international economic forum is a unique. business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing the key economic issues facing russia emerging markets the world thousands of business community members to address today's vital issues. special forum coverage on r.t. . thank israeli missiles hit a syrian air base in homs province killing one soldier and injuring 2 others is the 2nd deadly strike in 2 days. and weeks top stories on r.t. a un official voices concern over the u.k.'s treatment of judo songs after the wiki leaks founder fails to appear in court for an extradition hearing due to ill health

mr song shoes sometimes the principle for the person with the book which holds true for closure because over a long period of time. from impeachment to case closed all sides get something from special counsel robin liss final say on the trunk plash occlusion report. elections day and the establishment parties make major gains as europeans crave a shake up of their politics and. the it. was. a warm welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest headlines and a roundup of the stories they shape the week the top story israeli missiles have struck syria's largest air base in homs province according to the syrian military one soldier was killed and 2 others are injured middle east correspondent mohammed ali has the latest from damascus. and official syrian military sources has

confirmed that yes there was an israeli aggression on the airport which is east of . syria according to the military to be is reviewing missiles were intercepted in down but there were other israeli missiles that did reach their target the military airport killing one and so we're told and injuring 2 others also be israeli missiles cost some material damage several other buildings around it's a 4 year force and also an ammunition depot over there inside that. for military air force israel did not comment on the incident this is not the 1st time that it's used for military airport comes under israeli attack since the start of the crisis in syria in 2011 this is the 3rd actually israeli attack on syria and on saturday evening israel also attacked said syrian military posts in damascus southern countryside and when a friend's countryside that attack that we saw your soldiers were killed as

a result and some in others were injured the syrian foreign ministry did not comment on the issue but usually it also sends letters to the united nations complaining and saying that's those attacks are actually against international law undermining so we are 670 and are aiming at it boosted the morale of the remaining terrorist groups in syria israel has not yet confirmed the latest strikes but on saturday the i.d.f. said it had responded to 2 missiles fired from syria into the disputed golan heights according to syria that israeli bombardment killed 3 people to the south of damascus syria and israel have been locked in a half century confrontation over the golan heights the area was seized by israeli forces during a war in 1967 and was later by israel but he's still considered by the un to be syrian territory. israel has repeatedly accused syria of hostile military activity in the golan heights on saturday prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his country

would not tolerate any firing into his territory well to film the pentagon security analyst and an antiwar activist for their views on the latest escalation. this all started when israel on its own initiated. an attack inside into syria almost a week ago and then syria responded and then the golan and then there was a further attack syria went in with 2 more rockets into the goal line and we're seeing what we're seeing right now so this thing has been escalating rather rapidly and israel has no right to do what it's doing and if in fact that matter has no right to be initiating any kind of conflict there are multitudes of un resolutions that insist that israel return the golan heights are the fact that a rare missile hit or struck some part of the golan heights is now used by the netanyahu government as a pretext to carry out another air strike against syria this may very well be for

domestic consumption inside of israel because nothing serves netanyahu better right now and to change the subject about his inability politically to form a government and his own upcoming corruption trials. on friday u.n. experts on torture claim the way julian assange has been transferred amounts to psychological torture adding that he doesn't think the wiki leaks founder will get a fair trial if extradited to the u.s. . is it is really an assumption don't want a person to government to medical experts specialize in i don't want documentary symptoms officer command psychological torture in the old treatment mistral sanctions with all the symptoms that are typical for a person that has been exposed to psychological torture over a prolonged period of time we're speaking of severe stress some chronic insight into you know severe psychological trauma what i have never seen use several

democratic states going up in order to persecute them this is an isolated and single out a particular individual. protection. u.k. foreign secretary condemns the un assessment is wrong and inflammatory while saying a staunch has always been free to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london and on sunday jeremy hunt added that the government will last stand in the way of a songes extradition but will leave it up to the courts. only when the we can extradition hearing for science was postponed on the health grounds boyko has the details. dude the sound was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pass via video link but he's not even well enough to appear via video link 10 minutes on she's been moved to the hospital wing old belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison where 7 out of 53 eccentric specific details when he went

into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and went to the state of the brain inside about the face of his health what we know is that there was a push from the the medical board at belmont and the fact that they did this and that may put him on the board speaks speaks plenty and so you know being in a higher security max a maximum security prison is difficult for anyone but julian spent 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy before but without medical treatment without a hospital medical treatment the attorneys call him in other words states that most people might think this was going to be the 2nd hearing about this on just extradition it will have to be a fairly procedural affair well that wasn't me major arguments from a scientific team or the prosecution the official start of it has been moved to the 12th of june essentially the question of what's meant to be all cute and boils down to 2 fundamental things it is to get us on to act as

