could happen this week he tweeted let's go live now to washington more on this al-jazeera as alan fischer is following developments these are 2 the saudis were previously put on hold why does it look like they they could be going ahead again that all of. us laws says that if you're going to go ahead with foreign arm sales you've got to give congress 30 days notice in that time congress can see ye or ne no you can sidestep that and it looks as if that's the move this being considered by donald trump being pushed by might pompey or his secretary of state if you didn't clear the weapons sales and national emergency and then you can just go ahead and congress has not come back to it at

problem with each other and the potential is there for the rest of the world to feel the pain alan fischer al-jazeera washington. well our white house correspondent joins us live now how quickly things change can we thought a deal might be closed now the talks have completely broken down is there any hope for a resolution. yeah there still is optimism but there is less optimism that there was say 4 or 5 hours ago the feeling was that there was still a window of opportunity but as we are reporting those talks seemed to end abruptly ending just before lunchtime local time here in washington when they had been expected to go all day even into the night now the treasury secretary steve minucci and he left the meeting telling reporters that in fact he thought the talks were constructive but given no firm date for when to go she may or may not resume we've since learned from the china global times editor it's a tabloid that is published by the communist ruling party in china that in fact there is a tentative plan perhaps to try and pick up negotiations again in beijing but that is still not clea

president and other new levels and the latest round of trade talks failed to deliver alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . donald trump says a deal was close until the chinese broke it so in came you tell us he believes will lead to a better deal i happen to think that tariffs for a country. a very powerful you know with a piggy bank that everybody steals from including china the white house issued a statement from the president saying hiking tide of some 10 to 25 percent on 250000000000 dollars worth of goods means china piece a lot more money directly into the u.s. treasury but that's not how tired of swak they will drive up prices on their own $6000.00 i tunes america imports from china from washing machines to steal from food to fish importers pay the tab of the costs almost always passed on to the customer and all came or gets parts for a south carolina bike shop from china he's already added 20 dollars to the cost of a new machine we don't know how we perceive that china is paying for this we're paying for it and it's been passed on to our customers $1.00 tree group says for a

election bar is now refusing to testify at a second congressional hearing alan fischer reports from washington. for the first time since the little port was made public america's top floor to surface questions from a senate committee republican chairman lindsey graham a supporter admitted he hadn't read the full report can't say i've read it all but i've read most of it but the findings left him with no doubt nor obstruction nor collusion robert mueller was appointed special counsel made twenty seven thousand his task to investigate alleged links between the russians and donald trump's presidential campaign attorney general william barr was given the report in march he says he was surprised there was no recommendation on prosecuting the president for obstruction of justice religious identity ten possible instances but he was confident he made the right call and not to press ahead with the deputy and i felt that the evidence developed by the special counsel was not sufficient to establish that the president committed a crime and therefore it would be irresponsible and unfair for the department

screws on iran and the iranian economy and that will force them back to the negotiating table alan fischer live in washington thank you. well as we've already mentioned the iranian foreign minister is in the iraqi capital baghdad he's there for 2 days jeffords serif and the iraqi president barham salih discuss ways to make the region most stable on friday protests as gathered in baghdad they were demanding that their government stay out of the dispute between iran and the united states they're worried that iraq could become a battleground for some kind of proxy war between the 2 rivals tell shattered it was certainly an old english language spokesperson for the foreign ministry here in iraq these meetings are going to concentrate on 2 main areas the 1st one is strengthening ties between iraq and iran and the 2nd one as you can imagine is very much a calling to the spokes person iraq's role in potentially trying to defuse this escalating conflict between its neighbor and the u.s. iraq is in a very very delicate position here because of the great influence that iran has on this country it is

president imposed other new levies and the latest round of trade talks failed to deliver alan fischer sent us this report from washington d.c. . says a deal was close until the chinese broke it so in commuters he believes will lead to a better deal i happen to think that tariffs for a country. a very powerful you know with a piggy bank that everybody steals from including china the white house issued a statement from the president saying hiking tide of some 10 to 25 percent on 250000000000 dollars worth of goods means china piece a lot more money directly into the u.s. treasury but that's not how tired of swak they will drive up prices on their own $6000.00 i tunes america imports from china from washing machines to steal from food to fish importers pay the tariffs the costs almost always passed on to the customer and all kimmer gets parts for a south carolina bike shop from china he's already added $20.00 to the cost of a new machine we don't know how he perceived that china is paying for this we're paying for it and it's been passed on to our customers $1.00 tree group says for a fa

