because he's going to tell people. you are special counsel robert. silence on the probe offering some clarification on the report's conclusions his statement has drawn a familiar reaction. to impeachment question at this point all options are on the table and nothing should be ruled out and all of those things have been determined to not have taken place collusion conspiracy obstruction and again we consider this very much to be case closed or. the venezuelan opposition agrees to hold talks with president maduro on neutral territory in norway. and israel said for an election rerun for the 1st time in its history after prime minister benjamin netanyahu fails to form a governing coalition. and the leader of germany's ruling party is slammed for

proposing tighter pre-election media regulation blaming bloggers for her party's heavy losses in the e.u. parliament. so rules should apply for digital content these are. not just. for media policy as a whole in the future. by broadcasting live in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now u.s. special counsel robert muller has for the 1st time commented publicly on the trump russian investigation that has. he spoke for 10 minutes and reiterated and clarified much of what was in his widely read report after the 2 year investigation

this is some of what we heard from robert mohler if we had had come confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office and he made clear that he could not charge a sitting president he clarified that as the last stands the department of justice cannot bring charges against a president rather there are other procedure laid out for that democrats and target of the statement from bob muller regarding the fact that he cannot bring charges against a sitting president as a cue for them to raise the issue of impeachment because specter impeachment question at this point all options are on the table and nothing should be ruled out made clear this morning that his investigation now lays at the feet of congress no one is above the law congress should begin an impeachment inquiry these

administration has continued to stonewall congress oversight begin impeachment proceedings is the only path forward miller statement makes clear with those who have read his report no it's an impeachment referral and it's up to congress to act they shewed given the special counsel was unable to pursue criminal charges against the president if the congress threw stones of the crimes noise and other wrongdoing a president trump and we would do so however what he was saying was not very much different than what he said in the report months ago emphasized what was in the report he cited indictments against russian citizens as evidence of russian meddling in the us presidential election many emphasize that no collusion between u.s. president donald trump and the russian government was at any point discovered now democrats have been harshly critical of william barr the u.s. attorney general arguing that he is in favor of u.s. president donald trump and has been swaying and distorting things in donald trump's

favor democrats accuse william barr of making unnecessary redactions to the report and acting in other ways that showed a kind of sympathy for the president however when. muller spoke he did not offer any criticism about william bar or his comments on the investigation report and we appreciate that the attorney general made the report largely public and i certainly don't question the attorney general's good faith in the decision responded to the report saying that the case is now closed that he has not been proven guilty he is innocent collusion or obstruction and all of those things have been determined to not have taken place collusion conspiracy obstruction and again we consider this very much to be case closer now bob mueller made clear he will not be testifying any further or making any further comments he did not take any questions from the press and he made clear that his report is meant to speak for itself are legal and

media analyst lionel gave us his take on miller's statement the justice department . the interesting thing to note is one of the reasons why many suspect he doesn't want to speak to congress is one that republicans asked him when did you know this how many years ago how many months into this investigation did you come to the conclusion a either there was no evidence are there was no reason to charge him but how long have you been stringing the country and the president and the world along why here's another question for you if you can't end dive him if those were the rules why did you investigate him in the 1st place did you know these rules before or did you know the rules before that say you can indict him or charge him then what were you investigating ah you were investigating collusion and by the way did you notice such

a paltry and de minimus amount of time that was that was given to the reason for this what was this russian collusion explains more. representatives of venezuelan president nicolas maduro and the opposition leader who have agreed to meet for talks in norway next week they will be trying to find a way out of the country's political crisis but the u.s. is insisting that only one solution work. as we have repeatedly stated we believe the only thing to negotiate with nicholas maturity is the conditions of his departure. well the return to the negotiating table comes despite the opposition's initial reluctance to participate one. commission of power is supported by a consistent and hawkish stance among western leaders over the last 4 months or does he want it done of comments about the power struggle. to leave i swear to formally assume the duties of the national executive as president of venezuela. and

that was how it all began a long and put old road to the chaos and mayhem venezuela's in today it wants needs a local politician overnight short into political stardom and with the u.s. on his side it seemed one why don't you simply couldn't lose. i'm mike pence the vice president of the united states the united states supports the courageous decision many more countries followed suit brazil has just issued a note recognizing one we're going to go as venezuela's president one way door 1. 11 way door in your way though you know when global venezuela began to devour itself from the inside torn by protest streets flooded people on mass reassuring maduro of their support all venting their anger at a president they call

