this is live from berlin tonight washington and many around the world are asking what is inside that secret memo the f.b.i. says it has great concerns about the accuracy of a classified memo on the russia investigation but the white house has confirmed u.s. president trump will release the memo on friday also coming up poland backs controversial legislation making it a crime to suggest that pows were complicit in the holocaust the move has angered israel will get reaction from the simon wiesenthal center and

a court reverses lifetime bans for dozens of russian athletes accused of doping but it is still not clear whether those athletes can take part in next week's winter olympics. i bring golf it's good to have you with us in the united states the f.b.i. has condemned plans by the white house and house republicans to release a secret memo the memo alleges that the f.b.i. abused its surveillance powers when it investigated donald trump's presidential campaign the agency contests the documents accuracy while democrats say its release could undermine the investigations into russian interference in the twenty sixteen election. was really still. at work on.

a quick exchange overheard after donald trump state of the union speech on tuesday night the us president reassures a republican lawmaker that he has every intention of putting out the memo that's polarizing washington. if you're. just press the memo was commissioned by devin newness chairman of the republican house intelligence committee and it describes alleges surveillance abuses by f.b.i. and justice department officials looking into possible ties between the truck campaign and russia investigators are accused of failing to disclose that their probe was partly based on research financed by hillary clinton's campaign republicans claim this shows anti trumbo bias at the f.b.i. they're calling for the memo to be released. there may have been milf eason's at the f.b.i. by certain individuals so it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the

lead of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that sunshine is the best disinfectant and so what we want is all of this information to come out so that transparency can reign supreme and accountability can occur but the f.b.i. has warned against releasing the dossier in a rare public rebuke we have grave concerns about material admissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy for their part democrats claim the memo cherry picks and i'm a classified information in an effort to discredit the russian investigators in lead by robert mueller. this is not about the facts this is about a narrative that the chairman wants to put out misleading there it is to undermine the f.b.i. undermine the department and ultimately undermine gentleman tensions between the trump white house and investigators has been mounting days ago the f.b.i. his deputy director andrew mccabe quit and now an open confrontation looms between

the head of america's top domestic intelligence agency and the administration. we want to go to washington now and pull in chris faulkner he is a republican political strategist chris it's good to see you again you know we've got the white house saying that the president wants to release the memo to morrow can you maybe explain to our audience why that he wants to make that memo public is the purpose to undermine the robert moeller investigation. no of course the purpose here is to make sure that the public has complete faith in total trust in the f.b.i. since late eleven almost no federal agency has been more instrumental in keeping americans safe than the f.b.i. that everyone believes it's very much likely true that ninety nine percent of the folks do if the i are doing their darndest to keep everyone safe and to protect our country from any threats for the best the concern is here there may have been a few bad actors a few folks who with a partisan angle with

a very unfortunate politics bent to their views were involved in this investigation and unfortunately making the rest of the f.b.i. look bad well you and i can't we can't be sure of what is in the document because we haven't seen the document sure your agree with me on that and we also have a lot of members of congress on capitol hill who have come out and said that they want the memo released and they haven't seen the memo either what do you make of the claims that mr newness himself the man who authored this memo that he altered it and that the copy that the president has is different from the copy that the other members of the house intelligence committee have. well i'm sure a chairman is is not an idiot he knows full well if there was any alteration that it's quickly quickly going to become public because of there might be if people are saying this there might be two actual copies of this report it's unlikely that's

the case i did not familiar with the original document so i don't know if it's been altered or not we'll see in this again this transparency this move to release the memo will clear up any any confusion or concerns that people have about this issue . i've been trying to explain to a lot of our viewers who've written in asking about what the president was overheard saying after the state of the union address earlier this week saying that telling members of congress yes i'm going to release the memo now he said that on tuesday evening and he had not seen the memo at that point so doesn't it make then the the motivation the motive of the president doesn't bring it into question if he hasn't even seen the contents that he's willing to say yes i will make it public. i'm not aware exactly what the president said to members as he was leaving the chamber after the state of the union but what is clear whether is this president or

any president for that matter if there is insinuation of wrongdoing especially something as insidious is collision with a foreign government and we have evidence that clearly refutes that that shows that there was no interference in our democratic elections then of course he's going to want to get out there you want to restore the american people's faith in the integrity of our elections and this is a clear way to do that. republican strategist chris faulkner is based in l.a. but he is paying us a visit in our studio in washington tonight chris thank you very much we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us. we're germany's parliament today agreed on a new policy on refugee family reunions while the far right party criticize the changes as too liberal many others feel they don't go far enough currently some asylum seekers already in germany including many syrians aren't allowed to bring family members here these are migrants who do not face political persecution or are not protected by the un refugee convention today's new policy will reopen the doors

