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shooting of a black man also. if you want to really draw. you see or hear. president trump dropped by on day one of the republican convention in north carolina which has formally nominated him as its candidate. german doctors treating the russian opposition to the election of a nice a test results show he was poisoned with a substance that's found in pesticides and nerve agents the german chancellor angela merkel has called on moscow to identify the perpetrators and hold them to account evolving remains in a medically induced coma after being transferred to berlin from a hospital in siberia on saturday doctors say his situation is serious but it's not life threatening the longtime opponent of president vladimir putin collapsed on

a plane on thursday colleagues say all he had to drink was a cup of tea at tomsk airport before he fell ill. well a german medical team detected a substance from a group of colon s. to raise inhibitors in the valleys blood these types of drugs can increase communication between nerve cells in the brain and this sometimes used to ease dementia symptoms but some types of colon estrace and have it is a used as pesticides in a toxic to humans the valley is being treated with the antidote atropine the same drug that was used to treat set of a scrip all of former russian double agent and his dorsey yuliya who were poisoned with a nerve agent in 2018 in salzburg england where i was there is dominic kane is following developments in berlin and says that the suspected poison has very few civilian applications. the doctors treating alexy in our valley have been quite categorical about what they believe is the cause of his ordeal they say that there is a toxin a poison in his system which has laid him low they say they don't believe that this

is life threatening now but they can't guarantee that he's going to be able to recover fully from the extent of his ordeal the specific poison in his system belongs to a family of chemicals which have very few civilians therapeutic applications only for conditions such as dementia or alzheimer's disease and we know that mr nardelli has never complained of suffering from those conditions in which case you have to consider the other applications for this poison and that is passed the size and then nerve agents that's to say chemical weapons the point about this is that this revelation about poison in his system has prompted a reaction from the german government with the foreign minister and the chancellor angela merkel making a joint statement in which they call upon the authorities in russia fully to investigate what caused this to happen to do so in a transparent manner and then to bring to account to bring to justice those

responsible for the ordeal that mr nardelli has now been going through for several days. well russian health officials say no vonnie tested negative for cullen estrace inhibitors when he was hospitalized in siberia last week and the doctors who treated him then also tonight and poisoned. but we were we were treating the patient and we saved him there was and and couldn't have been any outside influence on the patients treatment yet most of us 1st of all some of those do or can say you have. the diagnosis of poisoning remained until the end of the day until a 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 and xandra stay on of which got frayed as a journalist based in the russian capital and tell us more about the sas meant by russian doctors what they're saying is that the widely didn't have clinical

symptoms that they're characteristic of intoxication with the current there is inhibitors what they're also saying is they did test for death and found nothing a one of the doctors that was flown in from moscow to help treat now i want to help determine what is what is wrong with him what happened to him also says that he didn't hear anything new or from from germany what he says is that they also from the start started getting up dropping me that they also thought the might be what is the now the diagnosis of the german doctors but they moved from there since a lab results came negative on the possible toxins that would cause this state so what he's also pointing out is that look also german labs didn't find the specific foy's unlike ours didn't on the other hand by this family a russian opposition in general is saying we were telling you from the start this was poisoning what you were suspecting now is confirmed by you know german clinic

and what they now want is a thorough investigation. moving to better use now the opposition coordination council is saying it's committed to the goal of forming a transitional government despite the police detaining to have its members around 200000 people defied soldiers deployed in the capital minsk on sunday to gather in protest a monday in the resignation of president alexander lukashenko he's been in power for 26 years and is accused of rigging the election earlier this month that handed him another term in office maria costa linnik over is a member of that coordination council and says they're not afraid i meet with them and. we constantly experience this kind of pressure but it doesn't scare me or make me stop doing what i'm doing now on the contrary it unites us more the fact that there are more applications to become members after the opening of the criminal case on charges of undermining national security shows that belorussians are united

we are now stronger than ever in our will to express the people's will. has been following the story from inside better as she has more from minsk now on the detention of those opposition leaders. this morning they were arrested when they were at this truck. and this factory has played quite a big role during the focus there were just strikes they are going to be basically been leading the strikes also in this in the last couple of weeks they were just picked up what are you a riot police when they were standing outside one of them is the leader of the strikers who has become the leader of the national strike i would say and he is working at this factory and the other one is that a manager for. the governor of the u.s. state of wisconsin is some in the national guard off to angry protests in the city

of konoha of the police shooting of an unarmed black man on sunday. footage shows offices firing at jacob blake several times his father says the 29 year old is out of surgery and in a stable condition an overnight curfew has been imposed on the town off to black lives massive protests turned violent of a night on sunday crowds gathered at the scene of the shooting setting fires and throwing molotov cocktails at police the offices involved in this have been put on leave. well john hendren is live for saying can i show as confident as you are saying john the curfew has been extended now for a 2nd night in a row but people likely to abide by it. it's my experience having covered many of these events that the black lives matter protesters and others will remain out in the street dips spite the protests and

