pro-democracy activists say resistance to hong-kong security law will continue as the territories leader is set to announce a postponement of the upcoming elections. i'm fully back to boyer watching al jazeera live from doha also coming up 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 delayed. and catherine story of the messiah. and south and we have hundreds of thousands who will be on making the annual migration of the new tourists to see them i'll be telling you why. we begin in hong kong where an ongoing political crisis has deepened further the city's leader kerry lamb is expected to announce a delay to september's legislative council election for up to one year on thursday electoral authorities disqualified 12 opposition pro-democracy candidates including activist joshua wang he called the decision to block him from running invalid and ridiculous wong says a new national security law is being used by the government as illegal weapon to silence dissent electoral authorities accuse wong of advocating subversive ideas

and colluding with foreign forces. but you know and it is the most scandalous election fraud ever in hong kong history they could this qualify us they could arrest us influence into carol they could even call of the election and create a puppet parliament elsewhere just gather with beijing loyalists however long of this can overturn the straw mandate for more this 600000 hong kong who have passed the bailiff's the city's 1st ever a primary early this month i will boyce is clear and loud to the world my overcoat and speak to defend the palin in hong kong for as t.v.'s has been disqualified by joshua long sounding very defined still. absolutely and if you even look at his teacher that he was wearing saying they can never kill us all sending a very stark message there is

a phrase he used several times during that press conference he said the government's move was politically motivated mainly because they were intimidated by the strength of the democracy camp which was vying to get more than half of the seats in the legislature in an unprecedented which would be unprecedented in these elections which means that the democracy camp would have far more influence her far more say in the inner workings of hong kong and perhaps even with dealings with beijing then that was a prospect that beijing would not have found palatable but i need to point out now the nomination period for for these september elections has now just closed and even with those many of those being now in a legible the democracy camp has been has been trying to motivate people are trying to get people to sign new nominations form to forms to back fill those who have been deemed legible so they're still not giving up at the moment despite the fact

that they're saying that the government has really tried to sideswipe them try to limit their exercise and their support their exit their powers and and support and really try to push them aside in these upcoming elections and there's of course a suggestion that the legislative council election which is scheduled for september might be delayed because of coronavirus and we're expecting an announcement very soon i believe. that's why the government has been building up to the saying that the current latest chrono virus outbreak where we're seeing new infections rise daily as a threat to these elections saying it's too risky to hold these elections but the opposition camp says hong kong has contains the breaks in the previous times very swiftly and very successfully and the elections are still more than a month away so very much highlighting perhaps the government is using this as an

excuse to not hold these elections but there are several other issues at play here should the government try and delay this elections especially as they're say it could be up to a year that would go against hong kong's constitution where elections can only be delayed for up to 2 weeks which would require beijing is stepping in and overruling the constitution so once again there are many questions as to why the government would be doing this and also you know how it would affect the whole democratic process in hong kong the fact that it warrants that surely be only the government's doing it will now involve the central government in the next few steps and also the international community has been watching these elections very closely saying it would also be seen as a sign of the hong kong government and beijing restricting political freedoms in hong kong thank you for that palin life or is there in hong kong. in other world news some countries once leading in their response to the coronavirus. struggling

with a wave of new infections the global number of cases sore spots 17000000 india 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 spin in force since late march australia at one point was able to contain the virus but is now considering tightening restrictions for its 2nd biggest city in melbourne hundreds more cases were recorded there on friday and to being one of the most populous countries in the world without a single coronavirus related death vietnam now has reports it is firsts the victim is a 70 year old man in denying city and it's also seen a daily high of 45 cases as get more on the situation in vietnam and speak to his call hiver in bangkok for as so a 1st fatality in vietnam. why is the government struggling now to contain this.

