there's really no sense that they would have any kind of future in a transition even if that's what it's been promised now and there's also significant sectors of other sectors of the government that much more at stake certainly economically in keeping my leader in power and they would not be able to seek shelter as an amnesty so those forces are primarily were to be in power and what about why does movement i mean does it is it your impression that the momentum has stalled a bit off to what he did on on tuesday or do you think that he's still got the backing but that people are frankly frightened about history. but i think today to some extent it was even more consequential than yesterday to some extent yesterday it was a day that caught a lot of people off guard certainly myself and people consequent you know given his well. and to the extent that the people that he was calling to rise up in the military did not do so that was a significant blow to his credibility so he really needed today to show that he could continue to muster support in the streets he did that to some extent but certainly not at the levels that one would have expected i think that there is

significant amounts of skepticism and and concern on the part of the opposition and that not only has momentum the last really of the movement has been kind of backed into a corner and to the extent that my little continues to be in need of support is and these claims by bolton and others seem to ring somewhat hollow. you know the forces behind where the two seem to be kind of back on their heels i had i would ask a thank you very much indeed for your analysis thank you. may day protests in the french capital descended into violence after police for two of dozens of anarchists at least thirty eight protesters were injured and three hundred ninety arrested hundreds of thousands of people have been running across the country most of them peacefully going to try to has more from paris the 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 george you want to view menu first that's your point for today with another day of oppression as usual we have been surrounded you can't go to sway you can't write that way getting gassed is the only option people just start losing. what that some twenty three people have lost their eyes five have lost a hand to join our demonstration so far for their say agree must continue but micron made his speech he didn't show sympathy to the wounded what's this government who shows no compassion for its people to days gone on the 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 only the calm 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 foremost based on the information we have one thousand two thousand what are called activists potentially reinforced by individuals coming from abroad could try to spread low less ness and violence. the police had snatch squads in the side streets to catch members of the so-called black bloc of extremists who. infiltrating the march was. tens of thousands of protesters joined the march here and tens of thousands more across the country president emanuel macro had hoped he'd got the measure of the yellow vest protests this so-called great debates across france and some recent concessions on areas such as the minimum wage but there was no sign a waiver it by the protesters on the streets of the capital david chaytor

al-jazeera paris. russian police and guardsmen arrested more than one hundred people it may day protests there anti-government activists and members of human rights groups were among those detained most of the arrests happened in some cases but for several hundred people called for fair elections has been got a mere putin's approval rating has fallen to around sixty percent recently on the back of a tax hike and increases in the retirement age. coming up on this news hour from london a church in pemba opens its doors to a thousand people displaced by the heavy rain still lashing northern mozambique after cycle in kenya. britain's prime minister fayyad said defense secretary over the leaking of a decision about the chinese telecoms giant hallway. and there were the underdog he took to head to frankfurt's clash with chelsea.

the u.s. attorney general has defended his handling of the miller report after complaints he misrepresented the findings to protect president trump william barr has been testifying before the senate judiciary committee and follows revelations the special counsel robert mueller expressed concern about how his report on russia was portrayed are released a short summary of a four hundred forty eight page document in march it found no collusion between russia and trump during the twenty six thousand presidential election but did not reach a conclusion on whether the president had obstructed justice. when his letter about his frustrations has been released and it he tells barr this summer a letter provided to congress and made public on march twenty fourth did not fully capture the context nature and substance of his office's work and conclusions he said that that had led to public confusion about critical aspects of the results of the investigation. and i called bob and so but you know what's the issue

here are you suggest and i asked him if he was suggesting that the march twenty fourth letter was inaccurate and he said no but that the press reporting had been inaccurate and that the press was reading too much into it and i asked him you know specifically what his concern was and he said that his concern focused on his explanation of why he did not reach a conclusion on obstruction. and i to washington d.c. what were the key moments during the hearing that stood out for you. oh i think you've got to look at this remember it was a hearing about twenty sixteen and possible rushing to interference and the reporter followed and twenty seventeen but it was also about the next election as well and that's something that the republicans who defended william barr and donald trump were aware of and certainly something that the democrats who attacked both of

