happened so you'd then start splitting hears about whether or not he told dawn mcgann to fire robert miller or he instructed dawn mcgann to tell someone else that robert real had to be removed because he had a conflict of interest and that conflict of interest will lead to phone doe was that robert mueller at one point resigned from a golf course a golf club that donald trump owned and. asked for some of his money but what we're hearing from the republicans dick durbin who is a veteran democratic senator probably summed up best is that it's to look corrupt defense essentially let's not talk about russia let's not talk about don't trump let's not talk about the miller campaign let's talk about hillary clinton under servers six years on and find something was suspiciously even though that has been investigated by the f.b.i. and the justice department and the justice department is investigating it again and so we're going to hear from the democratic senators how many are we bill bar seeing . it is the first line of defense for donald trump when actually the attorney general's job is to represe

special counsel robert miller grik says silence who says his report into russian election meddling does not exonerate president don trump from criminal wrongdoing. plus the mothers who refuse to give up hope in mexico these women have taken the search for their missing children into their own hands in a country where 30000 people have disappeared and. i'm on the docks. at least 7 people dead and more than a dozen missing after a sightseeing boat sank in the river danube in the capital. the boat capsized and it was struck by another vessel. it was carrying $130.00 south korean tourists and $200.00 crewmembers risk worked through the night looking for survivors. the rain kept flashing dein as rescuers scoured the dark cold water. they were searching several kilometers down stream from the site of the accident looking for people swept away by the rivers powerful currents. and all other boat traffic was halted along a stretch of the danube site of beauty passed as military personnel and divers joined the rescue effort. we found people with serious injuries and someone used to be resuscitate

but one of the key points that she pushed ahead was did you examine the underlying evidence when robert miller sent you a report and said i am not going to meet a decision on obstruction of justice and what he said was he read the report and then he decided from that that there was no obstruction of justice become a hardass was very clear did you look at the underlying evidence did you consider everything before you made that decision and it's clear from robert from billboards answer that he did not and that is going to be one of the key moments he says is it through his pen on the ground that is going to be one of the key moments that we hear. repeated and the in the coming days i think it's also interesting that just in the last ten minutes or so bill barr has said look the president had the constitutional authority to end this any point and he could have done so because he felt he was being wrongly accused of something and it's a ton so he says the report shows that he was being wrongly accused but of course the whole report the whole miller invest. geisha was to find out whether or not he

robert miller's assessment also makes clear that congress has a right we believe an obligation to continue our constitutionally mandated oversight without interference or stonewalling and follow the facts wherever they may lead odd our top democrats a happy to merely continue their investigations their voters and colleagues want to impeachment now but this is politics that's a hell of a lot dirtier and more cynical than most people would believe in the smarter folk they know they're being played. hard to believe what does trump gain from impeachment and again think about it 1st according to latest polls most americans are overwhelmingly against impeaching trump 2nd the chances of trump being successfully removed from office are slim to none closer to none really sure democrats control the house of representatives but republicans run the senate they'll hardly vote against their own and 3rd the last time the president was impeached bill clinton his approval rating soared in the aftermath by 10 percent no less you see now why trump in self is slightly provoking his opponents and is he talking

attorney general william bars under renewed fire over his handling of special counsel robert miller's russian report revelations have emerged that miller complained to bar about the internal general's characterization of the report's findings saying it didn't fully capture their context nature or substance bar will appear before the senate judiciary committee later today two members of the russian protest collective pussy riot have reportedly been granted asylum in sweden swedish public television s.p.t. says the court overturned an earlier ruling rejecting the pair's application seen a genuine and alexi commit. had cited death threats as grounds for asylum facebook says it will restructure its platform to be more private at the tech giant's annual conference c.e.o. mark zuckerberg announced the end to end encryption for its messaging services and the ability to hide likes and other user reactions to content. even. a new imperial era has begun in japan after the abdication of emperor akihito his eldest son not a veto has ascended the chrysanthemum throne in his first public address as

