protest against manning's president despite a powerful line up of west african leaders traveling to the capital. so the staggering impact of covert $1000.00 on the united states shows no sign of easing president donald trump has called off the main republican national convention after insisting for weeks that it would be a fully fledged event it was scheduled to take place next month in jacksonville in florida which is one of the worst affected states it reported $173.00 deaths on thursday that is the state's worst single day toll i looked at my team and i said the timing for this event is not rate just not right with what's happened recently the flare up in florida. to have a big convention is not the right time well the number of infections across the country has now crossed 4000000 a more than 144000 people have died 1400000 additional people are ready to the jobless and just the past week is estimated 25000000 people and now out of work republican comparing to reveal one trillion dollar rescue package with democrats so that is not adequate and we have a real challenge for getting politics from getting partisanship this is patriotism for our country we're up to 4000000 people and a matter of just over 2 weeks from the 3000000 mark we have to act and what they're proposing falls far short let's cross to any god who joins us live from miami in florida and he said the president loves a rally doesn't he must have made this decision 3 gritted teeth i mean i think that's probably the most accurate description of heard yet make we do know the president loves these kinds of gatherings loves talking to people there are strong supporters of in just a couple of days ago i was reporting that the sheriff of jacksonville said the city is past the point of no return and we cannot safely hold this type of event so there were also republican leaders saying they didn't want to stand up because of health and safety concerns so i think as you said this was a very difficult position for the president to make it was interesting that he talked about keeping americans health and safety as a top priority given that he's only recently started wearing a mask himself and his hold was held rallies over the past few months but it's a reflection i think of just how bad the situation is here in florida for him to actually cancel such a massive event and one that will be so personally important to the president he has 173 deaths on thursday in florida tell us more about the the general situation across the state. i mean it's pretty dire a very dark day for this state with record number of deaths and for the past 2 weeks nick we've had at least 10000 new cases every single day that peaked around july the 12th with 15000 cases around 300000 tests have been carried out but there are huge problems with the testing here in the sunshine state people waiting for a 5 hours lining up to get those tests and then waiting 10 days to 2 weeks to get the results the c.d.c. the center for disease control recommends a 2 day turnaround that is not happening in this state in the reports here certainly from people i know they're getting the wrong results not only is that time gap unacceptably long it means that people could actually contract tobit 19 in those 10 to 10 days to 2 weeks until they wait for the results making them particularly useless now there's also still a patchwork approach to tackling the pandemic here you've got the governor of the state run dissenters a close ally of the president talking about not closing down businesses encouraging parents to send their children to school which should start next month and then here in miami dade which is the worst affected part of the state the mare of miami's put a curfew back in place he has mandated mask wearing and there are more than 40 police officers out trying to reinforce those rules they've even handed out more than 100 tickets so far fining people for not wearing those masks so i think we're under sentence under some pressure to change his stance his approach on tackling this pandemic as these numbers continue to rise so an intelligent situation and he thanks very much indeed and he got to go there and miami in florida. well as more people are added to the job list tally many who have spent months out of work still waiting for official help from new york elizabeth. before sunrise hundreds of people line up outside an unemployment office in midwest city oklahoma they've all lost their jobs amid the economic recession caused by coronavirus and are now waiting to get help and be laid unemployment checks dieter blakely used to work at a hotel casino in milwaukee wisconsin she was laid off in march and has yet to receive for unemployment benefits it's been over 3 months with no income and been really stressed lately. bills are piling up i worried all the time. sometimes i went it got to be a little bit of a habit too when i woke up in the morning to look at my front door and see if there was an eviction notice on there but deidre blakely is just one of more than $50000000.00 americans who've lost their jobs since a pandemic hit the u.s. in march congress passed a pandemic aid package that included an extra $600.00 a week for anyone left unemployed by the pen demick the problem the money still hasn't reached many who need it so why are so many americans still waiting for their unemployment money i posed that question to jesse rothstein the former chief economist at the u.s. department of labor he said the federal government and state governments are facing an tidal wave of unprecedented demand and that the systems set up in the 1970 s. to distribute unemployment money simply have not been updated