tipple sclerosis sufferers hope to see what stage of the treatment the u.s. one o one east follows those trying to get in and out of moscow in a time of pandemic. poisoned by a nerve agent germany says it has unequivocal proof of what made russian opposition leader like 70 seriously ill. watch al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm dating an operator also ahead an attack on the rule of law the international criminal court head south to u.s. sanctions imposed on its chief prosecutor. heavy rain and strong winds last year to ireland as the korean peninsula is hit by its 2nd typhoon in a week. and how an ancient beekeeping culture is enjoying

a revival in western georgia. hello the russian opposition leader alexina vali is the victim of a murder attempt and the kremlin must answer difficult questions that's been the message from the government of germany when a volley remains seriously ill in the capital's hospital he collapsed 2 weeks ago during a flight to moscow and doctors say they have proof he was poisoned that zimbabwe reports what sort of should be done such as not the good old which alexina valmy in a video filmed in the siberian city of novosibirsk days before he collapsed on a flight to moscow now the german government says tests carried out in a military laura tree have produced unequivocal proof the russian opposition leader was poisoned with a nerve agent joke and chancellor merkel says it was attempted murder alexina by

any is in subjugation annexing of all me is the victim of a crime he was meant to be silenced and i condemn this in the shop as possible manner in the name of the entire german government. germany's foreign minister heiko mass has summoned the russian ambassador saying it's urgent that those responsible in russia be identified and brought to justice in a valley who's $44.00 was airlifted to germany late last month 2 days after being taken to a hospital in the siberian city of all. the charity hospital in berlin says he's still on a respirator in intensive care and although the symptoms of his poisoning a declining it can't rule out long term consequences navi chalk is a group of soviet era nerve agent such as the substance used to poison the former russian spy sergei script and his daughter in england in 2018 they survived but a member of the public dawn sturgis died after handling a discarded bottle containing novacek on wednesday the kremlin said russia was

ready to cooperate fully with germany open of on these case but his long time strategies lay in it volkoff says it was clearly an action carried out on behalf of president vladimir putin he tweeted in 2020 poisoning of valmy with novacek is exactly the same as leaving an autograph at the crime scene like this chancellor merkel says germany will update its european union and nato partners about the results of its investigation how the west reacts could depend on whether russia office any cooperation something that's not been forthcoming in the past nadine barber al jazeera. the united nations and human rights groups are condemning u.s. sanctions imposed on the chief prosecutor and another official of the international criminal court it's been prompted by an investigation into whether u.s. forces committed war crimes in afghanistan u.s. secretary of state my prepaying has described the i.c.c. as a kangaroo courts political hand reports. did u.s. troops torture people did they commit war crimes here in afghanistan did the

taliban or the afghan military the international criminal court has been trying to find out and now a new move from the trump administration to try and stop them at least when it comes to us for sales the united states will designate i.c.c. prosecutor for 2 bensouda and the i.c.c. as head of jurisdiction complementarity in cooperation division thank you so much to go for having material assisted prosecutor bensouda individuals and entities that continue to materially support those individuals risks posed to sanctions as well that means the chief prosecutor and the head of an i.c.c. department could be frozen out of the international banking system have any of their u.s. assets frozen human rights groups are outraged the practical effect could be ethical for the individual but i think we also have to see how damaging it and have a u.s. administration take the stand and that kind of a fall for

a fall full of all that's regard for the global world that using the actions of the u.s. has often used its vast power in the financial industry to punish war criminals now using the same tactic to go after the very people who are charged with punishing them pedicle hain al jazeera saw her as is a professor of law and director of the center for security raison rights at rutgers university and she says the i.c.c. is investigation into the actions of u.s. troops is crucial to show countries none are above the law. there isn't much to be surprised about when you're under the trumpet ministration and this is in fact unprecedented for them to go on this from an attack of a fancy against the international court which is tasked with ensuring that countries do not in fact genocide and torture which is peace here and other crimes against humanity is effectively an attempt to deal with judum eyes this international criminal court the criticism against tends to be from the african

