but things are slowly improving her new slowly. suggestions of mailing in a vote and turning up on election day conflicting advice from the u.s. president the heads of november's poll. over there and how the markets and this is al jazeera life from doha and also coming up 2 days after the president's visit a call for unity from democratic candidate joe biden is in can osha to meet with the family of jacob blake back and shot by police. a push to ease tensions between greece and turkey in the eastern mediterranean but greece denies it's ready to sit

down for talks. and a month on from beirut's devastating port blast life in lebanon is a long way from becoming anything close to normal. donald trump has again suggested that people who vote by mail in the upcoming presidential election should still head to the polling station to check their votes has been counted this follows strums controversial comments in north carolina that people should vote twice to test the system voting more than once is considered a federal crime in the u.s. the president has been insisting without evidence that more postal voting will lead to widespread fraud alan fischer reports. after the president appeared to add to supporters in north carolina to break the law and vote twice the defense from the

podium of the white host. you think the president does not condone unlawful voting by the president's been very clear about this some once again not surprised media taking the president out of context is president's trying to enfranchise americans which is exactly what he's been saying he wants every american to have a vote the president himself tried helping with the cleanup he posted a series of tweets where he told voters to go to their polling places after sending in their 1000000 ballots to make sure their vote had been counted the contriver see erupted during a presidential campaign visit to north carolina he said people wanted about election fraud should vote twice let him send it in and let him go vote and if this isn't as good as they say it is then obviously there will be able to vote if it isn't job related they'll be able to vote so that's the way it is intentionally voting twice is a crime something officials in north carolina pointed out in a statement he said attempting to vote twice in an election or soliciting someone

to do so also is a violation of north carolina law there are numerous checks in place in north carolina that prevent people from double voting attorney general william barr was asked during an interview on american t.v. to respond to trump's comments the government's top lawyer said he didn't know the election laws in every state but added without evidence that widespread vote by mail is very open to fraud and coercion is reckless and dangerous and people are playing with fire. president trump has often claimed that merely voting will be used to rob him of the election one expert who's looked into 1000000 voting says there's new evidence to support the president's allegations in the past when when politicians have debated election laws it's been it's been intense but it's not been to the level of vitriol and certainty behind the statements that we see the president and his allies making about male it's it's

a real stark divide between the evidence and the rhetoric on this issue is that there's just such a wide gulf between the 2 the federal election commission says the idea of myleene fraud is a conspiracy theory that's backed up by a 2700 study which find the overall rate of voting fraud in the us is at the most 0.0009 percent ownership i'll just see it in washington. or russell in jordan joins when i live from arlington in virginia and roseland these comments from president trump it's extremely controversial in the united states just how is this affecting voter trust in the upcoming election. well if you listen to political analysts they say that the risk of confusing a low information voters are voters who don't pay a lot of attention to politics is pretty high what the president had to say at 1st

blush could be confusing to people trying to figure out whether it is actually safe to take part in the election this year. someone you maryland out ok you sign it and send it in and then you have to follow it. and a final action day or early voting that is not tabulated and counted you know vote. and then if for some reason after that it shouldn't take that long it comes in they're not going to be able to tabulate it because you will of voted but you have to make sure your vote counts because the only way they're going to beat us is by doing that kind of stuff of trying to be nice. and of course this is one of the themes that donald trump has been hitting on all year suggesting that democrats are going to try to steal his reelection from him that is of course a point which the opposition party has steadfastly denied there saying if anything

more needs to be done to make certain that people can actually vote what ever manner they seen fit ok rosalynn george in the life is in arlington thank you very much indeed let's bring in chris said tilson he's an assistant professor of governments at the school of public affairs american university he joins us now from washington d.c. good to have you with us on al-jazeera and we've heard there from our reports are just how confusing this could be it will sort of impact would you say all this is having on the perception of a free and fair vote. yeah you reporters right and i think it's even worse unfortunately thank you for having me on and taking on this important issue i think what the president is doing not just hearing this this this action but other ones as well sending a clear message is voters he said in the clip you just play it if i lose president trump is saying it means that the election was rigged he's laying the groundwork