and can't keep up when you triple or quadruple the volume of claims that come in the system the computer systems can't keep up and to the extent that people need to be involved we don't have enough people to keep up. and so that's all the whole mechanism of the system is set up for a time that's very different from now and that leads to difficulties getting out in times like this and with the pandemic still spreading across america and more states closing down again after reopening it's feared the unemployment lines could grow along with the frustrations of those still waiting for help gabriel's sandow al-jazeera new york schools in south africa will be closed for 4 weeks the president's already oppose or said in a televised address to the nation that it was important schools did not become sites of virus transmission the country's corona virus infections are rising at one of the fastest rates in the world it has the 5th highest number of infections globally the coronavirus storm has indeed arrived as we said it would with the provinces of the is that ok pouting and wiser do not experiencing at a rapid rise in infections even as the country braces for the difficult weeks ahead it is significant that more than half of those people who we know to have been infected have now recovered well scientists in south africa say the number of people who have died from $1000.00 could be much higher than reported after finding a spike in deaths from natural causes researches found about $17000.00 extra deaths and say likely to be linked to the pandemic that includes those suspected of having corona virus but who weren't tested before dying and others who were unable to seek treatment because hospitals are overwhelmed south africa reported a record 572 coronavirus deaths on wednesday pushing its total close to 6000 then he bradshaw as a chief specialist scientist at the south african medical research council and she says the number of deaths over the last few weeks has been well above that of previous years. we've been tracking at the medical research council we've been tracking gree the number of deaths total deaths which we can separate out and 2 of those from natural causes and those from the unnaturally accidents and homicides and the we will be plotting it against what we will expect from previous years and you know we're not surprised we know there's a coronavirus around and it's. certainly sitting in the western cape province eastern caribbean karte hain are and we numbers of days we have seen in the last few weeks have been rising well above the previous year's numbers. we think that's a little bit alarming to us is in some of the provinces we quite a big discrepancy between the official code and confirmed deaths and excess that we we've observed. we think polamalu might be in. day trust us done in the department of but that they may also be that are occurring in communities that are not getting. access to treatment if an iranian passenger plane is made an emergency landing after it was shadowed by an identified fighter jets over syria a jet can be seen in this video filmed by one of the passengers on board a manhunt playing several people injured when the pilot abruptly change altitude during the incident plane was able to fly on safely to beirut iran's foreign minister says the u.s. is responsible. well you set your state pompei was called the chinese consulate in houston zaha in houston a hub of spying and intellectual property theft his comments came after the u.s. justice department said it charged for chinese nationals with a visa fraud announcement comes a day after the government ordered the closure of the consulate and just a few hours ago prepared a call to china's president xi jinping a true believer in a bankrupt totalitarian ideology but we have to admit a hard truth we must have our truth that should guide us in the years and decades to come that if we want to have a free 21st century and that the chinese century of which dreams. the old paradigm of blinding gauge with china simply won't get it done the u.s. and u.k. have accused russia of launching and the satellite weapon in space the head of a u.s. space command says moscow fired a weapon like projectile in july the 15th in a move that puts assets from other countries at risk britain's space directorate chief accused russia of jeopardizing peaceful activity in space moscow's the defense ministry says the event involved a small space for kill inspecting one of its satellites or stocks in the u.s. department of justice and homeland security say they will investigate the use of force by federal agents during recent protests this comes after some congress members accused troops of improperly detaining and transporting anti racism demonstrators in portland and in washington d.c. the police killing of unarmed black man george floyd in may triggered an ongoing wave of protests against systemic racism and police brutality across the united states. so later on al-jazeera shortages of medicine and student pakistan as people run low on money to fight $19.00. chemical leak in russia large scale environmental. elo that hate across the northeast united states beginning to break down and this is why the cloud with the rain some cooler air and plenty of thunderstorms say the heat there has been in place that people do what they can to actually protect themselves from the warm sunshine here in washington d.c. and they look at this at the same time to the north of there some really powerful thunderstorms across the new york this of course is the statue of liberty and i'm just across the water from the not so impressive atoll floodwaters coming from those very heavy