Politicians are yet to reach a deal on extending an expired aid package. And president and Prime Minister rajapaksa early results from sri lankas parliamentary elections show the brothers are set to cement their grip on power. The coronavirus gets underway as the wounds based players compete at the p. G. A. Championship. The french president has pledged support during his visit to lebanons capital today is off to it was devastated by a huge explosion a die humanitarian situation is developing there as International Relief teams arrive in the crisis hit city at least 138 people have now died while still missing and more than 5000 have been injured our correspondent anaconda begins our coverage from beirut. Search and rescue teams are still digging through the rubble at beirut port the site of massive explosions that damaged or destroyed much of the lebanese capital families are desperate for news about their loved ones dozens are missing there is pain and grief zainab fears she will never see her husband allie again. Theres a still are still i dont know where he is i havent heard from him since 6 pm monday i want to know if hes alive or dead. Rescue experts from abroad have started to arrive to help a country that wasnt prepared to cope with a disaster like this all of us are. Hoping to each other with. The fund says theres still a lot of destruction we need to move the stock to building to find. Somebody. The blasts were felt kilometers away killing dozens and wounding thousands buildings homes shops all destroyed 300000 people displaced billions of dollars in damage investigations are focusing on possible negligence in storing tons of highly explosive material at the port officials have promised assistance and compensation to those affected by the explosions but driving around the city the state is noticeably absent in destroyed neighborhoods like this one it is the people who are helping each other they are cleaning the streets clearing the debris and distributing food and water to those in need public anger against the Political Class many believe is responsible for lebanons near economic collapse is not new decades of corruption in the glare triggered an antiestablishment Movement Last october weve been fortunate growing used to this day not being present for its citizens we dont have properly just city we dont have a proper garbage infrastructure we dont have proper water infrastructures and unfortunately the people have gotten used to it but its its a time for change its weve been asking for. For quite some time and i think this last task is going to make change for the country much better the priority now is to help the victims many are still in hospital in Critical Condition calls for accountability and justice are growing louder for now people are focused to rely on themselves i need money tools to manage myself nobodys baby. Can i leave everything also and i didnt want to be mean so this is why im here i want to. At least leave. The street. Some may call it resilience but for many this is about survival nearly half the population of 5000000 lebanese were below the poverty line before this disaster the situation has since got worse. Beirut a crowd of protesters in beirut vented their anger at the government and the french president as he visited demonstrators surrounded a monologue on and one of the citys west hit areas told them he wasnt there to condone the government and that french aid will not fall into what he calls corrupt hands he also said hell push lebanese leaders to implement reforms. Its let me know how its my duty to help you as a people to bring you medicine to make sure you are fed and to help you reconstruct i can guarantee you that this will be transparent and i will guarantee it will not go into corrupt hands well lets now speak to our correspondent Bernard Smith who is on the ground in beirut for us but as weve been saying the despair of the last couple of days turned very much to anger nor on the streets there let me start by asking you how rescue and recovery is going. Well weve seen all day and stay here is armies of volunteers armies of. Shovels with brushes cleaning up digging up the rubble not helping in the search effort or we havent see. Representatives on the government safety officials. Police the military we havent seen them anywhere around here people have been left to do this themselves yes this is an extraordinary catastrophe that has affected home the city where there are about 2000000 people and every street like this little bit these buildings for example here blown out in danger of falling as well this is the problem now is theres a very dangerous situation here where people who are out helping because the reson any real management of a walking on the buildings only just in the last half hour has been put in place by some french emergency workers whove just passed by here so local lebanese government representatives Emergency Services we havent seen then and you say government officials on top of the ground are we hearing anything from government about how theyre going to deal with this catastrophe beyond this investigation that theyve said will happen. Well of course theyve promised an investigation but what they really need to do now is to try and rescue people in the hope that there are some people still alive under the rubble but it cant do that at night because there arent enough generates is to provide the light that is needed i can do that on their own because they just dont know what was already before this catastrophe a very bare bones so its a provision by the state in terms of Emergency Services fire. Fire brigade staff Police Military already fairly thin on the ground so when they really needed them to help in a catastrophe like this just on around on that just arent enough of them to help so the government has been left pleading for help from the International Community and you saw Emmanuel Mark from the 1st foreign leader here to have a look at the devastation from the south and bennetts method on the streets and buried for us well be bringing you everything as it happens from the lebanese capital here on out of there thank you bound. Well theres plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including. Remembering the victims of hiroshima japan marks 75 years since the worlds fast atomic bomb which killed 140000 people. Crime quarantine and an economic crisis and. Find out how people and officials are coping. And in sports this formula one driver gets the green light to compete again off to coaching the corps in a virus thats coming up with pizza. Now the number of americans filing for Unemployment Benefits dropped to 1200000 last week hiring picked up in may and june as states began lifting coronavirus restrictions after a record loss of 21000000 jobs in april will than 16000000. 