champions of golden state warriors from visiting the white house in a tweet le bron james labeled the us president a bum saying that it was no longer an honor to visit the white house during his presidency the clash between the president and top athletes was sparked when trump slammed several national football league players and used a derogatory term after they protested during the national anthem against racial injustice when warriors player steph curry declines the annual white house invite for the n.b.a. champions the team invitation was revoked by president trump will now curry's coach has spoken out have a listen. we want normal time very easily be able to set aside local and some don't have time and. also these are not ordinary times. in the most place divisive times in my life i thought yesterday his comments about the n.f.l. players. and now does anything it's awful to talk about. young men who are peacefully protesting tony. and racism. well thousands of athletes are out on the streets of germany's capital berlin for the marathon today and the elite men's runners have just c

le bron james is not rand paul. he's picked fights with -- howie: le bron made a video and his tweets are going to get retweets. howie: it combines donald trump, politics, sports and race. erin: i want to read a comment steph curry made yesterday. he's becoming a folk hero. he said i don't know why he feels the need to target certain individual rather than others. i have an idea why, but it's kind of beneath the leader of a country to do. if the media is rooting for steph curry, he's showing more leadership than donald trump. howie: you have sports talk radio and local media talking about their teams. robert graf put out a statement saying he's disappointed. an nfl game began in london, a whole lot of players kneeling or locking arms during the national anthem. the president saying now fans should not go to games? this is going to love it. mollie: we need to see the president picking up on sentiment that's already out there. right now you are on one side of the debate which is respect for the flag, respect for "the

le bron left miami in two thousand and fourteen while wade spent last season with the chicago bulls but agreed a buyout of his contract to leave i mean is that i was a different time in the moments you know i would want to play together we want to play play off each other very well miss a different team it's a different time and i think everybody want to reach into the lobs and although i definitely thought those you just get if you will go get on the nose will happen but you know the biggest thing you want to be can do is success. and like i said i'm happy to be a part of what they built here but you know you just we just so i think about it is only man you just go together. captain did ash chamomile has had his first century since taking over as his country's test captain he scored an unbeaten one hundred fifty five against pakistan in the u.a.e. helping sri lanka reach four hundred and one thousand runs on day two of the first task total looked on likely on the opening day when the tourists were on just sixty one for three in response box on have started well they finished on six

le bron james tweeted this to the president. does the president regret reopening 9 racial wounds started after charlottesville? >> all across america shls coaches are getting punished for leading their flairs prayer. yet in the nfl players who take a knee over a flag that's of our generations have died to protect the freedoms there, they somehow get honored at martyrs by the media. the president is pointing out that shouldn't be accepted. they have a first amendment right to do that. but the owners have a right to fire those players. the president hosted the patriots, the cubs, the clemson tigers. steph curry is a if he novel mall basketball player. in many case he's a role model for kids. my son wears his jersey all the time. but he's the one that injected politics into the invitation to come to the white house. that's what the president is reacting to. other national championship teams have come to the white house honorably. the president said fine, don't come. chris: this obviously has a racial component. these are black play

city thunder also dwayne wade has been unveiled by the cleveland cavaliers where he reunites with le bron james wade played four seasons alongside braun at the miami heat where they won back to back championships le bron left miami in two thousand and fourteen while weight spent last season with the chicago bulls but agreed a buyout of his contract to leave i mean is that obvious is a different time maybe moments you know i would want to play together we want to play play off each other very well miss a different team it's a different time and i think everybody want to return to the lobs and all and i definitely thought those he does get he will go get on the nose will happen but you know the biggest thing you want to be can do is success. and legacy i'm happy to be a part of what they've built here but you know you just you just so i think about it is only man you just go together. captain did ash chamomile has had his first century since taking over as his country's test captain he scored an unbeaten one hundred fifty five against pakistan in the u.a.e. helping sri lanka reach four hund

