this is. from berlin it was it me tonight senior trump administration officials lining up to deny that they were that anonymous new york times article even vice president mike pence is forced to issue a public did not as the hunt for the intensifies the bombshell article talks of insiders efforts to thwart the president's agenda has called it treason also coming

up. the people in india celebrate a landmark ruling as the supreme court strikes down a nineteenth century law that criminal winds to gay sex new hope that india's communities can live. without fear. it's good to have you with us tonight it is a case of who did it inside the trunk the white house senior members of the trumpet ministration are coming forward to say they are not behind yesterday's new york times letter in an op ed piece someone said to be a senior official claims that aides are working to frustrate parts of trump's agenda from inside his administration trump has lashed out calling whoever wrote the piece gutless for hiding their identity. i am part of the resistance

inside the trumpet ministration the headline proclaims i work for the president but like minded colleagues and i have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda the new york times describes the author as a senior official in the government his claims have sparked controversy and of course damning criticism from the president himself. if the failing new york times has an anonymous editorial if you believe there's really gotten us a get was a story of. we're doing a great job the poll numbers are through the roof our poll numbers are great and guess what nobody is going to come close to beating me in twenty twenty because of what we've done trump plates of follow this up with a tweet. does the so-called senior administration official really exist or is it just the failing new york times with another phony so trump asked if the gutless

anonymous person does indeed exist the times must for national security purposes turn him over to government at once the times has defended its decision to publish the editorial anonymously and while some a scrambling for clues as to the oath is identity others want to focus on the message i think the all the alarming hard ball. is that there's someone in the white house is very afraid that our nation is being damaged on a daily basis and i think we should take that very seriously this is not a warning from a liberal democrat this is a warning from someone who don't hire to work in the white house who is revealing information that is very troubling. americans are divided as should an insider resistance be commended condemned. it as an open question tonight to talk about what's happening in washington i'm joined now from

our washington bureau by our correspondent sway to get even so you need it has been described as a bombshell a political tsunami many people saying that no matter what happens moving forward the trump presidency will never be the same after this letter i mean how would you describe. it definitely feels like something has cracked i should preface all of this by saying as we've all seen this is an administration that has had many of these bombshell moments times in the past year and a half of this administration where people thought that there was no coming back from an incident from a scandal that this was going to be the watershed moment that everything was over for trump and that didn't happen he's still in office but i will say that there has been a confluence of books and story is that are all insiders accounts of how this white house and how this administration works they're all very very damning

they're all coming out about this time are also looking forward to tuesday when a new book from the legendary journalist bob woodward is coming out also with a similar story about chaos and dissent in the white house that very much corroborates a lot of the allegations made in this op ed so whether or not this is the straw that breaks the camel's back that's tricky to say but it definitely feels like there is a piling on at the very least right now yeah and this is certainly not just a u.s. story of people here in europe around the world asking who wrote the letter and before we talk about that let's listen to one senior administration official making it clear that it's not him as well as some other reaction from washington take a look. and i have to tell you. i just i find i find the media's efforts in this regard to undermine this administration incredibly disturbing. and i'll answer the question directly because i know some will say gosh he didn't

answer the question it's not mine this is the president as commander in chief has power over so many decisions. during our safety feature get to know that even within his administration such as unstable conduct the people moving documents is desperate for something and. i think the alarming part of all it is that there's someone in the white house who is very afraid that i'm nation is being damaged on a daily basis so. have you heard people venturing a guess who could have been there is this anonymous author. this is definitely the question that set the internet ablaze yesterday and even still today we've heard guesses everything from the vice president mike pence. one of his children we have to know that this writer this op ed was described as

