adding scorpions in a clay pot and tossing him at your enemy or taking bodies 3 people who have died from the plague and tossing them over city walls and medieval times poisoning water supplies these are all ancient techniques in biological warfare but it was only during the major wars of the last century where science started to hurt us to conduct this time. the real danger of the real threat since the beginning of the 20th century you're moving into bombs airplanes and the really and so microbiology.

during the sino japanese war the japanese government engaged in a massive biological weapons program between 19401943 japan dropped hundreds of bombs infected with deadly germs on 11 chinese cities. as many as 200000 chinese citizens perish. they did initially the attacks on northern cities with plan to take and people did die and then later in the early part of the 1940 s. there were more aggressive attacks where they used anthrax planters cholera and other diseases. mountain for months is a united states pathologist with an interest in medical history in 1998 a colleague sent. him

a package containing autopsies performed on chinese victims years before i opened it up and they were page after page of these people murdered by biological weapons . it was the 1st time and one of the few times when i looking at it. i could feel palpable evil and there were. docked with them and discovered that some of the victims of japanese bombing had survived in 2000 to travel today if it is called make villages for the simple reason that people who were there in the summer of 1942 got rotten eggs when you interview these people you get a very similar story a lot of people started getting boils on their bodies throbbing thinking 1st minute it loses pass and blood and continues to be horribly painful and essentially never heal eventually dr from them ski concluded that the villages was suffering from

glenda's a disease that attacks horses and which for decades had been all but eliminated. the japanese had dropped bombs laden with this pathogen they spread colorado they spread typhoid fever is produced in theory they spread glanders they spread anthrax and they spread plague. especially doing a biological scorched earth. perhaps even more horrific than the dropping of germ bombs where the experiments carried out by unit 731. in manchuria. japanese sent out their secret police and rounded up troublemakers and they would end up at unit $731.00 as human guinea pigs and they would inoculate them with diseases to see how long they would die and they would. them to stakes and drop

bombs out of airplanes to see how well the bombs spread the disease. there's always an aspect when you're dealing with biological weapons or chemical weapons some extent of extermination the way you would exterminate. after the end of the war japanese scientists who worked at unit 731 were granted amnesty by the united states in exchange for information on the biological weapons program the japanese who did bad science killed thousands of people doing it got off scot free and they ended up going back to the universities and became chairman of departments and became captains of industry and and. on happy lives. successive japanese governments have been extremely reluctant to take responsibility for atrocities committed during world war 2. all the major powers have dabbled in the germ warfare but the british scientists did their

grim work here in this research establishment they stored 50 kilograms of bacteriological agent enough to kill every living thing on a the british experimented with typhoid dysentery and cholera testing these pathogens on animals. if you're using a live agent test and this was done out in the ocean in many cases what you would do is tie animals on cages on deck and disperse the agent and see how well it would affect the animals and this was also done for example by the united kingdom with sheep being tested with anthrax on good island. world war 2 did not bring an end to biological weapons the cold war heated up providing another excuse to produce this deadly arsenal.

britain france and canada for example embarked on a program experimenting with many kinds of diseases. that awful there would be enough to. be a little dose of that was to kill something like 50000 people this bottle on the other hand contains a biological agent simulate if that were friends of senator ensign which causes the disease to remain there could be enough in that vault to infect every man woman and child in the world. but it was the u.s. biological weapons program that was the most dangerous it was by far the largest and most ambitious 8 aggressor military leaders no disadvantage chemical and biological agents cannot afford an early be detected by the human sensory or your reactionary i think. the effect could be deadly to part of the state guard the experimenter's dangerous organisms are confined to safety cow but. using

rubber gloves which are sealed to the cabinets scientists can handle deadly cultures and still be safe from infection. with the cold war the united states begins a biological weapons program which is twinned with the nuclear program as a date of any potential agent is another important criteria. of course you're familiar with the pathogenicity of dr linus talks of a suspension of which is we're being tested by intraperitoneal injection of mike. many kinds of animals were used in us experiments mice rats rabbits guinea pigs and most especially monkeys the restraining boxes used to hold a monkey in position to receive the measured air assault. be on a horse and pass through a series of air locks and positioned in a sealed exposure chamber commensurate using monkeys with all the monkeys you want but you still don't know at the end of the day whether to make