00 americans are now collecting Unemployment Benefits from this state but a federal aid package of 600. 00 a week in addition to that state benefits expired at the end of july and now nearly a week later politicians have failed to reach a deal to extend it all political disputes of also meant that rental moratoriums which are backed by the u. S. Government are also expired millions of americans who lost their jobs during this pandemic are worried about becoming homeless many of them are now facing eviction and youve got to go reports from miami. Even as unemployment rates remain at historic highs the coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of slowing with so many out of work in the midst of a Health Crisis the specter of massive victims is now real temporary moratoriums meant to prevent renters losing their homes have been lifted in 30 states and millions of facing a harsh reality the landlord here has started an addiction process against us when my mom lost her child and her father. 19 pandemic and i am completely scared and frightened because i dont want to come home which i dont why my family be split in half left at home by shelter over the last few months is job losses of grown so too have the lines that food banks that massive loss of income and increasing desperation not only affects renters but landlords to somebody who own one property in their service. To pay their bills and they have duplex and they make. The other without parental. Care not pay their bills this is absolutely to be journalists and provide additional federal leave to people whove been a lot of in washington negotiations between the Democratic Party and the republicans continue over a new Relief Program some Unemployment Benefits officially ended last month with no new plans in place that combined with an end to protection from a vision could have a devastating effect housing experts say without action the u. S. Could witness a tsunami of addictions that may affect tens of millions of people without homes many are forced to live with relatives or in shelters increasing their risk of contracting cope at 19 the court system is overwhelmed hearing addiction cases as a safety net designed to protect the most vulnerable seems to be straining according to the Data Companies to distance 40. Of americans at risk of a vixen for some its already happened its heartbreaking. You know i lost my job data lost everything oh no money no not ok i dont sleep well after worried about stuff by some estimates 40000000 people could lose their impacting poverty rates homelessness and why do economy and to go across Miami Florida while in the wilds a 2nd west affected country brazil more than 13 percent of people are now unemployed thats the highest level in 3 years nearly 9000000 jobs were lost between april and june because of this pandemic and at least 13000000 people are now looking for work and south americas biggest economy. Moving to other news an early results from sri lankas parliamentary election suggest a big lead for the governing party the sri lanka peoples front led by the budget hawks about those who serve as president and Prime Minister is set to consolidate its power this was so that the south asias 1st major vote during this pandemic which had forced a delay of over 4 months we can now speak to our correspondent in elfin and astris in colombo for us well we are starting to see some of the early results what are they telling us. What many people had expected the s o p p or the party of the rajapakse galloping ahead in terms of the results released so far weve had final results for 2 of this countrys 22 districts thats the goal and the martha districts board districts in the south of the country and these are overwhelmingly in favor of the p. P. 70 percent of the war going the way of that party and the 2nd essentially in the running the is b. J. That is the breakaway faction of the biggest Opposition Party the United National party they are way behind they have Something Like just one 4th of the votes polled by the p. P. So all indications from the early results that have been released so far and us asia showing that the p. P. Has brought in that massive victory it was aiming for the situation that weve gathered so far in terms of the official results that have come out so far as i know theres all potentially has a huge impact on sri lankan politics what kinds of changes does president rajapaksa want to make it. Essentially we had heard that the as a p. P. As a whole was asking for a man and it basically they had gone to the voters asking for 2 thirds of the seats in parliament thats like 150 of the 225 seats up for grabs in parliament because the president go tubby rajapaksa and his brother behind the rajapaksa the Prime Ministerial candidate essentially said that they want to change this countrys constitution they had found issue with the constitution as it stands after the last set of changes brought in by their predecessors the previous government now there was some really important changes he did see some dilution of the powers of the president to strengthen the hand of parliament it strengthen the hand of the Supreme Court it gave it certain fundamental rights jurisdiction