to about a thousand people a month. of polish lawmakers have backed a controversial bill criminalizing anyone who suggests that poland or its people were complicit in nazi war crimes under the bill people who speak of polish death camps for example could receive a three year prison sentence poland's ruling party says the legislation is needed to ensure that polls are recognised as victims of the nazis the bill has caused outrage in israel which calls it and it's him to rewrite history a foretaste of the fallout from the new polish holocaust bill israel's ambassador leaving a meeting with the speaker of the senate in a hurry not making nice. the vote in the polish senate was decisive fifty seven in favor twenty three against two abstentions but it may not be the

quick fix the government would like. poland has long struggled with the legacy of nazi run death camps on its soil like auschwitz birkenau where more than a million jews and others died poland was one of the countries most affected by nazi atrocities and many here feel they've been unfairly branded as villains. and it hasn't gone down well when american politicians among others refer to polish death camps from many years of history has been falsified it has been presented in a false way we did this for the poles for our dignity and truth. but the bill's passage comes on the heels of holocaust commemorations at auschwitz even though poles weren't in charge of death camps on their territory some poles helped the nazis in their goal of killing all of europe's jews many fear that the new bill will brush this history under the rug. what does this say the jews

killed. the polish people he saw the wars and what are they telling you my family my great grandmother who died you know dozens of others of my family members who died did that all of this didn't happen there's been strong international pushback to the senate bill the u.s. state department has expressed concern about the repercussions this legislation could have on poland's strategic interests and relationships including with the united states and israel. and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was even more forceful. under no circumstances will we accept any attempt to rewrite history or limitation on truthful historical research to become law the bill must still be signed by poland's president meanwhile security has been increased at the israeli embassy in warsaw amid fears

of protests by nationalist polish groups or earlier we spoke to rabbi marvin hier he's the founder of the simon visa and toll center a jewish human rights organization and we asked him for his reaction to the bill. because it's a bad piece of legislation because it gives them they have totally absolved happy people who walk around the streets saying see it was totally the germans it was doesn't think is polish and the seventy's polish and the seventy's are during the war even in the in the years preceding the war was and known fact. and it wasn't only in one city or one town that should be a knowledge by today's polish government we very much welcome the fact that the polish government today is friendly with israel we don't we do not want to hide that fact we acknowledge it i happy about it but at the same time you can't rewrite

history and falsify history by giving a very high mocks to the probably people on how they acted toward the jews during world war two. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the u. when this special envoy on human rights in me and mara has said that military operations against our hinge of muslims bear the hallmarks of genocide nearly seven hundred thousand revenge a have fled to bangladesh since the army cracked down after last year's attacks by insurgents kenya's high court has ordered the government to end its shutdown of three private t.v. stations the outlets were taken off the air after they covered opposition leader the self-proclaimed presidential inauguration on tuesday journalists say they've been sleeping in their newsrooms to avoid being arrested outside. twenty eight

russian athletes have successfully appealed against lifetime bans for doping offenses now the olympic bans were overturned by the court of arbitration for sport a move that was condemned by the international olympic committee and that committee has to decide whether to allow the russians to compete in next week's winter olympic games the russian scandal has dominated the sporting headlines for almost two years after an investigation into state sponsored doping the international olympic committee banned a host of russian athletes from the olympics full life. forty two athletes took their case to the court of arbitration for sport thirty nine had their appeals up held on thursday. the gas arbitrators unanimously found that the evidence put forward by the i used to be in relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each individual case cas overturned the bands of twenty

eight athletes to two insufficient evidence that doping violations were committed. this does not mean that these twenty eight at least are declared innocent but in their case due to insufficient evidence the appearance of held the sanctions and old and their individual results achieved in such reinstated. those athletes could now take pot in the winter games which start next wake botts they will have to be cleared to do so by the. the remaining eleven athletes however. for the olympic games in south korea the sports court found they did commit to violations spots their lifetime bans have been revoked. well meanwhile north korean athletes have arrived in south korea for the start of the olympics the delegation which landed in today includes ten skiers and speed skaters north korean female ice

hockey players are already practicing with their south korean team mates in a unified olympic team. chong games kick off on feb ninth. we will see you we're going to the top of the. g.w. true diversity. where the world of science is at home in many languages. and i thought our innovations magazine for any. of us from every week and always looking to the future. dot com science and research for a show.