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d.w. . this is the doubly news live from berlin u.s. special counsel robert muller says his report into russian interference in the u.s. election does not exonerate president trump this was his 1st public comments since his appointment 2 years ago the president has already tweeted his response also on the program. the favorite to become the next to british prime minister blair is johnson is told that he must appear in court on the allegations that he knowingly lied about bret's into the run up to the 2016th.
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i'm from gail welcome to the program and his 1st public comment on his 2 year investigation into russian interference in the 2016 u.s. election special counsel robert muller has said that his report does not exonerate the president speaking in washington mr buller said that if he'd been confident president trump had not committed a crime it report would have said so it also said his investigation did find that russia attempted to interfere in the 26th presidential election mr maule and also appeared to rule out testifying before congress saying this his testimony was contained in the investigations report on this he has nothing to add 16 presidential election let's get more from the top correspondent to all of the salat in the washington welcome all of our tell us more about what robert mueller has been saying. well there was
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a very dramatic moment here after 2 years of complete and utter silence this was the very 1st moment that robert mahler took to the public that robert lawler 1 spoke and addressed the public of alt the findings office reports on the investigation of russian interference in the 2016 election so since the start of this investigation he did not speak out publicly this was the 1st time he did and his findings came as a setback for the u.s. president as well for the attorney general william barr and he said the president cannot be charged while in office so this is certainly this was known before but if you want to read between the lines what robert as mahler said here today was that if they could have done it if they could have indicted the president then they would have done that and he also said that only because of the law situation and because of the principles of the department of justice he could not move on and
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indicted the president on the question of struction of justice and so that is certainly a setback for the u.s. president who has been calling this investigation and illegal which on that certainly sounds a bit different today let's listen what's robert smaller had to say and as set forth in the report after that investigation if we had come out confident that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime 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 church 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
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was bound by that department policy charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider. all of us summers in washington how has president trump responded. oh yes he took to twitter immediately and he's now trying to spin this to his direction to his favor basically if you will he said that there was not sufficient evidence that everything was said about this report that he was exonerated of course and because of there is not sufficient evidence that he is innocent but again what robert a smaller set that there is sufficient evidence perhaps that that he simply the president cannot be indicted because of the department of justice rules and the situation the law that a sitting president cannot be indicted. having kept quiet and silence in the during the 2 years of the investigation and since they report was published last month why
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is robert mueller choosing to speak now. has been a lot of pressure mounting on robert a smaller as well on the department of justice the democrats have been calling for a complete and diversion off the report remember that the full report was published 400 pages of the report was published in april and a short while before that the attorney general published a 4 page summary in which she said that the president would be completely exonerated and try to keep himself out of the interpretation of the report he wanted to have the report speak for itself but that didn't really work out what happened afterwards was that a fight broke out between congress and the department of justice over an on redacted version over the interpretation of this report because the democrats in congress are arguing that there is enough evidence on obstruction of justice to indict the president but then his attorney general has been saying the contrary
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there's been a big debate going on pressure was mounting there will be legal cases to be fought about the question of subpoenas that the white house is blocking and in this situation robert a smaller felt the necessity to step out in address the public today so it doesn't sound like bass is the of the mother reports saga. well perhaps it is the beginning of something new it is certainly a moment in which those who are calling for impeachment proceedings in the democratic party they feel emboldened right now and it is also a setback for the witch hunt rhetoric of the u.s. president of silence in washington thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world police in bangladesh charging 16 suspects in a murder case that sparked protests across the country 19 year olds a new strategy was burnt to death last month after she refused to withdraw sexual
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harassment charges against the principal of her islamic school. chinese telecoms giant twala has asked the u.s. court to overturn legislation barring government agencies from buying its products it describes the president trump steps to essentially ban the company in the u.s. on an unconstitutional washington phase forward technology could be used to pass on data to beijing. and the favorite to become britain's next prime minister former foreign secretary boris johnson has been told that he must appear in court to have allegations that he lied to voters ahead of the 2016 referendum the case concerned leave campaigns claiming that britain would save 350000000 pounds a week if it left the e.u. the private prosecution against mr johnson who campaigned for britain to leave asked been brought to court by business when marcus bill. w.