and other famous athletes like basketball star le bron james have also been speaking out because this guy. put in charge has to try to divide us once again the nature of the protests arm precedented and will continue save the athletes until the u.s. overcomes the racial divisions they say persist kimberly how could al-jazeera washington well for more on both of these a battle from president trump i'm joined by a political reporter for news website think progress thanks very much for joining us on al jazeera let's go to the n.f.l. question to start with he has really gone up against dissolved players much loved sports players in the u.s. and their overseas fighting but with a very visual display of going against him how can this work for him and indeed is already backfiring. i don't think this can work for him i do think that this will backfire the movement for social justice in sports has a long history in the united states but it has definitely picked up steam since the president started to make the comments that he has made about you know calling cabinet and then disinviting steph c

basketball superstar le bron james has lashed out at u.s. president donald trump over his decision to disinvite n.b.a. champions the golden state warriors from visiting the white house in a message on twitter the warriors player labeled the us president a bomb saying that he was no longer it was no longer an honor to visit the white house during his presidency the latest war of words kicked off when trump slammed several national football league players for protesting during the national anthem against racial injustice one of the basketball players singled out by trump and mentioned in the bron james this tweet had this to say about the president's actions. president has the things that he said and the things that. he hasn't said in the rights that we won't stand for and by acting or not going hopefully that will. inspire some change when it comes to what we tolerate in this country and what is accepted and what is what we turn a blind eye eye to. i mean it's not just the act of not going there are for things that you have to do in the back

trump responded by apparently revoking the of the taishan for the whole team basketball superstar le bron james then hit back by calling the president a bum on twitter he said it was no longer an honor to visit the white house during the trump presidency. well thousands of athletes are out on the streets of germany's capital for the berlin marathon and for the elite runners kenya has won both the men's and the women's braces. cooper. took the first for the men's he just missed the world record in damp conditions mean time compatriot glad he's cherno was the winner in the women's race the two kenyans both won as well twenty fifteen and we wish them if they congratulations in the bundesliga action dortmund face off against mountain glad buck in saturday's late game dortmund have been flying high at the top of the standings almost scoring at will club back meanwhile have also had a respectable start to the campaign and have yet to lose on the road so could they put an end to dortmund stunning form of a look. the stage was set for the big show in dortmund but it took the home team a while to

for taking a need but he tweeted that standing for the anthem was quote big progress and meanwhile le bron james arguably the best basketball player in the world chided the president and defended his fellow athletes for challenging the government and mr trump landed a free but we still have problems just like everybody else and when we have those problems we have to figure out a way how we come together and be as great as we can be as a people because the people run this country not one individual or a going to a champions league football and dortmund take on real madrid in the group stages of the champions league this evening dortmund are riding high at the top of the bundesliga table but lost their group stage opener in the european competition real madrid at the champions league title holders in the toughest of tests even if their talisman cristiana rinaldo isn't in finest for when you are used to scoring as often as right now with two games without a goal is worrying. unfortunately for him. it's having any trouble finding it in the last three games in the bundesliga to have scored no f

opposition with the presidency le bron james said it best used to be an honor to go to the white house not anymore shouldn't is the american public presumably bad as a split on this issue as well. well absolutely and it's a it's a bit of a frightening time because sports is supposed to be a great unifier it is a meritocracy where the best play and the score determines who want to or not and now you have people who watch sports having to pick sides whether or not they want to support their local team of certain players are nearly you cannot put your finger directly on the pulse of what you or your neighbor feels about this protest some say it's nonviolent some say it's anti-patriotic whatever the case may be many eyeballs are going to be watching the n.f.l. and sporting contest to follow this entire year and during the president's reign should go to a low in los angeles thank you. and the forty four thousand competitors at the straits of germany's capital for the bold in math and today with kenyans winning that they would men's and women's rights athletes were up against a foggy conditi

and other famous athletes like basketball star le bron james have also been speaking out because this guy we've. put in charge has to try to divide us once again the nature of the protests arm precedented and will continue say the athletes until the u.s. overcomes the racial divisions they say persist kimberly how could al-jazeera washington it's been six days since a seven point one earthquake devastated mexico city and the surrounding regions killing more than three hundred people rescue efforts continue for those believed to be still trapped alive under the rubble but thousands more mexicans are without a home al jazeera is hiding joe castro is there. with government estimates of more than a thousand buildings seriously damaged by tuesday's quake in mexico city it's the lucky ones who still have a home. and his wife and daughter escaped only with their lives. when we would about to eat then that for all roles like this then because that there was this talk we couldn't get out again to for all rows and it'll open the family is now among the thousands of people staying in shelters ma

