africa coming up in the next 15 minutes to kill or not to kill want to has lifted a ban on elephant hunting but not everyone agrees we'll hear the arguments for and against the controversial move. and we'll also hear from the canyon's hoping the country's high court will strike down rules that herm's make homosexuality of pride if they wish kenya will be the 1st east african country to decriminalize gay 6. i'm christine wonderwall comes to news africa i'm glad you are 2 did which one has an if to ban on elephant hunting the government says there are too many elephants and farm will struggle to keep them out of the fields with each crops and can kill people now and then vote because one has the largest innocent population in africa conservationists say it's home to 130000 in offense but the government says that number is much higher the ban on in effect hunting was introduced in the southern african country of $24.00 teeth by then president in comma a keen environmentalist but many of its one is innocence roam across borders into the movie and zimbabwe all 4 countries have called for a globa

that's all it is. >> a witch hunt. >> witch hunt. >> it's just a terrible witch hunt. >> a witch hunt, witch hunt, so far this thing's been a total witch hunt and it doesn't implicate me in any way. >> joining me someone else who had a front row seat into the russia probe, former fbi general counsel jim baker. mr. baker thanks for being with us. so you have barr doubling down on the term spying backing up the president's use of the word witch hunt and saying that government officials may have put their thumb on the scale. you were at the fbi during the time period he's talking about. is any of that true? what do you think when you hear him say that? >> i have several reactions to it. first of all, my thumb was not on any scale one way or the other with respect to politics. that we just weren't focused on the political outcomes of all the stuff going back to the hillary clinton investigation. that's not what we were doing or trying to accomplish. when i hear all this, yeah, i mean, at one level i'm concerned about it. but on another level you really -- i think we all have to focus exac

botswana has lifted a five year ban on the hunting of elephants.l help address the problems of humans coming into conflict with the animals. rural communities hope to restore income that prroiously came f hunting, but the controversial -- but the decision is controversial. alastair: there are more elephants inotana than any other country, but that comes with its own problems. acwhile pors kill elephants across africa, some ask if there are too many of them here. livingnt near elepmeans your house can be flattened, crops destroyed, family members. kill right to stop conflict with humans is a botswana decision. our responsibility to people as well has not changed, and we must make luem part of the tion. alistair: hunting will dramatically reduce elephant numbers, but it might push them away from villages and wiley bring in mon trackers who worked with hunters ir jobs five years ago. poachers recruit and employ trackers. during the government consultation, people asked for a return to hunting. >>me is employment income meant money in our pockets and f

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and i mean we don't have to kill these and all of them i think that hunting is a very. very barbaric practice and we've seen this all over the world people are reacting and we're trying to can't pretend that there isn't a global heartbreak at this decision erica had well yet the problem is the the funding that we're talking about the growing in the photographic industry didn't reach these communities well until ban was well one thing to why not the communities actually and i don't know or the us are the previous administration but the point peace that we have are you we aren't and we we we have a huge area with i mean is there is no tourism income we all these co-existing i was because we have a number of organizations that are doing this to any job in trying to promote coexistence between wildlife and elephants and and the problem is when we simply fighting against numbers that is where it coming it's very easy to say they are a number of other issues but we have tried to i mean as we have tried a number of these and i think it's very important to realize that the elep

ban was what will hunting why don't the communities actually well not so. the u.s. asked the previous administration but the point case that we have i don't think you are going to the way we we have a huge area where there is no tourism income we always co-existing average because we have a number of organizations that are doing a steady job in trying to promote coexistence between wildlife and illiterates. and and the problem is when we simply fighting against numbers that is where it come in it's very easy to say they are a number of other issues but we have tried to i mean as we have tried a number of these and i think it's very important to realize that the elephants are not the obvious is the hunting is not supposed to be a population control but the elephants are there to like photographic safari in the city as sustainability tools to conservation to restore the face of the communities in a system that that they were taken out of it's all over the will we have seen now is that the movement to involve communities is very important and the same time is

