human to al-jazeera and then one man's extraordinary battle for justice in diana at this time. every generation has a higher purpose. ours is to help. you know which are most. donald trump dismisses these supreme court orders saying his tax records can be examined by prosecutors in new york. hello and welcome i'm peter dobby you're watching on to 0 live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up reports this hour that the u.a.e.

blocked a deal pushed by the trumpet ministration to end the gulf crisis. 18000000 people are to lose their jobs 45000000 to plunge into poverty as the un's dial warning on the impact of the pandemic on latin america. also this half hour is chaos and anger grips sudan again and the prime minister asks his cabinet to resign. the u.s. supreme court has issued mixed verdicts on demands for donald trump's financial records and for now at least the presidential tax returns and other documentation remain out of the public eye but it can be examined by prosecutors in new york she had pretends he has more the president from displayed mixed emotions following the 2 judgments on the release of his financial records what the rules were basically.

show you all over again so make everything back down to the lower courts and so i know you get so for the 6 point satisfies you know the point that. this is a political witch like you know you know if you want to keep your which are. just like the model in michigan she was a hoax that i wanted these supreme court rulings weren't even in place each one had a $7.00 to $2.00 majority that included trump appointees justices call such and cavanaugh off the court threw out the president's lawyers arguments that their client has immunity from investigation in both cases chief justice john roberts writing that no citizen or even the president is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding so authorities in new york are allowed to secure records from the president's accounting firm through the courts the city's district attorney hailed the decision cyrus vance jr said it's in keeping with the u.s.a.'s founding principles and added the investigation which was delayed for almost

a year by this lawsuit will resume guided as always by the grand jury solemn obligation to follow the law and the facts wherever they may lead but new york's grand jury investigation into potential wrongdoing by trump and the trouble is held in secret so barring a leak the public will not see the records if and when it receives them investigators are looking into whether an alleged hush money deal with $2.00 women who claim to have had an affair with trump broke the law congress however could rig stall charges financial records to the public if house committees win the right to see them and that may or may not happen now but the house speaker welcomed the justices up holding of the principle that congress has the right to subpoena the president the supreme court including the president's appointees have declared that he is not above the law. the point the path that inquiry has laid out is one that is clearly a. all. in the lower courts and we will continue to go down that path but the

supreme court hasn't acted limitations on congress that it will now have to meet in the lower courts among them to prove that any information that is requested will have a direct impact on legislation always hanging over the issue of donald trump's tax records are statements like this dating back to before the 2016 election i'm clean and when i release my financial statements my decision sometime prior to election it will only show one thing that i'm much richer than people even thought the president has fought their release ever since so there is some comfort to be had for the president donald trump's arguments regarding presidential immunity did not win but these rulings will not result in the release of donald trump's closely held financial records before november's elections. washington bred kerry is a professor of political science and a faculty member at georgia southern university he explains what the rulings mean.

i think the upshot of both of them is that it's going to be quite some time before the public sees anything in terms of financial records really the arguments that the supreme court don't with today were rather extreme arguments they only really said in the new york case was that the president had no absolute immunity from grand jury proceedings and was not privileged above other citizens switched to a lot of people was sort of the common sense state of the law the court did say that the administration could challenge on any grounds were available under state law the pursuit of these materials for the grand jury so for example apparently there are new york laws against overbroad requests or potentially harassing requests and you could expect that to be tied up in litigation for some time with regard to the to the congressional documents similarly again

the president's argument was that it was never necessary under any circumstances for chief executives to turn over. private things of this sort of nature and that was a rather extreme argument that the court rejected but it did come back and say that there is a test that the lower courts have to apply and it it could turn out to the president's favor so i think they did as your correspondent said kick the can down to the lower courts to deal with and that's just going to extend the timeline ok let's get you more on that developing story the united arab emirates is said to be holding up a deal with gulf states that could end the 3 year long blockade against castro that's according to reports being carried on the fox news channel joining us live is patrick away and our correspondent in washington passing what else do we know about this. well 'd at the very beginning we need to sort of take a step back and look at where the spirit being reported in the fox news website not

