the progress made so far protests leaders have called for further must demonstrate saying the military isn't serious about handing over power. to. the forces of the declaration of freedom and change say they are going to present a few to the public later today about. the structure of the government those three bodies of the government 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 thousand scheme 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 with children against crowds

throwing rocks and stones. for today was another day of oppression as usual we are. surrounded you can't 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 sickly must continue but micron made his speech he didn't show sympathy to the wounded what this government who shows no compassion for its people as today's going on that clashes with the police and 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 the 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 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 and violence. the police had snatch squads in the side streets to catch members of the so-called black rock of extremists who are infiltrating a march 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 of wavering by the protests as on the streets of the capital david chaytor al jazeera paris. british prime minister treason may has fired her defense secretary after details of a national security council meeting were leaked to the press in a letter the prime minister said an investigation found compelling evidence that

gavin williamson was responsible he denies he was involved in the league which true with revealed all revealed plans to grant chinese company holloway. a role resulting britain's five g. network. as muslims. 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 do you see 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. now we can examine julian assange has been sentenced to nearly twelve months in jail for skipping bail in the u.k. there were small protests outside london called while supporters inside chanted shame on you and the judge but his sentence was read out assad was given asylum in the ecuadorian embassy for almost seven years before he was addicted last month but the barber has more from london. where there was plenty of support outside court here for julian our son's well inside his defense lawyer handed out a letter from julian assange in which he apologized unreservedly for

disrespecting anybody who felt they'd been disrespected in the way he conducted himself over the last few years he said that he had acted in the best and only way that he thought possible now what he meant by that was outlined by his lawyer in a series of mitigating factors that he hoped would really to reduce sentence that the underlying thing being that gina science has always been acting through a genuine fear that he'd be sent on to the united states if britain extradited him to sweden and when he lost his appeal against that extradition that was when he sought asylum in the ecuadorian embassy now his lawyer pointed out that julian assange heads a consistently offer to cooperate with the swedish investigators and he was actually questioned in the embassy by swedish officials and soon after that his lawyer said that was when the allegations were dropped but the judge here said that

julian assange had not like his lawyer had claims been held in prison like conditions that he had been free to leave the embassy at any time to cooperate with justice stress nobody should be above the law and sentence him to fifty weeks in jail now on thursday mr assange extradition hearing for that request by the united states will begin but that process is likely to be extremely long and drawn out according to most. well still ahead. in some way. for me.

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thank. you. thank you very much irresistible display from millionaire missy so barcelona take a huge step towards the champions league final they were three no winners against liverpool in the first leg of wednesday samia the no camp luis suarez said basso on their way before messi added two more after half time the second the supposed free kick the return leg is next tuesday at anfield with 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 as he posted this picture on his twitter account from his hospital bed in steam a ten friends in football have been sending messages of support i want to wish him a good recovery. they knew the news has sucked us because. it's quite tough but we have been told that it is doing well it is improving so. he has been my teammate in the national team for quite a few years you want to wish him a good recovery too and we hope to see him very soon on the pitch as will feature for chelsea in thursday's europa league semifinal against german side i interact frankfurt but nothing a club or relishing their status as underdogs in this tie and have been well off the pace in the german league title race the season but they coach onesies players to make the most of the opportunity to model play culture in a lift in the most unexpected team to reach the europa league semifinals but that's

not undeserved 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. i respect very much. played against. in this competition they played against in this competition they are really very dangerous a very dynamic team arsenal manager you know 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. experience 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 he really is away from one title and away for the party the two would champion only the sport of formula one has been marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the death of brazil's three time world champion at the san 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 is death led to new safety measures and there were no more fake telecines in the sport for two decades. heavyweight boxing champion anthony joshua has spoken for the first time since he's opponent was banned for taking drugs joshua was meant to be facing general miller in a heavyweight fight at madison square garden on june the first but many has been given a six month suspension for taking performance enhancing drugs i don't know how they came up with six months when you do it different

a lot so that's their decision and we just have to accept it's crazy that's what i feel is a vibe it's not to be. the best tennis players continue their preparation for the hughes second grand slam the french open but former world number six girl man feeds would not have been prepared for what he encountered here at the festival opening portugal rally a counter 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 victory. the weather also prove tricky for the sale g.p. teams in san francisco the bay area and the iconic golden gate bridge was making its debut on the world circuit but the sailors went forget it in a hurry the australians came close to capsizing a strong winds ripping tides and choppy waters buffeted the teams and the chinese crews suffered serious damage to the sale of the day boat took off from the water

and this was just a warm up day for the weekend's racing i will leave it there for now more sport coming up again later. indeed of course before all of the stories of what started out as a talk to come. back more news of the other side of the break until a big thanks very much for your time and your company. may on al-jazeera. as the world's biggest democracy goes to the polls we focus on the economic challenges facing india and the rise of ultra nationalists and

