i don't know. but it was the. u.s. special counsel robert moon that includes a two year probe into alleged trumped russia collusion and recommends no good news in time but. president trump scraps the latest u.s. sanctions against north korea aren't fit to provide school to nuclear two. thousand pounds from classes pro palestinian students at king's college london say they would not sound secure during a visit by the police. oh very well welcome this is on the international and on. our top story this hour u.s.

special counsel robert mueller has finally submitted his long awaited report on alleged russian involvement in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election become financially document has been submitted to the justice department which says moolah has not recommended any new indictments it is in new york with the latest report has been submitted the final report from bob mohler the special counsel appointed years ago to look into allegations that donald trump had colluded with russia during the twenty sixteen elections and at this point no further indictments are being called for we're hearing from the white house which has spoken up and said the next steps are up to attorney general barr and we look forward to the process taking its course white house has not seen the report does not know what it contains it was simply submitted to the department of justice has long maintained there was nothing for special counsel robert mueller to find he's stood firm in saying that there was nothing to the allegation. made against him let

it come out let people see it that's up to the attorney general we have a very good attorney general he's a very highly respected and we'll see what happens but there's no collusion there was no collusion there was no obstruction there was no nothing it appears that this bob mohler report is a bit of a failure it hasn't turned up any big indictments related to russia collusion it's been two years long but we've already heard democratic party leaders talking about other options they have for keeping the scandal these scandalous allegations related to trump and russia alive now adam schiff a democrat in congress recently floated this idea for keeping the story going i said he agreed that the counterintelligence investigation may be more important than the criminal investigation because it goes to present threat to our national security whether the president and anybody around him are compromised by foreign powers there's been many occasions in which the u.s. public was told that some kind of bombshell or groundbreaking revelation was about

to be revealed but it seems that two years the report has finally concluded and people are waiting to see what is made public from that report after the u.s. attorney general makes that decision. of enviro u.s. presidential hopeful for the libertarian party believes the entire move the investigation has been a waste of time what we've seen so far has been basically a joke this whole thing was supposed to find a russia russian colu zhen and so far all the indictments all the guilty pleas and there have been guilty pleas and all the people found guilty in court have been found guilty of things that are other than russian collusion so they've been found guilty of all kinds of things you know obstruction just whatever but not of the actual thing this was supposed to be a big whole thing that was going to under under uncover some connection between trump and russia this big scary thing and it turns out to be just a bunch of petty usual nonsense just normal politics there is nothing here of

substance this is not rush inclusion this is a waste of time effort and energy the only reason that such a thing even even anyone would take it seriously is because the u.s. is currently over involved itself in other countries where it has no business being . trampas told the u.s. treasury to cancel the latest sanctions against north korea this comes off the north reportedly pull that stuff out of the into korea liaison office the main communication channel between pyongyang and so. north korea informed us this morning that it would pull out its staff from the liaison office on instructions from a superior authority and it would through its staff the north said it doesn't mind the south remaining in the office and that it will notify on further practical matters in the future our government finds the north decision regrettable and it is

hoped that the north returns its staff to the liaison office for normal operation as it was agreed between the two countries. trump's olive branch to north korea has been widely viewed as an attempt to rescue the ongoing nuclear talks it comes a month after negotiations between trump and kim jong un collapsed at a summit in vietnam aren't easy to discuss the latest developments with my colleague you know neal. that lee is office it was only set up you know last year was and it's not widely known just prick a dime what it actually tells the creation the setting up of this office was this little baby step towards reunification towards closer ties and we know that when it comes to the things happening on the korean peninsula and the baby step is important as you said it was only set up six months ago after that historic visit south korea's president moving to pyongyang you remember when he was waving hands to all the public and the streets it was really seen as

a historic breakthrough a commitment in the office was intended for these kind of face to face contacts not on the highest level but in between some sort of officials and diplomats which used to be rare but now it looks like this will have to be put on hold for a while maybe for good we don't know if baby steps but important steps all the same office that's what it was designed to do what i would end the any indication of your as to why north korea has pulled its officers in north korea hasn't officially announced that this was draw was happening so we don't really know what the reason is what we do know is that it happened right after the americans decided to punish two chinese companies for doing business with peeling yang and diplomats in beijing have already called this kind of thing unacceptable they believe that these kind of moves should only be made after some sort of decisions by the u.n.