fully well as you mention you know it's really been a success story in vietnam 95000000 people and this is now the very 1st death they've had from covert 19 now you look back also at the cases that they have reported today on friday 45 that's an all time high dating back all the way to january when they had their very 1st case now it's been credited for keeping these numbers low because of the way the government has organized their reaction to cope with 1000 and that was from contact tracing very very specific contact tracing of any case as well as quarantine and then testing a lot of testing and they're putting in those mechanisms now because we've seen this spike rooted in the ne that's a city on the coast last weekend when we saw these 1st cases and then what they did pretty quickly is it's a resort area vacationing area a lot of people inside vietnam finally were able to start traveling domestically so

they went a lot tens of thousands went to dinner and now what they're doing after they've really shut down sealed the nang they're doing this contact tracing for these tens of thousands of people who have gone back to the biggest cities in vietnam and that's when oil city so that's we're getting that contact tracing now and that's where we're seeing this 45 people who have contracted over 1000 based on what we're expecting really to base from last weekend did do they no way things went wrong. well it's very they're trying to figure it out now obviously they don't know exactly where this they call it their 3rd wave they can't really figure out exactly where that 1st person was who came into denying with it and then spread it throughout and then what we're seeing now throughout the country they haven't been able to really contact trace back down to that initial infection what they're saying though officials in vietnam is it appears to be a different strain of what they've seen the last 2 times they've said that this is

the 3rd wave the last 2 waves wave 2 coming in in march and obviously the initial in back in january so they're they're saying there are some indications that it's different so how did it come into vietnam because vietnam is sealed like a lot of the countries here in southeast asia so it's going to be variance in to see if they can actually pinpoint it but right now the main focus is containing those cases they do have now thank you very much for that call hyde and i for a same bangkok. to chile now where long queues are forming outside banks in chile as millions of customers withdraw billions of dollars are dipping into their pension funds to help them get through the tough times of the pandemic and latin america at its embassy and human race for some santiago. 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 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 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 the 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's 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 all in 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 sent out. the u.s. state of florida is reporting a record number of calls 1000 deaths for the 3rd straight day and now the 253 people have died with nearly 10000 new cases florida is one of the worst hit states

but it's republican governor refuses to impose widespread lockdowns the state has shut down some testing centers because a tropical storm is used to hit land in the coming days france has reported nearly 1400 new coronavirus cases for the 2nd successive day and there's been an increase in patients admitted to intensive care for the 1st time in 4 months doctors say the virus is spreading faster since knockdowns were eased in may. still ahead on al-jazeera. ordering from thailand where we'll tell you how rubbish washed up on beaches is being used to help fight the spread of coronavirus. al it was a big slow churn of clouds in the south china sea it's actually affecting the

weather a long way away from there so was this draws in a lot of moisture and wraps itself around giving love for wet weather to vietnam and southern china it's taken away some of the images further south much of borneo is looking dr and it's the malaysia sumatra and java but we have got the philippines west papua and so the ways in east and south of borneo a fair amount of wet weather which increases actually there are deeper thunderstorms i suspect during sunday dropping sorry it is of course mostly a dry picture throughout australia the latest frontal system is dragging through the bites and it's diving down through tasmania towards new zealand the coastal areas around new south wales brokaw again the sun's out the breeze nastar a few showers maybe in queens and an increasing amount of travis bringing the rain back to western australia's size of perth it's a slow process but it looks like it could be well a persistent rain is a the size of puss otherwise a dry him pictured typical of mid winter is quite warm actually in new zealand with

the wind direction all kinds of 16 couple agrees above the average and as for right it is confined to this part of south lawn and. that. japan is building a massive to protect against devastating tsunami one i want to investigate to night you can be kids i recall will expose communities to greater danger. on al-jazeera. played an important role in checking in with. race. the war.

welcome back a recap of our top stories on al jazeera hong kong's leader kerry is expected to announce a delay to september's legislative council elections on various states were 12 pro-democracy candidates were disqualified from running activists joshua one is one of them he says the decision is invalid and ridiculous. vietnam has not reported its 1st coronavirus death up to being virus free for months tim was an elderly man in denying city where the virus remain in melbourne australia hundreds more cases were recorded on friday despite 3 weeks of lockdown the global number of cases has now passed 17000000. and the u.s. state of florida is reporting a record number of covered 19 deaths for the for the streets day another 253 people have died with nearly 10000 new cases florida has one of the worst hit states but

it's republican governor refuses to impose widespread knockdowns. donald trump has been 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 concerns but trump insists without evidence that mail in voting will lead to a result a white house correspondent kimberly hockett has. even by his old standards his tweet was nothing short of astonishing a thursday us president donald trump suggested the november presidential election should be postponed alleging potential fraud associated with mail in voting truck tweeted delayed 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 federally. 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 the covert virus and caused the spyros occur 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 at 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 well donald trump suggestion that the presidential election be delayed came minutes after news of the shop is downturn in the u.s. economy since the 1940 s. gross domestic product shrank 9.5 percent in the 2nd quarter as a country struggles to contain the pandemic and another 1400000 americans find jobless claims last week is 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'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 coated 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. he rhine supreme leader has lashed out at european powers say they failed to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal in a televised speech ayatollah ali how many accuse western powers of inflicting a blow on iran's economy with their so-called hollow promises the u.s. pulled out of the deal in 2018 and re impose sanctions on tehran but several