he's doing something very dangerous by suggesting to voters that they should vote twice which is a crime it's happened before after the 2016 election a woman in iowa who of trump's supporter believe that trump was telling her the election was rigged so she voted twice to try to test that apparently was prosecuted and put guilty to a felony so it's dangerous for voters but it's even more dangerous for our system because i think its supporters are going to believe the only way he can lose is if it's rigged he just told them that but this is true this works both ways if trump ends up winning this election he's mounted the waters so much that people could argue that it's rigs because he was encouraging people to vote twice how does anyone benefit when this much confusion this being stolen right and well let's remember when he won last time he said it was rigged he claimed he would have won the popular vote too if it hadn't been for fraudulent voting in california no basis for that claim so i don't think he cares about it i think he cares of protecting

himself and i think he believes he may not be right but he believes this is the best way to protect himself if you does lose either way you're right either way it's a disaster for our system because he when the president does this he is undermining faith in our system this is the kind of thing that authoritarians do not people who believe in the brigham ocracy. given this given the you're making the link thorazine governments. what would you say is needed to try and protect the integrity of the american election do you think it's time to bring in independent election monitors nationwide's in a bid to to to secure confidence in these upcoming elections that's a great question i think that does make sense from my understanding is that there are some efforts to do that. but i think also what really makes sense right now although i want happens that he is both republicans and democrats in congress need to stand up and reject what the president is saying republicans need to say there

is you don't need to vote twice it's illegal to vote twice there's no rigging in the election if the president loses there is no evidence that he is going to lose in a way that illegitimate the president is trying to undermine the election and this is not a partisan issue i would like to see republicans stand up and say that at this point out there no they won't i guess perhaps we can hope that maybe republicans who are not currently serving in congress some of whom are of interest joe biden because of these concerns about the president maybe they will stand up and tell people the president is doing something very dangerous you're ok some have to leave it there but thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and analysis with him and i'll just leave it appreciate it thank you facebook and their own steps to prevent this platform from being exploited in the weeks leading up to the u.s. election it will stop accepting new political ads 7 days before election day but will continue showing what's already in the system c.e.o.

mark zuckerberg says he's concerned about a period of intense claims and counterclaims during the final days facebook has faced criticism for not doing enough to fact check articles or ads on its platforms . democratic presidential candidate joe biden this visiting the city old which has become the new focus of the u.s. debates own systemic racism he attended a community church meeting and met with the family of jacob blake the unarmed black man who was shot 7 times in the back by a white police officer last month john hendren has more from kenosha wisconsin. seizing a moment that erupted into a movement joe biden came to know should you do what president trump did not want us to 2 days after trump stumped in can osha to tell law and order the democratic presidential nominee spoke on the phone to jacob blake the 29 year old man left paralyzed by police bullets he talked about how nothing was going to defeat him.

why they walked together not he was not going to give up and he expressed sympathy in a meeting with blake's family. were able to have some things that could be the building of a platform where we could take the african-american people say this is what they're going to do the 1st day they get in the white house if they do those things will support them all over what's the difference between him and a man who sits in. he never said nephews name not one day not one second. biden said it was the white supremacist rally in charlottesville virginia that prompted him to run for president finally now getting to the point. we're going to be interesting your original sin. of this country. 400 years old you see original sin slavery and all the vestiges of it i can

guarantee you everything in selma 4 years but i guarantee one thing. i mean a whole heck of a lot better but his was a centrist message of compassion and also to connote his business owners and police coping with days of arson and looting he offered condemnation of violence and a promise to pursue rioters so we're gonna see how angry you are if you burn you should be held accountable as someone who dug out of the house. the stump marked a dramatic contrast to trump's appearance here on tuesday when he declined even to say jacob blake's name condemned demonstrators and then sided clearly with police must give far greater support to a law enforcement it's all about giving them additional support these are great people wisconsin is a crucial battleground state one that trump won by the slimmest of margins in 2016 that year hillary clinton was widely criticized for failing to visit the state it was biden's 2nd campaign stop since the democratic national convention in august