on fox news on air we haven't seen it on air yet and again we know that this is a channel that the president likes to watch we have seen no evidence that the president likes to read the website and again it has been picked up by anyone else and we have not been able to independently confirm this but what this article is saying and it doesn't give any sort of indication where the sources are coming from which is slightly unusual but it doesn't name anyone but it says that for the last 2 months somehow if there were secret negotiations between saudi arabia officials from saudi arabia qatar the u.a.e. and the u.s. acting as a mediator now that it 5 would be surprising if true because these are that's a lot of different people at the table and there's been no even whisper that there were negotiations of any kind taking place much less among high ranking officials from these 4 countries the article says that a potential deal was in their words quote at hand and that the u.a.e. walked away and tried to pressure saudi arabia to do the same thing again they're

saying that just for a perspective this is not anything we've even heard is on the radar lately from the secretary of defense secretary of state the white much less the white house dealing with a coronavirus pandemic a downturn in the economy falling poll numbers and now the supreme court decision so there's been no indication no signals that this is high up on 0 the priority list nonetheless this is a fox news report again on the web site saying that they were pressuring these countries to come to some sort of agreement so that they could put pressure together on iran that is a priority of this administration or at least of the secretary of state secretary of defense should point out we've reached out to everyone in washington still waiting to hear back but what this article says is that when senator lindsey graham was in doha last december that he came back and really pressured the white house to try and make this happen that is. because we do know senator graham is a close confidant of the president and he's very involved in foreign policy so it is possible that lindsey graham has been trying to push drivers behind the scenes

here but basically i think it's important also to point out the way this is being framed on the fox website is that it was a potential win for the president in foreign policy before the election the next big one that he could get in we're seeing in this article lot of pressure from some of the far right think tanks in washington so they're trying to press sort of for frame this as a could be an easy win for the president now it's not clear that that would actually move anything in this election this is not going to be an election based on foreign policy and we haven't heard his base clamoring to see the g.c.c. dispute resolved on the bus it is one report on the fox news website not on fox news which is the president watches but we've reached out to everyone if we hear back i'll be back with you ok patty thank you very much. let's get more all not george you c.e.o. of gulf state and of the ticks of geopolitical risk consultancy firm focusing on the arabian peninsula he joins us from san francisco giorgio great to have you back

here on the output here on al jazeera english if this report on the fox news website is true why would the u.a.e. be doing this. well i think among experts who have been looking at the g.c.c. crisis there's not a whole lot to be surprised about you know among the countries blockading qatar it is the u.a.e. that is most rigid in its position against joe r. where as the saudis have viewed the alleged qatari threat as more of a strategic issue for me this is really very much about ideology and ultimately this agenda of blockading qatar came from abu dhabi and i think out of all of the gulf countries putting pressure on cuts are the u.a.e. will be the last one to decide soon ease that pressure so it definitely makes sense that. would use its leverage over riyadh to block any u.s.

backed plan of aimed at bringing the g.c.c. countries back together is the potential as well within this dynamic full another source of leverage and could it be that the trumpet ministration might pompei of course the secretary of state wants a united front in his eyes a united front across the region potentially squaring off against and therefore isolating iran. well yes ever since a pretty early stage in the g.c.c. crisis the trumpet ministration is seeing this arabian feud is a big threat to u.s. interests in the sense that washington would like to have all of the g.c.c. member states united against the islamic republic of iran and this issue is definitely been an irritant for the administration but you know i the defacto ruler

of the u.a.e. crown prince mohammed bin ziad whatever people may think about his policies we can all agree that he's no pushover and he's a very strategic thinker when it comes to dealing with regional international issues and in recent years he has really had its bets when it comes to foreign policy right now a lot closer to china russia india and it has a relationship today where it's a lot less dependent on the u.s. so i think it's not just so simple as saying the u.s. needs to put pressure on the end of the blockade there is a lot more balance in this relationship than there was 102030 years ago so i think it would be pretty difficult to imagine the trip it ministration or really any future u.s. administration having an easy time in terms of just supposedly telling aboud dobby that it asked to lift the blockade pensacola correspondent tracking the story for

