picture too much to bear for many americans in a country that was built on immigration. follow the key issues of the us elections on al-jazeera. the commander in chief under fire donald trump denies claims he mocks america's war dead. hello there i'm how i'm a historian and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. targeted as a diplomatic win for donald trump after days of talks in washington serbia and kosovo agreed to normalize economic ties. want to get opposition in exiles for planets a kind of sky speaks to al-jazeera about the real challenges facing the belle

russian people. and a rare sight from enter mongolia protesters united over fears their own mother tongue could be replaced by mandarin. beers president sounds denied claims the cold war veterans and dead american soldiers suckers and losers the allegations were made in an article published in the atlantic magazine reports still were trumped announced as a hoax and a disgrace but less than 60 days to go until the election it's become the focus of both democrats and republican campaigns 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. 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's 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 the kind of things 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 he lost sight of it like that was what you

have to that because i don't like it. but right frank let me get to what he hit me is that a war hero or hero is a war in iraq for years he's a warrior i presume was captured 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 rack for 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. we're 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 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 joyce and she joins me now live from alexandria in virginia rose this is the 2nd 3rd time that trumps tonight these allegations why is this story not going away. well it's not going away because it appears that the number of people who are outraged by what has been alleged 1st in the atlantic magazine and now confirmed by a number of other u.s. news organizations is simply melting one of the people who has come out on friday

evening to denounce so what has been alleged in this story is sully sullenberger you'll recall he was the pilot who rescued his commercial jetliner from landing in the hudson river and getting everyone on board out safely he has said that these allegations me that for him donald trump should no longer be the president of course the president was asked about this at a press conference earlier on friday and he basically again we're just at the allegations. 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 and 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. now recall in patty cole haynes story she talked about the visit that trump made to arlington national cemetery to visit the grave site of a young man whose father at the time was the department of homeland security secretary john kelly at that press conference on friday the president accused john kelly who also served as his chief of staff out of being one of the sources for the story in a sense basically accusing him of lying about donald trump ok ruslan jars and that lie for us and virginia thank you very much indeed for bringing us the latest. after decades of conflict serbia and kosovo have agreed to normalize economic ties serbian president acts on the stand kosovo's prime minister of the haughty have

been in talks in washington d.c. for several days now in addition both nations have agreed to normalize relations with israel under the agreements muslim majority cos of all will recognize israel and sarah pia will move it sam proceed from tel aviv to jerusalem. you can go to continue speaking about politics be sure 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 offer only grateful to you and to your people. and since we're going to secure. we didn't speak about many items that we signed today for us it's very important that we are going to have the unified economics all planetoid us from 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 mission between the 2 countries we are fully committed to work together to improve people's lives create new jobs in the region and we believe in europe station we share the same values of freedom democracy and open market economy so we are looking for a start internet in this country with the soonest possible. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has welcomed the balkan nations decision very full citizen west jerusalem and 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 original position leader. of sky is calling on the united nations to condemn the government's violent crackdown on protesters she's accusing president alexander lukashenko rigging his election victory last month it's kind of sky is urging the u.n. to send a monitoring mission to bella reuss smith reports from vilnius neighbor in the thing any or. so a lot of chicken or believes that by now she should have been sworn in as the new president of ballads instead she's exiled

a neighbor in lithuania via video link she asked an informal meeting of the un security council for help. today in the country bill rose is in to marry he saw protest and been illegally detained beaten and in prison. in the balance capital men's cooperation colleague maria kolesnik over and others have formed a new political party chicken of sky i haven't been told in advance but all signs insist any misunderstandings have been ironed out and the other more united than ever on the swift flannels court of the nation council we want political prisoners screech we want an investigation into the killings of peaceful protesters and we want new fair and transparent election as all of that force atlanta our choice will stall on and we are not going to leave it like that speaking to al-jazeera the new vilnius had quarters of her coordination council chicken oscar acknowledge the

challenges of not being in belarus is difficult for both of us because i'm here it's safer for me to be here but it's more difficult to. not morally to be here because i understand that i should be there in my people and it's difficult for her as well because she is under pressure all the time she is in danger all the time as any person and. also on friday police arrested students at the minutes state linguistics institute who ignored calls from arab ministration to stop protests. there been demonstrations across baton rouge since the august 9th the election of president alexander lukashenko said he won 80 percent of the vote many belorussians and major western powers say the vote was great. alexander lukashenko says lithuania and other neighboring countries are behind the protests and he says

