Covered on t. V. Infections in the u. S. Is it gives up the Independence Day fireworks in politics. And the u. S. Seizes a shipment of human Hair Products to have come from chinese minority was held in detention camps. And im found all the sporting polluting formula one World ChampionLewis Hamilton is quickest in practice ahead of the delayed Season Opener in austria and. Almost 2 years after journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered so in istanbul a turkish trial has begun to 20 saudi nationals accused of being involved because i just failed say how to judge angus was among those to testify but none of the accused was anywhere near the court shelties murder inside the saudi called see that provoked outrage around the world earlier i spoke to agnes cullum of the un special rapporteur or whos the best to get in this case extensively she says the trial will likely bring a lot of new information to the likes. These easer 1st occasion where the International Language of justice in a former sense of the world the International Language of lho is being applied to the state killing of america should be and therefore it is very important its also important for the victims they are being given a full more space to speak thats the 1st time its happening and certainly i think the trial you will surprise us it will give us some information that we may not have even though a lot has already been reported already today there were information the course given by various witnesses which i personally did not know so i think asshole those reasons these trying does matter lets go live now to send him call till the who has been following the 1st day of the trial from istanbul sent him to take us some of the testimony that was given today. World came in there are 54 witnesses in walled in this indictment and today we were able to hear around 10 of them and most of them are the consulate employees for instance there were drivers there were technical workers men and women and their testimonies were actually exactly the same words the same sentences that were written in the mint but of course we had the chance to access that to hear that from them for instance one of the one of the drivers he said that. I have to 1st explain your that all consulate employees especially the Turkish National ones were ordered to take some days off after after the day of the murder some of them even before so for instance one driver sais he was called by the by the right of course late to take his family to the airport and he explains how the consul general ortegas psychology was how he was confident and relaxed for instance one sees a technical worker he was he was called by to security personnel to the residence one day just on the day of the murder to live to lit a fire. In a in an organ that was recently built inside the garden before tomorrow. That all of them is actually what they call a ton that works with a very High Temperature and is stumbled police have the son suspicion that since there was no sign of jamal. Remains his body might have been burnt there and that with those that technical workers sat 5 days later when he came back there and the marble surrounding the lead of the town do the color of that marble have changed and new took us it was used it to clean that over in the tundras so these were very impressive very interesting statements by the witnesses. We werent able to hear all of them and and now the 2nd hearing of the trial is set for november 24 in which you end up are tracking this column art expects more International Attention more reprise sentence observations from Foreign Countries and international about these cam thank you for that same call c. L. O. Our correspondent there live for us and istanbul we go now to washington d. C. Where we have john ruben he is a former Deputy Assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs under the Obama Administration thank you thanks for your time mr ruben is casualties but even still on the radar in washington. Kim if i push you to be with you it is on the radar but of course its not a major public topic right now because of all the dynamics that are happening here and in our country on Racial Justice and coronavirus but in the Foreign Policy community it has not disappeared by any stretch and key policy makers have not changed their views of what happened and what it means for american saudi relations so well its quiet right now at the end of groups or in the trial they do bring it up to public discussion and its likely going to continue to be a thorn in the side of saudi arabia in congress as well. The president even at the height of this story time and again reiterated how important saudi arabia is there how important that relationship is to Jamal Khashoggi impact relations at old. I think it does what is happening here in washington is that saudi arabias image has been stained by this murder her and by the crown princes unwillingness to speak openly about it or its you deal with it in a way that americans and american policymakers view as transparent and in addition to that President Trump he protected the saudis for a number of weeks in jericho on this and as the story changed and evolved and now its just recently we saw in john boltons book a little bit of a discussion into this is to why and john bolton claimed that the president wanted to distract from his daughters revelation of his daughters use of personal email so its a very messy story but it has not looked good for trump or for the saudis and they have not done anything to really change