twelve months. must go. between the election soon. the olympics. will twenty two tourney president putin. this is the w. news life from brawl and firing back u.s. president donald trump appears to assume his former chief strategist for libel and slander steve benen is explosive accusations in a controversial tell all book on the trump white house call a meeting with

a russian lawyer treasonous the president blasting back and saying quote you lost his mind also coming up. the chips i doubt as tech firms scramble to fix major security flaws that are bad news for everyone the floss could compromise everyone's day that and allow hackers to steal sensitive information. great to have you along well we begin our broadcast with that very public falling out in the u.s. where the lawyer of u.s. president is threatening legal action against former white house strategist steve bannon over what he calls disparaging statements and in some cases outright defamatory statements made in a new book all the president launched a scathing attack on bannon saying steve bannon has no. thing to do with me or my

presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind all the president disavowed bannan after it emerged he had attacked doll jr for a twenty sixteen meeting with a group of russians in the book banning is quoted as saying even if you thought that this was not treasonous or unpatriotic or bad blank and i happen to think it's all of that you should have called the f.b.i. immediately while it trumps lawyer has sent a cs and desist letter to bannon accusing him of violating a nondisclosure agreements with by speaking to wolf so a spectacular falling out between two former allies or in just a moment but first a look at how the baton trump growing rift came about with friends like these who needs enemies it may feel like ages ago but it hasn't been that long since president donald trump and his former chief strategist steve benen were thick

as thieves. toward the end of the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign ben and left his post as executive chairman of the right wing web site breitbart news to join the trump campaign he was the embodiment of all the issues that energize the trump base nationalism and time aggression and economic deregulation despite accusations of racism and xenophobia benon helped build the wave of populism that trumpet unleashed trump became president and bannon became a kingmaker. bannon took on the role as chief strategist and senior counselor to the president he was seen as a primary architect of trump's nationalist agenda the president was not shy about celebrating their closeness is very committed he's a friend about it he's very committed to getting things but we'll have a very good relationship as you know with steve been steve's been a friend of mine for a long time i like steve a lot man and also helped push both the president's populism and his attacks on news organizations there corporatist globalist media that are adamantly opposed

adamantly opposed. to economic nationalist agenda like donald trump. but after a series of staff shake ups and public embarrassments trump for an instant in the white house to an end after a mere seven months. is now following the publication of an incendiary book bannan trump have suddenly become sworn enemies trading barbs over the media. given how fervently readers of breitbart have supported trump the cracks in this relationship could spell trouble. and washington correspondent carson phenomena is covering this a very public falling out carsten know a lot of lost here is this a permanent west. well you never know with donald trump he is known to have fallen out with people and overcoming that rift but my assessment is

that it will take a lot to overcome this clearly donald trump values loyalty a lot he's not necessarily loyal to the people who work for him but he demands absolute loyalty when it comes to his own person and clearly steve benen has violated that in the view of the president ultimately this break up is bad for both people steve benen still has some influence over at least part of donald trump's base through his right wing news platform right by it's the same time though also the stature of steve benen is diminished because all the other right wing news media have been distancing themselves from ben and they have sided with the president's already a number of politicians have rejected indorsements from ben and even the republican donors like rebecca mercer has said they would no longer support ben and so this is

also bad for him now carson this is i mean appears to be a very sensational book this has all the ingredients of a soap opera with insults flying back and forth a lot of drama but the most glaring accusation is bana's description of a meeting between the chum campaign and a russian lawyer described as treasonous how could that affect the ongoing investigation into the campaigns the ties to russia and the trump presidency do they have to take this into account. well i don't think there's anything in this book that. doesn't already know he's looking into these things many of the things that i described in the book have been known to have been described by other journalists before the damage of this book is definitely that now with ben and a former trump confirms that the russian investigators an is not a hoax as the president says and also that this book describes the dysfunction in

the white house which is damaging and also it has once again changed the conversation about on the trunk because there are so many people now who have on the record described on the trump as an idiot someone who doesn't read who doesn't know things who is not interested in things this is really diminishing the stature of the president and ultimately the presidency all right and now we have a perfect segue carson because what do we know about the book's author michael wolff is this book solid journalism how did he get access to the very inner circle chumps inner circle. well we don't know obviously how reliable everything in that book is michael wolff as worked for the new york times vanity fair the number of other was known publications but he has been criticized in the past for journalism and for allegedly inventing quotes having said that no one has

