Novacek as the e. U. Demands answers days of heavy rain and flooding plunged pakistans Financial Capital into chaos and fuelled new anger at the government. Hello welcome to the program nato has announced that turkey and greece are to hold talks with the aim of the fuse in tension in the Eastern Mediterranean there are local heads over the ownership rights of offshore oil and gas reserves near cyprus and crete the neighbors have been carrying out competing military exercises in the region both countries have accused the other of stoking tensions with threats of military action well secretarygeneral you install to beg says the 2 nato allies will enter technical talks to establish a plan to avoid any such action. For this shows the exclusive Economic Zones of greece turkey and cyprus as the find the by the un now it accords greece 71 percent of the a g. And c. And turkey 8. 8 percent but this is how turkey redraws the same map claiming much of greeces waters as its own and this is the area where turkey has started looking for oil within itself to find waters but that infringes on greeces Maritime Territory according to the e. U. And the your way. Well Stephanie Decker joins us live now from istanbul so 1st of all if we have any reaction from turkeys government to this announcement by nato and i guess the commencement potentially of talks. Weve had no word from ankara no word from any of the senior officials however that announcement by nato secretary general came shortly after a Conference Call a video call that was held with the turkish president also the foreign minister here and Senior Security officials with the german chancellor Angela Merkel of course germany has been key in trying to mediate between the 2 sides trying to get the 2 sides to start negotiations what you have now according to u. N. Stoltenberg as you said an announcement saying that the 2 sides have agreed to start technical talks this has to do with a de confliction line if you will when it comes to their military assets in the Eastern Mediterranean because the sea is so heavily heavily militarized at the moment you have turkey continuing life fire exercises until september the 12th you have greeks military fleet you have other countries with a military fleet there as well so the potential for any accident if you will in such a tense time is very real so i think that move is of course a welcome move when it comes to deescalating that tension but the Bigger Picture barbara hasnt been addressed youve just shown that it is incredibly complicated when it comes to maritime rights who says what turkey is not a signatory to the u. N. Law of the see it here is to what it says its Continental Shelf greece of course says that turkey is infringing on its waters when its coming to exploratory moves that are still going on and will continue until september the 12th so its very difficult to see how those issues are going to be addressed and resolved because president has had a lot of harsh words in the last couple of days saying that turkey is not going to back down its being unfairly treated its coastline is being caged in and greece of course also not backing down saying that turkey is infringing. And its sovereign time right so none of that being addressed at the moment 70 deca with the latest there from istanbul staff for the moment thank you lets go to athens now in our correspondents are awful issa is there and joins us via skype we were hearing there are from staff that theres 2 issues one is nato trying to defuse tensions but then the deeper issue of course is trying to find some kind of solution so i disagree stan the whole of this well nato has a particular viewpoint on this it doesnt want an intra nato war conflict of any kind which clearly would detract from the alliances effectiveness and prestige perhaps irreversibly so earlier in august nato secretarygeneral un soltan burke said he was working on de confliction mechanisms and today according to diplomatic sources here in athens he presented to greek and turkish representatives some of those ideas however that was a meeting that lasted about 6 minutes according to these sources its not a meeting in which anything was discussed let alone agreed upon for de confliction talks to begin the approval would have to come from the highest levels of government this was a meeting between nato representatives to listen rather than to thrash things out the statement i got from diplomatic sources here is that we note that nato secretary generals good intentions to work towards the confliction mechanisms within nato but de confliction consists only in turkey withdrawing all of its ships from the greek Continental Shelf remember this latest tension in the achaean in the Eastern Mediterranean began on july 21st when turkey announced that it was going to send its Seismic Survey ship into what greece considers its Continental Shelf. East of crete on the. Map that you showed earlier now greece is very keen for it not to be thought of as another round of greek turkish irritation with each other group the greeks dont want to see any sort of both sides or isnt any treatment from equal distances by the nato secretary general they want it to be very clear that the person who started this latest round of tension should be the person who makes the 1st act of good will but greece historically hasnt had a great deal of faith in nato nature hasnt really expressed