Rejected germanys allegations that it poisoned russian opposition figure. Protesters in south africa after a scathing report shows the scale of mishandled covert 19. 00 money. And a quarter century after. Went online we will find out how its founder is now backing efforts to rein in and break up todays tech giants. Just 2 months to go before the u. S. President ial election and donald trump is selling more doubts about voting by mail he suggested people try to voting twice in november which is illegal but in the last few hours his spokesman spokeswoman said he wasnt encouraging people to do anything that is against the law separately trump is starting to cut funding from the cities he. As of allowing violence and anneke the support and they are being. In the battleground state of North Carolina every vote counts but donald trump said voters should be concerned about Election Fraud and should try to vote twice the letter send it in and let it go vote and if their systems as good as they say it is then obviously there will be able to vote if it isnt job related theyll be able to vote so thats the way it is intentionally voting twice is illegal and is a crime in many states in North Carolina its a felony attorney general william p. Barr was asked during a c. N. N. T. V. Interview to respond to trumps comments the governments top lawyer said he didnt know the election laws in every state bar said widespread vote by mail is very open to fraud and coersion is reckless and dangerous and people are playing with fire according to an analysis by the Washington Post newspaper of 3 vote by mail states officials identified a fraction of one percent as having double voted in the 201628000 elections combined in a written memo trump went on to threaten to cut funding to cities which he says allowed anarchy and violence hes requested a federal funding review of Portland Seattle new york and washington d. C. Its not legal it violates the temp amendment to the constitution and trump knows that this is purely political theater where. The cities in question all have democratic mayors and theyve all been the scenes of major protests against racism and Police Brutality why are africanamerican still dying at the hands of Law Enforcement in this country and show or white people so no white people what a terrible question to ask so or why people more white people by the way more white people. Another study by the Washington Post found that blue. Americans are killed at a rate more than twice as high as whites. Rival in novembers election and the democratic president ial candidate joe biden says theres only one way to move forward this is not who we are at her best america has always been and 5 thing to do it will be again generous confident and optimistic nation full of hope and resolve biden is ahead in several recent National Polls following both parties conventions leah harding al jazeera. Lets go to our White House Correspondent kelly how and will move things on actually from there and just look at whats actually coming up today Joe Biden Donald trumps arrival off to kosha. Yeah thats right now kenosha just to refresh everyones memory is the city where jacob blake was shot the africanamerican man shot 7 times in the back by a white Police Officer following that there was a lot of unrest in that city in fact more than 100. 00 buildings damaged 200. 00 arrests since then things have calmed down after the governor requests of the National Guard come in so on tuesday the u. S. President went to visit there and even though he was asked not to by the governor he went anyway there were protests he was not able to meet with the family and there was a fair bit of disturbance and commotion now it is joe bidens turn he is headed to connote should wisconsin today and he is using this is an opportunity he says to sort of highlight what he says is his promise to unify our nation if he is elected president what we know it will be meeting with Civic LeadersLaw Enforcement hell also be meeting with the family of jacob blake this is really a major test of his leadership also a chance for him to show contrast that well he accuses tunneled trump of promoting division he will have the opportunity to show he can set by example healing can be the can i ask you about and i just referenced this a little bit earlier i dont know trumps threat to cut funding to cities which he says his words allow anneke in violence now Portland Seattle new york washington d. C. What do they all have in common. Well they all have had in common the fact that there have been violent protests so you have to remember that there are 2 things happening here there are the peaceful protests that have been taking place largely the black lives Matter Movement to end those that support it that have been demonstrations against systemic Racism Police brutality unfortunately there is another faction that has consistently across the country in some cases worse than others portland being one of them there have been in some cases predominantly white people that have been hijacking these protests in order to stage a kind of a marxist revolution at least thats what some are alleging now in the midst of all of this the u. S. President is saying wow oh my political opponents namely democrats are controlling these cities theyre not doing enough to protect the law abiding citizens so what hes trying to do is put in place withdrawal of federal funding for these cities the attorney general has 14 days to identify these cities but the question becomes whether this is even legal its not theres no question there will be legal challenges but what donald trump is trying to do in all of this is essentially 2 things hes trying to show a contrast that he is projecting strength and law and order in the face of social unrest