this is the dublin years of live from berlin the economic cost of the pandemic an unprecedented blow to the u.s. g.d.p. shrinking it by almost 10 percent in the 2nd quarter the virus is also ravaging europe's biggest economy with germany g.d.p. dropping by a record 10 percent the biggest decline in off a century also coming up donald trump floats the idea of delaying the bump us presidential election he claims mail in voting will result in the most fraudulent

election in history. and former u.s. president barack obama speaks at the funeral of congressman and civil rights leader john lewis he calls him a founding father of former pharaoh and better america. i'm told me all laddie well thanks for joining us we begin with a battered victim of the coronavirus pandemic the u.s. economy the latest figures show the economy tumbled by a stunning 33 percent in the 2nd quarter that's its worst drop on record and weekly jobless claims have risen slightly suggesting any tentative recovery will be slow. one ruiz is one of around 18000000 unemployed americans. the 56 year old accountant lost his job at a forklift manufacturer after he contract

a covert 19. with no job to go back to he's finding it harder to find work than he had expected. which. many people are losing their jobs because the companies they work for closed their doors in fact my company closed they said they were not selling and shuttered their warehouses. factories are closing small businesses to. americans are tightening their belts and that's caused the country's gross domestic product to drop by a staggering 33 percent last quarter. but it's also worth mentioning that if the u.s. counted g.d.p. like europe does that it would have only fallen by 10 percent making germany's g.d.p. drop during the 2nd quarter slightly worse than the u.s. says. however germany has seen less unemployment thanks in part to government backed short term work schemes satisfy the digital numbers for germany in q 2 are worse than expected but let's be honest we weren't expecting good news in terms of

growth the important thing is to put the 2nd quarter behind us and look to the future. everything depends on the course of the corona pandemic. in germany infection rates are on the uptick. around 700 new infections were reported on wednesday in the us the numbers north of 60000. worrying numbers are one reason and he doesn't expect the economy to get back on track soon his wife and son work part time but they barely make enough to pay the family's bills. and just moments after the u.s. released the worst g.d.p. numbers on record u.s. president donald trump had a 1st of his own he suggested delaying the 2020 election until he says it becomes safer to vote the president took to twitter to say that universal mail in voting would make the election the most inaccurate and fraudulent in history he then asked

delay the election until people can properly securely and safely vote under the u.s. constitution only congress has the pots of postpone an election. i'm joined now by our correspondent in washington all of us out of all over it's not surprising that democrats don't like the idea but what about trump's republicans. tell me more and more of publicans are turning their back on president trump and many lawmakers today took to twitter as well also to stress that only congress can postpone the elections and that's a phenomenon we've been following since week that republicans are in fact moving away from trump today a very senior voice was added to close ranks with those lawmakers and that's house minority leader kevin make or carthy who also made clear that president trump does not have the backing of his party when it comes to postponing the election now it's not the 1st time with her trump claimed that mail in voting could result in massive

fraud fraud but has he provided evidence for the claim this time he hasn't today had a press conference just a while ago he was citing some newspaper articles in that matter and repeating basically is claim that he believes that mail in ballots are prone to fraud but that's a false claim it can be considered a false claim because there's simply no hard evidence proving that assumption so why is he doing that one assumption is that the democrats and democratic voters in particular are taking the threat of the coronavirus pandemic will seriously therefore rather open to vote by mail and that would result in a higher democratic turnout which of course is not in donald trump's favor now critics say trump is trying to postpone the election to a better moment that suits him better where the economy might have approved where a vaccine might have been developed and simply hoping for a better outcome what does this venture say about trump's political standing right

now. well as of now it is it is unlikely that he will be reelected at this very. moment in time at least republicans are turning against him joe biden the presumptive democratic candidate is leading by 2 digits the economic data as you've mentioned is grim the g.d.p. down 33 percent. growth at least and then we're talking 150000 casualties in the united states the number of new infections is at a record high so the outlook is not good. trump said it himself that the situation will deteriorate before it improves and if that does not happen very quickly then the chances are really bad for him to be reelected ok all of us are not in washington many thanks. now on to some of the other stories making news around the world hundreds of protesters have gathered outside israeli prime