them were aware of not least because there were least three senators sitting in the committee who want to be the democratic nominee for president one of them was kamla harris she is a former prosecutor herself she is a senator from california and highly exchange with bill barr was probably the testy isto of the four hours of evidence that bill barr gave now remember each of the senators is given just seven minutes to get their point across and camelot certainly did that with just a couple of questions and in that moment she exposed bill barr for what many people think was a very quick rush to judgment after getting the mill report and then standing up and seeing this clears donald trump no collusion norb struction. did you personally review all of the underlying evidence. no we took an exit or did did we get up did mr rosenstein no 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 accepted it is accurate and made it 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 so how much further to risk have to go this whole. scenario. well let me give you an idea they did this start to the republicans were asking. william barr a boat hillary clinton and her e-mail service remember that some six years ago or so this is go a long ways still to go were nowhere near the end of this it's interesting that campbell house when she came out of the committee room immediately says she is calling for a bill barr to resign and she said look here we have an attorney general who has handed the report we've says i'm not going to make a conclusion about whether or not we should charge the president with obstruction

of justice and rather than look at the underlying evidence he just accepted the poor and face value and said well there is no obstruction of justice and there will be a number of democrats who will for that and bill barr undoubtedly will be under pressure he is due to give evidence to the house judiciary committee on thursday will that happen while he's very unhappy the we the judiciary committee has said it's going to carry out its questioning with members asking some questions but also giving all lawyers a chance to ask some questions and go boss says if that's going to happen i'm not going to be there the indications we're getting is that that is likely to happen the is likely to show up no but if he doesn't then they are talking about possibly subpoenaing him which would be very unusual indeed as far as the senate can sound remember it is republican controlled lindsey graham who at one point was a very harsh critic of donald trump and though seems to be one of his biggest supporters he said at the end of this well it's done it's over i'm not calling

robert miller's an extra witness i am finished with this if they want to talk to robert miller they're going to have to find a way to do it but does that mean this is all over not by a long way this is going to be a continuing refrain between no and the general election the presidential election come november twenty twenty so we'll be talking about it at least for another two years and good thanks very much indeed they should thank you. now the chairman mr ation has asked congress for four and a half billion dollars in immediate emergency funding to address a surge in migration at the southern border senior officials say is needed to help the record numbers of central american families seeking asylum in the united states the money will go towards food shelters personnel and information technology president trump declared the immigration influx a national emergency earlier this year that allowed him to redirect more of six billion dollars in government spending towards building

a wall along the mexico border aid workers in mozambique say remote areas and small islands off the coast still waiting for supplies almost a week after soccer and kenneth struck thousands of people remain stranded and more flooding is expected is the second storm in six weeks to lash the southern african nation killing at least forty one people for which us are reports from the city of pember. 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 your way to a safer place that night i grabbed my family and came here is the first time two cycles of hit mozambique in one season. heavy 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 lie or are you going line by africa 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 are expected in the coming days which will worsen for looting the much towards and the hand of humanitarian access more challenging in water for us people have lost everything they are the is the death toll will rise some homes that used to be in this area were washed away. as the rain intensified it caused my slides and the landfill site over they collapsed

on top of some of the houses locals say some people are still missing. steve lost his home in the flooding he and his neighbors are assessing damage course the village. the low i'm alone and asking for help to build a new house i have two children and a wife i don't have anybody to assist you and. some people have chosen to stay in their homes but for some of those that do they risk being cut off from much needed aid and with mortar range of rain and flooding on the way aid agencies say they are facing a critical situation they are in desperate need of more funds al-jazeera mozambique . and then pick an world champion athlete gustus a menu has lost her appeal against new rules will force her to take medication in order to compete so many are has high levels of the male hormone testosterone and when i have to take special drugs to reduce it if she wants to defend her titles are sports correspondent leigh welling's has more. this was

