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 sandal situation 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 who are way australia has done so but other countries aren't really listening the u.k.

has asked its own intelligence organization to see each key 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 has taken that information on board and will be granting weiwei some of those contracts. as more trouble looming for treason is conservative party which is bracing itself for big losses in thursday's local elections many of his 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 dogs leave behind tidying the streets really monday in stuff this picture postcard town in your chair looks like a perfect example of how to do it properly but while all these local conservatives

fighting to be reelected want to talk about getting the buses to run on time their constituents have other concerns. before i get in about the big actually that's true. very frustrating for. them frustrating yes but i find one of the things that has bothered me more is that people who say i voted conservative for the last sixty years and i am not voting conservative best time just to let the government know how upset. catterick down the road has the biggest army bases in europe it's all natural conservative territory and it's where richard is trying to be reelected. if you think people want it my sense is that increasingly people who want bricks it want a clean break i think they feel a very watered down bricks it affectively that leaves us permanently embedded in

europe with no size. is perhaps the worst of all worlds while these local politicians are having to. imagine what things are going to be like for conservatives standing in european elections. in which the new brics it party looks likely to rip them to shreds it is already polling double what the conservatives are on defections will abound among the party faithful as to reason may's already broken reputation will disintegrate entirely. when the european elections happen do you think you'd be tempted so to vote for the brics a party that's a little secret but i think you. needed. help too wouldn't think of getting up every day and facing what she does people from.

everywhere. and this is wrong for the country for months now the predictions have been that the disaster of hits will destroy the conservative policy now in places like this you can see it happening right in front of your eyes. so i had. the nation. on the waves. on a rough day. business updates. going places together.

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japan's new monica's vow to follow his father's example by devoting himself to peace as a simple ceremony in the capital and per an hour he took for many took over from his father and he to abdicated on tuesday when he has more from tokyo. less than a day after his father emperor akihito retired in a rear sirrah mini his oldest son entered the same room in the imperial palace to formally take over the transfer of ancient family treasures signaled the arrival of a new era the reign of emperor not all he told this was the first time in more than two hundred years that japan saw accession as a result of abdication then just minutes later this time with his wife and christmas a call by his side spoke for the first time as emperor. in exceeding to the throne

i swear that i will reflect deeply on the course followed by his majesty the emperor emeritus and bear in mind the path. by past in paris in the will devote myself to self-improvement his father akihito sought to modernize the imperial family and bring it closer to the people but when states first ceremony provided an indication of how far there is to go no female members of the family including no he tours wife and daughter were allowed in the room the people who reside in this palace are of course very important to japan but they have no political power since one nine hundred forty seven the emperor has been a symbolic figure only even changes to imperial or have to come from the government allowing abdication required a one off law change and only males from the male line of the family can become emperor with only three males in line to the throne their lineage is under threat

one of them is eighty three another twelve so there is likely to be increasing pressure on japan's conservative government to make changes to try to safeguard the line of succession people who want to maintain the imperial tradition in japan are very actually have no other choice than to modernize it further by accepting gender equality. in the. period and that has also become a reality increasingly or all over japan japan's diversity was on display outside the palace people of all ages and backgrounds came just to be close to history and maybe catch a glimpse of the new emperor they'll get a better chance in october when a more elaborate in through ceremony is held and the imperial couple will travel around the capital city but japan is now in the age of narrow he told the one hundred twenty sixth emperor of japan when hey al jazeera tokyo. peter with the

support. lauren thank you very much irresistible the splay from a messy so barcelona take a huge step towards the champions league final they were three no winners against liverpool in the first leg of wednesday's samy at the no camp luis suarez said basso on their way before messi added two more after half time the second a superb free kick the return leg is next tuesday at anfield with a local facing a big task if they are to be involved in the final in madrid in a month's time former spain goalkeeper c.s. is recovering after suffering a heart attack during a training session with porto on wednesday the thirty seven year old who was the world cup winning captain in twenty ten was rushed to hospital where he required surgery club say he is now out of danger cassius was able to manage a small a few hours later he posted this picture on his twitter account from his hospital bed instead mates and friends in football have been sending messages of support one

to wish him a good recovery. they knew their news has because. it's quite tough but we have been told that it is doing well at this improving so he has been my teammate in the national team for quite a few years we want to wish him a good recovery too and we hope to see him very soon on the pitch. will feature for chelsea in thursday's europa league semifinal against german side i know that frankfurt. club are relishing their status as other dogs in the style insects have been well off the pace in the german league title race the season but they coach once his players to make the most of the opportunity to model. which certainly the most unexpected team to reach the europa league semifinals but that's not deserved you have to be clear about that tomorrow it won't just be farms i think it's just something special when you can face

