and he appreciated william bob's approach in that matter he said quite significantly there will be no testimony to congress this is something that house democrats have been asking for but he says there will be no testimony to congress and he ended the sort of 6 or 7 minute statement by saying by repeating the allegation that there were repeated efforts by russian agents to interfere with the u.s. political system before the 2016 presidential election we'll we're live in washington d.c. where a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat is standing by but let's 1st go to roslyn jordan and how much of a surprise is this statement by robert mueller because we weren't expecting him to speak publicly and what do you make of what he had to say. well deron it was a surprise that robert muller the now former special counsel investigating russian interference in the 2016 presidential election it was a surprise that he decided to make this public statement to reporters it's not

perhaps not a surprise that he did not take any questions because as he did note during his remarks that the justice department and members of congress are negotiating the terms under which he will testify about his investigation what is important to underscore daryn is that near the end of muller's remarks he underscored that he would not go beyond the scope of what is included in the report and we could assume that would include the thousands of pages of supporting evidence that have not been publicly released but is material which theoretically members of congress would be able to access as they continue their own look into whether or not the russian government and members of the tribe campaign team worked together to try to throw the election in doll trumps favor back in 2016 i think what's also important to

underscore is the fact that. answer this question about why there were no charges of obstruction issued against donald trump the u.s. president he did underscore that there were efforts to get in the way of his team's investigation but he honed in on this rather controversial policy that was set up at the justice department not codified in u.s. law which basically says that anyone who is currently holding the office of president cannot be charged with a crime while that person is in office and so because to do so would be unconstitutional i would think daryn that. that's going to give a lot of legal analysts a lot to chew over when you consider that there are questions here at least here in the united states about whether at ministry of policy the policy that is derived with in an executive branch agency has the same weight the same legal weight as

a law that is drafted and debated and then passed by congress and signed by the president. has been a lot of reporting has in there about the way. the attorney general william barr has characterized the miller reports. in his in his address seemed to be saying that he was happy with the way that. had released a report. a very very different characterization from what we had seen in a number of reports over the past couple of months daryn there were multiple reports suggesting that muller wanted to have essentially a summary of the key points made public if the full report itself was not going to be made publicly and that when you build bar decided not to release those summaries that molar was quite angry with his boss about this fact because he felt that in

the absence of documents which his team had drawn up in order to a form the public that bill bar with a leaving the wrong impression about the investigations conclusions we saw a number of reports about that there's also a new book coming out by a reporter for the guardian alleging that one point robert mueller had drawn up 3 charges of obstruction against the u.s. president but again then finally decided not to push them perhaps for as he noted in his public remarks that to try to charge a sitting president when there was no practical way of actually bringing that person before a judge and jury doing that would be essentially unconstitutional and so he would have basically abandoned that effort to stay muller's office did not i did that reporting by the journalist michael wolf in this case he was very almost barely

touched the subject even though it was very much a big issue of contention here in washington for a couple of weeks in jordan there in washington d.c. it was thank you for that let's cross over now to kimberly hellcat at the white house to do so what did you make of robert mueller statement the house is like to go down there at the white house. right well it's very clear in listening to robert muller that this is a man that has no desire to be a political football in the upcoming 2020 presidential election and certainly his words were very clear as we've seen the house democrats who are controlling the investigations mostly into whether it's in terms of tax returns or other financial records that they are seeking they've also as rosalind jordan reported been trying to get testimony from robert mueller but he has made it very clear that he does not wish to testify that his testimony would not add anything to his 400 page report

and that in his words his works for itself what i think is also interesting as we listen to robert muller in the last few moments this is the fact that he also defended his work in its integrity we've long heard particularly from republicans accusations that perhaps this was a partisan investigation by the special counsel that in some way during the 2016 presidential election that the justice department the f.b.i. had been weaponized against the trunk campaign he didn't elaborate except to say that he felt that his investigators had acted with the highest of integrity so it's very clear that this is a man defending not only their efforts and the conclusions but also desiring to not continue to be in the public spotlight now in terms of white house reaction it's still too early we've not had any sort of public statement in the last few moments but leading up to this we are told that the president has been monitoring in the

words of the press secretary sara sanders he was aware that this statement was coming down in fact the white house indicating they knew as early as tuesday evening that there would be some statement but in terms of some sort of reaction we have not seen anything coming out of the white house as of yet all right secondly the white house kimberly thank you for that well let's bring in bruce fein is a former u.s. associate deputy attorney general and joins us live now from washington d.c. bruce so how significant do you think this statement is by robert martin was prompted him to speak publicly now do you think. i think he spoke publicly now because he wanted to avoid a clash with the house judiciary committee over complying with the subpoena or testifying he basically made a statement saying i can't go and will not go beyond my report so let's just move on i do think it's significant because the democrats i believe were hoping that he would take issue openly with the attorney general's statement that in his

