america over. just before it's over there will be the 1st revenue we can continue to keep the rules to be different that's what you mean by that route makes you think you freeze to free. the. a judge rejects the u.s. president's bid to block the publication of a controversial book by his former national security adviser john bolton. hello again i'm just as he a tale and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a powerful u.s. attorney who is investigating president on trans allies refuses to resign despite efforts to remove him. a high profile congolese politician who is widely expected to run for president is sentenced to 20 years codd labor in prison for corruption.

and demands for racial justice protests in parts of europe with growing calls for controversial statues to be torn down. now just hours before donald trump makes a big pitch to be reelected as u.s. president a court has paved the way for the publication of a tell all book on his time so far and office a judge has rejected trump's last ditch attempt to block the release by his former national security adviser john bolton now in that book bolton alleges the president sort china's help to win reelection a president from tweeted after that verdict he said bolton had been all washed up until he was given a chance at the white house despite the judge's ruling trump said his. former

advisor had broken the law by including classified information in the book and he said bolton must pay a very big price for what he's done on let's get more now from mike hanna who's in washington d.c. mike the president has been getting even more vocal about all this talk us through as well the judges reading. indeed yes well the basis of the judge's ruling was quite simple he said the horse had left the bomb he's referring to the fact that contents of bolton spoke of being widely published in the u.s. media in recent days but judge in his decision finding that the government had not proved that release of the book would harm it the public would not be harmed basically he's arguing that the book is already out there and therefore there's no need for an emergency injunction but the judge as well was highly critical of john bolton saying his summation that bolton had gambled with national security and had

opened himself to civil and possibly criminal proceedings so the judge is very very strong on bolton but despite all of this the book is out there in a few days time the public can read in full the allegations made by john bolton against the presidency but president trump himself as you mentioned is seeing this as a success he says this is a big court when in another tweet he goes on and says that referring to bolton he liked to drop bombs on people now we are going to drop bombs on him very clearly president trump is intent on pushing charges against john bolton which is likely to happen in the weeks ahead or mike given that as you say and as the judge says a lot of the contents of that book were already in the public domain is the fallout here rather from the justice department wading into all of this at this very late stage. well the justice department hasn't had a very good few weeks since the last 2 cases in the supreme court of the united states

one in particular on the dreamers the immigrant case because they hadn't done their homework properly they was ruled out on administrative reasons then of course you've got a situation in this particular case where the judge made very clear that john bolton had walked away from the review process before it was finished the judge implied that if bolton the justice department had brought an injunction at that stage when bolton walked away and not meeting his a legal duty to go through a full review process and importantly before excerpts from the book at being published then the outcome may have been very different so the judge raising questions about the justice department and the fact that it was sort of late in bringing this emergency injunction when it could have done so weeks ago so harsh words for the justice department which as i said hasn't exactly a shot in in recent weeks my candidate for us with all the latest from washington

d.c. thank you very much mike well as we've been saying it's an election year and trump is preparing for his 1st campaign rally since the current a virus outbreak oklahoma's top court has ruled that the event intel site can go ahead in the coming hours despite the attempts to stop it because if is that it could western the pandemic and that's not the only controversy as rob reynolds reports. supporters of president donald trump have camped out for days outside the arena in tulsa 2 whether by choice or lack of historical knowledge president trump has chosen to kick off his reelection campaign in a city notorious for racist violence and mass murder in 1921 tolson's prosperous greenwood neighborhood was known as black wall street when rumors spread about an encounter between a black teenage boy in a white girl armed gangs of law. whites rampage through greenwood killing and burning planes dropped incendiary bombs witnesses said some tulsa police officers

set fire to homes and businesses while others stood by without intervening up to 300 african-americans were killed people saw bodies. lined up on the sand bars in the arkansas river and people talked about how bodies washed up downstream. and their people who said they saw people being tossed into mass graves. in 2020 told so remain segregated with a history of racially discriminatory policing as protests over the killing of george floyd in minneapolis seethed a senior toles a police officer said this in a radio interview. probably. in 2016 a black man named turns crutcher was shot and killed by