a small amount of people to hunt a small amount of people to hunt a small amount of animals.at only where hunting is the strategy for bringing money in and protecting them because you pay the locals. you are the guest said, quite rightly, that animals only has a value... only survive when they have a value. let me go back to eduardo. there is no point us talking over each other. eduardo, you have just no point us talking over each other. eduardo, you havejust been no point us talking over each other. eduardo, you have just been given an example about a particular species of animal. the numbers have increased as a result of managed hunting, how do you respond?” sometimes hear these incidental examples. there was actually a major... just deal with what... it may be incidental or not, those are the figures that he has given us, do you accept them? no i don't and i will tell you why. there was a major us congressional study published in 2016 that looked at all the scientific evidence and the claims that have been made by trophy hunters about whether trophy hunting was contributin

hunting is not only morally questionable but. in the face of each national issue it's to protect these giants and undermines considerable. illegal trade in our points. so you hear that take right there unfortunate that's all the time we have for now but i know this is a hot topic that we will continue to follow this issue or thanks to eric and paula for being part of this conversation. finally we move to mauritania way to block us have been detained for more than 2 months after writing facebook posts electing corruption among government officials including the country's president under him and with that they and shake only did though are being held on charges of malicious accusation amnesty international and human rights watch are calling for their immediate and unconditional release them and facebook post cover property scam that defrauded thousands of mauritanians and allege that president mohamed these a stood to benefit from it press freedom watchdog reporters without borders sent this video comment their detention clearly be

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hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe thanks for joining us today the hunt is on in europe for the torturers of syrian dictator bashar al assad's regime investigators are closing in on them thanks to thousands of pieces of evidence that were smuggled by witnesses from the ruins of syrian cities and photos and documents are now in the hands of european investigators their task to prove that the syrian secret service systematically tortured opposition members to death well more than a dozen of these war criminals are believed to be in germany sweden or france disguised as refugees. investigators across europe are determined to identify them and relatives of the victims who fled the murderous regime and came to germany are a valuable source of information people like me have am whom our reporter met on his search for justice. lives in a berlin suburb she's from syria and part of a major hunt to catch syrian secret service members who committed crimes like beads . because one of the regime's many victims he was beaten and tortured to death when the syrian civil war broke out. on on

it's a total witch hunt.he president is so enraged and obsessed with what's just happened that he can't keep himself from talking about it. at a public briefing, he repeatedly uses the words, "disgrace," "a disgrace." >> and it's a disgrace. a it's, frankleal disgrace. it's a... an attack on our country, in a true s >> something clearly happens with the president after michael rohen comes under scrutiny the department of justice. the president views that veryth much as at to him. >> these people have the biggest conflicts of interest i've ever seen. and i have this witch hunt constantly going on for over 12 months now. >> the investigation of michael cohen has to feel, to the president, like an arrow pointed directly at his chest. it has to feel that this is aimed precisely at uncovering the president's own history, both before he took office and since he took office, in ways that perhaps might be the most aneply sensitive to him. >> this is a pursimple witch hunt. thank you very much, thank you. (reporters c

with jeremy hunt and others who have takena with jeremy hunt and others who have taken a more consolatorynk others have talked about a golden age of cooperation, but that is not a view shared by governments in. which is one of the reason that other people have said, well, if anybody was going to be mounting a robust rebuttal of this idea of cooperating with wildly, it could be him. -- with huawei. i deny thinking this is domestic politics unravelling or will be —— will they be thinking this is domestic politics unravelling or... ? they will be watching very closely. they we re will be watching very closely. they were grilling the prime minister about why britain's is getting so close to a company that is vulnerable to coercion by chinese data security. there are very real fears there. it should be said that britain already does have a relationship with huawei. the stuff that has already been built. so it is about moving from 46, first generation, which we currently have two the fifth generation and whether it is safe or not. and the story yesterday of course was that the us saying that if

starting off with jeremy hunt let's go through them in detail.f withjeremy hunt in the daily telegraph. david, do you want to start us off without. cynical readers might see this as a pet to the right wing of the conservative party in any future leadership election. it is clear to some of us thatjeremy hunt plasma's campaign to be the next tory leader and indeed prime minister is under way in all but name. here he is... i thought he was the foreign secretary not the defence secretary, not the new. . . that not the defence secretary, not the new... that is what is called overreaching! he is telling us, this must be music to a man called trump in the white house. he says we should increase our defence spending to something like 4% of gdp as opposed to 2% as it is at the moment. that is doubling. absolutely. it is considerably more than most of the other european countries, which is what mr trump spends a lot of time complaining about, europe isn't pulling its weight. her a lot of voters might think he's right. we need to spend more on defence. we n

