this is due to all the news coming to you live from berlin high crimes come to dark shadow on the trunk presidency two of the president's former associates faces the possibility of prison former doctor trump lawyer michael cohen gives a guilty to a hush money he needs to include the two thousand and sixteen election and campaign manager paul metaphors he is convicted of financial crimes what does this all mean for the white house also coming up. facebook and twitter a move to stamp out this information campaign launch from the platform with the

u.s. midterm elections just three months away have they acted soon enough. and desperation along one of europe's most heavily fortified border as the go to spanish tell you in africa all the way to my groups in refugee children to get across. hello and welcome i'm. dramatic developments in the u.s. where two of president trump skills associates have either pleaded guilty or have been found guilty of criminal offenses the most potentially damaging for the president the statements of market cornered president trump's former person lawyer a former campaign manager poor man a false convictions could also add momentum to the special counsel. russia

collusion probe. to donald trump's critics the verdict is clear guilty as two of his former aides face judicial scrutiny activists lit up the entrance of trump international hotel and washington tuesday spelled double trouble for the u.s. president two of his ex advisors could be facing lengthy prison sentences the first michael cohen passed no lawyer and close friend he pled guilty to a range of charges including campaign finance violations and the man who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump small he paid hush money to donald trump's alleged mistresses including stormy daniels he said he acted at the direction of whom he referred to as the candidate widely understood to be donald trump. he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the two thousand and sixteen campaign and to the candidate in the

campaign. according to the deputy u.s. attorney co and then try to get reimbursed for the payments using phony invoices. and then minutes later a second court case to live a drama mr trump's woman complain manager paul manifold was convicted on eight counts of financial crimes manifolds trial is the first team match from special counsel robert mina's investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election on his way to a companion running investor ginia trump had this to say about the manifold case i feel very sad about that. because it is probably me but i still feel you know it's a very sad thing that i have. nothing to do with the movie started rushing killing you this is nothing to do so when you're going to break. i really got to the most from support this night the court case appeared to matter you know i. think our break that.

we don't like. they could use the right here in which we got a whole big company. trans proud continues to cheer him on i and to find out more for what this all means i'm joined now political analyst tyson baka from the aspen institute here but and welcome tyson first of all let's talk about michael cohen and his testimony or his plea to what extent does the implicate of the president and his guilty plea even though there's a mention done or trumped by he implicates him in all but name just like you said i mean we know that his relationship with the president has been a long time relationship is basically a surrogate son he's been a fixer for the president for more than a decade now as was reported he said that he would take a bullet to the president now under oath he has pled guilty to two counts of

basically paid hush money at the explicit behest of a candidate it's obvious to that candidate is this was a trial or an indictment for michael cohen now. for donald trump but the implications are clear so if trump is implicated what does that mean for him can he be indicted too impeached so there is no precedent for indicting a president either criminally or civilly that didn't happen nixon that didn't happen under clinton there was decisions to keep that out of the hands you know the president as the head of state is also the country's chief law enforcement officer so it's not even clear whether or not you can indict that person because he is essentially the guardian of the constitution the avenue for dressing this is not a criminal avenue it's a political avenue that's through impeachment a process that takes place through a trial in congress ok let's not look at the other case a poor man a forty dumb tums former campaign manager he's also been convicted off various charges a dark time came out and defended him and said he's

a good man they didn't do that for what the implications of that well the truth is is that donald trump is trying to conduct this entire investigation be it on the lower investigation the accusations of crony capitalism of corruption with all of these different players in the court of public opinion and for him to keep from implicating himself it's a much easier to deal with the man a foretaste that's why he says he's a good guy this is a witch hunt this is russia collusion because he is not directly implicated in that what cohen has done and it's qualitatively different has gone on record and said that trump ordered him to pay hush money now trying to either come out to contradict that in which case if he was called to testify he might perjure himself but in the metaphor case it's a lot easier for him to deal with it to what extent are these developments feed into the money investigation which is looking into russian collusion in the two thousand and sixteen elections it's not the only way we see a clear pattern i guess there are two one is you see a culture developing ecosystem of the will of corruption of bribes of hush money of