over the executive powers of the president and there were certain issues so bored a century the Prime Minister and the president had said that some of this does not allow them to move forward with their vision and that they had promised to bring in a new constitution so by all accounts if they have control and overwhelming control within parliament they will press ahead and that is cause for some concern among human rights activists that been talked talking about reversals of certain democratic sort of institutions that were set up and things that sort of strengthen democracy now theyre also another set of changes the Opposition Party the United National party essentially fraught by division a stager is almost a nonentity at this election theyve still in terms of the kind of seat allocation that people are predicting they havent seemed to have won a single seat so you might find a situation where the oldest party in this country is voted out of parliament for the 1st time in history so a lot of changes obviously a clearer picture coming forth in the next few hours as the rest of the results come out showing the true picture of where this countrys Going Forward in the next few years and will indeed be bringing all those results as counting continues there in sri lanka now fernandez in the capital colombo for us thank you anna. Survivors of the worlds fast atomic bomb have been marking 0. 75 on hiroshima at about 140000. 00 people were killed after u. S. Forces attacked japan in the final stages then. It has the story. A poignant commemoration of the moment 75 years ago when the world entered the atomic age and the whole city was destroyed with the numbers of the socalled hit the original survivors of the attack declining each year this is likely to be the last major round of bursaries they will attend in large numbers special precautions in place to protect them from the coronavirus that hiroshima is mair referred to as a new threat facing the world accompanied by a worrying increase in nationalism. We must never allow this painful pass to repeat he felt that the most rejects selfcentered nationalism and unite against all threats i take 15 in the morning local time a single atomic bomb code named little boy exploded 2000 feet above the center of the city killing tens of thousands of people instantly with tens of thousands more dying in the months and years that followed many from radiation related illnesses michiko could die was a child when the bomb was dropped. With the pandemic innovative ways have been found for her and other survivors to share their stories with the present generation each of whom there is a sense that we dont have much longer to live im now 82 i dont know when i wont be able to speak so in some form we need to preserve our stories of the 3 days after hiroshima nagasaki was attacked with a 2nd bomb another round of verse or e with more survivors to market and in both cities both among the generation who endured the attacks and also the generations that came out after them theres a strong piece called true that really focused on abolishing Nuclear Weapons the experience of being the only country to be attacked with Nuclear Weapons help shape modern japan. By urging action from each country japan will take the lead in the International Communitys efforts towards the realisation of a World WithoutNuclear Weapons its a goal still far from being realized but one held still is strongly in the 2 cities that have suffered most from such weapons rob Mcbride Al Jazeera now north korea is preparing for flooding and landslides after days of heavy rain that followed among the west hit areas state media released this video showing people trying to repair damage to their farms parts of south korea have also been flooded after 44. 00 consecutive days of rain some highways have been closed and at least 16 people have died there and around 1600 s. Now gimmes governing party has asked president alpha conde to seek a 3rd term in office at elections to this year found that despite months of protests against extending the 82 year olds term in office now under going in law president s can only serve 2 terms but conde pushed through a new constitution earlier this year which essentially reset the term counter to 0 allowing him to run for office again. Now the president of barriers has warned that unauthorized protests will not be tolerated after sundays election Alexander Lukashenko is seeking a 6th term in Office Election officials have bought his 2 main rivals from taking part but a wave of protests over the weakening economy and the governments handling of the coronavirus pandemic threatens 26 year rule when our correspondent vasant is live for us in the belarusian capital minsk 7 really does seem that your sankoh is facing the biggest challenge of his career and yet how has he been responding to all this. Exactly is facing unprecedented opposition and it seems the teams increasingly getting worried not only have lots of people been detained in the last couple of weeks also the last probably largest opposition rally planned for today was a band at the last minute but the sri female opposition leaders who have combined forces to face have said they have urged everyone all their supporters to come to this park where i am right now to attend a socalled education friends held by the government basically this is a way to avoid not a bad day will arrive here in the next hour or so but also a lot of police it is here there are Police Trucks surrounding the park so it is a lot of fear of course that there will be a crackdown at this. Rally as well also today because the brain leader of the main opposition kind of the heart of this guy was briefly detained as well but different than in previous elections it seems people are very much undeterred. And step all of this political maneuvering ahead of the election seems to have strained relations as well with some of the big wild palaces how is that all playing out. Exactly interesting legal question last week