getting the information we need and the congress cannot permit the executive branch we cannot permit the administration to dictate to congress how we operate i think the i think he's going to have to answer for apparently testifying and truthfully in both the senate and the house and that's certainly one option is terrified of having to face a skilled attorney studies hofmeister is a professor at the university of dayton school of law joins me now from cincinnati on scott good to have you with us on the program mr hofmeister can i just ask you for your reaction to now this war of words between mr nadler and william barr over mr barr not really wanting to face yet another committee on thursday for good thank you for having me what you see as a rule of war of the worlds a war of words excuse me is actually our democratic process working what you see for the first time in two years she's actually see the oversight process you're

seeing congress do which job and its job is to ensure that the executive branch is proper is executed lawfully and properly and so we're going to start to see now is this oversight and this is one of the early part of shots of oversight and actually we certainly saw the committee's very polarized the way they were asking their questions of the attorney general on wednesday they had differing approaches but did you or how do you think actually william barr fared when he was asked a range of questions in front of two different committees on wednesday. i mean i think the attorney general fairly well he really hasn't been he hasn't shifted from his script from the beginning i mean you have those who are who are finance of attorney general day they complain day he has tried to set the stage and craft the message by sitting out a letter and then weighty numerous weeks before the actual was redacted report was put out so he could control the message so you have those critics and then you have

those people who are fans of the attorney general who say that he has acted properly he has released that document as much as he can and he's gone before day of the house and the senate and testify so it kind of depends what can't you fall into it whether or not you disagree with how the attorney general is fair and so far if he feels that he has drawn a line under the matter and now subsequently does not want to appear again in front of the committee when next well i get i think he may be drawing the line too soon because he may be bothered by the fact that congress is actually sizing its constitutional authority to review into exercise oversight over the president over the executive branch if he does in his heels and refuses to appear most likely i believe congress will subpoena the attorney general and it becomes a question whether he's going to honor that subpoena or if he's going to refute it

and then they're going to try to force the subpoena and it will head to the courts and whether or not general testify before the house of representatives it's very confusing matter when you're a viewer around the world watching american politics unfold in the way that they have in the last say six hours and there were many analysts have come on to this program and suggested that the attorney general purchased himself what's your analysis of the way he conducted himself and what he did and did not say. you know that perjury is it is a legal dept and it is a crime in this country as in many other countries that would be when you say perjury i think it would be difficult to prove if they were going to try to put forth a charge like that he may have sliced the idea in very narrowly i'm not sure that you could through perjury with proof beyond reasonable doubt i think the concern people have is that the attorney general's who is acting more as a private attorney for the president as opposed to the attorney general for the

united states representing the country as a whole he doesn't he has not come across for the most part for many people as being neutral and more as an advocate for the president which is really not the role of the attorney general we should say what happened sunday in the next twenty four hours his health was to thank so much for joining us from cincinnati. thank you for having me. the study abroad to coalition find to give you have been has launched a series of strikes on the military base of the capital's port least ten strikes hit. the coalition says the targets were legitimate under international law previously said hutu rebels use the base to launch a ballistic missile attacks. forces loyal to the libyan warlord khalifa haftar to turn to turkish nationals involved. in the mir were taken from the southern tripoli accused of being spies a charge of turkey denies on monday turkish president described have to advance

towards tripoli as a plot against libya's people. mr ball. those two turkish nationals have been residing in libya for a while and they have been working in a restaurant and to pull the according to what we have learned and these men were arrested by helicopters army 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 under arrest according to the information that we have been given this arrest followed actually. vocal critics against dar and his advance strategy in triple that and earlier this week present that in libya's legitimate representative is the national accord governor and he showed support to fares are so large and he criticized south door and his movements by saying that he's

a dictator and he has aligned with some arab countries and some western countries mainly hinting that after has been aligned with saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and this isn't actually a coin size with another one in turkey in. turkish police arrested two or up nationals who have fast that they have been spying on behalf of the united arab emirates and far as we know turkish. thort is are still following this incident but we have no information about the life of the world health organization says at least three hundred seventy six people have been killed since after launched his offensive to seize tripoli almost a month ago but in the past few days fighters loyal to him have suffered some setbacks. as. forces lawyer to libya's you enter it could name the government three enforce their positions in the neighborhood they recently pushed out fighters loyal to the world hefted from this area in southern tripoli.

