global news media scrutiny on al-jazeera government shut off access to social media . lab. russian opposition figure alexina valley is being flown to germany where he will be treated the suspect of reasoning. hello there more of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up libya's u.n. backed government announces a cease fire the rival parliament in the east also appeals to stop the fighting plus. this sacred duty is my number one priority between now and election day a pledge to deliver election ballots on time as the controversial head of the u.s.

postal service has questioned over maryland voting. and mexico's president to promise to wipe out corruption he finds himself defending his own brother in a financial scandal. russian opposition need to elect me is being flown to germany for emergency treatment for suspected poisoning the plane carrying him to berlin left siberia just over 2 hours ago where he has. loaded onto a stretcher and into an ambulance. a critically ill alexei novelle in the in a coma given the all clear by russian doctors to be flown to germany at the airport in the siberian city of a medical team and private plane pants pulled the russian dissident for further treatment in both. doctors had initially said he was too. to be moved.

a change of position. relative. to the patient. about the diagnosis and condition of the patient ready to take the risks we've decided not to oppose transferring the patient to another clinic on friday the opposition leader spokeswoman and another aide struggle to speak to the doctors who just. specks the delay in releasing him. and his system but the allegation that drank poison tea in the cafe airport before boarding a flight to moscow is being denied by the hospital medics. we have come to the conclusion.

of pressure. on arrival in germany they will undergo tests and treatment given to confirm whether doctors outside russia share his opinion but in moscow st petersburg and other cities supporters have been gathering and getting detained there convinced this was an attempt. and that. is to blame.

well a russian spy alexander litvinenko dies in london after drinking tea laced with the radioactive substance plutonium to 10 then in 2018 former russian double agents again scrapple and his daughter you know a poisoned with the nerve agent another child in the inner city of souls pray they survived but a british woman exposed to the chemical died. cohen is a senior fellow at the atlantic he says the 848 hour delay to transfer novelli could have been intended to conceal the poison the family and political associates of i think seen i mean they said that they wanted to move him right after he fell ill they are suspecting poisoning and the reason he was delayed for 48 hours they said was because the doctors and the authorities expected the poison to dissipate and make it much more difficult for the western doctors in germany in the sherry to

hospital to analyze if you were spoilers and and if so by what. meanwhile thousands of demonstrators are rallying for a 7th weekend in russia's far east region protesting against the arrest of the governor who defeated a program in rival elections 2 years ago so fergal was detained last month and taken to jail in moscow is accused of ordering the murder of at least 2 business men 15 years ago which he denies but all supporters say the charges are politically motivated just as also showing solidarity with demonstrators in calories. other news now in libya's un recognized government in tripoli has announced a cease fire as its rival parliament in the east aligned with will have to has also called for a halt to the fighting but the tripoli government says it will respond to any violence from have to us forces menu of one who can enter will have to respect this

is where they will to guarantee he would respect to supply after the burning talks or previous agreements if you respects this is welcome that because we do not want to be in bloodshed we call for peace however if you violate the peace agreement we are ready to fight and we will force him to leave like we forced him to leave western libya. well let's remind you how this country is devising the tripoli based government controls the area in grey wall of the haft all his allied with the east and paul meant and to birth control is the area in red both sides have been gearing up for a battle over the city of gateway to libya's prized oil fields that are on the repos list of jointly demilitarize the area along with the i'll just for a base in the self. is controlled by forces loyal to have to all who have imposed an oil blockade since january causing around $8000000000.00 in losses as he calls for production to lose you and it wants elections to take place next year and watch

as all the libyans agree on a constitutional basis it takes a look at the recent conflict in libya. libya has been in turmoil for nearly a decade. nato back full season ever to reach longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2011 but the roots of what's often described as this all rich countries civil war started after the disputed elections in 2014 disagreement between the then house of representatives and the general national congress made worse over a so-called roadmap for libya's future the country split into 2 rival administrations the house of representatives led by the warlords for the for have to move to the eastern city of too broke and what became the un backed government of national accord that by prime minister fayyad has raj remained in the capital tripoli in the west. thousands of people have been killed and many who forced to

