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facebook live and that al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us we begin with breaking news out of new york and donald trump's former personal lawyer michael cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to congress he says he made the false statements out of loyalty to the u.s. president let's bring in particle hand in washington d.c. patty what this what is this all about and how big of a deal is it. it's a pretty big deal this is all about russia as we as you know the special counsel robert mueller has been looking into the potential of collusion between the trump campaign and russia michael cohen testified before the senate intelligence committee about the so-called moscow deal that was the president was trying to get some sort of building built in moscow he said that that deal ended before basically the first vote for take in the republican primary it appears according to some reports that he may have lied about the dates and that the deal was still under way long into the presidential election this is something that president trump has

repeatedly said the opposite said that he had no deal in moscow so why does this matter well basically what investigators are looking at is any link between russia and trump which could have been financial one thing i think it's important to member about michael cohen he came out of the courthouse he didn't really say anything his lawyer did say we are cooperating so michael cohen is already in a heap of trouble he has already pled guilty to eight counts of things like campaign finance reform a line to banks in texas a vision that has to do with a hush payments he made now admits he made to two women who said that they had affairs with president trump mostly when his wife was had just given birth they didn't want that to come out before the election so apparently he paid them off so he was already facing sixty five years on that this is an additional potential five years because it's a crime to lie to congress the more important thing is this ties directly to the

russian investigation and it could potentially be very damaging because one thing we know about michael cohen he kept a lot of recordings and most of it most of what he talked about is so cooperating with investigators and russia could be a very big deal so this is not good news for president trump any reaction from him to patty. oh i know everybody in the world is keeping a close eye on twitter because the president the last couple days has really been tweeting basically nonstop about the moeller investigation where he calls it a witch hunt or obviously isn't if you think about how many people very close to the president have already basically pled guilty to very serious crimes so he is likely going to talk about this he tends to talk now when he's headed to his helicopter it's become a kind of a regular occurrence he's expected to leave the white house i believe in about half an hour so it'll be interesting to see if he can help himself from talking during the last plea deal when michael cohen pled guilty he basically tweeted out if you

need a good lawyer don't call michael cohen it was kind of mocked as maybe a really bad yelp review but we'll have to wait and see the president headed to the g twenty so usually that means he spends a lot of time watching t.v. and tweeting so we'll see just how serious he thinks this is a whether or not he chooses to talk or not and we will check in with you patty if there is any reaction there from washington thank you very much for the moment patty cohen lifeforce in d.c. now it is being described as a rebuke to the administration the u.s. senate has voted to hold a debate on whether to end american support for the coalition's war in yemen that's despite strong opposition from the administration which sent the secretaries of state and defense to persuade senators to defeat the measure congressional leaders have strongly criticized president trumbull his defense of saudi arabia's government for its role is allegedly all in the killing of journalists and the war in yemen the senate is expected to hold hearings next week meanwhile the un's

humanitarian chief is in yemen's capital sanaa for three days of talks. calling for a ceasefire he's also meeting aid workers displaced families and communities to assess the scale of the crisis. i'm very concerned about the humanitarian situation which has deteriorated since i was here last and as i've said repeatedly to the security council there are five things i would like to happen to improve the situation and to reduce the suffering of the people first i'd like to see a sation of hostilities especially around the key aid infrastructure especially around to date secondly i'd like to see the environment in which the aid system operates made easier for all the aid agencies keep the ports open keep the roads so provide access to all the key facilities live to see have a tansey on capitol hill for us now shihab so senators have voted to hold a debate on the u.s. role in yemen's war next week i believe it's going to happen what exactly are they

going to be deciding what precisely will they be debated. well actually in fact the senate is a very. very pushy drill institution so we're not there yet what we have now is we've had a vote to have another vote on having a debate so what we're looking for now is another procedural vote to begin debate which we're expecting next week ok if that that is successful then that we will have that debate and then we expect various republican senators to to introduce various amendments to the current resolution which is very stark and simply says u.s. armed forces after you stop their cooperation with the war in yemen within thirty days we expect republican senators to attempt to water that down and then we'll have a final vote on that resolution which would be immensely historic if it happened an amazing rupture in congressional relations with saudi arabia and an amazing moment

for congress's willingness to try and check the powers of the president in his in his war making powers but where we still haven't got there yet there is still a chance that no debate will take place some republican senators have said if the trumpet ministration shows some willingness to accept what they consider to be the truth about to show about the yemen that the devastating war in yemen and perhaps they were inclined to vote to begin the debates next week they'll they've been giving it ministration a possible out however perhaps even if gina housefull is sent to capitol hill the cia director to brief members of congress to debrief senses when the senate is very angry that apparently she wasn't allowed to brief sentences so some republican senators saying look if you will we accept rail policy just accept the truth as we see is then maybe we won't have that debate at all there's absolutely no indication to the top of ministration is going to take take that possible way out if anything the top administration is continuing to stick to his guns with ever more intensity we've been hearing hearing reports that they're trying to stop the u.n.

