i'm. just. going on and we will fight to victory julian the songes defense team claims the fight for the whistleblowers fate has just begun as a british court holds a first meeting over whether or not to extradite the wiki leaks co-founder to the u.s. . democrats accuse the u.s. attorney general of running scared and call for his head after william barr refuses to subject himself to more scrutiny over his handling of the mower report into alleged russian collusion. and the large anti-government protests in iraq's the venezuelan capital a day after what appears to have been a failed coup that as opposition leader and his u.s. backers did nine trying to stage a military overthrow we debate what's really happening in the country. on what you

go to do to make power grid nice and by the international community 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 one boy . you're watching our attention national coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned four pm welcome to the program we start in london where the first court hearing on julian assange has possible extradition to the u.s. has been held that wiki leaks co-founder is wanted in the u.s. for allegedly conspiring to hack into classified government files appearing via video link from jail a hunch told the court he would never surrender to the americans voluntarily his lawyer along with the wiki leaks editor in chief spoke after the hearing denouncing his treatment. it has been twenty three other twenty four hours

a day. that is what we call in general the terri confinement that's on the circuit in this case is not about hacking. this case it's about a journalist in a publisher who had conversations with a source about accessing material and spoke to that source about how to protect their identity this is protected activity that journalists engage in all the time and any prosecution and extradition of mr songe for having done so place a massive chill on investigative journalism in the world it was a preliminary hearing julian assange appeared via video link from belmarsh prison where he is currently incarcerated and the judge also him if he consents to being sent over to the u.s. to which julian assange replied i do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism 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 valid 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 of 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 the central 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 that was of course prior to the leaks published by wiki leaks the the toria say rock wall logs in two thousand and ten that featured that video that appears to show u.s. soldiers shooting at a real key civilians now judy in a sauna was out another court yes. today he actually appeared there in person and

he was sentenced to almost one year behind bars fifty weeks for skipping bail back in twenty twelve that was when he entered the ecuadorian embassy seeking asylum the judge that was pretty strict on julian assange now julian assange anjan 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 julian assange to this team member who always said is just a precursor for a u.s. extradition request and he spent seven years inside that embassy last month his relationship with his ecuadorian hosts broke down to the extent that he was drags 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 mulled over 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 his very vocal support says to come here there was trouble with getting a court room large enough to fit members of the public and his supporters and all the journalists that i was so interested in following this case truly innocent if you can be pursued by the u.s. or storage fees or even extradited over to the u.s. for something that he has published well then that could have implications for any journalist anywhere in the world if they publish anything to do with the u.s. . former u.k. diplomat craig murray hopes the song will not be extradited to the u.s. and he believes that he could face far more serious charges than those currently on the table if you were. humans against him very clear terms of. this is the kind of specimen. the americans are trying to get to.

me that's a trick. once they get them to be united states they plan to slap. much stronger charges on him relating to espionage he could play and it looks to be bad conditions of the united states so i think we're going to see through the process in the course of the terrible things but he could be in jail quite literally for years while. the people work but ultimately the. people behind. us democrats are calling for the resignation of attorney general william barr over his handling of the report into alleged from russia collusion has already been grilled in the senate but is now refusing to testify before the house judiciary committee the meeting is convening without him its chair accuses him of running scared. and why he wants to avoid the. chariots right is terrified of having to face skilled attorney back in march barr released

a four page summary of the report which stated there'd been no collusion asked for obstruction of justice barr said the special counsel had failed to reach a conclusion during his senate grilling the attorney general claimed robert mueller didn't think he had misrepresented the special counsel's report some of the senators questioning him didn't agree. it's very clear with me that he was not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report i feel your rants are just 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 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 for years i really do 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 and 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 a 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 mahler'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 so. brings a tunnel for the democrats next to the stand obstruction of justice president trump in gage destruction of justice and those of his kind of the president who. to my reading of the. mother report almost certainly obstructed justice or did you find that to be a persuasive act of obstructing justice. you know but options 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 for ninety eight percent of volume two 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 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 me it's just kind of a joke and 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. the venezuelan capital anti-government protest turned ugly a day after an alleged could attempt by the opposition was put down some eighty people were injured in the latest clashes. however. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro spoke at a may day rally calling for a day of dialogue to be held also confirmed that an alleged who attempt had been

stopped over us security advisor john bolton claims there was never any attempted overthrow. you know that the law is an intrigue that they tried to use against us have failed the coup attempt has been defeated this is a triumph for truth and. clearly not a coup we recognize one goh i do know as the legitimate interim president of venezuela and just as it's not a coup one 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 bench as well and military the u.s. might object to the term who however if we turn to the dictionary the word is defined as a sudden violent and the illegal seizure of power from a government are just debated whether that's being attempted in venezuela. the u.s. 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 u.s. 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 united states is no the only opinion for all other fifty countries nice why go as a legitimate president ninety percent of venezuela's do support also why you go there. judgment 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 us wants to use semantics to cover up what it's doing doesn't change the fact that this is a two people say you know a 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 good nice international community and by the venezuelan people who goes out in masses of people are on the streets supporting me during that's undeniable there are people there that support him i have friends there contacts that support him you have never 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 common the basic common me and the three million plus in this one it's gaping venezuela for other countries no 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 you know how many people voted for one guy

doe none. to put both champions league now which is just seen the first leg of its semifinal but tottenham losing to i.x. and liverpool thrashed by barcelona just a marine who gives his reaction to the games plus makes his predictions for the second leg and his are to show on the touchline later on. liverpool's rave in the approach i've been seeing in the past twenty years of many teams in the champions league and the beat of the lawn in more perception in the come no got the football made maybe completely different of course they have a good team of course to her phenomenal players but that player is absolutely incredible liverpool deserves much more than the three nil the feed much more but

