opposition activist joshua wan says resistance to hong kong's new security will continue after his disqualified from running in elections. player watching al jazeera live from doha with me for the bad people also ahead coronavirus restrictions in india easing but the number of cases hits another high . donald trump faces criticism from both sides of the political divide for suggesting november's u.s. presidential election should be delay. and catherine soy of the messiah marking in

saudi arabia we have hundreds of thousands would be on making the annual migration of the new tourists to see them i'll be calling you why. thank you for joining us we begin in hong kong where pro-democracy activists joshua wang has called the decision to bar him from running in september his election invalid and ridiculous wong is one of 12 opposition candidates disqualified from the legislative council polls he says a new national security law is being used by the government as the legal weapon to silence dissent electoral forty's accuse wong of advocating said vesey of ideas and canoe dealing with foreign forces. beyond any doubt if the most scandalous election fraud air front in hong kong history they could disqualify us they could arrest us

every once in which they could even call of the election and create a pop up. parliament elsewhere just gather with beijing loyalists however long of this overturned a strong mandate for modest 600000 hong kong who are past the pale it's the city's 1st ever a primary early this month i will boyce is clear allow to the world by over. let's bring in there is dave pollan in hong kong for his d.v.s. joshua wang sounding very defiant there how is this all affecting hong kong's for democracy movement. that's right he also said that he's not going to stop the fight against what he called beijing's oppression of hong kong's political freedoms he says this is qualifications were were promoted or rather were motivated by the government's fear that for the 1st time ever the

pro-democracy camp could win a majority in the legislative council elections that would be a prospect that would infuriate beijing because it would allow the pro-democracy faction to have more of an influence in hong kong's of ferrous rules and regulations and in the way it deals with the central government in china he also said that the national security law that was imposed in hong kong just under a month ago was one of the main issues that is. threatening hong kong's democratic movement the political system and tongues freedoms now the government had said that most of the those candidates were disqualified because they did not support that national security law but it also he also mentioned that joshua long also mentioned the 4 young people that were arrested on wednesday night for as posting

on social media advocating hong kong's independence says they were arrested they're still in detention and he said that also is another violation of hong kong's rights and he said it's just a matter of time before he too is accused of violating the national security law and possibly be penalized for being so outspoken so it what he's the message he's trying to send and is something that's being echoed by the whole democracy camp is that the government is definitely trying to stifle hong kong's democracy movement and there's a suggestion d.v.m. that the election the legislative council election which is scheduled for september could in fact be delayed by the government they're citing of course coronavirus size the reason for that how is that likely to go down. rights of all i need to point out in the next 2 hours the nominations close for these legislative council elections and pro-democracy activists are scrambling at the

moment to get signatures for backup candidates for those who were disqualified and also for the other $22.00 that are waiting to hear whether they would be disqualified to the prodemocracy campus not given up giving up but all this they do understand could be futile as the government has mentioned several times that indicated that those legislative council elections could be postponed under the threat or due to the risk of the outbreak of the latest corona virus outbreak but many critics and opposition are saying that this one founded on congress many times dealt with the outbreak and contained it rather swiftly the elections are more than a month away and the government is using this to make sure that support for the democratic camp wanes as the government wants to postpone these elections for a year and if they do that that will go against hong kong's constitution which will cause a lot of legal issues for the hong kong government so there is can there's now

a concern that kerry lam hong kong's chief executive could be consulting with beijing to override hong kong's constitution in order to postpone these elections and we're hearing also that the government could be making an announcement in the coming hours and of course we'll be carrying that announcement live here on al-jazeera diggle pardon for the moment thank you very much for that. 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 1940 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 cable is 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 demick 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. or donald trump has been condemned by democrats and senior republicans for suggesting a delay to november's presidential election many states want to make voting easier because of coronavirus health concerns but trump insists without evidence that mail in voting would lead to

a rigged result white house correspondent kimberly hockett has more. even by his own standards his tweet was nothing short of astonishing 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 not had a federal. action on time 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 this 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 cold it 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 provirus and caused this spiral. 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 say look if you just say yes and i did last time either with less than 95 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 countries once leading in their response to the coronavirus pandemic and now

struggling with a wave of new infections as the global number of cases sourced past 17000000 australia is considering tightening restrictions for its 2nd biggest city in melbourne after hundreds more cases were recorded on friday despite 3 weeks of lockdown and after being virus free for more than a month of yet nom has now reported a daily high of 45 cases all linked to one hospital the country's prime minister has won the entire country is at risk and india has still not managed to get its outbreak under control reporting more than 55000 new infections in the past 24 hours despite that the government has decided to lift a nighttime curfew that's been in place since march let's speak to nicola gage in canberra australia for as nick a number is going up in the state of victoria despite a lockdown being in place for weeks now what's gone wrong. well that's the big question it's certainly not the outcome that authorities were hoping for the

current restrictions in place maine that the 5000000 or so people in the city of melbourne currently can only leave their horns if they go into work or to go shopping exercise or for medical appointments but that doesn't seem to be working the number of close but 9 chain infections remains in the hundreds on those states we saw 627 new cases the day before a record increase of 700 people infected with corona virus so the situation it definitely isn't getting better the government says that one of the big problems is that people flouting the rules in terms of isolating at point never leaving their house when they should be oscillating and some people aren't getting tested for coronavirus fast enough and then they're going to work or other places and and spreading the virus somewhere saying community transition so at

a press conference on friday the premier daniel andrew says that the measures in place right now on not working and it's likely that restrictions will remain in place over the initial 6 week period that they were supposed to be in place and of course we may now be seeing even tonga measures on people in the state of victoria thank you so much for that nick and i gauge with the need to say from canberra in australia. and still ahead on al jazeera caught up been in libya's battle for tripoli why teenage prisoners recruited by a war going to have been released. 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.