put in charge has taught us try to divide us once again and other athletes like basketball star le bron james say they'll also continue to speak out and they'll keep being vocal until america overcomes the racial divisions they say persist kimberly halkett al-jazeera washington. trumps travel ban which affects travelers from six muslim majority countries will expire on sunday and it's thought it will we replace by a new ban that applies to more countries the original order has been contested by protests and legal challenges since it went into effect ninety days ago it currently ball citizens of iran libya somalia sudan syria yemen from traveling to the united states as well as most refugees. after i was in me a shake tell him been ham out our family has received a warm welcome home after his chips to europe the un general assembly grounds of locals and ex-pats gathered to greet him seemingly to refute rumors from gulf media outlets that capture is wants a change of leadership a country has been under blockade by four of its neighbors for more than three months saudi arabia the u.a.e. an

and other famous athletes like basketball star le bron james have also been speaking out because this guy we've. put in charge has to try to divide us once again the nature of the protests arm precedented and will continue say the athletes until the u.s. overcomes the racial divisions they say persist kimberly how good al-jazeera washington. this is al jazeera these are the top stories german chancellor i'm going to marco has won a fourth term in office in the country's general election but she's admitted there will be tough negotiations before she can forge a new coalition the conservative party has suffered its worst result in her twelve years in power and follows a surge in support for the far right a f d party when that's really the most annoying of course we are facing a huge task they after entering parliament will carry out a profound acis because we want to win back the voters of the air by solving problems and listening to their lorries and sometimes that fares. through politics . u.s. president donald trump has signed off on new travel restrictions on citizens from eight cou

on the football field we've also seen in the arena of basketball prominent basketball stars like le bron james speaking out on social media criticizing the comments by the president and also to on saturday we saw the first baseball player taking a knee in a stand with his fellow players across teams for so certainly this is become a movement the united states that even extends to music star stevie wonder taking not one knee but two before his concert saturday night new york saying that what this country needs right now is prayer and that's why he was praying for the future of the divisions that exist in the united states or it could be how could live in washington thank you. undermined of the top stories on al-jazeera the german chancellor angela merkel appears to have easily won a fourth term in power as polls suggest her party won a third of votes in the parliamentary election merkel's current coalition partners the social democrats led by martin shorts are expected to win around twenty percent of the vote a historic low for the sense of their party they've said they will leave merkel'

and other famous athletes like basketball star le bron james have also been speaking out because this guy we've. put in charge has to try to divide us once again the nature of the protests arm precedented and will continue save the athletes until the u.s. overcomes the racial divisions they say persist kimberly hell kid al-jazeera washington. it's been a month since hurricane harvey devastated parts of southern texas a place called port arthur was particularly hard hit port arthur is home to the biggest oil refinery in the u.s. and people there are worried about the possibility of toxic contamination and she have returns. when we arrived to meet community activist hilton kelly important arthur texas he was unloading a truck full of supplies donated by nearby houston's sikh community care and good. just called a. place it's estimated that between three and five thousand residents of this town have been displaced three quarters of the houses were inundated with water lining its streets like so many neighborhoods across southern texas piles of water damaged furniture. kelly and his famil

of the united states to come out and to attack stef curry, to attack colin kaepernick, to attack le bron james, to suker punch the golden state warriors and dus invite them to the white house, he is losing the battle for hearts and minds. >> edwards was honored with the eupty award. he said that the only way to know how authentic the protests are is to see if there is a move from protests to progress. >> we have been asking you about taking a knee, our question of the day is, what would you do if you were on the field. >> 39 said you could stand with your hand on your heart. fort 9% -- 49% would take a knee. jennifer says take a knee, nobody has a right to tell any american citizen when or how to enact their first amendment rights. >> one person said i do not support these protests. >> getting a lot of tweets on this, as i expected. a couple of tweets said things like, how pathetic are we that this is the question of the day, questioning the fact that people are questioning something that they have done for most of their life. >> i have a twitter answer saying, since this is about racism

