fraud allegations involving president donald trump it follows the new york times reporting that he helped us parents of void paying taxes the newspaper says he set up a fake corporation with his siblings to hide millions of dollars in gifts from their parents from purportedly received at least four hundred thirteen million dollars from his father's real estate business the president's lawyer charles harder denied the claims while she had the chance he has more now from washington d.c. shihab so what more do we know about these allegations from the times and why is this so significant. because it goes to the heart for the trump self proclaimed origin story the new york times saying this is an origin myth donald trump said on the campaign trail during the presidential election he's a self-made man taking just a million dollar loan just a million dollar learned from his father and transforming it into billions of dollars and a huge property empire around the world the new york times saying no that's not true he was receiving money from a very early age by the age of three he was already earning two hundred thousand

dollars a year from his father's generosity by the age of eight he was a millionaire and then four hundred thirteen million all told was given to him by his father in today's in today's money the new york times pointing out that all they have to do is put that money they say in an index linked fund linked to the s. and p. five hundred and he'd be worth two billion dollars without having done anything right now so this goes to the heart of this idea that he is self-made he is always saying i did this myself with no help from anyone else and i can give that magic now to the united states with my fantastic deal making the second problem there is the illegality that is being alleged by the new york times the corporations the under-estimating of property portfolio all in order to cheat the i.r.s. and tax authorities from the money they rightfully own from inheritance and estate taxes and things like that don't trump's lawyer denying all the allegations but but clearly this is this is rather problematic at least from the point of view of further investigation his base probably won't be too bothered about this especially

since it's coming from the new york times shabby mention the illegality so could president trump be prosecuted over this. the statute of limitations for any criminal liability has gone these transactions all occurred in the ninety's but civil action could be taken so as you mentioned authorities in new york of open investigation we haven't heard anything from the i.r.s. the federal internal revenue service it has to be said there's been a concerted effort by republicans over the last ten years or so to completely defund the i.r.s. so they can go after rich people and allegations like this sort of thing so there are some questions whether they even have the resources for that beyond that the excitement in washington certainly as well if the democrats do very well in the event that perhaps they can start some congressional investigations with subpoena power the question some democrats are asking is well look i mean this is the sort of thing he did then well how do we know he's not doing this sort of thing now especially given that he's never given up his internal his income tax returns to anyone bucking the trend of presidential candidates for decades she had thank you now the washington post says one of its contributors

a prominent saudi journalist and vocal critic of the kingdom of saudi arabia is missing the newspaper says jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul to pick up paperwork the post says it doesn't being detained questioned or when he'll be released because his commentaries and criticism of the kingdom's crown prince mohammed bin sonne have been published by several western newspapers he fled saudi arabia just over a year ago. u.s. defense secretary james mattis is in paris meeting the french president and defense minister the pentagon says the visit is to thank france for military cooperation in africa and the middle east the future of syria is also being discussed u.s. and french troops both on the ground in the north a country that has more from paris. this is james mattis his first visit to france as the u.s. defense secretary he met the french president about all my hard behind closed doors and then later had this meeting with france's defense minister ross probably now to

really focus on counterterrorism issues matters praised france's efforts in what he called the fight against terrorism in africa's sorrow and in syria and iraq when it came to syria the french defense minister said that french forces would stay halt all of the u.s. led coalition in the region for as long as it would take. france has from the first day been part of the coalition against terrorism in syria and iraq and as has been indicated here today the work isn't over yet but france will stay for as long as it takes in syria and iraq in the months following the final defeat we will continue this creating security that prevents isis from returning but every step of the way the coalition is united behind the u.n. special envoy and this is definitely missed europe and the geneva process this is the truth lucian to the tragedy that we now think of when we call out the name

syria or james madison frost probably we'll have an opportunity to talk again on thursday they travel to brussels for a nato defense ministers meeting and the issue of u.s. allies defense spending and contributions to nato will certainly come up with that something which is very important of course to the u.s. president donald trump. at least twenty people have been killed and more than fifty injured in a suicide bomb attack on an election meeting in afghanistan a suicide bomber targeted supporters of a provincial council member in the province many of those killed are local elders the candidate targeted was previously spoken of increasing pressure on eyesore in the region. now suspected cases of cholera in the yemeni city of data have almost tripled this summer a report by save the children says there are more than thirteen hundred cases of cholera in august and that's up from fewer than five hundred suspected cases in june the port city is at the center of