biden's visit to this kenosha church comes ahead of a series of midwestern campaign stops focusing on swing states including wisconsin it's meant to draw a contrast to president trump's new hiding biden as the president calls him is campaigning exclusively on line from his delaware basement with exactly 2 months to go to the election biden left a city divided within a divided nation but with his supporters more hopeful that change would follow john hendren al-jazeera wisconsin. 7 police officers have been suspended after video was released of the death of a black man who appeared to be in a state of mental distress protest has rallied in rochester new york state demanding to know why no action had been taken in the 5 months since daniel pearl died in march police were called to respond after a man was seen running naked and under the influence of drugs officers held him

face down on the grain for more than 2 minutes prudes stops breathing and never regained consciousness well his daughter to says the officers should be charged with his murder to see their video and see how far they're in the state of helplessness where he was complying and wasn't given anybody a hard stand in need of help. is devastating there is really taking a toll on me m.r. so it was because we had never seen our father in a situation the way. i have to say now is i want i want justice i want these officers charged with murder in. the disturbia rochester to do better. still to come on al-jazeera protests continue in port au prince patients vent their anger over the death of a prominent lawyer. and brazil which is the $4000000.00 mark in confirms

coronavirus cases as the world's 2nd largest come to break. hello for the size of my zack is surprisingly quick moving hand that meant that the damage wasn't as bad as it could have been the time it took my zach to move that distance hi sharon moved about a quarter of that now this is going to be a much bigger storm is following a similar path as you will see but for the time being in between the 2 the weather is quite quiet stormy over parts of japan largely drive a charter except maybe in the west as you see there with a few showers remaining but high shown as it slowly strengthens drifts probably towards our konar once again has got

a forecast path that you don't really want to see but i may get to the end of saturday's showing its true colors it'll be probably a super typhoon by this time and then that's the forecast course it takes up by monday afternoon local time to the south coast of south korea we'll watch that with considerable interest further south widespread showers or course as you know that malaysia and indonesia it's getting wet and mainland southeast asia not so much but there are still quite a few showers to come in thailand and cambodia but if you look at borneo soloway sea and sumatra and increasingly java is looking quite thundery. but. china's new national security role has tightened beijing's grip on hong kong and stifled protests that rocked the city a year ago. with pro-democracy candidates now disqualified from running in

elections and activists fearing imprisonment or worse does this spell the end for one country 2 systems people in power investigates hong kong and the game on i guess either. move the n.o.a.a. . the or the. this is al jazeera but commander of the headlines this hour yes president donald trump has again called on his supporters to test the integrity of mail in voting by going to polling stations to see if their ballot had been counted yet if it hasn't see advised them to vote in person however voting twice is

a federal offense. democratic presidential candidate joe biden is visiting the city of canoe show which has become the new focus of the u.s. debate on systemic racism is spoke with the family of jacob blake the armed black man who was shot 7 times in the back by a white police officer. and nato has announced that greece and turkey will hold talks to defuse tensions in the eastern mediterranean they've been locked in an escalation disputes over gas exploration rights turkey has welcomed the initiative but greece says there will be no talks unless turkey withdrawals it ships from disputed areas john psaropoulos has more from athens where he says there's a lot of skepticism about the proposed talks. what nato is concerned with is not territorial nato is concerned with its allies not having a war within the alliance and what it is trying to do is to have

these de confliction mechanisms put in place which would prevent accidents from happening on the understanding that neither greece nor turkey intend a war to happen but what has happened today in that process is simply that the 2 representatives of greece and turkey in nato were briefed on the secretary general young stoltenberg ideas towards such a deep confliction process it's taking place that meeting lasted 6 minutes according to greek diplomatic sources clearly more discussion is going to be needed before heads of government on both sides say that they are willing to proceed on the basis of those ideas so what the greek side has said is simply this that we know to the nato secretary general is good intentions to work towards the confliction mechanisms within nato but de confliction consists only in turkey withdrawing all of its ships from the greek continental shelf in other words greece