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calls for that shot up pots in london can tell us more welcome to lhasa so what's boris johnson accused of. well basically boris johnson spaces excuse accusations of misconduct in public office and that means in concrete terms that boris johnson is accused of having lied to the public during the leaf complain 3 years ago in the referendum he was saying that the u.k. is spending 350000000 pounds a week to the european union and the actual number is much lower because the european union is actually paying weakly back to the u.k. so he was lying back then into private prosecutor took it into his own hands to bring this case forward he collected 200000 pounds via crowdfunding collected evidence brought it in front of a judge and the judge today then ruled that boris johnson has to appear in front of the court physically for a preliminary hearing and that will happen within the next 3 or 4 weeks and then
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this will move to trial to the crown court where a jury will hear this case but that could take 6 months and why. this private prosecution. well he basically wanted to set a legal precedent he said this was a case of lying to the public he said he was sick of politicians lying to the public and that is why he decided to take matters into his own hands and set a precedent so this doesn't happen anymore so how is this likely to affect. to replace theresa may party leader and indeed prime minister. well i don't think it's going to hurt him so much 2 reasons for that 1st of all the trial is far away as i mentioned it's another 6 months until this will be her.
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and then on the other hand the chary leadership came out today in support of johnson saying basically that this was a witch hunt that boris johnson executed free speech so this those tories are going to vote for him in the leadership contest and if john sununu makes it to the final 2 the base will vote on the final 2 candidates and. with the party's base so his chances are still very high and to become the next prime minister of the u.k. . president has been sworn in for a 2nd and final 76 year old took the oath of office. address the key event which was attended by a number of regional leaders. people
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are picking up here at eagle square if you look to my right that's the stage for president hu hari was sworn in for a 2nd time in his lifetime but this time around the ceremony was rather low key it was rather short as well due to security concerns but also due to the fact that democracy day that usually takes place in may 29th has been moved to june 12th is another reason though why probably it's better to make sure that this inauguration is quite low key and that has to do with a reservation and skepticism among many nigerians who did not vote for president bihari 2nd term and for his. especially young voters that i've spoken to said they are not satisfied with the results of president 1st they would really want change in this country they want to make sure that the economy is really revamped that the corruption is really swept away in nigeria and that their stability and security in this country a lot of homework for president will harvey that he's basically inheriting from his
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1st term in office as he's trying to fulfill these promises and this time around as he says he wants to make sure that the youth is becoming the future of nigeria an official reporting from a buddha a rift appears to be growing between german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel my crawl over who should become the next commission president chose a medical but it's a process by which the top job goes to the lead candidates of the biggest party in the european parliament would be they had the center right your and people's party who also happens to be german but president macross says this process is obsolete after last week's european elections to shift the parliament's balance of power. as europe's leaders took their seats at a summit in brussels there was little to suggest that anything was wrong. but after last week's elections to the european parliament in which both the center right and center left parties lost seats the political climate here is changing and
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so too are the jobs. the biggest question is who will replace this man claudio is the president of the e.u. commission and soon to step down. and these are the frontrunners for the post they've been nominated by the political groups in the european parliament. good give me the can bring the whole strength of europe over your base german chancellor angela merkel has put her weight behind german m.e.p. manfred vega the lead candidate from the biggest block in the e.u. parliament for a strong global stage but french president emmanuel mcconnell doesn't like this lead candidate system that wants change perhaps even this woman e.u. commissioner margarita vest feebleness the young because the german government is committed to the principle of the need candidates however the parties represented in the coalition have different views as to which candidate is best suited. if
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everyone just stays with their preferred names because none of the groups are the majority all alone and even if 2 of them work together they still have a majority we need 3 or even 4 groups to do this for some believe america is behind the curve on this because she herself will soon be leaving her own job. if you don't affect you there is a kind of missed opportunity between france and germany the germans were at one point more european than the french there's too much of an economic discrepancy between france and germany germany is the 1st economic power in europe so europe is less vital for germany than it is for france and that's quite sad. it's now down to another in chief donald to ask to try to come up with an acceptable nominee for the next commission president but with germany and france at
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odds over the process this won't be an easy task. this is dave up next business africa with ben facility so get back at the top of the top of the day . where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and if you newspapers when official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many cantrips and their problems are always the same 14 social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and. we're gonna fall.

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