a battle between the saudi and erotic coalition and the rebels people living there say fighting has damaged the city's water supply and hundreds of yemenis have been protesting in the southwestern city of tire yes' against the worsening economy and the rising price of basic goods the local currency the yemeni reality has gone into freefall in recent weeks has lost many harford's value against the u.s. dollar in the past year and is expected to sliding further and i know martin you know i mean you know we've the yemeni systems are suffering greatly as a result of the actions of the coalition and the failed government they have starved the entire population what wrong has the average citizen committed where the policies of the government where the central bank strategy where is yemen's financial policy they're all meant to starve the people why haven't they targeted corruption and the corrupt officials may god punish the government and king sound man leave us alone and leave our country and go away. and yeah that's kind of.

the yemeni rio's exchange rate is back where it was before twenty fourteen we demand a legitimate government by the return of already the economic conditions we're not backing down and we're not backing down any. yet i don't know how you know the coalition is radically changed course they entered our country in the first place on a humanitarian basis they have now taken a malicious turn starving the yemeni people and fueling the civil war enough is enough you must fear god make no mistake the yemeni people will not give up we will remain steadfast against the will of the coalition and all other sides. mexico is holding a ceremony it's a motley fiftieth anniversary of the massacre at least forty four students were killed when security forces fired on protesters days before the start of mexico's first olympic games in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight students were calling for the release of political prisoners well for decades mexican authorities denied responsibility for the killings but last week the government recognize the state

was behind the massacre john holdren joins us live now from mexico city where ceremonies are taking place john so this strategy happened fifty years ago but how is it being remembered today. which you can see behind me the mexican flag is a tough loss and we just come from a march which there were thousands of people they just starting to arrive at the central square in mexico city now for a meeting to decide to remember what happened on that day and nine hundred sixty eight this is something that really has been steered into the collective memory in mexico firstly because it was really the first time that the then dorotea regime in mexico had been denied on such a scale and the cost of guard that was really amends for the state of protesters as you mentioned some of them were killed in the square by snipers and we are many many others who were then thrown into prison where they suffered trash or any other reason that this is so relevant still to match thirty days that some of the closest

students were fighting until democracy and freedom of speech have largely come to pass others sex is an ancient unity that the more justice and more transparent see a still the things that makes kerry struggling with today as you hear from one of the survivors in our tool here. it was a night that traumatized mexico exactly fifty years ago mainly student protesters gathered in talk to local square to challenge a north or a terry murray then the unthinkable the army truck the. and snipers mowed them down it's marked the country ever since felix hernandez was there. but the. young both there were clothes and shoes drawn about bodies lying there we didn't know if they were dead or wounded shortly after army trucks came to take them away and clean up with high pressure hoses. now when the half century anniversary of the

massacre the government has admitted for the first time the what happened. was a state crime. but the this document explicitly recognizes the victims were attacked slandered some killed others disappeared detained and tortured. it's a big admission successive administrations have hidden the truth about what the local despite over time the massacre has see it itself into the country's conscience just to put it into perspective it's not the little cory's about as important in mexico as tiananmen square in china it marked the point when the all powerful pre-partition which room its code for much of the twentieth century was defied as never before and then the party's reaction to that defiance it also mark the point in which many mexicans with before had seen the party as a benevolent dictatorship instead started to view it as

a violent tyranny but this event explodes the protest movement so the seeds for mexico's eventual transition to democracy it gives some sense to his personal sacrifice we that they need lucky and they've set a peaceful i was arrested in the building next to the square and spent almost three years in jail here many friends of mine died while there is welded and others disappeared for i don't need it's a very painful story. the country has new problems now record levels of violence tens of thousands of disappeared some of the old ones also remain impunity and corruption. leaks sample of the students of cloth a little coke continues to inspire those demanding change and again lifted them us we owe them for joining together for their bravery in confronting the government and demanding answers in it so it's a hard one legacy that continues to resonate fifty years old. because the

