really. really really really. princes interior minister is accused of lying after claiming it made a protesters attack staff at a paris hospital. as britain's new defense secretary a penny more to get down to business the media still obsessing over the sacking of the predecessor for supposedly leaking info from a top secret government meeting. plus it's a no show for the u.s. attorney general who refused to subject himself to more questions about his production of a report absolving trump of pollution russia democrats are calling william bark a coward and burnishing prompts to make their point. chicken bar should have shown up today and answered why should they do it today proving not terrified is it before anybody still in the circus continues over. an animal rights activist in the

bahamas raise the alarm a swimming takes become a tourist sensation on the market. you're watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned four pm welcome to the program. france's interior minister is being branded a liar after claiming anti-capitalist attacks staff at a paris hospital during a may day rally that turned ugly but videos an eyewitness accounts of the incident suggest they were actually taking cover from right police firing tear gas charlotte devinsky reports from the french capital. violence or may the first has been well documented in one of the most shocking stories that emerged from that violence was these allegations particularly by frances interior minister that actually some of

the reuters and those protesters were trying to attack a hospital trying to attack the stalls and trying to enter into that hospital this particular hospital was actually a surgical intensive care unit and there was descriptions of the patients inside saying that they were in quite a carry situation many of them were intimidated some ventilated and that the staff at whom rickly tried to fight off that attack of those protesters entering into the site this is what france's interior minister had to say about that event the. hospital was attacked its medical staff were attacked and the police officers sent to protect them was hurt unshakable faith in our security services they are the pride of the republic well that's his version of events but in a twist going on here social media has been flooded with videos showing exactly what happened on the ground in that hospital and actually what we've seen from

those videos and social media some of which were actually taken by members of staff inside the hospital don't show what the interior minister said happened in fact what they show is that the c.r.s. the security forces with charging at protesters those protesters were fleeing from the security services and as such they were seeking refuge inside the hospital not just for that charge but also because of the tear gas that had been deployed in the area so a very different version of events and as such opposition politicians here in france have described christopher kasten a as being a liar and some of them have even called for his resignation. if it was a deliberate lie in turn and soley to deliver and turn issues social movement then the interior minister should be fired with our doing. kristoff. shamelessly and manipulated the press to spread these lies you know who's enough

given the facts he has no choice but to resign well in other developments coming out of that may day protests in france it's also emerged that this video showing the police officers actually picking up paving stones from the road and throwing that towards protesters now we know that this is a weapon of arsenal that the protesters have used for many months during the yellow vest protests and indeed on the may day but this is the first time in paris we've seen evidence of the police using what essentially is an sanctioned weapon against the protesters it begs the question whether the police are the ones here inciting the violence and instead of trying to control the situation they're actually poor ring oil on the fire meanwhile hospital staff have spoken to the media describing the moment when may day protesters rushed into the philippine. in the most number of them startled us at first but very quickly they started to listen some try to

calm them down it's a hospital calmed down they understood that we couldn't lead the man and now when it comes to finding someone to blame we don't know there's nothing to say i think when you take part in a protest things always get a little bit out of hand and that's the weight is. on the there were several of us we didn't see any black blocks we saw some yellow vests who were in the panning going in all directions there were about ten of them they went up the stairs and at the door they asked for something for their eyes which they said were stinging we saw no signs of forced entry doors or anything some colleagues did go to treat their ice. if theresa may was hoping she'd draw a line under the sacking of her defense secretary on wednesday and things aren't going as planned for the british prime minister kevin williamson is adamant he wasn't guilty of leaking information from a top secret meeting and the media still jam packed with the story of the cross

live now to polly boycott in london polly so gavin williamson doesn't seem to be going quietly. no and this was a man of course who had huge political ambitions it was said that he wanted to work his way to the very top to succeed to reason may but his form from grace appears to have been even faster than the sort of foss track to success that he'd enjoyed to resume a sacked him as defense secretary earlier this week and it was a brutal firing she accused him of leaking highly sensitive information from the national from the national security council's discussions about whether the chinese telecoms giant huawei should be participating in the rollout of the five g. network here in the u.k. that's vital telecoms infrastructure now the national security council which is the n.s.c. for short is a top government team and secrecy that is tantamount it is just it's absolutely

