so. one of these institutes is led by the american lawyer paul dietrich philip morris finances it with two hundred forty thousand dollars a year at the same time dietrich is a consultant for the w.h.o. regional office in america when his double role becomes known dietrich moves into the finance industry he won't agree to talk to me in the w.h.o. report on the strategies of the tobacco industry six other consultants are mentioned the british toxicologist frank sullivan for instance claims that passive smoking doesn't harm your health his study on the subject is financed by philip morris. in the year two thousand and sullivan's collaboration with the débâcle industry becomes public but he still continues to advice. i mean with two

department leaders commenting tobacco under the auspices of the w.h.o. we have a zero tolerance approach as i said the director general says the tobacco industry is our number one and i would say and we wear that badge very proudly is frank seligmann still a w jochen sat. absolutely i mean we have it and we have a they can't because the names of all those persons are well known through the documents but that nadal event and consented to w.h.o. for example in two thousand and two let's say. not that i'm aware of as well too and again the policies that are in place now is that all consultants no matter whether they're working in tobacco control or infectious diseases or anywhere in the organization have to sign a declaration of interest but this means a lot of trust the interesting bit they should be reviewed trust i think that you

should trust you trust you can't just start by already being suspicious of all the people and their capacities to do things ok thank you so much. and also. they always say ok we had a problem and there were single persons who were corrupt this was the sullivan. and so on. but i always thought it wasn't really persons and now it's over or could you say that segments of. it would have all the tobacco company documents which show how major corporations operate and the pharmaceutical companies or the chemical companies do not operate any differently their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of public health so these are the people that are the h one n one push. swine flu h one n one is presented by the w.h.o.

and in the public media as a huge threat wrongly as the leader emerges. if you've been diagnosed with probable or presumed two thousand and nine and one or swine flu in recent months you may be surprised to know this the odds are you didn't have a two thousand and one flu in fact you probably didn't have flu at all. many countries including germany italy france and great britain concluded secret agreements with pharmaceutical companies before the swine flu incident which obliged them to purchase swine flu vaccinations but only if the w h o issued a pandemic level six alert. the world is now at the start of the two thousand and nine influenza pandemic.

reason. fun right now. sun over. the in. the me but i pushed it. for three good minutes are not stopping to must if you can just kind of going to do nice to get the. most. swine flu makes considerable profits for the manufacturer vaccines and first quarter net. profit in the quarter rose to one point seven. billion us dollars from one point five billion i try to arrange an interview with the person responsible for swine flu at the w h k g fukuda he was often on television at the time but i get an appointment with the official press spokesman eleven countries officially reporting

three hundred thirty one cases of influenza a h one n one infection with ten dearth. well the country. companies and government we have to be aware of this of course you have to be aware of everything that's going on and it is extremely easy to after the fact say well maybe should not have done y. and a should not have done b. however think about the opposite what would have happened how the influenza killed fifty percent of the people it infected and there was no vaccine. and then momentum and then there were no no need to go to them to get that. program to. make i meant. more joke but and i meant no going to see another year another year in low amazing. by

cannot control upon them me including middle his solo in him is there a. group but he says he's the edge of a not. at the time i'm pregnant and i am poor it's crowds and all forms of travel public media exaggerates with words and images the danger resulting from swine flu. is how a man would be in order to get solar palooka on top of pretty girls and wonders whom can be their life and their lives and their lives could tell us he said ready to i don't like guidelines that there were below him is it could they have declared to condemn make a level six also with the zero at the finish no. i meant to. say that is the. media center. saying two years ago it did you

deal. and then me. so this is a. this was removed. before. people for age one in one. cabinet shown if you're missing the eye going to the pharma industry in so far as see i know good and there's on shia shrine a good to have day one of your article as you know if you like the local to do like phone calls of all sorts of all of that is allowed by its neighbors to the or it's already that's already installed and it just us of course would like to have a vaccine tomorrow we would have wanted to have it yesterday in two thousand and nine miss kinealy is a member of the w.h.o. swine flu working group previously she had worked with

a french pharmaceutical company trans g. the press spokesman doesn't allow me to interview her so i try to approach her directly at a conference i asked miss kinealy why the criteria of severity was deleted from the definition of a pandemic fades. to. expand. the . the truth their objective. their. value. i. don't want to. create. the.