could happen this week he tweeted let's go live now to washington more on this al-jazeera as alan fischer is following developments these are 2 the saudis were previously put on hold why does it look like they they could be going ahead again that all of. us laws says that if you're going to go ahead with foreign arm sales you've got to give congress 30 days notice in that time congress can see ye or ne no you can sidestep that and it looks as if that's the move this being considered by donald trump being pushed by might pompey or his secretary of state if you didn't clear the weapons sales and national emergency and then you can just go ahead and congress has not come back to it at all but the president does have to deliver a written justification for the decision under national emergency powers to congress at some point there's a very unusual step how unusual the last time this happened was back in the 1980 s. when normal reagan declared a national emergency so they could sell weapons to saudi arabia because of the perceived threat from iran. so what's been the reaction to this. well if

time publicly blamed iran for recent attacks on saudi and amorality ships and infrastructure alan fischer reports now from washington. initial reports suggested the u.s. was preparing to send an additional 120000 troops to the middle east to combat the perceived threat from iran but president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending $1500.00 we want our projection the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops the u.s. defense department says the troops are going to include an anti missile battery additional intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft it's also sending fighter aircraft for deterrence. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but adds to another rush deployment or this month the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group started to move to the gulf we would continue . to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of rate and. the threat from iran is also being used to push through $8000000000.00 in weapon sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan normally co

and jordan alan fischer has more from washington. initial reports suggested the u.s. was preparing to send additional 120000 troops to the middle east to combat the perceived threat from iraq the president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending $1500.00 we want to add protection that the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops the u.s. defense department says the troops are going to include an anti missile battery additional intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft it's also sending fighter aircraft for deterrence. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but adds to another rushed deployment of this month the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group started to move to the gulf we would continue . to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of rate and. the threat from iran is also being used to push through $8000000000.00 in weapon sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan normally congress would be given 30 days to approve foreign arm sale

president onil trumped high tariffs on chinese imports he said he was in no hurry for a deal alan fischer reports from washington. donald trump says a deal was close until the chinese broke it so in came you tell us he believes will lead to a better deal i happen to think that tariffs for a country. a very powerful you know with a piggy bank that everybody steals from including china the white house issued a statement from the president saying hiking tide of some 10 to 25 percent on 250000000000 dollars worth of goods means china piece a lot more money directly into the u.s. treasury but that's not how tired of swak they will drive up prices on their own 6 those and i tunes america imports from china from washing machines to steal from food where to fish importers pay the tab of the costs almost always passed on to the customer. gets parts for a south carolina bike shop from china he's already added $20.00 to the cost of a new machine we don't know how we perceive that china is paying for this we're paying for it and it's been passed on to our customers one tree group says for a family of

i let's go live to another our correspondents in washington alan fischer and alan let's start with the arms sales that might pump air announcing that they're going to bypass congress and and speed up this $8000000000.00 worth of weapons sales to the gulf how alarming is that for members of congress the fact that they're going to be sidetracked in this . well congress only has 30 days notice of 4 unarmed seals to any country and that gives them the possibility that some senators can put a hold on that sale and the certainly done that in the past what might pompey or has done by essentially bypassing congress to say this sale can go through right no there is a national emergency and therefore we believe to support our allies in the middle east we have to do this because of the regional instability as he describes it being created by iran know there are republicans who are deeply concerned about the sales of any weapons to saudi arabia at the moment lindsey graham who has been a big supporter of donald trump all sort of public and senator he is concerned that there's any normal dealing wi

and its allies from iran will get more reaction from driving in tehran shortly for a 1st his alan fischer without a report from washington. initial reports suggested the u.s. was preparing to send an additional 120000 troops to the middle east to combat the perceived threat from iran the president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending $1500.00 we want to have protection of the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops but the u.s. defense department says the troops are going to include an anti missile battery additional intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft it's also sending fighter aircraft for deterrence. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but adds to another rushed deployment of this month the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group started to move to the gulf we would continue . to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of right and. the threat from iran is also being used to push through $8000000000.00 in weapon sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and

in a moment we'll hear from same dystrophy in iran but 1st here's alan fischer in washington . initial reports suggested the u.s. was preparing to send an additional 120000 troops to the middle east to combat the perceived threat from iraq but president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending $1500.00 we want our protection the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops the u.s. defense department says the troops are going to include an anti missile battery additional intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft it's also sending fighter aircraft for deterrence. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but adds to another rush deployment or this month the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group started to move to the gulf we would continue . to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of rate and. the threat from iran is also being used to push through $8000000000.00 in weapon sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan normally congress would be given 30 days

