al-jazeera. and. that. letter send it in and let it go vote and if this isn't as good as they say it is then obviously there will be able to vote us president donald trump appears to suggest people vote twice as a way of testing and to forward efforts. peter w. watching on his ear a lifelong global headquarters here and also ahead more than 80000 recorded

infections in one day india sets a global coronavirus record. an attack on the rule of law the international criminal court that u.s. sanctions imposed on its chief prosecutor. germany says it has quote unequivocal proof that the russian opposition leader alexina volley was poisoned with. 2 months ahead of the us presidential election donald trump has sowing more doubt about mail in ballots while visiting the state of north carolina mr trump seemed to suggest people there should try to vote twice once by mail and once in person that's illegal but mr trump said it would be a good test of anti fraud efforts. they'll vote and they're going to have to go and check their vote by going to the ball and voting that way because even if it

tabulates and they won't be able to do that so let them send it in and let em go vote and if this system's as good as they say it is then obviously they won't be able to vote if it isn't tabulated they'll be able to vote so that's the way it is and that's what they should do i don't like the idea of these unsolicited votes i never did. well during an interview on weapons day mr trump's attorney general william boss said he wasn't sure about each state's laws against double voting that as mr trump threatens to cut funding to cities he says anneke and violence he highlighted new york washington seattle and portland all run by democrat mayors and all the seen the protests against racism and police brutality mike hanna has more. president trump says in the memorandum that he wants to review where these funds are going he says that he does not want tax payers money going to funding and he as

he puts it he's asked the 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 trump says are able 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 that's here saying that president is not thinking there has no legal right to stop funding to big cities particularly cities that he refers to are all run by democrats william barr 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 or no attempts at racism within the actions after police he says that this is a false narrative that the stars occur this despite statistics that are provided by

a number of independent organizations such as universities and news media which indicate that african american is 2 and a half times more likely to be shot by a policeman then his white counterpart so certainly the figures would not appear to bear out william bias assumption the u.s. is refusing to take part in the global banks kovacs because it's led by the world health organization more than 70 wealthy countries have committed to fair access to any future vaccine the coalition will buy and deliver 2000000000 doses of approved vaccines by the end of next year the trumpet ministration is in the process of withdrawing from the w.h.o. . india has recorded the world's biggest single day rise new infections more than 83000 cases were reported on weapons day the 3rd time this week the numbers gone above 18000 the u.s.

held the previous single day record with 77000 to new delhi and our correspondent elizabeth piron on liz hi there what's the latest statistic as off today. hypatia c s india has recorded get another single highest a rise in for the possible month that's been recording more cases than any other country in the world because of those numbers it's sad to say possibly as early as the 2nd worst affected country model should remains the worst affected state and worryingly there in maharashtra we're seeing that the virus has spread from the main cities of mumbai and who made to the root districts 5 of my last has ruled districts recorded a 500 percent increase in cases in august and the concern day is that food areas just don't have adequate health care off tomatoes for the southern states of. the was defective but they're also conducting the highest number of tests and india

itself conducted its highest number of tests on wednesday over 1100000 and there is a correlation between x. band testing and the higher numbers the independent tells health experts continue to say that india's needs to be testing and lot more to have of the real picture of cases in the country and this law is coming at the time as we're seeing more easing of restrictions despite more serology testing showing the real number of cases might even be higher than the figures we're discussing. many times higher pietists of the latest of these series. it was done in the southern city of chennai the results came in. on wednesday and they suggest that 20 percent of the major city of chennai's 10000000 population have had coronavirus now that's 2000000 where is the official number for chennai's around 140000 but despite

all of these numbers the government is easing more and more restrictions metro rail services is set to begin next week for the 1st time in 5 months and many cities including here in delhi and other states such is not the one of the was defected go of boss is set to reopen and that's because the government keeps pointing to these numbers to the fate tally today to says india has one of the lowest faith tally to rates of something like 1.75 percent but we have to keep in mind with those numbers that only around a 5th of all deficit india are actually medically certified elizabeth many things that's grown in their reporting live for us this out of new delhi. the hong kong media mogul jimmy lawyer has been found not guilty of intimidating and threatening a reporter from a rival newspaper the judge said his accuser it wasn't a credible witness he's still facing separate charges over pro-democracy protests and hong kong's controversial national security no adrian brown joins us live from