still plenty of nice warm weather across most southern areas of europe and despite all that cloud statement across some much of the old west we've actually got some sunshine across the u.k. scanlan a via as well not quite a subtle being in some areas of this up into switzerland some very nice kiss guys must cool water as well and of course through the eastern end of the mediterranean cyprus is warm and sunny as you would expect this time of year however not quite the woman sunny despite the fact to some across into the east and these dogs 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 and working the way for the east is that really for the most part friday one of the better days to end the week now by saturday that system will actually begin to push across the ridge of high pressure told is very short lived the cloud which is a want to 2 shows

a few showers further to the south through areas of france as well and still the shahs working the way across as a ukraine into western as russia but this is where the warm is and it does mean as a say london we've got the pretty good weather conditions maybe the rain pushing in there by monday when it is warm and sunny for the next few days. everything it's a devastating impact on the. oh thrives explored some of the efforts to recover what was lost from the syrian scientists safeguarding one of our most valuable resources these are important samples that we have to make sure there are surviving to the refugees striving to co-exist with nature ok so what's going on there simulating what happens when an elephant comes life up to conflict on al-jazeera.

player watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories leading hong kong pro-democracy activists joshua wong says the decision to bar him from running in september as election is invalid and ridiculous and long as one of the 12 opposition candidates disqualified from the legislative council this country's once leading in their response to the corner i spun them a canal struggling with a wave of new infections as a global number of cases passed 17000000 in melbourne australia hundreds more cases were recorded on friday vietnam has reported a daily high of 45 cases in india has seen more than 55000 new infections in the last 24 hours. and 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 expanding mail in voting is a vulnerable to fraud. not to chile where millions of people are 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 the savings a lot in america is in the sea and human rate for some santiago. on the 1st day the chileans were allowed to withdraw up to 10 percent of their retirement savings and function has been also wasted no time queuing outside of his private pension fund office at the moment 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 in popular in chile than the mandatory a.f.p.'s or private

retirement funds which with rare exceptions deliver what most described a starvation pension. the a.f.p.'s were untouchable till 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're conscious of . 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 online 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 an al-jazeera sent out. the u.s. has expanded sanctions on iran's metals industry washington has listed 22 metals it says are used in iran's nuclear military and missile programs the us began very imposing sanctions 2 years ago after withdrawing from the 2015 iran nuclear deal. to libya now where teenagers were among the 100 so fighters detained during the

battle for control of the capital tripoli 41 of them have been released by forces loyal to the un recognized government in tripoli as part of an amnesty for the muslim holiday of. reports from the western coal source city of. celebrating the release of her son mohammed to from prison you know the zone his city was to tripoli she came from the libyan coastal city of so brought her to meet him. he had been detained along with other young fighters recruited by the warlords have to. be ending up with his father and i never wanted him to join the forces but he did it behind our backs we will never allow that to happen again mohammed was among nearly $200.00 pro have to fight from so brought on sort of month cities they were captured by government forces in western tripoli in april last year. some of

them were only 17 years old. says he had just finished high school and received a month and a half of military training in surprise. before he was sent to the frontline. i just need to live as a civilian and move on with my life i don't want to be part of any conflict i learned the lesson the hard way. the holiday of aid is an occasion for forgiveness in muslim countries government officials here say they release the fighters because they are prisoners are the victims themselves. we have taken the initiative to let them reunite with their families on this holy occasion we hope we can exchange the rest of the prisoners with their fighters who are kicked and have to as prisons there really is of the prisoners was achieved through reconciliation

between cities in western libya. other approach after inmates from other parts of libya along with foreign ministries will a clear remain here in detention until the conflict is resolved nearly $350.00 inmates including foreign nationals are kept here in this maximum security prison they were part of the feed the military campaign to take control of tripoli some of these teens say they were deceived into joining the conflict others say financial incentives drove them to risk their lives. as oh yeah. the annual hajj pilgrimage to mecca has been taking place under unprecedented restrictions islam's holiest observances have been drastically scaled back because of the koran virus more than $2000000.00 people from around the world normally perform hotch this year numbers have been limited to around 10000 to to

saudi nationals and foreign residents tens of thousands of muslims have gathered the mosque islam search holiest site to celebrate. harry fawcett has more from occupied east jerusalem. well just a few minutes to go before the dawn prayers for this islam's holiest holiday here at islam is ferd holiest site and i'm like the previous eat you know face which marks the end of ramadan the ox the mosque compound is open for worship and the 10s of thousands who are streaming in here are very grateful for that fact but also aware that they are marking this aid in the shadow of the coronavirus and ending with a situation you know it's very you know we are really affected economically and so financially but even though you know we try to live it celebrated the way it should be. so when the truck to. there you know the braille i would go as lot of the

