what point. julian the function never to surrender to the u.s. as a british court whether to extradite the jailed whistleblower. also this hour democrats accuse the u.s. attorney general of running scared and called head after william barr refuses to subject himself to more scrutiny over his handling of the mall report. and a large anti-government protest rocks the venezuelan capital a day after what appears to have been a failed coup attempt that as opposition leader why go and the u.s. backers deny in trying to stage a military overthrow our guests debate what's really happening in the country along while you go with you to meet our recognized national committee six million people

voted for nicolas maduro last may in a free and fair election that i observed you know how many people voted for one boy . a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r.t. h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. we start in london where the first court hearing on julian assange has possible extradition to the united states has just been heard the whistleblower in chief is wanted in the u.s. for allegedly conspiring to hack into classified government files appearing via video link from jail i told the court he would never surrender to the americans voluntarily later in the program we'll go to our correspondent live in london for more on that. democrats

want to subject attorney general william barr to further scrutiny over his handling of the mother report he's already been grilled in the senate but is now refusing to testify before the house judiciary committee its chair accuses him of running scared i understand why he wants to avoid the kind of scrutiny he's terrified is terrified of having to face a skilled attorney. back in march barr released a four page summary of the report which stated that there had been no collusion between donald trump and russia as for obstruction of justice barr said that the special counsel had failed to reach a conclusion on the matter during his son it grilling the attorney general claim that robert mueller didn't think he misrepresented the special counsel's report of some of the senators questioning him and by that. very clear with me that he was not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report i feel. sir was purposely misleading and i think others do too now the american people know

that you are no different from rudy giuliani or kellyanne conway or any of the other people who sacrificed their once decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the oval office being attorney general of the united states is a sacred trust you have betrayed that trust america deserves better issue resign 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 resigned 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's the next target in between the democrats and their goal of impeaching donald trump why will you release the bob muller report showing no collusion with russian 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 miller'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 engaged in obstruction of justice and those of his kind of the president who. to my reading of. the report almost certainly

obstructed justice or did you find that to be a persuasive act of obstructing 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 version so ninety eight percent of 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 american 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 and of i mean it's just 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 me it's just kind of a joke but 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. now as promised we return to our correspondent kelly boyd in london where the first court hearing undoing the songes possible extradition to the u.s. has just been heard now paul is just outside the westminster court polly what happened today. well this is it was a short and sweet the opening track said see the julian assange versus us

extradition so it was a preliminary hearing julian assange and paid via video link from belmarsh prison where he is currently incarcerated and the judge also if he consents to being sent back to the u.s. to which today and it sounds replied i do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing judge. lism that has won many awards i'm protected many people so it's the judge replied i'll take that as the decline and the hearing was only now the next hearing is going to be on the thirtieth of may that's going to be proceed to roll so going through the legal steps that are to be taken as part of this legal case then there will be another more substantial hearing on the twelfth over june but the real sort of extradition case the full hearing isn't expected for many months and it gives you an idea of how drawn out the drip drip of this legal process is going to be to send to

a question that's being examined is whether the british authorities should to allow the extradition of julian assange over to the u.s. where he is facing charges of computer hacking the u.s. has accused the wiki leaks founder of conspiring with chelsea manning to hack a u.s. government computer that was of course prior to the leaks published by wiki leaks and then tori is to iran and rollovers in two thousand and ten that. that's a video that appears to show u.s. soldiers shooting at a real civilians now really in a song which was out and on the court yesterday he actually appeared there in person and he was sentenced to almost one year behind balls fifty weeks for skipping bail back in twenty twelve that was what he ended the ecuadorian embassy steeping asylum that the judge that was pretty strict on julian assange there isn't much of a sense of clemency at the moment from the british authorities in relation to the

leaky leaks found he said that the jews the battle to the old very publicly he did they did justice for seven year is while being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy now joining us on his legal team have said that the reason that he had to seek asylum in the ecuadorian embassy was because. he was wanted in sweden for questioning over these alleged sexual assault allegations which students on his team have always said is just a streak for a u.s. extradition request to be spent seven years inside that embassy the statute of limitations on not swedish case may have expired but last month he his relationship with his ecuadorian hosts broke down to the extent that he was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy in london he was arrested by british police and he was slapped with this u.s. extradition request that is now being well modeled

a very in the courts here in true us on style as with anything to do with the wiki leaks founder it's attracted the media circus it's attracted many of the have been very vocal support says to come here to trouble with getting a court room large enough to fit members of the public and his supporters and all the journalists that are so interested in following this case he is a divisive they get some see him as a computer hack others see him as a freedom fighter journalist and a publisher that has done very important right for godless of your position towards him a lot of people are going to be watching this case very closely because of the repercussions that it could have for press freedoms today in a songe if he can be pursued by the u.s. authorities or even extradited a bit to the u.s. for something that he has published where the matter could have implications for any journalist anywhere in the world if they publish anything to do with the u.s.