that sets up the possibility for a conflict because 125 national guardsmen are coming out they are supposed to be locking down the street during that curfew to stop the kinds of protesting in setting of fires that happened just about 24 hours ago when it all started right here jacob blake's lawyer said that he parked his car right about there to get out and to stop a street fight that he saw going on and as he sought to deescalate that fight apparently police arrived on the scene and for some reason they perceived him is that threat we still don't know what that reason was but we are told by those who are close to him that he was not armed at the time it's not that's not clear on the video but his hands are free and that viral video that went out just immediately

after that incident sent people out in the streets it alarmed this city city officials brought out garbage trucks to block the roads around the town square and those were set on fire including a nearby car lot with multiple cars there and then now you have a lot of politicians including the presidential candidate joe biden saying that it looks like something is wrong here that this looks like police brutality and they're asking for quick answers the mayor of can osha was 'd surrounded by a crowd of protesters many of them wearing black lives matter shirts and they demanded the arrest and criminal charges against the officers involved but what we know from the george floyd incident is that that generally takes some time in almost record speed the 1st officer was charged in that case 4 days later but you can bet that the protesters will be out here until they hear more from this city on what those charges will be. and the footage as distressing as it is is really important isn't it john does this again highlight perhaps the need from wall for

more widespread use of recording devices by police that's right it is reported that the police in this case were not wearing body cameras or at least they were not turned on if they were so the video we have is from people standing by and what a lot of the demonstrators what a lot of lawmakers across the u.s. are saying is that if each police officer wore a body camera then there would be an objective record of exactly what happened the entire vent because as we saw there was about 20 seconds of that video but we don't know what happened before that and we don't know exactly what happened after that in so it would put it in decline tex if you had more police officers wearing these body cameras but we might see some more confrontation this evening if those protesters do indeed stay out as they often do thank you very much john hendren

with all the latest from constant. they want the republican national convention is underway in charlotte north carolina and online as well over the next 4 days republicans will look to energize that base for one eyes party policy at the november presidential election u.s. president donald trump and vice president might penn's officially been nominated as the party's 2020 candidates during a surprise appearance trump told supporters that he was confident of securing a 2nd term and again question the use of mail in ballots. the are far 7 ahead if you want to really drive them crazy you see 12 more years of the. year we caught them doing some really bad things in 2016 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 at their work you know. sending them out to people that didn't ask for it in this they just get it. and it's not fair and it's not right i want a house correspondent can really help joins us live now and it's such a different landscape for president trump this time around in 2016 seems like he was very comfortable being that the disruptive but now he's under pressure to articulate some kind of vision for a 2nd term all we're likely to get that from the convention. up to this point the president's been pretty thin in terms of his vision for his 2nd act if he is elected president however that is supposed to change we understand according to the campaign there are going to be a lineup of speakers some of the president's staunchest supporters outlining some of that vision which will highlight a renewal of the american dream what does that mean well you remember 2016 donald

trump promised to create jobs he says those were decimated as a result of the shutdowns of coke at 19 so really bringing those jobs back among other things including cutting drug prices and also some fear tactics are likely to be employed as well painting a portrait of a biden presidency joe biden the democratic presidential nominee that would be high crime allowing immigrants to enter and checked into the united states as well as the high taxes so this is a chance for the president to present an alternative economic platform but things have gotten off to a rocky start so far for the president it's been day after day in recent days of negative headlines for this president not only has he had one of his most loyal allies counselor to the president kellyanne conway announcing that she is leaving but also there has been members of the president's own republican party who have come out saying that they as former congressmen and women will be supporting joe biden and then the president's own sister has come out on public record saying that

the president is a liar and an opportunist so not a good start not the way you want to kick off a rather republican national convention still the president not only did he make that surprise appearance he's expected to in some way we've himself into the events in the coming hours not once but twice ok thanks very much. house correspondent thank you company still ahead. supercharged by lightning storms firefighters in california battle some of the biggest blazes in the state's history. and yemen's new disaster weeks of flooding devastates a country already dealing with the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

