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