we and i will come. down in the fleet that's the heart. of the city we're holding number fingernails to the 2 state solution today it is still barely possible on al-jazeera. trailing in the polls with the u.s. facing economic meltdown donald trump's criticized for suggesting november's presidential election should be delayed but no do i want to see a date changed but i don't want to see a crooked election. i'm not matheson this is not as if a live from doha also coming up dipping into pensions to pay for the pandemic

millions in chile raid retirement funds as the impact of coronavirus hits home plus . i'm wayne hay reporting from thailand where we'll tell you how rubbish washed up on beaches is being used to help fight the spread of coronavirus. and is the most advanced mars mission yet but nasa is already tackling a technical glitch on the perseverance rover. donald trump is being condemned by democrats and senior republicans for suggesting a delay to november's u.s. presidential election many states want to make postal voting easier because of coronavirus health concerns but trump insists without heavens that men and voting will lead to a rigged result white house correspondent kimberly hauck it has more. even by his old. standard's his tweet was nothing short of astonishing on thursday u.s.

president donald trump suggested the november presidential election should be postponed alleging potential 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 had a federal. election on. and we'll find a way to do that again this november 3rd no way should we ever not hold an election from claims that voters identity can't be verified and that a voter might 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 spyros you can 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 feel like i have to see you i have to see you know i'm not going to just say yes i'm not a saint 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 or former u.s. president barack obama has been speaking about trump's efforts to discourage mail in voting during the pandemic without mentioning him by name obama says the same forces that oppose civil rights and i working to restrict black americans from

voting has been speaking at the funeral service of civil rights icon john lewis. 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 minorities and rigorously divide it all that attacking our voting rights the surgical procedure even on the mind of the hospital over the right up to the election. that's going to be dependent on mail in ballots so people don't get sick elizabeth i think there is an associate professor of american studies and political science at the george washington university she says tongues comments erode trust in the democratic process 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 have a big difficulty actually accepting failure or taking responsibility for things so i already starting to see to make claims about voter fraud it's another way for him not to have to take responsibility for it for whether or not he's actually going to do this or 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 effects because it continues to undermine people's trust in the democratic process the trust that has already been frayed do you know there's also as obama had mentioned a huge amount of voter suppression that we're seeing up close things like where

polling places in minority neighborhoods where there used to be. you know 50 polling places let's say 10 years ago are now down to 5 polling place this and so we're seeing that shrinkage particularly important minority neighborhoods and combined with a lot of that attempt to restrict voting there are you know serious concerns about voter suppression there usually groups who have already been marginalized from u.s. politics. well as we've been mentioning donald trump's suggestion that the presidential election be delayed came minutes after news of the sharpest downturn in the u.s. economy since the $940.00 s. gross domestic product shrunk 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter as the country struggles to contain the pandemic and another 1400000 americans filed jobless claims last week there will arizona 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 demick levels this even after new york once the covert 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. here city florida is reporting a record number of covert 19 deaths for the 3rd straight day another 253 people have died with nearly 10000 new cases florida is one of the worst hit states but

it's republican governor is refusing to impose widespread lockdowns the state has shut down some testing centers because a tropical storm is due to hit land in the coming days france has reported nearly 1400 new coronavirus cases for a 2nd day in a row there's also been an increase in patients admitted to intensive care for the 1st time in 4 months health officials say the virus is spreading faster since france eased lockdowns in may and there's been the highest daily jump in cases in spain since lifting its lockdown last month more than a 1000 infections were confirmed for a 2nd day in a row 1200 cases were recorded on thursday mostly from the catalonia and out again regions in the northeast. well millions of people in chile dipping into their pension funds to help them get through the financial fallout from the pandemic the government approved changes to the law so those who lost jobs can withdraw up to 10 percent of those savings in america at its embassy in yemen reports in the capital

since jago. on the 1st day the chileans were allowed to withdraw up to 10 percent of their retirement savings and flown to a spinor south wasted no time queuing outside of his private pension fund office get the money 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 then might have 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 moment 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 your only option. to see a new when al-jazeera sente out. pago is reconsidering quarantine restrictions after riots close to its border with brazil protests has a face off with police after the government declared a stay at home quarantine in quit the less than a city that relies on cross border trade about 60 people have been arrested. so i had an al-jazeera opposition supporters in belarus hold their biggest rally in years countering the president's claim of a russian subversive plot. hundreds of chinese fishing vessels near the galapagos islands raise environmental concerns and diplomatic tension.

