democrats schooled on the u.s. attorney general to resign accusing him of being terrified after he refused to testify further about his tight little report. day celebrations across europe by violent clashes between protesters and police. following mass demonstrations and all the rest of it as one of president nicolas maduro says a true has been averted opposition leader as well as his u.s. backers insist no military overthrow was being attempted all guests discuss the issue. as we get into power week of my bi national committee six

million people voted for nicolas maduro last may in a free and fair election that i observe you know how many people voted for won by done. and i welcome see on the live from moscow and don't know who king is revue or thanks for joining us on the program this all. of us democrats keeping up the pressure on attorney general william demanding he now testifies before the house judiciary committee that's awful he was grilled in the u.s. senate over his handling of the report says he will skip a hearing on thursday with the chair of the judiciary committee alleging the attorney general is terrified. i understand why you want to avoid that kind of scrutiny he is terrified is terrified of having to face a skilled attorney. back in march bob released

a full page summary of the report which stated that between donald trump and russia for obstruction of justice boss said the special counsel had failed to reach a conclusion on the monza it seems the democrats have still not going over the fallout from the report and explains. the democratic party is on the warpath and all who stand between them and their goal of ousting donald trump have a target on their forehead either join with them or step down this attorney general lacks all credibility that your desire earlier yes. he should step down or should resign and if he does not resign he should basing impeachment proceedings also he does need to resign to step up william barr he is the next target in between the democrats and their goal of impeaching donald trump why well he released the bob muller report showing no collusion with russia the special counsel found no collusion by any americans in ira's illegal activities testifying before the

senate bar was forced to answer questions about misleading the public and standing in the way and the democrats picked up on one key phrase in bob muller's letter that being public confusion about key aspects of the investigation the democrats thought they had him with this one but not so fast i asked him if he was suggesting that the march twenty fourth letter was inaccurate and he said no but that the press reporting had been inaccurate feels like the seeds of a cover up are here there are still many questions tonight for instance why president trump and so many people in his orbit lied about their contacts with russia i don't need them over report to know he's a traitor i have the t.v. but hope springs eternal for the democrats next to the stand obstruction of justice president trump in gauge the destruction of justice and those of his kind of president who. to my reading of. the report almost certainly obstructed justice or did you find that to be persuasive. justice.

you know but option still remain on the table for the democrats one perhaps being the fact that the report was redacted perhaps the bombshell the democrats wanted was simply cut out of the report the public version has been estimated to have. only ten percent redactions volume two has only about two percent redactions for the public versions from ninety eight percent of them to dealing with obstruction is available to the public think it's mostly backfiring on democrats right now because it's making them look absurd i mean again when you go from rush's interfering in america elections all the way down to well the tourney general didn't accurately summarise the finding the special counsel in a way that the special counsel liked enough i mean it's becoming stupid now i don't think this is really damaging trump's credibility it's just turning this whole thing is even more of a joke than it already was they're actually going to continue this nonsense i think

they've just backed this losing strategy and are going to keep on backing it just as just about as long as they possibly can and you know they've already lost this debate and they're still fighting it it to to me it's just kind of a joke you can't deny that the democrats have drive they've got a goal they've got persistence that is here in abundance and with their eyes on the prize in two thousand and twenty we can expect that the democratic party will keep chasing tails kaleb up and r.t. new york. was sort of most around the world so in some major cities the occasion was mild with street violence in many european cities from paris to demonstrators clashed with police.

correspondents sort of deal with skin goes down if we're in paris and witnessing the unrest firsthand. from a day started with violence the food the protests the official protests even began those protests is tried to move from them open us up towards plastic italy as a result of that the police blocked them off about half a kilometer away stone seats firing tear gas and pushing people back and used that opportunity to make arrests of the black blocks we have seen tear gas used huta cannons use trying to put out vehicles that have been set on fire by some of the protesters and you can see a huge huge security force all around the perimeter all over this area we saw some of the protesters looking like they were trying to make

a barricade here something that we've seen them do elsewhere in the route as a result of that some of the mobile police forces came in with their bathrooms hitting them and taking them away and detaining people. i. so there's the file and we know about the injuries what i would like to tell you is about the security service seven thousand four hundred security personnel only duty in paris trying to keep a lid on this violence and i can hear behind me i it sounds like we're getting some rightists come up as more of the protesters who are here full this may day protests are making their way to the end of this procession but let's not forget the protesters of also being damaging property in fact we saw a medical faculty with the university of so bone that had its dues smashed once again another protest in paris that's descended into violence and chaos this is the anti for rally yearly something of

