Investigation into a cash for passport scheme convicted criminals fugitives and state officials. Drumming up support speed u. S. Secretary of state is touring the middle east to push arab nations to normalize relations with israel. And storm season is well underway the u. S. Gulf coast prepares for the impacts of horror. And unschooled the latest from barcelona following the n. L. Messi telling the club he wants to leave plus a record breaking night for the l. A. Clippers who are now just one win away from the western conference semifinals. At least 2 people have been killed and another injured during protests in the u. S. City of commotion demonstrators defines a curfew for a 3rd night demanding justice for jacob blake a black man black man shot in the back by police. Well tear gas was far to keep demonstrators from entering a courthouse building several buildings were set on fire and a state of emergency is now in place with extra National Guard troops to prune the process are continuing to spice a call for unity and come from jacob blakes mother john hendren reports now from kenosha. Smolders a city corrections building burnt to the ground one of 3 dozen buildings left in ruins in a single night firefighters and residents sweep up the wreckage. I am with black lives matter moving on you know objects protesting in the aisle that would if nothing needed. Philip mary arrived to find the windows of his 92 year old office smashed but it was largely spared his neighbor wasnt so lucky. Senseless it is. Dandelion is someones property the mother of jacob blake the black man whose shooting by police set off the demonstrations says he would not approve if. You knew what was going on as far as that goes the violence and the destruction. He would be very pleased blakes family spoke of the latest incident of alleged Police Brutality captured in this viral video of an officer shooting in the back his 3 sons watching from inside the car. 7 pines. Something. Like he didnt matter but my son matters blakes attorneys say he underwent surgery on tuesday and remains paralyzed from the waist down im not sad im not sorry im angry and im tired. I havent cried one time i stopped crying years ago i am numb. I have been watching Police Murder people that look like me for years as her family struggles with what happened so does a battered city while police were protecting government buildings the looters came here to be Uptown Neighborhood and they fire bombed and looted each of the stores for a couple of blocks until they got here to kingdom word ministries thats where david my gomery is pastor actually we had somebody actually take a. Big large rock and throw it through the window and we started yelling hey this is a church and marriage several people say hey you dont touch a church you know now one of the firemen said a pastor it looks like your build is going to be the only thing to say you know its just a miracle from god one building salvaged amid dozens of burnt out holes and more broken hearts john hendren aljazeera konoha wisconsin. Yes president startled trump 1st lady monica and section of saints mike pompei you were speakers on day 2 of the Republican National convention and spirits for decades of president s the 1st lady spoke from the white house rose garden and we will bring you more on that in a 2nd memo might compare who has recorded his address while on a Diplomatic Mission in our White House Correspondents kimberly how it will bring more on this story. Now lets go back to our top story now a jacob blake the black man shot by police in wisconsin that he managed to survive his encounter with the police where has many others have nots lets take a look at some of the other high profile examples in june brooks was killed in the parking lot of a fast food restaurants in atlanta the officer who shot and killed him has been charged with murder all 4 officers involved in George Floyds death may have been fired from their jobs and charged but 3 officers who shot and killed Brianna Taylor in her own home in march have not Face Criminal Charges so lets get more on this story now from scott lucas hes a professor of u. S. Politics for the university of birmingham and joins us now by skype from the u. K. Good to have you with us here on the aljazeera news i just listed some high profile examples of Police Shootings but observers this seems like groundhog day why do you think things are not changing in the u. S. With regard to believe shootings. Because you can change things overnight in a culture where are you have had fear you have had suspicion and you have had let us be honest racism for decades and so even as were trying to get to grips with what happened with george floyd 3 months ago and amidst these important issues being raised by the antiracism marches the black flies matter marches there will be other incidents other encounters now it appears that in the latest in the case of jacob lloyd can connection with johnson you have an on armed black man shot 7 times that Close Friends by officers simply hours after trying to mediate a domestic dispute he was getting back into his car with his 3 young sons inside that will have to be investigated but while thats being investigated people will be angry people will be frustrated and even though it should be emphasized that the leaders of the black clouds matter marches are denouncing violence you will have some that will take it out on the community but we need to also add Something Else to watch out for and that is