itself very strongly either in greeces or in turkeys favor when disagreements have occurred and because nato is a u. S. Led alliance the u. S. Role in restraining conflicts within the alliance is vital its an investment both greece and turkey have made in their security that is based on the u. S. Role but if you listen to the statements coming out of turkish officials that sense of deference towards the u. S. Is now departing remember what. The turkish government spokesman and close to an adviser said on august 14th when a older tape surfaced in which joe biden a candidate for the democratic nominee for the presidency in november said that turkey should be made to pay a price for the way in which its treated the kurds ibrahim collene then said the days of ordering turkey around are over but if you still think you can drive be our guest you will pay the price that is the sort of statement that makes the greeks very concerned about whether nato can be an effective broker a complicated situation with a definite potential for escalation there unfortunately john softly with that from athens john thank you. U. S. President donald trump appears to have backtracked on his suggestion that voters should try to cast their ballots twice in the embers alexion to test the malin Voting System in an interview trump had urged people to send ballots by mail and then try to vote again in person those comments sparked a backlash with democrats accusing the president of encouraging voters to break the law hes now changed his position saying those voting by post should go to polling stations to make sure their ballots are counted trump has been insisting without evidence that more postal vote will lead to widespread fraud lets go live now to our correspondent kimberly halket was at the white house for a 2nd really president from the pierced of a modified to his message and not just him really what happened is it that hes finally realized that actually what he was implying was illegal. I think so its a major mop up operation taking place following the president s comments suggesting that people should cast 2 ballots in the 2020 u. S. Election won by mail what in person the president then attempted some cleanup on twitter where in a series of tweets he said what he was really suggesting is that people mail in their ballot and then they go to the polling station and make sure that it was counted in if not then they vote again this is similar to something that was said by the press secretary kaley mcenaney who said that really the president was just making sure that the vote was counted and that is also consistent with the attorney general general bar william barr rather who also said that the present was just really concerned about Election Security its very clear that theyre trying to make a bit of a u. Turn from the president s initial statements given the fact that the top board of Elections Official in the u. S. State of North Carolina came out with a statement on thursday saying very clearly and unequivocally that to do so to vote both in person and by mail is against the law its a legal it is in fact a felony which means its a very serious crime now why is the president perhaps doing all of this why is he making so much noise it does when he does this sort of thing on twitter it does detract from some of the other negative headlines that he may not want people to be paying attention to namely high unemployment the fact that coronavirus case is continue to rise in the United States but the other question in all of this is the impact in terms of how americans will feel about the election result will they trust it given the fact that there has been a serious or roshan of credibility and this is a real problem domestically not to mention that internationally there are also concerns of outside interference when it comes to the u. S. Election given the fact we know in 2016 russia interfered and there it is expected that will happen again not just from russia but also potentially china and iran as well can be ok with the latest from the white house kimberly thank you. Well as staying with the u. S. Election democratic president ial nominee joe biden is visiting the city of canal in wisconsin the city has become the new focus of the National Debate on systemic racism by then met the family of jacob blake the black man shot 7 times in the back by a white Police Officer last month the shooting touched off days of sometimes violent protests against racism and Police Brutality by disappearances just 2 days after a visit by the president who said the demonstrations amounted to domestic terror john hendren joins us live now from a can no shot what is joe biden trying to achieve. Is of course another thing that the present is accused them of is being effectively soft on the on the protests. Is right the president has accused joe biden of essentially being a tool of radical leftist anarchic elements who are wreaking havoc in and causing arson through cities like you know ship but what we expect him to say here in this church behind me in a few minutes right now is simply listening to people who are talking to him in this socially distant space we expect him to offer a centrist message on the one hand compassion for the family of jacob blake who as you mentioned he met earlier compassion for the goals of the demonstrators who want to see social justice they dont want to see systems