from iran to override a congregational ban on weapons sales and thirdly this still intense and gain congress at the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi and the steadfast refusal of president trump to hold the saudi leadership accountable but even if or when the president vetoes the latest round of legislation there will be more to come in particular a bull demanding a report from the u.s. intelligence community about the call shoji murder that has been included in the house version of the defense authorization bill 2020 that was passed by a resoundingly vote of 405 to 7 mike hanna al-jazeera washington. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back. police in the philippines put out their figures and how many have died in the war on drugs but not everyone is convinced more on that stay with us.

hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well here across north asia we are following the tropical storm dennis as it makes its way towards the north you can see the storm system right here on our friday map very heavy rain across the vehicle islands now this is the the strongest the storm is going to be at this level we're not going to be seeing a cycle own or a hurricane equivalent but we are going to be seeing plenty of rain coming out of the system as it makes its way towards the north so what we do expect to see here on saturday well the the air of low pressure is going to start to weaken but still for the southern part of south korea along the south shore expect to see anywhere over $300.00 millimeters of rain over the next 3 days so localized flooding could be a major problem there the rain will also affect parts of japan with osaka rain in your forecast at $28.00 in tokyo you also see the rain at $29.00 degrees well as we go over here towards parts of china the rain continues across much of the area over the next few days we're going to be seeing some heavy rain across much of the south

a few areas to the east are going to be quite clear so for joe i expect to see some of the sun in your forecast at about $36.00 degrees there and as we go towards saturday hong kong is going to be seeing some very heavy rain as well to the north though rain across much of the region but for shanghai it is going to be off and on showers deal with a temperature of $33.00 degrees. the story goes that the statue of an ancient greek god he beat the waves for millenia. until a palestinian fisherman of the priceless relic. the story continues but as the world's attention was drawn to cross mysteriously the data to disappear once again. the apollo of ca's. on a. welcome

back it took him out of our top stories at this hour iran state t.v. says revolutionary guards have seized a foreign tank and its crude lead to be smuggling oil in the gulf the target was reportedly taken just south of the rock island in the strait of hormuz which is a crucial shipping channel. turkey has called the u.s. position just spend it from the f. $35.00 fighter jet program unfair saying it will harm their relations washington acted up to turkey accepted the delivery of russia's a $400.00 at defense system. and the body of the turkish diplomat shot dead in the northern iraqi city of at a bill on wednesday is being taken have begun to iraqi kurdish civilians were

killed in an attack at a restaurant. now i suspected of an animation studio in japan has left at least 25 people dead more than 70 were believed to have been in the building when the fire broke out in the middle of the morning in the city of kioto the national broadcaster and each case as a man was arrested after reportedly poor. setting as a light prime minister has described the fire as 2 appalling words. for u.s. president to step forward democratic congresswoman of one addressing supporters in north carolina. since his racist tweets in which he told before to go home a white house correspondent kimberly i'll get reports from greene the historic greenville north carolina is a southern town with a diverse economy centered around health care and education so it's not surprising there are many here unhappy with their president's tweets targeting 4 female

congress women of color saying if they don't like the united states they can leave i think he's way since i think he's massaging a stick i think he's just i think that anyone who does not look like him is someone who does not respect he is so centered on himself. that no one can criticize him for an idea that he has or an idea that he thinks he has. without him reacting over reacting and making it personal. and that's not how you bring people together. no matter how distasteful many believe donald trump might be across town at his 1st campaign rally since announcing his re-election bid trump defended his attacks on the for congresswoman and launch new attacks on congresswoman. she looks down with contempt on the hard working americans saying that ignorance is pervasive in many parts of this country. only

has a history of launching this year's. magic story. omar responded on twitter to the crowd chanting center back with a poem from american civil rights activist maya angelo still as trump addressed supporters he insisted he's helped communities of color by lowering unemployment and also hailed a failed vote in the house of representatives to impeach him as a victory and they want to try and impeach it's a disgrace. polls show a majority of us voters see trump's twitter attacks on the congresswoman as un-american but polls also show most conservatives support the president's controversial statements so expect trump to employ more not less race baiting in his reelection campaign as he vilifies the female democratic lawmakers many now call the squad terms tactic of labeling