heather the weather conditions steadily improving across the southeast of australia because the still a fair amount of cloud means to me and of the last year as plenty of cloud on its way to new zealand that is the stores this of course that brought us wintry weather across the southeast we should see more of that on she's a quite a bit of want to see showers in these coastal areas of victoria plenty of showers across into new zealand fine and dry out across the west 21 is a high in perth on tuesday the same a wednesday if anything perhaps a little bit more than in the way of sunshine and time it is beginning to improve across the southeast 18 in sydney and a fairly pleasant and prison with a high of 21 with those rain showers becoming rather more prevalent across the south island of new zealand bunch of rain showers across into china in particular to the north on the east i'm having a seasonal rains there but we're watching this of course this is a typhoon bhavin as we go through tuesday this is storm will have sustained winds at about 195 kilometers an hour if it was a hurrican this would be a category 3 it's going to continue his journey north woods cheese day on wednesday

still a day also way from making landfall but as you can see the rain beginning to push into the korean peninsula also impacts in western areas of japan it could already cause some flooding rains but to say the storm system on its way north heading towards china. meet maria driven by poverty into prostitution and drugs as an early age now as a mother she's turning her life around with the help of a theatre troupe a group of colombia's women fighting the challenges they face. was compelling series which showcases fresh filmmaking talent around the globe do you find a lot of america presents acting lessons on al-jazeera.

welcome back on main story today german doctors treating russian opposition leader alex in a valley say tests indicate he was poisoned with a substance usually found in pesticides and nerve agents the german chancellor angela merkel has called on moscow to identify the perpetrators and hold them to account in our other headlines the national guard has been summoned in wisconsin after violent protests erupted in the city of can osho over the police shooting of a black man jacob blake is in a stable condition in hospital after being shot several times in the back on sunday the curfew has now been extended. and donald trump has been formally nominated as the republican party's 2020 presidential candidate on the 1st day of its national convention. all in all the stories california is bracing for more lightning

storms which could supercharge wildfires already burning across the state 5 fights a battling hundreds of places including the 2nd and 3rd largest in california's history at least 7 people have been killed and almost a 1000 homes destroyed or brunell's reports from los angeles. packing up and getting out richard camacho of sonoma county is part of a mass exodus of northern california residents fleeing raging wildfires are living in weird times right now man this i mean 5 years back it was no fires every year and now it seems like every year's record record fires every year the fires of august are among the largest ever reported in the state with an $800.00 homes are reported destroyed with 25000 more structures at risk more than $40000.00 hectares of land have been scorched the l

n you lightning complex fire stretching across 5 counties is now 20 percent contained according to the california fire agency cal fire it like 2 dozen major fires in the state was started by lightning strikes from dry thunderstorms the fire concentration the challenge that we're facing here in the state is now disproportionately impacting northern california and that is because of close to 12000 lightning strikes that we experienced over a 72 hour period lightning sparked fires ravage giant redwood trees in california as old as state park the big basin redwood state park in santa cruz county was established in 19 to now historic structures and a museum lie in ruins. more than 1700 firefighters and support crews are trying to contain the blazes many of which are burning in rugged inaccessible train

reinforcement crews have arrived from arizona montana leventon texas and utah president donald trump approved a major disaster declaration making federal funds available for recovery efforts in addition to nature's fury residents of the fire zone have also to contend with human mendacity law enforcement authorities reported looting of vacated homes one thief broke into a firefighters car and stole his wallet it takes a special person to wake up in the morning and say you know what i'm going to go to victimize and traumatize people who have already been through everything that this community has been through more dry thunderstorms are forecast for northern california on monday robert oulds al jazeera los angeles at least 11 people have been killed in the dominican republic and in haiti by 2 storms which are now heading towards the u.s. gulf coast tropical storms nora and marco have left major flooding and large parts

of the caribbean with without power marco has since weekend but laura could develop into a category 3 hurricane before it makes landfall in the u.s. on thursday hitting parts of louisiana and texas u.n. agencies are saying at least 130 people in yemen have been killed by flooding since late july the extreme weather is also just bison estimated 350000 families across 13 provinces and it is already dealing with the wild west humanitarian crisis often more than 5 years of civil war. reports now from kenyans. this is what's left of our most family home his neighbors have been helping him collect anything that's worth keeping a week ago heavy rains brute flash flooding to this region of western yemen washing away whom's and devastating families. was already an often lost his 2 remaining

family members an economy with. my aunt and uncle who have drowned in heavy flooding their death as a great loss to me is they raised me after my parents died i don't know what to do now but rebuild our home and my life again. but there are also stories of survival this 80 year old tells us how we managed to ski both through water broke through a recently built flood barrier well tomorrow probably. 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 330000 families displaced across 13 provinces among

