expedition you don't have to do it and this is a fishing expedition but more importantly this is a continuation of the witch hunt the greatest which aren't in history is never been anything like it where people want to examine every detail you've ever done to see if they can find that there's a comma at a place no president has ever had to go through there's the supreme court should have allowed this to happen but no president has ever had to go for this but what the supreme court did do is say if it's a fishing expedition a year my interpretation is essentially you don't have to do it so we'll probably end up back in the supreme court but this is just a continuation of the most hideous witch hunt in the history of our country we beat mauler we wanted every level in this in washington in d.c. we wanted every low level so now what they do they send it into new york so now we have an all democrat state all democrats and they send it into new york this should

never be allowed to happen to another president this is a continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt in the history of our country all it is. the supreme court said fishing expedition this is the ultimate fishing expedition nobody has anything we did we don't do things wrong but they'll say let's go in and inspect every deal each ever done let's get papers from 10 years every paper every deal he's ever side maybe we can fly with some lawyer made a mistake where they didn't dot and i were they didn't put a comma down someplace and then we can do something this is a disgrace and they should never ever be allowed to happen again thank you very much christiane one of only russia not us was or is and is that you have a government terminated and we haven't seen it yet we're looking at it and mike's going to be reporting to mission ok thank you very much everybody. here.

you're watching al-jazeera live from doha we're bringing you the latest pictures of that news conference with mustafa. the iraqi prime minister and the u.s. president donald trump just to sum up if you're expecting a headline sequence at this point in the programming we decided stay with that because that's such a significant conversation going on there inside the white house of course primacy for both mr carter me and donald trump is the withdrawal of u.s. forces from iraq that is something the both of them want to see happen the reality is for the united states that cannot happen primarily because of the iranian influence just over the border and also clearly inside iraq as well we've been hearing from mr card to me mr trump was kind of sidelined at the beginning of the news conference when he was barked out with questions about steve bannon his former strategist who served for 7 months the 1st 7 months of the trumpet ministration inside the white house you can see it there on the strap mr bannon has been

arrested because of what he did allegedly that was illegal with part of all of a $25000000.00 fund that he along with for. 3 other alleged coconspirators i guess you could call them he set up a payment system for people to make donations into the fund to build the wall the wall of course being the wall that mr trump is still building between the u.s. and mexico mr trump indulging in some very nimble footwork trying to put a big sense of distance between him and steve bannon he restated what he has said before about the fund and this is not something that you can fact check the u.s. president on and find that he is lacking he has said consistently that he never liked the idea of it being privately funded by private citizens because it involved people i guess phoning up a lot landline phone up or a hotline donating money giving their credit card numbers according to m s n

b c just in the past couple of hours since the steve benen story broke it acquired or it put together a crew $25000000.00 let's listen in again to what mr trump is saying i think it's a very sad thing for mr ben and i think it's surprising but this was something as you know just by reading social media and by reading whatever it is and by speaking to mike and mike and all of them i didn't like that project i thought that was a project that was being done for showboating reasons i don't know that he was in georgia i didn't know any of the other people either but it it said it's very sad. mr trump talking about mr bannon live correspondent gabriel elizondo outside the courthouse in new york so gabe just sum up for us because this is moving really quickly what's happened in the past couple of hours. that's right it is moving very quickly we do know that steve bannon was arrested and we are outside a federal courthouse here in lower manhattan new york where he is expected to make

a court appearance at some point but given the fact that covert is still very much a big issue here in the u.s. and particularly in new york we believe that his court appearance is going to be virtual through closed circuit television with the judge and the lawyers so we do not actually expect to see steve bannon here at who are we don't think although that of course could change and that's why we're here and that's why we're set up right outside of court in case any of his lawyers or any prosecutors come out to make any statements will be here for that the news of steve bannon certainly is making big ramifications throughout washington and the united states as you mentioned ban and was a close associate of president donald trump he was his chief strategist during his 2016 campaign in the 1st 7 months that trump was president in the white house bannon's office was just shell hole from the oval office now bannon is holding the

prosecutor's ban and was involved in illegal scheme where he threw a non profit with 3 other people were so was soliciting as much as $25000000.00 online through a go fund to the site. of what he said was a campaign to fund the fielding of the u.s. for a wall of a southern border with mexico according to prosecutors in this indictment they claim that banning pocketed nearly $1000000.00 of that money himself in a fraud scheme deep frogging that thousands of people that were donating to this campaign. mistakingly thinking it was going to go only for building at the southern border wall so he's facing a conspiracy and fraud charges and we expect to hear more once perhaps he does make a court appearance here in lower manhattan and just to be clear on this cave a mr bannon you know he spent 7 months inside the white house he was a key figure in the campaign but in a sense he was much more of

