We will and with a brief rebuttal from mr. Flynns counsel and the council of United States. Please proceed. Thank you chief judge, may it please the court, general flynn is a defendant without a prosecutor, and litigation without controversy between the parties to the case. Instead of granting dismissal as required as a matter of law, John Sullivan denied defense motions, appointed mr. Gleason to usurp the job of the prosecutor, raised perjury but as iter his head, was noted, the job of United States attorney is occupied. Adding the unconstitutional burdens of process to punish michael flynn, John Sullivan discarded any semblance of the adjudicator. As a cornerstone of any system of justice worth the label. Required. Gs are judge sullivans position for rehearing must be flatly denied with language that a judge has no injury or standing to seek relief in this court. Sullivan has invested himself in the prosecution of general flynn, it is mandated disqualification for the glaring appeara
It is even what it said in richard. You can ask for the reasons,. What if theth court is concerned about favoritism being displayed to a politically powerful defendant . Is that a proper reason to have a hearing . Mr. Wall no. That is a concern that is not the domain of rule 48. Judge griffith what is your authority for that . Mr. Wall in the United States, i would say richards or falkirk. It does not matter. The District Court might believe the government has a bad motive to do all sorts of things, favoritism or something else. But everybody agreeing that the United States cannot be made to bring a prosecution even if it even ifeven if it is its motive is not regular or impermissible, the same is exactly true of a prosecution. There are checks on that. Judge griffith what would be an appropriate hearing for judge sullivan to call on these facts in this case . What are the outer limits of what he could do or what the government would think is appropriate . Mr. Wall i dont think there i
To a very warm welcome you are watching the weekly here on r. T. International with me becky aaron. Now at libya peace conference hours wrapped up in berlin yielding an agreement that is hoped will pave the way for a lasting cease fire in the country and ultimately bring an end to years of bloody civil war arties peace all of our reporters from berlin. Well the result of these talks here in berlin on libya or in the ongoing conflict on the ground there was a document that has been signed off by those that are taking part in the conference still has to go to the United Nations where it will be seeking their approval it contained in that document are a call for a cease fire also an arms embargo that should be a rekindling of the political process german chancellor Angela Merkel was keen to stress again that there was in far as she was concerned and as far as other leaders were concerned there was no military solution to that conflict in libya that human rights must be respected and that
A new trade pact to replace nafta. While myanmars leader Aung San Suu Kyi has literally arrived at the International Court of justice where she is beginning her remarks defending her country against allegations of genocide lets listen in the 948 Genocide Convention one of the most fundamental multilateral treaties of all the time invoking that 940 age Genocide Convention its a matter of a most gravity. This is a treaty that we made following this is to match it killing of malls and 6000000 year jews and thats my country wholeheartedly signed as ferdie assertiveness december 949 and ratified on food since march 956. 00 genocide is a crime that the International Criminal tribunal for rwanda applied in response to the mass killing of perhaps 70 percent of the 2 chief in rwanda. It is a crime that is not applied by the tribunal to the former yugoslavia for the displacement of approximately 1000000 residents of course civil in 1909 neither was it applied by that tribe you know no by this co
To qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Party leaders are preparing to make a final attempt to win the backing of undecided voters on the last day of campaigning ahead of the general election. With 2a hours to go until polls open, in what both borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn have described as the most important election for a generation, politicians will appear at rallies in target seats across the uk, to make last ditch bids for support. Our correspondent alex forsyth is on the campaign trail with the Prime Minister. He is the first of those political leaders off the blocks this morning. I think hes already been taking pa rt i think hes already been taking part in one event. Tell us what hes been saying. Yes, theres always a Frenetic Energy to the final day of an Election Campaign and i think this one more than most and mixed in with that as a healthy dose of tension because this still feels very much like an election w