president nicolas maduro says he. along with his us back denies plotting a minute and i'll guess debate what really happened. we're. not moving six million people voted for. free and fair election that. you know how many people voted for one boy. the u.s. attorney general is grilled in the senate over his handling of the report but refuses. further questions democrats are calling william barr

a coward. and you as. an exchange of rapid fire leaving a several. hours a day seven days a week you're watching in the weekly on the line from austin. into these are highlights from last week in the latest up to date stories of the program this week in venezuela was wrong by violent protests in which more than one hundred people were injured the country's president nicolas maduro said an attempted coup by opposition leader was put down on tuesday one day who claims to be venezuela's

legitimate president announced the final phase of ending went to israel and called on people to rise up against the government. this was today brave soldiers brave treating some of the brave people are following our constitution and answering the call you today the armed forces are standing behind the people and the constitution on. your so we're going to recover and rebuild and as we look at that that's what venezuela needs today is that us not.

by defeating this terrible coup attempt. with truth with loyalty with. the crisis in various ways will be discussed by russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and if u.s. counterpart mike pompei or and they meet in finland next week on the sidelines of the arctic council summit meanwhile washington and deny plotting and military overthrow with the us secretary advisor john bolton insisting it's an internal matter for the venezuelan people. we need better as well ruled by the people of venezuela not by extra little forces this is the bolton was done his damnedest to ensure regime change in venezuela whose country has championed regime change

sanctioned venezuela frozen billions in state funds rate than did with invasion now how his saying no one should meddle that it's up to the days wayland's to decide. of course not what he meant is no one but america all options remain on the table we said it would be a big mistake for me doro and those supporting him to use force against innocent civilians mr bolton's definition of innocent i think. from the classic meaning look at these demonstrators with guns shooting at troops and police i suppose the bullets of full of love to a few bad hold these innocents accountable says mr bolton we might invade between the lines as thomas call a status where with you america will stand with you until freedom and democracy are restored by and can do us today the interim president who would do a nonstarter of

a person. the government foolish supports the venezuelan people who in the quest for freedom and democracy democracy cannot be defeated what do you know they stand with the people never mind the sanctions and the misery for millions that they've caused i question is which people exactly did you say you stand with the few hundred machete gun wielding fellows that tried to stage a violent coup or the thousands upon thousands who concurrently marched in support of the venezuelan president maduro against this coup this is clearly not a coup we recognize one go i don't know as the legitimate interim president of venezuela and just as it's not a coup when the president of the united states gives an order to the department of defense it's not

a coup for wind why don't you try and take command of the venezuelan military your own father mr bolton one by do who was never elected doesn't control the military or ministries or anything he is the president. nicolas maduro the actual president supported by millions the military the ministries is not the president see what i mean by strange it's almost like the bitter and denial things didn't go according to plan the u.s. might object to the term coup however if we turn to the dictionary the word is defined as a sudden violent and illegal seizure of power from a government i guess debated whether lance what's being attempted in venezuela. the u.s. supports coup d'etat is all the time this is another example that one has no power under the constitution of venezuela the fact the us recognize him recognizes him is

of no import the u.s. recognizes him because he has already agreed to privatizing venezuela's oil in the interest of u.s. companies that's why the us recognizes him and that does not make him with the opinion of the united states is no the only opinion for all other fifty countries recognize why go as illegitimate president ninety percent of venezuelans do support also while you go there are legitimate president this is an unfolding coup that the us watched to push forward and we have to remember by the way the us supported the coup in two thousand and two against hugo chavez and we're reluctant to call it a coup back then the fact that the us wants to use some man ticks to cover up what it's doing doesn't change the fact that this is a coup when people say you know a seizure of power illegal seizure of power the basic definition of a coup does that key element there is not illegal because. while you go has

a legitimate power recognized by the international community 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 worst or use never what you never hear from them in the press and so you get one side of the story and that is tantamount to misrepresenting destroyed their recent science or do not just if i decline in common the basic con the me and the three million plus in this one it's gaping venezuela for other current. no start when this actually started this started way before that six million people voted for nicolas maduro last may in a free and fair election that i observed do you know how many people voted for won

by. u.s. attorney general william barr has defended his actions over the release of the miller report findings in front of the senate democrats are calling for balls immediate resignation claiming he misled the american public over the results of the russia probe back in march released a four page summary of the report which stated that there'd been no collusion between donald trump and russia as obstruction of justice in the special counsel had failed to reach a conclusion on the matter during his senate grilling the attorney general claimed to robert miller didn't think he had misrepresented the special counsel's report though some of the senators are questioning him didn't buy that. very clear with me that he was not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report i feel. was purposely misleading and i think others do too now the american people know

that you are no different from rudy giuliani or killing conway or any of the other people who sacrifice or once decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the oval office being attorney general of the united states is a sacred trust you have betrayed that trust america deserves better issue resign the democratic party is on the warpath and all who stand between them and their goal of ousting donald trump have a target on their forehead either join with them or step down this attorney general lacks all credibility so you resign yes. he should step down or should resign and if he does not resign he should basing impeachment proceedings also he does need to resign to step up. william barr he's the next target in between the democrats and their goal of impeaching donald trump why well he released the bob muller report showing no collusion with russia the special counsel found no