a dictator. meanwhile washington and rolled its arsenal from threats to sanctions to even seemingly harmless things like aid it try to slip the balance of power in favor over their man why don't i wish him a long quiet retirement on a pretty beach far from venezuela and the sooner he takes advantage of that the center is likely to have a nice quiet retirement on a pretty beach rather than being in some other beach area like guantanamo an unconventional holiday but among the mildest ideas in america's rhetoric all options are on the day all options are on the table all options are on the table all options are on the table all options are on the table because they always are but with all that commotion in white dove camp would have my dural the incumbent leader was willing to go all in conventional to trying to a to kill his readiness to talk it out with his new rival program if you go i am committed to international

dialogue today tomorrow and always i'm committed and personally ready but back then why do it was feeling too good to grace's arch nemesis confronted with the blatant refusal my duro klang to the 2nd best thing he had and has apart from the support of a good share of his people the military. stood strong with the dural despite what you do and washington's efforts to encourage defection. the president imposter tried to make it look like things were going his way. the armed forces were standing behind the people and the constitution but very soon his votes tool overstatement was clear decisions were sporadic local and way below the critical mass needed to have the dura worried and all that leads us here to a complete stalemate why don't has won the battle for the hearts and minds on

capitol hill for the embassies for the right to be called president of venezuela on the diplomatic papers of 3rd party countries but not his own to like to see them into vain militarily your office and i as president in charge of the national parliament will evaluate all necessary options however cautious it may be an official evaluation of an international intervention is as good as an open call for one but with the us no longer looking as trigger happy as before why do it has sent his emissaries to talk with the duro no longer too good for that and the us apparently once confident a quick power play would lead to victory now has learned that all or doesn't elect presidents meanwhile some in washington are seeking a more aggressive approach to the venezuela crisis senator lindsey graham recently invoked the invasion of grenada in 1983 which was widely viewed as illegal to make

the case for intervention in venezuela. douras not the legitimate leader of venezuela he wouldn't be in power without 6 or $7000.00 cuban security forces in venezuela i would do exactly what reagan did i would give cuba an ultimatum to get out of venezuela at they don't i would let the bit of soil and military know you got to choose between democracy and dora and if you choose my door and cuba we're coming after you. for some historical context 36 years ago president reagan send forces into grenada under the pretext of acting american citizens from the caribbean nations marxist leadership within a few days operation urgent fury overthrew the government which was allied with cuba however there are crucial differences between venezuela today and grenada in the eighty's deila nation of grenada is much smaller than venezuela making it easier to access and control in 1083 its population was 96000 venezuela is

home to 32000000 background the u.s. deployed around 6000 troops according to some estimates a u.s. military intervention in venezuela today would require 150000 soldiers human rights lawyer and author dan kovalchuk told us that an invasion would be disastrous. the idea that the u.s. is going to be able to knock off the venezuelan government grenada style is just silliness of course the u.s. could try a military option from the u.s. point of view it would be a disaster it would be a very pretty track to military struggle europe would in the end not support it i think most south american countries do not support it even apparently the military brazil i think the u.s. would stand alone and i think diplomatically it would be a disaster for the u.s. and it could be a disaster in many other ways again if they got the u.s. got something to do another vietnam time warp it would cause deaths of course

u.s. personnel would cost trillions of dollars. treasury in may cause a rebellion with the united states against the government as we saw during the vietnam war so it's a very very risky proposition for the u.s. to be in. the embattled israeli prime minister has run out of time to form a new government following his recent election victory after the deadline passed parliament voted to dissolve itself and hold a new election in september possibly has more. well this is the 1st time in the history of israel that you have a scenario where they may lecture was held in the previous election was held on april the 9th and it was won by the incumbent prime minister benjamin netanyahu and neither of the party that won the largest amount of votes in other words and on yahoo nor the party that came 2nd was able to form a majority coalition government this will mean that israelis will head to the polls

now twice in a matter of 6 months not netanyahu obviously wanted to avoid this and the sticking point was negotiations between him and a former ally and a former defense minister avigdor lieberman there's an awful needed a majority of 61 out of 120 parliament seats and he was only able to get 60 with out lieberman's support lieberman had another 5 seats but the 2 clashed over the whole issue of whether or not ultra-orthodox jews should be forced to go to the army at the moment they are exams and lieberman was pushing for him to be included but netanyahu found himself between a rock and a hard place because a lot of his coalition is made up of religious parties and these obviously don't want to see these young men sort of in on the agreed to be honest this was a smokescreen this is essentially a power struggle between netanyahu and lieberman and at the same time what we do know is that the holding elections will be hugely closely to the israeli economy