nations because they are alleging that most of the cases that the i.c.c. is prosecuting investigating is in africa and i think there might be some truth to that if you look at the acts he said so this is this countered they are now going to investigate and determine whether the u.s. one of the strongest militaries in the in the world whether it's personnel engaged in torture which is a crime against humanity and work in afghanistan start of 2003 and whether they should be held accountable but even if they can actually take the personnel of they're found guilty and then possess them physically to prison that it's the the value and importance of telling countries we won't let you torture and get away with it the u.s. judicial system failed to do that it was not one torture investigation in the u.s. even though there is an anti torah torture law so i think there is not the i.c.c. must do this if anything if you care about torture somebody needs to prosecute

those were. president donald trump is threatening to cut funding to cities that he says allow violence he says cities under review include portland seattle new york and washington d.c. trump has been rallying with the democratic mayors of those cities over protests against racism and police brutality he's criticized them for not stopping violence but federal troops significantly worsen the level of violence and destruction when they went into portland and meanwhile the u.s. attorney general william barra says there is a false narrative that white police officers kill a lot of unarmed black men he made the comments a day after visiting kenosha with president trump it's been the site of protests since police shot jacob blake an unarmed black man 7 times in the back let's talk about these developing stories of mike hanna he's joining us from washington to 1st talk us through these reports that have just come through a few moments ago that trump is threatening to cut funding to certain cities mike.

well we're still trying to confirm these reports but indications are that president trump has sent a 5 page memo threatening to withdraw all federal funding to specific cities that he says in that letter are encouraging and he says that he does not want tax payers dollars to fund cities that are incapable of policing themselves now among these cities that is reported in new york city washington d.c. seattle and portland oregon this is a major step should the reports prove correct the letter apparently says that he has given the office of management budget 30 days to look into how federal funding is supported and to these specific cities and then the decision will be taken on whether or not to cut their funding however as i said these are initial preliminary reports and i must stress as well that there would be major legal issues in terms

of that and ministration withdrawing federal funding from cities particularly as each of these cities is run by democrats you know we'll keep an eye out and see how the story develops in the meantime like william barr has also been speaking to us media and he seemed to be defending the actions of police. very much so when he gave an exclusive interview to c.n.n. in which he basically said that the issue of police singling out african americans in terms of shooting events is what has he puts it a false narrative he contends that there is no sign of racism whatsoever in the u.s. level of policing and goes on to contend that it is very rare those were his words for an african american to be shot by a white police officer statistics show something very different indeed it's very difficult in terms of the fact that the central administration does not collect

statistics on police violence or police shootings or alleged police shootings this is largely linked to independent of situations like media organizations or academia to produce some kind of coherent type statistic and those statistics do indicate that an african american is 2 and a half times as likely to be shot by a white police officer then his white counterpart remembering as well that this vast differences in terms of the proportion of population so this is a significant the high figure which appear to appear to give the lie to william baez contention that such incidents are very rare and right and i can i thank you very much for the u.s. centers for disease control has asked states to get ready to distribute a potential coronavirus bax vaccine by november 1st it comes amid concerns that president trump is pressuring the food and drug administration to approve

a vaccine before clinical trials are completed meanwhile more than 17 wealthy countries have committed to fair access to any future vaccine and the u.s. is not participating in the global vaccine efforts which is led by the world health organization. the u.s. federal budget deficit is projected to hit a record $3.00 trillion dollars due to over $1000.00 costs and the recession triggered by the pandemic that's more than triple the $2900.00 shortfall and double the worst level during the 2008 economic crisis and according to the new estimates u.s. debt levels will surpass the size of the american economy next year qatar is emir has stressed the need for a fair resolution to the israeli palestinian conflict through the pursuit of a 2 state solution so it's i mean how does that he hosted president trump senior advisor jerry kirshner on wednesday made a stop in cats are during his tour off the middle east and while in qatar kirshner

sat down with al-jazeera and spoke about his efforts to end the palestinian israeli conflict. a lot of the reason why this hasn't been resolved for decades is because people get caught in slogans and there's a lot of politics involved what president trump did is he's the 1st leader to put a team on it and then very carefully go through all of the details in order to put out a program sweep released a proposal called president trump's vision for peace which is $180.00 page proposal israel said in that proposal they would negotiate on the basis of it that outlined a map which had never happened before the palestinians had always said if israel will agree to a map will everything else will be easy so it outlined the map it outlined a security regime they'll keep palestinians and israelis safe and outlined a way to reform the economy and it did a lot of other things as well so that offers on the table the palestinian leadership rejected it before it even was published and they knew what was in it so hopefully as tensions come down people will look at what's best for the palestinian

