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welcome to the program the u.s. supreme court has blocked congress from obtaining president trump's financial records the court sent that decision down to. the congressional democrats plan to have his record released before the november elections in a similar case the justices ruled that a new york prosecutor have access to the president's financial records. and hands district attorney called the decision a tremendous victory for the u.s. justice system but a lower court will also have to decide whether or not those records will be made public. let's join our washington bureau chief told we can now walk us through what's going on oh well so one of the supreme court rulings today against the
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president talk us through that decision from the justices. well phil the big news i think is really the checks and balances are still in place here in the united states some people already started to write so the major decision is that a sitting president that a president is not immune against criminal investigations that's the easy part to understand now it's getting a little bit more complicated so the supreme court has decided that new york prosecutors will gain access to don't trump's tax records and his financial records if this lower court decides so which is likely but it's not definite this is something donald trump really likes doesn't like because he really wanted to have a definitive decision on that because he wants it from the table so therefore after this were to tee tweeted out immediately this is a hunt this is a political harassment ok but the president also had some good news today of the
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supreme court. right because the democrats were hoping that the congress would gain access to these papers we were talking about but that's what the supreme court blocked and obviously the democrats would have wished to use this information for the election come pain let's have a listen what nancy pelosi pelosi had to say about that. the supreme court including the president appoints change have declared that he is not above the law . the point the path that we're in court has laid down is one that is clearly achievable by us in the lower courts and we will continue to go down that path the decision enables. it to enable the trumpet ministrations. and i know what they're going to saying about it i hear he's
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tweeting one thing and then other people are saying another but whatever it is it's not good news for the president of the united states. speak up nancy pelosi is the point what does this mean for the president. well it means. we won't know a lot during the next week i think before we will get any insights about his. financial records it will take weeks if not months most definitely we won't learn anything before november for the very lection day but it also means that this is another problem hanging over a president from was not a very good face right now i mean the corona virus is increasing we have more than 132000 dead americans who died of the wires the hospitals are overwhelmed so that's just another problem for donald trump. washington bureau chief in this poll thank
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you. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world will start in serbia which has found gatherings of more than 10 people to reduce the spread of the coronavirus ban followed 2 nights of violent clashes between police and thousands of anti-government demonstrators in the capital belgrade protest as opposed to. a provincial governor in russia's far east has been arrested on charges of involvement in the murders of several businessman so the government of a region on the border with china was detained in the city of khabarovsk and flown to moscow in large murders in search of take place in 2004 and 2005. years of seized rescue boats operated by the german n.g.o.s sea watch claiming doesn't comply with safety regulations the vessel see what's 3 was used to rescue more than 200 people stranded at sea last month in april it's
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a live band migrant rescue ships from docking at its ports because of the coronavirus. now euro zone members have chosen irish finance minister pascal donahoe to lead the currency group's financial policy making arm think euro group donohue styles himself as a consensus come visit from the one southern in member states and had the backing of the european conservative parties the best in spades deputy prime minister not to count vina favored by southern countries like france and italy don't have real numbers help oversee the e.u. 750000000000 euro zone of orange covered. let's get more on this from marina stress brussels bureau welcome marina so lots of lots of us have heard of the euro group so explain to us how powerful this position is. it's considered as one of the key roles within the e.u. along with the heads of the e.u.
