a series of deadly explosions in sri lanka reportedly killed one hundred ninety and injure hundreds more the targets were hotels and churches during when the island's christian minority were celebrating easter sunday. in the weeks main stories from r.t. there was no collusion between donald trump and russia because the report reaches its cold conclusion also ahead. on. the heart of france. and then for no doubt the stories its roof on the spire.

yet with the big stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment of elements as well welcome to the weekly on our international at we begin with new developments in sri lanka this easter sunday where the death toll from a series of blasts on churches and tells us increased to one hundred ninety people that's according to the country's defense minister this is video showing the first blast on the nice church in the hearts of the shore like in capital colombo eight blasts in total rocked the country on sunday on a curfew was the kurd immediately afterwards many of the victims were from the christian minority who were celebrating easter we should warn you that the

following images are disturbing. was. i was i was was. was seven people have been arrested following the attacks well this is video of a suspect detained on the side of the seventh blast in the outskirts of the capital the shrunken prime minister has promised those behind the attack will face a stern response let's not go through the sequence of the first of six blasts occurred just after nine am local time in the capital one church on three luxury hotels were targeted another place of worship that was hit was in the city of nig.

forty kilometers north of the capital a further blast happened on the opposite side of the island. then a seventh explosion within the last few hours or so hit a small hotel close to the capital the if attack took place in the eye skirts of colombo there are reports it was a suicide bomb but took the lives of three police officers this is the aftermath of one of the explosions in the group yet claimed responsibility for the atrocities. is a mainly buddhist country and less than ten percent of the population are catholic speaking at the easter service of the vatican pope francis's deny it's today's attacks is a cruel often expressed his support for all those affected political geostrategic expert java drama shared his thoughts on today's attacks. i think there was

a level of uncomfortable to do among different communities particularly after there was a some sort of writing between some of the nationalist groups and we should not forget the phenomenon of terrorism and violence is not at all going to be new to this. it was heat from one thousand eight hundred three. thousand and nine when there was an insurgency particularly not east of sri lanka sitting in government that it's all over in two thousand and nine when they got rid of that insurgency and then they they all took. off the suicide bombing not that is this something again has happened now off the one thousand nine years but at this particular point point of time there are new dynamics to be used to situation incident link up there are other factors like dash dash has been operating everywhere in the board well i think the message is quite good out community michnik of it on seven percent of the

student confabulation. the message is to try to find them to give them obvious from diversion places and also the messages to the foreigners who have been doing this through lanka i think it is going to come down hard on this link in economy it is going to be more negative really disturbing of when it comes to getting city link up the situation in the past changing. ok to one of the week's big stories now after a two year investigation and almost nonstop media coverage of the so named russia gate scandal the heavily redacted moeller report has finally sorted it all right the document that came out on thursday reveals there was no cooperation between donald trump or any american with russians in the twenty sixteen presidential election. the special counsel's report states that his quote investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the

russian government in its election interference activities but donald trump isn't off the hook in the eyes of the democrats and many media outlets such a few days ago the u.s. has to destry committee issued a subpoena for the ducted report to be made available as many parts of the published version have been blocked the focus now shifts to the possible obstruction of the investigation by the us president more in all about an hour from our senior correspondent maria yes the. two years america waited for this hoped and prayed it would unmake trump all exonerate him that the new report would and this two year long drama about collusion hacking and conspiracy people would get closure what america got was this page off the redacted page censored into any legibility obviously some

of this stuff could pass for more than ott and as with everyone interprets this report how they want and they're having a good day i'm having a good day q who's called. no collusion no obstruction even it is incomplete for me to work with him only report outlines disturbing evidence. president's trip in gage in obstruction of justice and oh there is kind of confused so was mueller trump may have been cleared of collusion but obstruction of justice scalia in the. mueller writes that it's so complicated he couldn't decide whether trump tried to obstruct justice or not by the guilty no innocent the conclusion the congress may apply the obstruction laws to the president's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the

principle that no person is above the law specifically mueller found eleven instances where trump potentially tried to obstruct justice and democrats have jumped on it the miller report brings a disturbing picture of a president who has been weaving new web of deceit lies and improper behavior and acting as if the law doesn't apply to him it's a very interesting a very disturbing read that does not exonerate this president the whole repercussions for the country of having a president who lies to the country who misleads the country you urges others to do so a president to. to my reading of. the report almost certainly obstructed justice certainly intended and attempted to obstruct justice and if true this alleged trumped tantrum is only making it so much sweeter the president slumped back in his chair and said oh my god this is terrible this is the