of policing one for black americans one for white americans and hes here right now listening to the suggestions of people of can no ship. About what exactly is wrong with that system or those systems but we also expect him to condemn the violence and thats a message he telegraphed 2 days ago in his speech as donald trump was visiting konoha here calling strictly for law and order and refusing to even to say the name of jacob lake we expect biden to say that he condemns the violence that. Any arson or looting or activity like that is lawless and that those people should be arrested and pursued however he also has been saying he hears the message of black americans in particular of the black lives Matter Movement that they want change in legislation no more chokeholds they want police to be accountable for when they are able to use their weapons so biden is here listening and well hear what he has to say shortly. John hendren with. John thank you. Still to come here on al jazeera lebanons army finds more than 4 tons of the explosive chemical that caused the last months devastating blast in the same beirut point. And Hong Kong Media tycoon jimmy la is acquitted of intimidating a journalist but still faces charges under a controversial new security law. How the number of big thunderstorms wondering cerise europe has declined as of cold fronts this line here is a cold front is introducing the weather behind its far more like autumn and now were in september we can except that of course windy and wet weather has been prevalent in allah and its currently pretty wet and windy in the coast of norway and thats going to last through friday as well in bucharest the temperature has dropped scattered showers could well be briefly big thunderstorms in the eastern side of roumania the temperatures still rising slightly as we see the weekend reveal sunshine once again for much of Southern Europe is still quite warm in some places exceedingly hot but thats quite a limited area of places this is far more the way things are going but if you look at nicosia in cyprus we could exceed the record on saturday the record stands just below 42 were forecasting 42. 00 or 43. 00 in fact as a heat wave and has been for days throughout the event the temperature for example in jerusalem forecast to be up to 40 degrees on friday that probably lasting throughout the weekend but not for turkey in turkey you see the color has changed thats because that winter from what im from dodge say has come into the north. If you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on but what is this grace is a religion that they have an indepth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic drugs this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to because the world smaller and smaller we dont want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on aljazeera. Back heres a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera nato has announced that turkey and britain sort of talks with the aim of defeat tension in the Eastern Mediterranean there are heads over ownership rights of offshore oil and gas reserves near cyprus and crete u. S. President donald trump appears to have backtracked on his suggestion that people should vote twice in novembers election he says people should go to polling stations to ensure their 1000000 votes were counted and democratic president ial nominee joe biden is visiting the city of commotion wisconsin hes met the family of jacob blake the black man shot 7 times in the back by a white Police Officer last month. The kremlin has rejected accusations that russia is responsible for the poisoning of Opposition Leader. But germany says it has unequivocal proof that kremlin critic was poisoned with nerve agent chancellor Angela Merkel says the poisoning is attempted murder and is consulting her nato allies about any response which could include sanctions or in sleep reports. Now lying in a hospital bed and berlin alexina valley has become the latest critic of the russian regime to have his life put on the line the German Government has made it clear he was poisoned by novacek in order to silence him and has demanded answers from moscow across much of the European Union the reaction has been the same be called on russia to investigate these in a transparent and for all men there and its also in the interest of russia to provide answers to the questions because this type of. Chemical agent is not freely available it was used on russian territory against russian citizen so its very important that its thoroughly investigated and that the assets are provided both in the russian public and to the international the echoes of the poisonings of the former spy surrogates cripple and his daughter in the english city of sauls pre also by novacek only to clear the British Government has also condemned the attack on the valley but the response from the russian government has been identical in both cases there is no proof and if you want the investigation then let us help theres no chance of that russias one friend in all this inside europe is belarus where the beleaguered president looks around to putins aide accusing the German Government of making the whole thing up but the calls have begun once again to get russias attention properly by threatening to pull the plug on nord stream to the gas pipeline which will run from northern russia through germany to denmark yet