let me teach greeted the house judiciary committee instead of the u.s. attorney general on the second hearing into his handling of the report into alleged russian collusion the session was labeled a circus the democratic member even brandishing a prop. chicken bar should have shown up today and answered questions yesterday prove you're not terrified for anybody still in the circus continues over here. trying to defend the fine for the whistleblowers freedoms now in full swing as a british court holds a first session on whether to extradite the wiki leaks co-founder to the united states. antigovernment protests rocks the capital of venezuela a day after what appears to be in a failed coup the opposition leader and his us back is tonight trying to stage

a military overthrow we did by what's really happening in the country. as a legitimate power by the international community 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. company the south and to. the u.s. attorney generals refused to appear before the house judiciary committee to testify on his handling of the reports into alleged collusion after william barr was grilled in the senate just days before saying he should be held in contempt of congress. it's failed the men and women of the department of justice by placing the

needs of the president over the ferry administration of justice and yes we will have no choice but to move quickly to hold the attorney general in contempt if you still feel is to negotiate in good faith mr barnes moment of accountability will come soon enough and i think that probably it came right important to note that it was pointed out that at this point the department of justice has made a less redacted version of bob miller's report of vailable to top democrats but these top congressional congressional democrats navl or pelosi and others have refused to read it and said that instead they want the entire report revealed to a wider audience the chairman will need to go look at what the attorney general offered him it's pretty amazing to me he wants to go in executive session ask questions about it but he won't go read it what are the democrats scared of they don't know bill barr here today they've had the report they read it they don't like what's in it the still in the circus continues over here members of congress basically tried to be somewhat the at trickle a bucket of fried chicken was displayed in order to illustrate the argument william

barr was chicken or cowardly for not attending chicken bar should have shown up today and answered questions of black socks look plain compared to this team it's a sad day in a bear now yesterday william barr testified for over six hours and it was quite a grilling he received one point of contention seems to be a sentence from bob mahler's letter to william barr in which he refers to quote public confusion about critical aspects of the investigation now democrats argued that that sentence potentially was accusing william barr of having misled the public regarding the investigation however william barr said that was not the case that that sentence from the letter referred simply to the media not to his own activities 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 bob mahler's report. did not reach any conclusion about whether or not trump had engaged in obstruction of justice bob mahler's report simply. illustrated sip

instances in which that could potentially be the case william barr feels that donald trump did not obstruct justice so with clear disagreement on capitol hill the saga of the trump russian investigation even much as longer after its conclusion seems to be continuing the trump russia story persists with more hearings more testimony and possible contempt charges for the u.s. attorney general a congress in its capacity here is not really investigating malfeasance by the attorney general which is their job as oversight there actually having some perry mason like. miller to investigation which will gain them nothing and the bar i think just basically said look six hours of this is enough and done they didn't want him to show up they made it impossible for him to come so that they could have the theater they had today it's about politics it's not about finding

any wrongdoing that part is over now we have the political discussion the tiny tiny tiny portion that's not grand jury testimony that was actually redacted that's been made available to the committee and they don't want to look at it because as i said they want the theater that they don't want cooperation they're not looking for something bad they've decided there's something bad they make the bald assertion and that's good enough for them. the reports prove the defeated twenty sixteen democratic candidate hillary clinton to the airwaves in an interview and i miss n.b.c. the film sector of states to ignore the conclusion that tom's campaign team didn't collude with russia and clinton called on a foreign power to have going to the president's tax returns. since russia is clearly backing republicans why don't we asked china to back us i hereby tonight ask china that's right and not only that china if you're listening why don't you get trump's tax returns i'm sure our media would richly rewards you now

according to the mother report that is not conspiracy because it's done right out in the open this woman just can't accept that she lost her campaign all by yourself and just she's grasping and she just she's trying to be humorous she just doesn't understand humor but what she did wittingly or unwittingly is acknowledge that trump was joking she used to joke that to mimic the joke that he made nobody believe trump was serious and that somehow calling for russia to do it i mean what what next we're going to we're going to call out from the from the podium hey russia why don't you go up this country that's annoying to us and like that's going to actually happen i mean this is they contrived these bogeyman and that russian collusion hasn't borne out they won't let it go. so to london now where the food of school tutoring on julian assange possible extradition to the u.s. has been how old we can expose found faces