them people like hussein who fled the here we saw how do you qualify bombardment on his village of near the saudi border. after a flood their village and 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 for. this natural disaster terms of a time when millions of yemenis are struggling to survive after years long civil war nearly half of humans more than 30000000 people need immediate assistance you're now official 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 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 lead war that have led to a serious shortages of fuel making irrigation and expensive how about bob. from the problems of. alcon owls now at least 100 people are feared trapped after a 5 story building collapsed in western india a block of 47 apartments came down in the town of my heart south of the financial capital mum by children are believed to be among those trapped dozens of survivors have been pulled from the rubble. all now tamale the ousted president. will be released from detention and allowed to leave the country the decision comes after 3 days of talks in the capital bamako aimed at finding a solution to the country's political crisis west african regional mediators have

been in negotiations with soldiers who seized power last week after months of anti-government demonstrations and my address has more from. on the request of course the military leaders have now agreed to allow the brain but their kids are out of prison to attend to use health it was also decided that whenever he gets well enough the cause 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 in mali insisted that this is a decision that should be taken by molly and i'm not dumb or a course so for that for the time being that is left aside now they're also requested i mean the military leaders also requested that course should ease sanctions imposed on money in the wake of the coup those sanctions include shutting

and land borders with mali suspending money from decision making bodies of the economic community of west african states as well as of course cutting or 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 now the mining giant rio tinto discussing 3 and a half $1000000.00 in bonuses for its chief executive over the destruction of 2 indigenous sites in australia the company is saying another 2 executives will also lose that bonuses of 7 $100000.00 each. destroyed to 46000 year old rock shelters and. in western australia in may while trying to access i an oil company had received 5 reports highlighting the significance of the sites. now corona virus infections of past 560000 in mexico which has one of the world's

highest death rates but it hasn't stopped professional fighters from on the country's most popular sports wrestling for wanting to get back into the ring latin america at its newman has the story. this is mexico's most iconic sport leave a day or tree wrestling. it draws massive standing room only crowds but since the pandemic hit all the arenas gyms and ballrooms are closed and so unemployed fighters like that one are wrestling just to survive and some is going to be one would have we thought this was going to last 3 or 4 weeks but it's been almost 4 months we have to keep going we have to look for ways to learn to live with this pandemic but how. one group of professional fighters think they have the answer they've taken their spectacle to such immediate goal on the outskirts of mexico city. they invited the media to see how they can revive the

sport out of doors. so to me cause system of floating gardens and canals is nicknamed the mexican venice and has just been reopened to tourists and the throttle up when the when the pandemic is started we decided to innovate and do this outdoors so we had to deflate gardens we had the ring we had everything and we said why not they're taking the typical precautions for spectators although the fighter is clearly need to remain close up and personal they say that outdoors it's safer than inside of a normal venue but already there's a problem out of the phone right now it's raining a lot and everything is getting wet so it's going to deteriorate very quickly what we want is for the ring to be roofed to build some small stand to adopt this place so that it becomes a tourist attraction there's no doubt about their enthusiasm but their need to get

back to work but in the country with the region's highest called the $1000.00 mortality range per 1000000 infections bringing back the crowds may be their biggest battle. yet you see in human al-jazeera. our top story this hour german doctors treating russian opposition leader alexina volleys say test results show he was poisoned with a substance found in pesticides and nerve agents the german chancellor angela merkel has now called on moscow to identify the perpetrators and hold them to account the valley remains in a medically induced coma after being transferred to but lynn from the hospital in siberia on saturday doctors say his situation is serious but not life threatening long time opponents of president vladimir putin collapse on a plane on thursday but doctors who treated a valley in russia tonight he'd been poisoned. we were treating the patient

and we saved him there was and and couldn't have be any outside influence on the patients treatment of those those those almost all of. the diagnosis of poisoning remained until the end of the day until 12 if i'm not mistaken we received a final conclusion from 2 laboratories that no talks of chemicals that can be considered poisons or by products of poisons were found. in our other top stories opposition leaders in bella ruse say they are committed to forming a transitional government spight the police arresting several key figures they saw after around 200000 protesters defied soldiers deployed in the capital minsk on sunday to again a rally demanding the resignation of president alexander lukashenko. in the u.s. day one of the republican national convention is underway in charlotte north carolina and online as well over the next 4 days republicans will look to energize that base

and formalize party policy ahead of the election in november u.s. president donald trump and vice president mike pence officially been nominated as the party's 2020 candidates the convention is crucial in trump's bid to reverse his slump in opinion polls meanwhile the governor of wisconsin a some in the national guard to head off more angry protests in the city of kosha over the police shooting of an unarmed black man on sunday footage of the incident shows officers firing at jacob blake several times the 29 year old is in hospital in a stable condition and overnight curfew has now been extended in can osha for a 2nd straight night that's it for myself from the team here in london if you find a latin america is the program coming up next. i am sequence i would question the keys days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important to me the bottom line tackles the big issues this is

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