Plus. This sacred duty is my number one priority between now and election day. A pledge to deliver election ballots on time as the controversial head of the u. S. Postal service is questioned over maryland voting. Im Robert Bright in jeju south korea suffering from the effects of devastating summer rains nearly 2000 kilometers away in Central China. Russian Opposition Leader alexina valmy is being flown to germany for emergency treatment for suspected poisoning the plane carrying him to left siberia just over an hour ago has more. Loaded onto a stretcher and into an ambulance. A critically ill. To be flown to. A medical team and private plane. Dissident for further treatment in britain. Had initially said he was too sick to be moved. And then. A change of position to. The patient. About the diagnosis and condition of the patient ready to take the risks weve decided not to transferring the patient to another clinic on friday the Opposition Leader spokeswoman and another aide struggled to speak to the whod just been. The delay in releasing him. And his system but the allegation that drank poisoned tea in the cafe at tomsk airport before boarding a flight to moscow is being denied by the hospital medics who. Have come to the conclusion. On arrival in germany they will undergo tests and treatment given to confirm whether doctors outside russia share his opinion. St petersburg and other cities supporters have been gathering and getting detained theyre convinced this was an attempt on of life and that. Is to blame. Ill carry on as a senior fellow at the atlantic he says not only had many enemies at the highest levels of government who could have an interest and hamann him the volley is today the most prominent Opposition Leader i personally lost friends including the previous leading opposition figure Boris Nemtsov who was murdered in 2015 several yards from the kremlin and i warned him not to go back to russia he didnt listen he wanted to serve his country not violently was doing a lot of work exposing corruption including at the highest levels and he had a lot of people who hated him for that and this looks like what 2 the russian authorities were not saying who exactly yet but thats what theyre thordis that are the target of this corruption investigation buying up all these organization this is what they do to retaliate to their critics so clearly being an opposition. Outspoken Opposition Leader or being a corruption fighter and a whistleblower in russia is a dangerous business indeed. The head of the u. S. Postal service has told a Senate Committee that mail in ballots will be delivered on time ahead of the november election general lost the joy has faced criticism for making changes to the service but of course mail delays democrats accuse him of being president Donald Trumps accomplice and trying to suppress the vote. Reports. Calling the accusations against him outrageous Lewiston Joyce says the cuts hes made to the u. S. Postal service were long planned and aimed at making the agency financially solvent not to complicate mail in voting in november as we head into the election season i want to assure this committee and the American Public that the Postal Service is fully capable and committed to delivering the nations election mail securely and on time thats a reversal from what the Postal Service said last month in a warning to 46. 00 states the agency had cautioned that millions of ballots may not be delivered in time to be counted and with the public fallout it joy announced further cuts to the Postal Service will be postponed until after the election the service will deliberately ballot process every ballot in. That it sees President Trump claims without evidence that voting by mail can lead to massive Election Fraud thats despite voting by mail himself were not prepared for this 51000000 ballots. It will be a tremendous embarrassment to our country it will go on forever and youll never know who won so i say that for you say it for the cameras because they assume that goes but i will tell you that this is a very serious. Problem for a great democracy democrats accuse trump of trying to sow doubt in an election that polls show him currently losing without a budget and doesnt want to vote by mail without a president elect as you pass the boat without a president who would like you to post those also serves not do well to joy was a trump mega donor before becoming postmaster general in june a Postal Service board member resigned in protest accusing the trumpet ministration of interfering with the independent agency now an internal watchdog is investigating and 6 states are suing the Postal Service for harming their ability to hold free and Fair Elections the house of representatives will hold a rare saturday session to take up legislation against the Postal Service changes and the joy will face a nother day of grilling before a house panel on monday. Castro aljazeera washington. U. S. President ial nominee joe biden says he would be prepared to shut down the country to prevent the spread of coronavirus he made the comments the day off to outlining his Campaign Platform the Democratic National convention. I would be prepared to do it every takes to save lives because we cannot get the country moving until we control the virus that is the fundamental flaw of this ministrations thinking to begin with in order to keep the country running and moving on the economy growing and people employed you have to fix the virus you have to deal with the virus so if the Scientists Say shut it down i would shut it down i would listen to the scientist. Libyas u. N. Recognized government in tripoli has announced a cease fire as its rival parliament in the east aligned with warlord who has also called for a halt to the fighting but the troubling government says it will respond to any violence from have to us forces many of one of those of who can enter will have to will respect to cease fire where they will to guarantee he would respect to cease fire after the bearing talks or previous agreements if you respects this is fine we will welcome that because we do not want libyan bloodshed we call for peace however if you violate the Peace Agreement were ready to fight and we will force him to leave like we forced him to leave western libya. Lets remind you how the country is divided the tripoli based government controls the area in blue and or haifa huffed all who is allied with the east and palm it into brooke controls the area in red both sides have been gearing up for a battle over the city of sirte the gateway to libyas prized oil fields but there are now proposals to jointly demilitarized the area along with the ill just for a base in the south crucially searches controlled by forces loyal to have to all who have imposed an oil blockade since january causing around 8000000000. 