health insurance for their work in exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet there may be a bright side people who look down on them as a skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus and receive messages on the out saying that we are you know so i was a nurse back or what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. oh all the way to. a commander in chief under fire donald trump denies claims he mocks america's war dead. and how much he'd seen and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a diplomatic win of sorts for donald trump after days of talks in washington serbia and kosovo would agree to normalize economic ties. the.

paying tribute in a city still in north a month on from huge blast tore through beirut's. at a boycott for moulin pro-democracy activists call on moviegoers to stay away from disney's latest release. donald trump has labeled alleged comments he made on war veterans as a disgrace and a hoax suckers and losers are among the terms the president has allegedly called america's war days according to an article in the atlantic magazine with less than 60 days to go until the election it's become the focus of both democrats and republican campaigns as equal hate has more. the u.s. military and veterans are a big part of. u.s.

president donald trump's base he needs their support and now that could be much more of a challenge for those who believe the allegations that on this visit to france and 2018 the president was supposed to visit a cemetery where more than 2000 american soldiers are buried he didn't go blaming the weather but according to the report in the atlantic he skipped it concerned about what the rain would do to his hair and he reportedly said why should i go to that cemetery it's filled with losers the story claims he then called the marines buried their suckers and that he didn't want wounded troops to take part in military parades saying nobody wants to see that it also says on this visit to arlington national cemetery with his then homeland security secretary who son was buried there after being killed in action the president reportedly said i don't get it what was in it for them trump is denying the allegations and it was a totally fake story and that was confirmed by many people who were actually there

it was a terrible thing that somebody could say that kind of thing but that denial is being met with skepticism because of the president's past comments like this one about senator john mccain but you know the last side of it like that was what you have to that because i don't like you i thought but right frank let me get up he hit me is that a war hero or hero is a war in iraq after years he's a warrior i presume was captured by like people that weren't captured ok i hate to say the biden campaign was quick to make this an issue really seen this ad. the former vice president called the allegations if true disgusting my son volunteered to join the united states military as you turn the general want to rapture year one the bronze star and other commendations he wasn't a sucker servicemen and women he served with particularly those did not come home were not lose. reaction was also swift on social media this from

a retired general we met with the chairman of the joint chiefs general dunford his comment was such a smart guy why is he in the military and from a veterans organization opposed to trump my message to donald trump is that you have no right being the commander in chief president trump didn't serve in vietnam claiming to have bone spurs he denigrated the parents of a soldier killed in iraq and prisoners of war it didn't cost him support from the military community in 2016 the biden campaign hoping this time this might just be different political gain dizzier. let's get more now from rosalynn george and she joins us now live from arlington in virginia president trump has just taken questions from the press room what did he have to say. well the president took questions mostly from friendly reporters but late in the

press conference which took more than an hour or so at the white house he started getting questions about the atlantic magazine article and his views of troops that were either injured or killed in combat and he also had to respond to the allegations that many both active duty and notably prominent veterans are criticizing him for his alleged abuse this is what dahl probably told reporters during that press conference. it's a disgrace because you look at what i've done for the united states military i love those people i've gotten them pay raises when they didn't get anything near what i've been able to do and i've rebuilt 2.5 trillion dollars every build the united states military now where including space force nobody has done more for them and then when i have to have a report read like that from a 3rd rate magazine that's not going to be in business much longer i look at that

and i think it's a disgrace. the president also was said that about his earlier comments about john mccain the late senator who was a prisoner of war during the vietnam war that he stood by his comments to close i said what i said when he said that he didn't like people who were captured on the battlefield in mosul and killers and that life is in virginia thank you and after decades of conflict serbia and kosovo have agreed to finally normalize economic times 7 president alexander which in turn kosovo as prime minister of 2 motifs have been in talks in washington d.c. for several days night in addition both nations have agreed to normalize relations with israel under the agreements muslim majority kosovo will recognize israel and serbia will move its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. thinking about economy

