this is the news live from berlin elections and hong kong are postponed for a year and. searching coronavirus cases is the reason the movie deals another blow to the territories pro-democracy movement also coming up rejected by lawmakers and beyond his authority and has a stops us president donald trump from suggesting

a delay to the u.s. election in november trump says mail in ballots could make the vote the most fraudulent in history. and in the belorussian capital minsk tens of thousands show their support for the position leaders but. with presidential elections just over a week off she's hoping to topple the decades long rule of alexander lukashenko. the coronavirus mutes festivities as muslims around the world markets start of each . pandemic the cautions up changing centuries old traditions for the face. welcome to the program hong kong has just announced that the non-stock septembers legislative council elections will be postponed by one year the vote. would have

been hong kong's 1st since a controversial security law was brought into effect at a press conference in the last hour later carry law signs of the spike in coronavirus cases as the reason for the delay but opposition lawmakers accuse the government of using the outbreak to slow their pro-democracy movement is was. to say at that press conference we are going to invoke emergency regulations older nearness in. a factory to be laid off green elections and a certainty of course the main content of the rule rendition and the structure for justice will give you some details later announce finally we have the support of the center because government in making this decision when our correspondent t.v. call is following events in on kong and joins us now from phoenix caroline has just announced that the coming elections are being delayed what are the reactions to that. well for the opposition

came they the government's decision to postpone the election for the 1st time hong kong's history they criticized as like creating a constitutional crisis from their perspective they think the government is making use opt epidemic to stop them from going to historic majority in the parliament which is what they have been aiming for for the coming election the rishon only so they want to gain power over the half of the seats in the parliament but that would be postpone right now also and also given the fact that many of them have been disqualified from the election so i think this is and i climbed out on the opposition movement but on the other hand their rivals the pro beijing and pro-government politicians saying can this well come the government is sessions where they have been lobbying for the delay in late because like so i think we'll know fires. make reasons and this is

a kind of abyss of promise for them because many of their voters are elderly and the elder people who may not be able to come out of photos so this is what they lay actually yearn for is the this uptick in corona virus infections really enough to justify a move going to election back one year. well this time caroline is in soaking the colonial emergency law to postpone the elections so he's saying she's saying that this is out of. consideration of the safeguarding the public health and to deal with their public safety crisis and that emergency laws so this is controversial because this is the law itself is a piece of controversial legislation when it has been used back during the protest last year but now the government is using it again to postpone the election and

also the whole government is now seeking their active from the beijing's pub legislature that they will ask the beijing top legislature to step in to define how the parliament will be running in the coming year before the election he saw the eyes in 2021 so this will spark and other political and legal controversy of. drop it as a possible criticism of light and not of beijing intervention into a hong kong flow color phase the result from hong kong thank you. and of some of the other stories making news around the world right now hundreds of protesters have gathered outside israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu is residence in jerusalem repeating their calls for him to step down you know who has come under fire for holding office while on trial for corruption and pushing for seemingly under democratic measures under the guise of combat in the coronavirus.

brazil's 1st lady michelle both so narrow has tested positive for corona virus husband president's tables an hour spent 2 weeks in her own teen after his earlier diagnosis also now one has faced criticism for his handling of and demick brazil has the world's 2nd tires over $1000.00 infection and death rate in the world. tropical storm assayas has made landfall in puerto rico high winds and torrential rain knocked out power and triggered small landslides cross both 1st rico and the dominican republic focuses on are predicting this storm will strengthen into a hurricane while moving towards the bahamas and the u.s. east coast. u.s. president donald trump has drawn across party criticism after suggesting a possible delay to this year's presidential election trump who currently trails democrat joe biden in opinion polls has no authority to change the date which is

set by law trump later backtracks bus continues to push claims that any increase in mail in voting due to the coronavirus pandemic would result in fraud even for president trump it was a rapid u. turn after floating the idea of delaying november's election only hours later he was walking it back 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. earlier on thursday trump tweeted that universal miley in voting would make the 2020 elections the most inaccurate and fraudulent in history he called for the election to be postponed until people can vote securely and safely the suggestion was soundly rejected on both sides of politics democratic speaker of the house nancy pelosi quoted the constitution which gives congress the sole power to set election dates even leading republicans

