u. s. president. donald trump. first, the department of justice told a federal judge on monday that it will accept a recommendation from trump and his legal team that a senior federal judge from new york state be appointed the special master in the situation of the august raid on trump's home moral logo this special master raymond, deary, if approved, would take a look at the paper work that was removed during the august raid by f. b. i. agents, the determination would be whether any of those documents should be returned to the former president, which is something that the justice department opposes. however, dary does have experience dealing with highly classified information and federal investigators have suggested that there were such a classified material found during the raid back in august. now this does not mean that the justice department would be able to start using once again, the material that was taken during the rate as it investigates whether or not trump or others in his former administration, revealed classified sequence 2 parties

u. s. u. k. israel, iran and russia. particle, hayton is more the u. s. justice department has unsealed an indictment against 3, a rainy and men. the de hughes of using cyber attacks at hundreds of computers. not just here in the united states, but in russia. israel, united kingdom and even in a ran itself. they say the targets were local governments, utilities, non profits, hospitals. what they say these men did is they say that they would get into the computer systems, encrypt the data, and then demand money for the datas release. they would send these rooms from those proven victims own printers, but performance with the man payment them. bitcoin from the victims, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars and they were threatened to keep the victims data locked up or similar to others if they're around. so demand's, we're not government official, say in some of the cases the targets did in fact pay the ransom. now the us treasury department is also stepped into sanctioned the men and others they believed helped with the enterprise. although the government officials stre

u. s. justice department says it's willing to accept one of donald trump's nominees as a special master to review document ceased from his home separately. another 40 subpoenas have been issued in investigation into the former president's bid to overturn the 2020 election result was in jordan has it is f a couple of significant developments in investigations involving the former us president donald trump. first, the department of justice told a federal judge on monday that it will accept a recommendation from trump and his legal team that a senior federal judge from new york state be appointed the special master in the situation of the august raid on trumps home moral logo this special master raymond dearie, if approved, would take a look at the paperwork that was removed during the august raid by f. b. i. agents, the determination would be whether any of those documents should be returned to the former president, which is something that the justice department opposes. however, dary does have experience dealing with highly classified information and federal investigators have suggested

u. s. justice department says it's got evidence. former president donald trump's team was hiding classified files . it is florida home. it also says his advisors were obstructing an investigation into whether he illegally removed top secret documents from the white house. trump's legal team deny the allegations malim fisher reports. it's a remarkable photo document recovered by the f b i from it's read on the florida home of former president, donald trump. some marked in bright red or yellow top secret. and if you look closely, others mark h. c. s highly classified papers, which could have details on american spies or secret human sources. the august 8th grade came after repeated efforts by the authorities to have trumps team return documents taken when he left the white house. trump's lawyers claimed they had made a diligent search and they had nothing that needed to be returned, but the rate uncovered more than a 100 classified documents. not just in the storage area at mont illegal, but in the ex president's desk, the filing stating that government records were likely concealed and remov

u. s. justice department alleges 4 and a half $1000000000.00 were stolen from the malaysian state investment fund, one empty b, and that around a $1000000000.00 from that went to nudging. prosecutors also said some of the money financed a hollywood blockbuster the wall street. although the charges against the production company were late had dropped the then us attorney general had described the case as cryptography at its worst. the scandal played a part in the defeat of the governing party. i'm new in 2018. this is not the on the lawsuit against ross ma months or she faces 17 other charges of money laundering and tax evasion for illegally receiving more than $1.00 and a half $1000000.00 in a separate case. which means her legal troubles are far from over. florence lee al jazeera colleen port shall anchor and the intentional military fund of strike a deal for a $2900000000.00 bailout. people have been struggling for months under the countries worst economic crisis since independence. they face acute shortages of fuel medicine and over essentials. crisis is led to mass demonstrations and it

u. s. justice department alleges 4 and a half $1000000000.00 were stolen from the malaysian state investment fund, one empty b, and that around a $1000000000.00 from that went to nudge. if prosecutors also said some of the money financed a hollywood blockbuster the wall street, although the charges against the production company will later dropped, then us attorney general had described the case as cryptography. at its worst. the scandal played a part in the defeat of the governing party. um no in 2018. this is not the only lawsuit against ross ma months or she faces 17 other charges of money laundering and tax evasion for illegally receiving more than $1.00 and a half $1000000.00 in a separate case. which means her legal troubles are far from over. florence lee al jazeera cologne port. pakistan's army is on high alert for more floods in the south . every province in the region has been devastated with sinned. the worst affected record monsoon reigns have led to the depths of about 1200 people. nearly a 1000000 homes have been damaged or destroyed since june un has launched a 160000000 dolla

