the chilean economy screamed so loud some making. it. all trump welcomes the findings of a long awaited miller report which concludes that he did not conspire with russia to win the twenty sixteen u.s. election. there was no word to russia there was no trouble shooting and none whatsoever. around one million people march in london against brags it piling the pressure on prime minister these withdrawal plan is already in tax cuts . and sunday marks twenty years since nato starts its so-called humanitarian campaign in then yugoslavia many locals see the military offensive in

which thousands were killed as a regime change operation. a warm welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international all the latest headlines and a round of the stories that shape the week our top story president trump's team did not conspire with russia to win the twenty sixteen u.s. election that's the key finding of a special counsel robert miller two year investigation the president's house called it complete exoneration well earlier i discussed the story with artie's donald quarter. the mainstream media for one has been harping on this investigation for months they've been saying just let's just wait for the results from the miller investigation it came out and the government is twenty five million dollars almost three thousand subpoenas and over five hundred search warrants deep with little to show for it if anything now the main thrust of this investigation was to was

basically to find evidence that donald trump was colluding with the russian government to win the two thousand and sixteen presidential election but the attorney general in this summary that he released says that there was insufficient evidence at best. as the report states the investigation did not establish that the members of the trim campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities now the summary did still do finger pointing at russia it accuses the russians of successfully disseminating information to influence the outcome of the election it claims that russian generals hacked to the e-mails of hillary clinton and other prominent democrats to leak information to wiki leaks now of course we haven't seen any concrete of information to affirm any of this but the attorney general does go as far to say the trump committed no crime we noted that the special counsel recognized that the evidence does not establish that the president was involved in an underlying crime

related to russian election interference and i will not determinative the absence of such evidence bears upon the president's intent with respect to obstruction so what about the obstruction of justice muller spin trying to get donald trump on obstructing justice and attempting to thwart the special counsel's attempts to look into him throughout the investigation though in the summary of the attorney general says that he has the final say and determined that there wasn't sufficient information or sufficient evidence to prove that from pad committed the crime and that's because the special counsel itself said that they also could not definitively say that the president committed a crime although they said also that they didn't absolve him of it were guard list from seemed more than confident it was just announced it was no good with the right the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard there was no collusion with the russians there was no ups truck here and none whatsoever. and it

was a complete and total exoneration. it's a shame that our country had to go through this. son donald trump jr even lashed out. on twitter against on elected bureaucrats who he said were to blame for the entire farce while the democrats are now saying that the attorney general was actually biased the entire time against the special counsel and now they're calling for the full publication of mahler's report we will demand the release of the full report the president has not been exonerated by the special counsel yet the attorney general has decided not to go further or apparently to share those findings with the public we now call on the attorney general to honor that request to release the report and the underlying evidence and to appear before the judiciary committee to answer our questions without delay attorney general doris

letter raises as many questions as answers the fact that special counsel miller support does not exonerate the president on a charge as serious as obstruction of justice demonstrates how urgent it is that the full report and underlying documentation be made public without any further delay this report could have serious implications for our national security there is no excuse for not disclosing all the facts and keeping its detail secret now on the other hand mike pence praised the summaries conclusions and said the democrats should join the republicans in moving forward after the conclusions of this investigation so were two years after the beginning of it mounds of resources were spent in investigating democrats claims that trump may have colluded with the russians and the department of justice basically says that there's almost nothing to show for it and that's where we're at fault of his personal attorney rudy giuliani has said there needs to be an investigation into why the most appropriate conducted including who started it and who paid for it. takes

a closer look at the long awaited report. two years they spent beating and bagging on the drums of collusion looking for traitors betrayal russian agents spies and sellouts and leading this righteous crusade inquisition is the champion savior a messiah of the left robert mueller all eyes are on special counsel robert muller the man who could save this democracy in the mall or investigation as the best hope the white house is bracing bracing for the final report speculations are building wait for them all or report wait for the marble i think robert mueller is going to get to the bottom of it was so much hope so much optimism that the traitors would be rooted out all for nothing ended by a letter in a plain envelope no more indictments not one american charged with colluding with