said he had arrested 33 russian mercenaries of the socalled wapner group and they are for sort of unofficial Russian Military who have been fighting in syria ukraine and the libya on the russian side. This is the proof that russia is trying to fly limply into fear in a ballerinas but the russian separatists was nonsense and they were just passing through and also the opposition sask that this is a way for the shanker to stay in power because any threat of violence hes also been calling for that bloodbath is going to happen soon that the opposition is full cloaking a bloodbath this is his way to stay in power according to go to the opposition by creating fear among voters steadfast and there on the ground for us and a better russian capital minsk thanks very much. Testimony is being had as a u. S. Senate committee right now over the use of federal agents to counter recent protests against Police Brutality and racism the acting secretary of Homeland Security hes chad wolf is speaking before the senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee and hes being questioned over the deployment of those agents to the city of portland lets go live now to our White House Correspondent candy how it can be i believe were about an hour now into the Senate Hearing has it been playing out as youd expect in such a divided congress. If for the most part there havent been the fireworks that we often see in hearings on the house side that is controlled by democrats this is a republican controlled committee and is very much in many cases in support of what the president has been doing with regard to seeing federal forces deployed to some cities around the United States including portland that has led some of the democrats on this committee to point out that in this hearing there is only one side of the story being presented that there are no state and local officials from the state of oregon where portland is located on the west coast of the United States and so that side of the story is not being told still the acting Homeland Security secretary is not backing down in the defense of the tactics that have been used by federal Law Enforcement to protect the particularly the courthouse in portland that he says has been under attack in some cases he has local officials have called it a riot situation has occurred he said that the tactics have not been have heavyhanded as has been alleged by some in the area but instead he says that these are protesters theyre not protesting at all theyre in fact rioters he said using violent tactics including explosive devices power tools in many cases feel emboldened now we should point out that there are very different views about whats happening on the ground. The whole as security secretary acting saying that in fact there are 2 very different pictures of the peaceful protests that occur early in the evening and then later on it is the rioting that he says goes on after midnight until the early hours of the morning can be how to get there with a woman whos from that Senate Hearing in washington d. C. Thank you very much candy. Well still ahead here on aljazeera find out why a canadian acosta has been sent to prison and mom and the defending n. B. A. Champions continue their winning streak they say will have all that action here in sports. Hello there mostly homeless and dry across much of the middle east not much cloud as well as you can see apart from this fog southwest society down across into yemen because those clear dry conditions are also mean the winds have been increasing and so weve got some fairly strong winds through friday coming through the interior of iraqs a pick up the sand in the dust and really funneling quite a long way south but the winds coming from the north generally means it feels a little bit dry and also as humid summers a cool still very high 4846 celsius down in doha watching this area of rain here its moving away gradually back to stand so through saturday then its heading into Northern Areas of oman it could be heavy at times it could just cool some localized flooding damage wise it doesnt do much thats how much a 35. 00 is the high it will scott meanwhile high 50 celsius in kuwait city then down into Southern Africa the usual showers and thunderstorms through will central areas for those of the care close much of madagascar not quite as clear down into coastal areas of south africa want to see more showers there in quite coolidges though just 15 celsius and you notice the shadows through central areas of mozambique through south a day they will spread to the tools the north quite strong meanwhile it is warming up in force it is a bit on it should be mostly dry the winds changing direction but a very warm day on saturday with the winds through the interior. Once welcomed now fear and dividing a nation. Aljazeera explores germanys long Term Economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world which i feel more gentlemen and on syria. Are much money does a richer get those paper and put the go. On and german and american the new germans on aljazeera. Setting the discussions we are living at times when were going to have to defend our democracies examining the headlines this is not the way to treat a Migrant Workers loaded with. Human explore an abundance of world class programming designed to inform motivate and inspire. The world is watching on aljazeera. Hello again. Thats remind you of our top stories here this hour. Rescue and Recovery Missions are still continuing in beirut for people missing but International Crews joining the stench at least 138 people have been killed more than 5000 injured. The number of americans filing for Unemployment Benefits dropped to 1200000. 