does not act in his manner like someone who is afraid but he should be afraid because congress does have mechanisms available to it to hold him to account for his lying to congress which is a crime for his contempt for congress and for the fact that it seems likely we're going to be three is going to be facing this subpoena for the unredacted more report and the materials that underlie it as well as for his own testimony and for that of robert muller which bar is trying to prevent i think my bar is afraid of the fact that his clients that first of all he doesn't view as quiet as the american people the abuses donald trump and his client is guilty and that is a tough situation when you can't argue the facts and you can't argue the law you engage in power play and you engage in emotional appeal so the trump base and i think that's what bar and trump are doing and i think it's. a constitutional crisis of historic proportions if you just talk to moments ago do you think the democrats

are sort of coming up to the democrats don't want to impeach the president and they sort of want to slow to get the public. to get themselves to get their heads around the issues and allow the masses to make their own mind i mean. for the president of his day in court i mean this is sort of reminiscent of the nixon scandal over watergate what did before two years ago always sort of in the same sort of territory here. i think we're in similar territory the difference is that at this point in time after more than two years after the continued corruption of the administration the acceptance of bribes well you know the term emoluments is used but that's just a fancy way of saying bribes i think the difference is that the watergate investigation took time to be known publicly we now know more than enough to establish the need for impeachment and so in terms of moving slowly i think the

problem is that what is known publicly is not a listening a proportionate response from democratic leadership and it's creating weird uncertainty among the american people because i think the american people assume that if democrats were aware that trump had committed provable constitutionally significant impeachable crimes that they would be acting and instead the democrats are trying to wait for the people to lead and the democrats the democratic leadership has been elected to provide leadership and they are trying to advocate that responsibility and that allow the people to move first and i honestly don't think that's how it works in a representative democracy i think the leaders must lead and democratic leadership must lead the democratic party and frankly independents and moderate republicans to move against this wallace president which will see what happens in the coming days for the moment to house with us joining us from washington d.c. . the saudi admiralty coalition funding and puzzles

a series of strong exalted military base of the company pulled at least ten strikes hit the port base and so now the coalition says the targets were legitimate under international law they previously said rebels used the base to launch the ballistic missile a tux. well forces loyal to libyan warlord khalifa have to have detained two turkish nationals. were taken from southern tripoli being. a charge the turkey denies 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 probably 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. a vocal critics against dar and his advent strategy in tripoli and earlier this week present that in libya's legitimate representative is the national accord governor and he showed support to fire as are survivors and he criticized south door and his movement by saying that he is a dictator and he has aligned with some are our 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 coincides with another one in turkey in april turkish police arrested two are up nationals who have confessed that they have been spying on behalf of the united arab emirates and as far as we know turkish authorities are still following up this incident but we have no information about the year life.

the world health organization says at least three hundred seventy six people are being killed since after launch this offensive to seize tripoli almost a month ago but in the past few days fighters loyal to him have suffered some setbacks but the mood of the war had has the latest. forces lawyer to libya as 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 well 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 advance if need be 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 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 on 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. for this pickup truck in the weapons with my own money paid for part of the catering and logistics 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 in any time soon. tripoli. well plenty ahead here on the news hour including iranian leaders say they're ready to fight for their right to sell oil plus. in india where tens of millions of you and previous voters may not be able to cast the ballot this election because their names are missing from the voters' list. of messy magic inspires barcelona in the champions league final peter has the details. united nations has declared a leader of a pakistan based armed group a global terrorist who will now have his assets frozen not be subject to a travel ban he has the jaish

e mohammad group that claimed responsibility for february suicide attack an indian administered kashmir which killed forty soldiers the declaration passed after china the traditional ally of pakistan dropped its previous objections the chairperson of the un sanctions the home and absolutism of. muscle that stands designated an individual who has been promoting terrorism globally this. was a significant outcome because we have been at it for several years. more from islamabad. the united nations security council committee has decided to put mullen on much food as are the leader of their jaish e mohammad on that sanctions next it should be remembered that more than our much food jobs are came and go prominence after a deadly attack on indian reserve police and the indian administered kashmir area

of oil while mom india and then accuse pockets honor of direct involvement and vowed revenge after which indian aircraft crossed into pakistan india then claim that it had to carry several hundred fighters and not their jaish e mohammad bhagavan 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 for the bugger standing government which has categorically stated that there was no involvement of any progress on individual including the jaish e mohammad and its leader more than a mike sudarshana and the attack inside indian administered push me so i'm going to

