on leave in. on. a threat to cut federal funding u.s. president donald trump orders a review of cities he says allows anarchy violence and destruction. following down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up by a nerve agent germany says it has unequivocal proof of what made russian opposition leader alex in a valley seriously ill. an attack on the rule of law the international criminal court gets out of u.s. sanctions imposed on its chief prosecutor. and heavy rain and strong winds lashed

jane july 11th as the korean peninsula is hit by its 2nd typhoon in a week. u.s. president donald trump is threatening to cut funding to cities he says allows anneke and violence he's requested a review of portland seattle new york and washington d.c. all cities with democratic mess that have been the scenes of major protests of a racism and police brutality well most though have been largely peaceful but trump has described protests that turn violent as domestic terror and his attorney general says there's a false narrative that white police officers killed a lot of unarmed black men meanwhile democratic candidate joe biden is expected to meet the family of jacob blake in wisconsin on thursday blake was shot in the back 7 times by police leaving him paralyzed mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. . president trump says in the memorandum that he wants to review where these funds

are going he says that he does not want taxpayers money going to funding an o.t. as he puts it these are 3 federal agencies to report back within 30 days to his budget director to take a look at the budgets with a view to cutting off funding to cities that president trance says are unable to maintain law and order well the mayor of new york has been very quick to react bill de blasio held in urgent news conference saying that this is nothing more than a political stunt by saying that president is not the king has no legal right to stop funding the big cities particularly the cities that he refers to all run by democrats william barr held a interview with c.n.n. an exclusive interview in which he expressed a rather surprising thought that there is no racism in the policing

no attempts at racism within the actions of police he says that this is a false narrative that this does occur this despite statistics that are provided by a number of independent organizations such as universities and news media which indicate that african-americans is 2 and a half times more likely to be shot by a policeman then his white counterparts so certainly the figures would not appear to bear out william bards assumption well melanie sloan is a former federal prosecutor she says the president's threat to cut funding to democrat run cities has nothing to do with protecting u.s. citizens. it's not legal it violates the 10th amendment to the constitution and trump knows that this is purely political theater you know put out this memo and part of the memo says that they all investigate for 30 days what actions they can take and in the meantime cities will immediately go to court and they will get

injunctions preventing the federal government from taking these actions it's hard to see how he's going to be protecting american cities when he's going to be defunding cities he's trying to take money away from things like housing medicare health insurance all sorts of benefits that that americans get and also you have to keep in mind that all of this money that he's wants to hold back really is tax dollars and the people in the cities pay there are better all tax dollars not monies coming back to them so for so many reasons this is completely ridiculous this is typical of president trump eve makes a statement like this is he puts out a memo it plays to his base all the people who he's trying to convince that american cities are falling apart even when that is in fact not the case i live in washington d.c. and there's no anarchy on the streets here you can walk safely down street but this plays to the president's base and that's the whole reason for doing it and sadly he has an attorney general who's willing to support him at every turn one of the

things that these at that's in the memo is even the definition of what an anarchistic city is they go through a laundry list but then say anything else the attorney general thinks so it's clearly only about politics and not at all about protecting american cities or protecting americans. russian opposition leader alexina valmy is the victim of a murder attempt and the kremlin must answer difficult questions that's been the message from the german government when the valen remains seriously ill in hospital he collapsed 2 weeks ago during a flight to moscow doctors say they have proof he was poisoned but in baba reports what could be done such was not the grounds of 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 laboratory have produced unequivocal proof the russian opposition leader was poisoned with a nerve agent nabil chalk and chancellor merkel says it was attempted murder

alexina of any thought far in circulation alexina valmy is the victim of a crime he was meant to be silent and i condemn this in the sharpest possible manner in the name of the entire german government. germany's foreign minister has summoned the russian ambassador saying it's urgent that those responsible in russia be identified and brought to justice no found me 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 are declining it can't rule out long term consequences. 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 don't sturgis died after handling a discarded bottle containing novacek on wednesday the kremlin said russia was

ready to cooperate fully with germany even of arnie's case but his long time strategy is learned 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 has any cooperation something that's not been forthcoming in the past. 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 mike pompei o has described the i.c.c. as a kangaroo court the tickle him 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 then at least when it comes to us for still 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 assistant prosecutor bensouda. individuals and entities that continue to materially support those individuals risk exposure 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 significant for these individuals but i think we'll have to see how damaging it is to have a u.s. administration take the stand and that kind of a fall and fall a fall full of all that's regard for the global role of law that using these

