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from the for venice of caracas to the battlefields are wrong also our job is to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. the german hospital treating kremlin critic alexina vonnie says as evidence he was poisoned but his life isn't in danger. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for also ahead. of. us republicans formally nominate donald trump as their 2020 presidential candidates their convention has kicked off in north carolina. i can't for. you get yourselves out if you do to get sold off if you want instant people
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their only crime your are off their relatives and survivors recount the horror of last year's massacre at 2 mosques in new zealand last akira see the white supremacist gunman plan to cause maximum carnage and hundreds of thousands of families displaced by weeks of to rental rains and flash flooding in yemen. doctors in germany say tests results indicate that russian opposition leader alexina vonnie was poisoned johnson i'm going to merkel has called on moscow to identify the perpetrators and hold them accountable the mommy remains in an induced coma after being transferred to berlin from a hospital in siberia on saturday doctors there had said they found. no poison in
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his system a longtime opponent of present value may put in fell on thursday colleagues say all he had to drink was a cup of tea i'll have more on the russian reaction in just a few minutes with alexandra stay out of his conference standing by in moscow but let's go to dominic came in berlin for us dominic tell us more about what doctors have been saying about nirvana is suspected poisoning. the view from here by the medics who we've been looking after missing. the best part of 3 days is that what's inside is the talks in other words. they say it belongs to a family of chemicals which work on the motor neuron reflexes of the human body they say that they do not believe that his condition is life threatening now they don't believe he's going to die because of it but they say that in so far as
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a recovery from it is concerned they can guarantee that he will recover full function the important thing about what's inside his system is the it's called it's a estar it inhibitor they do those inhibitors do exist in the pharmaceutical industry in certain drugs which are used to regulate patients who have dementia or indeed out simon's disease but they are more regularly found in things such as pesticides and indeed in nerve agents that's chemical weapons the question therefore that flows from their finding is how does a person in his forty's a fit energetic person in his forty's have such a substance in his system and how could it be the case that doctors who treated him originally ruled out poison and yet doctors here at this facility behind me at the hospital a world renowned hospital that needs the field of medicine in so far as toxins are concerned they can find a completely different result say there are definitely traces of poison in his
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system right the german government has been very cautious dominic about directly blaming russia but chancellor merkel has been speaking about of a nice condition in the last few hours. yes chancellor merkel and her colleague the foreign minister have given a recent statement not a they haven't spoken front of camera signa written statement a national quote from it in their written statement they say the critical findings is their words indicate that mr van he was poisoned in view of his prominent role in the political opposition in russia the authorities there are now urgently called upon to investigate this crime to the last detail and do so in full transparency finishes those responsible must be identified and held accountable it's interesting that the nuance in that statement they're not accusing anybody specifically that has anything to do with the government of president putin of any kind of complicity in this affair they are merely calling upon the government in russia to investigate
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this affair and to bring those who are responsible for the poison being in mr novotny system to account contrast that with the view of some leading politicians elsewhere in the european union who are being less discriminating about their opinion of how things have gone the eminent belgian politician in the european parliament has asked some pretty stinging questions about whether there has been complicity between the government of president putin and the russian doctors who treated mr me 1st for you there's no confirmation of anything that he has alleged but the allegations are out there now thank you for that dominic kane with the latest there from berlin well let's just remind you of what the doctors so traded now vonnie initially in russia said early on monday about his condition take a listen. we were treating the patient and we saved him there wasn't and couldn't have been any outside influence on the patients treatment of us both of
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those. the diagnosis of poisoning remained until the end of the day until at 12 if i'm not mistaken we received a final conclusion from 2 laboratories that no toxic chemicals that can be considered poisons or by products of poisons were found. as spring in moscow based journalist on xandra contra alexander what's the reaction in moscow in russia to the findings by german doctors. there is a lot of reaction by supporters his friends family and in general the russian opposition and they're all saying we have our suspicions now confirmed would to were only he thought as is now is the fact confirmed by every known german hospital and what they are also saying and specifically the press secretary of the vialli who was late here with him when he fell still sick when he lost his conscious she's
