Novembers election the most fraudulent in history even floats the idea of delaying the vote. Perils of social media if you live in egypt these young women are just doing what people do and been jailed for up to 3 years for violating family values. Former u. S. President barack obama speaks of the funeral of congressman and civil rights leader john lewis because of a founding father of a fuller fairer and better america. Im told me a lot of thanks for joining us we begin with a battered victim of the coronavirus pandemic of the u. S. Economy the latest figures show the economy tumbled by a stunning 33 percent in the 2nd quarter thats its worst drop on record and weekly jobless claims have risen slightly suggesting that any tentative recovery will be slow. When ruiz is one of around 18000000 unemployed americans. The 56 year old accountant lost his job at a forklift manufacturer after he contract it covert 19. With no job to go back to hes 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 thats cause the countrys Gross Domestic Product to drop by a staggering 33 percent last quarter. But its 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 germanys g. D. P. Drop during the 2nd quarter slightly worse than the u. S. It is. However germany has seen less unemployment. Thanks in part to government backed short term work schemes its g. D. P. Numbers for germany in q 2 are worse than expected but lets be honest we werent 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 u. S. The number is north of 60000. Worrying numbers for one reason and he doesnt expect the economy to get back on track soon his wife and son work part time but they barely make enough to pay the familys bills. U. S. President donald trump has drawn across Party Criticism after suggesting a possible delay in the 2020 election currently trails Democrat Joe Biden in opinion polls as north or 18 to change the date which is set by law back tracked but continues to push claims that any increase in mail in voting due to the coronavirus endemic would result in fraud. Even for President Trump it was a rapid u. Turn after floating the idea of delaying novembers election only hours later he was walking it back i dont want to. I want to have the election but i also dont want to have to wait for 3 months. That the ballots are missing and the election doesnt 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 we should we should have absentee voting but is masts 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 election on the day that. 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. Im joined now by our correspondent in washington all of a salad all over its not surprising that democrats dont like the idea but what about trumps 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 thats a phenomenon weve 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 thats House Minority leader kevin make or carthy who also made clear that President Trump does not have the backing off his party when it comes to postponing the election now its not the 1st time weve heard trump claim that mail in voting could result in massive fraud fraud but has he provided evidence for the claim this time. He hasnt today had a press conference just a while ago he was citing some newspaper articles on the matter and repeating basically his claim that he believes that mail in ballots are prone to fraud but thats a false claim and can be considered a false claim because theres 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 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 then does this venture say about trumps 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 youve mentioned is grim the g. D. P. Down 33 percent. The growth at least and then were talking 150000 casualties in the United States the number of new infections is at a record high so the alt look is not good and 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 a sudden in washington many thanks and us take a look at some of the stories making news around the world. Tens of thousands of people have turned out in the bill the russian capital minsk to support Opposition Leader lana taken of just over a week before president ial elections the 37 year old is challenging the decades long rule of Alexander Lukashenko who accuses the opposition of trying to topple him with foreign assistance. Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu official residence in jerusalem to repeat their calls for him to step down theres a new who has come under fire for Holding Office while on trial for corruption and for pushing for seemingly antidemocratic measures under the guise of combating the coronavirus. The 1st official heat wave of the european summer has hit spain temperatures reached 42 celsius on thursday the same day masks became mandatory the above average temperatures are expected to last several days and hot weather is also forecast for france and britain. A court in egypt has sent several young women to prison after they posed to videos to the social media to talk prosecutors allege they had violated family values the accused include 2 prominent young influences. And more. Now human Rights Groups see the jailings as part of a larger social media crackdown especially on content posted by young women. Reason videos may look harmless to most ticktock 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 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. Its based on the cyber crime law which was passed in 2018 especially 2 articles that are related to my only king Egyptian Army bat which is an extremely broad article that is really open to interpretation and very problematic since punitive articles in the laws should be extremely specific rate and this case its very open to interpretation and open to be used in targeting women any kind fellow egyptians came to their defense online calling their punishment in injustice a group dubbing itself to talk women started a petition on change dot org calling on authorities to stop the crackdown on female ticktock users Amnesty International has said that freedom of expression has suffered more under president of the c. C. Than at any other time in the past 30 years. The us congressman and civil rights activist john lewis has been laid to rest at a funeral in Atlanta Georgia 3 former u. S. President s attended the service barak obama used his address to call for the defense of Voting Rights and 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 cell not be in thing. Which could not match john lewis lifes work and that. At his funeral. 3 former president s pay tribute to the i can of the Civil Rights Movement 1. 00 of them obama whether its years from now or day or even of the takes another 2 centuries john lois will be a founding father of the fuller fairer. Better america. 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 trouble along the way but lets not forget he also developed an absolutely uncanny ability. To heal trouble. Later in life john lewis turned from protests 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. Has Just Launched an ambitious new mission to mars to search for signs of life an atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral florida on thursday on board is not as new rover perseverance which will help scientists study the martian surface like never before its equipped with the most complex robotic system ever developed by the space agency. 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