so what is strange about it not necessarilyjeremy hunt's you on ano not necessarilyjeremy hunt's youthe same person saying both of those things in such a short space of time, and that really does risk leaving him stuck in the middle with such comic very few supporters and in such a crowded leadership contest, you can't afford to be losing support. michael gove one of the key people at the end of the day, refused to back david cameron originally. not seen as a back david cameron originally. not seen as a centrist figure by many on brexit. i think that view of michael gove has changed a lot. particularly he saw particularly when it came to regulations in that department would do to regulations in that department would dotoa regulations in that department would do to a no—deal brexit. although he is not taking it off the table and he is seen by quite a few moderates in the party is someone who has done good things on the environment and someone good things on the environment and someone who has tried to find a compromise and tried to reach out. he made an announcement which we ran yeste

hunting is not only morally questionable but. in the face of international issue it's to protect these giants and undermines consumer. illegal trade in our hearts. so you hear that take right there unfortunate that's all the time we have for now but i know this is a hot topic that we will continue to follow this issue or thanks to eric and paula for being part of this conversation. finally we move to mauritania way to block us have been detained for more than 2 months after writing facebook posts electing corruption among government officials including the country's president under him and with that they and shake only did though are being held on charges of malicious accusation amnesty international and human rights watch are calling for their immediate and unconditional release them and facebook post cover property scam that defrauded thousands of mauritanians and allege that president mohammed these a stood to benefit from it press freedom watchdog reporters without borders sent this video comment their detention clearly bears

jeremy hunt, the latest contenders?eremy hunt, the foreign secretary, confirming in his constituency this morning that he will be a contender. not a surprise. we were expecting that he would throw his hat in the ring but has done so formally within hours of the prime minister's announcement. he has been projecting himself as a remain supporter who understands that brexit has to happen. a born again brexiteer. the challenge for him with grassroots membership is whether or not they can look beyond the fact he backed the remain because. two candidates go through having been backed by mps. is it likely to be a brexiteer and then a remain? what is the answer? they will definitely be a brexiteer, the question is whether it will be two brexiteers or a brexiteer and a remain supporter. plenty say they are former remain supporters but they back the result of the referendum so they will be a lot of contest around the labels that get thrown around these prospective leaders. what is going to be fascinating is the scale of this cont

the telegraph reports the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt is the latest cabinet minister to withdraw hisrt for the prime minister's brexit deal. the i says the home secretary sajid javid has also lost confidence in theresa may's brexit vision. and the guardian says centrist cabinet ministers think the next conservative leader will promise a hard brexit. so most papers leading with theresa may. that's where we should start as well, why not start perhaps with the financial times and jack, made to set out departure gate as mutiny kills off that brexit plan, and actually, the financial times plays actually, the financial times plays a straight battle that paints a brittle picture. that's right, we waited a long time, we've always known that this premiership is coming to an and slowly but surely in the last few months and it looks like although it's not been confirmed that tomorrow is going to be the day she stands up on the podium and sets out when she's going to leave and i did think she well, that's the most likely playing although we have had these big days in brexit and british politics

, how many does borisjohnson has jeremy hunt have, how many does boris johnson has among jeremy huntong mps? jeremy hunt have, how many does boris johnson has among mps? at the moment, very few mps have declared their positions publicly. there are 12 likely contenders, all of whom jostling privately at the moment but do not have declared supporters. it is an open race. weather erg firm vote and a block? whoever they back, it gives them a bigger chunk?” don't think they will in the first instance, there is a big choice to choose from. the magic number is basically 105. if any candidates can get 105 votes in the final balance, they are guaranteed a final place on they are guaranteed a final place on the ballot of the tory members. at thank you all very much. those noisy protesters behind us. at westminster is getting busier. thank you for now. much more coming up from 2pm. before that, we bring you an update on the news you might‘ve seen running along the bottom of your screen, that situation in sheffield earlier today. we are hearing that two boys have died now following that incident

