besieged sorry. meets the bones mean women and men who risked everything to save their rights and heritage. the love of books on al-jazeera. steve bannon arrested the former top adviser to u.s. president donald trump is charged and alleged for scheme online. well i'm compelled this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a blow to the opposition russian politician alexina valmy is in a serious but stable condition after becoming ill on a flight to moscow. united states doubles down piling on the pressure to reimpose

all u.n. sanctions against iran. defiance in the face of a crackdown that other museums strength and calls for you elections despite the government's scare tactics. a former white house chief strategist is in custody in the u.s. charged with fraud by federal prosecutors steve benen who was one of us president donald trump's most influential advisors in the 2016 election campaign the justice department is accusing him of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in relation to a fund raising campaign to support the building of trump's a us mexico border wall well our white house correspondent kimberly healthy joins us now live from washington d.c. kimberly what more can you tell us about these charges. well just to give you

a sense of the scale of according to the indictment that has been laid out what this was was it a lab or its team that defrauded potentially hundreds of thousands of those who don't need it in the crowd funding approach that was odd. a line that was put together not just by steve bannon the former white house chief strategist but also 3 others but allegedly what this indictment states is that this money was then final to shell companies use it phony invoices as well as phony vendors these individuals allegedly paid themselves and financed a lavish lifestyle so what we know about these charges that there is not only the conspiracy to commit wire fraud but also the conspiracy to commit money laundering that if these men are convicted of these charges they could face penalties of up to 20 years in jail now we know that in the case of some of them they will be

appearing in new york in front of these federal charges in part of federal judges rather to face these federal criminal charges but this is really significant because with regard to steve bannon and who he is he is a significant individual not only in terms of his involvement and donald trump's presidential campaign in 2016 but of course for 7 months he was a member of this white house until he had a falling out with the president how is the president likely to play this do you think and how badly might this impact trump and his bid for reelection. well the falling out between these 2 men occurred 2 years ago so it's unlikely to have a big impact on the day to day operations of this white house now just to refresh our viewers in terms of the falling out steve bannon has always been a bit of an incendiary figure a bit of an unusual character he's a critic to of the republican establishment that's where he and president trump

bonded but given their strong personalities and i don't think it they ever actually matched here at the white house in fact when the falling out really occurred is that after he was pushed out by the president the white house he was very sharply critical of the president's children particularly his son as well as yvonne calling trump at one point dumb as a brick accusing one of the president's sons of treason for his meeting with russian individuals in trump tower during the campaign in 2016 this was all part of a book called fire and fury which many will remember so much of this is in the distant past still the fact is is that donald trump continues to have those attached to him in some way even if it is in the distant past this is something that can be brought up on the campaign trail now in 2020 because you have to remember it's not just steve bannon but also the former campaign manager paul man

a for which who he was also of course charged with you know and scrupulous charges in his case they were also criminal charges while they're unrelated in this case certainly once again this is another prominent figure attached to the president that he will have to try and temp down on the campaign trail i think that can move the live from washington d.c. . to russia now where this speculation that a prominent opposition politician had x. in a valley has been poisoned that's according to his spokeswoman about fighting for his life in a siberian hospital talents reports. the groans of a man in obvious pain medics come down the aisle to help according to the person who films this footage on a flight from siberia to moscow it's russian opposition leader alexina valmy later he's seen on a stretcher being put in an ambulance seemingly unconscious now in

a coma in the city of doctors say they're working to save his life is just really just michael's naturally poisoning is considered as one of the possible reasons of the deterioration of the condition but besides that there could be a number of acute states that lead to the same clinical science we are working on everything eliminate confirm and work unfortunately i cannot tell you more never tell me as colleagues are already convinced his illness doesn't have any natural cause we assume that alexei was poisoned with something mixed into his teeth tweeted spokeswomen. it was the only thing that he drank in the morning doctors say that talks in was absorbed faster through the hot liquid alexei is now unconscious . charismatic sometimes abrasive and absolutely fearless alexina valley is the most prominent russian opposition figure. by exposing the corruption

