donald trump accuses the democrats of trying to steal november's election as the republican convention rallies against what it calls the radical left. hello there are more karl this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up renewed anger in the u.s. protests in several cities after a black man is shot 7 times by police. the e.u. demands an independent investigation as doctors confirm a prominent russian opposition leader was poisoned. and new questions about covert

19 hong kong reports the 1st case reinfection. has accused the democrats of working to steal the election on the 1st day of the republican party national convention in north carolina that's because over the past few hours of rallied against what they say is the threat of socialism and the democrats radical left this year the republican party has not published its own platform instead vowing blanket support for trump's agenda the convention is crucial as trump seeks to reverse his slump in opinion polls let's join our white house correspondent kambli help that she's monitoring everything from the white house and give me oh we've been hearing from on this 1st day of the convention. well there's really been a parade of the president's staunchest supporters among them some of the superstars

that he's having in his administration among the former ambassador to the united nations u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley she used her platform at the convention to really highlight what she saw as the foreign policy successes of donald trump and his presidency whether it came to a rod whether it came to north korea what she saw as his straits here's what she had to say. abidin harris administrator sean would be much much worse last time joe's boss was obama this time it would be palosi sanders and the squad their vision for america is socialism and we know that socialism has failed everywhere they want to tell americans how to live what to think they want to government takeover of health care they want to ban fracking and kill millions

of jobs they want massive tax hikes on working families joe biden and the socialist left would be a disaster for our economy. ok really the republicans have promised that convinced will be quote less negative of the democrats but that sounded pretty negative. yeah it's very much been and negative overtone aids been a contrast if you will with every speaker and us versus them this is what you have under donald trump vote if you want that to continue or scenting really almost an apocalyptic view of what joe biden presidency would look like but there was another goal this evening that was to try and show the face of diversity of the republican party now donald trump is not scored high marks when it comes to race relations in the united states and it seems that this evening the 1st night of the convention

was deliberately an attempt to counter that and also the fact that the ticket of donald trump and mike pence is 2 white men in contrast to joe biden and the historic candidacy of kamel harris the 1st african-american woman to run for vice president so we heard a number of speakers talking about how donald trump was a racist how the democrats have abandoned predominately african-american cities allowing them to fold into urban decay and also expressly stating that donald trump has been a friend of african-americans and then more for the community a claim that the u.s. president has made repeatedly that many have challenge so it's clear that this night was about projecting strength but it also in doing so expose some of the vulnerabilities of this president as he struggles not only to lift his approval rating but to win in november and can you tell us about this group cooled republicans for biden's a small but growing group of defectives if we can call him out.

yeah those so what 4 we've got is a very lengthy list of republicans former members of congress dating back about the last 20 years that have assembled a group called republicans for bided and early in the day it seemed that many people were dismissing this is some has been politicians but as the republican convention was continuing in this primetime hours word came that in fact there are now 2 i named current members of the troubled ministration we're told are senior administration officials who have joined on to this group so that is not good news for a president that is trying to not only show that he has a strong administration but that it's one that can carry on into and 2nd term ok kimberly many thanks for bringing us the latest on the 1st day of the republican national convention now the police shooting of

a black 7 times has brought protesters back onto the streets of several u.s. cities. take us was filed to force back crowds in the city of can oso where the shooting took place an overnight curfew has been put in place in the national guard has been brought in 29 year old jacob blake for salt in the back as he leaned into his s.u.v. . john hendren reports from connection. you don't think about the body and once again a local mayors struggles to answer for the put my shooting of a black mayor don't have that number 100-000-0000 extension 000 m. how you are. lately come up the shooting captured on mobile phone is difficult to watch jacob lake apparently unarmed walks around his s.u.v. his 3 children unseen inside seeming to ignore the police following behind at the door an officer grabs him by the shirt his back to police. police fire 7

shots the shooting set off a night of protests in the streets the city blocking roads with garbage trucks demonstrators set them on fire leaving behind charred chances including a neighboring car lot and a message on a courthouse wall and we clear this was not an accident this wasn't bad police work this felt like some sort of been dead a being taken out on a member of our community the officers daily actions attempted to take a person's life in broad daylight. the shooting drew condemnation from presidential candidate joe biden who issued a statement saying the nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another black american is a victim of excessive force these shots pierced the soul of our nation. blake survived and is in stable condition jacob blake's lawyer says he parked his