toll. it's going to. do. i'll give you. and get. them into. the working group on swine flu consists of thirteen external consultants to report conflicts of interest ferguson declares consultancy fees from glaxo smith kline baxter and the manufacturers of the swine flu vaccines and medications not a problem for the. in two thousand and seven albert. right on the dutch

health commission due to his conflict of interest he declares to the. shares in the pharma company viral clinics which is suspected of profiting from swine flu he also declares. he's the chairman of. describing it as a group of independent scientists in fact it is partly financed by vaccine manufacturers. i can tell you they have no scientific meeting today organized that is not being spun the sponsored by industry and rightly so the industry is making the vaccines it's not the nationally students that are making the vaccines any longer industry is doing it i have a curious. at the moment i'm working more with the private sector as well so i started still consulting from time to time i used to reckon with as you scientists against influence i guess on the channels that particular organization because i saw it you declared this is a conflict of interest and it's not

a conflict of interest but i declare also what might be perceived as a conflict of interest in him and you have to be very careful so at least if you say that and of course people can hold it against you yeah but at least i can always say and i've always done that so hugh you're at least you show what you do it was written they are independent group of scientists yes when i looked and of upset as so is it it's funded by all. says no no it's not funded by some money comes from from from vaccine produces but there's money coming from many other sources as well and that's the same with w.h.o. and a lot of other you know organisations as long as you are transparent and show what you're doing it's fine i think how is that percentage of funding i don't know exactly but there is a substantial part of the funding comes from elsewhere from meetings comes from comes from european projects come from and there is a percent just coming from industry as well and that's completely transparent so it's fine to bring it up again but for me it's true. i don't get any hard figures.

without any facts without transparency i can't make any progress here. i hear good news and i hear. that. more. stuff. is. not only.

good news this kind of a scam. in

the case of the pharmaceutical industry it's even more difficult. than with the tobacco industry on the one hand the dollar is dependent on the pharmaceutical industries for. the industry's financial interests mustn't damage the. health. today the pharmaceutical industry is part of the health system just like the government's. politics are losing power and that's also reflected in the financing of the w.h.o. in the one nine hundred ninety s. all countries froze their membership contributions in the wake of the financial crisis. today and organizations foundations n.g.o.s and industry contribute almost forty percent of the w.h.o.

is annual budget the second largest source of finance right after the usa is the bill and melinda gates foundation. thirty years ago and starting microsoft there was we had a very ambitious vision a computer for everyone. now i join you in seeking to achieve an even more important vision which is good health for every human being today the w.h.o. relies on voluntary contributions like that from the gates foundation but these are often linked to conditions. the w h o's annual budget amounts to about two billion dollars coca-cola spends twice that much on advertising alone and the hospitals around lake geneva spend six billion dollars a year. when it was founded. could decide how to distribute its funds itself now seventy percent

of its budget is tied to particular projects countries or regions. if the w.h.o. receives funding to fight malaria for example it can't use that money to combat. those will put us in very. at present. the operational capacity of culture to do a full public health risk. what does the director general of the oath think about that. i want to ask her what constraints she is under. review.

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scientist who led a double life so secret even kept it from his family. but his activities would have a military impact for which he would pay the ultimate price. world investigates the life and death. the two new zealand drone engineer. hello i'm maryam namazie in london just a quick look at the top stories now there are reports that renewed fighting has broken out on the outskirts of the day just a day after yemen's warring factions agreed a cease fire in the port city earlier aid agencies took advantage of the truce to

distribute desperately needed food and humanitarian supplies the international committee of the red cross delivered more than three thousand passengers to the city a cease fire was agreed between who's the rebels and the yemeni government backed talks in sweden on thursday. the presence of our delegation in sweden is very important and we've sent a message to the world that we're with peace and we want to achieve peace talks were successful would put us on the right path to peace and to improve the humanitarian situation in all of human tragedy in yemen is unprecedented. anger against saudi arabia has been rising in the u.s. with the senate voting to condemn its longstanding ally of the war in yemen and its role in the killing of jamal khashoggi washington post is running a full page ad keeping up the pressure over the murder of the saudi journalist who was a regular contributor to the paper. or now to sri lanka where there's been another twist in the political crisis with mahinda rajapakse is set to resign from the disputed prime minister post on saturday rajapaksa son says he has made the

