muller that was obstruction of justice and i think mahler really made an error when he didn't say that. outright and and just spoke clearly about what he should have spoken clearly and said the president committed no crimes he didn't and he opened the door for william barter really distort mahler's find. by the way we'll hear about a much is what he giuliani in the book. oh he is a he is a protagonist in the book and giuliani is is i think if a particularly fascinating figure because there are really 2 sides to him in this story in the mahler investigation i think giuliani was actually a very effective lawyer he did 2 things he strung out the negotiations about the subpoena in such a way that he. managed to avoid having the president to to testify and that was very effective he also mobilized the conservatives against muller you know he turned this into a political fight instead of a legal matter but when it came to ukraine and. the giuliani's efforts to get ukraine involved in the new government of ukraine to try to you know sabotage joe biden's canvassing giuliani was a disaster he a

that mahler sets out my opinion is just like what saad hariri said it's politically known who did it we've wanted international tribunals since 2005 and now it's given its ruling will go with the verdict but the real judgment isn't here judgement is with the almighty you won't find it on earth. it's all worthless they've been investigating for 15 years they provide evidence but it's never 100 percent decisive proof they've just been taking money for nothing during all these years just to create another civil war in lebanon and no more no less all of the names have already been tied to his baller tomorrow i think there will be a 6 civil war here what would i say if not a thing as you can see they don't want to cause discourse and argue more people on the street can't take it much more i mean what are they supposed to say it's clear who is behind the killing and the story is clear the tribe you know has given its verdict. let's bring in our guests embed ot. senior public policy fellow and professor of journalism at the american university in beirut in washington d.c. fed us about that

and then the and then mahler come along as they're all flynn live because he did discuss sanctions with the russians he didn't discuss sanctions the sanctions issue was something separate yes or bamma him impose sanctions on russia but he also expelled the diplomat flynn was talking exclusively about the diplomat the subject of sanctions didn't come up in the congress and it didn't come up in the interview with the f.b.i. people who as you say did indeed entrap him and there were there was no other reason for this interview other than to entrap him because they had the transcripts it was absolutely nothing to talk about just from the courts that they're supposed to be politically neutral do you think that the american judiciary has managed to uphold that neutrality in the prosecution of of flynn and indeed other former trump aides you know the ones that come to mind paul munna ford steve allen as well. excellent question they get the answer is no. the in the case of the ban and this is the southern district of new york which is very democratic. and you know you have to you know one of t

mahler's new rulers in return want the lifting of sanctions imposed on the country and its leaders in the aftermath of the call. are equal was explained their idea of transition so did we at this moment nothing has been concluded the transition structure will be discussed by the ruling council with the concision as we made we ask that the sanctions imposed on mali should be eased or lifted entirely what matters for us is the population doesn't suffer the sanctions are a big problem because it's the ordinary people that will suffer. but lifting the sanctions is still far off. one other sticking point is how long the transition to civilian rule will last on that the army says it's a decision to rebuild by miley and and not outside parties observers here but the longer this takes frustrate. especially from the opposition. after months of protest over the outcome of parliamentary elections earlier this year malise toppled the government of prime creator and announced the formation of a ruling council the poor landlocked country facing serious economic challenges it's also faced with risin

the water cannons and their use in weapon 6 blows use live grenades and but in some sick dislike mahler's you actually like the boys in the their police and they pulled the shield on the ground and many protesters perceived it as their solidarity sign do you fear that many people are going to lose their lives. we don't know. for how long this process. will will will stand to will or will along will last. and or today just the beginning the conventional face of the electoral campaign finished and then you face just begun and i'm sure the protests will continue tomorrow and they have to to morrow and this resistance can can can prolong for weeks and perhaps months can it other than telling can it go on sorry sorry i was going to say can it go on for weeks and months in the face of what could be a violent brutal crackdown. it has force his army internal troops he has a lot of weapons and water cannons but the people are enough and people are not afraid to anymore and their finger people will not forgive look i shan't come either this violence nor of this result of the elections so i think ev

hell are the hot dry sure mahler's play yet again that blows from iraq than through the gulf and tends to counter this more southwest has been keeping salala drizzly now in that flow he says are in cherry's dust is picked up from the draw area in eastern iraq and that manifests itself as dust on karl sometimes it gets really bad blowing dust in for example there are 45 graves up potentially there on sunday slowly cools down it's also humid tom the air at the moment with this breeze but the breeze does drop by monday when these tuesday elsewhere it's hot and dry there are still showers potentially falling in yemen and forming on the mountains of south with saudi arabia and up in the caucasus between it's a dry picture of course the heaviest rain in north africa comes through in clumps is coming off through west africa at the moment through guinea or sierra leone or liberia and those clumps have recently formed at least one nascent tarik and not funny enough where they start and that's the picture at the moment. the sudden half after those courses in middle or winter were to late winter