government but as alan fischer explained to see american consumers who will end up footing up footing the bill. says a deal was close until the chinese broke it so enqueue new turn as he believes will lead to a better deal i happen to think that tariffs for a country. a very powerful you know with a piggy bank that everybody steals from including china the white house issued a statement from the president saying hiking tide of some 10 to 25 percent on 250000000000 dollars worth of goods means china piece a lot more money directly into the u.s. treasury but that's not how tired of swak they will drive up prices on their own 6 those and i thumbs america imports from china from washing machines to steal from food to fish importers pay the tab of the costs almost always passed on to the customer and gets parts for a south carolina bike shop from china he's already added $20.00 to the cost of a new machine we don't know how we perceive that china is paying for this we're paying for it and it's been passed on to our customers $1.00 tree group says for a family of 4 they'll be paying $767.00

we'll hear from them best ravi on iran's reaction to the latest developments but 1st here is alan fischer and washington initial reports suggested the u.s. was preparing to send additional 120000 troops to the middle east to combat the perceived threat from iran the president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending $1500.00 we want to add protection the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops but the u.s. defense department says the troops are going to include an anti missile battery additional intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft it's also sending fighter aircraft for to terrorists. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but adds to another rush deployment or this month the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group started to move to the gulf we would continue . to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of rate and. the threat from iran is also being used to push through $8000000000.00 in weapon sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan normally congress

chairman says he won't be calling robert mueller as a new witness he says this is over but it's not alan fischer algis it up on capitol hill washington while democrats are looking to issue a subpoena to force william barr to make that second appearance house judiciary chairman jerry nadler says the attorney general is too afraid to give evidence because he has been dishonest. he is trying to blackmail the committee into not following what we think is the most effective means of. getting the information we need and the congress cannot permit executive branch we cannot permit the administration to dictate to congress how we operate i think the i think he's going to have to answer for apparently testifying and truthfully in both the senate and the house and that's certainly one option is terrified of having to face a skilled attorney. the saudi iraqi coalition fighting in yemen has launched a series of air strikes on a military base at the capital's airport at least ten strikes hit me airbase in the sun are the coalition says the targets were legitimate under international law previously said who t

existing deal he's cranked up tough financial sanctions to force them to reopen discussions alan fischer washington. well for more let's go live now to. tear on and saying what's the latest reaction been to these developments in iran. well we've heard from foreign minister jugaad zarif who called this a dangerous escalation dangerous for peace and international security in the region and he also said that the united states was simply doing this to justify its hostile policies against iran and to again as tensions in the region we've also heard from brigadier general mortars who are body now he's the advisor to the new head of the islamic revolutionary guard corps and in an interview with the state news website he said that it is unlikely that the u.s. will stage an attack on iran but he said if the enemy does the smallest stupidest thing in the waters of the persian gulf the enemy will understand what we will do to him he went on to say these warships with the smallest stupid action will be sunk by missiles or secret weapons the enemy shouldn't pull us so iranian leaders both civilian an

let's get more now from alan fischer in washington d.c. alan what is likely how is this likely to develop do you think. well the americans thought they had a deal last week steve miller chin. had gone to be showing they thought things were pretty close and the visit of the chinese vice premier at the end of this week would be the visit that would secure the deal when they came back from beijing the chinese then sent them a document and according to the american side they'd started to try to renegotiate things that they thought were signed and sealed there were elements where the chinese might have to change their laws in terror really the americans thought that was all set up but then the chinese said we're not prepared to do that that's why don't all trump is talking about them trying to renegotiate the deal donald trump thinks that this means that the extra targets that he's planning to put in place will fall on and that will hit american consumers donald trump talks in a way thinks that somehow the chinese are paying for this that's not

president was asked are we going to war with iran he said i certainly hope not al-jazeera is alan fischer live in washington alan many thanks. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali harmony has criticized his own country's leadership over the nuclear deal. i didn't have much belief in. the way it was realized that implemented we have said this to the people responsible for this the president and the revered foreign minister and others many times we gave them reminders on many issues. wiki leaks founder julian facing new charges in the u.s. bringing the total now to 18 the u.s. justice department is accusing him of unlawfully publishing the names of classified sources of conspiring with former army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to obtain classified information in 2010 wiki leaks published thousands of secret diplomatic cables from the state department swedish prosecutors account to try to actually write a song from the u.k. to face a rape charge. castro reports from washington. the federal indictment of julian cover a sweeping 18 charges 70 of them are counts that he violated the espio