hello there the usual shots and thunderstorms scattered across much of the south in the southeast of the united states central plains also big honest homes out across the west it does remain clear and dry and fat that are excessive heat warnings in place all the way from the pacific northwest right the way down across into arizona not surprising look at the high temperature in phoenix on friday 47 degrees celsius 28 across into seattle and this is where the rain will really develop as we go through the day across the southern plains pushing into the southeast and eventually through saturday that system working its way very slowly through the ohio valley at the same time as a frontal system sliding 3 the northern plains the upper midwest and again we'll see some rain showers mixed in here you'll notice a lot of rain on its way towards the south of florida and that is because over this this is our latest. storm is the 9th one of the side this season it is a very quick to develop as well this one and of course as it was coming towards the u.s. virgin islands it really was bringing the weather with it although not too bad this is a full through friday so it's going to be pushing across his daniella and then it should

stay to the north of cuba and just to the south the bahamas but of course we've got some very heavy rain with this system by friday the winds at about 90 kilometers an hour through saturday it will be getting a bit stronger winds at 110 but really this is about the rain. but. beyond going fight between donald trump and the golden state because of thrones philosophy he's into everybody going to conflict with california exposes contrasting ideologies on immigration the environment economic and cultural issues trump is calling attention to the failure of the blue state model the key battlegrounds for the 2020 in action even impala reports on tom clancy's california on al-jazeera.

emotional just a reminder of our top stories in this donald trump has been condemned by democrats and senior republicans for suggesting a delay to november's u.s. presidential election trump insists without evidence that expanded man in voting is vulnerable to fraud. or trumps election remarks come as new figures reveal the u.s. economy shrank by 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter that's a record shattering fall another 1400000 americans have filed jobless claims last week. france and spain have seen large jumps in new coronavirus cases for 2 days in a row the viruses spread since both countries started easing lockdown restrictions . ok these are live pictures in istanbul this is the hottest

a few in moscow for prayers are taking place to mark a lot of hot it's the 1st time these prayers have been held at the mosque for 86 years it follows a turkish court ruling that paved the way for the building to be converted back into a mosque a high yusifiyah was built 1500 years ago as an orthodox christian cathedral it was converted into a mosque in 453 but the founder of modern turkey decreed it should become a museum and it was open to such in 1935. china is warning the u.k. you're either with us or against us the country's ambassador in london says disagreements in hong kong and far away poisoned relations between the 2 but he didn't specify how china could make life difficult for britain for a challenge reports from london. 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 sad china want to be a france or a china want to be. if you do not want to be. and our friends want to treat china as a hostile and. you know i a price that simple a is very clear that means you are laws your laws about us in china as often it is as a friend 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 government which tries to do is to found ways that will be hurtful to the u.k. they were harmed. not china is south the since 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 without also punishing them so a proportionate response might be tolerable for london steve told me anything harsha might push the u.k. to take further steps in row economic times the importance of chinese trade gives it superior power but the ability of the united kingdom to cope warden 8 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. the u.s. is calling on pakistan to take action over the killing of an american man accused of blasphemy scene was shot dead inside a courtroom in the northern city of shower he allegedly claimed to be a prophet to a crime punishable by death the state department says in a scene is a member of the on the d a minority have long faced violence in pakistan the u.s. has expanded sanctions on iran's metals industry washington's list of 22 metals it says are used in 10 runs nuclear military and missile programs industries a major employer in iran about 10 percent of the workforce the us began we imposed sanctions 2 years ago after withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal. better reuss has detained 32 russian citizens who it says a mercenary sent by moscow to inside riots and destabilize next month's

presidential election the kremlin denies the allegation and was sentenced as more. the allegations were raised to the meeting of the better route 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 mercenaries president alexander lukashenko said he was demanding an immediate explanation from russia if you just material. 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 roost 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 curve it 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 andrew symonds al-jazeera. australia has taken another step towards forcing google and facebook to pay for news content published on its platforms and the government has given the digital giants 3 months to