security council resolution on the cease fire in yemen so as things stand there that momentum is still in place we expect to vote next week on having a debate and then that debate. and then there's a possibility of a vote however it's still symbolic it won't be taken up in the house of representatives but still an amazing moment in u.s. saudi yes so no debate just yet thanks for clarifying that but this move by the senate says yesterday's being described nonetheless as a rebuke to the top administration a huge rebuke this is the first time that the nine hundred seventy three war powers act has been invoked by the senate hasn't passed in the senate but it's the fact that it's been a vote that the senate is saying look we want to have said what president is doing in yemen is huge not just for yemen but also the relationship between congress and the president and that it's it's based around the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia which has been such a linchpin of u.s. foreign policy for so long makes it even more fascinating so it is definitely a rebuke if the debate goes ahead that would also be

a rebuke if there even if the resolution isn't pastika weak it's it remains rebuke it's an amazing moment and again it shows also even if this is this is a symbolic measure and it goes nowhere eventually it does show that put tight in congress to do something about the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia something something about the war in yemen and something about what many senators believe the lies being told about the murder of jamal khashoggi thank you for that she have a live for us on capitol hill as bring in our social media producer and not a cent as to push this measure have been day busy on social media trying to piss take a status more right there's one senator who's been especially vocal both on the senate floor and his twitter feed about his opposition to the war in yemen and that is the connecticut senator chris murphy but there hasn't been any significant progress until now just last week publications are writing about his lonely quest to end the war but things have as we've heard certainly changed now he's been at this pushing

for this for three years now and he says he posted on twitter that he was blown away by the vote take a listen. the united states senate voted sixty three to thirty seven to proceed with a debate on ending u.s. participation with the saudis in the on civil war this is just the first step in what will be a long debate this week and next week but it is the first time that the senate is set up and said that we should not be involved in a civil war in yemen that is creating the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe as we speak is that tells of the spot of a dictatorship in saudi arabia that we are no longer going to be an appendage to their adventure of military adventurism. while yemen has always been a poor country. the famine in the death there right now the people dying is a result of saudi led intervention in an ongoing civil war now the other senator

you heard from there was of course bernie sanders he was another co-sponsor of the resolution unease called this a major victory but he's also cautioned as we heard from shihab a few moments ago that it is not guaranteed to pass because of so many obscure rules in the senate now some of the reaction before i go from senator rand paul he said that this is also a this vote or with this vote rather the senate woke up and he says that it won't keep turning a blind eye to saudi arabia's abuses or their war in yemen finally akbar ahmed is a reporter who's covered the d.c. debates on yemen for the past three years and says that the actions of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have certainly been noticed in d.c. partially because of the advocacy of a small group of deeply committed politicians and advocates he says that's made a big difference there so those advocates have been warning members of congress for years that the u.s. could be complicit in war crimes let us know if you think that message has finally been heard let us know what you think is going to happen with the vote you can send us your questions and comments on twitter or facebook live just use the hash tag ha

news group fully andrew thank you very much for that now the u.s. has been providing logistical and intelligence support to the saudi erotic coalition in the war in yemen since twenty fifteen it began under president barack obama and is meant to help stabilize the region and counteract even a national who the rebels fighting in against the coalition are backed by tehran until recently much of the u.s. assistance was in the form of inflight with fueling for saadi jets bombing yemen that has been halted in recent weeks in the wake of the outrage or on the matter of jamal khashoggi the u.s. still cooperates on intelligence for the coalition and is the top on supply of tucson and the u.a.e. and it says its offices advise the coalition on potential targets to minimize civilian casualties let's. speak some more about this not to gregory goss who is a professor of international affairs at texas a and m. university and a former nonresident fellow at brookings doha center his life from college station