a group of female congress women is vicious socialist the left wing cranks appears to be part of a broader strategy designed to use american pride to not only hold on to a base of support but also win new voters can really help get al jazeera greenville north carolina the un special rapporteur on human rights and me in law says her team is not getting access to what's happening on the ground as more violence is being reported in rakhine state young he says villages have been burnt down in recent days and she's been prevented from gathering information the question is. did the government of impose the internet back to inflict more harm on the people living in rakhine. the internet blackout has also prevented individuals wanting to engage with me from being able to make contact. it is

challenging to get information on what is happening on the ground under these circumstances but i have been told that 3 villages in rakhine have been burned down by the time i go in the last 2 weeks and we also accuse leaders there of diplomatic maneuvering aimed at obstructing her investigations in other countries it is of great concern to me that myanmar peers to be increasing pressure and engaging the governments of neighboring countries in its efforts to violate rights and avoid scrutiny this includes obstructing me in carrying out my mandate while i was in thailand i had to abort part of my visit due to interference this is very serious and not to be taken lightly. and in the last hour international criminal court delegation visiting bangladesh to discuss the rigging the crisis has held a press conference in dhaka tumblr charging joins us live from there now tell us

what the i.c.c. delegation been saying during that press conference. well daryn not too much has been revealed actually the key points i should spell out is that they made sure that this is a very much a trait that made the stakeholders they will discuss discuss the judicial process they will go to the camp and made the rowing guys but then he had to engage in collecting evidence are you know document doing anyway and this is their main job is to tell them that due process of the judicial thing and also to sign an m.o.b.o. with the government in a question asking that is that i am will you sign james to outside no how long will it take it's going to take some time he doesn't know when they have to talk about issues like diplomatic immunity witness protection program and so forth and in

court and revelation was that. victims and the witnesses has to support that document an avid and by top board 28. that is a critical information i thing also he said that the prosecutor. bensouda she has requested the jobs to start the. investigation process that is still pending but she say in our report that they have enough evidence that's been collected and they can start this investigation process so we're still pending on the judges. before the actual investigation stops. whether they'll be more press releases on this or a briefing they said that during the process of inquiry they're not going to actually reveal anything to press 3 charges that witness documentation and their name etc but they will have some great things on the process the judicial process so it's still a long process they'll be visiting the camp tomorrow they have to have 22nd.

military a security official u.n. agency people all the stakeholders to charcot the whole thing and they will explain the whole process to them so basically in nutshell this is all we got out of this press conference not took too much to reveal time thank you. well the about an outbreak in the eastern democratic republic of congo was valid public health emergency of international concern but announcement by the world health organization was made just days after the virus spread to the city of goma that's a major regional hub on the border with rolonda a bonus plan that the 1600 lives in the region in the past year reports from the kenyan capital nairobi. after hours of deliberations by the imagine sea committee of the world health organization over the status of a born in the democratic republic of congo members have decided it requires a vigorous international response there is concern about them from.

getting way. too far in their cases were infected in the city. to release these appointments that there has been a recurrence of the tense transmission in beneath so that the geographic call a pension. plan. forward for. the meeting was called off top preacher where travel to the temple about 200 kilometers north of the city of goma to pray for the sick tested positive on his arrival back he died this week. at the border between goma and rhonda health workers taking no chances rhonda has already told citizens to avoid traveling to go . the w.h.o. . warned against closing borders and restricting trade. government officials

say many of those who came in contact with the preacher have been vaccinated and it's unlikely will spread farther but are still consigns is a key city. i can't afford to be afraid because if i'm scared of carrying someone i'll get no clients that means no money so. what will we do now children because of this i'm very watered. more than a 1000000 people leave and sitting at the tip of lake it's easy to travel to other countries in the region as well as other parts of the. vaccinations in affected areas have intensified this is bennie in north kivu province where there is concern that more people are getting sick there's also concern about the disease spreading to uganda health workers in southwest uganda vaccinating people who could come in contact with the congresswoman who visited the pongo market to trade