a human sick how much you make a human sick how long the person will stay sick and so you need to have human subjects in order to proof test whether. we went through all kinds of room. lights we changed our clothes in the scrub then we've got on the elevator and went up to a catwalk in each port hole they had a black a colorful and that's when you put into them they'd close the door and that's when we were hooked up to the tube. you can smell it taste it not it's a. few seconds so poor. ken jones was inhaling q. fever a bacterial infection which can result in hepatitis and pneumonia. he is a religious pacifist one of a 2000 conscientious objectors who volunteered for operation white coat.

if you want to end for keep it where some $600.00 military and civilian scientists work together in research at the army biological laboratories to protect this country against a biological attack that is a silent assault by an invisible cloud that carries disease organism. there was testing on humans often done in a facility at fort dietrich known as the 8 ball which was in l.a. sion chamber where they could disperse aerosols and see you know how much it takes to infect a human but they were given immediate medical treatment in to the best of my knowledge there were no fatalities. my coach volunteers claim that the us government assured them that all testing would be for defensive purposes only this is the make of the vaccine to protect you. and make it

a hazmat suit to protect a gas mask to protect you lot of hospital procedure coming from this operation. what was happening at fort dietrich was not only a defensive program but also an offensive program so it was research that could be used for either purpose. here was here controversy about the white coat program there was a lot of heat about the biological weapons program there were ethical worries that is it do we really want to start a disease that might sweep the country. we just got rid of i have decided that the united states of america renounce the use of any. deadly biological weapon that either kill or.

president nixon had decided that given the success of hiroshima and nagasaki in ending world war 2 nuclear weapons were the supreme deterrent the us biological arsenal was deemed unnecessary in 969 the united states halted offensive biological research and eventually destroyed all stockpiles the idea was that the nation state the us as a nation state didn't need it it had the clear weapons with which it could destroy people quite nicely thank you. and that you know that possessing these things would just encourage other people to go. whitehall london april look 1972 a place from the time of real significance for the future of the world and the people in it in 197-2103 nations including the united

states and the soviet union approved a convention prohibiting the production of biological weapons. the treaty to which these nations have committed themselves find them to stop making biological weapons and to destroy all existing stocks of those most gusting means of math the good thing about the biological weapons convention is a stablish the norm it established and or against. other people would do what other states want to do and at this got that all. but critics felt the convention was all but useless it had no teeth it still has no inspection provisions in large part because even before any country put in on paper signing that treaty there was the prevailing concept that it was impossible it was unverifiable this soviet union actually used the convention to embark on the

largest. and most destructive biological weapons program in the history of the world and soviet signing. the biological weapons convention while at the same time embark on a huge ramp up of their biological weapons program. there are no words to describe just how heinous that type of a government policy is. the soviet union always believed that there was not rules behind this conventions and they believed the diva's to. use the convention to gain an advantage is to develop the biological weapons secretly in spite of the commission. if they believed exactly the same. so the 2 could track

each of the convention for $22.00 summers. in a senior scientist and an army colonel worked at version and in the our old sea it was here year after year that the soviet union tested weapons loaded with the most deadly diseases imaginable the political year is full of the recipients of. the truth we should be able to get in really. real to the. police or is listening to the want to there is still a war. there were serious be real to the case that it was global with a 1000000000. dollars it is terrible to google is what we all can witness. these. spores are just as a barrel of this bull is it really is

a war should you be. a russian chemical weapons center a chick county on the river it's suspected that chemical and biological weapons are still being developed at sites like this so western satellites have been watching for years. the soviet biological weapons program was roughly the same size as the nuclear weapons program and it was ultra secret very deeper than. so we're talking about roughly 50 facilities and upwards of 50000 scientists technicians that's a lot of technical talent could toward the development of these types of weapons begins to plants against animals against people. but i think many of us were very surprised at the enormity of the soviet enterprise

