the political situation here is quite unpopular in the government seems a very keen on a showing that it is under control but opposition politicians led by bobby why and really i think that they're not going to relate they're going to continue with their fight until there is meaningful change in this country ok catherine many thanks indeed catherine saw that live in kampala that show you some live pictures now from london westman symmetric schools where people are waiting to get in ahead of julian a songes appearance hearing there over a u.s. request to extradite him for alleged computer hacking. assad is expected to appear five video link from prison for the hearing at the cost the forty seven year old australian is serving a sentence for jumping bail in twenty twelve and holding up the holding up in the ecuadorian embassy at the time he was facing extradition to sweden where he was accused of sex crimes but he insists that it's all possible of an attempt to get him to the u.s. u.s.

attorney general william bos council plans to testify before the house of representatives about his handling of the report into the russia investigation he made the announcement after being questioned for hours in a senate hearing on wednesday as i was there as alan fischer reports. for the first time since the little port was made public america's top law officer faced 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 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. even remotely the president trump is a russian agent in 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 and the democrats who attacked them they knew 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 an experience that i have not looked if you have that out as we had a little fun while the two main 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 or 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 mueller as a new witness he says this is over but it's not alan fischer algis it up on capitol hill washington a weather update next here i'll see what they will tell me about the mobile phone app that promises to bring back millions of india's vanishing versus.

hello there it's going to turn a lot cooler parts of europe over the next few days the reason being is this little area of low pressure is spiraling away towards the east and that's leaving the door open for lots of cold air to rush down from the north so already as we head through the day on thursday it's not going to be feeling that warm for many of us sixteen in london fifteen in. ballin but things turn even cooler as we head into friday as more of the air pushes in and then we're looking at just the teen in london and twelve in but when clearly no one is told the weather here that it's supposed to be may you can see the leading edge of that cold air that's here over the outs and stretching up into the eastern parts of europe heavy rain all not are not feeling warm under that wet to windy weather either first southeast though still warm

enough for now bucharest at twenty four twenty three in athens for spain portugal also warm and sunny with twenty five in madrid for the other side of the mediterranean we're seeing some clouds here that's just pushing up towards the northeast and so all of that is trying to head away but this system here is going to stick with us for the next day or so so we'll see you also cloud here with a few outbreaks of rain during the day on thursday and then that spreads eastwards as we head into friday still some showers there over parts morocco but it stretches all the way into parts of libya there will be a fair amount of dust from this to. whether sponsored by cattle ranch. but i'm a fish every week a new cycle going to see any simpler aching stories and of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the outstanding that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the end i elation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the least mean post as we turn the cameras on the media focused on how they recruit on a story that matter the most in bad news

a free palestine are they listening on al-jazeera. again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour a hearing is on the way uganda on whether to grant bail for opposition politician bobby wine has been held in a maximum security prison since monday on charges stemming from protests last year against a social media tax and obey a court hearing in london shortly of a u.s. extradition request for wiki leaks founder julian assange he's wanted for alleged computer hacking the forty seven year old is serving a prison sentence in the u.k.

for skipping bail and holding up in the ecuadorian embassy and loved venezuela's opposition leader one glider was urging his supporters not to lose hope after their protests failed to topple president nicolas maduro the supporters held a rival rally in the capital caracas. turkey is denying that to the citizens a spy is after they were detained in southern tripoli by forces loyal to the libyan warlord califano hafta fall come out and all that but the media were taken from southern tripoli and accused of being spies on monday turkey's president right. described how thousand advance towards tripoli as a plots against libya's people the u.s. is tightening its sanctions grip on iran the trumpet ministration had been allowing eight countries to continue to buy iranian oil but those exemptions are now being scrapped the latest moves were made in coordination with iran's regional arch rival saudi arabia as mike hanna explains. it was

a surprise to many when president trump chose riyadh to sit destination of his first international trip in office but two years on it's clear this was more of a signal as to the central role saudi arabia would play in his administration's decision making. driven home when it was made clear the imposition of oil sanctions against iran was done in coordination with a leave other stuff about the details of what the site is in the have agreed to but i've had conversations the president conversations with these countries and there they have committed to making sure that there is a sufficient supply in the markets. confirmation of saudi coordination came just days after president trump signaled a major policy reversal in libya in an obvious not to riyadh expressing u.s. support for the saudi backed warlord fighting the internationally recognized government in tripoli the announcement makes clear that saudi arabia is now a full crim of the united states foreign policy this despite the fact that congress