collusion by any americans in ira's illegal activities testifying before the senate bar was forced to answer questions about misleading the public and standing in the way and the democrats picked up on one key phrase in bob muller's letter that being public confusion about key aspects of the investigation the democrats thought they had him with this one but not so fast 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 feels like the seeds of a cover up are here there are still many questions tonight for instance why president trump and so many people in his orbit lied about their contacts with russia i don't need them over report to know he's a traitor i have the t.v. but hope springs eternal for the democrats next to the stand obstruction of justice president trump in gauge instruction of justice and those of his kind of the president who. to my reading of. the report almost certainly

obstructed justice or did you find that to be a persuasive act of obstructing justice. no but options still remain on the table for the democrats one perhaps being the fact that the report was redacted perhaps the bombshell the democrats wanted was simply cut out of the report the public version has been estimated to have. only ten percent redactions volume two has only about two percent redactions for the public versions for ninety eight percent of volume two dealing with obstruction is available to the public but you can't deny that the democrats have drive they've got a goal they've got persistence that is here in abundance and with their eyes on the prize in two thousand and twenty we can expect that the democratic party will keep chasing tails. r.t. new york farcical scenes unfolded in the u.s. congress on the next day after the attorney general refused to show up for the grilling he said he'd already told senators only had to say about his version of

the report democrat lawmakers didn't cancel the hearing that they theatrically pace balls name called in front of an empty chair congressman steve cohen then put a ceramic chicken on the desk as a symbol of the attorney general of the alleged cowardice and to enter into some k.f.c. there with democrats now charges of contempt of congress some house members call the situation absurd. yes failed the men and women of the department of justice by placing the needs of the president over the fairy ministration of justice and yes we will have no choice but to move quickly to hold the attorney general in contempt if you stores or fails to negotiate in good faith mr byers the moment of accountability will come soon enough and i think that probably implies chicken barr should have shown up today and answered questions the black sox looked clean compared to distinct it's a sad day in a bear for the democrats scared of they don't know bill maher here today they've

had the report they've read it they don't like what's in it for the still in the circus continues over here the congress in its capacity here is not really investigating malfeasance by the attorney general which is their job as oversight they're actually having some perry mason like a mole or two 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 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 the. may day rallies in may just cities around the world at one

moment by violence as protests as a whole finds classed with riot police. in europe on day capitalist prominent in the may day violence our correspondent. witnessed the end rest in paris. well may day started with violence before the protest the official protests even began those protesters tried to move from the mall point us up towards plastic italy as a result of that the police blocked them off about half a kilometer away stone to firing tear gas and pushing people back and used that

opportunity to make arrests of the black blocks we have seen tear gas used to cannons use trying to put out vehicles that have been set on fire by some of the protesters and you can see a huge huge security force all around the perimeter all over this area we saw some of the protesters looking like they were trying to make a barricade here something that we've seen them do elsewhere in the route as a result of that some of the mobile police forces came in with their batons hitting them and taking them away and detaining people. i. so there's the file and we know about the injuries what i would like to tell you is about the security service seven thousand four hundred security personnel only duty in paris trying to keep a lid on this violence and i can hear behind me it sounds like we're getting from reuters come up as more of the protesters who are here full this may day protests

are making their way to the end of this procession but let's not forget the protesters are both been damaging property in fact we saw a medical faculty with the university of so bone that had its two smashed once again another protest in paris that's descended into violence and chaos. still to come a whistleblower in chief julian assange was sentenced to fifteen weeks in prison by a british court on wednesday for skipping bail twenty twelve i can limit. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy thing for him to let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to

sit down and talk. same wrong rules just don't call. me. to shape out these days becomes active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

welcome back to the program the israeli military came so destroyed a key hamas base in gaza in response to cross border rocket fire israeli airstrikes and tank shelling have reportedly killed six palestinians since saturday including a pregnant woman some of the boss were caught on camera. israeli warplanes hit one hundred twenty targets and destroyed an underground tunnel that was after more than two hundred rockets fired into israel from gaza and territory coming one person with more details his local journalist. there is a buried of rockets that was launched from the gaza strip towards the central and saldate israel towns on saturday much full of houses where a direct lead hit and struck by the rockets on the palestinian side that we have the different kinds of injuries most critical to ease rayleigh of forces have

launched a lot of airstrikes in discovery of the gaza strip there is a lot of tension in the situation between israel and gaza now the palestinian factions and israel have been threat to each other all this collision happens after the four palestinians that have been killed in the friday protests killed them were directly targeted by israeli snipers and two others were killed as they were struck by a rocket by the israeli forces while other fifty other palestinians were wounded in the protests this also happened after two. officers to israeli officers on the border where shot by a palestinian sniper fire so until now we don't know if this situation is going to keep on escalating but. this time has failed to restrain and to bring back coldness between israel and gaza. it was an