leave is a distinguished professor of political science at indiana university in bloomington explains why china held banks are so low. pakistan is one of china's closest allies and consequently. they 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 there is a reinjure of charges against most of those are not merely on the basis of the poll dharma attack of the fourteenth of february 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 that china has finally decided to lift the technical hold. at least fifteen security personnel have been killed in central india after their vehicle 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 levy thirteen vehicles in the same area on tuesday. around one hundred twenty million votes in india appear to be missing from the electoral roll activists say it's far too easy to delete names from the list they accuse some politicians of deliberately targeting supporters of their opponents but now in trying to help people get their voting rights back fence to me reports of new delhi . works as a domestic helper in new delhi throughout her adult life she's always voted but might not be able to this time. made and. my name is newt. i have

voted before but they have removed my name from the voting list. by live it doesn't get it she says her husband's name is also missing and believes it's been done on purpose what on those that's all one vote can make a government that's why they remove names from the list as my vote can also remove the government that i. need to under we'll be able to vote she is one of around eighty six million new voters this year she feels it's important she should be able to cast her ballot we are educated so we should always utilize that. but many more people are finding they no longer have that power activists say there are up to one hundred twenty million people whose names are missing from the list. voters and political parties across the country say names are being indiscriminately removed from electoral rolls activists are working to get them back on but say believing

anyone's name from the voters' list is actually quite easy to exclude somebody from the word list it's awful law has studied how the election commission's own systems are being used to disenfranchise voters with just a few clicks on a couple of websites. step one. find out in a body. if there. is not getting enough boards step to see the list and find out who are the people who may not work for the. step three. of an on line by taking the names and they see the numbers of those particular people and somebody. al-jazeera asked for an interview with the election commission to speak about the missing names but it's yet to receive a response. does not to me suspect the government conspiracy he's not on the voting list for this election nor are for members of his family. wherever they had

doubts people for the ruling government their names have been removed from the wording list this has affected the minority community and the. developed an app which is helping people get their names back on the electoral roll but that's little comfort for the many millions of others who fear they won't get to vote in the biggest election in history. as jamil al jazeera new delhi. a new round of talks between the taliban and the us started in qatar on wednesday the u.s. state department says its peace envoy. is in meeting representatives of the afghan armed group now it's the sixth round of talks between the two sides who are trying to find a framework for peace in the country the afghan government has not been part of the tall. iran's leaders say they're prepared to find. oil in the face of tough sanctions iranian warships are patrolling the strait of hormuz

a vital supply route for the global trade and oil. reports. coast. show. as the deadline approaches for oil waivers to expire there's been an increase in the frequency of 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're 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 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 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 much yes we are concerned if it happens nothing will remain here families and lives will be destroyed she 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 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 hormuz island in the strait of hormuz off of iran southern coast. well still ahead on news more trouble for you going to his most outspoken opposition politician. and we'll tell you why the politician in charge of britain's defense ministry suddenly finds himself out of a job. and in sports planes world cup winning goalkeeper collapses during training peter will have those details after the break.

how i welcome to another look at the international forecast with a few showers into southern parts of china nothing too much to speak up it will be a lively sight from time to time fun in trying to the southeast full thursday a few showers there which was west and posturing do for example having a pretty wet day as we go on into friday it brightens up in chengdu the wetter weather sinks further south which in to the southwestern corner hong kong just about the scaping the right in there as because your friday a brisk wind coming through of the region made the spot of dry across the good parts of southeast asia the liveliest showers will be across the eastern side of the region many central possible asia pushing over towards the march of the late but instead generally looking to settle and sunny and that's because the wetter weather is a little further north to be a few showers into the gulf of thailand and certainly the wetter weather is a good deal of the west so into the gold coast keeping a close eye on tropical stock kind of funny that's making its way further north was

it will bring the potential for flooding rains big storm surge and some damaging winds right up that ace's side of india particularly into a good part salva maybe into out of the more so into a dish and it eventually pushing up towards west bengal and also into bag with us. the weather sponsored by qatar and. 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 al-jazeera as their what a story breaks but it's also there to see what happens next iteration. of it wired

by the readers where model is barricaded all the levers that lead to here the movies now is all about change people have gone the fear barrier the mission of the national army is just six feet entire complex and al-jazeera story is about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. welcome back you're watching our series news hour with me to hold the reminder of our top stories the rebuilding battles between supporters of opposition leader why do and security forces called war was being killed by gunfire supporters of. have

rallied in caracas also the u.s. attorney general has defended his decision to clear president trump of destruction of justice william barr has been testifying before senators over the special counsel's report into russian interference bars are refusing to testify for a second day. turkey is denying two of its citizens are spies after they were detained in southern tripoli by forces loyal to libyan warlord khalifa haftar on monday turkey's president described as advances towards tripoli as a plot against libya's people. 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 flooding caused by cycling canis it's the second storm in six weeks to lash the southern african coast and it's already killed at least forty one people are with tasso has more from. this church in the coastal town of came by has opened