so there you have it after the donald trump kim john summit and her noise this was the first action taken by washington against north korea and anyone who is dealing with it and you know all this thaw and all the friendship between donald trump and chairman kim they may end up being absolute. irrelevant when the u.s. sanctions alarm goes off and i'll tell you what officials in north korea have recently said that they aren't feeling that americans were making any steps to loosen their stranglehold when it comes to all this pressure on north korea the show me if the united states was not interested in improving with career u.s. relations or implementing the june twelfth joint declaration rather it was only trying to produce results for political achievement i will make this clear the forceful stance of the us will make the situation more dangerous i was supreme

leader ship can clarify its decision soon the us president loves to brag about how great he is making all these moves towards peace on the korean peninsula but as you've said in her noyo there was no peace agreement knew it was a failure was not essentially well essentially rise you say but nothing signed there and it appears that kim jong il didn't bend under all this might of donald trump's diplomatic skills and now it looks like the dollar from the ministration is at a crossroads they should decide whether they want to continue to play that role as a great peacemaker for korea or they want to go back to the role of the bad cop who keeps lobbying everyone around the world with sanctions asia analysts throughout the gupta told us donald trump is trying not to disrupt the french our relationship with north korea. we'll then i think

a couple of weeks we will hear back from the north korean side as to how they would like to proceed for the the ball really resides on the north korean side on hold they will respond after hanoi and i think donald trump is going a little bit out a little out of his way to ensure that he doesn't mess things up u.s. north korea talks ayatollah very delicate fears are the spoiling of time north korea essentially has to get back to the u.s. side wants to go forward and donald trump doesn't want to do that in a negative direction by imposing a new whole set of sanctions and that's why he's kind of trying to ensure that at least at the leader to leader level there's good communication and a good relationship because he believes not korea is a top down society and of kim jong un can take that strategic decision which he needs to make it will unlock the door to of very positive relationship and positive denuclearization related negotiations. the u.n.

human rights council has called for holtz to israeli settlement expansion in the golan heights a day after donald trump pledged to recognize the disputed area as a part of israel the region was seized from it syria back in ninety six thousand. after fifty two years it's time for the united states to fully recognize israel sovereignty over the golan heights which is a critical strategic and security importance the state of israel and regional stability israeli prime minister welcome to the move and thanked donald trump and surprisingly syria has a very different view its foreign ministry said trump's decision changes nothing and the syrian people would do whatever it takes to reclaim the golan heights. russia's foreign ministry also condemns the proposal saying it would violate un resolutions and germany and france said they are opposed to any unilateral measures whereas people on the streets of damascus what they think of trance move to recognize the golan heights as israeli. trump statement is

meaningless to the syrians because the truly chits mysie of the land has been clearly stated by the united nations the syrian people will not surrender. on syrian territory we will not give it up because of what we. hear the trumpet ministration is trying to help netanyahu in the upcoming election but we also asked him middle east experts about the shift in u.s. policy on the golan heights they told us it's a breach of international law it seems that donald trump now is the spokesman for netanyahu and he is intervening in the israeli election and he would like netanyahu to win this election so i wouldn't be surprised when he meet him in the white house next week next wednesday i think you will give him a huge prison which is that recognition of the israeli sovereignity or.

totally cynically breaking all the international rules and international law i mean there isn't the whole one in the world i guess who has any doubts about the legal status of the golan heights the golan heights is an occupied territory no doubts about this and here comes an american president and say no matter what the international laws say no matter what they would say is we recognize it is an israeli city because israel holds it for so many years so why not if we follow this. really raises a lot of questions about a lot of other occupations all over the world. in reaction to last week's mosque shootings in new zealand the country's largest bookstore chain is revising was on its shelves placing

a ban on one of its bestsellers twelve rules of life or sold over three million copies worldwide it covers a wide range of topics from discipline and responsibility to the psychology of mass shooters the store defended his decision saying it didn't want what it called extremely disturbing material circulating in the wake of the attack it may be connected to this photo showing all the jordan peterson wearing a t. shirt with i am a proud islamophobia printed across it however it seems the mother controversial books don't fall under the same criteria out of it as mine comfy is still available in the shops website and the word calls cheney is not alone imposing a ban on jordan peterson's works cambridge university in the u.k. has revoked its offer of a visiting fellowship to the author as a result of a student backlash saying there's no place for people who don't up hold these principals and saturday's going underground on r.t. jordan peterson calls the decision unprofessional and cowardly. well i think it