u. s. justice department says that it has evidence that former president donald trump's team was hiding classified files. that is florida home. it also says his advisors were obstructing an investigation into whether he'd illegally remove top secret documents from the white house. trump's legal team deny the allegations out there as alan fisher reports, it's a remarkable photo documents recovered by the f b i from it's read on the florida home of former president, donald trump. some marked in bright red or yellow top secret. and if you look closely, others mark h. c. s highly classified papers which could have details on american spies or secret human sources. the august 8th grade came after repeated efforts by the authorities to have trumps tim returned documents taken when he left the white house. trump's lawyers claimed they had made a diligent search and they had nothing that needed to be returned, but the rate uncovered more than a 100 classified documents. not just in the storage area at mon illegal, but in the ex president's desk, the filing stating that government records were l

u. s. justice department alleges 4 and a half $1000000000.00 were stolen from the malaysian state investment fund, one empty b, and that around a $1000000000.00 from that went to nudging. prosecutors also said some of the money financed a hollywood blockbuster the wall street. although the charges against the production company will later dropped the then us attorney general had described the case as cryptography at its worst. the scandal played a part in the defeat of the governing party. i'm new in 2018. this is not the on the lawsuit against ross mom on. so she faces 17 other charges of money laundering and tax evasion for illegally receiving more than $1.00 and a half $1000000.00 in a separate case. which means her legal troubles are far from over. florence lee al jazeera cologne poor in iraq. at least 4 people have been killed and fighting between rival she eyed factions. ah, southern city of bass were, remains on edge of the violence began on wednesday. tension is high. after the shortly the mac tada al sabah said that he was withdrawing from politics. his supporters of the round backe

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u. s. department of justice, sad, the victims of the made of investment scheme will receive another $372000000.00 to help cover their losses. the decision comes nearly 14 years after the capture of burn made up to run a massive investment fraud through his burnett. palmetto investment securities, the payout will go to more than $27000.00 victims of made us ponzi scheme, including many who have yet to receive compensation. the reserve bank of india is trying to find answers to soaring inflation and declining value of the rupee against the us dollar. the indian reduce depreciation. yes. the green back has accelerated timothy us feds rest of interest rate hikes this year, extra back in the us central bank to respond with a 50 basis point to rate hike on friday after today's discussion. that would bring india's key borrowing rate to a 3 year high of 5.9 percent. for more, let's come over to delhi and our correspondent charo car to k, a charo. what outcome do you expect? what's the reserve bank of india likely to do? well, chris r b a is likely to raise the interest rates once again, and it is likely

u. s. department of justice says the victims of bernie made offs. fraudulent investment scheme will receive a further $372000000.00 to help cover their losses. the decision comes nearly 40 years after the capture of made off ran a multi $1000000000.00 investment fraud scheme through his securities business. luxury sports car maker portia raised on to the frankfurt stock exchange thursday with one of europe's biggest listings in years. leveraging its brand power to divide global market turmoil of portia shares treated as high as 86 years and $0.54 . and i reached evaluation of 75000000000 euros racing onto the trading floor. germany's iconic sports car maker porsha has made its market debut on the frankfurt stock exchange. it's germany's biggest i p o in decades. oh, to get you on saved honor to day one of our biggest dreams has come true. the port portia is going public again. if you are adding a new chapter to pushes unique history and historic moment for portia men a great day, a proud day for all of us. i'm so it's our talk for other the initial public offering comes at a time when marke

u. s. and other european countries. however, current legislation only allows the assets to be frozen and not to be handed over to other countries. but recently the u. s. department of justice asked congress to legalize the transfer to ukraine as compensation for damages crosswise. now, the independent political analyst, our sondra, bruno, to discuss the matter. alessandro is great to have you on the show today. now, what do you think of the ukrainian president speech and of course, his call to confiscate russian assets. thank you, rachel. i think that, well, i expected such a request because the un general assembly is the perfect venue for this kind of problem. and particularly from zelinski himself. this is fully coherent with what we've seen so far. and of course the u. s. has withheld funds and distributed them for other purposes before really, iraq was one of the cases in the us still hold up again. fun. i believe. 8 or 7000000000. i forgot the exact number, but which it still hasn't returned to i've gone, it's done despite the fact that they've withdrawn from the country. so this was the expected move. how realistic it is for the un to 1st of all, the us. we're probab

