going. team trump declares war on government lee kids and the media who report unnamed sources of the latest release of the president's phone call transcripts friends of damage u.s. diplomacy. coming up too in this news poll that gas rubber bullets and fire on the streets of venezuela as opposition supporters wreak havoc over the president's controversial constitutional reason for. agricultural chemical giant monsanto was caught influencing media and scientists to restore the reputation of

a controversial killer but. another miner this morning rescued from that flooded diamond mine in far east russia but eight remain missing. kevin though in this is are to internationalise just to midday here in moscow so very good afternoon for me thanks for joining us for this thirty minutes of news starting with this the trumpet ministrations announced a crackdown on federal government leaks which have left the white house in turmoil the culprits are being warned to stop now or face legal consequences leaks are incredibly damaging to our intelligence mission and capabilities simply put these

leaks hurt our country if you improperly disclose classified information we will find you we will investigate you we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law and you will. not be happy with the result the attorney general says the justice department has been pursuing about three times more leagues than it was during the last years of the obama administration and it's not only government employees who could face prosecution jeff sessions also warned that the media could be forced to reveal sources too well critics slammed that as an attack on free speech but there are fears that some leaks could be putting national security at risk as jacqueline vogel reports now. the white house is leaking like a fever and it simply has to stop both attorney general. as efforts are stepped up to root out those responsible and want to turn to violence kellyanne conway even speculated lie detectors can be reeled into the west wing to sniff out the

senator's these comments on the administration's response to the waves of classified information making their way out of the white house i don't know warming and some say dangerous right i am so glad they're telling us what's going on as a new thing every day is here's the crazy thing it is only you know getting out in the public because of the white house of whistle blowers the transcripts of phone calls between president trump and two world leaders have been the leaks and published by the washington post i've never seen a white house leak as much against itself as this the latest and most explosive leak conversation transcripts between trump and the leaders of mexico and i still you seem sort of been the final straw provoking our age even among critics who say a line has been crossed is not fair to this president. in terms of the leaks with the large prison term or not no president can do business with their phone calls from the leak to the washington post terribly damaging to our country not just to donald trump politically who i don't support but to our country does is it crimps

conversations with foreign leaders all the way down the chain where we saw no leaks like this under the obama administration and we saw only one or two when they were related to the iraq war in the bush administration so clearly the press leaks only what they want to leak because i refuse to believe these are the only times that they've ever had some do gooder and them something that they think should be published so in the sense that the press is selective i think that they have risen to the level of you being able to demonstrate malice being that they are not others and if they can show malice they should be held responsible absolutely despite the reported risks to national security this leaking pipe of information continues to drip likely because trump's enemies are not only at the doors of the white house they are right inside it too between staff stragglers. in the obama era and perpetual shake ups within his own administration the one thing that is clear is the toxic environment of distrust is likely to cloud the halls of the west wing meaning the president will have a hard time doing his job effectively and the security of the nation remains in

question and all leaks are plugged and the damage can finally be mopped up over our t. washington d.c. . day the taliban's been stepping up its attacks in afghanistan many of the deadly assaults over the past two days alone of thoughts of killed several police officers there were militant casualties two dozens were killed during a lengthy gun battle at a market in helmand the longest war in u.s. history shows no sign of ending either is word of explains. i've got to start on the very word is becoming synonymous with fadia the british the soviets and now the americans three us presidents have tried to win this war and gotten nowhere on my orders the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime and afghanistan i've decided to maintain our current posture of ninety eight hundred

troops in afghanistan i'm also sending general mcmaster to afghanistan to find out how we can make progress alongside our afghan partners it isn't getting bad it's been bad for near enough to decades what it is is going from bad to worse monday explosion near the iraqi embassy tuesday thirty killed in a mosque blast wednesday two u.s. soldiers killed in a convoy attack thursday suicide bomber attacks another nato convoy in the week isn't over yet trump's nod he's reportedly threatening to fire the u.s. is top commander in afghanistan a wolf alias see for yourself how much of the country is limits have now taken over and then not done yet.