distance themselves. never in the history of the federal elections have we ever not held an election and we should go forward with our election but we should we should have absentee voting but there's mass just yelling out ballots without having any checks and balances without people requesting really brings concern in there but no way should we ever not hold an election on the day that we have. as the coronavirus surges in the us donald trump is doubling down on his attacks on 1000000 voting despite a lack of evidence to support his claims critics say he merely wants to distract from the pandemic and the economic crisis hurting his bid to stay in the white house. well for more of the story i'm joined by my colleague michele stockman from the u.s. elections republicans have supported a lot of things but delaying the election will the will they go that far that is a bridge too far or hard and top republicans in congress have said that they join

democrats and completely rejecting this idea but you know trump is no dummy in fact many people consider him to be a messaging genius so you look at this idea that he's floating what happened after his election it was immediately called into question there were allegations of foreign interference and he may just be tweaking the media who are of course going to glom onto this and to appeal to his voter base just just to keep the conversation going and try to do which in my eyes whatever may be the outcome but he has trump has repeatedly suggests that mail in ballots somehow increases the risk of election fraud we what do you make of that argument ok malan voting is nothing new in the united states state officials are completely. used to doing this there are systems set up so to call this a reason to call the election into question is kind of ludicrous and you have to

look at other ways that voting is the process i reported on the romney campaign back in 2012 and there i met people united states who could not vote because they didn't have driver's license or they didn't have the right documentation and states passed laws that make it difficult for people generally people who are poor or. don't have don't have easy access to some of these official channels to get the right documents to vote so it's this is completely besides the point it's putting say that trump is deliberately trying to undermine confidence in the elections process and in the democratic process the system in the united. states how robust you say you think is is that. you know i wish i could be completely optimistic but these are unprecedented times i am talking to americans back home who have never lived through an experience like this right now we can expect the election to go

forward we have the results that night likely not and that would be something that could really shake a lot of people's confidence let's see what happens. while u.s. elections is thank you she's a stay at home mother of 2 in a row spot in a matter of months she's turned into president alexander lukashenko top election rival overnight mass crowds turned out in the capital minutes to support opposition leaders for atlanta to. the 37 year old is challenging because those decades long rule but here she was as the opposition of trying to topple him with foreign assistance. thousands of people thursday evening in minsk they came out to support the little unless you cannot the presidential candidate who is challenging the author of tarion rule love oleksandr look. we need change in this country

there is no other solution. we want to be free so that we can work and study. we cannot scalia entered the race after her husband a prominent blogger was not allowed to run he is now in jail. i want to become president to restore justice the current president has been in power for 26 years not because the people want it but because he doesn't want to leave. other candidates have also been barred from contesting the election or arrested opposition politician ballot sept even fled to russia president who appears determined to hold on to power this week he visited a police unit during anti protest drills and on wednesday he convened the national security council after special forces arrested $33.00 russian citizens allegedly mercenaries of a military company belong to an associate of russian president vladimir putin

observers say the case may be a pretext to crackdown on the opposition 10 days ahead of the presidential elections. you're watching d.w. news still to come olympic athletes would be competing for gold again in tokyo right now but with the games delayed due to the pandemic the javelin champion shows us how the settings for improvement bars. but 1st eurozone economies have been battered by the coronavirus pandemic across the euro zone g.d.p. plunged by a record 12 point one percent in the 2nd quarter as countries brought their economies to a standstill from march to june spain was hardest hit with its economy contracting 18 percent marks the worst economic downturn since the survey began in 1905. the more we're now joined by craig olim he's an economist with markets. in london

the 2nd quarter craig economic data paints a devastating picture what does this mean for europe. well it means that they haue of a long way to go to get bites at levels that they were up prior to the pond that mick but none of this is a surprise and i think that's why the market reaction has been so muted we know 2 how badly hit spain and it's anywhere in particular by the pound i mean we've seen dots in many numbers so far what the body's case count death toll or even more on the economic side these on the 1st economic figures the show the devastation that this is caused all the countries have been hit less hot but even germany which is being seen as a beacon of war should be doing across across the world instead of fighting the coronavirus is still around 10 percent so clearly this is how devastating devastating implications but as a cite this data is almost kind of old news it's news it's been price did we've seen a lot of economic data now what is more important is going to be what kind of recovery