u. s. and other european countries to make it happen. however, current laws only allow us to be frozen and not to be handed over elsewhere. recently, the u. s. department of justice asked congress to legalize the trunk for transfer to ukraine, as compensation for damages independent political analyst on a sancho bruno, say, the landscape request for the you. when are too much of an oscar and unlikely to happen. list of all the un, we're probably not vote in favor of it. if you take a full general assembly, they won't have the numbers. but i think one of the most other interesting requests that, apart from the money, which is even bigger was the fact that russia is vito power should be removed from the un security council, which of course would defy the entire mechanism of out as council came to be given that russia is one of the big winners of door or 2, if not the biggest winner. so, to do that, and the requests that the lensky has made are expensive to put it mildly many thanks for keeping us company here in asi international. this i will be back in 30 minutes with more was the then. ah ah, yes. now, you need yet, so. it's typically near to me. i think, you kno

u. s. department of justice asked congress to legalize the transfer as compensation for the damages caused by russians offensive independent political analysts, alessandro bruno believe the landscape demands that the un too much of an ask. first of all the you and we're probably not vote in favor of it. if you take a full general assembly vote, they won't have the numbers. but i think one of the most other interesting requests that, apart from the money, which is even bigger was the fact that russia is vito power should be removed from the un security council, which of course would defy the entire mechanism of our this council came to be given that russia is one of the big winners of one or 2, if not the biggest winner. so, to do that, and the requests that lensky has made are expensive to put it mildly well, many thanks for keeping his company here. and i'll see international that's all for me for today, but what research i will be here in 30 minutes with the very latest. ah, i get the bill. good. a i think is 70 percent of even 80 percent of so be below for why in the future say i want t

u. s. department of justice of congress to legalize the transfer to ukraine as a compensation for damages independent political analysts. so my social group, i say, is the landscape request. so the you went out too much of an all in the unlikely to happen 1st of all the you and we're probably not vote in favor of it. if you take a full general assembly vote, they won't have the numbers. but i think one of the most other interesting requests that, apart from the money, which is even bigger was the fact that rushes veto power should be removed from the un security council. which, of course, would defy the entire mechanism of how this council came to be given that russia is one of the big winners of one or 2, if not the biggest one here. so, to do that, and the requests that the lensky has made are excessive. to put it mildly many thanks for joining us. i went off the international as always, plenty more news updates to be found on our website, r t dot com, but will be back in 30 minutes with no se then. ah, a ah, the eradication of love ism was also conceived by hitler who formed the genera

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u. s. heidi joe castro al jazeera washington . that's bringing that leon fresco, who is an immigration attorney, and former deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration at the u. s department of justice. he joins us by skype from washington de say, lay on, thanks so much for being on the program. firstly, what's your reaction to the treatment of these people in need of help but instead being used as political football? well i think it's inappropriate from the standpoint the in the state of texas specifically want some really been terms are disbursing people from texas. others basically have actually work with all the space by giving advance notice of who it is boxing to those locations and where they're final destination is by a florida where the people who were sent from florida, we're actually in florida. they were paid for by florida to go to mark as they are . it just shows you that you intend to make a political state members actually. ready in any way of disperse the group from creating a burden on once they are moving it to the rest of the company, it's not even that it's purely political. so lay on the weather, actions of the governor's legal then well, it's going to depend l

u. s. department of justice can continue with this investigation, without the use of the documents, because the facts are gonna speak for themselves, they don't in-n-out them selves contain content, it's of evidentiary value. i think the justice department is gonna have to weigh that when they look at the possible people, versus going forward. but in any event, it's an incredibly flawed decision. and especially with regard to the executive privilege. it makes no sense whatsoever, in my opinion. >> and, despite being in this heap of trouble, or at least an investigation, the former president trump, over the weekend, got on a podium, and he called our current president, an enemy of the state. you are in a deep red state, with a lot of hard-core maga followers, how dangerous is this rhetoric at a time like this? >> i think rhetoric like this is always been dangerous. not only am i in a deep red state, but i grew up in the jim crow era, when rhetoric like this was just dog whistles for violence. we have seen just since the execution of the search warrant, attacks on the fbi. u.s. senators are s