in texas thank you very much for being with us on the news grades the move by senators on wednesday is being described as a politically buke to donald trump but will it in your opinion change anything as well as a situation in yemen and american involvement in the war i think the american involvement in the war has always been relatively marginal it's been important for saudi arabia but as you said in the in the lead up the refusal in which was i think the key logistical element here is stopped in the saudis of continued the campaign i think the more important issue is whether the united states is going to push the saudis diplomatically and politically as part of this effort to get through this very bumpy period in u.s. saudi relations to take real steps to try to end the conflict why does the chump administration why want to stay involved in this conflict i think the trump administration has made the containment and rollback of iranian influence in the middle east one of its main if not its main policy goal in the

region and they share the saudi view that the situation in yemen is an advance by iranian interests through their through their partners the who these in yemen and thus they see it like the saudis do through this proxy war lens of iran versus saudi arabia an interesting question here from one of our viewers missa gauze go ask is this not about money also for donald trump. so i think that that might be going a little bit too far the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia and particularly the relationship between the white house and saudi arabia is not something new with donald trump as you said in the lead in barack obama's administration began support for the saudi a morality intervention in yemen i think a lot of this has to do with the long term sense of what american interests in the

middle east are i think the interesting thing about this senate vote is it it's perhaps a signal that people in washington are beginning to reassess just what american interests at large in the middle east are so how do you see then that the relationship with saudi arabia evolving especially when the democrats take control of the senate early next year. so i think that that the relationship with saudi arabia and the united states is going through an extremely complicated and rocky period and there are a lot of contingencies here obviously congress with the house of representatives going into the democratic hands right is going to be. more questioning of of what of the relationship however there have been a lot of bumpy periods in the u.s. saudi relationship in the past the killing of jamal khashoggi i think has simply

coalesced a number of people who have questioned that it's interesting to note that the sponsors of the resolution in the senate are bernie sanders about as far on the left in american politics as you can get and mike lee of a very conservative republican from utah i think that this is just emblematic of the fact that there's a lot of people across the political spectrum for very different reasons who are questioning not just the basis of the u.s. saudi relationship but the overall sense of what america wants in the middle east and how america should try to get it thank you very much for your thoughts very interesting to hear them on this said gregory goss professor of international affairs at texas a and m. university joining us on the is great and i'd like to point to this very interesting article just published on al jazeera dot com and it we find out that five of the thirty seven senators who shot down the syria. bill received a major campaign contribution from pro sound in a very interesting way to find it on al jazeera dot com and some comments here on

the u.s. role in the war in yemen one from roda on facebook who says the genocide policy the genocide against yemen has been happening for a couple of years now but the whole world is just watching and not doing anything and another comment from banks also on facebook who says the u.s. has committed war crimes and never been punished for it thank you very much for your comments on this and other stories about covering on the news great you can keep on coming using the different platforms that are online on twitter just use a hash tag a.j. news great our handle is at english and don't forget to use the hash tag a.j. news great as well all the different ways to get in touch on your screen right now . now world leaders have begun arriving in argentina for the g. twenty summit while much of the focus has been on the presence of songe arabia's crown prince in the wake of. the on the challenges to overcome that includes the growing trade war between the united states and china a white house correspondent kimberly hocket reports. in a year filled with memorable foreign trips he just said it's not russia this

president donald trump's first visit to south america to attend the meeting of g twenty leaders in argentina is bound to make headlines. canceled his last trip to south america it april a u.s. prepared to strike syria this time the u.s. is a broiled in trade disputes with europe canada and china. and a border fight with mexico as well as a climate policy that is modeled it best trump will just like the previous g. twenty be surrounded by leaders who have serious disagreements with him. two meetings with chinese president xi jinping and russian president vladimir putin will be closely watched we can have trade that's meant for stupid people troubles railed against what he calls unfair trade practices by the chinese and has slapped import tariffs on hundreds of billions of goods he's threatened to

significantly increase those tariffs next year his meeting with will be an attempt to cool tensions running on his meeting with putin comes as russia's latest incursion in crimea condemned by european allies has heightened the possibility of war with ukraine it will also be the first time trump is in the same room as saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon since the death of jim. he's the washington post contributor who last month was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul troubles faced heavy criticism following his recent decision to back the king. and ignore the assessment of the cia which reportedly believes the crown prince was involved he will no doubt be eager to reinforce to the world he has trump's full support one issue where the g twenty leaders could find common ground climate change it was an area of disagreement at the last meeting in germany now

