plus we're not going to. reveal. a series of deadly explosions in sri lanka reportedly killed at least two hundred seven people and injured hundreds the targets were hotels and churches because the island's christian minority were celebrating easter sunday. in the week's news parts there was no collusion between. russia the report finally publishes it's. also an. eye on. the hearts fronts not through.

the straw as its roof. but the big stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well welcome to the weekly on our national we begin with those latest developments from today a series of bomb attacks in sri lanka the number of deaths from the blast on churches and hotels has increased to two hundred seven this easter sunday according to the country's defense minister this is video showing the first blast on the nice church in the heart of the shore like in the capital colombo eight blasts in total rocked the country on sunday on a twelve hour curfew was declared immediately afterwards many of the victims were from the christian minority who were celebrating the holiest day on the christian

calendar we should warn you that the following images are disturbing. was. was. i was i was was was well seven people are currently under arrest this is video of a suspect attained at the science of the seventh blas then the outskirts of the comp of the the sri lankan prime minister has promised those behind the attack will face a stern response. let's just go through the timeline in the first blast occurred just after nine am local time in the capital one church and three luxury

hotels were targeted another place of worship that was hit was in the city of ncgub that's around forty kilometers north of the capital a further blast happened on the opposite side of the island a popular tourist destination. and then a seventh explosion within the last number of hours ahead a small hotel close to the capital and then even after the if attack took place on the ice skirts of colombo there are reports it was a suicide bombing which took the lives of three police officers who were conducting a raid on an apartment block in pursuit of the attackers let's go take a look at the aftermath of one of the explosions and we should reiterate up this stage no group has claimed to be behind the attacks no one's claimed responsibility sri lanka is a mainly by this country less than ten percent of the population are afflict speaking out the easter service of the fabric and pope francis than once the day's

events as a cruel lie on expressed his support for all those affected. i wish to express my heartfelt soul. barrett with the christian communities affected while it was a prayer and with all the victims of search tool violence. political and geostrategic expert java drama ses there had been disquiet between religious communities in the lead up to sunday's atrocities. i think there was a level of uncomfortable or among different communities particularly after there was a some sort of writing between some of the nationalist groups and we should not forget there the phenomenon of terrorism and violence is not at all going to new to this. it was heat from one thousand eight hundred three. thousand and nine when there was an insurgency particularly not east of. sitting in government taught that it's all over in two thousand and nine when big got rid of that insurgency and then

they they all tell you. the suicide bombing not that is this something again has happened now after nine nine nine years but at this particular point point of time there are new dynamics to get used to to dick situation inside a link there are other factors like dash because dash has been operating everywhere in the board well i think the message is quite clear to the christian community which make up it on seven percent of the student in confabulation. the message is to try to fight them to give them obvious from diversion places and also the messages to the foreigners who have been doing this to lanka i think it is going to come down hard on this link in economy it is going to be negatively to disturb of when it comes to putting city link up the situation is a posture. not after a two year investigation an almost nonstop media coverage of the soon named russia

gate scandal the heavily redacted miller report finally sorted it out the document dropped on thursday revealing that there was no cooperation between don't drum or indeed any american and any 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 the spike doesn't donald trump isn't off the hook in the eyes of the democrats and many media outlets a few days ago the u.s. hostage district committee issued a subpoena for the on redacted report to meet available as many parts of the published version had been blacked out the focus now shifts to the possible obstruction of the investigation by the u.s. president more on all that knowledge from our senior correspondent murat guessed it 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 sensitive into elegibility obviously some of this stuff could pass for more than ott and as with aat 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 a mole report outlines disturbing evidence. president's trip in gage in obstruction of justice and oh that was 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 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 you have found eleven instances where trump potentially tried to obstruct justice and democrats have jumped on it the miller report prints 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 merciless lead dog him for obstruction and anyone that gets in the way the messenger included they ministration has a new face a new method of terror 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 got to tell you at least in committee a fracture is a happy. loss for russia itself the report claims there are facts of moscow's meddling in the twenty sixteen election in quotes a sweeping and systematic fashion moscow responded saying the investigation shows no evidence of such actions as expected there was a wave of reaction to the release of the miller report your some of the views are

gas shared with. they still can't get to a point where the president clued in with russia in fact they said quite categorically it did not happen so then why would the president knowing he is innocent obstruct buller 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 this similar investigation all last night we had chuck schumer saying that well 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 underway 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. this sunday could mark a significant change in ukraine with voting on the way in the second run of the presidential election the incumbent leader is facing a serious challenge from a candidate who's well hardly your run of the mill politician he is in fact in a durham stand up comedian both president petro poroshenko zelinsky turned durley to cast their votes polling stations are due to close at eight pm local time that's just less than four hours with exit polls shortly after the ukrainian

citizens who live in russia though or in the eastern done the at sky. republics. only exceptions as you know other countries take.

