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fights to protect girls in the philippines. and a boycotts from move on the tomography activists called moviegoers to stay away from disney's wake to spring lease. my. donald trump has labeled alleged comments you made about war veterans as a disgrace and a hoax suckers and losers are among the tyrants the president has apparently a cold america's fallen soldiers 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 tickle him as 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 is 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 you lost sight 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 war hero presumes capture i 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 that's 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 hane out dizzier let's get more now from al jazeera as roselyn jordan she joins us now live from arlington virginia rose president denied those comments last night sees before or since neither again just a couple of hours ago just give us a bit more on this morning is the story not going away.

well the storing isn't going away because now a number of news outlets here in washington have confirmed the same scope and the same quotes that were in that story including fox news which had been the president's go to television news network a channel that had really yes supported his presidency it seems up until this year it is worth noting that during the late afternoon press conference the president again did not like those allegations that he has been at any time just respectful of those who are in the u.s. military. 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. and what raised a lot of eyebrows during the president's comments is his suggestion that john kelly the retired marine corps general who was also his chief of staff could have been one of the people who spoke not of us loyal to the atlantic magazine he thought the suggestion out there but certainly that is something that people are talking about on friday night here in washington rosalynn george and that my friends in virginia thank you. after decades of conflict serbia and kosovo have agreed to finally normalize economic times so every president talks on the route it sounds kosovo's prime minister of to the hoti been in talks in washington d.c. for several days now in addition both nations if it creates normalized relations

with israel under the agreements missile majority kosovo will recognize israel while serbia will move its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. thinking about economy of course has become about politics because 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 you 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 old man a title 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 war 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 create new jobs in the region and we fully believe in your administration 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 binyamin that's and yahoo has welcomed the balkan nations decisions ari forces in west jerusalem and explains why 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 so 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. led with joseph is a senior fellow at johns hopkins university and served as u.s. diplomat for many years in the balkans he says the agreement is not a significant sense be pursued. the big story here today is really about israel and has far less to do with the actual troubled relations between serbia and kosovo basically this the on of the grand name of economic normalization all it really does is it vance what were 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 crossings. and 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. 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's being investigated for allegedly shooting a far right cancer protester last week aren't danielson those killed when a group of trump supporters clashed with protesters demonstrating against racial injustice and police brutality brian all spoke to vice news before he was shot by

police and said his actions were an act of self-defense totally justified had i not acted and. my friend and i'm sure i would have been killed because i was going to stand there and let something up and but 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 it's not clear that it's related to the protests. that's a lie they know that it's related to the protests jacob blake the unarmed black man who was shot by police last month in the u.s. city of can osha has appeared in courts own video link are you able to hear me clearly today sir. blake faces charges of sexual assault and domestic abuse

they say they were trying to arrest blake on the charges when an officer shot him 7 times in the back leaving him paralyzed the court appearance was not related to the police shooting that triggered states of protests across america john hendren has been full and proceedings from chicago and says blake pleaded not guilty to all charges. it was an extraordinary scene jacob blake was shown in this zoom call lying on his hospital bed in a blue shirt and yellow tie the 1st time any of us have seen him since he was shot nearly 2 weeks ago on that sunday and he was asked for his pleas to the charges of 3rd degree sexual assault disorderly conduct and trespassing he pleaded not guilty to all of those now those charges weren't directly linked to his shooting but apparently when police encountered him on the street and you can osha they at some point discovered that he had the that he had a warrant out for him that his girlfriend had made these accusations against him

and they tried to take him into custody according to police story they tried to tase him twice then chased him to his van in that video that we've all seen and shot him 7 times in the back so this case in directly led to that shooting that has jacob blake in the hospital room. so it's come on al-jazeera nato is demanding answers from moscow about the. prominent russian critic next in of all many. parents in the course of the coronavirus in moscow job's long term impact on the pandemic in the us. hello the care a process continuing across much of the korean peninsula all the cloud to the north is what was of course out

a typhoon may sight but to say conditions fairly clear and the clean up is continuing we are watching this very closely that is a super typhoon a high shine meanwhile has a say look at this plenty of damage has been done through south korea and north korea this winter been literally smashed to pieces and medicals damage to crops as well this farmer just assessing the damage to his pack that now as we go through saturday conditions just say mostly fine across the korean peninsula however already the rays beginning to push into more southern and eastern sections all courtesy of the super typhoon hi shannon by saturday this will have winds sustained at about 260 kilometers an hour gusting to just over 300 if this was in the atlantic this would be a category 5 hurricane so it doesn't get much stronger than this now through saturday really pushing those rains across the u.k. very strong winds as well of course extending a long way from the center this is a large and powerful storm system and then through sunday it really does begin to push these very heavy rains into western japan we're likely to see some flooding from the system and some damage ahead of the storm because of the strength of those

winds elsewhere throughout china is mostly some heaviest falls further to the south extending down towards the coast. 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 growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to bake the world smaller and smaller we don't want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera.