a few days ago she died of a bolo as she returned home the government says she did not cross a formal border point been screened this is the same region where a child tested positive for a bowler last month after his mother took him back to d'arcy to bury his father the child and later died adding to a death toll of more than 1600 in the past. catherine saw al-jazeera. police in the philippines have given what they call the real numbers in the government's war on drugs they say that between july 26th of april this year more than 5000 people were killed but human rights organizations say that number is closer 227000 president rigaud to ted had launched a campaign 3 years ago. it's from amnesty international in the philippines he says the police figures well let me put more pressure on the government amnesty international and together with our partners as well locally and internationally

we're very happy with the results of course. it's not as strong as you would like it to be but at the end of the day it's the 1st step that we need. hopefully a justice and some sort of establishing the reality in the facts in the philippines because as far as we're concerned this government hasn't done anything to really address you know the situation in the philippines i mean regardless of the numbers being presented whether it's 542526600 with additional more than $32800.00 votes again at the end of the day that's too many deaths that is still many vets and i don't see any reason why this government should be pushed and should be made to realize that. it's a long time coming you know making people laugh out of all refugee who fled violence in his native ivory coast and made his way to france performing

a play about his experiences of the avenue a theater festival. a haunting song of survival. cannot say uses music to tell the story of a young refugee called yacoob and his terrifying journey from i freak to france but the play is not fiction it's based on cannot taste life. the country wasn't safe there was war so young yack you had to flee to save himself. cannot he was a student when violence forced him to flee his town he went north crossed borders and spent time in a refugee camp in tunisia before being sold into slavery in libya and imprisoned underground is on his own time in the bowels of libya music kept me alive i saw my fellow prisoners sinking depressed and all i thought about was singing so i sang in

the cells music allowed me to stay alive. cannot he says the plays helped him come to terms with his past and he hopes it will help people understand refugees. exile is one of the main themes of this year's avignon theater festival the southern french city is hosting nearly 2000 defense this exhibition shows the work of rescue ships in the mediterranean sea several performances at the festival focus on how conflict violence and poverty forced people to leave their homes for one play calls a different light on refugees by showing how some people risk their lives and embark on dangerous journey for reasons that are unexpected. in the play gibraltar a young man's strained relationship with his father and dreams of a more exciting life drive him to leave booking a fuss and for europe joke ok good thank you for the performance of part 2 sometimes we don't know the full story of why people leave it's not always because

of war but their desire to discover other things can lead them into terrible situations we have to understand that. we're going to be a migration will continue it's one of the big stories of. the performances in avignon on the subject of refugees are all different but there's a coleman purpose to tell stories of in defeat jewels and the force if human resilience in the face of unimaginable adversity natasha al-jazeera from its. time for a quick check of the headlines here iran's state t.v. says revolutionary guards have seized a foreign tongue around its crew believed to be smuggling oil in the gulf the tango was reportedly taken just south of iraq and in the strait of hormuz which is a crucial shipping channel dosage barry has the latest now from. this tanker was

initially. rescued by the revolutionary guard at him near the island in the strait of hormuz on sunday after it's on par with the no we would say that they came to aid to help with that which of carrying a 1000000. fuel and then the 3rd one they would call it into the rock island in the strait of hormuz they understood that it was actually mother when the oil so that's when we see that there were 12 crew members on board we do not have any more information about the ship belongs to which government or where it was coming from or where we're traveling turkey has called a u.s. decision to suspend it from the f. 35 fighter jet program unfed saying it will harm their relations washington except the delivery of russia's s 400 defense system. the body of the turkish diplomat

shot dead in a bill on wednesday is being taken back home to iraqi kurdish civilians were killed in the attack at a restaurant. un special rapporteur on human rights in maine ma says the team's not getting access to what's happening on the ground as more violence is being reported in rakhine state young he says going to have been burnt down and she's been prevented from gathering information i suspect an awesome attack of an animation studio in japan has left at least 25 people dead more than 70 were believed to have been in the building when the fire broke out mid-morning in the city of kioto national broadcaster n h k says one that has been arrested former pakistani prime minister shahid abbassi has been arrested in connection with a corruption scandal he was taken into custody over a deal involving the purchase of liquefied natural gas from qatar during his time as energy minister vasant denies the allegations. so