the housing crisis was the result of securitizing mortgages that were resold to dozens of times like goldman sachs was betting as their own clients and they were engaged in massive fraud they get bailed out by timothy geithner it is friends and now they go of that controlled demolition of the housing market is that all the housing is concentrated in a few hands like blackstone as a gift from their friends of the central banks and the result is medieval.

world treasure up in flames from the rest of the world this week up and coming to terms with monday's devastating fire that ravaged nothing cathedral in part this investigators believe the blaze may have been the result of ongoing restoration work or possibly an electrical fault in the evenings easter vigil normally held in nothing was moved to a nearby church here president mccrone pledged to rise the building from its options after a dramatic scenes of the historic spire saying shook the world. you

know says there are two fronts which is burning really says his or her friend says a lot of paris so that's a part of our culture we are losing tonight says city look at notre down is the heart of paris it is granger it is monumental it is horrible to see everything we had to learn going up in smoke centuries of our heritage. love. a. place that. it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of france not far away so

it's devastating that a monument like this is burning. and in motion. i say this to someone else and 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 this is what our history deserves it is our destiny. drone footage obtained by video agency ripley shows where the fire tore through the eight hundred and fifty year old building as you can see from the images the damage is extensive when the cathedral is one of the most popular tourist attractions in europe pulling in thirteen million visitors

every year the spire on the roof collapsed as we said but the famous twin bell towers as well as the north rose window both of which were built in the thirteenth century were saved so too was the cathedrals most precious relic the crown of thorns. the former deputy director of culture at unesco sees nothing i've done will now have to go through reconstruction rather than restoration. now how do we think the structure of that one long yesterday i mean he says gone. we have to completely different things and what would have to be done that is really a major reconstruction not just starvation care major reconstruction projects this will. difficult to say today. how much it cost certainty on going know that many many hundreds of moves dollars even in a way has also seen

a lot more that society can do for the money because you know about one hundred years ago under putin years ago because you know when two major players of associations and there's been two outs them through. the generations so i remember feeling or i think everybody we have to continue to say forward and be able to. bring that to the future generations. well the aftermath of the. blaze gave renewed focus for the latest yellow vests protests weeks of relative calm turned violent during saturday's protest with anger directed at wealthy french donors who had pledged vast sums of money for the cathedral for a per within dollars police were braced for trouble on the fly tear gas and water cannon and part.

they were executing male vocal we have to save. but why do they give so readily for a monument and for nothing else more of a religious god not heard them are not true all the people reach people can afford to give millions to repair it but their vocation i'm not sure dumbest charity helping the poor would denounce a government policies that have allowed this only goes to enrich themselves they can hand out charity money but really it's because of those people that we have so much inequality in trunks but we always have strong mobilization we're going to

express our goals more and more in stages of all we specially hope that the government will accept our demands for its billionaires and wealthy families race to boost the cathedral repair donations with one more goal pledging one hundred million euro lol and international affairs analysts we spoke to think star display of inequality has frustrated many in france who are struggling to get by. they're shocked by the fact that in one night. the very rich people can give more than one million 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 ten years ago we had three thousand less billionaires there were thirty governors now there are one hundred. their wealth is growing very fast and they using all the appropriate she's given by the european union and the french system this is pushed by the. court to send their

money away in offshore countries and where the shocking for the universe is a that money that they're giving by make people that are very kind it should have been already in the in the hand of the state. but something else that was on the protesters minds on saturday the arrest in london of wiki leaks founder julian assange a face mask was put on the joan of arc monument in toulouse along with a yellow vest bombers with a son just name were also displayed. sons is a rest also led to angry scenes in ecuador's capital all wednesday. there were clashes with police demonstrators in quito president marino accusing him of turning in the whistleblower to the united states where no one visited