special counsel robert miller has made his 1st public comments since releasing his reports on russian collusion the 2016 presidential election miller said his 2 year investigation was never going to morning with trilogies against president donald trump as it's on constitutional to charge a sitting president but he said his support did not clear trump of the wrongdoing for girls and cast as prime minister is due to attend a security summit in saudi arabia on thursday it'll be the 1st such high level meeting since cass's neighbors implodes imposed a blockade on it 2 years ago jacob deliberate been found he will join diplomats from saudi arabia the u.a.e. bihari and other countries in. and those are the latest headlines here on al-jazeera when you said about 25 minutes people. trial big stories generated thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives to separate the spin from the facts with the listening post on al-jazeera. telling the media sprawling seat of government was the deadliest of all the world's car routinely exposing millions of its inhabitants was s

this point but what we learned from robert muller today is this story will not go away despite robert miller doing his very best to go away himself. by retiring and basically saying that we will hear no more from him by the way the president in the sense agreeing with that saying that the case is closed but democrats would not agree with that president with the president's point of view. of course though the president has repeatedly at trumpeted tha- he was exonerated there was no - proof of collusion against him - mula appearing to say something well the kind of opens the door towards the possibility of prosecution what's the official reaction from the white house for the it is more or less the same. reaction that we've had over the last few weeks you know that the president has tweeted many times in all capital letters and very enthusiastically -- that that was a clear conclusion in the mall a report and that was no collusion no obstruction well the white house has been that littttle bit more careful today because what robert miller clearly said today was yes there were no findings of coll

submit the an edited version to accusations that he was lying to congress about special counsel robert miller's concerns earlier president trump used executive privilege over the report shielding it from public view pascaline is following developments from washington after a long and contentious hearing the house judiciary committee has voted along party lines to issue a contempt of congress citation against the william bar the u.s. attorney general this is all over the robert mueller the special counsel's report about potential collusion between the trim campaign in russia and obstruction of justice barr released a redacted version of the report the democrats who controlled the committee said that's not good enough they want to see everything that was blacked out they want to see the evidence underlying conclusions they said the timeline did not give them that report so now they have issued this citation now both sides both parties try to paint this as a very different issue democrats say this is about checks and balances republicans say this is about getting the president we have a constituti

than 2 hours to prepare for the special counsel statement in the 2 years since his appointment robert miller had never publicly commented on the investigation but on wednesday with his office formally closing down he seized the opportunity to push back against president donald trump's repeated claims that the investigation had cleared him of any wrongdoing. if we had had competent that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime and also stressed that charging the president with a crime was not an option his office could consider justice department policy holds that it is unconstitutional to charge a president with a federal crime while he's in office. trump reacted with a quick tweet saying there was insufficient evidence and that therefore he was innocent case closed. but congressional democrats believe statement confirms that they are right to pursue their investigations of the president. the congress to respond to the crimes lies and other wrongdoing of president rob we will do

an extra witness i am finished with this if they want to talk to robert miller they're going to have to find a way to do it but does that mean this is all over not by a long way this is going to be a continuing refrain between no and the general election the presidential election come november twenty twenty so we'll be talking about it at least for another two years and good thanks very much indeed they should thank you. now the chairman mr ation has asked congress for four and a half billion dollars in immediate emergency funding to address a surge in migration at the southern border senior officials say is needed to help the record numbers of central american families seeking asylum in the united states the money will go towards food shelters personnel and information technology president trump declared the immigration influx a national emergency earlier this year that allowed him to redirect more of six billion dollars in government spending towards building a wall along the mexico border aid workers in mozambique say remote areas and small islands off the coast still waiting for

