u.s. attorney general will fuses to testify before the house judiciary committee on his handling of the report the session was labeled a circus with one democrat member brandishing a. chicken bar should have shown up today and answered questions i think yesterday proves not terrified to sit before anybody still in the circus continues over here we give leaks co-founder joining us on a court hearing in the u.k. on whether he should be extradited to the u.s. . and hundreds of people are injured in two days of unrest in venezuela after what appears to have been a failed coup we debate what is really happening in the country.

by a national committee six million people voted for nicolas maduro last may in a free and fair election that i observe you know how many people voted for. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international and john thomas. the u.s. attorney general has refused to appear before the house judiciary committee to testify on his handling of the miller report into alleged trump russia collusion some are now saying william barr 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 store fails to

negotiate in good faith mr barnes the 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 palosi and others have refused to read it and said that instead they want the entire report revealed to a wider audience the chairman willing to go look it 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 some what the after cole 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 sox look playing 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 bar 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 rejected 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. meanwhile hillary clinton has spoken out on the report in a t.v. interview the former secretary of state jokingly seemed to ignore the conclusion that campaign team did not clued with russia and she called on a foreign power to hack into 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 kid except 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. on to london now where the first a court hearing on julian assange has possible extradition to the u.s. has been held the wiki leaks co-founder faces a charge of conspiring to hack into the pentagon computer network appearing in a video link up from jail is honest 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 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 now the next hearing is going to be on the thirtieth of may that's going to be procedural 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 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 iraq war 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 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 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 mold 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 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 julian assange 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. . protests were held outside the ecuadorian embassy in london on thursday spent almost seven years there before his asylum was revoked we are in chief kristinn hrafnsson and tried to collect belongings from the embassy but was denied entrance

he was ported the incident to the police as a clue. last year britain's high court ruled that another man accused of hacking u.s. government computers could not be extradited laurie love attended a demonstration outside the court where a sonorous hearing was being held. but i think he's going to have an uphill struggle everyone has an uphill struggle under us that should or 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 of 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 list of people involved in journalism to ensure that we do you know i allow the injustice and

isolation to happen. a rally has been held outside the venezuelan embassy in washington calling for an end to u.s. interference in the ongoing crisis this follows two days of unrest in caracas in which up to three hundred people were injured. i was. president nicolas maduro at a may day rally calling for dialogue with the opposition he also confirmed the alleged attempt had been stopped however u.s. national security advisor john bolton claimed that there was never any attempted

overthrow of the government in the first place. yes the law is an intrigue that they tried to use against it 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 when the president of the united states gives an order to the department of defense it's not a coup for want to try and take command of the venezuelan military russia's foreign minister has discussed the venezuelan crisis with us at national security advisor john bolton sergey lavrov is also expected to meet secretary of state mike pompei o during a visit to finland lavrov pledged to to continue dialogue despite significant differences in fuse. but for those we brits keep discussing the situation in venezuela but i don't see how we can find a common approach where no 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. us that might object to the term coup however if we turn to the dictionary of the word is defined as a sudden violent and illegal seizure of power from a government our guests debated whether that's what'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 us 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 illegitimate president ninety percent of venezuelans do support also while you go there are legitimate president this is an unfolding coup that the us watched to push forward and we have to remember by the way the us supported the coup in two thousand and two against hugo chavez and we're reluctant to call it a coup back then the fact that the u.s. wants to use semantics to cover up what it's doing doesn't change the fact that this is a coup when people say you know 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 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 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 idaho none of. us military has stopped to filing public reports on the war in afghanistan that story and much more after a short break this is our to trust. what

holds us do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. somehow want to be it's. actually going to be prose that's what the three of them all can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. city. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic to follow through the only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

this is r t international now 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 their reports are made by the special inspector general for afghan reconstruction or c gar this special post created by the congress was responsible for watching over us activities in the country cigar also conducts criminal probes 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 wars and they're doing reports and releasing it to the public the public is the enemy the enemy retards reports a study every line of it they should be private reports and be locked up and if a member of congress wants to see it you don't want to read 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 and last july it ended assessments on the role of afghan government forces the latest role bank 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 a 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 any civilian or military personnel of the united states on a nato or. half to be brought to justice through their competent legal or part it is the strong that this 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 does not want people to know what is 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. within the semifinals of the u.s. for champions league at the halfway stage our star pundit football coach just say marino gives his thoughts on the first and second legs he also tells us how children nowadays that dream of being a football manager not just a player you can watch the full episode of on the touchline here on r t a later this is a quick preview for you. before

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broadcasting around the world covering all aspects of business and finance and how it affects you this. i'm christiane washington d.c. coming up u.k. defense secretary gavin williams and was forced to resign his post following a leak regarding great friends planned to use the way to develop their five g. network regulatory attorney miles edwards joins us to break down the worldwide regulatory landscape when it comes to the way was the u.s. commodity futures trading commission chair says explosion of interest in crypto currency could open the door for a new very house investigative journalist ben swan will give us the details. and the bank of england announced it would pull interest rates at zero point seven five percent following last month's decision to send the baghdad deadline to october thirtieth telling for much from british american business association to join the

show and the us what this means for the e.u. u.k. turmoil moving forward all that directly ahead but first some headlines. again changer for latin american start of leeds our global report today as the famed softbank group of japan makes a billion dollar investment in colombian delivery service wrapping the capital infusion into the on demand delivery startup is the first major move by soft banks innovation and latin america's local hub soft bank tout the innovation fund as the largest tech fund focused on latin america the major investment is happening before the fund has even been formally established for now the capital is coming from soft banks vision and directly from soft bank group and the portfolio will pass to the innovation fund when it begins operation wrap the launch from colombia in two thousand and fifteen and now also operates in seven countries including major markets in argentina brazil and mexico robbie delivers per. scription medicines

groceries and takeout as well as digital payment services and claims to have twenty percent monthly growth rates. and of the two year legal spat it had been announced that mobile phone chip manufacturer qualcomm will receive at least four point five billion dollars from apple the deal was crucial for qualcomm as an ongoing legal battle threatened their business model which combines the manufacturing of chips and a patent licensing division that makes money on relatives from companies that use their tech the deal also includes a six year lease same deal with apple and a multi-year deal for qualcomm to supply them with cell phone modem chips the piece of tech that allows your phone to connect with towers the deal was just reached as apple's current modem manufacturer intel announced that they would not join the race to make modems for much anticipated five g. networks qualcomm says that they expect to ship between one hundred fifty and one hundred seventy million chips in the third quarter of this year that's a decrease twenty five percent year over year.