outside the courthouse in hong kong so adrian he's not out of the legal political woods quite yet. that's right one legal headache is out the way he'd been charged with criminal intimidation threatening a reporter from a rival newspaper something that happened more than 3 years ago the judge basically acquitted him today it was all over very quickly the magistrate said that the the main witness the reporter who had accused jimmy lying or threatening him was in her words dishonest and an unreliable witness so jimmy and i left the court smiling broadly but he deal he still faces an array of other serious criminal charges in august he became the most high profile figure of the pro-democracy movement to be detained under the new national security legislation he's been charged with foreign

collusion and that trial is probably going to happen some time next year another leading pro-democracy figure agnes cho was also arrested and charged with the same offense on the same day jimmy law is also accused of taking part in an illegal assembly now the most serious charge he faces is that of you know foreign collusion because that carries a sentence if found guilty of up to 10 years in jail and there's also the very real possibility that that trial could happen under the mainland under this new national security legislation because of the involvement of a foreign power and of course if the trial were to happen in the mainland you know courts in the mainland have basically a 99 percent conviction rate so the chances of him getting a free and fair trial there say experts are very remote indeed what does today show i think from the hong kong government's perspective peter they can say look hong kong does have you know an independent legal system that is working just

a few days ago the chief executive carol lam said that there was no separation of powers in hong kong between the executive. the legislature and the judiciary that calls a number of senior judges here in hong kong to say well basically that raises a serious question mark over whether hong kong does have a free independent judiciary the government of hong kong in a sense i think will feel you know in a sense relieve the jimmy lie as not being sent to the state because actually he's now facing much more serious charges and the case against him is much stronger than the one he was facing here but west kalou magistrates court hearing many things here in byrne there in hong kong good structure. typhoon my sag has swept across the korean peninsula leaving at least one person dead winds reach more than 160 kilometers an hour and there is severe flooding in both the north and the south rob

mcbride reports now from busan. north korea's east coast cities inundated with flood waters as typhoon my sack drench is the korean peninsula unusual for north korea its state run t.v. has been carrying live reports of the damage every hour my sakit already pounded the south korean island of jeju before barreling into the southeastern city of busan in the early hours of thursday at 1st light the amount of damage could be assessed but extensive preparations had kept it to a minimum. damaeus is not as much as i fear however it is bigger than then in previous years. i think a lot of preparations were in place i think this time we were ready for it as the cleanup gets underway here in busan people living further up the korean peninsula are now dealing with the torrential rains brought by this typhoon many of them living in places already soaked after

a summer of extreme weather north korea like the south was already suffering the effects of typhoon badly last week which came after unusually severe seasonal rains rob the bride al-jazeera busan south korea. meanwhile search and rescue crews have so far found one survivor from a cargo ship carrying livestock and capsized in rough seas caused by the typhoon the ship is said to have lost an engine before it went down in these china sea close to japan it was carrying 43 crew and nearly 6000 cattle from new zealand to china. still to come here on this program what a contentious merger within the u.k. government could mean for the world's most vulnerable people.

hello the french will warm sunshine across much of southern europe want to shot across the central med but instead a very different picture across the northwest loss of cloud is the coming in of all see as and some very heavy rain with this and this is what has happened across the west of ireland right there on the west coast you can just see this river just actually roaring with the force of the water it did overflow its banks it blocked roads and also blocked bridges so no surprise me people had to be evacuated from their homes now it will clears ago 3000 there are a few more showers coming in and some pretty strong winds as well coming in from the west so a blustery day with those showers and fairly cloudy with a heavy rain on its way for the east winds across much of denmark below countries and northern areas of germany all of that will continue to work its way eastwards on friday but still a very blustery day across northern sections of the u.k. and yet more rain showers pushing in particular disco and and also down into northern england but really by far the bulk of europe is fine and dry even london where we're seeing a rain over the next few days how much is the average force that thomas in my

sunshine saturday and sunday and then on into robo calls as well here the temperatures a still fairly high particularly as that cloud is paul's through says saturday and sunday particularly warm and sunny and still saying very woman across in bucharest of the showers on friday. jumped into the stream and. this generation will have to create its own democracy social media on and on online be part of the debate. when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic arliss that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to be to transform lives the way he treats human way to business if we're going to adapt to climate break down this street on al-jazeera. to move further.