we're going to say and i think that's the type of those that have been numbers over the course of the next few months that will start to get a lot more charge in terms of recovery what position is europe in compared to other industrialized regions compared to the us for example. well i think it's a good position because they haven't necessarily been of rush to reopen the economy until the time was right they quite fost to close down parts of the economy in order to fight the virus and therefore as you look in the u.s. right now in case moves are still rising the death toll is rising once again we're seeing quiets of a 2nd spike in many states across the u.s. across europe the numbers are still quite low what we all seeing little spikes not is to be expected we all when you do reopen economies when people are allowed to mingle with each of the you all go and see rising cajun was but what you want to stop is what we saw before not squad dramatic rise quite quickly that gets out of

control and overwhelms the health system we're not saying not at this moment in time so i think europe is in a very good position to fight this is as long as they can stop the 2nd wave gotten out of control using europe is in a good position about how how important for that position is this rescue package of 750000000000 euros it's extremely important it's also the 1st time the european commission has borrowed on the scale or will borrow on that scale in its history so i think. from a few from a fundamental perspective it's months if they. are the proof is going to be in the pudding though and how easy it is for many of these countries to access this funding and have it make a difference is going to be the real key here and it's going to take a long time before we can truly on onlies just how effective it has been but this is an extremely important 1st step it does indicate a kind of change in. across europe and send the kind of support that will it willing to offer and these are extraordinary circumstances and they did call for extraordinary measures in europe thankfully has stepped up greg thank you very much

. in the northern hemisphere holiday makers are normally seeking sun and adventure during this time of year but the coronavirus has made this summer like no other correspondents around the world tell us now how the pandemic has changed how people are spending time off in times of uncertainty because of covert 19 more than 70 percent of the french have to side to go on vacation in france some of them will stay here in paris where the town hall has allowed restaurants to extend their terraces the city will also be organizing a number of cultural events outside where the risk of contamination is limited due to flight restrictions the city is not as packed with international tourists as in previous years and parisians making the most of that one friend of mine told me that she would seize the opportunity and having lived here for more than 15 years

would finally go and visit what's probably the capital's most famous landmark the eiffel tower for the 1st time. london's trafalgar square is normally teeming with tourists but not this summer london's attractions like the national gallery have behind we all slowly opening up again and yet london us with amazement has attack on us the ram brands and the golf mostly to themselves. an almost empty promise a typical picture of the beach resort of this from a lot of people that cared for the troops after infection rate starts to rise again a tragedy for the spanish economy almost 3000000 people live on tourism there's also a general obligation to wear a mask almost every well right now not a very pleasant spring it's about 30 degrees. for many here in belgium holiday season means getting on a plane and leaving the country for sunnier climes but due to the coronavirus pandemic camping sites like plan stands here in central belgium have been welcoming

more locals and in a bid to boost the mystic tourism the belgian government announced it would offer free train rides to belgian citizens but due to a recent increase of covered $1000.00 cases here in the country these plans had to be postponed and further measures implemented as of now belgium residents can only put 5 people outside of their own household and this is likely going to get in the way of holiday friendships and also hurt the hospitality industry just as it was getting back on its feet. these guys seem to enjoy the global crisis the huge kruger national park all for themselves with hardly any tourists in sight since the end of march south africa's borders are closed international flights are not permitted even domestic travel is not allowed only a few davis from the province are allowed to enter the park at the moment this has a huge negative impact on hundreds of thousands of south africans working in the industry travelling with them in the country it is possible again you can prove

your staff you know long range began behind me is. point that people have to ask if they want to visit a particular in a city lake and raging so there are still a lot of inconveniences for tourists and the numbers are considerably lower many people choose to wait. the number of new coronavirus cases here in germany is slowly on the rise again a cause for concern for germany's public health institute the robot institute they say the development is worrying and as a result of negligence many of the new cases have been traced back to family and friends gatherings but at the same time there are also concerns about people returning to germany from vacation in the meantime several voluntary test centers have been set up as several airports around the country and also at several train stations that will soon be the case here in munich central train station. updates