a senior administration official that's a very generic term that can apply to about i think two thousand people who work in the government and it did not specifically say that even worked in the white house so whether or not we're ever going to get this president. really that's anyone's guess but it's certainly helped through as i said a bombshell in. high stakes week for the traffic ministration here or whether this position is this coming forward it means that he's in but we can certainly see given the president's reaction why they wanted to be anonymous or at a correspondent in washington wires wait on the story for us tonight small your thank you we apologize for those audio problems there. here is some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the german foreign minister who moscow as concluded a trip to turkey a bit rebuilding a string relationship his mission was to pave the way for a state visit to germany by president heir to one this month and to try to secure

the release of seven german citizens detained in turkey on political grounds britain has told the u.n. security council it has clear evidence that moscow was behind the poisoning of a russian expert last march it comes a day after the u.k. announced a murder charges against two russian suspected of carrying out the attack british allies have issued a joint statement backing london's assessment denies any involvement italian prosecutors have placed twenty people under investigation in connection with the bridge collapse that killed dozens in genoa last month the group includes top managers at all still autostrada the company that operates the bridge the suspects could face charges of manslaughter for failing to comply with safety regulations. in india the supreme court in the world's largest democracy has made a landmark ruling that legalizes same sex relations the unanimous judgment overturns a nineteenth century law that made gay sex punishable by up to ten years in prison

one judge said the ruling would pave the way for a better future india's gay community of celebrating tonight but many challenges still lie ahead. a roar of joy as they hear the news india's supreme court decision on thursday is history in the making. i can feel me being going to my d. i don't normally read it though and if you do damned if you mean i didn't mean it if it made my move but you had to be very very fundamental to. the colonial era law formally known as section three seven seven had first been implemented in the nineteenth century it had made gay sex punishable by up to ten years in jail activists have been fighting for gay rights since the one nine

hundred ninety s. suffering several defeats and reversals in court along the way. this was an. amazing feeling inside and have and. it is really amazing and this judgment has need. of what it really was. the kind of judgment they have pronounced that. one of the point that he clearly said it is the responsibility of the government to edit the jackman and lead the general public know that this section is a little more careful and sense of by the general public. legally the situation for l.g.b. t's has improved in india but many of them say this is only the beginning on their long way towards the goal of equal rights after years of campaigning and long court battles india's top court has finally legalized homosexuality it's

a big victory for activists and huge relief for hundreds of thousands of gay and lesbian people across india in a country homosexuality is not understood or to. but the mosses many here say that legal acceptance is the first step to with ending the how dismount and persecution of the gay community. in india's conservative religious society prejudice against gays is still very deeply entrenched the self proclaimed goal of many the rights to same sex marriage is still a long fight away. or the first talks in two years aimed at ending the conflict in yemen or due to begin today but the rebels delegations failed to turn up at the un in geneva so the talks well they hang in the balance these are demanding that certain conditions be met while the yemeni government still legation is threatening to fly home more than ten thousand people have been killed in the

conflict so far. here he and yemen over yet more lives lost in its brutal civil war. thousands marched in the who's the stronghold of sada demanding justice for forty children killed in an as strike on a school bus last month. to saudi led coalition that carried out the attack has since admitted it was unjustified but civilian deaths have been commonplace in the three and a half year war that's caused a humanitarian catastrophe. now another attempt to broker peace in limbo one of the warring sides the iran linked to the movement a no show on the first day of u.n. sponsored talks aimed at bringing them to the negotiating table with the saudi backed government the government delegation has given the huge fees twenty four hours to arrive in geneva we are here to put something to the end of the yemeni

suffering and but who proves that they don't want peace they don't believe in peace we have this scheduled meeting since two months ago we scheduled to make it on sixth of september today we are alone here. these say they won't join the talks until the coalition meet several demands including authorizing the rebels' chosen airline to fly them to geneva the un mediator downplayed the delay on the eve of the talks if you look back at previous. negotiations on yemen there's always been a deliberate i don't i don't take it very seriously people of yemen like many of the conflicts are desperately in need of a signal of hope we'd like to think that the work we will do together these next days will begin to send a flickering signal of hope so. but that flickering signal of hope is in danger of being extinguished if the long awaited talks don't materialise. arson sports

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