because i think until the end of the cold war we really didn't understand how big it was and they said this is officer the purpose of this we're going to make vaccines organisms for pesticide use and so on and that's what there is of what they call the legend system that is the real purpose and they began by far the biggest biological warfare program that the world has ever seen and probably the most sophisticated. as put prepares to exit the people in power investigates disturbing allegations about the tactics used by the winning leave campaign we know that the law was broken and we know that campaigns overspent we know that russia tried

to build a relationship with one of the key campaigns. paid for bricks it people in power on al jazeera. some were coerced. by this right. to the core. but we're all complicit in creating the wild of terror and depression. now living in fear and denial they reveal their motivations and the shocking truths from the inside. witness the women of ice. on al-jazeera. driven by outrage and spanning generations the row hinge of demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was power

if you don't like we're so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back 10 and the day after tomorrow they'll send back 2030 or if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho among the most persecuted minority used in the world. hello i'm david and and and these are top stories the u.s. president says that impeachment inquiry against him over a phone call to his ukrainian counterpart is based on a hoax but a summary of the july call the lot of merit selenski has been released by the white house and it reveals trouble did i ask him to investigate rival joe biden. the so-called whistleblower the one that didn't have any 1st. or 1st rate

or. second tier information from what i understand you have to figure that out for yourself. but i've spoken with leader kevin mccarthy and the republicans many of them. and we were going to do this anyway but i've informed them. all of the house members that i fully support transparency on the so-called whistleblower information iran's president says there won't be any negotiations on its nuclear program as long as u.s. sanctions stay in place hassan rouhani accused the us of economic terrorism and has addressed to the un general assembly britain's prime minister's challenging opposition parties to call a motion of no confidence in him that could lead to a general election or is jobs and has been facing repeated calls to resign after

the supreme court said is decision to suspend parliament was illegal israel's president has asked benjamin netanyahu to try and form a new government the prime minister still has no clear path to a 5th term after emerging from the september 17th ballot without a majority in our us 28 days to form a coalition. and members of hamas have held a special session session of the palestinian legislative council to support prisoners on hunger strike dozens of palestinians in israeli jails are on their 16th consecutive day of an open ended strike they're protesting against mobile phone jammers and prisons that they say cause cancer and haiti's president is calling for calm after days of protests in the capital port au prince at least one person was killed in clashes with the police on wednesday protesters have been calling on java now moyes to resign is accused of corruption and failing to resolve worsening fuel and food shortages. well that's the update up next manmade invisible

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sagna been really is a professor at george mason university and an expert on biological weapons she was born in tunisia and studied in france they had several people from teaching. to the western countries by antibiotics that were available at the time and these were used sent back to the former soviet union and used to develop pathogens that would be resistance resistant to those antibiotics some of the diseases which the soviet scientists experimented with have long threatened mankind lithuanian born raymond zilinskas is a former microbiologist and a director at the monterey institute of international studies nobody thought that

anybody with so irresponsible as to be working with smallpox. so there was another contagious from it spreads from person to person and it's very deadly in nature crossing by 30 percent. but with a weapon i was probably even stronger maybe 50 percent or even higher for them so that was horrible and then the circa one i was really awful was a place where the marburg virus against which there is no vaccine no treatment it's about 80 percent solid and well. ironically it was soviet citizens themselves residents of the industrial city of faired lost who discovered how deadly their nation's bio weapons were in 1979 anthrax was accidentally released into the air the wind blowing southward towards the city carried the pathogens 60 people died. for 16 years

sergey popof worked as a scientist in soviet lib oratory creating some of the most destructive weapons ever conceived by mankind after the collapse of the soviet union immigrated to the united states. i clearly understood that it was biological weapons research there was no way around it because the system to engage people and did not let them grow. there would be a record the k.g.b. record. wherever you go. the idea was to set up an automated research facility to synthesize different viruses so it was a clear attempt. to take advantage of new approaches. and genetic engineering design new varieties of information so. when these

agents are used by people who get infected develop the symptoms of one day. and when the physicians try to treat to start treating a person for that disease the treatment triggers the other agent which eventually kills. the person as horrific as this program was unlike in the united states the soviet scientists did not test the disease on human beings but they did use animals extensively. the typical experiment when the guinea pigs lose control of their body so they did not control their real lives and that resulted in this is that in this. experiments and mark used creative demonstrate. the weapons.