conclusion mr trump did not commit obstruction of justice even though that could not be indicted by mr maule or it could clearly be the predicate of an impeachment article by the house judiciary committee i don't think that what mr mahler stated this morning is going to give any ammunition on the impeachment front i think it's going to stall on the other hand i do think it's quite clear that mr moller statements discredits donald trump's repeated assertions there was no effort by russia to influence that campaign on his behalf and against hillary clinton in fact he went out of his way in his closing statement to underscore the importance of trying to ensure it doesn't happen again i also think that is investigation of the russian element is going to quite dop and scuttle this effort by republicans to investigate the investigators because mr moller investigated all the things that

the investigators began he picked up what they laid off and he didn't is you any statement indicating their investigation was other than professional so i think that investigation is kind of dead in the water politically i think it could hurt trump in 2020 if he continues to deny that there was no russian interference in her attempt to influence because that so obviously contrary to what everybody who has investigated including his own intelligence community has said. and there's been a lot of reporting bruce fein about the way the attorney general william bonds characterized the mother report but quite surprisingly seem to be supporting the approach by which bar issued the miller report when it was finalized i think that he may have had quibbles over a member of the initial summary for page summary that didn't fully reflect i think the tone of the entire report but my belief was that mr did not want to pick

fights over something that was not substantial we now do have most if not all of the relevant elements of his report in the public domain he's not involved in deciding whether the redacted portions are ultimately disclosed or the underlying evidence and he felt he didn't want to get involved in any kind of political prove he wants to go back to private life and i think that's why he didn't try to pick a bone over something that marginal bruce as a final thought from before you go. on the line the point that he would not be making any testimony to congress you touched on the issue of impeachment there by the democrats where does that leave the whole issue of their attempts to bring on impeachment the president. well it makes it quite clear that they will need to do their own independent assessment their credibility will be on the line mr maule is not going to lend his credibility to impeachment it's up to the political figures

who are accountable i think that the democrats all along have tried to avoid making a direct accusation they're trying to have mr moller do their homework mr maule or does the investigation and then they kind of receive it i think not or throws the ball busy right back into the house judiciary committee and i think it will create a very substantial cleavage but tween some of the younger members and the chairman mr ned lower and nancy pelosi in the leadership i think you're going to find that cleavage surfaced very quickly in the next week or so or it's a bruce find in washington d.c. bruce thank you. let's move on to some other news now a gun fight between members of saddam's security forces has killed a pregnant woman and injured several others in khartoum it comes on the 2nd day of a nationwide strike will he be moved and joins us live now from cotton people so

what led to this shooting incident is it causing tensions between the military and the protesters. well daryn the incident happened a few hours ago and according to protesters it was a misunderstanding between the military and one of its faction known as the rapid support forces and then the shootout happened in which one woman who was 6 months pregnant was killed and several others were injured according to dissidents professional association the body that has been spearing spearheading calls for protests in sudan over the past 6 months now protesters are saying that they are very wary of the presence of the rapid support forces around the pyramid is of the set and let's not forget that just 2 weeks ago shootout by the rapid support forces led to the death of at least 6 protesters and the injury of more than 200 protesters and the protesters are saying that they are concerned that with a rapid support forces are trying to do is they're trying to find ways to basically goods into the sitting area to try to disperse them because of pressure from the from the military council and because of talks between the military council and the

opposition coalition now there today is a 2nd day of strikes by civilians and people there saying that they're trying to put pressure on the military council so that they can go back to the negotiating table and try to form a civilian government. tensions on the streets of hard tumours 2 different units of the sudanese armed forces shoot at each other one woman died and several others were injured it took place at one of the entrances to the sit in where protesters have been demanding civilian rule it's unclear why the incident took place and the soldiers have now withdrawn the protest movement has issued a statement asking people not to react and to continue with the strike. khartoum is out and they stand still and the protest movement says it has the upper hand and is threatening more strikes if the transitional military council doesn't come back to the negotiating table. however the ruling transitional military council criticized the strikes saying the army was part of the revolution i don't know who the ins

armed forces are part of the revolution by god. we are and then think part of this revolution and without us. would have been set in power by god i'm telling you no one would have been able to remove him not was out us a handful of shops and government offices did open but the strike is widespread enough for the organizers to deem it a success the plan today walkout was organized by the sudanese professionals association on behalf of the opposition coalition. for the workers who walked out they hope that the military leaders who replaced ousted president omar al bashir will listen to their demands for a civilian led government so he just likes to do this right but we're going for more they don't leave without 6. margaret was a little shocked on you know the mission so far the transitional military council hasn't reacted to the protesters demands insead saying the protest movement has

