Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240712

Tries to activate whats called a snapback mechanism hoping to reimpose all u. N. Sanctions against iran. Also ahead argentinas steps up efforts to find a Coronavirus Vaccine as the economy struggles on a long lockdown. Will be kicked off this news with a developing breaking story for you federal prosecutors in the United States in the last hour or so have arrested and charged a former senior white house strategist steve bannon he was one of President Trumps most influential advisors during the 2016 Election Campaign the Justice Department is accusing him of conspiracy to commit wire fraud it has to do with a Fundraising Campaign to support the building of Donald Trumps wall along the border between the u. S. And mexico live now to the heart of the story the white house and our correspondent there kimberly how kick him hi there so mr bannon what does this mean. Well what this means is that he could face along with his associates up to 20 years in prison these are not light indictments that he is facing what this is is an allegation a very serious one at that that this was nothing more than a scheme an online scheme to fund lavish lifestyles under the pretense of building the president s d border wall that donors grassroots donors often donated very small sums thought that they were giving money to participate in the construction of a wall but instead what the indictment says is that steve bannon and his associates then created Shell Companies phony invoices and phony vendors an order to funnel the money to themselves so this is certainly a serious indictment at the same time this is another problem for the u. S. President given the fact that this is yet another member of his inner circle that has been charged with very serious crimes youll remember his former Campaign Manager paul matter for he was of course convicted of unrelated fraud charges so this is something that the president will have to explain now at the same time peter we should point out that steve bannon was only in the white house for about 7 months there was a falling out particularly the president pushing back after steve bannon sharply criticized his children particularly a vodka truck present very fond of her fan and calling her dumb as a brick so no love lost between these 2 men were waiting very for the president who will be meeting with the iraqi Prime Minister very shortly thats why you see the color guard behind me we expect that he may have something to say about this indictment of Steve Bennett his former chief strategist lets talk about the visit of mr carter meet the iraqi Prime Minister where is the relationship of the moment. Yeah well there is a sort of an interest in this in the United States as well as from iraq because theres again no love lost between the United States and iraq when it comes to the fact that its been 17 years now since the u. S. Invaded iraq a lot of people not just here in the United States but of course also in iraq dont really want to see u. S. Troops inside iraq and thats really what the focus of this meeting is going to be about the future of those u. S. Troops there of course we know that inside iraq that there are many particularly iran backed factions that do not want those soldiers there particularly after the u. S. And its drone strike that killed the iranian commander and solomonic so well they say that this is going to be able an opportunity to talk these 2 leaders donald trump and also the iraqi Prime Minister about economics culture and education what theyre really d 0 weighing in on is the future of u. S. Soldiers there the u. S. Is going to make the argument we want to keep them there a bit longer as a deterrent to iran and of course as a rock is a major role producing nation the u. S. Has interests there as well ok kimberly well come back to you and will soon come back to that News Conference that we understand is going to kick off in the next few hours bruce fein is formally a u. S. Associate Deputy Attorney general he joins us on skype from washington bruce good to have you here on the program again so mr bannon whats your big takeaway point all meant. Well i think it shows that they idea that mr trump and his associates were going to drain the swamp was just another piece of hypocrisy its not just mr bannon isolation the entire trumpet ministration is filled with characters including the president himself and his family who employ government and their prominence in order to profit personally whether its selling trademarks or merchandise or attracting foreigners to attend hotels and things of that sort so the president set the standard thats pretty low here it was rather raw he just looted a fund that was purportedly created to build a private wall with mexico which was again building off of a Trump Initiative which the experts say will do nothing to diminish illegal immigration and then turning net endeavor and to a private profit making venture for mr bannon and his coconspirators there ok is that potentially however a huge political problem for the trumpet ministration and its this you know roger stone is a free man weve seen people involved in illegality of the beginning of or the end of the campaign the beginning of the presidency and be an effective walks away from the tower if that they had to pay but this Legal Process will straddle the u. S. Election of course it will and maybe the inauguration by several months because we want 10. 00 weeks away now 9 weeks away from november the. I would agree but i think that the public now is almost jaded by the wrongdoing of the trumpet ministration i dont know what additional increment that the ban and arrest provides i think when we spoke this morning before the arrest most people would think it was a corrupt Administration Call man afford a safe just one instance but it Scott Scott Pruitt and many members of the administration who had to leave under ethical clouds the secretary of health and Human Services the secretary of labor their true mr trump himself being sued under the mall humans clause is god is a private communication secretary promoting evocate trump good with white house property all these illegalities are so rampant there already was a cynicism built in and i think a little obannon arrest and indictment adds to it i dont know how much the increment is it already isnt ministration that is tainted by 3 and a half almost 4 years now of using government trip private enrichment ok when we talk about private enrichment your area of expertise bruce is basically things that are legal and illegal and in that area lol so finances or legal financing of schemes such as this one were talking here about a fund but reportedly according to m s n b c was worth 25000000. 