minister benjamin netanyahu official residence in jerusalem to repeat their calls for him to step down it's now has come under fire for holding office while i'm trial for corruption and pushing for seemingly and democratic measures under the guise of combating the coronavirus. the special prosecutor in switzerland has opened a criminal case against the 4 presidents jannie infantile the charges relate to secret meetings he held with a swiss attorney general michael low but in 20162017 infantino was reelected president of football's international governing body just last year. the 1st official heat wave of the european summer has hit spain temperatures reached 42 celsius on thursday the same day mosques became mandatory the above average temperatures are expected to last several days and hot weather is also forecast for france and britain. a courts in egypt has sentenced several young women to prison after they posted videos to the social media app tick-tock prosecutors

allege they had violated family values the accused include 2 prominent young influences. and more. human rights groups see the jailings as part of a larger social media crackdown especially on content posted by young women. these videos may look harmless to most to talk to users but in egypt they landed these women in prison. a court ruled that 5 women had violated public morals after posting videos like this on the video sharing app to talk to the young women are social media influencers and together have several 1000000 followers prosecutors relied on a 2 year old law that gave the government wider powers to censor content online the legal framework is based on a cyber crime which was pressed into cars in 80 specially 2 articles that are

related to my only king egyptian army that is which is an extremely broad article that is really open to intimidation and very problematic since punitive articles in the laws should be extremely specific and this case it's very open to interpretation and open to be used in targeting women any time fellow egyptians came to their defense online calling their punishment an injustice a group dubbing itself tick-tock women started a petition on change dot org calling on authorities to stop the crackdown on female tick-tock users amnesty international has said that freedom of expression has suffered more under president sisi than at any other time in the past 30 years. u.s. congressman and civil rights activist john lewis has been laid to rest at a funeral in atlanta georgia 3 former u.s. presidents attended the service barack obama used his address to call for the

defense of voting rights an issue championed by john lewis who died 2 weeks ago at the age of 80. 6 6 6. if i could help somebody as i pass along the way then my living shall not be in things. which could not match john lewis writes why and. at his funeral i learned 3 former presidents pay tribute to the i can the civil rights movement $1.00 of them obama. 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. that aroma.

just like obama many speakers underline john lewis courage which shaped the history of the us lewis who was born in alabama in 1940 was a leader of the march on washington which helped and racial segregation in the country he was jailed many times and attacked by state troopers lewis was a champion of peaceful civil disobedience which he called good trouble. he got into a lot of good travel along the way but let's not forget he also developed an absolutely on camera. to heal trouble. later in life john lewis turned from protest to politics he ran for congress in 1907 and stayed for 35 years until his death on july 17th representative lewis was laid to rest at the south you cemetery in atlanta but dr martin luther king jr is also buried.

there. and also has just launched an ambitious new mission to mars to search for signs of life and atlas 5 rockets blasted off from cape canaveral florida on thursday on board as nasa is new rover perseverance which will help scientists study the martian surface like never before it's equipped with the most complex robotic system ever developed by the space agency. diversions just sent will testify to new navigation system it's an autopilot designed to work at the best talking cation and steer towards it. it's supposed to make touchdown and safer and more precise. the rover is aiming for this riverbed in the is there a crater. perseverance but investigated surroundings with cameras and measuring devices. researchers hope the data will give the new insights into the geology and

climatic history of mas but perseverance has another job too to search for signs of life. we probably won't find old d.n.a. or anything like baton mars us but we might find rocks that were formed by biological processes that's what we're expecting or at least we're hoping. must camp said has been specially developed to search for these traces of life. it has 2 cameras which can deliver detail to color photographs in 3 d. the camera system also has an advanced zoom to help researches see tiny patterns and structures in the rock. the all. there is our team leader is a professor in arizona and he always puts it like this imagine you're sitting in the stands of a football stadium at the gold end you can see

a fly buzzing around between the goal posts at the other end. of. the mission is also sending a small helicopter to mars. its job is to carry out autonomous test flights where it controls the whole process by itself. it's propellers have to spin 8 times as fast as on earth because the atmosphere of mars is so thin. since the 1st flight attempts it's taken engineers 5 years to get to this point. the missions most important goal is to collect rock samples examine them and pack them ready for transport to do this perseverant is fitted with the most complex robotic system nasa has ever developed. perseverance will deposit the samples on the surface of mars in 10 years. another rover will collect them and bring them to a launch pad iraq it will then carry them to a satellite in orbit which will finally bring the precious cargo to.

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