sacred and yet the way story and the discussions from the n.s.c. were paul stood all over the papers so downing street carried out an ep an investigation and then to resume a steen pointed the finger of blame squarely at to reason may's former protege the defense secretary gavin williamson take a listen to you delete information from the investigation which provides compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for due north arise disclosure i can no longer have fool confidence in you as secretary of state for the fence and a minister in my cabinet and ask you to leave her majesty's government. gavin williamson isn't going quietly ever since his sacking the now former defense secretary has been very manly protesting his innocence in fact kevin williamson is calling for a criminal investigation into the leak in order to establish his innocence he's

sworn on his kids' lives that he wasn't behind the leak and there is defending him say that there is no way to establish who leaked to the press and the government simply needed a whipping boy at a time when it's not looking so great on other fronts it needs to look strong at least in relation to this but there are now rumors in westminster that williamson could be out for revenge that he's got enough on the prime minister to bring her down to quote one commentator gavin's gavin williamson is where the bodies are buried in other words he's been working at the top level of cabinet the highest echelons of power for a few years now he started off actually as david cameron's private secretary he was known for sort of circulating helpful questions to put to the prime minister during pm cues every week so he's very good at the political game

some even sort of a sort of the dog. or a must or rather the dog art of politics and then when david cameron had to go gavin williamson jumped ship and started sort of managing the leadership campaign for to reason may he was eventually brought into cabinet as defense secretary where he was rather outspoken and take a listen. frankly brochure should go away the true church. to pay tribute to the help service but i'm sorry did you want to break the norm you were great using that kind of casual language the world united behind britain and one more time would you please answer the question we came together with our allies and we're not the same story so you should interview terminated because you won't answer the question good luck with the good of the church. party

and surrounding areas on something that we thank you. for your very wrong business that he is. indeed we take a carrot and stick them right. personally i don't much like the stick. but it is amazing what's come be achieved with the show and to hiram's you can see that he wasn't without his quote he kept a pet tarantula named crudeness on his work desk and gavin williamson instagram account is quite frankly fascinating stuff if you haven't seen it yet go take a look for yourselves he's now been replaced by the u.k.'s first ever female defense secretary penny morton she's

a royal navy reservist and fun fact she once worked as a magician's assistant now looking at the guy in local election results today am with gregg's it still dragging on and with williamson refusing to shut up and go away perhaps to reason may is hoping that some of penny mordant magic will rub off on her. holy book i'll bring us the latest from london thank you. there have been farcical themes in the u.s. congress after the man who controversal redacted the moeller report into alleged collusion between trump and russia failed to show for a grilling attorney general william barr snubbed the hearing saying he'd already told senators only has to say about his version of the report democratic lawmakers who want to see the document in full theatrically placed barres name card in front of an empty chair congressman steve cohen then put a ceramic chicken on the desk as a symbol of the attorney general's alleged cowardice and tucked in some k.f.c.

not only do democrats one cars had to roll they're not mulling charges of contempt of congress held up and has more. well 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 destruction of justice and yes we will have no choice but to move quickly to hold the attorney general in contempt if you stores or feels to

negotiate in good faith mr barr's moment of accountability will come soon enough and i think that probably one of the democrats scared of they don't know bill barr here today they've had a 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 of vailable to top democrats but these top congressional democrat. navl palosi and others every fuse to read it and said that instead they want the entire report revealed to a wider audience share mainly 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 now things escalated from there members of congress basically tried to be somewhat the actor cole 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 looking under the desk to make sure that william barr was not hiding

under the desk in fear chicken bar should have shown up today and answered questions of 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 i'm 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. and allege long time call. aberrated or of wiki leaks co-founder join a songe or remain in pretrial detention ecuador a court in the country has dismissed an appeal by the cyber security expert who was arrested in kill last month on the same day as entres taken into custody in the u.k. all of beanie is a well known software developer and privacy activist he's reportedly worked with ricky weeks in the past the meat was arrested by ecuador and authorities on charges of trying to hack computer systems in the country however his lawyers claim the case is politically motivated now and not every investigation they have been

demonstrating what seems to be the. way he did it. where i mean what's the information that we're going to show to the world that the decision made here was a political one though you said there were aspects of the hearings 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 critically some of our arguments were dismissed by the judges. julian assange himself is in a british prison currently after being sentenced to fifty weeks jail for breaking his bail terms he is also awaiting trial over a request for his extradition to the united states where he's wanted for allegedly conspiring to hack into classified government trials a son told a london court on thursday that he wouldn't surrender voluntarily to the americans activist mauri love who was also accused of hacking into u.s. government computers leaves a songe will have a huge battle ahead of him. 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 balanced treaty so the u.s. doesn't have to provide any evidence they just have to have the paperwork in order the presumption is a view only towards extradition we managed to win because of a lot of campaigning and a lot of support political support from and the support from journalists 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 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 are loud the injustice of an exhibition to. the bahamas is renowned for its beautiful beaches sparkling seas and increasingly it seems it's swimming swines pigs that love to paddle have become an attraction all of their own. did they excrete on the ship wreck where