not registering tax evasion etc etc but you know the case with metaphors a lot of that happened before he joined the. campaign clearly he has relationships with russia and ukraine but it's not clear that that's the campaign and the cohen piece isn't necessarily the russia piece exactly so it's just kind of closing in on that and looking at these two cases collectively tyson how damaging for donald trump specially with midterm elections coming up in november where you put the nail on the head i mean this is really a question of not criminal or legal this is a political question essentially the voters are going to render their judgment this is all being conducted let's be honest in the court of public opinion and if the democrats are able to win back control of the house say with eighty seats in the house of representatives then i think that they will have a mandate to pursue impeachment icy doesn't back up from the aspen institute thank you very much for that analysis thank you. and with the u.s. midterms fast approaching tech companies looking to root out this information

campaigns in influencing the outcome facebook and twitter have shut down hundreds of misleading accounts linked to russia and iran cyber security from fire i tipped off the tech giants to the suspicious users u.s. politicians are also risen concerns of the separate revelations of alleged russian hacking. social media giants acting this time before it's too late to go to prevent fake news and propaganda from influencing the upcoming u.s. mid-term election facebook has removed more than six hundred fifty accounts pages and groups on his personal account facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg wrote that the company discovered networks of accounts that were misleading people about who they were and what they were doing. twitter also suspended over two hundred fifty accounts under similar claims both companies say

those users were tied to russia's military intelligence services or iran state owned media. just a day before the climbdown microsoft reported it seized control of six fake websites created by kremlin linked hackers the software company said the at seventy's targeted u.s. conservatives moscow tonight the allegations that u.s. senators aren't convinced you're involved in politics in america at a high level especially if you have views of what he doesn't like you should expect to be the target of a campaign to access your e-mails to get into your systems divulge information or even falsify information against russian cyber attacks a big worry from the u.s. especially after more alleged meddling in the twenty six thousand election. facebook has been criticized for not doing enough to stop fake news. as new elections approach the company has to prove it will not make the same mistake twice . now for

a look at other stories making news around the world clashes have broken out in the indian controlled region of kashmir after indian security forces fired tear gas at protesters the violence overshadowed celebrations of the muslim festival of eve the region has suffered decades of conflict as separatists fight for independence from india and kills a time to pakistan. hundreds of elderly koreans have said of their final emotional goodbyes to relatives at the end of a rare reunion for families separated by the korean border the south koreans are heading home after a free did visit to the north the first real in to take place in three years. lawyers and ministers have arrived at zimbabwe's top court for a legal showdown over the results of last month's historic election opposition leader nelson chamisa claims the vote was not free and fair and is challenging

president most among god was narrow victory the court now has to decide if the results are valid. as italy and more to close their ports to migrants and refugees crossing the mediterranean many and are desperately looking for other ways into europe thousands of descended on a tiny strip of land in africa the border between morocco and the spanish territory of ceuta a high fence barricades the it kilometer long border getting across this is no easy feat migrants have resorted to storming the fences in organized groups today alone more than one hundred have breached the barrier did obvious oliver salat follows a group spend years trying to reach europe and this is a they'll never give up. and his friends have to make their way to the hyde old carefully it's in the mountains of morocco near the border with.

the police. and destroy their camp. the group has thousands of kilometers behind them now just a few hundred meters separate them from europe. and. this man from. deep cuts there from his attempts to storm the border for. my father is dead my mother has nothing not even food i'm the oldest son and i want to try and make some money to help my mother that's why i left. they have been travelling for two years since leaving. fifty thousand others all hoping to make the journey from morocco to europe. the fence is here to stop them it's eight kilometers long and fitted with razor wire along with the territory this is the only other border in africa on the other side is afonso crew sato from the

spanish guardian it's his job to secure the border but lately that hasn't always been possible. over six hundred migrants managed to storm the fence at the end of july the police are helpless and talk of unprecedented levels of violence makeshift flame throwers quicklime and grappling hooks other migrants weapons of choice that i am we are going to they were very well prepared and organized. small they were so violent that we could not get to the fence. i mean they threw acid at us and did all they could to prevent us from closing the holes that they had cut into the fans. in morocco's mountains mu son and his friends are already preparing their next attempt they're tired of the brutality at the hands of the moroccan police they only find food at

a nearby rubbish dump a soft drink a cucumber a moldy potato. life here is unbearable. morocco is teeming with police offices i mean all of my friends are left guinea with me made it to syria to. what am i supposed to do here i'll stay here until i can get in. their sense of desperation is what drives them for moosa and his friends it's your rope or nothing. in sports we have some cricket news india have beaten england in the third test they now created two one in the five test series rugby chung's an usher in to the front to break it to on day five in knocking them to bowl out in for three hundred seventeen giving india a big two hundred and three run victory here watching the w. news coming up ahead our business reporter gets into the swing of things and.

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