no turning back to the ravages of war left. sky and ground a witness documentary on al-jazeera. condemnation mounts against the commander in chief as president trump denies mocking america's war dead as losers and suckers. hello i'm daryn jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up touted as a diplomatic victory for trump serbia and kosovo regional economic deal of the days of talks in washington. taking up the fight against an unpopular president a new opposition forces formed in. class

an armed group accused of need to maintain civilians the new threat it's posing after briefly occupying the congolese town. donald trump defending himself against claims he called america's war dead losers and suckers the president insists the allegations in the atlantic magazine are a hoax but as a growing backlash from veterans and his political rivals president jordan has more . on friday u.s. president donald trump called a press conference to talk about the economy and the pandemic but reporters wanted to know about the controversy that has been dogging trump all day and atlantic magazine article which says he has repeatedly disrespected the 2200000 members of 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 $2.00 trillion dollars every built the united states military now we're including space force nobody has done more for them the atlantic says in 2018 prop was supposed to visit a french cemetery where thousands of u.s. troops are buried he didn't go saying the weather was too bad but sources told the magazine tromp was more worried about the rain messing up his hair. reportedly also said why should i go to that cemetery it's filled with losers the magazine then claims then called the marines buried their soccer. and that trump didn't want wounded troops taking part in military parades saying nobody wants to see that the magazine also says that trump questioned the troops motivation to serve during

a trip to arlington national cemetery koch was there with john kelly the retired general who served 1st as his homeland security secretary and then as his chief of staff kelly son was killed in iraq the president stood at robert kelly's grave and said to john i don't get it what was in it for them during a press conference on friday accused john calley of being one of the sources of the story i see anonymous but it could have been a guy like a john kelly because he was because it's good to say he was a very you know look at some of his news conference is what happened to him he got eaten alive he was unable to handle the pressure of this crosswords are being met with skepticism because of his house comments such as this one about john mccain he's not a war hero or hero he is a war of fire appears he's a war hero because he was captured joe biden's campaign quickly made this an issue

really seeing this ad and the former vice president call the allegations disgusting if true my son volunteered to enjoy the united states military as the attorney general who went to a rack for year won 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 this reaction on social media scathing this from a retired general when he 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 trial my message to donald trump is that this you have no right being the commander in chief donald trump has bragged about not serving in the vietnam war in the 2016 campaign not only did he insult the parents

of a man who was killed serving in iraq but he also mocked prisoners of war now all of that did not affect a candidate trump with his military supporters back then but in 2020 his democratic opponent is betting that such talk from the commander in chief could actually backfire on him ruslan jordan al-jazeera alexandria virginia. a protest against police brutality in the u.s. continuing into the night in the city of rochester. dozens of people are seeking justice for the death of a black man down you know prove he died from asphyxiation off being arrested by police officers but a mesh showed that uproots had been holding on the ground for 2 minutes 7 officers have been suspended over the incident. but take a break the unarmed black man shot by police last month in the u.s. city of 10 osha has appeared in court via video link are you able to hear me

clearly today sir yes sir blake faces charges of sexual assault on domestic abuse police say they were trying to arrest him when an officer shot him 7 times in the back leaving him paralyzed and shooting triggered days of protests in several cities john hendren has been following developments from chicago and says blake pleaded not guilty to all the 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 this street in konoha 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. serbia and kosovo have agreed to normalize economic ties as part of a u.s. brokered deal that's been hailed by washington as a big step forward after decades of tension kosovo declared independence and 2008 something serbia does not recognize both nations have also agreed to normalize relations with israel. the 2 balkan rival stern formally recognize each other but after 2 days of u.s. brokered talks so b.-a and possible have taken the 1st step to establishing economic ties on the table are jobs investments and extending transport links but

friday's agreement falls far short for political reconciliation to end years of tensions thinking about economy of course we can be sure resolved for years there are still a lot of differences between us but this is a huge step forward while serbia is happy to discuss economic ties possible so frantic remains a red line possible with its majority muslim population declared independence from belgrade more than 12 years ago but it's still unable to join international organizations such as the united nations and that's largely because of serbia which considers the breakaway province as its own and is supported by russia and china i think we need a huge step forward for normalization of relations lead eventually to mutually good mission between the 2 countries we are committed to work together to improve people's lives the new jobs in the region on friday the 2 agreed to put campaigns

for and against normalizing political ties on hold for a year but donald trump with less than 2 months to go before presidential elections was eager to claim a foreign policy breakthrough this is a truly historic a very very important day especially in a beautiful part of the world i'm pleased to announce a. truly historic commitment serbia and kosovo have each committed to economic normalization and trump did manage to secure a diplomatic way for ally israel serbia would become the 1st european country to open its embassy in jerusalem as well as a mutual recognition of muslim majority kosovo and israel the big story here today is really about israel and has far less to do with the actual troubled relations