special counsel robert miller has made his 1st public comments since releasing his report on possible russian collusion during the 2016 presidential election lisette his 2 year investigation was never going to end with charges against president donald trump as that would have been detained on constitutional but he also sets it didn't play a trump of all wrong doing also jordan has more details. you got for more than 2 years robert mueller has not spoken about his investigation into charges russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election a once again muller told reporters this will be the 1st and last time that they and congress will hear from him any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report it contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions we made we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself and the report is my testimony i would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress. house democrats had wanted miller's to testify about all he learned during the 2 year long investigation

impeachment the michigan congressman accused of impeachable behavior stemming from special counsel robert miller'sinvestigation on russian interference the report found no criminal conspiracy but left open the question of whether trump obstructed the investigation. after. a bomb blast has hit a tourist bus in egypt's famed giza pyramids at least 17 people were wounded but no deaths have been reported it's the latest blow to the country's tourism industry which had been showing signs of recovery after years of political turmoil and sporadic violence. polls have closed in the final day of voting in india's general election with 900000000 eligible voters it's the biggest democratic election in the world voting took place in phases over 6 weeks one of the seats contested on the final day was in the city of daraa nasi the region prime minister narendra modi himself represents modi is expected to win his popularity with his constituency has been dented by a construction project. has this report. the holy city is a piece of bigotry much put about him and considered the spiritual capital of the country. b

general william barr has canceled plans to testify a second time before a house committee on robert miller's russia report to be objected to the intention to have lawyers question him at that hearing democrats hold the house of representatives are demanding the release a copy of the full report which investigated president trumps russia surprise. israel is marking its annual holocaust remembrance day with twenty four hours of ceremonies commemorating the millions of jews who died in nazi concentration camps . the. as a two minute long siren rang out at ten am local time people across the country pausing to one of the victims days one of the most solemn national calendar with a memorial events taking place across israel on television and radio programs focusing exclusively on the genocide. it's to venezuela now where opposition leader one wideout has called for a series of strikes to oust president nicolas maduro clashes yesterday in caracas between white oh supporters in the north terry left one woman dead and dozens of people injured quite oh has been trying to persuade the military to shif

news live from berlin robert miller says his reported to russian interference in the us elections does not exonerate president trying to. do if we have that call confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have to observe. it was a special counsel's 1st public comments since he was appointed 2 years ago within minutes the president responded to miller by tweeting the case is closed to. the papers to become the next british prime minister of course johnson is told he must appear in court over allegations that he knowingly lied about greg's that in the run up to the 2016 referendum. i'm suing so misconducts good to have you with us we start with special counsel robert muller's 1st public statement on his 2 year investigation into russian interference in the 2016 u.s. election moeller said that his report does not exonerate the president speaking in washington muller said that if he had been confident that the president did not commit a crime his report would have said so he also said that his investigation did find that russia attempted to interfere in the elect

counsel robert mueller declines to publicly clear the president of obstruction of justice and his 1st comments since concluding an investigation into russian interference in the $26.00 election miller said the justice department was unable to charge just sits in presidents where the crime was learned jordan has more. for more than 2 years robert mueller has not spoken about his investigation into charges russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election a once again muller told reporters this will be the 1st and last time that they and congress will hear from him any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report it contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions we made we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself and the report is my testimony. i would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress house democrats had wanted miller to testify about all he learned during the 2 year long investigation one legislator implied muller's a potential appearance may not be as important as what he has already confirmed president donald trump interfered in the investigation if muller wanted to

all with special counsel robert miller and talks to testify on the russia investigation findings. we've got some late breaking news on all of this. plus, u.s. warships are heading to the persian gulf. the boiling point as the trump administration says hear our message loud and clear. and golfer tiger woods receiving the presidential medal of honor, the highest civilian honor. why are some folks not happy about that? lara trump is here to weigh in. she is next. i'm shannon bream in washington. we go straight to kristin fisher. the standoff between the attorney general and democrats. >> good evening feud we have taken a small step back from the edge of contempt tonight. the department of justice has now agreed to meet with the house judiciary committee tomorrow. originally, that meeting was set for wednesday. the same day that they were set to held vote. holding him accountable for his failure to comply with our subpoena still stands. we hope to make progress toward solving this dispute. >> shannon: it is over his refusal to give the full unredacted mueller report and all of the evi

