on a 0. on the stand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound is another matter when you cool hand luke leads to news and current affairs that matter to you. is not good news for president shops the court has reaffirmed the congress's authority to conduct oversight on behalf of the american people. the u.s. supreme court says president obama trump asked to turn over his tax and other financial records to a new york prosecutor not yet to congress. 1700 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera on kemal santamaria with the world news and al-jazeera has been shown the brewing remains of what's described as a secret prison where opponents of the libyan ward cleaver after the torch. is

anger and frustration builds in sudan the prime minister asks the government to resign with this sacred not fuji off limits with any japanese religious order that's made in many replica carry on worship. so the u.s. supreme court made 2 significant decisions in the past few hours regarding president donald trump's financial records records he has fought hard to keep private the judges decided his tax returns can be made available to prosecutors in new york but not yet to the u.s. congress that is the manhattan district attorney who wants the records as part of a criminal investigation into hush money payments made to women donald trump allegedly had affairs with there was another ruling that concern committees in the house of representatives they have been investigating potential foreign influence and russian money laundering but the judges say that one needs to go back down to

a lower court for a decision. the president has reacted plenty online already this was his 1st tweet talking about the supreme court sending it back to the lower courts but he says this is all a political prosecution goes on to say i won the witch hunt and i have to keep fighting in a politically corrupt new york it is not fair to this presidency or administration now the house speaker democrat nancy pelosi says her party will continue pushing that house against donald trump carefully in stream court ruling related to the president financial records is not good news for president trump the court has reaffirmed the congress's authority to conduct oversight on behalf of the american people as it asks for further information from congress congress's constitutional responsibility to uncover the truth to ship italy related to the president russia connection that he is hiding that congress will continue to conduct oversight for

the people polled in the separation of powers that is the genius of our constitution we will continue to press our case plenty of other reaction amongst it was this statement from one of the major lenders to donald trump over the years deutsche bank bank is demonstrated full respect for the us they will process and remain neutral throughout these proceedings we will of course abide by a final decision by the courts. it's the same at a little after 1 pm washington time kimberly how could a white house correspondent be with you shortly starting there was sharper tansey outside the supreme court with that decision came down 7 to 2 was the majority she had how significant was that given the makeup of the course. right 2 of those justices were appointed by president trump. and brett kavanaugh yet they joined in the majority which in that 1st case just threw out donald

trump's lawyers arguments that allowing a state prosecutor to get hold of donald trump's financial records would care it would be a distraction from the offer from the office of the presidency for the president it could lead to huge amounts of harassment for presidents now and in the future any politically motivated prosecutor in the country could then start subpoenaing the president for documents whenever they wanted for whatever reason they wanted and could destroy the whole office the supreme court justices would be so majority of them had no time for that they pointed to the precedent of richard nixon bill clinton presidents have cooperated with investigations without without any problem for the office of the presidency so those documents will very likely go to the prosecutor in new york for the use of the grand jury investigation into whether any wrongdoing has been committed but those proceedings will be in private so they won't be released to the public before the election especially unless there's some major leak of some sort for the 2nd case nancy pelosi is correct that the justices

did uphold the rights of congress to subpoena presidential documents which may have been in doubt but what they're saying is what the justice is saying is the have to be limits on that on that ability to subpoena documents you have to prove that there will be some legislative purpose at the end of all of this and they're saying that the congressional is just didn't make the case they seem to blanket the blanket ability to get documents so this goes back to the lower courts for them to prove that yes this will go into more regulations and laws on over. it's foreign money laundering and financial regulation and so on books all the troubles all humans didn't win the day he did perhaps achieve one thing which is that we will not see troubles financial records before the next election this will just go on all in on shepherd tansey at the supreme court. thank you we have also heard from the new york district attorney's office not the statement here this is a tremendous victory they say for a nation's system of justice and its founding principle that no one not even

a president is above the law on vista cation which was delayed for almost a year by this lawsuit will resume guided as always but the grand jury says solemn obligation to follow the law and the facts when they made the kimberley how kits the white house how much of a blow is all of this to the president jimmy. you know i find it amusing i'm smiling a little bit because it seems obviously there are winners and losers with a court decision but everyone's claiming victory just goes to show you the political spin that has already been put on this in the president's attorneys no exception if jay sekulow the attorney for the president has released a statement saying we're pleased the supreme court has temporarily blocked congress and new york prosecutors from attaining the president's financial records and we will proceed to raise cost of tuition legal issues in the court as she have pointed out the strategy of the president has always been stretch out the timeline you know

