. >> reporter: fowsia musse is an outreach worker in lewiston, a major resettlement city for refugees rumor has it that one family came, liked it because maine is small, very family oriented. and in the last five years, we're seeing central and west african. so today in the lewiston school department, we have 35 languages spoken. >> reporter: musse feels her community still faces racism. >> it used to be very explicit: "go home... don't, why are you here? you're taking away our jobs." it's not as explicit as it used to be, but there is a lot of systematic, you know, implicit biases towards immigrants. >> reporter: new mainers play a major role in maine's economy, primarily in manufacturing and other essential jobs. their impact can be seen in places like the american roots factory, where 80 percent othe workforce is immigrant. it's a project of husband and wife team ben and whitney waxman to make clothing iamerica. >> we did not know who was going to walk through our doors when we started this. and it just so happened that it was folks from iraq, from angola, from congo. >> reporter:

has told a senate committee that melon ballots will be delivered on time for november's election lewiston joy is accused of delaying mail delivery to suppress the vote at the behest of president trump the house plans to vote in the coming hours for emergency funds for the postal service and doctors and kenya's public hospitals are on strike over delayed salaries and poor quality protective gear to treat coronavirus patients police fired tear gas and move them $300.00 medics demonstrating in nairobi. well those are the headlines rob matheson will have more news for you here on al-jazeera after earthrise stay with us. the explosion of plastic waste across the world threatens the very survival of life on our planet. every year up to $12000000.00 metric tons of plastic and saw ocean moves. from poisoning marine life to littering landscapes and cloaking waterways plastic waste in the environment is set to trickle in the next decades the problem is so vast it can seem overwhelming but by reimagining this waste as a result we can begin to redress the balance i'm tony can you lay in cameroon wher

will not affect mail in voting for this year's presidential election appearing before politicians lewiston joy defended his decision to choose cost saving measures so the u.s.p.s. ahead of november's poll but critics accuse the trial of trying to undermine the vote. is calling for an independent investigation into the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexina. may have confirmed that the kremlin critic was poisoned avali is in an induced coma. such and rescue efforts are continuing in india to find at least 18 people still trapped in the rubble of a building collapse 2 people were killed when the 5 story apartment building collapsed on monday the cause of the accident is unclear but there's been heavy rainfall in the past few days germany has issued travel warnings for 2 regions in france including the capital paris the 2 regions which also includes parts of the french riviera and now considered high risk it comes as france and other parts of europe are seeing rising numbers of new infections you have state now with all the headlines of back with another news update on al jazeera that

bill that will move the postal service back to what it was on the 1st of january this year before lewiston made took over as postmaster general so there's still dissatisfaction on congress and it's increasingly bipartisan the senate oversight committee has now called on the postmaster general to appear before it this friday he's also appearing before the democratic house committee on a monday so he's going to get a grilling in congress and certainly what the democrats are going to be are asking is how did he get the job in the 1st place he's a noted republican donor and in february he gave his last the nation to the trump campaign more than a quarter of a $1000000.00 he was appointed to the position of postmaster general by the board of governors in may so questions from the democrats are going to be how did he get this job is it undue influence is it a case of trump patronage forcing the board of governors to appoint him to the job so lots to happen in the days ahead then of course there's still that great concern about the impact this will have on the postal service during that november

calling the accusations against him outrageous lewiston joyce says the cuts he's made to the u.s.postal service were long planned and aimed at making the agency financially solvent not to complicate mail and voting in november as we head into the election season i want to assure this committee and the american public that the postal service is fully capable and committed to delivering the nation's election manal securely and on time that's a reversal from what the postal service said last month in a warning to $46.00 states the agency had cautioned that millions of ballots may not be delivered in time to be counted and with the public fallout the joy announced further cuts to the postal service will be postponed until after the election both the service will deliberately ballot and process every ballot in. that it sees president trump claims without evidence that voting by mail can lead to massive election fraud that's despite voting by mail himself we're not prepared for this 51000000 ballots. it will be a tremendous embarrassment to our country it will go on forever and you'll n

in washington protesters accusing trump of voter suppression gathered outside the home of lewiston joy the former republican fundraiser appointed by trump. u.s. postmaster general in may it joy has removed some mail processing machines and cut workers' hours citing the need to slash costs the post office inspector general is now investigating and lawmakers of both parties have voiced alarm there's no doubt that the postal service has a long term financial challenge and those who need to be dealt with but now it's not the time to be cutting back services earlier this week trump said he wanted to withhold funding from the postal service because he didn't want to see the money used for mail in voting now the president has backtracked saying he will agree to fund the agency but despite requesting a mail in ballot for himself trump continues to claim without evidence that mail in ballots will lead to massive voter fraud in november. castro al-jazeera maryland. president trump has continued to back his pick for postmaster general despite the protests against him you know he's a fantastic man

that's right lewiston joy is was appointed by president trump to be the postmaster general back in may and since that time he has implemented a series of controversial changes he says to rein in the operating costs of the federal agency but they have in effect slow down mail delivery now the joy was a republican fundraiser prior to be being appointed to to leave the u.s. postal service and here is still holds a $30000000.00 stake in a contractor the u.s. postal service and many are pointing that as a potential conflict of interest and now we know the u.s. postal service is inspector general is investigating these very allegations how did you account for talking to us from maryland heidi thanks a lot. long awaited talks which are enough gonna sons government and the taliban jus to start on sunday being delayed a member of the government's negotiating team says it's because one foes and taliban prisoners still haven't been released last week president bush afghani agreed to free 400 so-called hardcore prisoners and what's seen as the final hurdle to launching talks but only 80 of them ha