flee their homes are 6 and a half years of fighting. the un accuses regional powers of repeatedly breaking the 2011. on libya by supplying weapons to both sides. egypt the u.a.e. and russia have supported hafta while turkey and qatar have backed the government of national accord. in april last year half to ordinary fences to take control of tripoli aiming at what he described as cleansing the western zone of terrorist groups. his forces have shut down or taken control of major oil facilities in eastern libya depriving the country of billions of dollars in revenue tripoli's only international airport has been repeatedly bombed using heavy artillery many civilians have been killed and wounded large areas of southern and western tripoli have been almost completely destroyed in the fighting repeated attempts at un bank

cease fire talks of failed. a ceasefire is a decision made by the power brokers by the circumstances and it is not necessarily a libyan decision despite the fact that it's the jna and who announced his decision this time the decision is not libya the decision is uniquely turkish russia with some input from some of the international powers and as long as it stays that way it's unlikely the cease fire will break. friday's cease fire announcement comes amid fears of an escalation by both sides mobilizing for a battle over the town suit the gateway to the major all terminals which are under the control of pro have 2 forces for now at least there's hope that agreement between powerful countries many say have contributed to libya's suffering a backing a ceasefire that could and its civil war chance transferred. the head of the u.s. postal service has told a senate committee that mail in ballots will be delivered on time ahead of the november election as most of general lowest enjoy has faced criticism for making

changes to the service that of course mail delays democrats accuse him of being president donald trump's accomplice in trying to suppress the vote on a jackass fair reports. calling the accusations against him outrageous lewiston joyce says the cuts he's made to the u.s. postal service were long planned and aimed at making the agency financially solvent not to complicate mail in voting in november as we head into the election season i want to assure this committee and the american public that the postal service is fully capable and committed to delivering the nation's election mail securely and on time that's a reversal from what the postal service said last month in a warning to $46.00 states the agency had cautioned that millions of ballots may not be delivered in time to be counted and with the public fallout it joy announced further cuts to the postal service will be postponed until after the election the service will deliberately ballot process every ballot in. and in that it sees

president trump claims without evidence that voting by mail can lead to massive election fraud that's despite voting by mail himself we're not prepared for this 51000000 ballots. it will be a tremendous embarrassment to our country it will go on forever and you'll never know who won so i say that for you i say it for the cameras because i assume that goes but i will tell you that this is a very serious problem for a great democracy democrats accused of trying to sow doubt in an election that polls show him currently losing without a budget and doesn't want our vote by mail without a president who like him best of all without a president who well i can post those ulcers not do well to joy was a trump mega donor before becoming postmaster general in june a postal service board member resigned in protest accusing the trumpet ministration

of interfering with the independent agency now an internal watchdog is investigating and 6 states are suing the postal service for harming their ability to hold free and fair elections the house of representatives will hold a rare saturday session to take up legislation against the postal service changes and the joy will face and nother day of grilling before a house panel on monday. castro al-jazeera washington. an economy on the verge of collapse we meet the people in peru struggling to put food on the table. and round up underway in thailand. government brought to an abrupt and.

how the weather is pretty quiet across the middle east at the moment we have got a little bit of cloud down towards southern most parts of the usual drizzly rain there just around southern areas of a monsoon possibility further north around the caucasus we have got some big and foundry downpours around our main. and through georgia when it's a light temperatures here in doha to around 42 celsius police temperatures will fall back as we go on into sunday and you know a lot means it means it's going to feel little more humid you can just pick out the window areas here they're tending to come in for more easterly direction was a more humid direction so i think it will feel a little more uncomfortable a speaker one into the new week one of the sort of the red sable here we do have the usual showers rumbling away out of ethiopia pushing across sudan south sudan northern parts of the democratic republic of congo all the way across into cameroon some heavy showers set just moving across nigeria it became

a fast so for the showers as we go on through sunday notice the showers i should do just started to sink a little further south was across a good part of the region's showers will also continue so you want to coastal showers just drifting into northern parts of tansen the chance of some showers to the candia. and this addition to al-jazeera will take you on a journey with the top. diverse wildlife choice by reading by mentioning it all 300 patients just will be discussing the impact the potential uncontrolled development could have on these diverse wildlife species living here if i'm protected. be the hero the world needs. washing.