says more about the nature of the universities in general than about free speech in general i mean i don't feel that my decision vin taishan has compromised my free speech ability because i have so many platforms on which i can discuss my ideas but i think that it was handled in a none believe a bully unprofessional shoddy and cowardly way i mean i was never even notified formally that this invitational curd i found out about it through the grapevine and i have nor still have no real explanation for why it happened. only able to surmise the reasons i think that our guy was in cambridge in november and i did a very popular talk there and there was lots of student interest and interest out the faculty of divinity as well and i was really looking forward to working with the experts there on biblical issues and i thought it would have been

a very good collaboration for everyone given the popularity of the biblical lecture series i did a year ago and i think it's i think it's sad that. the u.k. prime minister is the may has admitted that she may not attempt to push her breadth that deal through parliament for a third time due to a lack of support and it's off to the european union approved a short delay to bragg's it to the summit on thursday night despite all the uncertainty the european council president sounded eight. really though this development the fate of bridget. and so far our british friends. there you are for the worst. told for the best. as you love. told the day so i asked after a seemingly endless night of debate discussion and chopping and changing plans that

you council did finally come up with that official proposal for to reason my condo with quite strict terms and conditions and extension of article fifty until the twenty second of may conditional upon her passing out plan through parliament a further extension until the twelfth of april conditional upon the u.k. coming up with some sort of road map a plan as to what exactly to do and the possibility of yet another further as yet indefinite extension conditional upon the u.k. participating in european parliamentary elections that is something to reason may has said is a red line for her and would of course be rather pointless given the u.k. has decided to leave the european union in the press conference this morning donald tusk was quite clever with his wording he stated that anything is possible that they're hoping for the best and hope dies last we know what that means of course with this proposal the e.u. council has moved the paradigms of this debate of right away from the prospect of

a no deal hard bricks at further towards the possibility of a deal further extensions or even the possibility of revoking article fifty and the u.k. staying in the european union as donald tusk said to one journalist in that conference he's more pro british than the journalist is nevertheless though the long hours of those debates seemingly did take that's all a little bit on that press conference last night. do it be able to also agree stern extension until the. twentieth of april of.

this year yes. on to the very. thing to do our poll. and there's still empty in the end it means the truth that a lot of space. will eat you officials patience isn't endless though chris said that kicking the can down the road isn't an option because the road in perspective is a short one and this was something echoed by german charts at our local nut. we have for the time being prevented and no deal brax it on the twenty ninth of march but these a very short periods of time so britain have to make clear what path it wishes to pursue you so it's official you can master to the e.u. said tim borrow has written to the council accepting their proposal and now it's all eyes away from brussels back to westminster words the reason may will try to pass her plan and nobody really knows what's going to happen in parliament next

week what we can say for sure is that it's shaping up to be one of the most crucial weeks in the house of commons in decades if not in generations can the reason may get third time lucky and get her deal passed through the house of commons or this time next week will we once again be in some sort of political limbo stay tuned to find out. andrea walker who's the u.k. based columnist for the new york observer face to reason may has almost no chance of getting a breakthrough deal through parliament. there is no realistic prospect of her. withdrawal deal passing i think everybody knows that if you look at what happened yesterday in brussels there was a very short discussion about extending article fifty to allow the law to last to go through to possibly draw agreements that was pretty easy the longer and harder bit for the european council members was to think about what happens if indeed when how withdrawal agreements is defeated next week i think the big difficulty for this

actually is not so much on the withdrawal agreements the problem is that parliament cult decides what it wants it's not going to support a no deal bragg's you know a genuine legitimate preg said we leave a w.t. overrules doesn't want that it colposcopy value though it would dearly love to and so that it's a group of graybeards where the where the i think the public politicians get together is they will try and find out how much of the e.u. can we keep the public aid and still get away with it at the moment i don't know exactly how much i days i'm hoping it zero but how you just got to watch this space . students at king's college london claim they were barred from attending classes because of their pro palestine activism they were told it was because of security reasons during a visit by the queen spoke to one of the students involved. i went into uni like you know for my eleven am back shows like ten from the emotional time it was i walked in and i got my id card i tapped on the barrier and it wouldn't it wouldn't

work the barrier wouldn't open i talked about three times and by the third time i kind of sighed to myself i knew that this was intentional marines a student at king's college london but for one day this week she wasn't she was barred while king's was hosting the queen. around the time of this grand entrance on the all the signs of the building the second day religion and politics student was having this conversation with security guards in the armored car that's been programmed sort of course. for your request. misfortune police protocol to be told they're not perfect and you see what they did she wasn't the only one experiencing this issue. it was here that marine tried to get into her university for

a second time but she says she was told by security guards here that she was one of several students who had been barred from her own university for the duration of the queen's visit now marina and her friends say that they've been politically profiled such as palestine demos like this was it in this group. who are you going to you are who the your people think is not ok it does to me maureen doesn't have a criminal record she claims she was just singled out by her university for being a politically minded muslim woman i must be paying student i pay nine thousand pounds right and i'm i'm not allowed to go to my lecture because i'm a carrier security got to the queen. outrageous since the end. the students have staged more protests highlighting what happened to them and demanding on answers.