u. s. department shows the attacks took place between october 2020 and august 2022 petticoat have has more from washington d. c. the us justice department has unsealed an indictment against 3 iranian men. the de hughes of using cyber attacks at hundreds of computers. not just here in the united states, but in russia. israel is united kingdom, and even in iran itself, they say the targets were local governments, utilities, nonprofits, hospitals. what they say these men did is they say that they would get into the computer systems, encrypt the data, and then demand money for the data release. they would send these ransom, those through the victims only printers, the defendants with demand payment them, bitcoin from the victims, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars. and they were threatened to keep the victims data locked up. why sell it to others? if there ran some demands, were not net government official say in some of the cases the targets did in fact pay the ransom. now the us treasury department is also stepped in distinction. the men and others, they believe helped with the enterprise. although the government offici

u. s. attorney for the western district of virginia,, president obama,, making the case early this week that the justice department has not yet been transparent enough about the reason for the august 8th mar-a-lago search. he said the public had to know why. that was monday, just a few days after we got a redacted version of the affidavit that justifying the fbi's mar-a-lago search. in the four days since then we have been inundated with information from the doj that answers the question why. we have learned why the fbi went to trump club what trump had there, where he had it and what lies the justice department was apparently told. on tuesday, the doj submitted a 36-page filing, explaining that investigators quote, developed evidence, that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the governments investigation. this photo of some of the investigation documents is an illustration of some of the volume of top secret documents at trumps florida home. despite his lawyers telling the doj both in person and on paper on june 3rd that they ha

president and his team at legal jeopardy allen fisher al jazeera at the department of justice in washington. the still ahead on l g 0, the u. s. authorizes updated, covered 19 booster vaccines targeting the omicron strain ah, in spain's famous tomato street foot sla tomantino returns after a 2 year hiatus. ah, he has begun the, the full world camp is on its way to catherine. your travel package to the it sets have of the day for your weather outside, across the middle east and africa. great to see you and no real change across the weather. in the middle east. we've got some showers, move in up the hugest mountains. some of that activity, nice fill into mecca, so the chance of a shower or thunderstorm, their craft got his fan and pakistan it remains dry, may be the odd shower around as lombard, up against the foothills of the himalayas. first, let's talk precipitation around turkey and the levant. still some showers for is stumble. got his hock about that he'd so let's take the precipitation off, put the colors on dark, the red, the higher the temperature amount still in the upper thirties. let's remember, we're into september

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justice department has to stop its investigation into those documents. let's not forget, these are some of the most highly classified documents that the u. s. intelligence community has so that part of the investigation has been put on on hold the bigger and possibly more important investigation is what's happening in the intelligence community right now, which is looking at the potential harm. these documents could have done to the country's national security. if in fact they were seen outside of the secure channels, so that is allowed to continue. the judge wants basically the potential names for these special masters by friday, so it could move rather quickly. so we're looking at $1300.00 documents and she's going to give this special master as it's called, the ability to look to make sure that none of the documents are protected under attorney client privilege, or that they're covered by executive privilege. now this is where lawyers are looking at this thinking that doesn't make a whole lot of sense because the u. s. supreme court already ruled against donald trump in a different case that he had very limited if it any executive privi

u. s. and other european countries to make it happen. however, current laws only allow assets to be frozen, not to be handed over elsewhere. but recently, the us department of justice on congress to legalize the transfer to ukraine as a compensation for damages independent political analysts, alessandro bruno se, lensky requests the you were not too much of an oscar and unlikely to happen. first of all, the un will probably not vote in favor of it. if you take a full general assembly, they won't have the numbers. but i think one of the most other interesting requests that far from the money, which is even bigger, was the fact that russia's veto power should be removed from the un security council. which of course, defy the entire mechanism of how this council came to be given that russia is one of the big winners of door to, if not the biggest winner. so, to do that, and the requests that the lensky has made are expensive to put it mildly, anything's keeping this company here in our international will be back at the top of the, with the i ah, o russia is the gross. no, ifs, ands or buts about we have any quality for russians. we have actual racism, bigotry, against

s the easy . of course, you should appoint a special master. yo u can't trust the justice department alone to look at these documents and keep them confidential. and make ultimate judgmentsep about which are privileged or not. there is an obligation to have i ou outsidele person look at thi. who is guarding the guardians?t the justice department cannote be trusted to guard itself b and to make judgments about itself. these two teams artrusted toe p nobody should trust them. it's the same people, the justice department, they have lunch together with a wink and a nod a. they communicate what they found is privileged material. so a specialound masterspecia is absolutely essential. >> il t makes sense and greg, this is what you would think everyone would want. i you would want the american people to be able to trust what's happening. and they're doing everything that flies in the face of that, like, why not have a special master so people like me can say, okay, well, that soundsca fair. and what they found oun tsa is looks fair, but it's the same fbi unit that was doing the russia dossie