entirely new momentum towards impeachment proceedings very clearly there and we could summarize robert miller statement in one simple line congress must begin an impeachment process he doesn't say that directly but that is his implication he's made very clear that the criminal proceeding should not be a political process not a judicial one because of those department of justice guidelines that he refers to and already within minutes of his statement there has been reaction from members of congress a number of democratic senators have been saying that impeachment committee proceedings must begin the house judiciary committee must set a date to sit to consider these impeachment proceedings importantly to within minutes of that speech the 1st republican voice within congress called out for impeachment just an a much treating the ball is now in the court of congress so certainly this has now been a momentum created the argument that the democrats were advancing that to impeach trump would give him political ammunition in 2020 is an argument that may well be falling the way many democrats are now

we start with the man behind the miller report special counsel robert muller he addressed the public on wednesday for the 1st time and he says the last time miller is stepping down from the justice department where he was investigating russian interference in the 2016 u.s. presidential election and possible collusion with the president and his campaign miller says his 448 page report speaks for itself but as for the president's innocence on the question of obstruction of justice here's what he set the order appointing me special counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could of struck the investigation we conducted that investigation and we kept the office of the acting attorney general apprised of the progress of our work and has set forth in the report after that investigation if we had come out confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime the introduction to the volume 2 of our report explains that decision it explains that under longstanding departm

william barr in contempt over that report but released the censored version of special counsel robert miller's investigation last month his refusal to submit the on on edited version at the accusations that he was lying to congress about holder's concerns for patrick lane joins us live now from washington d.c. and of course robert mueller himself has hinted that perhaps what he wrote was and fully represented so tell us what's happening right now and now that the committee is meeting again. quick quick break barbara but they are back and they are still talking and i think we're going on our fourth hour now republicans basically saying the democrats are angry because the millers didn't find anything but the mall report did find something and we need to know what was redacted so we need to see all of those blank pages the words that are underneath and we also need to see the underlying evidence so they are still going back and forth each member getting his allotted time his or her a lot of time to talk making the same arguments over and over again when this is eventually done we do expect they'l

by misleading congress by special counsel robert miller's report on alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election. more than a million people have been evacuated from eastern parts of india ahead of the arrival of cyclon forty the storm is expected to cause significant destruction in addition west bangor when it makes landfall in the coming hours it's the worst storm to hit the area in decades currently has winds of in excess of two hundred fifty kilometers an hour almost equivalent of a category five hurricane those are the headlines here on al-jazeera but with more news in half an hour to stay with us. not so fast champion runner caster semenya is ordered to take drugs to lower her testosterone if she wants to keep competing is that decision fair or is it needed to ensure a level playing field in the sport this isn't a story. hello welcome to the program i'm wrong on this ammonia is an inspiration to many women around the world but the south african olympic and world champion athlete is accused of having an unfair advantage because her body produces more mal

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congress that escalates the democrats' legal battle with a troubling ministration of access to robert miller's russia report barr has refused to submit an unproductive version of the special counsel's findings president trump has a to as has asserted executive privilege of the reporter shielding it from public view voters in south africa are waiting to hear the outcome of presidential and parliamentary elections the governing african national congress is expected to when but by a smaller margin afghan taliban says its fighters were responsible for an attack on an international aid organization in kabul four civilians were killed and twenty four others injured after explosions and gunfire that lasted more than six hours the taliban says its target was a u.s. based aid agency the vice president of venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly has been arrested and doesn't brando's being prosecuted for high treason along with six other national assembly members following last week's attempt to remove president nicolas maduro from power well those are the headlines on al-jazeera al-jazeera w

barr appeared before senators on wednesday he testified about his handling of special counsel robert miller's report into russian interference in the last u.s. election is now refusing to testify for a second day fisher has more from washington d.c. . 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 may twenty seventeen 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 s