they brought here hundreds of years ago by pirates explorers they are truly one of nature's most amusing accidents. by care does it all looks animal rights activists have raised the alarm they claim local businesses are mistreating the pigs and exploiting them for profit for example by throwing them into the water for the amusement of tourists kameraden from the bahamas humane society it says it all comes down to ignorance. i think the stupidity with the animals is purely ignorant so we see the same form stupidity j. lace all over the world we have seen 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 the tour operators offering the chance to swim with pigs have defended their business saying the animals are not harmed the popularity of the original

feral colony has seen a host of other pay related attractions spring up with the authorities now promising to regulate this side of the tourism industry cameron again once greater oversight people need to know how to behave around them and they need to be careful and then needs to be someone who is what should and who can stop people from behaving in appropriately and unless there is adequate surveillance no i don't think it can still there are no regulations here in the bahamas to protect the pigs from the stupidity of. the us senate has failed to and washington support for the saudi and courage and to yemen or bring you up to speed on that development after the short break.

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welcome back the u.s. is expected to continue its support for the saudi military intervention in yemen the senate has failed to overturn president trump's veto of a house resolution on ending washington's involvement in the war. 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. the house passed a resolution opposing involvement last month with sixteen republicans among those

voting in favor however it was blocked by donald trump who dubbed it a dangerous attempt to weaken his constitutional authority riyadh launched its bombing campaign in yemen back in two thousand and fifteen against what the rebels shroud views as terrorists incursions resulted in what the u.n. describes as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis on earth. this is it is a business decision and if he has to do with the murderous regime he will continue to do so. he has no. compunction about morally

or with any regard to human rights to in the relations. the sees it strictly as a transactional relationship to keep u.s. cannibalism going to fuel u.s. industry and the u.s. military here has no human rights concerns. environmental activists in kiev have clashed with police in a bid to stop trees being cut down to make way for skyscrapers protesters trying to break a fence around the area in the ukrainian capital and use trees to block of road police to use force against the demonstrators several of whom were detained before being released and building company had fenced off a disputed four hectic or green area processors came out despite the company's pledge not to clear the trees for a final decision is. made by authorities. now to football's champions

league now which has just seen the first leg of it semi finals but tottenham losing to i.x. a live report thrashed by barcelona just a marine you know gives his reaction to the games plus makes his predictions for the second leg and a show on the touchline later on our team. liverpool's rave in the approach i've been seeing in the past twenty years of many teams in the chimp is the the be. involved perception in the company got the football made the media completely different of course they have a good team of course they have from all players but that player is absolutely incredible liverpool deserves much more than the scrutiny on the feeds much more

but you can also see in the last two corners of the game could be four of a zero or more five zero because the game was broken and they couldn't cope the question is which one of them are we going to have messi these sides. for we know and even food we know that looks small that is not small but should we lose the last one normally the ball never goes from these but these sides they give little people give one need to do they are going also to cover 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'm going to attack the space in front and good by people can see or play organize these playing against the team where he played for a few years and where he was loved. that there is nothing to do we does ninety minutes and for these ninety minutes you forgot that he played for liverpool

instead of being a coach you are a pacific eight the new want everybody happy in you want to be you are not the pacific it that you want to coach for the most playing with something backs against nobody the post by by and that is going to be the moment of a key moment of the game a q moment of the tide was ready for bed the dog explored down that huge space that they were leaving behind i don't think so but i did x. knew 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. more money the stadium is mcniff is and atmosphere is absolutely

beautiful that. begin next week. that's a global news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for tuning in. when i was choked small seemed wrong. but old old just told. me to get to shape out just to come to educate and in again try it because

betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the. well welcome to sophie and co and sophie shevardnadze a man who swore an oath of allegiance to osama bin laden and met with the architects 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 collective school. to all else carnage across the world is there really

a single terrorism every recruit how do violent groups like al qaeda recruit 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 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 already 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 dell about in the gunnison which was working on explosives chemical weapons boys and some biological 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 downed bonnie and also the 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 and i was sent to the frontline you know basically once every three months but i wouldn't call that fighting it was mostly you know exchanging mortise you know with the enemy so how hard was it for you to cross.