president nicolas maduro says he called an attempted coup by venezuelan opposition leader. who along with his u.s. backed his denies of plotting a minute it's all guess debate. we're. not moving six million people voted for nicolas maduro last may in a free and fair election that i observe 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 to subject himself to further questions the democrats now calling william barr a coward and manning charges of contempt of congress. and us the israel gaza border which saw an exchange of rocket fire several. twenty four hours a day seven days and we're watching the weekly on r.t. international live from our studio with me and to you today these are highlights from the last week and latest up to date stories welcome to the program this week of venezuela was rocked by violent protests in which more than one hundred people were injured the country's president nicolas maduro said an attempted coup led by opposition leader was put down on tuesday claims to be venezuela's legitimate

president announced the final phase of ending the rule and called on people to rise up against the government. and that's what today brave soldier brave had treating some of the brave people are following our constitution and answering the call today the armed forces standing behind the people and the constitution and. so we're going to recover and rebuild in this way that's what venezuela needs today is that's also not.

by defeating this terrible. choice truth with loyalty with. the crisis in venezuela will be discussed by russian and foreign minister sergei lavrov and his u.s. counterpart right pompei or when they meet in fin the next week on the sidelines of the arctic council summit meanwhile washington and why don't deny putting a military overthrow with u.s. secretary advisor john bolton insisting it's an internal matter for the venezuelan people. we need better whale ruled by the people of venezuela not by extra forces mr bolton who's done his damnedest to ensure regime change in venezuela

whose country has championed regime change sanctioned venezuela frozen billions in state funds threatened it with invasion now he's saying no one should meddle that it's up to the days whelan's to decide course not what he meant is no one but america all options remain on the table he said that would be a big mistake for me doro and those supporting him to use force against innocent civilians mr bolton's deficient of innocent i think defers from the classic meaning look at these demonstrators with guns shooting at troops and police i suppose the bullets of full of love to if you dare 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 yes. today interim president who i'm going to announce starts of a person that the u.s. 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 a question is which people exactly the jews 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 goh 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 info mr bolton one by due who was never elected doesn't control the military or ministries or anything he is the president but nicolas maduro the actual president supported by millions the military the ministries he's not the president see what i mean by strange it's almost like the bitter and banal things didn't go according to plan the u.s. might object to that 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 that's what's being happening in venezuela. the u.s. supports coup d'etat is all the time this is another example that one has no power under the constitution of venezuela the fact the us recognize him recognizes him is

of no import the u.s. recognizes him because he has already agreed to privatizing venezuela's oil in the interest of u.s. companies that's why the u.s. recognizes him and that does not make him with the opinion of the united states is no the only opinion for all other fifty countries recognize why go as a legitimate 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 semantics 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 doesn't key element there is not illegal because. you though has a legitimate power recognized by the international community overwhelmingly international community and by the venezuelan people who goes out in masses of 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 word 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 common 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 one . it'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 bars immediate resignation claiming he misled the american public over the results of the russia probe back in march bart released a four page summary of the report which stated that there had been no collusion between donald trump and russia as for obstruction of justice barr said that the special counsel had failed to reach a conclusion on the matter during his senate grilling the attorney general claim that robert mueller didn't think he had misrepresented the special counsel's report so some of the senators questioning him didn't buy that. it's very clear with me that he was not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report i feel it's or was purposely misleading and i think others do too now the

american people know that you are no different from rudy giuliani or kellyanne conway or any of the other people who sacrificed their 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 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 for years i really wonder yes. he should step down or should resign and if he does not resign he should sing impeachment proceedings also he does need to resign and step up william barr he is 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 miller'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 so. brings a tunnel for the democrats next to the stand obstruction of justice president trump in gage destruction of justice and of his kind of the president who. to my reading

of. the report almost certainly obstructed justice or did you find that to be persuasive act of obstructing justice. you know but option 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 version so ninety eight percent of volume to dealing with obstruction is available to the public and 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 caleb up and r.t. new york. 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 son says all he had to say about his version of the reports democrat lawmakers didn't cancel the hearing though they theatrically place to ballance name calling in front of an empty chair at 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. with democrats now mulling 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 ferry administration 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 barr's moment of accountability will come soon enough. and i think that probably chicken bar should have shown up today and answer questions the black sox look clean compared to this team it's

a sad day in america for the democrats scared 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 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 them. made

a valley's and made to cities around the world to modify violence as protesters of old stripes clashed with riot police. in europe anticapitalist were prominent in the may day violence correspondent show the defense can witness the invest in paris. well may day started with violence the food the protests the official protests even began those protests is tried to move from the more printers up towards plastic italy as a result of that the police who walk them off about half

a kilometer away stone seats 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 mood police forces came in with their bathrooms hitting them and taking them away and detaining people. i. show 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 some

rightists 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 it to smashed once again another protest in paris that's descended into violence and chaos still to come whistle blowing in chief julian assange was sentenced to fifteen weeks in prison by a british court on wednesday for skipping bail and twenty twelve back in a moment. what

politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to be rich. but you'd like to be close it's like the four three in the morning can't be good. interstate falls in the waters of my colleagues. there should.

welcome back to the weekly the israeli military claims to have destroyed a key hamas base in gaza in response to cross border rocket fire the israeli air strikes in time shelling have reportedly killed six palestinians since saturday including a pregnant woman though israel denies killing her. israeli warplanes hit one hundred twenty targets and destroyed an underground tunnel that was often more than two hundred rockets fired into israel from gaza territory killing one person with more details his local journalist alcide. there is a buried of rockets that was launched from the gaza strip towards the central and south israel towns on saturday much full of houses where direct relief hit i'm struck by the rockets on the palestinian side that we have the different kinds of injuries mode to critical to ease rayleigh of forces have launched

a lot of air strikes in the 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 pressed to do 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 addiction. this time has failed to restrain and to bring back coldness between israel and gaza. it was an eventful

week for whistleblower in chief jenin a sign issue a sentence by a british court on wednesday to fifty weeks in prison for skipping bail and twenty twelve the wiki leaks founder was back again in court on thursday to face his first hearing in a u.s. code to access. i turned from the u.k. . has been charged by u.s. authorities with conspiring to hack into classified government files appearing via video link from jail saul's told the court he would never surrender to the americans voluntarily the next court session on the case will be held later this month. meanwhile the united nations has criticised the length of silence as sentencing dumping it disproportionate it also suggests that his detention appears to be a violation of his human rights the assessment echoes the words of the song lawyer as well as we can leak center and editor in chief both also denounced the authorities treatment of him he has spent twenty three other twenty four hours

a day. that is what we only general solitary confinement that's unacceptable in this case it's not about. this case it's about a journalist in a publisher who had conversations with a source about access to material and spoke to that source about how to protect their identity this is protected activity for journalists to gauge all the time and any prosecution and extradition of mr sunshine having done so we place a massive chill on investigative journalism in the world i. know i recently experienced some russian meddling in its waters this time it came in the form of a friendly beluga whale which approached fisherman off the coast and assistance being nicknamed of blood the man of well to me well no we didn't expert has alleged putin himself might have had a hand in training it fishing for the facts his. here's a situation a cute white sea mammal starts playing with

a couple of fishing boats. through the cliff 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 rast the boats

the tide 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 weapon 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 freakout 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. does a new alleged russian spy it's a below go in 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 sea mammals for things like demining 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 alarm in norway i just hope those who wrote those do stay away from some of the following displays of russian humor.

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