people what's best for the region in the move forward and that's why again this trip was so historic because instead of focusing on all the negativity that people have focused on for a long time and reciting the same talking points that are tired or you know being in the same happened sort of the same dead ends leaders rose above these these these traps and they found a way to move forward and that's why people in this region should be hopeful it's very easy to find ways to be content to condemn to a bad past but we need our visionary leaders now who can find a way to articulate and create a much more brighter and hopeful future. still ahead on al-jazeera he says there will be a bloodbath the warning from the belorussian president if he is forced out. of the. hell i was most of china is fairly quiet weather wise now in the east china

sea we have the typhoon my stock now that has reached its full strength is down slowly die but it's still a major storm is heading toward south korea and guess what it's going to be over land overnight it comes in with enough strength to cause damage in the south the onshore breeze breeze onshore strong wind from all we have the east coast is like to be potentially damaging at least with the storm surge and the huge amount of rain that by daylight hours of course it goes north or north korea into the northeastern china at least behind fine and quiet weather then there's a gap and then your eyes are drawn down here yes hi shane has already formed this will be a typhoon pretty soon and guess what it's courses its forecast course over the next few days takes it up to south korea this won't be exactly right but it's still a rough idea i don't think is going to vary very much so it gets in late in the weekend south of this and the showers are showing that they really want to because

of the wet season of the rainy season once again so throughout malaysia and indonesia downs pretty sundry nuts extends over to thailand and me in ma but now it includes java and yes jakarta as well. in the global fight against financial crime banks rely on databases for custom a chance and it requires you to ensure that you know who that person is and you understand the risk to that person brings to the bank in terms of financial coin out as their world investigates big financial data and what can happen if you find yourself on a list of hair style terrorists the database on al-jazeera. pool form.

now we're going to top stories on al-jazeera germany says it has unequivocal proof russian opposition leader that's and of all he was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent he's being treated in a berlin hospital after falling ill last month berlin says the kremlin must now answer difficult questions the u.s. has imposed sanctions on key international criminal court prosecutor figure is over an investigation into whether u.s. forces committed war crimes in afghanistan the i.c.c. says the sanctions are an attack on the rule of law. u.s. attorney general william barr says there is a false narrative that white police officers kill a lot of unarmed black men he made the comments a day after visiting kenosha alongside president donald trump where an unarmed

black man was shot in the back 7 times by police. russia's foreign minister is accusing outside forces of meddling in bella roosts surrogate lavrov says activists from ukraine are trying to create violent protests but he doesn't provide evidence between us foreign minister has told al-jazeera that what he calls russian weakness may be behind the kremlin's decision to back president alexander lukashenko bernard smith has more from lithuania capital. looking emboldened with messages of support from russia alexander lukashenko says they'll be a bloodbath if he's forced from the presidency of delegates. i want to protect what we spent 25 years creating there are thousands millions of people behind me they're the ones i'm worried about i'm not worried about power as some in russia say looper is clinging on with blue hands i don't want them to cut my country up after i glued it together after the broken pieces of the soviet empire. that been fear weeks of

peaceful protests in the capital minsk. said he won 80 percent. to the vote for his reelection the e.u. u.s. and u.k. say voting was neither free nor fair. russia's foreign minister says without providing evidence that what he described as 200 extremists from ukraine have infiltrated the protests and the trying to stir up violence. suppose for the issue we have confirmation that this is being directed from ukraine to a tory there are non-government organisations working to provoke radical offense and other battles towns but it russia has been in conflict with ukraine for 6 years lavrov who met his belarus counterpart on wednesday said nato and e.u. calls for new elections are destructive. lithuania's foreign minister told our jazeera he thinks russia is making a strategic mistake by backing lucas unfortunately russia still continues to

support for this compromise leadership not understanding that only the process complete out of this situation and what there is in ink it's another question maybe they believe it's weakness of the it will give up or somehow to a sacrifice of this we that which is totally compromised but they're also going to have this backlash both home and. also risking to. spoil relations with the people who are below those because they are not on their russian . lithuania latvia and estonia have imposed travel bans on and 28 other members of his government and want the rest of the e.u. to follow suit for on thursday russia's prime minister heads to mend and on friday bell arrest defense minister is in moscow all indications at the kremlin is sticking by alexander lukashenko the european union hasn't taken sides but it has called for new elections and for the imposition of sanctions on those it says are