nato is building up its troops along the bell roofs borders u.s. troops and tanks have started arriving here but the lithuanian government says that exercise is planned long before the elections next door. burnitz with al-jazeera vilnius. still to come on al-jazeera. paying tribute to the city still in mourning a month on from a huge loss that towards. venezuela's opposition leaders are calling the country's december parliamentary election a fraud staged by president nicolas maduro. hello that the care of 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 on the clean up is continuing we're watching this very closely that is a super typhoon a high shann me want to say look at this plenty of damage has been done through south korea and north korea this wind turbine 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 somebody 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 launch a powerful storm system and then through sunday it really does begin to push very heavy rains into western japan we're likely to see some flooding from this system

and some damage ahead of the storm because of the strength of those winds elsewhere throughout china it's mostly some heaviest falls further to the south extending down towards the coast. global pandemic. family comes 1st. for every american health care has never been more important. because the new disease does not favor republicans over democrats bridge over poor or black over white. america decides how to care for a nation. extensive coverage of the us elections. on al-jazeera.

this is al-jazeera a reminder of our headlines this hour the us president has denied claims he called war veterans and fallen soldiers suckers and losers the allegations are made in an article published in the atlantic magazine trump denies the report as a hoax and a disgrace. after decades of conflict serbia and kosovo have agreed to normalize economic ties serbian president aleksander of which is and because of was prime minister up to the hotel he has been in talks in washington d.c. for several days. and by the russian opposition leaders fetlar not just kind of sky is calling on the un to condemn the government's violent crackdown on protesters she's accusing president alexander lukashenko of rigging his election victory last month. lebanon has fallen silence to mark the

moment exactly one month ago when a catastrophic explosion tore through the capital beirut's 191 people died while around 300000 lost their homes some remain in structures deemed unsafe because they have nowhere else to go senator has more. 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 justice elena 20 years old she writes i'd ask you when you look really world every single day you know it is the thing over guidance 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 what it was dealt and 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 there's

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. i mean process on the yemeni islands of sokoto against the establishment of military bases by the united arab emirates and israel there's been reports that 2 countries are planning to set up bases or when their agreement normalize relations the u.a.e. began deploying hundreds of troops to sokoto in 2018 cyprus the said it will strip 7 people of their so-called golden passports that were bought in the country citizenship by investment scheme follows an al-jazeera investigation into a cache of leaked documents that reveals e.u. passports in seoul seen a number of convicted criminals fugitives and political figures considered to be a high risk for money laundering jacob break the unarmed black man who was shot by

police last month in the us city of can osha has appeared in court it's own video link. are you able to hear me clearly today sir yes sir. like faces charges of sexual assaults and to mystic abuse he said they were trying to arrest blake on those charges spent and officer shot him 7 times in the back leaving him paralyzed the court appearance was not released its the police chief saying it triggered days of protests across america. john hendren has been following proceedings from chicago and says blake pleaded not guilty it's all charges. it was an extraordinary scene jacob blake was shown in this room 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 in 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. u.s. is in a sanctions against iran as well as election officials ahead of the country's upcoming parliamentary vote it's an election mainly opposition parties and turn to boycotts calling it an attempt by president nicolas maduro to. take control of the national assembly risible has more. this tunneling that our gas has become

a source of water for people in venice where less capital and. people here call it the beach. comes here a few times a week because there's no running water available at home just like many others in venezuela these days italy's has lost hope and that's why she's planning to not vote in venice way less legislative elections in december. the general on is again are these away i don't want to watch the news anymore the controversy is always the same politicians don't solve our problems i am not going to vote the situation is terrible there are people with nothing to eat i have free university a look at where i am oh you are this week president announced a pardon to at least 100 members of the opposition some of them have been hiding in foreign embassies inside the country. the move analysts say was meant to divide the

opposition events in the past week show the president's strategy worked. over 50 countries including the united states recognizes venezuela's president says the opposition won't participate in the elections he has been trying to run a parallel government but has not succeeded in removing her from office. we have a part that's a call to action to protest to mobilize an agreement with the dea and transit towards democracy not to participate in fraud not to participate in a trap by maduro. but why though is facing a rebellion. 2 time presidential candidate and. who says the opposition has to fight the government in the ballots. is banned from participating in the elections but there are other candidate in his party who are willing to run. he says boycotting elections means losing all a position representation in congress now there's nobody can be surprised what is