government but alan fischer explains from washington d.c. it's american consumers of the will end up footing the bill. donald trump says the deal was close until the chinese broke it so in commute turned as he believes will lead to a better deal i happen to think that tariffs for a country. a very powerful you know with a piggy bank that everybody steals from including china the white house issued a statement from the president saying hiking tide of some 10 to 25 percent on 250000000000 dollars worth of goods means china piece a lot more money directly into the u.s. treasury but that's not how tired of swak they will drive up prices on their own 6 those and i thumbs america imports from china from washing machines to steal from food we have to fish importers pay the tab of the costs almost always passed on to the customer and all kamal gets parts for a south carolina bike shop from china he's already added $20.00 to the cost of a new machine we don't know how he perceived that china is paying for this we're paying for it and it's been passed

to give further testimony in the house of representatives and could face of those on contempt alan fischerreports. for the first time since the little port was made public america's top floor to surface questions from a senate committee republican chairman lindsey graham a trump supporter admitted he hadn't read the full report has severed all that ever and most of it but the findings left him with no doubt nor obstruction nor collusion robert mueller was appointed special counsel made twenty seven thousand his task to investigate alleged links between the russians and donald trump's presidential campaign attorney general william barr was given the report in march he says he was surprised there was no recommendation on prosecuting the president for obstruction of justice rule it identified ten possible instances but he was confident he made the right call and not to press ahead with the deputy and i felt that the evidence developed by the special counsel was not sufficient to establish that the president committed a crime and therefore it would be irresponsible and unfair for the departmen

it's still facing questions about how far it's willing to go to back the saudi led coalition alan fischer al-jazeera washington. facebook has been controversial far right figures on their organizations on both facebook and instagram the company has been under pressure over state it to restrict hate speech rob rebels reports. facebook and instagram have permanently banned several prominent far right anti-semitic and anti muslim provocateur tumors there is a concerted a social media empire you can't counts of radio host alex jones conspiracy theorist who claims mass shootings like the one at a high school in parklane florida last year where seventeen died were faked by the government. gone to his laura loom or a prolific skewer of anti muslim diatribes and false conspiracy theories visitors to loom or his facebook page on thursday found this no more facebook or instagram for milo you know novelists former writer for the conservative breitbart news site who's been closely associated with neo nazi and white supremacist figures and often ridicules feminism islam and social justice movements wh

further testimony in the house of representatives and could face a vote on contempt of zeros alan fischer reports from washington. for the first time since the little port was made public america's top floor to surface questions from a senate committee republican chairman lindsey graham a supporter admitted he hadn't read the full report has severed all that ever and most of it but the findings left him with no doubt nor obstruction nor collusion robert mueller was appointed special counsel made twenty seven thousand his task to investigate alleged links between the russians and donald trump's presidential campaign attorney general william barr was given the report in march he says he was surprised there was no recommendation on prosecuting the president for obstruction of justice rule of identified ten possible instances but he was confident he made the right call and not to press ahead with the deputy and i felt that the evidence developed by the special counsel was not sufficient to establish that the president committed a crime and therefore it would be irresponsible and unfair for th

pressure it's still facing questions about how far it's willing to go to back the coalition alan fischer al jazeera washington a six month exemption from your sanctions for countries that still buy iranian oil will end in a few hours time the new restrictions will affect countries like china and washington's allies india and south korea amongst others mike hanna has the story from washington d.c. . it was a surprise to many when president trump chose riyadh this a destination of his first international trip in office. but two years on it's clear this was more of a signal as to the central role saudi arabia would play in his administration's decision making. driven home when it was made clear the imposition of oil sanctions against iran was done in coordination with aleve but other stuff about the details of what the scientists in the immoralities have agreed to but i've had conversations the president said conversations with these countries and there they have committed to making sure that there is a sufficient supply in the markets. confirmation of saudi coordination came just days afte