you're watching al jazeera remind us of our top stories this hour the us president donald trump suggested americans should vote twice in the forthcoming election despite that being in the mr trump has been insisting without any evidence that an increase in mail in ballots would lead to widespread voter fraud. india has recorded the world's biggest single day rise in new infections with coronavirus more than 83000 cases were reported on the 3rd time this week of the numbers above 80000 the u.s. held the previous single day record with 77000. and the hong kong media mogul jimmy lie has been found not guilty of intimidating and threatening a reporter from a rival newspaper he is still facing separate charges over pro-democracy protests

that hong kong's controversial national security law. the united nations and human rights groups are condemning u.s. sanctions imposed on the chief prosecutor from the international criminal court it's in response to an investigation into whether u.s. forces committed war crimes in afghanistan is practical hey. 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 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 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 full full of 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 un. 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 particle hane al-jazeera. german doctors say they have proof that the russian opposition leader alexei navalny was poisoned with the soviet era nerve agent novacek the german chancellor angela merkel says the kremlin must answer difficult questions about the attempted murder of alan is being treated in a hospital in berlin after collapsing on board a flight to moscow 2 weeks ago is not in bob. that's 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 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 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. 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 novacek 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 over novell nice 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 nadine barber al jazeera. the police in haiti have fired tear gas across protesting over the murder of a prominent lawyer students were law school and pose a prince try to locate the capital streets with burning tires the head of the bar association of more very vile shot dead at his home on friday no arrests have been made here not much of it today we are demanding the haitian population to fan out to order forces of the nation to stand up against injustice insecurity we know that ahead a local bar association has a call and we are calling for justice. the un's acting libya envoy what she describes as blatant violation of the arms embargo stephanie williams says outside

powers are helping boat. sides in the conflict to stockpile weapons turkey backs the un recognized government of national accord while the u.a.e. egypt and russia support the warlord belief i have to. encourage both sides to consider the incremental establishment of a demilitarized area starting with supported by a comprehensive set of confidence building measures this proposal would also comprise the small international libyan joint ceasefire monitoring mechanism while divergences of views and distrust between both sides remain high i call on you to encourage the parties to a frank from an insistent unrealistic and maximalist positions and to participate in good faith for the sake of their country. people in the libyan city of misrata voting to select municipal leaders other times in the region are also planning elections but they won't happen nationwide has mounted traina. misrata is libya's

3rd largest city and one of the 1st this year or when it's a 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 that forced troops loyal to warlord khalifa haftar out of western libya and towards the east a bus of course of the thought to bring down while morgan duffy 9 years ago and join 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. this is what we fought gadhafi for to vote for our leaders if he wanted a dictator like hafter we would have kid can referee 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 janae officials accuse have tears forces of disrupting planned elections last month unfortunately in eastern libya that going back to individual rule and i don't. to have the freedom to vote and 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 is 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 the u.s. census suspending some aid to ethiopia because of its distribute with egypt over a huge new dam state department says it's a temporary pause but didn't say how much money would be withheld ethiopia recently started filling the ground when a song stand without agreement with egypt and sudan who are downstream. syria's state news agency says the armed forces to shut down most of the rockets fired by israel towards an airport in the city of homs it comes just 2 days after 2 syrian soldiers were reportedly killed by an israeli missile strike near the capital

damascus there's been no comment from israel but is believed to have carried out dozens of attacks targeting the iranian military inside syria. bugg areas president is urging the government to resign because it's lost the confidence of the people on weapons day thousands took part in one of the biggest protests in almost 2 months but the prime minister is trying to keep his job until elections in march his alexy a bribe. nation to the no mission to make thousands gathered outside the day as payment chanting for the prime minister born cobar a song to resign was. when he was younger but i sincerely and strongly hope that change can happen without violence and peacefully although as we see in other countries change is difficult was i but the anger that's been building for almost 2 months soon spilled over. this protest is through aig spam salutes and fireworks and police retaliated with tear gas.

