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a nerve agent he's being treated in a brilliant hospital was. police in the u.s. have shot dead a far left activist suspected of killing a supporter of president trump officers opened fire while attempting to arrest michael rhino in washington state earlier rhino appeared to admit shooting a demonstrator during clashes in portland oregon i know that. lebanon has held a vigil to mark one month since the huge explosion which devastated the comp of the beirut mourners protesters and the military lined the streets many old so expressed their anger at the oath archies more than 200 people were killed and thousands injured in the blast this is the news from berlin follow us on twitter on the instagram or visit our website w dot com. or

. feel that ciena valley a fad just world go away but russia doesn't seem to care now nato has joined in f. a growing list of international bodies lining up to give must give a good telling off for the poisoning of a prominent kremlin critic. but once again stoltenberg has finished wagging his finger what connect to actually do i'm phil game and this is the day. the story think we have nothing to hide. serious questions. we should listen to the. degree of skepticism. told accountable

to just. anything apart from the artificial evidence we have already provided. also carry our last journey of hope 5 years ago thousands of refugees left budapest on foot for the german border. where. i hope to. welcome to the program we start with nato which is called on moscow to cooperate fully investigate into the poisoning of russian dissidents annexing them found the military alliance of the special meeting in brussels to discuss the case today and next in the family who fell to sag bierria is currently and i medically induced coma in

a hospital in berlin germany says it has evidence that he was poisoned with the soviet era nerve agent choc a nato secretary general ban stoltenberg described the case as a serious breach of international law that demands an international response. natomas agree that. serious questions it must answer the russian government must fully cooperate with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons an impartial international investigation. those responsible for this attack must be held accountable and break to justice on the w's nature correspondent teri schultz joins us live from brussels welcome tell me what was nato as main message well phil it's still too early for anyone to point fingers with any credibility at who might have poisoned alexina valmiki so you can't say that russia is responsible

for the poisoning but what you can say is that russia is responsible for the poison itself nobody took as you mentioned as a soviet era nerve agent and it is a banned chemical substance via the o.p.c. w. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons so russia should have already declared any stocks that have has of nova check and it is also responsible for securing any of those stocks and so that is what nato says russia must come clean on where is it's over took who has access to it and how could someone have gotten gotten the supply of it to poison alexina vonnie there was a press conference after yet still to issue his statement what did you ask him well i passed on a question that i'm getting a lot on twitter and that is from the critics of nato saying anything at all they want to know why would the alliance have anything to say about a russian citizen being poisoned on russian territory so that's what i asked the

secretary general. because this is a violation of international law on the international norms it's the use of chemical of that but it's a use of overunity chemical nerve agent which is violating probation over any use of chemical weapons and matters for nato and when we see that the opposition will titian in russia is attacked. there's not as nation a time against him of course it matters for everyone that believe since the rule of law democracy individual liberty as we do in nato. well the miso nato says there needs to be an investigation the kremlin says this was nothing to do with us what does nato do next well we have somewhat of a precedent phil and that is that the last time there was a highly pub's publicized use of no took was in 20 seen in the u.k.

as you may remember a former russian spy service cripple and his daughter and 2 other people were poisoned using this nerve agent and at that time the u.k. launched an investigation and and pinned it on to russian nationals so in that case the russian government was penalized nato kicked out 7 diplomats from the russian mission to nato and many countries also expelled russian diplomats in punishment for this so that remains an option if the poisoning of electing of all me can be traced back to russian officials but it's way too early for that we've only just gotten the german results proving that it was novacek and so nato is hoping that the open opens an investigation that russian co-op that russia cooperate but that's a lot of a lot of hypotheticals so we'll have to see how things play out from here but they wanted to send a strong message early on in this process. teri schultz in brussels thank you.

still to come donald trump and joe biden clashed on campaign messaging the u.s. election be decided on law and order or the economy we just have a president who just doesn't see he doesn't feel that he doesn't understand he just doesn't care. and all this week. marking the 5th anniversary of a decision that would change the course of european history. september 4th 25th the thousands of refugees who've been stuck in limbo and the station in budapest set off for the german border for them it was a start of a new route to the heart of europe by the end of 2058 more than a 1000000 people had sought refuge in the e.u. with many making the long trek from. across greece and the balkan countries to the german border. so here's a look at the situation that confronted migrants on tunk ariens. station back in

2015. and anger at the station. many of those finding shelter here had fled war in violence in their homelands and made a dangerous sea crossing at the mercy of people smugglers. hungry they found europe stores closed at times as many. here making do with makeshift camps and no aid from the government. but they did find helping hands among some of us in the beginning. as our friends. bring. the paper. some money. from a. 100. 1 of those helpers

he spent months at collecting station distributing food and comfort wherever he could. his egyptian hungary and jewish heritage compelled him to go to the station and his sense of responsibility for his fellow man made him stay. it wasn't a job. it was something we had to do for people everywhere around the world. it's just something we had to do. on september 4th 201-5000 of migrants and collecting station decided to forge their own path. taking the 1st steps on a journey that would bring a 1000000 migrants to germany. that was 5 years ago so how did