of russia's governing elite he's built a huge following of mainly young people drawn to protest by his investigative you tube videos valley's followers are shown a willingness to defy police battens and prison time in a valley himself has spent repeated spells behind bars a fraud case started in 2014 landed him a suspended sentence a jail term for his brother and a ban on alexei challenging putin in 28 teens presidential election. novelli has persisted despite the state pressure and despite your b.s. risks of criticizing body image putin's rule another opposition figure boris nemtsov was shot dead near the kremlin in 2015 more have left the country the kremlin spokesman has wish no valmy a speedy recovery and says any poisoning would need to be confirmed by laboratory tests rory chalons his era. alexandra stay on the it's called is

a freelance journalist and she joins us now from moscow alexander what more have we learned today about what happened and how is it acceptable they don't know. alexina vialli is still in a coma his condition is very serious he is a 2 medical ventilator he's been in coma for more than 10 hours now ever since he fell ill in that plane that made emergency landing in the beer in town of at this point. his wife is finally let in to see him so we might hear some more details about how actually he's he's doing in in this hospital the press secretary of the violence says that the local doctors are not letting them see or are not giving them any medical files of the violin this files they need because they want to transport him either to moscow or abroad for treatment for the thurman

in what actually happened with him which because then hours in and eat is still a coma of specific specified origin doctors and hospital have run tests of but they are not coming with any final results final results is what the press secretary said we have to wait in order to determine whether duce was a poisoning and if it was there will be investigation he said he's also promising assistance to the family if they officially require it to transport of irony either to moscow or brought the so what we know at this point is that he state is very serious but we still don't know what actually happened so that the healthy young men fell unconscious and is now in coma. ok alexandra steele yahoo has called for in moscow thank you. well it's a growing list of kremlin critics who've been poisoned in 2004 journalist anna politkovskaya who reported on russian abuses in chechnya became ill and lost

consciousness after drinking tea she recovered but was shot dead outside her apartment in 2006 later that year former russian spy alexander litvinenko died in london after drinking with the radioactive substance polonium 210 then in 2018 former russian double agents screwball and his daughter u.v.-a were poisoned with the nerve agent novacek the english city of cellars very they survived but a british woman exposed to the chemical died. or marco mikkelsen is a member of a study of parliament and a former director of the baltic center of russian studies he says the kremlin has long seen the valmy as a threat to its authority. there are many reasons that there are pressure on the planet he was jade 30 times during the last several years and and of course he's 60 p. across russia fighting against corruption and. against kremlin dictatorship something

what powers a lot of the operations of russian power you could only speculate that there could be leaps when you say the recent tendency tossed in the us if there's where upcoming elections are are unknown horizontal or or so there are. demonstrations. hearts lost of course we might do or leave the course or we belarus because of the bush not the people's revolution which is going on and embarrassed as made very nervous the current russian leadership because they don't want to see russia equal to. 0 but there was. a fight for freedom here as president donald trump is demanding that all united nations sanctions be reimposed against iran he says secretary of

state might pump higher will meet the un secretary general later on thursday to start the process. iran will never have market them like if the iran will never have a nuclear weapon when the united states entered into the iran deal. it was clear that the united states would always have the right to restore the u.n. sanctions that would prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon we paid a fortune for a failed concept and a failed policy a policy that would have made it impossible to have peace in the middle east. iran has unveiled 2 new missiles ignoring u.s. demands that it halt its program one is a ballistic surface to surface missile 7 with a 1400 kilometer range it's named after konstam cinematic general killed by a us drone strike in january the 2nd is a mess all but is launched from a submarine it has a range of a 1000 kilometers it's tamed after iraqi militia commander. who died alongside sort of money said big is interacting with more on how the trump administration's

