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are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now victory day has drawn to a close at least here in the russian capital to mark the culmination of a day of high emotion and national pride fireworks displays a look at the skies in dozens of cities nationwide. earlier. the traditional immortal regiment marches more than ten million it turned out caring portraits of relatives who endured the great patriotic war. more than seven hundred thousand turned out in moscow alone to remember the sacrifices made almost every family in the soviet union was affected by the conflict from losing loved ones. in the fighting to suffering unimaginable conditions just to stay alive our correspondent stan hawkins. joined the crowds marching in moscow. nothing unites this country more then the war it's all right jim it march those who say that this victory parade is just saber rattling displays of baluchi much intimidation they need to be here and come and have a look at this because this is very much hard to describe the crowd

are broadcasting live coverage from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us all right anti-establishment parties have scored a series of victories in the european elections along with strong gains for greens and liberals and the main centrist bloc has lost its majority in the european parliament the vote attracted the highest turnout in 20 years at 51 percent. let's break down some of the numbers for you right now in italy materials salvini s right wing party the league won 33 percent of the vote while in france marine le pen's national rally overtook president of the party with 23 percent of the austrian center right people's party also saw a surge in support and there was a significant blow in germany for the ruling coalition their share of the vote fell by around 7 per cent now what does this all mean how is this expected to shape the european parliament for the next 5 years let's take a look we're looking at a fragmented grouping with a stablished movement's losing ground to smaller parties despite the gains made by the euro skept

are broadcasting from our studios in moscow this is our to international and sean thomas glad to have you with us. right us police have arrested 4 activists staging a sit in at the venezuelan embassy they were protesting against a the expulsion of president maduro diplomats last month and u.s. interference in the country are 2. rachel bludgeons has the story. please enter the building around 930 this morning but it wasn't until about 1115 that we saw those 4 activists being taken away in police transport vehicles now those 4 are from a group of activists who have been occupying the embassy for more than 3 weeks now and they say that their goal is to hold the building for the government of venice one president nicolas maduro despite the fact that the united states has recognized opposition leader one as the country's interim president now on monday we saw that police posted a notice on the door of the building and they said that any of the activists who were still inside would be arrested and charged with trespassing that's when the majority of the activists did leave but those 4 remai

are broadcasting live to read from our studios most of this is aren't international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now the leaders of russia and the u.s. have spoken by phone and trying to find common ground on some key global issues including venezuela donald trump said conversation with a lot of my putin was positive. and a very good talk with president putin probably over an hour and we talked about many things venezuela was one of the topics we're talking about a nuclear agreement where we make less and they make less and china is frankly also we discussed the possibility of a three way deal or sort of a two way deal. and i've already spoken to them they very much would like to be a part of the deal so a long talk from the first but when you think of it and realize that it is the two leaders of two of the world's superpowers discussing the most pressing issues on the agenda well it doesn't sound like that long anymore so what did they talk about we do know that the talk was highly heavily dominated by the situation in venezuela and certainly a lot for the two leaders to dis

are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. now the remains of all forty one people killed in sunday's plane fire in moscow have now been recovered from the charred wreckage of the aeroflot eric. aft. as you can see the entire rear section of the plane was destroyed by the fire the remains of the jet have now been removed from the scene and taken away for further investigation and just to remind you during its attempted minding the souffle superjet burst into flames after its tail struck the runway only thirty seven of the seventy eight people on board survived the tragedy people have been laying flowers and tributes to the airport which has since returned to a full flight schedule at airport where the plane was flying two candles have been released to honor the victims but some people coming simply to pay their respects here's how the tragedy unfolded and just to warn you you may find some of the scenes upsetting. when the plane was in the air i saw a white flash it must have been wanting. near the window

me international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. the former u.s. national security analyst has been charged with giving classified documents on u.s. warfare tactics to a journalist he is now facing up to 50 years in prison for his alleged role in the revelation the press freedom organization reporters without borders has criticized the legal moves against a daniel hale saying that charging whistleblowers under the espionage act must end hears artie's. well he's 31 years old his name is daniel hale and he's a former u.s. intelligence official and member of the national security agency and apparently he is facing up to 50 years in prison for leaking classified government information he was arrested in nashville tennessee now the indictment against him says that he revealed information to an unnamed reporter the name of that reporter is not disclosed in the indictment but that he gave that information over to this reporter who then published it in their book and that this material was related to u.s. anti-terrorism activities and warfare strategy now

where broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas really glad to have you with us. right now the u.s. attorney general has refused to appear before the house judiciary committee to testify on his handling of the mother report into alleged to trump russia collusion some are now saying william bar should be held and contempt of congress. has 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 store also feels to negotiate in good faith mr byers the moment of accountability well come soon enough and i think that probably important to note that it was pointed out that at this point the to. and of justice has made a less redacted version of bob miller's report available to top democrats but these top condition congressional democrats navl palosi and others have refused to read it and said that instead they want the entire report revealed to a wider audience the chairma

international that's it for the moscow newsroom for now sean thomas has your next update in just over thirty minutes. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution here to prevent the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just always here i mean your lists book video a clue in the new bill is that i knew this feeling needed to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took part in this did over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. when the whole make this manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes and protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. the real news is. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the. all the politics small business i'm show business i'll see of them. some of it if. only. to show people how much it's w

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now meeting face to face the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei old could be set for talks with russian president vladimir putin this is according to the kremlin spokesman who says it could happen in the next few weeks artie's medina conscionable has more on a possible step forward in u.s. russia relations. i meeting between the russian president and the u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo may happen as early as this month in may washington's top diplomat plans to meet with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the resort city of saatchi and now the kremlin says a parallel meeting with the president could take place there too now this will be pumped first visit to russia as the u.s. secretary of state lavrov did however just to meet with him at the arctic summit and fenlon sound that the meeting showed that the two countries are still struggling to find common ground on a range of issues not only on van as well but the use of the arctic as well conce

international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us at a british court has postponed an extradition hearing for julian assange after the health of the wiki leaks founder sharply deteriorated this according to lawyers and songes currently in prison in london boyko has more. the extradition hearing isn't taking place any longer today the sound was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pair via video link but he's not even well enough to appear via video link 10 minutes on has been moved to the hospital wing all belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison where 7 out of 53 eccentric specifically when he went into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and went to the stable brain inside about the face of his health what we know is that he was of course only the medical ward of belmont and the fact that they did this and it may put him on the world speaks speaks publicly and so you know being in a higher security max the maximum security prison is difficult for anyone but julian spent 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy before but without medical treatment w

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 po

or that's all from the moscow newsroom for this hour sean thomas has your next r.t. world news after we've learned about tackling the planet's plastic problem the company that sells four thousand bottles per se can. but. we're in the middle of the baby that with. the. war in memory today marks the seventy fourth anniversary of victory over fascism in europe the end of that conflict created the modern world order and it's still done . in twenty forty you know bloody revolution here to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it your style or here i mean your list with video threw me in the eye neighborly as i knew you schooling needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took the lead in this did over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other calls that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. in front of the cameras coca-cola c.e.o. promises us a world without waste that's our objective. but behind t

are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with. part austria's governing coalition was left in tatters this monday after the right wing freedom party announced that all of its ministers are to step down the mass resignations are in response to the chancellor's attempts to sack of the interior minister over his response to a corruption sting that has tarnished the party's image has. what's happened it is . being trying to clear the decks really here he's been trying to distance himself as much as he can from the beat the tape scandal and what he said is that he needs the interior minister as well as others to be part of a transparent investigation been. i am of the firm conviction that full transparency and a complete and impartial explanation is no need. it all leads to a conflict situation which would have to. if the interior minister had withdrawn from his functions he didn't take that step and in this respect i decided to in consultation with the federal president and i would recommend the dismissal of the

from broadcasting live direct from our studios most of this is r t international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us i think chancellor of austria sebastian kurtz has requested an early election after his 2nd in command was caught in a corruption sting and forced to resign. after yesterday's video i can honestly say you know if is a no use the president today to hold snap elections in austria as soon as possible . thousands of people protested outside parliament in vienna on saturday calling for a new government on friday undercover video was released showing heinze christians . offering lucrative public contracts to a woman posing as the niece of a russian tycoon in exchange for political support the vice chancellor resigned but claimed to be the victim of an illegal hit job earlier my colleague you know neil discussed the story with r.t. is donald quote. this is. yes it was stupid yes it was responsible yes it was a mistake but at the same time it was a victim of a targeted political attack that he used illegal means so after talks with the chancellor sebastian quirked i made t

