it's all right thank you very much rick. joining us there from save the children in my appreciate your time and best of luck with your work thank you very much breaking news now the special counsel's investigation into russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election has concluded his report has been submitted to the u.s. attorney general william it looks into whether the trump campaign colluded with russia to influence the outcome of the election so let's get more from patty cullen who is in washington the report has been completed and submitted it's now in the hands of the attorney general what will he do with it well he said that under that when he was confirmed he said under the guidelines he basically needs to take a look at what can be released and then give it to congress he's going to be under a great deal of pressure to not redact too much information now i want to point out that this is being reported we don't have this directly from the special counsel's

office yet and they are saying that a report was given to william barr and we're not reporting that that means the special counsel investigation is over there still though a lot of threads out there that would make that seem like that doesn't make sense just today the supreme court was negotiating amongst themselves about this subpoena that motor's team has issued to a foreign company there are several we believe several still sealed indictments in d.c. federal court from the moeller team but now it's friday at five o'clock in typical washington fashion this report this bombshell release that says that the report has been handed over to bar this is going to get the president spun up he is focused on this with intensity from the last two plus years since the special counsel was appointed and the appointment that really he only has him self to blame. this is the man who has the u.s. president clearly worried robert mueller the special counsel investigating him his

family and his campaign president donald trump has complained and tweeted about him and his investigators more than eleven hundred times by one count calling it a witch hunt hoax the greatest political scandal of all time but trump can actually blame himself for miller having the job in the first place the f.b.i. had already started a national security investigation into potential collusion between russia and the trump campaign the man who launched it was later fired and he mccabe is making some very serious claims as to why we had information that led us to believe that there might be a threat to national security in this case that the president himself might in fact be a threat to the united states' national security but it was only after the president stepped in to fire his then f.b.i. director james comey the moeller was appointed now looking into collusion and possible obstruction of justice because of combs claim that the president had asked

him to and investigation into the national security adviser michael flynn it's illegal to interfere in a federal investigation trump himself seemed to confirm in an interview with n.b.c. news that komi was fired because of the russian investigation in fact when i decided to just do it i said to myself i said you know. this rush or thing with trump and russia is a made up story it's an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should've won then he later told russian officials in the oval office that firing komi took the pressure off it didn't miller has rounded up those closest to the president his former national security adviser deputy campaign manager former lawyer and fixer of all pled guilty his campaign manager was found guilty of a litany of crimes and his long time friend roger stone is also facing charges of mind congress and impeding the investigation the president has another phrase he often uses when it comes to the investigation it was no solution with the russians

there was nothing there has been no collusion they won't find any collusion this is no good whatsoever there are high expectations that miller's report will detail if that is actually true paddy calling al-jazeera washington and patty just listening to some of those clips from the us president that caylee this investigation by special counsel has been haunting him since he came to office what might the trumpet ministrations next steps be. well we know what the president's going to do is going to try and discredit whatever the findings are in the he believes this is a political a political calculation he is lawyer has basically said this is about impeachment making sure that the democrats don't have the political will to go after the president they need to keep his base on board his base and fox news that has definitely been trying to the mall or pro and paint it the way the president often

does the democrats that's that is in fact not true as a lifelong republican worked for a republican president from the beginning and it also worked for obama widely respected again in d.c. and the president has really been trying to hurt miller's public opinion because most muller doesn't speak we don't hair and leaks from him and he was really stayed quiet this entire time the president's been trying to portray moeller in bad light it hasn't necessarily worked if you look at the polls when the majority of americans say they're much more willing to believe robert muller than they are to believe the president we're also hearing and this is somewhat surprising but he in bars reportedly telling people that he could send a concise summary of the findings to the important members of congress joe over this weekend and now when anything goes to congress it leaks that's just what happens and the democrats are going to want to make sure that that is out in the public if there's anything though there's also been a lot of whispering from republicans that they don't think muller found anything

and i think that's a little bit disingenuous to be think about it thirty four people three companies have been indicted some of the president's closest aides are going to prison or of pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about the campaign so we don't know what robert mueller is going to say we don't exactly know when we're going to find out but we know that it's five o'clock out of friday in the typical washington way we are now hearing that has sent a reports to the attorney general now we wait to see what this attorney general appointed by president trump does. that's right so we have to wait and see what the what william barr will do next but one thing we do know is that many of those associates and aides that were close to trump have been indicted they have been caught up in this investigation potentially how damaging could this be to a president who is clearly already consumed with reelection.