guests interesting is probably the right word alan fischer live for us in washington alan thank you. because prime minister theresa may has sacked her defense secretary blaming him for a link about the chinese telecom giant law a useless new bar now with more from our broadcasts and felicity. thanks so much for show us governor williamson was sacked after details of a national security council meeting were leaked to the press the leak prevailed the u.k.'s plan to grant huawei a role in building britain's five g. network in a letter the prime minister said an investigation found compelling evidence that williamson was responsible but williamson denies he was involved in the leak. or is following that story she joins me live in the studio things charlie leak all this time let's be honest why is this a matter of such concern well those national security council briefings are for and where security services g c h q m i six m i five and ministers can gather together and discuss highly sensitive information from issues like counterterrorism to cyber security and so on so they all would hav

this from thence fischer's right the doctors who want a story let me put it to the political elements around mr putin have a major interest in destabilizing europe and i fear that they will succeed to genuine fear taints opponents patriots with views close to his of course he's defending his country then also please. we set out on a tour of several european cities together daughter bella and its french partner station france $24.00 investigated russian influence on europe's far right. the russian embassy in berlin which dominated the then socialist east germany more than 30 years ago. and how much influence does the kremlin try to wield behind the scenes today germany's bundestag regards the right wing populist party alternative for germany the a.f.d. as especially open to russia its lead candidate for the upcoming european elections is york more 10. we see good neighborly relations with russia and with the united states we want a thoroughly pragmatic approach i don't represent russian interests or american interests i'm a german politician representing german interests and it's in ou

alan fischer joins us now from capitol hill for the latest so allan is bob barr says there he says that he did not get the impression that they special counsel had any quibble with what his summary was of the of their report it is very clear in the letter that they special counsel did have issue with the summaries the the summary that the attorney general released and in fact special counsel muller put together his own summaries that could have been released where are we with all of this now. well bill barr is placing the blame with the media he is seeing that robert mueller was upset at the interpretation that the media was putting on what came out is a four page summary and bill bonde is saying that it actually wasn't a summary of the four page summary that he came out with and said no collusion which remember is not what robert miller was investigating he was investigating whether or not there was a conspiracy between the russians and the trump campaign so he said there was no collusion nor struction of justice robert miller itemized ten places where he believed there could be a case

for hear from same bus travel on iran's reactions to the latest developments but 1st here's alan fischer. initial report suggested the u.s. was preparing to send an additional 120000 troops to the middle east to combat the perceived threat from iran but president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending $1500.00 we want our projection the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops the u.s. defense department says the troops are going to include an anti missile battery additional intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft it's also sending fighter aircraft for deterrence. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but adds to another rushed deployment of this month the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group started to move to the gulf we would continue . to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of reading. the threat from iran is also being used to push through $8000000000.00 in weapon sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan normally congress would be given 30 day

like his friendships. >> my sister was very worried cause she said, "look at bobby fischer.ou that he likes chess?" >> reporter: by his teen years, sally was worried about will, seeing him struggle, unable to connect with his peers. >> it's hard to be a kid when you have the mind of an adult. he was diagnosed with mental illness when he was in college. >> reporter: sally says the only thing worse than her son's illness was the way the world began to treat him. >> there's tremendous stigma. society disregards and discards people with mental illness. he wasn't happy. and soen why, you don't want to see your child suffer, especially suffer when you know that we're still in a situation where the illness that he has is something that the world doesn't care about. >> reporter: will had to leave college, and back home in new york, he was given psychiatric treatment, but sally says eventually those prescribed medications weren't enough. she was fearing the worst. what were you afraid was going to happen? >> i knew he was self-medicating. >> what do you think he was doing with those

existing deal he's cranked up tough financial sanctions to force them to reopen discussions alan fischer washington let's cross over to his joining us from a to what is the view from iran to the increased u.s. rhetoric zone and as well as the plans to send more u.s. troops to the region. well in the grand scheme of things it has to be said that 1500 more additional american troops in the middle east is relatively speaking not a very big number the united states already has tens of thousands of active service men all across the middle east and so this additional force while it is symbolic while it is something that iranians are watching very closely it is relatively small it is not an offensive force it is by nature a defensive force that is in the numbers previous american presidents in previous ongoing combat missions in and around the middle east have done troop increases numbering in the 10s of thousands so this is a relatively small figure having said that iranians both civilian and military leaders are watching every single incremental step that the united states is making in the re

