into india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood. a threat to cut federal funding u.s. president donald trump orders a review of cities he says allows anarchy violence and destruction. hello i'm down in jordan this is our 0 live from doha also coming up poisoned by a nerve agent germany says it has unequivocal proof of what made russian opposition leader election of down a seriously ill. an attack on the rule of law the international criminal court gets out at u.s. sanctions imposed on its chief prosecutor. on the korean peninsula is battered by

its 2nd typhoon in the no week my 2nd course flooding left thousands without. 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 with democratic mayors that have been the scenes of major protests over racism and police brutality most though have been largely peaceful a trump as described demonstrators that turned violent as domestic terror and his attorney general says there's a false narrative that white police officers kill a lot of unarmed black men meanwhile democratic candidate joe biden is expected to meet the family of jacob blake in can osho 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 transfers 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 for years saying that president is not the king there has no legal right to stop funding the big cities particularly the cities that he refers to are all run by democrats william by held the interview with c.n.n. an exclusive interview in which he expressed a rather surprising thought that there is no racism in the policing

all 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 wants to hold back really is tax dollars and the people in the cities pay their out 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 anarchist 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. the russian opposition leader less in a valley 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 valley remains seriously ill in hospital he collapsed 2 weeks ago during a flight to moscow and doctors say they have proof he was poisoned but in barber reports. that 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 novacek and chancellor merkel says it was attempted murder alexina of

any thought far in circulation annexing of ali is the victim of a crime he was meant to be silenced and i condemn this in the sharpest 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. 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 on his 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. al-jazeera. the united nations on human rights groups condemning u.s. sanctions imposed on the chief prosecutor another official of the international criminal court has been prompted by an investigation into whether u.s. forces committed war crimes in afghanistan u.s. secretary of state mike pompei a has described the i.c.c. as a kangaroo court but he claims reports. did u.s. troops torture people did they commit war crimes here in afghanistan to 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 u.s. for sales the united states will designate i.c.c. prosecutor for 2 bensouda and the i.c.c. is head of jurisdiction complementarity in cooperation division buckey so much to go for having material assisted prosecutor bensouda individuals and entities that continue to materially support those individuals wrists 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 also have to see how damaging that is have a u.s. administration take the stand and that kind of a full full of fall full of all this regard for the global role of law that using

these actions. the spokesman for the u.n. secretary general says the move raises concerns the i.c.c. as you know especially the prosecutor or independent of the secretary general 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 pedicle hain al-jazeera. now 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 my sock reached 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 macbride has more now from busan than south korea. my sac 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 to wrench the reins to north korea's east coast particularly the main city of one sun 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 and so preparations had already been put in place well ahead of this storm arrival but this is the 2nd major typhoon in 2 weeks that both north and south korea of course have been clearing up after typhoon bobbie 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 time for a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back there's not much fun at the fair we look at steps to help businesses battling to survive in argentina and a hive of activity look at the revival of an ancient beekeeping tradition in georgia and stay with us. hello the rain is dying out now in pakistan and afghanistan that's the last they're getting up there you can see the satellites picked it up the reason more to come in the forecast haven't gone yet but it suggests that the monsoon trough is now reached its limit it wants to slip back again it's still fairly more certain allowed to get the ferry findus allowable that breeze is no longer as strong as it was the cloud that came across the empty quarter gives a few showers on the potential for them anyway on the western side of saudi

otherwise it's quiet and fairly human weather their house 36 suggests that there's no significant breeze and in fact it's still pretty hot with a light offshore breeze in jerusalem almost if not actually a record high in jerusalem 39 that extends throughout the west and the violent and cyprus. so we should be watching the rains show themselves for a bit more vigorous and i went and certainly over the hardens of ethiopia got some pretty big showers forming this stretch back into south sudan and sudan but they haven't come back far south yet shouter in kenya maybe down the coast a breeze is there but it's not particularly strong whereas further south you see is a pretty active stormy weather on its way through south africa in the last day or so satellite pics at the end of it mr got some showers in the eastern cape during so say but after that it becomes quiet and recently warm. but. this is one of them both sounding technological revolutions and all of this