from correspondents following the impact of the pandemic on tourists around the world. muslims the rons who are celebrating the start of either all the feast of sacrifice for many festivities have been massively scaled back over coronavirus can son's separate rites marking the end of the hog's pilgrimage in saudi arabia's holy city of mecca well so muted only a select few have taken pot compared to the millions who usually flock every year. this is what mecca looks like now no sea of pilgrims instead only up to $10000.00 people already residing in the kingdom were allowed to participate in this year's hotch an annual pilgrimage for muslims that last year saw about 2 and a half 1000000 people gathered here from around the world. the coronavirus pandemic has also curtailed this year's eve celebrations on the 1st day of the 3 day

festival worshippers in the world's most populated muslim country indonesia were advised to wear masks and maintain social distancing the country's religious ministry also advised mosques to shorten prayer ceremonies but now i think. this year's eve is very different from the previous years because we need to follow health protocols when we perform prayers like maintaining social distancing and we can stand close to each other or greek people another measure which i think is good is that we have to bring our own prayer materials so this is definitely different and there are fewer worshippers but i'm not up there in a hole in the turkish capital istanbul the celebration also took place in the huggy s. afia for the 1st time in decades that after the turkish government recently reconverted the former historical cathedral and museum back into a mosque. and in afghanistan a 3 day truce is being called between the government and the taliban just before

the truce went into effect a car bomb killed at least 17 people the taliban denies any responsibility the truce is only the 3rd to take place in the last 1000 years and will last until the end of the muslim holiday. he spent his entire life fighting for civil rights in the united states on 1st representative john lewis was more than celebrated at his funeral in the presence of no fewer than 3 former u.s. presidents the former icon of the civil rights movement died earlier this month aged 80. impressions from the ceremony in the evenings a baptist church in atlanta. john lewis believed in the lord. he believed in humanity and he believed in america. he got into a lot of good trouble along the way but let's not forget he also developed an absolutely uncanny ability. to heal troubled waters i've come here today because

so many americans or great depth to john lewis and his forceful vision. of freedom. for number of john lewis u.s. civil rights. i was there in the u.s. where the american baseball league n.b.a. has returned following a 4 month hiatus $22.00 teams are corn team the in a bubble environment and florida's disney world where all games will be played without fans players mock the return by kneeling during the national anthem in the opening 2 games they also featured personalized messages relating to the fight against racism on the shirts instead of then the utah jazz beat the new orleans

pelicans before the bron james as l.a. lakers beat cross-town rivals the clippers. athletes would have been chasing medals in tokyo right now but with this year's olympic games console they have been left in limbo the tokyo games are set to start in july of next year now a decision that has derailed the train schedule so fast it's like germany's a limping javelin champion. back on track training resumes for thomas werleigh but it's a strange season for the olympic gold medalist no traveling no competitions no rhythm the delay of the games didn't come as a shock for him though were actually campaigned for it in his role as an athlete's rep in the sport's governing body world athletics in january there were already signed something was happening in asia that would affect us early on we started planning flexibly is what we learned from rio 2016 back then we had the zeke of

virus political instability and so on plans which changed that's how we approach this year. at the start of the pandemic were trained at home for 4 weeks a period in which there was plenty of time to reflect on his past achievements it was 4 years ago in rio that he celebrated his 1st big success as the only athlete to throw over 90 meters the event 25 year old claimed the gold medal in javelin while he's excited to once again compete on the big stage having a summer off has its perks i don't have to be told if it's on the weekends also careful about my condition it's that yesterday i woke up really saw that usually that would be a huge problem during competition time isn't. he won't have to hit top form until next year when tokyo 2020 will hopefully be held one year on. the good luck to have it watching it on the news here's a reminder alvah top story called leader kerry lamb has announced that legislative

elections planned for september will be delayed for one year absence of a spike in coronavirus cases the. float cities pro-democracy movement. is a state of your views that's it from me and the news team member from now thanks for.

getting. to the point strong opinions clear positions international perspective so tough. well the united states and china drifting towards a new cold war will come with so much at stake what can be done to ensure that the world's 2 most powerful nations don't reach a point of no return find out on to the point. to the point.

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to the point this week is usa versus china a new cold war.