school is something that i think no country in the region wants meanwhile rival rallies are being held in venezuela's capital caracas in support of opposition leader was quiet when president nicolas maduro police fired tear gas or protesters attempting to block a highway were attempted to start a military uprising on tuesday president maduro accused him of trying to stage a coup and promised criminal criminal prosecutions and the last hour by the address to supporters saying his side was waiting despite the lack of military backing. the road has already been defeated we want to live at sea and our electricity and water supplies i want to say that we are on the right path we are being listened to they want to join the country together move it forward the regime cannot move forward imagine someone saying he's the president even though he isn't this regime hasn't got control of the country anymore they'll try to stop me and persecute me and they'll think that they'll stop us but we know who the winner is. opposition leader

was calling for venezuelans to rally around the country and call from that era to step down or does call comes a day after violence between protesters and state security forces on the streets of caracas. the self declared interim president has scored to millions of venezuelans to take to the streets to win that what he called the final phase of the operation to depose president nicolas maduro from power so it's all a question now of how many people turn out on to this free and how many people turn out to support the president nicolas maduro who's also called for a show of strength the same battle that's been running now since nicolas maduro came to power in two thousand and thirteen the difference is the very bull we're turning now to the bar testimony or watching at nature as the senator cory booker also presidential candidate cory booker are now questioning attorney general seat and misconduct president is united streets instructing people to lie and be

deceitful evidence of people trying to cover up behavior that on its face is morally wrong whatever the legal standard is i found it number one. by saying that this kind of obstructive conduct was acceptable not only acceptable but your sentence literally saying that the american people should be grateful for it that is the beginning of the normalization that i want to explore but the second thing i want to explore and we'll explore this but i want to make my two statements at the top one that's problematic and in general the second problem i have is that you seem to be excusing a campaign that literally had hundreds of contacts with a feeling or an adversary that i think there's a conclusion amongst in a bipartisan conclusion that there was a failure to even report those contacts that we engaged in behaviors that folks knew that were wrong that they tried to actively hide. they've seem to capitalizing

to capitalize on this foreign interference i mean in our country we know it is illegal for a campaign and wrong for a campaign to share polling data with an american super pac but we have here documented a level of coordination with a foreign adversary sharing polling data. and we're seen to be in your conduct seems to be trying to normalize that behavior and that's why i think we are in such a serious moment that could that is eroding the cultures of this democracy and the security is democracy and so let's just get into some of this specifically. you said quote we know that the russian operatives who perpetrated these schemes did not have the cooperation of president trump or the trump campaign that is something that all americans can and should be grateful to have confirmed. the things i just

mentioned. a willingness to meet with russian operatives in order to capitalize on information i don't think that's something that should be grateful i find your choice of words alarming i think it calls into question your objectivity when you look at the actual context of the report and so should the american people really be grateful that a candidate for president sought to benefit from material information that was stolen by a foreign power in an effort to influence an election. i'm not sure what you mean by seek to benefit there's no indication that they engaged in the can either the conspiracy to act or that they engaged and the action with respect to the dissemination that was criminal well again sir you use the word conspiracy which is a legal term in that press conference you used president trumps words obstruction over and over again polling options a legal charge well well sir you pulled into his words and i'm asking you specifically. i'm sorry collusion was

a word i was looking for the word no collusion over and over again. and you said the american people should be grateful that the president sought to benefit from material and information but you know they did seek to benefit from that material donald trump jr in his own e-mail seem to celebrate that he might have access to information from up for an adversary is that correct that's something the american people should be aware of and for apparently according to the report he was. yes. apparently. he was interested in seeing what this russian woman had in the way of quote and did not report it as i think everybody who's in politics knows that something you should do should the american people be grateful that in the face of our attack on our democracy by foreign adversary that the president states meet several documented attempts to thwart an investigation into the links between his campaigns and russia use that we're grateful again that the

american people should be grateful it should because that's something we should be grateful for. i'm not sure what what you're talking about. i'm talking about the attempts that this president made that point to at least ten attempts to thwart and investigation into the links between his campaign and russia should we be grateful for those attend well documented attempts by muller are you talking about the of structure and part of the report if you know me walking about the second volume but i'm let me continue should the american people be grateful that the trump had more than two hundred fifteen documented contacts between russia and linked operatives and then lied about them and tried to hide them is that something the american people should be grateful for any president this one or any down the road the as i mentioned earlier. during a campaign. foreign governments make and foreign citizens frequently make a lot of the ams to contact different campaigns if we were right now to go and look