thunderstorms go through friday more rain in the forecast across much of the east and we're watching this is tropical disturbance has got some good cycle ation to it is producing some very heavy amounts of rain to coastal areas plenty of rains as well coming up across into the 4 corners region say through saturday that system in the gulf will spread more rain across into texas the winds be fairly strong and these coastal areas that also louisiana picking up some pretty big totals and then way up to the north the upper midwest some very heavy rain and possibly some strong thunderstorms as well so that system in the gulf of mexico of course will produce a fair amount of rain but also trading back across cuba southern areas of florida and some very heavy rain as well across more southern areas of mexico so you know friday by suffered a few more showers still in the 4 calls and elsewhere it's a case of widely scattered showers and thunderstorms. mexico's candidate 19 death toll is one of the all time with one inside of its inhabitants living in the. was the deadly upset she never took to take off a 1000000 visitors every day is really no way that they pulled this thing goes without food. or has the governments are not the drug strategy lead to unnecessary suffering frontline mexico the fight against 19 on al jazeera. more. horrible. but again you're watching out 0 remind of our top stories this hour and president donald trump has canceled the republican national convention that was soon to be held in jacksonville in florida next month florida is one of the states hardest hit by the current virus pandemic trump says the recent spike in infections is the reason the 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 presidents are 0 poser has ordered schools to close for the next 4 weeks. and identified fighter jets of intercepted an iranian passenger plane if syria several passengers were injured in these incidents when the pilots abruptly change altitude of iran's foreign ministry spokesman holds the us responsible. well the coronavirus pandemic has dealt a fresh blow to bolivia as hopes of restoring political stability general elections planned for september now been postponed or the virus continues to spread uncontrolled overwhelming hospitals and other infrastructure is about. one by one vehicles enter the central cemetery in. the cars and vans are carrying victims of covert 19 relatives are not allowed inside the cemetery. in the sandia nation coronavirus cases have soared in recent days collapse in many hospitals and funeral services in bolivia's capital the most remote of all the folks in the last few weeks things have collapsed we don't have coffins and the only help we're getting is with cremations families don't want to deal with the fact this has exploded we're doing what we can outside this hospital relatives of the victims have been forced to bring their own oxygen for family members or 40 say they have no oxygen or supplies sylvana brought her father in law to the hospital in a van the 56 year old man died in the vehicle while awaiting treatment. we were at another hospital and he turned blue and started throwing up we asked a nurse to take him out and pay attention to us then we came here with him in the car nobody is allowing us inside he just died he died in the car he was a half human he was sporty and now he is dead. a similar situation is ongoing in other cities like santa claus will leave you was expected to hold presidential elections in september. last year the country's 1st indigenous president it will morales resigned from office after weeks of protests over an election that international observers said was marred by irregularities since then interim president any 9 years has been leading the country 2 weeks ago she tested positive took over 19 on thursday election officials postponed the election until oct 18th that pic of the pandemic is expected to happen later this month. this electoral tribunal is asking citizens state powers political forces civil society and the media to accompany this decision to show their respect for institutions and their commitment to democracy and the sense of common good former president evo morales said on twitter postponing the elections is a mistake and an excuse by the interim administration to hold on to power elections are crucial in bolivia to bring down the political tension that exists in the country since moralist up down from office but the dramatic situation caused by the pandemic has changed priorities at least for now. pakistan's government has denied allegations that it mismanaged 130000000 dollars meant for tackling the coronavirus pandemic because a zone been generated reports of medical supplies are affecting hundreds of patients. a regular bedroom turned into a coronavirus isolation room as our brother is home after nearly a week of treatment at the main hospital in islamabad he has to purchase oxygen but the cost for cylinder has risen to one $150.00 from $40.00 before the virus. he followed his brother's condition as shares are drawn out of patients and money everyone here knows a good 1009. 