andy wrote back and he said happy to clarify came originally did do work for us but we never paid them they were happy to do it for free and i was like there's definitely something interesting here so because this looks like a donation to me and donations need to be declared. trump and for all in front of the gold in left and he's the person who took that photo and and the photo of the more he's in one as well the bad boys it breaks it and breaks it he said it was like a petri dish for the charm campaign. you know it was like a test case revelations led to the biggest data protection investigation ever held on both sides of the atlantic we started a conversation with mr zuckerberg came a journal that it can start to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and works to exploit them by targeting information designed to activate some of the worst characteristics in people chris wiley

a former director of cambridge analytic turned whistleblower gave evidence to the u.s. senate and a british parliamentary committee that began taking an interest in the brakes at referendum of fake news the definition of a conversion so we're going to say that. these institutions know she did you personally echo the referendum might have been different i think it is completely reasonable to say that there could be a difference in the wrestling. you know had there not been in my view cheating there needs to be a deeper investigation of the of fake accounts and a group of facebook groups being used to propagate information conservative m.p. damian collins is the chairman of the british parliamentary committee we've had evidence from facebook we feel that we should hear from mark zuckerberg because he buys into mr he's the person who decides what happens at facebook there are still big concerns are faced with not enough to investigate the role of fake accounts they're not. been transparent on the issue of data breaches and user data and they

got in the hands of people who shouldn't have it. fake accounts russian trolls data mining complicated stuff and none of it doing much to quell my fears that there was something unpleasant lurking in the bricks that undergrowth but i barely scratched the surface next up was another whistleblower this time someone who'd worked for the official vote leave campaign i was working with some of the top advisors in the country you know constantly seeing boris johnson michael gove you know some of the most influential politicians in britain. recent graduate sharma's sonnie joined vote leave in early 2016 and was asked to engage with ethnic minorities but we've understood that they couldn't just win on white votes they understood that they couldn't win on like people that hate immigrants. he was tasked with working with one of the official campaigns reach groups called the leave it was led by

a young fashion student i met darren grimes in the 1st week that i joined it was one of the one of the few outreach groups that was very focused on the liberal progressive message but some he says he later realised the official vote leave campaign and another purpose in mind for the young volunteers to circumvent the legally binding electoral commission spending limits of understood that they had a spending cap so they needed to find a way affectively to breach that spending cap it's also a good idea was told that vote really had found a way of getting the believe outreach group some new campaign money but there were strings attached effectively vote leave advised us to create it ourselves it was separate campaign groups so that they could give us almost 700000 pounds to spend but they gave it on a condition they gave on a condition saying the only way that they can give it to us is if we give it to. a

i q which was a digital company working at. a i q well i got the i.q. as it's sometimes known as a canadian based data business it of books on u.s. presidential primaries in 2015 with s.c.l. elections cambridge i love it because parent company literally a week before the referendum date we were spending hundreds of 1000 pounds a day. on a q yeah a day the money was sent directly from vote leave to take you in never touch be back accounts son is this quiet at these events later turned him into a whistle blower he passed his evidence to the electoral commission and in july 28th they find a vote leave 61000 pounds for among other things breaching the spending rules the founder of believe down crimes was fined 20000 pounds he is now appealing that decision. but there's other stories involving strange sums of campaign funding that

haven't yet been as adequately explained. belfast northern ireland one of the poorest parts of the u.k. which has benefited the most from e.u. investment for many here there's long been concern that breaks its effects on cross border relations with the irish republic could mean a return to the dark days of the troubles so when a small local political party received 843-5000 pound donation to the brics it campaign the largest in the party's history eyebrows would raise why he was an ordinary political party being so involved you know in the referendum in great britain in england and scotland back in 2016 investigative journalist peter keegan was shocked when he saw a proto leave 1st assignment in a local english newspaper the ad was sponsored by else the democratic unionist party do you pete. for them is a huge sum of money so they're spending it on a on

a piece of material that's not going to circulate norden in ordinary that on at all the single and ferguson cost the day you paid 282000 pounds almost 5 times as much as they had spent on their participation in the u.k.'s general election the previous year but no one knew from where the money had come to pay for it norden aren't these unusual laws there are secrecy of political donations when ordinarily and you didn't reveal the names of political donors and the reason for this was kind of a hangover from the troubles the violence in ordinarily. the loophole was used by the d u p's shadowy benefactor to hide their identity finally after intense media pressure the d.c.u. revealed the money had come from a body called the constitutional research council or c r c but exactly who or what lies behind the c.r.c.

