an intimate portrayal of isolation in one of the world's least understood countries . coronavirus lockdown iran people in power on a jersey. the stage is set in oklahoma for trump's 1st major campaign rally in months an event mired in controversy and concerns over the coronavirus it comes as a core to fuse is to block the publication of a controversial book about president top by former national security advisor john bolton. mothers and this is a doozy of a live from doha also coming up egypt's president warns libya's u.n. recognize government against trying to retake the strategic city of sirte and

orders his army to be ready for missions in libya. convicted of corruption a high profile congolese politician sentenced to 20 years hard labor in prison. u.s. president donald trump is in oklahoma for his 1st major public rallies since the coronavirus crisis began for his supporters that's good news but there are major concerns over the timing and the venue it's going to be held in tulsa it's a city which supported the president overwhelmingly in 2016 but one where racial divisions one deeply it was here in 1021 where 300 african americans were killed when a white mob attacked the affluent green community the rally follows weeks of anti racism protests across america and the. world in response to the police killing of

george floyd is also a health warning with officials concerned the number of people attending the trump a vent could lead to a surge in corona virus cases oklahoma has recorded its highest 70 average of new infections in the past week jay gray has more from outside the rally in tulsa. a handful of trump supporters had gathered here throughout the week camping out in the downtown tulsa area they were joined by thousands today attending the president's 1st rally in more than 3 months he's returning to the campaign trail here in tulsa a city and a state that provided overwhelming support for the president as he ran 4 years ago but it's at a time that many think perhaps he should of delayed this visit you've got juneteenth weekend going on right now in tulsa the side of one of the most horrific racially motivated massacres in u.s. history back in 1021 hundreds were reportedly killed an entire area of the city known as black wall street an area where. members of the african-american community

had businesses and homes and it was really a thriving community burned to the ground by angry white mobs over a 2 day period many said that it's an affront that the president would be here on the juneteenth weekend but the other pressing issue here is of course covert 19 oklahoma and tolson particularly have shown an uptick in positive test for the virus over the last few days and there's a big concern that gathering people inside this arena behind us as many as 19000 it will become a bit of a petri dish if you will and that it will create super spreaders that will spread the virus through this community and as people leave and go back to their homes and other communities as well there had been pleas from not only health officials here but even advisors to the president to back off on this a bit and wait a bit before holding this rally but he of course decided to press on here so it'll

be interesting to see how the rates change over the next couple of weeks once we see what happened here as far as the rallies concerned daughter frankly on roberts is the founder of the black lives not a syllabus said new york university he says trump is trying to use black a shoes as a political tool to rally his own base. this rally and salsa is in many ways an attempt to position what many would call white nationalists make america great again movement against what is clearly a rising black freedom black protest movement happening in the streets of america today donald trump in the republican party more broadly have long given up on their own actually having black voters as constituents they are interested however in using black people and black issues as props as mobilizing issues to mobilize a largely white working class base and so that's what this is this is not about speaking to black people this is about using black people. as

a way of actually inciting his bits we see rallies taking place in these historical sites like told of it is not by accident it's a part of a long play both by the republicans there really begins with the nixon administration of really trying to use black issues black social justice issues as a way to issues for white working class voters the republican party has been doing this again for decades but donald trump has based his entire presidency on this also just want to say this i think it's important for us to understand that this rally is also an act of desperation donald trump is an american president in peril and this is a presidency that may very well be on its dying leg and this is a movement the make america great again movement that may very well be on its dying leg and so this rally is a bold attempt to breathe life into a dying presidency and a dying white nationalist movement. ok these are pictures live from the airport and

told an oklahoma we've just seen president donald trump come down the steps of air force one he's talking to local dignitaries there he was then going to be moving on to the bank of oklahoma stadium in tulsa which is going to be where his rally is going to be held it holds about 900000 people the president is reported to have said about a 1000000 people had applied for tickets the crowds arriving there earlier on this evening were comparatively thin but they have been building up inside the stadium itself this it's been a difficult week for president trump he has been seeing a series unflattering bombshells which have been revealed in a new book by his former national security advisor john bolton and he's also been caught up in a battle between the attorney general and a new powerful u.s. attorney whom the attorney general has been trying to oust and that's president tom getting into the car to move to the stadium now let's talk about that story one of