efforts are being received well iran has always maintained that the united states this in no position and has no right to trigger that snapback mechanism to reimpose united nations sanctions especially since donald trump pulled the u.s. out of that 2015 nuclear deal back in 2018 but for mr divides the reef has. praised written a rare occasion the former security advisor john bolton and i quoted him as well saying. iran aside the united states had pulled themselves out of that deal or had no access to the mechanisms of that deal and iran previously is called john bolton a warmonger but this time said he was the only person that was consistent and consistency was something that's not present in the u.s. administration now it seems like russia and china are also of the same opinion as iran that the united states has no right to initiate does not back mechanism any also seems like the europeans are of the same opinion but that doesn't mean that

the united states won't drive you know the secretary of state might prompt to meet the un secretary general later iran is confident expression the after that humiliating defeat last friday where the united states tried to extend the omes embargo on iran that's set to expire in october now definitely here in iran that's been seen as a massive victory for iran. still ahead on a. severe hunger for half the population in afghanistan brought on by the. search for what to do about next. steps up efforts to find a coronavirus vaccine the economy struggles under a months long long down. but . we're still having major flooding problems into parts of china city central areas

this thick area cloud here that is the seasonal rains and it's certainly brought some very nasty conditions in just one province recently sinkhole a developed 21 cars getting sucked up into that sinkhole thankfully no one was hurt in the process we are going to see further showers and longer spells of right into central and eastern parts of china as we go through the next couple days the cloud and the rain that's rolling over towards the sea some wetter whether they're coming into or south korea not too heavy but there will be some showers nevertheless and some suggest welcome showers pushing into japan trying to break the hate 33 celsius in tokyo as well down to race in values but that still is very hot and it will remain very humid in the coming days meanwhile across south asia well it's all about the rainfall more heavy downpours coming into northern parts of the but i've been go into bangladesh northeast of india where ha much of but there shoot up with some very heavy rain some wet weather to into northern parts of

pakistan that could cause some disruption some flooding it will ease as we go through saturday by that stage turning very wet for good rights. there are we are this is the government nothing. in the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that at travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the phone to 0. if you want to help save the world . sneeze and hero.

you're watching are just there a reminder of our top stories this hour one of us president donald trump's once most influential advisors is now facing federal fraud charges former chief strategist steve bannon has been arrested and accused of conspiracy to commit wire for what relation to a fundraising campaign to support the building of trump's us mexico border with. russian opposition politician alexina valmy is in a serious but stable condition for want to spokeswoman says it was a suspected poisoning he was on a flight to moscow when he fell ill the spokeswoman says the poison was mixed with his teeth. u.s. president donald trump is demanding that all the united nations sanctions be reimposed against iran trump says secretary of state mark pompei

o will meet the un secretary general later on thursday to begin the process. former u.s. president barack obama has told the democratic national convention that his successor donald trump has sought only to help himself and his friends while in the nation's top job and he said trump had diminished america's reputation abroad later became a speech from calmer harris joe biden's pick for the vice presidency reports these words accept your nomination for vice president of the united states of america. a moment of history in 188 years of political conventions in america the 1st woman of color to accept a vice presidential nomination for a major political party common the hardest to the moment to introduce herself to the country but the role of the v.p. candidate is to attack the president his running mate and their record donald

trump's failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods if you're a parent struggling with your child's learning or you're a teacher struggling on the other side of that screen you know what we're doing right now is not working and we are a nation that is grieving it's rare for a former president to criticize a sitting president but from the museum of the american revolution in philadelphia and at times emotional the rock obama said that a public created by that movement that moment is in his belief under threat from donald trump donald trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't and the consequences of that failure are severe 170000

americans dead and millions of jobs gone while those at the top take in more than ever our worst impulses unleashed are proud reputation around the world badly diminished and our democratic institutions threatened like never before. and there was an appearance too from elizabeth warren a darling of the progressive wing of the party and from the defeated democrat last time around hillary clinton who are people to vote noting she'd won the popular vote 4 years ago by 3000000 and still lost the white house the convention also covered issues to be tackled by joe biden if he wins gun control immigration and climate change but this was a night when history was made and presidents were broken thursday is joe biden's big day he'll accept his party's nomination to run for president and when he delivers a speech he knows he has to give a positive message