00 last week thats the lowest weekly total since march the u. S. Labor market is trying to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. And early results from sri lankas parliamentary elections suggest a big need for the governing policy the sri lanka peoples front led by the rajapaksa brothers who partly by itself as president and Prime Minister is set to consolidations power. Now returning to the coronavirus pandemic and cases in the philippines has now made it the country with the most infections in east asia thats prompted another lockdown in and around the capital manila affecting millions of people and threatening to overwhelm hospitals the philippines still has less than half the number of deaths in indonesia but the number is expected to grow after that sajan cases now at least 8 coronavirus patients have died in a hospital fire and west in india the victims were all receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of the facility in the city of ahmedabad in gujarat states there were around 50 patients in the hospital the time and the front of has moved from the capital new delhi. Government says a short circuit caused the fire in the intensive care unit in the early hours of thursday morning killing 5 men and 3 women who were being treated for the coronavirus patients have been shifted to another hospital and an investigation is now underway now elsewhere in india weve seen pictures over the last 2 weeks of the monsoon season of hospitals in the states of maharashtra and also for they. Have been completely flooded with heavy rains causing get and all the challenge to medical workers to authorities who are already dealing with very Poor Public HealthInfrastructure Health minister says the government is continuing to build more beds create more clothed facilities now on thursday india recorded yet another single highest a rise in both cases and deaths with more than 56000 cases and 900 deaths india is expected to reach 2000000 confirmed cases on friday we have to keep in mind that syria logical surveys which test for antibodies which have been done around the country sure the real number of cases in india a much higher many times the confirmed number there is another logical survey being done in delhi at the moment the last one the results of which came out around a month ago showed that media call delis 20000000. 00 population have antibodies now despite the overall rise in the number of cases that we are seeing restrictions continue to be eased as the government tries to keep the economy afloat the latest this week with jims were allowed to open for the 1st time since late march and the nighttime curfew has been removed well now the rising number of covered 1000 cases in parts of africa as sparking concern from Public Health expats the continent is now approaching 1000000 cases and more than 21000 deaths. South africa alone accounts for more than half of those infections and it also has the 5th highest number of cases globally and south africa along with Egypt Nigeria ghana and algeria together account for nearly 75 percent of recorded infections across the continent the Africa Centers for Disease Control say the no rate of testing in the region remains a concern our correspondent for me to millers in johannesburg with more on the situation in south africa in south africa also is that they are ongoing trials around a vaccine we understand that a vaccine could be ready by mid 2021 but given the economic status of many countries around africa there of course are questions around of food ability as well as axes weve heard pharmaceutical companies talk about releasing the vaccine once its really at a cost price so that its affordable thats especially when countries are at the height of the pending week and perhaps later on introducing a low price to allow for exists ability but at the moment given that the numbers continue to rise weve seen an 11 percent increase in the last week alone there are of course questions been raised around the testing and if the numbers are accurate and of course those would then determine just how the pandemic is tackled in africa specifically. Travelers returning to germany from high risk countries will need to get covered 19 tests and those who are fierce could face a fine of up to 30000. 00 the Health Minister has want to the increasing rate of infections as a cause for concern germany has recorded its highest daily tally in 3 months on wednesday with more than a 1000 new cases. Well many in argentina are struggling to get by after 4 months of quarantine and an economic crisis the situation has been wessons by a rise in crime poverty and hunger as are 2 reasonable reports for one is a. Security personnel on the ground in one of sightings their target is a Drug Trafficking ring involved in armed robberies. The operation is money toward by the province a security minister said. Hes a Lieutenant Colonel in the army a surgeon and a lawyer he says the only way of stopping when a site is going out of control is to be on the ground every day. We accompanied him on one of more than 40 Security Operations that take place every day in this province of 12000000 people that provincial want to save the province of when a sadist is going through a pandemic is the region as a virus but we already had other in the mic problems like in security its getting deeper and we need to approach it with all sorts of policies. The raid is not an easy one members of the group try to escape and shots are fired this is great heard one side is very aware of high poverty rate and work insecurity has been on the rise and major challenge for the government is keeping the situation in this part of the country under control. The police searched the homes of the suspects for drugs and guns children are terrified. Poverty has been on the rise in recent years but says the pin demick began the situation has deteriorated even further the government has increased cash and food handouts but it seems much more needs to be done. Better he says the situation can be compared to the 2001 crisis when argentina defaulted on its sovereign debt. Even though looting and riots are under control for now inequality has been on the rice. And it went all the crime were seeing now is younger people involved in criminal activities people with no criminal background its more