new york's top federal prosecutors has agreed to step down after a standoff with the u.s. attorney general geoffrey had initially refused to resign saying he learned about the plan to place him at a press release and has led several top level corruption investigations into people close to the u.s. president's inner circle well that's just one of the legal battles being fought by the white house this week it also failed to block a tell all memoir by the former u.s. national security adviser as i mentioned john bolton's books now going to be released next week after a district court declined the legal request that it should be stopped more than 200000 copies of already been distributed and while the judge was highly critical of bolton he has ruled the government had not provided enough evidence to prove its case mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . john bolton was president trump's 3rd national security adviser and had a front row seat to some of the administration's most sensitive then perhaps

controversial decisions now he's set to release a book about what he witnessed and it's not good reading for the white house that's why it tried to stop the book's publication but a federal judge has now ruled that while bolton had gambled with national security the administration had not shown how it would suffer harm if the publication of the book went ahead and he refused to grant an emergency injunction the phrase used by the judge was the horse is out of the barn he also indicated the administration may have had greater success if it had brought the injunction at the time that john bolton allegedly walked away from the review process and before the widespread publication of quotations from the book it's been a rocky few days for the attorney general william barr and his justice department. late friday he tried to demote the prosecutor of new york's powerful southern district court. but jeffrey berman refused to step down they should just tell you

that over the last july i have nothing to add to that. this morning i'm just here to do my job just waiting in his office though was a letter from the attorney general confirming that president trump had agreed to fire him with immediate effect. the 33 year old cars. were getting to the far side. but we have a very good very early i got it. says berman's deputy will run the department until the president's new choice is in place and he will now supervise among other cases the investigation opportunities bank that has been indicted on fraud money laundering and sanctions offenses we've had a great relationship in his book john bolton alleges turkish president to one asked president trump to use his influence to get the charges dropped an apparent

reference to this the senate minority leader chuck schumer tweeted this late friday night dismissal reeks of potential corruption of the legal process what is angering president trump a previous action by the u.s. attorney or one that is ongoing they are highly classified as usual the response of the white house is to attack president trump lashed out at john bolton in a series of tweets pointing to the judge's criticism as i quote a big court when he continues bolton broke the law and has been called out and rebuked for so doing with that really big price to pay he likes dropping bombs on people and killing them now he will have bombs dropped on him. we. will be. thankful we got to be the federal judge has ensured the public will be able to read john bolton's allegations in full on tuesday but president trump appears adamant civil or criminal charges against the former national security

adviser are inevitable. mike hanna washington refines a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general he's joining us live by skype from washington d.c. as always bruce good to have you on the show thank you very much indeed i'm just seeing on the wires at the moment that the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says the firing of the u.s. prosecutor brahman cannot be explained by cause and suggests base and proper motives now if that is the case why are there any circumstances under which this firing would not be driven by political interests. well the president is entitled to have his own team mr berman actually was appointed by judges pursuant to a statute called the vacancies act that in my judgment itself is constitutionally irregular because someone who's important in forcing the laws ordinarily has to be

confirmed by the senate and nominated by the president. but putting and that's why i think mr trump clearly was wrong when he suggested that if firing was by mr barr the tourney general has no authority under the constitution to fire a u.s. attorney the president does under a famous supreme court case called mars versus the united states what are the circumstances here is that if trump not simply wanted his own team to be running the southern district but had a corrupt motive that the purpose was to obstruct or to shut down an investigation perhaps of deutsche of bank how bank as you're mentioning who is a favorite of present heir to want of turkey there's reports that deutsche bank is under investigation that even jerry cushion or and money laundering if there is a corrupt motive then that could be evidence of an impeachable offense you may recall when archibald cox was fired by richard nixon in the watergate case he was

