Up on beaches is being used to help fight the spread of corona virus. Live. And its the most advanced mars mission yet but nasa is already tackling a Technical Glitch on the perseverance rover. Donald trump is being condemned by democrats and Senior Republicans for suggesting a delay to novembers u. S. President ial election many states want to make postal voting easier because of Coronavirus Health concerns but trump insists without habitants that mail in voting will lead to a rigged result of White House Correspondent Kimberly Hauck that has more. Even by his own standards his tweet was nothing short of astonishing on thursday u. S. President donald trump suggested the november president ial election should be postponed alleging potential fraud associated with mail in voting truck tweeted delay the election until people can properly securely and safely vote the president has no Legal Authority to change the election date leading even members of trumps own Republican Party in congress
Dipping into pensions to pay for the pandemic millions in chile raid Retirement Funds as the impact of coronavirus hits home plus. John lewis will be a founding father of that polar bear. And former president s pay tribute to a pioneer of the u. S. Civil rights movement. Leading hong kong prodemocracy activist joshua wong says the decision to bar him from running in september is election is invalid and ridiculous is one of 12 opposition candidates disqualified from the Legislative Council polls it says the new National Security law is being used by the government as a legal weapon to silence dissent on kongs electoral authorities accuse wong of advocating subversive ideas and colluding with Foreign Forces hes just held a news conference. But you know and it is the most scandalous Election Fraud ever in hong kong history they could this qualify us they could arrest everyone into account they could even call of the election and create a Puppet Parliament elsewhere just gather with beijin
To ease its coronavirus lockdown even though its not past the peak well meet some medics on the front lines its. Very. Fun here. And on their way to the International Space station to nasa astronauts blasting off a new era in privatized rocket trying. To protest against racism and Police Brutality of spread to even more u. S. Cities and become violent in many of them what began as demonstrations over the death of george floyd during his arrest as rio woken Americas National outrage over the deaths of other black men blamed on police. Mike hanna has this report. What started out as peaceful protests in dozens of cities or ruptured in violence in Los Angeles Police vehicles were set on fire sending plumes of black smoke over the area similar scenes in cities ranging from seattle where a 5 pm curfew has been set to miami where thousands gathered through the day and where like in so many other areas a standoff with police ended in clouds of tear gas in chicago where demonstrators held sign
Instead to come to a larks itself and the surrounding area to carry out the prayers the main prayers for eat have been delayed from sunrise to the 2nd pres of the day at 730 local time in the morning presumably to maximize the number of people who can attend them and also that coincides with the time that usually the site would be open from the other side to non muslims now there are right wing and religious nationalist jewish groups that are calling for access on this day despite the fact its a major it was them 1st or because it also falls on the same day that jews mark to shut down of that as a commemoration of the falling of the 1st and 2nd temples and the jewish exile the background to this is that there has been a wide ranging political effort by the right wing in israel and the religious nationalists to get more access to x. The mosque compound site known as the temple mount to jews a lot of what happens next will depend on the actions of Israeli Security forces and police there
Especially during the later obama years ok what does that leave russian and chinese influence. Well china is deeply deeply involved in the issue because china as your correspondent was saying is indeed the 3rd party and theres an area of the former Princely State of german kashmir that is now held by china called the outside chin and china has deep Strategic Interests in the region because of unsettled border questions with india in the himalayas both on the east and in the west in kashmir. At the same time china has some limitations in terms of challenging the domestic politics of other countries because it has a very strong sovereignty norm and really rejects criticisms of other countries about the treatment of minorities in areas like to batten sinchon sinchon so there is with china i think a little bit of. Choice to move it towards more neutral International Fora like the Un Security Council which is in fact what pakistan is doing to with russia its not as clear because i think rus