the passing into history. of people he wasn't born but he's now managed by a security company the do men of egypt on al-jazeera. trailing in the polls with the u.s. facing economic meltdown donald trump is criticized for suggesting november's presidential election should be delayed but no do i want to see a day changed but i don't want to see a crooked election. i wrote about this and this is all just a a lie from doha also coming up dipping into pensions to pay for the pandemic millions in chile raid the retirement fund says 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 corona virus. live. and it's 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 habitants that mail in voting will lead to a rigged result of white house correspondent kimberly hauck that has more. even by his own standards 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 truck 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 really. 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 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 a blitter aided by business shutdowns caused by cold it like team 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 you spyros you curve there is no money to be able to keep necessary people employed it's not the 1st time trump has

expressed reservations about the outcome in 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 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 easy electorate looking to uphold the american tradition of a peaceful transfer of power can really help get al-jazeera the white house former u.s. president barack obama has been speaking about tom severs to discourage man in voting joining the pandemic without mentioning him by name obama says the same forces that oppose civil rights are now working to restrict black americans from voting it was speaking at the funeral service of civil rights icon chong 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 targeting minorities and students with restrictive id laws and attacking our voting rights the surgical precision even undermining the past based service in the lead up to an election. that's going to be dependent on mail in ballots so people don't get sick. it is about high income is an associate professor of american studies and political science at the george washington university she says chum's comments erodes 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 i think at big difficulty actually accepting failure or taking responsibility for things so i already said that if he to make claims about voter fraud it's another way for him not to have to take responsibility for it 7 for whether or not he's actually going to do it for 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 raised do you know there's also as obama had mentioned a huge amount of voter suppression that we're seeing up loath things like where polling places in minority neighborhoods where there used to be 50 you know 50 polling places let's say 10 years ago are now down to 5 polling places 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 for the groups who have already been marginalized from u.s. politics donald trump suggesting that the presidential election should be delayed came minutes off to news of the sharpest done turn in the u.s. economy since the 1940s ross amassed a product shrunk a 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter as a country struggles to contain the pandemic another 1400000 americans have filed jobless claims last week i was on to 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 would 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 it's 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 gave rosendo to new york. u.s. state of florida is reporting a record number of covered 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 of the tropical storm which is due to hit

land in the coming days ok let me take you to hong kong a prominent activist joshua wall is speaking there now he's among multiple pro-democracy candidates who've been barred from standing in the upcoming legislative council elections now we're also hearing reports that the government may put on those calls until next year because they say of the coronavirus that critics are just disputing this for being the real reason the move to ban candidates from september's election is coming a day after hong kong police arrested several student activists for allegedly committing the new crime of secession under the new security law and just before this press conference that woman speaking at he is quoted as saying that barring him from running in the election would not stop the calls for democracy in hong kong is also saying that the disqualification reasons are invalid and ridiculous and the says the national security law is a legal weapon to be used against dissidents we'll have more on this in our next

bulletin at 5. prayers are being held in turkey's high vs sophia mosque for the 1st time in more than 80 years hundreds of muslim or sherpas have flocked to the site to mark. but they're keeping their distance from each other because of coronavirus restrictions landmark was built as a cathedral 1500 years ago before being converted into a mosque and then into a museum in 1904 the court ruling turned the world heritage site back into a mosque. and tens of thousands of muslims are gathering the mosque islams 3rd holiest site to celebrate eat how they fall since going to be joining us there in occupied east jerusalem the people. there have been going through a succession of closures and a real openings we've also had the coronavirus how are people feeling at this time . oh yes you have to remember that the last 80

don't fit so after the end of ramadan at that stage the luxor mosque compound known as the temple mount to jews it was still closed because of the coronavirus or tricks and so this is the 1st time that they've been able to have a major muslim holiday the major muslim holiday of the year in the grounds of the al aqsa mosque compound and so as you can see behind me thousands are currently flooding out after those door and prayers and thousands tens of thousands we believe did indeed go inside and pray at this 3rd holiest site people we spoke to were saying that they were very grateful for that fact that they were able to find some solace amid some of the difficulties that they've been experiencing both economically and health wise in recent weeks and months but that this wasn't really a regular or even proper aid for many people because of the fact that that so many been hit very economically hard by the pandemic but they were grateful to to do