been infiltrated by anti sudanese elements now that's a charge that the protesters actually deny but they say they will continue their campaign of civil disobedience and strikes the opposition coalition will be hoping that the strike gives them negotiating power and that the transitional military council will have to listen and we open talks if they don't opposition leaders say they will take further action such as more strikes for now the padlocks remain firmly closed as do the talks between the 2 parties iran carved out is there a lot. of the u.s. national security advisor says he's almost certain iranian naval mines damaged oil tankers off the coast of the united arab emirates early this month john bolton did not provide any evidence to back up his comments he's counted visiting the u.a.e. where he said america's response has been successful in deterring what he described as threats from iran in the region let's bring in zain as rabi in the iranian capital tehran zain so what sort of response have we had from iran over bolton's

comments. well ever since this incident took place earlier this month it's become a battle of narratives between iran and the united states when it 1st happened iranian leaders actually said that it might be a false flag operation carried out by israel or indeed by the united states itself to try and create some sort of escalated tensions in the region an excuse for its aggressive policies towards iran now they provided no proof or clear evidence either of their own claims but that is sort of the position that they've taken and since then earlier this morning we've heard from the foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi who categorically denied john bolton's claims or allegations that iran was behind the damage to the ships he called the allegations of or ridiculous and he labeled john bolton as a warmonger we also heard from u.s. i'm sorry from iranian president hassan rouhani saying that the comments coming from u.s.

leaders from the president and his many members of his government that those there have been a series of contradictory statements coming from different american leaders and in the cabinet meeting he also said that our basis is not us words whenever they stop their oppression towards iran and put cool sanctions aside and stick to their commitments return to the negotiation table that they themselves left then the path to iran won't be close to them so clearly iran's president is sending a message here that people shouldn't be watching what american leaders say in their experience american words cannot be trusted they should be watching what american leaders are doing which is continuing to place harsh economic sanctions on iran and build up military in the region with its focus to iran ahead of an important meeting of gulf arab leaders in saudi arabia later this week iranian leaders have been trying to push a sort of diplomacy opening their arms saying they're ready to embrace arab

neighbors and sign non-aggression treaty and we've also heard rhetoric to suggest. there might be a softening of their position of no direct or indirect talks with the united states iran's leaders have said consistently that if the united states wants any hope of future diplomacy with iran there is a catch what it needs to do is recommit itself to the 2015 nuclear deal. in tehran zain thank you. for coming on the news hour including the favorite to be the next u.k. prime minister has been ordered to appear in court we'll tell you why. and the coalition clock is ticking for israel's binyamin netanyahu it'll be an election rematch he runs out of time. and in sport chelsea's manager feels the frustration ahead of the europa league final with us well that's all still to come. the boss johnson one of the front runners in the race to become britain's next prime minister has been summoned to court johnson is facing accusations of

misconduct in public office a statements made in the run up to the break that referendum 3 years ago the case alleges he knowingly lied to people about funds being sent to the e.u. let's bring in john johnson he's a politics reporter at politics home an online news website focusing on united kingdom politics joins us live now from london i mean bus johnson is now facing 3 allegations of misconduct in public office what exactly is he being accused of and how serious are these charges. well the charge of misconduct in a public office is a very serious charge and if found guilty and sentenced can carry a total sentence of life imprisonment. but the this case has come through a private prosecution from a businessman called marcus ball who has alleged boris johnson knowingly lied about the amount of money that the u.k. sends to the e.u.

and this formed a major part of the campaign you would probably have seen the pictures of a red bus driving around that mr johnson was in front of in front of with other senior breakfast here is claiming that the u.k. sends 350000000 pounds a week to the european union and if we were to leave or we could keep that money and spend it here in the national health service now mr ball says that mr johnson knowingly misled. voters on this and therefore this constitutes misconduct for public office john what do you make of the timing of this case because politically couldn't come at a worse time for boris johnson given that he hopes to be the next tory party leader on the next prime minister. it's it's dreadful timing for him because as you say he's he's the front runner and now he's going to have to be batting away these allegations and the summons that has been handed down by the courts just to make it clear the judge in this case she offered no verdict on the veracity of the claims

she just made it clear that there was a case to be heard and therefore mr johnson will have to go to westminster magistrates courts and from a preliminary hearing and then on this case will go to trial at the crown court mr johnson has been very clear that he thinks that this is a stunt and that the prosecution claiming that they have brought these private prosecution against him in order to try and clean up public debate in the u.k. is not true and that they are doing this because they're unhappy with the outcome of the referendum and with him being one of the key players behind it they think that prosecuting him might damage the entire referendum vote john johnson a final thought i mean boris johnson is used to political and personal controversies is he likely to survive this one do you think well yes porous is is is no stranger to controversy we'll have to see what happens in the court

