very personal film about the suffering of childless women. starting january fourteenth t w. this is. from the battle against banon u.s. president prepares to soothe his former chief strategist for a while and slander. explosive accusations in a tell all book called the trump white house call a meeting with a russian lawyer treasonist the president is blasting saying quote he has lost his

mind also coming up with the chips are down firm scramble to fix major security flaws that are bad news for everyone except the hackers we'll explain. it's good to have you with this we begin with that now very public feud in the u.s. trump versus. the warrior for u.s. president double trump is threatening legal action tonight against former white house strategist steve benen over what he calls disparaging statements and in some cases outright defamatory statements made in a new book a cease and desist letter has been sent to its author and publisher trying to hold its release the us president launched a scathing attack on ban in saying steve bannon has nothing. do with me or my

presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind. well it's emerged that banning the tyrant donald trump jr for a twenty six team meeting with a group of russians in the book by journalist michael wolff bannon is quoted as saying even if you thought this was not treasonous or unpatriotic or bad boy. and i happen to think it's all of that you should have called the f.b.i. immediately or drums lawyer has also sent that cease and desist letter to vanity accusing him of violating a nondisclosure agreement by you speaking to the journalist mr will so a spectacular falling out between two former allies more about that in just a moment but first a look at how the ban in trump's rift. 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 bannon 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 energized the trump base nationalism and time a gracious and economic deregulation despite accusations of racism and xenophobia then and helped build the wave of populism that trumpet unleashed trump became president and bannon became a kingmaker bana 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 friend of mine it is very committed to getting things passed we'll have a very good relationship as you know with steve benen steve's been a friend of mine for a long time i like steve a lot. bannan also helped push both the president's populism and his attacks on news organizations their corporatist globalist media that are adamantly opposed

adamantly opposed. to an economic nationalist agenda like donald trump. but after a series of staff shake ups and public embarrassment. and in stanton the white house to an end after a mere seven months now following the publication of an incendiary book bannon 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. well for more on this now i'm joined by our correspondent in washington carson phenomena good evening to you karsten so beyond this being a broken political bromance why does this public falling out between trump and bain and why does it matter it matters because even

though many conservatives distancing themselves from ben and siding with trump benon still has some influence and he still represents the ideology of at least part of the trump base and as long as he is in charge of right wing use platform he can still do to the trump if this really is the final breakup and we understand according to the interview in this book by the journalist mr wolf donald trump reportedly did not want to even win the race for the white house i mean if that's true what does this mean if wants to maintain his base support particularly as we look towards the member midterm elections. well i don't really know if trump didn't want to win i don't know if i would go that far because i think at least part of donald trump always wants to win but i

think it's probably true that trump didn't expect to win that is consistent with the other reports we got from the final phases during the final face off the campaign up to election day he didn't really expect to win and this was definitely a unique success this victory by donald trump i'm not quite sure if that can be repeated easily because he was fighting against the odds he was fighting against the establishment of his own party and if he can repeat that the way the opinion polls ago in the conference ago and that is highly doubtful and it begs the question does it guarantee that there will be a bloodbath at the ballot box for the republicans in november there is no guarantee eleven months is an eternity in politics and in particular in the age of trump but clearly the democratic base is highly energized many

independents and moderates are turning away from this president in disgust because this president also has never really made the attempts to reach out to groups outside of his core base of supporters so if you believe the opinion polls and if the current trends continue there could be a democratic wave even republican strategists say that even a tsunami in the midterm elections in november in carson what about this fear that trump will try to distract the public from this controversy with something else something else and as grave as a military conflict are people talking about that in washington. well i wouldn't go so far as to expect on a trump to actually start a war just to win an election but of course what could happen and i think some people are fearing that here in washington is that trump might be inclined to play

a game of brinkmanship when an international crisis for instance looking at north korea arises and i mean it was. the chairman republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee who said trump is treating his presidency as a reality show and he could lead the country into a wood three with his reckless behavior so this is something which is not only iffy on the democratic side of the it's also something that conservatives definitely fia here in washington our correspondent in washington post in phenomenon the story for us tonight karsten thank you here is some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in kabul that left at least eleven people dead many others injured afghanistan officials say the attacker blew himself up near

a crowd of police and protesters at least six policemen were among those killed the death toll in the south african train crash has risen to eighteen that's according to the head of the state owned rail service wajir engulfed several of the express passenger trains carriages after it smashed into a truck about two hundred kilometers south of johannesburg the country's transport minister says more than two hundred sixty people were injured. so why the race is on to find a fix for serious flaws in computer chips around the world big defects could affect billions of computers and other devices fitted with chips supplied by the major manufacturers intel a.m.d. and a r m security researchers discovered this problem some time ago but the news has only just been made public and intel is still being hush about 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 ninety five of 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 floor ever phone by the computer industry. this problem and a problem with the security gaps is that the processor is the core of the computer it's what the operating system runs on and that means when the processor is affected and the hacker takes advantage of that flow they have access to everything . desktops notebooks tablets smartphones they all run on intel chips and they're all affected the problem may be even bigger than initially reported in a statement intel's 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.m. and a.m.d. are also affected the claim that he 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. let's try to make some sense of this and to do the trees walker from the tech magazine motherboard dortch len joins me now here in the big table it's good to see you happy new year so. how big of a threat is this and is it affecting all of us it is affecting all of us the threat is the actual attack probably won't be but we're talking about a hardware block here that enables two different type of types of attack one is what the research is done meltdown which can and able malicious hackers to read out

your own memory in your computer the other is way most serious and also much harder to patch than the first one it's called specter and it's means that it's perfectly fine epoch ations are being used to exchange data and read out each other's data without as if you know when that happening right exactly and it's completely invisible in the lock dr and that means that this particular attack it's not actually it's not it's you know with as has been exploited that if we can under attack or not even know it exactly so ok if that's the case then what will it take to get rid of the problem and protect or are there are id systems and computers yeah so the first patches are already out at least for meltdown and big cloud computing services like apple amazon google have already patched form meltdown for that first and lighter of attacks for the second one it will take a lot of time to catch this when you see for consumers that doesn't know they have

to do anything sometimes you don't notice sometimes as a background for example on for android of a systems they have already installed without even knowing his intel been so quiet about this well intel has also has a disclosure agreement with other companies and because the first reports came out the security researchers from google made a premature disclosure. that is actually not really i mean implicit super happy about it because it's a business model and of course the stocks plunge but in the end the chips that enable these spectra techs the harder it techs will eventually have to be replaced because it's a major design flaw the attacks can be fixed and repaired by several software updates but in the end not every type of attack can be prevented you know we've said here many times talking about stories very similar to this is a new year the risk assessment for twenty eight team includes cyber attacks as

being in the top five. in it's only january fourth we're talking about this year is this going to be a year if you look in the crystal ball i mean is this just the beginning of what's going to be a very turbulent year it is yeah and that's i mean i think it's important not to scare consumers too much and to be able to type even a letter into the computer of would be the wrong idea but what security searches always say is a month and repeatedly say is whenever there's updates available please don't be afraid of breaking anything do install the update and click on any links that look suspicious in any e-mails because for all these attacks first of all a person has to have access to a computer and this happens by something like an outgoing link that you don't trust so we just hope the updates do not make our phones and computers run more slowly but that's a different story be a little just a little bit. as always thank you very much mike. and here's

a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you u.s. president. action against former chief strategist steve. reportedly made about a meeting between trump's campaign team and a russian lawyer. his mom. followed by the day to see that. story for us. twelve months. between the elections. and the olympics. for president.