a recent decision by the trumpet ministrations of barrier report on the disastrous effects of climate change could make agreement on this issue once again a tough sell can really help at al-jazeera the white house live not to to reassemble who's in buenos aires for us covering this g. twenty summit to resign as we've said a lot of the focus these past few days of being on the presence of the saudi crown prince in argentina but this is a g. twenty summit and there are going to be a lot of issues discussed sat talk to us about the main ones what can we expect. well that's correct lots of attention with mohammed bin said a man that was awaiting him and investigate request for an investigation by human rights watch the latest information we have on that is that argentina's foreign ministry has told the judge valid to have he has diplomatic immunity and that in order to be able to touch him it will have to go all the way to the supreme court

but there's lots of issues that will be going on in this in this summit the main one and the main focus is on the bilateral meetings that will be happening here when a site is between donald trump and sheen ping and the trade war between both countries a meeting between donald trump and of loving me to pull tang and critics accuse him of not challenging putting enough for the interference of russia in the united states elections the tension between ukraine and russia and so many others and even though argentina has tried to push for an agenda to talk about sustainability development inequality among other things the main focus is on this issues and it's important to say that just before leaving towards argentina the united nations secretary general antonio terrace asked world leaders to take bold actions not to allow this summit to be overshadowed by bilateral meetings and to use this summit to tackle key and critical issues affecting the world today like climate change and

inequality thank you for that theresa ball reporting live from buenos aires want to know more about the g. twenty check out al jazeera dot com you can join the g. twenty summit and also what to expect from this year's meeting on our web site and also what is the g. twenty find out more on al-jazeera dot com and the u.n. envoy to syria says the natives talks involving iran russia and turkey to end the war are a missed opportunity so fond of mr a says he is disappointed with the failure to set up a un backs constitutional committee as in a whole diary for some kazakhstan's capital astana. so a new round of syria talks the power brokers russia iran and turkey brought the warring parties their allies yet again to the capital. the united nations was also invited the special envoy to find a mistake i was hoping for a breakthrough in what is likely to be his last diplomatic mission before leaving office but there was no deal on the formation of a u.n.

constitutional committee russia's presidential envoy alexander lovren so the issue of the committee is important and its creation is their goal moscow knows it won't get the backing of the west for its plans for post-war reconstruction and refugee returns if damascus doesn't engage with the un led political process so much the enough issues were thoroughly discussed yes there was no deal no formal announcement about the committee creation but details are being discussed on the show seriously and i'm optimistic there will be a solution them a student said this meeting was another missed opportunity to accelerate this stablish ment of what he called a credible balanced and inclusive syria owned syrian led un facilitated constitutional committee but he said he remains committed to facilitate for their efforts the target date to set up the committee is by the end of the year that is what france and germany requested during the last meeting on syria and istanbul in

october there are no longer calls for syrian president bashar assad to step down but the un political process that involves a new constitution and free elections is about curtailing his powers and changing syria system of government. that is why damascus is resisting the un committee's work and mandate it doesn't want a new charter is we produce something constructive or important and be at the level of a start a process while you're in in more than forty years for reasons of geneva accords for instance we have not all of us anything the so-called asked in a format is about undercutting and sidelining the un but russia can't formalize the syrian government's victory on the ground without the international community that means damascus will have to give up at least some political power for now however it is showing no intention of doing so. fast enough and the u.n. security council is holding

a briefing focusing on the humanitarian situation in syria at this hour let's bring in our diplomatic editor james in new york so what have we heard so far. yeah the security council's been hearing the monthly briefing of the dire humanitarian situation in syria i think the main focus of attention and we just moments ago been listening to the u.s. deputy ambassador jonathan cohen who's speaking to the council right now saying that what they really need to do now is work on reauthorizing an annual resolution that goes before the security council which authorize the delivery of aid across borders so that the aid can not only be deliberate distributed from damascus that is controversial and russia in the past in previous years as had some quite tough negotiations in the threaten to block that resolution or at that time of the year where they'll be tough negotiations on that again the u.s.