the group male set up checkpoints prevent civilians from coming back to their houses near the fighting areas just to keep them away from danger the government forces have recently advancing the all the international airport on the southern outskirts of the capital they have also recaptured the highway connecting tripoli to the city and including area. but the situation near the military camp remains tense after heavy fighting for control in the area the government forces here say that have those forces target their locations with advantage weapons including guided and grad missiles and in many cases random rockets hit residential areas and killed civilians. many civilians including women and children have been killed by indiscriminate shelling since the battle for tripoli began and april the fourth tens of thousands have been

forced from their homes. the government's fighters here say they are determined to drive out have to his forces further south despite the lack of support. i thought this pickup truck in the weapons with my own money also with paid for part of the catering and logistics you have to his forces continue to receive support from cities like. south of tripoli and with the regional and international countries backing the rival factions the battle for tripoli does not seem to be ending anytime soon. tripoli. or plenty more ahead on the al jazeera news hour including iranian leaders say they're ready to fight for their right to sell oil. mozambique urges people to move to higher ground as flooding from cycling kind of threatens thousands of people. in sports a messy magic inspires postle and without champions league semifinal peter will

have those details later. the united nations has declared the leader of a pakistan based group a global terrorist. will now have his assets frozen be subject to a travel ban and he heads the jaish e mohammad group that claimed responsibility for february suicide attack an indian administered kashmir which killed forty soldiers the declaration passed up to china traditional ally of pakistan dropped its previous objections. chairperson of the un sanctions committee the chairman and representative up in asia has informed us that muscle does the stance designated as a individual who has been promoting terrorism globally this is part of as significant outcome because we have been at it for several years.

the united nations security council committee has decided to put mullen on much to dodger the leader of their jaish e mohammad on their sanctions lest it should be remembered that more on our much food as our men go prominence after their deadly attack on indian reserve police and the indian administered kashmir for wal-mart the indians then accuse august honor of direct involvement and vowed revenge after which indian aircraft crossed into pakistan india then claimed i did head kill several hundred fighters are not there jaish e mohammad by guest on of course took the media and showed them the site of the attack saying that not a single individual that 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 that pakistani soil will not be used for attacks against any other country of course dates will be seen as a major setback followed by a good standing government which has categorically stated that there was no involvement of any progress on individual including the jaish e mohammad and its leader mana like food and the attack inside indian administered crush me. some a good girl is a distinguished professor of political science at indiana university in bloomington from where he joins you could have you with us here on al-jazeera finally india gets what they want for a man that they still want to get into custody not just the claiming to be behind the attack on indian military personnel in kashmir last february but for a history of associate to terrorism. that's correct and in fact until china lifted the technical hold on this occasion on four previous

occasions china had maintained this technical hold there by preventing the united nations from designating must of those are as a global terrorist what does that technical hold in the release of that technical tell us about the relationship between china and pakistan because they wouldn't have done it without consulting pakistan. yes that is correct but to start is one of china's closest allies and consequently this deal would not have kept the pakistanis in the dark before making this decision so there must have been quiet private diplomatic contacts on this issue and they must have alerted islamabad that this was about to happen the ban here and the statement made by india by sort of reference to the february attack. led to the deaths of so many resoled years we've

now got politicians and leaders asking why there's no connection being made by their own government i mean how have the charges all what's changed you want to say dilute the way that india is selling this to the wider population. well there isn't really injured charges or in some of those are not merely on the basis of the pull back of the fourteenth of rarity of this year but there there is a spate of other issues that are involved and consequently. i think the government did not feel compelled to bring up on this occasion i think they must be absolutely besides themselves china has finally decided to lift their technical hold in terms of how we move forward now we have.