negotiate a fair deal with the straining media companies released a draft mandatory code of contact with aims to increase competition protect consumers and create a sustainable media landscape. canada's prime minister has appeared before a parliamentary committee over a multi-million dollar deal involving a charity with ties to his family appearing by video link just 2 of those said he played no role in the government's decision to give a major student grant program to an organization called weed charity has previously apologized for being involved in the decision because of the perceived conflict of interest it's true those 3rd ethics probe in 3 years. the fishing industry is a major part of thailand's economy but it's also one of the main contributors to marine pollution in particular plastic now a charity organizations combined with private enterprise to recycle fishermen's damaged nets in turn these are being made into products used to help fight the

spread of the corona virus when he reports. many of thailand's beaches are not the ideal of white sand slices of paradise sold to tourists instead diluted with rubbish much of it coming from those who rely on the ocean for income and food. small fishing boats always sponsible for a lot of the garbage but a large fishing vessel has also done a lot into the ocean because of a lack of a proper waste management system this 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 add and dan we link them up with recycling sectors like you know recycling companies and use their common who can make them into an exciting product it's estimated around

$8000000.00 tons 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 corona virus 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 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 net 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. is looking to diplomatic channels to resolve a possible threat facing the nearby galapagos islands around $260.00 fishing boats have been circling near the ecologically sensitive archipelago most of them occurring the chinese flag a quarter fears they may be able to fish in the marine reserves china says the vessels are there illegally and mean no harm. bill is the senior oceans campaigner a greenpeace usa even says there may have been less monitoring of the galapagos region because of coronavirus restrictions. illegal fleets and they come from a number of flag states often from from east asia they have a number of tricks that they do to kind of skirt the monitoring processes that are in place so while we will often have been is something called transshipment where

they will fish until their their ship is full another ship that is just for the purpose of best comes along takes the catch moves away and then the and then the fishing begins again with it with an empty vessel and so you never really get a clear picture of how much they are taking from the oceans the only thing that can stop this is a new global ocean treaty that would allow protection of wildlife in international waters a treaty like this is currently under negotiation in the united nations but at this point there's a major gap in international governance there there is 0 international laws that protect wildlife and ecosystems once you're in international waters and this new treaty would allow that kind of measure to be put in place so that you could say hey this area between galapagos and mainland south america is so important for wildlife that let's make it a reserve just like we made the glock a series or. nasa says its mars bound mission has run into technical difficulties all but essential systems in the perseverance rover have been switched off because

of a drop in temperature but the space agency hopes the issue will be resolved its plan to put the rover on to the red planet take samples and fly an experimental helicopter over that surface and he 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 there 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 her. 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 our window of time nasa calls 7 minutes of terror that's how long it takes the rover to send a radio signal back to earth the curiosity rover managed in 2012 and if perseverance does the same it will begin a whole new era in the search for life and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. this is our desire these are the top stories donald trump has been condemned by democrats and senior republicans for suggesting a delay to november's u.s. presidential election trump has expressed concerns about an increase in postal

voting insisting without evidence that it's vulnerable 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 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 this common sense so we're asking for a lot of trouble and no do i want to see a day change now but i don't want to see a crooked election this election will be the most rigged election in history if that happens. tom selection remarks come as new figures revealed the u.s. economy has shrunk a 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter that's a record shattering fall another 1400000 americans filed a jobless claims last week. the u.s. state of florida is reporting a record number of covert 19 deaths for the 3rd straight day another 253 people

have died florida is one of the worst hit states but leaders are refusing to reinstate widespread lockdowns france and spain have seen large jumps in new coronavirus cases for 2 days in a row the virus has spread since both countries started easing their lockdown restrictions but it is cases bring the national total to more than 186000 the u.s. has expanded sanctions in iran's metals industry washington's list of 22 metals it says are used into iran's nuclear military and missile programs the industry is a major employer in iran about 10 percent of the workforce the us began re imposing sanctions 2 years ago after withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal. a strain has taken another step towards forcing google and facebook to pay for news content published on their platforms the government's given digital giants 3 months to negotiate a fair deal with this trillion media companies those are the headlines news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power supply. as protests rage over

police brutality and corona virus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the us elections on a. high stakes of california's progressive stones on issues from climate change to immigration as long come to a potential eyes liberal opposition to preston on trump but what does this picture argue launch come back to reveal about the choices facing americans in the coming presidential election in the 2nd of 2 special reports bob's house has been finding out.