a big club like chelsea with their top players and try to grab them. arsenal the manager emery are preparing for thursday's home first leg against valencia emery won the europa league three seasons in a row when he was in charge at severe he says although those experiences were useful it's about creating new history and he's mutallab. world the past is. as brilliance and after this new way and you were a new history and i want to to create here a new history with with all the competition and now we should probably and you're away from one title away for the party the toward the champions league. the sport of formula one has been marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the death of brazil's three time world champion eight and center at the same marino grand prix fans have gathered at the imola circuit to pay tribute and see some of the cause he

drove during his career the thirty four year old was killed when his williams' car hit the wall on the seventh lap of the race in one thousand nine hundred four his death led to new safety measures and there were no more for a tentative in the sport for tickets. two decades a bigger pardon heavyweight boxing champion anthony joshua has spoken for the first time since his opponent was banned for taking drugs joshua was meant to be facing in a heavyweight fight madison square garden on june the first but miller has given a six month suspension for taking performance enhancing drugs. i don't know how they came up with. the new mug do it differently. that's their decision and we just have to accept it's crazy. feel is a by the pros a slot to. the best tennis players continue their preparation for the hughes second grand slam the french open but former world number six month freeze would not have been prepared for what he encountered here at the estoril open in portugal. serving

an ace that was not entirely down to his own abilities and skills after the dust settled backed up his ideas and completed a three six six three six zero victory. the weather also prove tricky for the sales teams in san francisco the bay area and the iconic golden gate bridge was making its debut on the world circuit but the sailors won't forget it in a hurry the australians came close to capsizing a strong winds ripping tides and chopping waters buffer to the teams and the chinese crew suffered serious damage to the sale of their boat took off from the water and this was just a warm up day for the weekend's racing and even if i'm now back to you lauren in london. thank you very much and now a pair of coal miners in poland have designed a bench that purifies dirty air the benches use

a sensor to measure particles in the air and a traffic light system to warn people about high pollution seats can purify eight hundred sixty cubic meters of air per hour the world health organization says thirty three of the european union's most polluted places are in. present from may first musa are back in a moment with another full roundup thanks for watching. a university degree to be a doctor or a teacher but without any study or exam one when he still investigates the pakistani company at legibly selling fake degrees to the thousands of police around

the world on al-jazeera. driven by outreach and spanning generations the real hinge of demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was power if you don't like we're so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back ten and the day after tomorrow they'll send back twenty thirty or if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho among the most persecuted minority youth in the world as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but. there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to become a disclosure and an investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly

environmental and health costs we think ok we'll send our e waste to china but we have to remember that air felician travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera. al jazeera. where ever you. as writers write as opposition leader again urges the armed forces to join him his supporters clash with troops in eastern caracas. and our intake of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. the

may day protests turned violent in france where thousands rallied against president emanuel back home plus i decided to simply state what the bottom line conclusions were the u.s. attorney general defends his handling of the murder report after complaints he misled the public to protect president trump. and a church in pemba opens its doors to a thousand people displaced by the heavy rain still lashing northern mozambique after soccer in kenya. and over venezuelan security forces have fired tear gas and water cannon at demonstrators after opposition leader who called for the largest march in the country's history gado told protesters their efforts aren't in vain and once again urged the military to oust president maduro but thousands of pro-government

supporters also took to the streets in a counter-rally i know sean are reports. this is what one white all calling for a mass mobilization for he called the final. phase of the operation to depose president nicolas maduro. what we have sacrificed will not be in bahrain and it has not been in time it has been for off families for a future it has been at every ten to achieve our objective which has been to you not to the country on tuesday to the military to defect to join him some heeded the call. me because he's my legitimate president from here on out whatever happens i'm going to follow him to the death that they will few the president remains in office with most of the military high command still behind him. he said what he called a coup attempt to been defeated and those behind it will be prosecuted as criminals

. his supporters also came out on to the streets. supporting our revolution supporting our evolutionary process is for the piece of it as while a lesson america and the world's divisions a white tension is high and there were clashes between the opposition and security forces was opposing demonstrations have become a regular feature of venice way than life along with rampant inflation food and medicine shortages are residents fleeing in their millions but international pressure to end the standoff in venice later has intensified if your neck when you look at your defense minister any more and trust him i don't think so i think the door is now surrounded by scorpions. and it's only a matter of time russia meanwhile rejected claims by the u.s. secretary of state might bomb pale they intervened at the suede not to flee the country the ball on the way saying an official assessment of the hiring king

representative of the us administration with such obvious fake information was so unbelievable that honestly i didn't believe us at first then we double checked it really is. by mr pump and this quote exists but of course it is a classic example of misinformation. the opposition gambled on changing venice way la and the last at least for now. has held on to the presidency but the rifts between the opposing sides have grown wider and that battle is only likely to intensify. and china al-jazeera. your six just state says the united states is prepared to take military action in venezuela if needed my compare has also spoken to his russian counterpart sergey lavrov urging moscow to stop supporting president nicolas maduro and meeting was held earlier at the white house to discuss venezuela president jordan has more from washington d.c.