those were the headlights the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story of so much of life enough. racist that's how the u.s. house of representatives has described the president all times comments about for congress one but as he remains defiant what does that mean for race and ethnicity in the u.s. and for next year's presidential election this is inside story. hello

and welcome to the program i'm mr. president donald trump's comments about 4 congress women are racist and strongly condemned that's the conclusion of the u.s. house of representatives which pasta resolution to rebuke the president it was backed by $240.00 votes to 100 $87.00 but with only 4 republicans giving their support trump has launched a series of attacks on the congress women of color known as the squad telling them to go back to the crime infested places from which they came the politicians alexandra cortez ayana president. born in the u.s. and it came as a refugee aged 12 the remarks have been widely denounced mainly by democrats who have renewed calls to norwich and pietschmann the proceedings against trump these comments from the white house are disgraceful and disgusting and the experiments are racist how shameful to hear him continue to defend those offensive words words

that we have all heard him repeat not only about our members but about countless others. well the vast majority of republicans have failed to condemn tom's comments i wonder if when we are tempted to accuse our sister or brother or fellow american political foe or even this madam speaker of racism by the way i do not believe the president is a racist i do not believe the speaker of the house is right so i do not believe the majority leader's race is undeniably the minority leader's race that we can go down as one i do not believe that and while we insist on using this floor to litigate the propriety of statements made outside these walls we assign a lot of work into it to a lot of tweets and despite the widespread criticism of his comments trump has refused to back down and continues to tell the congress when they can leave america they should love our country they shouldn't hate our country you look at what they've said i i have clips raised here the most vile horrible statements about our

country about israel about others. it's up to them to do what they want they can believe they can stay but they should love our country and they should work for the good of our country. well let's bring in our guests now in washington d.c. we have rhenish she is a republican strategist and consultant in fort lauderdale florida we have christopher metzler he's a conservative commentator and author of the book divided we stand the search for america's soul and in san francisco we have christine pelosi she is a democratic strategist and the daughter of the house speaker nancy pelosi welcome to you all right to start with i do want to read you all a subsequent tweet from donald trump after the initial tweets that we had he says those tweets were not racist i don't have a racist bone in my body christopher you're a staunch supporter of the president where the president's initial comments racist

. there in my view the president's comments were not roses at all here and fox was expressing an opinion that is held by many people the difference is he says what he has to say it is not politically incorrect about it i don't see the racial angle here on this tweet i'm christopher i do want to ask you about that because you're saying that he's saying that other people and said same the similar views and therefore it's not racist but surely other people could also have racist views or just saying that he's speaking on behalf of lots of people doesn't make his tweets not racist. well in fact the president look in my experience i have no reason to believe that the president of the united states is a racist in fact even as soon as he came down the escalator and before people of all ways hammered this notion that oh he's a racist he's a racist ok so if america were to label him

a racist clearly as the house just did in its resolution then one you know what we should be talking about is we should be talking about the lives of all americans the president is a patriot he continues to be a patriot and this notion that his tweets were racist just simply don't make any sense and the notion of you know people saying well go back he said go back or you came from i don't believe he said that at all and in fact i am an immigrant to limber legal immigrant to this country and this notion of go back to where you came from didn't come across to me at all in this message ok as i wanted that tweet verbatim christopher he said it's so interesting to see a progressive democrat congresswoman who originally came from countries his governments are a complete and total catastrophe of the west my scripts and i'll stop there but he

did say that they originally came from other countries but 3 of them were born in the united states and at this point i want to read and so rana shah because i believe raina you're no stranger to these sentiments yourself not at all and i've been a lifelong republican long before this president was and i'll tell you in 2016 when i was one of the 1st public republicans to speak out against him i was in the elected delegate to the republican national convention and i was on fox news and i said that i had trouble supporting this candidate and was not sure if i would vote for him in the general election afterwards i received all kinds of vitriol from a seemingly across the country. in the form of voice mails text messages e-mails telling me to go back to my country verbatim mistakenly calling me a muslim going for me and saying that i was not a real republican a lot of these people identified themselves as some trump supporters and it's been documented this wasn't black and white given to me i was basically attacked for just speaking my mind exercising my 1st amendment right and i understand the