and i brings you right up to date i think staying with us sean thomas will behave with old ladies for you just over half an hour. what holds an inch to you something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or some want to. have to go right to be close it's like that before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. there should. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida you know the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it really messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in course the . shock shock as far as society we feel. we don't know childress is truthful. and of this trial unfortunately you. will still not know childress. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. or donald trump is encouraging japan to increase its military capability the u.s. president is in tokyo and says the country could help the u.s. defend against threats in the asia pacific region and beyond the american vice president touched on those perceived threats as well during a speech at the elite west point military academy. commented on it all after mike pence a gave a blunt assessment of the future for american soldiers you will fight on a battlefield for america some point your life if you didn't notice the words in the background that was mr vice president talking to the graduates of a top class u.s. military academy and that wasn't it how do you like this degree of certainty it is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for america some point your life. you will lead soldiers in combat. you will have so what is the 2nd most important official in the country trying to make clear by that the good old boots on the ground will certainly b

are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us all right we're going to start with some news just in a fighter jet crash in california what you're looking at right now are live pictures from the scene where an f. 16 went down near an air reserve base in marino valley to the east of los angeles again that's in california and what you're looking at is a warehouse and the hole in the roof of that warehouse the pilot ejected supposedly before the aircraft crashed into that site that you're looking at now he survived but his condition is unknown certainly interesting. our news room is following the information you're looking at what looks to be like a parachute that could possibly be from the pilot ejected from that scene our team is following the situation and of course we'll bring you more information as we know it but these are live pictures from the scene as we're getting them in. that's what you do is now us police have arrested 4 activists who are staging a sit in to the venezuelan embassy they were protesting against

that's all for now thanks for watching sean thomas is here in just about half an hour with your next update from altie international in moscow. sindoor well the state could stay in the surveillance cameras in. our present day for a while 19 eighty-four dystopian nightmare we put in the cameras we install the cameras on the next cameras in our doors another mantlepiece isn't but that spying devices in our hands and in our homes with alexy and other of these mass surveillance technologies that's the difference between orwell and today's it isn't the worst nightmares would never think that we will imprison ourselves. we put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. i want to. have to go on the press with you like that before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. and we don't know what facebook's aims are in fact facebook doesn't know what its aims are because it's going to be the sum total of all the people who are working on these algorithms a whistleblower someone who used to work for facebook c

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international and sean thomas glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories the vote count is now underway with polls closed across europe as the e.u. picks up its next parliament there has been plenty of attention focused on this election in fact turnout has been the highest seen in 2 decades and that is due to the perceived threat posed to the traditional parties by anti-establishment movements. well this parliamentary election seems to have caught the public's attention i've just seen it flush open the official e.u. parliamentary feat there saying the official turnout as it stands at the moment is 50.5 percent if it stays that way or goes up at all it will be the largest turnout since 1994 so the big this certainly grabbed the attention of people just time around what we have seen is wins for anti establishment parties in or from the anti establishment parties on the right we've seen them win hungary where viktor orban spot is doing very well it's really where. these parties seem to have picked up quit

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international one sean thomas glad to have you with us right a british court has postponed an extradition hearing for joining us on shafter the health of the wiki leaks founder sharply deteriorated is currently in prison in london archies probably boyko has more. the extradition hearing isn't taking place any longer today the sound was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pair 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 serving as a steamy eccentric specific detail when he went into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and wiki leaks a whole range from so about the face of his health to what we know is that there was a push from the medical board of. the fact that they did this and that may put him on the board speaks speaks plenty and that's how you know being in a higher security max the maximum security prison is difficult for anyone but julian spent 7 years confined in

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>> sean: we need a lot of nerds. you mentioned thomas paine. think about what he said, mark and this history you're going through. government in its best state is but a necessary evil and in the worst state an intolerable one. but continue. >> the media says donald trump is the greatest threat, or some of them do, to freedom of the press we've ever seen. that is a flat-out lie. they are historical illiterates. let's start quickly. john adams, a great founder, a great man and writer about liberty and all things. so he and his party put in place the sedition act. if you criticize that president, you criticize his party, you criticize the government, he has the power to imprison you. and you know what? he imprisoned some journalists and he shut down some newspapers. jefferson was furious, he was a libertarian. he runs against adams, among other thing, against the alien and sedition act. he wins in a brutal campaign. i won't get into all of the details. he wins. he gets rid of the sedition act. and the media attack him and brutalize him. and so tha