for some of this there will be no protection it will become please collapse of the social life. of the society overall of the economic life a devil opt aerosols a fat. spread the bacteria or virus. the air make it airborne and therefore. increase the number of people that get infected the effects of a contagious biological attack could spread around the world literally within the outer bands.

with the collapse of the soviet union in 1901 the new russian state simply couldn't afford to support a program that cost the country billions of dollars bio weapons research and production were shut down ultimately into it turned out to be a very stuff of effort and money complete 1st for our sake a power bar was one of thousands of russian scientists who suddenly found themselves without a paycheck obscured people who never established career you know in communication vis visit academically she was just so it was very difficult to present ourselves you know as scientists and nobody would hire us. to know accomplishments in the biological weapon p.c. which so it was a kind of thought trap so the crowd most of the thousands of scientists

involved in the bio weapons program remained in russia and tried to adapt to the new society dr popof managed to immigrate currently a researcher in biotechnology at george mason university. with the dismantling of the soviet program it was hoped that biological weapons would become obsolete this was not the case for years it had been secretly stockpiling a deadly arsenal weapons they had produced themselves they had developed to really serious systems one was based on bombs. that had 3 different kinds of were hits one worse than tracks the 2nd was was much one talks and then a certain one was something called aflatoxin. so those were ready to go they were loaded they had about $200.00 of those $25.00 scud missiles with the same kind of words and they were ready to. well base sooner than on some of the things that were

considered the classic agents in the major western soviet program like anthrax like clostridium bottom line but then they also did some unusual things why would one turn a disease that causes liver cancer. into a weapon the results would have. been shocking. the go forward service so quickly the iraqis did not have a chance to use their deadly arsenal the united states was pretty clear in articulating that response options would be considered. used chemical or other weapons. and i think that caused some hesitation on his part

after the gulf war ended it x. bio weapons program remained hidden until in 1995 united nations inspectors finally uncovered it the inspectors didn't want to get away with it if they had just thrown in the towel. it it's very troublesome to think about how that would have changed the course of history in the middle east because iraq would have retained a super secret and the tinsley very potent category of weapons. it x. program illustrated vividly that it is conceivable that nations of all sizes could get their hands on bio weapons. secretive countries such as north korea are suspects and syria has actually admitted to stockpiling weapons of mass destruction including biological i think there are some states out there that are still in this nasty business so if you really want to knock out weapon why not go for the one

that's comparatively a lot cheaper easier to develop technologically the one they're not looking for. a more were. russian and the united states both in says that they are not presently engaged in the research or production of offensive biological weapons questions remain however i believe that the united states would know this for the same is the united kingdom but we have very little information about versions assumed it is still there for this zarif facility is russian and. indeed in the biological. research nobody ever different from those facilities but it was allowed to visit. the black boxes. at present the concern is not so much about nation states using bio weapons as

individuals especially those with scientific knowledge seth caris is a professor at the national defense university in washington he has written extensively on bioterrorism and bio crimes but one of the the things that surprised me when i started digging into this was the number of people who used biological agents of one kind or another for criminal purposes it's not uncommon today 'd to see people trying to get hold of toxins to users instruments of murder. 1983 on finesse it in oh we and nursing home manager was convicted of killing 22 patients by injecting them with curious it a muscle relaxing drug used by the holmes medical staff in prison he admitted to murdering many more people in the mid 960 s. mitsuru suzuki a japanese physician then bacteriologist handed out sponge cakes filled with salmon

