the mind is just begun. and then we will find some pics of the jewel in the sun as defense team claims the fight for the whistleblowers fate has just begun as a british court held a first meeting over whether or not to extradite the wiki leaks co-founder to the united states. the u.s. attorney general refuses to subject himself to more scrutiny over his handling of the report into alleged trump russian collusion democrats accuse william barr of running scared and call for his head. and a large anti-government protest rocks the venezuelan capital a day after what

appears to have been a failed coup that as opposition leader one wideout and his u.s. backers deny trying to stage a military overthrow we debate what's really happening in the country along while you go to the gym and power nice and buy things not so good movie 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 wangle i'd done. it watching arts international coming to your line from the russian capital where it's just turned five pm welcome to the program. we start in london with the first court hearing possible extradition to the united states has been held the wiki leaks co-founder is one of the in the u.s. for allegedly conspiring to hack into classified government files appearing via video link from jail aslan's 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 unacceptable 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 tim 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 but now the next hearing is going to be on the thirtieth of may that's going to be first seizure also 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 what he entered the ecuadorian embassy seeking asylum the judge that was pretty strict on julian assange 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 weighs said is just precut for a u.s. extradition request so he spent seven years inside that embassy last month 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 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 supporters 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 today in a son if he can be pursued by the u.s. authorities 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 believes the extradition saga could stretch on for years. arguments against extraditing him very clear in terms of the fact that it's fairly

open that this is the kind of specimen charged the americans are trying to get to but actually that's a trick. once they get him to be united states they plan to slap. much stronger charges on him relating to espionage he could then end up in extremely bad conditions of the united states so i think we're going to see a lot of extradition process and of course the terrible things but he could be in jail quite literally for years while the exclusion process and its various appeals work but ultimately i'm hopeful that he will not in fact. the u.s. attorney general william barton failed to show before the house judiciary committee to testify over his handling of the report and to allege trump russia collusion though he'd been grilled in the senate just the day before us democrats are calling for his head and are considering whether to hold him in contempt a top republican on the committee called the hearing

a circus. after almost six to seven hours of debate the question i have here is not what bill barr scare of my question is what are the democrats scared of they don't know bill barr here today they've had their report they read it they don't like what's in it and you can agree to do good to do bad it doesn't matter but we're not getting that opportunity today because the still in the circus continues over here he has failed the men and women of the department of justice by placing the needs of the president over the family administration of justice and yes we will have no choice but to move quickly to hold the attorney general in contempt if you store to negotiate in good faith back in march bar released a four page summary of the report which stated there'd been no coalition for obstruction of justice barr said the special counsel had failed to reach a conclusion during a senate grilling the attorney general claimed robert mueller didn't think he misrepresented the special counsel's report that some of the senators questioning him did not agree. 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 really 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 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 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 so. brings a tunnel for the democrats next to the stand obstruction of justice president trump

in gaijin obstruction of justice and those of his kind of the president to. to my reading of the. mother report almost certainly obstructed justice served you find that to be persuasive act of obstructing justice. no 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 version some 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 and of 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 protests turn ugly a day after an alleged coup attempt by the opposition was put down some eighty

people were injured in the latest clashes. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro spoke of a may day rally calling for a day of dialogue to be held he also confirmed that an alleged coup attempt had been stopped over u.s. security advisor john bolton claims there was never any attempt to overthrow. 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 loyalty and. clearly not a coup we recognize one goal 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 venezuelan military the united states might object to the term coup 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 in venezuela. 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 a seizure of power illegal seizure of power the basic definition of a coup as a key element there is not illegal because. doesn't get him in power recognized by the national committee overwhelmingly international community in by the venezuelan people who goes out in matches 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 word 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 just defy the line in common the basic common me and the three million plus in this one it's gaping venezuela for other current. no start 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. but the summer finals of the u.f.o. champions league at the halfway stage are star punit football coach just a marine you know gives his thoughts on the first and second legs he also tells us how children nowadays dream of being a football manager not just a player you can watch the full episode of on the touchline here on r.t.

later but for now here's a quick preview. before was very rare for a dream of being a football man that. every kid that was in love with. wanted to be a fool. the process was changing it was changing. i think i have a little bit of responsibility on that you can study to be the c.e.o. . of a company that people can see through the person can be and the same person can also be to become a. manager one seemed ease. in

front of a screen and the lies in the again live and saying. i will take this one and that will put that one can you on that that's learned of the same state of mind to be calm to be on the used to read the game everybody in the world knows more about football in the us is the only job where. the people knows more than just the specialists and thank god he's like that because that's the reason why full body deals awarded these i'll can i see to my son or to any keyed in the world don't do it if you love needs and if you feel you can you can do it so. if you have. a dream like i had. that's gone.