special counsel robert miller, he says, should not testify before lawmakers. >> reporter: president trump has reversed course, now insisting special counsel robert mueller should not testify before congress. on friday, the president said that he would leave robert mueller's test money up to his attorney general william barr who was asked about it last week by the senate judiciary committee. >> i've said publicly i have no objection to him. >> reporter: but the president rejected that stance saying bob mueller should not testify, no redos for the dems, republicans and democrats took to the sunday morning political shows saying they are eager to hear from the author of the 448 page investigation. >> he was the one that conducted the investigation over 2 years spending well over $30 million and had all of the assets in place for the grand n judiciary member democrat davidson cellini said a tentative date of may 15 has been set for ler if e whithoysth have indicated the not interfere with the attempts to testify and we hope that that will not change. >> he later clarified that nothing has bee

wants the president to be held accountable because cool for donald trump's impeachment softer robert miller's 1st public remarks about his investigation into possible russian meddling in elections. political a pregnant woman is killed when she is caught say in the crossfire of a gun fights between members of sudan's security forces. and we talked to the side the dissidents taking legal action against riyadh's for hacking his phone and stealing his personal information. but we begin the news in israel where benjamin netanyahu his bid for a record 5th term in office has been thrown into disarray the israeli prime minister claims a colossal victory in last month's election but he's failed to form a coalition government a snap election is set to be held in september with m.p.'s voting in the past few years to dissolve the new parliament's well this is the 1st time in israel's history that a prime minister has failed to form a gun. ment's just after a vote yes and you know his right wing coalition has until midnight local time to secure the supports or former defense minister avigdor lieberman's n

obstruction of justice william barr testified before senators over his handling of special counsel robert miller's report into russian interference in u.s. elections bar is refusing to testify for a second day turkey is denying two of its citizens are spies after they were detained in southern tripoli by forces loyal to libyan warlord khalifa haftar on monday turkey's president described have does advance towards tripoli as a plot against libya's people these are your morality coalitions fighting in the yemen has launched a series of strikes on a military base in the capital at least ten strides hit. me airbase in sanaa the coalition says the targets were legitimate under international law previously said who the rebels use the base to launch drones and ballistic missile attacks. the united nations has declared the leader of the buggers land based armed group a global terrorist. who has the jaish e mohammad group will now have his assets frozen and be subject to a travel ban the declaration passed by china as well is normally a traditional ally of pakistan dropped its previous objections. so dolls

story for us ever since and she's with us here in our studio a lot of people waiting to hear from robert miller so everyone is watching with bated breath parsing his every word and i want to start with one of the statements that's really been picked up upon he said he was if he was confident that the president didn't commit a crime he would have said so what do you make of that there's a lot to read between the lines here unfortunately this is how a lot of washington simply works the 1st thing to note is that this statement that he gave to the press today was starkly different from what we heard attorney general william barr give when the more important really came out about 2 months ago and it was much less friendly to trump what it looks like was muller on his last day at his job wanted to come out and present a slightly more accurate version of his report to the public it was known that he was not satisfied with the summary that bar presented to congress after the report came out and it's really interesting to see what he did and did not say here essentially at the end of the day what he was

speaker nancy pelosi says bach committed a crime by misleading congress about special counsel robert miller as report on alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election bar has skipped a hearing in the house of representatives on monday as reports from batticaloa hayne in washington. a lot of political theater today as the house democrats called for a congressional committee hearing and they basically talked to an empty chair the u.s. attorney general william barr refusing to show up to testify he said he had a problem with the process that they wanted to take which was basically to have members of congress ask questions but allow one of the committee attorneys to sort of ask those follow up so would have made it a much tougher day of testimony for william barr there's a disagreement between the democrats and the republicans on the committee and in the white house over whether that sort of testimony and that sort of committee hearing would in fact be proper history will judge as to how we face this challenge we will all be held accountable in one way or the other an