a journalist when he published those slow news that secret u.s. materials and information and crucially for him is the u.k. going to allow him to be handed over to the u.s. so far as he is where he could face up to hundreds and 75 years behind bars that will turn. 17 counts on the espionage act and one commentator just about julian is facing on some 75 years in prison which is outrageous the idea that a publisher can be. prosecuted and persecuted for the publishing the truth and face of a lifetime and in a prison in another country is. this outrageous this espionage act was never before been games against agenda certainly against government officials who leaked secrets in the past of course washington's argument is that a son isn't such on the list that he's a black cat and that his publications put the lives of informants for the u.s. . for its allies around the world in grave danger although what's interesting here

is that with the charges unveiled against. a lot of people even his critics of which there have been many many press freedom organizations and just journalists and whistleblowers around the world say that what happens with this exhibition case could have serious implications for the freedom of the press and for journalists around the world which is why i think ana's so you much attention. and there's been a new development in the a song case the u.s. justice department has reportedly dropped some of the charges against the wiki leaks founder of relating to the leak of cia spying tools. u.s. special counsel robert mueller has resigned 2 years after he opened his probe into whether that between donald trump and russia speaking to the public for the 1st time since the investigation he sought to clarify the major findings of the reports both as caleb maupin explains both comes in motion so not interpret in his words in

the ways. robert muller is all done the special counsel's office is closing and he's going to retire and to celebrate $35000000.00 in 2 years' worth of work he decided to address the media there's an old psychological test they call the war shack and basically it's a set of ambiguous ink blots it's up to the mind of the patient to determine what to see and the 10 minute presentation of robert muller seems a very much be in the eyes of the beholder if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not go in. or make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime it's not that different from what he said at the end of his report but the democrats certainly took a lot from the statement of the mother was essentially referring impeachment to the united states congress. statement makes it clear congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately 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 and other wrongdoing of president trump and we will do so i think it was very clear if you could clear the president he would have but he couldn't makes clear well muller said the report speaks for itself a special counsel found no collusion by any americans in ira's illegal activities now trump or the opposite from robert mueller he says he's in the clear nothing changes from the mother reports there was insufficient evidence and therefore in our country a person is innocent the case is closed thank you then the white house press secretary clarified with a statement there was no real news and there he reiterated the points that he'd already made in the report. we agree with them there was no collusion there was no

conspiracy and we consider this case closed he completed his investigation now he's closed his office and it's time for everybody to move on the report has been published the investigation is long over but the saga continues both sides are sticking to what they said all along so you have to ask yourself if everyone was just going to keep saying what they've said the entire time impeached or no collusion why did we have the investigation to begin with. our new york. t.v. host tom political commentator signals but told is that the democratic leadership understands that they won't be able to get trump impeached. nancy pelosi knows that it's politically unpopular and she would be the 1st to go it sure in the senate he knows that even if the house impeach is donald trump then it goes to the senate and they have to convict him and they need 2 thirds of the senate to convict him

and schumer knows that's never going to happen it didn't happen with bill clinton when they impeached bill clinton he won reelection so nancy pelosi is been around long enough to understand that the public doesn't really care about this and they're fed up with this whole russia nonsense and so they know that even if they have pictures of the house it's going to fail in the senate and donald trump i believe really wants to be impeached he's kind of egging them on you know hey do it if you want it's a horrible word it's a terrible thing but he's kind of prompting them to i dare you to do it because i think and i think nancy pelosi knows it will help trump. europeans have taken to the polls in the most fiercely contested parliamentary election in recent history is there a surge for them from anti-establishment movements while centrist party has lost ground but turnout was the highest in 20 years that more than 50 percent.

the elections the green and liberal parties make significant gains while anti establishment movements came out on top in countries like italy france and belgium right wing populist groups now hold about a quarter of the seats in the e.u. parliament and decided to penske reports while the results might be surprising there was no shortage of political drama in the run up either. for months pundits have been predicting a rise in empty establishment parties ahead of the e.u. elections afterwards they were right but across the block in the weeks leading up to the vote panic was setting in. take malkin days before france headed to the polls the e.u.

top court ordered her to pay back 300000 euros to the european parliament this followed a case in which the national rally had been accused of paying an aide incorrectly but the timing felt off it was almost as if it was a way to tell voters that her party just couldn't be trusted that came hot on the heels of accusations that former trump strategist steve bannon was actually the one pulling all the pens strings yet the public didn't seem to care and the national rally still talked the polls hit in france other scandals that were rife in the media included one by the russians well at least the alleged russians. it was of course austria's if. the party which was in coalition besting people's party found itself under the spotlight not for its potentially dubious

policies but for a good old cash influence gambit. revici's . he says there was even an attempt to drag le pen's name into the thick gate as it became known a few months ago marine le pen was singing the praises of austrian vice chancellor heinz christian straka saying how formidable he was strong being forced to resign we find out why he was trying to sell his services to foreign forces behind this nationalist movement is a submission to foreign forces despite this the f p o still managed to pick up just over 17 percent of the vote in austria. there was also of course the elections very own me too moment one swedish democrats

