from the fishing nets will end up back here again. one of the companies involved in the program has been recycling plastic for years and exporting its products among its latest lines protective equipment to help prevent the spread of coronavirus made from old fishing nets the pen demick has seen a rise in single use plastic around the world but the owners of this company say

they are trying to reduce waste not increase it if these are not infected trash we can always recycle them again and again anyway so i tried to convince people not to use one time use plastic the nit collection program is being conducted in 3 provinces but there are plans to expand it it's a small but significant step towards cleaning up thailand's beaches and oceans wayne hay al-jazeera rayong thailand. that this is out of there and these are the headlines donald trump has been condemned by democrats and republicans for suggesting that november's presidential election be delayed trump insists without evidence that expanded mail and voting as phone call to fraud i just feel. i don't want to delay i want to have the election but i also don't want to have to wait 3 months and then

find out that the ballots are missing and the election doesn't mean anything this is going to happen see if it's common sense so we're asking for a lot of trouble and no do i want to see a day change no but i don't want to see a group election this election will be the most rigged election in history if that happens. all those remarks from trump come on the day that new figures reveal the u.s. economy strong 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter that's a record shattering for another 1400000 americans also fall jobless claims last week while the u.s. state of florida is reporting yet another record number of private 19 deaths for the 3rd straight day now 253 more deaths have been confirmed today with nearly 10000 new cases it's one of the west hit states in the u.s. but it's republican governor has refused to impose widespread lockdowns and france has reported nearly 1400 new coronavirus cases a 2nd day in

a row there's also been a rise in the number of patients admitted to intensive care for the 1st time in 4 months health officials say the virus is spreading faster than ever since france eased its lockdown in may and spain has also seen its highest daily jump in new cases since they have to get socked out in june more than 1000 infections were confirmed for a 2nd day in a row 1200 new cases were recorded on thursday mostly from the catalonian arrogant regions in the northeast and not so says that small is bound spaceship has run into technical difficulties but it hopes they'll be resolved the sophisticated rover launched on thursday for a mission to find signs of life on the red planet perseverance is expected to take rock samples that will one day make their way back to earth well those are the headlines rob matheson will have more news for you here on al-jazeera off the earth right. pretentious could cut global economic growth by $700000000000.00 we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly

changing the world we live in the government has shifted focus from saving lives to saving the economy counting the cost on al-jazeera. and conflicts one of the silent and forgotten casualties is often the environment. from the chemical contamination of soils and the collapse of water and food supplies to the habitat damage caused by displacement. all has devastating consequences. manmade infrastructure is but also natural ecosystems are destroyed and animal lives.