A revival in western georgia. Hello the russian Opposition Leader alexina vali is the victim of a murder attempt and the kremlin must answer difficult questions thats been the message from the government of germany when a volley remains seriously ill in the capitals hospital he collapsed 2 weeks ago during a flight to moscow and doctors say they have proof he was poisoned that zimbabwe reports what sort of should be done such as not the good old which alexina valmy in a video filmed in the siberian city of novosibirsk days before he collapsed on a flight to moscow now the German Government says tests carried out in a military laura tree have produced unequivocal proof the russian Opposition Leader was poisoned with a nerve agent joke and chancellor merkel says it was attempted murder alexina by any is in subjugation annexing of all me is the victim of a crime he was meant to be silenced and i condemn this in the shop as possible manner in the name of the entire German Government. Germanys foreign minister heiko mass has summoned the Russian Ambassador saying its urgent that those responsible in russia be identified and brought to justice in a valley whos 44. 00 was airlifted to germany late last month 2 days after being taken to a hospital in the siberian city of all. The Charity Hospital in berlin says hes still on a respirator in intensive care and although the symptoms of his poisoning a declining it cant rule out long term consequences navi chalk is a group of soviet era nerve agent such as the substance used to poison the former russian spy sergei script and his daughter in england in 2018 they survived but a member of the public dawn sturgis died after handling a discarded bottle containing novacek on wednesday the kremlin said russia was ready to cooperate fully with germany open of on these case but his long time strategies lay in it volkoff says it was clearly an action carried out on behalf of president Vladimir Putin he tweeted in 2020 poisoning of valmy with novacek is exactly the same as leaving an autograph at the crime scene like this chancellor merkel says germany will update its European Union and nato partners about the results of its investigation how the west reacts could depend on whether Russia Office any cooperation something thats not been forthcoming in the past nadine barber al jazeera. The United Nations and human Rights Groups are condemning u. S. Sanctions imposed on the chief prosecutor and another official of the International Criminal court its been prompted by an investigation into whether u. S. Forces committed war crimes in afghanistan u. S. Secretary of state my prepaying has described the i. C. C. As a kangaroo courts political hand reports. Did u. S. Troops torture people did they commit war crimes here in afghanistan did the taliban or the Afghan Military the International Criminal court has been trying to find out and now a new move from the Trump Administration to try and stop them at least when it comes to us for sales the United States will designate i. C. C. Prosecutor for 2 bensouda and the i. C. C. As head of jurisdiction complementarity in Cooperation Division thank you so much to go for having material assisted prosecutor bensouda individuals and entities that continue to materially support those individuals risks posed to sanctions as well that means the chief prosecutor and the head of an i. C. C. Department could be frozen out of the International Banking system have any of their u. S. Assets frozen human Rights Groups are outraged the practical effect could be ethical for the individual but i think we also have to see how damaging it and have a u. S. Administration take the stand and that kind of a fall for a fall full of all thats regard for the global world that using the actions of the u. S. Has often used its vast power in the financial industry to punish war criminals now using the same tactic to go after the very people who are charged with punishing them pedicle Hain Al Jazeera saw her as is a professor of law and director of the center for security raison rights at Rutgers University and she says the i. C. C. Is investigation into the actions of u. S. Troops is crucial to show countries none are above the law. There isnt much to be surprised about when youre under the trumpet ministration and this is in fact unprecedented for them to go on this from an attack of a fancy against the International Court which is tasked with ensuring that countries do not in fact genocide and torture which is peace here and other crimes against humanity is effectively an attempt to deal with judum eyes this International Criminal court the criticism against tends to be from the african nations because they are alleging that most of the cases that the i. C. C. Is prosecuting investigating is in africa and i think there might be some truth to that if you look at the acts he said so this is this countered they are now going to investigate and determine whether the u. S. One of the strongest militaries in the in the world whether its personnel engaged in torture which is a crime against humanity and work in afghanistan start of 2003 and whether they should be held accountable but even if they can actually take the personnel of theyre found guilty and then possess them physically to prison that its the the value and importance of telling countries we wont let you torture and get away with it the u. S. Judicial system failed to do that it was not one torture investigation in the u. S. Even though there is an anti torah torture law so i think there is not the i. C. C. Must do this if anything if you care about torture somebody needs to prosecute those were. President donald trump is threatening to cut funding to cities that he says allow violence he says cities under review include Portland Seattle new york and washington d. C. Trump has been rallying with the democratic mayors of those cities over protests against racism and Police Brutality hes criticized them for not stopping violence but federal troops significantly worsen the level of violence and destruction when they went into portland and meanwhile the u. S. Attorney general William Barra says there is a false narrative that White Police Officers kill a lot of unarmed black men he made the comments a day after visiting kenosha with President Trump its been the site of protests since police shot jacob blake an unarmed black man 7 times in the back lets talk about these developing stories of mike hanna hes joining us from washington to 1st talk us through these reports that have just come through a few moments ago that trump is threatening to cut funding to certain cities mike. Well were still trying to confirm these reports but indications are that President Trump has sent a 5 page memo threatening to withdraw all federal funding to specific cities that he says in that letter are encouraging and he says that he does not want tax payers dollars to fund cities that are incapable of policing themselves now among these cities that is reported in new york city washington d. C. Seattle and Portland Oregon this is a major step should the reports prove correct the letter apparently says that he has given the office of management budget 30 days to look into how federal funding is supported and to these specific cities and then the decision will be taken on whether or not to cut their funding however as i said these are initial preliminary reports and i must stress as well that there would be major legal issues in terms of that and ministration withdrawing federal funding from cities particularly as each of these cities is