a white policewoman while standing next to his vehicle was unarmed the officer was acquitted of manslaughter tiffany crutcher is terence's twin sister in the same policing culture that burnt down my great grandmother's community black wall street also known as the greenwood community is the same culture that continues to persist the day is the same culture they killed my twin brother trump one oklahoma overwhelmingly in 2016 why then hold a rally in a state he'll almost certainly carry again. once. and. i think a large part of the president's reelection effort is going to be. the strategy could back fire brand the middle of

a pandemic and this will be the 1st large event since we've shut down everything after this family and it turns out there is a significant outbreak. among. i think that's really going to put into jeopardy the president's strategy it's a volatile combination the history of massacre a bitterly divided nation on edge and a deadly virus spreading fast with a president poised to stir up the brew rob reynolds al-jazeera. donald trump is also my another control of the scene after his attorney general tried to fire a top federal prosecutor so he's investigated as a number of the president's associates jeffrey bannon is refusing to step down and says he will continue his walk. as alexia bryan reports. as the top federal prosecutor in manhattan jeffrey berman has led several investigations into corruption close to the u.s. president's inner circle today in indictment charging love. igor.

in october last year he announced charges against 2 men linked to donald trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani they were accused of trying to buy influence of u.s. policy in ukraine and a case that added fuel to the calls for troops in peach meant they saw political influence not only to advance their own financial interests but to advance the political interests of at least one foreign official. these cases and an investigation into giuliani have concern to the trumpet ministration on friday night attorney general william announced berman was leaving his position saying that the president intends to nominate jay clayton the current chairman of the securities and exchange commission a lawyer with no experience as a prosecutor statement ending by thanking jeffrey berman describing him as stepping down after 2 and a half years of service their only problem is jeffrey berman says he's not going

anywhere releasing his own statement i learned in a press release from the attorney general tonight that i was stepping down as united states attorney i have not resigned and have no intention of resigning my position the trumpet ministration has a growing reputation for forcing out anyone seen as disloyal in recent weeks the president has fired a number of agency watchdogs including the inspector general of the intelligence community whose actions led to the impeachment inquiry but offered no explanation for attempting to replace berman a republican who once donated to trump's campaign democrats have accused barr of politicizing the department of justice and acting more like trump's personal lawyer barr. or. her. senate democrat chuck schumer of new

york has tweeted the dismissal reeks of potential corruption of the legal process questioning what action by berman had motivated the president burmans laid cases against transform a personal lawyer michael cohen and convicted sex offender jeffrey abstain he says he'll continue to pursue justice without fear or favor until a presidential pointed replacement is confirmed by the senate and exam brian al-jazeera. well as alexie mentioned then her story president trump has dismissed several watchdogs now their official title is inspectors general and they ensure that no crimes are committed in near agencies acting i.g. for health christie grim published a survey showing u.s. hospitals lack of readiness for the curve in 1000 crisis trump then called it fake and nominated someone else to take over the permanent role trouble so fired the intelligence inspector general michael atkinson in april he handled the whistleblower complaint about trump's phone call with the ukrainian president the

one which led to his impeachment and then steve linnik was pushed out of the state department last month he was said to be investigating the secretary of state mike pompei oh and also an arms deal between the white house and saudi arabia the firings of both clinic and atkinson like ben and were announced on friday nights well earlier i spoke to melanie sloan she's a former federal prosecution and now with the public affairs from some of the strategies she says bilbo is facing a credibility problem. issued a release saying that mr berman step down and that was just clearly a lot mr berman has not resigned and this is on top of other countries mr barr as toby keith the lead in regard to the release of the mother report when he deliberately mis characterized it mr barr than asking much more like mr trump personal wire that he had than the head of the justice department it is understandable really to think of how republicans in the senate who are staying

quiet through all of this would have reacted in the obama administration had eric holder suddenly fired a u.s. attorney investigating people related to obama but here you have mr barr stepping in to stop investigations apparently that mr trump doesn't like primary among those under the treaty investigation of rudolph giuliani that ongoing in the southern district of new york but that's not the only one there are many ongoing investigations there that all touch on president trump and it seems that trump wants to do everything he can to stop. still ahead on out of there be ready to deploy egypt's president tells his military they could be sent on a mission to libya. struggling to preserve tradition we meet payroll takeoffs and what that risk of becoming a thing suppose. there