russia how that hurt if you could only feel the pundits pain now come the tias robert muller is still at this point publicly silent as he has been from the very beginning honestly flip through the different news channels see for yourself the full spectrum of emotions where some cry others rage you think he missed the boat here how can they lead trump off the hook how can that happen then of course there's the nile how can this be on a single traitor unthinkable it must be a conspiracy it feels like the seeds of a coverup are here amongst the tea is the rage and the denial is also acceptance sad acceptance the good old days of burning witches are over by investigating the president and reaching conclusions he did

a solid favor he's been the sunshine so thank you robert. but you call and fool everyone there are journalists loosely speaking that know better better than you me the f.b.i. and common sense i don't need them on the report to know he's a traitor i have the t.v. they have the door includes few they believe that the traces are out there they will be found that the hunt goes on this is the start of something apparently not the end of something this is the end of the beginning a short moeller report would mark the end of the beginning not the beginning of the end this saga after the president is legal saga doesn't appear to be anywhere close to being over as the president hopes and while the pundits weep and cry scream everyone else is laughing at them can you really blame them.

well stocked guests for their views on the live reports and what it means for both trump pounds the democrats. of the whole russia gate narrative and all the different variations of it or sort of crumbling right now this is basically the deja vu moment for the journalistic class and sort of perpetuate the same failure during the two thousand and sixteen elections to dial down a lot of the real polling numbers misreported inflated exaggerated so they've

reframed the president they framed his staff cabinet appointees associates and even his supporters of being russian agents and this is the biggest political hoax in the history of the united states two and a half years of a complete fabricated political hoax i think the american people have not cared about the russian gay issue there are the polls show that this is been an issue that the media is care about that the democrats have cared about the democrats need to focus on bread and butter issues health care education homelessness infrastructure but they've decided time and again to focus on the secondary issues at question and if they continue to do so they do so with their error was a bunch of washington d.c. insiders trying to distract from real crimes of the clinton campaign and the obama administration that people desperately wanted to cover up and now will come out

uncorked but the american people are not missing of the america people are going to turn against this these corrupt insiders and cut out in space in this two thousand and twenty election. of two million people marched across london on saturday morning for a second breakfast at referendum along with the public members of parliament also attended the protest rally comes off the e.u. need is agreed to give the u.k. a source extension to the withdrawal deadline with parliament's having twice rejected the prime minister's deal. that stuff just so if i was going to ask nowheres about that nothing stop an international laughing stock i would say she needs to listen to what makes her say i feel really passionately that we've been really really like our friends here in the room we need state that i believe the majority nowadays to travel to new people put a stop to this practice didn't even have a plan and never had a plan it's a shame that we're in this mess but. i don't think there's anyone in the labor

party at the top of the labor party who's really taken control of. most of the facts it fights about while the prime minister has now been given a short extension of two weeks and she fails to get a deal through but that will be moved to may the twenty second if she does however the prime minister has warned she will put off the vote and so she can be guaranteed enough support in westminster and the us thrown bricks it into father disarray. they would be able to answer at least an extension until the. twentieth of april.

and the yes. on to the very. i. told. you that there's still empty you learnt it to me is the fact that a lot of space. it was certainly a long nights of discussion the decision making and chopping and changing plans multiple times at the e.u. council summit and finally a decision that was reached officially and that was an extension of article fifty until the twenty second of may conditional of course of to resume a passing up plan through the house of commons should that fail if the e.u. council has provided for a further extension of the twelfth of april for the u.k. to come forward and come up with a plan and