well it just it truly depends on how his base reacts democrats are very worried about starting any sort of impeachment proceedings against the president because he still is so wildly popular with his base so it really is going to depend on how much people find out what actually happened and then i think you can't overstate the significance it is really fueled the presidency and his base fox news the conservative leaning cable channel how they react to whatever muller has found will really set the tone so it's a very strange position to be in where we're waiting to see how suppose a news organization reacts and that will inform how his base reacts in many ways so it really depends on what evidence there is now there's been a lot of conspiracy theories out there we know that there's they've been trying to discredit the steel dossier at the same time we know that there are a lot of very unusual connections between trump officials and russia we know from reporting that the president's son in law talked to the russian ambassador trying

to use their phone lines inside the russian embassy we know there was a meeting between john junior the president's son some of his top officials as his kid his son in law. and some russian officials who promised dirt on hillary clinton that is something that his campaign has admitted happened they said ball nothing came out of it but there's all of this been all of this different reporting that shows there is a lot of smoke there when it comes to a potential connection between the trump campaign and russia and that has continued while the president has been in office remember that press conference between the president and putin where even republicans said they were shocked by the president's behavior and how he seemed to fall on a. lot of mere puton so we don't know what robert mueller has we do know that he's got a lot of tools at its disposal he has the ability and he has been wiretapping people and getting phone records getting e-mails getting bank records so he has had this team working. quietly behind closed doors before the grand jury plugging away so

how far does this go is paul metaphors as high as it's going to get the pet president's past campaign chairman we don't know but it's looking like we might soon find out sooner rather than later thank you very much patty i'm sure we'll be speaking again quite soon thank you patty cohen in washington. well in all the developments today the white house is saying i sill has been one hundred percent eliminated in syria but on the ground the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say heavy fighting continues around the village of the last territory in the country alan fischer reports. to choose from his supporters donald trump arrived in florida and proclaimed i still had no been driven out of syria i says sort of election day. here's oasis right now you left. so there's ice. and that's what we have right now. as of last night just two days ago at the white house he predicted the end of the

self-proclaimed caliphate by the end of the day. he had already announced the end of eisel back in february but the group still had at least one stronghold in syria at one point i still controlled a huge territory in syria and iraq an area roughly the size of mainland britain. don't trump has wanted to end u.s. operations in syria for a while then in december he suddenly announced he would withdraw two thousand troops it was such a surprise it provoked the resignation of defense secretary jim mattis and criticism from allies world white now he plans to keep four hundred troops in country pushed by the pentagon and allies in part to stop any researches of ice or in the case of syria's a strange game of musical chairs in that the point is this is not just for the united states but for russia iran turkey and israel whoever is intervene in syria is do not have a seat when the music stops because no one wants to pay for the reconstruction of

a country and we have one against isis this year alone president trump predicted the end of i saw thirteen times that we will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate i think president trying to emphasize that isis is militarily defeated he's not wrong it's just that as an organization it carries on and we have to make sure that it doesn't come back otherwise we really truly do get stuck in endless wars in the middle east donald trump wanted to be the man who defeated eisel with a territorial force. but he'll be told quite clearly this group hasn't gone away alan fischer washington algerians have been out in force for a fifth successive friday calling for regime change and for president abdul aziz beautifully to immediately step down and rallied in the capital algiers and smallest cities across the country as more of the president's former allies abandoned him mohammad john june reports. for the fifth friday in

a row demonstrators across algeria forward into the streets gray skies did not cloud their enthusiasm rain could not dampen their passion appropriate to the occasion this man carried an umbrella designed in the colors of his country's flag . were coming from all over the country we're all one united under the umbrella of one nation we will keep protesting in the sun in the rain until we get what we want it's been almost a month since demonstrators led by the young began demanding president eyes he's beautifully withdraw from running for a fifth term in office. the eighty two year old leader reversed his decision to stand for reelection but he also postponed polls that were due in april until he said political reforms could be implemented he remains the nominal head of the transition process which hasn't just further angered the protesters it's also deepened their resolve. to get it no matter how harsh the winter and rain will be