what they could to try and and pray and commemorate and celebrate this occasion the hobby obviously you can see you're wearing a mask and i can see the people behind you as well many of them are wearing masks to just talk us through some of the restrictions that are in place. yes the the moscow authorities the people from the islamic walks which which runs the mosque they were saying that the elderly and children should not come i had to say that wasn't exactly observed in any great numbers of sort a lot of children a lot of elderly people also telling people to bring their own premises and to try to socially distance as much as possible but we've heard from inside the compound that the sheer crush of numbers made that very difficult that people were outside largely but that there was not much room to try to maintain space from each other during the prayers but yes mosque wearing differently from when the luxor mosque

reopened after those weeks of closure earlier in the year has been almost 100 percent just anecdotally from what i've seen from what i've been hearing from inside so people are trying to do what they can to minimize the risk but at the same time there's obviously a huge will to be at this very holy site like a faucet talking to this might sound like some mosque in occupied east jerusalem how many thanks a lot still ahead on his iran john lewis will be a founding father of that polar bear. daughter of her. former presidents pay tribute to 2 of true pioneer of the us civil rights movement .

hello there very wholesome mostly dry across much of the middle east the last few days a scene touches rising close to 52 celsius across into baghdad there skies are clear the winds have been fairly strong but of course also very hot and dry that we've seen also some flooding across the southwest of yemen we could see more of ass on friday these rains really very heavy at times some very torrential downpours so santa once again could see the streets under water but look at these temperatures up to 50 degrees celsius those winds us to say coming through the interior and also kicking up dust friday knows as hosts into 37 degrees celsius about 38 on saturday the winds there coming from a different direction coming from the south so it will feel very humid indeed a more of that sound and dust and how much is maybe a little bit lower in baghdad still holds the high there over 45 degrees then down into southern africa the usual shastri central areas but we're seeing something a clearing across much of madagascar over the last couple of days and we'll see want to but hopefully nothing i have yet than that and then along coastal areas of south africa again it's fine and dry the temperature has come back up in capetown

a high of 20 degrees celsius that but we could also see these coastal. taking those showers with those winds up through mozambique and pushing north was as we go through saturday through much of kenya and on towards somalia. japan is building a massive c. one to protect against devastating tsunami one o one east investigated nature can be can time or if the walls will expose could be used to greater danger. on al-jazeera. every generation has a higher purpose. ours is to stay close. to o.e.

cool. we're watching our visitor a reminder of our top stories this hour 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 the mail in voting is vulnerable to fraud. john selection remarks come as new figures reveal the u.s. economy has shrunk 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter that's a record shattering fall another 1400000 americans filed in jobless claims last week. the prayers are being held in turkey i use a fear mosque for the 1st time in more than 18 years a court ruling a lot of the istanbul landmark to be converted back into a mosque. millions of people in chile by 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've lost jobs can withdraw up to 10 percent of their savings a latin america editor this year newman reports from the capital santiago. on the 1st day the chileans were allowed to withdraw up to 10 percent of their retirement savings and funds which be not so 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 in 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. 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 my 5 been a medical. 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 and beg 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 bin al jazeera sent out. france is 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 the vessel said the virus is spreading faster since france is lockdowns and may. there's been the highest daily jump in cases in spain since the fighting it's locked down last month more than a 1000 infections were confirmed for the 2nd day in a row 1200 cases were recorded in thursday mostly from catalonia and out of the regions in the northeast. u.s. congressman and civil rights champion john lewis has been laid to rest in atlanta