00 in losses the cease fire calls for production to resume and it wants elections to take place in march as long as libyans agree on a course on a constitutional basis charles often takes a look now at this recent conflict in libya. Libya has been in turmoil for nearly a decade. Nato back to reach longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2000 level the roots of whats often described as this rich countrys civil war started after the disputed elections in 2014 disagreement between the then house of representatives and the General National Congress made worse over a socalled roadmap for libyas future. The country split into 2 rival administrations the house of representatives led by the war lords relief after moved to the eastern city of 2 broke and what became the un backed government of National Accord led by Prime Minister fayyad as raj remained in the capital tripoli in the west. Thousands of people have been killed and many more forced to flee their homes 6 and a half years of fighting. The un accuses regional powers of repeatedly breaking a 2011 arms embargo on libya by supplying weapons to both sides egypt the u. A. E. And russia have supported hafta while turkey and qatar have backed the government of National Accord. In april last year hoft old an offensive to take control of tripoli aiming at what he described as cleansing the western zone of terrorist groups. His forces have shut down or taking control of major Oil Facilities in Eastern Libya depriving the country of billions of dollars in revenue tripolis only International Airport has been repeatedly bombed using heavy artillery many civilians have been killed and wounded. Areas of southern and western tripoli have been almost completely destroyed in the fighting repeated attempts at un bank cease fire talks of failed. A ceasefire is a decision made by the power brokers by the circumstances and it is not necessarily a libyan decision despite the fact that its the genie and talk who announced this decision this time to decision is not a libyan decision is uniquely turkish russia with some input from some of the International Powers and as long as it stays that way its unlikely the cease fire will break. Fridays cease fire announcement comes amid fears of an escalation by both sides mobilizing for a battle over the town syria the gateway to the major all terminals which are under the control of pro have 2 forces for now at least theres hope that agreement between powerful countries that many say have contributed to libyas suffering a backing a cease fire that could end its civil war chance transferred algers their. Lives because president Andres ManuelLopez Obrador spoke to power in 2018 after promising to wipe out corruption but now his own brother has been implicated in a scandal off the footage appeared to show him accepting cash the president insists his brother is n. A sentence called for an investigation and all the reports from mexico city. A perfect clip but thats not what this is the brother of mexicos president receiving an envelope stuffed with cash in a restaurant money purportedly donated 20 to his money were Lopez ObradorPolitical Movement before he was elected people i think of the 26000. 00 here i am cause controversy president will. Run the promise to wipe out corruption. Just to be clear this video doesnt prove anything illegal happened but it does raise serious questions for example was this money declared d to mexicos electoral dorothys and most importantly where did it come from if this was public money from any area of government this is illegal. Silat ima latinos the Media Outlets that published the videos claims that ivied lay on the man handing over the envelope mentions the government of chapel although that audio is not included the idea is to support thats the goal was number 2 was just that president Lopez Obrador said he didnt know about the money but that it could have been lots of small donations that lay on had collected though. I can tell you that the people supported me i had a bank account where they deposit money to keep the party going and thats when i got my salary that happened 4 years in the. Context is important here the videos come out just as Lopez Obrador as attorney general is investigating a Corruption Case that could implicate 3 of the president s pretty decisive. Videos been leaked of alleged bribes there too and the president s critics say hes using the case for political gain not just this in turn he claims this new video is there retaliate. In propose again is this could damage the government it does seem like a war of corruption videos a market for nandos part of a government watchdog says is only going to be one in past on fortunately the sick change of medias i mean is very likely that is going to reflect in a lower trust of citizens to work institutions their ocean of these institutions lower confidence in the market and greater satisfaction and now citizens want to go to jail and that loss of public trust is only likely to deepen as the politicians fight it out on social media john homan out does it or mexico city. Still ahead on aljazeera. I dont people by the time you come to the i. C. U. Its kind of late for you. Warning for a latino Border Community at high risk because of the coronavirus pandemic. And an Opposition Leader. Calls for more mass protests against the president lucas sanka. Hello we have something of an east west split in the weather across the us at the moment because some rain over towards the east where we dont really need it but a spot in dry if it was west lots of sunshine where those wildfires continue to rage have to still get up in the fortys in fadec sets extensive hate across much of that western side of the u. S. Even further north into the western side of canada we are looking at dry warm weather coming through here somewhere so whether those should make a way across the rockies sliding down through the prairies well see some wetter weather over towards the lakes and there we go with ash i was anywhere from the appalachians pushing up towards the eastern seaboard for sas take going on into sunday sunday does look a little quieter but showers popping up in the heat of the day they will be big i bloody if you do get one of those and they are said to be the case to the eastern side of kind of the still no sign of any rain further west no meaningful rain he might catch one or 2 light showers if anything those are the kind of showers that will spark off yet more wildfires in squatting down there meanwhile across a good part of mexico or can genevieves making its way out of the way but things looking live in the caribbean weve got this system here running up towards the yucatan peninsula could become a storm and another has been yoda. 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Backed government has announced a cease fire the leader of the wife or parliament in the east has also appealed for a halt forces from both sides have been mobilizing around certain as the gateway to libyas oil fields. Unprecedented summer rains in Central China are threatening the livelihood of fish farmers and fishermen in neighboring south korea surges of fresh water have been headed towards the korean coastline the island of jeju has been particularly badly hit thats where our correspondent rob bride is rob tell us whats the situation there. Thats right this tends to be a summer phenomenon but this a year people here too will tell you that it is particularly bad this island of jeju its way south of the Korean Peninsula its on a very interesting latitude it is part temper its part subtropical which makes it a very good bellwether for Climate Change basically very small environmental changes here have very big outcomes very quickly for example the growing of certain types of fruit which only used to be done on j g u thats now gone further north to the Korean Peninsula itself also we are seeing big sea changes here rises in sea temperatures which affect the way the oceans work and affect fisheries here the big concern though for people right now are these torrential rains again another product of extreme weather and Climate Change but more than nearly 2000 kilometers away in central and south western china dumping huge amounts of fresh water into the rivers there which is now headed in this direction. On the island of jeju those who depend on the surrounding waters for their living have reason to look anxiously out to sea and ocean expert coaching boehm has been studying the source of that anxiety unprecedented rains far away in Central China sending surges of fresh water flooding out of the Yangtze River here depicted in green reaching towards j juice coastline knowing that this year we have seen our president in the rainy front right across the Korean Peninsula