no matter how bad the weather will be the regime is harsh we will keep on protesting on thursday even judges joined the demonstrations this sit in outside a local court in the capital was meant to show solidarity with more than one thousand other judges who had earlier refused to oversee the upcoming election if president with a was a candidate another big setback for beautifully who also appears to have been deserted by his own party. analysts believe friday's protests are among the largest demonstrations ever seen in algeria a think it would do the same bus with up and last week and it basically turned into president we. hope will god and you and your government with lives follow the army chief says the public has expressed what he calls noble aims during the demonstrations analysts believe those words to be the strongest signal

yet that the military may be distancing itself from within and the political elite who support him if so that would be a problem for a president who's been in power for twenty years and a huge support for the hundreds of thousands of protesters who want to ensure the remnants of beautifully because government are gone for good mohammed jim doom and . joining us now via skype from algiers is freelance journalist la mina a shoes thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us over the past few weeks we have seen grievances that were focused on the economic situation really developed into a wave of protests with some very serious political demands how would you describe what we have seen today do you think the kind of numbers that are out on the streets of algeria can be sustained. well yes definitely we've seen a consistent amount of increase or a consistent increase in the protesters numbers ever since the start of this uprising as i like to call it on february twenty second and so this week has been

we've seen the largest numbers out across the forty eight brothers of the country despite the harsh weather conditions are talking earlier at the beginning of the protests and i really did not expect to that the numbers would win without number that the protesters would outnumber last week's numbers and this has been the case to my surprise and to the surprise of many observers and so this shows something it shows the determination of the algerian people to to kick these people out as they call them as they said or as their slogan said there was there's a trend in hash and in algeria and twitter saying you should all go away meaning the who was the regime every face the head that has represented the current regime since since one nine hundred sixty two not just rain but you know the independents who are seeing the total dominance of the ruling party f.l.n.

in the algerian political scene has held in a very tight grip on the country and so as you said the demands are very specific at the beginning of the protests but now they're getting wider and more and deeper are actually sick from saying that the president should not stand for reelection a perk of chanting now saying the entire regime should change but the key word here is peacefully that's what we've seen today we've seen people from all ages we've seen babies as young as one month old outside with their parents protest in we've seen very people who can barely walk you know in the midst of the masses you you'd think that they would fall or that it would be dangerous for them but it wasn't the cave they were in great by the people and so the overwhelming peaceful peaceful nature of the protests are the things. protest movement in algeria and we do know is that the region or i would even go as far. as the world of the peaceful protests and to ask you can you not can i just ask you it is quite remarkable the numbers

that we are seeing out on the streets there is no doubt. a strength to this protest movement bot as you say the governing elite has been in power for a long time they are deeply rooted in the country is it realistic that this is a regime that can just completely disappear. what that is sudden about the algerian regime is that it's very very unpredictable we really cannot attend to null what the reaction will be in five weeks the regime seemingly succumbed to the people's demands by allegedly or supposedly let's say cancelling the election and saying oh look the wood here does not run in part of the of term we're giving you what you want and we're changing the regime so it's weird that the regime is claiming to change the regime to appease the anger the people which is of course

something that not many people believe and we know all we know it to be a ploy to buy time for the regime to to maybe prepare for a smooth exit or maybe still longer with a new face because people are rejecting would have known i was been in power already between the years up to as it was and we really don't know if this if this regime will leave or not insult that's why the people keep keep consistently the men in the regime to leave and what we're not seeing any tox of the transition period or the leaders who are all are going to. replace the current was you will replace the president and none of this is a topic of actuality in our jury as a we're all we're only here that the regime should gulp when and needs to gull and once this happens we're going to talk about the transition period and what we're going to do in the next phase and so it's very unpredictable to this regime it's very unpredictable it's very hard to see what's going to happen next but we know

that there is in his corner we know that the batter's the longtime backers of the regime have have publicly said that they're not back in it anymore and it was a very hard blow last week for the two you know the two major political parties in algeria f.l.n. an r. and d. . both publicly say with the people and although this is weird because they are there was. you know in some sense that the people are protesting again but hugh they are coming up to that you know when we the people and so the actors all think that we really don't know what's going to have i don't thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on this with us joining us there from algiers.

