No man or machine has gone before launch is its most sophisticated mission yet to find life on mars. With 4 stories today including criminal proceedings in switzerland against the president a deadline for russia to avoid exclusion from. Saudi arabian investors pull. United after months of premier league scrutiny. The coronavirus pandemic is crushing the worlds most powerful economies and any recovery is being threatened by a new surge in cases the u. S. Recorded 1400 fatalities from code 19 on wednesday around one death a minute and is now reporting its worst economic decline on record output collapsed by 9. 5 percent in the 2nd quarter of the year europes largest economy germany saw a decade of growth all but wiped out as g. D. P. Shrank by more than 10 percent in a country thats avoided the worst Health Problems but its in developing nations where people are likely to suffer the most likely. Mexico where the economy has shrunk by a staggering 17. 3 percent in fact theres a warning that the entire economy of latin america and the caribbean could contract by more than 9 percent this year or more in latin america with Daniel Schorr in a moment hes in his ariz but 1st to cover and his own dough in new york and historic decline in the u. S. So not seen since the Great Depression what now. You know what now essentially is that its very clear now that the u. S. Economy is not going to come back in till the u. S. Can get to get control of the coronavirus pandemic that continues to really overtake many parts of the country right now in the us and i mean back in march the u. S. Economy essentially shut down close economy and in april congress injected trillions of dollars into the economy which helped people and helped businesses basically stay alive if you will during those terrible months april may or so but the idea was from the white house and many lawmakers in washington was that trillions of dollars would go into the economy and then the expectation was is that come july coronavirus would be under control and that the u. S. Economy would be roaring back to life well it turns out that that was a big miscalculation because that simply has not happened for a whole host of reasons and now youre seeing the economic decline in the u. S. Continuing i mean just looking at the unemployment numbers the new numbers came out that in the past week 1400000 americans filed for Unemployment Benefits in the last week now putting that in context thats the 19th straight week in the u. S. That the unemployment numbers have been over 1000000 people filing for and point employment claims so you can you see how staggering those numbers are clearly this is not going to get better the economy until the u. S. Can get hold of coronavirus and get it under control and then just as that those warnings come that the recovery might be frightened by a new surge in cases that that appears to be whats happening whats happening now across america that with the outbreak. Yeah in short there are still dozens of states where the numbers are going up as we know florida texas in the south it was going up quite a bit but the new area now that everyone is worried about is the midwest weve seen numbers increasing in the last day or 2 from states like ohio illinois wisconsin the governor there calling for a mandatory mask mask to be worn in public and Dr Anthony Fauci the head of the Infectious Disease department of the c. D. C. Has said the midwest is now where theyre seeing. The most increases of potential cases but theyre also keeping a close eye of course in california texas arizona and florida as well u. S. Is still has many many states that are seeing rising numbers of cases and also rising numbers of deaths a reason to thank you very much indeed and lets go now to there is that Daniel Sharma who joins us live from what desire is some polling numbers for latin america particularly mexico what more can you tell us about whats happening there. What will make secure as you mentioned more than the economy shrinking by more than 17 percent in. April may and june of this year this follows the economy already struggling in months previous to that and that obviously translates into businesses closing jobs being lost and some of talked about as many as 10000000. 00 people joining those suffering from poverty traditionally when people have suffered from poverty in mexico and Central America theyve gone to the United States to look for work but theres. Just told us that is unlikely to be an option in the future with the in the in the near future certainly with the United States economy suffering also right across latin america weve heard that g. D. P. Is likely to shrink by over 9 percent this year that will put any progress back. In so far as development of economy is going is creating unemployment is going as much as 10 years as what economists are saying so theres a lot of ground to be made up there and as we heard from the United States similar situation here the numbers of people suffering from cobbett 19 is only going up weve had record numbers on wednesday of the number of people dying in the 24 hour period in brazil where theres now been more than 90000 deaths here in argentina in bolivia so the numbers keep going up at the same time of governments because the economies are struggling or asking people to go back to work we had a president job also not all whos just gone over 3 weeks of suffering from cope with 19 back out on the trail in northeastern brazil urging people to go back to work the economy to get back on its feet so youve got these 2 pauls the economy shrinking people falling into poverty and the numbers of corporate 900 suffers going up daniel sheiner thank you very much indeed. Germany managed