00 surely there are checks and balances surely if people put money in or take money out theyve got to run it through a firm of accountants to say can we do this at which point somebody says no you cant because thats how low thats illegal. Well thats true but here fairly the scheme was they just created phony invoices and then paid themselves i insist same kind of thing that weve seen in the chase and. Organization the National Rifle association is a very inbred incestuous situation where people are policing themselves theyre not going through proper accounting standards and end up turning them a what so as to be i mean public investors into just tools for their own enrichment and i do think thats what we had here they just invented invoices project he created them thats what roger stone was famous for to he would invent polls and all sorts of things in his dirty tricks campaigned and i think this is going to be a very clear cut case of they just stole the money is just a little more sophisticated than Willie Sutton stealing money from banks bruce share with us your thoughts as well we understand in the last hour or so mr trump has gone to court hes appealing against whats going on with the taxation story will that go in his favor or will that go against him. Well i think that tax issue is going to go against him its a usurpation of the Congressional Authority over taxation i dont think that he doesnt even have the kind of authority that he hopes would increase the the actual salaries of those who would socalled defer their Social Security taxes for an indefinite period i think its a huge huge flaw it was a gesture that will show a cynicism where many people are suffering with covert 19 hes basically preaching it will go away on its own dont worry in the short run ill try to give you a few extra dollars but i dont think thats going to pass muster i think his effort to shore up the cove in 1900 year with the small efforts illegal as they are will be politically worthless to him ok we must leave it there bruce fein in the states many thanks thank you. To russia where the speculation that a prominent opposition politician alexina barney has been poisoned hes fighting for his life in a hospital in siberia is where a challenge. The groans of a man in obvious pain medics come down the aisle to help according to the person who films this footage on a flight from siberia to moscow its russian Opposition Leader alexei now valmy later hes seen on a stretcher being put in an ambulance seemingly unconscious now in a coma in the city of doctors say theyre working to save his life just yet but only as michaels naturally poisoning is considered as one of the possible reasons of the deterioration of the condition but the signs that there could be a number of acute states that lead to the same clinical science we are working on everything eliminate confirmed and work unfortunately i cannot tell you more. Never alys colleagues are already convinced his illness doesnt have any natural cause. Your puppy. Dogs are speaking on a valleys live you tube channel his spokeswoman said doctors who told her they were confident hed been poisoned to start with and now too scared to say this she thinks whatever it was was in his tea and she also said claims made on social media that he was Drinking Alcohol the night before and this reacted with medication a false. After initially being denied access never found these wife yulia and his doctor were eventually let in to see him. Charismatic sometimes abrasive and absolutely fearless alexina valmy is the most Prominent Russian opposition figure. By exposing the corruption of russias governing elite hes built a huge following of mainly young people drawn to protest by his investigative you tube videos the valleys followers are shown a. Willingness to defy police battens and prison time no valley himself has spent repeated spells behind bars a fraud case started in 2014 landed him a suspended sentence a jail term for his brother and a ban for novelli himself to challenge putin in 20 eighteens president ial election. He has persisted despite the state pressure and despite the obvious risks of criticizing readymade putins rule. Another opposition figure Boris Nemtsov was shot dead near the kremlin in 2015 more have left the country the kremlin spokesman has wish no valmy a speedy recovery and says any poisoning would need to be confirmed by Laboratory Tests rory chalons aljazeera ok lets bring in Alexandra Steele janowicz god fraud freelance journalist who joins us from moscow alexandra what else do we know about precisely what happened today as far as we can break it down. As far as we can break it down what happened today is that he regularly boarded the plane to come back to moscow from siberia of doms according to his press secretary he only had one tea at the airport and very short after boarding he felt very ill started sweating we could hear his. Yells and then he lost consciousness he was rushed to the hospital there was an Emergency Landing in and there hes been in a coma and hes been in comma ever since which is more than 11 hours for more than 11 hours hes not regain consciousness there is medical ventilator helping him breed and doctors say that have been running numerous tests checking his blood checking his brain activity doing the other checks on his body functions and also running toxicology tests but yet we dont know what happened what happened that caused generally healthy man a 44 to fall into a coma in the meantime his wife arrived his personal doctor arrived they were let in to to see him but we hear reports now that they left the hospital without at this point addressing any media his family wants to transport hume either to moscow or anywhere in europe where he would get the treatment but what theyre saying is that theyre not getting his medical files and theyre not getting permission from the hospital to get him to unsupported if they want to transport him to meet the press secretary of russian president Vladimir Putin said that the state will give them assistance if they officially required it he also said that we should wait for this final results to see if it is indeed poisoning and if that turns out to be then that there will be an official investigation investigation a criminal investigation something that the lawyers of violet demand right now an example of thank you very much. Also in moscow vladimir sutton koff a political analyst at the