a lot of people. supporters of mr johnson say that it's a very dangerous road to go down to start taking political speeches and promises made by politicians to the justice system and many of them believe that when this gets before a more senior judge it will get thrown out as having no real merit and not something that could be substantiated in the future john johnson thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera. time for a short break here when we come back she's won the world's top ballet award now mexico's top dogs a brings her country struggles center stage. in the formula one stars of today bid farewell to one of the legends of this morning stay with us. that others still want to forecast showers for iran it's the tony we might expect now to be settling down to hot and sometimes rather unpleasant weather but the

situation isn't entirely settled yet it seemed what catherine here in the southern caspian nothing to the west in the event looks quite clear the moment 30 degrees that's all in beirut 43 mind you in baghdad and light breeze could well pick up the dust and bring it for the science but typically we are now talking about temperatures around the 40 markel more in kuwait surat iraq of course is a cool breeze from mediterranean it keeps things cooler in egypt israel up through syria most to syria least bit inland it is hot once again of course dropping down into the arabian peninsula and temperatures here also the story $42.00 at doha but the same in mecca but this creeping cloud is of course the advancing monsoon structure yet hasn't done very much it will be increasing numbers of showers i suspect to somalia tops southern yemen as well but that's it so far salalah is still in the sunshine south of all this and you should be seeing dry weather now.

for almost all of sudden after that meant some big showers recently but in the forecast they are no more. after decades of being programmed with instructions they took on greek computers can now on their own identifying patterns and predicting human behavior. artificial intelligence can monitor our movement. and decide on our future the big picture codes of the world according to ai and exposes the bias inside the machine coming soon on al-jazeera.

welcome back i'm out about top stories here this hour u.s. special counsel robert muller has made his 1st public statement on his investigation into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election charging president trump of the crime was not an option for the department of justice guidelines went on to say it was not appropriate for him to testify in the

u.s. congress an exchange of fire between members of saddam's security forces killed a pregnant woman and injured several others comes on the 2nd day of a nationwide strike against. u.s. national security advisor john bolton has accused iran of being behind an attack on all tankers and this month iran's foreign ministry has dismissed the claim as. john bolton's visit to the u.a.e. comes as regional leaders gather in saudi arabia for several summits over the next few days foreign ministers from member states of the organization of islamic cooperation are due to meet in jeddah ahead of talks on friday the growing tension between the u.s. and iran amman washington's plan of the future of israel and palestine are expected to top the agenda so let's take a closer look at obama's ation of islamic cooperation well with 57 member countries spreadable for confidence is the 2nd biggest intergovernmental organization after the united nations it was established 60 years ago to in his words safeguard and

protect the interests of the muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace but critics say it's failed to achieve its goals politically diplomatically and strategically due to sectarian divisions in islam and bashar assad of syria senior political analyst joins us live now from london so we have these 3 big meetings in 3 days in saudi arabia involving the oh i see the g.c.c. the arab league what are they trying to achieve in welcoming expect. just a bit of a small note about but though i see the arab league it was saudi arabia that initiated its very original founding and the reason was because it was losing ground within the arab world too at the time egypt's nasr along with other regimes were pretty nationalistic and secular so so gary b. has always cared about the organization of islamic state as a way to maneuver and to project its own influence within its surrounding in the

gulf and india at a bridge and so having an arab summit an emergency one and an islamic sort it is actually very important for saudi arabia is facing a lot of pressure on a lot of fronts some of them like you mentioned the in the tension with iran and the. explosions or along 3 of its own tankers or rather 2 of its tankers and 2 others to the emirates and so on in the persian gulf there's all sorts of course the ongoing war in yemen for years and counting and a whole bunch of other issues in the region that are putting more and more pressure on the saudis and others in the editor could try and come up with solutions yeah and as i say i'm on iran is front and center in all these discussions i mean is there a unified position on iran amongst arab leaders and if not willy achieve any consensus on terror and do you think. i don't think there is a consensus among arab leaders certainly there is no consensus behind saudi arabia

meaning there could be a setting consensus about for example that iran should not be pursuing nuclear weapons and of course iran signed an agreement not to do so also something that by iran interfering in the affairs of some of its neighbors like iraq or syria yemen others there might be some sort of a majority about that but in terms of the polarization between every other and the iran i think the arab world and the muslim world are split on that if you take a quick look in the arab world you'll see that iraq is not exactly enthusiastic so the opposition certainly not syria not serious us or the usa not lebannon not oman not qatar and you know are many others who are like algeria and others wanted to really take a position between iran and saudi arabia so i think it's