responsible for election fraud and violence against protesters. burning. al-jazeera villeins. the 2nd typhoon to hit the korean peninsula in a week has now made landfall with winds of 162 kilometers an hour south korea's weather agency says typhoon may sack will affect most of the country it's already flooded roads and brought down trees and more than 2000 homes on the island of jeju have lost electricity rob mcbride is joining us from busan in south korea and we're also hearing rob about a cargo ship that has gone missing off the japanese coast. that's right there with is not known at this stage if the disappearance of this vessel is connected to the typhoon but we are getting these reports from 2 different news organizations in japan that it was a livestock carrying vessel ship taking cattle from new zealand to china with

a crew onboard of $43.00 mainly filipino seafarers now it is being reported that this ship was in the east china sea south of the japanese archipelago when it sent out a distress call i did buy it at a time after the typhoon would have passed through those waters but that was the last that has been heard from this vessel a big search and rescue operation has been underway organized from japan by the japanese coast guard we do have reports now that apparently one person has been picked up one survivor has been picked up from the seas but that is as much detail as we have at the moment all right robin as we're saying this is the 2nd typhoon to hit the. korean peninsula in a week how are people coping. that's right this typhoon made landfall here on the south coast we are in south korea's 2nd city home to several 1000000 people so they were certainly took the. all the warnings from the

government very seriously took a various measures to mitigate any damage here we've been taking a drive around though and there is quite a lot of damage on the streets. trees upturned a lot of signs down windows smashed and people are now starting the business of clear clearing out the typhoon may sakit came through here the early hours of thursday morning with the winds a strong winds as predicted it well in excess of 150 kilometers per hour it's now gone out to sea again but these we know is making landfall once more way up at the northern end of the korean peninsula actually in north korea as with typhoon the last week north korea is also heavily impacted by this typhoon and we are seeing images broadcast 'd on north korean state run television of extensive flooding especially in major cities like one song that's a big city on north korea's east coast so they are suffering too as this typhoon

passes through all right brian thank you very much for that update from south korea the number of fires in the brazilian amazon may have been underestimated in the month of august a government scientists says the fires may have reached their highest levels in 10 years better says our says a data error from a nasa satellite needs to be corrected which might result in any one or 2 percent increase. syria's state news agency says its air defenses have shot down most of a series of is really rockets launched towards an airport in holmes it comes just 2 days after 2 syrian soldiers were reportedly killed in an israeli missile strike near the capital damascus there's been no comment from israel but it's believed to have carried out dozens of raids targeting iran's military presence in syria the u.k.'s diplomatic and aid departments have merged but there are concerns that joining the foreign office and that's part of it for international development

could threaten britain's humanitarian spending and leave the world's poorest even more vulnerable sunny gago reports. ushering in the new age of british diplomacy at least that's what the u.k. government hopes its new foreign commonwealth and development department will deliver at a time when the world is fighting one of the most a very health and economic crises in generations $50000000.00 people are projected to fall into extreme poverty this year the united nations has warned that the world faces its worst food crisis at hof a century and in a climate of rising hardship the risk of terrorism and migration flows are higher than ever in the past 23 years the department for international development to fit has become a beacon for expertise and transparency its influence in alleviating poverty around the world made to britain a global leader in the aid sector but the move to hitch developments to diplomacy

has alarmed many organizations it's feared it will roll back to fits effets what we haven't seen i'm afraid with the. aid of the foreign office has been spending the last few years and i've got person experiencing this used to be in the for what we haven't seen in the foreign office is that really laser like focus on spending that money in the poorest countries so i think it's really important that we do that the u.k. isn't the only country to a blush its foreign and development ministry's canada i'm going evelyn's have done the same but the concern is that aids will become politicized rather than focused on humanitarian action concerns about development being linked to politics. rather funny because developments always. these 2 things are inextricably linked and if we think that. hasn't been political we are kidding ourselves the u.k. is also on the cusp of a post brics it reality in recent years its focus may have turned inward and with