sixteen years the longest war in u.s. history what is the goal of the conclusion continue to choose i don't know that we have a goal anymore. i'm not really sure to be honest i mean at this point it has been going on for a long time and i don't know what are we doing there being in afghanistan is another hooping experience the question there isn't even the taliban will win but when the taliban will win because it sure as heck isn't the pentagon that's doing the winning they'll tell you themselves we're not winning in afghanistan right now but we want an illusion. mr chairman i believe we're in a stalemate but then again how do you win this the afghan army fights for paychecks not for a corrupt government in kabul the government fights to enrich itself not the people

nato troops they aren't that to bring freedom they're following orders it isn't for nothing that they call it gonna stop on the graveyard of empires. earlier this week united states special inspector general for afghanistan admitted that the defense department program costing taxpayers almost half a billion dollars had failed to achieve its goals for a pentagon official michael maloof says the u.s. has got no strategy and won't have one if it continues using only a military solution going on year sixteen now people are american people are tired of it they're looking for alternatives and i think president trump is voicing that their frustration in trying to come to some kind of resolution on this now i know the russians have an afghan working group i was told by some officials recently that they had actually invited the united states to participate in discussions with with their group and to discuss

a resolution for afghanistan but the united states refused. unbelievable but it were it really underscores once again the u.s. needs a strategy it doesn't have one and it's not going to have one if they're going to rely solely on a military solution. and as well as need the elected but controversial legislative bodies but inaugurated amid a backdrop of yet more street violence police in the capital deployed tear gas and rubber bullets in clashes with angry opposition supporters. will. i. thank you. well that equation here is that now we have two a parliament one parliament of the meet there by the oval fish on our parliamentary

i mean at that by nicholas moder the opposition has snobbery now who demonstrations that will to your mind things will work out what they are good. and it's peaceful demonstrations but they're resold. usually by a well there's meanwhile hung around three people killed. in late march i don't see any understanding that if you question if there are continuing us cities or maybe getting wars i think this will die that out and in time so i'm both sides are entrenched. however out there national guard by the in the other side it's just you know. well as some expert reaction we've been getting to venezuela's political and economic ongoing the so-called constituent assembly election was a fraud to call an election would be a mockery of what happened no opposition candidates were allowed to stay in and the

votes cast were not in favor of one candidate against and the other so the so-called candidates were all cronies of the president and the ruling p.s.u. the party which controls the executive and the courts certainly there are some flaws in the way it was called and in the way the election took place but nothing that is fundamentally anti-democratic that is the opposition had plenty of opportunities to participate in this process itself was completely. straightforward and unfair so now when they do in demonstration they still insist on going to the city center which is has been prohibited and so then of course there are violent clashes between the police and the demonstrators. relations between e.u. neighbors france and italy have descended further with economic jockeying and the migrant crisis fracturing the once rock solid partnership has how it all unraveled

for the too then. emmanuelle macro on would like you to think he leads the e.u. even shows it's music to his victory march. try telling that to italians though they've just had their hands slapped away from a huge deal to buy one of france's big his ship building ports. wanted fifty fifty but rome was so upset they've sunk the deal entirely. nationalism and protectionism are not an acceptable basis for establishing relations between two great european countries to work on joint projects you need reciprocal trust and respect. he and i am announcing that we took the decision to exercise the preemption right of the state of s. t.x. this decision has been taken in total agreement with the president of the republic and the prime minister his decision has only one purpose defend this to interest of

friends in terms of labor constructions. it's not just man crumbs business dealings getting italy's base is attempts to solve the libyan crisis not going down too well either. because that is yours today by being here and by agreeing to this joint declaration is historic. it's doing that got the italian press up in arms and the politicians were venting their anger it's true there are too many open formats in libya to many meditators to many initiatives one topic macron is keeping very hands off zero is migrants italy wants other countries to open their borders but france's doors the staying well and truly shots last month italy asked of the e.u. countries to open their ports to migrants too but front said no way as it would create a magnus effect so what does neighborly love look like right now between france and