has held saudi arabia responsible for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi as well as for the deaths in the ongoing war in yemen even senior republican leaders have said until these situations are resolved responsibility for the murder of khashoggi is assigned it simply cannot be business as usual the white house simply ignores this position a congressional resolution condemning saudi arabia's actions in yemen the subject of presidential veto in president trump size it seems the relationship with three are more important than that with congress mike hanna al-jazeera washington. around one hundred twenty million voters in india seem to be missing from the electoral roll activists say that it's far too easy to delete names from the list

and u.f.o. could help people get their voting rights back reports from 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 i don't know my name is new. 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's 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 believe me 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. if there. is not getting enough boards step to see the list and find out who are the people who may not work for. step three. by taking the names and the. people and somebody.

al-jazeera asked for an interview with the election commission to speak about the missing names but is yet to receive a response. does not to me suspect the government conspiracy he's not on the voting list for this election nor for members of his family. wherever they had doubts people ruling government their names have been removed from the list. affected the minority community and. developed an app which is helping people get their names back on the electoral roll. but that's little comfort but the many millions of others who fear they won't get to vote in the biggest election in history. as al-jazeera new delhi. britain's prime minister's reason may has fired her defense secretary of the details of a national security council meeting were leaked to the media the prime minister

says that investigation found compelling evidence that gavin williamson was responsible he denies that he was involved in the leak which revealed the u.k.'s plan to grant chinese company huawei a role in building britain's five g. network the governing conservative party in britain is bracing itself for a big losses in thursday's local elections there is anger among voters who feel betrayed over briggs's lawrence lee reports from north yorkshire. local politics is supposed to be about things like cleaning up what doctors leave behind tidying the streets really monday in stuff this picture postcard town in new york 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. before i get in about the actually that's quite true. very frustrating for. em

frustrating yes but i find 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. 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 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 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 found 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 that party that's a little secret but i think you. we need a new leader mrs may is a disaster he never did kill us it's just a lot things stock she's gone poor laid out a baby gone bonkers she got help who wouldn't think of getting up every day and facing what she does people stabbing out 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 hits will destroy the conservative party now in places like this you

can see it happening right in front of your eyes. in north yorkshire. olympic champion caster semenya has lost her appeal against you testosterone rolls and athletics should be forced to take hormone drugs if she wants to defend the titles lee wellings explains. this was a verdict as much to do with human rights as a fanatic's cost as a menu was appealing against a rule that would force her to take medication to reduce her testosterone level and still be allowed to compete in women's competition she lost her appeal against the rules of the court of arbitration for sport in such discrimination is unnecessary result of all kinds of caution it means doesn't she be the ideal believes objective of preserving the integrity of female atlantics in southeast strike you dance international competition studies from four hundred meters to one my. athletics

while governing body. maintains it is striving for fairness it said it was plays that the regulations were found to be unnecessary reasonable and proportionate means of achieving the legitimate time of preserving the integrity of fame takes. has been criticised for its handling of the issue which included the suggestion that women with. should switch to compete against men so many responded to the verdict immediately unsocial me. sometimes it's better to react with no reaction but later she released a statement accusing the i w f of having always targeted base specifically for a decade has tried to slow me down but this is actually made me stronger she's yet to indicate if she's prepared to consider medication in order to remain a champion i hundred metres she's a multiple olympic champion but can't now defend a title at this year's world championships in doha unless she takes the chemical route she can switch to long distance and did win gold in

a five thousand meters at the south african athletics championships last week but the treatment has been questioned by the united nations human rights group the south african government who called it a gross violation of human rights. while sport tries to adjust to gender issues some men use words when collecting an award last year underlined the need for compassion and respect along with science and competition just a rug in though i grew up in a dusty place. i really you know appreciate you know the support the love in gnome also for appreciating you know us for being who we are so we can be the best that we can be lee wellings al-jazeera london. it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines and i was there a herring's on the way in uganda deciding whether to grant bail for opposition

politician bobby wian has been held at a maximum security prison since monday on charges stemming from protests last year against a social media tax wine supporters say the charges have been made up to stop him criticizing the government. this country. and. so they are following the script. wiki leaks founder julian assange is due to face a court hearing in london over a u.s. request to extradite him for alleged computer hacking a songe is expected to appear via video link from prison the forty seven year old australian is serving a sentence the jumping bail in twenty twelve and holding up in the ecuadorian embassy at the time he was facing extradition to sweden where he was accused of sex

