an empty chair greeted the house judiciary committee of the u.s. attorney general on the second hearing into his handling of the report into alleged from russia collusion the session was labeled a circus with one democratic machine a. chicken bar should have shown up today and answered quite. a group is not here but it's. still in the circus continues over the. world press freedom day the u.k. foreign secretary accuses this travel of being a weapon of this information and weighs in on he thinks should be trusted. rights activists in the bahamas as wild pigs become the latest tourist sensation on

the our blog a local business is quick to profit. from moscow you want to know r.t. international just content i am here i'm daniel hawkins review are for joining us. now seems in the u.s. congress starts off the man who controversially redacted the report into alleged collusion between trump on russia failed to show up for a grilling attorney general william bastone of the hearing saying he'd already told senators all he has to say about his version of the report and democrat lawmakers who want to see the document in full theatrically placed bars name card in front of an empty chair congressman steve cohen then put a ceramic chicken on it as a symbol of the attorney general's alleged cowardice and tucks into some k.f.c. not. new democrats want balls had to roll the now will someone in charge of

contempt of congress. and it will put as this report. while a very short hearing on capitol hill as william barr the u.s. attorney general did not attend he did not show up for the hearing before the house judiciary committee that he was subpoenaed to testify before now representative gnabry who is the chair of the committee is now at this point considering bringing charges of contempt of congress against him for failing to testify when subpoenaed however republican legislators had a different opinion and argued that his testimony yesterday in the grilling he received from democrats was basically a circus and a charade and that he should not be obligated to continue going through that yes 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 to

negotiate in good faith mr barr's moment of accountability will come soon enough and i think that probably it can make one of 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 the department of justice has made a less redacted version of bob miller's report available to top democrats but these top congressional democrats now adler palosi and others have refused to read it and said that instead they want the entire report revealed to a wider audience chairman lee 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 now things escalated from there members of congress basically tried to be somewhat the at trickle a bucket of fried chicken was displayed in order to illustrate the argument that that he was that william barr was chicken or cowardly for not attending furthermore they made a point of law. under the desk to make sure that william barr was not hiding under

the desk in fear chicken bar should've shown up today and answered questions the black sox look clean compared to this team it's a sad day in a bear democrats are considering contempt of congress charges against barr but republicans are saying he did the right thing and that this is simply a politically motivated investigation intended to undermine the u.s. president of the trump russia story persists with more hearings more testimony and possible contempt charges for the u.s. attorney general to 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 to believe that one report has brought the defeated twenty sixteen democratic candidates hillary clinton to the airwaves in an interview on m.s.n. b c the former secretary of state to seem to ignore the conclusion that trump's come pain team didn't clude with russia clinton also a cool little 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 rich. only rewards you now

according to the moment report that is not a conspiracy because it's done right out in the open this woman just kid except that she lost her pain 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 just hasn't borne out they won't let it go. a weapon of misinformation and a broad cause through. auntie's been described by the u.k.'s foreign secretary

during an event meant to celebrate freedom of the press jeremy holmes also laid out his views on who exactly audiences should be trust them reports. the u.k.'s foreign secretary jeremy hunt has recently been championing press freedoms and to mock you ness goes well to press freedom day he's delivered a speech in which he talks about the future event independent media and he mentioned spoiler alert he wasn't exactly call him entry about the channels of. channels like. russia today. used to believe truth is relative in the facts when it was the kremlin official narrative jeremy hunt went on to cite the poisoning of the script pals that took place in soulsby last year saying that the kremlin came up with forty different versions of what happened and then its weapons of dissent summation. that's russian media then went on to broadcast those

narratives to the world their weapons or this information for the best defense against those who deliberately. independent using it he also announced that in july london will host the world bust summit on media freedom something tells me that r.t. isn't on the guest list. stands by its reporting standards responding to hunt's remarks the struggle pointed out the orany of championing press freedom while attacking the media we spoke to journalist martin summers who told us that the freedom of speech remark is an oft abused notion. one level they claim to be in favor of freedom of speech and another level they complain when people say things they don't want to hear it's the usual hypocrisy really isn't it i mean lots of people believe in freedom of speech as long as they hear the things they want to hear is freedom of speech just to mean that everybody's allowed to say what they