a political beast the mr trump ever was and famously their relationship was really toxic towards the end but mr bannon's reach goes well beyond mr trump ironically because he seems to have an ability to speak almost face to face it seems with those ultra conservatives in america. that's right and not just ultra conservatives in america as you so correctly pointed out but this is very much steve bannon had become an international figure within the so-called all right movement this white empowerment movement this loose connection of people and organizations in the far all true conservative right globally bannon had been an adviser formally and informally to ultra right political figures in germany in france and in italy and in brazil as well in fact bannana tended

a far conservative right all right meeting of the national front in france and he also was a close informal adviser to the 2 sons of brazilian president. who is now the president of brazil for altria right figure there so bannon's reach goes far beyond simply being a one time adviser to the president united states even though that was a very big role he had he was also very much a big advice or to many ultra right conservative figures in politics in many countries throughout the world ok gave you keep us posted i'm sure in the meantime many things gabriel is on the reporting live from outside the courthouse where we think steve benen may be right now in new york well as we've been mentioning president trump has been holding that meeting with the iraqi prime minister mr alcott to me likely top of the agenda the future it was the future of iran 5000 u.s. troops still stationed in iraq as well as relations with iran u.s. forces have already begun to withdraw from several bases over the past few months

live now to the white house and our correspondent kimberly something i don't get here mr trump wants u.s. troops out of iraq has to come to me wants u.s. troops out of iraq but they're not leaving iraq what's going on. well there are a couple of them for an interest that have the. u.s. military still there in iraq number one in its position next to neighboring iran the u.s. seeming to feel there is a need to keep some of those soldiers there as a deterrence the other interest is oil and of course iraq is a major oil producing nation and that is a valued interest to the united states as well 1 in terms of stability so we heard a couple of interesting things coming out of the oval office meeting between the iraqi prime minister and the u.s. president i think what's most interesting is that it was very clear coming from the iraqi prime minister he did not mince words speaking through an interpreter he was

very clear that he does not want his country to be used as a platform he said for attacks on neighbors not mentioning iraq specifically but it's very clear that there was a message there the united states cannot use iraq for its proxy war with iran we're furring to of course the u.s. joe drone strike earlier many many months ago on the iranian commander qassam solomonic so saying that very expressway as well saying that they will not allow attacks on their sovereignty the fact that of course 17 years ago the u.s. invaded iraq and there are troops that remain there even as the u.s. president said in a campaign promise in 2016 that he would be pulling the united states out of foreign wars in fact he dodged the question of the timeline of when those troops in iraq would be leaving only saying he wants to get them out there is an interest in doing that in diminishing troops not just there but also in afghanistan saying they

hope to have those numbers down to around 4000 in a matter of months and mr trump have an appreciation of how significant mr khan to me is in the context of iraqi politics i mean he's supposed to be a transitional prime minister he's got a huge shopping list of reforms which he wants to push through in theory he might be still in the job and long after mr trump has fallen by the way. i think what gave us a sense that donald trump does not have an understanding of the nuances and the complexities is when he was asked about the relationship with the kurds and of course that is a very important aspect of the a rocky relationship they were instrumental in helping the united states defeat eisel but of course we also know that many people believe that the u.s. turned its backs on the kurdish peoples particularly when it comes to the situation

in syria and the support for kurdish allies in syria and some of the deal making that has been done with the iraq rather turkish leader aired awad which the president spoke very fondly about i think that signals to us the u.s. for president not acknowledging any of that when he said that there are the united states has been very helpful to the kurds they have a very good relationship i think that that will not sit well with some kurdish leaders and it once again just shows the broad brushing of strokes that the u.s. president will dunn will do when he discusses some of the very fine nuances that he doesn't seem to understand the complexities of whether it be the middle east as a whole or iraq specifically ok kimberly will chance in our next hour i suspect i can feel it coming on can we talk a correspondent there in the white house thank you very much. president trump another story to do with mr trump in the middle east demanding that all u.n. sanctions be reimposed against iran he says the secretary of state mike pompei oh