us out of washington this she was making the very valid point that foreign policy never really blips on the radar when it comes to the u.s. election november the 3rd is 4 months away but we're sure reading of the old slightly awkward if you will prob an ans all of these reports it's the faults news website nobody else is not the new york times is not the washington post is not somebody who's done research in the region so and within that question can also ask you to kind of clarify for us is this fox news talking to the trumpet ministration or is it the trumpet ministration talking to fox news because there is that slightly asymmetric relationship mr trump loves watching fox and friends. very good points you make yes fox news is very closely tied to the trump administration i agree that it's very significant outlet which reported this news

as i see it i think there's a very good chance that some officials in the trump administration are trying to signal that they or to some extent irritated with a number of aspects of emirate in foreign policy despite the fact that trump and mohamed been a ziad abu a very close relationship there is no denying that the u.a.e. is conduct's in several areas is conflicting with some of the trumpet ministrations interests in agendas we see this not only in relation to the blockade of qatar but also in southern yemen where the emma ronnie's are backing a group that wants to split the country between north and south we're also seeing this in libya where the amorality used a rather aggressively supportive general hoft or whom the us government does not recognize as a legitimate leader of libya in her also seeing this in relation to syria where the u.a.e.

is working hard to bring the assad regime back into the arab world's diplomatic fold which is the opposite of what the trip administration wants so i think there's a much bigger picture beyond just the blockade of cuts or in i read this once again is officials in the u.s. administration making it clear that they take issue with certain aspects of these agenda despite the fact that trump is very close to the u.a.e. in general so many big issues but pain is the middle east georgia greats told to again thank you so much for coming on georgia o'keeffe yet or that in san francisco pleasure is mine thank you. ok still to come for you here on this half hour of world news from al jazeera we're shown the room remains of course described as a secret prison where opponents of the libyan warlord were tortured. to find pandemic restrictions in serbia to protest over a long. hello

curiously enough the heat and the big suns domes and not where you might expect them to be they're fairly obviously they're that slow moving frontal system which is butting up against some navy record high temperatures for these some pretty big thunderstorms look at this for a tornado up in minnesota a slow moving damaging but beautiful to behold don't you think they'll be more of the same not saying the same place as that cold front moves slowly into what is really a hot area and you get some pretty big thunderstorms now that's where all the action is further west it's quite quiet san francisco still got the morning clouds and 21 degrees so you see if overlay the temperature profile it colors where the deep heat is and certainly don't texas but equally a good part of the midwest and all places to the east as tempers should not be

really in the thirty's the frontal taken down toronto goes to 29 you know spittle bring flooding there would've been some flash flooding in toronto already so nice little change taking place but quite an interesting one the showers been equally big but i see no tornadoes no reports of nor hail know what to expect to see very much in this part of the world throughout the caribbean we've got the focus of some pretty big showers in nicaragua they're moving further westwards and on the pacific coast potential development happening. is resistance. in akra people are grabbing social and political issues by the horns. and time to sing creativity parity and protest to challenge a change i.d.'s. a gun a controversial

a witness documentary on al-jazeera. welcome back updating the top story for you so far this half hour the u.s. supreme court has issued mixed verdicts on demands for donald trump's financial records and the presidential tax returns and other documentation will remain out of the public eye and they have ruled how well the best trumps records can be examined by prosecutors in new york. united arab emirates is said to be holding up a deal with gulf states that could end the 3 year long rocket against cattle that's according to reports being carried on the fox news website. the united nations