the battle ends almost 2 weeks of memorials for the 80 year old who died of pancreatic cancer former presidents george w. bush bill clinton and barack obama but among those paying respect while brunell's reports. in the black church funeral services are sometimes called home going. john lewis went home on thursday one of the great figures of the civil rights movement he was mourned and celebrated as a true american hero someday when we do finish that long journey towards free when we do form a more perfect year whether it's years from now or decades or even if it takes another 2 centuries john lewis will be a founding father of that fuller fairer better america. former presidents bill clinton and george bush also attended the service at the

historic ebenezer baptist church where dr martin luther king once served as pastor conspicuous by his absence president donald trump we live in a better and over country to day because of john lewis and his abiding faith in the power of god in the power of democracy and the power of love to lift a saw to a higher ground john who isn't a walking rebuke to people who thought well we're there yet we know working alone. in the town of baghdad you can't move. lewis was nearly clubbed to death by police during a historic march in selma alabama in 1965 he served more than 30 years in

congress and lived to see the groundswell of support for the black lives matter movement obama tide lewis is battles for justice and civil rights in the 1960 s. to the present day when republican state legislatures have enacted laws seen as voter suppression and on the day trump suggested delaying the november election 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 targeting minorities and through with restricted by you know and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision as he lay dying louis sent a final opinion article to the new york times to be published posthumously it reads in part in my life i have done all i can to demonstrate that the way of peace the

way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way now it is your turn to let freedom ring john lewis the conscience of a country going home at last rob reynolds al-jazeera. australia has taken another step towards forcing google and facebook to pay for news content published on their platforms the government's given the digital giants 3 months to negotiate a fair deal with a student in media companies at least a draft mandatory code of conduct which aims to increase competition protect consumers and create a sustainable media landscape. governor's prime minister has appeared before a parliamentary committee over a multi-million dollar deal involving a charity with ties family appearing by video link justin trudeau said he played no role in the government's decision to give a major student grant program to an organization called we charity has previously

apologized for being involved in the decision because of the perceived conflict of interest is to those 3rd the 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 fight the spread of coronavirus when he reports. many of thailand's beaches are not the idyllic 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 was 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 clean and collect and adds 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 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 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. and nasa says its mars bound mission has run into technical difficulties all but a sensor systems on the perseverance rover have been switched off because of a drop in temperature but the space agency hopes the problems will be solved as planned to put the rover on to the red planet to take samples and fly an experimental helicopter over its surface and we've got a report 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 increases and. 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 moans ever have life before any event 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 all just everything's at the top stories donald trump has been condemned by democrats and senior republicans for suggesting a delay to november's u.s. presidential election prompts 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 well tom selection remarks camas new figures reveal the u.s. economy shrunk 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter that's a record shattering fall another 1400000 americans filed jobless claims last week. the u.s. state of florida is reporting a record number of covered 19 deaths for the 3rd straight day another 253 people have died in 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 is spread since both countries started easing lockdown restrictions the latest cases bring the national total to more than 186000 eat prayers are being

held at turkey's highest afia mosque for the 1st time in more than 80 years the court ruling allowed the istanbul landmark to be converted back into a mosque earlier this month. mr lee has taken another step towards forcing google and facebook to pay for news content published on their platforms the government has given the digital giants 3 months to negotiate a fair deal with this trillion media companies canada's prime ministers appeared before a parliamentary committee over a multi-million dollar deal involving a charity with ties to his family a pain by video link just in to those city played no role in the government's decision to give a major student grant program to an organized cold we charity and those are the headlines that he's continues here on our desire after the stream more on the web site al jazeera dot com by. talk to old jews there are we are this is the government not to take the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that air travel is the safest mode of

travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter is iraq. hi anthony ok you're watching the stream as a journalist myself and most of my colleagues china would be hard not to be the story just to tell the story but what happens when your black journalists and you're covering issues about race and racism we are still in the stream some black journalists around the united states what it has been like covering the. protests and this is what they told us being allowed general as in general as charity but especially when you're working in a predominately white. any given day you have to ashes are questions like can i write about yet another legend of a black man or is breaking the law.