decision after meeting with president lightly parlous syria saying or trying to has been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks after a court suspended rajapaksa and his cabinet on the last two votes of no confidence israeli forces have arrested forty palestinians in the occupied west bank it says thirty seven of them are members of hamas including three senior leaders the u.s. commerce the army intensifies its search for a palestinian gunman who killed two israeli soldiers at a bus stop near ramallah on thursday china is suspending additional tariffs on the u.s. made vehicles and auto parts as part of an ongoing trade truce with washington the terror hole will last for three months and it starts on january first. bush prime minister tourism a is insisting she can get the extra clarification she needs from the european union on a break that deal to ensure it's passed fire on parliament the e.u. has repeatedly said it will not move from its current position main issue is the

so-called backstop at the irish border which will become the only land border between the u.k. and the e.u. off to press it. more on that story and everything else in the news out in twenty five minutes time stay with us. and the filmmaker i have a daughter it is important to me that she finds the will and good condition. i

can tell you the most scientific meeting today organized that there's no being spun that sponsored by industry and rightly so the industry is making the vaccines it's not the national is just their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of public health universal health coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer we will not let the people down. since i can't get to speak to market chan i meet one of her close advisors. a sink it simply perception to sink that can be an external independent review. because then you have to say who is selecting this independent expert and who is controlling their independence and who is controlling the independence of those controlling the independence. which. of course is right but is wrong in no is mixing everything up because this world

is as it is and you have to do what you can to make sure that the independence of the science is as good as possible it will never ever be perfect he's quite right that he should be talking about his own i mean his is from switzerland he came straight from switzerland which is a country that is completely locked into a partnership approach and he's in charge of partnerships. so i know. very keen that any.

radioactive contamination in public.

keeping silent. cancer. it's difficult to find anybody who is allowed to talk to my. off matsumoto. is also a doctor and has founded a convalescent camp for children from camp dominated area he was. i was at the limit i knew something like this let children out a. son or she was going out there so when i was about it i would have been at that . conclusion i will commit. you know when you are. should i think you need that you are much easier to withdraw. from what i've just.

this week you called a hundred their kid you were out. of your dorm or. divert or going to using the interview did it they must. as a result of experience after turn of all the w h l recommendations for iodine my revised in the year nine hundred ninety nine on of the supervision of the british scientist keefe baverstock and member of staff at the w.h.o. . when i started my program with w.h.o. within a few weeks i learned that there was a claim that there was

a large number of thyroid cancers in children and this ended up in a mission to minsk that we saw an astonishing number of children who had been operated for thyroid cancer quite young children so to see as we did on that day and i think it was eleven twelve maybe cases in one place at one time all having been operated was really quite extraordinary. we took it from there. ben russian colleagues i was too short papers in the journal nature to draw attention to it off to the papers were published w.h.o. me to withdraw the paper from nature. read a paper published with about five or six other people all agreeing on this position and crys lost me to redraw that they perform publication ofter as have been

published who were cries of. geneva that this is written by. you see fit you with my career he said your career will be shortened if you don't do this. and wasn't charged or. did you have any contact with us w h o f that's a typical accident in which a lot of them is and does this sort of the go karting is gonna end well you should at the to tell you muscle what i think you'll still get us as far as it goes they should have it on twenty and told us to name all that did not and you go i say stay here. when you. was a successful tended to my stuff. then there were so horses of a smother then i was and all. that and all

said so you're not either i mean my study is so you have them under that. they mustn't stop will be. as end up they could just as soon as they all. come out of the door and they mustn't stop oklahoma dyin all all month and then you could almost. i still find it beyond belief that naoto kan was convinced at the time that no radioactivity would emerge after the accident. just one day after the accident a monitoring station of the organization c t b t o recorded raised levels of radioactivity two hundred kilometers from the nuclear power station. i mean. i. think. maybe what i'm i'm.