i supportjeremy hunt, idida with the job. i supportjeremy hunt, i did a long time ago. the prime minister purely and simply because he has been in the cabinet for longest, he is very experienced. we are choosing the prime minister who needs to deal with the civil service, not leader of the opposition. what will you do with the withdrawal agreement to make it palatable ? with the withdrawal agreement to make it palatable? the mathematics of the same but this is my personal andi of the same but this is my personal and i am not speaking on behalf of any team. i think we will see a surge in populism on sunday and i think the europeans will not want that. they have that unique problems andi that. they have that unique problems and i think they will be willing to get around the negotiating table sooner get around the negotiating table sooner rather than later. even though they have said repeatedly they will not go back to the negotiations. you are right in saying that but they have made further concessions with theresa may, still. another problem for someone may, still. anoth

practices regularly on a shooting range hunting licenses must be renewed after 3 years. of our weight training play cards. chad watch has not been set in my forties. and so we wait. and wait. wait i'm actually hoping we don't see anything when a is a suddenly becomes restless. why don't we go straight over. because you give the animal chance to lose its life in piece that's. ok. that's ok with the quest best if it notices there is an enemy near it gets an adrenaline rush in the final moments and it stresses the animal out and we don't want that. as we walk over to the d.m. my knees a pretty shaky it's the 1st time i've seen a weapon used to kill anything. more. yeah. yeah yeah i mean. i. was just right the dead died instantly. it was all it's you know we drag it back we don't want to do anything right here. live at the back there was no just come forward and we can drag it back. because you can hold it lower. i don't like the head dragging. that's not so terrible we don't want anything from the head it'll be dog food. that's why raise you so happy because she hasn't been

there may hunt talking tojohn humphrys. ——jeremy hunt. think we‘re moving towards a clearer line, i have to have to take the opportunity to give a shout out to labour voters in hackney who made sure labour topped the poll in hackney but overall, they were indeed a very disappointing set of results. the people‘s vote has always been part of our policy package and as keir starmer put it, we move through the gears but now, you know, at minutes to midnight on these negotiations, the tories plunged into the leadership contest so we get no sense out of them for a few months. we think it‘s important to foreground the people‘s vote. jeremy corbyn wrote to labour mps yesterday and said he was willing and this was a new position, to support a public vote on any deal. is that clear, what is a public vote, does it mean a referendum or does it mean a general election and when he says on any deal what does that mean, there is a deal with brussels at the moment, it‘s just not one that parliament backed. ideally we would want a general election, that‘s a

suspension or not we're actually in favor of lifting the hunting suspension but not only that as they were actually in favor of culling .

but as jeremy hunt says.ving the eu no matter what and they are willing to risk no—deal brexit to make sure it happens and deliberate in order to satisfy those voters. on the other hand, jeremy hunt is saying, listen, we now have parliament passing laws which are forbidding us from willingly walking into a no deal so therefore, if you were to walk towards that end takes those steps towards that end takes those steps toa no towards that end takes those steps to a no deal, you are risking their wrap — the wrath of parliament calling a general election and that would be disastrous for the conservative party. he is saying, given what we have seen in the local elections and in the eu elections. you are seeing two different ways of interpreting these results. it is a strategic play and strategic question for the conservative party. with the results, as is always the case, it depends on how you cut the cake. the brexit party emerged as the winner with the biggest number of votes and seats in the uk from the eu elect

mueller would be involved in a witch hunt.you were the president i think you would view it as a witch hunt and hoax because at the time he was saying he was innocent and being falsely accused. i think if i was being falsely accused i'd be comfortable saying it was a witch hunt. >> attorney general william barr there backing down from his claim back in january, now echoing the president's claims special counsel mueller was involved in a witch hunt. and a new op-ed in "the washington post" argues while the president, quote now has an attorney general, the united states no longer does. joining me now msnbc legal contributor katie fang back from the last hour. let's get to this topic because barr interviewed confirmed in that same time frame here that he is investigating the investigators into something the president has certainly called for. if his concerns were legitimate there was indeed misconduct, shouldn't he have the findings first? what's your take on the validation of the term witch hunt? >> it's what i call a pandobar ci

whyjeremy hunt? good evening. why jeremy hunt?achieving, he brought as the olympics and sorted out the nhs and been an exemplary foreign secretary. we need grown—ups at this stage of the cycle. the point has come where we need to get somebody who can interface directly with whitehall on the one—on—one basis. we are not choosing a leader of the opposition but a prime minister and that is why jeremy hunt should be the next prime minister. arent you are committing a little early? there might be eight more standing at the end of the week? i am sure there will be about 20 by the end of the week but you have to look at who could realistically went through and who can actually do the job and i am not denigrating any of the other opponents. they are my friends, they really are, but i believe jeremy is the right person to lead this country. he voted remain. how much ofa country. he voted remain. how much of a problem is that going to be for him? i don't believe it will be a problem at all. i voted remain but i am fervently for coming out.

