A lot deadlier than the official figures 17000. 00 extra deaths worrying researchers. And search of ways to end weeks of protest against the president a powerful line up of west African Leaders are meeting in mali. And chinas 1st solo mission to mars is the quest to explore the red planet heralding the start of a new race for space. And only well into the sports news on what would have been the eve of the tongue carolyn pics thats been put forward a year this man is turning back the clock mike tyson is coming out of retirement for an exhibition fight against maury jones jr. Welcome to the news of the coronavirus pandemic is causing even more pain for workers in the Worlds Largest economy more than 1400000 people in the u. S. Have registered as jobless in the past week its estimated 25000000 people are now out of work and across the u. S. Theres almost 4000000 cases of confirmed coronavirus one of the worst hit states is florida which announced a Record Number of deaths on thursday worldwide infections and above 15000000. 00 the epicenter remains latin america where rising cases of forced bolivia selection to be perspire and. Well well be going to teresa bow in and he got her in miami in a moment but 1st lets cross over to our White House Correspondent kimberly how to get with the very latest and of course these job figures are going to the president we are expecting him to speak in a little while kimberly what do you think hes going to say because these figures have been fluctuating up and down for several weeks now. Yeah the u. S. President has continued to try and put on off to mask optimistic spin on these job numbers but its going to be a challenge because the latest as you pointing out 1400000 americans filing unemployment claims and that is up from last week and the reason its up is because transmission rates are rising in the United States more than 4000000 americans more than 143000 this is a problem as the president tries to make the case for reopening schools and businesses were seeing the trajectory in the other direction states like california also the u. S. State of virginia particularly hot spots right now but of course the sun belt of the United States thats the Southern States also a problem now in the midst of all of this there is that Coronavirus Task force that is briefing at 21. 00 g. M. T. Theres also relief for americans being unveiled on capitol hill republicans this white house have said that they have something in mind that they believe something in the neighborhood of a package that would allow for americans to click 70 percent of their paycheck if theyre out of work would incentivize going back to work but again if there arent any jobs if everything shut down where are people going to be able to try and do that now the other thing thats in all of this package is that democrats are saying they need money for state local governments and if thats not in there theyre not going to pass it the house of representatives so a big problem is the timeline theyre trying to do this before the end of next week and right now there seems to be disagreement one more thing that seems to be of note in all of this in terms of disagreement is how to get these transmission rates down and in fact the democratic president ial nominee joe biden speaking with president obama on this they released some prepared remarks via video and one of the things that is notable in all of this is that president obama is saying the reason he believes that joe biden should be president is because he handled this crisis better because in contra. To the president they say that joe biden would listen to science and listen to the experts in trying to curb this disease and you talk about hundley and the crisis of course a very interesting conversation seems to the marriage between both russian and american president s in the in the last few hours i think you and i would both love to have been flies in the oval office listening to that conversation yes is there was a readout that was released in just the last hour or so and whats notable is whats in it and what isnt 1st of all what they talked about they according to the readout from the white house the 2 president s talked about the effort to defeat coronavirus to reopen global economies and they also talked about critical bilateral global issues without actually naming them they did refer though to Donald Trumps hope to avoid a 3 way arms race china russia the United States whats in the russian readout we understand is addressing Irans Nuclear program but whats not in this is the concern about russian interference in the upcoming 2020 alexion whats also not in this is what was widely reported is that russia was attempting to steal back scene research this is been confirmed by both canada the United States and the u. K. When it comes to covert 19 so its not clear that the u. S. President confronted the russian president as he continues to make the case that he is handling the Coronavirus Crisis committee how it gets at the white house thanks very much well keep in touch with committee lets cross over to florida now and to gallagher joins us from miami and he could tell you with us you were at the at the center of what is the u. S. Is a virus pandemic where the crisis really i suppose unfolding with a governor whos finding it very difficult to justify his own position admits the chaos that youll see in right now. Yeah thats very true another doctor say florida today with over 170 recorded deaths thats set a record for this state weve now got 5600 deaths in total and almost 400000 cases and governor rhonda scientists is very much a close ally of President Trump gave a press conference this morning in