but hes also trying to deflect from some very negative headlines namely that there is still rising unemployment in this country some 30000000 americans out of work as a result of covert 19 and very angry about the president s covert 1000 response in the face of rising infections thankyou committee how could the White House Correspondent. Another word on elections and that is facebook announcing steps to prevent its 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 though it will continue showing those that are already in the system c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg says he is concerned about a period of quite intense claims and counterclaims as the final results are counted facebook has previously been criticized for not doing enough to fact check articles and claims made on the web site a day its been set for the u. S. Is formal withdrawal from the World Health Organization president trumpet already signaled a move he says the w. H. O. Failed in its response to covert 19 now the state Department Says u. S. Involvement with the organization will end on july 6th next year a statement says the u. S. Is looking for alternative partners to carry out the work the World Health Organization doing onto other news in the kremlin is rejecting accusations that russia is responsible for the poisoning of alexina valmy thats up to germany said it has unequivocal proof the opposition figure was poisoned with the nerve agent nova chuck he is seriously ill in a bill in hospital after collapsing 2 weeks ago german chancellor Angela Merkel says the poisoning is attempted murder and that only russia economics of the serious questions raised well alexandra stay on the vertical thread has the latest reaction for us now from moscow. So far from the official level there is no other theory offered what theyre saying is basically we were not given any proof substantial proof for these statements and what could possibly be the motive now the spokesperson of russian president Vladimir Putin. Said the noted that no one is accusing russia directly but he also said that such accusations are without any bases and the reason that the sanctions talkies unexceptable in general and he sees no reasons why there would be sanctions he also said that russia is very interested to get to the bottom of what happened with alex a now viney but has to have its own questions answered 1st then he was actually talking about at this official request for all the analysis results and data medical day 1000 a vial needs to be given to russia from a german hospital here get a notice that in russia all the tests show that there was no poisoning barrelful we have some lower officials and not excluding good that this is for instance operation of some special Intelligence Special intelligence operation of some western Intelligence Services that these might be all set up and that one should not exclude the this so there is this parallel. Kind of wave of seeding the seeds of doubt with on the what is coming from german officials. Is following this from from london he says the russian response is similar to the response after the attack in 2018 on a former russian spy and his daughter in the english city of salzburg. There was the video of the 2 key suspects coming into the country there was video of them Walking Around solsbury there was not a chalk all over the door of the scriptural family households so it is crippling his daughter who were poisoned then there was another bottle if you remember of not a chop disguised as a perf you would end up in a bin in a poor woman picked it up thing it was a perfect human spread on a self and then died as a result so they had absolutely primary de facto empirical evidence linking this to the russians and still they didnt get anywhere that the difference obviously with this is in a valley collapsed inside russia and so clearly is impossible for anybody actually from the outside to get into russia to get that sort of evidence that the u. K. Had the telling now obviously the germans say its not a shock its straight of the same playbook all the talk about a paneuropean response and russia call allow this to go on and has to explain itself its its a lot of angry words but theres not much to suggest that any of these western countries can do anything really about it. Russias Prime Minister meanwhile make than it is in federers meeting president Alexander Lukashenko who is of course faced weeks of protests there russia says it will send police to belarus if needed the demonstrators there accuse look at shankar of rigging last months election hes also scheduled to meet russias president Vladimir Putin in the coming weeks is all from Bernard Smith hes in neighboring lithuania on the significance of this meeting. Not a mere incentives Prime Minister to stand down to minsk to really seal the deal for moscow to make it clear that bottom if you sin is going to back. The now and that was never clear before in the run up to the president ial election in minutes on which the 9th shanker in fact used to said threats of russian interference in his countrys affairs if people didnt vote for him poll went to had claimed he won with 0. 