he promised on the campaign trail in 2016 to give those records if he became president then he just didn't do it when it comes to challenges over his business practices will he just launches a lawsuit ties things up in the court and runs out the clock and it appears that the strategy again at least to try and get this passed the u.s. election in november unless there is a leak from the grand jury for example then that information could potentially come out but what it appears as well this is a political setback for the. president he did it when in both of these cases he's already figured out or his attorneys have how to maneuver this to his advantage and that's something that comes from the president's playbook and has been operating for many many years now we're going to watch very carefully we've already heard from the president on twitter as you pointed out he has been railing fuming initially with these reactions but with distance the political spin is emerged we expect to hear more of that in the coming hour the press secretary kelly mcenaney will have

a briefing is scheduled for the bottom of the hour keep an eye on that one thank you kimberly haokip at the white house and now here is joel rubin former u.s. deputy assistant secretary of state and a democratic strategist joining us from chevy chase in maryland joe what can the democrats do with this as she had and simply been outlining for us the whole process that can stretch on and there's only a number of months left until the election in november what can the democrats do with this if you like your kamel this is a good day for american democracy that's the key thing to take out of this decision and for democrats who we've been arguing for a number of years now during the trial the administration that donald trump is a threat to american democracy we can now say look even the supreme court the republican leaning supreme court to justice is of donald trump speaking they are on our side so in that frame that's strong for democrats and i think it also gives fuel to congressional democrats to continue investigating and continuing to ask

questions and pushing the president does not have immunity that's what he asserts and that's what the supreme court said he does not have so that straight is democratic oversight committee was talking about how everyone's putting a positive spin and saying they have won basically nancy pelosi is line is that while we can work with this in the lower courts and that it can move ahead do you agree with that and if so is it just something that will take as long as it takes in the end. i think on a technical level yes there's truth that both sides can look at this decision and say that they technically obtained some validation for their perspective but at a broader level donald trump was defeated today and that's why he's reacting so badly because he has been asserting for years now that he is untouchable that nobody can do oversight of him that he has no accountability well he does and the accountability requirement for his office was made clear by the supreme court in

stating that he must be providing information to congress and to the states attorney's office in new york so that that is a defeat for him it's a strengthening of the rule 'd of law in our democracy and i think we're going to see this play out in the next few months in the political space about whether or not this country should continue to have someone running it who doesn't believe in the rule of law interesting when you talk about i mean when you were just saying that how the president does have to cooperate and hand over these things. he should have done this already shouldn't the fact that we're even got to a supreme court position is extraordinary in itself because presidents presidential candidates years really by convention disclose their financial records. always do that we have to be very clear this is abnormal donald trump's behavior as a candidate and now its president is atypical it is not an american tradition for

the president or a leading contender for the presidency to act as if they do not have a responsibility to share with the american people who they are what their financial background is and what their ties are this has been a struggle but now today the supreme court has made it clear that he must in this case and he or she must in the future that's very strong dollar trump is trying to hide something he's going to court to hide something we don't know what exactly it is and we won't before the election but we do know that he's afraid of the american people knowing about who he is and where he comes from joe we've been always a pleasure talking to you thanks for joining us today thank you onto all the news the saudi led military coalition fighting yemen's hooty rebels have destroyed 2 explosive laden boats in the red sea saudi state television reported the destruction of the vessels which it said happened south of the yemeni port of sa if the 2 remotely controlled boats were threatening navigation the coalition said to libya where the u.n. recognize government says it has found

a prison used by wall of $24.00 have to torture opponents the government leaders in tripoli are calling on the u.n. to widen its investigation into the mass graves discovered near the prison in total and us forces of the government of national called captured that city from have to find his back in june into an a for us is nothing about the wind here he tells us what is believed to have gone on inside that prison. this is one of the prisons that was used by forces loyal to the world really for have to are in the city of lahore now in these very tiny sills they used to keep their opponents including government forces captives and also all civilians from to horner who posed the military rule in the city government officials here and to who are now tell us that some of those who were kept here were killed and voted in the mass graves that