of course has become about politics because it's resolved for problems there are still a lot of differences between us but this is a huge step forward and i'm also going to profoundly grateful to you and to your people that we successfully got a secure and. we didn't speak about many items that we signed today for us it's very important that we are going to have a unified economics all ran a tighter western balkans which will bring us to the real economic result for the benefit and for the sake of all our people. i think absolutely this is a great moment for kosovo and for the region i think we need a huge step forward toward for normalization of relations that should lead eventually to mutually good nation between the 2 countries we are fully committed to work together to improve people's lives for a new jobs in the region and we fully believe in europe or asia we share the same

values of freedom democracy and open market economy so we are looking for a start in the not interested even to soon as possible. well israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has welcomed the balkan nations decisions are false this is in west jerusalem and he explains what this means for israel. more recognition of jerusalem in israel's language is the capital of israel donald trump of course recognized jerusalem as the israeli capital in 2017 move the u.s. embassy here in 2018 so far only one other country has done that opening an embassy in jerusalem very shortly after that the u.s. embassy opening the embassy of guatemala was opened not far from from here indeed and so this will be the 3rd and potentially 4th such moves by countries moving their embassies and opening an embassy in kosovo's case here in jerusalem

the prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that this is a significant moment because it is a muslim majority country that is doing this in the shape of course averred and this recognition of course was something that israel had been reluctant to do in the past it tends not to want to recognize independence movements and countries without any kind of questions over their statehood because of the potential precedent that might set in terms of the palestinians and of course this also. involves a european nation not an easy nation but a european nation in serbia another european nation they say that they will move their embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem before july next year and before then they will open a representative office here so far a little bit of reaction coming in from palestinians have an usher the executive committee member of the palestine liberation organization she's been tweeting about

it speculating as to what else donald trump is going to deliver to israel ahead of the november elections in the united states. well that were joseph is an adjunct lecturer and senior fellow at johns hopkins university he served as a u.s. diplomat for a dozen years in the balkans and joins us now live from washington d.c. by skype kids have you with us here and all to syria this agreement in washington ed represents good news for israel what would you say serbia and kosovo are getting ice of this agreements i think you hit the nail on the head the the big story here today is really about israel and has far less to do with the actual troubled relations between serbian khosla basically this the arm of the grand name of economic normalization all it really does is vance what we're already agreed projects mostly that that's that the thrust of this agreement there were already

projects to improve the air rail and road links between serbia and kosovo and the parties basically today have agreed to advance those there's a couple other new elements there to improve the border connection crossing but. small and medium enterprise loans a few other odds and ends but there is really nothing transformative here about the relations that justifies this grand title and the grand name which is better but surely some progress must have been made 7 course of agreeing to cooperate on on some issues do you think this opens the door. great a progress for example serbia finally recognized in kosovo. well this is the key question is about the recognition of cost of bus service because that's what

really holds back kosovo's economy that's the issue the fact that it has this limbo status that's the real economic issue here and it what's been done is really quite limited in that respect. it's not clear that this will actually advance the political talks which will resume on monday in brussels the u.s. administration has made it clear it has almost nothing to do with that question it's focused purely on the economic front and these projects some of them are just simply at the stage as is stated in the document today just feasibility studies so that these are going to take some time even to achieve the limited economic agreements that they've achieved here today and really i think that all the parties have put the best face on something that's in fact positive in terms of yes it will could bring some economic improvement but far short of anything transformative

place for ok edward joseph great to get your thoughts and analysis thank you so much for joining us from washington d.c. you're welcome. a suspect linked to the fatal shooting of a protester in the u.s. city of portland has been shot dead by federal agents michael reno was killed as officers tried to arrest him on thursday he was being investigated for allegedly shooting the far right kinds of protesters last week aaron danielson was killed when a group of trump supporters clashed with protesters demonstrating against patient justice and police brutality right newell spoke to vice nice before he was shot by police and said his actions were not acts of self-defense. totally justified had i not acted and. that my friend and i'm sure i would have been killed because i was going to stand there and let something up and what they've done is they're trying