its doors to almost one thousand displaced men women and children. the dogs we received information in our area that we should have back away to a safer place that night i grabbed my family and came here is the first time two cycles of 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. online battle 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. the united nations on tuesday confirmed 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 way and i expect that in the coming days which will worsen fruiting much towards and end of humanitarian access more challenging in water affected areas people have lost everything they are is the death. well rise some homes that used to be in this area were washed the way during the floods as the rain intensified it caused my slides and that landfill site over they collapsed on top of some of the houses local say some people are still missing. steve lost his home in the flooding he and his neighbors are assessing damage caused a village. 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 . saddam'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 within the initial fifteen day deadline but knowledge that progress has been made protest leaders of call for mass demonstrations on saying the military isn't serious about hunting over power. opposition that ugandan politician bobby wide is expected to appear in court in the next few hours he's been in custody since monday after being charged with leading protests last year against a social media tax his lawyers say the charges have been fabricated to stop his criticism of the country's leadership catherine so reports. the writing on the wall in the neighborhood of kampala is clear tired of the seventy.

six several such sentiments in the area where. also populated by his stage name bob wind. and now records his controversial music is being used to say. it was the music you write this is him in court on monday. with breaking the law. i when he led protests against the introduction of the social media and mobile money tax last year he's lawyer questions why this has come up now. for. someone not been charged but because now you are looking for ways. to bring. the charges. he. also has a treason case pending in court it's from last year when he was arrested. and

tortured accused of inciting people to attack a presidential motorcade by throwing stones back in. we talked to want all the charges dropped the wire is quite. his music. resonates with the. neighborhood where this race is being and. we're disappointed that he was arrested because he's fighting for our rights he's fighting for the downtrodden. is no problem but the government is fighting him we support him this thirty seven year old m.p. wants to run for president against your seventy the seventy four year old head of state was ruled uganda for thirty three years and could contest again after parliamentary move the presidential. catherine. so to europe now where

british prime minister trees are many has fired her defense secretary of the details of a national security council meeting were leaked to the press in a letter to the prime minister did investigations on compelling evidence that govern williamson was responsible he did nine's that he was involved in the leak which revealed that the u.k. was planning and allowing the chinese company hardway a role in building britain's five g. network charlie and. 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 huawei australia has done so but other countries aren't really listening the u.k. has asked its own intelligence organization d.c. 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. britain's conservative party is bracing itself for big losses in thursday's local elections there's anger amongst traditional conservative voters who feel betrayed by the uncertainty over brics it lowers the reports from the yorkshire in north of england. local politics is supposed to be about things like cleaning up what doctors leave behind tidying the

streets really monday night stuff this picture postcard town in new york share 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. i think they're getting breakfast before i get in about the big actually that's quite true. very frustrating for. them frustrating yes but i find as one of the things that has bothered me more is the people who say i voted conservative for the last sixty years and i am not voting conservative base time just to let the government know how upset we are is our only way of showing it 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 but with no side. is perhaps the worst of all worlds while these local politicians are having to argue about bret's it imagine what things are going to be like for conservatives standing in next month's 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 teresa mayes already broken reputation will disintegrate in time. 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 probably know they aren't. we need a new leader this is. ridiculous it's just

a lot of things stuck she's gone. baby gone bonkers she got help who wouldn't think of getting up every day and facing what she does people stabbing her from the front from the back side everywhere she's gone absolutely sort of gaga but we have put up with it and this is wrong for the country for months now the predictions have been that the disaster of brecht's it will destroy the conservative party now in places like this you can see it happening right in front of your eyes lawrence lee al jazeera in north yorkshire. we can examine the julian assange has been sentenced to twelve months in jail for skipping bell in the u.k. there were small protests outside the london court while supporters inside chanted shame on you the judge but his sentence was read out assad has given asylum in the ecuadorian embassy for almost seven years before he was affected last month he'll face a separate hearing on thursday to determine whether he should be extradited to the

u.s. . there's been violence between protesters and french police in paris as tens of thousands marched may day more than seven thousand officers were deployed across the capital after authorities warned of so-called radical activists dozens of people were injured in the demonstrations well in russia more than a hundred people were arrested in jury may day protests around the country anti-government activists and members of human rights groups were among those detained most of the arrests happened is petersburg where several hundred people marched calling for fair elections the approval rating for russian president vladimir putin has fallen to around sixty percent recently on the back of a tax hike an increase in the retirement age. the u.s. has been fighting an opioid epidemic that has killed thousands but he those drugs originate in china now the u.s. has been pressuring beijing to ban drugs containing the painkiller fentanyl that has now come into effect.