car and got out at this corner in order to break up a street fight and as he sought to deescalate a conflict police for reasons that remain unexplained treated him as a threat. the shooting of jacob blake adds to the anger over police brutality that erupted following the death of george fluid in minneapolis. and briana taylor in louisville kentucky the outrage that reverberated across the u.s. now engulfing canoe ship ellis is now lost somewhere i sobbed. i just had to say gather my thoughts for a moment i can't speak for the carcase the community maybe it's surprising to them it's not surprising to me despite a curfew and the arrival of the military troops of the national guard to control the streets protesters are continuing their demonstrations demanding an end to a cycle of official violence against black americans in confrontations with police that could have ended peacefully but didn't john hendren al jazeera can no show

wisconsin. and we've got some pictures now this is the scene around the courthouse which was vandalized on sunday night this is the 2nd night that we're seeing rubbish trucks around that area being set on fire by protesters our correspondent has heard john hendren there saying that tonight monday night the protests are being and flowing there is a line of police officers protecting the courthouse we are keeping a close eye on events there. second night of protesters demonstrating against the shooting of that man who was shot 7 times in the back on sunday but is said to be in a stable condition in hospital lester spence is a professor of political science and africana studies at johns hopkins university he says the black lives matter movement has grown rapidly but policy changes will take time. if you think about the civil rights movement one of the things that gave

the civil rights movement its power was that it happened at the same time as you see basically a national t.v. video the t.v. last video news apparatus developed so right so people could actually see with their own eyes basically black southerners and in some cases their white colleagues and white comrades being brutalized and that really shifted our ranch shifted our attitudes about jim crow racism it shifted our political policy right but at the same time it's important to stand that those policy changes happened a long time after everything started 10 to 15 years after you actually get the policies because you're talking about political change this isn't a national dynamic even though it occurs nationally police are governed by state politics right so in the wisconsin case can no suspensions approximately 25 percent of its budget of policing more than any other indicator in order to change that

what has to happen is it is simple is getting trapped out of office you actually have to engage in wisconsin politics and that stuff takes a while so the reason i talk about that is because it's really important for folks to understand is not as if george floyd is killed in may and jacob blake is killed and then nothing changes is this that people have to understand that this is literally a long term struggle thing you have called on russia to launch an independent and transparent investigation into the poisoning of opposition into alexina vallone talk to them germany have confirmed test results show that the kremlin critic was poisoned he's now in an unjust coma after being transferred from siberia on sunday the long time opponent to present that amir putin collapse on a plane on thursday after thanking a cup of tea at tomsk port. professor alastair hay is an environmental toxicology expert he says at their most deadly these substances are notorious nerve agents

those are the preserve generally of government the nerve agent there are a variety sarin and reeling off some names here and now seren tabun like the compound the x. that was used on the north korean leader's half brother in malaysia and killed him . those substances are all what you would find within government they're all strictly regulated and there shouldn't be any in general circulation not the truck type chemicals also fall into that category they're ones where you would expect it to come from some government source very unlikely for an individual to have it although it is not beyond the ability of competent chemists with good facilities good protection in a laboratory for the person making the substance for them to be able to make it. so

has hair on al-jazeera and talks in mali failed to secure a transitional government but military coup leaders agree to one key demand. and leaving everything behind california residents pack up as hundreds of fires burned across the state. hello there horse and dry across the west of the united states because that is where the wildfires are just destroying major parts of california me want to cross into the gulf we're watching what is a tropical storm aka making landfall choose a on into wednesday but out across the west this is what of course we have seen now for days and days on end this is actually in napa valley this footage was taken by a driver trying to make that journey through this particular roadway in napa valley and you can see what they were driving through or at times what they could not say

in a course eventually they reached a point they could not go any further they have to tell us how dangerous these fires are still the weather conditions the same hot dry gusty winds right california up into oregon across into nevada we could have similar dry lightning that of course sparks these fires that through tuesday it'll be the mako working its way of course that made landfall by choose say it worked its way west was across the coast of louisiana and then we got on the heels as we go through tuesday and wednesday last system laura is actually expected to become a hurricane by then of course marco will have dissipated i want to show you them both a little more clearly certainly as we go through choose day lure of pushing away from cuba into these war says this is where i'm expected to strengthen into a hurricane meanwhile those rains continue with mako as in these west along into texas. story without having

a single one. a simple time. in 4 months. conventionality of life witnessed through the lens of the human eye. is what inspired. witness documentaries on how to 0. the. hello again you're watching on to their heads reminder of our top stories this hour donald trump has accused the democrats of working to steal the election on the 1st day of the republican party convention in north carolina speakers over the past few

