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and explore fascinating for her to start. world heritage 36 to get enough now. this news live from berlin protests erupt for a 2nd night in the u.s. state of wisconsin over the shooting of a to last man by police on sunday security forces in the city of can no shots fired tear gas after demonstrators refused to disperse despite a curfew. also coming up president donald trump makes an appearance on day one of
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the republican national convention as delegates formally back his bid for a 2nd term in office and german doctors say the kremlin critic alexina volley was probably poisoned in russia medical staff treating him in berlin saying test results point to the use of a nerve agent. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program america's summer of racial reckoning is intensifying anger has again erupted in wisconsin over the shooting of a black man by police on sunday police clashed with protesters who threw bottles set fire to cars and refused to disperse despite a curfew the city of could osha has become the latest flash point for outrage over racial injustice. this rest began after officer shot 29 year old jacob play
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several times in the back leaving him fighting for his life in the hospital now witnesses they filmed the shooting on their cell phones in a video which is just starving. don't do it onlookers yelled. was. 7 shots are fired. was the car horn blares on the body weight. 29 year old jacob blake was trying to stop a neighborhood dispute according to his family's lawyer you know his young children were in the vehicle his fiance witnessed the shooting it was 2 male officers and one female and so male officers instantly like detained i'm like you know put your hands about like no questions or none of it and i'm just trying to simply get the
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kids out the car my wait a minute like he didn't do not there are wrong like you know just excellent questions 1st before you pin this man up against the cover and not even say no no my furthermore the kids in the car they didn't even know to kids was in a car blake survived and remains in a serious condition in hospital several police officers have been placed on administrative leave a state investigation is under way. and will be clear this was not an accident this wasn't bad police work this felt like some sort of in debt or being taken out on a member of our community. protests a rough day on sunday night in the town of can no show wisconsin vehicles were set ablaze windows smashed. outrage grew on monday demonstrators once more having to insist that black lives master. it always comes back to these hands up don't shoot. we do heads up don't shoot
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but doesn't matter no because it doesn't get there. we still we still get. the. demonstrations have spread to other cities jacob blake's name is now added to the long list of victims of police violence in america. and let's bring in our correspondent now stuff and finance who is joining us from conditional wisconsin where jacob was shot i mean watching that video is is really difficult the public they're angry you know the authorities they have deployed the national guard to patrol the protest what is the situation where you are. right there right behind me here you see a national guard and local police protecting the court house here in konoha from protesters not many forces around here anymore this iteration is significant come down but in the last hour or 2 you see this fire there in the back there were
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dozens of those fires car fire as many cars on fire as exploding gas tanks even trucks on fire and now also buildings are torched and were torched the fire department had a really really busy night we think we also saw an event to fight law enforcement officers black no insignia no names no indifferent identification as address so that led us to believe that also federal law enforcement officers are here and can osha not just state troopers and not just national guard and local police anyhow as i said people here are really really angry still again angry about what they think is and what happened 2 days ago another example of structural and systemic racism on display in police departments here and can osha now but across the united states what is the condition of jacob blake right now. yes he was in critical condition he's now in stable condition that doesn't mean that he's out of the woods
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but the doctors reportedly are hopeful that he will recover. her stable condition from now remember 7 times shot 7 times in the back and if you ask people around here protesters matter protesters all but anybody who is on the streets during this night and was on the streets during the day and will probably come back tomorrow to assess it is a miracle that mr blake survived this if you saw the video and we all saw the video that is it probably is a miracle that mr blake is now in stable condition that is the latest on mr blake's condition and what we hear the protesters chanting behind you is black lives matter it has been 3 months stefan since another black man george floyd was killed in police custody we've seen these protests out on the streets of a change anything. that is a really good question and i wish i would have a simple and quick answer on this i don't. at the moment here this feels like
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a mini minneapolis. a low scale minneapolis as of now there's days and nights to come probably but has it changed in america a little bit there are police departments across the country who try to make really change a structural change in recruiting and who are they hiring as police officers in training in instruction of a police department are we there yet as america as a country i mean can or should probably not at least people here think no where near of a real change stuff and simons joining us from can notion of wisconsin thanks jeff . and the black lives matter movement of racial injustice in the country is among the factors which voters will consider when they head to the polls in november meantime u.s. republicans have formally back donald trump as their candidate for the presidential election he will face the democrats candidate joe biden trump secured the
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nomination on the 1st day of the republican national convention in charlotte north carolina and a speech. on the republican national convention republicans made a point of making this an in person event a deliberate contrast of a democratic convention a week. the traditional roku to pick their party's presidential candidate delivered an unsurprising when a storm enough chill i want we nominate a president donald j. charles. the president made a surprise appearance in an unscheduled speech from set the tone for the convention we have an attack on the democrats he accused them of trying to reconvene election and of spying on his 2016 campaign. far 7 here if you want to really drive them crazy you say 124 years.