you can also see in the last two corners of the game could be four of a zero or more five zero because the game was broken and then they couldn't cope the question is which one of them are you going to have messi these sides but yet we know and even should we know that looks small that is not small but it really is the last one normally the ball never goes from these but these side they give little people give one needs of to do they are going also to cover that that situation it is impossible to impossible to stop the movement these phenomenal one meter here and i bring the defender with me at least mentally because of the front of sings i'm going in that direction and i'm going to attack the space in front and good by people can see or nies play organize these playing against the where he played for a few years and where he was loved that there's nothing to do with these ninety

minutes and for these ninety minutes for got that he played for liverpool instead of being a coach pacific eight the new want everybody happy in you want to be you are not the pacific it that you want to coach todd the most playing with three center backs against nobody the post by by in that of can be the moment of a key moment of the. look at moment of the tide was ready for bed the dog explore their future that they were leaving behind i don't sing so but i do x. new they are better than those in the stronger than those in here we have to cope with with these they feel that they are almost icing they didn't have the pressure on them until now all and all they have because they are almost there sink novel they don't sleep very well. at all dreaming they are all dreaming with. the stadium

is mcniff is atmosphere is absolutely beautiful that. begin next week. still to come the u.s. military has stopped publishing certain regular reports about the situation in afghanistan that story and more after the break.

join me every thursday on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. we have no political agenda here we just if it if it costs more to get out then what you get when you get it out that's called a loss it's a minus sign that's it if you can figure that out you think there's a political agenda. you're blinded by your by. 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 successes and failures in the region the reports are made by the special inspector general for afghan reconstruction or sigur the special post created by congress was responsible for watching over us activities in the country singer also conducts a criminal probe the work of the special inspector has been criticized by donald trump who slammed idea of making it public. kind of stuff as we're fighting words and they're doing reports and releasing it to the public the public believes the enemy the enemy retards reports they study every law they should be private reports and be locked up and if a member of congress wants to see that you're going to read it over the last two years washington 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 ended assessments on 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 information on afghanistan comes against a backdrop of u.s. talks with the taliban and the worsening security situation in the country the war in afghanistan has cost americans 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 on the u.s. forces to be held accountable for the devastating toll of the conflict in the criminal act by really all military personnel of the united states all and they told. to be brought to justice through their competent because of part it is the strong. justice process should not be politicized afghans have been

sick terms of human rights violations over the past almost four decades peace activist kathy kelly believes the u.s. government does not want people to know what is happening in afghanistan. 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 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 pay these extraordinary sons of money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that the law that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. the u.k. prime minister has sacked her defense secretary gavin williamson accusing him of

leaking secret plans involving the chinese tech giant while way williamson though strongly denies it was him. frankly russia should go away it should churchill brad lied to pay tribute to the help said this feds are going to answer my you know no one you regret using that kind of casual language the world united behind britain at one time if you please also the question we came together with our allies and why it was not join russia to interview china natured because you won't answer the question good luck with the can open shop project. so i can no longer have confidence in you as secretary of 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 the foreign form or inquiry would have been to kate's my position. that's a global news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for tuning in. any head of state. show to looks funny that we often see this well you know when it will soon just like he was drinking in that suit so where he will use it even though we mostly focus so i get a little aspects that are. discussed objects and i don't like them don't interest

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a little bit of lying to be revealed all to discuss that i'm now joined by the letter off i would like to know because it's all better known as russian pranksters laxness and that is good. talk to you thank you very much for your time and willingness to talk to us thanks for your time i really like the design of your t. shirt things how you respond to the question posed here well my answer is. i can't answer because if i will say that i don't work there nobody will believe me if i will say that they were there so i will say not true so it's a bit of prying this time when they are yes of course it's like a kind of trolling ok for your for your. viewers well the most high profile and the latest charming that he engaged in lately was on president french president the man elmer on who actually called the or number thinking that he had reached the new president elect like him is

a lansky how did it happen did you just call him and live in the masses how did you know who to call that idea long ago maybe around to two years but we didn't have a strong reason to reach him and when we so on news. president meeting with mr selenski we decide it's a good great reason to call him and we tried to reach him for his diplomatic lines and we'll lift our number as a number of mr selenski and so we received a phone call from his administration and they asked so would you if president marc wrong will congratulate you on the next sunday so we were prepared to marry and i pledge to marry soon president drawn has his own security service and probably some kind of secure communication channels how could you believe you just like that i am guessing you used or maybe they were supposed to use special technology that would

track the source of the phone call. not. only oh yes of course. he has a security service but mr zillion skee is not the president of ukraine yet so he doesn't have access to the presidential communication lines. he can't use the ukrainian embassy in paris to set up an official phone call with another head of state but again as always so when zillion skee was invited to meet with the president in paris they contacted him through his campaign staff. the french could not have contacted the candidate through any official channels you francis got only three people in his campaign. we were able to keep ahead of the game going to night because it is not the first ukrainian you know praying to you have played pranks on the current president before four times and probably would

not have called from his personal cell phone and don't tumble and you know there were several different situations we've tried different kinds of communication with president bush. once he called us thinking that he was calling the president of kyrgyzstan we also used the same plan we used on president mccraw and we left our phone number and when he was in his office surrounded by aides so he made a phone call using a special secure line when you invited he thought that he was calling another secure line not a regular virtual phone number. but i should call also used a mobile phone we found out about it a year ago we also called him pretending to be the georgian leader i think we also wished him a happy new year but i really it was good.