investigation he made the announcement after being questioned in a senate hearing on wednesday alan fischerreports. for the first time since the little port was made public america's top floor to surface questions from a senate committee republican chairman lindsey graham a supporter admitted he hadn't read the full report has severed all that ever and most of it but the findings left him with no doubt nor obstruction nor collusion robert mueller was appointed special counsel made twenty seven thousand his task to investigate alleged links between the russians and donald trump's presidential campaign attorney general william barr was given the report in march he says he was surprised there was no recommendation on prosecuting the president for obstruction of justice rule of identified ten possible instances but he was confident he made the right call and not to press ahead with the deputy and i felt that the evidence developed by the special counsel was not sufficient to establish that the president committed a crime and therefore it would be irresponsible and unfair for the department to r

robin fischer was part of stewart's initial group summited two days after him.s about the congestion on instagram writing delays caused by overcrowding could prove fatal. nepal is facing pressure after one of the deadliest seasons on record and is considering new requirements for a mount everest permit. right now despite a price tag of around $11,000 there is no proof of climbing experience required. all of the climbers we have been speaking to over the last few days say anyone who has that burning desire to try to summit should be able to do so. it's about doing it wisely and safely and as one put it best you can get to the mountain, think you're prepared but nature can have other plans. >> imagine having to make these choices with no air or oxygen at the same time. so harrowing. arwa, thank you very much. >>> some really scary moments at a cubs/astros game. a line drive by alberto almora, jr., hit a young girl in the stands last night. witnesses say the park went quiet as almora dropped to one knee. houston astros say the young fan was taken to the hospital. s

this is him talking about carry fischer who had just passed away >> i think it was my size.ecurity from someone who's a lot bigger than you are. i'm quite a lot bigger than carrie is. it was nice to be able to just have someone on the set that you could look up to. >> a lot of people looked up to him. 7'3". >> 7'3". i brought my c3po today. this is the original >> it's beautiful. >> the loss of peter mayhew who was 74, in a way that's our childhood. more and more of it seems longer ago. it's sad to see >> i liked when carrie fischer said, out of my way you walking carp carpet. >> he was the walking carpet. democrats want robert mueller to testify and answer this question -- why did you punt on obstruction of justice? a former watergate lawyer joins us next. what if other kinds of plants captured it too? if these industrial plants had technology that captured carbon like trees we could help lower emissions. carbon capture is important technology - and experts agree. that's why we're working on ways to improve it. so plants... can be a little more... like plants. ♪ my car was

now back to baby naming, amy schumer has revealed what her little boy will be called -- gene attell fischer>>> we move from a happy family to a family in turmoil. britney spears went to court to take action against her ex-manager. but another member of her family showed up. >> can you please give us a comment? >> that was britney's dad just moments after she was granted a temporary restraining order. her team claims that lutfi started a new campaign of harassment shortly after she checked into a mental health facility. britney's lawyers claim the harassment has threatened her safety and caused severe mental trauma. among the allegations are that he sent threatening texts to her family. posting threatening comments about britney on social media, and threatened to release trunks of damaging materials which he allegedly accumulated during the time he was her manager. >> britney, you look great. >> what about me? >> lutfi was a constant presence in britney's life during her darkest years between 2007 and 2008. just how bad was it? in 2007, following a short stint in rehab, spears shaved her hea

president all trumped high tariffs on chinese imports and said he was in no hurry for a deal alan fischer port's now from washington. says a deal was close until the chinese broke it so in came new turn as he believes will lead to a better deal i happen to think that tariffs for a country. a very powerful you know with a piggy bank that everybody steals from including china the white house issued a statement from the president saying hiking tide of some 10 to 25 percent on 250000000000 dollars worth of goods means china piece a lot more money directly into the u.s. treasury but that's not how tired of swak they will drive up prices on our own 6 those and i tunes america imports from china from washing machines to steal from food we have to fish importers pay the tab of the costs almost always passed on to the customer. gets parts for a south carolina bike shop from china he's already added $20.00 to the cost of a new machine we don't know how we perceive that china is paying for this we're paying for it and it's been passed on to our customers one tree group says for a family of 4 they'll

but there's nothing coming from iran which suggests they are ready to sit down and talk again alan fischerwashington. at least 9 people have been killed in an airstrike by the saudi and coalition on yemen's maria district unties province the raid reportedly targeted a petrol station and some of the victims were children. several prominent conservative m.p.'s have put their names forward to become the next british prime minister that's after treason may announced she'd be stepping down on june 7th ending 3 tumultuous years in office lawyers for defeated indonesian opposition candidate proposed to have filed a lawsuit challenging the results of last month's presidential election official results showed president joko widodo one that voters. says he lost because of widespread cheating protest leaders in sudan have called for a general strike on tuesday and wednesday it's the latest move to pressure military leaders to hand over to 3000000000 rule or in nepal at least 8 people have died while attempting to scale mount everest over the past few days the deaths have raised questions about overcr