the white house has been putting out conflicting messages about how it plans to support. the venezuelan opposition in libya which the u.s. considers the lawful president of that country on wednesday the national security adviser john bolton spent a considerable amount of time speaking both to the cameras and on twitter indicating that no matter what happens the u.s. is in why doe's corner and not that of the incumbent president nicolas maduro but in the meantime the trumpet ministration is having to deal with conflicting messages about what it is prepared to do to help take power in caracas the secretary of state mike pompei all said on wednesday morning during an interview that a military option was being actively considered however other officials then had to say that while military options are always that just options that they would prefer to see

a diplomatic or economic solution to the political crisis in venezuela and that no matter what in their view nicolas maduro must go. protests in the french capital have descended into violence out a police force with dozens of at least thirty protesters were injured and three hundred eighty arrested hundreds of thousands of people have been rallying across the country most of them peacefully they mature to handle 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 george you want to view menu first that's your own for today was

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. 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 he called activists potentially reinforced by individuals coming from abroad could try to spread low lessness. in violence. the police had snatch squads in the side streets to catch members of the so-called black bloc of extremists who were infiltrating the march and didn't look at the 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 vests protests but this so-called great debates across france and some recent concessions on areas such as the minimum wage but there was no sign of wavering by the protests is on the streets of the capital david chaytor al-jazeera paris. russian police and god's men arrested more than one hundred people it may day protests there antigovernment activists and members of human rights groups were among those detained most of the arrests happened in st petersburg where several hundred people called for

a fair elections. the u.s. attorney general has defended his decision to clear president struction of justice . has been testifying before senators over the special counsel's report into russian interference in the last presidential election house judiciary committee has just said it's considering a contempt of congress resolution because the justice department is not complying with a subpoena for the full report on the fisher reports washington d.c. . sounds for the first time since the little port was made public america's top officer at least questions from a senate committee republican chairman lindsey graham a supporter admitted he hadn't read the full report can't say i've read it all but i've read most of it but the findings left him with no doubt nor obstruction nor collusion robert mueller was appointed special counsel may twenty seventeen his task to investigate alleged links between the russians and donald trump's presidential campaign attorney general william barr was given the report in march

he says he was surprised there was no recommendation on prosecuting the president for obstruction of justice to fight ten possible instances but he was confident he made the right call not to press ahead with the deputy and i felt that the evidence developed by the special counsel was not sufficient to establish that the president committed a crime and therefore it would be irresponsible and unfair for the department to release a report without stating the department's conclusions but robert mueller sent a letter to the attorney general upset at the way he presented his findings ahead of the publication of the redacted report a point not missed by one democrat i think history will judge you harshly bar says a lot of the president's actions were fueled by allegations he felt were wrong and called into question his election when is there any evidence that you're aware of suggests even remotely the president trump is a russian agent in that i'm not aware of this hearing was meant to be about the last presidential election but it was really more about the next one and the

republicans who defended bill. barr and donald trump on the democrats who attacked them they knew that. like camelot harness the former prosecutor is chasing the democratic presidential nomination she was amazed bill barr did not look at the underlying evidence before making his final decision i think if anything seriously i have not looked if you have it out as we don't know if mine or the tone remain mostly civil one democratic senator said bill barr should resign now the american people know that you are no different from rudy giuliani or kellyanne conway or any of the other people who sacrifice or was decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the oval office go to rose william bar insisted the president could have halted the militant quiet at any point because it was based on false allegations which this was a difficult day for the attorney general and he's another on the way the house of representatives also wants him to give evidence the committee chairman says he won't be calling robert miller as

a new witness he says this is over but it's not alan fischer i'll just read up on capitol hill washington still had this whole. wiki leaks co-founder genius orator sentenced to fifty weeks in jail in the u.k. and preaching his bail conditions. and south carolina caster semenya news is an appeal reports rules forcing her to lower her testosterone levels and balance it worked for her back. however it got some or some rain pushing into southeastern parts of australia already seeing some rather lively showers along the spells of right swirling for the by easing further race which kangaroo island sixty one millimeters of right here in twenty four hours and that wetter weather will continue to drive its way.