candidate accused the other of sexual harassment and even though the scandal washed away it didn't hamper the anti immigration party's performance they increased their share of the vote to more than 15 percent. and despite merkel not calling it out warning the populous parties wanted to destroy europe 2 we are haring to deal with populist movements that in many areas are contemptuous of our values and want to destroy the europe of the values we represent we have to stand up to this these parties significantly increase their representation in many parts of the e.u. sex money the long arm of washington reaching for controlling europe nothing seemed to put voters off seeking something new what is clear from the results of these elections is that the old guard could no longer count on the masses to support them

in blind faith what europeans want is something different it seems but godless what that is what i think why you're skeptics because of the migrants people are skeptical because they do not know why it's going to get them they are afraid of migrants or. the reason is the decline in the number of elites compared to the rest of the people as well as the quality of the democratic representation. spots because. i think it is because of immigration all europeans who are afraid of tea many migrants coming i think this is the primary course of this boat. big parties had a disastrous defeat in my opinion it was high time for it and now we'll see whether the european results could influence our national politics all be implemented here and. i think that brings the debate in england has made many people here in germany think about it this discussion has turned many citizens against the u.

. i think people feel as if the existing political parties are giving them what they want and therefore they're hunting around for something else i think for some extent it's probably a protest trying to engineer a tory vote to go more with norah to far it wasn't unexpected as an outcome i would say kind of the level of division i would have expected across the country. this week representatives of venezuelan president nicolas maduro and opposition leader one kwaito held a 2nd round of talks in norway without producing a deal the host nation did say the 2 sides had made progress however the us has its own solution. as we have repeatedly stated we believe the only thing to negotiate with nicolas maduro is the conditions of his departure. it was turned to the negotiating table comes despite the opposition's initial reluctance to take part why does south proclamation of power was supported by consistent and hawkish stance

among western leaders over the last 4 months ecostar takes is through the power struggle. i believe are only going to be 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 porthole road to the kiryas and mayhem venezuela's in today it wants me 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 all our. 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 plan. one door in europe you know one way though 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 tip 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 not 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 articulate 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 don't 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 is. stood strong with a 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 are standing behind the people and the constitution but very soon his votes tool overstatement was clear desertions 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 while you don't has won the battle for the hearts and minds on capitol hill or 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 very intimate 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 dog has sent his emissaries to talk with the dural 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. thousands of yellow vests protesters took to the streets of paris on sunday for a so-called march of the wounded banners were displayed showing some of the horrific injuries caused by police crowd control weapons since the movement started according to the french interior ministry more than 2500 demonstrators have been injured since november last year and prosecutors have launched an investigation into the harsh tactics used by officers police have routinely use rubber bullets and flash bang grenades on crowds in many cases causing life changing injuries here are some of the worst examples.

and i could his own kit we are well aware that both criminal and administrative investigations take time and we hope that the announcement by the powers prosecutor is not just political banta my goal is a solicitor is to expose violence that has been concealed and even denied by the government unlike the government i'm not looking for exceptions to the law i'm looking for justice so that those who abuse their power including police will be punished. i have from alexandra lange leader of the french police union he told us people should be blaming the governments not rank and file offices for the haas treatment of yellow best processes but not the group of new gov the probes into police conduct were announced at a time when the government doesn't feel dependent on the police force and wants to curry favor with the french population convictions will follow and unfortunately they will be groundless our colleagues will be told that they made mistakes while policing the protests and misuse their weapons so there will be no questions about

police training and about those who water us to use dramatic weapons on demonstrators as long as we have this hierarchy in the country and or training the police will be blamed on the government will wash its hands of the problem we're going to get it. past any unwashed oppose have a class with israeli security forces in east jerusalem as off the soldiers then to the al aqsa mosque compound during ramadan. israeli forces closed in to quell a muslim protest the unrest broke out after more than $100.00 jews entered the temple mount to mark jerusalem day which commemorates the end of the arab israeli

war thousands of israelis marched through jerusalem including the muslim quarter of the old city for the anniversary. liverpool last operating their 6 fewer pm title after beating tottenham in the champions league final. yes. yes. well when r.t. former manchester united manager as a marine here has been covering the ups and downs of the tournament and is on the touchline show and the last episode of the season radio sums up the results of the competition you can watch in full on monday for now here's

a quick preview. what is the most important thing in football. to win on the liverpool wanting. a bit confused thing tension to knowing that arm close to your body you are in a position that is not a natural position like it happened and of course the human being needs the arms to keep the balance i think he was nervous because he's not the super penalty taker seemed he made the right decision the quality of the game was not good the quality of passing was not good we didn't play like we like we normally do i didn't really

normally like i do i didn't sing that normally i do i think that must be a very bad a very bad feeling of course it even had on his mind we are going to be losing one you love to 50 seconds and probably was thinking. even game game in the control if doesn't play and the result is the same everyone will be saying crane has to pay even with one leg we. i'm sorry the world we manage as we are the donkeys affordable in my entire team my best friends the ones the poor closer to me are the ones that. we're not starting players the only thing that i didn't enjoy was my dancing on ice in moscow.

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