Russian Academy of scientists sciences rather let me assortment cough if it is poisoning who would want to poison him. Well actually i think that if insert plays an ink a soul there might be 2 or so all scenarios possible options either someone from the air there or if it go well its figure sitting in the russia. Number ali and disclosed that during his fight so all fight against against corruption because he is a president not only missile called the russian nation or fight against corruption are or their wares are an external or internal act are well this moment is not served notice it will clear all would be the distance on the external like who would like to address the life internal situation in russia real life of our what is now happening in belarus and to bring about the enhanced their progress in russia ok some of the analysts that weve been hearing from in the past few hours have been saying this might be the work of the kremlin and i stress the word might because the kremlin is very rattled by whats going on and bella right now. You know actually sir for my opinion and for my analysis of the situation with alex in the rowley i completely exclude the fact that the russian authorities higher russian authorities would have anything to do with this that and this proved by why the situation well as they you rightly certainly are in the arm the news that the president ial press secretary said that he looks in the violin or one of these colleagues or someone would like him to be transported to any european down to say germany or or france or even to moscow the State Government will give him also what but given all that even if your analysis of it is completely accurate the authorities arent handling this particularly well in one particular way we understand mr novell these wife reportedly went to the hospital with her i. D. And with her passport they wouldnt let his wife see him because she didnt have their marriage certificate in her possession that is at least harsh given that by that point hed been in a coma for several hours with no sign of coming out of the coma and they hadnt been able about point the doctors had not been able to say yes hes had a stroke hes had a heart attack or its pneumonia or some other condition that could have ended up with him being in hospital. Well actually you know according to the medical practice as far as im concerned to in russia i dont know about the medical practice and say in the in the muslim countries i can send anything definite but before the complete i know that was this is startling the doctors have the right actually not to let. Any loss or relations to the a sick patient because of the of that that might harm it so i agree with you that this is at least current thoughts or. Is this situation with us but i dont know i cant tell anything about this. Unless the. Come out of the corner of the well there will be. Will be a clear so i think that in this case. The last relations will be allowed to meet him to actually visit him in the hospital is there an issue here that mr putin probably will not address and it might be this russia has form it has a track record of poisoning people im thinking about the script files im thinking about souls very sleepy Little Cathedral turn in the west of england where in effect russian operatives used chemical weapons in the open on to members of the public and even if this is not the handiwork of the russian president directly or indirectly there will be a perception that the russian elite you are trying to describe for us how do they operate in a vacuum surely somebody higher up knows when those people do this kind of thing. Well all i have to say about this situation will speak well sir and the only thing in case if you remember that from the past there was no any proof. 100 percent proof that they were weapons and by now someone from the russian some some some person who actually have anything to do with the russians as well another thing actually that. It is not that actually clear again and telling you its not actually clear what was the main reason of a sudden worsening of the health of mr aleksei noble so i again i am seriously though i am excluding the fact that the russian authorities actually are engaged or are standing behind these. Situation with health but of phony starlix i know ali and. I can tell you that the czech record of the some argue. Only the goal of doing so also there and some other countries and. This is not the case i can tell anything you about is because its not clear whether its the wall there was the boys or the or it just their temporary it was an ing. Direct washing of the scalp ok we must leave it there sir thank you very much for joining us here on the aljazeera news out. Ok lets go back to that story that kimberly was teasing us with a little earlier the iraqi Prime Minister mr card to me has arrived in washington to meet with the u. S. President donald trump it is of course a crucially important visit for both of them 17 years since the u. S. Invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein and the United States and iraq i guess it refers to say have reached another Tipping Point in their relations they will be holding a News Conference imminently in the next hour and a half perhaps as soon as they do well bring that to you live as well for the content of what they will say to do with iraqi u. S. Relations but we all suspect the mr trump will be barked at some questions to do with steve bannon his former strategist now having been arrested coming up here on the news hour for you the u. S. President ial nominee joe biden eyes major Foreign Policy changes if he wins the white house. And global condemnation of a military coup in mali the u. N. Calls for the release of the detained president. And in sports cricketers are taking no chances as they head off to take part in the sports most lucrative league. President all trump is demanding that all u. N. Sanctions be reimposed against iran he says his secretary of states mike pompei will meet the un secretary general data on thursday to start the process. Iran will never have market down market then iran will never have a Nuclear Weapon when the United States entered into the iran deal it was clear that the United States would always have the right to restore the u. N. Sanctions that would prevent iran from developing a Nuclear Weapon. We paid a fortune for a failed concept and a failed policy a policy that would have made it impossible to have peace in the middle east. Irans own veiled sunni missiles ignoring us demands not to want to support the stick surface to