that there are those who are right wing protesters right wing militia who will try to strike violence as well and in the instance which has marked last nights protest which is the killing of 2 people unwilling to hear a 3rd the suspicion and i must emphasize suspicion not proof is that members of the militia fired into one of these marches which just skillets the violence further Everyone Needs to take a step back thats what jacob like family said yesterday but the issue the fundamental issue which is violence against an armed people especially africanamericans that cannot be dismissed lightly well lets turn see that fundamental issue. Are you saying that the police in america are racists because in order to begin to tackle this problem we need to find out what the problem is and who is to blame. Well there you have to unpack that and i wish we had a full hour but as the grandson of a long time serving place officer who served with 36 years what i have to say is from experience and from studying this is that when you have a culture which has often been racially segregated when you have a culture like the one i grew up with in the American South where you dont interact if you have police who are largely white they may start from a basis of suspicion and that that africanamerican that White American may be a threat to them and when you have the prevalence of guns and such large numbers on the streets that suspicion can escalate very quickly to violence now beyond that i think you have a structural issue and that is when you do have Police Violence when you do have on armed black americans being killed is there an attempt to cover this up and attempt to explain it away and attempt to shout law and order as for example the man in the white house is doing right now when you have that attempt to cover it up that is something which is structural racism. Ok scott im afraid we dont have the full hour to its a go into more detail on that but thank you so much for helping us see scratched the surface of this problem that scott lucas there joining us from birmingham in the u. K. Well let says stay in the u. S. Where the american President Donald Trump 1st lady melania and the secretary of state might bump a were all speakers on the Republican National convention theyre breaking with decades of precedence the 1st lady spoke from the white house rules garden well mike pompeo recorded his address while on a Diplomatic Mission of White House CorrespondentKimberly Hall kits has more. Explore together. America it was a night billed as a tribute to the Great American story and the people empowered to succeed by President Trumps policies many of those stories appeared to be produced by the former reality t. V. Star himself breaking with precedent that president ial candidates lay low until the final night at the Convention Trump appeared the re time greg john im not sure you know theres a full pardon he issued a president ial pardon restoring the rights of a bank robber who has made it his mission to improve the lives of convicts and repeat after me in another made for t. V. Moment trauma corporative a citizenship ceremony into the program to reach out to voters of color touting his push for Legal Immigration breaking with tradition secretary of state mike pompei appeared from west jerusalem well on official government business despite telling his own diplomatic corps weeks earlier that overt partisan politics violated u. S. Law he told voters only President Trump will keep american freedoms intact because President Trump has put his america 1st vision into action it may not have made him popular in every foreign capital but its worked. The 2nd night of the Republican National convention remained a Family Affair as it had the night earlier 2 more of trumps children spoke his son eric and daughter tiffany railed against the Media Coverage of their father people must recognize that our thoughts are pinions and even the choice of who we are voting for may and are being manipulated and visibly coerced by the media and tech giants. But it was 1st lady molony a trump who delivered tuesday evenings marcie address making an appeal to women voters to support her husband she outlined the challenges he needs to overcome for racial unrest to tens of thousands of americans dead from cope with 19 i know many people anxious and sound feel helpless i want you to know youre not alone. My Husbands Administration will not stop fighting until there is an effective treatment or vaccine available to everyone indeed the 1st lady was one of the few speakers at the Republican National convention to acknowledge the personal devastation and heartbreak that americans have faced during the pandemic its a pandemic many blame President Trump for not doing more to stop its a narrative he may not be able to overcome with just 10 weeks until the election kimberly help at al jazeera the white house. Theres plenty more still to come on the news hour including. However i know one thing for sure that this monster that my father. And the other beautiful souls that day is a coward face to face with a killer emotional statements from relatives gone tearing into the Zealand Mosques last year. And varying not to give up the main belorussian Opposition Leader says protests his call for a democratic transition will not speak or. It could lead on their own message be on the verge of leaving barcelona will have all the details for you later in the program. Now aljazeera is investigative units has obtained the cyprus papers a cache of confidential documents listing 2 and a half hours of people who bought citizenship in cyprus some are criminals and some are seeking a safe haven away from their own governments the names include 500 people from china a 350 from the middle east who paid for the rights to live and work in europe separate davis reports. A meeting of president s to discuss greater links between cyprus and china put away from the public glare hundreds of chinese have quietly paid for a personal connection aboard cypriot citizenship a few likely a criminals he sanctioned by the us the laundering stolen cryptocurrency others like tanya politically connected hes boss of a state owned energy company. The chinese presence is increasingly visible in cyprus 2 and a half 1000000. 