end of my presidency i'm. you know this report has trump political the democrats smell blood they have trump and like blood hounds still mercilessly dogged him for obstruction and anyone that gets in the way the messenger included they ministration has a new face and a new method of hair and long with a lot more stature he's the country's attorney general he said half a dozen times no collision no collision no lawyer no legal presentation presenting its conclusion six times the attorney general getting out there and getting his narrative his take on it as vigorously as possible because attorney general barr wants to represent our trouble i think he should resign they're calling for bud to resign a traitor a sellout they scream and they want mueller himself the darling just a few months ago to be hauled before congress the mueller reports and did nothing

those who hated trump hated him more and vice versa if anything this report is going to america and americans further apart but they go to tell you at least in committee a fracture is a happy. for russia itself the report claims there are five schools meddling in the twenty six thousand elections in quite a sweeping systematic fashion moscow responded with its own statement saying the investigation shows no evidence of such actions as expected there was a wave of reaction to the release of the report here's just some of the views are against shared with us. they still can't get to a point where the president did with russia and in fact they said quite categorically it did not happen so then why would the president knowing he is innocent obs struct put that in as a matter of pure politics as

a sop to the democrats who are on the commission twenty five attorneys all of them democrats most of them hillary supporters a large number of them hillary donors and we had to do something in the report to make them happy why did this investigation even begin i mean was there wrongdoing there was there you know falsification of documents to get pfizer warrants there's a lot of embarrassment here we're talking about millions upon millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars of time wasted if things happened for something that legitimately had no basis in fact and any evidence that might have been presented to start the smaller investigation all last night we had chuck schumer saying that will how dare william barr you know come out and speak before we get the report what kind of report with this be after that we're going to start hearing about how the redactions are the way a way to hide the real truth and it's really never going to end we're going to continue to see one thing after another with trump but they went immediately from russia collusion to try on taxes trying financial statements and william bars obstruction so i mean the arguments haven't stopped yet they're not going to stop

but we do have what seems to be a very conclusive case of absolutely no collusion most of the attorneys i talked to at the beginning of this said when they start investigations like this they always find something on their target it came back that he was squeaky clean and i think that turns the conversation from what's inside of this investigation to what prompted what was the impetus who paid for this investigation the rule of the united states the constitutional law as you're innocent until proven guilty that right actually was not given our president he was absolutely considered guilty by much of the leftist regressive media in the united states and so i don't know exactly how they're going to explain. the more time the democrats do spend on this the more they're damaging their own party going into elections. this sunday could mark a significant change in ukraine with the voting under way in the second round of the presidential election the incumbent leader is facing

a serious challenge from account of it he's hardly your run of the mill politician he is in fact a doctor and standup comedian both through portions. turned out early to cast their votes polling stations are due to close at eight pm local time with exit polls shortly afterwards turning right is currently run fifty percent ukrainian citizens who live in russia or in eastern. republics cannot vote their. yellow vests to demonstrators in paris have been left infuriated by the huge amounts of money pledged to repair or not. but to satisfy their own demands we'll have. more on the devastating blaze after this break.

you know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that made history media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy to confront asian let it be an arms race is on offense very dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

a world treasure up in flames from the rest of the world this week camping coming to terms with monday's devastating fire that ravaged not the dumb cathedral in paris investigators believe the blaze may have been the result of ongoing restoration work or possibly an electrical fault but a saturday evenings easter vigil normally held of course in not the dam was moved to a nearby church prism across as pledge the building will rise from the ashes after dramatic scenes of the historic spire collapse and shook the world. ha.

ha ha ha ha. fronts which is burning really see. these are her two friends of paris and so that's part of what we are losing tonight c c c look at notre dame is the heart of paris it is grind it is monumental it is horrible to see everything i had to learn

going down in small centuries of our heritage. yeah. you. live. over. here i said. it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of france i leave that far away so it's devastating but a monument like this is burning. and then moshe. i say this to you so know that we will rebuild this great cathedral together we will appeal to the greatest talents to help restore not true them because this is what the french people expect and it is what our history deserves

it is our destiny. drone footage obtained by our video agency ripley shows where the fire tore through the eight hundred fifty year old building as you can see from the images the damage is extensive it treatable is one of the most popular tourist attractions in group pulling in thirteen million visitors every year as we just saw the spire on the roof collapsed the famous twin bell towers as well as the north rose window both of which were built in the thirteenth century were saved as was the church's most precious relic the crown of thorns the former deputy director of culture at unesco ses and author of a. well now i have to go through reconstruction rather than restoration. now we think the structure of that one long yesterday i mean all uses gone. completely

and what would have to be. really a major reconstruction. major reconstruction project this will. difficult to say today. how much it cost to the ongoing know that many many hundreds. in a way was also. more than society can do for the modern. you know about one hundred years ago hundred years ago because you know when two major more. regimes and there's been. generations so i. think. we have to. be able to. bring that to the future. what was largely an on expected reaction the. violent unrest in france.