remains to be seen do you know where the constitutional search came to get its money from you not asked the constitutional research here saying you don't know any other i believe that they have released their money legitimately under we were delighted to receive the donation from that you say you believe that it really meant you have to know that legally l m we did you know their incessant and say oh you didn't tell us what you saw research council would publish where they do their fund raising not as a matter for them not the deed the constitution research council is jargony term it's called non-corporate association it means they don't have to follow company accounts they don't have time an address and because of the donor secrecy laws in order and we don't they don't have to tell us who they are they don't have to tell us where they got the money from but the democratic unionist party is supposed to be completely sure it has checked out where this money came from of the money is that just us we also asked the day you paid what do diligence it had on the true source of the money spokes person told us the electoral commission has raised no issues in relation. into the d u p campaign including did donation which came from

a permissible donor who in turn are themselves regulated by the electoral commission. interesting lay the do you piece spent another slice of the mysterious donation on the services of agric i q the same data company to which boat leave said money when illegally circumventing the u.k.'s strict referendum spend in laws the d.p. did not declare that they were working with anybody to say that they were working poorly on their own yet they spent money with the exact same companies of for at least money which despite these curious circumstances the u.k.'s electoral commission said that it does not have sufficient grounds to open an investigation the d u p had broken the lord had committed a criminal offense q.c. joe mole is a director of the good law project a body now challenging the commission's decision not to investigate the law is very

very clear to protect out of mark received from foreign interference values him except our nations have a clear positive obligation to look at and to understand who is giving the money so it's the vote lead story all over again. since the breaks that referendum questions about the mysterious donors and the so-called dark money have continued to surface. journalist peter jukes focused his attention on the biggest political donor in you case history insurance mogul banks. allegedly he transferred more than 8000000 pounds in loans and donations to leave you and other breaks to campaigns the been face questions about how it's going for this because there's no visible means of support is not a wealthy man has a big house but has a 5 100000 pound mortgage up to somehow donated 9000000 pounds at least.

maybe you were never questioned banks has been evasive about the true source of his wealth his reticence troubles m.p. damian collins chairman of the british parliamentary select committee investigating disinform ation and fake news the reason these questions around our backs and money persisted we keep being told different stories we keeping told well he sold this business in the money came from that sale but it turns out there was no real profit made on that sale or it came from these mines or it came from somewhere else and it never makes sense but what really concerns investigators are the multiple meetings mr banks is known to have held with russian officials in london in the months running up to the referendum why would he be meeting in the break since so many meetings make turned out if you're talking about levy u.s. officials and russian you know embassy staff 11 or 12. and i'm up to perhaps one earth why are the russians dangling lucrative oftenest

a british businessman bank falling back so you have to ask the question did for money make into the rights campaign in june 28th aaron banks and his business partner and 2 more appeared before a parliamentary committee but he left before the m.p.'s were able to fully question him he's misled parliament and the public not only about his own financial activities but also the frequency of his contacts with the russian embassy here in london in november 28th the electoral commission referred our own banks to the national crime agency on suspicion that there is criminal offenses may have been committed banks declined to answer questions but he has consistently denied receiving money from russia and dismisses other claims as ludicrous the case is ongoing in the form of government minister bradshaw believes a full inquiry into the referendum is long overdue he wants an investigation

similar to the miller probe into alleged collusion between russia and the trump presidential campaign is it's very embarrassing for our government fran townsend services to look flat footed like this and to leave it to an american political and congressional process to reveal the truth about what happened in britain. over in brussels de facto capital of the union reps it is want to leave many think the truth is already out there i went to meet sajid kerim a leading u.k. conservative member of the european parliament he lays responsibility for the brics it mess squarely at the feet of russian president vladimir putin a weakening of the european union is in his interests it is his aim it is his goal and i'm afraid we are on the verge of. delivering that for him today i

don't think brits and certainly many of the europeans have actually understood to what extent their lives are about to change. unless our governments including my government in the united kingdom take the step of investigating and protecting our democracy today. it wasn't the only warning about russian meddling i heard in brussels russia is responsible for 80 percent on the information given it is illegal 80 percent after european commission conference electoral interference former nato secretary general anders rasmussen was giving a stark warning of the threat europe faces over the past 2 years foreign interference has been detected in at least 10 elections and. on both sides of the atlantic. rest most and says was surely one of russia's