sheep you know just for the kids and for that i mean to feed you know that they are having kids or otherwise you know it's like did eat for us with the saudi you know when it's very difficult financially and in an economic and social level we can't visit each other because if it sticks in us and then know how to do it we have to be careful and commit to the instructions that last time they closed it and we didn't pray thank god this time is open so we will pray the islamic walk which runs the mosque compound did put in certain restrictions telling people to bring their own premises telling the elderly and children to stay at home and has to be said that wasn't really observed there were lots of elderly and children among the worship as they also told people to socially distance as much as possible to a bay the orders of the guards the sheer numbers made that very difficult they were told $27000.00 people were inside that's less than half what you would usually expect on a dollar but still a significant number what there was there was

a significant compliance with mosque wearing much more than what we saw when the mosque was reopened after those weeks of closure earlier in the years of people doing what they could to try to stay safe in these circumstances of coronavirus while still also displaying their will to come here on this very holy day. australia 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 australian media companies a draft mandatory code of conduct has been released which aims to increase competition protect consumers and create a more sustainable media. argentinas for most of provinces battling a swarm of locusts stretton in lysol can cross this is a 3rd to plague the region this year and it's double the size of the previous ones official satisfied available resources the insects have been difficult to control there's also warnings of another swan that had been detected in neighboring believe

. now one of the natural wonders of the world is under way in east africa the annual migration of hundreds of thousands of wild beasts but unlike normally few tourists are seeing their journey from kenya to tanzania catherine sawyer reports from the masai mara game reserve she says a pandemic so ready cost kenya $800000000.00 in lost tourism revenue. travelling from the serengeti in tanzania the heart of the beast crosses the sound and we into the messiah mara game reserve in kenya and the next month nearly a 1000000 of this moment will be here this is one of unesco's wonders of the world and on the back at least of many of us what's missing tourists because of call it 19 the must sign mara one of the top tourist destinations in the world is empty this. milton has been in the tourism industry for 3 decades he

says has never seen anything like this of north walk for the last 4 months this is my fault you it was last year i mean for sure there's no. i mean not even i mean this in general i was already booked for july august september at this time of the high season hotels and lodges at the mara would normally be booked to capacity going through this is a twin but of more than 200 hotels only a few are open it's a very big loss to us now because of the stuff lost their jobs. and we have no idea when people will come back again to work the world the beasts come to kenya for pasture and to meet by october they'll be returning to tanzania this is part of the heart of world the best we saw crossing into kenya from tanzania and we've been told many others are on their way and people who know the masai mara

well have also told us there right now would be among hundreds of other tourists eagerly waiting to witness the spectacular migration being here about ourselves is quite surreal government officials say the country has lost about $800000000.00 in revenue and most of the $2000000.00 employees in tourism have lost their jobs so there is now a big push to encourage kenyans and foreigners here to visit parks like the mara and coastal beaches we must prepare with us as government must develop some. protocols with some of our traditional markets just to assure them of the safety of those closed. assure them that as we know they are tested before they come and when they come here as government we must have all these people where. kenya is preparing to reopen its airspace for international travelers many communities are

hoping this will mean more tourists but they also know with the threat of coronavirus it could take many months or even years for tourism here to fully recover catherine soy al-jazeera. southern kenya. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera leading hong kong pro-democracy activist joshua wong says the decision to bar him from running in september as election is invalid and ridiculous wong is one of 12 opposition candidates disqualified from the legislative council poll it's beyond and it's not if the most scandalous election fraud ever in hong kong history they get this school for us they could arrest us everyone into care big even call of the election

and create a pop at parliament house where just gather with beijing loyalists however long of this overturned a strong mandate for modest 600000 hong kong has passed the bill it's the city's 1st ever primaries early this month i will be yours is clear allow to the world by all. countries one slating in their response to the coronavirus pandemic and now struggling with a wave of new infections as the global number of cases passes 17000000 in melbourne australia hundreds more cases where recorded on friday and vietnam which had been virus free for a month reported a daily high of $45.00 cases 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 expanding mail in voting is a vulnerable to fraud. the u.s. has expanded sanctions on iran's metals industry washington has listed $22.00

metals it says are used in tehran's nuclear military and missile programs industries a major employer in iran about 10 percent of the workforce a us began 3 imposing sanctions after withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal. unprecedented restrictions have been imposed for the annual hajj pilgrimage to mecca because of the coronavirus more than $2000000.00 muslims from world wide normally visit saudi arabia on the around $10000.00 pilgrims this year restricted to saudi nationals and foreign residents and analysts are the headlines on al-jazeera as always much more on all the stories we're covering on our website at al-jazeera dot com i'll have more news for you right after inside story status. 10 years ago a mining disaster in cuba trucks 33 men the world watched as a 2 month rescue turned me tragedy into a miracle i'll give you

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