which he point blank refused to talk about going into shutdown again and closing businesses down in fact saying that most of the spread is down to people in their homes thats not necessarily true and you also talked about the big issue for many people in this state not is children going back to School Next Month at the moment he is pushing like President Donald Trump is pushing to get kids back in school saying that they are in fact less at risk and they wont spread the virus of course scientifically that may not be true as well because if children get the virus and come home to their parents and grandparents they can become super spreaders themselves but they the approach here to tackling this pandemic in florida is very different across the state for instance here in miami dade where about a 3rd of the cases have come from the mayor of miami has put a curfew in place and a mandatory mask order people are now getting fined for not Wearing Masks theyve handed out over 100. 00 tickets already that is something that dont run to scientists will not mandate hes leaving out up to peoples personal choice which is obviously problematic in stopping this pandemic from spreading even further one of the big issues about testing and he does that vary from county to county within florida in terms of getting the test and waiting for the results. I mean i could talk about this personally because i contract the virus about a month ago my test results came back fairly quickly because things werent ramping up as much as they are now but when you do contract the virus you have to tell everyone around you that you have got covert 19 and they have to then go and get tests the people around me they were getting their results back for 10 days at least and ive heard of cases of people waiting for 2 weeks now that is obviously very problematic because during that 10 day to 2 week period you could actually then contract covert 19 and those test results really dont mean much there are also been some problems here with trees sending out in correct you know results for people so that queues at the lines for these testing sites remain very long people are getting tested on a regular basis but of course youre also talking about people who work in care facilities for older people people who work in hospitals they are getting test results back faster but for the general public here there seems to be a great deal of problems with the length of time it takes to get their results and the reliability of those results which has obviously a great deal of impact on not just the state but on Peoples Health and the reports of the in miami lets cross over to to reserve our correspondent inborn desire ease in argentina threes a lot in america reaching another new milestone really in cases quite depressing figure in the fight against covert 19. Well thats correct 100000 cases in the past 24 hours he at the center continues to free brazil with over 67000. 00 infections in the past hour or so with the virus spreading to the countries most from malta areas to the amazon rain forest affecting indigenous communities and the countrys most vulnerable lets not forget about how people many of those affected live in brazil in overcrowded areas in favelas and thats where the virus is spreading rapidly without precedent that has downplayed the threat of call that 99. 00 other country that has to be increased in the hours is argentina argentina that was one of the 1st ones to impose the lockdown in the region that prevented in a way the spread of the virus well in the past hour and when the main cities and greater want to cite is started opening up well the cases in argentina started to grow and go google back up but another country that c. P. S. Affected right now its fatal is the 2nd country where the largest amount of infections in latin america were being told that the virus is moving towards the southern part of the country to the city of id keep or at least 10000 cases have been confirmed in this with doctors going out and protesting saying that they do not have the necessary supplies and medicines to cope with what is happening to them this virus is devastating for a region like latin america with very high poverty rates inequality and where people in many of those areas affected live in overcrowded areas with a lack of Public Health and very little access to sanitation with little bolivia thats another one of the nations southern america real constitutional issues for the country because of the week which seemed to have been resolved in part. Well most definitely the electrode tribunal in bolivia has just confirmed that the elections much needed elections in bolivia were postponed from september 6th and till october 18th Health Economy t. I devised the Health Ministry and they advised the electoral tribunal saying that elections could not happen in the country bolivia right now has over 60000 confirmed cases and over 2500 people have died but the cases in the country appear to be much higher what theyre saying is that their peak in expected to happen in later do lie until september and that elections could not take place under those terms that parties has reported that they have recovering bodies from the streets mostly in the capital abbas but also in the city of some of the girls that hospitals and Funeral Services have already collapsed in those 2 cities 6 Political Parties have been demanding and asking the electrodes are going to postpone the elections because they could not happen with the Current Situation under way to Political Parties one those elections to happen one of them is able what alice more toward Socialism Party they say the government is trying to hold onto power lets not forget what happened in bolivia last year elections were suspended after riots broke those roads forced a former president what alice to leave office and the elections experts are saying are necessary in bolivia in a way to pacify the country theres been protests seen that and Transparent Elections are necessary in order to bring down the Political Tension that exists in the country right now trees about. Thanks to be updated. Well scientists in south africa say the number of people who died from covert 19 could be much higher than reported after finding a spike in deaths from Natural Causes researchers found about 17000. 