the twenty third straight day of government. gathered again nationwide protests directing their anger at plans to spend to repair the feet of. i. know they were executing well they call it we have to save money but why do they give so right away for a monument and for nothing else all of

a religious cannot hold them are not true for all the people reach people can afford to give millions to repair it or their vocation of not to damage charity helping the poor would denounce a government policies that have allowed this only guards to reach themselves they can hand out charity money but it really is because of those people that we have so much inequality in trunks when for when we always have strong mobilization we're going to express our goals more and more unstable we especially hope that the government will accept our demands or french business leaders were quick to react to the fire and have already donated hundreds of millions of bureau to rebuild not throw down on international affairs analysts we spoke to though thinks many people are frustrated at the size of the donations of the time of growing inequality. they're shocked by the fact that in one might. the very rich people can give more than one euros to rebuild. it's not a problem they're giving money to rebuild the problem is that all these people

making very very rich these last fifteen years at ten years ago we had three timeless billionaires there were thirty governors now there are one hundred. their wealth is growing very fast and they using all the approaching she's given by the european union and the french system this is pushed by you. to send their money away in offshore countries and more of the shocking for the universe is that that money that they're giving by make people to the very kind it should have been already in the in the hand of the state. all right let's get a reminder then of the deadly events that have been unfolding in sri lanka where the number of deaths from a series of blasts on churches and hotels has increased to one hundred ninety dollars according to the country's defense minister for the revisions of our

expected indeed no the police are putting the number of two hundred seven with a further four hundred fifty people injured seven people we believe have been arrested following the attacks no word to their allegiances or otherwise at this point it is fear the number of victims will increase significantly once the situation in the run does become somewhat clearer a twelve hour curfew has been put in place with immediate effect on calm has been called for by the country's leader and as we say just the car if i know group has thus far come forward to admit carrying out a series of deadly attacks or right death row itself in the dock next in our documentary the. ultimate penalty state with our church. my body told me that i belong with the board. my thoughts my mind with and

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comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another. what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more we give them the sooner. it was. that. there.

we're learning new details about the killing of a metro p.c.s. employee who was murdered on the job this saturday evening police say they have caught the man who did it the sheriff's office says he goes by the nickname. twenty one year old james rhodes is charged with the murder of twenty year old shelby farah. still don't know if that means she's in the. right here in the chair in the wrist in the thigh with

a forty caliber glock and every bullet exiting. the video shows her standing and then she collapsed to her knees she was reaching for the. she fought for her life for twenty minutes before she died. i think about that every day where she reaches for the. you know. joyleen struggle to take even a few steps towards her daughter's vigil she says tonight the pain of shelby's loss is real i'm going to make sure if it takes the last breath that he needs to get the death penalty.

we begin today's show with a look at the chaos surrounding executions in the united states now that many of the drugs use release the injections are no longer available the execution drugs scarcity stems from the receipt of manufacturers in europe and united states to live to be used to people to death. i think the job of defending. the most unpopular amongst our society is absolutely indispensable. part of our society. all of my clients have already been tried convicted and sentenced to death in ohio state court system. basically every execution has been scheduled going back to june third of two thousand and nine really slagle he ended up committing suicide three days before the execution very midst on september twenty fifth was executed wrong phillips was next on nov fourteenth two thousand and thirteen.

but his mother. all the attorneys for an ohio inmate scheduled to die through an experimental execution method say their client will suffer a terrifying and agonizing death according to his lawyers the untested injection method it will not properly statement which will cause him to feel the pain of suffocation before he dies and his mcquire is on death row for the nine hundred eighty nine rape and murder of pregnant woman joy stewart. the state is planning to inject him with a two drug mix that's never been used in the next occasion before. we presented our case to the judge to stop the execution. we argue that dennis is going to essentially feel be consciously aware of feeling like he is going to suffocate like he is suffocating because he is suffocating because of the way the two arms were.