in partnership and basketball is real and i think wayne wade is joining any superstar le bron james at the cleveland cavaliers the pair played alongside they tell their four seasons at the miami heat winning back to back tampa ships james left miami in two thousand and fourteen wade was at the chicago bulls last season but has agreed to a buyout of his contract. i mean is that i was is a different time it would be moments you know i would want to play together we want to plug and play off each other very well miss a different team it's a different time i mean i think everybody want to return to the lobs and all that i definitely thought oh yes he does get he will go get em i mean those will happen but you know the biggest thing you want to be can do is success in and i'm like i said i would be a part of what they've built here but you know you just we just so i prayed about enjoy the man and just go together. russell westbrook has class around him as the all to home a city thunder he also now has the richest contract in n.b.a. history the reigning most valuable player agreeing to a dea

star le bron james sends a message to u.s. president donald trump testing times in american sports. through trying. to use and if it. had a tropical depression that never developed much more than that went across high now and yesterday and the clouds you can see has gone across into vietnam a lot of rain came from that in six hours not form and we just fell off the coast but that's going to dissolve disintegrate and do is down just to make people rather too wet in northern thailand and probably myanmar in the next day or so and vietnam still got the feed of the moisture jesting more showers on that because there's a big gap and to pick up shanghai under the green is repetition of rain has been falling recently more than a month's worth in one day fell a couple days ago which of course is the problem shanghai. lies developing once more so i think the potential for fed is going to be realized it's. the south of forty one is forecasting fuzhou that really is quite outstanding in hong kong thirty four degrees otherwise so fairly dry they do expect the rain bands to be going south this t

star le bron james who plays for the cleveland cavaliers tweeted this to the president you bomb stephan curry already said he going so therefore no invite going to white house was a great honor until you showed up. kenya has lost the right to host the twenty eighteen shand tournament that is the event stage every two years for african national teams featuring only locally based players will kenya was set to host next year but at the cuff meeting in ghana it was decided to strip the east african nation of its hosting rights say kenya's preparations are simply too far behind schedule morocco and the theo pierre are reportedly the two candidates likely to step in and host shaun politics were also front and center when the legal leaders barcelona faced as your own or in catalan and it's a back drop of on rest over the state's independence to own goals and louis was striking were enough for barcelona to win the match three now and there are plenty of catalonia flags on display at this match. early in the day real madrid returned to winning ways it with a two one win at this let it go my days

anthem demographic studies have shown that nascar has a predominantly white following but people star le bronjames of the cleveland cavaliers has added he's always to the debate he was not shy to speak out against trump but then to kind of frustrated me and me off a little bit is the fact that he's now he used sport he used the sports platform to try to divide us and sport and sports is so so so amazing what sports can do for everyone no matter the shape or size or race or ethnicity or religion or whatever people find teams people find players people find colors because of sport and they just gravitate towards and it is make them so happy and and it brings people together like none other and. we're not going to let i'm not going to let while i have this platform so that one individual no matter the power no matter the. mpeg they he should have or she should have. ever used sport as a platform to divide us. joining me now from oregon portland jewel the boy cough is a professor of political science at pacific university also writes on politics and sports will thank you for your time why has thi

and other famous athletes like basketball star le bron james have also been speaking out because this guy that we've. put in charge has taught us try to divide us once again the nature of the protests arm precedented and will continue save the athletes until the u.s. overcomes the racial divisions they say persist kimberly hell kid al jazeera washington well a short time ago president trump defended his criticism of the players on their protests he says his objection has nothing to do with race. we have a great country we have great people representing our country in fact we are told. they can be good but we are back and getting. back to american flag or the and that's not big. that's nothing to do with race i've never said anything about right this is nothing to do with race anything else has to do with respect for our country and respect from. a let's bring in iran candy he's the founding director of the anti-racist research and policy center at american university's hayes in washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for your time so the president says this is not about race is it.