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saying well now we really hope that there will be an extensive and thorough investigation into what happened to alex a never on the vine the n. who is behind this what they're also saying is that they have now even more questions and that is how it was that doctors in ohms where he was treated did not see this his personal doctor even says that she specifically asked the doctor day or whether they did check for columnists arise and they said sure it's clear and are you giving him a drop in and said yes of course we are so she's now having a question what was that about they're also saying how was it how how did it happen that 2 labs came up with the results docs reported that was negative on what they were testing but this raises a lot of speculation amongst the russian opposition amongst russian liberals which for now have no confirmation like was it really alexei navalny samples that were sent there and the were they testing for the right things and were they not testing
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on purpose all these questions have to be answered by a thorough investigation they hope and let's just reminded that russian's president spokesperson made that a bit on the 1st day said if it turns out that that other scene of miley was poisoned there will be a thorough investigation so far there. that has not happened but it's still a still early to tell in this respect as for who was behind this well russia position is the less cautious than the german chancellor some like ilyushin a friend of the law and me he's pointing his finger directly import in another opposition or in a close ally on the widely known of so what she's saying there has to be some secret service involved in this because this kind of toxin is not something that you could brew in your kitchen a so yes they have their suspicions confirmed but that did not actually bring any
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relief thank you very much for that alexandra stay on of his gone for a lie for us there from moscow. the republican body has formally renominated donald trump as a candidate for november's election the u.s. president has made a surprise early arrival of the party's convention in charlotte north carolina these are live pictures i believe his speaking from charlotte right now the 4 day long event is crucial for trump's bid to reverse his slump in opinion polls as he struggles to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic woes but he remains confident of securing a 2nd term. if you want to really drive him crazy you see 12 more years i. was right there we caught them doing some really bad things in 2016 let's see what happens we caught
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them doing some really bad things we have to be very careful because they're trying it again with this whole 80000000 mail in ballots at their work you know and. sending them out to people that didn't ask for the names to use gave them and it's not fair and it's not right. alan fischer is live for us at the white house following this republican national convention for is the president was you speak much later allen in north carolina but he's speaking right now he's been speaking i believe for about a half an hour or so if not war tell us more about what he said and you know his talk about only losing the election if it's rigs without giving any evidence. it's interesting that the president would go over to north carolina to speak he says he's doing it because he respects this state he points out that joe biden did not go to wisconsin last week during the democratic national convention that's absolutely correct but it's unusual for the president for a nominee to speak as the convention is getting underway in this sort of length
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with this sort of detail perhaps previewing some of the things he's going to say in his big speech on thursday night you're right the president has been saying that the democrats are planning a huge meal in voting fraud 'd to steal the election there is no evidence that that is actually happening in fact just a week ago mark meadows his chief of staff was asked what evidence there was that the president kept saying this and he said well there's actually no evidence that it isn't happening which makes no sense the president has been talking about the economy saying that again he built the greatest economy of the united states has ever seen but if you take all common measures it's not even in the top 10 of the last 50 he talks about how the stock market is doing incredibly well but as any economist would tell you the stock market is not the economy and of course that is an unemployment rate of more than 10 percent because of the corporate crisis and that the follow from that just one very interesting thing fully here the president
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has said just in the last few minutes he's made an appeal to bernie sanders supporters are you saying that we share a lot of a bit of common themes with bernie sanders voters there must be republicans across this country currently face palming because the president is saying that because a lot of the attacks last week during the democratic national convention and during this convention will be that joe biden comes the hardest i've been taken over by the radical left that if you vote for biden you get barony that you are taking on his socialist agenda yet here is the president of the united states making an appeal to barely voters seeing that a lot of what they are talking about they have similar interests it's it's it's typically trump and there are 3 more formal. days of this to go before he gives his big speech on thursday night right and interesting in surprisingly i guess the republican party doesn't have a platform for this convention alan no details on policy objectives so what are we likely to hear over the next 4 days what are they what's that the theme of their convention. what they're saying is that they support the platform of