that was jeremy hunt talking to that wasjeremy hunt talking tojohn humphrys.dum. alistair has, on his official twitter account, revealed that he is a sad and disappointed... he has been expelled from the party. he said he hadn't planned to publicise it, but he was warned it would leak, so he has gone public with it. he accepts that he made this commitment, but he says he has baffled that other people have supported candidates who. .. baffled that other people have supported candidates who... voted for candidates of other parties without being expelled, and some of them are now senior party staff. he also draws the contrast between pressure when tony blair was leader, which he resisted to be the whip from jeremy corbyn, for persistently voting against the labour government asa voting against the labour government as a backbench mp. jeremy corbyn never did endorse or vote for another candidate. i can remember one previous occasion, lord haskins, a labourmp, who'd one previous occasion, lord haskins, a labour mp, who'd gave money to danny alexander, the liberal d

the chief of one such hunting billick explained what lifting the hunting ban would mean.. because as we speak, these people are very poor, there is nothing nothing that they can rely on as a source of income. critics say luxury tourism has grown since hunting was banned, and the high visitors wanting ecological photographic safari experience will be scared off. but botswana is a big place, wilderness areas have little attraction for rich safari goers, but they are perfect for hunting, which can bring in income for conservation. well it is a land use thing. hunting is a tool, it's one of the spine is in the toolkit. where photographic tourism can thrive, then it should. but you know here in botswana we have a case of many concessions they don't have my photographic potential. so you need to look at the and say aloud, if can't get a return from that land from feta graphics, what are other alternatives? the arguments against hunting are also strong. many conservationists believe killing endangered elephants isjust wrong. and that opening up any trade will encourage poaching.

these people used to make money by hunting elephants. now on paper earn their living collecting elephant dung. during queen elizabeth national park in uganda the bear work plays an important role in protecting this endangered species. 90 minutes on the double. their super sharp. themselves away super secret then you'll hear the jingling of corn and super rich definitely around 20000000000 more like. how do germany's wealthiest people live why do they keep such a low profile we have a snoop around to catch a glimpse. of the top of the world the disc life of the super bridge starts to take off w. e u heads of government have met in brussels negotiates their picks for europe's top drops following parliamentary elections the heads of major e.u. institutions has now been replaced he clued in european commission president john cote young. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met with afghan untouchable representatives in moscow to mark a 100 years of russia afghanistan diplomatic time as the opening ceremony lavrov colter the complete withdr

we now know that was simply false. >> a witch hunt would be an improper investigation -- hunting forches. the fact that it was a valid investigation and didn't end in every single thing that was investigated being charged if anything shows how fair it was. you could probe anything. probe x. the fact that at the end of the probe you don't charge someone for x doesn't mean the probe was pointless, let alone a witch hunt. barr is the attorney general. he knows that. without a conspiracy charge you have a lawful investigation, not a witch hunt. there are other questions about obstruction, of course, with 700 plus federal prosecutors saying what's in the mueller report looks to them like a crime committed by the president. there's just a rule you don't charge him. then look at barr trying to justify something that just about everyone knows is bad because the trump people tried to stop it from happening. here's trump's new attorney general saying maybe there were good reasons for the attempts to fire bob mueller. >> elsewhere the report does say that mcgahn was told by trump to talk to ros

. >> witch hunt, hoax. it was an investigation but i think if i had been falsely accused, i would be comfortable saying it was a witch hunt. >> reporter: barr wants to get to the bottom of whether anything illegal occurred. >> if we're worried about foreign influence, we should be worried about whether government officials abuse their power and put their thumb on the scale. i'm not saying that happened but i'm saying that we have to look at that. >> reporter: barr denied he lied to congress when he testified about the findings in the special counsel's report. >> i think it's a laughable charge and largely being made to try to discredit me. partly because they may be concerned about an out come of a review of what happened during the election. >> reporter: the president continued his attacks on the press accusing reporters of making up stories about tensions over his iran policy. >> everything is a source says. there is no source. the person doesn't exist. the person's not alive. >> reporter: the president t