to make it look like we're all terrorists and they're trying to make me look like a murderer i've noticed that they keep saying that it's not clear that it's related to the protests. that's a lie they know that it's related to the protest jacob lake the unarmed black man who was shot by police last month in the u.s. city of can osha has appeared in court on video link are you able to hear me clearly today sir yes thank you blake faces charges of sexual assault on domestic abuse they say they were trying to arrest the charges when an officer shot since 7 times in the back leaving him paralyzed the court appearance was not related to the police shooting the triggered days of protests across america. still to come on al-jazeera. moments of silence in lebanon as the country pays tribute to those

killed one month ago during that powerful explosion in beirut. and overrun by find serious take a look at the terror in the democratic republic of congo this is the center of a showdown between the governments around group. they're fairly quiet picture across much of the united states we have the want to showers and thunderstorms to the south and the east but really the bulk of the country is found in drive up the heat wave is back in place out across the west but the have been some fairly heavy downpours across the central regions of the being flash flood warnings in place and look at results of this this is you can see was jus to exactly that very heavy rain over several days on the ground gave way through saturday not too bad across this particular slice across into you can suck

out towards the east but more rain showers heavy at times and thunderstorms working their way out from northern areas of mexico says spreading up into southern texas and then through sunday we'll see some rather heavy rain developing through the northern plains out towards the midwest and again those rains could be heavy at times especially if showers in the southeast but generally it is a fine and dry picture that we had down into central america and the caribbean lots of cloud around in the last few hours we have a cool scene the end of the tropical storm nona but plenty of rain through saturday fairly well scott about some heavy downpours 3 cuba out across into haiti and also more rain across the southern and eastern sections of mexico you saw those pushing up into southern areas and on to states it will stay rather unsettled on sunday some areas could see some rather heavy rain and heavy rain in cuba. but. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on but what is this gross is

a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic drugs this is still the center of capitalism there is no limit i view myself as a capital artist we try to make the well smaller and smaller we don't want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing page on al-jazeera. oh. this is out as era for mind over headlines this hour here's president donald trump says alleged comments he made about war veterans are not true calling them a disgrace and a hoax an article in the atlantic magazine claims trump called americans killed in

war as suckers and losers. after decades of conflict serbia and kosovo have agreed to finally normalize economic ties serbian president alexander vu church in kosovo as prime minister of to hold to have been in talks in washington d.c. for several days. and jacob blake the unarmed black man who was shot 7 times in the back by police last month in the u.s. city often osha pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault and to messick abuse police say they were trying to arrest blake on the charges when an officer shot in leaving who paralyzed. lebanon has fallen silent to mark the moments exactly why. one month ago when a catastrophic explosion tore through the capital beirut it's 191 people died it's wall around 300000 lost their homes some remain in structures deemed unsafe because

they have nowhere else to go so what has this report. the 101001 victims of the devastating explosion that tore through the lebanese capital were remembered one months on a vigil was held outside the port where nearly 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate on safely stored in a warehouse ignited one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history one minute of silence was observed at the exact time of the explosion 6 o 8 pm it was a moment many still vividly remember. the bomb. and customs employees have been arrested but many lebanese believe senior officials as high up

as the president should be the ones to be held accountable they were aware of the highly explosive material and did nothing about it today is about just this airlines are 20 years old she wakes. so you literally worth every single day you know it is the thing over and violence financially. it's a bit like. the going right to live a kilometer away a desperate search for life underneath the rubble of a building that collapsed from the impact of the blast sniffer dog alerted a team from chile that were surveying the damage in the neighborhood specialist sensors then detected breathing 18 breaths a minute which gave hope 24 hours later the breathing slowed significantly rescuers refused to say when they last had had proof of life but they did promise not to call off the search until they have answers it's unlikely someone could have survived for a month under the debris but it is not unheard of and while many remain hopeful it

