it was over the hill. first. look at me and continue to keep the negro defense. about malcolm x. and martin luther king face to face. we are going to keep on. winning when. donald trump addresses his 1st major campaign rally and son the event mired in controversy and concerns over the coronavirus. it comes as a call refuses to block the publication of an explosive book about trump by the former national security advisor john bolton. and obama you're watching al-jazeera live by headquarters here in doha coming up in

the next 30 minutes egypt's president warns libya's you would recognize government against trying to retake the strategic city of sirte at all does his army to be ready for cross border missions also convicted of corruption a high profile congolese politician is sentenced to 20 years hard labor. welcome to the program donald trump has addressed a smaller than expected crowd in the u.s. city of tulsa where the president held his 1st major public rally since the coronavirus crisis began its appearance was biden called diversity with some saying the timing is racially insensitive and that it poses a health risk she had pretenses as will. it have been reported that this rally was intended not just to energize the president's supporters but to lift the spirits of a man whose. crave the adulation of his base during the long months of lock down

you are so lucky president that's all i can cook you with the trump campaign's hopes of a turnout of 100000 supporters inside and outside this great american comeback rally fell short in fact the president cancelled what had been planned as a pretty rowdy address at the outdoor overflow area because of a lack of numbers those who filed into the 20000 capacity arena had their temperatures checked having waived their right to sue the trump campaign if they contract it covert 19 earlier it had been reported that 6 members of the trump advance team had tested positive for the virus and on saturday tells them the location of the rally is a new daily record of infections but the president mocked caution and suggested throughout his speech the protesters have been causing trouble outside and discouraging attendance but there were few protesters and no incidents reported before he spoke you are warriors thank you we had surgery people out there was the

usual blame for the chinese too but here with racially offensive language has more names than any disease. i can. come flu i don't blame for public health officials for the spread of the virus in the u.s. what you do testing to that extent you can find more people are going to find more cases so i said to my people are slow to test things out please the administration officials quickly briefed journalists that the president was just joking as for the unprecedented demonstrations spanning race and close across the country against police violence and systemic racism the president once again presented them as unchecked anti american anarchy and he presented his general election opponent joe biden as a man with a questionable record on race in failing mental health amid these his store.

protests if the democrats cave. then the riders will be charge and no one will be safe and no one will have control joe biden who's not the leader of his party joe biden is a helpless puppet of the radical left by far the longest section there was a defense of the president's cautious use of a ramp following his speech of the west point military academy the week before that had led to speculation about his health it had no handrail it was like an ice skating this event wasn't simply about amusing the president there a 1000000 people were reported to have registered for the event giving their phone numbers as well as email and whom addresses this is essential information for ensuring turnout in november election especially as a significant proportion of trunk space on to regular voters these events are crucial for the trump campaign's momentum we will 2. raise

our game to the rally did seem like a public health experiment what would happen if you packed thousands of people into an indoor arena many refusing to wear or take a minimal precautions for several hours of singing cheering i'm shouting in a city experiencing a surge in crude 19 infection we should know in 2 to 3 weeks she every time see al-jazeera call on the huddle and as a political strategist joins me now from los angeles by scott good to have you with us on the program i mean overall though a stroll cold for the president the control the crowds and is in full control of the economy society health care. what more can we say about what he said. well that's certainly the line that trump is giving the rally goers but at the end of the day his whole numbers are actually slipping significantly he's under 40 percent for the 1st time in 2 years

a majority of americans don't like his handling of the pandemic a majority of americans don't like his handling of the economy and we have a 13 percent unemployment rate so it is very important for have them give him credit it's very important for him to rally his base. he has called it a solid plan to come back and it is he sliding in the polls so this was a bit of a desperate rally i don't know how many of these he'll be able to do after the data comes out if this was a super spreader event in a couple of weeks so let's just talk about then about the attendance there was much anticipation wasn't there about the turnout and it really fell more than short of what it should have been what does this really tell us about that that bottom line based support that he does have was it that they just didn't want to turn up because of coronavirus all that he is losing support as you say with that with the numbers that are coming out of the moment. well with a 39 percent approval rating from gallup it's clear that maybe multiple things are