we're hearing from the treasury that it will cost 120000000 dollars for these elections to be held in addition there will be more than $1000000000.00 loss to the economy because you'll be having another public holiday also worth mentioning that on thursday netanyahu is slated to meet with general now all the senior adviser to the american president donald trump is in the country to try and push forward is much touted his being trump's much touted peace plan and he was meeting with netanyahu on the presumption that netanyahu is going to be prime minister so it's going to be very interesting to see how. because of course now he's meeting with someone who essentially is not guaranteed of the premiership and what are the implications of that for this so-called deal of the century is to keep saying moving forward. at least 7 people have drowned after a tourist boat capsized in the hungarian capital budapest the boat sank after colliding with another vessel at around 9 pm local time on wednesday evening most

of those on board were reportedly south korean tourists this according to state television there were 33 people on the boat including 2 crew members 20 people are unaccounted for in the search and rescue operation is ongoing we're following the situation will bring you more news as it comes in this is our take on international .

after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next about different clubs in one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. if you think. i'm going to talk about football not be or else you can think i was going to do it . by the way ways of. welcome back to international now the head of germany's ruling party is facing a major backlash for suggesting there should be measures to control political discussion online more than 50000 people have signed

a petition against what they claim are plans for censorship. it isn't like if this we lost among young voters for 2 reasons we failed to adequately address issues that are important to them and we fail due to the handling of the rise of radio where would happen if 70 newspapers decided just 2 days before the election to make a joint appeal don't float for the c.d.u. or s.p.d. that would be a clear case of political bias in the run up to an election so why rules should apply for digital content these are 2 questions we will need to discuss not just for the c.d.u. but for media policy as a whole in the future of democracy. as comments came after a number of you tube bloggers in germany called on people not to vote for the ruling coalition parties in the e.u. elections which she blames for the christian democratic union is having losses on sunday so does this highly effective evidence that the current system is

destructive and it is my democratic. please don't vote for the s.p.d. please don't vote for the c.d.u. and please don't vote for the c.s.a. . we ask you will not to support the c.d.u. c.s.u. and don't support the s.p.t. kind under the bill and vote for any party that doesn't operate on logic or signs and isn't course to destroy. the c.d.u. leader's statement infuriated rival parties of the left party called it an assault on the freedom of expression and repression of the german constitution and the freedom party said political movements need to have a dialogue with social media platforms martin dolls are from the left party told us maintaining that relations with tech savvy young people is crucial. all young people are searching for how can we develop a society they want to participate in the decision process in this society to the movement of writers for future good as well on the internet like raise or

end up us is a power off to search for participation in society and for the purse back to the future and the less the political mainstream. able to create discourse its witchery the trick the emotion of the people emotionally and by the underlying a letter to the more conscious the ball start to organize themselves and the more they move. so much from different frames where they can see great. revelations in a documentary that exposed the child sex abuse in poland's roman catholic church have sparked a wave of outrage in the country the film was financed through a crowdfunding campaign and has been viewed more than 20000000 times on youtube. i. think.

finally the peta followers in black cloaks will face justice make more movies like this one was just crazy the deception of the church big respect to everyone who decided to be a part of this film are just tell of all their horrible experience without the camera the catholic church doesn't lead people to god it just makes them run away from him. the governing polish law and justice party has also reacted to the film's revelations pledging to confront the problem of clerical abuse its leader initiated a vote in parliament on the longer prison terms for child abusers after the documentary began attracting widespread attention but he also accused some of using the situation to attack and undermine the church as a whole adding that there is no poland without the church people in warsaw give us their reaction to the story. everyone has the right to express their opinion but i

think need to be more careful with their what is it's not just a matter of individual offend the crimes were covered up these things were known to be the church authorities just upset the way they moved the offenders from parish to parish is horrendous the real punishment merely losing the position in church is not punishment justice must be. disciplined it's hard to say maybe kaczynski want to say it was an attack on christian values he is partly right it's like living in an apartment and closing the rise to the neighbors pathological family and when a tragedy happens everyone wakes up but if you react early you can prevent a tragedy you have to fight against those who did generates for you the film shows your truth and how people reacted to truth is their private matter but i do not consider this movie an attack on the church. to get pushed you know the church needs to be kept. separate from politics that will solve the problem. the un is

raising the alarm over child malnutrition in war ravaged afghanistan they say there are not enough funds to help the millions of children in need of urgent aid this comes as u.s. troops mark a near 20 year presence in the country. they are 2000000 children in the country which suffer from acute malnutrition and among them 600000 children that suffer from severe acute malnutrition a child that suffer from severe condition is a type that beats urgent treatment otherwise you might die. we are the own sole provider off treatment for the nutrition if we don't have money to buy these treatment the severely monitored wished we did not get it.