i'll bring you a recap of the top stories now a special counsel's investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election has reached its conclusion robert miller's report has now been submitted to the u.s. attorney general william barr who might then deliver a summary to congress by this we can't. aid agencies in mozambique of racing to rescue and feed survivors of cycle own ed i first cholera cases have been reported in the port city of b. era and as you were just hearing algerians have been out in force for a fifth successive friday calling for regime change and for president abdul aziz beautifully to immediately step down. let's get more now on our breaking news story this hour the special counsel's report into alleged russian interference in the us presidential election p.j. crowley is a former u.s. assistant secretary of state he joins us via skype from virginia thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us obviously we do not yet know the contents of this report and as far as we understand president donald trump has not been

briefed on the findings either what is your sense about whether these conclusions are going to be fully disclosed to congress or indeed the u.s. public. i think as turner general bar has indicated already at a minimum you hopes to provide members of congress with at least a headline as quickly as possible it's not clear to me. what the precise form of reporting that will go this equate to the congress and how much of that you know will be made public there may well be an unclassified portion of the report and a classified portion report because you know we're dealing with multiple things here and one is you know obviously mr muller's rationale for why he has conducted various legal cases already and particularly what he sees in terms of

what russia tended to do and how that intersected with the trump campaign so i think the former still a to be determined but but obviously we'll begin very quickly to understand at least in general terms what he discovered how much support is there or how much determination is that in congress within both parties both democrats and republicans for this evidence to be uncovered and communicated. well i think this is a a very large shoe that's about to drop but it's not necessarily going to be the only want. you raise a very very good point there's going to be you know a very significant appetite among democrats in the house you know and there is not really that much of an appetite on the republican side so i think this is

likely to deep fissures over the two thousand and sixteen campaign that we've been dealing with for for more than two years but when it comes to impeachment ten it is very premature to be apps raising this but nonetheless there will be questions and concerns raised about this matter now that the report has finally been delivered we know that democrats have been very reluctant to start that process because president tom still enjoys a great deal of support in the country not least from his his base. sure i mean they go again there are multiple dimensions here you know one of the questions circulating around the muller report is can a sitting president actually be indicted. and there are a variety of you know on that question and then you have the question of of impeachment house speaker nancy pelosi has indicated publicly she's skeptical skeptical about proceeding with impeachment primarily because it would be up to

a republican senate you know to convict him and that would be highly unlikely so so yeah i think there will be a kind of a i of the beholder aspect to this you know the democrats will certainly certainly find something in that report that will justify a great deal of of hearings going forward i think the republicans and the president himself will be looking to ratify you know their narrative about to the two thousand and sixteen campaign that they've already introduced ahead of the twenty twenty alexion which is there's no collusion. we're going to see a lot of both of those dimensions in the coming to an l thank you very much p.j. crowley appreciate your thoughts on this story joining us there from virginia. now an anti-racism much is about to get under way and in new zealand city of christ eight days after the mosque shootings in which fifty people were killed the so-called march for love has been organized by students in the city and it comes

a day after new zealand marks a week since the shootings with friday pres across the country events were attended by people from many different religions the prime minister to identify possum pres in a park across the road from one of the mosques in christ chat. well andrew thomas joins us live now from christ chandru how would you describe the atmosphere. after what took place over because. well this march which is about to begin is being billed as a celebration of diversity in christ church the events of friday the friday prayers were very much organized by the muslim community obviously for those muslims who have been most profoundly affected by the events of last friday this is different this is a celebration of all cultures all religions and none in christ church and there are four or five thousand people here all organized by students over the last few days and. it was one of those who started organizing this just last month tell me why you felt. well maintained our initial reaction to this horrific tears to take us to

shock and horror that this could happen in our hometown just never crossed your mind anywhere. so we tossed around a few ideas to you because we always have. to do something about the change to here and so we decided on a march because we felt that this was the clearest strongest message that we could think of a visual presentation of the community coming together that is one of the shine of people. showing the community that you know. that comes through with it and we've had leaders from the hindu the buddhist the muslim the christian communities and people have no religion up on stage. the stage we've got behind us that was for a bryan adams concert was counseled last week and conveniently still here you views that impressed by the turnout what you feel the atmosphere here is like i'm a nice of the turnout and i just want to thank everyone for coming out today and