crimes but he insists it's all part of the attempts to get him to the u.s. venezuela's opposition leader surging his supporters not to lose hope after their protests failed to topple president nicolas maduro his supporters held a rival rally in the capital caracas in the u.s. capital some senators the mounting the resignation of the attorney general over the reports william barr faced hours of questioning by a senate hearing on wednesday was published a sense of the of the report which he says clears donald trump of collusion with russia refusing to give further testimony in the house of representatives could face a vote on contempt britain's prime minister tourism a has fired her defense secretary out the details of a national security council meeting were leaked to the media from a distance the investigation found compelling evidence that gavin williams was responsible he denies that he was involved in the leak which revealed the u.k.'s plan to grant chinese company while way a role in building britain's five g.

telecoms that will of others the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera right after today's edition of the stream thanks. just. what was the glimpse of the country that. the children are deeply affected because of war we meet with newsmakers the stories that matter. ok and you in the stream protests continue in venezuela president nicolas maduro and the u.s. opposition leader. call in their respective supporters to mobilize in the streets today we discussed the ongoing political instability in the country.

exile. on wednesday continued to encourage venezuelans to take to the streets and the armed forces to join his operation freedom. hoping to tip the balance after an unsuccessful attempt to spark a military uprising the day before present that those involved in the alleged coup attempt would not go on punished in a video posted to twitter on tuesday in the presence of several dozen soldiers said that the final phase of his campaign to remove president the juror from office had begun government officials asserted that the army had remained loyal calling troops along psych why don't trade tourists security forces clashed with demonstrators in caracas with the reuters news agency reporting that a national guard armored car struck protesters who threw stones at the vehicle but

your responded to the situation in a tweet calling for maximum popular mobilization to assure the victory of peace joining us now to help break down the latest news in caracas. because cona is a political analyst and the editor of the new side venezuela analyses and argentina . is a correspondent for al-jazeera english and on the set in washington d.c. fabio gado is a human rights attorney hello everybody it's good to have you here. daniel you've been standing up all day and all day yesterday reporting for algiers zero final phase of push where are we now what really happened. well why go all out on a tour of venezuela talking to the military talking to people to try to gauge the feeling whether there was an appetite for what he called this final phase in the push to get rid of president nicolas maduro and the obvious he decided very early

on tuesday morning that video to be posted out before the storm had come up outside the locker looking airbase. this was the moment he gambled it was a huge gamble asking the military to leave put aside their loyalty to nicolas moodle and join him some did but not enough it seems and it looks at this stage a day later that gamble has failed i'm just looking for at some of the protests that one guy to his all over social right now i don't know if he's posting or his team are posting but i'm just looking at these pictures people on the streets of he's taking pictures of people in the streets is saying that people are still protesting. but you have a hotline to what is going on in terms of your family your relatives who are there and you got a message from your mom a mom's a very reliable and your mom talking what my mom woke me up at six thirty in the

morning saying whatever you read on the news i'm ok i'm alive and i'm ok right now that pregnant a little bit in nearly as all of the knew about and they're now bracing i feel like sometimes the media. takes like it was a military uprising but the reality is though why there is the president interim of venezuela so he is the commander in chief of the national army so it's not an uprising of the army it's. it's a constitutional favor they're doing as a final responsibility at the into the constitution and the people of venezuela lucas's eyebrows are very high right now are not to show he's got the same take as you go ahead. little small problem that why those are very critical of this regime its work and so on but there was no back in power and we got a lot of what a lot that are made keep which may twenty fifth which was the one million vote thirty percent are told outright about the same portion of what obama likely would

in two thousand and eight you know moreover if you even what you want to be in trouble then he would have a good book rule or two then thirty eight which he did not do leading to elliott abrams who the u.s. envoy to and it was very humiliating press conference where you don't believe that you know one way or the president of the interim president and from that had begun yet but really the legal running is very unclear and your oppositions continue with kind of problem patient and approach to judge the by u.s. military and intervention which they have repeatedly called for by a nation of course your name on many things military intervention of america is the last thing on my list let's start with a legal background it's not cloudy the constitution say said very clearly that when there is a vacuum the president of congress becomes interim president nicol as mother would or pushed an election very early the elections in minnesota legally are held in december and he pushed that election of twenty seventeen december to may