this is al jazeera reminder of our headlines this hour has president donald trump says alleged comments he made about war veterans are not true in the middest scrapes and a hoax suckers and losers are amongst the times the president's allegedly called america's war it's a it's according to an article in the atlantic magazine. and after decades of conflict serbia and kosovo have agreed to normalize economic tully's serbian president alexander fruitage and kosovo as prime minister after the hearty had been in talks in washington d.c. for several days now. and jacob blake the unarmed black man who was shot 7 times in the back by police last month in the u.s. city of can osha pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault and domestic a piece to say that by trying to arrest blake on these charges that officer shot

him leaving him paralyze. the u.s. economy is showing a few signs all for coverage boyer's a cautiously hire him but so far only half of the $20000000.00 jobs lost in the pandemic have been recovered and some rules and airlines hotels restaurants and out this may be gone for good here's rob reynolds. mary benedetta lost her job as a janitor months ago when the coronavirus pandemic crashed the u.s. economy like millions of others she's worried for the future that's a bad plan. i've said. for months president donald trump and his advisors have been predicting a rapid recovery and we've been talking about the v. this is better than of a this is a rocket ship drop referred to graphs economists devised to show the length of an economic recovery v. shaped means activity goes down fast but then rises again quickly the bulk of the

evidence says we're. still on track for very significant upward move and it's to be shaped recovery but many economists say no it's not the shape is not a choice right now because we had. too much firing if people are afraid of getting sick and dying they're just not going to behave. in a way that's conducive to growth more likely says a federal reserve bank chief is an l. shaped recovery a steep fall followed by a long plateau of low growth and high unemployment a time that's required to recover is going to be a quite a bit longer than we might have otherwise expect even with effective vaccines or therapeutic methods economists say there's no question of magically returning to the free pandemic economy many jobs in affected industries may be lost forever airlines like united and american if cut thousands of positions as have department

stores clothes makers big banks and blue chip companies like 18 t. boeing and hilton hotels and the list goes on businesses are looking out at the landscape and realizing it's not going to be a quick recovery they are then resizing and rescaling their operations to manage that situation which comes with more permanent layoffs the workers hit hardest tend to be those with the lowest wages who work in hands on jobs like mary benedetta oh it's not that i don't want to work and i have to either find a job for millions like her there's a long hard road ahead robert oulds al-jazeera. the world health organization is urging countries to join forces to tackle coronavirus saying vaccine nationalism would only slow the response to the pandemic their organization is leading a global vaccine allocation plan known as kovacs aims at helping buy and distribute

vaccinations fairly but some countries have already secured their own supplies through bilateral deals and have said they won't say part in the global unification efforts france has recorded its biggest single day rise in you corona virus infections since the beginning of the pandemic nearly $9000.00 cases were reported on friday the searches forced at least a dozen schools across the country to coles just days into the academic year authorities say the rise is partially due to increased testing patients taking part in a clinical trial of a cruel virus vaccine and russia have also developed antibodies according to reports in the lancet medical journal but the journal says the trial is too small to prove the vaccine safety and effectiveness $40000.00 volunteers a-g. to take part in further trials. that appeals courts upheld the conviction of a far right leader for insults and broken people struck down another charge of

insight into scrim a nation the courts also imposed no punishment for wilderness over the comments he made in 2014 during a rally of elders has asked supporters if they wanted fear or more moroccans in the netherlands crowds chanted fewer nato is calling on russia to cooperate with an international investigation into what happens to kremlin critic alexina of only soldiers in germany one of army is being treated say he was poisoned by with the soviets even nerve agents but russia's government says there's no evidence of any crime or reports. the russian government insists it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the arch critic of president putin alexina valley the state hasn't opened a criminal investigation despite the valley apparently being poisoned inside russia by a weapons grade nerve agent novacek which is only produced in russia in the latest

exercise in banging their heads against a wall in the valleys legal team went to court in moscow accusing russian investigators of not doing anything to the surprise of nobody their case was thrown out still they said they would keep trying to mothers of it was possible that it comes again we will appeal this decision at the moscow city caught and you will also ask the following activity build illegal the failure to consider the claim if it all to check if religion launch a criminal case on the deliberate poisoning of alexina violence. after the european commission said it was marshalling its forces to get russia to focus on the poisoning nato has now involved itself as well arguing it has the right to do so since the poisoning was a breach of international law made dollars agree that russia now has serious questions it must answer the russian government must fully cooperate with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons an impartial international