secretary general antonio terra she is warning of unprecedented economic damage to latin america because of coronavirus pushing millions of people into poverty the u.n. says the region is set for its worst recession in over 100 years will an $18000000.00 people are expected to lose their jobs bringing the total past $44000000.00 poverty is expected to jump by 7 percent to almost 40 percent this year means $230000000.00 people of those some will be pushed into extreme poverty it will rise by 4.5 percent bringing the total in the region to almost $100000000.00 living on the diet conditions daniel swine flu is monitoring the region are to blame as ira's for us today daniel quits regions or which countries will really feel the brunt of this. well i think the obvious one to start with is brazil which is the 2nd highest number of deaths in the country the 2nd 100 highest

number of infections after the united states 1700000 of course we heard on wednesday the president the president of the country himself also nado announcing on national television that he himself had tested positive for coverage 19 he appeared in front of the cameras again today waving at his supporters at some distance it must be said sometimes wearing a mask sometimes not so they will certainly be hit very hard despite the emphasis that he has put on trying to save the economy we've also heard in the last hour that the interim president of bolivia giannini on yes has a cell phone also tested positive for coverage 19 announcing it on her twitter account and the defacto number 2 in the business whalen government diosdado cabello has also tested positive so we're hearing these leaders around the region or testing positive for the 1000 virus they're all countries with serious

structural problems health systems breaking point column is struggling as i mentioned brazil going into recession as well as serious problems which. there is the secretary general of the united nations has highlighted and has put forward possible solutions ways of moving ahead. 3rd many in latin america the have it caused by the covert $900.00 pandemic has only exacerbated already existing problems in a context of already gaping inequalities i levels of informal labor and fragmented health services the most vulnerable populations and individuals are once again being hit the hardest. to tear is one in the poverty across the region will rise by 7 percent an increase equivalent to 45000000 people extreme poverty is also expected to increase by 28000000 to 230000000 people and i don't see

what the maximum number i learned on the street with my baby girl 4 months ago at the start of the pandemic your surviving going to a soup kitchen receiving donations just staying afloat. and there are many more about to join him the un says the number of unemployed people in the region will also rise an increase of 80000000 to 44000000 in just one year i can bear if there are people who found themselves in the streets because they've lost their jobs they've never been in that situation before they couldn't pay their rents many of these people have worked their whole lives and feel embarrassed to ask for help . the u.n. policy brief says the worst affected will be women since they're more likely to work in the informal sector indigenous communities and those of african descent will also be disproportionately hit and the crisis will exacerbate the vulnerability of migrants and refugees the secretary general is suggesting

a number of urgent measures he's calling for greater international support and major structural changes in the region where inequality has become untenable it means developing comprehensive welfare systems of thought accessible to all. it means creating a fair taxation system promoting this of jobs serious thinking environmental sustainability and green forcing social protection mechanisms. are a huge challenge for the number of deaths and infections continue to rise. when despite those grim that grim picture painted there many people in latin america simply have a diverse difficult choice to make they either stay at home as the governments are asking them to do where they're almost certainly not have enough money to feed their families or they go out to work where there's a possibility. they'll catch the virus but they will also they will be able to feed

their families so these economies in very difficult situations systemic problems across the region yet we're seeing in some places like paolo the major city in brazil they're reopening parks shopping malls are going to be reopened bars and restaurants have already reopened at the same time as we're seeing record numbers of deaths and infections across the region even here in argentina which has been relatively ok compared to other countries 1170 deaths we're seeing record numbers of infections per day we haven't seen the worst of the situation of the pandemic yet in latin america don't you thank you. the u.s. top military general has said there's no place in the armed forces for symbols of racism general mark milley has been testifying about the military's role in the response to the recent unrest triggered over the killing of george floyd appeared alongside the u.s. defense secretary mark who said deploying the national guard was the most

appropriate response not active duty troops. i want to make very clear that no active duty military unit 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 ground that 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 i have many policemen in my family and i am personally outraged by george floyd's brutal and senseless killing the protests that have ensued not only speak to this