surface missile with a range of 1400 kilometers is named after customs of the money the iranian general killed by a u. S. Drone strike in january whilst he was in iraq and the 2nd is a missile thats launch from a submarine it has a range of 1000 kilometers is named after the Iraqi Paramilitary commander. Who died alongside so the money said big is in the iranian capital tehran for us this hour said whats the reaction been to this u. S. Pressure for more sanctions. Well iran has always maintained that the United States is in no position and has no right to trigger that mechanism to reinstate those un resolutions against iran and iran is concerned the United States left that 2015 Nuclear Agreement in 2018 so theyre no longer in that agreement so they have no right to trigger that mechanism. Has been speaking and hes actually quoted the former security advisor john bolton previously. John bolton is a woman but this time he said hes the only person with a consistent stand in the United States and he said that consistency is something thats missing from the u. S. Administration now hes quoting john bolton because john bolton has previously said that the United States has left the agreement and the trigger mechanism and lately john bolton has come out and said that the United States shouldnt cricket that mechanism because it would undermine the United States the u. N. Russia and china seem to be of the same opinion iran they dont think that the United States can trigger this mechanism in the europeans so far dont want those u. N. Resolutions reinstated but that wont stop the United States from trying. To visit the united nations. Iran is confident going into this latest political because just last friday the United States had to embarrass and defeat. In iraq. To get one vote. Is concerned they saw that as a defeat for the United States and a victory for iran. I mean how significant is that. Significant because theyve been named after 2 individuals that the United States assassinated back in january the commander of the goods force general for the money and one of the commanders of the popular Iraqi Popular mobilization units. Now these in defiance of the United States calls for iran to stop its Ballistic Missile program in fact one of the reasons donald trump thought the 2015 nuclear deal wasnt a good one is because it didnt include irans Ballistic Missile program no president has done wrong he has been speaking he had made this announcement of these 2 missiles a day before irans National Defense state and he also boasted about irans Defense Industry moving up the World Rankings from 23 to 14 and no doubt that will be seen by the. Great source of great source of pride but again this is an act of defiance by iran and this latest Ballistic Missile is one of the ones the longest range comes from the cruise missiles and it was the 4th a group of missiles that were used to target u. S. Forces in iraq following this us nation of general for the money. That will be there many things as a big correspondent reporting live for us here on the news out of tehran will the u. S. Stance on iran is one of many major Foreign Policy areas attended by donald trump and his administration a president ial candidate joe biden says hell take a very different approach if he wins on november the like reports on how that might look. 50 feet meeting of the secretary consul is called to order it was a humiliating defeat us attempts to extend an arms embargo on iran in the Un Security Council earlier this month or ended in abject failure the draft resolution has not been adopted traditional allies like britain france and germany abstained the only country voting with the us was the Dominican Republic the meeting is adjourned. Its just a mean streets that. President trump and his team are not only bad at the strategy of approaching iran they are bad at just the day to day tactics of diplomacy it was and secretary of state john kerry who signed a 2015 deal with iran on the behalf of the u. S. And this week he appeared at the Democratic Convention in support of Joe Biden Joe understands our values dont limit our power they magnify it he knows you cant spread democracy around the world if you dont practice it at home in 2018 president unilaterally withdrew from the iran agreement which had been signed by china france germany iran russia the United Kingdom and the European Union there isnt she even for the European Union one of their crowning achievements and so to trash that deal to destroy that d. L. Lets not only an attack on iran and i think it was written almost an attack on americas allies in europe we will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent Global Public health needs president began the process to pull us out of the World Health Organization this at a time of raging pandemic and action joe biden insisted he would immediately reverse as president President Trump pulled out of the paris climate accords often labeling Climate Change a hoax something that joe biden has pledged to rectify on the subject of russia President Trump has stressed the need for called your relations and has dismissed decades ations about moscows interference in the 2016 election joe biden says president putin is assaulting the foundation of western democracy by seeking to weaken nato thereby the European Union and undermine the us electoral system yes yes i accept your nomination to run. For october biden says hell offer an International Policy rooted in gears at the highest level of government. Drawing on relationships with the World Leaders built up the senator and Vice President but the trump legacy is likely to linger the 14 dress aspect of the trump Foreign Policy is that it is really interest and burn policy its hard to go back for example on the World Health Organization or at the paris paris Climate Court its going to be hard for even a president by then to go back into those institutions and those multilateral courts and be taken seriously a biden presidency may demand accountability for the actions of some that President Trump simply dismissed it might restore the correct legal term occupied territory with regard to palestine and recommit to a 2 state solution. But the greatest challenge facing the biden team would be to restore International Trust in a nation that once private itself as the leader of the free world. Mike hanna out of syria washington the general Prosecutors Office in berlin opened a criminal case into a council made up of opposition figures for testers say theyll continue to defy warnings from president Alexander Lukashenko of a renewed crackdown hes