Demands answers and asking the hard questions an independent panel is unveiled to review the World Health Organizations pandemic response. On how much now have all the sports stars continue to tumble at the u. S. Open to attend see the. Crashing out in the 2nd round. Us President Donald Trump appears to have backtracked on his suggestion that people should try to vote twice in the embers election to test the mail in a Voting System them across accuse the president of encouraging people to break the law hes now changed his position saying people should go to polling stations to make sure that their mail in ballots were counted helen fisher reports now from washington d. C. After the president appeared to our 2 supporters in North Carolina to break the law and vote twice the defense from the podium of the White House Briefing room the president does not condone unlawful voting by the president s been very clear about this some once again not surprised the media taking the president out of context president s trying to enfranchise americans which is exactly what hes been saying he wants every american to have a vote president himself tried helping with the cleanup he posted a series of tweets where he told voters to go to their polling places after sending in their 1000000 ballots to make sure their vote had been counted the contriver syrup to during a president ial campaign visit to North Carolina he said people want to do but Election Fraud should vote twice let him send it in and let him go vote and if this isnt as good as they say it is then obviously there will be able to vote if it isnt tabulated theyll be able to vote so thats the way it is intentionally voting twice is a crime something officials in North Carolina pointed out in a statement he said attempting to vote twice in an election or soliciting someone to do so also is a violation of North Carolina law there are numerous checks in place in North Carolina that prevent people from double voting attorney general william barr was asked during an interview on american t. V. To respond to trumps comments the governments top lawyer said he didnt know the election laws in every state but added without evidence that widespread vote by mail is very open to fraud and coercion is reckless and dangerous and people are playing with fire. President trump has often claimed that merely voting will be used to rob him of the election one expert in 2000000 voting says theres new evidence to support the president s allegations in the past when when politicians have debated election laws its been its been intense but its not been to the level of vitriol and certainty behind the statements that we see the president and his allies making about male its its a real stark divide between the evidence and the rhetoric on this issue that theres just such a wide gulf between the 2 the federal Election Commission says the idea of 1000000 fraud is a Conspiracy Theory thats backed up by a 2700 study which find the overall rate of voting fraud in the us is at the most 0. 0009 percent own fishing ill just see it in washington. For us and jordan joins us now from alexandria in for genea rosalyn trumpet as officials continue to question the integrity of the electoral process now in this particular issue donna tom seems to have backtracked but i mean you know 2 months to go before the election what impact could this actually have on voters. Its well its the intent and i cant speak to the president s intent but if the intent is to try to further confuse voters about the integrity of the voting process and of the political process writ large this certainly could have an impact its important to note that this discussion about whether voters should be able to cast a ballot by mail whether in an official mail voting process or in an in an absentee voting process where you know that youre not going to be able to get to the polls on election day doll trump has been raising questions about the integrity of that process of voting ahead of election day for some time now and his critics have accused the president of basically of trying to depress the vote particularly from those who might be opposed to his attempts to be reelected this is also a situation where in recent weeks we have been talking here about the integrity and the viability of the United StatesPostal Service which is of course how people would return their ballots if they were voting either in a formal vote by mail program or voting with an absentee ballot there have been questions about whether a postal workers have been directed to slow down the delivery of mail throughout the nationwide system and whether they are doing so in order to try to give an advantage to the president s supporters who would be very motivated to try to vote for his reelection come november 3rd this is a situation that has democrats quite concerned because of what happened in 2016 where public suggestions about the viability of mr trumps opponent Hillary Clinton did apparently play a role. In the final vote outcome even though she did win the popular vote not enough voters came out in those socalled swing states to give clinton the victory over donald trump and so this is a system where with a little more than 2 months to go people are very concerned about any effort to depress the total. Popular vote and if it means having people questioned whether or not they are there they can vote legally through the mail and then or whether they can just take their chances by going to the polls its would be stirring up confusion. Rosalyn jordan with the latest there from alexandria in virginia rosen thank you. Meanwhile the democratic president ial nominee joe biden has visited the city of can ocean wisconsin the city has become the new focus of the National Debate on systemic racism he spoke to the family of jacob blake the black man shot 7 times in the back by a white Police Officer last month the shooting led to days of sometimes violent protests against racism and Police Brutality by the ins appearances just 2 days after a visit by President Trump who said that that stray sions amounted to domestic terror john hendren joins us live now from and john we understand that joe biden met with Community Leaders there as well generally speaking this is meshed message right now and. He did he met with those Community Leaders after an hour long meeting in milwaukee with the family of jacob blake and during that time hes been in 15 minutes. With you completely himself having just come out of the intensive care unit one of the things that he told joe biden was that he was not going to give up what ever happened with his paralysis hes paralyzed from the waist down after that by. Took the 40 minutes or so drive to canal sure wisconsin but 2 races during church and there he said that his reason for running for president really began during the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville Virginia he said we need to make up for 400 years of Racial Injustice in the United States and he said thats