a verdict as much to do with human rights as athletics caster semenya was appealing against a rule that would force her to take medication to reduce her testosterone level and still be allowed to compete in women's competition she lost her appeal against the rule of the court of arbitration for sport in liaison such discrimination is a necessary result of all kinds of socialist means of achieving the ideal believes objectives of preserving the integrity of female athletics in sounds like you dance international competition studies from four hundred metres to one my. athletics while governing body the. maintains it is striving for fairness it said it was plays that the regulations were found to be unnecessary reasonable and proportionate means of achieving the legitimate time of preserving the integrity of fame that takes the idea has been criticized for its handling of the issue which

included the suggestion that women with rice testosterone should switch to compete against men so many responded to the verdict immediately on social media sighing sometimes it's better to react with no reaction but later she released a statement accusing the i w f of having always targeted by a specific way for a decade has tried to slow me down but this is actually made me stronger she's yet to indicate if she's prepared to consider medication in order to remain a champion i hundred metres she's a multiple olympic and world champion but can't now defend a title at this year's world championships in doha unless she takes the chemical route she can switch to long distance and did win gold in a five thousand meters at the south african authentic championships last week but the treatment has been questioned by the united nations human rights group by the south african government who called it a gross violation of human rights. while sport tries to adjust to gender issues so men use words when collecting an award last year. underlined the need compassion

and respect along with science and competition just a rug l. you know i grew up in a dusty place. i really appreciate you know the support the laugh you know i'm also for appreciating you know us for being who we are so we can be the best that we can be lee wellings out his ear of london. more still to come this hour as the u.s. steps up its sanctions on iran's oil market we look at tehran's threats to block a crucial strait of hormuz. we can lease co-founder giuditta summers is sentenced to fifteen weeks in jail in the u.k. for breaching his bail conditions and in sports spain's world cup winning goalkeeper collapses during training to ask.

how we got quite a russia shot was across much of europe at the moment the wettest weather will be just around hungry pushing across seemed to remain the easing up into ukraine like the showers come back across the black sea down across a good part even into crease as well asshole nothing a little further east was spinning away if further north maybe a few showers at the west and russia moscow fourteen celsius is not much warmer the only other side if you are past fifteen or sixteen that the london and paris and again some shabby right here a scene from right down towards cialis best sunshine that can be madrid twenty four twenty five degrees over the next couple of days just notice things freshening up up towards the northwest for friday thirteen celsius in london both parts of france looking a little cool and crusty so the on the french side fresh enough with some rain that is pushing its way into austria down towards the northern parts of the balkans once again but down into the southeast of europe basis out of the med is generally

looking dry as you make our way through the weekend that's a case to last more than parts of africa a little more clout that the car as the temperatures fall back to around thirty three degrees celsius for thursday the classic enough to produce some rain across northern parts of morocco abdel ji area over the next couple of days. it's all too familiar. innocent lives ended in an instant. then grief anger and the debate around firearms but for survivors and families of the four then reality often changes forever. faultlines investigates the long lasting trauma inflicted on communities the aftermath mass shootings in america on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. when keeping need to be heard

and the story needs to be told. in all of radio with exclusive interviews three dangerous for journalists to editors publishers all around the world and in-depth reports are real be made important here with al-jazeera as teams on the ground i cannot make world to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news. a longer one of the top stories on our. anti-government protesters in venezuela have clashed with security forces during may day rallies in caracas it comes

a day after president nicolas maduro said he had stopped an attempted coup or the opposition. made a protest in the french capital descended into violence out of police force with dozens of anarchists at least thirty eight protesters were injured and three hundred eighty arrested. and the u.s. attorney general has differ. and in his decision to clear president of trump of obstruction of justice william barr has been testifying before senators of the special counsel report into russian interference in the last presidential election . the saudi led coalition is reported to have launched more than a dozen ass trucks targeting an airbase adjoining the airport of yemen's capital sana'a a t.v. station controlled by who see rebels as thirteen airstrikes targeted the air base the coalition had earlier accused the forces of using the base to launch drone and missile attacks and his fifteen security personnel have been killed in central india after the vehicle was hit on in printer eyes explosive device police said the