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donald trump america farce and endorsing his policies and they're going to talk to ordinary americans they see whose lives have been improved by what donald trump has been doing so that is the theme we will see for the next 4 days we are told that donald trump will make an appearance at some point through each of those 4 days that is incredibly unusual we don't normally see that but it shows how much the republican party has become the party of trump and interestingly just as it's all kicking off we're hearing from some republican lawmakers past and present who are say that they will be supporting donald trump they are going to go with joe biden but that doesn't matter to those republicans who will be tuning in and those in north carolina we don't only see donald trump as the next president but see him perhaps as the greatest president america has ever had thank you allan for that alan fischer reporting live from the white house while democrats are concerned about trump's ongoing attack on mail in voting they've been questioning the head of
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the u.s. postal service on capitol hill no we did joy has a trump ally is being asked by house committee whether his changes will delay this it delivery of postal ballots the president has said many in voting will cause voter fraud without providing evidence he's altered by mail himself in the recent florida primary. at the world news and some breaking news from western india where rescuers are searching for at least 70 people feared trapped in the rubble of their collapsed homes children are believed to be among those trapped if i story braga 47 apartments came down in the town of mahad south of the financial capital mumbai dozens of survivors have been pulled from the rubble with at least 17 people enjoy it. still ahead on al-jazeera a west african leaders in mali trying to solve a school crisis we'll have the latest on the negotiations and war.
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hello things slow to change usually in this part of the world is hot and dusty and usually dry in the middle east where this is not totally true around the coast of among other cloud my generator shero 2 up in the mountains or 2 down west in yemen as well as a lot of should be his hobby which is his permanent drizzle of a car situation that's failing now and the breeze is just about to pick up out of iraq and then towards qatar destroying the euro to get dry dusty breeze which is nice or you get nothing at all in this he would be between the 2 at the moment so long as forecast i think we can see that stuttering failing come back again for a couple days thursday and friday. the showers are building into nice clumps now
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which tend to produce local flooding in nigeria and i think in both how we get to choose day to be further west towards the kid the faster and then they go offshore to the atlantic and you can see the orange shows you the depths well this indicates the depth of the showers and their full potential even for flash flooding in africa south of all this as winter chugs on you get those winter fronts going trust the cape. well they've gone through much more to come i don't think but in qatar they might see a share or 2. but . this is one of the sounding for no other revolutions in all of may. we have to meet the c o 2 emission targets electric car. to be mined people are just talking about the solar as if that's going to solve the problem the world of business and commerce is driving the energy transition is the promise of clean energy and illusion the top
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side of green energy coming soon on al jazeera. org. the air the way. you're watching al-jazeera with me fully back to bo a reminder of our top stories the berlin hospital treating russian opposition leader alexei in a balmy says tests results indicate he was poisoned it says his life is not in danger but that he cannot rule out any long term effects of ali was flown to germany from a siberian hospital in any induced coma on saturday. rescuers in western india are searching for at least 70 people feared trapped in the rubble of their collapsed
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homes children are believed to be among those dozens of survivors have been pulled from the rubble in the town of money not far from the financial capital mumbai the and the republican party has formally renominated donald trump as their candidate for november's election the u.s. president has made a surprise early arrival at the party's convention in charlotte north carolina ways been speaking to supporters. meanwhile u.s. democratic presidential nominee joe biden says they must be an immediate investigation after the latest police shooting of a black man. seen shooting jacob blake 7 times in the back he's seriously hurt in hospital an overnight curfew was imposed in can no share in wisconsin where this happened as bring in john hendren who's live in forest where this shooting happened earlier
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this video is absolutely shocking john tell us more for us about what we know and. that's right foley most of what we know we know from that 20 seconds worth the video where you see jacob blake walking around his van and then beginning to climb in to the driver's side door on the left and that's when a police officer grabs his back and one or more officers fired what sounds like 7 shots into his back now we're told he's in a hospital here and that he is still alive struggling with those wounds but that of course set off. because of reactions that we see across the country now whenever there is a shooting of an unarmed black man here in the united states there have been. trucks were brought out to block people here in this city center those are garbage