ruth hunt lost what the big principle was.icult situation. the board doesn't feel that and the board is clear that's what we're doing now. when we look at our allies now, who is the coalition we're working with? we have support from every political party, support from the army, support from gchq, support from barclays. these coalitions are forming as they always have done around every campaign. but i'm also aware that every campaign, there has been division. i remember campaigning for the human fertilisation and embryology act and there was opposition from within our own communities. the difference is, these are more and more complex issues. it was quite easy to say gay people like to marry gay people, let us marry, on a postcard. arguing for trans rights is a much more complex, nuanced position. there are grey areas. prisons aren't simple, sport isn't simple, refuges aren't simple. gay rights for gays was a slightly easier narrative. but there is another charge, though, that the reason that stonewall was set up initially was

the telegraph leads on the call from the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt.easing defence spending to cope from future threats all over the world. with tributes to be actress, hollywood legend doris day has died at the age of 97. the guardian says doris day was one of the film was my greatest stars and again has a picture of the actress on its front page and she adorns many of the front pages. the paper leads on the warning from the nobel prize—winning economist angus deaton saying that the uk could become as unequal as the united states and a warning in the times from sir semiconservative is the theresa may risks splitting the tory party a pa rt theresa may risks splitting the tory party apart if she strikes a brexit deal with labour. 13 of the prime minister ‘s former cabinet collea g u es minister ‘s former cabinet colleagues want to rejectjeremy corbyn‘s demand for a cross—party deal to break the brexit deadlock. the daily express says organised crime is now one of the deadliest threats we face. that's the call from the national crime agency chief to incr

with a 4 year transition saying we're not power hungry we want to hunt of a power for want of a power in a proper and systematic way and of course the always maintained that the protestors of the square were absolutely no problem to them it's balls who've been crossing over to the other parts of the city causing so much distress to motorists and people going around the business that they were that against and of course the protesters have always said they're doing that because they specifically want to keep the pressure up while the negotiations that take place i mean you've been following developing since that well for a very long time but certainly the most recent ones do you get a sense that we are seeing an escalation in that potentially we could unfortunately see more violence to come. well i mean when you look at the situation as it has developed tonight anything is possible from here on in. the protesters have always been peaceful and we've been talking about it even within our teams how peaceful to be conducting their affairs they are maintaining their own security the square

used to hunt war criminals as u.n. prosecutor now he has access to a vast archive of syrian state documents that could prove crucial in catching assad's henchmen basically. what you have in this room are materials generated by the security intelligence structures of sure the military structures of syria and. party or political structures of syria at the top level and the governor levels here they are the files documenting the crimes of the syrian regime they have been meticulously cleaned scanned and logged and carefully analyzed by several dozen investigators. to human trials on crimes committed in former yugoslavia and on the rwandan genocide wiley one thing without a paper trail it is very difficult to bring culprits to justice. that's why these syrian state documents which were smuggled out of the country amid the to mulch of a civil war are so valuable. they comprise interrogation reports and many other files that document figures within the security apparatus that systematically tortured people they also shed lig

mueller would be involved in a witch hunt against anybody? >> i don't believe mr. mueller would be involved in a witch hunt. >> well, now he apparently does, or at least he is willing to say he does. as long as it's what the president wants to hear. even though he's essentially throwing his good friend bob mueller under the bus. remember he said in his hearings he and bob were really good friends, no wonder they haven't spoken lately. >> when did you speak with him last? correspond with him? >> the last i talked to him was, i think, the thursday after he delivered his report when we had a telephone call. but there's no -- >> so that's been several weeks? >> yeah, but there's no -- that's not because of any strain between us or anything. >> and that call, the attorney general mentions, the last time he talked to mueller, that call came after mueller said not one but two letters to barr, criticizing his summary of the special counsel's report for not fully capturing the context, nature and substance of mueller's work and conclusions. here's what barr says about his s