makes our planet pretty good we have to meet the c o 2 emissions targets electric cars are made mitchum in motion they need to be mined from where people are just talking about cars in. the world of business and commerce is driving the energy transition is the promise of clean energy an illusion the top side of green energy. on al-jazeera. welcome back i provided our top stories here on al-jazeera president trump is threatening to cut funding to cities that he says allows anarchy and violence he's

requested a review of portland seattle new york and washington d.c. they all have democratic mayors and have been protests against racism and police brutality. germany says it has unequivocal proof russian opposition leader next in the valley was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent is being treated in the berlin hospital after falling ill last month germany's government says the kremlin must answer difficult questions. the un and human rights groups are condemning the u.s. sanctions imposed on the chief prosecutor and another official of the international criminal court a news been prompted by an investigation into whether the u.s. forces committed war crimes in afghanistan. the u.s. centers for disease control has asked states to get ready to distribute a potential corona virus vaccine by november the 1st 2 days before the election it comes amid concerns president trump is pressuring the food and drug administration to approve a vaccine before clinical trials are completed more than 70 wealthy countries have committed to fair access to any future vaccine but the u.s.

is not taking part or dr bob arnot is the former chief medical correspondent at n.b.c. news he says politics aside scientists would have to prove the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine before it's put for use. the c.d.c. who released this information tonight has really become highly suspect look at they're manipulating the they dated to try to say there is here is 9000 deaths is there 184000 that recently they came out to. listen we. don't want you to get a test if you've been exposed to somebody with the with the virus the head of the a.m.a. american medical association had to come out and say that's not says you're to cause spikes so yes there's a lot of political theater here clearly pushing to get something out before the election however on the other side the safety net is this 1st of all the scientists doing the vaccine trial have to say that this really works well convince 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 early 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 the u.s. federal budget deficit is projected to his a record $3.00 trillion dollars due to code $900.00 costs on the recession triggered by the pandemic that's more than triple the $2900.00 shortfall and double the worst levels during the 2008 economic crisis according to new estimates debt levels will supply the size of the american economy next year. argentina's president alberto fernandez has announced new measures to help businesses survive the pandemic the economy is already into its 3rd year of 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 that of 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 good associate oh there is iraq activity i have never seen anything like this before i understand the pain demick 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 administrations when i compare this event to chino we cannot compete with china 1st one government bans exports the next government allows you to export more taxes now this exchange rate controls and 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 con army was already in trouble prior to that and i make with inflation with session and exchange rate controls the government has announced that it has reached an agreement with foreign creditors on it solving that many people here hope that this will help we activate the economy and help this country put an end to it and then make 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 president and out of the for a man this an ounce credits and other measures to assist the industry sector and says he's government has a plan so that it but only money love they will have 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 analysts say the government has a bigger problem elaine. mary. i mean we were trying to get from trucks so it did wind on getting. a ship to the reception with on. me i. mean. i you know. i got my. hope is what most argentines like the muscle feel these days in a country struggling with epidemic and with a history of economic strain that is how will and jessie to santa fe argentina. a

check political leader has met taiwan's president despite threats of retaliation from china senate president milosevic the show is not bound by czech government policy not to send delegations to the island which china considers part of its territory earlier this week he declared himself taiwanese in a speech to parliament beijing says he'll pay a heavy price for visiting the island. police in haiti are fired tear gas up crowds protesting against the murder of a prominent lawyer students from a law school in port au prince attempted to blockade the capital streets with burning tires the head of the bar association months. was shot dead in his home on friday no arrests have been made students accuse the government of complicit silence during a rise in violence and security in haiti. the u.s. says it suspending some aid to ethiopia over an ongoing down dispute with egypt the state department has call it a temporary poor's and has not revealed how much money will be held separately of