it's just amazing all the support we've received i mean sixteen year old high school students we didn't expect this many people to have the faith that they do and it's just so incredible to see and i think it really brings a strong message to like. the. country that. young people are representing our generation and saying that discrimination of any kind won't be tolerated now and it won't be tolerated in the future and i bought a thanks very much i know you had to get up on stage so i let you go. of course this kind of band smiles and laughter a big celebration of what christ church is not what it was last friday but there are more somber events going on we've seen a mass burial on friday afternoon twenty six people are buried in a single afternoon in a single cemetery forty two of those killed last friday have now been buried and of the remaining we believe that most of those are going back to the home countries

that those recent immigrants came from so we're not expecting more funerals or certainly not many more funerals here in christ church but this is a city that is trying now to move on just over a week off the events of what last friday is a city trying to. thank you very much with all the latest from christ church whether it's a mourning to continue and return us. now to iraq where such operations are continuing in mosul a day off to a ferry carrying about two hundred people capsized the interior ministry says one hundred people have died most of them women and children and iraq's president calls an angry reception when he travel to the city especially going to him has more from baghdad already the people are angry in mosul protestors are calling the iraqi president and other government officials the names they say the government has failed to keep a check on the safety of ferries and how they're operated and they want justice for the victims. this ferry was packed with people enjoying

a holiday at an amusement park it didn't get far from the banks of the tigris river before capsizing social media video shows bystanders screaming passengers struggling against the swift current to get to safety dozens drowned most were women and children more than fifty people were rescued those do affirm and my wife and my daughters are in the water and those police officers are not letting me through leave me leave me let me go this accident has been described as unprecedented the iraqi prime minister announced three days of mourning and iraqis placed candles along the banks of the tigris to remember the victims. the most important thing is to stay in solidarity with the victims' families and to treat the injured and pull the bodies out of the river the iraqi civil defense says the boats operators allowed to many people on board exceeding its maximum capacity

arrest warrants have been issued for the amusement park owner and the ferry operators they're accused of mismanagement and neglect but i was an eyewitness unfortunately they're using old ferries that lack safety equipment to that they exceeded the maximum weight a search operation is under way the flood. of the mosul dam have been lowered to assist emergency workers the iraqi civil defense says one body has been recovered twenty kilometers downstream from where the boat capsized dozens of families have gathered at the morgue desperate for information about their loved ones so far the iraqi authorities have not said how many people are missing natasha going to. baghdad. eight south american leaders have created a new multinational bloc aimed at solving regional problems with venezuela top of the agenda it's the brainchild of the new conservative leaders of colombia and

chile and the constants left we need to say preserve as it's called is all about piling more pressure on president maduro latin america and its own you see in human reports from santiago. south american leaders who are in santiago to lay the groundwork for a new regional bloc to replace the fifteen year old. it was the brainchild of two left of center leaders in the region at the time the late google chavis of it is and brazil's. but now the political pendulum has swung in the other direction. it's been more than five years since the presidents of south america got together to confront the present problems. of the. but membership in the new forum would be conditional those in the group must pledge to respect democratic institutions human rights and the separation of powers in israel is leaders. not invited. in the short term many see this forum as yet another mechanism to.

him out. and wouldn't. while brazil's president. says the new forum will prevent more of an israel is from emerging in the region. that is objectively here because this is what will happen. president peña that went further saying days are numbered. responded angrily an insolent servant of u.s. interests but even many critics are happy with this initiative which claims not to be ideological but which clearly represent the conservative wave in regional politics in fact a group of former chilean foreign ministers and diplomats have sounded the alarm saying that paulson is in fact a threat to multilateralism and pluralism in the region. you know.

instead of building an organization that defends. the disposal of the new iraq. that he's taking hold in this region. at the moment but perhaps the biggest problem with the ambitious forum is that it could be as short lived as its predecessor if the political pendulum in the region shifts yet again you see in human i'll just see that some. u.k.'s prime minister has hinted she might not bring a break sit deal backed parliament for another vote despite that being one of the only options for the u.k. to avoid leaving the e.u. with no deal on thursday e.u. leaders told to resume a that it could be delayed until may twenty second but only if m.p.'s back the agreement otherwise the prime minister will have until april twelfth to decide how to proceed but in a letter to parliament may says she won't bring the deal for another vote if it is

.