the. president nicolas maduro says he calls an attempted coup by opposition leader. who along with the u.s. is. i guess what really happened. on. our. national committee 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 . u.s. attorney general is grilled in the senate over his handling of the report but

refuses to subject himself to the question of democrats now calling william barr a coward and running challenges of contempt of congress. to get. a new escalation israel gaza border we saw an exchange of rocket fire leaving several people dead. twenty four hours a day seven days a week you're watching the weekly on r.t. international live from our studio with me in india today these are highlights from last week and latest stories welcome to the program this week 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 one was put down on tuesday quite a who claims to be venezuela's legitimate president announced the final phase of ending the doers rule 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 and. so we're going to recover and rebuild and israel that's what venezuela needs today

is that us not. by defeating this terrible coup attempt. with truth with loyalty with. the crisis in venezuela will be discussed by russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and his u.s. counterpart mike pompei are they meeting in the next week on the sidelines of the arctic council summit meanwhile washington and why don't deny plotting a military overthrow with the us secretary adviser john bolton insisting it's an internal matter for the venezuelan people. we need better as we all are ruled by the people of venezuela not by extra little forces this is the bolton it was done

in his damnedest to ensure regime change in venezuela whose country has championed regime change sanctioned venezuela frozen billions in state funds so reagan did with invasion now how he's 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. 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 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 banal things didn't go according to plan. us my temp back to the ten how about we turn to the dick cheney the way it is defined i think sudden violent and illegal seizure of power from a government debate once once being attempted in fairness while. the us supports

coup d'etat is all the time this is another example of that one has no power under the constitution of venezuela the fact the us recognize him recognizes him is of no import the us 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 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 does that key element there is not illegal because. while you go into power recognized by the international community an older well mingling group of nice international community in by the people who goes out in matches people are on the streets supporting me during that's undeniable there are people there that support him i have friends there contacts that support him you never hear their side or store use never you never hear from them in the press and so you get one side of the. and that is tantamount to misrepresenting destroyed their recent science or do not just defy the line in common with basic economy and the three million plus in this one it's gaping venezuela for other countries did not start when this action started they 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 non. u.s. attorney general william barr has defended his actions over the release of the mill of 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 paul 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 by the special counsel and failed to reach a conclusion on the matter during a senate grilling the attorney general time that right but when i didn't think he'd misrepresented the special counsel's report though some of the senators questioning him didn't buy that. very clear with me that he was not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report i feel. sir was purposely

misleading and i think others do too now the american people know that you are no different from rudy giuliani or kilian 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 is attorney general lacks all. all credibility your desire earlier 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 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 a 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 mahler'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. 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 them . like 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 kaleb up and r.t. new york farcical scenes unfold in the u.s.

congress on the next day after the attorney general refused to show up for further grilling he said he'd already told science is all he had to say about his version of the reports democrat lawmakers didn't cancel the hearing them a theatrically placed bars name khalid in front of an empty chair congressman steve cohen and 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 money in charges of contempt of congress some housman this 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 ministration of justice and yes we will have no choice but to move quickly to hold the attorney general in contempt if you stores are feels to negotiate in good faith mr barr's moment of accountability will come soon enough and i think that probably applies 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 for the democrats scared of they don't know bill barr here today they've had the report they read it they don't like what's in it 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. moeller 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 for. to get me wrong doing 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 the. may day rallies and may just cities around the world at lamont by violence as protesters of all stripes clashed with riot police. in europe lanty caps and prominent in the may day violence spawned in charlotte do you witnessed the unrest in paris. well may day started with violence the food the protests the official protests even began those protests is trying to move from beautified to move printers up towards plastic italy as

a result of that the police who want to move about half a kilometer away stone seats firing tear gas and pushing people back and used that opportunity to make arrests over the block 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 bathrooms hitting them and taking them away and detaining people. 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 i 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 of also being damaging property in fact we saw a medical faculty with the university of so both that how did she do was smashed once again another protest in paris that descended into violence and chaos still to come with in chief janet a solemn she was sentenced to fifteen weeks in prison by a british court on wednesday skipping bail and twenty twelve back in a moment. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the running

clubs assume project over themselves. the crime. rate nor middle of the room signal. really. seems wrong. just don't. get to shape out. educate and indeed. the trail. went on many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

welcome back to the weekly israeli warplanes are pounding gaza off from major flare up and cross border exchanges now into the second day as strikes and tire shelling have reportedly killed six palestinians since saturday including a pregnant woman though israel denies killing her. televisa says its warplanes hit one hundred twenty targets and destroyed an underground tunnel according to the israeli army that was after more than four hundred rockets fired into israel from gaza on territory can one person with more details his local journalist you know. 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 directory hit and struck

by the rockets on the palestinian side that we have the different kinds of injuries mowbray to critical to the ease rail 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 the oldest discoloration 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 a whistleblower in chief in jenin a solid who was sentenced by a british court on wednesday to fifteen weeks in prison because keeping down in twenty twelve the wiki leaks founder was back again. in court on thursday to face his first hearing in a u.s. case seeking to extradite him from the u.k. julian assange has been charged by u.s. authorities and with conspiring to hack into classified government files appearing via video link from jealous silence told the court he would never surrender to the americans voluntarily the next call session on the case will be held later this month. meanwhile the united nations has criticised the length of a song 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

a songes lawyer as well as wiki leaks editor in chief both also denounced the authorities treatment of him. has been twenty three over twenty four hours a day. that is what we all know 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 for journalists to gauge and 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. was arrested last month following i could always decision to revoke his asylum status after he spent nearly seven years holed up inside the country's embassy in london last year britain's high court ruled against the extradition activist lori love also accused

of hacking u.s. government computers love told the saunders well being would not be guaranteed expedited. 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 on balance treaty so the u.s. is have to provide any evidence they just have to have their paperwork in with the presumption is able. we managed. to win there's a lot of campaigning and a lot of said political support for him and he. 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 sequel to this list of people involved in journalism to ensure that we do you know allow the injustice and isolation to in. no way recently experienced some russian meddling in its

waters this time it came in the form of a friendly beluga whale which approached fishermen off the coast and has since been nicknamed blood to me. one that we didn't expect his 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. local. 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 the tight 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 boat tied hard this round its body with the name of a lot of hometown on. 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 in 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 below golf of course if it says st petersburg on that thing the cute creature must be a russian spy or not to underestimate weapon is probably a better word than luke a whale found wearing a harness to carry camera could be russian weapon whales trained by russia's military maybe harassing fishermen from nato ally 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 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 this do stay away from some of the

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what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more some want us. to go right to the press this is like before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of the house. question. my son 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 on the stink 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 wave and say by day as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. to the moon does not need any permission to talk about bitcoin and we are going to talk about this permission less nature of bitcoin from mid twenty eleven this is

when we saw it coined beginning to really attract more and more people the very first bitcoin conference was actually in new york city in august of two thousand and eleven the first international the first year a p n one was in november twenty fifth two thousand and eleven in prague hosted by amir takai and of course you spoke i attended. when we first went to the first big conference in the world it was a group of about forty fifty people and i'd say half of them were incredibly intelligent computer scientists that didn't know how to share their ideas and very passionate activists that believe that a financial system could exist outside of the traditional financial system was an important thing to bring to the world at that time it was very uncertain and very unclear whether because it would succeed fast forward another decades or just under

a decade where we are now. and we've seen that wherever i go.