doing it take i take. an all. and there you don't know by that kind of man could we scare the mom. gave them on even that including i but i mean. yeah you could have come up with another. if i had there was she needed to be one of the sort either there to witness you got a gun with money for mike to see my team either movement there. to meet their hiding place mom or when i got up and i not been long so they were there. and that's when it is going on all settled on another dental so they move which isn't good for the. mother so your mother each denied to still a dual boot to let us in the studio cooks but who is right in putting the mother's name and also you can see it so you just got out of the window and so you will be

on or simply was not called to do that without make up because in the making come was you know. what do you think today about iodine intake i asked the nuclear accident well again it's more or less what was said in the video people are not taking all it on as if it were the job news authorities have not said that that should be there and they have distributed are you going tablets pre-position them but have not yet i asked anyone to take them taking i don't like tablets in the absence of i don't read radiation because actually for you you need to mash i don't mind taking iodine to the exposure and i stand by that from today's point of view was the exposure given at that time in most affected areas or not you know again that's almost five years ago and i can't remember the process from day to day and certainly we would have adopted though our recommendations based on the

information we were getting. but there are these guidelines and it's written in the yeah you should take i have been was in the first six hours after a nuclear accident. that's in the air and it's also clear that it was not given in full. it's also effects i mean that's something you don't have to look up it's obvious ok. i really think you are wasting your time on this topic and then we should move on to other topics because i only have until twelve o'clock is it that he would cause say something critical about the chip in his government i. work on the basis of facts and if i don't have the facts and the information about your fingertips i'm not going to speculate. but in general is it possible for me to criticize nations i'm

a i'm not going to say anything more about this what should i say anything or no this was a general question not in relation to. well let's move on to another topic ok is it getting much difficult for you now that w h o has us trust. who says w. in terms of most trust that you. and the new york academy of science book this one. comes up with an estimate of nine hundred ninety five thousand deaths but that is world wide between nine hundred eighty six and two thousand and four. and of course that makes a dramatic contrast with what the establishment says which is still around fifty deaths and possibly four thousand cancers as a as a final total. we have been in front of the world health organization headquarters in geneva for seven years now and it is

a permanent peaceful protest. the other major mission is that the world health organization has never considered anything except cancer. as a health effects through committee so minister that role model is as much as an inch of the newsgroup that you used to but your admission yes you me you're right. because it just got huge students. who really are very much for sharing. your. thoughts on. the school. and yet they are already here. for. the rest of. us. who was involved in church to. rescue people that believe differently gives us. to be of tremendous gusty. since jan oh well we know that there are other

diseases one of the diseases unfortunately. it's cardiovascular disease inferred. diseases other than cancer there's a book maybe you heard about it of the academy of science which was reputed by the new yorker calamy of sciences because it's so when sound. but that's not true yes if you read the account of the statement from the new york academy of sciences and two thousand and eleven or twelve they were puting it at the board and let me give you this this is from the journal of radiology not a thing where you ok the york academy of sciences which talks about all the flaws of that ok ok so i should also if you something in her book review by independent to you. yeah yeah. ok we read this and then we meet again.

hello this is brilliant frank what does it mean exactly that the new york academy of science repudiate the chairman bill book the editor tells me that the academy never repudiated the book he permits me to record the phone call but later he withdraws his permission isn't the able to speak freely either perhaps the publisher of the chernobyl book can help me. orning good morning the original contact person at the new york cademy of sciences you know agreed to publish the book and then there was a big true at the new york academy and they didn't think it was a good idea and i suspect that they were pressured by the nuclear industry but i

don't know for sure. the influence of the nuclear industry. the international atomic energy agency. wants to promote a safe and peaceful use of atomic energy. the w.h.o. is concerned with health these are different priorities but the two organizations are working closely together. for example together with other u.n. organizations they are compiling a report on the health consequences of her novel. i'm