who we saw in the news conference with the iraqi prime minister will meet the u.n. secretary general later today to start the process. the rand will never have market to market iran will never have a nuclear weapon when the united states entered into the iran deal it was clear that the united states would always have the right to restore the u.n. sanctions that would prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon. we paid a fortune for a failed concept and a failed policy a policy that would have made it impossible to have peace in the middle east. while the run sun veiled sunni missiles ignoring us demands not want to see a police stick surface to surface missile with a range of 1400 kilometers is named after custom so the money of the iranian general killed by a u.s. drone strike in january in iraq the 2nd is a missile that's launched from a submarine but one has a range of 1000 kilometers. into iran with more on how the trumpet ministrations

efforts are being received well iran has always maintained that the united states in no position and has no right to trigger that snapback mechanism to reimpose the united nations sanctions especially since donald trump pulled the u.s. out of that 2015 nuclear deal back in 2018 but for mr divides the reef has. praised reagan a rare occasion the former security advisor john bolton and i quoted him as well saying that iran aside the united states had pulled themselves out of that deal or had no access to the mechanism of that deal and iran previously has called john bolton of woman but this time said he was the only person that was consistent and consistency was something that's not present in the u.s. administration now it seems like russia and china are also of the same opinion as iran that the united states has no right to initiate that's not back mechanism any also seems like the europeans are of the same opinion but that doesn't mean that

the united states won't drive you know the secretary of state might prompt to meet the un secretary general later iran is confident expression the after that humiliating defeat last friday where the united states tried to extend the arms embargo on iran that's set to expire in october now definitely here in iran that's been seen as a massive victory for iran. u.s. federal judge has rejected mr trump's latest attempt at shielding his tax records from the manhattan district attorney he's now filed an emergency motion to delay handing them over and it's unlikely they'll be made public before the election in november the request for mr trump's tax return stemmed from a criminal investigation into mr trump and the trump organization still to come on this program a blow to the opposition the russian politician alexina valmy is in serious but stable condition after becoming seriously ill on a flight to moscow. and global condemnation of a military coup in mali the u.n. calls for the release of its tamed president.

but. we're still having major flooding problems into parts of china said the central areas this thick area cloud here that is the seasonal rains and it certainly brought some very nasty conditions in just one province recently sinkhole a developed 21 cars getting sucked up into that sinkhole thankfully no one was hurt in the process we are going to see further showers and longer spells of right into central and eastern parts of china as we go through the next couple days the cloud and the rain that's rolling over towards the sea some wet weather they're coming in to us south korea not too heavy but there will be some showers nevertheless and some suggest welcome showers pushing into japan trying to break the hate 33 celsius in tokyo as well down to race in values but that still is very

hot and it will remain very humid in the coming days meanwhile across south asia well it's all about the rainfall more heavy downpours coming into northern parts of the been goal of the bangladesh northeast of india better how much but dash it up a dashing some very heavy rain some wet weather to into northern parts of pakistan lot could cause some disruption some flooding it will ease as we go through saturday by that stage starting very wet for good writes. i am steve clemons and i have a question how these days it's hard to filter out the newly sinking track of what's really important to the bottom line tackles the big issues this issue in 1000 state its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the well the bottom line only. holding the powerful to

account as we examine the u.s. is room in the wild on al-jazeera. why the with her for her former. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha you're headlining stories formally he was one of us president gul trump's most influential advisors now he's facing federal fraud charges steve bannon has been arrested and accused of conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges there in relation to a fund raising campaign to support the building of mr trump's us mexico border wall . mr trump has been holding a meeting with iraqi prime minister mr. top of the agenda was the future of around

5000 american troops still stationed in iraq as well as relations with iran u.s. forces have already begun to withdraw from several bases over the past few months. the u.s. federal judge has rejected mr translates as the tempted shielding his tax records from the manhattan district attorney has now filed an emergency motion to delay handing them over it's unlikely they will get into the public domain before the elections on november 3rd. but let's go to another one of our top stories turning our attention to russia there is speculation that a prominent opposition politician alexina was poisoned is fighting for his life in a siberian hospital here's where rich allen's. the groans of a man in obvious pain medics come down the aisle to help according to the person who films this footage on a flight from siberia to moscow it's russian opposition leader alexina valmy later he's seen on a stretcher being put in an ambulance seemingly unconscious now in