a is an uphill battle for riyadh to try to get a lot of play out of countries behind it if the intention is conflict with iran just briefly you mentioned catalog what about the role of cats i mean doha has been under an embargo now for 2 years led by the saudis in the u.a.e. so has qatar been brought in to provide some kind of mediation between iran and arab states. well there's a number of countries that you know like oman qatar and others that there were rumors about them trying to be sort of a 3rd wave mediator i'm not sure exactly if anyone have been effective but what is what is apparently i think now have just read it on our own online al-jazeera net very probably the prime minister of qatar might be attending the summit in market that's be an interesting development moving forward the next 48 hours just a final thought marwan what about the so-called deal of the century that supposed to bring peace or not i'm between the israelis and the palestinians we know that

jordan's king abdullah has been talking what's he been saying he's very very upset he's going to get upset for the last 2 years and i was very hard to see a king so upset for so long and certainly he has been marginalized by the throat by mr from the outset and he thinks the. sort called the deal of the century is made him so much and so many ways at the expense of jordan a sixpence of his own regime and he thinks he's not getting compensated for various things including having so many palestinian refugees in jordan i think the king is not brought into the loop he doesn't know what's going on he hasn't seen the deal of the century he's been ignored by the top administration and he does think in the absence of a palestinian state that he think is a must as a solution to the arab israeli conflict he think jordan might be the one to pay the price for it tomorrow bashar al jazeera senior political analyst mullen thank you.

israel's prime minister is in a race against time to form a coalition government or face an unprecedented 2nd election of the year and even netanyahu right wing coalition has until midnight local time to secure the support of a door lieberman's nationalist use raila better new faction without him netanyahu has no parliamentary majority and won't be able to form a government within the 42 days he was tasked to do so we'll have a force that joins us live now from west jerusalem how you so how does it come to this i mean just 7 weeks after the election that netanyahu seen one. well yes 7 weeks after that election victory as it was certainly reported and claimed by netanyahu and he was on the stage with his wife in tel aviv now he just has a few hours to prevent that election victory from slipping through his fingers and it's all about this old spiky difficult relationship that he has with. his former defense minister as you say the leader of this israel bettany party which is

a secularist party it's a party which has a lot of its support among the russian immigrant community here in israel one which has little time for the religious rules in israel and as well as having him and his party in the coalition or the prospective coalition netanyahu also has to satisfy the religious right the ultra orthodox parties which have their own agenda obviously and the key issue that they're arguing over is a bill which has so far been held in abeyance which would see the your chivas students the jewish school students of ultra-orthodox communities more of them being drafted international service into the israeli army that's something that the ultra-orthodox parties vehemently opposed it's something that lieberman in what he says is a wider campaign to make sure that israel is not a religious state but is a jewish state that he sees as vital that it that it passes unchanged and that is

the issue on which neither side has so far been able to agree and could see netanyahu having to try to make his party vote ok fresh elections unprecedented in is ready history that we 2 elections so close together how to just very briefly so what are the possible outcomes if netanyahu can't form a government. well we have to think about what netanyahu really wants to achieve in this government he wants to ensure it seems that he is immune from prosecution has 3 corruption cases hanging over him and so he wants to get through it seems an immunity bill and also to ensure that the supreme court can't overturn any immunity and that's why 2 things i think likely to be ruled out one is the idea that he would allow that set the clock to tick down and allow the israeli president to then try and select someone else to try to form a government one thing that he obviously wants is to see

a last minute deal and that is still on the cards but if he can't get a deal then the the the wise money really is on the idea that he will try and get this vote through the knesset the parliament by the end of play today and force israel into another election to stop the opposition being given the chance to form a government one thing to note though is that after another alliance with another met mine a coalition partner yesterday that puts some of the live couldn't he's in very difficult positions in terms of their prospects of being reelected so have to work hard to convince them essentially to vote themselves out of office in the 1st piece of legislation all right before set there in the western sahara thank you. the chinese tech giant who are way has stepped up its legal fight against the u.s. sanctions the company is a father notion and court to have bans on his business deemed unconstitutional well

john brown has this report. a few companies could withstand the assault but why are ways now and part of its response has been to open its doors to the international media our rig in corporate china but these are unusual and uncertain times for the country's biggest technology company now effectively locked out of the u.s. market we believe these sets then just president. that they it's can it come and our way tomorrow it could be your industry your company your consumers on wednesday the company announced it's pressing ahead with legal moves to try to scrap a recently passed law that prevents u.s. federal employees from using weiwei technology the trumpet ministration says it could be used for spying because of accusations the firms in the pocket of china's government the u.s.