happening certainly has less of a base of support but i would like to think that people were afraid to come because as much as a lot of republicans are less likely to engage in social distancing and less likely to wear masks because of the leadership or i should say lack of science based leadership in the white house at the end of the day certainly they've got to know people who've been affected by cope at 19 so i'd like to think that they see you know that that folks stayed away although it's also pretty obvious that there was a movement on twitter to get young people to sign up for this event and over a 1000000 if you listen to the campaign over a 1000000 people signed up for it they expected 100000 they got 10000 so at the end of the day it might have been a show who ran by who were called sooners generation see there was a lot talked about in this address to his base audience carolina but there was a lot of joe biden bashing as well he was quite adamant the president in trying to

insist that he was the better man to be president and to be reelected in november and that joe biden was too old too sleepy and really past his sell by date. well at the end of the day we're guard lissa whether you're a democrat or republican a lot of historians and political scientists agree in that doll trial has been the worst president that the u.s. has ever had when you look at the constitution or his lack of knowledge in following it for example you know calling dealing protestors who are exercising their 1st amendment rights of free speech and assembly as you know a threat to american democracy even though that's how we became a nation to his you know violation of the long months clause in and ridging himself while in office to constantly not telling the truth in ways that are easy to verify and everyone knows he doesn't tell the truth and so his word doesn't mean anything at the end of the day whether or not joe biden is

a strong candidate doll trial is our founding fathers nightmare in so many ways but of course a nother topic that he touched upon and one that is very sensitive at the moment is about the black community and again he insisted that he's done more for the black community that any other president. and that this is part of his legacy i mean it's obviously a very sensitive subject and it's going to cause more debate i'm sure not just in tulsa but across the country. well what's remarkable about donald trump is that he has inspired the largest black lives matter the largest movements and protests in u.s. history so 3 weeks has sustained protests in major cities and small towns across the united states and if you look at what is different about this particular way for protests i think it's because we've lived through 3 years of donald trump who overtly throws racist red meat to his base and if you look at numbers from 2016 and

we know that people with high levels of racial resentment far more likely to turn out and vote for donald trump because he was the titular head of their birth or when they tried to label our 1st black president has been born elsewhere he called you know mexicans rapist he said a lot next judge couldn't jewish job because he was latin next he put up a muslim and he put round children in cages he said that the central park 5 these boys had been wrongly convicted should still get the death penalty during his 2016 election he said that the white supremacists and charlotte's well you know good people on both sides he retreated of george floyd that showed that it had a right wing commentator saying that somehow you know george floyd was not a good person insinuating that he may have deserved to be murdered by police so yeah his legacy is definitely tied to race but i would say it's the opposite of what he's claiming that he has actually made it so clear to white americans that racism is not a theoretical thing that they might you know know happens but they don't witness it

we have seen it in front of our very eyes he hasn't hidden it and so for that you know we can thank donald trump for moving the needle on anti-racist legislation further than anyone else simply because he has been so racist during his presidency come on help me get to get your insights thanks very much for joining us from los angeles thank you. one of new york's top federal prosecutors has agreed to step down after a standoff with the u.s. attorney general geoffrey burman had initially refused to resign vowing to continue his corruption investigations into people close to the u.s. president's inner circle that's just one of the legal battles the white house has been finding after it failed to block a tell all memoir by the former national security advisor mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . from 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 night 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 ply him with immediate effect on the 33 year old bar. work you know that the bar not my department but we have a very capable 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 offs president trying to use his influence to get the charges dropped and the president said to aaron i want one point look those prosecutors in new york are obama people

wait till i get my people in and then we'll take care of this and i thought to myself and i'm a department of justice alumnus myself i've never heard any president say anything like that ever 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. say we got to be the federal judge has ensured the public will be able to read john bolton's allegations in full on tuesday that president trump appears adamant civil or criminal charges against the former national security adviser