between serbian cause basically there's the arm of the grand aim of economic normalization all it really does is. what we're already agreed projects this latest report last month's u.s. mediated deal normalizing ties between the u.a.e. and israel allowing 1st direct flights between the 2 trumps attempts to both to support for israel have been rejected by palestinians who say they become victims to select olympic since gupta is here but a russian opposition leader svetlana secant of sky is calling on the united nations to condemn the government's violent crackdown on protesters she's accusing president alexander lukashenko of rigging last month's election when it's going to sky is urging the u.n. to send a monitoring mission to beller rooms bennett smith reports from vilnius in neighboring lithuania. so a lot of chicken off believes that by now she should have been sworn in as the new

president of balance instead she's exiled the neighboring lithuania via video link she asked an informal meeting of the un security council to help. dimmick country where the rose is in temporary peaceful protest has been illegally detained beaten and imprisoned. in the balance capital men's cooperation colleague maria kolesnikov and others a former political party chicken of sky haven't been told in advance but all signs insist any misunderstandings have been ironed out and the other more united than ever watch on the swiss 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 the all of the force of law not our choice will stall on and we're not going to leave it like that speaking to

al-jazeera the new vilnius had quarters of her coordination council chicken or 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 election which president alexander lukashenko said he won 80 percent of the vote. many belorussians and major western powers say the vote was leaked.

alexander lukashenko says lithuania and other neighboring countries are behind the protests and he says nato is building up its troops along the bella 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 bernard smith al-jazeera vilnius. to come here not just here including creating change at the ballot box or on the streets venezuela's opposition is divided on the best way to defeat nicolas maduro communication. calling for a boycott while hong kong pro-democracy activists are urging disney fans to stay away from the latest blockbuster movie on the stairs. hello the usual dry weather conditions throughout much of the middle east that is

being that securely holds through the eastern end of the mediterranean no cloud as you can see and very light winds look at this temperature this is a record high enough in jerusalem so suddenly a record since 92041 point one was the temperature then 42.8 degrees and it's been staying very warm as well in the overnight hours now it's not about to cool down either look at these temperatures still in the high to mid thirty's the average in september is 28 degrees but it should be gains a cool off hopefully by about the middle of the end of next week and cool temperatures elsewhere a high than that but more expected 43 in baghdad 44 celsius in kuwait began it got very light winds quite a bit of cloud developing across central west as a saudi and then at 3 sunday it's a similar sort of scenario temperatures in doha down to 37 degrees the again very light winds and feeling very humid with the 37 kind of activity through central areas of africa and to the south quite a line of clouds this is the next one which is pushing into bring the rain showers across into cape town and then released by had some role of the heavy rain further

to the south and the east so a very wet day sunday across into port elizabeth and all the while more showers across central and northern mozambique. after 2 years in office. the pakistani prime minister delivered on his promises of freedom of speech it's now being curtailed under your watch with the prime minister and watch as the evidence can you just i'll tell you. a stone's prime minister imran khan talks to al-jazeera. be the hero of world news white. washing.

welcome back a quick recap of our top stories here on out is there the us president has denied claims he called war veterans and fallen soldiers suckers and losers the allegations were published in the atlantic magazine donald trump denounced the reporter the hopes and the disgrace. after decades of conflict serbia and kosovo agreed to finally normalized economic ties serbian president alexander and cosmos prime minister. have been in talks in washington for several days. but i wish an opposition leader svetlana she cannot sky is calling on the un to condemn the government's violent crackdown on protesters she's accusing president lukashenko of rigging his election victory last month. tensions mounting around a town in eastern democratic republic of congo after it was briefly occupied by an

armed group hundreds of fighters are threatening to return to bunia if their demands for food and to be integrated into the army are not met they've been accused of massacring civilians welcome with as the story through. our. 2 week fighters from the kotecha armed group have been gathering around the town of yeah. they've been expecting to be integrated into the democratic republic of congo's army and given food rations by the government he hasn't happened so on friday they marched into the town and occupied it for several hours they outnumber the government soldiers there. residents were scared and angry. we cannot understand how a militia can enter the town easily in the presence of un peacekeepers and congolese soldiers un peacekeepers need to go. the un doesn't have much sympathy

for the militias demands and wants them to be held to account for atrocities against civilians. you know 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 with amnesty that serious situations and what about the victims do you tell them too bad. about a 1000 people have been killed and heart a 1000000 have fled their homes in italy 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. to demand of these guys because. it's doing nothing. but also doing. 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 are met. there among several armed groups responsible for massacring and mutilating civilians in this area the people of face some 10 days ahead malcolm web al-jazeera protests have been held on the yemeni island of against the establishment of military bases by the united arab emirates and israel the 2 countries are reported to be planning to set up bases following their agreement to normalize relations the u.a.e. began the prying hundreds of soldiers to psychiatrists in 2018. libyans in the united states filed a civil lawsuit against warlord early for have top 2 families accused after hour of war crimes human rights abuses and torture relating to his 2016 military offensive on benghazi they're calling on the u.s. attorney general to begin a criminal investigation after fighting libya's u.n.