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ago we caught them doing some really bad things in 2016 we'll see what happens we caught them doing some really bad things we have to be very careful because they're trying it again with this whole 80000000 mail in ballots that they're working on. plates of a convention shifted to washington d.c. where party politicians and so that supporters praised president. trump appeared on screen again this time in the wants house that he met with essential workers and 6 former hostages released during his tenure. it went through after the 1st day is cleavage trump will be friends and send off his party's weeklong pitch to the nation. and let's have a look now at some other stories making news around the world facebook has blocked access to a group that is critical of thailand's monarchy after the thai government threatened
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the company with legal action it comes as pro-democracy rallies spread across thailand the block group has a 1000000 members its founder has accused facebook of cooperating with the regime to obstruct democracy. the u.n. war crimes tribunal has begun hearing an appeal by bosnian serb general rot go against his life sentence for genocide a lot of it was sentenced in 2017 over the strive and it's a massacre and other war crimes carried out during bosnia civil war in the 1990 s. . palestinian authorities have ordered a 48 hour lockdown in gaza after recording the 1st cases of coded 19 among the general public 4 cases of the virus were recorded in one family living in a densely populated refugee camp gaza residents have raced to buy supplies ahead of the lockdown. and here's
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a look at some of the developments in the corona virus pandemic some more of them because south korea is closing most schools and returning to remote learning in the capital region after a surge of coronavirus cases there the measures will continue at least until september 11th germany has declared paris a large parts of france's mediterranean coast rich risk areas for covert 19 and issued a travel warning for the regions and a patient in the netherlands and another in belgium have been confirmed to have been really infected with copd 19 it follows reports of a hong kong man being reinfected 4 and a half months after being declared recovered and jamaican media say that retired sprinting champion who say bolt has tested positive for the virus it comes just days after he celebrated his 34th birthday but they lavish party. german chancellor angela merkel has called on russia to investigate the suspected
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poisoning of russian opposition leader alexina vali doctors treating him and berlin say that they have found evidence of a toxic substance in his body he was brought here on saturday after falling ill in serbia with the russian doctors saying it was a metabolic disorder ramping up security at the sheraton hospital in berlin alexina valley is being treated here for what his supporters say was a case of poisoning the shower taken from the doctors treating putin's most prominent critics say he probably was poisoned. it's said clinical findings indicate poisoning with a substance from the group of color no store is inhibitors it's not clear exactly what the substance was some call in australia's inhibitors are used as a treatment for alzheimer's disease but chemicals from the group can also be used as a nerve agent chancellor angela merkel and foreign minister heiko mass are demanding
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an investigation in view of most in the valleys prominent role in the political opposition in russia the authorities there are now urgently called upon to investigate this act fairly and to do so with full transparency alexina valmy is not the 1st russian critic of the kremlin to be poisoned the former spy alexander litvinenko died in 2006 after he drank poisoned tea then 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin could start. doctors say alexina vel in these condition is serious but not life threatening. and i asked alastair hay professor of environmental toxicology at the university of leeds in
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the u.k. who might have had access to the kind of toxin found in the vollies blood gunna phosphate pesticides are not difficult to get hold of but the more toxic nerve agent type. like the nova chocked that is military grade material and nobody is really going to have access to that unless you are a superb chemist with very good facilities. these are chemicals which block messages from you know to muscle. type chemicals and other nerve agents are highly potent so you only need very small quantities to poison and kill someone so if you are trying to poison someone trying to disguise it maybe in t. as in this instance possibly then you want something that is highly toxic that you can only only need to give in small amounts to bring about what you're trying to achieve so these are likely to be. difficult at this stage to
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say but i suspect it's going to be something that's very potent and only obtainable from a very restricted circle and that was alastair hay professor of environmental toxicology at the university of leeds speaking with me earlier i'm sara kelly thanks for watching. on the years ago german chancellor angela merkel made a famous claim is not enough when germany can do orders to refugees. 5 years later we take it into one down. and the consequences are still she says.

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