deputy ambassador also making it clear that the u.s. believes that the syrian government is still delaying a deliveries for political reasons to areas that they see as being areas that are outside their control or areas where the population a not favorable to the government in damascus so a pretty familiar situation that we've seen over seven and a half years in syria with regard to the humanitarian situation obviously to everyone is looking to a star was a no was and what happens next as those talks have gone so badly in stan what we know is that the special envoy stephanie mistura has to come back to new york for a final time as he wraps up his job by the end of the year and we think that if he's made no progress in the next few weeks that meeting will be on the twentieth of december and i think some diplomats will be putting pressure on him to give a very very honest frank unvarnished version of events and those mainly western

diplomats because they believe that that will show that it's the syrian government that's been blocking things has expressed disappointment in the istana process describing it as a missed missed opportunity in these recent talks anyway where does the united nations want to go next as far as the political process in syria. they've been trying the same thing repeatedly now for all of this year which is to get. all the sides to geneva for talks on the constitution now there are three different components that would meet at this government side and then there's an opposition side and then there's a third grouping that would come to those constitutional talks representing civil society in syria and that's the component that the government has not agreed to and i think it's been unraveling quite a bit in recent weeks a government really beginning to say well the syrian constitution is not solely to

negotiate is something we will decide so the whole effort of trying to get a constitution going is failing and i think they may have to try something completely different when steffan de mistura has left the scene and the new the new envoy pederson starts his work in twenty nineteen i can tell you some diplomats say really the u.n. should step back at this point and say you know what there is a reason this isn't working that's because the syrian government all along have been trying to destruct the process thank you for that james space diplomatic editor live at the united nations some breaking news now and canada's foreign ministry says it will impose sanctions on seventeen saudi nationals links to the killing of journalist jamal the canadian government says the sanctions targeted those they believe are responsible or complicit in the journalist's mehta canada is calling for a transparent investigation and says the explanations offered by saudi arabia are

not consistent or credible so again canada imposing sanctions on seventeen saudi nationals it believes linked to the murder of journalist. inside the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second it watching the news great on al-jazeera hill on facebook live coming up find out how a woman takes on the danvers malaria crisis with self and still ahead on the grades . a prestigious list that includes korean wrestling horsemen and french perfumes why these cultural treasures now get noble protection the state's. hello once again while there's still the possibility of some snow as the winter pushes across the stands most of the active weather is to the west a cloud would suggest that it's around turkey and the eastern med is

a circulation there producing rain thunderstorms persistent rain in turkey actually which is going to spread across the levant once more as for the showers down the red sea into saudi arabia the concentration of rays probably going to be northern syria southeastern turkey and the southern caucuses where you just meet the cold air and get some snow for example as a class streams further east it breaks up quite readily montes going that i'm honest for you on that is it's cold by day and by night when the sun has come back that we have to concentrate if you want rain on this particular area and again northern syria looks particularly wet south of all this nepal from the sky you've just seen there's going to come through saudi arabia the clouds present head of it and of course you get frontal dust storms as the sun still spreading i think they won't get as far south as bahrain or cut down this far and beyond that as you'll notice which is consistent with this time of year where it has become more active third a scythe this mass of cloud that's right out of the mozambique it does in bob has

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cohen pleaded guilty earlier today to lying to congress about work he did on a trump real estate deal in a wash or president trump speaking on the south lawn of the white house just a short while ago on his way to the g. twenty summit in argentina said cohen was lying about the moscow project to get a reduced sentence he also called michael cohen his former lawyer a weak person and said that he was lying about this moscow project to get a reduced sentence. again admitted to making false statements in two thousand and seventeen to the us senate select committee on intelligence about a plan to build a trump tower in moscow will bring you more on president tom's reactions later when we get live pictures from the south lawn of the white house let's move on now and ukraine's president says he will impose restrictions on russian citizens as a tense standoff continues following sunday's naval confrontation in the black sea the ukrainian government now says it will ask turkey to stop russian navy ships

from entering the bosphorus strait earlier russia deployed additional surface to air missiles in junk or that's in the disputed region of crimea and this all comes as kiev accuses russia of blocking its vessels from leaving the course of bed and mario paul in the us all see he kiev is asking nato to deploy naval ships to end the standoff let's speak to our correspondent in moscow where we challenge rory we've heard about a number of developments in the last twenty four hours just how significant are they. as far as the tensions in the black sea region right now. well i think you could probably boil all of the things that you just mentioned down to a core of things which is basically that petro poroshenko is trying to shore himself up domestically look strong he's also trying to find a way of putting pressure on russia and he's trying to draw who he hopes are his