but ball players and coaches have added a voices to the debate to cleveland cavaliers star le bron jamesdid not hold back with his assessment is powerful what they are is after these are gone you know we've had the first baseball player to do it two nights ago i believe wasn't it two nights ago. yes that's phenomenal so you know i commend these guys and i commend everybody is just trying to make a difference because it's not about started as we need to get this it's not about the dish or speck of the flag and our military and everybody has made this world free it is about equality and people have an. option and the freedom to speak up on things that they feel that's not unjust each one of them. has the right and the ability to. say what they would like to say and act the way they like to act and they have our full support. and no matter what they might want to do or not do. is important to them respected by us and there's no recrimination earlier i spoke to jules boyd coffee who is a professor of political science at pacific university boycott says the notion that sports and politics do

and other famous athletes like basketball star le bron james have also been speaking out because this guy we've. put in charge has to try to divide us once again the nature of the protests arm precedented and will continue save the athletes until the u.s. overcomes the racial divisions they say persist kimberly how could al-jazeera washington if i'm candy is founding director of the anti-racist research and policy center in american university he says chum's comments appear to be exactly about race we've seen the way he will sponsor these players calling these players s.o.b.'s but then when we compare the way he responded to those people defending confederate monuments he classify those people as quote i think people are scratching their head because either americans have the right to protest or americans don't either we all have the right to protest you know these players have the right to protest against racism just like people have the right to go to protest for confederate monuments or none of us do you can't you know the president can't pick and choose who he's going to the fan w

yet together again dwayne wade is joining and will be a superstar le bron james at the cleveland cavaliers to play together for four seasons of the mind heat winning back to back championships james left miami in two thousand and fourteen wade was at the chicago bulls last season. and russell westbrook having the richest contract in n.b.a. history was one of the top trends around the world the reigning m.v.p. agreeing to a contract extension with the oklahoma city thunder worth two hundred five million dollars for five years now don't forget you can always share your videos or get in touch with us the hash tag is news grad or you can tweet me directly at f. under score if now but for now it's back to leah. thank you farai there's lots of conversation coming out of kenya unlike most news in kenya these days it's related to the upcoming election rerun students at the university of nairobi were protesting on thursday against the arrest of an opposition figure and police crackdown quite hard they fired tear gas arrested several protesters and are accused of beating students at the university n

winning star stephan curry to visit the white house the response of cleveland cavaliers star le bron james to trump on twitter calling him a bum has attracted more than one point too. million likes we all know how much sports brings us together how much passion has how much we love and caring you know the friendships and everything that he creates a for him to try to use this platform to divide us even more. is not something not to stand for. on saturday oakland athletics concha bruce maxwell became the soloist major league baseball player to kneel during the national anthem the way i did it was to symbolize the fact that i'm kneeling for a cause but at the but i'm in no way or form disrespecting my country or my flag with a total of fourteen n.f.l. games the sunday many more players could followed us home and al jazeera. now this is one of the biggest stories on the internet more than one point three million tweets have been sent using this has tag take a knee president trump has managed to upset many of america's most popular athletes and many of them have millions of followers so

some of the top athletes in the united states not just in football but also basketball including le bron james who campaigned for hillary clinton in the last u.s. election have put out their own tweets firing back at the president for injecting himself in the already sort of painful discussion ongoing discussion in the united states over race ridiculing him for those comments and also name calling back themselves this is just sort of the latest manifestation by the president who continues to inject himself into the issue of race in america one that the country seems to be struggling over still and certainly this is something that is not being well received by not only the owners of the head of the n.f.l. but also many of the players families their supporters and of course the enormous number of fans that you point out attend these games watch these games very much on a sunday here in the united states so yes these surface this does seem to be a spat between the president the united states and some high profile athletes but issues as you said you know there's a lot of deeper issues here a

superstar le bron james at the cleveland cavaliers the pair played alongside it for four seasons at the miami heat winning back to back him his hips. i mean is that i was is a different time it would be moments you know i would want to play together we want to plug and play off each other very well miss a different team it's a different time i mean i think everybody want to return to the lobs and all that i definitely thought oh yes he does get he will go get on the meadows what happened but you know the biggest thing you want to be can do is success in and i'm like i say i'm happy to be a part of what they've built here but you know you just we just so i prayed about and saw the man just go together. russell westbrook has class around him as the alcohol in the city thunder he also now has the richest contract in n.b.a. history the reigning most valuable player agreeing to a deal worth two hundred five million dollars for five years tony westbrook at the thunder formidable forwards paul george will come along antony. well sprint champion justin gatlin says he won't be taken any in prote