Venice Film Festival gets underway but it might not be quite as you remember it our film critic is at the scene to tell us to lose food behind the mask. Im married to evanston its good to have you with us a series of twists and turns in the u. S. In the run up to the november president ial election and another in a long line of tell all books from former white house insiders has been leaked this one from president trumps former personal Attorney Michael Cohen now cohen was known as trumps fixer and is now serving a 3 year sentence for Campaign Finance violations and lying to congress one line from his book and time. Disloyal says that trump is guilty of the same crimes that landed cohen in prison. Well talk about this im joined by reporter joel dolerite whos in the studio with me hello to you joel ok so can you tell us what exactly is cohen alleging in this new book cohen is referring to payments made to silence 2 women who claim they had affairs with the president one of them being the porn actress Stormy Daniels now in his book cohen gives detailed descriptions of negotiations to pay the women now prosecutors say that those payments were essentially Campaign Contributions to Donald Trumps election campaigns that were undeclared and were there for a crime cohen says that trump all through as the payments and therefore if he was guilty trump should be to now trump has denied both your fares and making the payments and the white house has called cohen a liar and a convicted criminal which is factual cohen is now serving out that 3 year sentence from home detention all right but is there anything else in the bull anything new or surprising that could potentially damage traveling these things weve heard about before havent we we have heard much of it before but this time its coming from a person who was close to the president his personal lawyer right up until 2018 and he says hes even still loyal to the man now cohen says that trump is a chief ally of fraud a bully a racist a predator and a con man more specifically he says that trump disparaged religious leaders who prayed over him saying can you believe that anyone believes that b. S. He also alleges that trump made racist comments about hispanic and black voters saying that they were too stupid to vote for trump and he said all countries wrong by black people were s. Holes specifically referring to notes and mandela south africa the full book comes out on tuesday ok i know youre. The reading and joel interestingly so the leaked the leak details from this book follow a report in the atlantic magazine that also came out the other day that alleges trump made disparaging comments about American Military dead now according to that report trump refused to visit a military hostile Military Cemetery rather in france because it was quote filled with losers that now not surprisingly trump denies the story heres what he said you know it was a fake story written by a magazine that was probably not going to be around much longer but 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 and especially to me because i work for the military than almost anybody else all right so we just heard it trump denies the original story but joel parts of it are actually being corroborated by different Media Outlets im right so it 1st came out in the atlantic magazine but since then a. P. C. N. N. And most interesting fox news of all the cold corroborated parts of it of course fox news is usually quite loyal to the president now in response trump has called for the fox News Reporter to be fired ok well understandably these allegations of these statements by trump have has angered many veterans and also not surprising that the democratic president ial nominee joe biden has also jumped on this story lets listen to what he had to say. Trump has demonstrated he has no sense of service. No moral to do any cause other than himself 5 the honor be. The next commander in chief i will ensure that our american heroes. No i have their backs honor their sacrifice and those whove been injured will be in military parades all right joe biden speaking out there now joel there are only 2 more months left until the president ial election how do all of these things play out how will they affect the how military voters are going to go to the polls well 4 years ago trump went into the last election with a commanding lead in that particular demographic military voters he had a 20 percent lead over his opponent well now joe biden has a 4 percent lead in that demographic its not much but its still a huge turnaround from the last time however it is still quite a long time until the election on november 3 in political terms at least but well have to see how these new allegations and Michael Cohens new book affect voters and their responses. All right thank you so very much for following the story for us. All right lets turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news this hour a 2nd time food in a week is moving through east asia with high winds rain and Mass Evacuations japan has urged residents in the south to prepare for record rain and surging tides typhoon haitien is expected to move onto the Korean Peninsula in the coming days police in the british city of birmingham have declared a Major Incident after several people were stabbed overnight Emergency Services have been treating the injured roads have been closed and areas cordoned off while investigations continue the incident comes after several mass stabbing in the country. Thousands of women have marched through the