prince of interior minister is accused of lying after claiming it made a protesters attack staff at a paris hospital. as britain's new defense secretary anymore it gets down to business m.p.'s are calling for a police inquiry into the alleged leaks of secret plans by her sacked how does a sort of spike the prime minister claim matters no closer. plus it's a no show for the u.s. attorney general who refused to subject himself to more questions about his reduction of a report absolving trouble of pollution with russia democrats are calling william barr a coward and burnishing props to make the point that. chicken bar should have shown

up today and answered why should i think yesterday the group is not sure about this employee body still in the circus continues over. and animal rights activists in the bahamas raise the alarm as swimming pigs become a tourist sensation on the our blog. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. france's interior minister is being branded a liar after claiming anti-capitalist attacks stuff any person 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 are to charlotte even ski reports from the french capital. violence all may the first has

been well documented in one of the most shocking stories that emerged from that violence was these allegations of particularly by france's interior minister that actually some of the reuters and those protesters were trying to attack a hospital trying to attack the staff and trying to enter into that hospital this particular hospital was actually an intensive care unit and there was descriptions of the patients inside saying that they were in which carries two asian many of them were intimidated something ventilated and that the staff at humor would leak floyd to fight off that attack of those protesters entering into the site this is walked from in syria minister had to say about that event the. hospital was attacked it's 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 turned it soley to deliver and turn issues social movement then

the interior minister should be fired without 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 here in france it's also a message that this video showing the police offices 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 who 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 facility. still 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 wait is new person on the there were several of us we didn't see any black blocks we saw some yellow vests who were in a panic 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 eyes. to the u.k. now where opposition m.p.'s are calling for an official inquiry into the alleged

leak of secret plans by sacked defense minister gavin williamson that prime minister theresa may insists the matter is now closed and as far as only due to her loss of confidence in him are to supply a boycott has more. 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 fall from grace appears to have been even faster than a sort of fast track to success to reason may sacked him as defense secretary earlier this week she accused him of leaking highly sensitive information i put to you delete information from the investigation which provides compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for do you not to rise disclosure i can no longer have full 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 and govern williamson isn't going quietly ever since his sacking the now former defense

secretary has been very many 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 there are now rumors in westminster that williamson could be out for revenge that he's got enough dirt on the prime minister to bring her down to quote one commentator gavin's gavin williamson knows where the bodies are buried in other words he's been working at the top level of cabinet at the highest echelons of power for a few years now he was eventually brought into cabinet as defense secretary where he was rather outspoken and. frankly. should go away the true church took.

to pay tribute to the dispersants are doing to the norm you are great using that kind of cultural language the world united behind britain as well. it's on would you please answer the question we came together with our allies annoyed at the same story so you should interview terminated because you won't answer the question good luck with the good of the church. and surrounding areas something that we thank you. for your very wrong business that he. indeed we take a carrot and stick them right. personally i don't much like the state. but it is amazing what's come be achieved with the show and see how it you can see that

gavin williamson wasn't without his quotes he was famous in parliament for keeping a pet tarantula named crudeness on his desk and he has been posting rather a lot on social media in fact he's quite prolific keep posted since his sacking a photograph on instagram with his two pet dogs saying that it's been a really tough week but it's all ok when you get to come home to your pets says he's going to have a lot more time for them now and i actually have to recommend that you do check out his instagram he is quite a prolific social media user he's now been replaced by the u.k.'s first ever female defense secretary penny mordant 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. there have been four school scenes in the u.s. congress after the man who controversy reductive the mall. a 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 all he has to say about his version of the report democratic lawmakers who want to see the document in full actually 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 into some k.f.c. not only democrats want bars had to roll they're not mulling charges of contempt of congress killed more often 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 he 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 you through general in contempt if you store is to negotiate in good faith mr barnes moment of accountability will come soon enough and i think that probably it came right out of the democrat scared of they don't know bill maher 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 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 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 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 why. socks 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 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 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 longtime collaborator a collaborator of wiki leaks co-founder join a songe or remain in pretrial detention and ecuador a court in the country has dismissed an appeal by the cyber security expert he was arrested in quito us month on the same day assad was taken into custody in the u.k. all of beenie is a well known software developer and privacy activist is reportedly worked with wiki leaks in the past he was arrested by ecuadorian authorities on charges of trying to hack computer systems in the country however his lawyers claim the case is politically motivated. so it's not ever investigation so far they have been demonstrating what seems to be the supposed. when she did it. where i mean what's the information we want 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 currently in a british prison after being sentenced to fifteen 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 files a songe told in london court on thursday that he wouldn't surrender voluntarily to the americans activist lori love who was also accused of hacking into u.s. government computers believes 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 she 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 the paperwork in order the presumption is able to is extradition we managed to win there's

a lot of campaigning and a lot of support political support from 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 or people involved in journalism to ensure that we do you know allow the injustice and isolation to happen. it seems sun and see aren't the only things getting people trotting towards the bahamas for their holidays i'll tell you what else has got people squealing with delight after the break. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on

top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. question. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic to follow can only believe i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. to.