then acting as special prosecutor that firing was used by the house judiciary committee as evidence of obstructing justice and failing to faithfully execute the laws in voting impeachment articles but there's not a way in my judgment that mr berman can reclaim his job the sanction that's available under the constitution if there was a crowd motive is impeachment. how important is the berman to the investigations that are going on i'm guessing that they are not based around one individual that there are dozens possibly even hundreds of lawyers and legal experts working on the on these variety of different cases that are going on just removing one individual from that process doesn't strike me as though that's going to have a significant impact or will it. well the reason why it does it is because the prosecutor there has the ultimate discretion to decide whether or

not to prosecute a case to prosecute indictment decide to stop an investigation it's not like the situation with michael flynn where he already pled guilty and ended the case but short of the guilty plea you said the open case the top prosecutor and in fact the ultimate prosecutor here is the attorney general could say no we're not going to indict that individual for whatever reasons if it was an improper reason for bribery that could be criminal the president however under our current policy cannot be prosecuted well he remains a president of the united states but you're correct that there could literally the southern district of new york is very very large district they have hundreds of cases outstanding but really they don't amount to much if you can't actually bring an indictment and sanction somebody for a violation and that decision is made by the u.s. attorney bruce fein thank you very much as always for your time thank you thank.

libya's u.n. recognized government has denounced the egyptian president's threats of military intervention president abdel fattah el-sisi says his army is ready to step in if libya's d.n.a. forces at vons on the strategic city of sirte that's up to g.m.a. forces captured significant ground against walloping for hafta over the past month like china reports from misrata. after a 14 month military campaign. has failed to take control of the libyan capital the battle for tripoli has exposed how deeply involved foreign actors are in libya. after has been backed by the u.a.e. russia and egypt while cherokee has given its support to the internationally recognized government or g.n.a.t. signing military in maritime agreements in november that proved to be a game changer. the g.n.a.t. has since retaken control of western libya and are now position to the west of sirte they say they will not negotiate with house or and want his forces to retreat

from central libya. tricky agrees g.n.a.t. thinks and we support this idea that everybody will go back to their positions back in 2015 when they had this political libyan political agreement we are certain. needs to be evacuated by the hot air force this is the position of the g.n.a.t. but egypt's president has sisi one of have to smain supporters doesn't agree and the docket and bomb. if some believe that they could cross the line in places that matter to us insert or jew for that's a red line. sisi has called on his army to be prepared to intervene and. i'm certain if we are need of your sacrifices you are prepared to carry out any mission within our home soil or for acquired beyond our border lines while egypt

appears to be intensifying its rhetoric on libya and other regional actors are calling for calm algeria hosted the g.n.a.s. phases the ruds on saturday after hosting i give us the speaker of the eastern based parliament last week algeria's president. has said his country's position is neutral and it wants to see a political solution to the crisis the g.n.a.t. turkey are calling for a cease fire and insist the hottest forces must retreat from sirte but the language from have to as main supporter egypt suggests that you may not go without a fight traina al jazeera misrata. still ahead on al-jazeera. and. no justice no peace black lives matter protests continue across the u.k. for a 4th weekend in a row. hello

there picture throughout much of the united states and at the same time you can see here on the satellite there's bright flashes indicating where we have had some thunderstorms so southern regions across the southern plains and still are being plagued by this rainy showers across the eastern seaboard now as we go through sunday you'll see the rain developing again across the southern plains we could have some fairly strong thunderstorms that really there really begin to develop right their way across the central plains and towards the midwest by monday that becomes a fairly organized line of rain showers and thunderstorms stretching from the great lakes up into eastern canada right the way down as you can see tools louisiana and across into mississippi ahead of that it is fine and warm but of course if that warm air which will also develop these thunderstorms meanwhile out across the west on monday it is fine and dry still very warm $43.00 the high in phoenix although close to the average for this time of year and then down into central america and

the caribbean a few shows farther to the east in the caribbean but again the heaviest rains but take you across into nicaragua down into costa rica panama as well some very heavy downpours like to spells of rain but very well scattered through the yucatan peninsula areas of mexico as well some showers back in the forecast into southern florida but for once we go to dry couple days across cuba. 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. revealing ecofriendly solutions to come back threats to our planet on al-jazeera.