targets but i have no doubt and i think we have evidence that they interfere so i think the lesson. is that we should focus on preventing this from happening in the future. back in britain the endless political rally over bricks it was rolling on but always about half implemented rather than the legitimacy of the referendum that got it going. up again this filled with questions about the brics a referendum that urgently needed answers what i've heard has only increased those concerns. as britain's departure from the e.u. draws ever closer i'm left with one chilling thought were we here in britain jute into making one of the worst political decisions in our history if you win a campaign or a referendum or an election based on breaking the law then it isn't democratic to

lie it's a scam to cheat. in september $2900.00 london's metropolitan police announced they will be taking no. no further action against the leave e.u. campaign for spending offenses in the backseat referendum despite accepting that it broke the law the national crime agency has also said it will be taking no further action on these matters against leave e.u. foreign banks and others. as governments tales to cut emissions scientists are proposing drastic measures to save the planet. people in power ways technological endeavors to counter humanity's pollutants against the risks of further meddling with the environment feel like this is playing god it's actually quite unsettling ancram frankly makes me quite

anxious. klein attack us on al-jazeera. the show. conspiracy line he's in justice special coverage on al-jazeera. i never thought we would see a president take the actions that he had outrages the white house is accused of trying to cover up president trump's phone call to ukraine's leader asking him to dig up dirt on joe biden. follow him down jordan this is out of their lives and also coming up the u.s.

announces it's deploying a patriot missile system to saudi arabia after it accused iran of attacking the world's largest owner 5. it's come out after a call from the iranian president urging washington to give up its policy of not smoke pressure against tehran. so those words don't mean much for me even investigator who probed. dismisses the saudi crown prince as comments taking responsibility. explosive allegations against donald trump have been revealed in a whistleblower his complaint that's now been made public details how the u.s. president tried to persuade his ukrainian counterpart to investigate his rival joe biden was about us as white house officials then tried to conceal politically sensitive information about trump's phone call with a lot of his the landscape john hendren imports now from washington d.c.

. democrats have a new word for the white house response to a whistleblower this is a cover up the accusation follows a newly released whistleblowers report that says the white house trying to lock down the transcript of a phone call in that july call president donald trump pressed ukraine's president to find dirt on a rival presidential candidate in this case former u.s. vice president joe biden reads like a classic organized crime shakedown the report says u.s. officials told the unnamed whistleblower that they were directed by white house lawyers to transfer the transcript of a conversation to a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information even though the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive that left trump's new acting director of national intelligence explaining on capitol hill why he withheld that mid august report from congress until thursday we consulted with the white house counsel's office and we were advised that much of

the information the complaint was in fact subject to executive privilege a privilege that i do not have the authority to waive so a white house transcript of that call shows that trump repeatedly urged ukraine's volodymyr zelinsky to investigate whether joe biden sought to interfere in a conflict of interest probe of the ukrainian gas company for which his son hunter biden worked at the time trump was with holding nearly $400000000.00 in aid without explanation under fire denies using any pressure what these guys are doing democrats are doing to this country is it grace but they're going to tie up our country because frankly this so tied up this so it's good up as the director of national intelligence testified here on capitol hill president trump was at the united nations talking to staff he told them he wanted to know who told the whistleblower about his phone call adding that they were close to a spy and then he said something that sounded menacing.

this is. according to the whistleblower several senior u.s. officials were concerned by the president's call now exhibit number one in hearings to decide whether to impeach donald trump john hendren al-jazeera washington well steve clemons is editor at large at the hill he says it's likely the uncensored number could be damaging to others in trump's office right now we're still trying to understand the various dimensions in the pieces in this puzzle we've seen a bit of the transcript but not the entire transcript we've heard some of the circumstances about the exchange and call there has been the allegation that president trump's attempts to hold up aid to ukraine were tied to this but there's no explicit statement to that fact and the whistleblower his alleges allegedly said that there were other pieces to the interaction that we haven't been made aware of yet so we don't have the entire picture at this moment but what we do see is

potentially explosive and it shows an american president asking a foreign government to investigate a u.s. national and that is unprecedented we've not seen something like that before and remember this happened this call happened one day after the moeller report was released and the motor report was in part investigating behaviors that were similar the president was charged with similar types of coordination potential collusion with a foreign government to affect american politics so that's what's extraordinary about this is that president trump allegedly engaged in a similar behavior with another leader a day after the motor report's release. the pentagon has unveiled new measures to protect saudi arabia's oil facilities the us will now send a battery of patriot missiles 4 radar systems and $200.00 troops to bolster saudi arabia's defenses announcement comes after an attack earlier this month on the