italy maybe some. well the french publisher we spoke to says there's a third party affecting relations here in the us germany i'm not sure that it is. on the economy i think that there is. competition between italy and france today. the importance in europe. with. eternity. to the meeting suites. and they were all there was a trio between the thirty france and germany and today we see that. tried to come back to the french. especially. with germany. and we can understand that it's. right ahead

here after the break through toxic revelations about one of the world's best selling weed killers we'll tell you all about twenty seconds ahead. oh there are already. what do you what's your current take on the administration right now just. they're having a tough situation would be inherited from obama but i think the big problem. is

that this. waddy pretended everything was great i liked him better as a candidate when everything was great when the data was phony the statistics on the unemployment rate is much higher don't believe the g.d.p. the stock market's a big fat ugly bubble that's from the go to for the truck by god everything is great it's a bond market the economy is great that's all because. secret documents show that the american agricultural chemical giant monsanto tried to influence media and science reports over its popular weed killer round up which has a key ingredient is linked to cancer his own attorney from the firm that published the documents describes the revelations this is a look behind the curtain monsanto has deliberately been stopping studies ghostwriting literature and engaging in corporate malfeasance the world health organization labeled roundups main ingredient life as

a potentially carcinogenic thing to humans and animals last month health officials in california also said it could cause cancer although monsanto's promos in a very different picture. what about their main active ingredient. is a harmful regulatory agencies in more than one hundred sixty countries have approved place the sea based products place the seed is applied to once absorbed it travels to their roots blocks a specific enzyme found in plants not animals or humans precise effective and proven. so the newly revealed documents show that concerns among staff of this product safety go by years in fact to two thousand and three among scientists sciences then told a colleague quote you can't say roundup is not a carcinogen because the necessary tests haven't been carried out and there's more even a couple of years before that another road of serious concerns about testing that we kill and now the monsanto email exchange also highlights that went on between

a science consultancy called into tech editing research with monsanto scientists. other e-mails show a writer from the business magazine forbes requested a high quality draft to from monsanto before writing an article on round up in fact henry miller was later fired for ghost writing to downplay the risks associated with the product earlier my colleague neil harvey spoke to the one of the monsanto executives and put some of these revelations to him this is the response. an academic ken remailer asked monsanto to draft an article for him did the company draft an article for him or did it given any orders as what he needed to write no we didn't know orders whatsoever as to what he needed to write he asked for assistance with a draft and we provided assistance with the grafters he requested ok i just want to read out a quote from another research i can't be part of deceptive authorship we call that ghost writing and it is unethical what was he referring to there in terms of

ghostwriting it was a complete mature version. and it was resolved with appropriate. tribute and authorship credit says that there was a monsanto scientist who said he would be seriously concerned if somebody wanted to test the weed killer what was that concern we want to make sure that good science good lab practices people who know what they're doing professionals who are capable of conducting tests are doing those we will always have concerns when someone out of the blue tells us that they would like to ask what about the claims scott coming from some people that one of your products round up has actually caused cancer there are question marks over maybe go life to save itself isn't cancer in juicing but perhaps the actual product how do you respond to that claim well the only other really the roundup is put together with two to two completely round up formulations is what's called a search it has been studied extensively neither one of those have to be cancer

causing agents mike papantonio who is a lawyer and author of the upcoming book law inventions believes the u.s. government knew about the dangers associated with ground up. one important thing about these documents it helps paint a very clear picture that monsanto understood the dangers of their product when they were selling it by the ton all over the world the problem is the the government has known about this for quite a while this case has been out there for quite some time and unfortunately the department of justice hasn't taken it on themselves to actually go after a criminal investigation with this but understand here you have a company that is actually influencing the very regulatory agency this supposed to be looking out for the safety of the american public and so this has been going on since one thousand nine hundred eighty five the e.p.a. in one thousand nine hundred five determined that glaive to say in round up was