because he knew he was losing popularity so that election has been declared for the land by the congress by many countries around the world over fifty countries around the world people in that is why they don't even want to vote they were very divided whether to weave or so we now because it is outside of the legal parameters where elections should happen so it was a farden action so this is problematic. because there will be some parties in venezuela and i'm talking about people who will be very supportive of presently juror there will be some parties who will be incredibly supportive of a one quite joe and there is this issue i want to show you some of the lycee that i know is happening right now as we. go to caracas and people on the streets they are not happy because you have a president who said i am president and you have the current president as well i'm just looking here also about what happens when you have people in the streets like you see them right now because the internet goes away connectivity goes away lucas

can explain what you don't have right now when people are protesting. if you can point to remember that in. the party or the god made on the left of the novelist i mean only one over two million bought you had to look at and i understand your position where we are moving on that because we can spend twenty five minutes over here now with the position of why do i the position of majority so when people are on the streets like this right now what do you lose as a residence in any area where people are protesting internet for instance is not there all right. no. coverage of what. actually is them a lot more people do have active social media and likewise most of them. private media is probably a little. more neutral but the opposition.

in called social media. there is not. being vented rebel international media is overwhelmingly by. order of the change program about a recent article by their report and there are you know in the us mainstream media who are openly against us. liz let me share this with you and happier than you can pick up this is. on twitter as he talks about the reason for blocking access blocking access to the internet is that social media is the only way that most people of venezuela can access information you've blocked the internet then they don't get that information local t.v. channels and most radio stations are fiercely watched by the regime to keep them from reporting what is going on that is a different perspective from the one that lucas shared with us and you say what's absolutely sense twenty two thousand and one with the closing of at us that there

are c.t.v. there all those news network in venezuela that lead to a whole you know two decades of closing t.v. networks radio stations there is not one radio or t.v. station in the country that is not managed by the government with which is why all of the information that people feel is via social media via twitter facebook instagram what's app is how we communicate because every time you turn on the t.v. is like there's two parallel then as well as we see as we see all chavez is this courses we see everything is ok great in the meantime you open the window you don't even have to open the window you can hear it you see the people are in the street and it's not being reported. which is why we have international media reporting and the b.b.c. c.n.n. has been kicked out then and in espanol has been kicked out in twenty fifteen i believe out of the roaster so even if you have cable then it's all people cannot allow they are not allowed to watch international t.v. daniel i want to play this to you because you can hear the two sides here more than

two sides but you can hear. they are not on the same page and it almost seems like everyone in venezuela. is divided where they are high mature or are they behind this is escobar he is a journalist have a listen to how he explains what is going on right now don and then you can pick up off the back of a one of the themes that we need to think about is one way to go is that you can president of venezuela and he's been bad good they've been a strong people to go for demonstrations the rope is a legitimate way to claim power against mcdougal's regime either wary is this this is the end either for madonna's regime for the movement all civil society of business well and to gain freedom to work country. but i get another point of view i mean that they were that increasingly polarized society we hear increasingly

polarized points of view and you can have arguments about whether one side or the other is respect in the constitution or not but what we've seen are more demonstrations i mean i was there in venezuela in two thousand and fourteen there were demonstrations on the street by both sides pro and anti-government something like eighty or ninety people were killed again on both sides of the members of the security forces were also killed it was a very tense situation and it died down so what's used to happen is these every now and then these demonstrations flare up but it really does seem to be this represents of what is a polarized society getting even more polarized than my state as the situation intensifies and as we have the international situation now with russia china turkey supporting the dawdle united states but still in colombia and others supporting bum way door so again i don't really know who are you if you have to be very very careful you identify almost immediately who is on what side and trying to pick your way through that and establish some kind of

a balance view of what was going on is the challenge we all face let me share with you the verified twitter account of nicolas maduro i'm using the translation from twitter into english when i thank the venezuelan people for their college and conscience in the face of this attempt to commit a tar they have shown that i mobilize people as a guarantee of tranquility for the homeland when israel is touching a peace and independence lucas how has the president hasn't let you know how this situation do you think. i want to correct one thing very quickly that our state t.v. was close and dozens not close a lot of life we wrote in two thousand and seven not two thousand and one and it actually played a key role in the two thousand to sponsored by elliott abrams at the time but in terms there question that model had faces a very difficult dilemma that if he. chooses to arrest someone who clearly has violated numerous letters on laws and is attempting a coup against them is openly calling on the armed forces to insurrection and

calling for international invasion repeatedly then he.