disorganised the crisis that is coming its worse than 2001 because its deeper and sharper but were trying to control it. For people are detained on drugs confiscated but with more security personnel on the ground human rights activists say abuse has increased. We are seeing cases of abuse all around the country with Different Levels of violence abuse from the police and provincial and federal forces this is not new but it reaffirms that these are not isolated cases and there is a structural problem. Argentina struggling to contain the spread of covert 19 and is coping with an economic crisis the challenge is to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control once again. That is how will one of scientists. Now a former colombian president has tested positive for. A day after the Supreme Court ordered his house arrest has been detained over allegations of witness tampering and fraud which he denies. Reports from. Was the 2nd day of startling news for former president alberta just as he prepares to begin home detention and be their witness tampering investigation he announced he tested positive for covert 19 but for many colombians hes undeserving of any sympathy. Like Jacqueline Christie you know who considers him responsible for the death of his brother jaime a decade ago for dorie state who lost her son the same way they are 2 of thousands of men that were abducted and murdered by soldiers during his administration then declared rebel combatants to boost war statistics and justify us a scandal known as false positives the evidence is that not these the courts decision gave us great joy we know its not about the false positives yet but we think its a great step forward we thought it was out of reach i think it will open the way to the continuation of other investigations into all the other things we know hes implicated in the been a towering figure in colombian politics for the last 2 decades and has been investigated for ties to drug traffickers paramilitary groups and illegal spying. Dozens of his government appointees close allies and even family members have been found guilty of a number of crimes feel himself has always managed to avoid prosecution. Millions of colombians support him and believe he is the victim of a conspiracy of the left in response to the Supreme Court decision his party is calling for a Constitutional Assembly to change the countrys Justice System. As you see. The courts decision is totally arbitrary and a slap in the face to the immense majority of colombians who believe is honest and demonstrates that colombias Justice System is politicized and not impartial but political analyst arlene ticknor says the fact that the court went on to detain would even despite the incredible pressure against it is unusual do you do you a case is unprecedented in terms of the level of the politician involved and so i believe that if indeed convicted this will set a tremendous precedent in terms of future investigations of high level politicians in colombia. Jacqueline in dari say theyre not interested in retribution theyre just hope that after more than a decade the decision to put their house arrest could become a turning point in the search for justice and truth. And just. Has temporarily restricted president Donald TrumpsCampaign Team from tweeting it was in response to a video of a fox news interview with trump where he made misleading claims about the immunity of children from code that 19 now links to that tweet now arrived at this page to as a says the post violated its rules on carbon 1000 misinformation and the owner must remove it before they can tweet again now the campaign appears to have complied hours earlier facebook removes the same video from President Trumps main page and was the 1st time that facebook has removed one of trumps videos or rob pegoraro is a freelance tech writer he believes the pandemic is playing a part and changing facebooks approach. We have 257000 americans dead from this disease thats part of it and i think also this book this story glee over the last few years weve seen the do not want to upset to new people around the president to the extent where a very pro trumpet inaccurate news source like right art does not get banned does not get what gets a privilege spot in the face that missed out on their mobile app. And they have gotten a lot of criticism including from what a fiscal ploy. Is that has tried not to get sense to the president and his supporters it is business ties or just dont want to be in a place that would assume that having a say with conspiracy theories would not make it. I dont think this is going to draw to draw too many way from facebook the complaints people have about it i was just reading both esther so special of the number one complaint described as not is facebook mean to conservatives are not is definitely true that some of the same people in that House Committee hearing who cusack. And the other executives of being biased against republican voices will have another talking point even though actual evidence of that bias i havent seen it trump seems to have done very well using facebook as a megaphone he certainly has an immensely large audience. And president trying pads once again claims that mail and all postal theyre saying an event is election as ive been to widespread fraud thats a statement hes repeated over the last few months as has Approval Ratings drop i have has handling of the Current Crisis at the same time hes offered contradictory signals when it comes to a state he battled to when she had botanically has more. For months President Trump has alleged a mail in voting is open to fraud so it came as a surprise on tuesday when the president tweeted this in florida are encourage all to request a ballot and vote by mail the same day his administration filed suit against the state of nevada for its clients to send mail and ballots to voters due to the pandemic the white house insists theres no contradiction in florida voters must request a mail in ballot whereas