u.s. attorney general refuses to testify before the house judiciary committee on his handling of the report the session was labeled a circus by republicans with one democratic member brandishing a prop. chicken bar should have shown up today and answered questions you think yesterday proves not terrified is it before anybody still in the circus continues over here. the u.s. is set to continue its support for the saudi intervention in yemen after the senate fails to override president veto of a resolution that would have ended u.s. engagement in the war. the weekly leaks co-founder joined the songs attends a court hearing in the u.k. on whether he should be extradited to the u.s.

. where broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas really glad to have you with us. right now the u.s. attorney general has refused to appear before the house judiciary committee to testify on his handling of the mother report into alleged to trump russia collusion some are now saying william bar should be held and contempt of congress. has 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 also feels to negotiate in good faith mr byers the moment of accountability well come soon enough and i think that probably important to note that it was pointed out that at this point the to. and of justice has made

a less redacted version of bob miller's report available to top democrats but these top condition congressional democrats navl 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 somewhat the actor 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 here of showing up today and answered questions of black socks he looked clean compared to this teen it's a sad day and we're 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 miller's report did not reach any conclusion about whether or not trump had engaged in obstruction of justice bob mahler's report simply illustrated some 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 russia investigation even much at longer after it's can. luzhin seems to be

continuing the trump russia story persists with more hearings more testimony and possible contempt charges for the u.s. attorney general the 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 meanwhile hillary clinton has spoken

out on the report in a t.v. interview the former secretary of state seemed to ignore the conclusion jokingly that trumps a campaign team did not collude 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 ask 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 reward shoe 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 case of pay it 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 they contrived these boogie men and that rush inclusion just hasn't worn out they won't let it go. the us is set to continue its support for the saudi intervention in yemen that is after the senate failed to overturn president terms a veto of a house resolution on ending u.s. engagement in the conflict artie's rachel blevins reports resolution which initially passed the senate in march whatever why are trying to withdraw any troops in or affecting yemen within thirty days unless they are fighting al-qaeda backers of the resolution said they wanted to reassert congress's constitutional power to declare war and send a strong message to saudi arabia about the devastating civilian toll of the four year long civil war in yemen they also aim to put pressure on the administration to

try to change the u.s. saudi relationship saudi arabia is a despotic dictatorship. that works over time to prevent any movement in that country toward democracy this is also about squaring us policy with national security interests and getting the blood off of our hands we ought not give unflinching unwavering unquestioning. devotion to a regime that treats its own people that way when justifying his decision to veto the legislation trump claimed that the resolution is a quote dangerous attempt to weaken his constitutional authority this resolution is an unnecessary dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities in danger in the lives of american citizens and brave service members both today and in the future senators have tried to pass the young resolution for years over concerns

that saudi arabia wasn't doing enough to limit civilian casualties with its airstrikes in yemen the saudi arabian government has long been involved in the war in gammon which has killed tens of thousands of people and spawn with the united nations calls the world's most dire humanitarian crisis with the country on the brink of famine the united nations development program also recently issued a report which noted that while the humanitarian situation in yemen was already one of the worst in the world before the war started it has gotten much worse and they claim that the yemen four is now considered one of the most destructive since the cold war.

the saudi arabian government tonight is targeting civilians and it strikes claiming that the u.n. reports about this are false and that u.s. and international anger over the civilian toll of the yemen conflict the trump administration last year stopped for guiding refueling support for saudi arabia's aircrafts and young men but trans actions and relations. saudi arabia still over main matters of controversy in washington rachel blood and our sea. on to london now where the first a court hearing on julian assange possible extradition to the u.s. has been a 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 told the court he would never surrender to the americans voluntarily his lawyer along with the wiki leaks editor in chief spoke after the

hear. he has spent twenty three other twenty four hours a day in his cell and that is what we call in general terry 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 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 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 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 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 us 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 court's head into

a song 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. there was 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 and it sounds as 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. . the protests were held outside the ecuadorian embassy in london on thursday joining us on spent almost seven years there before his asylum was revoked. or in chief kristen reference and tried to collect belongings from the embassy but was denied entrance he reported the incident to the police as

a crime. 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 song is 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 for 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 of people involved in journalism to ensure that we do you know i allow the injustice and isolation to happen. it really 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. president nicolas maduro spoke at a may day rally and called for dialogue with the opposition he also confirmed the alleged attempted attempt had been stopped however u.s. national security advisor john bolton claimed there was never any attempted overthrow of the government in the first place. yet the law is an intrigue that