attack was carried out by maoist rebels and get your early district follows another incident. allegedly set fire to new search of vehicles on tuesday night. you noted nations's declared the leader of pakistan based armed group a global terrorist pursued as our heads the jaish e mohammad group which claimed responsibility for a february surfside attack in indian administered kashmir that killed at least forty indian troops the decision means will face a travel ban and his finances and assets will be frozen designation comes after china which had brought as a listing as a global terrorist four times dropped its objections florida has more from islamabad. the united nations security council committee has decided to put mullen on much who dodged the leader of their gesture mohammad on their sanctions lest it should be remembered that more than our much food jobs are came

into prominence after their deadly attack on indian reserve police and the indian administered kashmir was the indians then accused august honor of direct involvement and vowed revenge after which indian act of crossed into pakistan india then claimed i did head kill several hundred fighters up there j g m ahmad buggers don of course took the media and showed them the site of the attack saying that in order single individual it was killed and that particular attack now buggers 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 were just categorically stated that there was no involvement of any bugger standing individual including the jaish

e mohammad and its leader mana like food and the attack inside indian administered kashmir a sixth round of peace talks between the us and taliban has begun in doha u.s. envoy zalmay hollies that is leading discussions with the afghan armed groups the two sides trying to find a framework for peace afghan government has not been part of the talks the man leading the taliban delegation in qatar is more than abdul ghani baradar he was the right hand man of leading with omar and that many operations the taliban until he was captured in twenty ten show the palace in kabul has more on america. in a great turban taken during the u.s. television talks this is one of the few photos that exist of taliban co-founder turned political chief abdul ghani baradar in his fifties baradar has worked in the shadows his entire life we are schoolman taliban commanders about their new front man. for alongside miller baradar they first met in the eighteenth.

going to the most of the of the got more laboratory and i spent time together during the jihad time we had a council and we were doing military operations in kandahar together he's a very honest and good man i think you can help the peace process baradar also has powerful connections outside the taliban he's from the same tribe the publicize his former president ahmed karzai among five to nine eleven because i was in the mountains near bardos birthplace and when he was nearly killed baradar saved his life. yes yes you see it how. well that was probably. october two thousand and one. two months later because i became the afghan head of state pushing himself and his savior on opposite sides of the hill for nearly a decade if under baradar command approximately one thousand u.s.

and nato soldiers were killed he was number two in other words he was assistant to a long words for he is a core builder of taliban movement so here is a good fighter he has a lot of experience fighting an experience from the severe time and to the start i understand you tried for pace with mullah baradar once before there was a time that we want peace that he and so many other leaders of the taliban movement were seeking peace but at the time the americans and the parks are used to to be nurses and parks and both were against peace or against and they worked together to prevent it and they were the both of them together when general rested in his house and parks that put him in prison for all those years what was your reaction when he was arrested we objected to it because we strolled your treatment baradar was held in prison in pakistan for eight years he was only released in october at the

request of u.s. special envoy zalmay khalilzad because of his reputation for being pro piques do you think he really wants peace the taliban of all sort do who are seeking peace have paid a price with their lives for it or imprisoned. in an underground bunker a kabul university lies an archive of taliban and government newspapers here mullah baradar holds the title of taliban deputy insurgent commander in makes now this the possibility of peace maker for the man whose image goes on printed shallot ballasts al-jazeera kabul. iran says washington's efforts to push it out of a oil market won't work waivers on u.s. sanctions for toronto eight largest oil customers came to an end on wednesday and iran says other oil producing nations will be able to fill the demand it is aimed at the reports in the strait of hormuz it's also threatened to block the crucial waterway. shuttle to cry as the deadline approaches for oil waivers to

expire there's been an increase in the pre-conceived defined statements from iranian leaders attacking u.s. sanctions in a speech into one on tuesday iranian president hassan rouhani made a promise already by young america in the next few months will see that we will continue to export oil they may close one path but there isn't just one there are six other doors the not even aware of we must export our all powerfully in the face of u.s. pressure. so far iran has responded to u.s. economic pressure with rhetoric at home and diplomacy abroad but since the u.s. said it will not extend sanctions waivers to let iran sell oil to its biggest clients iranian leaders have started hinting at slowing traffic in the strait of hormuz an estimated twenty percent of the world's oil passes through these waterways the mere mention of the name can move markets and raise concerns in global capitals while leaders say if iran can't use the strait to sell its oil no

