Rejected germanys allegations that it poisoned russian opposition figure. Protesters in south africa after a scathing report shows the scale of mishandled covert 19. 00 money. And a quarter century after. Went online we will find out how its founder is now backing efforts to rein in and break up todays tech giants. Just 2 months to go before the u. S. President ial election and donald trump is selling more doubts about voting by mail he suggested people try to voting twice in november which is illegal but in the last few hours his spokesman spokeswoman said he wasnt encouraging people to do anything that is against the law separately trump is starting to cut funding from the cities he. As of allowing violence and anneke the support and they are being. In the battleground state of North Carolina every vote counts but donald trump said voters should be concerned about Election Fraud and should try to vote twice the letter send it in and let it go vote and if their systems as good as they say it is then obviously there will be able to vote if it isnt job related theyll be able to vote so thats the way it is intentionally voting twice is illegal and is a crime in many states in North Carolina its a felony attorney general william p. Barr was asked during a c. N. N. T. V. Interview to respond to trumps comments the governments top lawyer said he didnt know the election laws in every state bar said widespread vote by mail is very open to fraud and coersion is reckless and dangerous and people are playing with fire according to an analysis by the Washington Post newspaper of 3 vote by mail states officials identified a fraction of one percent as having double voted in the 201628000 elections combined in a written memo trump went on to threaten to cut funding to cities which he says allowed anarchy and violence hes requested a federal funding review of Portland Seattle new york and washington d. C. Its not legal it violates the temp amendment to the constitution and trump knows that this is purely political theater where. The cities in question all have democratic mayors and theyve all been the scenes of major protests against racism and Police Brutality why are africanamerican still dying at the hands of Law Enforcement in this country and show or white people so no white people what a terrible question to ask so or why people more white people by the way more white people. Another study by the Washington Post found that blue. Americans are killed at a rate more than twice as high as whites. Rival in novembers election and the democratic president ial candidate joe biden says theres only one way to move forward this is not who we are at her best america has always been and 5 thing to do it will be again generous confident and optimistic nation full of hope and resolve biden is ahead in several recent National Polls following both parties conventions leah harding al jazeera. Lets go to our White House Correspondent kelly how and will move things on actually from there and just look at whats actually coming up today Joe Biden Donald trumps arrival off to kosha. Yeah thats right now kenosha just to refresh everyones memory is the city where jacob blake was shot the africanamerican man shot 7 times in the back by a white Police Officer following that there was a lot of unrest in that city in fact more than 100. 00 buildings damaged 200. 00 arrests since then things have calmed down after the governor requests of the National Guard come in so on tuesday the u. S. President went to visit there and even though he was asked not to by the governor he went anyway there were protests he was not able to meet with the family and there was a fair bit of disturbance and commotion now it is joe bidens turn he is headed to connote should wisconsin today and he is using this is an opportunity he says to sort of highlight what he says is his promise to unify our nation if he is elected president what we know it will be meeting with Civic LeadersLaw Enforcement hell also be meeting with the family of jacob blake this is really a major test of his leadership also a chance for him to show contrast that well he accuses tunneled trump of promoting division he will have the opportunity to show he can set by example healing can be the can i ask you about and i just referenced this a little bit earlier i dont know trumps threat to cut funding to cities which he says his words allow anneke in violence now Portland Seattle new york washington d. C. What do they all have in common. Well they all have had in common the fact that there have been violent protests so you have to remember that there are 2 things happening here there are the peaceful protests that have been taking place largely the black lives Matter Movement to end those that support it that have been demonstrations against systemic Racism Police brutality unfortunately there is another faction that has consistently across the country in some cases worse than others portland being one of them there have been in some cases predominantly white people that have been hijacking these protests in order to stage a kind of a marxist revolution at least thats what some are alleging now in the midst of all of this the u. S. President is saying wow oh my political opponents namely democrats are controlling these cities theyre not doing enough to protect the law abiding citizens so what hes trying to do is put in place withdrawal of federal funding for these cities the attorney general has 14 days to identify these cities but the question becomes whether this is even legal its not theres no question there will be legal challenges