to control its coronavirus outbreak much better than its neighbors but its economy has still been hammered dominic kane is in berlin he says the future is dependent on keeping a lid on infection. This is the worst quarterly performance for 50 years for the the German Economy because that refers back to the west German Economy rather than to the east German Economy but nonetheless it is very bad news but as was alluded to this is needed this needs to be seeing through the prism of what had already been predicted for the quarter and several months ago once the 2nd quarter was underway once the pandemic was really here taking hold of the economy of the country the predictions had been that they would be expected that the economy would shrink by almost 10 percent in the event its a bit more than 10 percent but not much more than that and so theres very much the sense coming from ministerial circles that they feel that theyve kept a lid on it that theyve prevented it from being much worse than they possibly imagined and indeed there are elements certain sectors in the economy that are rebounding already from the worst. Problems caused by the pandemic and the economy minister several weeks ago was talking about his hope that the economy would rebound in 2021 but obviously all of that optimism is predicated on there being no 2nd wave of corona in this country thats why over the course of the past few days and indeed over the course of the past few weeks weve seen a succession of state Prime Ministers of federal ministers trying to urge caution trying to urge people around the country for not doing things that might cause corona to come back. Worlds biggest plane maker has posted a net loss of 2200000000. 00 in the 1st half of this year losses in the face of the coronavirus pandemic a larger than expected its revenue has fallen by almost 40 percent as the travel industry struggles to recover from a near total collapse the European Company is getting rid of 15000. 00 employees and has cut production of its most popular jet the a 35025. 00 a month. Officials say at least 18 people have been killed and 30 injured in a suicide bombing in eastern afghanistan locals in Logar Province say the incident was caused by a car bomb it comes ahead of the major muslim holiday of each other the taliban is denying responsibility and forcing a 3 day cease fire to coincide with a holiday coming up around 0 this news hour. President says russian mercenaries were plotting attacks in his country but is it just a preelection ploy. Playing in poison the warning that hundreds of millions of the worlds children are at risk from lead. And in sport prosecutors in switzerland open a criminal case against the head of World Football president jenny in frontino. Donald trump has ignited another political firestorm by suggesting novembers president ial election be delayed just to avoid fraud u. S. States want to make postal voting easier due to Public Health concerns over coronavirus a white house course from can really help it says many are concerned by trump suggestion including senior republicans. The president for his part is masterful kind of redirecting the news cycle and almost as soon as these gloomy economic numbers came out the u. S. President sent out this tweet that really redirected the news cycle but what is concerning to so many in the United States is the fact that were really about 95 days from voting day and what the president has done essentially is set up least for his supporters the possibility of rejecting the results of the november president ial poll many are pretty concerned about it and have had some rather sharp words that includes members of the president s own Republican Party i capitol hill you know you have top ally Lindsey Graham in the u. S. Senate has said look this isnt a good idea nother top congressman saying that this might be about trying to get press attention but isnt likely to get any traction but the strongest words came from the Top Republican in the u. S. Senate Mitch Mcconnell heres what he had to say well never in the history of the country through wars depressions and the civil war if we ever have to really. Look you know and then well find a way to do that again this november 3rd we will cope with whatever the situation is and the look and all over but there are already scheduled now we should point out that the president himself has also said he may not accept the results of the november poll of minister in a speech to Lawrence Douglas whos a constitutional law expert hes also the author of will he go to President Trump and the looming election meltdown in 2020 he joins us on skype from sunderland in massachusetts thanks so much indeed for being with us so there is some pushback on all sides against this idea of President Trump but just to go back to the original twitter mention what was he trying to achieve anything with this. Well 1st of all i mean i have a pair of viewers realize that he cant do what he claims to want to do that is to delay the election itself and thats what they did his authority as president election day said by federal law so only congress would be able to actually change the day of election and in terms of the politics behind this kind of claim i suppose there are 2 things one is its kind of an unusual. Usual feature of Donald Trump Style that he often diverts attention from one horrible thing by doing Something Else thats also pretty bad and so its possible that he was trying to divert attention from the Economic News by tweeting out this kind of remarkably destabilizing statement on the other hand they do think its part of this larger politics that he really has kind of laid out in advance of the election in which he could