08 that has now as we know brought tens of thousands of people out on the streets of men who reject that and many most western powers of also rejected that 80 percent result on the calling for a reelection putin has decided but who has decided to back lucas schenker previously there was no love lost between the 2 leaders but the payoff of putin may well be that where you once had an irritating and not very compliant neighbor to the south well now. Its a viable. Well update the headlines in a moment and then the cleanup after the Korean Peninsula sit tight 2nd typhoon in a week and tennis Novak Djokovic shows through to round 3 but catherine carried up this focus its been knocked out of the u. S. Open. Hello thats high 5 may sec of course continuing to move north now into the north and east of china its all this massive cloud you can see here but as it came onshore into south korea and then up into north korea it did of course have some torrential rains imbedded within it but also some very strong damaging winds these pictures coming out of the southeast of north korea on the coast and you can see the damage obviously that was done not only by the winds that will sit by those floodwaters now as we go through friday conditions creating quite nice to cross much of the Korean Peninsula rain pushing to the far north and east of china and of course were watching this this is typhoon high shann this will continue to strengthen in the next couple of days and by saturday were looking at winds sustained about 260 kilometers an hour gusting to about 300. 00 itll be gains have an impact on the islands the outer feeder bands and also those very strong winds if not more rain will were eventually push up into south korea and across much of western japan but really elsewhere throughout china its a fairly quiet picture then down across into south asia the rains have very well scaff says nothing particularly heavy there warnings in place from the india mess office and finally the rains they will become a little scattered throughout much of pakistan on friday still some rain around but not as heavy certainly throughout the weekend and as you can see heavy rains again across the south. But. Pandemic family comes 1st. For every American Healthcare has never been more important. Because the new disease does not favor republicans over democrats bridge over poor r block over white. America decides how to care for a nation. Extensive coverage of the us elections. On aljazeera. The top stories this hour on aljazeera u. S. President donald trump has suggested americans should vote twice in the Upcoming Elections as a way to avoid possible voter fraud which is illegal his spokeswoman though says he wasnt encouraging people to do anything that is against the law. The kremlin is rejecting accusations that russia is responsible for the poisoning of alexina valmy germany says it has an equivocal proof he was poisoned with another chocolate nerve agent he is being treated in berlin and russias Prime Minister mikhail is in belarus meeting president Alexander Lukashenko who has faced weeks of protests against his rule. Coronavirus news now and india has recorded the worlds biggest single day rise in new infections more than 83000 cases reported on wednesday which is the 3rd time this week the number is above 80000 the u. S. Held the previous single day record of 77 thousands thousands of Health Care Workers in south africa demanding more protection from covert 99 better pay a demonstration in pretoria was called on thursday by the countrys Biggest HealthWorkers Union it says p. P. A. Personal protective equipment is in short supply and hospital managers a failing to follow safety protocols south africa is africas hardest hit nation more than 630000 cases and over 14000 deaths here is a minute with more from pretoria. A few dozen protesters have gathered outside the Union Buildings here in pretoria thats the seat of government just outside the president s office and while it is a fairly small group because remember covert restrictions are still in place they cant be gatherings of more than 50 people they people here are vocal and these have also been very persistent complaints around the procurement of personal protective equipment equipment and hospitals and a lot of it revolves around alleged corruption weve spoken to a number of Health Workers who have said that there isnt enough p. P. In hospitals sometimes none of tool theyve also complained that the often theyve had to reuse and disinfect p. P. And theyre blaming corruption for this in that the companies that have supplied p. P. E. Often have connections a political connections are connected to the Ruling African National congress here in south africa and thats how theyve come by these contracts when in fact they arent actually capable of delivering the equipment thats needed and they say its for this reason that Health Workers are at risk at least 24000 Health Workers in south africa many of them nurses have contracted covert 19 and at least 250. 00 have died so far and this is what angers the protesters behind us they say that so the africans have sacrificed so much so far during the slump down and to add to that you now have a government that theyre accusing of being in ept and corrupt only worsening this Health Crisis in the country france has Just Announced a nearly 120000000000. 00 stimulus package to help ease the Economic Impact of the pentagon Prime Minister john key aspects presented the plan at a weekly Cabinet Meeting in paris. Has more from the french capital. Well france is very strict on a 2 month lockdown and the current a virus pandemic has meant that the French Economy is now in recession unemployment is rising so will the french government want to do of course is reverse this trend and that is why they have launched 118000000000. 00 stimulus package now it was announced by the French Foreign minister. Said the aim is really to try and make france more competitive and more selfreliant the focus is very much in job creation and also investing in sectors like Transportation Health culture present macro has also said that he really wants a focus on the Green Economy sir 3rd of the money from this fund is going to go into green tech green jobs and industries the support for sustainability theres little doubt that for president micro with an election in less than 2 years time he will want to see the economy really getting a boost and he will just say unemployment rising unemployment and it is of course in micros interest however trying to lift the economy and Public Confidence at a time of so much uncertainty wont be easy the current of ours pandemic continues and infection cases in phones have continued to rise with an average of about 5000. 