we want to go to see a reminder of our top stories this hour of thousands have gathered in the u.s. city of tel served for the president's 1st major public rally since the coronavirus crisis began but the timing on location of the event has angered some who say it's racially insensitive and dangerous in the midst of a pandemic. one of new york's top federal prosecutors has agreed to step down after a stand off for the u.s. attorney general jeffrey badman had initially refused to resign voting to continue his corruption investigations into people close to the u.s. president's inner circle. maybe as you and recognize government has denounced the

egyptian president's threats of military intervention president of the fattah el-sisi says his army is ready to step in if libya's g.n.a.t. forces advance on the strategic city of sirte. ok let's return to tell so we're trump is going to be he's addressing his supporters jay grace is joining us live from there jay just give us a sense of the kind of atmosphere that's there at the moment and how the build up has been. well rob and that may be part of what is a developing story here the crowds that were expected the campaign saying at one point that they had a 1000000 take it request as not developed here in fact i want you to take a look right now and there are people still streaming in we're about 30 minutes or so before the president is scheduled to speak but there has been no rush to get inside this arena now i should point out that a lot of people have been coming through throughout the day the arenas been open

for a while still even a look inside the arena shows that it's not full by any means it holds 900000 but the upper bowl does not have. complete groupings there and the floor is not full as either so the crowds that were expected not developing a couple of issues here and the campaign has talked about the idea that there were protests or small pockets of protesters here and they say that those protesters a block some of the people are discouraged some of the people from coming in to the arena we've seen a few back and forth we haven't seen anybody block anyone trying to get in it's worth noting that the campaign just within the last 30 minutes is said that a speech after the event here inside the arena designed to address the overflow crowd by both the president and vice president have been canceled so they will not be speaking they will in the event and side and return to washington so we

interesting to see with the 30 minutes like i said or so rob if we're going to see this arena fill up if not this return to the campaign really would mark the 1st time that we haven't seen an arena full of strong supporters we talked about the concern security wise is also a major concern with the virus coppa 19 has been spiking not only here in the tulsa area but across oklahoma in fact here they saw a 100 percent increase in hospitalizations because of covert and just the last week that may be a message that got out to a lot of people here the campaign did hand out facemask we saw private vendors even anding out these face shields but the thing is rob we don't see a lot of people as they walk through and head toward the arena wearing j. for now thank you very much indeed we're going to be dipping in as soon as the president gets there we'll get an idea of the crowd when he starts speaking but for now jay thank you very much indeed. ok for the 4th weekend in

a row black lives matter protesters have been rallying in cities across the u.k. hundreds joined the demonstration in london's hyde park from where neve baka reports. black lives matter is more than a movement it's a moment for p.j. matheson a young campaigner finding his voice anger over police brutality against black people in the united states has recalled here to britain a country with its own unique and all too similar problems with racism there are different things on some level but a universal feeling is the same we all feel sometimes threatened by the police there's a feeling of. racism is defined by deep differences and societal bias young black men are 10 times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police in the u.k. and less likely to go on to hold top jobs covered nineteen's exposed the grave consequences

of discrimination and poverty with black asian and other minorities a greater risk of dying of the disease in britain today being black remains an obstacle to success one at a difference between people seeking out white people to me is white people because they don't have the same barriers and the same putdowns that we have they have a much more magination is a long winded and. people say we can't get that far because you know we've been told you can't do that. it's a powerful slogan is intended for people here and an amiable truth but for some people in the u.k. it's a slogan that they struggle with taking it to mean for some reason more than otherwise when that's not what it means what it does mean is a call for parity equality and a call to be heard but. recent protests are prompted the reevaluation of british

history stand choose upon a slave owners have toppled a national heroes including winston churchill have faced scrutiny for their racist views. it's some settled many on the political right just because your skin color is you know something or you're you know you're a woman or you're a man doesn't mean something that happened decades ago centuries ago to someone who looked like you it's not it shouldn't affect you this is collectivism this is i did the politics the government's been accused of downplaying the protests with the foreign secretary facing criticism after saying the black lives matter action of taking the knee it regenerated in the t.v. show game of thrones. for many here the protests are a chance to take stock of britain's past. in the hope of redefining its future. london crowds in paris have also protested against racism and police brutality some

of the messages called for justice for it became a box a black man who died in a french police operation in 2019 racial justice protests have spread from the united states to several cities in europe in the past weeks despite authorities urging people to respect social distancing rules. police and bellows have a arrested dozens of protesters and journalists during an opposition rally a reporter for radio free europe was detained live on air hundreds of people gathered to back candidates seeking to run against president alexander lukashenko he's looking to secure a 6th term he's dismissed the pandemic as a hoax and many of his critics have been jailed in the run up to the vote. a high profile politician in democratic republic of congo has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with hard labor for corruption little comma and was found guilty of embezzling more than $50000000.00 from the public housing fund reports.