actions for. the spokesman for the u.n. secretary general says the move raises concerns the i.c.c. as you know and especially the prosecutor are independent of the secretary general and of the u.n. . we have always stood for the need for international justice and for the issue of accountability and the fight against impunity 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 political hane al-jazeera. powerful typhoon that a swept up the korean peninsula is now bringing severe flooding to north korea it's the 2nd time through and in a week south korea's weather agency says winds from typhoon my sock reached more than 160 kilometers an hour it's flooded roads in the south and downed trees and damaging apartment blocks and 2000 homes on the island of jeju who also lost

electricity in iraq mcbride joins us live now from busan in south korea rob said tell us whether typhoon is now and any more details on the damage it's caused. well my sack is now making its presence felt very much in the north end of the korean peninsula in north korea where a day has made a 2nd landfall it has brought the rains to north korea's east coast particularly the main city one son up there we are seeing from images being carried on state run television from north korea an awful lot of flooding in that city this was the 2nd landfall the 1st landfall of course came in the early hours of thursday morning down here in the southeast of south korea coming ashore close to this city of busan this is south korea's 2nd city millions of people live here so preparations had already been put in place well ahead of the storm's arrival but this is the 2nd major typhoon in 2 weeks of both north and south korea of course have been clearing

up after typhoon barbie which came through last week and the bad news is there's a 3rd typhoon out in the western pacific which is going to be coming here in the coming days the other development which we're following this which may be related to this typhoon we simply don't know is the disappearance of a cargo ship in the east china sea it's been confirmed that this is a livestock area a ship taking live cattle from new zealand to china with a crew on board of 43 mainly filipino sailors that sent out a distress signal from the east china sea below japan at about. time sometime after the typhoon would have passed through those waters but that these the last that anybody has heard from this vessel the large search operation has been launched by the japanese coast guard looking for this vessel they have a job in the nighttime hours found one survivor from this ship that has come out

alive but so far no other survivors as the search operation in those waters continues to rob mcbride live for us there in busan rob thank you tom for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back there's not much fun at the fed steps to help businesses battling to survive in argentina and he says they'll be a bloodbath a warning from the belorussian president if he's forced out more on that stay with us. there has been some flash flooding in oklahoma in missouri in virginia and this is a line responsible for it it's very persistent stretches back over the border into northern mexico as well the be more showers on that surprised me on this slow moving frontal system it's drifting a little bit slowly eastward so the ohio valley. west virginia maybe we'll get some

of these showers i tend to die out you notice that the in the middle still on the mexican side broke a and look at what's happening counter a significant amount of rain coming out the sky is still not cold it's 18 in winnipeg and 24 in toronto so don't try to drag in the really cold air yet but certainly stormy quieting down then for most of the southeast during friday the showers reappear in texas but it's rather died out in phoenix arizona phoenix is showing up by walking up to $44.00 once more. it little cluster of thunderstorms we're talking about last couple days and there it is finally formed into a hurricane makes landfall in billie's and that's where it spends thursday billie's eventually guatemala and mexico so a mass of rain oversea briefly strong winds as well that's a line of weakness in the atmosphere so they're a pretty big shot all the way back to well has been your lack.

of. a unique yet endangered biodiversity lies in the heart of one of ecuador's tropical jungles there was a lot of misinformation about the i knew most of it half here i know there probably are just becoming bites out there some conservation their communities al-jazeera chinese deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist and head teams efforts to save the flora and fauna so precious in the region women make science ecuador's hidden treasure on al-jazeera. roof. or. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on the al-jazeera president trump is

threatening to cut funding to cities that he says allows a mickey in violence he's requested a review of portland seattle new york and washington d.c. they all have a democratic mayor down there and protests against racism and police brutality. germany says it has unequivocal proof russian opposition leader alexina dolly was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent is being treated in a burning hospital after falling ill last month berlin says the kremlin must answer difficult questions. and the u.n. and human rights groups are condemning u.s. sanctions imposed on the chief prosecutor and another the official of the international criminal court has been prompted by an investigation into whether u.s. forces committed war crimes in afghanistan. syria's state news agency says its ad defenses have shut down most of a series of israeli rockets launched towards an airport in homs it comes just 2 days after 2 syrian soldiers were reportedly killed in an israeli missile strike near the capital damascus as we know coming from israel but it's believed to have

carried out dozens of raids targeting iran's military presence in syria. voters in the western libyan city of misrata are going to the polls on thursday to elect city leaders as other towns in the region are also planning municipal elections but they won't be happening nationwide allies of the warlord aletha have to have prevented voting in other areas money train that has more. misrata is libya's 3rd largest city and one of the 1st this year we're going to believe hers are up for election. covered 19 makes voting more challenging than previously but election organizers have trained staff to take precautionary measures though. it is a challenge given the security situation in the country and know the covert pandemic but we have taken measures and are confident that we can carry out the elections in a safe and protective manner for voters misrata and its half 1000000 population as the main source of military power for the tripoli based government of national