were found recently in the city of horn or others were transferred to other notorious prisons and that have those forces in the east of the country now the crimes committed by have those forces in and around the city of the horn including the mass graves and also the torture of in such prisons is being looked into by international justice organizations and the international criminal court is due to send a team to libya to investigate their war crimes including the mass graves and other crimes that were committed by have to his forces over the past year now government officials here tell us that they also found blood in in and around this prison and also they suspect that there are some victims who are killed

and buried in the vicinity of this prison. so you are just keeping an eye on events in capitol hill this thursday where military leaders are testifying before the house armed services committee looking a little different there obviously in the times of code 19 they are being questioned about the military's role in responding to the unrest triggered by the death of george floyd in police custody you've got defense secretary mark s. there and also the joint chiefs chairman not merely on the right. castro is our correspondent on capitol hill just a little bit of a preview if you wouldn't mind heidi to explain what's going on today what sort of pressure these men are under. absolutely kemal and they are under tremendous pressure now this is the number one and number 2 of the u.s. pentagon and what we're expecting is a grilling from the democrats who lead this armed services committee on the military's role in responding to those black lives matter protests that really

gripped the country sometimes and civil unrest in the wake of george floyd's killing what we saw the military do is at the behest of president trump national guard troops are deployed in various cities they took a supportive role in containing some of those protests backing up local police departments but we also saw * active duty troops at the ready nearly deployed to potentially crackdown on protesters here in the nation's capital and there is one episode in particular that really drew scrutiny to the military's role and that was president trump's crackdown of peaceful protesters outside of the white house in june he used he deployed rubber bullets and pepper spray and using the military's or says to disperse those protesters in order to clear a path for the president to walk across a park in order to do a photo op in which he held a bible before

a vandalized church now the 2 men that we see in this hearing room were in fact accompanying the president on that walk and both the secretary of defense and the chair of the joint chiefs of staff have said in that in since then that it was a mistake having accompanied the president on that walk they said that it risk the perception of the u.s. military which is supposedly a political institution that having the military appear to be impacting or playing a role in domestic politics was a mistake but of course this pressure is 2 fold because you have the democrats who will likely grow all these military. if this shows on their role and then of course you have their commander in chief himself president. who they have been careful to avoid butting heads with directly but today will expect them to be asked to what questions that they may that may be unavoidable for them to answer. instead there

for me for a moment we are going to have a listen. speaking united states military has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to uphold our oath to the constitution and to support our civil authorities over the past several months more than 60000 service members have unfailingly answered our nation's call working on the front lines in the fight against the covert 1000 pandemic saving lives and stemming the spread of the virus at the same time we are hard at work as part of operation or speed to accelerate the development manufacture and distribution of therapeutics and vaccines at scale by the end of the year and over the next few months we will likely be called upon by the states once again to support hurricane and wildfire relief efforts no matter the challenges or circumstances our service members stand ready to serve and i'm credibly proud of their dedication and commitment to our fellow americans in late

may our ongoing support the civil authorities mission expanded in the wake of the horrible killing of george floyd in an officer being charged with his murder a tragedy we have seen repeated too often in our nation following his tragic death thousands of our fellow citizens sought to exercise their 1st amendment rights to free speech and peaceful assembly while most of these protests were law abiding it is clear that some individuals exploited the situation to sow chaos and commit acts of violence destruction and theft. that is why the high the civil unrest more than 43000 national guard personnel were called upon by governors across the country to uphold the rule of law safeguard life and property and protect the rights of americans all americans to protest safely and peacefully as a former soldier and member of the national guard i'm a firm believer that in these situations the guard is best suited to provide

domestic support to civil authorities in support of law enforcement using active duty forces in a direct law enforcement role should remain a last resort and only in the most urgent and dire situations i want to make very clear that no active duty military units engaged protesters or otherwise took part direct part in civilian law enforcement or federal protection missions in the district of columbia or anywhere else in the country and with regard to the role the national guard played in lafayette park on june 1 i also want to make clear the following that the guard did not advance on the crowd at the guard did not shoot rubber bullets that the guard did not employ chemical agents of any type rather the guard remained in a static role as backup to law enforcement if needed a detailed account of the involvement in the civil unrest beginning may 29th 2020

