or just you know if that's what you prefer a. couple of very special go to georgia choose your favorite color. this is due to the news live from berlin robert muller says his report into russian interference in the u.s. election does not exonerate president truck. if it had competence the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have such a. special counsel's 1st public comment since he was appointed 2 years ago within minutes the president responded to miller by tweeting the case is closed also

coming up the favorite to become the next british prime minister boris johnson is told he must appear in court over allegations that he knowingly lied about brakes and in the run up to the 2016 referendum. and nigerian president muhammadu buhari is sworn in for a 2nd and final term the 76 year old won reelection in february but many young nigerians are not convinced that he is the right choice. i'm sumi so much got to thank you for joining us we start with special counsel robert muller's 1st public statement on his 2 year investigation into russian interference in the 2016 u.s. election moller is said that his report does not exonerate the president speaking in washington miller said that if he had been confident the president trombone. did

not commit a crime his report would have said so he also said that his investigation did find that russia attempted to interfere in the election or also appear to be testifying before congress saying that his testimony was contained in the investigations report and he had nothing to add interference 20 so let's bring in our washington correspondent oliver salat he's been following this story for us hi oliver this is a moment a lot of people have been waiting for their whopper miller breaks his silence so tell us more about what he has been saying the ride so moment that a lot of people have been waiting for in a dramatic moment in fact that was the 1st time since robert as smaller launched the investigation on the russian interference in the 2016 election that he actually addressed the public that he actually felt the need to step out and the liver a statement on his take off the findings there are a lot of reports about the mother report that was published in april with $400.00 pages and what robert a smaller said today can be considered a setback for the u.s.

president as well for the attorney general we all remember donald trump has always called these investigations and illegal which runs he said that there was complete and total exoneration for him and that can be a challenge today after all but as mahler's statement he essentially made clear today that that the president cannot be charged while in office that was certainly something that we knew before but he also made clear that he did not exonerate him and that he only did not indict him because he later cannot be charged if you want to read between the lines robert a smaller essentially says that if you could have indicted the president he would have done the but let's listen to what he had to say and as set forth in the report after that investigation if we had come 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. 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 his 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 ari oliver how is the president responded to the statement from robert mueller. well known trump in his fashion as we know it has taken to twitter immediately after that statement and he seems he's trying to spin that in his favor so what you wrote is nothing changes from them on the reports there was insufficient evidence and

therefore in our country a person is in a sense thank you so jerry in that letter the head of the judiciary committee then came out at a press conference as well and he said whenever the president from now on is talking about him being exonerated he is actually lying he repeated that moller did not exonerate him he said that obstruction is a serious crime and that it's up to congress knowledge to deal with the findings what is congress going to do has this restarted talks about a possible impeachment. well these talks have been going on for weeks and they became louder in recent weeks especially after the white house has blocked certain subpoena was triggering 5 a legal legal battle in fact between congress and the wide tells but the problem that the democrats are having right now is that a majority of the americans actually not supporting impeachment proceedings against the u.s. president so what they have to decide right now is whether they want to move on

with something they find his rights or whether they want to rather look at the 2020 election campaign that is getting closer but of course especially after today's statement of robert s. smaller impeachment is becoming more likely our correspondent all over sell it in washington thank you very much now to the multibillion dollar lawsuit over the u.s. as opioid epidemic more witnesses are taking to the stand prosecutors accuse the health care giant johnson and johnson of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying the risks of addiction gail boxes heartbroken at the loss of her son i'm going to miss the great things that. austin was a college football player at the university of oklahoma and only 22 years old when he died from an overdose of opioid painkillers. the last day i

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creating an oversupply and lying about the risks the company denies the allegations . let's catch up on some other stories making news around the world police in bangladesh are charging 16 suspects in a murder case that sparked protests across the country 19 year old nusrat. was burnt to death last month after she refused to withdraw sexual harassment charges against the principal of her islamic school. in the u.s. at least 11 people have been injured in a wave of tornadoes that struck kansas and missouri the twisters destroyed several houses and brought down power lines in the kansas city area they came a day after 30 people were injured by debris as a tornado hit ohio. and in australia newly reelected prime minister scott morrison has been sworn into office a week after his conservative coalition won a surprise victory his cabinet includes ken wyatt the 1st aboriginal person to

become minister for indigenous affairs. airstrikes on jihadist controlled areas of northwestern syria have led to 10 more civilian deaths. according to a british based monitoring group most were in a village and province it was the last area in syria that's largely controlled by factions fighting the government around 3000000 people live in the region more than half of whom are refugees. in the immediate aftermath of a barrel bomb attack in this morning a man and 2 children are reported killed several more are injured most residents fled the spillage in southern england province long ago. killing children and destroying cities for a month and a half when peace helicopters circle over a village they don't kill terrorists they killed civilians. despite a ceasefire air strikes have been nonstop markets and schools have been hit