memory is about the end of what happened fifty years ago as a ready made people for a show the recent years because another student tragedy happened four years ago three students were taken by police in conjunction with a gang and they were never seen alive again so this is something really. it's really poor back to the memory to a secret thing yet although she did seem to talk a little cold just this morning the president elect congressmen to a local brigade came to the square with a truck to local students but some of the money down and here from a freshman so some people see protests weren't going to happen under his government he takes car in december so she didn't so many others in the country will be trying to hold him she got from the star and by john heilemann then mexico city john thank you. now one of america's largest employers is raising pay for its workers there and in the united kingdom online retail giant amazon will pay stop at least fifteen

dollars an hour for the next month the company has been criticized for underpaying workers in the past particle hang reports. america has a problem the divide between those with the least and those with the most is growing and the gap is just getting wider the economy is doing well but wages are not rising that statistic might soon see a bump one of america's largest employers amazon has announced that everyone who helped send these smiley boxes around the country will soon be paid more at a minimum fifteen dollars an hour more than double the national minimum wage it's not cheap it's going to cost them a billion dollars i think per year it's not that they're able to raise prices or pass it through to customers this is something their shareholders are going to fund but i think that a lot of amazon shareholders think this is the right thing to do that's what amazon said was behind the move it was the right thing to do but it's also facing a lot of criticism in large part because of its founder jeff bezos he is the

richest man in the world worth one hundred sixty five billion dollars breaking that down he makes about two hundred seventy five million dollars each and every day and amazon is hugely profitable in the second quarter of this year it had a profit of two point five billion dollars so we can afford the raises i was low unemployment it might have to pay more to get enough workers to move their merchandise still the raise is being praised by amazon's toughest critics what mr bezos today has done is not only enormously important for amazon's hundreds of thousands of employees it could well be and i think it will be a shot heard around the world not every economist things pay workers more will actually help decrease income inequality on the one hand yes workers and amazon

will benefit from this this increase in basic pay but in the longer than is exactly the type of company which we don't match and would invest in autumn. nation i would be much more difficult for other companies traditional retailers to match this kind of offer america can often seem like two different countries divided between the haves and have nots economists will be watching to see if amazon's move does anything to heal the divide. al-jazeera washington. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back brags that the bars jonson away the u.k.'s former foreign secretary steals the spotlight the ruling party the new conference. brazil's security forces get tough on gang violence in rio slums. moderates. and in sports the penalty kick the movie rain and champions a step closer to the asian champions league final more than stay with us.

we got a chance to some flooding rains into the southwestern corner of the u.s. here we have but it's now tropical depression arise a. california into arizona as you go on through the coming hours it will push further north with some wet weather coming into utah colorado even pushing up towards the southern parts of wyoming as we go on into the middle part of the way the base machine i was there for nevada southern areas of california as well rather more widespread showers as we go through thursday and that could lead to flooding of course this is a desert region after all what it says showers across the central plains pushing up towards the lakes pushing into these to sort of kind of then the game could see some flooding into ontario and maybe also into a good part of quick back as we go on through thursday for some of the heat thirty one celsius the forty's say that's about five or six degrees warmer than it should

be at this time of the year meanwhile into the caribbean lloyd the shower was just making their way into central and western parts of the. and again we could see some showers leading to flooding here really have you rank close to jamaica it stays there as we go on into thursday whether to into panama be corralled here in costa rica or also in the mix here but it's fine for the east nolens.

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warning that time was running out find survivors of friday's earthquake and tsunami on some away. for days out of the disaster more than twelve hundred people have been confirmed dead low speeds in the city of. iraq's parliament has chosen the kurdish politician but i'm solid as the country's new president of the shia. scene on the left to be his prime minister and form a government the hope is that is the end the political deadlock in the disputed elections in may. a new york state is investigating allegations u.s. president donald trump helped his parents avoid paying tax the new york times newspaper says trump and his siblings set up a fake company to hide millions of dollars in gifts from their parents. now the u.k.'s former foreign secretary boss johnson is urging the government to abandon its current brags that plan and get out properly from the european union his speech on the sidelines of the annual gathering of the ruling conservative party was seen by many as a direct challenge to the authority of prime minister to resign may all but in

reports from birmingham. the queue outside a whole number one began forming more than two hours early some have doubts about boris johnson's political future others see him as a potential prime minister. there's no doubt he can draw a crowd like no other in the current conservative party and it was his defiant rejection of the prime minister's checkers plan for brics it which most excited his loyal audience think what we could do if we had proper free trade deals and that is why it is so sad and so desperately wrong that we are preparing to agree terms with brussels that would make it much more difficult if not impossible to do such deals. and that's why it was such a mistake of us two is such a mistake of us to lead the to leave only the checkers times locked in the truck to be it was very strong says the rock star of this thank you for your bank's