in nevada all active registered voters will be sent one automatically anyway the president says floridas Republican Leadership just runs things better florida is a very well run state low taxes low everything theyve done a great job really a great job and the 2 governors between the both of them theyve really got a great system of absentee ballots and even they even in the case of mail in ballots what is true is that florida is key to dont trump chances of reelection its also true that although a higher turnout often favors democrats there is more and more evidence that the president s attacks on the integrity of ballots are backfiring Florida Republicans usually dont win 8 mail in voting however as of july the democrats have an almost 600000 advantage in mail in ballot applications across the Country Republican Party officials fear increasing suspicion among its base about absentee ballots may be disastrous particularly among elderly voters who may be reluctant to go to a polling station during a pandemic and those in rural areas many of whom have long voted by mail anyway multiple studies carried out by organizations across political ideologies have found barely any instances of fraud in voting by mail because of the multiple safeguards in place theres very little evidence to suggest that this strategy of mailing ballots to registered and active voters is going to. Leads to any sort of voter fraud voter fraud that is associated with 1000000 elections is now in a school and it is about what you would expect in any kind of election. Does have its problems for example this week in new york partly as a result of 10 times the normal number of mail in ballots the outcome of 2 primary elections was only decided 6 weeks after polling day and looking ahead to the general election in november its widely expected that unprecedented mail in voting will mean the result may not be decided on the merits unless theres a landslide both parties could patiently wait for the final declaration of the winner once all the votes are counted but in a year is tumultuous as 20 twentieths there is a suspicion that any uncertainty could lead to the integrity of the entire election process being questioned well before President Trump has already indicated he will suit in court if he feels there are any irregularities some wonder if hes already laying the groundwork for potential litigation by making the case now that mail in voting is floored. Me because absentee gummi. For whatever reason it. Does not have young life and he. And tweets like this suggest the president is in no mood to concede share return see aljazeera. Take his isnt breaking news now and the new York Attorney general is sowing to dissolve the u. S. Gun rights you know being a National Rifle association n. R. A. Saying that its leaders exploiting the organization of a task will gain how washington d. C. As attorney general is doing the same and york tiny generals imitation james is speaking right outlets. For himself and his family without sufficient oversight. On their use he received more than 1200000. 00 in reimbursement in just a 4 year period for expenditures that included gifts for favored friends and vendors travel expenses for himself and his family and membership fees at golf clubs hotels and other member clubs he even secured lucrative consulting contracts for x. Employees and Board Members worth millions of dollars yet often it resulted in a little if any actual work in addition to grossly misusing these funds for personal use mr la pierre creating an illegal pass through arrangement to conceal the very nature of these expenditures for decades mr la pierre and the founder of Ackerman Mcqueen. The n. R. A. Is long time Advertising Firm had a practice whereby Ackerman Mcqueen would pay for these non contractual out of pocket expenses for law for mr la pierre and other n. R. A. Executives and passed those expenses through to the n. R. A. These expenses would then be paid for by the n. R. A. Without written approval without receipts without any supporting Business Purpose documentation ackermann macqueen would aggregate the expenses into a lump sum amount and then build them to the n. R. A. Without any details on the nature or purpose of the expense completely in violation of state law. These expenses did not comply with i. R. S. Requirements and as a result all such expenses should have been included by the n. R. A. In taxable personal income for mr la pierre and other recipients in 2017 and 2018 alone just 2 years ackerman Ackerman Mcqueen was paid more than 70000000. 00 a significant amount of these funds included payments through this Side Agreement and when Board Members challenge mr la pierre and the 3 other defendants over this lavish spending their financial governance or their leadership of the n. R. A. Mr lapierre retaliated and turned the board against those who attempted to challenge is illegal behavior the complaint lays out numerous other instances in which mr la Pierre Phillips mr phillips mr powell and mr frazier and other executives and Board Members at the n. R. A. Abused their power and illegally diverted or facilitated the diversion of tens of millions of dollars from the n. R. A. These funds were in addition to millions of dollars the 4 individual defendants were already receiving in grossly excessive salaries and bonuses that were baseless and did not hear to prudent standards for evaluating and determining compensation as required by law all together there are 18 causes of action and knees actions violated multiple laws including the laws governing the n. R. A. Charitable status false reporting on annual filings with my office and the i. R. S. Improper expense documentation improper wage reporting. Improper income tax withholding failure to make required excise tax reporting payments payments in excess of reasonable compensation to disqualified. And waste. Of enery assets amongst other offenses youve been listening there to new York Attorney general of the titian james describing how