Forces loyal to the warlord honey for hofstadter calls grow for the u. N. To investigate the government appointments that sparked angry protests in the democratic republic of congo and an ancient japanese tradition thats allowing worshippers the scale the spiritual heights of mount fuji despite coronavirus restrictions. And im santa how much with all the sports including one of the major football leagues in europe will make its return is the tambour top division that will be back with a limited amount of fans allowed in the stadiums. A political witch hunt thats our President Donald Trump has described the u. S. Supreme courts ruling on his tax returns and financial records they can now be made available to new york prosecutors but not yet to congress the Manhattan District Attorney wants the documents as part of a criminal investigation into hush money payments made to women trump allegedly had affairs with the other ruling concerned committees in the house of representatives have been investigating potential foreign influence and russian Money Laundering the judge just said that would need to be decided by a lower court for the ruins your leisure. Starting all over again sending everything back down to the work working the story so well for a certain point satisfied when i sense that this is a political witch hunt the likes of which nobody there it will disappear which itself was just like the more the securities are hopes that one and this is a hoax this is purely political. Skill after a White House Correspondent kimberly how could what we heard there the president say its fear of the political what else is reaction included. Yeah hes really toned down his response but initially when this came out he hit twitter almost immediately in a series of tweets it was kind of a stream of consciousness there were spelling errors he was angry lashing out of the Obama Administration saying that this is a political prosecution and simply saying it was persecution as well but since then he has seemed to have a more muted response a more measured response he also sent out his press secretary kelly mcenaney to talk to reporters in it there were a number of questions from reporters in the briefing who really noted the fact that the president s own appointees to the Supreme Court did not rule in his favor the secretary saying that you know the president says theyre entitled to their own opinions he feels that today has been successful for him even though most say these grueling is are a setback why is this is a setback for the president well the question becomes when these finally come out when these returns do come out what has the president been trying to hide in the press secretary said essentially that the president s not to trying to hide anything hes simply under audit and thats why he cant release those returns we should note thats an excuse that weve been hearing since 2016 well speaking of 2016 and crucially this year and now in the Election Year i guess the timing or whatever is going to come out coming out is crucial because the election is in the van burris so politically speaking is he pretty much safe. No hes not safe and specially since weve seen unprecedented in terms of the number of leaks that have come out that have hurt this president its safe to assume even though a grand jury where these financial records are ultimately going to be shown well that is a closed door process. There are always leaks now that theres the potential that could happen again we always talk about the socalled october surprise where theres a twist in the you know election that really can infect the outcome its not of the realm of possibility this could happen again but very briefly in terms of the path forward on both of these rulings in the case of congress weve heard from the House Speaker nancy pelosi even though congress essentially did not win in this case they say theyre going to continue to conduct oversight something that they are mandated under the u. S. Constitution to do of the white house a coequal branch of government and in the case of the new york case that has alternately won the victory in terms of getting access to these financial records 1st that has to be worked out in terms of how this grand jury will get that in a lower court so what the Supreme Court did was kick this down to a lower court in new york state to work out the practicalities of sending all of this over what we know is this stretches of the timeline weve already heard from president terms of tourney that they plan to argue this case further stretching it out they hope it seems beyond the november election in order to prevent these from being seen by the Public Company halkett with the latest from the white house kimberly thank you well put curry is a professor of Political Science and faculty member at Georgia SouthernUniversity Joins me live now from states brian the u. S. State of georgia sir thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera so 1st of all your reaction to these Supreme Court decisions really both in regards to the new york prosecutors and also crucially the decision from congress. Well i think the upshot of a bowl of them is that its going to be quite some time before the public sees anything in terms of financial records really the arguments of the Supreme Court dont with today were rather extreme arguments they only really said in the new york case was that the president had a new absolute immunity from grand jury proceedings and was not privileged above other citizens which to a lot of people was sort of the common sense state of the law of the court is that the ministration 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 overwrought requests or potentially harassing requests and you can 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 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 thats just going to extend the timeline of how different a Supreme Court dealt with it and perms i guess of the optics because of course the justices are meant to be above any kind of political persuasion we also know that its have been a stray sions that put them there often because of their political leanings so how do you think that the Supreme Court has felt i guess it would be off takes all of being seen as above any kind of political persuading. Well i think thats a good point and the Supreme Court especially doesnt like to be seen as political in the middle of a lecture it sees and so thats another factor going on i think one of the things that the chief justice probably had in mind as he was trying to coordinate is this ruling which little being 72 really on both decisions but there was substantial agreement that various parts of the president s arguments will rather extreme was to salute to sort of be minimalist in the decision and not decide everything it just decided enough to worry and go back and be dealt with by others and it might very well be the case if the Supreme Court would have to deal with these cases again in determining whether or not the lower courts of ultimately really follow the guidance that they gave them but this is really consistent with the Roberts Court i think in terms of. Doing no more than is necessary to dispose of the case that is it and and and then but intially having to take another look at it but not going too far in the 1st instance but curry professor of Political Science and faculty member at Georgia SouthernUniversity Joining us from georgia sir thank you thank you. The United States top military general has said there is no place in the armed forces for symbols of racism general mark milley has been testifying on capitol hill over the militarys role in responding to recent unrest triggered by the killing of