a process of what exactly to do next that also the side of course if they do intend to participate in the european parliamentary elections something which a would be rather pointless given their leaving the european union and be something that's a reason why he has said that would be almost a red line for something that she would not consider now to say that this decision was an easy one or a unanimous one at least from the very start would be misleading there were quite different positions on the e.u. council countries such as belgium and france president micron for one playing hardball stating that a no deal breaks it was still on the table others such as angle are called playing a more conciliatory tone calling for more understanding of the u.k. we discussed the issue with political consultant kinsmen morality is there is every step in the brig's it process is making the situation more complicated. when briggs it was first announced as an idea as a concept and there was no meat on the ball as to what the concept of what the

process actually would mean and we start off in a place with such uncertainty is no surprise us to the situation room now so unless the identity of briggs it is made clear it be disruptions and stalling methods will only continue i think the sentiment right now in parliament is that. it's almost an impossibility of this deal going through and if it does go through it will go through under very pressured measures which means peace in parliament won't vote with what they believe is to be the best way for forward but will do it because the time pressures are so tight which almost always parliament around and saying this is the only deal we have and you better put it through because your certainties are too big and too widespread to even imagine. sunday marks twenty years since nato started its bombing campaign against the former yugoslavia what

nato claimed was a humanitarian operation to help the country's separatists locals or as a regime change campaign in which thousands were killed they said became involved in yugoslavia in march nine hundred ninety nine after sectarian tensions between serbians and also the albanians turned violent the alliance backs the latter without any un mandates nato bombed yugoslavia for almost three months straight leaving many parts of serbia devastated. this sunday people took to the streets of belgrade the former yugoslavia and capital they condemned the nato bombing that ended serbia's rule over a territory that many you gathered still view is the nation's historic heartland r.t. america correspondent alex mchale of it has more on the anniversary of the conflict . this was serbia twenty years ago.

on march twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred nine ruthless nato campaign against the small balkan nation began i was there at the time so i'm going to take you through a bit of a personal journey at the time i was living here serbia's third largest city northeast side which seemed to be a million miles away from the battles in kosovo that very evening i was chilling out on the couch watching t.v. with my dog when suddenly the earth started shaking and the sky turned a bright red warning the airstrikes had begun after the first explosion or ran down the stairs trying to get out of the house not knowing where the next floor was going to hit. the second i stopped at the store. looked up in the sky and there was a cruise missile flying over the house over there seconds later another explosion. that tomahawk missile hit a target in the hills above nobody saw it was one of fifty five u.s.

cruise missiles used against yugoslavia that night after by hundreds of fixed wing bombing operations well nato feel to destroy most military targets it was effective when it came to killing civilians this is the city of nice in southern serbia it's the location of one the most serious bombings of the nato campaign event happened may seventh nine hundred ninety nine cluster bombs dropped fifteen people dead in the middle of the day one of those bombs killed a twenty seven year old woman who was seven months pregnant earth. did you see that it happened on the girdle it's a bridge on april twelfth one thousand nine hundred nine nato planes targeted a civilian passenger trade not once but twice at least. nine people died in the incident some say the number could be as high as sixty today the bridge where the attack occurred has been rebuilt walking around the site which has become a monument to the dead you can't help but reflect on the horrors that happened here

. there's no claim to sanctions were motivated by quote numerous human rights violations in cost of a the alliance also says it's as strike campaign achieved its goal which was to hold any military activity and repression in the region well we spoke to dr william novick who was working in yugoslavia with a team of u.s. doctors and nurses in march one thousand nine hundred nine about his experience on the day the bombing started every single story going all night all the after sundown and the bombs started dropping within a few minutes after that we were in a very critical juncture in operating on the schild and i looked at some of the child chest and said listen you know. my country for whatever reason is bombing

your country tonight a number of your countrymen are going to die but this child that is on the table that is ten days old is not going to die tonight we're going to take this child safely downstairs and then all of you can go home to your families. i want to jay that. that was one of the most horrific nights. that i've experienced. in the children's intensive care unit is on the top floor there's a balcony that goes about seventy percent of the way around the building and i went outside with my coffee and i saw a number of fighter bombers as well. as being trained seven american mercenaries tried to help eighty's president consolidate power by a school saying a presidential aide carrying eighty million dollars they allegedly arrived in the caribbean country amid anti-government protests they were later arrested but then

released without charge. just leave mr madoff be given enough these men or most scenarios he says if he were here to attack part of the executive branch of the government it's. probably. seen those reports that due to privacy considerations we're unable to comment further came of us broke the story for the news websites the intercept.