world's biggest crude oil processing facility yemen's who the rebels have claimed responsibility but washington blames iran for david to russia is an associate professor in middle east institute he says in reality the u.s. isn't sending many troops to saudi arabia at all it's a relatively small deployment $200.00 is roughly a battery so this would be. a fair the sort of thing that we do routinely to protect their fields or things of that nature these sorts of units have been deployed the trouble spots frequently enough and honestly about 6 months ago we moved about the same number of troops out of the gulf to other regions so you could argue there's just we're returning the same capability that was there 6 months ago the patriot is designed to defect against protect against ballistic missiles which operate in very high up and come very high down the attacks were by drones and cruise missiles which operate at a low level if you defend against one then they have to attack the other but if

they are using one method that means you can't drop it so the patriot will help ballistic missile defense it'll help increase confidence it may allow the saudis to move other weapon systems that have been searching up high to search for cruise missiles and drones but it won't by itself completely stop the possibility that sort of attack we just saw saudi arabia's foreign minister as the international community to band together to combat iran abraham but on the disease our south was addressing the u.n. general assembly. in a 30 here today we be a historic responsibility the credibility of this organization and the entire will that is at stake the iranian regime is leave with one of 2 options either become a normal state that respects international rules and norms or face an internationally unified position that uses all instruments of pressure and to tyrannous doesn't jordan has more now from the united nations. the saudi foreign

minister's remarks could have been delivered by the israeli foreign minister or indeed by the us president donald trump that's because mr assad was very very critical of what he said has been iran's deliberately provocative and violent behavior across the middle east most notably with the attack on a saudi oil process facility in the east of that country back on september 14th mr us off called on the international community to unify and to try to make it very clear to terror that this sort of behavior is an act of war and is not going to be tolerated he used language which the americans have been putting forward in recent months regarding iran using maximum pressure to try to get the government in tehran to change its behavior and to ultimately return to negotiations with the u.s. on its nuclear program however it's worth pointing out that even though this attack

happened nearly 2 weeks ago there is yet to have been a security council meeting to discuss what happened and to try to figure out what should be the diplomatic way forward which is of course something that ambassador sitting on the security council really prefer to pursue that said it's very clear that the saudis are not thinking that they're going to be making any friends with terror on any time soon and that although this automatic process of continuing their political rivalry will continue with the earlier rounds president demanded proof from those blaming town for the attack on saudi arabia hasan rouhani said talks of the u.s. are possible but only if sanctions lifted said the trumpet ministrations maximum pressure tactics when looking. at a james payne's as malls in the u.n. . they spoke at the same podium in the un general assembly hall they were in the same city for 4 days but all high hopes of a breakthrough following

a flurry of diplomatic activity led by the french president emmanuel merkel came to nothing no progress and no meeting between president trump and president rouhani the dangerous deadlock continues as trump perhaps was preoccupied by the impeachment allegations against him that were being formed while he was in new york developments the iranians were clearly following closely mr president while you've been here in the u.s. how closely are you following political developments here and is iran's best hope now president trump either being impeached or being defeated in next year's election. with regard to what's happening here in america we hear the news of what's happening but it doesn't matter for us because it's an internal matter for america what's very important for us is that the american government restores the damage trust back to the world. for now the u.s.

is focusing on the drone attack in saudi arabia and it clearly wants to use its assertion that iran was behind that to add to its maximum pressure campaign on terror ron what i expect to see happen is when saudi arabia concludes its investigation and is done with the site exploitation where the attacks took place and cake they will then refer this matter to the u.n. security council for appropriate action i think that's the right thing to do because this was an attack on the world and it requires a response from the world u.n. officials agree that this is coming back here to the security council the u.n. have had 2 separate experts in saudi arabia and they're mandated to formally report their findings. of the united nations a u.n. investigator has dismissed comments from the saudi crown prince saying he takes responsibility for the death of the journalist. and this column os as mom had been sound man had

a hand in his death and saudi authorities have stifled her investigation bar reports from new york. she spent months investigating the killing of saudi journalists. and concluded it was deliberate. and extrajudicial un special rapporteur. also found credible evidence linking her death to crown prince mohammed and now almost a year after the killing of the saudi consulate in turkey the crown prince also known by his initials. told american network p.b.s. he bears with sponsibility in the murder but denies personal involvement eases a crown prince of saudi arabia so clearly.