recognized government for control of the country a dutch appeals court has upheld the conviction of a far right leader for insulting moroccan people but dismissed another charge of inciting discrimination the court also imposed no punishment for villa's over the comments made in 2014 during a rally then villagers are supporters if they wanted fewer or more moroccans in the netherlands in the crowd chanted fewer. nato is calling on russia to cooperate with an international investigation into what happened to kremlin critic alexina valmy doctors treating the valley in germany say he was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent but russia's government says there's no evidence of any crime lawrence lee 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 oh it was congress comes the day that we will appeal this decision at the moscow city caught and you will also ask the following activity being all 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 laurence li al jazeera. cyprus has said it will strip 7 people of so-called golden passports bought under a citizenship by investment scheme that follows an al-jazeera investigation into a cache of leaked documents they revealed e.u. passports and been sold to convicted criminals fugitives and political figures considered to be a high risk for money laundering. the u.s.

has announced sanctions against venezuela's election officials ahead of the country's upcoming parliamentary vote many opposition parties intend to boycott the ballot calling it an attempt by president maduro to take control of the national assembly reports. this tunnel in caracas has become a source of water for people in venice where less capital. 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 this 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 my daughter 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 he's facing a rebellion by 2 time presidential candidate and we got who says the opposition has to. fied the government in the ballots. is banned from participating in the

lections but there are other candidates 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 its over. but as the political battle rages on in venezuela there is also a fight for survival where millions have lost hope that they're easy to ation is going to improve any time soon. and. a prominent mean mom poet and activist has been found guilty of violating a law that requires advance notice of a protest. or the jail term but was fined $22.00 by a young court who was accused of staging demonstrations demanding an end to

internet blackouts on rakhine and neighboring chains states. the philippines congress is opposing to raise the legal age of sexual consent from 12 to 16 years old rights groups say it's a sign of progress but not enough compared to what other countries are doing to protect young girls 2000000 in turkey reports from manila thanks shiloh 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 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 recognized 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 the 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 excellent or productive longer for our. 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 his 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 sean because also sexual harassment is certainly a byproduct of the broader rape culture size says she knows that the battle she chose is difficult but she's determined to continue dugan al-jazeera manila. pro-democracy activists in hong kong people to boycott a new disney movie the star of milan neil you face caused outrage by voicing support for the police crackdown on anti-government demonstrations protest leader

josh along says anyone who believes in human rights shouldn't support the film but fred who is an asia analyst he says the american film industry should be concerned because personal views can affect the 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 there 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 to operate in that market they're going to be some 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 he's between the u.s. and china right now. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.s. president has denied claims he called war veterans and foreign soldiers such as a nuisance the allegations were published in the atlantic magazine donald trump denounced the report as a hoax and a disgrace president jordan has more. well the storing isn't going away because now a number of news outlets here in washington have confirmed the same 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 supported his presidency 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 disrespectful of those who are in the u.s. military protests against police brutality in the u.s. all continuing into the night in the city of rochester. dozens of people are seeking justice after the death of black man daniel proved he died from asphyxiation after being arrested by police officers put a hood over prudes head and held him on the ground to 2 minutes 7 officers have been suspended. off the decades of conflict serbia and kosovo have agreed to finally normalize economic ties serbian president alexander kosovo's prime minister . i've been in talks in washington for several days but

a russian opposition leader of sky is calling on the un to condemn a violent crackdown by the government on protesters she's accusing president lukashenko of rigging his election victory last month and she wants the u.n. to send a monitoring mission to the roots an armed group has left the town of bunia in democratic republic of congo after a standoff there but hundreds of fighters are threatening to return if they had to moms including receiving food rations are not in it and protests have been held on the yemeni on and of contra against the establishment of military bases bob the united arab emirates and israel the 2 countries are reported to be planning to set up the bases after they agreed to normalize ties. but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera at the top 2 out of their station and that's what i feel. i am so the prime minister i have a question because he's days it's hard to filter out the newly single track of what's really important to the bottom line tackles the big issues this is shaping

the united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera war. movies. i'm on hand captain pakistan to victory in the cricket world cup in 1992 when he bowled his last cricket ball he made his final bronze one of the world's best known sportsman with time to devote his time to social work. but politics came calling always a vocal critic of in demick or option confound of the party pakistan to hurricanes up in 1906. pretty eyes promise was to ensure justice for all us party chairman hahn won his 1st seat in the national assembly in 20026 years later his popularity soared.