and dysentery bacteria to his colleagues he was eventually linked to an outbreak of typhoid fever and dysentery that sickened 200 people and killed 4. even more dangerous than vengeful individuals or groups bent on destruction. for georgia man have been charged with conspiring to possess a destructive device one of the accused said there is no way for us is published to save this country the same georgia doing something highly illegal this wasn't just long taken real steps toward iran carrying out their plans for the alleged plot involved explosions and a deadly biological toxin noticed there was like a little obvious have some other. bioterrorism is a real concern there are certain groups that are motivated and some of those groups

that are motivated might have the capabilities at some point there's probably going to be some of it some point we are going to have bio terrorist could be potentially serious according to al jazeera and many other reliable news sources al qaeda had progressed much further towards developing biological weapons before $911.00 then the world had realized while there has not been a biological attack by this group so far it remains a real concern u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton in december 2011 warned that there is evident. that al qaeda in yemen is hard at work developing weapons of mass destruction in particular biological pathogens. often called the brains behind a sama bin laden iman is now likely to assume the leadership of the diffuse organization that is al qaida film together by al jazeera in the mountains along the afghan pakistan border on less described as bin laden's closest mental this was

in 20032 years after 911 the concern about all of. us primarily from the fact that it's one of the few terrorist groups a has been interested in causing mass casualties and he has explicitly expressed interest that in fact us and try to put together a biological weapons program fact that so if there were still their house and the house to be concerned. paradoxically the danger of bioterrorism has increased with the revolution in the sciences that are prolonging and enhanced single human life as cures for cancer and other diseases a found the number of trained people who could use their knowledge for nefarious

purposes has also grown now the big change has been that biotechnology has spread throughout the world and that means that all the equipment and supplies related to civilian peacefully directed by technologies out there are all over the place. and that means that theoretically every buddy who's doing civilian biotechnology can do military but technology the fermenter does not know that it's from mounting bacillus thuringian says to become a fire pesticide or bacillus anthraces to become the biological weapon of the biological weapons system and that's compound good by the internet having become the world's shopping center. the number of people who know how to use the tools of biology and could but simply do as has grown steadily so that millions of people are in that category now of thirst if i

wanted to acquire a laboratory that would be potentially capable of producing. some important quantities a biological agent i could buy that for not a whole lot of money on the and the reality is you could do that almost anywhere in the world that. the al qaeda was buying its equipment in pakistan and had no trouble clipping. laboratory in afghanistan. you know the kinds of food from the under the war laboratory equipment that you would need and you can buy pretty much anywhere there are producers of botulinum toxin and you can buy that already in the last 6000 nation from particular mainland china on the internet and so we can provide any quantities you need i mean that's something completely new that you can buy the

most toxic substance in the world over the internet as the 1st scientists and then the question is what about the what we call the known operators people now that are setting up molecular biology and editorials in their homes and their garages and resellers or whatever and they're doing for the fun of it are they going to be able to create a pathogen and one of them be crazy enough to want to do that yeah i would worry about that and. maybe one of the most troublesome aspects of the life science revolution is that the information emerging is available to everyone no matter what their motivation you know most of the science that you need to create a biological weapon is obtainable through open scientific literature that needs to exist in order to improve the world's health. since the 1990 s. no respect i just got behind the idea that all the biological literature should be

online so your university undergraduate anywhere in europe has access to stuff behind pay walls their digital libraries and has access on an equal basis as a 16 year old kid from bangalore. nothing illustrates the dial a number of readily available research more than the bird flu controversy in september 2011 a team of dutch and u.s. scientists announced that they had engineered a strain of h 5 n one that could spread among mammals and possibly humans it caused a worldwide approach it's a real life tale that reads like science fiction a dutch scientist using u.s. government funding creates a deadly synthetic virus the super lethal bird flu physical model of an influenza virus of which bird flu is one inside our genes that change and it's within this heart that mutations happen previously thought into thought it would take many mutations to bed for it to become airborne now we know it only takes 5 in february