>> sean: we need a lot of nerds. you mentioned thomas paine. think about what he said, mark and this history you're going through. government in its best state is but a necessary evil and in the worst state an intolerable one. but continue. >> the media says donald trump is the greatest threat, or some of them do, to freedom of the press we've ever seen. that is a flat-out lie. they are historical illiterates. let's start quickly. john adams, a great founder, a great man and writer about liberty and all things. so he and his party put in place the sedition act. if you criticize that president, you criticize his party, you criticize the government, he has the power to imprison you. and you know what? he imprisoned some journalists and he shut down some newspapers. jefferson was furious, he was a libertarian. he runs against adams, among other thing, against the alien and sedition act. he wins in a brutal campaign. i won't get into all of the details. he wins. he gets rid of the sedition act. and the media attack him and brutalize him. and so tha

thomas. our other grandchildren, busy with studies and exams but here in spirit. liam, sean, ryan. sons-in-law who are here. also like family to me, senator chris dodd. friends long before any of us were in congress. i am honored that they are here with us tonight. [applause] speaker pelosi: i am pleased to be joined by so many members of our official family in congress. from massachusetts, rhode island, connecticut, texas, california, maryland. i include former members of congress, i'm including the secretary of state john kerry. and including congressman joe kennedy, who eloquently enacts, in his generation, the kennedy commitments to be a voice for the voiceless. [applause] the kennedy family has given so much to america's history and america's's future. we remain in all of the courage that is the kennedy constant. their courage to accept the the best and the saddest that god's will has descended upon them, and the courage of faith and hope. caroline, i specially remain inspired by the courage of your grandmother, your mother, jaclyn, especially on this day, and by your courage,

sean: you have these in your past books. >> the printing press there was only a few of them they had to move them because the british were trying to find them and hunt them down thomas paine wasause h a great pamphler with manyer others and people would be the pamphlets and talk about them at the dinner table and wordr would spread common sense it is estimated 120,000 people in the country of 2 million people by the time it was over half a million had read it with enormous influence. why is that important because back then what did the press do they promoted liberty, individualism representative government, private property rights, low taxes. from that period, soon thereafter the press would be transparent to identify withh a political party or candidate or a cause jefferson and adams were duke it out some people were actually on the payroll but they were all open about it and that lasted from 1782 through the civil war. no jumping forward the early part of the last century of she progressive movement they devoured the media they wanted to professionalize they said we need to be more objective. but we need to handful of people who understand the country to which all

thomas one of the best justices right, this country is over. we got to get it right. >> laura: we will not be intimidated and we will not be maligned. >> sean: know we will not. >> laura: hannity, great to see you fantastic coverage throughout. i am laura ingraham and "the ingraham angle" an extremely busy fire in washington tonight. five hours of getting hits. every direction by the senate democrats.ig attorney general bill barr has had about enough. he is refusing rightly to go in front of the house judiciary committee tomorrow. and the hearing today was nothing but a 2020 democratic preview and a lot of trainingan and grandstanding. president trump wait in a short time ago. >> well, i guess they want to treat him differently than anybody else. and for many, many years they've never done it this way the way they are bringing in outside counsel or something. that is not the wait -- you know, that is not the way they elected the people should do s their own talking. >> laura: we will get to that issue in just a moment with phenomenal legal panel. we will rebuild the democrats and the media are really attempting with this barr hearing.it but first

sean made with elg plante right out of the garden. after training at the culinary institute of america, he learned from the best in the business, including dan yad buhl lewd, tom coliccio, and thomasitchen at the acclaimed lynn konl riis tore ran day. >> chef jonathan benno, good morning to "the dish." >> thank you. >> tell us about the table. it looks terrific. >> the table represents three of the concepts we have at the evelyn hotel on 27th street. first is a traditional italian pastry from naples. and then we move into some of theish dishes that represent the taberna. roasted mushrooms, eggplant apartment zan. we do format dinners with taberna. lastly is a dish that represents our fine dining rtauran benno, which is a very seasonal spring ravioli. >> it's so good. i'm very happy here, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> as we toast you and say cheers, what are we drinking? >> this is a spritz from rome that features blood orange juice. >> i'm loving it. >> cheers. >> cheers. >> you mentioned growing up big family dinners. that seems obvious why you'd be attracted to food. also your father and uncle. >> my dad was very good at cooking eggs. breakfast for dinner was his specialty, a