accord soldiers from misrata played a major role in the june a series of military victories by force troops loyal to warlord khalifa haftar out of western libya and towards the east. fought to bring down while mortgage duffy 9 years ago and joined the fight against have to has failed military campaign to capture the capital tripoli earlier this year badly wounded in battle he's lost an eye and has had to get skin transplants on his face he says he's tired of war and is excited to exercise his right to vote and they know. this is what we fought gadhafi for to vote for leaders if he wanted a dictator like hafter we would have kept the only way to put libya back on track is to have elections calls for a ceasefire by the warring sides have been welcomed by most of the international community but have to dismiss the cease fire announcement by libya's internationally recognized government as

a marketing. government leaders in tripoli have called for parliamentary and presidential elections to unify the country in march the city elections in misrata and those plans across western and southern libya could help pave the way for nationwide elections but g.n.a.s. officials accuse house there's forces of disrupting planned elections last month unfortunately in the east of libya that going back to individual rule and they don't have the freedom to. vote elected officials were removed from office some libyans here say voting is the only solution to the conflict which has lasted years but have there's removing elected city officials and issuing military orders to appoint the replacements and with elections unlikely to be held in areas he controls how and when the libyan conflict when remains unclear how trainer al-jazeera misrata. russia's foreign minister is accusing outside forces of meddling in belarus says activists from ukraine are trying to create violent protest but he hasn't given any evidence that there are any us foreign minister

told down to 0 that what he calls russian weakness may be behind the kremlin's decision to back president lukashenko banishment has more now from phillips. looking emboldened with messages of support from russia alexander lukashenko says they'll be a bloodbath if he's forced from the presidency is that a reduce the approach with the shitty 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 luker 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 4 weeks of peaceful protests in the capital minsk. said he won 80 percent of the vote for his reelection the e.u. u.s. and u.k. say voting was neither free nor fast. 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 years surely 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 could bleed out of this situation and what there is an ink it's another question maybe they believe it's a 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 of the lot was 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 or 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. but it's meant al-jazeera vilnius argentina's president alberto fernandez has announced new measures to help businesses. survive the coronavirus pandemic the economy is already into its 3rd year recession and is expected to shrink even more this year

and that's left millions of people trying to prevent bankruptcy stories about reports from santa fe. said hugh bell muscle has a vivid memory of how many times argentina's economy has collapsed through the a years his grandfather started building carousel 60 years ago but in this past month he has been forced to sell some of the horses in this carousel to make ends meet. in dissociate oh there is iraq to vittie i have never seen anything like this before i understand the pain damage and the situation but everything we've built is disappearing i'm selling the horses to pay bills the horses sell for around $150.00 each bell massa says in argentina doing business is not easy because the rules of the game are constantly changing with the administration's what i can but there are going to cino we cannot compete with china 1st one government bans exports the next government allows you to export more taxes and now this exchange

rate controls in the wider situation i had dreams that i could export my horses but i feel it's all over for us. i didn't know the economy was already in trouble prior to that and that make with inflation recession and exchange rate controls the government has announced that it has reached an agreement with foreign creditors on its sovereign debt many people here hope that this will help we activate the economy and help this country put an end to endemic economic troubles he cannot make situation is so dire small businesses are shutting down poverty and unemployment rates are on the rice and foreign companies are leaving the country on wednesday precedent out of the farm and this and credits and other measures to assist the industry sector and says he's government has a plan so there they really model where they were what we needed to solve or did crisis because we didn't have a horizon knowing we had to pay $48000000000.00 did in 5 years now you'll see our

budget and you'll see watch we believe we can do what our physical objectives are and you will know our rules no nothing is being improvised it is a difficult job in the worst scenario. but only saying the government has a bigger problem than main. memory. and the men were trying to get it from trucks so it didn't wind on getting. to the restructuring on. me i. hardly see my share of the government's case. you know rebuilding our. economy. is what most argentines like then mass will feel these days in

a country struggling with happened to make and with a history of economic strain that is how will and yes he sent the thing i didn't tina now the u.s. centers for disease control as are states to get ready to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine by the 1st of november 2 days before election it comes amid concerns president trump is pressuring the food and drug administration to approve a vaccine before clinical trials are completed meanwhile more than 70 wealthy countries have committed to fair access to any future vaccine in the u.s. is not participating in the global vaccine effort which is led by the world health organization let's bring in dr bob arnot is a medical doctor and former chief medical correspondent at n.b.c. news he joins us from stowe in vermont bob good to have you on the program look there's growing concern among public health officials that this vaccine approval is being driven by political considerations ahead of the election rather than the science what do you make of this move by the federal government on the c.d.c. . well it's a it's