a charge of conspiring to hack into the pentagon computer network appearing via video link from jail the soldiers 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. it has been twenty three other twenty four hours a day. that is what we call in general the terri confinement that's when 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 asked 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 but 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 and 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 to be 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 through 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 there was trouble with getting a court room large enough to fit members of the public and his supporters and all the journalists there were so interested in following this case julian assange if he can be pursued by the u.s. or thirty's 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. . protests were held outside the ecuadorian embassy in london for. almost seven

years before his asylum was revoked we can leak servicer in chief kristen tried to collect the songes belongings from the embassy but was denied entrance and reported the incident to the police is a crime. ruled that another activist lori love also accused of hacking u.s. government computers couldn't be extradited on the basis is well being could not be guarantees it's a demonstration outside the court hearing was hope. i think he's going to have an uphill struggle everyone has an uphill struggle under us actually they should request because it's a very unbalanced treaty so the u.s. doesn't have to provide any evidence they just have to have their paperwork in order the presumption is a view only towards extradition if we manage to win there's a lot of campaigning and a lot of support political support from the m.p.'s and support from journalist she is going to have a harder time because he's already out with this politically he's upset the

establishment in the u.k. the establishment i would say is complicit in his persecution and we need to do everything we can as members of the public and supporters of this journalist or people involved in journalism to ensure that we do you know i allow the injustice and isolation to happen. supporters of the venezuelan opposition leader wango i don't have gathered in front of the country's embassy in washington the diplomatic facilities being close since the u.s. declared why don't the interim president of venezuela comes as the country's capital soar antigovernment protests turning ugly just a day after an alleged couper termed by their position was defeat it. i.

left warm woman dead and dozens more people injured president nicolas maduro spoke at a may day rally calling for a day of dialogue and he also confirmed that the alleged had been stopped u.s. national security advisor john bolton claimed there was never any attempt to overthrow the government in the first place. yet the law is an intrigue that they tried to use against us but failed the coup attempt has been defeated this is a trial for truth loyalty 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 why don't you try and take command of the venezuelan military russia's foreign minister has discussed the venezuela crisis with the man we just saw that john bolton america's state department says secretary of state might also

meet with secular in finland for talks on the issue of a place to continue dialogue despite significant differences in peace. thought that we were discussing the situation in venezuela but i don't see how we can find a common approach when our policy is based on the principles of international law and the us line is to appoint someone as an interim president in another country threaten to use military force along with choking sanctions to overthrow the current regime which the. united states might object to the use of the term coup but if we turn to the dictionary the words defined as being a sudden violent and illegal seizure of power from a government our guests are debated whether that's what is 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 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 opinion of the united states is no the only opinion for all other 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 does that key element there is not illegal because. you go has

a legitimate power recognized by the international community overwhelmingly international community and 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 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 destroy their reason science or do not just defy the line in common the basic con the 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 do you know how many people voted for

wango i don't know. because the us military has stopped falling public reports on the war in afghanistan with that story and more after the break. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to do. by the way what

is the fly here. the united states 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 the us 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 cigar the special post created by congress was responsible for watching over us activities in the country are also conducts criminal probe so the work of the special inspector has been criticized by donald trump who slammed the idea of making it public. kind of started as we're fighting wars and they're doing reports and releasing it to the public so the public believes the enemy the enemy returns reports a study every line should be private report 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 washington has gradually been reducing the amount of information it makes public on afghanistan in two thousand and seventeen it stopped publishing data on casualties last july it ended assessments on the role of the afghan government forces the latest rollback makes it harder to track what territories currently under the control of the afghan government now that trend of reducing information

on afghanistan comes against the backdrop of u.s. talks with the taliban and a worsening security situation in the country the war in the country has cost americans more than one trillion dollars since the invasion of two thousand and one and it's claimed thousands of american and afghan lives and afghan presidential candidates now calling on u.s. forces to be held accountable for the devastating toll of the conflict. any criminal act by in his severely or military personnel of the united states on nato or. to be brought to justice through their competent legal of politics he strongly argued that justice process should not be politicized afghans have been victims of human rights violations over the past almost four decades.