attracting the audience is very steady very was appearance here i don't mind just how divisive a character thousands just how deep the struggle for practice within this party i choose days flagship policy statements on immigration and visa reform a total eclipse by bosses appearance and his totec status among bricks its supporters continuously undermines the prime minister with a crucial e.u. summit just a couple of weeks away yes police officer they and there is some undermining of the pm but i think morris is absolutely pushing for what we made and i think at the moment the conservative party teammate somebody with a little bit more tests now that's a really pushing forward some of the key issues and i think boris is actually the person today that he raises some very good points he's his heart's in the right place he's trying to challenge what's being done there always are doing it some of us agree with him so it was down to very very most people actually think that what

has become the of the annual boa show the iran issue a day he makes a funny speech and then goes again we're trailed along with it by the world's media actually it's a bit of a distraction one of boris johnson's aides predicted he would hit this conference like a ninja but this was more smash and grab and stealth attack paul brennan al-jazeera birmingham. the mayor of an italian town who welcomed refugees has been placed under house arrest for aiding illegal immigration. who's known by his nickname of me more was arrested as part of a government investigation prosecutors accuse him of arranging marriages to allow migrants to stay in italy o'connor's small town of fifteen hundred people has taken in five hundred refugees a mole to court has postponed the trial of a ship's captain who rescues refugees in the mediterranean sea is ship the m.v. lifeline is one of three vessels run by ngo's which are being held in port all of

the sponsored rescue ships in the mediterranean have been stopped from operating well two boats have been detained on malta a tiny island state of the african coast which is the smallest member of the european union it's received nineteen thousand people since two thousand and two almost all were rescued at sea the numbers of those attempting to cross a fallen since the ngo ships were barred from operating but official figures make clear the result the u.n. says seven hundred migrants have died at sea since the beginning of twenty eighteen may bug reports from all this capital letter the lifeline is in limbo. the refugee rescue ships been impounded here for one hundred days the volunteer crews played a vital role in saving thousands of lives but the maltese all thought he ses being carrying out missions without a proper license there is simply no independent minds for magnussen long central mediterranean route specially bear witness to how many people are drowning. the

ships german captain was in court on choose day he faces a possible prison sentence proceedings were adjourned to december this case is all about the maltese government wanting to send a european message to n.g.o.s don't think if you see because they're not welcome and so they're picking on a legal technicality to send abroad a political message with the support of the opinion makes me very angry. if this is europe. i had another impression from europe before but. just to beat wars and not to work on the reasons why the people escaped from their homes this wrong way the lifelines not the only private aid ship impounded in baltar this is the sea watch the crew say they're being held in arbitrary detention . when lives are at risk on sunday the multi-source fifty

eight people ashore including eighteen children and a pregnant woman they were transferred from another rescue ship the aquarius also no longer allowed to operate it's been stripped of its license and ordered to the french port of marsay there are now no more private rescue ships operating in the area used for crossings from libya to europe smugglers are setting off from the coast of libya in increasingly flimsy vessels packed full of people often setting sail without any intention of making it to shore hoping that they'll be picked up by boat sight these but now there are fewer and fewer vessels on the water able and willing to save lives rafique islam was rescued from the mediterranean by the maltese coast guard the end of a two and a half year journey from bangladesh via libya and you saw these people die. one day and now board and on parts on dumping in water two fellow travelers died on

route it's a journey many are willing to risk everything for for the promise of very little. their very survival hangs on help that may not. leave barca al-jazeera malta well neil thousand who you saw in that report is a defense lawyer a captain and director of human rights for the auditors foundation he says those rescue boats save lives i think the drive. to rescue. is the idea that there's. not. the only way for them to reach european shores it with safety is by being disputed them essentially so these actions and i only on their own initiative sense founded funded by the general public who want this you've got these big being given the opportunity to reach you you're in a safe manner and not having to diet sleep let's trying to make. it work you say is that whether or not n.g.o.s out that's us we are migrants people will continue