george following hes appeared alongside that the fence secretary mark esper who reiterated his view that National Guard members not active duty troops were the most appropriate response i want to make very clear that no active duty military units engaged protesters or otherwise took part direct part in civilian Law Enforcement or federal Protection Missions in the district of columbia or anywhere else in the country. And with regard to the role the National Guard played in Lafayette Park on june 1 i also want to make clear the following that the guard did not advance on the 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. Well meanwhile transcripts of George Floyds final moments of been released showing Police Ignored him when he said he couldnt breathe and told him to stop talking the document also states floyd told officers he couldnt breathe more than 20 times he died in may when a Police Officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes his death sparked a global protests against racism and police brutality. And he racism activists have painted a black lives matter a mural on the road in new york right outside the main door of trump tower president all trump has previously said it would be a symbol of hate to end denigrating to 5th avenue home to many Luxury Stores mayor bill de blasio says the murals are to on or members of the black community who helped build new york. Coming up on aljazeera this news hour it she lives a starving cities we visit the poultry town where people can no longer afford to put koreans in the piggy banks they make. Lebanons opposition accuse the government of a campaign of silent to silence dissent after an activist is attacked in broad daylight and in sport tiger woods is making a return to golf after 5 months out of action. Libyas u. N. Recognized government says its found the prison used by forces loyal to warlord holly for huffed to kill and torture opponents the chamber is in the city of huna and contains several tiny cells in which prisoners were held soldiers of the government of National Accord to and those who opposed have tried were detained there charcoal was reportedly placed on top of the cells to overwhelm prisoners with heat the International Criminal court is due to send the team to libya to investigate alleged war crimes by half that mom with a better way it is at the prison were Officials Say blood was found in and around the chamber. This is one of the prisons that was used by forces loyal to the warlord really for have her in the city of lahore now in these very tiny sills they used to keep their opponents including Government Forces captives and also all civilians from to horner who posed the military rule and the City Government officials here entered want to 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 and that have those forces in the east of the country now the crimes committed by have those forces in and around the city of the horn including the mass graves and also the torture of in such prisons is being looked into by International Justice organizations and the International Criminal court is due to send a team to libya to investigate their war crimes including the mass graves and other crimes 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 hand salau eyes a senior maybe a researcher at Human Rights Watch says the prison is incredibly disturbing. This latest revelation about this prison that was found is obviously one of the very many items on a very long list of violations that have been committed by forces either lawyer or affiliated with that if i have to from Eastern Libya and this latest play this prison obviously does not in any way constitute a by any measure acceptable standards i have seen a very similar set up if not an exact same almost replica of this place in benghazi in 2050 in another prison and i would say that its incredibly disturbing i would also say that this by itself constitutes torture the Human Rights Council in geneva has agreed to dispatch a Fact Finding Mission to libya to have a mandate of one here and this is exactly this kind of situation or this kind of incident with the prison or regarding the argument graves and in and around ted who are now that they need to be investigating we need a very robust investigation of violations that are committed by all sides obviously in libya we also need an attribution of responsibility this has been a huge problem that you know all of these attacks and all of these civilians who were killed were killed by unnamed or unhurt people or groups and also we hope that this Fact Finding Mission will preserve evidence for future accountability. The Saudi Led Coalition says its destroyed the 2 explosive laden boats in the red sea belonging to yemens who the rebels the Coalition Spokesman says the 2 remotely controlled boats were destroyed 6 kilometers south of the yemeni port of sally if the Coalition Says the boats posed an imminent threat to International Navigation and maritime a pivot hes. The un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings says the war although has entered a 2nd drone age in our annual report to the Human Rights Council agnes kalimat that labeled the u. S. Drone killing of irans top military commander kassim sulaimani a violation of International Law that report says most drone targeted killings receive little public scrutiny calmar it says drones pose a Major International security issue with state and nonstate actors deploying ever more advanced technologies drawn thought becoming stealthy or speedier smaller more lethal and can be or parry to by teams looking to thousands of kilometers away and in my opinion in the opinion of all the experts so you have consulted over the last 6 months b. C. Is bringing the world to a critical point in regulating the use of armed drones and the use of force who arent drones the United Arab Emirates is said to be holding up a deal with gulf states that could end the 3 year long blockade against qatar thats according to a report by the Fox News Channel it says the delay by the u. A. E. You denied the trumpet ministration a crucial hard fought Foreign Policy win in the middle east forum this particle hain joins us live now on the phone from washington d. C. Ed he wants to we know about this. Well barbara not much and i think its important to have a little bit of caution when talking about the story 1st of all its not for the Fox News Channel on air as of yet it is just on their web site and it is only fox news reporting thats right now what this reporter is saying and its very degli source theyre not getting any sort of indication as to where this information could be coming from which is again somewhat unusual but what they are saying is that over the last 2 months that there have been secret negotiations going on with the u. S. Mediating between saudi saudi qatar and u. A. E. And that they at the end of last week they were very close to an agreement or the way they put it is a quote it was at hand and then the u. A. E. According to this article on the fox news website walked away and urged saudi arabia d to walk away as well the way this is the reason this is so interesting is because its appearing on the fox news website we know that the president but puts a lot of focus on watching fox news not necessarily reading its web site but it is being praised as a way that the president could have a Foreign Policy within in the lead up to the election and that is sort of the to the thread to go through the entire article because this is a disappointment for the president now one of the things i think urged caution with this is if these negotiations were happening for the last 2 months it seems that its highly unlikely that it would remain secr