doesn't the seed to be injured or are they state going to diminish joey the aggression comes personally from the resource through the police chiefs he personally appointed we have been protesting peacefully for $56.00 days but he holds the power as there is still money he wants to steal at the expense of the bell carrion citizens. when states process dollars and early on the 5th day of comments forcing solution they choose the government of corruption and empowerment dissolve to make way for any elections still to come up with the above that it was happening in bulgaria is disastrous the state belongs to the maffia. the whole government has tended their resignations because they've plundered what ever there was to be plundered there's nothing left. for her so he's dominated by gary in politics for the past decade last month he suggested he could be willing to

resign if his cabinet was allowed to stay on until elections in march but that now appears to have changed he says he'll work on revising the constitution and step down next year. people here say they're losing patience the chaos outside payment was mirrored inside the chamber through members of the ourselves passing broken yeah ignoring the chance of resuming a cooling down the findings of the regime in the middle of the study 30 people don't dare em pays fleeing will not save you from shame by doing so you are showing that the real parliament is outside president room and relatives his bar solve must quit because he's lost the confidence of the people. back despite the demands for change and now the prime minister is refusing to go in exile dr al jazeera. the u.k.'s diplomatic and aid departments are being merged and that's raising

concerns that humanitarian spending could be threatened sagna explains why from london. 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 severe 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. person experience of 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 on the other ones have done the same but the concern is that aid will become politicized rather than focused on humanitarian action. concerns about development being linked to politics in b.c. rather funny because developments always fix these 2 things are inextricably linked and if we think spending 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 global britain and least from the european bloc 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 diagonal al-jazeera london. updating our top stories for you so far this half hour the u.s. president donald trump suggests that american should vote twice in the forthcoming election despite being illegal mr trump has been insisting without any evidence that an increase in mail in ballots would lead to widespread voter fraud they're voting they're going to have to go and check their votes by going to the ball and

voting that way because even if it tabulates and they won't be able to do that so let them send it in and let him go vote and if their systems is good as they say it is then obviously they won't be able to vote if it isn't jeb you later they'll be able to vote so that's the way it is and that's what they should do i don't like the idea of these unsolicited votes i never did the u.s. is refusing to take part in the global vaccine effort kovacs because that's led by the world health organization well than 70 wealthy nations have committed to fair access to any future vaccine. india has recorded the world's biggest single day rise in new infections from coronavirus more than 83000 cases being reported on whedon's day hong kong media mogul jimmy lai has been found not guilty of intimidating and threatening a reporter from a rival newspaper the judge said his accuser was not a credible witness he is still facing separate charges of

a pro-democracy protests typhoon my sack has swept across the korean peninsula leaving at least one person dead when speeds reach more than 160 kilometers an hour and the severe flooding in both the north and the south search and rescue efforts continue for a cargo ship missing in the east china sea. germany says it has unequivocal proof the russian opposition leader alexina valmy was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent is being treated in a hospital in berlin after falling seriously ill last month the german government says the kremlin must answer difficult questions about haitian police have fired tear gas the crowd is protesting over the murder of a prominent lawyer students from a law school in puerto prince tried to block the capital streets with burning tires the head of the bar association on ferry at oval was shot dead at his home on friday no arrests been made those are your headlines the news continues after the stream i'll have another 30 minutes of news

a little later. i am sequences i have a question about the bees daisey it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important the bottom line tackles the big issues that are shaping the united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. i f m e r k you're watching the stream the russian activist alexina vallone is not globally as an opposition politician but inside russia he's more famous as 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

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