was yet another. example of the state failing its people a month later we're still being our bodies why did it take so long this is another you know commemorative moment where we have to pay attention to how the situation was dealt with it was dealt in a very haphazard manner nonprofessional manner and honestly i say this with absolutely no conscious and no feelings and no humanity there was already much outrage over how the authorities handled the crisis since the port explosion they have been absent in the rescue relief recovery and rebuilding efforts is volunteers local and international n.g.o.s who have taken the lead and yet again it is them on the front lines of lebanon's latest calamity many wonder if it was false hope or whether there was a real chance to find life amid all the darkness. beirut. that

been protests on the yemeni island of sokoto against the establishment of military bases by the united arab emirates and israel have been reports that you countries are planning to set up the bases following their agreements to normalize relations the u.a.e. began to appoint hundreds of troops to support in 28. the un's atomic watchdog group confirms iran the stockpiling enriched uranium well below the limits sent by world powers in the 2050 nuclear deal they are a sense it's reached more than 10 times the limit society done to the agreement that promised iran economic incentives in the turn for curbs on its nuclear program so ron is trying to pressure the remaining nations to help offsets crippling u.s. sanctions. the world health organization is urging countries joined forces to tackle coronavirus saying vaccine nationalism would only slow the response to the pandemic the organization is leading

a global vaccine allocation plan known as kovacs in that help and by and distribute vaccinations fairly but some countries have already secured their own supplies through bilateral deals and have said they won't take part in the global unification efforts cyprus has said it will strip 7 people with their so-called golden passports that were both in the country's citizenship by investment scheme it follows an al-jazeera investigation into a cache of leaked documents that revealed e.u. passports had been sold to a number of convicted criminals fugitives and political figures considered to be a high risk for money laundering. hundreds of fighters belonging to an armed group marston's in the town of bunia in the democratic republic of congo on friday the occupied the time for several hours demanding amongst other things food rations the militia then left threaten to return in 2 days if their demands aren't met welcome

wept as the story. of the. 2 week fighters from the kotecha group in gathering around the town of. they've been expecting to be integrated into the democratic republic of congo's army. rations by the government here has happened so on friday they marched into the town occupied it for several hours they outnumber the government soldiers that . residents were scared and angry one sunday we cannot understand how militia can enter the town easily in the presence of un peacekeepers and congolese soldiers un peacekeepers need to go. to un doesn't have much sympathy for the militias demands and wants them to be held to account for atrocities against civilians. she said you're going to be you know jimmy amnesty mean saying that the

facts never existed did you see how they cut people to pieces in the villages high going to provide amnesty a start normal to talk what amnesty is that serious situations and what about the victims you tell them too bad. about a 1000 people have been killed and heart a 1000000 have fled their homes in a tory province in the last 3 years violence between groups is on the rise. congo's army has been trying to defeat could echo this year but it's failed expected not the west's. is not going about why the demand of these guys because the army is there but it is doing nothing more no score your. nearby but also doing nothing. by friday afternoon fragile temporary agreement was reached the army took the fighters back out of town in trucks the militia said they'd be back today if their demands on met. there among several armed groups responsible for

massacring and mutilating civilians in this area the people of face some tense days ahead malcolm webb al-jazeera the sri lankan navy says there's no danger of an oil spill from a super tanker that caught fire at sea on thursday the blaze in the engine room of the new diamond spreads in the bridge of the ship forcing east of the sri lanka coast in el finance reports from colombo. more than 2000000 barrels of crude oil are on the tanker new dime and the sri lankan navy air force coast guard and their indian counterparts are battling to stop the 2 deals fire spreading and the disastrous of oil spill it could realign in the indian coast guard has deployed special firefighting vessels with trained personnel an indian navy ship with a capability and a number of our own took both able to maneuver large vessels are all part of the