. clearly today's hearing was just the beginning of polar boy ghosting across the story for us thank you. the venezuelan capital anti-government protests turned ugly a day after an alleged coup attempt by the opposition was foiled some eighty people were injured in the way this clashes. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro spoke at a may day rally promising to hold a day of dialogue he also confirmed that a coup had been averted over u.s. security advisor john bolton claims there was never any attempted coup. yet the law

is an intrigue that they try to use against the failed coup attempt has been defeated this is a trial for truth and. clearly not a coup we recognize one guy i do 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 why don't you try and take command of the venezuelan military the u.s. might object to the term however if we turn to the dictionary the word is defined as a sudden violent and illegal seizure of power from a government our guest debated whether that's being attempted and but as well. the u.s. supports coup d'etat is all the time this is another example that one 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 of the fifty countries recognize why go as a legitimate president ninety percent of venezuelans do support also while you go there are legitimate president this is an unfolding coup that the u.s. wants 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 that key element there is not illegal because. though has a legitimate power recognized by the national committee an older well mingling

group of nice the international community in by the venezuelan people who goes out in masses of people are on the streets supporting the door of that's undeniable there are people there that support him i have friends there contacts that support him you never hear their side worst or use never what 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 justify the line in common the basic commie and the three million plus in this one it's gaping venezuela for other current. you know star when this actually started this 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 wango idaho none still to come the u.s. military has stopped publishing certain reports about the situation in afghanistan

that and other stories after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race is clearly dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. to. any head of state. is that. if they are sure to looks funny you know we all can see this clearly you know. just like he was drinking in that suit so where we will use it even though it will be

the mostly focus on the political aspects that are told there will be discussed subjects that are those that don't interest to us because they're still bringing stor just you know therefore we tried to do something flips you complete joke. welcome back 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 know less about their country's successes and failures in the region the reports are made by the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction or sigur this special post created by the congress was responsible for monitoring u.s. activities in the country sigur also conduct criminal probes the work of the

special inspector was criticised by donald trump who slammed the idea of making it public. kind of stuff it's just we're fighting wars and they're doing reports and releasing it to the public so the public makes the enemy the enemy reach us reports or study every line up. they should be private reports and be locked up and if a member of congress wants to see it you're going to read it over the last two years the us has gradually been reducing the amount of information it makes public on afghanistan in two thousand and seventeen and stopped publishing data on casualties and last july it and that assessment of the role of afghan government forces the latest rollback makes it harder to track what territory is currently under the control of the afghan government the trend of reducing info on afghanistan comes against a backdrop of u.s. talks with the taliban and the worsening security situation in the country the u.s. war in afghanistan has cost more than one trillion dollars since the invasion in two thousand and one and it has claimed thousands of 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 all military personnel of the united states on they told. to be brought to justice through their competent or put it to use the strong this justice process should not be politicized afghans have been sick terms of human rights violations over the past almost four decades peace activist capek elliott believes the u.s. government does not want people to know what is really happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states populace it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want

is the money and if you are just people truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is 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 pay these extraordinary sums of money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well know that people a space to have exactly this kind of information. may day rallies in major cities around the world were marred by violence as protesters of all stripes clashed with the police. it's.

going to and europe anti-capitalists were prominent in the may day violence our correspondent and her style of witness the unrest in paris and berlin. well may day started with violence can fool the protests the official protests even began those protests is tried to move from the mall printers up towards plastic italy as a result of that the police blocked them off about half a kilometer away stone 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 batons hitting them and taking them away and detaining people. i so there's the file and we know about the injuries look 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 protest is a bozo bin damaging property in fact we saw a medical faculty with the university of so bone that had it too smashed once again another protest in paris that's descended into violence and chaos this is the ante for a rally yearly something of

a yearly event where tens of thousands of lives leading activists come to central bilin and march through the 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 free. they had a helicopter flying over it had that help the police been going legal the wrong doing was the demonstrators on the happy with the actions of the police. was thousands of people tens of thousands of people have shown today on t.v. from activists and they've been chanting lots of anti capitalist slogans. you know. of course the police is telling people here to discuss basically what they're trying to do is they're trying to clear the square because the march is

over officially. the u.k. prime minister has sacked her defense secretary gavin williamson after he allegedly leaked secret plans involving chinese telecom giant while way williamson though strongly denies it was him. frankly russia should go away it should sure took blood by to pay tribute to the help said this person sorry did you want my you know no one you were great using that kind of casual language the world united behind britain and one more time would you please answer the question we came together with our allies and why it was optional you wish to interview china natured because you won't answer the question good luck with the african elephant shot project. i can no longer have to conference a new state for the fans 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 a thorough and full more inquiry would have vindicate my position. that's a global news wrap up for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our website artie dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. ah. yeah. i'm.

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