her again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour russian opposition politician alexei navalny is on his way to germany for urgent medical treatment he's been in a coma in a hospital in siberia since birthday his spokeswoman says he drank poisoned tea. libya's un bias government has announced a cease fire and the leader of the rival parliament in the east has appealed for a halt in fighting forces from both sides have been mobilizing around sirte the gateway to libya's oil fields. and the head of the u.s. postal service has told a senate committee that mail in ballots will be delivered on time for november's election and postmaster general lewis to joy has faced criticism for changes that

have caused delays. turbot. have given their 1st joint television interview since being formally confirmed as the democratic party nominees for november's election they revealed how they would approach the coronavirus pandemic in the us and what they think of president trump insults the reports. on a day on which the us passed 175000 dead from the coronavirus democratic presidential candidate joe biden vowed to take a different approach to the pandemic if elected. i would be prepared to do it every takes to say why because we cannot get the country moving until we control the virus that is the fundamental flaw of this list ration is thinking to begin with in order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing and people employed you have to fix the virus you have to deal with the virus so if the

scientists say shut it down i would shut it down i would listen to the scientists budget speech at the democratic national convention has been widely praised however the parade of republicans who spoke in support of his candidacy with only 2 could appearances from the democratic party's progressive wing how is that the criticism from the left that despite his rhetoric about social justice and inequality biden remains where he's always been a center right politician and this interview will deepen that sense at a time of the largest nationwide demonstrations in u.s. history spurred by a black lives matter we've been calling for a redirection of the billions of dollars that go into funding an increasingly militarized police force into community investment joe biden reasserted that he was standing firm and on one of the fun police departments i think they need more help they need more assistance we have to make it clear that this is about protecting neighborhoods protecting people democratic vice presidential candidate carla harris

shrugged off president drugs characterization of a as nasty and a sort of mad woman i think that there is so much about what comes out of donald trump's amount that is designed to distract the american people from what he is doing every day that is about neglect and negligence and harm to the american people and incompetence absolutely. donald trump dismiss this week's democratic national convention and the outlined his line of attack against biden and hers but over the last week the democrats held the darkest and angriest and gloomiest convention in american history they spent 4 straight days attacking america as racist and horrible country that must be redeemed joe biden grimly declared a season of american darkness i'm the only thing standing between the american dream and total anarchy madness and chaos and that's what it is the republican

national convention begins on monday she returns the al-jazeera washington mexico's president andres manuel lopez obrador swept to power in 2018 after promising to wipe out corruption but now his own brother has been implicated in a scandal after footage appeared to show him accepting kess president insists his brother is innocent and has called for an investigation on all the reports from mexico. the perfect lips this is the brother of mexico's president receiving an envelope stuffed with cash in a restaurant money put simply donated 20 his money where lopez obrador political movement before he was elected people of good 26 $1000.00 here. it's cause controversy president will. run the promise to wipe out corruption. just to be clear this video doesn't prove anything illegal happened but it does

raise serious questions for example was this money declared 'd to mexico's electorate of dorothy's and most importantly where did it come from if this was public money from any area of government this is illegal. silat i'ma latinos the media outlets that published the videos claims that ivied lay on the man handing over the envelope mentions the government of chapel although that audio is not included the idea is to support that's the goal with. president lopez obrador said he didn't know about the money but that it could have been lots of small donations that lay on had collected though. i can tell you that the people supported me i had a bank account where they deposit money to keep the party going and that's where i got my salary that happened 4 years in the. context is important here the videos come out just as lopez obrador as attorney general is investigating a corruption case that could implicate 3 of the president's pretty decisive. videos