that appeared to be less inclined to international concerns yet a new future that of the. britain leased from the european block it once belonged to has been touted by the prime minister barak's johnson but it rests on being able to deliver what the u.k. has done up to now and the question will be how long will it take for the new department to work and will it be capable of dealing with the very pressing concerns facing the world today. al-jazeera london india has banned more than 100 chinese mobile apps as tensions between the 2 countries grow over disputed shared border and yes technology ministry says the apps are a national security threat claiming they're used to secretly collect and share data tensions over the border in the dockery's the caribbean have been high for months with both countries accusing the other of crossing into their territory an ancient

culture of harvesting honey from wild bees is enjoying a revival in georgia production is no longer the exclusive preserve off men robyn forestay walker explains from the mountainous region of a jar. but. does what's traditionally expected of a woman in her community and. something that used to be a job only for men. inside hollowed out tree logs gyrus cajun great beads have made their hives with help from her. work collects their harvest. it's a very hard job it's a man's business but i was left alone my husband died the children were small had to continue the family tradition. but only takes half of the

honeycomb and leaves the rest for her bees allium on false nick was put going to me i love these i often come to see them i understand them their needs and the problems they have. the bees seem to be quite calm now and i hope i'm keeping it sufficiently safe distance away from the hive but as i can see the honeycombs are being made the way they would in the wild so while it may not be the most efficient way to harvest honey it certainly seems to be one of the most natural. the honey is sold along with its nutritious honeycomb as a unique organic product helping to make jarrod beekeeping a tradition once in decline profitable again. last year we collected 1.7 tons we expect more than 3 tons this year the process is growing as the interest of beekeepers has also increased because their incomes have gone up by in

the mountains i went to see how some hives are still being kept the ancient way. romaine. keeps his hives where the beds work for him. as. this is not the 1st time i've climbed history this is a family tradition starting with my grandfather then my father. well there you have it a tree house for b. i've never seen beehives quite like this. i climb the tree often to set up the jar of hives to check on the bees and to collect a honeycomb. they were just 54 known beekeepers in this region 2 years ago no they were more than 80 this beekeeping from the past still has

a future. robin 1st. al-jazeera a jar. never dreamt of owning a flying car it's a step closer to liftoff after a successful test flight by a japanese manufacturer sky drive launched its manned vehicle equipped with propellers in a netted area for 4 minutes and the head of the company hopes the car that's costing more than $300000.00 will be on the market by 2023. caliber again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour germany says it has unequivocal proof russian dissident alex in a volley was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent is being treated in a rural and hospital after falling. berlin says the kremlin must answer difficult questions alexina by any alexina vanya was a victim of an attack of

a chemical nerve agent of the north. so this poison could be identified unequivocal . so it's clear that alex you know the victim of a crime he was supposed to be silenced and i together with the entire german government condemn this in the strongest possible to this is disturbing information about the attempted murder through poisoning against a leading russian opposition figure the united nations human rights groups are condemning u.s. sanctions imposed on the chief prosecutor and another official of the international criminal court us secretary of state might prepare queues the court of illegitimate attempts the subject americans to its jurisdiction the hague based i.c.c. is currently investigating whether u.s. forces committed war crimes in afghanistan president trump is threatening to cut funding to cities that he says allow on archaean violence he says cities under review include portland seattle new york and washington trump has been rallying with the democratic mayors of those cities over protests against racism and police

brutality. they were us attorney general william barr says there is a false narrative that white police officers kill a lot of unarmed black men he made the comments a day after visiting can now see alongside president trump where an unarmed black man was shot in the back by police u.s. centers for disease control has asked states to get ready to distribute a potential corona virus vaccine by november 1st it comes amid concerns president trump is pressuring the food and drug administration to approve a vaccine before a clinical trials are completed the 2nd typhoon to head to the korean peninsula in a week has made landfall with winds of 162 kilometers an hour the weather agency says the typhoon will affect most off the country those are the headlines the bottom line is up next but by.

hi i'm steve clements i have a question is there a connection between the shooting of jacob blake and can osha wall street capitalism and excessive military spending my guest today says there is let's get to the bottom line. when a policeman shot jacob blake 7 times in the back in front of his kids in wisconsin last month it was a painful reminder that real change is not coming fast enough to these united states the shooting reignited passions across the country especially after an armed white 17 year old counter protester came to wisconsin from a nearby state until 2 other people protesting the shooting so what's going on in the united states are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer and.