hours of rallies against what they say is the price of socialism and the democrats' radical left. there are demonstrations in several u.s. cities after a black man was shot in the back 7 times by police at the scene in the city of connection where that shooting took place the testers are defying a nighttime curfew and the national guard has been deployed. and the e.u. is calling for an independent investigation into the suspected poisoning of russian opposition leader alexa nobel named doctors in germany have confirmed that the kremlin critic was poisoned. his postmaster general has assured congress that operational changes to the postal service will not affect mail and voting for this year's presidential election lou is to joy he was back in congress on monday this time before a house panel investigating recent delays in deliveries castro has more if louis to joyce back to back appearances before congress were meant to appease

democrats concerns about postal delays and the upcoming election they didn't work do your mail delays trump's campaign goal of hurting the post office as stated in his tweets mr joy is your backup plan to be pardoned like roger stone. for. you have 2 seconds to answer the question i have no comment from commuted his friend roger stone's prison sentence for obstruction and witness tampering among other crimes in july the joy is a mega donor to the trump campaign he denies helping trump by sabotaging the postal service he now leads and again back out to sea mail in ballots delivered on time this sacred duty is my number one priority between now and election day since to joy became postmaster general in june reports of mail delays as a result of his cost cutting measures have alarmed americans the joy says he'll

suspend further cuts but will not reinstate the mailboxes and sorting machines that have already been removed going to where you put the machine i'm very i'm very proud to lead the organization the rest of your accusations are actual you put those what actually are a good machine i will not you will not will not you will not will either go republican say to joy has been unfairly targeted by democrats the man sitting before this committee today is not who the democrats have been nice to him to be he's here today because he supported president trump and with this congress that makes you a target. the house of representatives has passed legislation prohibiting the u.s. postal service from making operational cuts during the pandemic more than 2 dozen republicans joined democrats in that vote but the measure will likely not become law it faces opposition in the senate and from the white house castro al-jazeera

washington. the 1st documented case of a patient being really infected with corona virus has been reported in hong kong researchers at the university of hong kong said 33 year old man fell sick again 4 months after his 1st bout in march but scientists say he's suffering from a different strain of the virus and unlike his 1st infection the 2nd time he did not have any symptoms researches have suggested that patients who recover from the corona virus are immune to infection that antibody levels can fall after a few months world health organization warns against jumping to conclusions based on just one case julie fisher is an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology director of the elizabeth griffin program at the georgetown university medical center she says this latest development suggests that reinfection in patients can happen without any symptoms being present. it's so it's not so much a mutation as the virus is error prone when it replicates mistakes get introduced

into its genome and over time to virus sort of drifts away so that there are distinct families and that's what appears to have happened in this case it appears that he was previously infected with with a variant strain that was circulating in the u.s. in march and that the most recent. re infection was with a newer strain that's circulating in europe currently what it means is that it confirms that even though people do make antibodies while they are infected which is a sign of immunity that winning immunity may allow them to be infected again the interesting thing news here is that this was actually caught by a screening a mandatory screening at an airport and the single case did not have any symptoms at all so it's very difficult to extrapolate that to the whole population but it tells us that it's possible that that for just infection does can for protection

against severe disease but it clearly does not mean that the that once a person has recovered that they are protected from ever becoming infected again and it's clear that they may be able to transmit the virus to others even though they themselves are not showing any symptoms. there is a brokered deal between israel and the united arab emirates maybe sarin after less than 2 weeks u.s. news website is reporting that the u.a.e. called off a meeting with israeli and american officials after prime as a benjamin netanyahu opposed the sale of f. 35 jets to abu dhabi a double has been trying to purchase the advanced fighters but u.s. policy dictates that israel must maintain as military superiority in the region in a sector state might pompei is expected to discuss the jet sales during his trip to abu dhabi this week. china's is prime minister designate has she has announced a 2nd new government in just 6 months that aims to revive his weak economy as soon

as possible the cobbler's of independent technocrats with no party affiliations must now receive parliamentary approval in the next 10 days the former interior minister's decision to bypass all the political entities as many including the islamic and nada party and she is the 3rd head of government to be appointed since polls last october talks between west african mediators and mollie's military coup leaders have ended with an agreement to release the ousted president no deal on the transitional government the country was plunged into political crisis of the abraham was forced to step down echo us wants a return to civilian rule as soon as possible the military wants the next election to be held in 3 years time after managers has the latest everything. they came they met and both compromised after 3 days of talks the west african regional broadcast reached an agreement with malice you believe true leaders to set free