at for example hillary clinton's campaign during the same time that i play timeframe then then you would see a lot of foreign governments i nees trying to establish and that's i guess what i'm trying to say to you sir is that we right now have a new normal in our country we have a document that shows over two hundred attempts a connections between a a presidential campaign and a foreign adversary sharing information that would be illegal if you did it with a super pac we know that but information was shared polling data was shared it's in the report i can cite you the page and i guess my point is is that your willingness to seem to brush over this and use words like the american people should be grateful with what's in this report nobody should be grateful concerted efforts for deception for misleading inappropriate action after inappropriate action that is clear and then on top of that at a time that we all recognize that we had

a foreign power trying to undermine our election you the chief law enforcement officer not. only undermines your own credibility as independent actor when there's ongoing investigation still using the word president's own words having it's criticized by the muller himself but but the challenge we now have is that we are going into an area where you seem to not even be willing to be in the least bit critical in your summarization i believe the calls in your credibility and again my time is up. so there are two us thank you mr chairman general barr thank you for being here on the in the last sentence on page one of your four page memo that states that the special counsel issued more than twenty eight hundred subpoenas executed nearly five hundred search warrants of chain more than two hundred thirty orders for communication records issued almost fifty orders authorizing. listening to the senator from new jersey cory booker also one of the

candidates has already declared for its run for president united states putting questions to bill maher very blunt saying that he thinks that the attorney general's credibility has been called into question also referencing specific things in the report that the attorney general seem to not really be familiar with documentation incidents more than two hundred incidents of the truck campaign having some sort of connection contact with someone trying to get information to them from russia so the questioning will continue will continue to keep an ear to that for you as well as this continues in the senate. forces loyal to libyan war likely for tar have to take into turkish nationals. in mare were taken from southern tripoli and accused of being spies that's a charge that turkey into a nice on monday turkish president. described popstars advance towards tripoli as a plot against libya's people because hello has more from istanbul. turkey have

been residing in libya for a while and they have been working in a restaurant and to pull a according to what we have learned and these men were arrested by helicopters on me on april twelfth and since then they lost contact with their families this is what we have learned from the turkish officials their families cannot contact these two men and they are still on the rest according to the information that we have been given this arrest followed actually. vocal critics against dar and his advent strategy in tripoli and earlier this week present that in libya's legitimate representative is the national accord and he should support to. criticize health door and his movements by saying that he is a dictator and he has aligned with some are up countries and some western countries mainly hinting that there has been aligned with saudi arabia and the u.a.e.

and this is sort of actually a coincides with another one in turkey in april turkish police arrested two are up nationals who have confessed that they have been spying will be helpful to united arab emirates and as far as we know turkish authorities are still following up this incident but we have no information about the year life plan or out of the news hour including. urging people to find higher ground as flooding from cycling kind of threatens the southern african coast and sports spain's world cup winning goalkeeper collapses turned training leader has the details. united nations has declared a leader of a pakistan based armed group as a global terrorist assert as our heads the mohammad group that claimed responsibility for february suicide attack an indian administered kashmir that

killed at least forty troops decision means that us are will face a travel ban and his finances and assets will also be frozen. chair of the u.n. time somebody somehow managed to jump up. on the muscles at the time designated by an individual who had been committing terrorism believe. this. was a significant outcome because we have the fact that several years later as more from islamabad the united nations security council committee has decided to put mullen on much to dodger the leader of their gesture mohammad on their sanctions lest it should be remembered that more than our much food jobs are came and go prominence after a deadly attack on indian reserve police and the indian administered kashmir area all for wal-mart the indians then accuse august honor of direct involvement and

vowed revenge after which indian aircraft crossed into progress on india then claimed i did had killed several hundred fighters are not there jaish e mohammad the guest on of course took the media and showed them the site of the attack saying that north a single individual who was killed and that particular attack now progress on had already said that it wants to do more against all outfits that are operating within pakistani territory a shorting its neighbor dead buggers tonics oil will not be used for attacks against any other country of course states will be seen as a major setback for the bugger standing government which has categorically stated that there was no involvement of any bug astonied individual including the jaish e mohammad and its leader mana like sudarshana and the attack inside indian administered kashmir. still ahead on al-jazeera the fight against the opioid