inevitable economic times mike hanna al-jazeera washington. libya's u.n. recognize government has denounced the egyptian president's threats of military intervention president of the sisi says his army is ready to step in if libya's g.n.a.t. forces advance on the strategic city of sirte g.n.a.t. forces captured significant ground against warlord khalifa haftar over the past month training has more from the city of misrata. after a 14 month military campaign orders felicia have to or 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 shirky has given its support to the internationally recognized government or g.n.a.s. 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 have served 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 and 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. if some believe that they could cross the line in places that matter to us insert or jew for that's a red line. c.c. has called on his army to be prepared to intervene and he will do my duty to 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 genie's faisal surats on saturday after hosting i give us all of 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 in the g.n.a.t. turkey are calling for a ceasefire and insist the have to forces must retreat from sirte but the language from have to its main supporter egypt suggest that he may not go without a fight traina al jazeera misrata. well still ahead here on notice of. having. that state about its black lines not the protests continue across the united kingdom for a 4th weekend in

a row plus. because of protests hundreds of businesses have been boarded up artists are using that as an opportunity i'm gabriel's on due in new york that story coming up. and this summit is of course mostly hostile and generally very dry across much of the middle east on the arabian peninsula we have had some rain showers you can see the little bundle of clouds here and a father if you have it down pulls into northern areas of oman you can see this head of the wind blowing with that rain as it came in but more generally it is scenes like this because it is hot. this is a cross into iran people doing their best to stay cool as the temperatures continue to rise meanwhile in toronto on sunday 34 degrees celcius notice the hottest as you

can see 41 in baghdad the temperatures actually have come down the winds are picked up and the coming in from the east and the bad and so there's a slight cooling effect here but the winds are going to be traveling over way down across much of the arabian peninsula but again the time which is a coming down the winds that she on the increase on monday but look at this $38.00 and a whole 13 on in riyadh that will fail a whole lot better than literally a week ago is how much is in the high forty's which is even a little bit lower across into south africa the multi-byte as we go through sunday we're going to shine maybe a down day into cape town plenty of rain showers along coastal towns there up towards kenya and the usual spread of. all the way from ethiopia out tools the gulf of guinea and as it tried to cross the south a monday but the hive 18 imports elizabeth. if you're in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships.

somehow time is aiming to replace america and around the world all the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our 1st president george washington said if you want peace prepare for the coming war on china talked one on a jazzy. welcome back you're watching our deserve me said whole robin a reminder of our top stories donald trump has addressed a smaller than expected crowd in tulsa oklahoma in his 1st major public rallies since the coronavirus crisis hit the united states some had called for the rally to

be canceled saying the timing is racially insensitive and poses a health for us. and maybe as you recognize government has denials the egyptian president's threats of military intervention as a c.c. says his army is ready to step in if libya's forces advance on the strategic city of sirte. a roadside bomb in southern syria has killed at least 9 pro-government fighters the blast struck a bus traveling through the southwestern province of data the casualties were former rebels who surrendered to fight alongside government troops no group has yet claimed responsibility for the a turk. high profile politician of the democratic republic of congo has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with hard labor for corruption. was found guilty of embezzling more than $50000000.00 from a public housing fund mohammed oh has the story. was once seen as a potential candidate for president of the democratic republic of congo but the

high court has now convicted him of corruption and disqualified him from holding public office for 10 years come area has been in detention in kinshasa central prison also known as much since the put a date. 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 kemeny is unprecedented. 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 hastily thought the bush years when the case focused only on be 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. kemeny 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 resolve 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 areas by the president early last year. the verdict incomers trial not only removes a major political player from the scene but it's also a boost for president to katie's role against endemic corruption in the democratic

republic of congo however the president loses one of his closest allies in his past trouble with former president just of kabila huisman still control most of the country's institutions how about the al-jazeera nairobi. polls opened in serbia for europe's 1st parliamentary elections since it went into coronavirus lockdown 3 months ago opinion polls show president alexander which is serbian progressive party likely to win some opposition parties say they'll boycott the vote because the president wields too much power over the media turnout of the 5 and a half 1000000 eligible voters could suffer of affairs of infection and for the 4th weekend in a row black lives matter protesters have been rallying in cities across the united kingdom hundreds join the demonstration in london's hyde park from where need parker reports. thank you. for your. black