where do you think the conversation begins because pakistan is at the moment saying they will not talk to india until the end of the general election they want to know who is going to be sitting in the office at eleven racecourse road before they can have a conversation surely the same would be the indian politician that takes up the prime minister's office how his government or her government is going to deal with a pakistan that still seems very supportive of terror groups. well this is the central commander a that the indian decision makers face the previous congress led government despite a series of attacks that took place under its watch which were traced back my indian intelligence agencies to pakistan nevertheless sought to continue some semblance of a dialogue with pakistan in the hope that it might be able to change pakistan's

preferences and be a via but this government of prime minister during their modi has taken a much more much tougher line towards pakistan and has claimed. holding talks with pakistan are for the most part meaningless that pakistan is not serious and it remains to be seen what happens if this government actually comes back to par after may twenty third when the elections conclude in india or we shall see what does happen for the moment something good thanks for joining us from bloomington. thank you well at least fifteen security personnel have been killed in central india after the hole was blown up by a roadside bomb police say the attack was carried out by maoist rebels in maharastra state the attack follows another incident where the maoists allegedly set fire to nearly thirty vehicles in the same area. now

a new round of talks between the taliban and the u.s. have started in qatar on wednesday the u.s. state department says it's peace and boys. in doha are meeting representatives of the afghan armed group it's the sixth round of talks between the two sides who are trying to find a framework for peace in the country afghan government has not been part of the talks. now iran's leaders say they're prepared to fight for their right to sell oil in the face of tough u.s. sanctions iranian warships are patrolling the straits of hormuz a vital supply routes for the global trade and oil the reports now from there on iran's southern coast. show. as the deadline approaches for oil waivers to expire there's been an increase in the preconceived defined statements from iranian leaders attacking u.s. sanctions in a speech on tuesday iranian president hassan rouhani made a promise on. america in the next few months will see that we will continue to

exporter of oil they may close one path but there isn't just one door there are six other doors they are not even aware of we must export our all powerfully in the face of u.s. pressure. so for 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 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 distrait 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 iranian worship 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 hormuz island 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 a flashpoint already going like yes we are concerned if it happens nothing will remain here families and lives will be destroyed he 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. 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 points of hormuz island now when 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 in 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. well still ahead on the news i will tell you why the politician in

charge of britain's defense ministry suddenly finds himself out of a job. i did sports planes world cup winning goalkeeper collapses during training peter we'll have those details. how the weather remains a little unsettling across central parts of north america at my last a cloud showing up out of central as a candidate ontario quebec big massive cloud here slides down across the lakes still coming into the deep south of the u.s. so see some wet weather there because that eastern side of texas into our console right up across kentucky tennessee and pushing up through the appalachians some wild weather to just around the panhandle it be a fair bit of rain there into florida as we go through thursday central parts of

north america do look lousy settled dry weather there across the plains pushing further west and we'll see that continue to go on through friday but by friday just notice colorado seeing some of that wetter weather new mexico also looking a little disturbed and some of that rain making its way back into a good part of texas further a still some basin places clattered right around they some pasta kind of still a little on the damp side but setting across florida that right does continue some of the cloud of rain running across into the bahamas want to see showers into the greater rantis for thursday going into fraud it should be drier and brighter here thirty one celsius there for kingston fabre the cloud across the eastern side of the carriage band a few showers there the central america. when your fiancee lives behind bars. the engagement also becomes a life sentence. does your world hears

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book about your watching the avs or a news i would miss the whole robin to remind of our top stories that have been running street battles between supporters of venezuelan opposition leader one guy doe and security forces a police vehicle was set on fire supporters of president madeira also rallied in caracas the u.s. attorney general has defended his decision to clear president trump of obstruction of justice william barr has testified before senators over the special counsel's report into russian interference but he's the. refusing to testify for a second day and turkey is denying two of its citizens are spies after they were detained in southern tripoli by forces loyal to libyan warlord khalifa haftar turkish authorities say that volcom out an arc and that meant that media was spying

and our social media delirium. let's return to our top story the protests in venezuela arrow is an independent journalist focusing on balance well joins me now from los angeles via skype good to have you with us twenty four hours is a very short time vallance wailin political history so much has changed since we spoke a short time ago obviously we're now not only seeing clashes on the streets but also large gatherings yet again. why do supporters and president but duros supporters in terms of what you've been seeing and hearing on wednesday how do you gauge the situation at the moment. from what we're hearing from my friends who send me videos intact through skype sorry through what's up which is the main way of communication right now with people in it so that. the the anti-government