your of do and handling not so what became a crisis. speaks for the u.n. high commission for refugees he joins us from hungary and welcome to day so we had a good long time to look at the way you handled that the migration crisis that began in 2015 if you're marking brussels homework for that year what school would you give it out of 10. first of all this is a thrilling go sit in in front of my bookshop and talk to you from my own home because exactly 5 years ago at this time. i was on the $100.00 european waterway i was walking to get there everybody would use towards and around this time in the night the news came the be on geary and prime minister we can or obama and the german chancellor under marco agreed upon allowing the refugees

walking along the moderate to cross the borders and to go into germany so it happened 5 years ago exactly at this time of the odds and around one or half past 1 after midnight buses came and the different use of her transported for the younger north korean border as for as for europe i think at this stage this was probably the most important political development this agreement between the hungary and the german government at the time. it was important did they did you handle that's decision and everything else that followed well because what we saw was 101 stage closing its borders we saw various countries saying no we don't want to be asked we do want them how did the e.u. did. well i think if i can recall it correctly but

most of all the musicians were taken on the national levels on the level of the hunger and go among. young greek and of course term governments were really very important parts as well as so. my by this time the we found the border fronts and only the south and borders of hungary the border of it sort of and the border of gratiano over all the almost complete you and. within 10 days from now we'll rebuild on a more rate. and he 1st of all the completion of the various european border what happened after wards it's a different story because he read the color of the hungary and serbian border and later on one month later and with the closure of the hungary in croatian border the access. of asylum seekers to be i'm very very very angry so it was

a mixed picture of me but we do need to move on migration policy is still a huge issue across europe voters tend to be fine with the theoretical idea of saving people from harm but against the practical idea of the same people moving into their communities so this is one of the many reasons why far right a nationalist party is a saying such as surgeon support so what do you say to those voters beyond theoretical notions of doing the right thing to convince them they should allow thousands of desperate people from alien cultures what they don't speak their language or look like they have to come into their country and change their way of life. i think we are talking special me i'm talking about people who are forced to flee their homes or to leave their countries their home countries because of war because of violence because there are lives and the lives of we loved ones their family members would have been in danger if they stayed so this is not their

doesn't believe their country is this is this is they are forced to leave otherwise they would have been. they would have been that. way so. if we understand there's the creation this is not only our obligation because they think by the international law this is our very basic moral obligation to help them to give them access to our country and to ensure that they can continue being lives in safety and security we wish you well thank you so much for joining us seamen from the u.n. thanks yeah thank you. and the u.s. election there officially opens today with malin voting getting underway in the state of north carolina but less than 2 months until election day president trump joe biden are ramping up their campaigns they just cold so the race has remained

relatively stable over the last few weeks with biden holding a national lead of just over 7 percentage points but the race will ultimately deep be decided by a handful of swing states over the last week law and order has emerged as a central theme of the trump campaign which they say has boosted their momentum meanwhile joe biden is trying to blunt the president's continuing attacks by. the domestic terrorists my plan is to arrest them and prosecute and i will always defend. citizens that's why the right. voted for by none of it justifies 30 bernie or anything else so regardless how angry you are if you lutie you burn you should be held accountable as someone who doesn't enter the house period so who is winning the war of the narratives that's told today w correspondent. joins us from washington welcome i think so donald trump seems to

be getting old he's putting all these eggs in the law and order basket how much momentum is really giving him well that's right phil he's definitely sees this theme that central to his reelection campaign in recent weeks especially and we know the social justice protests have largely been peaceful but he's highlighting the images of violence and vandalism that's often not associated with the black lives matter movement and he's appealing to white suburban voters here with this theme that he's the man to put a stop to the public on rest and his campaign clearly feel certain that this single line of messaging will be enough to get that job done in november so how vulnerable is joe biden on law and order we have seen him come out against a rising the losing of recent days. yeah i mean it might seem that way considering that the incumbent donald trump is definitely pushing this message and so the joe biden campaign is certainly looking at this and thinking ok perhaps we need to add

our messaging and so they've dropped about $45000000.00 into ads this week and as we heard joe biden say rioting is not protesting and he says he condemns violence anywhere by anyone and perhaps he said that to differentiate himself from the president who has yet to condemn a 17 year old supporter of his who shot and killed 2 people in wisconsin and you know joe biden also perhaps has a more of a tougher task here a more complex one because he has to balance multiple messages the message that yes rioting is wrong but at the same time acknowledging that social injustice is a longstanding problem in this country but only one president talks about. what he will do about it if he's reelected as though this was not happening on his watch . that's right he's the president he's the man in the oval office and this is exactly the message that joe biden has been trying to drive home and he's saying you know on top of the fact that the president is doing very little he feels that

the president is actually inciting violence with his inflammatory rhetoric trump for his part of course has been blaming democratic leaders in places like oregon and wisconsin instead so what we're seeing is the 2 cams trying to control the conversation we have president trump who is actually going to joe biden responding to these law and order tones while joe biden would prefer to talk about the president's response to the pandemic and surprisingly president trump is optimistic good times just around the corner apparently in the hopefully rounding the 3rd of the we're rounding that. vaccines are coming along great you know that the job that the doctors everybody else we years ahead of schedule terms of really stick timelines we're really not expecting to see widespread. next year. so big you have to see is a donald trump just telling people what he thinks they want to hear or does he know