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 made for obstruction of justice and he left it to robert mueller to bill barr and the justice department to make a decision and bill barr decided that there was no obstruction this is been a very informative couple of hours a lot of it is quite dense but there are so it appears very polite on the surface but there are a number of spiky exchanges particularly between the democrats and bill by the democrats believe that bill barr in the four page letter that he put out which is what robert mueller was talking about in his letter and then again in the statement he made before the report was released to the public that he was essentially. seeing that he was the shield for a president trump and not doing what he could as an independent woman as america's top lawyer i think from very early on there's a staggering piece of information here which is largely been scattered over that we have the miller report which cost between twenty

all but i've read most of it but the findings left him with no doubt no obstruction no collusion robert miller was appointed special counsel may twenty seventeen 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 release a report without stating the department's conclusions but robert mueller sent a letter to the attorney general upset at the way he presented his findings ahead of the publication of the redacted report a point not missed by one democrat i think history will judge you harshly bar says a lot of the president's actions were fueled by allegatio

special counsel robert miller has made his 1st public comment since releasing his report on possible russian collusion during the 2016 presidential election miller said his 2 year investigation was never going to end with charges against president donald trump as that would have been deemed unconstitutional but he also said that it didn't clear trump of all wrongdoing so let's get more from jordan in washington now and of course this is the man that particularly democrats in congress have been very keen to hear from rosalind essentially reiterating what was in the report that trump is not being cleared of obstruction charges what was the purpose of this statement today. well basically mario meant was a well known although not quite expected that at some point robert mueller would be closing the special counsel's office resigning his position at the justice department and returning to private life well that sensibly is why he had this a press announcement it really wasn't a press conference on wednesday that said it job basically has created shock waves across what we call official wa

speaker nancy pelosi says barr committed a crime by misleading congress about special counsel robert miller's report on alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election bar has skipped a hearing in the house of representatives on miller's report and particle haim who's been following those developments in washington d.c. . a lot of political theater today is the house democrats called for a congressional committee hearing and they basically talked to an empty chair the u.s. attorney general william barr refusing to show up to testify he said he had a problem with the process that they wanted to take which was basically to have members of congress ask questions but allow one of the committee attorneys to sort of ask those follow up so would have made it a much tougher day of testimony for william barr there's a disagreement between the democrats and the republicans on the committee and in the white house over whether that sort of testimony and that sort of committee hearing would in fact be proper history will judge as to how we face this challenge we will all be held a

you are acting as a lawyer for the president donald trump no they have the extra ammunition of robert miller the man who actually wrote reports saying that he doesn't think that what bill barr did when he issued his four page letter and made his initial comments that he actually fully represented what was in the report particularly robert mueller highlighting ten instances where he believed there was a case to be made of the president obstructing justice remember he said he wasn't going to make that determination but instead in the report said he wanted to hand it over to congress to make that call now as we're sitting watching this hearing which is going to begin in the next few minutes you've got to think about twenty twenty this committee is going to be very evenly split there are going to be republicans who feel their job is to protect the president so they'll ask about comments he made at another hearing last month when he said he believed there was spying on the trump presidential campaign and then there are democrats who are going to grill him very closely on the allegations that he o

special counsel robert miller has hunted in his resignation 2 years after he opened his investigation into alleged collusion between president donald trump and russian speaking to the public for the 1st time since the probe he sought to get clarification on the major conclusions of the report but kill up my pen explains both camps in washington are interpreted in his words in different ways. robert muller is all done the special counsel's office is closing and he's going to retire and to celebrate 35000000 dollars and 2 years worth of work he decided to address the media there's an old psychological test they call the war shack and basically it's a set of ambiguous ink blots it's up to the mind of the patient to determine what to see and the 10 minute presentation of robert muller seems a very much be in the eyes of the beholder if we had come confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime it's not that different from what he said at the end of his report but the

special counsel robert miller ends his silence on the trump russian. offering some clarification on the report's conclusions. reaction as well. pietschmann question at this point all options are on the table and nothing should be ruled out and all of those things have been determined to not have taken place collusion conspiracy obstruction and again we consider this very much to be case closed or. possible in the venezuela crisis as the opposition now looks at the talks with president bush to be held territory in norway. and the leader of germany's ruling party is proposing tighter pre-election media regulation. in the e.u. parliament. so why rule.