lives matter is more than a movement it's a moment for p.j. matheson a young campaigner finding his voice her anger over police brutality against black people in the united states has rippled here to britain a country with its own unique and all too similar problems with racism there are different things on like some levels back home but a universal feeling is the same we all feel sometimes threatened by the police there's a feeling of civil unrest racism is defined by deep differences and societal bias young black men a 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 covert nineteen's exposed to 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 black people's thinking and why people speak in is white people because they don't have the same barriers and the same putdowns that we have they have a much more damage a nation is a long winded and i was about people say we can't get that far because you know we've been told you can't do that. black lives matter 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 black life should matter 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 your 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 dominic 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 leave. london. crowds and powers have also protested against racism and police brutality some of the messages call for justice for ibrahim a bar black man who died in a french police operation in 2019 racial justice protest as have spread from the united states to several cities in europe in the past few weeks is vital for it

he's urging people to respect social distancing rules well in the midst of the covert crisis and black lives matter protests these soho district of new york has been turned into an art gallery hundreds of artists have painted the plywood border to store fronts with protest art depicting expressions of hope and healing gabriel alan saunders has more. where some people see an eyesore artists see it candice the stores in new york's soho district 1st closed in march because of the covert pandemic but then were boarded up for protection during the recent protests and spread occluding and now weeks later the entire neighborhood has become an open air art gallery of sorts of protest art work on almost every block artists have converted boarded up businesses into artistic statements to mark these unprecedented times i think. we're living through the greatest

period of change. in. i don't know maybe think the berlin wall found on one corner we find artists trevor croupe painting his 2nd mural in the neighborhood hundreds of people of the bank you to me as they're walking by. you see an outpouring of creativity some artists i haven't painted for years are painting out here on another street lydia benny ery she's originally from greece and has painted faces of black people that have been killed by police and we have 30 members of them not to forget them this is their. day and they decide to say to it work in process because every few days they continue to kill somebody eventually all these stores will reopen and this would be it's been put here to protect the doors and windows will all be taken down and with it all of this art will be lost forever. it's already happening with the looting over shops are preparing to reopen

a group called soho social impact is trying to preserve as much of the art as possible and there is a lot from the hopeful to the defiant to the art that makes you think telling the story of new york and america the past few weeks on the most. unlikely of canvases gabriel's dando al-jazeera new york. you're watching all just 0 with me remind of our top stories donald trump has addressed a smaller than expected crowd in tulsa oklahoma in his 1st major public rally since the coronavirus crisis hit the united states some had called for the rally to be canceled and say the timing is racially insensitive and poses a health risk trump used his appearance to attack his political opponents and black

lives matter protests. what americans are watching left wing radicals burned down buildings. destroyed private property here hundreds of dedicated police officers. these police officers they get injured they don't complain they're incredible and injure japan thousands of people only day here the radical they say what a beautiful rally it was. one of new york's top federal prosecutors agreed to step down after a standoff with the u.s. attorney general geoffrey barber who had initially refused to resign evolving to continue his corruption investigations into people close to the u.s. president's inner circle libya's u.n. recognize government has denounced the egyptian president's threats of military intervention as a digital c.c. says his army is ready to step in if libya's g.n.a.t. forces advance on the strategic city of sirte. and one of the democratic republic

of congo's high profile politicians has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with hard labor for corruption according to the sound of a telephone guilty of embezzling more than $50000000.00 from a public housing fund. a roadside bomb in southern syria has killed at least 9 pro-government fighters the blast struck a bus traveling through the southwestern province of data the casualties were full the rebels who surrendered to find alongside government troops and polls open in serbia for europe's 1st parliamentary election since it went into coronavirus lockdown 3 months ago opinion polls show president alexander veach is parties likely to win some opposition parties say they'll boycott the vote because the president wheels too much power over the media those are the headlines back in half an hour faultlines is next. 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. in march much of america went on lockdown the coded 1000 pandemic was surging the number of dead from the virus growing exponentially. only workers deemed essential were asked to report to work. over the last several months it's all for them to open their lives to us through video diaries and interviews. today is going to be a busy day for me and i picked up quite a few shops a mother who shops for people who don't want to risk going to the store there's only so much you can do whenever you're not on.