00 new infections each day being reported the government is telling people to remain vigilant many cities across france most major cities of in fact made the wearing of mosques out in the street obligatory children or the 11 at school and University Students they have to wear masks to the government says the people must take care and continue to social distance because of course his Health Crisis is far from over. Afghanistans government has now released nearly all of the 400 taliban prisoners in its custody the head of peace negotiations negotiations here in qatar they were released as part of an earlier agreement between kabul and the armed group but 7 taliban fighters are still being held because australia and france are against their release that we brought to doha and held in custody their representatives from both sides hold the top. Libyans in the city of misrata are voting for the next municipal leaders other cities are also planning elections despite the pandemic and a shaky nationwide ceasefire elections are being held in areas controlled by the warlord Khalifa Haftar misrata itself played a major role in the un recognized governments campaign to drive after forces out of west in the. For the 2nd time in less than a month flooding and swept across northeastern ethiopia heavy rains have caused the hour india fire region to overflow hundreds of livestock were killed crops were destroyed residents of several areas are trapped and efforts are underway to save them using boats and helicopters in all 72000 people are displaced and type in my 2nd through the can in Korean Peninsula leaving at least one person dead when speeds reached more than 160 kilometers an hour and there is severe flooding in both the north and south and in rough seas which were caused by the typhoon 42. 00 crew are missing when the ship capsized and sank only one survivor has been found by the search and rescue crews in the East China Sea the ship shortly had engine failure on its voyage from the zealand to china in addition to the crew it had 6000 cattle on boards. A prominent media and prodemocracy figure in hong kong has been found not guilty of intimidating a reporter from a rival newspaper i mean i was facing up to 5 years in jail reports from hong kong. It was all over very quickly surrounded by media some from organizations he owns and jimmy lai was a man in a hurry as you arrive at west kalou Magistrates Court within minutes of entering the building he was acquitted the magistrate said she found insufficient evidence to support allegations that the media proprietor had intimidated a reporter from a rival newspaper more than 3 years ago calling the journalist an unreliable witness. Lie didnt talk as he left court its not the end of his legal fight he faces at least 5 other criminal investigations last month around 200 police raided his Newspaper Office after he became the most high profile figure from the citys prodemocracy movement to be detained under a new security law he was charged with foreign collusion and faces up to 10 years in jail that trials expected to happen next year jimmy lies acquittal comes amid renewed debate over Judicial Independence in hong kong just this week the chief executive terry lamb said there was no separation of powers between the executive legislature and judiciary a principle thats been repeatedly emphasized by the citys top judges carrie lamb will be able to point to wednesdays verdict as proof in her eyes that the judiciary here does remain independent even as more legal thinkers say the opposite adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. Were going to take you back 25 years or so you know the beginning of the dot com boom years a time when many of the startups didnt survive but one that became known as transformed buying and selling as we know it now the man who founded it is working to limit the size and power of todays tech giants reports from los angeles. In 199528 year old Computer ScientistPierre Omidyar had an idea for a new type of Ecommerce Company based on an ancient model it became known as ebay used in the. Idea and the bizarre which we have now now is like centuries all and you have figured out a way to scale and you know kind of scale it globally and that was the beauty of you know kind of really not all ebay quickly became a rising star in the emerging online world ebay became a publicly traded company in 1998 making omidyar a billionaire at 31 under c. E. O. Meg whitman ebay entered a period of growth and acquisition those were the years that you know wired. And so many Different Companies that were very very lucrative and were a significant part of the companys early success by 2015 e. Bay stock was worth 80000000000. 00 it had revenues of 8 and a half 1000000000 dollars that year and employed 11600. 