government has provided no evidence to assure that highway is currently threat there's no gun no smoke only speculation u.s. politicians he said were using the entire strength of the u.s. against one company while we had anticipated being placed on the u.s. trade blacklist which effectively prevents said buying components on which its technology is dependent it has been stockpiling parts but those parts will soon run out and what's not clear is what happens if the ban remains permanent. when president xi jinping talks about defending china's core interests he means companies like walk away whose headquarters he visited 4 years ago added another important core interest what's called rare earths special metals used in everything from magnets to missile systems

a week ago president xi highlighted their importance when he toured the part of the country where the industry is based yeah a prelude perhaps to a warning that appeared on the front page of a popular newspaper on wednesday quoting an unnamed government official who suggests china might use its rare earths as leverage in the trade dispute with the united states china is currently the world's largest rare earth exporter this and the battle over while way further signs of the collapse in trust between the world's 2 largest economies adrian brown al jazeera sions and. now she's the 1st mexican ballerina to win the world's top ballet awards now at least that got to your cabrera hopes her art will win over a young mexicans facing an unstable future reports from mexico city. she is currently regarded as the world's number one ballerina. mexican ballet dancer at least real was awarded the 2900 people in want in advance for her

performance in romeo and juliet financial twaddle for the berlin opera pleading. during a recent visit to mexico city real said she dedicates the prize to the mexican people don't know they'll come to new york i want this award to be meaningful for the country in the sense that it can serve to inspire young girls and boys to achieve anything. at 38 years old get you is the 1st mexican woman to receive the prestigious award the director of mexico's national dance company called de mcknight it says this award will mean more young people will be. taking a serious interest in ballet. influence is having on new generations is strong i expect the impact this will have even in the short term it will be to date in mexico. as a cultural ambassador for mexico is acutely aware of the many challenges facing her

home country from extreme poverty to widespread security she told us that investment in the arts can serve as a great defense against violence. i believe that if a child holds a violin or a paintbrush they will never hold a weapon it's important that we never forget how valuable this is for society that's why promoting dance and culture is one of my missions and i hope that over time my beloved mexico can achieve peace and tranquility. to. the people was founded in 1901 it has traditionally been awarded to dancers or choreographers from europe making it all the more exciting 2900 prize went to a woman from latin america went up a little. mexico city. far as here there and thank you so much rafa nadal has been in commanding form again the french open and paris the defending champion soft german qualifier in straight sets in their 2nd round match on wednesday the

dow is looking for a record extending 12th title at well i guess. when you win always look easier. when you play well or things looks easier when you're playing bad things looks very difficult so. easy. it is never but. i can say have been comfortable. have been england almost all the time and. thing that really matters. are no problems for the formal women's champion guard being in the group she dropped just 5 games against the ana marks. american sloane stephens also eased into the 3rd round the former u.s. open champion beating a saros or maybe a storm 0 in straight sets. changes appear to be running high for chelsea ahead of the roper league final with arsenal which gets under way

later on wednesday manager marie seal sorry angrily stormed off during their final training session and baku cobb says he was frustrated his players couldn't practice set pieces because the entire session stayed open to the media. chelsea are looking to finish their season with some silverware after a strong and to their premier league campaign. for you we. turn to see through to the premier league if you see there but this was. there was just. started in september in the. house always. on our mind we wanted to fight for a strong. the champions league is also high on arsenal's mind as well manager lanai amery is looking to deliver arsenal's 1st european trophy for 25 years but he knows that winning the league is now the only way for the club to secure

a place in next season's champions league. the 1st to play for the bulls you get to win one title enough to do the circle need help you. achieve the jump you leave little competition but the 1st targets for arsenal are 4 chose. to show their. support. this season 2nd all english european final takes place in madrid on saturday liverpool are preparing to face top name in the champions league manager as a side are preparing for it to be a european final rather than facing another primarily team. of fans of nicky lauder had the chance to pay their final respects to the formula $1.00 legend on wednesday hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of the 3 time world champion in vienna the 70 year old austrian died last week current f one champion lewis hamilton and alan prost were among those in attendance will be laid to rest in

a ferrari racing series. b.c. heavyweight boxing champion dante walter is announced a rematch with cuban lewis ortiz a fight will take place sometime in september while derby tortillas last year with a 10 to ground stoppage he knocked out his most recent challenger and dominate the breeze all in less than 2 minutes earlier this month. about news is disappointing for fans who want to see wilder and a unification fight against anthony joshua britt holds 3 of the 4 belts and takes on andy rooney jr in new york on saturday mexican only had 4 weeks to prepare but believes he can be the 1st man to be. i think my style the heart that i have that i have a tiger. the speed the combinations that i throw my idea of. the fighters problems you know because of my style the speed so i think that's where we're going