the bahamas is renowned for its beautiful but 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 the ship wreck where they brought here hundreds of years ago by pirates and explorers they are truly one of nature's most accident. but cute as 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 come are on it from the bahamas humane society set up says it all comes down to ignorance. i think the stupidity with

the animals is generally ignorance and 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 theme has seen a host of other pick related attractions spring up with the authorities now promising to regulate this side of the tourism industry came around 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 watching and who can stop people from behaving in appropriately and unless there is adequate surveillance know. there are no regulations here in the bahamas to protect the pigs from the stupidity

of humans. facebook has been a prominent conservative anti-establishment figures from its platform citing policies against dangerous and vigils and organizations the ban also applies to facebook on instagram most of the people on the list have prominent media profile for that includes the likes of alex jones with his website and force exploit part news editor while you novelists and political activist laura loom or more over anyone who promotes their content on social media faces a similar fate you tube or a poll just of watson who has also been banned by facebook says the move was political. i was given no reason whatsoever for being banned by facebook or instagram this is punishment this is a political purge this has nothing to do with hate or violating terms of service facebook's action has sparked a censorship debate with some a saying the social media giant should ban more people while others warn of free

speech repercussions the social media giant underlines that they have always been individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence hate regardless of ideology live now to ben harris twenty eight chair of the british thing to think tank the bow group welcome to the program now facebook claims violation of service but these figures have been on the platform for many years why now so that's right i think what we're seeing is facebook increasingly seeing itself as a political act. and they're they're reacting to. election results like the bricks like the election of donald trump and it would appear that they still as a company that they want to put themselves on the side of the debate now there are there are presently owned companies so many say well why shouldn't they be able to do that but my point is if they do want to do that they need to be regulated as

such as a political actor in the debate rather than a platform for the three to tell you which i think it's not very clear if they are not. so is there any coincidence that most of those that are banned are prominent conservative figures. you know it's all as i say i think facebook is very clearly putting themselves on one side of the political debate state been frustrating the work of conservatives and banning conservatives from their platform for some time this is the latest attempts to do so and it is absolutely cattelan to free speech because they're saying these individuals are dangerous well many people like myself see them as perfectly reasonable actors in a political debates they have huge following across a variety of platforms. by my assessment is also that clearly these people are popular and clearly people want to hear what they have to say as

a safe facebook want to place themselves on one side of the political debate then they need to be regulated as such just like any other media company in the united kingdom we have very strict laws on t.v. and radio media that there is supposed to be an absence of bias and i think it's about time that is regulations are either abolished complete or extend logically to the internet as well alex jones popularity thord after similar controversies in the path could all of us have the opposite effect of making the band figures actually more popular not less. it may well it may well but that's not the point the point is if facebook wants to be a political act then it needs to be regulates it as a political act or regulated at the same level as all other media outlets. i wish the best luck to figures like cole joseph watson and you not less that they

become more popular as a result of this but that's not really the point in question the point in question is that facebook is clearly pushing itself as a political act and why is excusing the regulation that other media companies face . then harris quinn and chair of the group think tank thank you for joining us on the program today that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our website are to dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. it has nothing to do with the propaganda that the daily mail is pushing but when you have a population that might be susceptible the propaganda they can easily be manipulated into thinking that fracking is something other than what it is it's not

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that's what happens when you put her into the. narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. that got the full liverpool deserves much more and the think it's possible before to do the two war the movement is phenomenal and they still. it's moments way out of people can. or knives for a better way than a home they don't sleep very well instead of being a coach you are a pacific gator. you

predicted barcelona would win the first leg and then i aks the heights again would be tight which i think is pretty much what happened but all the headlines today about lionel messi and those two goals he scored against liverpool who in the end just couldn't cope with it i had told you a couple of weeks ago all that messi would never be my special one here because what. it was all the time so you feel becomes a special one once then the becomes a special one almost every and almost every week but i have to say. absolutely incredible. i think you made that result. liverpool was positive liverpool was in spite of. a start the game without meaningful icing for sure was not the union decision to leave a figment of you feed me was in the top of yours. game but in spite of that. i

would like to know but. i've been seeing in the past twenty years many teams in the champions league and they beat barcelona involved position in the come no normally on the style these they impose their game they dominate the game in every expect the yesterday that didn't happen liverpool was very very positive to have three big chances at the cup now even in the seventy final is also a lot and normally up of three you score one and then the story can be a different one but that. that got the football made it made it completely different and. of course they have a good team of course they have phenomenal players but that is absolutely incredible to be thought a little cool you said previously that in order to contain messi you have to create

a cage of plays around him to try and stop him playing and that seemed to be what they were doing quite effectively but those losses of seven minutes with a seven minute period where he scored twice and there's very little they could do about that because weekly that he did once in. which i think they did really well which was to push one of the lawn or for many times a long buildup from the keeper which is something that they don't know how to do. they know if they do they're going to be dominated by the opponents or they always try to go short they take lots of risks playing from the bag because they have players of super quality really able skates they are so comfortable taking these risks from the back but liverpool's pressing so high every will keep that so many times that's they're going to have to go along and of course van dyck. deep they always win the first of all they recover the second ball and again liverpool was

having the ball that's the reason why they had i think a little bit more than fifty percent of the ball of the ball possession so they did many things they did many things well they didn't score and and that you be specially when you have that kind of approach and they didn't score and then they allow the game to be broken specially after the two zero the game was broken and. we can obviously say that liverpool deserves much more than the three in the on the feed much more but we can also say in the last two quarters of the game could be four to zero or five zero because the game was broken and then they couldn't cope with that kind of according to the to your guns game plan they did their best they.