belorussian capital minsk and other cities in a 4th week of protest against president Alexander Lukashenko this comes after his authority tarion government toughened its line under sent Security Forces arrested dozens more activists the exiled Opposition Leaders says a point of no return has been passed. Germanys foreign minister heiko mas has warned that berlin and its allies will discuss sanctions if russia does not shed light within days on Opposition Leader i would say of all me doctors treating the kremlin critic in berlin say he was poisoned with the nerve agent novi chalk moscow of possible consequences to the german russian north stream to gas pipeline. Arts and culture may have been badly hit by coronavirus but venice is in the middle of hosting the entertainment industrys 1st major festival since the pandemic began there are temperature checks that all entrances to the 77th venice Film Festival and everyone must wear a mask but that hasnt kept people away with some big names gracing the red carpet. And even hollywood actors are expected to follow the rules. Also following the rules with his mask is do roxboro from d. W. Culture of who is in venice scott i am very envious that you get to go now the festival is in full swing tell us what are the highlights so far. Yeah no its actually delightful here in venice and if i had to pick out some of the highlights the sort of big way festival id have to pick out Vanessa Kirby the british actress who maybe people know from netflix the series the crown where she plays Princess Margaret she has 2 films here 2 very different movies in pieces of a woman she plays a mother whos traumatized by the death of her child and it comes she plays a pioneer wife in 1900. 80 neighboring woman very very different but shes astounding in both of them very very different performances than ive ever seen from kirby and i think that of a necessary will definitely be at the top of the the list when it comes to the ending of the awards next week but if i have to pick my absolute highlight so far the Film Festival its outside the venice competition theres a film apples a greek movie and its set its sort of a fairy tale its set in a analog world so no cell phones no digital devices but somethings happening people are losing their memory theres a wave of amnesia and its basically the film is an allegory for whats happening to us where were sort of uploading our memories into apple like digital devices a very very charming film and shows sort of the magic of cinema really by highlight so far at the vet is told us. Well of course after months of the coronavirus lockdown scott the Film Industry is hoping for a sort of restart with this festival and also the city of venice itself now the city needs tourism but many locals hope it can resume in a new way lets have a look at this report and scott ill be talking to you again in a moment. Its only a stones throw from venice is famous st marks square to the arsenal quarter where many born and bred venetians live. Like ariana and her husband even on the run their own small pasta factory its a traditional business bridge. Resisting being displaced by mass tourism. Business is fragile its a delicate fine city and it doesnt need a certain kind of tourism if all you want to do in venice is take a walk then go to las vegas and visit the fake friends theyre not here. At the front of the store marianna wants to buy pasta quickly he has to repair electrical appliances but he couldnt make ends meet or get interested i had to change jobs because the local population was decreasing and i didnt have enough work to live off in short i became a gondolier so. Many people asked what kind of tourism really benefits venice during the height of the pandemic in italy the city was shut down for 10 weeks its still unusually empty the Guggenheim Museum now opens only 4 days a week the majority of visitors are italians the director recognizes the power of art particularly in a time of crisis. We must also think that about protecting it for us but also for future generations so if there is an opportunity and we have to see whether this opportunity will be will be taken and understood by the right people and the younger generations look well say corona could represent an opportunity to reimagine venice. Yes without mass tourism we arent slammed all the time we can be more cultivated ourselves this city deserves that. This is a moment for objectivity a new chance to rethink our city and protect it gentler of them welcoming to tourists but in moderation a potential path forward as venice looks towards a post corona future. So scart fewer people this year in venice at the festival and lots of rules obviously the masks give us a sense of the feeling the atmosphere in the city under these circumstances yes i have to say probably at least its been delightful i was just couldnt see it marks square yesterday and i have the place almost all to myself its so different i come here. All these other. Folks its the 1st time in my memory that you can really experience dennis as it used to be and i think its a like well i mean obviously the city survives on tourism and it needs the tourists to come back but i really hope that they do find a different way post pandemic a different way of doing a tourism so that you can really enjoy the delights of the city without having to. All right we seem to be having some difficulties with the audio from venice that was scott ross perots speaking to us from the venice Film Festival. 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