a yearly event where tens of thousands of lives leaning activists come to central bilin and march through its streets people they just don't want to go away and we see the police detaining the instigators and basically trying to clear out this square and this sri. they had a helicopter flying overhead that helped the police pinpoint who. the wrongdoing was the demonstrators on the happy with the actions of the police i . was. thousands of people tens of thousands of people have shown today ninety five activists and they've been chanting lots of anti capitalist slogans. of course the police is telling people here to disperse us basically what they're

trying to do is they're trying to clear the square because the march is over officially. it wasn't just europe sorest on a may day the venezuelan capital sore anti-government protests are ugly or that's just the day after an alleged opposition was put down some eighty people were injured in the latest clashes. this. venezuelan president nicolas maduro spoke at a may day rally calling for a day of dialogue to be held and also confirmed an illegal to attempt had been put down however u.s. security advisor john bolton claims there never was any attempted coup. yet the

lies and intrigue that they tried to use against the failed coup attempt has been defeated this is a trial for truth loyalty and on a. clearly not a coup we recognize one go i don't know. as the legitimate interim president of venezuela and just as it's not a coup when the president of the united states gives an order to the department of defense it's not a coup for one go i doat to try and take command of the bend as well and military the u.s. might object to the coup however if we turn to the dictionary what is the find as a sudden violent and illegal seizure of power from a government well guess debated whether that's what's being attempted in venezuela . the us supports coup d'etat is all the time this is another example that want has no power under the constitution of venezuela the fact the us recognize him recognizes him is of no import the u.s.

recognizes him because he has already agreed to privatizing venezuela's oil in the interest of u.s. companies that's why the u.s. recognizes him and that does not make him with the opinion of the united states is no the only opinion for all other fifty countries nice why go as a legitimate president ninety percent of venezuelans do support also why go there are a legitimate president this is an unfolding coup that the us watched to push forward and we have to remember by the way the us supported the coup in two thousand and two against hugo chavez and we're reluctant to call it a coup back then the fact that the u.s. wants to use semantics to cover up what it's doing doesn't change the fact that this is a coup when people say you know seizure of power illegal seizure of power the basic definition of a coup as a key element there is not illegal because. while you go has

a legitimate power recognized by the international community overwhelmingly international community and by the venezuelan people who goes out in matches people are on the streets supporting the dura that's undeniable there are people. that support him i have friends there contacts that support him you ever hear their side or store use never you never hear from them in the press and so you get one side of the story and that is tantamount to misrepresenting destroyed their recent science or do not just if i decline in economy basic common me and the three million plus in this one it's gaping venezuela for other countries did not start when this action started they started way before that six million people voted for nicolas maduro last may in a free and fair election that i observed do you know how many people voted for one

goal i don't know. u.k. prime ministers sacked defense secretary devon williamson after he allegedly leaked secret plans involving chinese telecom giant always with him so williams would have some denies it was him. frankly. should go away it should sure it's a broad lie to pay tribute to the said this was our did you answer the way you know no one you were great using that kind of casual like the world united behind forget it one time if you please answer the question we came together with our allies and laid off joint. interview china makes it because you want to the question good luck with the you know the project. i can no longer have to compensate. for france and a minister in my cabinet and ask you to leave her majesty's government.

i strenuously deny that. i was in any way involved in this leak and i'm confident that the final moment would have been sick a. wiki leaks founder julian assange has been sentenced to fifty weeks of prison that and other stories after a short break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to.

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the national wiki leaks founder julian assange has been sentenced to brit's of fifty weeks in prison in the u.k. for skipping bail in twenty twelve. refuge inside the ecuadorian embassy in london in an effort to avoid extradition to sweden where he was facing sexual assault allegations at the sentencing the judge slammed the wiki leaks founder for his deliberate attempt to lay just this week leaks editor in chief kristinn hrafnsson criticized the ruling was just that it was disproportionate given the nature of the offense. my impression of the judge has written the. decision and written it out before you heard the mitigate of us that there was absolutely no consideration given to the very. very convincing mitigating factors in this case and i would

ration turnover and we are sure the songs was arrested last month following ecuador decision to revoke his asylum status so after he spent nearly seven years holed up inside the country's embassy in london a soldier is also a wanted man in the us where he's been charged with conspiracy to obtain classified materials hearing on the u.s. extradition request is due to be held on thursday august debated what might be next for sarge. the idea that sweden is going to reopen an investigation and issue another european arrest warrant to speed pretty theoretical at the moment if it did it's actually up to the u.k. home secretary to decide which extradition request takes precedence leaks from within. government official leaks have indicated that there was a deal at the trump administration offered a favorable trade deal of economic benefits including debt relief to ecuador if

jonas owned was handed over and that is what appears to have happened but we haven't actually got that absolutely confirmed and obviously we're unlikely to because neither the top administration nor the ecuadorian government will want to admit it unless we have a whistleblower who will you know the memo we won't know for certain but i suspect that it's all about a deal with the u.s. that led to gina songe being evicted from their could or an embassy in london in the end the u.s. will get what they wore they're the biggest bully and they're going to be the one who will fight to bring them to the states there are so many powerful entities they're trying to take him. to silence because they're afraid of the great journalism one hundred percent accurate journalism. for the past and. that is a real threat to the powers that be. the u.s.