attorney general william barr missing a congressional hearing into his handling of special counsel robert miller's russia report as far as absence was due to a disagreement over allowing staff lawyers to ask questions democrats are also reportedly considering holding the attorney general in contempt of congress after he declined to provide an unproductive version of the russia report. facebook has banned a number of far right commentators including the all to rights. list the nation of islam leader louis farrakhan and alex jones a right wing talk show host and conspiracy theorist mark zuckerberg said that the decision was made to promote safety but many users are calling the move censorship . today on world press freedom day we are heading to nigeria the constitution guarantees the freedom of the press here but in practice that's a freedom that is hard to protect some parts of the country are conflicts on such as the area in the north east which is dominated by the muslim extremist group will cause a rom reporting from that region can be deadly our correspondent funny fatah or travel to borno stat

to reach a conclusion on the matter during his senate grilling the attorney general claimed to robert miller didn't think he had misrepresented the special counsel's report though some of the senators are questioning him didn't buy that. very clear with me that he was not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report i feel. was purposely misleading and i think others do too now the american people know that you are no different from rudy giuliani or killing conway or any of the other people who sacrifice or once decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the oval office being attorney general of the united states is a sacred trust you have betrayed that trust america deserves better issue resign the democratic party is on the warpath and all who stand between them and their goal of ousting donald trump have a target on their forehead either join with them or step down this attorney general lacks all credibility so you resign yes. he should step down or should resign and if he does not resign he should basing impeachment proceedings also he does need to resign to step up. will

general is refusing to testify for a second day in front of the house judiciary committee on robert miller's russia report when barnes decision sparked an angry response from one member of the panel accusing him of being afraid to testify at wednesday's hearing he defended clearing a president trump of obstruction of justice official reports from washington d.c. . 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 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 may twenty seventeen 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 mad

embar missed a congressional hearing into his handling of special counsel robert miller's russia report bars absence was due to a disagreement over allowing staff lawyers to ask questions democrats are reportedly considering holding the attorney general in contempt of congress after he also declined to provide congress with an unredacted version of the russian report. malaysia has released the last remaining suspect being held in connection with the killing of the estranged half brother of north korea's leader kim. died after his face was smeared with a nerve agent at all in poor airport in february of two thousand and seventeen. it's to venezuela now where state prosecutors have ordered the rearrest of the influential opposition leader leopoldo lopez days after he escaped from house arrest and appeared next to self-proclaimed president juan why dope lopez is a longtime opponent of venezuelan leader nicolas maduro and he's now taking refuge in the spanish embassy and he's calling on the country to continue what he says the fight against president nicolas maduro. he's a symbol for venezu

larry king on wednesday president trump asserted executive privilege over redacted portions of robert miller's final report on whether the trump campaign colluded with the russian government during the two thousand and sixteen white house race and the president's actions while the investigation was underway this as the democratic controlled house. the committee has attempted to see those hidden portions of the report including secret grand jury testimony so where does this standoff go from here and how will the fight for the full and unredacted mo report play out in the elections of two thousand and twenty let's begin the conversation with richard painter he's a professor of law at the university of minnesota and the former chief white house .

submit the an edited version to accusations that he was lying to congress about special counsel robert miller's concerns earlier president trump used executive privilege over the report shielding it from public you patrick elaine is following developments from washington after a long and contentious hearing the house judiciary committee has voted along party lines to issue a contempt of congress ideation against the william bar the u.s. attorney general this is all over the robert moore the special counsel's report about potential collusion between the trim campaign in russia and obstruction of justice barr released.