the leaders of the u. S. National Rifle Association thats a very powerful gun rights lobby there use the organization for personal gain now she along with washington d. C. Is attorney general and both sewing to dissolve the group let me bring you all the latest here on aljazeera. Now a course in has delivered its verdict on a canadian pastor chance with violating a ban on large gatherings david law was charged in april over a religious event in yangon and always put in place amid launch to combat the spread of covert 19. Well it is now time for support and has peter bergen some of the stars here go 1st major in 13 months is teed off in San Francisco the worlds best players are competing in the p. G. A. Championship. Is the back to back champion etihad off in round one a short time ago but its a crowded field full of ex champions like Justin Thomas tiger woods and rory mcilroy Mexican Formula one driver sergio perez who will be allowed to race at this weekends 70th anniversary grown prix at silverstone the racing point driver tested positive for corona virus ahead of last weeks british grand prix but Health Authorities in england say he has now completed his corone team period hes undergoing testing and will still need to return a negative result before he can return to practice on friday. Felty botter so it will go into the race 30 points adrift of teammate Lewis Hamilton but hes just secured a new contract with mercedes for next season the finish driver has signed on until 2021 it will mark potter says 4th campaign with the british based team. The mass participation race at the London Marathon has been canceled because of the pandemic the race which normally attracts almost 40000. 00 runners was originally postponed from april until october but now organizers will only run the league race on a short loop with. Looking for a 3rd straight win we just over a month away from the planned start of the n. F. L. Season and the league has unveiled a new measure to help keep players safe theyve been working on a mouth shield to go inside helmet sunglasses manufacturer oakley has helped design the shield which it is hoped will limit transmission of covert 19 although some players have said they wont wear it and the teams have already agreed to undergo daily coronavirus tests Major League Baseball has tightened its coronavirus rules after the break at the Miami Marlins introduced mandatory mask wearing in dugouts on the field of play after losing 101. 00 the night before to the Atlanta Braves the Toronto Blue Jays turned things around to win 21 when the same south korean pitcher or you you know gene was the star of the show for the blue jays he struck out 8 and gave up just one hit across 5 shutout innings n. B. A. Champions the Toronto Raptors were on the winning side at the leagues bubble at disney world in florida on wednesday to run so getting the better of the Orlando Magic 10999 here fred a van vliet contributing 21 points and 10 assists to 7 straight win for the raptors although that record dates back to before the league took a coronavirus unforced break as for land they remain in contention for the playoffs. Elsewhere the philadelphia 76 ers were aided by their star men joel embiid schooled 30 points and contributed 11 rebounds and be helping the 76210798 when the Washington Wizards who have lost all 4 games since the restart. Its a case of advantage Montreal Canadiens in the stanley cup preliminary playoff series against the Pittsburgh Penguins it was game 3 on wednesday in toronto one of 2 venues designated as part of a bubble in which the n. H. L. 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Investors made by jumper lotter who bought the club 8 years ago. Dutch cyclist fabio yakob certain is in a serious but stable condition after a shocking crash on the tour of poland a 23 year old collided with another dutch rider dylan right at the end of the 1st stage he crashed into the barriers and into a race official and as undergone facial surgery although tests have revealed that he did not suffer brain and spinal injuries cyclings governing body the u. C. I. Strongly criticize her innovation hes been disqualified from the race and is facing further disciplinary actions. Pakistans cricketers have made a great start to the 1st test against england they reached 326 in their 1st innings sean massoud made 156 of those before he was bowled over beaten l. B. W. Us to approach 0 for archer took 3 of their wickets in and of just become the reply womens tennis number one ash barty may have skipped the u. S. Open at the end of the month because of fears over coronavirus but the french open champion has been keeping busy partys been promoting tennis in indigenous communities in the far north of australia the 24 year old is the 1st indigenous australian since Yvonne Goolagong cawley to top the World Rankings she spent the last week working with Young Players in the community of Tennis Australia announced this week an 80000. 00 fund for indigenous tennis over the next 3 years. It really does bring a smile my face and i feel like for me it brings back so many of my favorite memories from when i was a child growing up how much tennis and how much tennis pro enjoyed to my life and happiness to my life its a massive stepping stone a massive stepping stone i think for us its its a pathway to young kids to see an opportunity not just in tennis but in education in experiences in all of these Different Things and i think you know its incredible to see the pathways that are now available to Indigenous Youth and from there its opportunities where they can grow and develop as people any more of a profession they choose. Officials are putting away their Olympic Rings from now games which has been in the cities basins earlier this year has been hauled away on a barge for maintenance and will go to next year the games which would have come to a close this sunday have been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. 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