international friends further into this standoff whereas what russia is trying to do is keep those international friends of the if you crane out of the situation so in restricting the rights of russians in ukraine i think that is petro poroshenko trying to look strong domestically and put pressure on russia as far as we know we don't know the details fully yet but as far as we know what is being talked about is restricting the access of non ukrainians across the ukraine crimea front here that would have numerous effects not least on the passage of journalists going into crimea to report on the situation there in talking about closing the bosphorus strait and getting nato to patrol the as of c. all that so obviously poroshenko appealing to international friends i don't think either of those things a lot leaves after i don't think turkey would risk antagonizing russia by closing

the bosphorus traits to the russian navy and i don't think nato at the moment would choose to push into the as all see it says of the moment that it already has plenty of patrols going on in the black sea and doesn't show any inclination in the moments to inflame the situation further by pushing up into the hours of thank you for that really chalons line for us in moscow and if you want to find out more about what the current tensions are about in the black sea read this very good explainer on our web site al-jazeera dot com it gives you a really good back one on how it all began the tensions of course these are not new tensions between russia and ukraine they come after russia annexed crimea region a few years ago. now court in the philippines has handed down its first guilty verdict in an extrajudicial killing since president go to ted his war on drugs began in two thousand and sixteen years here with more on that. a three police officers were sentenced folly for the murder of

a high school student each may spend up to forty years behind bars prosecutors say that the boy who was killed kian santos had been incorrectly identified by an informant as a drug pusher now the convicted officers denied any wrongdoing saying that they were acting in self-defense the philippine national police say that it respects the court's decision while the mother of the victim says she's happy with the verdict last in my sample of i say i'm very happy because this is the answer that proves my son is innocent and that he was never involved with drugs. now the opposition senator recency barrows who has fought against new territories drug killings says quote despite the gruesome climate of killing and impunity this verdict sends the message that there is hope and justice and we will fight for more light and truth until the darkness cannot overcome them but human rights watch has expressed its concerns saying that at the same time that we are hearts and by this we are also wary because new territory has promised earlier to pardon police officers convicted

in the drug war killings there is reason to suspect that he will in fact keep that promise now months after launch his drug war he said soldiers and police officers would not be jailed for carrying out his order to go after drug suspects and last year he said he would grant absolute pardon to a few policeman who may be convicted of drug related killings so many people online have responded to the court's decision one person saying big news from the philippines today but here are thousands more tragedies like his another says there is still hope for justice in the philippines as long as the right people remain in power another says until those with convictions aren't allowed to run for office i don't believe the justice system in the philippines works now since to territory launched his controversial campaign against drugs that was about two years ago nearly five thousand people have been killed that's according to police figures but if you speak to human rights activists they say that figure is way too low they put that number at more than twelve thousand now if you're in the philippines we'd love

to hear from you let us know what you think on twitter using the hash tag agent screwed. thank you very much shonda let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour and the opposition in georgia has rejected the outcome of the presidential election which saw the ruling party candidate when they're not calling for protests against the government let's take you to washington d.c. and president trump reacting to news of his full manoir michael cohen putting a guarantee to mind to congress less of an option that we will look you got in moscow everybody do about it it was written about in newspapers it was a well known project it was during the early part of sixteen and i guess even before that it lasted a short period of time i didn't do the brush check i decided to do the project so i didn't do it so we're not talking about doing a project we're talking about not doing a project michael cohen what he's doing is he was convicted i guess you have to put

it into a legal term but he was convicted with a fairly long term sentence on things totally unrelated to the trump organization having to do with mortgages and having to do with. cheating the i.r.s. perhaps a lot of different things i don't know exactly but he was convicted of various things unrelated to us he was given a fairly long jail sentence and he's a weak person advice being weak i'd like other people that you watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open with that we were thinking about building a building i guess we had a form it was an option i don't know what you call it we decided i decided ultimately not to do it there would have been nothing wrong if i did do it if i didn't do it there would have been nothing wrong that was my business. so he's lying very simply together we do said ok you know frankly.