a critic. and they. tended not to invite critics for their two reports one of. the thing was that the would be whole series of going on between w h o and i a quite senior levels very senior levels. and they would. pre-determined what the line they would take that's why they had a stroke. a meeting in riyadh two thousand and five over two thousand and five to put a line across this is a this is what we're going to do. the trouble was that many many people came and. mary and me around works at the w.h.o. she's responsible for the risks of radioactive contamination i deliberately make an

appointment to see her in paris the press department won't get in the way here to make sure she agrees to see me i don't tell her what i want to talk about until we first meet. is like inches long incident saying that there have been one million that's the. kind of. cements this is because they look one of their own at the head and then the money out of one million this is it but this is because they are looking at a broader patch of the bird population one being that you think you can tide one billion but seriously yet do you seriously seem like course you have mortality requested how can you seriously believe that accident caused fifty deaths not only means it but it's still under davidge of websites. so we wrote the other report. and the initials are your r.c.h.

which is torch we said right away that we expected somewhere between thirty and sixty thousand altogether worldwide richard. because the plume from chernobyl wide right round the world. not hemisphere and whilst the concentrations were low far far away it doesn't matter because the many many millions of people there are six hundred million people and europe alone. and they were all affected even if its own cats are going to set you on the very next you'll see it even if i was claiming if we had them that mention i also had that often in regular in the soviet union.

we were not using cancer mortality figures but rather the incidence is because as you know most of the concepts can now be treated in therefore there will not work valid the associated i don't know whether you have not is but our health risk assessment is only with the log of but i mean if it once heard us the experts belong to a year this is kind of anticipating that those estimates from i.e. are not on the best of their science which is the case i don't think they were there to represent any interest i mean it was criticised that there was no. radio biologist also no scientist who have missed critical articles on has effect of nuclear energy but when you need to do as they think with poor it is not a question of bringing an activist the from the left when an act is to from the

right wing is a question of science what's happening is that there are groups outside that they want to use those us events to say you see nuclear energy is easy is bad is it is dangerous why with want to stop the use of the nuclear energy which is a different cost doing anything it could also be the other way around that nokia industry tries to or not to tell the whole truth about the health impacts absolutely i have no doubt for sure we are there and we are doing the best that we can and with the support of everybody who recognise that there is a need for a global public health. better to have institutions that would sense i mean with weight. and powerful institution it would be the best for all of us and i would fight for that for the rest of my life. convenes a health officer and i think my record accurately it's that if we need to fight and

not afraid. a scientist in the united states this past spring maybe observation that this generation of children. is the first generation in modern history. this is not going to be as healthy as their parents. that should not be. what do i do with this knowledge now go out on the streets together with independent who are just go home and dan. and i at the end now is there any real and margaret chan carries on. right. it's over to you folks who would like to start the round of questions.

is it on to you ok lilian frank over in media it's a question to dr chan we have just learned that area has a him and climate change global health challenges but i'm asking myself how can we meet him if he is constantly losing. important though nine nations may want a week. one could even compared to the titanic i would say so isn't it your responsibility dr chan to step down before the end of your second term an audit to signal to the well that your organization your ship is sinking you as an excellent question if i tell you that big toe as an organization only thirty percent of my budget is predictable funds other seventy percent i

have to take a hat and go around the world to beg for money. and when they give us the money they are highly linked to their preferences but they like it may not be the priority of the big show so if we do not solve this you know we're not going to ask that to be as great as we were.

hello there it's all happening in australia at the moment we've got cyclamens and severe storms as well some of the worst of the weather has been in sydney and melbourne these pitches are from melbourne where it's a case of safety issues as the rain has come down so heavily it's been a second day of severe storms here it's called disruption in melbourne and sydney you can see why this huge area of cloud hit it's also been affecting us in brisbane if you follow the same area flat further north of intially you get to this lot of cloud here and that's all cycling owain is running its way down towards the southeast as we head through the next couple of days and will bring many of us in queensland some very heavy downpours and potentially a fair amount of flooding too so on saturday then the worst of the weather will be in the north and then gradually that will trickle its way down east in parts on sunday for the west impossible straight really quite different have come professing

some showers i think for sunday but it took temperatures still of around twenty three degrees every towards new zealand we've got lots of cloud across the north island currently plenty more showers for us as we head through the day on saturday the south and should be brighter and brighter weather will push across most of the north island as we head into sunday as we head out towards japan it's mostly dry for his head but it's not that will let up temperature in tokyo just of ten degrees . in countries like mine people have been killed. we in the united states have privatized the old public function more this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis and other arabs when they came to britain will be all to help the past bombs do you will rumsfeld this meeting saddam isn't that interesting. shadow coming soon.