ordered the Security Forces to clear the streets after nearly 2 weeks of demonstrations over this months disputed election. The Opposition Leader at lunna took him off sky whos now in lithuania says she set up the council to coordinate a peaceful transfer of power but the prosecutor insists its a threat to security. A group of citizens of the republic of belarus has declared creation of a cordon Nation Council one of the goals of which is a transfer of power they plan to create a political body that should undertake the transfer of power from the current head of the country creating such a body is not allowed by the law their activity is unconstitutional a group of citizens who understand the invalidity of their actions has left the council and do not agree with its activity creation and activity of such a council is designated to seize state authority as well as damage the National Security of belarus aljazeera has more from the capital minsk. Im added the Tension Center where after the election the protests started thousands of people were detained and also badly beaten and even tortured and many have been released up to 4000. 00 is the estimation but theyre still around 3000 people detained people are gathering here every day now to try to get their personal belongings back and that seems to be quite a struggle also theres also some unclear reports that there are many people are not accounted for at this moment even though its an hour more than 10 days that this Police Crackdown has happened meanwhile also protesters today seem to be pretty quiet so far what we know is there is a lot of threats coming from the authorities towards crisis day old who are now were in one set the order to sign as some kind of space for saying they would use to restrain from the Political Activities but still as we saw last night despite all the threats by look at ankara protesters were still gathering the fire in all these risks of being detained to so we expect the same will happen again maybe later today and especially in the next coming days. The brother of a suicide bomber who attacked a concert in manchester in 2017 has been sentenced to 55 years in prison 22 people who were among those attending a concert by Ariana Grande they were killed when selman a baby detonated his explosives investigators say his brother hashem helped source materials for the bombing families of the victims spoke after the sentencing. We would like to thank judge jeremy big for imposing the biggest sentence ever in these circumstances. However as the families. Nor sentence will ever reflect the loss we feel each dear without them. Because he. Because he will really be serving the sentence that we are. Has been more International Condemnation of tuesdays military coup in mali the Un Security Council is calling on the countrys selfproclaimed leaders to release the deposed president abraham book akita members of the African Union and the regional grouping echo was suspended ties with mali the army has promised to oversee democratic elections but has yet to say when those elections will take place. Give me we have no political ambition we are soldiers we have other progressives other missions to deal with our objective is through the various meetings we had with the various social and political groups to hand over rapidly the powers to a civilian transition for the continuity of the state and we are all aware today of the political and security situation mali is going through so i want to reassure you you can continue working without any pressure and i want to reassure you of our support. Idris is following developments from the nigerian capital of butcher he says ecowas might deploy its Standby Force to mali. I see me go to is a kind of love the mali an army not many millions know much about him but what is known about him so far hes part of the 5 military officers that deposed president. For then he served as a commander of an elite tamale in the unit in central money this is the force thats been dealing with the outbreak of violence Ethnic Violence as well as extremist violence in that part of the region now with this development. The a lot of money has expect them to keep to their promise and thats what was what was promised the powerful a mom would decor who sort of stood against president. Yesterday he announced that he would do with from politics after meeting with a senior military officers now with this development now a lot of money and expecting that the military will quickly hand over power within a reasonable time to a civilian government they should quickly organize and actions however right now as we speak a course Member States heads of state and government meeting in an extraordinary summit videoconferencing to discuss further discuss the situation in mali already we know some Member States of their course in mali providing support for the operations against fight fighters in the north and central parts of mali as well as walking alongside the French Forces fighting the armed groups in mali so we are waiting to see what will be achieved at that meeting extraordinary summit of heads of states and government of course. Millions of afghans are facing Food Shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns that followed nearly 4000000 people have lost their primary source of income since the outbreak began according to estimates from the World Food Program 16000000. 00 people are at risk of going hungry and food prices have soared because of border restrictions which is worsening the situation and nearly 2000000. 00 afghan children under the age of 5 are likely to suffer from the most life threatening forms of extreme hunger thats according to save the children of the ramaswamy is deputy country director for the u. N. World food program in afghanistan she explains how difficult it is to respond to these this crisis at a time when donor countries a struggling with problems of their own if you look at the pandemic is just not effective get this done is a Global Pandemic and we have seen unprecedented consequences of this pandemic the urgency is everywhere even the end of countries are having problems not so much probably like the ones in afghanistan but definitely employment is an issue having the right hospital beds for everything people to treat is an issue people following guidance and reducing the risk of transmission. So we are not seeing this problem as just confined to one country its transport but we also know that other International Partners have come up together to ensure that they are able to help us and just cant india appears to be struggling in this battle against the pandemic has just reported a new record increase in daily infections nearly 70000 in the past 24 hours that brings the total number of cases to 2. 