100 many have traveled from smaller towns for treatment. fears are only mode of communication inside the isolation ward was through video calls he says he had to move his brothers because they could no longer afford to keep things for tests and medicines that the public hospital. the public hospital and has spent nearly a $1000.00 medicine is an affordable cost of injection right from $800.00 to $600.00. although daily infection rates appear to have dropped in pakistan doctors say they have been struggling and the one thing this volunteer doctor says they are expecting a surge of patients during the upcoming muslim festival of weed and other religious processions. in a colleagues have been protesting outside against government policies in what they call incompetent hospital management. job the budget has little government because all these underutilized budget out of the 2x5w2x3w votes around federal dr some have promised millions allowances are not being fairly distributed. prime minister imran khan's government also rejected reports that $130000000.00 meant for tackling the virus was mismanaged officials in the finance ministry told al jazeera that the government of pakistan is working through relevant organizations to scale up health sector spend. in the situation demand therefore the impression regarding underfunding the emergency health expenditure is not true . peace but a criticism of an adequate 1000 response and feeling to stop shortages as well as price gouging the information minister says they cannot achieve 100 percent results . as that every day's passing we are getting better and better in terms of logistics in terms of internet infrastructure and believe and we are very confident that our prime minister is is taking a personal interest in the whole thing and we are doing pretty well compared to other international countries don't know me anybody can own it back at the hospital ali abbas lost his father after being interviewed him he says he nearly spent 100000 dollars in tests and medicines at the public hospital he says the government statement that it is doing well just makes him angry some of the job aids are there . the european union's chief breaks it negotiates was one of a new trade deal the united kingdom appears unlikely michel barnier made the comments at the latest round of negotiations in london he says the u.k.'s refusal to agree on fishing rights and a level playing field for businesses are the key sticking points. 93 year old german man has been convicted of helping to murder more than 5000 people at a nazi concentration camp he was a guard at the top of jury in world war 2 campaigners say his 2 year suspended sentence is too lenient because they were $17.18 at the time of his crimes the case was heard in the juvenile court. french president tomorrow marco has warned turkey against further maneuvers in the eastern mediterranean and wants the e.u. to consider sanctions micron's comments come as a maritime dispute over natural gas reserves escalates between turkey and greece french criticism of turkey's role in the maybe in conflict is also straining ties the turkish government backs the un to recognize government in tripoli or france russia egypt and the u.a.e. they all support the war only for have to. run a free. limited garny. in this part of the mediterranean which is vital for all of our country's energy and security issues are simple today and they are at stake in the power struggles of turkey and russia in particular which are increasingly asserting themselves and against which the european union still carries too little weight would be a serious mistake to leave our security in the mediterranean in the hands of other players this is not an option for europe and it will not be something france will it happen because well it's an hour from peter miller who's a former british ambassador to libya he says that france backing have to it's divisive within europe president macro is right to say that turkish actions around the waters of cyprus are provided turkey doesn't recognize the lord of the sea which is an international law which is accepted by most countries and therefore drilling for energy drilling for oil and gas in what are widely regarded as cypriot waters is and this is potentially confrontational approach by turkey i have present macra is also going to say that europe doesn't have a strong voice at the moment but part of the problem there is france's own position in backing helen for have to are in libya which has split the european voice because many other countries regard him as a person who is just out for a power grab in libya and not the recognized government in tripoli. 5 west african heads of state who gathered in mali's capital of failed to seal a deal to end the country's deepening political crisis weeks of protests calling for the resignation of president. threatening to destabilize region. nigeria senegal ghana ivory coast and the share their president 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 turns of the path of stability for the sake of the whole region. outside their meeting demonstrators supporting mullion opposition leaders who might see he remains missing after being abducted during the parliamentary elections in april it is time for these african heads of state to intervene in the actions and his government to bring back to his family safe and sound as soon as possible in his absence and unprecedented protest movement calling itself the fine among its leader. but also leaders of the opposition in civil society all calling for president. to resign. police fired bullets in july as demonstrators attempted to set fire to the national assembly building roadblocks and seize control of the national t.v. station the west african regional organization echo aust made a series of recommendations on sunday to end the crisis including setting up a new constitutional court to rule over $31.00 contested parliamentary seats in creating and national unity government but the m 5 rejected the recommendations and demands that the resignation of president. they are blaming the crisis in mali to the issue of the 2nd round of the legislative elections i think this is a fundamental mistake the main