on counting the cost we'll assess the state of the u.k. economy is it continues to broker its way out of the you look at a major milestone for the internet and on the walls or economy in kenya counting the cost. is the opportunity to understand a very different way before we don't leave. zero . zero i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the

next sixty minutes aid packages arrive for the people of data but despite the truce fighting breaks out on the outskirts of yemen's vital port city. important. story programs. this is the u.n. finds the man who led saudi arabia into war with yemen hoping he's now willing to help end it also. he directed me to make the payments to donald trump's former lawyer says the us president knew it was wrong to make hush money payments during the elections. and after weeks of political turmoil sri lanka's disputed prime minister amanda rajapaksa says he'll step down to end the crisis. with all your day's sport as james harden rockets into n.b.a. history as used to dominate the bronze and the lakers that and more later this news out.

there are reports the renewed fighting has broken out on the outskirts of data a day after yemen's warring factions agreed a ceasefire in the port city earlier aid agencies took advantage of the two troops to distribute desperately needed food and humanitarian supplies to the data the international committee of the red cross delivered more than three thousand possibles to the city a cease fire was agreed between hoofy rebels and the yemeni government at un back talks in sweden on thursday. about delegation in sweden is very important and we've sent a message to the why. world that we're with peace and we want to achieve peace the talks are successful and put on the right path to peace and to improve the humanitarian situation the human tragedy in yemen is unprecedented. well a special envoy to yemen has briefed the u.n.

security council on the recent talks in sweden among the people he thanked for progress made was the saudi crown prince who is defense minister was behind the kingdom's decision to launch a military campaign in yemen nearly four years ago it remains read we've not been possible without the extraordinary level of support from world leaders and i certainly feel very privileged to have been able to rely on them i'm thankful to the saudi crown prince of been some of them who shared his personal support for this process at vital times every day very much we're going to go shave me in sweden i'm grateful to president hadi. who followed very closely our negotiations really returned to riyadh during this process and his involvement was clear on all files. well i'm going against saudi arabia has been rising in the u.s. with the senate voting on thursday to condemn its longstanding ally over the war in

yemen and its role in the killing of jamal khashoggi the washington post is running a full page ad keeping up the pressure of the murder of the saudi journalist who was a regular contributor to the paper the post says it will continue to push for meaningful action of a saudi arabia's role in his killing friday's ad is part of a larger campaign planned for two thousand and nineteen so let's bring in al jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashara who joins me in the studio now so marwan who just hearing a clip there of the u.n. special envoy to yemen mohsin griffis briefing the u.n. security council it does appear that some progress has been made in these talks in sweden but how fragile the truce is this brought let's just say first and foremost this is. been done on the humanitarian level so this is really step one part of a long morrow two words of resilience and of the question of yemen but certainly

the focus of the international community thus far and the special envoy is on the humanitarian situation. and the humanitarian situation is basically centered around the port city of high data because it is the very source of life bill really life or livelihood of yemen because that's where the bread and the rice and everything else that basically allows twenty plus million yemenis to survive so the unity everything is focused on that and before the few days before was focused on making sure that the saudis and they were not this don't attack the port take the risk of basically destroying the last. vehicle the words survival of yemen so it is the first the first step of many many steps and it is a very important step and it is step meant to say let's put the politics aside for the for the time being and it was all the humanitarian crisis but as you say the

risk of a full scale offensive on data which would be a desire disaster for the humanitarian situation that risk is still very much that it's not completely disappeared. what might the u.n. do next could they be more proactive be very difficult to get a security council resolution but that might at least consolidate some of that progress in such a little attack today absolutely so at this time at this point in time what is needed and i think that where that where we're heading into under the guide of the guardianship of the of the british. to enshrine the agreement in sweden in a u n security council resolution making it basically into effect a into law whereby the saudis and they are there is going to have to abide by it so it's very important for the u.n. security council to rush towards enshrining the agreements in sweden into those illusion this way it would be respected by the all parties all the parties if