european countries say they're dedicated to saving the agreements nice a 3rd day of the hard way this unprecedented restrictions because of the coronavirus more than $2000000.00 muslims from around the world normally make the annual pilgrimage to mecca this year pilgrims from abroad are banned in only around $10000.00 saudi nationals and foreign residents are allowed. tens of thousands of muslims have also gathered at the i lack some mosque islam said holiest site to celebrate. i fostered reports from occupied east jerusalem. just a few minutes ago before the dawn prayers for this islam's holiest holiday here at islams furred holiest site and i'm like the previous eat you know officer 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're marking this aid in the shadow of the coronavirus and ending

with the situation you know it's very you know we are really affected economically and financially but even though you know we try to leave it celebrated the way it should be. so with a truck to. after you know the pro i would go as far to the sheep you know just for the kids and for the family to feel you know that they are having a it or otherwise you know it's like did. 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 was fiction it's been in the 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 it's open so we will pray the islamic walks which runs the mosque compound did put in certain restrictions telling people to bring their own premix 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

worshippers and 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. now 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 when our charity organization has combined with private enterprise to recycle fishermen's damaged nets and turn these being made into products used to fight this spread of coronavirus wayne he has

a story. 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 a lot of 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 or we actually train law officers to create and collect and ads 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 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 corona virus made from old fishing nets the pandemic 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. now one of the natural wonders of the world is underway in east africa the annual migration of hundreds or thousands of wild beasts but unlike normally few tourists are seeing their journey from kenya tanzania as catherine sorry reports on the game reserve the pandemic is a ready cost in kenya $800000000.00 in lost tourism revenue. traveling from the serengeti in tanzania the heart of gold at least crosses the sand and we are into the messiah mara game reserve in kenya and the next month nearly a 1000000 of this models will be here this is one of unesco's wonders of the walls and on the back at least of many others what's missing tourists because of khalid 19 the must. one of the top tourist destinations in the wilds 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 4th year here it was last year i mean for sure there's no way. i mean not even i mean this in general i was already booked for july august september and this time of the high season hotels and lodges at the mara would normally be booked to capacity going through this is a train 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 and 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. kenya is preparing to reopen its airspace for international travel as 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 masai mara southern kenya. well again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera hong kong's leader kerry lamb is expected to announce a delay to september's legislative council elections on thursday 12 pro-democracy candidates were disqualified from running activists joshua long is one of them he says the decision is invalid and ridiculous beyond and it now is the most scandalous election fraud ever in hong kong history they could this qualify us they could arrest us every once in which they could 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 more than 600000 hong kong has passed the bailiff's the city's 1st ever primaries early this month i was it's clear allowed to the world by. vietnam has now reported its 1st coronavirus death to being virus free for months the victim was an elderly man in donc city where the virus remains and in melbourne australia hundreds more cases where recorded on friday despite 3 weeks down the global number of cases has now passed 17000000 the u.s. state of florida has recalled reporting a record number of covered 19 deaths for the 3rd straight day another 253 people have died with nearly $10000.00 new cases florida is one of the worst hit states but it's republican governor refuses to impose widespread lockdowns. donald trump

has been condemned by democrats and senior republicans for suggesting a denatured november's u.s. presidential election trump insists without evidence that expanded mail in voting is a vulnerable to fraud iran's supreme leader has lashed out at european powers saying this failed to solve a c 2050 nuclear deal in a televised speech ayatollah ali hum in a accused western powers of inflicting a blow on iran see qana me with this so-called hollow promises the u.s. pulled out of the deal in 2018 and re-impose sanctions on tehran. day of the high sheen saudi arabia where there is unprecedented restrictions because of the koran advise this year pilgrims from abroad are bonded only a few 1000 saudi national size what us foreign residents are not those are the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera want to run east. tensions could cut global economic growth by $700000000000.00 we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we're living in government has

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