to join the 1st. with less than 4 months to go until the rugby world cup australia have unveiled what they hope will prove to be a secret weapon the new wallabies jersey is designed to be difficult for an opponent to hold on with and he grabbed panels built into the front of it but australia's captain michael cooper admits that it also extremely tight. if you look good you feel good and then you you know it helps hopes and just the mentality of you confidence around running on to the field. and also the want for dogs to see the jersey veggies i'd like to be one of the world cup. now we showed you an amazing catch in major league baseball earlier this week but now we're focusing on why can't be one of the worst throw is ever the chicago white sox employee of the month was chosen to throw out the ceremonial 1st pitch against kansas city but as you can see it all went ryan and she ended up hitting the photographer are we're

told he and his camera are bought by. 3 thank goodness for that and that's all yours were found more later back to you dare the best worst throw far out thank you very much if you don't that's it for me darren jordan for the news hour don't go away though i'll be back in a moment with much more of the day's news section. i really want to get down to the nitty gritty the reality whether on line when you have a male chauvinist and that is plant split in our global federation it is really hard

to get a piece of that or if you join us on saturday if. the countries beat up their mind this is a dialogue everyone has a voice to talk to us and our live you tube chat and you too can be in the street join the conversation on al-jazeera. driven by outreach and spanning generations the rohinton demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticised repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was powerful if you don't like we're so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back 10 and the day after tomorrow they'll send back 2030 or if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho among the most persecuted minorities in the world.

these explosions were not an act of war. these nuclear bombs were experiments by the soviet union. to the cause that people who lived in the vicinity the motives might be little difference rewind silent. amount to 0. your special counsel robert muller says charging a president of the united states was not a legal option open to him. but i wonder in jordan this is obviously a lawyer from the also coming up at the. political

a pregnant woman is killed when she is caught in the crossfire of a gunfight between members of saddam's security forces. boris johnson a front runner in the u.k. prime minister race is summoned to court accused of lying about the cost of drugs. and she's won the world's top ballet award now mexico's talk about a dancer brings our country struggles center stage. robert muller has made his 1st public statement since releasing his report on russian meddling in donald trump's election the u.s. special counsel says charging the president with a crime was not an option because of department of justice guidelines and it wasn't appropriate for him to testify to congress on his report on the conspiracy between the campaign and russia democrats continue to demand the release of an uncensored version of mahler's report well we're live in washington d.c. where our white house correspondent kimberly halkett is standing by but let's 1st

go to mike hanna. has now walked off into the sunset after saying that charging a sitting president was never an option legally so what more could he have to say. but basically he repeated what he said in his report that had been delivered making very clear that he believes that that report is his testimony indicating that he'd be reluctant to appear before congress as congress has been demanded that he do he did repeat why. it wasn't his report but what's important is what he chose to emphasize and in fact in what he chose to say twice in that 8 minute sentence what he did say twice was that the report could not clear is the president of crime of obstruction of justice this is a very important point that he emphasized this is actually what he had to say if we had had come out confidence that the president clearly did not commit

a crime we would have said so we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime the introduction to the volume 2 of our report explains that decision it explains that under longstanding department policy a president president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office that is unconstitutional even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view that too is prohibited the special counsel's office is part of the department of justice and by regulation it was bound by that department policy. charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider mike so what happens now with the democrats and their call for impeachment is that now dead in the water. well not at all in fact it's probably likely to be very strongly encouraged by the statement. has now emphasize that the process is now political not judicial

given the restraints exercised in the department of justice guidelines and perhaps made most clear is this tweet by a presidential candidate democrat senator elizabeth warren and she says in a tweet mother leaves no doubt number one he did not exonerate the president because there is evidence he committed crimes number 2 justice department policy presented to him from charging the president with any crimes and 3 the constitution leaves it up to congress to act that is she concludes impeachment and within minutes of. the statement there we did hear from the democratic communications committee saying that the house judiciary committee should being as soon as possible and start to consider impeachment proceeding to my kind of there in washington d.c. mike thank you for that let's cross over to the white house now and talk to our

correspondent there can be how can be so the surprise public statement from robert mueller house is likely to go down at the white house. well the white house says it wasn't a surprise for them they claimed that they knew about this as of tuesday evening although it appears they were not able to get ahead of it in terms of calibrating their response in fact the response finally coming from the president in the form of a tweet which is we are told presidential policy by this white house and he essentially is characterizing 2 robert mueller statement as nothing new that this is a done deal it's time for the country to move on but the words speak for themselves and in the united states a person is innocent till proven guilty yet robert muller in his view that donald trump's view did not do that he says in his tweet nothing changes from the moeller report there was insufficient evidence and therefore in our country a person is innocent the case is closed thank you well that might be the view of