his claim that the investigation was a witch hunt. thf this was not a witch hunt. it was an absolutely legal investigation of what russia did to interfere in our election. are you listening to me? six separate federal courts, six separate federal courts upheld mueller's appointment, his authority and his prosecutorial decisions. six separate federal courts. yet the attorney general who is the top law enforcement official in the federal government said this less than two weeks ago. >> the president calls this a witch hunt, he calls it a hoax. would you agree with that? >> well, as i've said, if he were the president, i think he would view it as a witch hunt and a hoax, because at the time he was saying he was innocent, and that he was being falsely accused, and if you're falsely accused, you would think that something was a witch hunt. >> so the attorney general is perfectly willing to throw around accusations like witch hunt. even though he has got to know that that is not true. i want you to listen, though, to what mueller said today about russia's election attack

trophy hunting is notjust a question that hunting and trophy hunting is not just a question of whetheren you hunt these animals, the animals concerned, but also their family members, other members of their population, can be very seriously affected. so we are disappointed to see botswana reverse this ban. there are elections coming up this ban. there are elections coming up in october, and they are looking for support from rural communities. it is all well and good for wealthy tourists jetting into botswana and nice places in the country, admiring the elephants, but rural communities would say that when you get a collection of elephants, they can damage crops, livelihoods and houses. absolutely, and we recognise that as human populations increase, as we move into wildlife areas, and as we move into wildlife areas, and as people in those areas are coming into contact, closer contact, with wildlife, then conflict can result. elephants are animals that can certainly threaten people's livelihoods, and in some cases, threaten lives as well. but reintroducing trophy hunting in particular is

lives in a berlin suburb she's from syria and part of a major hunt to catch syrian secret service members who committed crimes like these . because one of the regime's many victims he was beaten and tortured to death when the syrian civil war broke out. one of his fellow students even health torture him he had always been very courteous towards i hum and greeted him and. i don't understand how someone could turn into a torturer and become a monster like that. serious secret service systematically tortured just for speaking up for human rights demanding syria become a democratic country and for urging assad to step down. now 8 years after a yobs death his mother wants justice. i want the culprits to be brought to justice from the accomplices all the way up to president assad and these people are responsible for spilling our children's blood. there are more than 26000 pictures of syrian torture victims smuggled out of the war torn country by a courageous former police were target for they could help convict syrian torturers and murderers in the coming years their victims and their relatives

hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe thanks for joining us today the hunt is on in europe for the torturers of syrian dictator bashar al assad's regime investigators are closing in on them thanks to thousands of pieces of evidence that were smuggled by witnesses from the ruins of syrian cities the photos and documents are now in the hands of european investigators their task to prove that the syrian secret service systematically tortured opposition members to death well more than a dozen of these war criminals are believed to be in germany sweden or france disguised as refugees. investigators across europe are determined to identify them and relatives of the victims who fled the murderous regime and came to germany are a valuable source of information people like mariam whom our reporter met on his search for justice. lives in a berlin suburb. she's from syria and part of a major hunt to catch syrian secret service members who committed crimes like these . mari m son aiyar because one of the regime's many victims he was beaten and tortured to death when the syrian civil war br

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want to lift the hunting ban on elephants despite the animal being in danger elsewhere. all right so you begin with the biggest election on earth and indian prime minister narendra modi appears to be on course for a landslide victory. so you can look at the scenes at the headquarters. party he's about to address his supporters. suggest that the party has a big. one has more from you. the count is not even over but other headquarters the celebrations have begun. supporters are confident of victory could this be a 2nd consecutive government in the making the votes of hundreds of millions of indians are being collated and candidates and their agents are focusing on the district centers in each constituency. the election commission says the turnout was the largest in indian election history more than 600000000 people voted out of 900000000 that were eligible to take part in the 6 week election the issues are very clear for some. people have voted for nationalism for the good of the country and for development work done by multi multi task. people that. this election has been

will increase numbers this isn't there in spain published yet they try to hunt he will increase but most and non trophy hunting will also increase numbers so it doesn't appear to be about the money it doesn't appear to be about reducing numbers because everyone who knows anything about trophy hunting knows that that's not a population control measure so my question is what is it about outer stands that the president of what's one other documents easy wants there to be a so it's a sovereignty issue he's been very democratic he's reached out to the communities to n.g.o.s to experts in the country and has come to this decision but i think you have to recognise that while he is entirely unsuitable to manage what's one of the population in the way that he sees fit countries that import trophies are also entitled to say no they will not allow the import of elephant trophies into their countries such as the united kingdom i met with michael gove the environment secretary only a few days ago pressed him to ban the import of elephant trade he's not just from botswana but from all other count