00 for citizenship and a passport which can be invested in a luxury home is a modest price for chinas super rich young man and spend both have separate passports through her family Real Estate CompanyCountry Garden shes worth an estimated 27000000000. 00 and is often called asias Richest Woman but paying for the passport and moving assets to the island isnt straightforward because china has strong currency controls strictly speaking its all illegal very often they use hong kong as a way for getting their money out of china and there are many who egypt ways for doing so and they sometimes also used in macau as another way all getting money out of china another category in the cyprus papers includes those we are not naming for their own safety that applies to a woman whose relative was secretly abducted from long kong by Chinese Security agents and several names from saudi arabia applications for cypriot passports from the kingdom have increased since the rise of crown Prince Mohammed bin salmond like china he announced a crackdown on corruption which critics say only targets his political enemies one member of the bin laden family holds a cyprus passport their Business Empire has been effectively confiscated by the crown prince. Another is a relative of one of the hundreds of wealthy saudis detained in 2017 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in riyadh without charge until they paid for their release theres also a broker of the Saudi Foreign investment deals although still well connected a cypriot passport provides a potential refuge should the political tide. Davis joins us now live from london as ever this is the 4th day in a row of revelations from your investigation many of them have been quite embarrassing for the separate governments have they given any response yet well as i understand it there is a press Conference Im getting at the moment starting to get minutes ago from the cypriot minister beach area what weve had up to now is a reaction that basically says well weve made lots of changes over the years so whats the problem the problem according to the critics is that these schemes inherently attract the criminal and the corrupt and want to hide where they where their money is and basically using cyprus as a back door because the Supreme Court makes the mini e. U. Citizen so soakers has undoubtedly tightened some of the regulations that were in silence that criticism that actually these schemes need to end completely and separate for many people in the reports that we have just a separate passport represents something of a safety net its not worth noting that safety thats not available to those who are risking their lives trying to cross the mediterranean and given that these cypriot government appears to be selling access to the e. U. What does the e. U. Have to say about all of this. Well just a few minutes ago we finished an interview with the Justice Commissioner and i think hes been stronger than he has been before and what he said to me was that he is now open for a legal solution to end to these but the European Parliament the European Commission have got the power to bring in a law or start something called infringement procedure that could be backed up by the European Court of justice and it could say to cyprus and rules a modern bulgaria you run these schemes these schemes need to end these are a Security Risk to europe these increase the risk of Money Laundering and crying so we are now passing a law to end these schemes because what has been clear is that left to their own devices these schemes are huge moneymaker and so cyprus is not going to end it itself ok Deborah Davis there joining us live from london thank you very much and seeds and be sure to say whether on aljazeera will be airing the 5th arts of our exclusive reports on the cyprus papers after a week of revelations about the serious flaws uncovered in these artists Investment Scheme for passports we will bring you that exclusive interview with the European Unions commissioner for Justice Didier injures who will react to our findings thursday from 10 g. M. T. Right here on aljazeera. The antigovernment protesters are expected to rally later in bella russa after to see prominent Opposition Leaders were jailed a rival demonstration is also due to be held in supports of president Alexander Lukashenko he is resisting calls the step down after a disputed election but asked that fasten reports now from minsk his opponents are keeping up the pressure on the. Solera to for those punished protesting against the. Musicians have gathered at the theater in minutes every day so its iraq the effect for supporting the protests. Well more culture minister powerful up to scratch faces a criminal