president of the united states has that right as well but what he said in those tweets on sunday and subsequently has proven exactly who he is he's told us who he is now we've already know that he peddles in hate and rhetoric that is divisive however after this if you flip the script it's very easy to see this was textbook racism his supporters say that this was not his intense intent sorry to be racist however it's hard to see anything different because when you question how american someone is to tell them to go back to their place of origin simply based on the color of their skin that is the definition the appear to me of racism and of this one i want to bring in christine because we had your mother denounced those tweets as racist on the house floor i'm guessing you agree with her. absolutely and let's be clear about 2 things 1st of all when donald trump 1st appeared on the scene he and his father were being sued by the government for refusing to rent to black

people when he came down into the public domain he was he was making a judgment about the central fark 5 the exonerated 55 black teenagers who is it turns out did not rape and beat a jogger in new york city calling for the death penalty he never apologized to that when he ran for president coming down that escalator he talked about. all sorts of ethnic groups and attacked them one by one so the tweet was donnelly textbook racism but literally textbook if you look at the e.e.o.c. definition the equal employment opportunity commission definition of what is workplace racism one of the lines and examples they use is when people say go back to your own country so as rena points out people have been bullied by that not just people speaking out on television not just these 4 congress women but every day people my stepson's latino in in our world are trying to raise an equality

generation with my stepson and my daughter you know their friends their communities their public school classmates see this happen to them and see these conversations happen so when you're the president of the united states your words carry the most weight of anyone on the entire planet that is why yesterday when the house of representatives voted to condemn the racist comments they were invoking the words of republican icon ronald reagan who in his farewell speech to the nation talked about the fact that we have to continue to keep america open to immigrants and also that anyone from all over the world when they come to america can become. as american as people who were born here and just on a final note we have to really move past the racist comments and. and into the racist policies the house tomorrow is going to vote to raise the minimum wage a federal minimum wage for the 1st time in over 10 years closing the racial wealth

gap by doing that and pushing that example out to big companies like mcdonald's to say give your workers a wage so it's not just about the comments and the hate crimes that they inspire it's also about the racist policies that we need to dismantle and on that i would hope we could have some common ground christopher i say vigorously shaking your head that so let me ask you about one of the things that christine just said which was that it wasn't about necessarily what was said not just about what was said but who was saying it and that it was coming from the highest office in the land and what would you say to that ok. you know again we're going in circles here in my for my standpoint from my experience i don't see the race issue number one number 2 if we're going to talk about what's going on and who said what it was a couple of days ago that a oversees said that in fact speaker pelosi is racists.

so we've got that going on and let me go to the minimum wage question raising the minimum wage yes she did she said they were targeting and to go back to your textbook definition. she said that in fact the speaker was targeting women of color if that is not racist then i don't know what is. and as it relates to the minimum wage issue or you're going to raise the federal minimum wage ok if that's what you want to do look at the amount of people that's going to put out of jobs and so if democrats are happy with doing audio enters out how a phony a girly study said absolutely none. and i want to tell you i know it all well done i think. that you'll let me know when emotional then i want him out of guys i'm

going to ask reno to come enhanced her and i'm watching you get quite emotional rain and i'm going to ask you what the source of that yes i'm really sorry you know i just didn't think i would get this passionate about it i've been talking about this for 3 days and i'm a young woman of color somebody who was born in southern west virginia i was born to immigrants from uganda and india and my parents were incredibly successful productive members of society american society they gave job they've created hundreds of jobs they have never taught me to look at the color of someone's skin and judge their american is based off of that the fact that mr metzler does not see the president's words to be a problem since when did we start to disagree about president united states using proper words i have a child in preschool i do teach my child to not name call to not judge people based on the color of their skin i am thankful i am not a white house adviser i would not want to work in this white house i was never offered a job there nor would i ever seek one out but let me tell you this if i was advising this president i would have said stay out of this.