military has stopped publishing its regular reports on the amount of territory controlled by different forces in afghanistan the head of the watchdog responsible for monitoring this says u.s. citizens will now no less about their country's successes and failures in the region the reports are made by the special inspector general for afghan reconstruction otherwise known as a cigar is a special post created by congress was responsible for monitoring u.s. activities in the country so you are also conducts criminal probes work of the special inspector was criticized by donald trump who slammed the idea of making it public. kind of stuff as we're fighting wars and they're doing reports and releasing it to the public now the public means the enemy the enemy retards reports a study every line or it should be private report and be locked out and if a member of congress wants to see it going to read it over the last two years the u.s. has gradually been reducing the amount of information it makes public on afghanistan

in twenty seventeen it stopped publishing data on casualties last july ended assessments on the role of afghan government forces now the latest rollback makes it harder to track what is under control of the afghan government now the trends of reducing in for what i've got to start comes against the backdrop of u.s. talks with the taliban and also worsening security situation in the country and the u.s. war in afghanistan has cost more than a trillion dollars that since that diversion took place back in two thousand and one it's claimed thousands of both american and afghan lives and afghan presidential candidate is now calling for the u.s. forces to be held accountable for the devastating toll of the conflict. any criminal act by any civilian or military personnel of the united states on nato or what hath to be brought to justice through their competent legal or part it is we strong that this

justice process should not be politicized afghans have been victims of human rights violations over the past almost four decades of peace that there is kathy kelly believes the u.s. government doesn't want the public to know the truth about what's happening in afghanistan. united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states popular as it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to create these extraordinary sounds and

money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well not that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. operations for victory day are in full swing in russia this year high and russia a common factor our us will deputy its latest model the senate cabaret that's at the military parade in red square in central moscow it's expected to carry the defense minister himself or in front of assembled troops artie's oregon's the if took it for a test drive. a lot of pretty things i could just start those . everywhere. but. my god she's beautiful. need for us to look at she's a little heavier to three and

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welcome to the alec salmon show and the climax of our cities on the issue of violence in the communities of london and our first show we heard the moving testimony from dr mark prince a man who turned the tragedy of the loss of his son tonight crime into a personal crusade against violence i said openly when my door could him in the back to see god save my son go that my son die or that my son be killed and then i quietly said. but if he dies me too

except me and last week show we examined the scottish example of treating knife crime as a public health issue curable notion of a civil form a scottish cabinet secretary for justice kenny macaskill one politicians in england to prepare for the long haul the mayor of underbid the home secretary can recognise that the underlying solutions need addressed equally balance it with the public reassurance when one can get through this but they've got to address underlying reasons and equally the also got to be able to give reassurance to young people who are afraid at the moment that they will be protected the policeman but they are to be sure that the person who might use a knife will be detected and today show we visit one of the communities most affected by spiraling levels of violence camberwell in south london and in a highly of a viewing interview alex speaks to three young men ex gang members victims i'm perpetrators of violence for find their own route to salvation last year i believe

we contributed very well to the reduction in crime rate included i believe because of people are us go back into our communities slowly beginning to show that there is a maison effect where we begin to take responsibility for our community young hold the responsibility of c. in our community change but first your tweets messages and emails in response to i sure last week carolyn says alex your program of kenny macaskill is so insightful love your program every week thanks callen please do keep watching maybe says how will any policy or knife crime work in england when to all intents and purposes the tories are cutting the police force there to the bone donal says great leadership sean from kenny macaskill on how to make a positive change to save lives working with many others and finally john also picks up on the issue of police numbers in england saying tories don't do that either they're not increasing police numbers because if think they know better than everyone else they are not the ones that are on the front line. now what constant

refrain of those battling against youngsters being swallowed up in the cycle of violence has been the closure of community facilities and lot of life opportunities but is there one more lesson from scotland that could be of assistance alex takes up the story that it's one followed initiative from scotland could have a bearing on london looking to start the cutbacks of left community for so it is in tatters that there is pressure on local authority finance nor from so for the bottle has been in scotland over the last ten years or nineteen million pounds have been invested in community facilities by taking money from organized crime and providing cash for communities in england the proceeds of crime go half to the home office and half to the courts discretion and scotland community cashback alone as a saved over sixty million pounds over ten years and generated over two million i.