one can they also say they intend to keep the shipping lanes near their shores wide open in everyone's best interest but behind balanced remarks in the waters near iran's southern coast are battle ready boats this is as close as we can get to an iranian warship the navy takes the security of its vessels very seriously especially around the waters of the strait of hormuz where boats like this have the job of policing traffic in the waterway but also looking out for american warships . at any time there are dozens of cargo ships visible on the horizon giving a sense of how much traffic these waterways see on a daily basis the message here is iran considers itself in charge of these waters in the middle of all this is the small but strategic. in the seventeenth century it was home to a fort for the portuguese navy one local guide says it's still the perfect place to monitor and control traffic in the strait some living here worry a conflict could make their quite island. already going what yes we are concerned

if it happens nothing will remain here families and lives will be destroyed you knew and others doubt it will come to that in the national command of god namely that such father hasn't been any conflict here as long as i remember i don't have any concerns maybe some people do but as far as i can remember nothing has happened to make us. that this coastline doesn't have any hotels and it's not teeming with any beach goers the scenic island remains largely in developed perhaps by design where at the southernmost point of hormuz island now and the waves washing up against this rocky beach that water is from the strait of hormuz this is the strait just here and it is a very picturesque setting there are tourists that are coming through and buses it is a very nice place but make no mistake for the iranian government this place serves the function of a pressure point backed into a corner iran's leaders say they will respond in the u.s.

will be to blame for whatever comes next the point is centuries old places like this as a reminder that they faced foreigners at their shores before and if pushed they can do it again zain but the old zero hormuz island in the strait of hormuz off of iran southern coast. an interview with al jazeera iran's foreign minister zarif said his country does not want an escalation with the united states. we have been very clear that we have no interest in escalation we have been clear that persian gulf and the strait to hold most is our lifeline we depend on them for our livelihood and we want them safe secure and free for navigation of all countries including iran president trump said that the united states spends seven trillion dollars you're not region and destroyed our region and got a lot of american blood on its hands because because of the fact that the americans

died in this region without any reason without any purpose and you watch more of that interview with the iranian foreign minister on talk to al-jazeera this saturday at four thirty g.m.t. . and wiki leaks founder julian assange has been sentenced to nearly twelve months in jail in the u.k. escaping bail there were protests outside the court in london where the forty seven year old appeared a source was holed up in the ecuadorian embassy for almost seven years before being evicted last month he'll face a separate hearing on thursday to determine whether she should be extradited to the united states. where she's from in situ reason may his sacto defense secretary blaming him for a leak about the chinese telecom giant huawei gavin williamson was fired after details of a national security council meeting were leaked to the press the leak revealed the u.k.'s plan to grant weiwei a role in building britain's five g.

network in a letter may said an investigation found compelling evidence that williams was responsible he denies any involvement strongly angela has more on how to reason may sound lissa tradition. in a pretty blunt letter she said she had lost confidence in his ability to serve however mr williamson has responded saying he strenuously denies any involvement and you might ask why a chinese telecoms company could be such a sensitive subject so just to give you some background while we dominate the market when it comes to providing infrastructure for these new five g. networks which most countries are hoping to roll out by twenty twenty but the u.s. has been warning that the company could be building back doors into its infrastructure that could allow the chinese state to spy on those host countries and they have been pressuring countries to exclude what way australia has done so but other countries aren't really listening the u.k.

has asked its own intelligence organization do you see q. to do its own investigations into world way which they have and they have found no fundamental flaws no evidence of back doors they say the security isn't perfect but that has nothing to do with deliberate back doors being built so they're happy for the u.k. to go ahead and the prime minister's taken that information on board and will be granting weiwei some of those contracts. that's more trouble looming for treason is conservative party which is bracing itself for big losses in thursday's local elections many of its traditional voters feel angry and betrayed by how she's handled bricks it as largely reports from yorkshire in northern england local politics is supposed to be about things like cleaning up what doctors leave behind tidying the streets really monday in stuff this picture postcard town in new york sure looks like a perfect example of how to do it properly but while all these local concern.