i don't know when i decided but some. we're during the period of time i was never very enthused somewhere during the period because i was running for president my focus was running for president but i when i run for president that doesn't mean i'm not allowed to do business i was doing a lot of different things when i was running after i won obviously i don't do business one from january twentieth but more importantly which is a follow year but i ran a business in fact i often joke about the fact that i was you know only person that campaign and simultaneously ran a business but that was that was a project that we didn't do i didn't do that was a project that wasn't done for a lot of reasons simple one is that i was really not that i had to do it but i was focused on running for president i wanted that to be my primary focus not running

or building a boat. well this was a deal that didn't happen that was no deal i mean if you look this was an option i guess i don't know if i want to i want to be very specific so a put to my way of thinking it was an option that i decided not to do. so we didn't know if you look we really didn't have to think so excuse me excuse me. this was an option in a four but here's a very simple we had a position to possibly do a deal to build the building of some kind it myself i decided not to do it the primaries and that could have been other reasons but the primary reason it was very simple i was focused on running for president there would be nothing wrong goodbye i did do it i was running my business while i was campaigning there was

a good chance that i wouldn't have won in which case i would have gone back into the business and why should i lose lots of opportunities so there is a story. go back and look at the paper that michael cohn wrote before he testified in the house and your senate it talked about his position what he's trying to do because he's a weak person and not a very smart person what he's trying to do is and as it's very simple he's got himself a big prison sentence and he's trying to get a much lesser prison sentence by making up a story now here's the thing even if he was right it doesn't matter because i was allowed to do whatever i want to during the campaign i was running my business a lot of different things sure they can't pay so very simply michael cohn is lying and he's trying to get a reduced sentence for things that have nothing to do with me now let me go a step further i think he should go back to i think it was january it was just

reported very well by catherine herridge is that the respect we put her on fox. he talks about a letter that he talks about a river remember it and the pacific only talks about this deal this deal was a very public deal everybody knows about this deal i wasn't trying to hide it ok. i cannot i'm not. supporting like. what we're going to talk about but we have a lot of we have a lot of things. going on but i mean what what is your sense about it great it was kind of what you expected a different way. i think we're very close to doing something with john out but i don't know that i want to do it because what we have right now is billions and billions of dollars coming in to the united states in the form of power or taxes so

i really don't know but i will tell you that i think china wants to make a deal i'm open to make it a deal but frankly i like to feel we have to write down all right. i probably will be meeting with president bush we have been terminated that meeting i was thinking about it but we have to say right now that i think it's a very good time to have the meeting getting a full report of the plan as to what happened with respect to that and that will determine what occurred already rattling our house. will have a couple of years but we're getting a finalized report going about it the right way with him and frankly we're getting a finalized report i'm going to have a place. where i say leading right up are you. reading with the crown prince as a way to get out i know. you don't get only what is set up i mean i would i

wouldn't bet with him but we didn't set that one up by having with president today which is a very important meeting happening. it was great and it you know make it about right for me to do just that. if anything ok all right all right all right mark. now mind right i'm going to bring it up yes but i'm right that you probably didn't . i don't hear you gotta go you can see that you have a helicopter. parent on the ground you know the question was asked yesterday about part with respect to pull him out of court who. it's very sad what's happened to paul the way he's been very good i've never seen anybody treated so poorly but the question was asked of me by the new york post and i said no i have not offered any part and i think they asked for whatever what you i said i'm not taking anything off the table that was done as

a question from the new yorker you write ok ready to go out i thought it was all right you were wrong and we were right to post a poem is not a problem on on how about carol from having the most requests because a long time ago he did me a favor because i want a long time ago he did b. if they were all right we're going to have our. program. no not at all. not at all i'm not worried at all about him that you just take a look at his written document go back take a look at what he wrote and i think january has a written statement and i sat in the back yard. you know. with the plug under your arm and you and rant and we don't want your opinion to be contemporary now what do you want to read that when you can i don't know what you know you get with alec i can write.

a possible that if we don't get the. ok there are going. we're in negotiations we don't get border security by the book i was. all right this was moments ago and not live from the u.s. president donald trump speaking to reporters on the white house south lawn before departing for the g. twenty summit in argentina there you see him with the first lady milan a. present from answering a number of questions a lot of them focusing on news that his former lawyer michael cohen has pleaded guilty to a new criminal charge and that is making a false statement to congress about his efforts to pursue a trump tower in moscow during the twenty sixteen presidential election reacting to that president trump called his woman lawyer a liar and