investigation those responsible for this attack must be held accountable and brought to justice yet when he was asked what exactly nates a would do next he could only say he would continue consulting with allies the problem for nato and everyone else is that if there was a crime it was committed on russian soil and without russian consent in an investigation where they go next is totally unclear lawrence lee al jazeera. cyprus's said it would strip 7 people of their so-called golden passports that were boats in the country's citizenship by investment scheme and follows an al-jazeera investigation and said 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 there's been protests on the yemeni islands of

sokoto against the establishment of military bases by the united arab emirates and israel there have been reports that 2 countries are planning to set out the basis for in their agreements to normalize relations the u.a.e. began to pour in hundreds of troops change the culture in 28. the un stomach watchdog group confirms iran is stockpiling a rich geranium well beyond limits set by world powers in the 2015 nuclear deal the i.a.e.a. says more than 10 times the limit cited on to the agreements that promised iran economic incentives in return for curbs on its nuclear program to her and is trying to pressure the remaining nations to help offset scripture in u.s. sanctions at least 48 people have died during the latest monsoon in pakistan hundreds of homes are damaged or completely destroys while many roads and bridges have been swept away days of torrential downpours and flooding of caused

chaos in the financial capital caracas. the philippines congress is proposing a raise of the is proposing to raise the legal age of sexual consent from 12 to 16 years old my scripts say it's a sign of progress but it's not enough compared to what's been done in other countries to protect young girls jamil and ogun reports now from enema. shiela gardy is a journalist who focuses on gender related issues she has been speaking in schools against a culture of harris meant and victim blaming towards women and young girls in the jeep this guy kept leary when i got out of the jeepney it was about 15 minutes of the guy just following me home. saying very vulgarly basically asking me to come home with their she's one of many women who have joined the filipino version of the global need to movement a core which means i'm a girl was created after

a facebook message posted by staff at a police station in june told women to dress modestly to avoid getting harassed this fight having one of the highest number of female executives in the world and to be a male president in the past it remains to be the only country globally where divorce is still not recognised and where the age of sexual consent is still at 12 years old one of the lowest in the world. congress has now filed a bill that would criminalize sexual intercourse between an adult and a minor aged 16 years old and below even if the child gave consent to the act government data shows at least one woman or child is raped every hour in the philippines and most victims come from impoverished communities and they're afraid to come forward we have for instance a very conservative church the church has gone again many of.

our sexual reproductive rights how long are our when. are productive have a very long activists also say government officials is to claim. president or 3 go to tear to has repeatedly joked about raping women in this public speeches even recent last like the safety reasons are. recognized unacceptable any ruhi be dead and punished on the legislative run we must continue our oversight on big implement the xan because also sexual harassment is certainly a byproduct of the broad rape culture shy says she knows that the battle she chose is difficult but she's determined to continue duggan al-jazeera manila. pro-democracy activists in hong kong are urging people to boycott the movie the

star of moulin nearly 3 caused outrage by voicing support for the police crackdown on anti-government protests process leader joshua long says anyone who believes in human rights shouldn't support the film. fred hochberg isn't asia analyst in 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 the movies financial success. 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 cut case when it comes to china and right now because there are heightened sensitivity these between the u.s. and china right now. this is al-jazeera these are the headlines yes president donald trump says alleged comments he made about war veterans are not true calling them into scrapes and a hoax suckers and losers are amongst the terms the president says apparently told

america's war that's according to an article 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 in our 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 alexander british and possibles prime minister after the hot seat have mats in washington d.c. both nations have also agreed to normalize relations with israel. jacob lake the unarmed black man who was shot by police last month in the u.s. city of can osha has appeared in courts on

a video link are you able to hear me clearly today sir. howard blake pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault and mastic abuse and they say they were trying to arrest blake on the charges when an officer shot some 7 times in the back leaving him paralyzed. and world health organization is urging countries to join forces to tackle coronavirus saying vaccine nationalism would only slow the response to the pandemic an organization is leading a global vaccine allocation plan known as kovacs. cyprus has said it will strip 7 people of their so-called golden passports that were both in the country's citizenship by investment scheme that follows an al-jazeera investigation into a cache if they don't commence that field possible it's had been sold to a number of convicted criminals considered to be high risk for money laundering as it from a inside story something extra. where

were limits political ads before americans go to the polls in november that message from facebook the giant tech company says it aims to stop election misinformation but does this convince everyone would it work this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. facebook has announced steps to prevent its

platform being exploited in the week leading up to the u.s. presidential vote.