injustice but also to centuries of injustice towards black americans we as a nation and as a military still struggling with racism and we have much work to do. well transcripts of george floyd's final moments of being released showing the police ignored him when he said he couldn't breathe and they told him to stop talking he died shortly after a policeman knelt on his neck for almost 9 minutes the transcript shows mr floyd told officers he couldn't breathe 20 times 4 police officers have been charged over the killing of iranian state media is reporting an explosion has been heard in western tehran there's been multiple explosions around military nuclear and industrial facilities over the past week the cause of this blast remains unknown. libya's u.n. recognize government says it's found a prison and used by the warlords after to torture and kill his opponents in the city of tarhouni which was under control of after us forces until it was recaptured

by government troops on june the 5th charcoal was reportedly placed on top of the cells to overwhelm prisoners with heat up to what is in. 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 hope posed the military rule in the city government officials here enter horner tell us that some of those who were kept here or killed and voted in the mass graves that were found recently in the city of horn or others were transferred to other notorious prisons under 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 also that were committed by 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. in serbia hundreds of people have staged a sit in protest outside the parliament.

is in defiance of a 10 person limit on gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic the restrictions were announced after 2 nights of fighting between police and protesters over a lot done measures serbia's president alexander is accusing some protesters of looking to do quote serious damage regularly. i'm 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. green police have used tear gas to disperse people protesting over a new bill regulating street demonstrations they gathered outside the parliament enough and the law was introduced by the greek government to regulate protests it says they cause frequent disruptions to the public and they affect commerce they've been banned if you're thorough he said they threatened public safety it would also hold organizers accountable for harm or damage caused by protesters. more elephants

are being funded in botswana and it's still not clear what's killing them the national park rescue charity says more than $400.00 animals have died as one us government has only confirmed $281.00 deaths it's now been 2 months since the 1st carcass was spotted at the government's been criticized for acting too slowly to solve the mystery the country has the world's largest elephant population. this is al jazeera these are the top stories the u.s. supreme court has issued mixed verdicts on demands for donald trump's financial records and for now the presidential tax returns and other elements of documentation were main out of the public eye they have ruled however that mr trump's records can be examined by prosecutors in new york and this is a political witch hunt for life at which she will disappear which are. just like

the more mysterious she was a hoax that i want and this is no hoax this is political. and we were very decisively and so they sent it into new york and you know what's going on in new york everyone's leaving turn out to be a all. do something of the people leaving new york is a political witch or just in. the united arab emirates is said to be holding up a deal with gulf states that could end the 3 year long blockade against cattle that's according to reports on the fox news website. united nations secretary general and turning to terror issues warning of unprecedented economic damage to latin america because of the coronavirus pushing millions into poverty launching a policy brief on the future of the region he also says women black and addiction as communities will be the worst affected more than 18000000 people are expected to lose their jobs bringing the total past 44000000 iranian state media this are

reporting an explosion has been heard in western tehran there have been multiple explosions around military nuclear and industrial facilities in the past week the course of the blast does remain unknown. libya's united nations recognized government says it's found a prison used by the warlords after to torture and kill his opponents in the city of tal huna which was under the control of his forces until it was recaptured by government troops in early june in serbia hundreds of people have staged a sit in protest outside the parliament there is in defiance of a 10 person limit on gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic the restrictions were announced after 2 nights of fighting between police and protesters along measures the serbian president alexander which is accusing some protesters of looking to cause serious damage which up next is rewind i'm off to about with 30 minutes about his real world news i'll see you then of.

course. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change the 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.

hello and welcome again to rewind am fully back to full since the launch of al-jazeera english back in 2006 we've built up a library of award winning documentary s. and here on rewind we've been delving into the vault to pull out some of the best of them today we're going back to 2007 to a poor south african neighborhood just outside cape town when using honor and tradition come together in an unusual annual competition in recent years south africa has seen huge political upheaval and corruption scandals and cape town south africa 2nd largest city has been feeling the impact of climate change and

struggling with drastic water shortages a decade ago south africa seemed to be moving towards a more inclusive post apartheid world yet.