deposed president brian booker keita of course says the 77 year old needs medical attention request the military accepted. later said he's resigned he was not forced to resign and that he's not interested in governance again. a statement some say office 2 sites desperate for a breakthrough our way out of a complex situation of course also demand that they need a restoration of democracy. in return want the lifting of sanctions imposed on the country and its leaders in the aftermath of a clue. e.q.'s explained their idea of transition so did we at this moment nothing has been concluded the transition structure will be discussed by the ruling council with the consistence we made we ask that the sanctions imposed on mali should be eased or lifted entirely what matters for us is

the population doesn't suffer the sanctions are a big problem because it's the ordinary people that will suffer. but lifting the sanctions is still far off one other sticking point is how long the transition to civil rule or lost on that the army says it's a decision to rebuild by mali and and not outside parties observers here the longer this takes frustrations all such as pressure the from the opposition. after months of protest over the outcome of parliamentary elections earlier this year malise toppled the government of the bribed kater and also the formation of a ruling council the poor landlocked country facing serious economic challenges it's also faced with rising violence in the north and center of the country attacks carried out by armed groups and ethnic militias have killed hundreds of civilians and soldiers. the delegation left by michael to prove leaders of member states of

the economic community of west african state on wednesday a summit of heads of state and government of the west africa bloc or review the resolutions and take a stand up comedy grease al-jazeera. now mexico has one of the highest coronavirus death rates in the world and it's had more than 500000 infections but that's not stopped professional fighters from one of the world's most popular sports from wanting to get back into the ring in america as lucy and human reports. 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 in some ways because the 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. 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 core system of floating gardens in can oust this nicknamed the mexican venice and has just been reopened to tourists and for up when the when the pandemic started we decided to innovate and do this outdoors so we had to float in 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 displace so that it becomes a tourist attraction this through doubt about their enthusiasm but their need to get back to work but in the country with the region's highest called the 1000 mortality range per 1000000 infections bringing back the crowds may be their biggest battle yet to see in human al-jazeera. and california firefighters are racing to prepare for more lightning storms that could worsen hundreds of wildfires as includes the state's 2nd and 3rd largest planes over there a quarter of a 1000000 people have been ordered or warned to evacuate 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. this i mean 5 years back there 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 homes are reported destroyed with $25000.00 more structures at risk more than $40000.00 hectares of land have been scorched the l n u 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 disproportionally impacting northern california and that is because of close to

$12000.00 lightning strikes that we experienced over a 72 hour period lightning sparked fires ravage giant redwood trees in california is oldest state park the big basin redwood state park in santa cruz county was established in 1000 to no 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 to rain reinforcement crews have arrived from arizona montana nevada 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 victimize and traumatize people who have already been through everything that this community has been through or dry thunderstorms or forecast for northern california robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. go with al-jazeera these are all top stories donald trump has accused the democrats of working to steal the election on the 1st day at the republican party convention in north carolina speak is over the past few hours have rallied against what they say is the threat of socialism and the democrats to call left the white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has been following the day's events. very much spin and negative overtone a it's been a contrast if you will with every speaker and us versus them this is what you have

under donald trump vote if you want that to continue or per cent and really almost an apocalyptic view of what joe biden presidency would look like it's clear that this night was about projecting straight but it also in doing so expose some of the vulnerabilities of this president as he struggles not only to lift his approval rating but to win in november. there are demonstrations and several u.s. cities off to a black man was shot in the back 7 times by police this is the scene in the city of where the shooting took place protesters that defying a nighttime curfew the national guard has been deployed. the e.u. is calling for an independent investigation into the suspected poisoning of russian opposition leader. doctors in germany have confirmed that the kremlin critic was poisoned. operational changes to the postal service will

not affect voting for this year's presidential election appearing before politicians enjoy defended his decision to introduce cost saving measures to the u.s.p.s. ahead of november's poll mediation talks in mali have ended with no agreement on a transition of power after last week's. military in the west african. have been holding talks for 3 days 2 sides agree that ousted president abraham could be released from detention. as his prime minister designate has announced a 2nd new government in just 6 months on that aims to revive the economy as soon as possible the cabinet of independent technocrats with no party affiliations must now receive parliamentary approval in the next 10 days. back with more news here on al-jazeera after witness stay with us. these days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important

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