epidemic ambiguous an international ban on substances related to the truck fence now is now in effect and in sport the best of the n.b.a. playoffs says the box get fired up and no walking peter will have all the action. there has been some pretty windy weather across iraq recently and setting off dust storms and you get a clue while i'm in these little masses of clarity given the scale of the shot thunderstorms and there's more around in the eastern med but still time being the forecast is a much quieter one the winds decreased of the cloud increase around the levant least near the mediterranean coast but she comes through iraq to run generally speaking not so windy it's dry and sons in the sky and it's that time the year of

course you do get occasional outbreaks of still potentially wet stuff and that's the gray here this is cloud the green suggesting the wet weather is going to be further north in turkey in particular on the coast goes back to sunshine by roots and joyful twenty two degrees clouds going to. harris and in discussion and also a presidential candidate come our harris has now questioning the attorney general. investigation but perhaps they've suggested i don't know i wouldn't say suggest scented i don't know and further. you don't know ok. in your march twenty fourth summary you wrote that quote after reviewing the special counsel's final report i will say that no one i'm asking a question in your march twenty fourth summary you wrote that quote after reviewing the special counsel's final report deputy attorney general rosenstein and i have concluded that the evidence is not sufficient to establish that the president

committed an obstruction of justice offense now the special counsel's investigation produced a great deal of evidence might lead to believe it included witnesses notes and e-mails witnesses congressional testimony witnesses interviews which were summarized in the f.b.i. three o two forms former f.b.i. director commies memos and the president's public statements my question. isn't reaching your conclusion did you personally review all of the underlying evidence. no we took an accident did we get up to mr ross and i you know we except did the statements in the report as factual record we did not go underneath it to see whether or not they were accurate we except that it is accurate and made our so you are except at the report as the evidence yes you did not question or look at the underlying evidence that supports the conclusions in the report now. did mr

rosenstein review the evidence that underlines and supports the conclusions and the report to your knowledge to my knowledge weeks after the statements and the report anywhere in the origin of the evidence as truth did anyone in your executive office review the evidence supporting the report. you know now. yet you represented to the american public that the evidence was not quote sufficient to support an obstruction of justice the other times the evidence presented in the report this is not or this is not mysterious process in the department of justice we have process memos and defamation memos every day coming up and we don't go and look at the underlying evidence we serve would you support the characterization of the evidence as true as the attorney general of the united states iran the united states department of justice if in any u.s.

attorney's office around the country the head of that office when being asked to make a critical decision about in this case the person who holds the highest office in a land and whether or not that person committed a crime would you accept them recommending a charging decision to you if they'd had not reviewed the evidence that's a question for bob muller he's the u.s. attorney he's the one who presents the report but it was you who made the charging decisions there. you made the decision not to charge the president in the process memo and in the declamation memo you said it was your baby what did you mean by that it was my baby to look to lead to decide whether or not to disclose it to the public and whose decision was it who had the power to make the decision about whether or not the evidence was sufficient project make a determination of whether there had been an obstruction of justice prosecution memos go up to the supervisor in this case it was the have to you know be attorney general the deputy attorney general who decide on the final decision and that is

based on the memo as presented by the u.s. attorney's office. i think you made it clear in that i have not looked if you have that out of one of mine i'm taking a lot of maybe if they are sorry they did not look at the evidence and we can move on will you agree to consult career d.o.j. ethics officials about whether your recruits will from the fourteen investigations that have been discussed by my colleagues as necessary. i don't see any basis for i already consulted with them and you have consulted with them about the fourteen other investigations about the about the case have you consulted with the career d.o.j. ethics officials about the appropriateness of you being involved or recusing yourself or one of the fourteen other investigations that have one or her down on one conflict of interest clear conflicts my intellect what's my conflict eventually i think the american public has seen quite well that you are biased in a situation you've not been objective and that would arguably be the conflict or

you know i haven't been the only decision maker here now let's take the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who was approved by this senate ninety four to six with specific discretion on the floor that he would be responsible for supervising the russian and i stick i am glad you brought up that he had said to me it's time to years experience and we had a number of senior prosecutors in the department involved in this process both career and non-career and i've all i've read a look on the terrace but i have another question. and i'm glad you brought that subject up because i have a question about that earlier today in response to senator graham you said quote that you consulted with rosenstein constantly unquote with respect to the special counsel's investigation report but deputy attorney general rosenstein is also a key witness in the firing of f.b.i. director cami did you consult with the i'm not finished yet did you consult with d.o.j. ethics officials before you enlisted rod rosenstein to participate in