repeatedly the u.n. says over 20 clinics and hospitals have been attacked since the beginning of the month more people are killed nearly every day 50 civilians this week alone according to observers. president bashar al assad's troops are moving in on it live in gauging in fierce battles with radical islamist militias. the un security council says a further escalation with threaten civilian lives what you will do to protect civilians in the latest example of an entirely known predictable and preventable humanitarian disaster activists say these burning fields of grain following heavy bombardment are evidence of the assad regime's scorched earth policy to ultimately starve people out thousands of refugees have been stranded at the turkish border after a long exodus without hope or prospects. here in germany members

of a kurdish minority known as yazidi start taking the government to court they accuse berlin of not doing enough to bring german supporters of the so-called islamic state to justice the as it is were brutally targeted by ass in northern iraq many have now sought asylum here. kurdish o.c.d. women suffered grave abuse at the hands of the i asked her militia and iraq and syria they were abducted and slaved raped and murdered many survivors were able to flee to germany but even here they've been hounded by their abusers this yazidi has returned to an iraqi refugee camp. i recognized his face immediately he was the one who beat us and humiliated us 24 hours a day. i would be able to identify him anywhere and any time she being which i am now. a women's association says it has filed

a complaint against the german justice and interior ministries the group says both are involved in obstruction of justice because the government failed to repatriate suspected german i.a.s. terrorists even though the kurdish autonomous administration has offered to repatriate them to. the german justice ministry has not received such a complaint various investigations are under way and there are a total of $22.00 outstanding arrest warrants for people currently detained in syria and. the women's council believes that german i asked fighters were also involved in war crimes against us they say 74 german i asked supporters are still being held in northern syria. you're watching news still to come on the program she was elected mayor of a turkish city with more than 50 percent of the vote but this kurdish politician

has been prevented from taking office and she's not the only opposition politician in turkey to be kept out of power. but 1st a rift appears to be growing between german chancellor angela merkel and french president in mind over who should become the e.u.'s next commission president chancellor merkel backs the process of giving the top job to the lead to candidate of the biggest party in the european parliament that would be the head of the center right european peoples party who also happens to be chairman but president because says this process is obsolete after last week's european elections shifted 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

so too are the jobs. the biggest question is who will replace this man who is the president of the e.u. commission and soon to step down. and these are the front runners for the post that have been nominated by the political groups in the european parliament. good evening they 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 globes that but french president emmanuel mccollum doesn't like this lead candidate system and wants change perhaps even this woman e.u. commissioner margaret a vest. the win is that you get the german government has 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 everyone just stays

with their preferred names because none of the groups of a 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 fulfill some belief americal 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 this 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 then it is for france and that's quite sad. it's now down to another even chief donald to ask to try to come up with an acceptable nominee for the next commission president but with germany and france at odds over the process this won't be an easy task. now turkey's

largest city istanbul is preparing to redo its may oral election in a few weeks the country's electoral commission an old the 1st vote after president once a party questioned the result now that very same process is playing out elsewhere in turkey as other winning candidates are being prevented from taking up their new jobs as yulia han has been speaking to an opposition politician in the kurdish majority city yvonne she was elected mayor back in march but is being kept out of office. as i ventured out. i don't see when did john catch must walk through her neighborhood in the city of van it always takes a while she's constantly recognized by people involved in conversations asked for advice it's hardly surprising many you think of catch must as then they are that is what their search is miller in turkey's local elections at the end of march she stood for the pro kurdish opposition party h d p in vans it amid district she won

with almost 54 percent of the vote but her joy did not last long. in order to feel secure here museum although never thought that i would not receive my mandate i wasn't expecting this because the election commission had approved me as a candidate. 2 months after the vote people here are still appalled by the election board's decision. i think this is very unfair the. decision is wrong whoever wins the election should take office who will . get in minutes by not giving her the mandate they're stealing the will of the people. the election commission says good catchments should not be mayor because she was dismissed from her job by an emergency decree following the attempted coup in 2016 despite international criticism the turkish government

had tens of thousands of state employees detained sacked or suspended he was a teacher at the time was also on the list she still doesn't know why but i mean if the cousin by schools were the same election authority that allowed us to run as candidates then makes this unlawful decision it's supposed to be an absolutely independent institution but it's not it's under the control of the a.k.p. . instead of catch must the runner up candidate in her district was declared made a member of president. adeline's a.k. party. a few weeks ago catchments protested against a ruling in front of the town hall where she feels she should now be working just a few minutes for the police to clear the demonstrators thank. god. i am.

hyla tanisha is the only member of the ruling a.k.p. in van who is willing to talk to us he blames good mrs party for the outcome. of a rival party deliberately nominated candidates who were sacked by emergency decrees are honorable president had warned them don't nominate people with links to terror groups or crime or those who were sacked if you do it this is what you can't who will. in 5 districts in southeastern turkey a key people the titians were given the office despite pro kurdish h t p candidates actually winning the elections the opposition insists it's a deliberate attempt to keep them out of power. gen catchments is now helping out in her husband's stationery store and she has filed an appeal against the decision to withdraw the mandate even though she has little chance of success over it pokers i don't want to give up i want to be there