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trucks there and as you can see they were lit up on fire by protesters protesters who would watch that viral video just yesterday now we have heard from benjamin crump the lawyer for mr blake and he says what blake was doing as he had his 3 children in that car during the shooting was he had climbed out to stop a street fight where there are apparently a couple of people fighting and for some reason when police got involved they call down for him you can you can see them calling out for him apparently to stop he ignores those calls and climbs into the car and there's no evidence that he had a weapon police might have feared that there was something inside that car but the condemnation has been pretty quick 1st of all the governor tony says we stand against excessive force he called for action saying in the coming days we will demand just that of elected officials in our state who failed to recognize the
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racism in our state in our country for far too long and then of course as you mention joe biden the former vice president and presidential candidate for the democratic party also. condemned it saying yet another black american is a victim of excessive force and he called for a thorough investigation of what happened here overnight and this is coming of course made continuing protests following the police killing of george floyd in minneapolis a few months ago we'd likely to see more protests across u.s. cities as a result of the status incident. very likely this town of conversion he is about an hour and 15 minutes drive from chicago there's a very large black lives matter group there and there have been continual protests most of them very peaceful in chicago though they have had a couple of ice elated looting incidents downtown the police have shut down the
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entire downtown of chicago on weekends now but kiran can no sure they're not used to that this is another one of those cities that his suddenly found itself on the front of papers across the nation and on television screens as well so it's not clear what is going to happen here in wisconsin there is of course the national guard that could be called out you've got a number of state police who could be called out by the hundreds and because of what is happening across the country you can be sure that officials here are preparing for something to happen most of these events happen at night so fully i would expect that later tonight you're going to at least see some peaceful protesters out here in the city center you might see a little more activity but right now what's going on you might be able to hear us solve or 2 in the background and that's because business owners all over downtown you know as you are boarding up their windows and doors they are expecting something to happen within an hour shank you very much for that will be off course
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keeping an eye on the situation in connection with you john hendren live for assange in wisconsin the u.s. . and a gunman who made it 51 people at 2 mosques in new zealand last year has faced survivors in court there were harrowing accounts from some of the victims on the 1st day of brenton town sentencing tank has already pleaded guilty to dozens of charges it could be handed new zealand's 1st life sentence without parole when he reports under heavy security brinton terrence was flown by the new zealand air force back to christchurch the city where he inflicted so much pain on so many since the attack the australian has been held in a maximum security prison in oakland where once the sentences handed down he's likely to spend the rest of his life there was also tight security at the court where terence will sit for the next few days facing and listening to the victims and their family members under god but. he will
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always be in the lives of our lives and we want. every. his son was one of 44 people killed during friday prayers at the el nor mosque where terence began his assault with 6 high powered guns he then drove across town to the lynwood mosque and killed 7 more before he was arrested he streamed the attacks on the internet and did earlier uploaded a manifesto detailing his obsession with white supremacy and his hatred of muslims the court heard he wanted to inflict as many fatalities as possible and burn down the mosques afterwards he'd studied to floor plans in advance and targeted the mosques when he knew they would be busy the planes timed intreat was to ensure the maximum number of wishes would be present if it analyzed the mosque layouts to the tune likely its roots fleeing which was not usually loss. survivors spoke of his
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failure to achieve his goal of spreading hate and sowing divisions oh. come more. room. after a surprise guilty plea in march terran sentencing was delayed because of coronavirus restrictions despite the lack of a trial the judge said he wanted those affected to have this say in court to help bring fanelli and closure that painful process is underway and disintegrates is likely to be handed down on thursday when hey al jazeera mollies deposed president. is to be released from detention and will be free to leave the country as a result of talks between the military who ousted him and a delegation of west african leaders who visited the capital bamako and mediators included the head of regional group sent from a nigerian president goodluck jonathan there's been no agreement however on