has been and then may yet be flooding in it's just a bunch of thunderstorms here more that's consistent with the monsoon trough going north through india is throwing off something on its western and have specifically in the forecast for sunday and monday there's nothing really the case to show us possibly still the shabat is going out of iraq circulates through. they're hard towards us and curling back into society has become dusty not quite as strong as it was a couple days ago but it still bloody doesn't affect the temps as much was 2 talking middle forty's for the most part baghdad's come down to 41 or 42 and he may well be that coolish trend might knock things back on monday to below 40 and there who are still like to be a dusty windows say otherwise is called hot and sunny as is throughout north africa algeria funnily enough as have higher temperatures and yesterday was the hottest place in the world central algeria to the low forty's now has come down little bit

and the north coast being breezy isn't particularly hot about such degrees. to the time he is a watch of a big shot civility in the highlands then running as a big mass through west africa nothing much forming this is early next couple of days they have big shows big ones in west africa but the time being taking a backseat. to. frank assessments tourism but income stream is dead in the water what's been the result is he pushing a lot more significantly and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s.

politics and society on al-jazeera. have amnesty and let's remind you about top stories this hour a u.s. court has. rejected president transmit to block the release of a book by former national security adviser john bolton the judge says the book carries national security concerns but he couldn't stop its publication. powerful new york prosecutor jeffrey bauman is refusing to leave his job despite the u.s. attorney general saying he'd been fired and had been investigating this story see its president trump. one of democratic republic of congo's high profile politicians has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with hard labor for corruption

a court and can shots are found to be talcum or hate guilty of embezzling more than 50 $1000000.00 from a public housing fund has served as a presidential chief of staff and was also seen as a potential successor to president felix just a kitty and his supporters say the trial was politically motivated we can now speak to maurice carney he's the executive director of friends of the congo race thank you for joining us i want to start with this ruling because of corruption amongst elites in the d.l.c. is widely acknowledged to be endemic do you believe that this is a genuine step towards holding people to account does today's ruling surprise you. well it is surprising to some extent you have to understand the history of it ok mary's a big fish as it is stated in that he was instrumental in getting president could be re-elected in 2000 sticks he served as president of the parliament 206-2009 and he was instrumental in getting

a few extra security elected the presidency in 2018 and so he's not a small figure in the country so the fact that they were a process that resulted in such a huge political figure being sentenced to 20 years of hard labor is quite a stunning in and of itself now the people on the side of the union for demarking social progress would say that this is a sign of the president holding to the creed of the his party and of his father it interested katie in instituting what they call the rule of law on the other hand. can marry side is his party and party members of the union for congolese nation which states a political process trumped up because there was a deal established between security ameri that in 2018 just security will be sent

to the presidency and then 2023 when the next elections come around it would be vetoed the marriage turn and chicken in his party would back them so you have these 2 divisions in the country as it relates to at least among the political elite anyone's maries this does appear to be a bit of a double edged sword which is a caddy you know on the one hand he's now had a powerful political competitor removed from the scene and it also but it's his fight against corruption but he's also now lost an ally against kabila so how does this play out for him going forward. it's interesting that you say he's lost an ally against bill or because he's in coalition with could be the common front for the congo as we you know as we speak however he certainly certainly will be weakened because he would have lost their union for the congolese nation as this is key partner so it's going to be he's only has a limited movement. feeling sick living their lives civil is room for maneuver now

is as strong especially as it comes to. 2023 elections however one thing about congolese politics is that situations are shifting people are already formed coalition in the job and so you you should expect some other coalitions to be formed before 2023 election so i mean you say politics in the d.l.c. is very fluid and has been this very powerful political player for years with kabila and then with just a kennedy now he's been banned from politics i believe for 10 years is this the end of the road to have to have to if if the verdict stands they have 15 days to appeal so this will be certainly the end of his political career should it stand morey's kani there the executive director of friends of the congo thank you very much for joining us great to get your insights on al-jazeera thank you ok now zimbabwe's health minister has appeared and of course accused of illegally awarding