will not enter into even these deacon collection talks with. horses and survey ships on what it considers its continental shelf that greece considers would be to enter in a go sation on turkey's terms and it feels that nato is not being impartial in this matter. rescue workers in lebanon are digging through rubble searching for possible survivors from last month's explosion just scanners detected signs of life a sniffer dog chilean rescuers on wait and see night responding to a sentence from the sites of a collapsed building in beirut's a far brigade workers said a post was detected about to me to speak of the rubble the building completely collapsed as a result of the blast the poor's say and a hunter has more on the search for survivors in beirut's or in a beirut neighborhood may see one of the neighborhoods that was badly damaged as

a result of that explosion you can see the collapsed building behind me it's been a month like we've been saying and only this morning a team from chile one of their dogs a search dog alerted them to the possibility of a body underneath that rubble now we've spoken to a number of the team members here and what they're saying is that their dogs as well as their machines because they brought advanced machines with detected 2 bodies one could be dead and the other could be alive because they detected respiratory cycle they said this morning 18 respiratory cycles in a minute now 10 respiratory cycles in a minute it's very difficult to really know whether or not in fact there are body bodies underneath that rubble or if there is a survivor but it's been a month and the rubble has not been cleared this is why the lebanese people are so upset with their with the government with the authorities because of their

negligence because they really did not do much in the aftermath of the port explosion they didn't clear the streets they didn't help in repair work so now there is the possibility of a survivor but we understand at least a dead body. lebanon's army says it has found more than 4 tons of ammonium nitrate at beirut poor it's the same highly explosive material that caused the explosion last month army engineers are reported to be dealing with it all say in a harder takes a look at the impact the blast is still having on the people who lived through the ordeal. it's been a month since the explosion at beirut port and many like north are still struggling to cope this is my 1st time coming to modify and after the explosion at the time of the explosion i was feeling really bad that i couldn't go down and help people but i was just very afraid of leaving my home even though the blast rips through

neighborhoods like. killing nearly 200 people and wounding thousands but some injuries can't be seen what is a matter of concern for us now what we call the healing scars what we don't see the psychological effects of these explosions. the blast was lebanon's latest calamity. many businesses already reeling from a deep economic crisis were impacted united nations estimates 70000 people have been put out of work that's 12000 households lebanon was also on the verge of a humanitarian crisis with more than 50 percent of its people in poverty ali nasr dean is thankful that he and his family survived the explosion their home is just a kilometer from the port a struggle to carry on like so many others they rely on aid agencies for handouts and. my car was destroyed or used to be

a doctor i was able to feed my family and buy milk and diapers for my daughter. came to assist our situation 3 days after the blast they haven't. damages are in the billions of dollars money the nearly bankrupt state doesn't have decades of corruption has been blamed not just for the economy's collapse but the port blast many lebanese blame the political elite for this explosion so far mainly ports and custom employees have been arrested as part of the investigations but senior officials haven't been questioned even though they were aware almost 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate were stored. in unsafe conditions in a warehouse i expected the president own the president the battery to be today in prison to put themselves in custody until the investigation happens independently from their presence lebanese authorities have rejected calls for an international investigation into one of the world's largest non-nuclear explosions in history i

still feel angry at most and. you're sitting here at home and you. are nearing danger. are you going to go through that. everything is so unstable country i don't even know i mean nor is not alone in her despair and misery it's been crisis after crisis in what is now a broken country. beirut brazil has registered more than 4000000 confirmed cases of covert 19 according to government data nearly 125000 people have died in the world's 2nd largest covert outbreak however there are some indications that things could be improving annual report has more on the challenges facing brazil. will run very briefly through the latest data from brazil's health ministry as of thursday evening the number of confirmed cases of covert 1000 was