donald trump and republicans and his supporters that support him but at the same time that is unlikely to be the view of many in the house of representatives particularly democrats who control that chamber in fact we've had a statement from jerry navl who chairs the house judiciary committee and his view is that this is not case closed despite what the president is saying in fact it's very much open he says that no one is above the law not even the president of the united states in other words he says we will keep working and so those ongoing investigations in terms of looking for president trumps tax returns is federal records those kinds of things those subpoenas are still out there and exist and we should add that well the president has said this is case closed and the house judiciary committee chair says that they're going to keep working their challenge has gotten much more difficult in light of robert mueller statements because it's clear he does not want to testify publicly we know he did offer private testimony

it appears that was rejected and now of course we have that very public statement where he says that his report and those words speak for themselves. all right secondly how can the of the white house kimberly thank you let's bring in melanie sloan she's a former federal prosecutor and joins us via skype from washington d.c. madam the let's just touch quickly if we can on that tweet that came from president trump he said nothing changes from the report there was insufficient evidence and therefore in our country a person is innocent case is closed thank you but is the case closed no not at all and what mr moller did today was made clear that he was an able to charge the president with obstruction of justice because of the department of justice regulations prohibiting a sitting president from being indicted but he very firmly planted the matter over to congress it's now a question for congressional investigation and potential impeachment proceedings mr moller very clearly said that if he was going to clear the president he would have

done so and he did not and his report found no conspiracy between or no collusion between the trump campaign and russia so the statements not making a difference to that report so i guess president from will feel further vindicated in some respects president trump may feel rather indicated but he's never been good to keep it by the report at there and maybe on that question collusion conspiracy with russia that yes that that did not come up but by the same token mr moller was very clear that there was obstruction many there was a lot of reporting about the way the attorney general william barr has characterized the report when it came out but muller seemed to say that he was actually happy with what william published what happen there. i think it's quite sad that it is my view that he actually got up and spoke today and made the statements he made because he has been unhappy with how mr barr has been characterizing the report and mr muller otherwise would have had no reason to come

out publicly today i think he wanted to do 2 things 1st rate make clear to the american people how he viewed the report and that it did not clear the president and also tell congress hate you don't need to have me come testify i don't need to do that everything i'm going to say is in this report and i've already said it. just a final thought for the mentally because we understand the house to this lead to misty is going to give a statement a little bit later was jerry novela going to say and what happens next. well mr adler may still want mr moller to testify because even if mr moller is only going to talk about exactly what's in the report the fact of the matter is most americans haven't read that report and they would watch misdoubt lot of people would watch mr moller on t.b.s. mr miller went through the report before a house judiciary committee hearing that might indeed move the ball forward and so many members of the house of representatives on the democratic side would like to see impeachment proceedings begin and this would be a step to melanie sloan there in washington d.c.

many thank you thanks. now in kosovo serbs a valid to resist further police raids in the semi autonomous region protesters in north spoke out against the police operation on tuesday dozens of people arrested in an operation against organized crime and corruption serbia put its troops on the high alert saying the arrests in the air at largely populated by ethnic serbs were designed to intimidate the latest from the protests but we are in north major feet so this is a predominantly serbian it's a pallet sea in the northern cross a very few people here don't feel they're not going to pristina they feel very close to belgrade and so happy and they've come here to protest because they say that they often intimidated by crossman authorities now this is because on tuesday kosovan police launched a major operation they say was across the country but particularly in this region against smuggling of all sorts of goods such as petrol and cigarettes they made

several arrests among them some so and so the police officers who will later appear in court in pristina now serbian people here say this is just an opportunity to try and fight in them to try and intimidate them the president of serbia has put troops on the border all full alert he says this is for peace and security but also that they will be able to respond if needed the presence of course and this is simple law enforcement the whole situation is also being fueled by russia calling this a provocation as well because of course russia is an ally great an ally of serbia serbia and russia who do not recognize when it's been. a global risk with control risk she says although tensions are high it's a low chance of serious fighting breaking out. in a region such as the balkans there is always the potential for security issues to escalate. however you know because of legacies of what happened 20 years

ago in kosovo of them. scale violence all for international intervention and so on these legacies are still alive they often tend to resurface in political debates in a local discussions there for the potential for escalation is always there however we do not expect that the situation room escalates significantly definitely not to the levels of 9099 and what have been the situation in the region and within europe is very different today president bush in serbia did indeed proceed to put the army on alert however we see that as more of a symbolic gesture intended mostly for domestic comes up into the domestic audience to indicate the hearts and serbia being serious about protecting the interests of serbs but not necessarily intending to use military force in kosovo for sure.