a company with a multimillion dollar contract for coronavirus medical supplies odium oir was arrested by the anti corruption agency there on friday in a scandal dubbed the gate moyer allegedly chose a company called drax international to provide the government with medical equipment at inflated prices he was granted bail and is due back in court on july. gyptian president sisi has ordered the army to be ready to carry out missions abroad including in libya since he made those comments during a tour of an air base near egypt's western border with libya he also warned turkey against attacking the strategic city of sirte saying that would cross a red line and trigger a direct military intervention from egypt. but it would take it in the u.s. needed to carry out any missions what i witnessed is a living proof for keeping abilities i can see egypt's army is one of the mightiest muse in the region i am certain if we need

a few sacrifices like those being created don't over the past 7 years along the borders with libya you are prepared to carry out any mission with no home soil or different quiet beyond our borderlines and turkey is now calling on war ok if i have to pull his forces from the libyan city of set for a sustainable cease fire a spokesman for the turkish president also accused fronts of jeopardizing nato security by backing hafta have to us forces had been pushed back from tripoli to set in recent weeks after they failed to seize the capital in a 14 month and so now china has renewed its claim of a disputed border region where 20 indian soldiers were killed last week beijing says the got one valley region is an entire is entirely inside china and has accused indian troops of entering its territory india's government on the other hand has rejected china's claims saying its troops are familiar with the line of control for the 4th weekend in a row black lives matter protest as

a rallying in cities across the united kingdom there are 3 separate marches just in the capital london one began outside the u.s. embassy and continued to parliament square and hundreds more protesters gathered for another rally in hyde park correspondent bob hope was with some of those protesters outside problems. well this is part of the crowd of people who've gathered in central london on saturday there are others who marched from a high park several 100 here in parliament square by the statue of winston churchill which is no longer boarded up speakers have been highlighting the need for unity in keeping the momentum behind the movement they talked about issues including the way that the police force police forces here in britain deal with black people there have been a number of deaths in police custody over the last 2 decades and the feeling is that there's never any accountability let alone convictions but also talked about the stigmatize ation of some black people as mentally ill when they are in contact

with the all forty's now there have been chance of say his name references to george floyd of course that's what set off this round of protests but there are underlying issues which is still important to these people including education knowledge of the colonial past of this country as well as the us i'm not so led to debate about which statues should remain not how history is taught but i think going forward their main concern is that people still understand that britain in their words is not innocent. well crowds have also gathered in paris to protest against racism and police brutality hundreds of people made their way to a public square carrying balloons and plaque and some of those messages called for justice for even him about a black man who died in a police operation last year. the number of new coronavirus infections has been on

the rise in the countries of the western balkans although restrictions there have almost been completely eased entirely lucia's has this update from belgrade. number of people infected with corona virus is on the rise through the balkans region northern macedonia and serbia recorded the highest increase of newly infected in the past couple of days with bosnia and herzegovina close behind them because of that croatia that still has a low infection rate compared to its neighbors is tightening borders so serbian citizens and citizens of boston and her sick are allowed to enter the country only if they have a valid reason the only country in the region that had previously declared itself coronavirus free was montenegro but even there infections are on the rise again new daily infections the serbia are on 100 for the last couple of days regardless of that the country's preparing for parliamentary elections on sunday with health

officials advising everyone to use protective measures everything meola just claimed that there is no reason for alarm yet a new coronavirus hotspots keep emerging around the country despite the calls to keep distance and follow health advice authorities allowed football matches to be held with up to $25000.00 spectators at the stadiums with summer calm an increase in tourists traveling around the region and people are starting to get worried that early easing dialogue down across the balkans may bring even more infections of covert 19 police and deloris have arrested dozens of protesters and journalists during an opposition rally a reporter for radio free europe has seen being taken away by plane try and offices here while filming a live video hundreds of people gathered to back candidates seeking to run against president alexander lukashenko he's looking to secure a 6. now one of the yemeni government largest special forces camps has been taken

