326 points on friday, that is 1. 4 . Other markets in the Asia Pacific Region were much higher as you can see here. Lets go to tokyo, and we are seeing the Prime Minister looking like he is ready to start speaking. Lets listen in. Translator whenever you have questions, you Say Something and you can take off your masks based on judgment. First, there will be remarks given by Prime Minister abe and then after that, we take questions from the floor. Mr. Prime minister. The summer heat is going on. To the people in japan, the support to the people of covid covid19. The measures what we have done. There have been requests from the Central Government what they have done for us on covid19 countermeasures. We have been fighting against invisible enemy. We try to minimize the infection as much as possible. We try to avoid the symptoms of the people to protect the lives of people from time to time based on expertise. The government has done its level best, thats what i think. But many people ha
Hands of police who is now paralyzed in the hospital still. His father was on cnn earlier today, and hes said that his son is not only in pain but that hes also shackled to a hospital bed. Again, hes paralyzed and shackled to a hospital bed. President trump, he made no mention of jacob blake as he accepted the Republican Partys nomination in front of a packed crowd outside the white house last night. Instead, he continued to hammer away at his message that really has been his message since the 2016 campaign of law and order painting a dark picture of America Today including in the city where jacob blake was shot. We must never allow mob rule. We can never allow mob rule. The Republican Party condemns the rioting, looting, arson and violence we have seen in democratrun cities all, like kenosha, minneapolis, portland, chicago and new york. So were going to get back to the president s remarks in a moment but lets start with the march on washington. Many speakers, including members of the
United states. Reporter using the four days of the Republican National convention to paint a much different narrative. We developed from scratch the largest and most advanced testing system anywhere in the world. Reporter President Trump upended the traditions of a national convention, delivering a blistering 70minute speech in support of his reelection tonight taxpayerowned south lawn of the white house. The fact is, were here and theyre not. Reporter talking up his accomplishments and using the current strife in American Cities taking place under his watch to warn voters about a joe biden administration. If the radical left takes power, they will apply their disastrous policies to every city, town, and suburb in america. Reporter his speech capped off with a massive fireworks display, was impressively staged, but was rife with falsehoods. Cnn counted more than 20 false and misleading statements, just a portion of which were recapped by cnns fact checker, daniel dale. He claimed again
Police shooting of jacob blake. Im looking into it very strongly. Ill be getting reports. Ill certainly let you know. We are so grateful for your company, as always. Its saturday, august 29th, im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Youre in the cnn newsroom. Were starting this morning with kenoshas police union and an attorney for the family of jacob blake. Theyre describing very different versions of what they say led to blakes shooting. Weve seen the video of the moments before the shooting. There is no agreement as far as we can tell on what that video actually shows, though. Walk us through this, will you . Reporter yeah. There is no agreement yet. And so weve heard from the union now. The union that represents this officer that was involved in the shooting. The family, though, is not buying that argument. Mr. Blakes family, obviously the moments in that video that weve seen what led to the attack. Theyre saying that there has to be an imminent threat. They dont see it. That is acco
Under guard skmaband shackled t bed in a hospital after a previous arrest warrant was vacated. In an emotional and exclusive cnn interview, blakes father asked why he was so the hot so times. And the u. S. Death toll tops 181,000 people, a Key University of washington model is now forecasting more than 317,000 u. S. Deaths by december 1st. Amid all of this, President Trump is out there on the campaign trail already, fresh from the Republican Convention last night, and his acceptance speech before a large and mostly unmasked crowd, then and now remaining largely silent on the crisis facing the country. Lets begin this hour in kenosha, wisconsin. Cnns omar jiminez is on the scene for us. Some major developments in the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Update our viewers. Reporter thats right, wolf. For starters, jacob blake is no longer shackled to his hospital bed, his attorney says. And thats because the previous felony warrants against him have been vacated, again, according to the atto