what really got him going then he expressed listen to a lot of people who were complaining that there had not been enough progress there was a woman there who said weve heard enough words now we want action to stop this but least brutality in this country. He went on to say that he was concerned about the level of violence that occurred here taking a centrist line with sympathy for the black eyed matter supporters but on the other hand also saying that violence and arson and looting was an acceptable heres a little of what he had to say. Were in a situation now where we cannot let up we can have up violence in any form is wrong in the one concern i have and i understand it is that people are going to be so frustrated particularly in the communities that need the help the most need to be treated. Or say its not worth it all are going to vote grows a very good friend of mine talked to him 2 days before he died john lois is john said. The only answer is divine. Its the only. Show with exactly 2 months left to go to the election biden left a town very much divided canoe she voted for trump in 2016 then voted for a democratic governor in 2018 and one of the reasons he was here one of the reasons this is become such a battleground state is that Hillary Clinton did not come here in 2016 at all and narrowly lost this state to donald trump biden does not want that to happen here he is the only cant democratic nominee d to come here since 2012 when barack obama can. Drop into the latest from kosha in wisconsin john thank you. And staying in the u. S. There have been protests in new york after the release of Police Body Camera footage of a black man who died after being arrested in march that was strange house call for officers to be charged with the killing of daniel prude police were called one prude ran naked in the street during a Mental Health crisis officers hooded him and knelt on his back pro died one taken off life support 7 days later the citys mayor a lovely one said the on thursday the prude was failed to buy her and she has suspended the officers involved well daniel prudes daughter says the officers should be charged with murder if you see they have video and see how far theyre in the state of helplessness where he was complying in was a given anybody your hearts hand in need of help is is deb statement is really taking a toll on him are so. Weve never seen our father in a situation the way. I have to say now is i want i want justice i want these officers charged with murder in. The studio iraq shows. Coming up on aljazeera this news hour lebanons army finds more than 4 tons of the explosive chemical the cause that last months devastating blast in the same b. Route port thousands of Health Care Workers protest in south africa calling for more protective gear and better pay as they battle the coronavirus and in sports well tell you which team is set up a semi final clash with the top seeds in the n. B. A. Playoffs. Nato says turkey and greece are to hold talks with the aim of the fusing tension in the Eastern Mediterranean but athens denies any such agreement the 2 countries are at loggerheads over ownership rights of offshore oil and gas reserves near cyprus and crete the neighbors have been carrying out competing military exercises in the region greece says turkey must 1st withdrawal any ships from the disputed region ankara supports the nature of talks both countries have accuse the other of stoking tensions with threats of military action while these are the exclusive Economic Zones of greece turkey and cyprus as the find by the u. N. 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 its self to find waters but that infringes on greeces Maritime Territory according to both the e. U. And the un Stephanie Decker has more on this now from istanbul. 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. Stolberg 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 of hasnt been addressed 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 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. Well lets go to greece now and speak to our correspondent who joins us via skype from athens john obviously not only do the 2 countries need to i guess try to diffuse the escalating tensions but they also need to discuss the actual issue at hand then and this far as greece is concerned theyre actually saying these talks arent even happening that they havent agreed. Well there are 2 separate processes here the European Union which currently has a german presidency has undertaken to broker talks on the substance of greek turkish differences which is that continental shelves and exclusive Economic Zones that did result in talks beginning in late july those were not the actual main negotiations to settle boundary disputes those were simply preliminary talks to discuss the parameters of the negotiations the greeks want those talks to take place on the basis of the un law of the sea turkey resists that now turkey broke off from those talks and since then the germans have been trying to restart them that is the main negotiating process that addresses the substance of the differences what nato is concerned with is not territorial nato is concerned with its allies not having a war within the alliance and what it is trying to do is to have these de confliction mechanisms put in place which would prevent accidents from happening on the understanding that neither greece nor turkey intend a war to happen but what has happened today in that process is simply that the 2 representatives of greece and turkey in nato were briefed on the secretarygeneral against oldenburg ideas towards such a deep confliction process staking place that meeting lasted 6 minutes according to greek diplomatic sources clearly more discussion is going to be needed before heads of government on both sides say that they are willing to proceed on the basis of those ideas so what the greek side has said is simply this that we know to the nato secretary general is good intentions to work towards the confliction mechanisms within nato but de confliction consists only in turkey withdrawing all of its ships from the great Continental Shelf in other words greece will not enter into even these de confliction talks with. And so they ships on what it considers its Continental Shelf that greece considers would be to enter in a go sation on turkeys terms and it feels that nato is not being impartial in this massive chance hopeless for the latest there from athens and apologies for the slight glitches on the skype line john thank you. Lebanons army says its found more than 4 tons of Ammonium Nitrate at the port of beirut thats the same highly explosive material that caused the last months blast Army Engineers are reported to be dealing with it with no specific information given about what action is being taken so the holder has more 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 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 emerge 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 exp