opinion here that they did this act and that they have tried to hide from being held accountable for it has donald trump stunts changed at all and is there anything that could come out of this trial that would change that. Were not really seeing the administration changing its policy towards saudi arabia i think what theyve tried to do is say that the moves by saudi to identify culprits are those who committed the act that the punishment of those individuals the demonstrates that saudi arabia is taking it seriously theyve tried to move it along in the conversation but american saudi relations are not strong across the board certainly with the Trump Administration there is a commonality to a certain extent and when it comes to policy towards iran theres a marriage of convenience certainly but there is a lot of skepticism and it is it is not something that we have seen change for the better between thats the sides and i think that donald trump hes really tried to move on on the conversation understanding that publicly american saudi relations are not a winning argument for him and his Administration Thanks for analysis joel joel rubin there former Deputy Assistant secretary of state for legislative if it is Libyan Government forces say they have honest another mass graves in an area that used to be controlled by warlord honey for 5 bodies have so far been found forces backing the u. N. Recognize government said they discovered the remains of more than 200. 00 people who want to and south of tripoli the u. N. Has expressed horror and wants an investigation meanwhile turkey which supports the trip and the government says it will open and military Training Center was announced during a high level visit to libya among those in the delegation techies defense minister and the chief of staff and recent weeks tech support has helped push hostiles forces into retreat hold up overhead in tripoli tell us more about the turkish visit. This top turkish deliberation that included the defense minister. Along with the chief of staff and military commanders who met today with libyas internationally recognized Prime Minister of. The chief of staff of libyas chiefs and also the interior minister to assure other and also Libyan Military commanders government tripoli says that this visit is trying to look into a future a strategy is to build libyas defense and security capacities it seems to be this is the. Pre war stage that libyas internationally recognized the government is keen to build buy it turkish expertise by turkish hands thats also based on the turkish Libyan Military security and military agreement that was signed by libyas Prime Minister faisal raj and the president. Last november the victory achieved by the Government Forces over half to the force in the west of libya regaining recapturing the whole worst of libya after one year of heavy fighting that is attributed may lead to military support russia is reopening its embassy in libya whole though its head will be in neighboring tunisia the announcement was made during talks in moscow foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met with the speaker of the disputed parliament based into brooke. Hes aligned with holy father tom lavrov emphasized he wants a ceasefire. Yemens who the forces say they have sent to explosive drones towards an airport and an air base in saudi arabia the spokesman for the group made the announcement on twitter and said the areas were hit with High Accuracy who these are fighting against the saudi u. A. E. Led military coalition in yemen saudi arabia said it intercepted the drone attack. 2 recent suicides in lebanon have sparked a new wave of protests over the governments handling of the devastating financial crisis a 61 year old man reportedly took his own life and by friday social media users have linked his death to the desperate Economic Situation the man also died by suicide on the same day at his home near the Southern City of side the lebanese government is trying to reverse months of economic decline. If europeans Prime Minister has described days of violence as a coordinated attempt to start civil unrest. Held an emergency meeting with senior advisers more than 80 people died in protests in response to the killing of the prominent. One day or so. In our country for a very long time some have been planning and plotting a scheme to start a civil war to pit people against one another and to derail the Peace Process in democratic reforms weve started to stop our agendas using all means including weapons media and money as if it were a stage production around the country theyve created over the last few days a problem that has its own writers and performers. Lets bring in Catherine Sawyer now who is in neighboring kenya catherine the Prime Minister there describing this as a coordinated attempt to try and start civil unrest i mean that is fairly significant. Fairly significant and a very tough statement he issued after this meeting that he had in the morning with top government officials including the chief of defense and. The attorney general as well so after this meeting is when he 1st released a written statement and basically this people that hes talking about in that clip that youve just run he says is some people that the government he says has allowed to come back to the country has given amnesty if you remember in the last 2 years or so a lot of ethiopians who are in exile who have fled the country who are allowed to come back home so the minister the Prime Minister there saying that some of this people in state of