00 people but he commerce rival amazon began picking up steam innovating crushing rivals and taking more and more of a share of ecommerce from e bay i would characterize than as a little bit of that happy year the company was was doing well financially but then they seemingly had slowed down it had lost the momentum in the market place to amazon today even a is still profitable but it is dwarfed by amazons scale and reach as for omidyar he stepped down from the base board in 2017 and has devoted himself to philanthropy through his Investment Firm the Omidyar Network hes stepped away from and yes a lot of time to think about how to make the world a better place from his point of view the no. Work has taken aim at tech giants including google and facebook and their impact on political discourse and Democratic Values by 16 a question. On purity are what other people around raise concerns and where it is. And mind platforms were very well may be ours Network Supports legal efforts to break up and rein in the tech giants an issue that has become increasingly prominent politically democratic president ial candidate joe biden promises to take a hard look at splitting up companies such as facebook if hes elected rob reynolds aljazeera los angeles funny but a sport in new york is serving up a treat for tennis fans never djokovic now through to the 3rd round of the u. S. Open and a grand slam newcomers made a stunning comeback and a rich. Christina madden of it looked on course for a routine win over russias grand slam deadbeats involved. But having gone to sets and 51 up in of it shes game a probably collapsed the 30th seed from france instead saving her biggest shots of the tournament organizers later describing Living Conditions as a nightmare. She was one of a group of players who faced tight Movement Restrictions after being named ben wopat the french player who tested positive for corona virus last week its a full advantage after saving for match points she went on to win the deciding set 6 love is examined so you have completely drained that is just worse and worse and i dont have comments to make i just would like to thank us for that im real experience yeah i dont want to comment. Another french player certainly wasnt complaining Caroline Garcia knocking out top seed carolina place in straight sets ok im not a leader now i mean i suck i had to enjoy the age old problem of a parent struggling with technology after her 2nd round when. You were. The 4th seed or mask bearing the name of a larger mclean before and after her match with klein was a black american who died last year after police restrained him with a choke hold osaka says shell be using this tournament as a chance to highlight issues of Racial Injustice i think tennis people watch it all around the world. You know things that we think is like common names its probably not common overseas and for me i just want people to you know sort of just have more knowledge talk men see never joke of it was a force that were not over britains call Edmund Djokovic she is now 125. 00 matches in a row this year that is yet to win over rafa nadal and Roger Federer to his idea of starting a new break white Players Union there were very much aware what is going to happen and i respect of course completely their choice of you know all that they want dont want to be involved in it at the moment they dont think is the right time and thats fine you know thats their opinion i disagree with that. Everyone would agree that joke that used to big favorite to win this title and the richardson aljazeera. Up past the hour on aljazeera these are the headlines u. S. President of trump has suggested americans should vote twice in the Upcoming Elections as a way to avoid possible voter fraud it is illegal to vote twice his spokeswoman though says he wasnt interagency people to do anything that is against the law trump is also threatening to cut off funding to cities where protesters are rallying against Police Violence on people of color and the headlines the kremlin rejecting accusations that russia is responsible for the poisoning of the valmy germany says it has proof he was poisoned with a nerve agent novacek is being terribly treated in a hospital in berlin xandra still one of its good for it has the latest from moscow the spokesperson of russian president Vladimir Putin. Said that noted that no one is accusing russia directly but he also said that such accusations are without any bases any reason that the sanctions talkies unexceptable in general and he sees no reasons why there would be sanctions he also said that russia is very interested to get to the bottom of what happened with alex a now viney but has to have its own questions answered 1st. Russias Prime Minister meanwhile. Is in better reuss meeting the president Alexander Lukashenko who has of course faced weeks of protests russia says it will send in police to build a roof if required demonstrators accuse Alexander Lukashenko of rigging last months better reception indias record of the worlds biggest single day rise in new infections more than 83000 cases on wednesday which is the 3rd time this week the numbers been above 80000 the us held the previous single day record of 77000 and thousands of Health Care Workers in south africa demanding more protection from covert 1000 and better pay a demonstration in pretoria was called on thursday by the countrys Biggest HealthWorkers Union which says protective equipment is in short supply south africa is the hardest hit country in africa thats my lot for today thanks for the company the stream is up next and then our next news hour with Adrian Finnegan says mark. After 2 years in office has the pakistani Prime Minister delivered on his promises of freedom of speech its now being curtailed under your watch mr Prime Minister and watched as the evidence can you just talk tell your a stance Prime Minister imran khan talks to al jazeera. I f m e r k youre watching the stream the russian activist alexina vali is known globally as an opposition politician but inside russia hes more famous as being an Investigative Reporter right now he is lying in a hospital bed in germany in a medically induced coma the german doctors say they have found ways in in his system the question that were asking in the stream today is russian opposition finished you too i know youre going to have a take on this jump into the comments and you too can be in the story