specially those who were planning an attack. on on on one day the notably the iraqis on the saudi. yes but again even that will still be the first step towards the longer road towards recovery and towards was a mission i think that's why i think that's why the secretary general and the special envoy would go out of their way to thank someone everyone knows including the both of them that is responsible for the tragedy of yemen to the which is come of this of mine because unlike him they're not going to hold yemen hostage to a political calculus now they're say let's resolve the image then crisis even if it means just getting towards the saudi crown prince because this is a first among many whereby in battle the international community we've seen the american congress but hopes others will take baggage measures against the very particular case of mohamed bin said man or say for the killing of the four other

crises that he's created that the manufacturer but in a fight as yemen is concerned it is paramount that the yemenis after three years of war to be able to recover from what is a famine and total disaster in the country thank you very much more on bashar. well now in other developments donald trump's former lawyer says the president told him to pay hush money to two women during the two thousand and sixteen presidential elections in full knowledge that it was wrong michael cohen was giving his first interview since he was sentenced to prison this week on multiple charges some of it's related to payments and hushing up allegations about trump's sex life can really help it has that story. as the courtroom drama surrounding donald trump's former personal lawyer came to a dramatic conclusion this week michael cohen was largely silent not any more so i knew what i was doing was wrong in contrast to his earlier statements cohen now

says trump knew about the hush money payments he was making to two women alleged to have had affairs with trump according to cohen the payments were directed by trump in an effort to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen presidential election nothing of the trump organization was ever done unless it was run through mr trump he directed me to make the payments he directed me to become involved in these matters the payments were in the hundreds of thousands campaign finance law caps contribution to a campaign at twenty seven hundred dollars making the payments and the legal donation to trump denies he ever directed his former lawyer to break the law i never directed him to do anything wrong whatever he did he did on his own he's a lawyer a lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing that's what you pay them a lot of money on wednesday cohn was sentenced to three years in prison his crimes include making false statements to congress tax evasion and arranging those

payments during the twenty sixteen election he will begin serving his sentence in march he denies he's speaking out to embarrass the president but instead to further the probe into possible ties between the trump campaign and russia the special counsel stated emphatically that the information that i gave to them was credible and. helpful to substantial amount of information that they possess that corroborates the fact that i am telling the truth to done with a lie i have done with the lawyer and i'm done being loyal to the president trump cohen's conviction and scandalous revelations come as president trumps political and potentially legal problems are compounding cohen's cooperation also suggest the russian probe under special counsel robert muller is accelerating can really help get al-jazeera the white house. well china is suspending additional tariffs on us

made vehicles and alter parts as part of an ongoing trade truce with washington tariff halt will last three months starting on january first chinese imports of u.s. vehicles fell thirty percent in the first ten months of twenty eighteen but authorities say they're expecting volumes to pick up in the new year well this comes as disappointing growth data sent china stocks tumbling and raise fears for its economy new figures show china's november retail sales grew at s. slowest pace since two thousand and three china's industrial production was also its weakest in nearly three years because of a slowdown in domestic demand and issues in the auto and property markets but a spokesman for china's national bureau of statistics insists economic growth is on track to achieve its annual target in two thousand and eighteen well the u.s. and canada say they are committed to keeping politics out of the extradition case involving while ways chief financial officer china has called for men one joe's immediate release by canada why she was arrested on december first on a u.s.

request as secretary of state has been meeting canada's foreign minister and washington says he's hoping for a good outcome. the united states is engaged in an extradition process this mang travel to canada the canadians have taken her into custody now released her on bail pending extradition and the extradition hearing. will continue to engage through legal processes to get the just outcome that's connected to that. we have a set of trade discussions that are ongoing with the chinese as the chinese have said or we're working on that wall all the other issues not just this particular issue have lots of complicated issues going on with china today all around the world and we work on each of those to get good outcomes for the people united states of america and respecting the rule of law each step along the way so i have for you on this news out from london as a seven year.