leaving war zones people will continue sleep as acute and they will do their best to reach a place of safety what indios of doing out at sea and making sure that people don't die as they attempt to save them so what they're actually doing is not encouraging people to leave but to simply making sure they don't die as they try to reach safety schools and medical centers run by the un in gaza have closed their doors for a two day strike work as a job cuts the organization is asking international donors to fill a multi-million dollar funding gap its biggest contributor the u.s. announcing over it would stop making donations. more than sixty thousand people died as a result of violent crimes and twenty seventeen breaking brazils on record for the highest number of murders in one year one of the main reasons is fighting between rival drug gangs which has led to a surge in killings by innocent as reports from rio de janeiro. another

military operation in the streets of rio this is what poor brazilians in hundreds of slums or favelas are going through day here day out. to see another genius is they're living in fear. that i need to check of their any shootouts before i leave my home sometimes i'm not able to go to work and the kids can't go to school it's not safe. thousands of soldiers and military police to break up organized crimes control of the favelas since the military intervention started in february more than eight hundred people have been killed in confrontations with security forces the military has been doing operations in favelas like this one for six months but human rights organizations say there have been changes but for the worse the number of shootings have increased by at least forty percent in danger and civilians. even brazilians who

live in protected compounds are afraid. are ready to move to portugal with their fifteen month old daughter a morning just interview would mean a fish i have seen robberies shootings things are situations that i don't need to go through we live in a garden area but i don't want to live in this golden cage. the justice ministry says twenty one thousand left the country last year because of the violence. seventeen of brazil's major cities are among the most dangerous in the world experts say the government is staking the wrong approach. that augurs ill chooses to combat the drug trade with general repression and not by investigating the criminal organizations to track the money and the weapons. the violence has been growing since the economic crisis hit the country four years ago as a result sixty six percent of brazilians favor security operations but some say civilians in the slums are getting the wrong message to. get if you position

a tank in front of the favela and send in thousands of soldiers you are saying you are the enemy whether they are supporter not we think this is illegal it is wrong and immoral. critics say military operations have always been unsuccessful but until a new president takes office in january they will continue and poor brazilians will have to live in the crossfire unable to leave. a russian prisoner who was filmed being tortured by god has been released you have been held at a prison three hundred kilometers north of moscow in july video was leaked of him being beaten by these gods last year. thank you very much for your support if you can about what is happening in the system and the slave system that you and i say they have created their own slave state where people have no rights whatsoever where people are being tortured all

the time yes. actually a lot of the people featured in the video is still free and we don't know what measures have been taken against them i don't know if they're still working there but they've simply disappeared and they're still free. this year's nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists the american author ashkan frenchman jeff. strickland of canada can create what's called an optical tweens a which allows scientists to better examine molecules and measure for since maru and strickland developed a better way to design lasers to allow them to alter matter including improving eyesight if you. had good luck of having very good students who had one student her name was donna strickland with whom we were able to carry out this work and i always tell the story because these funny when i told them on a day if the laser she said to me that is simple that he's not

a subject for a thesis it is a subject for a nobel prize people. can say is that i'm overwhelmed really i will tell you that over the years because this is for work on a long long time ago. somebody did comment actually somebody from the nobel prize think they think it's the first time ever that someone got it for their very first paper. that over the years when i've met people they have said you know i haven't got that nobel prize yet but i always thought they were kidding with me so i didn't ever think that but the c.p.a. would merit that. yes they will obviously it's a real thrill and i'm looking forward to talking to your art about it now for more than a century they've been home to people who would otherwise be homeless but now more and more cheap single room hotels in the u.s. cities are being redeveloped for wealthier clients john hendren reports from chicago. for many this is the difference between home and homelessness have been this place it gave me a broad vision only the room is about the size of the prison cell ernest roberts

once occupied but for less than five hundred dollars this diminutive dome is sile his home they make him productive citizens out of people and there was a call was this place it put a lot of people back on our own street back doing karma back doing jewel back doing a lot of negative things across the united states homes like this are disappearing in one nine hundred fifteen chicago had thirty seven hundred single room occupancy hotels like this one spartan space at bargain prices with a bathroom down the hall there are now just sixty left although the number of as heroes has the client and the need for it has actually increase because the number of homeless and the number of poor people needing s.r.o. housing is grant rapidly increasing chicago passed an ordinance to protect.