happening people are screaming for an option in an act of desperation we have to change that the plan we had is exhausted the agenda we presented to the country had failed it's over but as the political battle rages on in venezuela there is also a fight for survival where millions have lost hope that there is situation is going to improve any time soon. and the c.d.f. the world health organization is urging countries to join forces to tackle coronavirus saying vaccine nationalism would only slow the response to the pandemic the organizations taking leading a global vaccine allocation plan known as kovacs aimed at helping buy and distribute vaccinations fairly some countries have already secured their own supplies through bilateral deals and have said they won't take part in the global

effort france says recorded its biggest single day rise in new corona virus infections since the beginning of the pandemic flu in $1000.00 cases were reported on friday the surge has forced at least a dozen schools across the country to close just days into the new academic year authorities say the rise is partially due to increased testing. patients taking part in a clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine and russia of all 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 are due to take parts and further trials. at least 48 people have died during the latest monsoon in pakistan hundreds of homes are damaged or completely destroyed while many roads and bridges have been swept away days of torrential downpours and flooding caused chaos

in the financial capital caracas. pro-democracy activists in hong kong are urging people to boycott the new disney movie the star of moulin you know if a caused by voicing support for the police crackdown on anti-government protests process leader just a warning says anyone who believes in human rights shouldn't support the film. students and teachers in the northern chinese province of minimum gorier taking part in where protests against the new policy requiring certain classes to be taught in mandarin the main language used. in representing one 5th of the province's population were not from katrina you in beijing. videos the students shouting is our mother language and storming school grounds are circulating on social media protests have been held across the northern chinese province of inner mongolia after

a new education measures were introduced to reduce the use of the mongolian language in favor of mandarin that spoken nationally. many parents have withdrawn their children from schools some have clashed with the local police. my fellow mongolians may not know one another but if they arrest one of us let's all go to the police station authorities are offering $150.00 in return for information on more than $100.00 of them wanted by police for taking quarrels beijing says the protesters have a political agenda and the new measures only affect certain subjects mongolian language class hours remain unchanged the textbooks remained the same language used for teaching remains the same and the existing bilingual education system remains on changed. but activists say the new education policy will see the region's main language of instruction changed to mandarin by 2022 the vast grassland province

borders mongolia where one 5th of the population is ethnic mongolian. culture. policies eradicate in. each culture and traditional way of life similar changes have taken place in tibet and she john where ethnic languages are now only taught its special classes the united nations says minority cultures up being suppressed chinese communist party. is anything other. communist party. direct any organization. any sort of. diversity china's leaders say

promoting the majority had culture and nationalizing chinese language provides ethnic minorities with better economic opportunities. but many people aren't convinced and say they fear for the survival of their traditional friends life. out to dinner at beijing. this is al jazeera these are the headlines u.s. president donald trump says alleged comments he made about war veterans are not true calling them a disgrace and a hoax suckers and losers are among the terms the president has apparently called america's war it's a it'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 in pay raises when they didn't get anything near what i've

been able to do and i've rebuilt $2.00 trillion dollars every build the united states military now weren't loading 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 normalize economic ties serbian president alexander which is and course of his prime minister after the hot seat have met in washington d.c. both nations have also agreed to normalize relations with israel television opposition leaders for atlanta just kind of sky is calling on the u.n. to condemn the government's violent crackdown on protesters she's accusing president alexander lukashenko of rigging his election victory last month but the protests on the yemeni island 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 up the bases following their agreement to normalize relations. cyprus is said it will strip certain people of their so-called golden passports that were bought in the country's citizenship by investment scheme involves an al-jazeera investigation that revealed e.u. passports had been sold so you convicted criminals take a break the unarmed black man who was shot by police last month in collusion has appeared in court on video link are you able to hear me clearly. blake pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault and domestic abuse they said they were trying to arrest blake on the charges when an officer shot him 7 times in the back leaving him paralyzed. that's it for me a.j. slipped. off to 2 years in office has the pakistani prime minister delivered on his promises of freedom of speech it's now being curtailed under your watch mr prime

minister and watch as the evidence then you just don't tell you like a stone's prime minister imran khan talks to al-jazeera. so i tried some sites no no no i can't really identify because it's really really confusing. the lack of identify him i'm trying to identify my house. i'm trying to identify my house my family. to go with a stranger there is my own the. story on history my background. how good the moment got done if no one would.