is included in my written testimony submitted for the record following the events that transpired in the district of columbia i directed the secretary of the army to complete a full after action review by the end of july i also directed investigations into 2 separate incidents that occurred that week mr chairman with your permission i'd like to enter into the record my directive to the sector of the army with regard to the conduct of his after action review without objections or ordered. as the american people continue to express their outrage at the killing of mr floyd and long for meaningful change we once again face the painful truth that racism is real in america we also know that the department defense is not immune to the forces of bias and prejudice whether seen or unseen deliberate or unintentional these issues have no place in our military because they degrade the morale cohesion and readiness of our force while our military is often lead on addressing these issues

the events of recent weeks or a stark reminder that much more work remains to be done therefore on june 17th i now its 3 new initiatives aimed at advancing it walker to be diversity and inclusion across our forces 1st direct arce of the uniform leadership in the pentagon to bring me concrete ideas by the end of june that we can implement quickly such as removing photos from selection boards 2nd stablish an internal department defense board on diversity inclusion which would provide recommendations by the end of the year on how we can increase diversity and ensure equal opportunity for all service members finally i began the process of establishing a defense advisory committee on diversity and inclusion in the armed services that will be a permanent structure composed of an independent and diverse group of americans committed to building upon the work of the defense board over the long term these are just the 1st steps toward shifting our culture and creating lasting change

across our enterprise and doing so we will build a better force one that is diverse inclusive and more representative of the american people we serve and we protect and while we may come from different backgrounds and parts of the country we all make the same commitment to support and defend the constitution of the united states we all strive to uphold that oath and serve in a political manner at all times by doing so we earn the trust and confidence of the american people. meanwhile while much has been focused on our support to our fellow americans at home thousands of military personnel remain engaged abroad in harm's way to ensure that we can enjoy the blessings of this country we take very seriously any threats to our forces whether in afghanistan or anywhere else across the globe i want to have a series to know that we always do our utmost to ensure their safety and security in closing i want to assure you is the u.s. defense secretary speaking at the armed services committee talking about the

violence and the response to the violence really. that we saw in the wake of george floyd's death and how did your house correspondent in washington as a listen to that so interested in some of what the secretary had to say there about the protests and saying that at no time referring specifically to that big protests we saw in lafayette park in washington d.c. that chemical agents won't use rubber bullets when used and yet that was the whole focus of that day the fact that so much force was used against citizens. that's right and what he's saying here is not the fact that those agents were used the rather by who and you just heard the defense secretary making it clear that the national guard troops who were present during that alter cation with protesters the defense secretary said they were the ones who shot their over bullets or who used the pepper spray that rather the military was there as

a supportive role standing by to step in if a law enforcement was needed require the help of the military he also made clear that those active duty troops who were called upon and stationed at the ready just across the river from washington d.c. mark asked for the defense secretary said that they were not actually deployed and you really seen these see these military. leaders zone in on that they that the military did show restraint in not and that the situation could have been so much worse so much worse if you read between the lines here what we're expecting more from mark as for and also from mark milley the chief of the chair of the chief joints of staff is perhaps some more back of their public apologies or expressions of regret that they have said in the public sphere since having participated

in the crackdown on these protesters and since having a company president trump on that walk across lafayette square in which those rubber bullets and tear gas was used to disperse peaceful protesters president accompanied by these 2 military and department of defense leaders walked across the square in order to hold up the bible in front of a vandalized church there and of course that was the moment that many critics point to as having the military even if just the off ticks having crossed the line in making it appear that the military was supporting trump in his domestic politics. thank you for that heidi castro keeping an eye on that hearing on capitol hill today with the defense secretary marcus the united nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings as presented to her annual report to the u.n. human rights council and she's raised concerns about the growing use of armed drones for targeted killings i just cannot have previously declared the u.s.