peace activist kathy kelly believes the u.s. government doesn't want people to know what's happening in afghanistan the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advise 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 disaster is 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 of 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. but the semifinals of the way for champions league at the halfway stage now austar pundit football coaches in reno gives his thoughts on the first and upcoming second

legs he also tells us how in his opinion children these days dream of being a football manager as well as a player you can watch the full episode of on the touchline coming up later here on r.t. for now here's a preview. before it was very rare for a kid to dream of being a football manager. every kid that was in love with football wanted to be a footballer. the process was changing it was changing. i think i have a little bit of responsibility on on that you can study to be the c.e.o. one of a company that people can study to be you a person can get to be anything

a person can also be to become a football manager or one seemed ease. in front of a screen and allies in the again live and saying now i will pick this one and that will put that one can you on that that's lying have the same state of mind to be calm to be analysed to to read the game everybody in the world knows more about football than knots is the only job where. the people knows more then that's the specialists and thank god is like that because that's the reason my food will get these award these i'll can i see it to my son. and the kid 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 no. thanks thing without international thomas will be here with the. the latest news headlines for you at the top of the. world. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and

talk. international memorial awards twenty nine now open for entries. the media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for alternative media or part of a global news conference to participate in published works and video in which you. go to award dot com and enter now. got the football was much more and the thing is possible in football to do the to work the movement is phenomenal and they still. want months where the people can see. better away than the home they don't sleep very well instead of being a coach. he

predicted barcelona would win the first leg and that i x. the heights game would be tight which i think is pretty much what high. and but all the headlines today about lionel messi and those two goals he scored against liverpool who in the end just couldn't cope with it i had told you a couple of weeks ago that messi would never be my special one here because what. those all the time so we feel becomes a special one once then becomes a special one almost every and almost every week but i have to say absolutely incredible. i think you made that result. liverpool who was positive liverpool was in spite of. start the game without me no icing for sure was not the union decision to leave

a figment of the field mean a was in the top of his. game but in spite of that then we've got playing. striker. liverpool's brave in the approach they made something that. i would like to know but. i've been seeing in the past twenty years many teams in the champions league and they beat barcelona or involved position in the come no normally on the style is very impose their game and they dominate the game in every expect us to didn't happen liverpool was very very positive to have three big chances at the cup now even in seventy final is also a lot and normally of sri score one and then the story can be a different one but that. that got the football made it may be completely

different and. of course they have a good team of course they have phenomenal players but that is absolutely incredible to be fertile pool you said previously that in order to contain messi you have to create a cage of plays around him to try and stop him playing and that seemed to be what they were doing quite effectively but those losses of seven minutes with a seven minute period where he scored twice and there's very little they could do about that because weakly that he did once in. which i think they did really well which was to push one of the lawn for many times along build up from the keeper which is something that they don't know how to do. they know if they do they're going to be dominated by the opponents or they always try to go short they take lots of risks playing from the bag because they have players of super quality really able to kids they are so comfortable taking these risks from the back but

liverpool's pressing so high every ball key that so many primes does they're going to have to go along and of course van dyck. deep they always win the first of all they recover the second ball and again liverpool was having the ball that's the reason why they. i think a little bit more than fifty percent of the ball of the ball possession so they did many things they did many things well they didn't score and and that you base specially when you have that kind of approach and they didn't score and then they allow the game to be broken specially after the two zero the game was broken and. we can all these this say that liverpool deserves much more than the three little defeat much more but you can also say in the last two quarters of the game could be four to zero or five zero because the game was

broken and then they couldn't cope with that kind of transition according to the to your guns game plan they did their best they had a positive game and then they be they pay for the fact they didn't score and they pay for the fact that it's not just them is the majority of the teams that plays against the against barcelona that's why the. that the club we that boy has ten. victories in the in the league the question is. which one of them are you going to have wind messi these sides to see what do you think he's still improving as a player he's almost thirty two but is he getting better and better in that i believe so i believe so and in the free keep is something that. comes with. the practice come with experience.