problem with each other and the potential is there for the rest of the world to feel the pain alan fischer al-jazeera washington let's not talk to our white house correspondent kimberly hakim any day 2 of the trade talks ended by the quickly do we know what happened. yes we're still trying to get some understanding of that but what it does appear is that at least from the u.s. standpoint there is an attempt to try and reassure the nervous markets and vespers here in the united states and around the world who are watching this very carefully but as you reported the talks ended very abruptly before lunchtime here local time when most expected they would go all day and without a breakthrough or any sort of agreement now what we are hearing and this is being reported from china is global times editor that's a tabloid that is linked to the ruling communist party that there is in fact going to be further negotiation but that it is not going to take place inside the united states but instead from beijing this is something that certainly will boost those who are worried that the talks have ended c

the man no more athletes me will stage their own boycotts no matter who is in the white house alan fischer al-jazeera washington and manchester city are one win away now from retaining the english premier league title defender vincent kompany their unlikely much win on monday against leicester a one nil victory move city a point clear of that subtle rivals liverpool there is just a single game left in the season. i will finish with some unusual intruders at a major league baseball game in cincinnati and they are sort of days delaying the first pitch in the reds game against the san francisco giants like the game by about twenty minutes thousands of them tracing a bit of a buzz around hung plates before they eventually headed off into the outfield the reds going on to win this game twelve soon for. that is how sports is looking for an andy thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera do stay with us penty more world news coming up shortly with problem us back and. main on al-jazeera. as the world's biggest democracy goes to the polls we focus on the economic chall

collect awards or celebrate championships becoming more controversial since trump took office alan fischer reports it's wonderful they have you here it's been a tradition at the white house for years when u.s. sports teams top off their celebrations with a visit to the president but like many other things it's different under trump the patriots are in a credible organization of the twenty teams that have won major titles only ten have gone to the white house the rest have either not been invited or more unusually have declined the invite our current president is a very divisive and you know individual he's someone who you know people don't unite around and even in these things that are supposed to be political or partisan he's such a divisive figure such a polarizing figure that it causes people to make a political choice donald trump has often said athletes should stay out of politics but he doesn't mind winning in one sports he was hugely critical of black american football stars who knelt during the playing of the national anthem in protest at police violence and he's picked fights on t

the man no more athletes me will stage their own boycotts no matter who is in the white house alan fischer i'll just you know washington and i'll support on the field but sana. thank you very much manchester city are now one win away from clinching the english premier league title for the second time and they beat leicester on monday to put them back on top of the table to call us first health instant company broke the deadlock in the seventieth minute it was enough to seal the one nil when city are now a point clear of title rivals liverpool with just one game left in the season. or the next season finishes on sunday city away at brighton while liverpool are at home to wolves well whether finishes a second will have the most points held any runner up in the english premier league . well before that liverpool play barcelona in the second leg of their tent is league semi final striker mohamed this has been ruled out of tuesday's game with concussion and settle for wood are all there till i mean you is also injured bossa won the first leg in spain three nil two of the world's best strikers a

chairman says he won't be calling robert mueller as a new witness he says this is over but it's not alan fischer i'll just read up on capitol hill washington democrats are looking to issue a subpoena to force william barr to make that second appearance house judiciary chairman jerry nadler the attorney general is too afraid to give evidence because he's been dishonest. he's trying to blackmail the community into not following what we think is the most effective means of. getting the information we need and the congress cannot permit the executive branch we cannot permit the administration to dictate to congress how we operate i think the i think he's going to have to answer for apparently testifying and truthfully in both the senate and the house and that's certainly one option is terrified of having to face a skilled attorney. is executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research and joins me now from washington d.c. good to have you with us live on al-jazeera i mean for months now various commentators have suggested the u.s. heading towards a consti

money into the united states and so i want to see go ahead go ahead it will not have many thanks alan fischer there live in washington jeff stacey served in the state department during the a bomb a ministration he joins us now live from washington as we were just hearing there jeff there is a precedent in an administration has used a loophole to get around a ruling from congress before but it still isn't it well that's the way it looks to both sides of the aisle here in washington and this is a sensitive moment so i mean where's the emergency is the question that people on capitol hill are asking and they are asking it loudly because not only do we have everything left over from the shoji affair we now have this purported threat in iran which is highly controversial in itself for very good reasons at most it appears that iran was reacting to our mobilization with the minor i mean really minor almost negligible mobilization on there and which is now a goddess really into now the second phase of a crisis which is even more dangerous than the first because of all the misperception line around it