a plan for the future he can't just run on being the guy who is not donald trump alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the general prosecutor's office in belo says open the criminal case into a council made up of opposition figures where testers say they'll continue to defy warnings by president alexander the shanker of a renewed crackdown has ordered security forces to clear the streets after nearly 2 weeks of demonstrations of this month's disputed election opposition leader kind of skier who is now on the way here set up the council to coordinate a peaceful transfer of power the prosecutor says it is a threat to security. a group of citizens of the republic of belarus has declared creation of a quarter nation council one of the goals of which is a transfer of power the plan to create a political body that should undertake the transfer of power from the current head of the country creating such

a body is not allowed by the law their activity is unconstitutional a group of citizens who understand the invalidity of their actions has left the council and do not agree with its activity creation and activity of such a council is designated to seize state authority as well as damage the national security of belarus steverson has more now from. i'm added the tension center where after the election the protests started thousands of people were detained and also badly beaten and even tortured many have been released up to $4000.00 is the estimation but they're still around 3000 people detained people are gathering here every day now to try to get their personal belongings back and that seems to be quite a struggle also there's also some unclear reports that the many people are not accounted for at this moment even though it's an hour more than 10 days that this police crackdown has happened meanwhile also protesters today seem to be pretty

quiet so far what we know is there is a lot of threats coming from the authorities so towards the crisis day old who are now in one side the order to sign some kind of paper saying they would choose to restrain from the political activities but still as we saw last night despite all the threats by a look at anger protesters were still gathering defying all these risks of being detained as so we expect the same will happen again maybe later today and especially in the next coming days the military coup in mali has been met with international condemnation the united nations security council is calling on the country's new military leaders to release deposed president abraham boubacar cager members of the african union and ecowas have suspended times with mali the leader of the military takeover promised to oversee democratic elections but has yet to say when they will be. the ability to do what you do the mission is that we have no

political ambition we are soldiers we have other progressives other missions to deal with our objective is through the various meetings we had with the various social and political groups to hand over rapidly the powers to a civilian transition for the continuity of the state and we are all aware today of the political and security situation molly is going through so i want to reassure you you can continue working without any pressure and i want to reassure you of our support. millions of afghans are facing food shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns that followed the 4000000 people have lost their primary source of income since they are bread began that's according to estimates of the world food program $16000000.00 people are at risk of going hungry coupled with that food prices have also soared due to regional border restrictions this growing economic and health crisis is likely to hurt children the most around 2000000

afghan children under 5 are likely to suffer from the most life threatening form of extreme hunger according to save the children of r.t. ramaswamy is deputy country director for the united nations world food program in afghanistan she finds out difficult it is to respond to this crisis at a time when donor countries are struggling with problems of their own if you look at the and the mic is just not effective going to start it's a global pandemic and we have seen unprecedented consequences of this and. the urgency is every event of the countries are having problems not so much probably like the ones in afghanistan but definitely employment is an issue having the right hospital beds for everything people to treat is an issue people following guidance and reducing the risk of transmission. so we're not see this problem as just confined to one country it's transporter but we also know that other

international partners have come up together to ensure that they're able to help us and just. argentina is battling a surge in corona virus with at least 312000 infections now confirmed and more than 6000 deaths the government says intensive care admissions and hospital occupancy rates have become unsustainable to rise above reports. black balloons to remember health care workers who died of colvin 1000 here at the hospital dude and then when our societies and doctors nurses and aides say they are deeply concerned for themselves and their colleagues as the virus continues to spread they sent us was a sunni and there have been 60 deaths of healthcare workers throughout argentina and 16888 infected healthcare workers we will have beds here in the city of one aside is in the province there will be beds but for sure they won't be workers to attend those beds they'll be virtual beds. argentina was one of the 1st countries