drone strike in january that killed top iranian general carson so their money as a legal she says now's the time though to regulate drones fearing some countries are using them without any accountability drawn so i'll be coming. here pedia smaller more lethal and can be or parried to by teams located thousands of kilometers away and in my opinion and the opinion of all the experts so you have confronted over the last 6 months these is bringing the world to a critical point in regulating the use of armed drones and the use of force who armed drone. sedans prime ministers asked the government to resign the been large protests in recent weeks demanding faster reform the country is transitioning towards democracy after omar al bashir was ousted last year they were more

concerned with this update. we've seen people lining up for bread and fuel people have been complaining about the shortage of fuel especially gasoline saying that they have to stand in line for hours sometimes these to be able to fill up their cattle car tanks we've also seen people queuing up for bread now that is what triggered anti-government protests in 2018 that eventually led to the former president i'm going to show you we've also seen over the past few weeks the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic a lot of people have criticized the government saying that the lockdown that was imposed was not advocate and that not enough studies have been made especially with regards to those who have limited income and who rely on day to day work to be able to feed their families so lots of criticism we've also seen on the 30th of june hundreds of thousands of people around the country taking to the streets demanding the government correct the path of the revolution and their demands that they came out from which was freedom peace and justice so they were saying that the

government has been moving off track and that this track needs to be corrected and that the government needs to deliver aspirates promised when it came to power in august 29th seen lots of pressure on this transitional government which eventually led to the fall into the prime minister to dismiss most of the most of the pressure of the ministers and to a place to place them with caretakers until new ministers are appointed in democratic republic of congo at least 4 people have been shot dead during a demonstration demanding election fairness supporters of president feel extra security is political were on the march in kinshasa they say police opened fire the appointment of an election administrator who's accused of rigging previous elections isn't furious at these protests. the mayor of south korea's capital seoul has been found dead after his daughter reported him missing she said left a message sounding like his final will the 64 year old's body was and found during a late night search of a hilltop area by hundreds of police as well as sniffer dogs and drones.

serbia has decided to not go ahead with plans to impose a weekend coronavirus lockdown after 2 years of protests thousands of people tried to storm the parliament on wednesday night after the lockdown plans were initially announced it also led to wider anger over the government's handling of the pandemic the president has blamed weapons does violence on hooligans. regularly and all the choices i am urging all our people in belgrade and novi sad and all other cities not to confront the hooligans themselves we will do that as a state we will work and we will win we will preserve peace for our country surrender was never an option. strictures are being eased in some public housing blocks in melbourne australia people in the buildings have been able to leave for any reason since last weekend the rest of the city's residents have been told to stay indoors except for essential reasons for the next 6 weeks. when the activists

have been gathering outside trump tower in new york and of painted a large black lives matter mural on the road right outside the front door donald trump previously said the mural would be a symbol of hate and denigrating to 5th avenue which is home to. many exclusive betakes and shops. at half past the hour these are the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. supreme court has ruled president on trump's financial records can be released to new york prosecutors but won't be made available to congress trump has responded on twitter saying the supreme court is treating him unfairly and that the case against him in new york is politically corrupt us democrats so congress will continue to push for accountability. careful reading stream court ruling related to the president financial records is not good news for president trump the court has reaffirmed the congress's authority to conduct oversight on behalf of the american

people as it asks for further information from congress congress's constitutional responsibility to uncover the truth to ship it related to the president russia connection that he is hiding that congress will continue to conduct oversight for the people polled in the separation of powers that is the genius of our constitution we will continue to press our case. you libya's un recognized government says it's found a prison used by warlord khalifa haftar to torture opponents government leaders in tripoli are calling on the u.n. to widen its investigation into mass graves discovered near the prison in toto whom the forces of the government of national accord captured the city from have to find his june so the prime minister's accepted the resignation of 6 ministers including the finance foreign and energy minister is all part of a sweeping cabinet reshuffle they have been large protests in recent weeks

demanding faster reforms in democratic republic of congo at least 4 people have been shot dead during a demonstration demanding election fairness supporters of the president felix to secure his political party were on the march and when they say police opened fire the world health organization has put together an independent panel to scrutinize its handling of the coronavirus pandemic covered $9000.00 related deaths are now above 450000 and global infections of soared beyond 12000000 and the merest south korea's capital seoul has been found dead after his daughter reported him missing said park or left a message sounding like his final will the 64 year old's body was then found during a late night search in the capital we're back with the news are in about 25 minutes time lawrence you next hour with inside story.

millions could face starvation as coronavirus takes its toll world wide that warnings from oxfam and says hunger caused by the pandemic will kill more people than the virus itself so we should step in to stop this design stuff this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm laura cause more people will die this year from hunger caused by the pun demick than from coated 19 that's according to the charity oxfam which says 121000000 more people.