that continue to try to block the justice department from even looking at the classified documents they seized from trump's beach club, even though those records are the u. s. governments on documents, and now filing today, trump's team keeps referencing a case from year 2012. the kind of premise their entire defense on it. this case from 2012, they, say proves that all those documents the fbi seized at mar-a-lago where trump's personal property and they never should have been taken from him in the first place. that's 2012 case is called judicial watch versus the national archives and records administration. if you're thinking, to just watch? haven't i heard of them? oh boy, have you. joshua watch as a right-wing legal organization best known for flooding democratic administrations with ridiculous lawsuits. they filed 20 lawsuits over hillary clinton's emails, they filed lawsuits against government claim that scientists accusing them of fraud science, they've pushed every pro trump voter fraud conspiracy you can imagine. their founder just had his law license suspended in washington, d. c. but according to reporting from cnn, was traditional watch as presi

u. s. judge his grant and former president donald trump's request to appoint a special representative to review documents seized by the f. b i from his florida heim. the order comes despite objections from the justice department and move is expected to slow the pace of the departments investigation into the presence of top secret documents in maryland go. bruce fine is a former us associate to deputy attorney general. he says, the fact the judge was appointed by trump is important. there are versions of the opinion that in my judgement display bias. let me give you examples where the judge regularly said that the efforts to obtain this information through the search warrant were unprecedented. true enough, but what mister truck did with the presidential papers was unprecedented to scattering them hither and yon defying subpoenas lying to the department about having returned all classified documents in previous subpoena request. so their extraordinary measures to be sure were taken because there was extraordinary wrong doing my present that hadn't been done ever since the president records act was enacted in 1978. that to my mind in the balancing test, suggested bias on behalf of the judge who is president ped

u. s. judge has granted the former president donald trump's request for point a special master to review documents seized by the f. b i from his florida home. the order comes despite objections from the justice department. those are the headlines of the use continues here on al jazeera, as after witness. hey . ah joel, today, september 11th. grade reflect. be thankful. soldiers of service, ma'am. cross to mission are going to really prefer bags on the line to protect this country. here and abroad. and from those are in the military man, i want to tell you, man, thank you for your services. thank you for your sec. my name is damien smith. i will be $26.00 this sunday, paid allegheny. and he was always like, i don't know about best buy we use if you got it. i know the damian, i speak to him. every blue moon, a little gentleman, the damien. or you know a real good is mary. i think he's in the military now. crazy, crazy pitch i can't i still can't believe like to this day that i was a part of that much as you try and down play it. you know that still major. pardon? merican? history with it definitely makes me feel on edge that there could be more tags of that nature. it happen pretty much out of nowhere. e

u. s. judge has grounds and former president donald trump's request to appoint a special representative to review document seized by the f. b i from his florida home. it comes to spite objections from the justice department move is expected to slow the pace of a department investigation into the presence of top secret documents at mar, logo brace. fine is a former us associate deputy attorney general. he says, the fact the judge was appointed by trump is important. there are versions of the opinion that in my judgement, display bias. let me give you examples where the judge regularly said that the efforts to obtain this information through the search warrant were on precedent. true enough, but what mister truck did with the presidential papers was unprecedented to scattering them hither and yon defying subpoenaed lying to the department about having returned all classified documents in previous subpoena request. so their extraordinary measures to be sure were taken because there was extraordinary wrong doing my present that hadn't been done ever since the president records act was enacted in 1978. that to my mind in the balancing test, suggested bias on behalf of the judge. suppose it is coming up after

why has the department of justice refused to enforce 18 usc section 1507. >> senator, very simply, the u. s. attorney's office in maryland are in fact has prosecuted a defendant for unlawful conduct in front of the home of one of our supreme court justices. >> so one person? >> to date, there has been one prosecution. >> and what about the hundreds of others? >> -- >> all of whom who have violated the law on the face of it is not complicated the law is very clear. why does the department of justice pick and choose what laws to enforce? which criminalized to enforce? and why does it seem to exactly follow the pattern of the partisan preferences of the biden white house? >> again, senator, politics should not play and does not play any role in our prosecutorial decisions. what i will also add is that our attorney general has increased the u.s. marshal services, resources, -- >> but has there been only one prosecution under section 1507, why have there been no others? >> senator, -- >> does the department believe this is unconstitutional? and if so, why are you refusing to [inaudible] >> respe