eventful week for whistleblower in chief chilliness on she was sentenced by a british court on wednesday to fifteen weeks in prison for skipping bail in twenty twelve the wiki leaks founder was back again in court on thursday to vase is a first hearing this case seeking to extract and. you know astonishing charge by u.s. authorities with conspiring to hack into classified government files appearing via video link from jail the sauce told the court he would never surrender to the americans voluntarily the next court session of the case will be held later this month. meanwhile the united nations has criticised the length all this knowledge is sentencing dumping it disproportionate it also suggests that his detention appears to be a violation of his human rights is a spent echoes the words of the songs as noir as well as wiki leaks editor in chief also denounced the authorities treat and told him. he has spent twenty three other

twenty four hours a day it is that is what we call in general terms solitary confinement that's unacceptable this case is not about. 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 in gauging all the time and any prosecution and extradition of mr sunshine having done so we place a massive chill on the investigative journalism of the world right. now norway has recently experienced some raw. maddening and it's what is this time it came in the form of a friendly beluga whale surprise fishermen off the coast fishing for the facts. here's a situation a cute white sea mammal starts playing with a couple of fishing boats. through the.

creature clearly wants to grab people's attention and even tries to pull straps and ropes. the crew treats the little whale with some yummy snacks but realizes it's probably peeved by harness around its body. it takes a while and some real effort to take the straps off the unfortunate friend the white chap swims away enjoy the harness clip is branded equipment st petersburg which turns out to be a real russian firm making extreme sports equipment now how about this story. a group of norwegian fishing vessels have survived an attack. a rasta boat tied harness round its body with the name of the lot of our putin's hometown on it

made locals think the whale was a russian navy webvan norway is now on high alert amid fears russia could have trained entire teams of sea creatures for spying and combat missions some of you might roll your eyes and think what a weird paranoid freak out well i'll tell you what pretty much all the media out there reported the encounter of norway's northern coast and in some cases my impression of the catchy coverage wasn't too much of an exaggeration whale found off noways coast believed to be spying for russia. has a new alleged russian spy. it's a beluga whale colonel beluga off of course if it says st petersburg on that thing the cute creature must be a russian spy or not to underestimate what britain is probably a better word than luke a whale found wearing a harness to carry

a camera could be russian weapon whales trained by russia's military may be harassing fishermen from nature are in no way ok i'll tell you a secret the likes of the russian or u.s. navy's started training seem for things like the mining rescue operations spotting underwater threats decades ago just google it but it never really put their neighbors in panic mode this time though beluga whale with russian harness raises a lot in norway i just hope those who wrote those do stay away from some of the following displays of russian humor. in watching the weekly here on seem to last i'll be back around thirty minutes time with more wild updates i do stay with us.

tease holiday international memorial awards twenty nine see the now open for entries the media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for alternative media for part of a global news conference to participate send us your published works in video rich . go to award dot altie dot com and enter now. my son is doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that

the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. certain sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. to. come. welcome to worlds apart seventeen years after the united nations has the universal declaration of human rights in many parts of the world it's still

a declaration rather than leave reality and that's not only because upholding human rights is hard work for many societies but also because of the hypocrisy and politics associated with the issue to divide between preaching and practicing out of reach to discuss that i'm now joined by peggy takes a director at the u.n. human rights office thank you it's good to talk to thank you very much for your time. now you gave a number of interviews and reach you talked with some alarm about the advent of the post human rights era and before you talk about these new face let me ask you about beat human rights era which supposedly preceded it how would you define it chronologically and how was it different from what we see around us today well i think i have to clarify and i am not an alarmist about where we're heading on human rights i think what's happened over the course of the seventy year history of the universal declaration is that there's been a global understanding of certain basic rights fundamental rights that all people have and that we've been working together over that period to try to implement them

and i think globally we've made enormous progress and i always say that i'm very glad to be a woman today rather than a woman in my mother's generation or my grandmothers and i think my daughter will live in a world that's that's probably better off for women's rights than than my generation was so it's that type of progress that we see during the human rights era and yet this was also during the period. wars were launched on false pretexts the resoled legalize torture research secret prisons the. dehumanization of abu ghraib i mean all those abuses that were supposedly committed by human rights respecting actuary's abroad rather than at home i wonder if let's be clear i mean there the basic premise of universal human rights is that human rights abuse. occur every place and anybody who tries to say there are countries that are rights respecting and others that are not isn't isn't really taking taking account of that reality

from the united states myself and in the united states there are all sorts of groups that work on human rights abuse in the united states every day because there's a lot still to be done. in preparation for this interview went through your twitter feed you quite often repeat people who have a song with many key in the world they believe that there are certain countries who will represent clear abusers of human rights like russia china cuba syria and then there are others who are more respectful of human rights like the united states or western europe do you think that division. is less. i think the division was never that clear and i do think there are a number of trends that have made people recognize a very important fact and that's the indivisibility of human rights one of the big things that happened in the human rights movement is that when it first started it grew out of a movement following the second world war that focused more on political and civil rights.