but what donald trump is trying to do in all of this is essentially 2 things hes trying to show a contrast that he is projecting strength and law and order in the face of social unrest but hes also trying to deflect from some very negative headlines namely that there is still rising unemployment in this country some 30000000 americans out of work as a result of covert 19 and very angry about the president s covert 1000 response in the face of rising infections thankyou committee how could the White House Correspondent. Another word on elections and that is facebook announcing steps to prevent its platform from being exploited in the week leading up to the u. S. Election it will stop accepting new political ads 7 days before election day though it will continue showing those that are already in the system c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg says he is concerned about a period of quite intense claims and counterclaims as the final results are counted facebook has previously been criticized for not doing enough to fact check articles and claims made on the web site a day its been set for the u. S. Is formal withdrawal from the World Health Organization president trumpet already signaled a move he says the w. H. O. Failed in its response to covert 19 now the state Department Says u. S. Involvement with the organization will end on july 6th next year a statement says the u. S. Is looking for alternative partners to carry out the work the World Health Organization doing onto other news in the kremlin is rejecting accusations that russia is responsible for the poisoning of alexina valmy thats up to germany said it has unequivocal proof the opposition figure was poisoned with the nerve agent nova chuck he is seriously ill in a bill in hospital after collapsing 2 weeks ago german chancellor Angela Merkel says the poisoning is attempted murder and that only russia economics of the serious questions raised well alexandra stay on the vertical thread has the latest reaction for us now from moscow. So far from the official level there is no other theory offered what theyre saying is basically we were not given any proof substantial proof for these statements and what could possibly be the motive now the spokesperson of russian president Vladimir Putin. Said the noted that no one is accusing russia directly but he also said that such accusations are without any bases and the reason that the sanctions talkies unexceptable in general and he sees no reasons why there would be sanctions he also said that russia is very interested to get to the bottom of what happened with alex a now viney but has to have its own questions answered 1st then he was actually talking about at this official request for all the analysis results and data medical day 1000 a vial needs to be given to russia from a german hospital here get a notice that in russia all the tests show that there was no poisoning barrelful we have some lower officials and not excluding good that this is for instance operation of some special Intelligence Special intelligence operation of some western Intelligence Services that these might be all set up and that one should not exclude the this so there is this parallel. Kind of wave of seeding the seeds of doubt with on the what is coming from german officials. Is following this from from london he says the russian response is similar to the response after the attack in 2018 on a former russian spy and his daughter in the english city of salzburg. There was the video of the 2 key suspects coming into the country there was video of them Walking Around solsbury there was not a chalk all over the door of the scriptural family households so it is crippling his daughter who were poisoned then there was another bottle if you remember of not a chop disguised as a perf you would end up in a bin in a poor woman picked it up thing it was a perfect human spread on a self and then died as a result so they had absolutely primary de facto empirical evidence linking this to the russians and still they didnt get anywhere that the difference obviously with this is in a valley collapsed inside russia and so clearly is impossible for anybody actually from the outside to get into russia to get that sort of evidence that the u. K. Had the telling now obviously the germans say its not a shock its straight of the same playbook all the talk about a paneuropean response and russia call allow this to go on and has to explain itself its its a lot of angry words but theres not much to suggest that any of these western countries can do anything really about it. Russias Prime Minister meanwhile make than it is in federers meeting president Alexander Lukashenko who is of course faced weeks of protests there russia says it will send police to belarus if needed the demonstrators there accuse look at shankar of rigging last months election hes also scheduled to meet russias president Vladimir Putin in the coming weeks is all from Bernard Smith hes in neighboring lithuania on the significance of this meeting. Not a mere incentives Prime Minister to stand down to minsk to really seal the deal for moscow to make it clear that bottom if you sin is going to back. The now and that was never clear before in the run up to the president ial election in minutes on which the 9th shanker in fact used to said threats of russian interference in his countrys affairs if people didnt vote for him poll went to had claimed he won with 0. 