washington where he accused the sons of hosting and coordinating doctors at the ecuadorian embassy in london he subsequently suspended us on jews citizenship last weekend terminated basis them made to the arrest of the australian national in the embassy. and the son was convicted by a british court of breaching the island twenty twelve he may also face extradition to the u.s. still could be charged there with conspiracy to a government computer but civil rights groups say some of the charges are based on actions that any journalist might. have been reports his arrest those rings fears for media freedom. what message does it send to the world that's the concern shared by the american civil liberties union the very body set up to defend civil freedoms in the united states the indictment is troubling nonetheless it characterizes as part of a criminal conspiracy journalistic t.v.'s that are not just lawful but essential to

press freedom now much of the indictment focuses on hacking and conspiring with chelsea manning however it's this bit that has everyone talking it was part of the conspiracy that assigns a man into question as to conceal man and as the source of the disclosure of classified records to weaken leaks including by removing the user names from the disclosed information and the lead in chat logs between man and the sounds so trying to protect the identities of anonymous leakers and whistleblowers is now considered to be illegal well if that's the case american mainstream media should be in huge trouble intelligence sources tell n.p.r. news the source tells n.b.c. news law enforcement and democratic sources telling c.n.n. that in a fide sources two sources with links to the counter intelligence community according to anonymous washington post source take this article from the washington post.

the washington post has obtained transcripts of two conversations president trump had with foreign leaders one with mexican president enrique pena nieto and to know that with australian prime minister malcolm turnbull the transcripts were prepared by the white house but have not been released the post is publishing reproductions rather than original documents in order to protect sources so time to bring in the department of justice it's a criminal conspiracy to cover up a leaker right or take this one this one turned out to not actually be true it looks like somebody in the government is actually spreading disinformation who could that be well c.n.n. is protecting its source we have a not anonymous sources we protect that for real reasons so the information that is important to the public through can get out of hand and sends donald trump has taken office hollywood has decided to celebrate the who wrote press the challenge the nixon administration back during the vietnam war. do you have the papers.

at the time so seven thousand pages detailing how the white house has been lying about the vietnam war for thirty years. i'm talking about exposing years of government secrets is that legal what is it you think we do here for a living so if you follow the logic of the indictment tom hanks' character is not a heroic journalist at all in fact he's a criminal and that points to another big question a number of voices have spoken up and said that it's ok to persecute and punish julian assange because quote he is not a real journalist but here's the thing the first amendment protects everyone whether you're labeled as a real journalist or not this is how the courts have explained it in the past as the supreme court has accurately warned a first amendment distinction between the institutional press on the speakers is unworkable the ninth circuit really believe that the world has changed and that everybody should be entitled to personal interactions so i do that of course julian assange to. protect in fact that he's hiding that name he's protecting his source

that's what journalists do he's a publisher. leaks is an organization that publishes truthful classified information that's in the public interest and under that definition he's definitely a journalist so at this point the u.s. department of justice is telling us that julian assange may have done a bad thing by trying to hack into top secret government files well nobody disputes that but the bigger issue may be what he actually was able to reveal wiki leaks made public a lot of information that angered powerful people and it seems that now they want him to pay up and r.t. new york just what actually did explode like it did and what does the future hold moxon space to go through all things bitcoin next in the cost report.

trump said many times that you know we got. advantages you know with within the embassy to jerusalem there with the mission that is our capital. he said that there would be something few things that israel will not like either so this is why i think that other students should come with opening the minds to the to the negotiations. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark so. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away

turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very first character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results geist on what they think you should be seen if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist for the more growth we give them the sooner we are all.

chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks those are the words spoken by big queen in the genesis block those are the first words of to the mood with max and stacy right this is the historic headline that was the times of london which was coded into the genesis block that of course appeared on january third two thousand and nine is it a reference to the purpose of bitcoin to disrupt a banking system or was it just a random headline to try to date when the genesis block was born one of the mysteries of bitcoin that we still debate today was at the beginning of the story january third two thousand and nine or was it october thirty first two thousand and eight when the suppose she white paper was published a peer to peer at electronic cash system was that the beginning was it the cypherpunks twenty thirty years previously when did big queen really began i think

it really began.