for all the demands for a pan European Response countries like hungary whose Nuclear Power is underwritten by moscow will surely never agree if russia was responsible for the poisoning it also follows it is still not concerned what the repercussions might look like laurence li al jazeera. Well arrow says beleaguered the president is promoting hard line loyalists atop security posts the spot nearly 4 weeks of protests the reshuffle which coincides with a visit from the russian Prime Minister is seen as an attempt by Alexander Lukashenko to consolidate power russia says its ready to send police to belarus to help a deal with the protests if requested and arrest began last month after it was the clear the victor of an election that the opposition say was raked burnet smith has more now from neighboring lithuania he says the visit by russias Prime Minister is a clear sign of support for the. Law to meet those incentives Prime Minister to stand down and minced to really seal the deal for moscow to make it clear to me 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 hold as the 9th shanker in fact used to set the rules frets of russian interference in his countrys affairs if people didnt vote for him poll once i had claimed the one with a sense that as now as we know tens of thousands of people out on the streets of mens who rejects that many most western powers of also rejected about 80 percent results on the calling for a reelection hooten 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 to go out and its. Lebanons army says its found more than 4 tons of Ammonium Nitrate at beirut airport its the same highly explosive material that caused the blast last months Army Engineers are reported to be dealing with it with no specific information given about what action is actually being taken so holder has more now from beirut. 4. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate thats according to the Lebanese Army statement they said that Customs Officials alerted them to the presence of this highly explosive material at one of the containers near the entrance at the ports now this material is believed to have been responsible for causing that massive explosion a month ago that ripped through neighborhoods and killed 191 people and injured thousands of others its not clear why 4. 35 tons of Ammonium Nitrate was in a different container when and at the night at the night of the explosion officials said that 2700 tons were kept at a warehouse 12 since 2013 so really a lot of questions are being asked a few days ago there were some reports that emerged suggesting that the authorities at the port were concerned that Ammonium Nitrate was being stolen so that there was repair work on warehouse 12 which could have caused the fire now investigations are continuing the authorities had promised a swift investigation they said in 5 days the lebanese public would know the outcome its now been a month and only today a high ranking official the 1st high ranking official the caretaker Prime Minister was questions over the presence of this material where in a beirut neighborhood may see one of the neighborhoods that was badly damaged as a result of that explosion you can see the collapsed building behind me its been a month like weve been saying and only this morning a team from chile one of their dogs a search dog alerted to the possibility of a body underneath that rubble now weve spoken to a number of the team members here and what theyre saying is that their dogs as well as their machines because they brought advanced machines with detected 2 bodies one could be dead and the other could be alive. Indias Health Ministry has defended the governments decision to further unlock the economy and lift restrictions across the country the nation has suffered a world record daily spike in corona virus infections more than 83000. 00 cases were reported on wednesday the 3rd time this week that the total has been above 80000 the u. S. Have the previous single day record with 77000. And the number of african countries are facing protests over scandals related to the purchase of medical equipment in kenya the president has ordered an investigation into the state agency that handles medical supplies thats after allegations of some officials and businessmen still 400000000. 00 during the procurement process and in nigeria doctors and state run hospitals have been striking over a lack of p. P. Eat more than 800. 00 Health Workers have been infected. In south africa thousands of Health Care Workers of demanded more protection from covert 19 and better pay the demonstration in pretoria was called by the countrys biggest Health Workers union it says personal protective equipment p p e is in short supply and hospital managers are failing to follow safety protocols south africa is the hardest hit nation in africa with more than 630000 cases and over 14000 deaths. Days of torrential rain and widespread flooding in pakistan have caused chaos in the Financial Capital karate at least 23 people have died and there is widespread anger among residents mohammed reports. In karate floods batter the city plunging pakistans Financial Capital into chaos since last week people have had to contend with power cuts mobile Network Outages and shortages of both fuel and cash. Perhaps with all the a. T. M. Machines arent working all over the city and we are unable to withdraw money even for our