thus the top priority. this is deja vu news live from berlin u.s. president donald trump rips into his former chief strategist steve bannon is in the firing line for explosive comments on a trump tower meeting with russians donald trump says banon has quote lost his mind

also coming up a run declares an end to deadly antigovernment on restis islamic rulers have mobilized support with tens of thousands rallying in a show of force for the government. plus we'll have the latest on a prestigious football prize dortmund's pierre and mike obama is going for the second african player of the year award tonight but look at his dad. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us u.s. president donald trump has launched a scathing attack on his former chief strategist steve bannon that ahead of the release of a new bombshell book the president saying steve bannan has nothing to do with me or my presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind. ben's

quoted in the forthcoming book as saying that donald trump jr's twenty sixteen meeting with a group of russians was quote treasonous now that as the f.b.i. investigates alleged links between moscow and the trump campaign. while white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders had this to say immediately following the release of trump's statement i think there are a number of factors that played in i would certainly think that going after the president's son and absolutely outrageous and unprecedented way is probably not the best way to curry favor with anybody furious disgusted would probably certainly fit when you make such outrageous claims and completely false claims against the president his administration and his family. are washington correspondent carolyn is following the shock waves rolling across washington today carolina thanks for being with us let's start off by looking at what the president's reacting to steve

bannon in his forthcoming book is talking about donald trump jr's meeting in twenty sixteen with a group of russians he's quoted as saying that even if you thought that this was not treasonous or unpatriotic or bad and i happen to think it's all of that you should have called the f.b.i. immediately. how is all of this going to affect the ongoing russian investigation. well these comments come from c.-span who was chief executive of the charm campaign and then why house chief strategist for seven months that means he clearly was a central figure in donald trump's campaign in my words donald trump says now and therefore a ban on no details like the mentioned meeting that has been denied by its own junior and by the president himself and also the people surrounding him who deny any collusion with russia and any interfering during the election of two thousand

and sixteen while this meeting mentioned took place in june two thousand and sixteen and this has also been a central aspect in robert morris investigations and therefore bans comments on this meeting will definitely have an impact on the next steps of the investigation by robert miller and with these comments in the book see phantom has also declared directly against the claims of the president president and against the statements of the white house that this whole they say this whole a russia investigation is a lie which happened ok let's take a closer look at the president's response after saying bannon lost his mind he went on to say steve spent his time at the white house leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was steve was rarely in a one on one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence now you know

that's difficult to take on board when you consider bad it was trump's chief strategist is fair to say he was the architect of his victory in the elections you know why is the president doing his best to seriously discredit him does it look like he has a lot to worry about in this book. oh yes brian donald trump is very worried and the people around him as well and this is why is the official press release coming from the white house the one you you just read it has a very very harsh tone also the fact that donald trump's lawyers and this is important because his last news already sent a legal notice to steve benen that shows clearly that they are taking vitamins comments in this book very serious terms lawyers rights in the letter to c.-span and that he has violated a known disclosure agreement and a breach of his written confidentially tea with with his comments in this book so

it is pretty clear now to everyone that the mask of friendship between donald trump and see fana has dropped now ok clearly a very briefly if you could how damaging could this be not only for the president but for the trump movement could be very damaging because among the triumph orders we can also see an important base is formed by the white nationalists who voted for donald trump because of cif ban on who without a doubt played a very important role in donald trump trump's complaint so if the white nationalist would support donald trump any more this could have consequences also in the upcoming midterm elections in november this year charlie no thanks so much for that from washington this morning now for some of the other stories making news today the u.s. senate has sworn into new democratic senators reducing the robe publicans majority

to two doug jones from alabama won a special election to fill a vacancy to minnesota's tina smith was appointed to replace on franken who resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct. min mar has been marking the seventieth anniversary of its independence from britain with a flag raising ceremony there was no rest for the crisis and racking state that has seen more than six hundred thousand three hundred muslims flee to bangladesh. a military crackdown on insurgents. it's to iran now where the head of that country's elite revolutionary guard has announced what he called the end of sedition now this after he deployed forces to put down anti-government protests in a number of promises twenty one people were killed during the week long protest in authorities arrested hundreds of others and a show of power reigning in state t.v. broadcast these images of pro-government rallies across the country. now there are