a coma in the city of doctors say they're working to save his life is just. as much. naturally poisoning is considered as one of the possible reasons of the deterioration of the condition but the side that there could be a number of acute states that lead to the same clinical science we are working on everything eliminate confirmed and work unfortunately i cannot tell you more. colleagues are already convinced his illness doesn't have any natural cause. you're . speaking on a valley's live you tube channel his spokeswoman. said doctors who told her they were confident he'd been poisoned to start with and now too scared to say this she thinks whatever it was was in his tea and she also said claims made on social media that he was drinking alcohol the night before and this reacted with medication false. after initially being denied access no valley's wife yulia and his doctor

were eventually let in to see him. charismatic sometimes abrasive and absolutely fearless alexina valmy is the most prominent russian opposition figure. by exposing the corruption of russia's governing elite he's built a huge following of mainly young people drawn to protest by his investigative you tube videos valley's followers are shown a willingness to defy police battens and prison time the valley himself has spent repeated spells behind bars a fraud case started in 2014 landed him a suspended sentence a jail term for his brother and a ban for novelli himself to challenge putin in 20 eighteen's presidential election . he has persisted despite the state pressure and despite the obvious risks of criticizing readymade putin's rule. another opposition figure boris nemtsov was shot dead near the kremlin in 2015 more have left the country the kremlin spokesman

has wish no valmy a speedy recovery and says any poisoning would need to be confirmed by laboratory tests rory chalons al-jazeera well freelance journalists alexandra. brings us the latest from moscow. as far as we can break it down what happened today is that he regularly boarded the plane to come back to moscow from siberia of dom's according to his press secretary he only had one tea at the airport cafe and very short after boarding he felt very ill started sweating we could hear his yells and then he lost consciousness he was rushed to the hospital there was an emergency landing in the home and that there he's been in a coma and he's been in common ever since which is more than 11 hours for more than 11 hours he's not to regain consciousness there is a medical ventilator helping him breathe and doctors say that have been running

numerous tests checking his blood checking his brain activity doing other checks on his body functions and also running toxicology tests but yet we don't know what happened what happened that caused generally healthy man of 44 to fall into a coma in the meantime his wife arrived his personal doctor arrived there were let in to see him but we hear reports now that they left the hospital without at this point addressing any media his family wants to transport him either to moscow or anywhere in europe where he would get the treatment but what they're saying is that they're not getting his medical files and they're not getting permission from the hospital to get him to a supported. well staying in the part of the world the general prosecutor's office and has opened a criminal case into a council made up of opposition figures protesters say they'll continue to defy

warnings by president alexander lukashenko of a renewed crackdown he's ordered security forces to clear the streets after nearly 2 weeks of demonstrations over this month's disputed election the opposition leader spent lunna ticking off sky who's now in neighboring the few ania says she set up the council to coordinate a peaceful transfer of power but the prosecutor insists it is a threat to security group leader who is brutal who was a group of citizens of the republic of belarus has declared creation of a cordon nation council one of the goals of which is a transfer of power the plan to create a political body that should undertake the transfer of power from the current head of the country creating such a body is not allowed by the law their activity is unconstitutional a group of citizens who understand the invalidity of their actions has left the council and do not agree with its activity creation and activity of such a council is designated to seize state authority as well as damage the national

security of belarus the brother of a suicide bomber who attacked a concerts in the u.k. city of manchester in 2017 has been sentenced to 55 years in prison 22 people were among those attending a concert by ariana grande day they were killed when a baby detonated his explosives investigators say is brother hashem help source materials for the bomb families of the victims spoke after the sentencing. we would like to thank judge jeremy baker for imposing the biggest said was ever in these circumstances. however as the family's trillian liam nor sentence will ever reflect the loss we feel each day here without them. because he. because he will really be serving the sentence that we are. it's been more international condemnation of choose days military coup in mali the u.n. security council is calling on the country's self-proclaimed leaders to release deposed president abraham but a key to members of the african union and the regional body echo also suspended

ties with mali the army has promised to oversee democratic elections but has yet to say when that will happen the one who could prove it to you live the mission is that we have no political ambition we are soldiers we have other progressives other missions to deal with our objective is through the various meetings we had with the various social and political groups to hand over rapidly the powers to a civilian transition for the continuity of the state and we are all aware today of the political and security situation mali is going through so i want to reassure you you can continue working without any pressure and i want to reassure you of our support our correspondent committed wrists is following developments from the nigerian capital abuja he says ecko osce might deploy a standby force to mali. i see me go to is a kind of love the mali an army not many millions know much about him but what is known about him so far he's part of the 5 military officers that deposed president