engaging with the government having many millions will dialogue on how to solve some of the problems that are flicked in ethiopia and this some of this people have decided to take up arms he says that some of this groups are using a slogan called we will start and finish in these are this is a copy to the city he says that basically this is this means that they are targeting the capital city at this hour because of all the Huge Development projects going on and they just dont want to destabilize the capital addis but the country as a whole its also important to note that in the last few days of the Prime Minister as well as some of his government officials have been talking about external forces that have a hand in what has been going on today we expected to hear more the Prime Minister did not name any names he did not expound on what. He meant by external forces but he did mention that this protest have come at a very crucial time when there are talks going on at the u. N. Security Council Talks about the construction of this huge dam project that is going on and project that has been contested by egypt and sudan if europe is going to start filling the dumpster. So the president says that this protest really are direct efforts and they come at a very critical time those who some of the people who have been suspected of killing this musician on tuesday have been arrested right now if your areas where some of these protests were happening are calm shops are open are Security Forces saying that theyre very much in control but investigations to identify who exactly killed the musician and the forces behind this part of the Prime Minister said both investigations are going on thank you so much for that update there Catherine Sawyer monitoring developments from nairobi. But more ahead on the news our including. Find out why france has dropped an investigation into the start of the war on the genocide. And lionel messi could be saying goodbye to barcelona santa has more details scores. The u. S. Has had another record grow the virus cases reporting more than 55000 new infections that figure is the largest any country has ever reported since the outbreak began there are fears that number will increase when people go out to attend july 4th celebrations this weekend lets go live now to our White House Correspondent complete health kits kimberly july 4th obviously a big holiday how are authours hes asking people to approach it. Well theyre really saying its now or never in the sense of trying to catch this what theyre really worried about are the records theyve been breaking not the kind they want to 40 out of the 50 us states have seen sharp spikes in 1000 cases and they continue for 5 or 6 consecutive days now to break the record in the United States for the number of new cases of covert 19 in the feeling is that these could become sort of super spreader events when americans gather together with their families to go to fireworks celebrations except in 2 weeks there could be a real problem on the hands of Health Officials so theyre really cautioning people to stay at home if they can to really keep the gatherings intimates but at the same time theyre kind of getting mixed messages because the u. S. President is still considered still continuing to celebrate the 4th of july holiday in fact hell be leaving the white house shortly and heading to mt rushmore in the u. S. State of south dakota for fireworks displays there and we know that there have been some problems already for white house staff with covert 1000 testing positive already we know that the Vice President has had to scale back some of his plans for next week and one of the hot spots florida or rather arizona he was expected to travel on tuesday there for kind of a Campaign Rally type of event thats now been canceled after some of the secret Service Members that did the advance there for security checking things out theyve tested positive so now hes still going to the state will go and wednesday but its going to be out of a subdued affair. You mentioned there the number of states that have an increasing number of coronavirus cases does that mean that some of the planned reopening zanele being reversed in many parts of the country. Absolutely california is a really good example of that already we know that to try and turn this around the governor there has closed some of the beaches in Southern California also scaling back some of those restaurant openings that have occurred closing Indoor Dining closing some of the bars there are particular in some of the hard hit counties were seeing similar measures being taken in florida and the other problem area and really notable is taxes because that governor there had kind of pushed back on the wearing of masks initially now hes mandating that for the state or at least a majority of the counties where theyre having problems that if you go in public you have to wear a mask so these are the hard choices that are being made and again the decision is try to do it now because otherwise youre not going to be able to reopen schools in the fall like cetera and the word from public Health Officials again is that theyre concerned not only is this mutating in terms of the virus becoming more transmissible and contagious but also what theyre worried about again is that if things dont get under control now the United States could be setting records of 100000. 00 new cases a day thanks so much for that complete how because there it with an update from the white house brazil is said to post 1500000 confirmed infections on friday