08 that has now as we know brought tens of thousands of people out on the streets of men who reject that and many most western powers of also rejected that 80 percent result on the calling for a reelection putin has decided but who has decided to back lucas schenker previously there was no love lost between the 2 leaders but the payoff of putin may well be that where you once had an irritating and not very compliant neighbor to the south well now. Its a viable. Well update the headlines in a moment and then the cleanup after the Korean Peninsula sit tight 2nd typhoon in a week and tennis Novak Djokovic shows through to round 3 but catherine carried up this focus its been knocked out of the u. S. Open. Hello thats high 5 may sec of course continuing to move north now into the north and east of china its all this massive cloud you can see here but as it came onshore into south korea and then up into north korea it did of course have some torrential rains imbedded within it but also some very strong damaging winds these pictures coming out of the southeast of north korea on the coast and you can see the damage obviously that was done not only by the winds that will sit by those floodwaters now as we go through friday conditions creating quite nice to cross much of the Korean Peninsula rain pushing to the far north and east of china and of course were watching this this is typhoon high shann this will continue to strengthen in the next couple of days and by saturday were looking at winds sustained about 260 kilometers an hour gusting to about 300. 00 itll be gains have an impact on the islands the outer feeder bands and also those very strong winds if not more rain will were eventually push up into south korea and across much of western japan but really elsewhere throughout china its a fairly quiet picture then down across into south asia the rains have very well scaff says nothing particularly heavy there warnings in place from the india mess office and finally the rains they will become a little scattered throughout much of pakistan on friday still some rain around but not as heavy certainly throughout the weekend and as you can see heavy rains again across the south. But. Pandemic family comes 1st. For every American Healthcare has never been more important. Because the new disease does not favor republicans over democrats bridge over poor r block over white. America decides how to care for a nation. Extensive coverage of the us elections. On aljazeera. The top stories this hour on aljazeera u. S. President donald trump has suggested americans should vote twice in the Upcoming Elections as a way to avoid possible voter fraud which is illegal his spokeswoman though says he wasnt encouraging people to do anything that is against the law. The kremlin is rejecting accusations that russia is responsible for the poisoning of alexina valmy germany says it has an equivocal proof he was poisoned with another chocolate nerve agent he is being treated in berlin and russias Prime Minister mikhail is in belarus meeting president Alexander Lukashenko who has faced weeks of protests against his rule. Coronavirus news now and india has recorded the worlds biggest single day rise in new infections more than 83000 cases reported on wednesday which is the 3rd time this week the number is above 80000 the u. S. Held the previous single day record of 77 thousands thousands of Health Care Workers in south africa demanding more protection from covert 99 better pay a demonstration in pretoria was called on thursday by the countrys Biggest HealthWorkers Union it says p. P. A. Personal protective equipment is in short supply and hospital managers a failing to follow safety protocols south africa is africas hardest hit nation more than 630000 cases and over 14000 deaths here is a minute with more from pretoria. A few dozen protesters have gathered outside the Union Buildings here in pretoria thats the seat of government just outside the president s office and while it is a fairly small group because remember covert restrictions are still in place they cant be gatherings of more than 50 people they people here are vocal and these have also been very persistent complaints around the procurement of personal protective equipment equipment and hospitals and a lot of it revolves around alleged corruption weve spoken to a number of Health Workers who have said that there isnt enough p. P. In hospitals sometimes none of tool theyve also complained that the often theyve had to reuse and disinfect p. P. And theyre blaming corruption for this in that the companies that have supplied p. P. E. Often have connections a political connections are connected to the Ruling African National congress here in south africa and thats how theyve come by these contracts when in fact they arent actually capable of delivering the equipment thats needed and they say its for this reason that Health Workers are at risk at least 24000 Health Workers in south africa many of them nurses have contracted covert 19 and at least 250. 00 have died so far and this is what angers the protesters behind us they say that so the africans have sacrificed so much so far during the slump down and to add to that you now have a government that theyre accusing of being in ept and corrupt only worsening this Health Crisis in the country france has Just Announced a nearly 120000000000. 00 stimulus package to help ease the Economic Impact of the pentagon Prime Minister john key aspects presented the plan at a weekly Cabinet Meeting in paris. Has more from the french capital. Well france is very strict on a 2 month lockdown and the current a virus pandemic has meant that the French Economy is now in recession unemployment is rising so will the french government want to do of course is