a fantastic story on 2 fronts it's a fantastic political fantasy story in that the c.d.c. who released this information tonight has really become highly suspect look at they're manipulating the dated to try to say there is here is 9000 deaths is there 184000 that recently they came out and said listen we. don't want you to get a test if you've been exposed to somebody with the with the virus they had the a.m.a. american medical association had a come out say that's not said you're because spike's so yes there's a lot of political theater here clearly pushing to get something out before the election however jaron on the other side the safety net is this 1st of all the scientists doing the vaccine trial have to say this really works we're convinced secondly is it completely independent national data safety board academics major centers they know vaccine they know infectious disease and what they would do

derren is they would say look it we looked at the data and it's so good we believe it would be almost well practice not to release it now what's the downside of releasing early you won't have enough minorities have been tested so far and you may have side effects that have not been uncovered and the c.d.c. bob says that one states to make all the necessary preparations to rollout vaccines but just talk us quickly through what this involves who gets priority who administers the vaccine and how ambitious is the timeline oh sure so 50 states have gotten the 3 pieces of paperwork so far 3 big cities so it's going to be 1st line help providers also those working in long term health facilities you'll have people who are high risk because they have high blood pressure or their immune compromised and you're also going to have minority groups those are the very 1st on the list to get this vaccine and they should be that's the highest priority. but listen i mean how much concern is there within public

health and the medical profession about whether the f.d.a. will use emergency use authorization to approve a vaccine before knowing whether it works and it's indeed safe because this is a huge problem isn't it it really is a huge problem in the f.d.a. says it's not being pressured politically that they have to respond to the company that is more care or pfizer would have to come in and say look at here's our data we're asking you to approve this but clearly there's a lot of politics here of a you know as a health care profession is covered these that for them which for years i can't believe how politics have manipulated the science here and how incredibly dedicated is to see these you know amazing is the fusion is like the centers for disease control just fall flat on their face it is being manipulated politically. with this whole sort of mess here in the united states it's a sad day dr bob arnot great to get your thoughts and your analysis thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera thank you so much there good to see you now

former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is in isolation at home after testing positive for covert 19 the 83 year old's doctor says berlusconi has no symptoms but he took a test as a precaution after returning from holiday in sardinia where there's been an outbreak on a scone he's been prime minister 4 times he says he'll continue to work from home as leader of the force that it down the party before local elections this month so venice film festival has begun as scheduled in another sign of some return to normality there was still plenty of glitz and glamor on the red carpet most of it at a social distance and with mosques out in force you know public red carpet events and cinemas will be hall full as the 1st event of its kind since the pandemic began. to be gathering here with you all tonight seems like some kind of wonderous miracle. and over the last few months several months seems like years in our isolated

bubbles we've been sustained by streaming images and stories into our living rooms but i think there's been a vital component that's been missing and that's back here tonight it's strange is gathering in the dark in anticipation of a collective experience and event. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera president trump is threatening to cut funding to cities that allow anarchy and violence he's requested a review of portland seattle new york and washington d.c. they all have democratic mayors and there been protests against racism and police brutality michaela has more now from washington d.c. the mayor of new york has been very quick to react bill de blasio held a urgent news conference saying that this is nothing more than

a political stunt last year saying that president trump is not the king that he has no legal right to stop funding to specific cities particularly cities where he refers to are all run by democrats it must be noted that a large amount of federal funding going to cities goes to things like medicare and social services so this could have a major impact on the cities but there's likely to be a lot of legal action before it becomes a reality germany's says it has unequivocal proof that the russian opposition leader alexina down it was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent he's being treated in a burn in hospital after falling ill last month germany's government says the kremlin must answer difficult questions. the u.n. and human rights groups are condemning u.s. sanctions imposed on the chief prosecutor another official of the international criminal court the movement prompted by an investigation into whether u.s.

forces committed war crimes in afghanistan. the u.s. centers for disease control as are states to get ready to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine by november 1st it comes amid concerns president trump is pressuring the food and drug administration to approve of that before clinical trials are completed. and a powerful typhoon that has swept up the korean peninsula is now bringing severe flooding to north korea it's the 2nd typhoon to hit in a week south korea's weather agency says winds from typhoon reach more than 160 kilometers an hour it's flooded roads in the south bringing down trees and damaging apartment blocks more than 2000 homes on the island of jeju also lost electricity so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera woman makes statement on sort of africa. russia now seems to be going off to the main economic resource which is of course we bring you the stories and development the sort of

rapidly changing the world we live in the president's promise america 1st policy triggered a trade war that morphed into a technological war counting on our.