. for then he served as a commander of an elite tamale in the unit in central money this is the force that's been dealing with the outbreak of violence ethnic violence as well as extremist violence in that part of the region now with this development. the a lot of money and expect them to keep to their promise and that's what was what was promised at the powerful a mom would decor who sought office today against president. yesterday he announced that he would do with from politics after meeting with a senior military officers now with this development now a lot of money is expecting that the military will quickly hand over power within a reasonable time to a civilian government they should quickly organize and actions however right now as we speak a course member states heads of state and government meeting in an extraordinary

summit videoconferencing to discuss further discuss the situation in mali already we know some member states of the of course in mali providing support for the operations against fight fighters in the north and central parts of mali as well as walking alongside the french forces fighting the armed groups in mali so we are waiting to see what will be achieved at that meeting extraordinary summit of heads of states and governments of course india appears to be struggling in its battle against the global pandemic it's just reported a new record increase in daily infections in the 70000 in the past 24 hours that brings its total number of cases to 2840000 it's the 3rd worst affected country in the world. a human rights lawyer an activist in thailand's been arrested its attorney on number 4 was charged with sedition after taking part in the protests calling for reform of the monarchy a popular rapper was also among those arrested there also calls for the prime

minister mr john archer to step down he's instructed the military to prepare for the protests to escalate scott has this update from bangkok. 9 people who've been involved with these anti-government protests here in thailand over the last month have been arrested in the last day or so they've been charged with sedition illegal assembly and computer crimes now the people who have been arrested are some of the leaders of these groups again these are mostly student youth groups but some people who just spoke at the protests or performed at some of these protests over the last month now moving forward we know that some of the leaderships are saying that they want to stage bigger protests come next month in september you know what they're fighting for and they say the current government doesn't represent their needs again these are mostly students and young people and that they want reforms within the government and one group is even calling for an overhaul of the monarchy a very delicate issue here in thailand now in a response to this the government the prime minister has called

a special security council meeting where they discuss the political situation in thailand and how they say they're going to deal with this escalating possible escalating situation with the protesters again we're looking really at next month 2 of the largest groups free people and a university group say that they're going to hold very large protests in september just a few weeks ago we saw a very large protest the largest protest since the coup in 2014 at democracy monument here in bangkok more than 10000 people showed up. this is al jazeera these are the top stories federal prosecutors in the united states of a rested and charged to form a senior white house strategist steve bannon was one of president trump's most influential advisors during the 2016 election campaign he is accused of conspiracy to commit wire fraud about has to do with a fundraising campaign to support the building of mr trump's wall along the border

between the u.s. and mexico. i think it's a very sad thing for this to ben and i think it's surprising but this was something as you know just by reading social media and by reading whatever it is and by speaking to mike and mike in all of them i didn't like that project i thought that was a project that was being done for showboating reasons i don't know that he was in georgia i didn't know any of the other people either but it's it's sad it's very sad and u.s. federal judge has rejected trump's latest attempts at shielding his tax records from the manhattan district attorney's office has now filed an emergency motion still a handing them over it's unlikely they will be made public before the presidential election in november the request for mr trump's tax returns stems from a criminal investigation into the trump organization in the last hour mr trump has been holding a meeting with iraqi prime minister mustapha al qaida me likely top of the agenda what we knew was going to be the future of iran $5000.00 u.s.

troops still stationed in iraq as well as relations with iran we have been taking our troops out of iraq fairly rapidly and we look forward to the day when we don't have to be there and hopefully iraqi live their own lives and they can defend themselves which they've been doing long before we got involved in other news the russian opposition politician alexina bell needs in a serious but stable condition after what his spokeswoman says was a suspected poisoning he was on a flight to moscow when he fell ill the general prosecutor's office and roosters opened a criminal case into a council made up of opposition figures protesters say they'll continue to defy warnings from the president alexander lukashenko of a renewed crackdown he's ordered his security forces to clear the streets after nearly 2 weeks of demonstrations over this month's disputed election result. up next is the bottom line i've backed off of that with 30 minutes of al-jazeera will it means i will see you very soon.

hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question has going back to school become the political football of this season let's get to the bottom line. the new academic year is off to a chaotic start for america's $50000000.00 students and their families in many schools that are open for face to face learning some students or teachers have already tested positive for corona virus we need to quarantine temporary shutdowns within days with vague and conflicting guidance from public officials each of these school districts has had to come up with its own guidelines think about that for a 2nd in a country with more than $13000.00 separate school districts each.