a weak person who just wanted to get a reduced sentence let's bring in particle han in washington d.c. eat patty there we have it the reaction to michael cohen new guilty plea. name calling from the u.s. president i know not at all shocking because he does like to call people different names he also said that he was not very smart i have read through the indictment and basically what this has to do with is michael cohen testified before congress about it the so-called moscow project we know the president wanted to build basically a skyrocket she'd be a big building in moscow and during the campaign he said he had no business in moscow and michael cohen basically said that the deal went away and that he killed it before the first votes were cast in the presidential election in the primary well turns out michael cohen is now saying that he basically lied about that and that it was a much more extensive deal than he let on that he had talked to the president about it that he probably tried to was going to travel to russia to work out that he was

talking to senior officials within the russian government trying to set up a meeting between then candidate trump and russian president vladimir putin so now the response from the president couple of things i think we should go through with the present repeatedly said i decided not to do it that's different than what cohen had said previously under oath and that he didn't consult the president the president wasn't aware of it so the president seeming to admit that he had a role in this that it was unrelated that his long prison sentence that cohen is facing is unrelated to us cohen is facing a long prison sentence because of a different case there were a county pled guilty to and it was completely one hundred percent. related to the president and here's how that was for pay enough women who the president had had an affair with so that they wouldn't go public before the election that relates directly to the campaign that relates directly to the president he's actually named as an unindicted coconspirator in those court documents he said that he's going to

lie that he's lying to get out of a redo to get a reduced jail sentence we know that that does not work paul metaphor his former campaign chairman he had a plea deal he now. moeller special counselor a lawyer says he lied to giving us the cooperation so guess what nell minow ford is going to face an exponentially longer sentence so anyone michael cohen is a lawyer knows that if you make this plea deal and then lies he's going to prison for a very very long time as it is he's facing sixty five years for the previous case in another five years for this one patty thank you very much for that political hand reporting there live from washington now on a lighter note unesco has added reggae music to its world heritage list of cultural wonders. the u.n. agency says the music genre is worthy of protection because of its contribution to discussions around injustice and resistance reggae originated in jamaica in the

late one nine hundred sixty s. many of the songs address socio political issues including police brutality and inequality now you know school has also added a swathe of other cultural treasures treasures to its list let's take a look at some of them there is hurrying afield from island dating back about two thousand years some are a traditional dance that jordanian weddings also makes a list then we have the spring festive rites of course we does these rides include the first milking and mark the beginning of the new breeding year a form of korean for folk wrestling from the fourth century has a new protective status as well and then we have japan's ray hosts in rituals where people dress up in costumes and masks the tradition mocks a change of season and it's supposed to teach children about good behavior that speaks more about this not as them who is an associate professor of history and anthropology at shawnee state university is rise kaif's from athens ohio in the

u.s. thank you very much for your time so what does it mean to be on this unesco list and how do you actually get on it. well the list itself was created as part of a convention going back to two thousand and three when you know s.k. decided to have a convention for safeguarding what they refer to as intangible heritage is opposed to the most traditional types of cultural heritage we think of such as bonnie means buildings museums archaeological sites etc this is more to do with cultural practices such as the types that you just described and in fact there are actually two lists currently there's one that the rank of music is on and this is essentially an aspect of cultural heritage that a particular group considers to be important to them that is living that is functioning that it forms part of their identity that they can participate in but

then there's also a list of well the cole intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding this is where you might have some sort of custom practices traditions activities that maybe belong to a culture of but are dying out or perhaps not so widely practiced and therefore there are some extra efforts needed to in order to preserve that and then there are a series of criteria i believe there are about nine criteria that you have to meet some will most of you know which to get yourself on the list so not that right the music is on this nice what does it mean for the musical musical genre do you think reggae music deserves to be on this list. i think it does because for the people of jamaica and the you know the entire region if you will. it is part of their culture it didn't arise out of a very specific you know it's a genre connected at least initially when it came out with the dispossessed with

with the injustices and it spoke to that too to those times and those actions and so i think it represents a piece of cultural piece of history that is important not look look the you know not to also disregard the fact that it is a very popular form of your own i when i was growing up in the in the seventy's in the eighty's you know reggae music was part of michael you know the the john of music i listen to you i listen to bob marley like reba the else of my age at the time and it continues to be very popular so yes i think it is an appropriate choice and i would seven support it i think a lot of people think it's an appropriate choice think you so very much for talking to us. and for telling us about this unesco heritage list and reggae music being added to it thank you very much for your time and that will do it for today's news great remember to keep in touch with us on social media at all times have time as

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