over by southern separatists on the island of the katra it comes a day after they stormed a local government building in the city of her the u.a.e. backed southern transitional council is fighting for control of the island from the saudi bath yemeni government. while some of iraq's most traditional kraftwerk is at risk of vanishing as a nationwide financial crisis hits home grown industries the government hopes that prioritizing the development of its private sector will help its otherwise oil dependent economy simona fault and reports since he was a child a bus car bomb has built traditional furniture from palm fronds his precise moves are the result of generations of expertise passed down from his father and grandfather but now the trade is a driskell of dying out or logging more valuable. my children haven't learned it and they don't want to learn it well the son of boss he tried but he prefers to

work as a porter at construction sites. during saddam hussein's time chairs and beds made of palm fronds where household item in iraq their mesh designs suited for a country summer heat but out of the 20 shops that used to be here only 4 are left cheap imports from turkey and china have eroded demand for iraq he made goods and you are going to see more than one customer he came to me and said why do you sell the chair for 10 us dollars while the imported plastic chair costs half i told him this is different it's traditional it takes a lot of if it and this is stronger than the plastic but they don't care about that . last year government officials visited the market and in an effort to save it they plan to employ the workers in a state owned company similar to this one which specializes in producing handmade carpets back in the 1980 s. most of the factories output was shipped to saddam's palaces but designs have

hardly evolved to suit modern tastes and demand has dwindled. the goal is to preserve our heritage and to tell the world what we have in our country we are not looking for profit we are ready to lose money to promote our heritage as iraq slips deeper into a fiscal crisis sustaining such state owned companies could become increasingly difficult the solution to reviving traditional craftsmanship like many other sectors of iraq's economy lies not for much in government programs but in the private sector and there is one company in baghdad that is trying to do just that. the selling point for this company is quality and the made in iraq label its workshop a dozen employees who work on modern versions of traditional iraqi furniture. but convincing customers to pay extra remains a challenge and lowering the price would require scale and an environment that supports private sector investment. in my opinion the state isn't focused on

industry. if it was that offer the rule materials provide land provide investment licenses often machines particular workers with the social or the new government has made private sector development one of its priorities but for craftsman like to street is about to vanish such initiatives may come too late simona fulton al jazeera but doubt. that this is al-jazeera and these are the headlines a u.s. court has rejected president trump's bid to block the release of a book by his former national security advisor john bolton the judge says the book carries national security concerns but he couldn't stop its publication mike hanna has more from washington d.c. the basis of the judge's ruling was quite simple he said the horse had left the bar

and he's referring to the fact that contents of bolton spoke of being widely published in the us media in recent days the judge in his decision finding that the government had not proved that release of the book would harm it the public would not be harmed basically he's arguing that the book is already out there and therefore there is no need for an emergency injunction powerful new york prosecutor jeffrey badman is refusing to leave his job despite the u.s. attorney general saying he'd been fired but then had been investigating associates of president charm one of democratic republic of congo's high profile politicians has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with hard labor for corruption a court and found to be talcum or hay guilty of embezzling more than $50000000.00 from the public housing fund zimbabwe's health minister has appeared in court accused of illegally awarding a company with a multi-million dollar contract for corona virus medical supplies o.d.m.

more as a arrested by the anti corruption agency on friday. egyptian president has ordered his army to be ready to carry out missions abroad including in libya says he made the comments during a tour of an air base near egypt's western border with libya he also warned turkey against attacking the strategic city of sirte saying that it would cross a red line and trigger a direct military intervention from egypt for the 4th weekend in a row back lives matter protesters are rallying in cities across the u.k. there are 3 separate launches in london one began outside the u.s. embassy and continued to parliament square hundreds more protest as gathered for another rally and hyde park there demanding action on institutional racism well those are the headlines i'll be back with more news here on al-jazeera off the inside story stay with us.

the extends it sanctions on russia european leaders say moscow isn't keeping up its end of the cease fire deal in ukraine but all the sanctions we're looking at what is then there will to end the conflict this is what's. the welcome to the program in the wrong call the conflict in eastern ukraine is often called europe's forgotten will separatists backed by russia have been battling the ukrainian army since 2014 thousands of people have been.