markets here in china plummeting again once more as they did earlier this week and live not alan fischer in washington d.c. alan this trade war between the u.s. and china seemed to be nearing an end and suddenly it's escalated. well the first thing to see is that it's clear that when donald trump speaks in public in the way he did at a rally in florida on where the it seems that he doesn't quite understand this work he keeps talking about how much money they're bringing in from china let me give you an example on average since the terror of someone introduced washing machines in the united states around one hundred dollars more expensive the chinese hearing that the american consumer is paying that because steel and parts that are used in those washing machines are more expensive certainly seemed as if everyone was moving towards a deal but it suggested that the chinese first of all think that when donald trump is seeing to the head of the federal reserve the federal buying saying you should lower interest rates the chinese are taking this is an indication that the american economy isn't

i speak to alan fischer in washington d.c. for as allan just twenty four hours ago the president was talking tough but his tone seems to have changed a bit more optimistic about a deal with beijing. well certainly if you go back a week ago the americans thought they were very close to a deal but two of the main negotiators had been in beijing and when they returned to the u.s. the certainly all the mood music was this is going to happen then they got a draft document back from the chinese apparently the chinese were saying look we can't introduce a lot of the things that you want us to do particularly alone something like intellectual property theft that is because that would mean changing the laws in china and we're not going to do that so in the last forty eight hours have been hearing more and more even from donald trump saying look there's the possibility that we might not get a deal it's thought that the chinese believe they can perhaps negotiate something stronger for their internal audience because one they think donald

para este profesor de sociologÍa, es humo fonsi fischer busca sÓlo la reconciliaciÓn. >> esto es una migratorio que no se acaba de solucionar y el papa no tiende a tener este tipo de debates. lo que trata es de enfocar su punto de vista, sus valores y tratar de ser lo mÁs claro posible. a pesar de las luchas, las fÉminas continÚan siendo vistas en segundo plano. >> me atrevo a decir que las mujeres estÁn en segundo lugar. hay casos donde la mujer logra puestos importantes, tienen flujos importantes, pero en el imaginario colectivo, una mujer ciego hace premio nobel. eran casualidad. -- gran casualidad. reportera: rechazÓ la construcciÓn del muro en la frontera de estados unidos. >> la iglesia respeta la fronteras, pero quiere mejorar el problema de la fronteras mediante una negociaciÓn inmediata. reportera del papa francisco dijo que loterÍa previsto por ahora viajar a mÉxico. soy karla farÍas. pasÓ contigo, ramÓn. ramÓn: el pasado 4 de febrero la policÍa respondiÓ un reporte relacionado con disparos en la ciudad de san josÉ. los oficiales hallaron a la vÍctima que recibiÓ al menos u

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existing deal he's cranked up tough financial sanctions to force them to reopen discussions alan fischerwashington and now with reaction from tehran. the united states already has tens of thousands of active military personnel stationed in and around the middle east so $1500.00 more is a relatively small addition even billions of dollars in weapon sales to countries in the region could be seen as par for the course but in the current climate of conflict through the prism of tension with the united states iran is taking every move that the americans make in the region very seriously foreign minister jihad zarif said american decisions are endangering international peace and security he said u.s. accusations against iran are only designed to justify hostile american policies and raise tensions in the middle east he also said once again that there will be no talks with the white house of u.s. president donald trump but reports of emerge the during a recent trip to the united nations in new york in april job odds are if met with democratic senator dianne feinstein who sits on the senate inte

but he was very clear with me that he was not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report alan fischer joins me now from capitol hill what the latest. alan in the point of this hearing if the supposed to be to get down to the truth the report says one thing at some point maher says something else but even today. the attorney general has still said things even today on their testimony that are questionable at least in their accuracy and in their truth. it's a nice theory to get down to the truth but it really is about politics and grandstanding in the twenty twenty alexion as well and we're seeing that bill by the lunch break has actually give given his all time i think to gather thoughts and watch what the main points of what's happened as so far are first of all we have bill barr saying that he was surprised that robert mueller didn't make a recommendation particularly as the ten cases where there could be obstruction of justice with he says when he made the decision alongside rosenstein who's no resigned as the assistant attorney general he thinks he made the absolute right call at t