a charging decision for an investigation the subject of which he is also a witness my understanding was that he had been cleared already to participate in it but say you had consulted with them and they cleared it. no i think they cleared it when he when he took over the investigation did you can i understand why you don't know whether he's been cleared of a conflict of interest he would be participating if there was a conflict. so you're saying that it did not need to be reviewed by the career ethics officials in your office believe it i believe it was well i believe it was reviewed and i and what we also find out this seems to be a bit of a flip flop because when the president's observers were trying to lob biomes into this i mean is that you're not answering the question directly did the ethics officials in your office and the department of justice review the appropriateness of broadwell's and sign being a part of making a charging decision on an investigation which he is also

a witness in so as i said my understanding was he had been clear to me had been cleared before i arrive by and making a decision on the mall or report yes and the findings of whether or not the case would be charged on obstruction of justice had been cleared on that he was he was the acting attorney general on the muller investigation. had he been cleared he had been made i am by your side i am in beijing armed i am informed that before i arrived he had been cleared by the ethics officials of what a serving as acting attorney general on the muller case how about making a charging decision on obstruction of justice not denying offenses which include him as a witness. you know he. that's what the acting attorney general's job is to be a witness and to make the decision about being a prosecutor i'll know but the big charging decisions and nothing else my time is right now thank you sara. senator cruz all right so what you have just

seen there was senator connell a harris from the state of california she's also a candidate for president the united states and a former prosecutor issue can tell she was the attorney general of the state of california before she was the center what there really with a really strong strong questioning of the attorney general there and there was a moment when she was also sitting next to cory booker also a presidential candidate also put really strong questions to the attorney general so let's go now to alan fischer who's been listening in joining us from capitol hill so allan there was one question that she put to the attorney general right before we went back on air when she asked him whether or not anyone at the white house had asked or suggested that he open an investigation into anyone i suppose the implication being whether it was went to donald trump's political enemies or some because he has publicly called for those types of investigations the attorney

general didn't have a direct answer he said i'm trying to grapple with the word suggest but he couldn't just say no when he was asked had you been asked to open an investigation into somebody i know there's a lot of moments today but that seems to be a moment. well it's a lawyer giving in and sort of isn't going to lead him into trouble some we don't the line he is being very very careful with his words there being people who seeing bill barr should be charged with perjury because of the evidence he gave to a house committee just last month bill barr nor was the right one to step on perjury and would be able to see you know he didn't course the lying you're right what this was seeing was very important she was trying to see of the point being asked why don't we try to investigate hillary clinton or her campaign. and he could not see no one as you see suggested that this would happen that would be

a politically in memory you would think so he's making sure that he's covered the camelot harvest made it very very uncomfortable for bill barr on a number of questions not least suggesting that he didn't do due diligence in making sure that road rules and starting of course oversaw the report was actually cleared to make a decision about charging someone of the structure of justice when he was a material witness to that so i think bill barr had a very uncomfortable period during the questioning by camelot as the if you look at the three democratic senators in the room who are running for president certainly camelot is in my opinion had the best period of any of those three still a few more questions to go a few more centers to ask questions it's still going to be interesting for build our. guests interesting is probably the right word alan fischer live for us in washington alan thank you. because prime minister theresa may has sacked her

defense secretary blaming him for a link about the chinese telecom giant law a useless new bar now with more from our broadcasts and felicity. thanks so much for show us governor williamson was sacked after details of a national security council meeting were leaked to the press the leak prevailed the u.k.'s plan to grant huawei a role in building britain's five g. network in a letter the prime minister said an investigation found compelling evidence that williamson was responsible but williamson denies he was involved in the leak. or is following that story she joins me live in the studio things charlie leak all this time let's be honest why is this a matter of such concern well those national security council briefings are for and where security services g c h q m i six m i five and ministers can gather together and discuss highly sensitive information from issues like counterterrorism to cyber