come forward so far objecting to the quotes that we've seen in the except the white house of course and it's also quite well known that michael wolff was indeed a regular guest in the white house almost like a fly on the wall he was there almost every day talking to lots of people that we know from colleagues who have seen him there also from other accounts so he had really unique access to the things going on in the early months of the white house and i guess because of the chaos there no one really threw him out because nobody knew whose authority that was that's at least what one colleague has said so i think he had very good access if every quote is correct we don't know he himself said that sometimes he got conflicting accounts from different people he talked to so sometimes he gave both accounts and sometimes he said well this sounds more reasonable this is what i put into the book so i don't even if half of it is true this is amazing carson phenomena reporting from washington thank you

next the race is on to find a fix for a serious flaw a series of flaws in computer chips around the world major defects could affect billions of computers and smartphones fit with chips supplied by need for manufacturers intel a.m.d. and r n security researchers discovered the problem some time ago but the news has only just surfaced and intel in still hush hush about it here's what we know so far . the intel security flaw could allow hackers to obtain access to passwords encryption keys and other sensitive data the newly announced vulnerability could affect every processor released since one thousand nine hundred. at the moment there's no way for users to detect a breach which leaves no trace in traditional log files some security experts are calling it the worst flood ever found by the computer industry not least because the problem may be even bigger than initially reported. in

a statement intel said recent reports that these exploits are caused by a bug or a flaw and are unique to intel products are incorrect based on the analysis to date many types of computing devices with many different vendors processors and operating systems are susceptible to these exploits. researchers who discovered the security gaps a computer is powered by a r. and a.m.d. are also affected a claim that a.m.d. has denied software updates will be released to help protect against security gaps these could cause computers to run more slowly with some estimates indicating a dip of up to thirty percent but intel says that ordinary users are likely to see a performance hit of no more than two percent. i want to talk about some of the other stories making news around the world. the death toll in a south africa passenger train crash is now twelve according to the country's

transport minister fire engulfed several of the express trains carriages after it smashed into a truck about two hundred kilometers south of johannesburg the government says more than two hundred sixty people were injured. in. catalonia as a former vice president has appeared in madrid supreme court today to appeal against his jailing he has been waiting trial on charges including rebellious edition as part of catalonia as a band drive for independence from spain have granted bail you could be present when the region forms its parliament later this month. to russia now where the presidential election is due in march all signs point to president vladimir putin easily winning reelection despite growing opposition our moscow correspondent euro shadow sent this report on the major issues facing russia in the year twenty. twenty eighteen it will be

a special year. first is his predictable victory in the presidential election then the food bowl world cup in russia. but it also involves risks especially in foreign affairs. the middle east and syria. prominent example of russia attempt to reposition itself on the build stage just a few weeks ago putin announced russia's withdrawal from syria but even if the military mission was successful achieving a political solution with partners whose individual goals are often radically different might prove to be a more difficult task the so-called syria peace congress planned for the end of january in such is the best example of this syrian opposition groups have canceled their but dissipation because of a cold russian aggressor committed war crimes in syria. and here how do people in

russia see putin syria policy it was a great victory for russia and one other war lasted too long it was time to pull out now we don't have to pay as much in taxes. most of those who we asked to were in favor of drawing russian troops over as they called of the withdrawal the most important foreign policy event of the past year russians are tired and say pomp and brands are well and good but it wouldn't be bad for the government to turn it down russia's economic problems coast in part by western sanctions will remain largely unresolved even in twenty eighteen. nevertheless is and to will remain as the country's most popular politician in twenty eighteen and he expects a victory in march why because the kremlin promises stability and muzzles anyone who questions is their promises the only serious challenge off putin aleksey in a volley was not allowed to run for president. he has already announced his plans

to appeal the decision. politically russia is the old lady starting to heat up and it probably won't kill dome off that the election is the kremlin can only hope is that if this is duration in the country will remain stable until june so the pressure can finally score some positive press as at the host of the don't come. now to iran where that country's elite revolutionary guard is trying to stop antigovernment protests in several provinces new amateur video purports to show security forces aligned with the guard parading down the streets of the city of saleh about one hundred twenty kilometers south west of tehran. there to put down the protests labeled satish and by the head of the revolutionary guard iran has imposed a blackout on social media after more than a week of demonstrations. in germany a far right member of parliament has sparked outrage over

a racial slur aimed at the mixed race son of tennis superstar boris becker meyer of the n.t. immigration alternative for germany used twitter to describe noah becker as a quote little house negro on tuesday germany's leading tabloid built reported on the inflammatory tweet which has since been deleted from the social media platform know about noah becker who's of african american and german descent plans to press charges against him. all right so you've been watching this so we'll be back at the top of the hour saying that. i should make he has no children which makes her feel worthless and incomplete. in a society that expects them to be children this is a burden many married to get choked loose women suffer from a very personal film about the suffering of childless women in niger the fruitless

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