look. the. president nicolas maduro says he an attempted coup by a venezuelan opposition leader. who along with his u.s. backers denies plotting a minute that's right all guess what really happened. we're. moving six million people voted for nicolas maduro last may in a free and fair election that. you know how many people voted for. the u.s. attorney general is grilled in the senate over his handling of them on a reporter but refuses to subject himself to further questions and democrats not

calling william bach on mulling challenges of contempt of congress. and the israel defense forces a bombing hamas targets in gaza after a major flare up in cross border exchanges which is now into the second day. watching the weekly here on international live from our studio with me welcome to the program. this week venezuela was wronged by a 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 quite a who claims to be venezuela as the legitimate president announced the final phase

of ending the two israel and called on people to rise up against the government. but in this world today brave soldiers and brave capturing some of the brave people are following our constitution and answering the call you today the armed forces standing behind the people and the constitution on. your so we're going to recover and rebuild and that is where you look at the that's what venezuela needs today is that's also not.

by defeating this terrible crude terms. with truth with loyalty with. the crisis in venezuela it will be discussed by russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and it's u.s. counterpart mike pompei or when they meet in finland next week on the sidelines of the arctic council summit meanwhile washington and why don't deny plotting a military overthrow with u.s. secretary advisor security advisor john bolton insisting it's an internal matter for the venezuelan people. we need venezuela ruled by the people of venezuela not by external forces it's the 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 wayland'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 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 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 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 but 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 guy do 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 the knol things didn't go according to plan. however if we turn to the dictionary the word is defined as a sudden violent and illegal seizure of power from a government debated whether it's 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 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 does that key element there is not illegal because.

doesn't get him in power recognized by the international community an overwhelmingly we could nice the international community in 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 or store use never 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 justify the line in common the basic commie and the three million plus on the escaping venezuela for other current. no start when this actually 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

. u.s. attorney general william barr has defended his actions over the release of the mob 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 russian probe back in march bart released a four page summary of the report which stated that there'd been no collusion between donald trump and russia as for obstruction of justice paul said that the special counsel had failed to reach a conclusion on the matter during his senate the attorney general claim that robert mueller didn't think he misrepresented the special counsel's report though some of the senators questioning him didn't find that. it's very clear with me that he was not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report i feel your rants are just 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 do 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 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 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 gauge the destruction of justice and those of his kind of the president who. to my reading of the. mother report almost certainly obstructed justice or did you

find that to be a persuasive act of obstructing justice. you know 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 version so 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 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 further quitting he said he'd already told senators only had to say about the reports

democrat lawmakers didn't cancel the hearing though they theatrically placed paul's name calling in front of an empty chad congressman steve cohen then put a ceramic chicken on the desk as a symbol of the attorney general's and cowardice and tucked into some k.f.c. with democrats now learning challenges 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 feels to negotiate in good faith mr barr's the 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 socks 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 walk or see it 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. 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 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 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 major cities around the world by violence as protests as

a whole stripes clashed with riot police. in europe on t. capitalists were prominent in the may day violence our correspondent witnessed the unrest in paris. well may day started with violence before the protests the official protests even began those protests is try to move some dual point us up towards plastic as a result of that the police blocked them off about half a kilometer away stone firing tear gas and pushing people back and used to make arrests over 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 protests is and you can see a huge huge security force all around the perimeter so all of 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. 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 to try and 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 are both been damaging property in fact we saw a medical faculty with the university of so bone that how did she do was smashed once again another protest in paris that's descended into violence and chaos still to come with a blow in chief julian assange sentenced to fifteen weeks in prison by a british court on wednesday for skipping bail and twenty twelve back in a moment. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape our disdain become educated and indeed from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and. welcome back to the weekly israeli warplanes are pounding guards after a major flare up in cross border exchanges now into the second day israel and

defense forces spokes person says more than four hundred fifty rockets were fired from gaza at israel. we're standing in ashkelon in near a house an israeli house that was struck by a rocket fired from gaza against israel over the last twenty four hours for the stinney interest from gaza have fired more than four hundred fifty rockets at israeli civilians with the intention of killing israeli civilians so far the hour and system has intercepted more than one hundred fifty but unfortunately the tragic result of one of the rockets is an israeli casualty the first israeli civilian casualties since july two thousand and fourteen the idea first retaliated and has struck more than two hundred twenty military targets inside the gaza strip focusing on hamas and palestinian islamic jihad infrastructure weapons storage facilities as well as an underground tunnel and two large buildings that support terrorist

activity and from within hamas in the period we're conducting their activities girls and officials claim that israeli air strikes have killed at least six people since saturday including a pregnant woman israel denies being to blame for her death. because health ministry also states that about forty people were wounded in the attacks. says its office in gaza came under fire it's also been reported israeli prime minister has ordered the military to conduct massive strikes against militants in gaza. it was an eventful week for whistleblower in chief during a sauna she was sentenced by a british court on wednesday to fifty weeks in prison for skipping bell 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. cuban authorities been charged by u.s. authorities of conspiring to hack into class. the government files appearing via video link from jail songs 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 criticized the length of a song and sentencing dubbing it disproportionate it also suggests that his detention appears to be a violation of his human rights is testament echoes the words of the songes lawyer as well as wiki leaks editor in chief who both also denounced the authorities treatment of him. he has spent twenty three other twenty four hours a day. that is what we call in general terms solitary confinement that's unacceptable this case is not about hacking. 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 sanchez having done so we place a massive chill on investigative journalism in the world i. was arrested last month following ecuador's 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 of another activist laurie love also accused of hacking the us government computers have told us all she might have a harder time than he did. i think he's going to have an uphill struggle everyone has an uphill struggle under us actually they should request because it's a very unbalanced treaty so the us is have to provide any evidence they just have to have the paperwork in which the presumption is able to use extradition we managed to win a lot of campaigning and

a lot of political. support and journalist is going to have a harder time because he's already out of this politically he's upset the established. in the u.k. establishment i would say it's complete persecution we need to do everything we can as members of the public can see this list of people involved in journalism to ensure that we do you know i allow the injustice of an exhibition to the. way recently experienced some russian meddling in its waters this time it came in the form of a friendly palooka well which approached fishman off the coast and has since been nicknamed vladimir a well to me one norwegian 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. the little.

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 a 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 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 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. there's a new alleged russian spy it's a below go in kernel 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 the luger whale found wearing a harness to carry camera could be russian weapon whales trained by russia's

military maybe 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 alarm in norway i just hope those who wrote those do stay away from some of the following displays of russian humor. maybe i'm watching the week here on auntie international talking to get will take over and around thirty minutes time with more updates so do stay with us.

when we all make this manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts and be the one percent of. the time we can all middle of the room sick. i mean real news is really what. my son was 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 we 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.

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 toltecs 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 un human rights office thank you it's good to talk to thank you very much for your time to be here now you gave a number of interviews to 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 right 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 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. 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.