4041638 only the united states compared to the rest of the world has a higher number of confirmed cases than brazil i don't think anyone could have imagined brazil being at this point more than 4000000 confirmed cases house represents somewhere close to 2 percent of the country's population but it there could be signs that things are improving if you look at the daily contagion rate the daily death rate over the past few weeks it does show signs that the health crisis is starting to improve last week the daily death rate dropped below $900.00 per day which is still very horrifying especially compared to the rest of the region but could be an indicator that brazil is finally starting to climb down from that plateau of contagion that is sort of characterized it as a nightmare scenario for latin america here in mexico there is concern over in alarming contagion rate among doctors nurses medical workers which is now the

highest in the world and a lot like brazil mexico is leadership has been widely criticized for taking what many would characterize as a relaxed approach to the containment efforts against the kobe $900.00 contagion. polls have closed 10 jamaica's general election which was held amid a spike in corona virus cases infections have increased since the votes wins colds in august on prime minister andrew homeless 6 months ahead of schedule polls suggest the sense of right ruling party another 5 hears and power. and police in haiti have placed the nation on alert after a series of gang killings gangs are allegedly targeting anyone that criticizes the government protesters accuse the president of being complicit in the murders and accusation he denies and the gallagher has more. in haiti's capital port au prince residents run for cover as homes burned and gunshots ring out scenes like this have becoming increasingly common with protestors claiming armed gangs are

operating with impunity dozens of people have been killed or kidnapped with warring gangs accused of targeting poor neighborhoods where they don't have as long as they came and shot many people including children in the elderly they want to install a gang inside a neighborhood this is outrageous and the insecurity is out of control in this country in a period of 48 hours recently at least 4 prominent government critics were killed including respected lawyer among very i don't vote he was gunned down outside his home after calling for another kind of country in a radio interview hours earlier haitian police say his death has all the whole box of a gang assassination. the us agenda stage which are set up with justice which is just a stomach of the injustice not out of the political many say this man self described revolutionary jimmy barbecue cherice's is behind the violence but it's

alleged the former police officer is orchestrating aunt gangs and u.n. calls to bring him to justice but so far failed eighty's president job no mo isa has condemned the killings and promised investigations but is administration is coming under increasing criticism president just now maurice denies any ties to the gangs but he's critics say he's leaving them alone because they allegedly attack his opponents as things stand is ruling by decree after haiti's elections were delayed those delays have led to constitutional and political her. other than a sharp rise in insecurity haiti is still dealing with the aftermath of hurricane laura on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic protesters say the alleged ties between the government and gangs is a serious threat so i think the government already sent a very clear message that us cities and the meaning is mending just as the mending end of x. insecurity we have by the enemy and the gangs are

a hot day the didn't have any worrying when they are in the streets heavily armed and they are those friends of the government haiti has long been a fragile nation where most live on less than $2.00 a day this latest escalation in violent killings has many worried that haiti may once again be heading towards an unstable future under gallica al jazeera. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines u.s. president donald trump has again cold on his supporters to test the integrity of mail in voting by going to polling stations to see if their ballots had been counted yet if it wasn't he advised them to vote in person however voting twice is a federal offense. sign your maryland. ok you sign it and send it in and then you have to follow it at

a photo election day. early voting that is not tabulated and counted you go vote. and then a for some reason after that it shouldn't take that long it comes in they're not going to be able to tabulate it because you will about it but you have to make sure your vote counts because the only way they're going to beat us is by doing that kind of stuff trying to be nice. democratic presidential candidate joe biden is visiting the city of can though show which has become the focus of the u.s. debate on systemic racism you spoke with the family of jacob blake the unarmed black man who was shot 7 times in the back by a white police officer. facebook has announced steps to prevent his platform from being exploited in the week leading up to the u.s. election it will stop accepting new political ads 7 days before election day but will continue showing what's already in the system nato has announced that greece

and turkey will hold talks to defuse tensions in the eastern mediterranean they've been locked in a dispute over gas exploration rights turkey has welcomed the initiative but greece says there will be no talks unless turkey withdraws its ships from disputed areas. rescue workers in lebanon are digging through rubble searching for possible survivors from last month's explosion after scanners detected signs of life a sniffer dog by chilean rescuers on wednesday night responded to a smell from the site of a collapsed building in beirut a far brigade workers at a pulse was detected about 2 meters below the rubble. those saw the headline stay with us on al-jazeera women make science is up next in the global fight against financial crime banks rely on databases for customer trends and a record for sure that. who that person is

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