state my compost says the decision was based on guidance from president trump ethiopia's decision to begin filling the down before an agreement with egypt has raised tensions with. a prominent journalist and an opposition politician in zimbabwe have been granted bail by the high court they've been detained 6 weeks ago accused of inciting violence for supporting anti-government protests critics say the arrest was part of an increasing crackdown on dissent. in the capital harare. hope will show up at the high court hoping for good news the freelance journalist was arrested in july along with opposition leader jacob me both with charged with inciting public violence and have been in jail for more than 40 days they deny the allegations after several failed to ban applications finally some good news for them of course. that client has now been granted bail

that is the main that is the main purpose for us was to ensure that he gets out of course the fact that he has been incarcerated all this time is justice. extremely strict we feel that they are really. even restrict his constitutional rights. the high court judge banned both men from posting on social media until the case is finalized on his 1st few private consultations they also have to surrender they possible and to report to the police 3 times a week but they say they will not be silenced no trial date has been set for a new zimbabwe. recruited. withdrawn as a matter free of corruption is that restricted human rights interest but is probably that respect going to neverland. as a routine appearance in a lower court on cheese day the journalist complained about overcrowding and poor

treatment in prison on the average poster trying to reason with dr trilogy in terms of the phone or virus just one has to do with the prison service of course this is from a village transcript of. the interview i'm aware of with a few. human rights lawyers say dozens of people have been arrested since july accused of planning or participating in protest against corruption and the state of economy representatives from so that because ruling a.n.c. party expected in a rally with in a few days to assess the situation here the mob is government says there is no crisis and that allegations of human rights abuses a false. but activist and opposition leaders insist government leaders are opposed to anyone who speaks out against them president emma samina goggles administration says opposition groups are being sponsored by the united states and some countries in the e.u. to cause chaos. india has banned more than 100 chinese mobile

apps as tension grows between the 2 countries over a disputed shared border india's technology ministry says the apps are a national security threat claiming they used to secretly collect and shared data disagreement over the border in the dark region has been high for months with both countries accusing the other of crossing into territory. that u.k.'s diplomatic and a departments have merged but there are concerns that joining the foreign office and the department for international development could threaten britain's humanitarian spending and leave the world's poorest even more vulnerable so i get 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 and 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 post experience of this is what 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 have luscious foreign and development ministry's canada i'm an avalanche 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 there are developments hasn't. 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 sunny out his era london. the number of

fires in the brazilian amazon may have been underestimated in august government scientists and the fires may have reached the highest levels in 10 years about ourselves are says the data at the nasa satellite needs to be corrected which might result in a one or 2 percent increase. an ancient culture of harvesting honey from wild bees is enjoying a revival in georgia and production is no longer the exclusive preserve of men robin forrester walker explains in the mountainous region of a job. 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 school jarrod's cook asian great piece have made their whole lives with help from her. work collects their harvest colored. it's a very hard job it's

a man's business but i was left alone my husband died the children were small and i had to continue the family tradition. but only takes half of the honeycomb and leaves the rest for her bees only and one 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 a sufficiently safe distance away from the high 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 $1.00 tons we expect more than 3 tons this year the process is growing 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 were for him as. this is not the 1st time i've climbed this tree 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. robyn 1st year walker al-jazeera. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera president trump is threatening to cut funding to cities that he says allows anarchy and violence he's requested a review of portland seattle new york and washington d.c. they all have democratic mayors and they have been protests against racism and police brutality al-jazeera as mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. the mayor of new york has been very quick to react bill de blasio held a news conference saying that this is nothing more than

a political stunt de blasio 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 russian opposition leader alexina valen it was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent. he's being treated in a berlin 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 and another official of the international criminal court moves when 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 a vaccine 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 my sock reached 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 phones were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the street station thanks so much of the tough talk to al-jazeera we ask is the government not to take the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that the travel is the safest mode of

travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on how to 0. i after me ok you're watching the stream the russian activist alexina vali is known globally as an opposition politician but inside russia he's more famous is being an investigative reporter right now he is lying in a hospital bed in germany in a medically induced coma the german doctors say they have found ways in in his system the question that we're asking in the string today is russian opposition finished you too i know you're going to have a take on this jump into the comments and you can be in this.