been leaked of alleged bribes there too and the president's critics say he's using the case for political gain not just this in turn he claims this new video is there retaliate. in propose again is this could damage the government it does seem like a war of corruption videos a marker for nand this part of a government watchdog says is only going to be one in past or fortunately the sick change of medias i mean is very likely that is going to reflect in a lower trust of citizens to work institutions their ocean of these institutions lower confidence in the market and greater satisfaction and now citizens want to go to jail and that loss of public trust is only likely to deepen as the politicians fight it out on social media john homan how does it or mexico

city. lebanon's gone back into lockdown for 2 weeks including nightly curfews as it tries to bring down its coronavirus infection rate the ministry of health is warning hospitals are running out of space many were damaged in the beirut port explosion 2 weeks ago and around $70000.00 homes were destroyed making social distancing difficult aid and relief workers will be exempt from the rules prose economy is on the verge of collapse shrinking by more than 30 percent as a result of the 1000 pandemic millions of people have lost their jobs the government is trying to enforce measures to control the virus but people are breaking the rules as they desperately try to make ends meet when a son says reports from lima. before you ever do rock star to overact ok. selling bamboo plants the businessman turned street vendor says he'll do whatever he can to put food on the table for his wife and children who were born there was

your i had a small business but when the pandemic began i tried to stay home with my family and lost everything now i have no choice but to sell anything on the streets to make all the 6 or $8.00 which is not enough for food. it is national statistics institute says nearly 7000000 peruvians lost their jobs as a result of the government restrictions to prevent people from getting the effect it with covert 1000 that's 40 percent of produce urban population out before in the last 3 months but again i would have all been asked that there's so much poverty no work we have to sell whatever there's no money to eat. businesses especially retail and services have gone bankrupt analysts say the worst recession in more than 100 years throwing a comic achievements back 10 years surely cannot meet the effects of brutal it's the worst recession since the 19th century the economy was shut down completely in 12 or $24.00 regions there wasn't one covert case instead of isolating them the

quarantine was also imposed on them which reveals a lack of understanding of the effects of such a measure. since the pandemic began the government approved an aid package of nearly $36000000000.00 to reignite the economy including tax relief sent cheap loans the government is handing out more than $200.00 in subsidies to more than 5 and a half 1000000 poor prove the ends of the distribution process is slow and inefficient and it doesn't reach everyone who needs it maybe they simply don't want it for any historic context including jury award the numbers a staggering and the long term effects a huge loss of human capital children with education and mel nutrition problems. we'll see the effects for the next 10 or 15 years since june cove in 1000 cases have doubled the worst tally that's in america to brazil in the last 2 weeks more than 100000 peruvians were infected the government we imposed curfews and banned

family gatherings most believe you can say they want to avoid getting infected without food on their tables the choice is tough but in a such a sense. virus experts are concerned the rollout of a russian vaccine may encourage the corona virus to mutate russian authorities say it's safe and effective although the full scale trials of not being completed some scientists say they're worried deploying a vaccine is partially effective could cause the virus to evolve more quite plain professor lawrence gostin as the director of the air mail institute for national and global health or at georgetown university he says a vaccine that doesn't work could make a pandemic much harder to control. there's a theoretical possibility that certain natural selection you have. seen that the virus could mutate and it would need change in

ways that enabled it to a antibodies that's the last thing we want we see this a lot with the. biologic resistance besides which it might just be like the russian vaccine will be unchanged that is there might have adverse effects that might make code worse who've seen that with other vaccines like dengue. so this is a serious problem you can't rush science research or juno in addition to being. the problem of taishan if there is a in effect a vaccine it might mean that people think they're protected when they're not and they go out and have risk behaviors this is the last we want because it's reducing global confidence in a vaccine and what we need to do now is boost confidence in the code not in vaccine so we don't have. protesters in southern iraq have set fire to the local palm and