8 4000000. 00 as the 3rd worst affected country anywhere in the world Indian Health officials have released the latest results of an Antibody Survey elizabeth iran has more on that from new delhi. Delis Health Minister says that 29 point one percent of delhis residents have antibodies to the corona virus thats out of the latest c. Logical survey which tests for antibodies it was conducted in the 1st week of august testing around 15000 samples now dellys confirmed number of cases is just over 156000 but the indicates that the real number of cases are closer to around 6000000 given that the capital has a population of around 20000000 and a surveys being done around the country paint a similar picture the results of the survey in the city of pooling from earlier this week thats in maharashtra the worst affected state that showed that over 50 percent off the citys 6000000 population have antibodies now one of the big reasons for the discrepancy between the confirmed number of cases in india and what serial logical surveys show is the relatively low level of testing and thats one of the reasons why the Indian Government has really ramped up testing it conducted more than 100000 tests on wednesday and wants to be conducting least 1000000 every single day but the other problem is the number of the quicker but less accurate rapid and teachin tests that are being used up to 30 percent of all the tests in the country other less accurate rapid antigen tests and on wednesday demis high court once again expressed concern that the government in delhi is using double the number of rapid adhesion tests and is as it is the test the more accurate test thats known as the r t p c. In a rare admission north koreas leader has said the u. S. Sanctions the pandemic and recent flooding have seriously affected the economy at a meeting of his Party Central Committee Kim jong un said goals for improving the economy have not been met and peoples Living Standards havent been improved enough mr kim a congress for january to lay out a new 5 Year Economic plan. Argentina is battling a surge in corona virus with at least 312000 infections now confirmed and more than 6000 deaths the government says intensive care admissions and hospital occupancy rates have become unsustainable risible reports now from buenos aires. Black balloons to remember Health Care Workers who died of covert 19 here at the hospital and then when our societys doctors nurses and aides say theyre deeply concerned for themselves and their colleagues as the virus continues to spread. There have been 60 deaths of Health Care Workers throughout argentina and 16888. 00 infected healthcare workers we will have beds here in the city of one aside is in the province there will be beds but for sure they wont be workers to attend those beds theyll be virtual beds. Argentina was one of the 1st countries in latin america to impose a lockdown and even though in the beginning it was able to control the spread of covert 1000 cases are once again on the rice leading the government to announce another extension of the Country Squire in teen. In spite of the virus thousands of argentines took to the streets last monday to protest against the government and the lockdown many believe 5 months of total lockdown is too much for the place it. Seems to me that as in other countries we should be trusted to behave like adults and responsibly resume work in moving the country forward. But as discontent is on the rice so is the effort to help produce have a last week i didnt. Teena announced her local laboratory will start manufacturing promising Astra Zeneca Oxford vaccine. Assuming the vaccine is proven effective and clear safety trials argentina will then distributed to country throughout south america with the exception of brazil which is producing its own vaccine i didnt nonfederal countries in the region have been on doc down on one and therefore had a dramatic effect on the economy some people live this long road more than i would like our own countries in this part of the world will be able to access the right team as soon as possible most of them obviously without a look at filling it out lisa says production will start within weeks we started to work with that i said again with the transfer we already started we are purchasing things at risk and we will separate even easier if there are sites are not yet there we are awaiting the results for october and we will have more to start of it in that that timeframe but we are not waiting for the results we are just moving as fast as we can. The lockdown has helped preserve life in argentina but it has also exacerbated an already difficult Economic Situation the challenge now is to jumpstart the economy without any increase in loss of life that is how will one of. The former us president barack obama has told the d. N. C. The Democratic National convention that his successor donald trump has sort only to help himself and his friends asked hes in the nations top job and he said mr trump had diminished americas reputation abroad but came from a speech that he delivered to the d. N. C. Later there were words from harris joe bidens pick for the vice presidency heres alan fischer these words. I sept your nomination for Vice President of the United States of america a moment of history in 188 years of political conventions in america the 1st woman of color to accept a Vice President ial nomination for a Major Political party common the hardest to the moment to introduce herself to the country but the role of the v. P. Candidate is to attack the president his running mate and their record Donald Trumps failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods if youre a parent struggling with your childs learning or youre a teacher struggling on the other side of that screen you know what were doing right now is not working and we are a nation that is grieving its rare for a former president to criticize a sitting president but from the museum of the American Revolution in philadelphia and at times emotional the rock obama said that a public created by the movement that moment is in his belief under threat from donald trump donald trump hasnt grown into the job because a cat and the consequences of that failure are severe 170000 americans dead and millions of jobs gone while those at the top take in more than ever our worst impulses unleashed are proud reputation around the world badly diminished and our Democratic