00 extra deaths and say that theyre likely linked to the pandemic it includes those suspected of having the corona virus but werent tested before dying or others who were unable to seek treatment because hospitals were just overwhelmed south africa reported a record 500 72. 00 coronavirus deaths on wednesday pushing its total to close to 6000. 00 africas Top Health Official has warned the virus is spreading there like wildfire Debbie Bradshaw is the chief specialist scientist at the south African MedicalResearch Council and coauthor of the councils weekly report on deaths in south africa joins me now via skype from cape town good to have you with us live on aljazeera we just begin with the figures coming out of south africa worrying yes but such a large discrepancy compared to past years how concerned are you about the way deaths are being counted. Hi good evening to you and your your viewers. We are tracking of the medical Research Council weve been tracking 3 the number of deaths total deaths which we can separate into those from National Corps and those from we unnaturally accidents and homicides and we will plotting it against what we will expect from previous years and you know were not surprised we know theres a coronavirus around and its. Certainly sitting in in the western Cape Province you can carry a gun carting are and the numbers of days we have seen in the last few weeks have been rising well above the previous years numbers. We think thats a little bit alarming to us is in the in some of the provinces we quite a big discrepancy between the official code confirmed deaths and the excess but we weve observed. It we think hollywood might be in the day trust in the department of but that they may also be that are occurring in communities that are not getting. Access to treatment and. Debbie let me just come in there because i were now getting just breaking news that schools Public Schools in south africa will be closed for the next 4 weeks and thats the president speaking after a Cabinet Meeting there one of the big issues obviously is not just how to keep children safe but also to try. Get the reporting to Central Government done as quickly as possible and i believe the eastern cape had what 400 of those 572 deaths that were reported on wednesday is it difficult or is it annoying for local Health Officials reports researches like yourself or even Central Government to try and get those figures in a soon as possible so that they can react as soon as possible is that chain of communication working. I think you challenge us to know the huge country and there are a lot of facilities and we data systems were not optimal before the program extract. Neatly people are trying really hard and trying to get the information through but were leaning to look at it from different angles and use different sources of information to try and there are data and. Both israeli element is. You know where its heart almost fiercely of the moment and where we managing to get letters in the western cape for example we are seeing some really not well well definitely start if thats the case then is there have to be as you say because of the size of the country getting information can be quite difficult in accessing Health Facilities just as problematic for the public have you noticed a difference there between rural areas the information coming from there and urban areas that perhaps you can get the information a lot quicker and therefore as a savior towards can react a lot sooner. There certainly are differences between the metropolitan areas and andrew areas but its not as simple as that. You know journalists we were worried about our data systems. And. For example in the free state theyre going to resolder data source the whole and. Our Research Team is not going to find the free staters theres a problem its a good getting your insight and thanks very much for talking to a broad shore there chief specialist scientist at the south African MedicalResearch Council joining us from cape town thank you for your time its a pleasure. A lot more ahead here on the i was there a news hour including we look at why the Eastern Mediterranean is becoming a new sea of tension and the french president is talking about sanctions against turkey. And caught in the crossfire civilians are reportedly killed in an air strike on the taliban in afghanistan. And in support once again tokyo marks one year to go to the delayed till it takes even though uncertainty still hangs over the games. 5 west african heads of state have gathered in malis capital to try to end weeks of protest and political crises their Extraordinary Mission was launched because of a growing movement demanding that president it bring him to resign nicholas haq reports. Nigeria senegal ghana ivory coast and the share their president s on an Extraordinary Mission in bamako aimed at ending mollies political crisis similar to we are here to meet president and the various parties concerned to bring peace and ensure that monitors terms of the path of stability for the sake of the wh