king's college london is one of the u.k.'s oldest universities that occupies several buildings in central london and the queen and the duchess of cambridge were here opening this new building bush house now r.t. perch the students allegations to the university and the response we got was simply that there was an event here that required the highest level of security we had an event on tuesday which demanded the highest level of security and we had to minimize movement three buildings for security reasons at a time some of our buildings were not successful the metropolitan police told r.t. that they don't comment on security issues but marine says that talking about political issues shouldn't make her a security. indonesia's national carrier is canceling an order

for dozens of boeing seven three seven max eight aircraft after two fatal crashes involving the planes the country's investigators have pointed to clear similarities between last october's tragedy in the java sea and a crash in ethiopia this month the us is also probing the two disasters and so far no findings have been released. next but have been pointing to one particular feature of the seven three seven max eight it's called maneuvering characteristics or when taishan system or m c a s when the system detects that the plane is pitching upwards it pushes the nose back down the two disasters both happened minutes after takeoff when the planes were gaining altitude and some experts believe the so-called safety feature caused the pilots to lose control. meanwhile the u.s. aviation authority is facing questions in congress say that its rowlett overseeing

the aircraft industry u.s. defense honest i've been ill and told those regulations may need to be reviewed what sometimes happens is the regulatory budget gets cut perhaps the agency doesn't do is this. a failure but i think that will also be looked at as well as the looking at the technical physical aspects of what do we do to correct the problem and we'll they're also asking questions congress is asking questions about whether the. f.a.a. had sufficient regulation of this and monitored it sufficiently or whether they were funding problems that they didn't have enough money or want what the issue is that still to be determined at this time as well. a bombshell investigation has claimed that u.s. based mercenaries helped haiti's president consolidate power eight self described

security workers including a local dry as a well legislate employed by america and arrested back in february but then released without charge it tends rivalries in the haitian government trying to turn to government protests in the country. oh. just what they missed an exhausted given that these men were most scenarios he says that they were here to attack part of the executive branch of the government. probably what.

you see in those reports due to privacy considerations we're unable to comment further they were apparently going to transfer eighty million dollars out of the petrel caribbean account in haiti in the bank to another account which would be under the control of president cho from elmo we see the petro caribbean account required authorization if you will from. his then prime minister. and the bank president by day in dubois so this was apparently their mission they entered haiti many of them without stamping their passport without going through immigration without going through customs they had come in with weapons which is a violation not just of u.s.

law but haitian law pressure from the u.s. embassy had been released in a completely illegal manner are you able now that the piece is released had to disclose your source and if not why not. spend a week in haiti speaking to. who should police officials justice department officials people. with any connection who had any knowledge at all of this operation secure discloser source the. requested immunity. so we have to protect our source came of as broke the story for the intercept online news outlets but one of the most marries a retired navy seal disputes that version of events chris salzman say's they were hired to escort a hasty american businessman to sign an investment contract and were arrested the day before he planned to meet the town's meeting and down deleted instagram post he

also claims they were used as quote pawns they were public fight between the haitian president and prime minister the pm was dismissed on monday. but meanwhile u.s. senator marco rubio was in the country on thursday to discuss how a new government will be forms there haiti's new prime minister was appointed the same day of course author came a visit and says u.s. attempts to influence haitian politics will spark further under arrest in the country. a. certain irritant or a certain combustibility to the situation. they really arrived on the last day of the latest spasm of. demonstrations the prime minister in fact when he was voted out by the deputies was in front of the senate. answering for what happened with these mercenaries

so i think yes the whole mercenary story has played a role one from the questions everybody had about it and now that our story has come out basically. torn off the liver pulled back the curtain on this story and i think that this is going to create even more outrage and more consternation. on the part of the haitian people. a quick reminder on the political situation in haiti opposition protesters remain angry over skyrocketing inflation and alleged government corruption they blame that on the current president who was sworn in two years ago on a pledge to create more jobs and improve living conditions. to iraq now where people in mosul have thrown one.