groceries and we are facing a huge problem there is no want to help. Dozens of people have died as a result of the trench will downpours and widespread flooding. And anger is growing. But incumbency did negligence say absolutely its incompetency and negligence on part of the government we are paying taxes and in return what are we getting theres not even a proper sewage system and thats why there is dirty water flowing all over analysts also say corruption and lack of proper urban planning are to blame but government officials deny those allegations the accusations made by p. T. A. Are presented in this mode to the connection of mismanagement in the recent. Flooding situation in the city of karachi one reason i think the influences you have put out some of the unprecedented into going on previous record and it is only unfortunate that it is wonderful time when the nation needs food and then head to solve the problems these p. T. A. Present is and again distorting through these baseless allegations despite the difficulties driver hide that cleans and repairs his rickshaw. A financial situation was ready by that but now the floodwaters made it worse im unable to drive in that water is. I really hope hell be able to continue to provide for his family but like so many others in karachi he also worries things may get more difficult my mage im drunk. Municipal elections have been held in libyas assert the largest city in misrata the government of National Accord which is recognized by the un says forces loyal to warlord handy for half that have the structure and other local polls in western libya the tripoli based g. N. A. S. Hoping to hold parliamentary and president ial elections in march next year on wednesday the uns top official from libya want that the war torn country could spiral out of control because a foreign interference and the coronavirus accordion all kong has found media tycoon jimmy lying not guilty of criminal intimidation but lies fight is not over because he still faces at least another 5 criminal investigations last month he became the most high profile figure of the citys prodemocracy movement to be arrested under a new National Security law unilaterally imposed by china adrian brown reports. It was all over very quickly surrounded by media some from organizations he owns jimmy lai was a man in a hurry as you arrived at west quaalude 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 i 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 carry law will be able to point to wednesdays verdict as proof in her eyes that the judiciary here does remain independent even a small legal thinkers say the opposite adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. Now a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera nato says turkey and greece are to hold talks with the aim of the fusing tension in the Eastern Mediterranean there are loggerheads over the ownership rights of offshore oil and gas reserves near cyprus and crete the neighbors have been carrying out competing military exercises in the region both countries have accused the other of stoking tensions with the threats with threats of military action Stephanie Decker has more from istanbul turkey is not a signatory to the un nor of the see if it hears to what it says its Continental Shelf greece of course says that turkey is infringing on its waters when its coming to exploratory moves that are still going on and will continue until september the 12th so its very difficult to see how those issues are going to be addressed and resolved because president everyones had a lot of harsh words in the last couple of days saying that turkey is not going to back down its being unfairly treated its coastline is being caged in and greece of course also not backing down saying that turkey is infringing on its sovereign maritime rights so none of that being addressed at the moment. U. S. President donald trump appears sort of backtracked on his suggestion that people should vote twice in the embers election trump had urged people to send ballots by mail and then try to vote again in person democrats accuse the president of encouraging voters to break the law he now says people should go to the polls to make sure that their mail in ballots were counted. Meanwhile the president ial nominee joe biden is visiting the city of commotion in wisconsin the city has become the new focus of the National Debate on systemic racism hes met the family of jacob blake the black man shot 7 times in the back by a white Police Officer last months. The kremlin has rejected accusations that russia is responsible for the poisoning of Opposition LeaderAlexei Navalny but germany says it has unequivocal proof that kremlin critic was poisoned with another chalk nerve agent chancellor Angela Merkel is consulting her nato allies about any response which could include sanctions. The stream is next asking if the student protests are driving thailand that toward a Tipping Point and ill have more news at half allow us to join with that of i. I am femi ok today of the string the protest movement led by young people high land could students be the Tipping Point for change if you will you cheap you can be part of the conversation just jump right into the comments and you too can be in the street. And i guess welcome to the strain great to see i am going to say hi to the guests they will introduce themselves and i put the