and or the opposition protests where we're mad worth repression and collect the what's collecting was are they regular violent groups that are pro-government we also saw some images are the proud of our. marchers but the images were a little bit canned i was it was a very clear to me if they were two days images because. it was more like a drawing type of image i didn't see a lot of homemade. so what we're what we are seeing is that even into different areas of the of the cd and even other areas of venezuela out there are supporters and opposition gathering the opposition has been met. with very strong balance from national guard from colic the u.s. even journalists became injured today. by some of the tear gas canisters and some

of the sharpest shot shotguns and and some at the use of bullets which is now supposed to be that way to manage. a protest of this kind this violates international agreements so you know that this is what we're hearing from people it is so the second look at the bigger picture because also wednesday we heard the secretary of state of the u.s. suggesting that sort of military action could be used to resolve the scenario in venezuela is the saber rattling or is this something we should actually sit up and take note of. there's a very complicated situation that we don't know a lot about there is a lot of talk about some negotiations going going on behind closed doors that yesterday that does negotiations failed and that i thought it was supposed to leave but he didn't leave because the us now are you the second in command leader of the constitutional assembly said you know he did not agree with it so well what we're

hearing from the united states i think personally and i don't know this for sure but personally i think is it is rattling i think it's a pressure tactic i think it's laid it a little bit because john barry just really says all options are on the table but this time he said military action is possible so far we haven't seen any signs that this is actually happening but we know there is some kind of negotiation some kind of talk going on behind the scenes and we have no way of knowing if that's going to result in anything in particular because it sort of might say what john bolton was saying the national security adviser in the u.s. what less than twenty four hours ago that all options are on the table and one of those options possibly as you say behind closed doors is talking to russia talking to turkey talking to beijing they're all allies of venezuela but also they have lines of can be communication open to the white house. that tact that's

supposed to have been happening already one of the versions that i heard and there were different versions believe me one of the versions that i hear is that russia had already been consulted and agreed it was agreeing with the promise by well you know there were no i was going to pay the debt that minister has with russia but in the last minute when my girl was going to leave then people inside of our men most specifically as now ok you know rejected the agreement so we don't know if this is true but we also heard the americans saying that it was because of the russians that mother i didn't leave so who knows what we know is that my little has not been seen he was he was out yesterday with a little video that was alive which is very which is unheard of you know we've seen pretty schools in venezuela where presidents have come out on the same day of their supposed cool i don't call what happened yesterday are cool because i think it was an uprising but the fact that motor hasn't come out live to speak to the people i

think it's very telling indeed that we will have to keep monitoring what goes on in venezuela for the moment to pull amaro thanks for joining us from los angeles thank you for inviting me. mozambique is urging people in the northeast of the country to find higher ground more rain is expected in the coming days which will worsen the flooding caused by cycling kenneth it's the second storm in six weeks to last the southern african coast and has already killed at least forty one people are only tassel reports city of. 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. on line basher 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 the much towards and end of humanitarian access more challenging in water affected areas people have lost everything they are the is the death toll will rise some homes that used to be in this area are washed away. as the rain intensified it

caused my slides and that landfill site over there 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. that 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. some people have chosen to stay in their homes but for some of those that do they respond cut off needed aid and with more to arrange the 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 sudan's military council has been given another sixty days to hand over power to civilians by the african union or face suspension in a statement the african union said it noted with deep regret that the military had not stepped aside with the initial fifteen day deadline but knowledge the progress

made so far protest leaders have called for further mass demonstrations on thursday saying the military isn't serious about handing over power. more from car too. forces of the declaration of freedom on change say they are going to present their fuel to the public later today about. the structure of the government those three bodies of the government the leading presidential council the parliament and the cabinet the normal thing that was expected was that they would present these views are on the negotiation table when they meet next with the military council but those talks was told since yesterday and there are no announcements that they were resume talks today the african union is here since yesterday speaking to the two sides trying to create a new operation on between them the african union has condemned the coup once again in a statement but also at the same time gave another sixty days to the military council

to hand over power to civilians on the ground the city continues more groups come thousands came overnight from darfur to strengthen the protest and also tomorrow the leaders of the protests have called for another million person march to. increase and keep that momentum putting more pressure on the military to hand over power to civilians logical protests have been held around the world to mark international workers day or may day in the french capital paris dozens of people were injured as demonstrations descended into violence david schaper reports. 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 searched along its whole length practicing their policy of zero tolerance charge after charge was made that she.