something the world health organization doesn't or we do know is that donald trump wants this pandemic behind him and so does everyone else bill but unfortunately the reality is that experts are saying there's unlikely to be a vaccine by election day or even by the end of this year as you heard from not expert from the w.h.o. we also have to remember that there is an international effort being led by the world health organization to develop manufacture and distribute a vaccine and more than $170.00 countries are involved in that but the u.s. says they will not help lead this effort they're going to develop their own vaccine and we heard from joe biden earlier today where he asked you know he questions sort of the success of the administration will have here given how they sort of botched the process of guard to testing. well the coronavirus the death toll and the projections keep getting worse destruction and denial donald trump's only options now unfortunately the numbers are very very dire fell more than

187000 americans are dead there are more than 6000000 cases we've got new projections today that say 410000 deaths could be possible by years and if mask usage wanes and if there's no further government response and yesterday when trump was speaking in pennsylvania he made fun of joe biden for wearing a mask when biden was asked about that today he said well you know i trust the scientists so there's that is definitely a political element to this pandemic unfortunately and on top of all of that millions of americans have lost their jobs there were new job numbers today as well and that looks a little bit positive and trump touted that saying you know one and a half 1000000 jobs have been recovered in august but it's just a drop in the bucket another issue that perhaps isn't getting a lot of attention right now unfortunately are the stimulus checks that were being sent out to americans to help alleviate the strain given the pandemic in the many people have lost their jobs those stimulus checks stopped coming in july and biden called on trying to reconvene congress right now so that they can lean renegotiate

that have that extended but as of right now american families are not getting the help that they need so let's let's hear from joe biden then talking about the economic growth for lots of this pandemic the president's chaotic chaotic mismanagement of the pandemic is still holding us back compared to other major industrial countries in europe and asia during a pandemic are in employment rate is still more than double ordinary shoes have only gone up by half why because the president has botched the covert response botched. so joe biden is convinced that the president's response to boat but responsibility for the various elements of the u.s. response it folds to a complicated mix of federal state municipal and local authorities so does the rest of the country share that said the president doesn't have a grip are they holding him responsible well it certainly depends on who you ask

for all the countries rather polarized on this trump supporters will of course say that this is not the case it is not the president's fault whereas democratic and perhaps some independent voters feel differently but as you mentioned we're more than 6 months into this pandemic and there isn't a national strategy that's been put in place each state is managing their own situation which isn't ideal for containing a virus that doesn't see borders but this is certainly allowed donald trump to shift the blame to the governors when he needs to so that when he sees spikes in cases and particularly in other states led by democrats he can blame them but when there are dips he can certainly look to take the credit which is what he's been doing so the messaging he looks for the positives and he only focuses on that and that's perhaps what he will continue to do through talking to you thank you for that because how the son in washington. well a pandemic is creating one of america's worst job crises for a century companies are starting to rehire but not nearly fast enough for the

millions of unemployed who have rent and bills to pay w stefan simons. thinks of himself as a lucky guy 35 year old stone cutter and resident of phoenix arizona just tallent new full time work after several months off on employment. was right around the beginning of the pandemic the hours went from 40 to 20 within 2 weeks i went from 20 you know almost 0 at that point i did have to. wait for that stuff to come through 1st time i ever applied for. unemployment payments from washington and from the state government kept him somewhat afloat but then he fell behind on this rent and that had consequences despite an arizona governor's executed forder to postpone evictions thomas was evicted his new home now the del rio motel where he now pays around $300.00 per week. it's going to be very hard to get

a new apartment for kinfolk president of an organization called arizona thomas case is just one of many he's dealing with every day the covert 1000 condemning puts people out of work then many can't pay rent anymore they get thrown out of their homes and onto the streets and that in return fuels them and time again. it's a no win situation it's a lose lose situation there's there's no. proper. solution here until we get a handle on this virus and you know especially if you've got people out on the street you know conveying the virus from person to person to social group to social group there's no one that's going to be safe. safe is something to have brewer hasn't felt in months of serious her husband chef were furloughed early on in the pen and then got sick with covert she and her son were also hit by the by the summer was the worst since all of us catching kobe and now

we're everything that could go wrong. julie has a rare neurologic condition called stiff person syndrome she can't work and receive social security and disability payments it pays the rent but that's it i have $53.00 left out of my social security disability after paying her rent and. you know crying trying to figure out which bills going to be paid are we going to have enough food left over my going to have to go to the food bank. julie is afraid things could even get worse for her and her family she has a message for washington and the 3 branches of government need to come together and make a legitimate plan for the people this is serious and they need to be able to come together on a good plan and right now. right now can't come soon enough here

in the shadows of arizona's capital building in downtown phoenix this tent city for the homeless is growing every day. stephanie simons reporting that a force of. u.s. election coverage is right up until polling day. that's 8 full of the day today. of course continues. on twitter i'm used. to. get to use a hot the day that's being with us and have a good. back

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