unconfirmed reports of continued anti-government protests iran has imposed a blackout on social media but this footage from is fond province shows a building allegedly belonging to the revolutionary guard going up in flames let's go straight to tehran now and a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph eric the head of the revolutionary guards has said that the anti-government protests had been defeated what are you hearing well. from the nation on any. protests there are coming from the provinces it was definitely a commentary on last night's presence does. seem to be i would just get reports now we're just just coming of another series of major. rallies very large very prestigious in ten different cities around the

country including. ok now i know when you talk about these a pro-government rallies does it then seem that the regime is actually turning the tide against the anti-government protesters. well i think it's important to remember the protests would never end all this revolutionary guard say there were fifty thousand people who vote nationwide even if the number was a bit bigger than that it's certainly nowhere near the hundreds of thousands or millions the streets back in two thousand and nine against other kinds of election rigging. especially the fact that these protests at times violent at times of the types of government buildings i think that would stop them having a massed appeal in the way that the way the previous protests that what do these protests mean though the anti-government ones for president roh han he came to power as a reformers his position weakened right now. yes and

suddenly the protests were directed against romney and some of his austerity measures introduced a budget just three weeks ago which was very focused because it. raised fuel prices and we've already seen. some of those measures and show that there is funding to. get at the same time this suggestions that the conservative opponents of iraq are actually pushing some of these very initial protests and this is of course maybe an opportunity for us to say that we need to close wraps because if you criticize them too much you see what happens garrick randall for us in tehran bring us up to date thanks very much for that. we have some sports now where world football spotlight will be on the canadian capital across tonight our sports reporter max merrill joins us for more max what's going to

happen well the announcing who's the african player of the year twenty seventeen and there are three attacking superstars in the running ok let's look then at our next report to see what their chances are going to be. will this man be celebrating again thursday night emerick obama young is among the contenders to be named african player of the year even as dortmund have struggled to keep pace at the top of the table the gabba nice hitman has struck thirteen but as the goals to confirm his status as one of africa's best players now he's hoping to win the award for the second time in his career. yes. i'm off. but obama young faces stiff competition for the prize egyptian forward mohamed salah has taken the premier league by storm since joining liverpool in the summer he was also part of the egypt squad that finished runners up at the africa cup of nations in february and his liverpool team mate satya

monday is also in the running he scored twice for senegal at the cup of nations and he was also listed among the top candidates last year finishing in third place. for obama young and co the wait is almost over soon they'll know who is walking away with the prize. ok three top candidates max who's your favorite well i've got to say mohamed salah he's often been nicknamed the egyptian messi which i always used to think was an absolute overstatement but this season he switched teams to liverpool forty two million he cost them and to be honest with you the english press and many liverpool fans doubted that he was the right choice i did as well but he's completely blown everyone away twenty three goals and eight assists already this season he's out showing pretty much everyone in the premier league stage including sadie oh man a his teammate who's also in the running for the award so i think you'll get it

this time ok so probably justifying that forty two million which was a very controversial payment wasn't it at the time what about a balmy what are his chances well i mean he's been absolutely fantastic there's no doubt about his full last season he was the top because your goal scorer he scored forty goals in forty six games this season simulate twenty one twenty three i mean it's kind of the ask much more from a strike. and the award is awarded for the whole year not just this season. but there's been a change to the voting and i think that will affect him negatively fans now vote online and on facebook so the confederation of african football made the shortlist and then the the votes will be done by the fans so i think then memory of the most recent successes will probably serve because he's just been an absolutely incredible form this season ok he's the man to watch is and he now let's talk about another change the words in addition to the change in voting something else has

been shifted what's that well usually that would be to african football is of the regular african football if the if you will and an african player of the based in africa that was awarded between two. thousand and five and last year's award the twenty sixteen african footballer via it was scrapped and with no explanation and a lot of criticism followed but the c.f. president he's come out yesterday and said there are not two levels of football in africa best is the best not the best of the bad and the best of the best i can understand where he's coming from but it's a shame really for the players who are on the big european stage who are playing in africa who could perhaps get some recognition and shed some light on how well they're playing as well ok thanks thanks very much for those come same exparel for us extreme winter storms sweeping across europe has left at least four people dead and caused widespread damage and disruption while and went up to one hundred forty

kilometers per hour because scaffolding collapsed in paris now two hundred thousand homes in the french capital were also left without power now the storm has also been causing chaos here in germany with powerful winds downing trees and electricity lines fires in the city of cologne worked to clear debris from the roads there. this is deja vu news live from glenn don't forget there's more on these and other stories in our website w dot com for now though thanks so much for the. stories that people in the world over information they provide the opinions they want to express deep.