they tried to use against the failed coup attempts is being defeated this is a trial for truth and on a. clearly not a coup we recognize one 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 want to go i go to try and take command of the venezuelan military. russia's foreign minister has discussed of the venezuelan crisis with u.s. national security advisor john bolton sergey lavrov is also expected to meet secretary of state might pompei o during a visit to finland pledged to continue dialogue despite significant differences in views. for those discussing the situation in venezuela but i don't see how we can find a common approach when our policies 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 sanctions to overthrow the current regime . the u.s. 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 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 illegitimate 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 us wants to use semantics to cover up what it's doing doesn't change the fact that this is a coup when people say you know seizure of power illegal seizure of power the basic definition of a coup that key element there is not illegal because while you go has a legitimate power recognized by the international community an overwhelmingly international community and 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 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 justify the line in common the basic commie 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. none. of 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 reports are made by the special inspector general for afghan reconstruction

or cigar 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 now 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 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 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 the 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 an 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 all military personnel all of the united states all in a toll would have to be brought to justice through their competent off taught it to us we strong that this justice process should not be politicized afghans have been victims of human rights violations over the past almost four decades

of 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 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 sounds and money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that the law that people a space to have exactly this kind of information. on the football now this week saw the first leg of the semifinals in the champions league just say marino gives

his reaction to the games and his predictions for the second leg in his show on the touchline and watching the full episode later on r.t. but here's a quick preview. liverpool's rave in the approach i've been seeing in the past twenty years and many themes in the chimp into the the beat of the lawn the involved perception in the come no got the football made it made it completely different of course they have a good team of course they have phenomenal players but that player is absolutely incredible liverpool deserves much more than the three in the old the feed much more but you can also see in the last two corners of the game could be four of a zero or five zero because the game was broken and then they couldn't cope the

question is which was so long are you going to have messi these sides. yet you 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 need 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 friend there with me at least mentally because of the front of sings i'm going in that direction and i'll i'm going to protect the space in front and goodbye people can see all nies play organize this playing against the teen where he played for a few years and where he was loved that there's nothing to do we does ninety minutes and for these ninety minutes if forgot that he played for liverpool instead of being a coach you want to pacific eight or nine you want everybody happy in you want to

be you are not the pacific it that you want a coach problem was playing with three center backs. against nobody the post by by and that is going to be the moment of a key moment of the game ok moment of the tide was ready for bed the dog explore their future space that they were leaving behind i don't think so but i do x. new they are better than those in here they are stronger than those in here we have to cope with with these they feel that they are almost there i think they didn't have the pressure on them until now and now they have because they are almost there sink novel they don't sleep very well. at all dreaming they're all dreaming with. the stadium is. the most fear is absolutely beautiful left amsterdam so begin next week.

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special projects funded. on the new best that is the end of it for the teeth of fun now the mountains of waste only grow while. reading them salutations. on any given night here in the shining city on the hill more than five hundred thousand souls go to sleep without a place to call home that is the equivalent friends of the entire city of albon the new york fresno california and for our international viewers even bug scotland homelessness in the united states of america is indeed a real problem mark watchers despite what most of those well dressed eight hundred thread count fortune five hundred talking to head economist types will try to sell

you and the great philanthropist of two thousand and nineteen who for tax sorry humanitarian purposes are looking to combat the problem the pomos in this like san francisco tech billionaire marc benioff yes it's now being reported that the sales force c.e.o. is donating thirty million to fund homelessness research at the university of california san francisco which according to sales force is the largest ever private donation to fund homelessness research sales force goes on to declare that the unprecedented initiative will provide research data and evidence based solutions to help cities invest in the most effective programs to prevent and homelessness now well i'm sure mr benioff is being sincere and putting his money where his heart is in the fight to end this terrible scourge but one has to wonder if spending thirty million on research for homelessness is really getting the most bang for the buck you see nowhere in all that gob league of philanthropic buzzwords that we heard

earlier was anything about i don't know actually physically giving folks without a home a home a magine how many homes or shelters one could buy the four thousand some odd homeless living on the streets of san francisco with thirty million dollars instead the thirty million goes to the university because what we need right now is to better understand the reasons for a home and that's not actually helping the homeless you see my friends you wouldn't need to put thirty million in research if you step down from the ivory tower of. land to be in lived in the real world of skyrocketing rent and housing prices coupled with a diabolical health care system designed to bankrupt more than cure and the only way you can do that and find that real world is if you start watching the hawks. this.