in latin america to impose a lockdown and even though in the beginning it was able to control the spread of covert 1000 cases are once again on the rice leading the government to announce another extension of the country squire in teen. in spite of the virus thousands of argentines took to the streets last monday to protest against the government and the lockdown many believe 5 months of total lockdown is too much of a place it. seems to me that as in other countries we should be trusted to behave like adults and responsibly resume work in moving the country forward. but as discontent is on the rice so is the effort to help produce have a last week argentina announced a local laboratory will start manufacturing the highly promising astra zeneca oxford vaccine. assuming the vaccine is proven effective and clear safety trials

argentina will then distributed to country throughout south america with the exception of brazil which is producing its own vaccine i didn't fibro countries in the region have been on. and this will have a dramatic effect on the economy and people's lives this lover of whom you know we're going around countries in this part of the world will be able to answer the rock scene as soon as possible because of the movie assimilating lucas feeling it early so says production will start within weeks we started to work with actors and again with the transfer we already started we are purchasing things at risk and we were surprised to see him even if he's got results are not yet there we are awaiting the results for october and we will more of a start of it in that time frame but we are not waiting for the results we are just moving as fast as we can. the lockdown has helped preserve life in argentina but it has also exacerbated an already difficult economic situation the challenge now is

to jumpstart the economy without any increase in loss of life please i will want to scientists in india appears to be struggling in its battle against the pandemic hits just reported a new record increase in daily infections almost $70000.00 in the past 24 hours that brings india's total number of cases to 2840000 it is the 3rd worst hit country in the world. a rare admission north korea's leader has said that u.s. sanctions the pandemic and recent floods have seriously impacted the economy and the mission of his party central committee said goals for improving the economy have not been met and people's living standards have not been improved enough came a scheduled a congress for january to lay out a new 5 year economic plan. the brother of the suicide bomber who attacked the consulate in manchester in 2017 has been sentenced to 55 years in jail for murder 22 people who were among those attending

a concert by singer ariana grande they were killed when solomon ave the detonated his explosives his brother hashem helped source materials for the attack families of the victims spoke after the sentencing. we would like to thank judge jeremy fine causing the biggest sentence ever in these circumstances. however. no sentence will ever respect the loss we feel each do without them. because he. because he will really be serving the sentence that we are. watching auxerre these are the top stories formerly he was one of us president donald trump's most influential advisors now he's facing federal fraud charges steve benen has been arrested today accused of conspiracy to commit wire fraud the charges are in relation to a fund raising campaign to support the building of trump's us mexico border wall

our white house correspondent kimberly harkat has more from washington if these men are convicted of these charges they could face penalties of up to 20 years in jail now we know that the case of some of them they will be appearing in new york in front of these federal charges in front of federal judges rather to face these federal criminal charges but this is really significant because with regard to steve bannon it who he is he is a significant individual not only in terms of his involvement and donald trump's presidential campaign in 2016 but of course for 7 months he was a member of this white house until he had a falling out with the president. russian opposition politician alexina belly is in a serious but stable condition after what his spokeswoman says was a suspected poisoning he was on a flight to moscow where he fell ill and spokeswoman says poison was mixed with his

tea u.s. president donald trump is demanding that all united nations sanctions be reimposed against iran trump says secretary of state michael peo will meet with the u.n. secretary general later on thursday to start the process meanwhile iran has a new kinds of missiles ignoring u.s. demands that it halt its program one of the ballistic surface to surface missile with a 1400 kilometer range and the other is a missile that is able to be launched from a submarine. former u.s. president barack obama has used a speech at the democratic national convention to attack president trump he said trump has used his term in office to help himself and his friends. and the democratic party has officially nominated senator carmilla harris for vice president she's the 1st black woman on a major u.s. party ticket. those are the headlines more news here on al-jazeera right after the stream. history has called it the great war in the final episode the 2 sides

fight themselves to a standstill while britain and france conspire behind closed doors to produce a secret agreement that will shape the middle east for the century to come world war one through our bodies on al-jazeera. i have to be ok you're watching the stream home edition we are talking about zimbabwe today because as you all star student you sent us had sex including zimbabwean lives matter pray feels imbolc way and frees him barbarians what he's going. we are asked her image out as us correspondent in southern africa is take a look the mood in zimbabwe changes depending on what's going on.