run by democrats you know well keep an eye out and see how the story develops in the meantime like william barr has also been speaking to us media and he seemed to be defending the actions of police. Very much so when he gave an exclusive interview to c. N. N. In which he basically said that the issue of police singling out African Americans in terms of shooting events is what has he puts it a false narrative he contends that there is no sign of racism whatsoever in the u. S. Level of policing and goes on to contend that it is very rare those were his words for an African American to be shot by a white Police Officer statistics show something very different indeed its very difficult in terms of the fact that the Central Administration does not collect statistics on Police Violence or Police Shootings or alleged Police Shootings this is largely linked to independent of situations like media organizations or academia to produce some kind of coherent type statistic and those statistics do indicate that an African American is 2 and a half times as likely to be shot by a white Police Officer then his white counterpart remembering as well that this vast differences in terms of the proportion of population so this is a significant the high figure which appear to appear to give the lie to william baez contention that such incidents are very rare and right and i can i thank you very much for the u. S. Centers for Disease Control has asked states to get ready to distribute a potential coronavirus bax vaccine by november 1st it comes amid concerns that President Trump is pressuring the food and Drug Administration to approve a vaccine before Clinical Trials are completed meanwhile more than 17 wealthy countries have committed to fair access to any future vaccine and the u. S. Is not participating in the global vaccine efforts which is led by the world health organization. The u. S. Federal budget deficit is projected to hit a record 3. 00 trillion dollars due to over 1000. 00 costs and the recession triggered by the pandemic thats more than triple the 2900. 00 shortfall and double the worst level during the 2008 economic crisis and according to the new estimates u. S. Debt levels will surpass the size of the American Economy next year qatar is emir has stressed the need for a fair resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict through the pursuit of a 2 state solution so its i mean how does that he hosted President TrumpSenior Advisor jerry kirshner on wednesday made a stop in cats are during his tour off the middle east and while in qatar kirshner sat down with aljazeera and spoke about his efforts to end the palestinian israeli conflict. A lot of the reason why this hasnt been resolved for decades is because people get caught in slogans and theres a lot of politics involved what President Trump did is hes the 1st leader to put a team on it and then very carefully go through all of the details in order to put out a program sweep released a proposal called President Trumps vision for peace which is 180. 00 page proposal israel said in that proposal they would negotiate on the basis of it that outlined a map which had never happened before the palestinians had always said if israel will agree to a map will Everything Else will be easy so it outlined the map it outlined a security regime theyll keep palestinians and israelis safe and outlined a way to reform the economy and it did a lot of other things as well so that offers on the table the palestinian leadership rejected it before it even was published and they knew what was in it so hopefully as tensions come down people will look at whats best for the Palestinian People whats best for the region in the move forward and thats why again this trip was so historic because instead of focusing on all the negativity that people have focused on for a long time and reciting the same talking points that are tired or you know being in the same happened sort of the same dead ends leaders rose above these these these traps and they found a way to move forward and thats why people in this region should be hopeful its very easy to find ways to be content to condemn to a bad past but we need our visionary leaders now who can find a way to articulate and create a much more brighter and hopeful future. Still ahead on aljazeera he says there will be a bloodbath the warning from the belorussian president if he is forced out. Of the. Hell i was most of china is fairly quiet weather wise now in the East China Sea we have the typhoon my stock now that has reached its full strength is down slowly die but its still a major storm is heading toward south korea and guess what its going to be over land overnight it comes in with enough strength to cause damage in the south the onshore breeze breeze onshore strong wind from all we have the east coast is like to be potentially damaging at least with the storm surge and the huge amount of rain that by Daylight Hours of course it goes north or north korea into the northeastern china at least behind fine and quiet weather then theres a gap and then your eyes are drawn down here yes hi shane has already formed this will be a typhoon pretty soon and guess what its courses its forecast course over the next few days takes it up to south korea this wont be exactly right but its still a rough idea i dont think is going to vary very much so it gets in late in the weekend south of this and the showers are showing that they really want to because of the wet season of the rainy season once again so throughout malaysia and indonesia downs pretty sundry nuts extends over to thailand and me in ma but now it includes java and yes jakarta as well. 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Attorney general william barr says there is a false narrative that White Police Officers kill a lot of unarmed black men he made the comments a day after visiting kenosha alongside President Donald Trump where an unarmed black man was shot in the back 7 times by police. Russias foreign minister is accusing outside forces of meddling in bella roosts surrogate lavrov says activists from ukraine are trying to create violent protests but he doesnt provide evidence between us foreign minister has told aljazeera that what he calls russian weakness may be behind the kremlins decision to back president Alexander LukashenkoBernard Smith has more from lithuania capital. Looking emboldened with messages of support from russia Alexander Lukashenko says theyll be a bloodbath if hes forced from the presidency of delegates. I want to protect what we spent 25 years creating there are thousands millions of people behind me theyre the ones im worried about im not worried about power as some in russia say looper is clinging on with blue hands i dont want them to cut my country up after i glued it together after the broken pieces of the soviet empire. That been fear weeks of peaceful protests in the capital minsk. Said he won 80 percent. To the vote for his reelection the e. U. U. S. And u. K. Say voting was neither free nor fair. Russias foreign minister says without providing evidence that what he described as 200 extremists from ukraine have infiltrated the protests and the trying to stir up violence. Suppose for the issue we have confirmation that this is being directed from ukraine to a tory there are nongovernment organisations working to provoke radical offense and other battles towns but it russia has been in conflict with ukraine for 6 years lavrov who met his belarus counterpart on wednesday said nato and e. U. Calls for new elections are destructive. Lithuanias f