2012 the world health organization convened a meeting of experts who concluded that the h 5 n one research should not only continue but also be published a tsunami of controversy descended. in order to defend ourselves against the possibility. we need to do that kind of research but the question is still is it worth the risk and that's some people say you know the cost benefit on that the costs are too high because it could be released out of the laboratory and then it would really be how. and other ones to say no you know it's being done under under the highest security conditions and we're learning a lot from it so we are better prepared so make a choice but given that mother nature is the ultimate bioterrorist i think we have to push forward on the research i don't think we have a lot of a lot of options

a small group of scientists. so-called community essentially created a weapon of mass destruction and they did so to make a political point that no public health resources and attention should be focused on this particular problem. the risk of publishing it wasn't just that some malefactor is going to make this and let it loose you know because he thinks it will bring armageddon but that it will now spread to dozens of laboratories who make it and study it you know the risk is in a small number of years you know this will get out to a larger scientific community. to put it mildly let the rest of humanity down. the bird flu controversy highlights a difficult question facing the world's population what can we do to stop terrorists individuals or groups from creating and using biological weapons so far

the global community has not come up with a planned response to this threat the u.s. government has spent billions of dollars developing vaccines against pathogens such as anthrax but many critics believe that io technology is changing so rapidly that these will be rendered useless we don't have a medical corner measure for every possible disease especially with viruses so if a terrorist or one of those kinds of. we have a problem a certain possibility that we were. existing. if a terrorist group were to. go there they're resistant to some of the more common and that we start it would create tremendous problems for us. it's not trivial to do but it's also rocket science i think expecting that there could be.

control over all the components and all the materials and all the equipment that could be used to manufacture. things i think. is a promise i still think that's possible for some effort is being made to put in place global safeguards the manufacturers of synthetic d.n.a. for example in the united states europe and china have established guidelines regulating who would have detained this material but these are not industry wide and they are voluntary another strategy is for scientists to report any erratic behavior by. the f.b.i. supported by president obama would like. say more about what goes on in life science laboratories but united states scientists resist this they believe they can police their labs themselves filmed be convinced that the

bridge deletions in this field i important but the one to be sufficient less people take very seriously the possibility of biological that are not dark but i see individual scientist has access to biological agents so brooke and this people see in people next. to you is is very important probably the only we to really. to prevent some dangerous taking place ironically the best way to control biological terrorism may have to do with the weapons themselves to somebody if i some cells with a horrible disease i mean that their death is going to be hideous it's going to be prolonged and horrible and at least. it's a lot more romantic to go out with it with a glorious bank than it is with a with a slow painful whimper and all of our rules and international conventions are

designed by nations for nations but because of the internet that has been a quantum shift because now we're dealing with individuals the concert comment or national routes you have a computer in a city in every home how can you control it all so i think that's really the biggest bunch of control issues in their lives and the chemical and biological field right now. in the end scientific ethics and basic human goodwill may be the only deterrent to the proliferation of biological terrorism whether by countries groups or individuals.

how do more hot sun side across the middle east in fact some rain recently even that's in the process of clearing away we got somewhere to weather having set that up towards the black sea in this band of clouds stretching out to keep pushing up towards northern parts of the caspian could see a little bit that weather around the caucasus and 20. his hot sunshine 34 degrees in karate so the numbers around for baghdad were 43 degrees still 2 or 3 degrees about the seasonal average and more of the say as we go on through friday and almost service is pretty much being resumed across the peninsula following on from our recent tropical cyclone he caught that sizzled out as it's made its way inland pushed in across the eastern coast of amman little bit some places a cabbie wanted to specify but nothing much to speak of something by the time we come to friday some end of the red sea into the gulf of aden you could see wanted to shout into that southwestern corner of yemen same want to see showers around the

coastal fringes of. showers see you can see how that cool southerly breeze been fading in here even harare struggling to get to around 18 degrees celsius as a 26 in cape town when dry and the warmth spreading east. an ethiopian woman determined to tell the world a new story about her country our source. is the most beautiful thing we've got and i wish we can just realize that just the fact that despite the challenges she became c.e.o. of tourism and head of ethiopia's land development project my ethiopia on al-jazeera. i