for the people of adamant i hope that the unlawful an anti democratic practices in turkey will soon end. as. a present from a friend in nameplate for what should have been her new office. now it's here in the shop one of the few remind us that. was recently and they may or. not to some other stories making news around the world afghan politicians and representatives from the taliban have met in moscow part of a conference marking 100 years of diplomatic ties between russia and afghanistan russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is calling for the complete withdrawal of international forces from afghanistan. a nationwide strike as close to argentina's schools offices and banks and brought the country's airports to a standstill unions called the action in protest against president modi c.e.o. mark these austerity measures they're demanding that the government backs salary

increases in line with inflation and tackles high unemployment. and the chinese telecoms company while way is asked a u.s. court to overturn legislation that bars government agencies from buying its products the company has described president trump's steps to essentially ban it in the u.s. as unconstitutional washington fears huawei technology could be used to steal data . now he is a vying to become britain's next prime minister but 1st it looks like conservative boris johnson will have to go to court he's facing allegations that he intentionally lied to voters in the 2016 brags that referendum campaign. to take back control of 350000000000 pounds about 350000000 pounds a week instead of britain sending 350000000 pounds a week to brussels the money could be spent on british health care that's what boris johnson promised voters again and again in the run up to the brics a referendum 3 years ago. but the figure is incorrect as many people pointed out at

the time. one activist believes johnson misused his office to deliberately mislead the public markets paul raised about 250000 euros to file a lawsuit against the conservative lawmaker now a judge has ruled that johnson must respond to the accusation in court after that the case could go to trial the test is very low she said there was enough evidence to issue a summons she wasn't of looked at the political issues but i think it'll be very many months before this is resolved. johnson's lawyers reject the lawsuit was politically motivated they say their client was engaging in a political campaign and not speaking in an official capacity no date has been set for the hearing but the case comes at an awkward time for johnson he was considered the front runner in the conservative party race to replace theresa may as party leader and british prime minister. president mohamed

a well harry has been sworn into office during his inauguration ceremony in nigeria's capital abuja it's a 2nd consecutive term but many young voters are disappointed by the slow pace of change in the country. that it was alleged he event by some standards the inauguration ceremony was shorter than usual because of security concerns. and former general mamadou bihari took his presidential oath for the 2nd time. to set limits aware that i would be faithful that the faithful. yes and through already there was no inauguration speech. he won the elections in february with more than half the vote . opposition parties disputed the results but it was not just biharis opponents who were displeased they say at the age of 76 he's failed to connect with younger

voters who want change and jobs in africa's most populous nation a quarter of the workforce is unemployed safety and law enforcement are also major issues. up full of very great expectations because we thought president has assured us that this time around the has already hit the ground running we expect to get up at our security which he has promised us so are as but this on is that is the president will now for more on the issue of security. employment that because of this at the core who has respect mr president to focus on the countries being played by a rising kidnappings killings and robbery last month the government estimated that around $4000.00 people were being held the judge hardest militant group boko haram is still active in the north east of the country and has increased attacks on civilian and military targets. and in northwestern nigeria the un refugee

agency warned that clashes between farmers and cattle head has forced thousands to flee their home since last month huge challenges ahead for president biharis next 4 years in office. south african runner caster semenya has filed an appeal to the swiss supreme court challenging a decision that prevents her from competing unless she takes hormone medication so men yes said her of her appeal is based on fundamental human rights under new rules from the international athletics federation the a.f. so many a is not allowed to run in her favorite distances unless she medically lowers her natural testosterone levels earlier this month the court of arbitration for sport in switzerland where jack had her challenge against the idea of a layoff rules now so many are once the swiss supreme court to weigh in. family friends and fans have bid farewell to formula one legend niki lauda and his

birthplace vienna the austrian motor racing champion died last week at the age of 70 a horrific crash in the 1976 german grand prix nearly cost him his life but he recovered and went on to win another 2 championships. this is fiennes iconic scene stevens cathedral for the 1st time in its history a memorial service was held for an athlete legendary formula one driver the key loud the 3 time world champion is one of the best drivers the sport has ever seen now it was dressed in his racing suit for his final journey the public was able to pay their respects until mid day. i stood in line for an hour and it was definitely worth it everybody up he was simply a great human being and especially a great austrian make a lot of and he can allow the wasn't just a great race but also a good businessman he did a lot for austria salzburg and vienna. niki lauda retired in 1905 but remained

active in the sport throughout his life. lewis hamilton allan prose and nico rosberg walked beside the coffin as it left the church the final farewell to one of the greats of formula one before his. in a family only ceremony. reminded of our top story on day w. in his 1st public comments regarding his investigation u.s. special counsel robert muller is that his report into russian interference in the u.s. election does not exotic exonerate president trump he added that if his team was confident of that the president did not commit a crime they would have said so. more news coming up on the day in just a few mistakes.

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we're going to have some climate impacts with journey greater than the tsunami. that's really frightening. why aren't people more concerned. starts with the 1st. he finally breaks his silence robert muller delivers his 1st statement on the russia investigation he spent nearly 2 years leading he says he stands behind his report and he's now stepping down as special counsel but he also raises more questions about president trump i'm sumi so much going to in berlin this is the day .