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thirty minutes the evidence developed by the special counsel was not sufficient to establish that the president committed a crime the u.s. attorney general defends his handling of the report after complaints he misled the public to protect president trump. as a libyan warlord cleaver have to advances on the capital tripoli his forces have detained two turkish nationals accused of being spies and the un declares masood as are the chief of a pakistani armed group a global terrorist. but the branches there are protesters in venezuela have responded to the call for an uprising from opposition leader hard why don't by taking to the streets in the capital caracas in their thousands they fold with security forces who deployed armored vehicles and water cannon to deal with the demonstrations that are growing

increasingly violent but supporters of president nicolas maduro also came out in force he's been addressing them in caracas under your plan if you come when they plan their conspiracies when they come up with their schemes they forget a small detail they forget that there is a majority of the population willing to give their lives for the revolution they forget the small detail they forget that there is a union between the people and the military that is not willing to be trade the legacy of commander chavez meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state might pump has a good way to get into the situation in venezuela saying military intervention is now an option that washington is willing to consider. military action is possible if that's what's required that's what the united states will do we're trying to do everything we can to avoid violence we've asked all the parties involved not to engage in that kind of activity we'd prefer a peaceful transition of government there where material leaves that a new election is held. latin america joins me now on the telephone from caracas

good to have you with us it's been a day of huge rallies and also those large sporadic clashes across the capital just bring us up to speed on what the situation is like there right now. but for here right now things are quiet here in. about an hour and a half ago president reagan absolute of finally finished speaking we spoke for a very long time he was sounding a lot more upbeat and then we had in recent weeks and months incessant the loyalty of the armed forces has been proven of course he was making a reference here to the failed attempt to provoke a military uprising on tuesday by an opposition leader one weibo managed to get from twenty five soldiers including one high level officer to go with him. to an air force base here in gaza but this was supposed to spark an all out uprising it didn't work and so president mahmoud abbas spent

a lot of time you're talking about the trail and he said that now is the security forces are hunting for what he called the traders who are still at large in the truth rather than later they were paid for their treason and crimes the. security forces as you mentioned earlier were really out in force today we haven't seen this kind of action now for a long long time. five journalists were attacked they were shot either with rubber bullets or with with tear gas canisters straight to their faces in fact several dozen other people were injured and this is following another one of the one hundred people who were injured in tuesday during clashes so things are becoming more and more violent and the opposition leader plans like door is becoming. beginning to be less visible as apparently he is being becoming more afraid that he will be arrested other schools the issue of the security forces in

various forms whether they are the military the police all militia groups is now becoming more focused in terms of which side to side they support. it was always very obvious that the that the the majority of certainly of the paramilitary groups are on the side of the glass my router and they're all often used to dissuade opposition members of just ordinary people from coming out on the streets in the first place and we saw them out on the scene yet again today to try to clean up opposition pockets. the real question is where will the military high command those who command troops turn on the president might do the so far we're not seeing in sign of that what's really happening behind the scenes we can't tell but for now president my goodness and having a field day especially pointing the finger at u.s. national security chief john bolton who had indicated that the head of the army the

head of the national guard the head of the supreme court and just today my appeal had already turned on president mcglynn that even is about to get onto an airplane to fly to cuba but was talked out of it by the russians that was on tuesday night was a servant on a bunch of lies and really nice sounding secure in his position for now as the sanctions that have been imposed by the u.s. of course have failed to dislodge him so far before the my big toe believe it's our lot in america to thank caracas. well so your message rival protests also taking place outside venezuela's embassy in washington d.c. a piece of prison because the during march to the diplomatic mission to confront left wing activists who've been camping out there for weeks so-called code pink group wants the u.s. to stay out of but as wayland affairs mostly jordan us updates from the u.s. . the white house has been putting out conflicting messages about how it plans to

support. the venezuelan opposition leader 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 wrong why dos corner and not that of the incumbent president nicolas maduro but in the meantime the trabant ministration is having to deal with conflicting messages about what it is prepared to do to help long wide oh take power in caracas the secretary of state mike pompei it was 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. the u.s. attorney general has defended his decision to clear president trump of obstruction of justice when the bar appeared before senators on wednesday of the special counsel's report into russian interference but he's now refusing to testify and for a second day alan fisher house washington d.c. . for the first time since the little port was made public america's top floor office or face questions from a senate committee republican chairman lindsey graham supporter admitted he hadn't read the full report can't say i. 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 rule of identified ten possible instances but he was confident he made the right call

and 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 suggest even remotely the president trump is a russian agent and on that i'm not aware of this meeting 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 the new that. 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 it's my experience that i have not looked if you have that out as we did of mine all the tone remained 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 will you. insisted the president could have halted the miller inquiry at any point because it was based on false allegations this was a difficult day for the attorney general 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 algis it up on capitol hill washington. democrats are looking to issue a subpoena to force william barr to make that second appearance house judiciary

chairman jerry nadler says the attorney general is too afraid to give evidence because he's been dishonest. he is trying to blackmail the committee into night following what we think is the most effective means of. getting the information we need and the congress cannot permit the executive branch we cannot permit ministration 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 the study abroad to coalition find to give yemen has launched a series of strikes on a military base in the capital at least ten strikes hit. the coalition says the targets were legitimate under international law previously said who the rebels use the base to launch a ballistic missile attacks or forces loyal to libyan ward cleaver have to detain

two turkish nationals. beer were taken from southern tripoli and accused of being spies a charge that turkey denies on monday turkish president described have to advance towards tripoli as a plot against libya's people sort of small from a stumble. 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 who 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 a rest followed actually. a vocal critics against and his advance strategy in triple the and earlier this.