to demanding justice over the killing of 2 activists. security forces fired live rounds into the air as demonstrators marched on the buildings in the city of protest as well the provincial governor sacked after a series of attacks on activists by unidentified gunmen. began last october and forced the previous prime minister to resign. thousands of people have been celebrating in mali's capital off the president was overthrown in a military coup opposition policies of back the military's plan to eventually hand power to a civilian front transitional government. to announce his resignation on tuesday after soldiers detained him their office it will destabilize regional security u.s. has suspended cooperation with monday's military the west african bloc eko us is sending a delegation on saturday to discuss mali's political future. began

arresting student government protest organizers authorities a concern that the movement is growing and for the 1st time a minister sat down with some of the students could hide in bangkok asked him how it went the month old anti-government protest was founded fronted and organized by thai students from high school to university. i want to mark racine a quality where there is no difference whether one person has a higher social status than the other. earlier in the week just after a high school class dismissal 100 showed up in front of the ministry of education asking for the minister to resign and the reform of the education system less often or tarion more democratic. this after students said they were prevented from showing their support for the movement on campuses like using the 3 finger salute a symbol of the protest or wearing ribbons a sign of solidarity thailand's education minister not upon the siouan came out to speak to the protesters the 1st direct engagement from

a top government official is this something that you think the top levels of government will continue to do kind of maybe follow your lead it's not follow my lead i think it's that dialogue that i've had with the prime minister and i think that by listening to them you. will minimize the damage that that will be done if there were. they would be escalating you know the level protests the minister says that he and others in the government are willing to continue and expand discussions with the protestors but there's a mixed message because more protest leaders are being arrested and it's clear that the call by some of the protesters for an overhaul of the monarchy is a no go subject for youth is one of the 1st and largest groups to start protesting what it all i thought if i. had that we have goals demands and a dream and a dream is to have a country that is ruled by a true constitutional monarchy like england japan didn't marco norway when the

monarchy is under the constitution and the highest power belongs to the people. although the movement is being driven by the students of this country others are joining the gatherings especially on weekends and they made organizing groups have already started to plan for the next round of weekend protests in september got harder al-jazeera bangkok. and watching these all top stories russian opposition politician alexei navalny is on his way to germany for medical treatment he's been in a coma in a hospital in siberia since thursday his spokeswoman says he drank poisons team doctors in russia had initially said he was too sick to fly but late on friday a bench that gave him the old clear off to multiple requests from his family.

even after considering multiple requests to allow transporting the patients we understand there is a certain risk relatives including the wife of the brother of the patient aware of his diagnosis and condition but they're ready to take this risk we have taken a decision not to oppose the transfer of the creation to another clinic the one that the relatives will tell us. maybe as u.n. backed government has announced a cease fire and the leader of the rival pollens in the east has appealed for a halt in fighting forces from both sides have been mobilizing around search that's the gateway to libya's oil fields. head of the u.s. postal service has told a senate committee that mail in ballots will be delivered on time for november's election postmaster general lewis to joy has faced criticism for the changes that have caused delays. joe biden and camila harris have given their 1st joint television interview since being formally confirmed as the democratic party nominees for november's election biden says he would be prepared to shut down the

country to prevent the spread of coronavirus if that's what scientists recommend it . is economy is on the verge of collapse shrinking by more than 30 percent as a result of the coven 1000 pandemic millions of people have lost their jobs the government is trying to enforce measures to control the virus but people are breaking the rules as they try to make ends meet and virus experts are concerned the rollout of a russian vaccine may encourage the corona virus to mutate national forest say it's safe and effective although full scale trials have not yet been completed some scientists say they're worried deploying a vaccine that's partially effective would cause the virus to evolve even more quickly. state not with all that lines i'll be back with another news bulletin after talked to al jazeera. i am sequencers i have a question because these days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important to the bottom line tackles the big issues that are shaping

the united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. cats are. one of the richest nations per capita in the world. it's experienced a rapid development since or the natural gas were discovered here in the early 1900 . megaprojects keep changing the gulf nations landscape. but the qatari coastline and its desert are also the source of a different kind of natural wealth.