issue is that. when he came to power in 2013 specific pledges which is ending the war in the north millions of millions fled years of fighting between mali's army and armed groups linked to al qaeda and i still in the north and center of the country it turns in mali in neighboring countries continue despite 14000 french and you had troops based in the. 7 years after becoming president critics say he's failed to deliver peace and is unable to unite millions seeking a better future nicholas hawke al-jazeera. russian prosecutors or inspecting a facility that is meant to be traced to a chemical leak from and burned and mine it comes after images of large scale environmental damage went viral on social media last week so hard in this report the next more like the landscape of another planet they sticks you see in the ground who wants trees in a forest and rushes mountains and cilla now sydney from a couple sulfide mind destroyed everything in its path. the mine is being close to 16 years but the environmental threats from it has never stopped and last week there was an outrage across russia when a blow because images of the polluted waters nearby went viral forcing russian prosecutors to investigate. this lake is near the mine a mixture of water and acid flow from the old mine and right into here that's why it's this color. and accident in 1997 caused the mind to floods and it hasn't stopped leaking a toxic mix ever since but. so few rick acid reaction is taking place here the acid is continuing to burn everything in the area the soil the trees the grass and fish to all these heavy metals are soluble and shouldn't be in the water. 10 years ago the local prosecutor's office revealed a high concentration of pollutants in the water a special reservoir was built to contain and filter the water leaking from the mine but those living nearby say is has had little effect because he previously there was a variety of fish in this like but no this is all we have for. sure how can this not be poison all these acids going into the river there's no fish left there's nothing there. all the way to the reservoir then to them is covered clearly not a single plant grew there. was a she said the anger over the mine comes after a major oil spill in the arctic circle forced russian president vladimir putin to declare a state of emergency so the really good company he accused local authorities of not informing moscow the disaster in may when 20000 tons of diesel leaked from a power plant in norris. already one of the most polluted cities in the world it's mayor resigned on monday it is also has renewed public debate over the lack of government action against those responsible but says that goes on it's the environment that continues to suffer sort of. al-jazeera. so this is a desert these are the top stories and president donald trump has canceled the republican national convention that was due to be held in jacksonville in florida next month florida is one of the states hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic and he got has this update from miami in florida we do know the president loves these kinds of gatherings loves talking to people there are strong supporters of it but just a couple of days ago i was reporting that the sheriff of jacksonville said this city is past the point of no return and we cannot safely hold this type of event so there were also republican leaders saying they didn't want to turn up because of health and safety concerns so i think as you said this was a very difficult position for the president to make it was interesting that he talked about keeping americans health and safety is a top priority given that he's only recently started wearing a mask himself and his hold was held rallies over the past few months scientists in south africa say the number of people who died from coburg 19 could be much higher than reported after finding a spike in deaths from natural causes the presidents are imposed as ordered schools to close for the next 4 weeks and identified fighter jets have intercepted an iranian passenger plane in syria several passengers were injured when the pilot abruptly changed altitude during the incident the aircraft eventually landed safely in beirut iran's foreign ministry holds the u.s. responsible for yourself your state might pompei has called the chinese consulate in houston a hub of spying and intellectual property theft his comments came after the u.s. justice department said it had changed for china charge for chinese nationals with visa fraud announcement comes a day after the government ordered the closure of the consulate to protect private information. the u.s. and u.k. have accused russia of launching an anti satellite weapon in space the head of u.s. space command says moscow fired a weapon like projectile on july the 15th in a move that puts assets from other countries at risk earth and space directorate chief accused russia of jeopardizing peaceful activity in space was because defense ministry says the event involved a small space vehicle inspecting one of its satellites those headlines got more news coming up right after front line massacre. as countries begin easy coronavirus restrictions scientists warn of a 2nd wave of infection in the. neighborhood and many feel the economy is be prioritised about human life. here let's. face it we bring you the latest developments from across the globe coronavirus funded special coverage on al-jazeera. this is how paramedics we did he come on a. mission. racing down a highway on the outskirts of mit's great city trying to find a hospital for jose luis monteith. just 39 years. for. the mexico cases that kept rising death toll.