want to say and people can watch what they want and make up their own minds about what they think is happening the idea that you can control one of the people say in this day and age is simply wrong and you know ultimately they're not going to get very far with this in the british government will probably conclude that there's not a lot they can do about this if you if the material you produce is hard quality then people are going to want to watch it staying on the topic worries about the possible influence of russian media are currently high across the e.u. which is poised to hold parliamentary elections later this month well of more of that from charlotte there with you in just a few minutes time. an alleged long time collaborator of wiki leaks founder julian assange is facing trial in ecuador a court in the country just dismissed an appeal by the cyber security expert who was arrested in quito last month on the very same day as sandra's taken into custody in the u.k. all of binny is a well known free software developer and privacy activist is reportedly worked with

wiki leaks in the past when he was arrested by a door and author to use on charges of trying to hack computer systems in the country where his lawyers have dismissed the claims as politically motivated. now and not ever investigations will find they have been demonstrating what seems to be the supposed. when he did it. where i mean what's the information that we want to show to the world that the decision made here was a political one. there were aspects of the hearing that i did not like for example the difference in time allocated we were granted just fifty minutes to talk with the prosecutors spoke for almost one hour and fifteen minutes well critics some of our arguments were dismissed by the judges. well julian assange himself is in a british prison that so after being sentenced to fifty weeks for violating the terms of his bio in the u.k. he's also awaiting his extradition trial the united states where he is wanted for

allegedly conspiring to hack into classified government files a songe told a lot of in court on thursday he would not surrender voluntarily to the americans activist laura love who was also accused of hacking into u.s. government computers although saunders wellbeing would not be guaranteed if he's extradited. i think he's going to have an uphill struggle everyone has an uphill struggle under us actually this request because it's a very unbalanced treaty so the u.s. doesn't have to provide any evidence they just have to have the paperwork in the presumption is able to is exhibition we managed to win there's a lot of campaigning and a lot of support political support and support from journalist 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 journalist so people involved in journalism to ensure that we do you know allow the injustice and

isolation to happen in. the bahamas as a favor offshore banking location among fact. pigs also love the archipelago not for the tax breaks but for the clear blue waters wild swimming hole become its latest tourist attraction. did their skates on the ship wreck or were they brought here hundreds of years ago. explorers they are truly one of nature's most amusing accident. and of all rights activists they were raising the alarm they say local businesses are exploiting the feral pigs for profit by mistreating them for the amusement of tourists came around half from the bahamas humane society says this is due to ignorance. i think the stupidity with the animals is purely ignorance that we see the same form of stupidity take place all over the world we have seen in many many video clips of tourists trying

to feed them. but we've seen pictures of people trying to ride on their backs throwing sand teasing them pigs swimming tour owners the friend of their business saying the animals are cared for well enough local officials though plan to introduce new legislation to regulate the industry came around again once tougher laws governing the business. people need to know how to behave around them and they need to be careful and then needs to be someone who is watching and who can stop people from behaving inappropriately and unless there is adequate surveillance no i don't think. there are no regulations here in the bahamas to protect the pigs from the stupidity of humans. while up with the semifinals of the gopher champions league at the halfway stage show our star partner football coach who is a marine and give us his thoughts on the first and second legs and also tells us

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of a house resolution on ending u.s. engagement in the conflict. saudi arabia is eight despotic dictatorship that works over time to prevent any movement in that country toward democracy this is also about squaring u.s. policy with national security interests and getting the blood off our hands we ought not give unflinching unwavering unquestioning. devotion to a regime that treats its own people that way the house passed a resolution back in april with sixteen republicans among those voting in favor of it however it was vetoed by donald trump who dubbed it a dangerous attempt to weaken his constitutional authority saudi arabia launched its bombing campaign again back in twenty fifteen against two three rebels which riyadh viewed as terrorists the karajan is resulting in what the united nations the scribes as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis on earth.

he says it is a business decision and if he has to deal with a murderous regime he will continue to do so. he has no compunction. morally or with any regard to human rights to in their relationship he sees it strictly as a transactional relationship to keep us careful isn't going to

fuel us industry and the u.s. military and bar he has no human rights concerns. so human of course isn't the only country where civilian lives have been ravaged by war in syria many orphans have been forced to adapt to life on the streets visited damascus i met a group of homeless children are now being exploited by criminal gangs. and i still have. a lonely. and there was one that's just. come. into thirty. years.

you know. in less than a month the european union is holding parliamentary elections campaigns have been launched across the whole block to try to get people out voting.