remember the 1st time i walked into the newsroom and it felt like being in the general assembly of the united nations has the so many nationalities. it is just that we all come different places but it's one that gives us gives us the ability to identify with the. other side of the world but we can understand what it's like to have a different perspective and i think that is a strength for al-jazeera. it's a joke. impeachment that. donald trump continues to deny any wrongdoing after a transcript showed that he did ask the ukrainian president for a favor to investigate a political rival. a

little come i'm giving up on your watching our desire live from also coming up efforts to bring iran and the u.s. to the negotiating table failed president rouhani rules out talks with trump administration encrease the sanctions. it's deja vu for israel's prime minister he's going to get i've been asked to form a new government a deadlocked election. under pressure to resign the british prime minister remains defiant and challenges the opposition to hold a confidence vote. the u.s. intelligence chief accused of protecting donald trump will be forced to explain himself in a few hours as the clamor to impeach the president grows director of national intelligence joseph maguire decided to make complaints about trump's call with ukraine wasn't an

urgent concern but details of the call released by the white house reveals that donald trump did last bloody mary's ill and ski to investigate rival joe biden 100 has more from washington as the 4th u.s. president to face an impeachment threat donald trump is scrambling to lead history it's a joke no president yet has been removed from office through impeachment on wednesday the united states 45th president sending unusually said dude seemed to feel history's wait for said what the democrats are doing to this country dividing. they're belittling their demeaning our country so many leaders came up to me today and they said. what you go through no president has ever gone through the white house's own account of a july phone call between president trump and ukrainian president villota mirror's alinsky was released wednesday it revealed that is trump was withholding 2 $150000000.00 in aid from ukraine he repeatedly asked vilinsky for in his words

a favor investigate former vice president joe biden trumps a potential presidential rival trump asked selenski to coordinate the probe with u.s. attorney general bill barr entrance personal lawyer rudy giuliani trump without offering evidence accuses biden of ending a conflict of interest probe into his son hunter biden took a lucrative position on the board of ukraine's biggest gas company in 2014 while his father was directing u.s. policy there in the summary of the phone calls alinsky promised his top prosecutor in his words will look into the situation but with trump it is side ukraine's leader says he did not pursue it i'm sorry but i don't want to be involved to do a critical all. elections and i think. anyone you know that that had a question that is the answer

a whistleblower in the u.s. intelligence community alarmed by trump's apparent use of state power for political gain reported the president's call to an inspector general however the complaint was not passed on to congress under instruction from the white house and the justice department amid the fear it has now been passed to lawmakers i found the deeply disturbing. i also found them very credible i can understand why the inspector general found them credible the house intelligence committee received the whistleblower report on wednesday on thursday acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire testifies before congress that session is now part of a formal impeachment inquiry into the president asked about the call trump repeatedly turned the focus on biden fully support transparency on the so-called whistleblower information even though it was supposedly secondhand information which is sort of interesting but also insist on transparency from joe biden and his

son hunter on the millions of dollars that have been quickly and easily taken out of ukraine and china now trump's efforts to prompt an investigation into his rival have instead helped to prompt another historic probe when intended to decide whether he is fit to remain in office john hendren al-jazeera washington. michael boss a-q. is a global affairs analyst and former spokesman for the organization for security and cooperation in europe smith's mission to ukraine and joins us from banker islands and canada thank you very much for coming on the program. if we look at this from the other side we a quick glance at the transcript shows that zelinsky assured his country's cooperation there was lots of flattery of trump. can you explain his position and this and this conversation. sure good to be with you well i wouldn't want to be put

in his position if i were him but look 1st of all i don't think this is the mafia style shakedown that it's been portrayed in some quarters but my big fear is that ukraine as a landscape will be collateral damage in this crisis that is happening in the united states. is the landscape ran on a platform of clean government eradicating corruption and. you know a new chapter for ukraine but unfortunately and all of you here and you know the american press and from republican circles is that ukraine is a very very corrupt place because of what happened in the past so the other thing i should say is that the landscape like many world leaders to be honest flatter trying today he complimented him and i think that has become a pattern for people who meet with trump but i don't think it will do him any favors when he goes home and one more thing if i cannot very quickly is that in the