manufacture consent to stoop to public will. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the flaming. lips and be the woman. in the middle of the room sick. room. we have no political agenda here we just if it if it costs more to get out than what you get when you get it out that's called a loss it's a minus sign that's it you can't figure that out you think there's

a political agenda. you're blinded by your. welcome back to the program 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 this special post created by congress was responsible for watching over us have to in the country so you're also conducts criminal probe the work of the special inspector has been criticized by donald trump who slammed the

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 of 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 it's not 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 u.s. forces to be held accountable for the devastating toll of the conflict. any criminal act by really all military personnel of the united states on they told. to be brought to justice through their call but he cut off part it was he strong that this justice process should not be politicized afghans have been sick terms of human rights violations over the past almost four decades. peace activist cappy kelly believes the united states government does not want people to know what is 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 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 sums 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. prime minister has sacked her defense secretary gavin williamson accusing him of leaking secret plans and valving the chinese tech giant huawei or the i'm certain though strongly denies it was him. frankly brochure should go away it should sure to ride by to pay tribute to the how

this fares are going to alter the way you know no one you are great using that kind of casual like the world united behind britain that one gets on if you please answer the question we came together with our allies and laid off join russia to interview china nature because you want to answer the question good luck with the you know things of project. i can no longer have full 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 with far more inquiry would have been to kate's my position.

right now over my shoulder you can see live pictures from london just outside of the ecuadorian embassy right now wiki leaks auditors in chief is trying to get into the embassy in order to collect julian assange just possessions but he is not being let in to do that as you can see there is also a large group of protesters outside of the embassy just to remind you join us and yesterday was sentenced to fifty weeks of jail in the u.k. for jumping bail and today he had an extradition hearing when it comes to being extradited to the u.s. no decision has been made further hearings will be taking place later this month. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports.

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a footy team but for now the mountains of waste only grow. under water. total room. or not he didn't. open your ego to post did you see the move for your. skies or this is the kaiser report email this economy is built on losses all these unicorns it's taken public on the exchange i've got billions and billions in losses

there everyone that comes up as more losses that's the way. the oil industry the fracking industry is built on losses losses are the key of the american economy to find out more about this late breaking story let's check in with stacey herbert or as says tracy stacey what is going on well we do have an empire of debt and of course debt is a good way to ship dollars around the world so i think that's part of what backs all of this but we're going to compare the debts of the unicorns versus debt the red queen let's call it that unicorns versus the red queen the wave of unicorn i.p.o.'s expose a silicon valley's group think the wave of unicorn i.p.o.'s who feels silicon valley's dangerous group think reese article a dozen unicorns i have listed are likely to posted combined cumulative losses of forty seven billion dollars the justification for this max is called blitz

scaling is the doctrine an order to conquer the winner takes all so you lose a whole bunch of money the theory is if you lose a whole bunch of money in order to drive all your competitors out destroy it's just like blitzkrieg the whole market destroy all the competition and then once all the competition is dead you raise your prices up to whatever it like you become like an american hospital system or the health care system you had a couple examples of this obviously amazon was a blitz scaler they have totally taken over the retail environment and beaten the wal-mart to the retail punch by reporting huge losses i remember in the ninety's when the company went public and henry blodget at that time was an analyst saying that the company stock could get to four hundred of course now it's over two thousand but people scott the idea because of all these huge losses that they were reporting and bezos like them why should i you know record profits because profits

get taxed and i don't want to pay tax i want to put everything into scaling scale. ailing scaling so these other companies are left and these other companies that are going public are similarly of the mindset that you can can't have enough losses you know a loss is are showing that you're blitz scaling it shows that you're doing something right if you're losing tons of money. ok so when you have a genius like jeff bezos at the helm i suppose but if that are indeed at the helm and they're just for juicing losses even though they're stupid i don't know how that's going to work it works when one person is doing as soon as everybody is doing it then of chorus not only does do politicians start to notice because their constituents noticed that basically this is a way to never pay taxes again in your life as well forty seven you have forty seven billion in write offs that's how our president became so wealthy as massive tax write offs.