and some countries are also bracing for what they fear will be russian attempts to meddle in the election though it also made it seem likely the result would be affected by any such interference our correspondent shala dubin skew looks at the pre-election and meddling efforts. as the even to elections looming instead of focusing on what's happening within its own borders some countries are more concerned with what russia is or isn't doing for example the most recent one this campaign website which is part of an official e.u. initiative called the european external action service it claims those pesky russians try to push especially agenda to divert e.u. citizens from the righteous way of voting on the agenda there are things like the

last e.u. states so when t. narrative as well as the popular one people versus the elites in denmark one thing tank is so concerned it's created a website on how to recognize russian dissin from ation except if you read closely the site it did make its. mark has not yet been seriously affected by descent from asian we need to be prepared for this kind of warfare offering perhaps the same mentality as that during the cold war but you just have to have had an underground bunker or come the nuclear apocalypse you would be toast and there are warnings but no one is more looking forward to the elections than russian president vladimir putin yes that's right the pressing urgency of ensuring e.u. citizens know that the kremlin bad guy is out to influence their vote means all forms of warnings being instigated even caught.

up. is all up by living on a. list. getting. to be twelve so even citizens really believe that a democratic process is under threat from russia. not afraid. i'm not concerned about that personally but i'm pretty sure it will happen. no maybe a little. i'm not personally worried about it but i think it could happen. however it seems like the real issue here isn't misinformation it's actually a problem with good old real information within easy study showing that actually only five percent of europeans actually knew when the elections were taking place.

r.t. paris and that's it for myself on a team for this hour join us again in just about thirty five minutes time for all the latest global news updates. they can come and blow our brains out at any given time if we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people. war and legally get away with. all the fire crawls stillbirth all the trouble here's briefly all the points it's hollow flying to k.k.k. what exists because america wants it to exist they are the biggest terrorist group

to ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse than the people who destroyed the world trade centers are those grow why. why. why. no welcome to sophie and co and sophie shevardnadze a man who swore an oath of allegiance to osama bin ladin and met with the architect of the nine eleven attacks a mundane is with me today talking about his journey from an al qaeda operative to a top and my six spy. the transition from monday to collective prayer or school

meetings to forming clandestine cells and bodyguards a load to repeat all those carnage across the. is there really a single cause to terrorism call them to every recruit how do violent groups like al qaeda recruit and retain new members and what happens if someone decides they have to get out of the deadly game. a mundane former al qaeda operative turned one of your case top intelligence assets within the terrorist group welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us today are excited to even have to have you now you were described as a master bomb maker and w m d specialist but also a religious scholar what was your occupation with their guns ation exactly well i mean when i joined the organization in one thousand and seven. i was more or less out of the attorney in mum and the idea basically i thought i wanted to you know

give religious lessons and i was giving religious lessons to some of the recruits but also they noticed that they had been up to to inform us and chemistry and so that's why they assigned me to a small lab somewhere in the west of del about the not gonna stand which was working on explosives chemical weapons boys and some budgeted weapons and so that's why they sent me that basically but did you actually have to fight like take part in any field operations well when the time basically in afghanistan the fight was against the northern alliance which was composed of a michelle massaro donned a bunny and also the she just and we know that was big fight as so they were congregating mostly in the north of kabul so i would take some more patients i was sent to the frontline and know basically once every three months but i wouldn't

call that fighting it was mostly you know exchanging mortar you know with enemy. so how hard was it for you to cross that border from a normal life into a life which is pretty much about killing well you know it was really at the age of sixteen when i wanted to go to bosnia and fight the jihad there so when i was leaving aside arabia and the comforts of my life there i wasn't thinking that i was going to join a terror organization it was more like the international brigade of the spanish civil war so we were going to a volunteer fight him on one side of the civil war in bosnia which is the side of the bosnian muslims against the serbs it wasn't you know the intention to go and join a terror organization is just i didn't know that the jihad in bosnia was run by. managed by members or veterans of the egyptian jemaah islamiya you know the group

that was responsible and the early one nine hundred eighty s. for the assassination of president sadat in egypt he wants out that that brutality of the boston war made you question your commitment to them which i had seen cause but after bosnia you want to galveston and couldn't resist a ideological appeal. what was it about them that was so irresistible so to say i mean how do you go from a moment of critical doubt to punching into that pulled you back it was a toxic mix all theology politics and eschatology or basically you know the prophecies of ancient islam basically. preached to us of the time telling us that we are the soldiers of destiny that somehow i want to jihad is to bring about no the fifth or the fifth stage of islamic history is basically to recreate the caitiff it that's what they were telling us at that time

und that to why.