operation to control the fire. an engine room explosion on thursday killed a filipino crewman 22 other crew were rescued as the flames spread the panama registered tanker was sailing from quick to the indian port of part of the now without power the giant vessels drifting towards sri lanka's east and caused the immediate lot of the is to polish it away from the court so that even if there is a stream kind of. lives. there is not i expect that. this is true. and i understand. this point in time the indian coast guard says a 2 meter crack has been spotted when new how intense heat in one place is for quite a long of time naturally the steel plates get before the wedding line get correct

and you will see it started to see these cracks it's going to happen it's very natural. but it doesn't mean the ship is breaking apart as marine protection authority says an oil spill poses a severe threat to the island and he's appealing for international experts to help it get away with it in the media to the west coast is that there is a spill and the entire cargo of oil on the ship 270000 tons of oil is leaked into the ocean we are now working on how to deal with it as a country. if this leaks into our ocean region it's not just this area but it will be a major global environmental disaster in the coming hours will decide with the sri lanka faces a major environmental # disaster or just a burning tanker people here are hoping it won't be the catastrophe 11 and jazeera colomba pro-democracy activists in hong kong merging people to boycott

a new disney movie the star of moulin the only free cause i have reached by voicing support for the police crackdown on anti-government protests protests leader just one woman said anyone who believes in human rights shouldn't support the film fred barrett is an asia analyst and the former chairman of the export import bank of the us he says the american film industry should be concerned because personal views can impact and movies financial success. but i'm not a big fan of c.e.o.'s of companies even or artists sort of a voicing their personal views when it impacts also their craft and their are work now and china is overly sensitive is very sensitive to this we had that issue with the national basketball association earlier this year so i'm not happy about china's views of this and that isn't

a good thing but that is also the reality we're facing if if one wants operate in that market they're going to be some of the conditions upon that and companies have to make a decision whether that's 'd within their value system or not any business person has to or an artist for that matter is being aware of what the audience is and what the or how far you can take an audience before you go too far and that's true in literature in film and theater and clearly it's a particularly careful case when it comes to china and right now because there are heightened sensitivity he's between the u.s. and china right now. this is ounces here and these are the headlines u.s. president donald trump says alleged comments he made about war veterans are not true calling them a discrete and a hoax suckers and losers are amongst the terms the president since apparently

called america's war tents according to law school in the atlantic magazine. it's a disgrace because you look at what i've done for the united states military i love those people i've gotten them pay raises when they didn't get anything near what i've been able to do and i've rebuilt 2.5 trillion dollars every build the united states military now we're including space force nobody has done more for them and then when i have to have a report read like that from a 3rd rate magazine that's not going to be in business much longer i look at that and i think it's a disgrace. after decades of conflict serbia and kosovo have agreed to finally normalize economic ties serbian president aleksander of which it sent kosovo as prime minister up to the haughty have been in talks and bullshit in d.c. for several days in addition both nations have also creates normalized relations with israel. take

a break the unarmed black man who was shot by police last month in the u.s. city of can osha has appeared in court on video link are you able to hear me clearly today sir yes. thank you blake pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault and a massacre beings who say they were trying to lessen blake on the charges when an officer shot him 7 times in the back leaving him paralyzed. a suspect linked to the fatal shooting of a protester in the u.s. city of portland has been shot dead by federal agents michael rhyno was killed as officers tried to arrest him on thursday he was being investigated for allegedly shooting a far right kind sir protester last week. and commemorations have been held in lebanon marking one month since a catastrophic explosion tore through the capital beirut's people pause for moments of remembrance at 6 o 8 pm time as $3000.00 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the ports stay with us

and al jazeera frank assessments what are you seeing in yemen 60 percent of the duple. life we look at this it's an informed opinion which is ethiopia on the verge of breakdown in many cars or the only every 10 are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate of that is a proxy because look there are still big enters the philippines people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.