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a transitional government is following developments from nigeria's capital abuja and has more on what was agreed. on the request of course the military leaders have now agreed to allow the brian booker kids out of prison to attend to his health it was also decided that whenever he gets well enough the course is given a guarantee that he will be returned back to money on the issue of transition nothing has been agreed yet. the military leadership there in mali insisted that this is a decision that should be taken by molly ns and not dumb or a course so for that for the time being that is left aside now they also requested i mean the military leaders also requested that course should ease sanctions imposed on money in the wake of the cool those sanctions include shutting in and land borders with mali suspending mali from decision making bodies of the
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economic community of west african states as well as of course cutting of financial flows from member states of course into mali so these are some of the things that have been agreed upon so far after 3 days of discussion. to yemen now where weeks have to wrench will reign in flash flooding in the west have forced 350000 families from their homes at least 130 m. many have died in the deluge aid organizations already struggling to help millions hard hit by the war and to increase pressure. of reports. this is what's left of a family home his neighbors have been helping him collect anything that's worth keeping a little girl heavy rains pruett flash flooding to this region of western yemen bushing the way whom's and devastating families homages already an often lost his 2 remaining family members in my anaconda milam. my aunt and uncle have drowned in
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heavy flooding the death is a great loss to me as they raised me after my parents died i don't know what to do now that rebuild our home and my life again. but there are also stories of survival. this 80 year old has us how we managed to ski both through water broke through a recently built flood. i grabbed my young granddaughter and held on to the huts wooden ceiling but i couldn't reach the other girl and after the flood filled the room up to my chest the water submerged my granddaughter under my knee then i asked god to help us for the sake of those 2 innocent children and right away the water went out and we survived. according to u.n. agencies at least 130 people have died in the flooding since late july with an estimated 350000 families displaced across 13 provinces among
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them people like hussein who fled the heavy saudi you quality bombardment on his village of arab near the saudi border. after a flood there a village in product leaving behind everything that we had we have settled here near a cemetery in a way it's the recent floods have swept away some of our goats that we depend on to survive these are hard days. this natural disaster comes at a time when millions of yemenis are struggling to survive after a years long civil war nearly half of humans more than 30000000 people need immediate assistance you're now fishel say the conflict has led to the deaths of $85000.00 people from famine and the recent month long floods have worsened an already dire situation this part bringing damaging floods there is an upside
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to all the rain it's giving farmers much needed water which the normally have to pump from the ground and it's the saudi mahratti led war that has led to a serious shortages of fuel making irrigation and expensive how about bob. from the problems over her alcon owls. her again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera the berlin hospital treating russian opposition leader alexei navalny says test results indicate he was poisoned it says his life is not in danger but it cannot rule out. any long term effects of ali was flown to germany from a siberian hospital in an induced coma on saturday. the republican party has formally renominated donald trump as their candidate for november's election the
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u.s. president has made a surprise early arrival at the party's convention in charlotte north carolina 7. if you want to really drive him crazy you see 124 years was ok. we caught them doing some really bad things in 2060 let's see what happens we caught them doing some really bad things we have to be very careful because they're trying it again with this whole 80000000 mail in ballots that they're working on. sending a message to people that didn't ask for it in english the use gave them and it's not fair and it's not right while democrats are concerned about trump's ongoing attacks on mailing voting they've been questioning the head of the u.s. postal service on capitol hill later joy who is a trump ally is being asked by a house committee whether his changes will delay the delivery of postal ballots the
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president has said mail in voting will cause voter fraud without providing evidence u.s. democratic presidential nominee joe biden says they must be an immediate investigation after the nativists police shooting of a black man the. officer seen shooting jacob blake 7 times in the back is seriously hurt in os hospital an overnight curfew was imposed in can osha wisconsin rescuers in western india are searching for at least 70 people feared trapped in the rubble of their collapsed homes dozens of survivors have been pulled from the rubble near mumbai. those are the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera it since i story stay with us.
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e.u. countries using that coded 19 emergency to clamp down on refugees if they in greece are accused of being more hostile to migrants during the pandemic is another humanitarian crisis in the mediterranean on the way this isn't a story. hello welcome. italy and greece of long complained of being overwhelmed by undocumented migrants desperate to get into europe the e.u. members of the main landing points refugees and asylum seekers crossing the mediterranean sea for no.
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