they were apparently going to transfer eighty million dollars out of the petro caribbean account in haiti in the bank to another account which would be under the control of president job. the petro caribbean account required authorization if you will from. his then prime minister nuri say ah and the bank president john 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 to 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 them released in a completely illegal manner i spent

a week in haiti speaking to haitian police officials justice department officials people. with any connection who had any knowledge at all of this operation to can't disclose our source the. requested anonymity and so we have to protect our shores. however one of the most neris a retired navy seal disputes that version of events crystal's him and says that they were hired to ask security for a businessman and never actually met the presidential aide and then down deleted instagram post he said they were pulling the public fights between the haitian president and prime minister us that as a marco rubio who is met with the haitian president said the situation in the country demonstrated sharp political divisions protests in haiti continue ever soaring inflation and claims of government corruption they blame the current

president who was sworn in on a pledge to increase employment and improve living conditions. a. certain irritant or a certain combustibility to the situation. they really arrived on the last 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. that our story has come out basically. torn off the liver pulled back the curtain on this story i think that

this is going to create even more outrage and more consternation. on the part of the haitian people. john and politicians have called for the expulsion of the us ambassador richard grinnell after he criticized berlin's plan to reduce defense spending. nato members clearly pledged to move towards not away from two percent by twenty twenty four that the german government would even be considering reducing its already on acceptable commitments to military readiness is a worrisome signal to germany's twenty eight nato allies mistake or not is a total failure of the diplomats all of this behavior is rather borish with his repeated clumsy provocations mystical now is harming transatlantic relations since mr grinnell to cup his post as ambassador in berlin he has and several occasions quite conspicuously interfered in the internal affairs of the federal republic of

germany his behavior in the host country is anything but diplomatic and brother reminiscent of the governor of an empire this comes despite german military spending increasing last year by five billion dollars it's not the first time for now has his house of the country's policies slamming everything from its relations with the wrong to the use of equipment from chinese tech giant huawei donald trump has also been a vocal critic of berlin spending a kidding it's a free loading of the u.s. military. and german companies doing business in iran wind down operations and media. never tell a host country what to do. we're not a banana republic. a

mix of one side type term. from a u.s. diplomat jim just possibly but then is starting to question its alliance with washington mr grinnell does have president trump's personal support now there was talk that mr going l. might be moved to the united nations where nikki haley left but that didn't happen so i think it would be a very embarrassing for the administration to withdraw him the problem is is that we have now have an american ambassador who is fro on polish about it especially with demands not spending more money on nato and you can't have five g. from while away and you must not be buying. russian gas and complete the north stream to pipeline that it's starting to get on their nerves and maybe beginning to

dawn on some people in germany that maybe this american relationship is not all it's cracked up to be now some people want to say this is all a question of style got think it's becoming clear that it's really more a question of substance. well those are the headlines for this hour we're back in thirty minutes with the latest scene there.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race to move his arms off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. and welcome to the world a part of twenty years ago nato launched its first military operation with the

approval of the un security council the talent week bombing off yugoslavia was celebrated as a training point in the history of warfare proving that a conflict can be won by air power alone if you take it on does it still seem like a victory all to discuss that i'm now joined by a slow but on some margin professor of political sciences at the university of belgrade professor good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. good afternoon first of all let me ask you what do you remember of that day march twenty fourth ninety ninety nine where warrior when the bombs started falling on the yugoslavia i was in my place in belgrade and the bombing started late afternoon on the fourth of march. expected that because. we had a process was finished with no success.