fortunately ghana standards you can treat yourself your money tree is a high level the main reasons are poverty don't work polluted drinking water substandard food and an educated mothers. we also spoke to unicef communications chief for afghanistan who says it is children who suffer the most in times of conflict. this legal of 600000 children who are severely acutely manaul reached has been a train for the last 5 years the only issue now is that everybody is recognizing that it is a crisis he said imagine see and it needs to be put on the national agenda and that's why we need to the attention of everybody together with the government and

this is a crisis and urgent attention and we call on all parties to the conflict all one in factions to take note that the impact of conflict is mainly pulled by children and that some local children should not be part of any conflict in any country. the supreme leader of iran has said his country will not cave in to u.s. demands to renegotiate the international nuclear deal united states pulled out of the nuclear pact last year and reintroduced sanctions against iran. released a statement saying we will not negotiate over the core values of the revolution we will not negotiate over our military capabilities earlier iranian president hassan rouhani said talks with washington can only happen if those sanctions are lifted russia's deputy foreign minister minister was in tehran on wednesday for talks with his iranian counterpart sergei volkov spoke to r.t. about the ongoing tensions and russia's role in mediating the standoff.

it's been a year since the united states quit the joint comprehensive action plan during this time iran's compliance with the way has been impeccable iran lost the benefits of his participation in the deal particularly the economic benefits as a result the iranian leadership announced a partial suspension of the obligations it had taken on voluntarily when it signed up to the agreement we are sympathetic to this policy and today i discussed with my colleague a bass arachchi what specific future actions could be taken we believe that iran's proposal to conclude a multilateral non. aggression pact in the persian gulf region is very timely we discussed that today this idea is consistent with the russian initiative to develop new measures to strengthen security in the persian gulf we repeat addressing our colleagues and friends that these suggestions are on the table and we are ready to implement them success in these areas will i'm sure help save the chase c.p.o.

a president trumps recent comments on the importance of dialogue a certainly welcome we are always in favor of dialogue the question is whether our american colleagues are ready to come up with a constructive agenda and workable proposals for iran as for iran's offer to conclude an non-aggression pact we welcome this is well it is exactly what is needed now and is at least part of the solution is international. leitz that suffered another humiliating black eye and bloody nose all across europe voters put the elites on notice the status quo is not working for the people the search for the right in the rise of populism may be a game changer. now listen. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of

politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. greetings and sal you to. society today is standing at the edge of the proverbial cliff when it comes to antibiotic resistant bacteria hawk watchers as we previously reported the united nations believes that this is a global health emergency and unless we act now these antibiotic resistant super bugs could be responsible for $10000000.00 deaths worldwide each year by 2050 and to make matters even worse it appears that our over use of antibiotics has polluted its way into the major waters around us in the largest to date global study on the

subject led by the university of york and england researchers have uncovered that hundreds of sites and rivers around the world from the tames to the tigris are washed with dangerously high levels of antibiotics and that some of the world's best known rivers including the times are contaminated with antibiotics classified as critically important for the treatment of serious infections this this would be like you. tweeting out your social security number and banking passwords for all the world to see and then praying and hoping that no one decides to drain your bank accounts and steal your identity in 72 countries across 6 continents researchers looked for 14 of the most commonly used antibiotics and discovered them in 65 percent of the rivers they monitored 65 percent and let's not forget that added to the at a bionic since last year's discovery that more than 60 per scription drugs are getting in the river food chains not to mention all of the illegal drugs like the

cocaine and ketamine recently discovered contaminated water ways in the united kingdom. so my friends with our addiction over use of pharmaceuticals now destroying our freshwater rivers with the promise of antibiotic superbugs on the way. i think it's time to start watching the hawks. to. get the. real that it's what. are the products it is. like you know that i got. this is. it's a. welcome one and all the watching arcs i haven't i rolled the turkey and i'm happy. i'm not drinking.