transcript that came up today unfortunately solecki was recorded as being very critical of european partners france germany germany angela merkel and this will not do him any favors when he goes back to ukraine and back to europe indeed i want to get get to that in a little bit but one of the major concerns for our surrounding are pushing forward this impeachment is the idea of quid pro quo but was there actually did trump actually underline the fact that the u.s. will not help the lansky with regards to military radar any other economic and. it's a very good question you know many commentators said today that when they read the transcript that trump tends to speak in code almost like a mafia boss so unless zelinsky and by the way we have to remind everyone that is a new york flight politician he was a t.v. comedian he's new to politics unless he really tuned into what trump was saying and

i don't think he did that you know he would he would be subject of trump's kind of pressure and extortion i mean if elation so it's very difficult to read what happened but i like to give the landscape the benefit of the doubt i think he's actually smarter than a lot of people give him credit for so but he's in a very untenable position right now given this big crisis right so as this impeachment process starts to take place he would probably want to distance himself from this give us an idea of what his options are and whether there is an option to move farther away from the u.s. at this point right well his options you know as i wrote in my op ed on which you are as a go is to my advice to him or to the administration was to punch card to say that ukraine will not be subjugated to this type of that manipulation to this type of

extortion. if need be ukraine can back away from american aid it does have good friends and europe after all and it will not be manipulated and you know the other thing we have to remember is that. you know if you look back at the past year or so trump has been maintaining a buddy buddy relationship but old like they were put on the president of russia and that he isn't doesn't appear that compared to thank you craig in you know promulgating piece in terms of pushing back russia from eastern ukraine so i think you know again so that i mean what i'm saying is that ukraine needs to be closer to your own with friends that it can actually rely on and trust michael basuki great to speak to you good to get your insight thank you pleasure now the trumpet ministration has barred senior iranian government officials from entering the u.s. the directive came on the same day president hassan rouhani spoke at the un general

assembly and in a speech rouhani ruled out negotiations on terror and nuclear program as long as american sanctions remain. has this report his speech was closely watched by friends and rivals looking for any indication that iran is willing to talk to the u.s. but the president has a low honey made it clear he won't meet president donald trump as long as the u.s. continues to impose sanctions mob it was are going to me hard they call us to negotiations when they run away from treaties and deal with our response under sanctions is negative iran's leader has called on regional neighbors to join an alliance to secure freedom of navigation in the strait of homers where much of the world's oil supply passes through oh how to excluded the u.s. from taking part in what he called the coalition of hope but the u.s.

and saudi arabia have quickly dismissed the proposal. the european union is keen to cool the tension in the gulf and prevent further escalation its top diplomat for the recovery greenie says she hopes the 2015 year clear deal will continue to be respected despite ongoing differences we will continue to work together with unity of purpose to try and preserve it without ignoring the challenges the trump administration is rather big on iran everyone u.s. secretary of state. said sanctions and isolation would continue until iran's nuclear ambitions occurred as long as around medicine behavior continues and continues sanctions will not be lifted they will be taken and the u.s. and saudi arabia continue to blame iran for the attacks on the world's largest oil processing plant in the kingdom 11 days ago saudi diplomats have stepped up their

pressure saying all options against iran are on the table iran's behavior cannot continue like this iran must abide by international law iran must comply with rule based international order and the iran's aggressive behavior must be checked the attacks took out nearly half of saudi oil production which the state oil company is rushing to restore as the u.s. continues to build the case against iran or holy war against any attack saying greta will quickly follow the attacks on saudi oil installations threatened to be a game changer and could lead to a major confrontation but the e.u. russia china and some countries in the middle east say the crisis should be solved through dialogue and that ask a nation would only further destabilize the region.