Institutions threatened like never before. And there was an appearance too from Elizabeth Warren a darling of the progressive wing of the party and from the defeated democrat last time around Hillary Clinton who are people to vote noting shed won the popular vote 4 years ago by 3000000 and still lost the white house the convention also covered issues to be tackled by joe biden if he wins gun control immigration and Climate Change but this was a night when history was made and precedents were broken thursday is joe bidens big day hell accept his partys nomination to run for president and when he delivers a speech he new is he has to give a positive message a plan for the future he cant just run on being the guy who isnt. Were getting some video recorded just so a few minutes ago of the u. S. President donald trump speaking alongside the visiting iraqi Prime Minister is most often ill call them his 1st trip to the u. S. Since he took office lets listen and im as most of the people in this room know. He was involved in our campaign he worked for Goldman Sachs he werent work for a lot of companies but he was involved likewise in our campaign and for a small part of the administration a very early on havent been dealing with him at all. I know nothing about the project other than i didnt like when i read about it i didnt like it i said this is for government this isnt for private people and it sounded to me like showboating and i think i let my opinion be very strongly stated at the time i didnt like it it was showboating and maybe looking for funds but you have to see what happens i think its a very sad thing for this to ben and i think its surprising but this was something as you know just by reading social media and by reading whatever it is and by speaking to mike and mike and all of them i didnt like that project i thought that was a project that was being done for showboating reasons i dont know that he was in charge i didnt know any of the other people either but its its sad its very sad for exhibitors are going. Away with. What i have no idea for a long. While now there was great lawlessness in the Obama Administration they spied on our campaign illegally and if you look at all of the things and all of the scandals they had they had tremendous lawlessness but i know nothing about i was not involved in the project i have no idea who was but i can tell you i didnt know the people the 3 people that were talked about were people that i did not know i dont believe i have a madam i dont think that should be a privately financed wall i dont think its too complex its too big and were now up to 300 miles almost in another week week and a half will be. Up to 300 miles of wall at the highest level they were even having construction problems i was reading the little i know about it i got from you i was reading where theyre having construction problems with the wall that they were they had a small area just to show people that they could build a wall and they were having a lot of problems where it was toppling over and other things and i didnt like it because i didnt want to be associated with that we built a very powerful wall it was a wall that is virtually impossible to get through its very very tough its very strong and its everything the Border Patrol wanted and i didnt want to have a wall that was going to be an inferior wall and i felt this was going to be an interior wall so i did buy i didnt know i didnt know that i didnt know about bannons involvement but i didnt know and i didnt know the other people and i thought but i do think its a sad event and again steve has had a great career Goldman Sachs hes had a career with a lot of other people i havent dealt with him at all over the years now literally years and i guess this was a project he was involved in but it was something that the fact you can see it made statements about it a long time ago something that i very much felt was inappropriate to be doing ok is there in. The president outlined as he had always been a. No go ahead please and severe than the end of the mission of olds d in new york its one of the one of the issues as the wife of the. Hope america is going to support being that. You know youve been very hard to understand could you maybe help me was it a way to go and try to get. Through it with a bit get started you know i could do it at home of the dark when i started just pop ups with us and not the men and im in a couple of tanika the fall of saddam because he would have been given to her best to hold out at least since only the United States. Based on mutual interest. Based on years of business and trade polyamorous but the Bright Future for that i keep people of arc enormously and its an defeating isis and also and toppling the saddam percent of religion we are working on building a strong relationship that is based on joint interest between iraq and the United States that is based on economic interest for the Better Future of the iraqi people and the United States people mr mubarak not to. When we came into office isis was running rampant all over iraq and syria and we knocked out the 100 percent of the isis caliphate but the Obama Administration did a very very poor job they were running rampant all over and we came in and we did a real job and we got rid of that and that was a good thing and now were working with iraq they use the Great American dollar which is the most powerful currency in the world and theyre starting to do well and we are with them and this gentleman in particular weve developed a very Good Relationship and hopefully its going to be very strong for your country. Thanks you have been 32 attacks. There have been 32 attacks in the last month in u. S. Interest in iraq but to play the green zone and u. S. Need to be is how were going to help iraq to hold these attacks by really and militia and to hold these people accountable and so if i may also there was some reports in that the units troops will withdraw from iraq totally in 3 years is this true so at some point we obviously will be guarding weve brought it down to a very very low level we deal where there are attacks we take care of those attacks and we take care of them very easily nobody has the weaponry we have nobody has the anything of what we have we have the finest the greatest. In the world when somebody hits as we head back harder than they had us so we handle it in addition to that iraq has been very helpful where necessary but we have been taking our troops out of iraq fairly rapidly and we look forward to the day when we dont have to be there and hopefully iraq can live their own lives