security and so on so they all would have signed the official secrets act to handle that secret intelligence and the confidentiality of those meetings is ironclad so a breach from one of those meetings could threaten the safety of the country and that is why there is so much anger surrounding this particularly this particular meeting was to decide on whether or not to use equipment from the chinese telecoms provide a while way to help build the u.k.'s new five g. infrastructure and leaks to the telegraph newspaper was the information that the prime minister treason may would be allowing weiwei limited access despite warnings from some cabinet ministers now all the ministers present denied that they were the source of the leak and an investigation followed and in the last couple of hours the prime minister asked her minister of defense governor williams and to leave the government in a very blunt letter she said that she had lost confidence in his ability to serve however in the last hour mr williamson responded to the prime minister in

a letter saying i strenuously deny that i was in any way involved in this leak i appreciate you offering me the option to resign but to do. so i would be accepting that i was responsible and this was not the case. gavin williamson was quite new to the role of minister of defense he assumed it after his predecessor resigned over the brits it debate but he was a very close ally of the prime minister so she must have some pretty compelling evidence because it is very rare for a resignation to follow a leak inquiry but if correct this could become a criminal investigation because the official secrets act has been broken so they can be plenty more to come on this and we've also just heard that penny mordant who was the international development minister is going to become the new defense minister making her the first defense minister for this country thanks very much. now wiki leaks founder julian assange has been sentenced to nearly twelve months in

jail in the u.k. for skipping bail there were protesters outside the courtroom in london where the forty seven year old made an appearance a songe was given asylum in the ecuadorian embassy for seven years before he was evicted last month will face a separate hearing on thursday to determine whether he should be extradited to the united states made a process in the french capital have descended to violence after police fought with dozens of ana kists at least thirty eight protesters were injured hundreds of thousands of people have been rallying across the country most of them peacefully david chase has more from paris. clouds of tear gas and burning barricades marked the progress of the may day marches it filled the streets of the french capital as predicted fighting between demonstrators and riot police surged along its whole length practicing their policy of zero tolerance charge after charge was made with shield and baton against crowds throwing rocks and stones oh georgia one of you men

you face that's your word for today with another day of oppression as usual we have been surrounded you can't go to sway you can't go that way getting gassed is the only option people just start losing you know. what that son sure got twenty three people have lost their eyes five have lost a hand to join our demonstration so far for their see agree must continue and micro made his speech he didn't show sympathy to the wounded what this government who shows no compassion for its people the days going on that clashes with the police and the the riot forces stationed along the length of march i've got much more serious a mess c.d.s. was torched sending billows of smoke into a block of flats full of families need to come to rival of firefighters managed to stop the spread of the flames the french interior ministry said they had monitored messages on social media calling on demonstrators to turn paris into the capital of

rioting that is not based on the information we have one thousand two thousand and what he called activists potentially reinforced by individuals coming from abroad could try to spread low lessness and violence. the police had snatched squads in the side streets to catch members of the so-called black drop of extremists who are infiltrating a march tens of thousands of protesters joined the march here and tens of thousands more across the country present a manual macro had hoped he'd got the measure of the yellow vest protests this so-called great debates across france and some recent concession. in areas such as the minimum wage but there was no sign of wavering by the protesters on the streets of the capital david chaytor al jazeera paris and may day protests have also taken place in russia where police and guardsman arrested more than one hundred people and government activists and members of human rights groups were among those detained most fear rest happened in st petersburg where several hundred people took

to the streets calling for fair elections president vladimir putin's approval rating has fallen to around sixty percent recently on the back of a tax hike and increases in retired to each. or that's it for me on the team in london let's go back to doha controversial thank you both sam baker is urging people in the northeast to find higher ground as war flooding is expected after last week's cycle in canada it's the second storm in six weeks to lash the southern african coast and has already killed at least forty one people arent haase reports in the city of pemba. this church in the coastal town of came by has opened its doors to almost one thousand displaced men women and children. the dogs we received information in our area that we should have back away to a safer place that night i grabbed my family and came here is the first time two cycles of people in one season. he did rain and flooding is expected to continue

for the rest of the week those on the coastline have moved inland and on to higher ground sister rosa martin to silver has seen a sharp rise in the number of people turning up at a school with nowhere else to go. over there is the river and there it was water all around so this was the area where people sought refuge those whose houses were getting flooded have been coming here yesterday received two hundred fifteen people in the united nations on tuesday confirm that nearly thirty five thousand homes in mozambique have been destroyed leaving hundreds of thousands of people without shelter food and drinking water and at risk of diseases like malaria and cholera more when i expect it in the coming days which will worsen fruiting damage to world.