was once seen as a potential candidate for president of the democratic republic of congo but the high court does now convicted him of corruption and disqualified him from holding public office for 10 years to come area has been in detention in kinshasa central prison also known as mccullough since april 8. is sentenced to 20 years hard labor after serving the sentence for talcum is forbidden from voting or running for election or from holding public office at any level for 10 years the case against kerry is unprecedented while some argue it's the right step towards coming widespread corruption he supporters see it as a means of settling political scores up to remove him from the 2023 presidential election. to calm down a lot of hefty sounded with the case focused only on the talcum area when other

people should be investigated people receive certain benefits when they work for the presidency i condemn a justice system that sets its sights on a single person to talk america. can marry has been a central figure in congolese politics for the past 2 decades he pulled out of the race during the last elections in december 2018 clearing the way for president felix secured other time the 2 men made a pact and the which was to become prime minister and eventually the presidential candidate in the 2023 election. once in office security instead appointed committee as chief of staff because he had to dissolve the prime minister post to a close ally of his predecessor just kabila in accordance with another political part. the public money committee has been convicted of stealing was earmarked for building the homes in poor and used by the president. the victim coming to remove the political player from the team. for president to kiddies against

the democrats and the democratic republic of congo high over the president loses one obvious allies in this process struggle with former president just of kabila. control most of the country's institutions. this is all just these are the top stories thousands have gathered in the u.s. city of tulsa for president tom's 1st major public rallies since the coronavirus crisis began but the timing and location of the event has angered some who say it's racially insensitive and dangerous in the midst of a pandemic jay gray is outside the rally in tulsa says the large crowds are but expected to fail to appear so far so interesting to see with 30 minutes like i said or so rob if we're going to see this arena fill up if not this return to the

campaign really would mark the 1st time that we haven't seen an arena full of trump supporters we talked about the concerns security wise there's also a major concern with the virus cover 19 has been spiking not only here in the area but across oklahoma in fact here they saw 100 percent increase in hospitalizations because of and just the last week when our york's top federal prosecutors has agreed to step down after a standoff with the u.s. attorney general geoffrey berman had initially refused to resign saying he had learned about the plan to replace him in a press release buttman has led several top level corruption investigations into people close to the u.s. president's inner circle. meanwhile the u.s. court has rejected president tom's bid to block the release of a book by former national security advisor john bolton the judge says the book carries national security concerns but he couldn't stop its publication libya's

u.n. recognize government has denounced the egyptian president's threats of military intervention president abdel fattah el-sisi says his army is ready to step in libya's jenny forces advance on the strategic city of sirte. like lives matter protesters rallied in the u.k. for the 4th weekend in a row in edinburgh and scotland demonstrators called for the removal of a monument commemorating a politician who resisted attempts to end the slave trade crowds in paris have also protested against racism and police brutality some of the messages called for justice for. a black man who died in a french police operation in 2019 racial justice protests have spread from the united states to several cities in europe in the past weeks despite authorities are urging people to respect social distancing rules and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the bottom line goodbye. from work to al-jazeera english since its launch as a principal presenter and as

a correspondent with any breaking news story in the world to hear from those who would normally not get their voices heard on an international news channel one moment i'll be very proud of when we covered the whole of quake 2050 a terrible natural disaster and the story that needed to be told from the heart of the affected area to be then to tell the people story was very important at the time. hi i'm steve clements and i have a question is there a way to root out the racism in america's police and courts and what would that look like let's get to the bottom line. when george floyd was killed last month it unleashed demands that went far beyond justice for one man some are calling it a battle for america's soul as demands for reform moved from the streets to city councils to congress.