taxes cuts, regulations reduce, lewiston employment in 50 years. who better to lead us out of these times on the president to gve the best economy we have seen bread. >> that's what president trump promised and that's what he delivered. >> investors like what they see live trump. after they've laid out their disastrous designs for the economy last week, who could blame them. >> in child childcare, in canceling student loan debt. ax joe will rollback the tax cut they got so weak and fun things are whole country needs. we should for aliens into private businesses. there should be ten failed investments.sh >> we say i would chide it down? >> i would chide it down, i would listen to the scientist. >> he said that after the dnc. so now you see why the democrats were afraid to really get into the nitty-gritty of policy. for four years, but republicans have proven that their policies are better than anything the crowds have to offer. in the rule of law works better than the chaos we see tonight in certain blue cities. we will get to wisconsin in a bit. th

calling the accusations against him outrageous lewiston joyce says the cuts he's made to the u.s. postal service were long planned and aimed at making the agency financially solvent not to complicate mail in voting in november as we head into the election season i want to assure this committee and the american public that the postal service is fully capable and committed to delivering the nation's election mail securely and on time that's a reversal from what the postal service said last month in a warning to $46.00 states the agency had cautioned that millions of ballots may not be delivered in time to be counted amid the public fallout the joy announced further cuts to the postal service will be postponed until after the election the service will deliberately ballot process every ballot in. that it sees president trump claims without evidence that voting by mail can lead to massive election fraud that's despite voting by mail himself we're not prepared for this 51000000 ballots. it will be a tremendous embarrassment to our country it will go on forever and you'll never know who

. >> hello from the other side of pennsylvania avenue, lewiston joined the postmaster general testified in a virtual setting and assuring that senate committee is really trying to assure the country as a whole as democrats that the u.s. post office does have enough capacity to handle a surge of the mail-in voting. the postmaster general saying he backs the concept of mailing voting in his vices to vote early, he even said the post office would be reaching out to the electorate in the upcoming weeks. >> in september were going to send a letter to every american with what our processes going out to every american citizen. i feel good and very, very proud of what were doing and we will deliver for the american people. >> despite that message right there, president trump still continuing to insist today that he feels the election could take weeks, two - four weeks, maybe longer than that to get the final results back from the election, the joy also acknowledged that there have been wait times as it relates to some postal services in the recent weeks changes that he has made. the top democra

in washington protesters accusing trump of voter suppression gathered outside the home of lewiston joy the former republican fundraiser appointed by trump to be u.s. postmaster general in may their joy has removed some mail processing machines and cut workers' hours citing the need to slash costs the post office inspector general is now investigating and lawmakers of both parties have voiced alarm there's no doubt that the postal service has a long term financial challenge. and those do need to be dealt with but now it's not the time to be cutting back services. earlier this week trump said he wanted to withhold funding from the postal service because he didn't want to see the money used for mail in voting now the president has backtracked saying he will agree to fund the agency but despite requesting a mail in ballot for himself trump continues to claim without evidence that mail in ballots will lead to massive voter fraud in november. joe castro al jazeera maryland. well former u.s. president barack obama says that he's why the trouble ministration is trying to kneecap the postal ser

that will move the postal service back to what it was on the 1st of january of this year before lewistonmade took over as postmaster general so there's still dissatisfaction on congress and it's increasingly bipartisan the senate oversight committee has now called on the postmaster general to appear before it this friday he's also appearing before the democratic house committee on a monday so he's going to get a grilling in congress and certainly what the democrats are going to be asking is how did he get the job in the 1st place he's a noted republican donor and in february he gave his last the nation to the trump campaign more than a quarter of a $1000000.00 he was appointed to the position of postmaster general by the board of governors in maine so questions from the democrats are going to be how did he get this job is it undue influence is it a case of trump patronage forcing the board of governors to appoint him to the job so lots to happen in the days ahead and of course there's still that great concern about the impact this will have on the postal service during that november elec

that's right lewiston joy is a republican fundraiser who was installed to lead the u.s. postal service by president in may and since he became head of that agency we've seen a series of controversial measures that joyce says he's doing to cost to cut the costs of the agency they include limiting the hours that postal workers can can work and thus slowing down some of this mail delivery he's also being investigated by the post office inspector general for having a $30000000.00 stake in a contractor for his very agency many are pointing to that as an obvious conflict of interest now the joy denies all of that he says he's not doing this for political services or to curry favor with the president but rather to cut the operating costs of the postal service castro they're following developments for us from maryland thank you very much heidi. turning to the coronavirus pandemic and south korea has tightened measures following the highest number of daily new infections and 5 months restrictions on gatherings and other activities have been rolled out in the capital seoul and sur

andy is in lewiston, california. good morning. caller: good morning. just waking up here. think it's nuts, short period of time this pandemic has gone on, we've seen more and more lives being lost. i found it -- one word in a with thecaller, teaching, the virtual teaching -- that's the keyword, live. let's give our children alive. -- keep our children alive. we want them all to go back to school, but we sent the and to play.tes out that was a mistake and is going in a terrible direction. i think it is putting price tags on lives, it's just not the way to go here. stay safe. thank you. host: thank you, andy. some social media reaction on text and twitter. connie from illinois says this -- we have zero kos -- zero cases of covid in my county. kids should be in school. it is not the same in chicago. treat each county individually. -- the fact that it takes a pandemic to implement virtual learning is irrational. and from georgia -- i am grateful that my rent children in texas, my great-nephew in north carolina, and my great-niece are being virtually taught by their moms, dads