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commission that you council and the e.u. parliament and then you have done a whole hell have a crucial job now because as for your no covered 19 it's because of cover 19 the continental europe is facing is worst recession ever the your son's economy is set to contract by age point 7 percent and john a has task will now be to watch over a massive ear recovery plan that is still being negotiated no covina was considered the front runner so what does this outcome tell us. yeah you had the backing of sal those days and of france and of germany's angela merkel so it was surprising she wasn't elected but the thing is that she also had an unease especially northern states for example the netherlands she once called them very small countries with wary small weight and shit they never seem to have forgiven
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her for that and it was probably these countries who didn't want to spaniard on top of the euro croup because bain was hit especially hard during the covered 9000 crisis and culverin you know as a social member of the socialist that government was also a strong advocate for strong and very generous in your recovery funds that know the saints don't support and more do we know about pasko. donahoe is a 45 year old's former diplomats has been fighting finance minister of violence since 2017 and he presented himself as a bridge builder and that's something that needs now and that's apparently also what many countries or why many countries opted for him thanks for that but we're in a straus in brussels germany's interior minister domestic security
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chiefs have released a report profiling crime committed in the country last year they conclude that the biggest danger facing germany is right wing extremism. the security threats in germany are manifold with one area still a particularly high concern says the german interior minister. let me start off with the area of right wing extremism racism and anti semitism this area is the greatest threat to security in germany. nothing is change that on the contrary the number of offenses the number of people linked to right wing extremist circles and the number of violent far right extremists has increased further. to extremists just. a number of particularly brutal far right acts made headlines over the last year in 29000 pro migration conservative politician via term look who was killed and
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a gunman killed 2 people in an attack on a synagogue in holland in february this year a gunman shot dead 9 people in one hour. some 90 percent of anti semitic acts in germany a far right motivated the report lists around $8000.00 moved right wing extremists on the radar of german intelligence agents compared to last year. that spike in numbers in part comes from the authorities putting the so-called of the a.t.f. tea party under observation an unofficial grouping of far right politicians. but opposing politicians want the whole party to face scrutiny. of the bill is not the entire a 50 but it has spread across the entire array 50 the frugal is deeply rooted within the f.d.a. which is why it would be important to put the f.d.a. as a whole under surveillance because there are traces of the few clever way. and as
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far as security is concerned left wing and islamist terrorism remain the 2 other big threats cyber attacks and espionage also play an increased role readiness to commit violence is growing on all sides. this. is as a society we must be alarmed that the threshold to commit violence has been declining steadily that the number of violent acts has risen exorbitantly and that online we're witnessing the rise of a front of hate in contempt which makes the unspeakable acceptable and paves the way for violent acts in real life. in. the german interior minister stressed that no previous german government has been as active in its efforts to combat right wing extremism 3 far right groups have been banned they see or alone new special units within the agencies have been founded and
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a special government committee will hand over its findings to the german parliament next spring. 20 years on from the east river and it said genocide bosnia will mark the event with the burial of 8 more victims so disciplined working since 996 to find and identify the remains of thousands of people whose bodies were scattered in mass graves in an effort to hide the war crime on saturday as happens every every year on july the 11th relatives of the most recently identified victims will gather for a funeral in the east bosnian town 8 new marblehead stones will soon join thousands of others at this grave site east and bosnia and family members like facility will finally be able to lay their loved ones to rest after decades of grief. there are no words to describe the pain the sorrow you feel when you are looking for your loved ones are in by byron
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in mass graves i visited every new found mass graves i've seen the inside of every one of them of. facilis husband and son were among the 8000 bosnian muslims killed in srebrenica in 1905 she's been searching mass graves for their remains of a sense after finally finding 2 of her son's leg bones she decided to lay him to rest in 2013 which to move i wanted him to be next to his father and to be able to come and pray over their graves to know that inside there is at least one of his burns where is the rest of him grow scattered among mass graves many mass graves are still hidden opened people and identified some of us will die without finding their children. at this year's memorial event her son and husband will be joined by the bodies of 8 new bosnian men recently found in mass graves and identified through d.n.a. analysis. usually attended by thousands this year's service has been limited to
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a small number of relatives due to coronavirus restrictions but the search for victims will continue as more than a 1000 people are still missing their remains scattered across more than $500.00 like haitians. i mean states a major vegas soccer has returned to competitive action for the 1st time in 4 months and begun with a protest against racism into miami the old london city price fell silent for 8 minutes and 46 seconds before that game at the time of george floyd was held under the name for minneapolis police officer derek chauvet mash was held inside a bio security bubble disney's wide world of sports complex among the 1st north american professional men's league to return to action since pandemic lockdowns for you. this is day to day news out live from the red golf will have your next update at the top of the hour in between of course as always the web site. and
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