and they can defend themselves which ive been doing long before we got involved yes mr secretary said there are a lot of i could assign you know about these about about these you so you can get back hard but we havent seen any definitive strike back for bounties upon americans where you dont know about the bounties i mean you tell me if you know something you can let us know but you obviously dont know very much about it but if we found that that would be true if we found that would be a very. It would be a fact what you just said we would hit them so hard your head would spin go ahead mr president how do you see the role of this could get off and how is your working relationship between but not on the t. V. Well the kurds helped us greatly in defeating the as you know the isis and getting the isis 100 percent of the isis caliphate so we have a very Good Relationship with the kurds and weve also treated them very well for them with the president as well as on media in the end of the militia rules in iraq its very often still out there and you know mary l. And even the militia are old and how to help you are in the democracy process what were doing is were helping where we can but again thats a country thats a separate country they have a Prime Minister and they have people in office and they have to run their country and weve been in iraq for a long time i would say whether or not i said we should be there but frankly i didnt think it was a good idea but i was a civilian so whos going to listen to me but i made by my point pretty clear i guess is clares any civilian can do it but we were there and now were getting out will be leaving short. Really and the relationship is very good were making very big oil deals are Oil Companies are making massive deals and thats basically the story i mean were very were very happy with the relationship that weve developed over the last couple of years i thought before that frankly the United States was being taken advantage of but were going to be leaving and hopefully were going to be leaving a country that can defend itself rivers there is mr gradgrind on live on the lot with your president as it were airstrikes on Market Growth region killing one civilian i know and youre talking your unit here you talk a lot about this conference its not something that youre looking for help from the u. S. But i mean the president if not something can get your rocks off to morrow ergo from going deeper not just iraq but other neighbors were in europe affected nor been rather have to make a specific request but certainly the Prime Minister has my ear so if he does that well take a look they do have its a very unstable part of the world and im not talking about iraq im talking about the the whole of the middle east its a very very unstable part of the world but were there to help and because of the relationship we would certainly be willing to lend you the kind of support that you need because of that that it has to be alone and have any attack on iraq so frankly that. Are not allowed to similarly we cannot allow iraq to be a platform for any type act against any of our neighbors. I believe the parties are a way out of the conditions and circumstances of iraq again we are keen on ensuring our sovereignty and we cannot allow iraq to be a platform for any threat. To any. Country and that agent especially the turks does not allow iraq to be to become used to attack and he and a neighboring neighboring country we are entering dialogue with turkey to rectify this situation and i look forward to solving this problem with turkey and getting our neighbors the turks to understand iraqs circumstances but once again the iraqi constitution does not allow iraq eternity to be used to attack any neighboring country to verify that i will say those the United States and me in particular has a very Good Relationship with turkey and with president anyone and well be talking to him but we have a very very Good Relationship with turkey and with president or towards the president president obama on the trip questions do you have the time frame for the all a complete withdrawal of u. S. Troops from iraq mike what would you say to that as we leave mission presence made very clear he wants to get our forces down the lowest level quickly as we possibly can because the mission is given us were working with iraqis who are out there at the lowest level now jeff where the lowest level in afghanistan that we have been in many years will be down to about 4000. 00 troops in afghanistan and that will be when us you know within a few months a couple of nurses revenues up a lot of us are as you know in syria were down to almost nothing except we kept the oil but well work out some kind of a deal with the kurds on that but we left but we kept the oil and we left the border we said turkey and syria can take care of their own border we dont have to do it and that worked out very well i remember when i did that i was scorned by everyone in this city. This is terrible why did it its now 2 years ago we did it with mike pence went over and met with various parties and very successfully and we removed our troops nobody was killed nobody and now they protect their own border like they have been for hundreds of years and will weve left but we did keep a small force and we kept the oil and well make a determination of that oil fairly soon if work ethic. That. Case about your taxes. If youre thrown over your taxes every accident well the Supreme Court said if its a fishing expedition you dont have to do it and theres a fishing expedition but more importantly this is a continuation of the witch hunt the greatest witch hunt in history is never been anything like it where people want to examine every deal youve ever done to see if they can find that theres a comma at a place no president has ever had to go through that the Supreme Court shouldnt have allowed this to happen but no president has ever had to go through this but what the Supreme Court did do is say if its a fishing expedition a year my interpretation is essentially you dont have to do it so well probably end up back in the Supreme Court but this is just a continuation of the most hideous witch hunt in the history of our country we beat mauler we wanted every level in this in washington in d. C. We wanted every low level so now what they do they send it into new york so now we have an all democrat state all democrats and they send it into new york this should never be allowed to happen to another president this is a continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt in the history of our country