arguably challenge the result so on that to that in the last few minutes he then he then treated it must know the actual results on the night election not days months or even years later and thats something that youve needed to in iraq explain to us why why that could be an issue. Right so its a little bit granular but you have to bear in mind its going to be tens of millions of americans who in order to avoid the Health Risks Associated with in person voting are going to be selling batman ballots and that tend to be people in densely populated urban areas and we know that people in densely populated urban areas but overwhelmingly democratic and we also know that those votes are not going to be counted until days or even weeks after the election thats not a sign that the electoral system is not functioning properly that just the reality caused by a large influx of mail and ballots so its certainly possible that trump could have a lead on november 3rd but only because of the 10s of these hundreds of thousands or millions of mail in ballots in swing states not having been counted and so i think again its part of kind of a preemptive strike and his part to insist that whatever lead he might enjoy on november 3rd actually represents the final result of the election rather than just a tentative result pending the count of these mail in ballots that are on the cell phone and he hasnt had any support really from from leading republicans and on the contrary what messenger to think that will send him to President Trump. Of the cure for really sense much of the message at all you know even with the Lindsey Graham coming back and saying well the idea of delaying the election is not such a great idea i mean thats a pretty weak pushback relatively speaking i mean one would hope that even republican lawmakers would say a this is a heinous idea and b. Mr president you dont have the authority to do it but i do think that Many Republican lawmakers if in november election turns on a relatively narrow margins in a handful of swing states and those margins only become clear with the count of mail in ballots you could find Many Republican lawmakers actually accepting trumps claim that you should be the new to reelect the president based on a narrow lead under the reserve and just before you mention the fact that hes going to have distracting him and that the fact that were talking about this as just a in in effect he kind of he wins that game more often than not by and by moving me on to Something Else other than the coronavirus biggest sale or the economy yeah i mean he is a genius of distraction and the fact that were discussing this really is a testament to that genius on the other hand i do think it is part of a consistent politics of trying to prepare at least his base to discount any electoral results in which he loses as a result of the large influx of mail in ballots and thats a very dangerous thing it has been emerged as a kind of consistent pattern of his electoral strategy and arthritis thank you very much indeed for taking the time to talk to us not just here my pleasure. India has reported more than 50000. 00 new cases of corona virus in a single day for the 1st time a surge of infections is mostly in rural areas where the government has been easing restrictions india has the worlds 3rd largest the 3rd highest number of cases with more than one and a half 1000000 nearly 35000 have died the British Government says people from separate households cant meet indoors in manchester parts of lancashire and West Yorkshire the Health Secretary says its to tackle a surge in cases in Northern England on thursday the u. K. Reported 846 new infections its highest number for a month Prime Minister paris johnson has warned people against thinking the crisis was over i have to tell you that were looking at a resurgence of the virus in some other European Countries you can see whats been happening in the United States and so it is absolutely vital as a country that we continue to keep our focus and discipline and that we dont delude ourselves that somehow were out of the woods or that this is all over because it isnt all over a spike in infections in spain is continuing to grow more than 1200 new cases were reported in the past day is the biggest one day rise since the National Lockdown was lifted in june its also the 2nd day in a row the country has topped a 1000 cases of resurgence in cases of e. Mainly confined to the catalonia and aragon regions. More than 21000 people in vietnams capital hanoi have been ordered to take a coronavirus test the country is scrambling to contain a new outbreak of covert 19 after almost 100 days of no Community Transmission and not a single death vietnam had been seen as a global Success Story that all changed last thursday when a man tested positive for the virus in the coastal town of denying since then there have been 48 cases. When i heard the news that denying had been hit with a new outbreak those are traveling to myself a grave body that of hanoi is also hit with one of the jobs and daily activities of me my family and all of society. Nasa has sent what its calling the most sophisticated mars rover ever launched to seek out life on the red planet perseverance will take rock samples that will one day make their way back to earth comes at a point of intense interest with Similar Missions from china and the u. A. E. Also on route and got to reports from florida. Were. Launching on a mission to mars this is the start as nasa has most ambitious project to answer the question point are we alone. It will take the perseverance rover almost 7 months to reach the red planet and if all goes well place the car sized robot safely in the 20. 00 crater once theyre