a primary ingredient round up needed to be classified as a carcinogen now they said that in the eighty's and then all of a sudden with no reason to change they they said day one it will cause cancer in six years later the e.p.a. suddenly changes that classification the opposite way and now what we're seeing is why they changed it. to developing sort of myriad russian next rescuers have money to make contact with some of the miners who became trapped in a flooded diamond mine in far east russia on friday a major rescue operation still underway the one hundred forty three people have so far been brought to the surface eight still missing this is how it all unfolded.

the company that owns the mine is called el ros it's one of the world's biggest diamond produces the firm mines most of russia's diamonds in fact the u. kuti area was discovered to be diamond rich in one hundred fifty five in two thousand and nine an underground. was struck diamond bearing all producing up to a million tons a year however that facilities being constantly hit by strong underground water currents it has been problematic in the past will keep you. up to date on the

latest rescue operation there will keep you posted on the fate of those trapped miners a says times of the moment eight still unaccounted for. british computer hacker credited with stopping the tories want to cry cyber attacks allegedly admitted to police that he created and sold malware designed to steal banking details guys names marcus hutchins he was arrested at the hacking conference in las vegas and could face up to forty years in prison if he's convicted the twenty three year old self-taught cyber expert faces six charges for creating and distributing the virus which spreads through e-mail attachments and steals banking details from infected computers is lawyer said he plans to plead not guilty hutchens became known for discovering that he didn't kill switch of course in the want to cry cyber attack huge attack struck at over a hundred fifty countries couple of months ago causing havoc in airports hospitals banks of the key infrastructure back in may it work by encrypting data on infected

computers making them inaccessible and then demanding a ransom for three hundred dollars worth of because as you may recall actions work in stopping want to cry back then those sort of labeled as a hero. people are so inundated with mass just thanking me saying i'm a hero i mean i so just read shouldst maine for trucking and i didn't intend for it to blow up on me to be one of the media i just saw during lunch open i don't really think that i'm a heretic but now former cia analyst john kiriakou believes the heck is the rest leave too many questions and. i read the indictment i read the statement of fact. i'm not seeing a crime here at least what's in the indictment is very very weak i think is his own attorney described it is very thin and i am perplexed as to why he was charged in the eastern district of wisconsin of all places i don't believe he's ever even been to wisconsin so i think this is really the department of justice trying to make

a statement which i think is going to come back and bite it because it's the f.b.i. director and the cia director who have been going to these these hacker conventions in the past telling hackers or would be hackers we're the good guys come and work for us well now they go and arrest one of the most prominent hackers in the world one who's actually provided a public service in his own country this is going to send it chilling effect through the entire hacker community. south korea spy agency has admitted playing a role in the country's twenty twelve presidential election but the national intelligence services know she's a statement promising to quote this is sociate itself from politics in future the agency deployed its cyber warfare unit in the twenty twelve poll organizing as many as thirty teams to influence opinion on social media it suspected of toppling the then president. and helping the challenger paid to victory was a page to twenty sixteen and this she is but accused of corruption and arrested.

glazebrook told us the spy agency did mission that is troubling. if the south korean state was created to crush popular movements calling for unification of korea and then it's no surprise really that that's exactly what the what they're still up to because the intelligence service of south korea in twenty two of the big big problem was that they were their word the opposition. had too much of an open policy towards north korea wanted to revive the sunshine policy so-called of the early two thousand negotiations in reducing hostility towards north korea and so on and of course that's the worst outcome for the u.s. because the unification of career would ultimately end the rays on death row for u.s. bases on the korean peninsula which means u.s. bases right on the doorstep of both russia and china so no it's not a surprise but would there's a big element which is missing from this story which i think this this would not

have taken place south korean intelligence would not have done this without coordinating with this with the u.s. . thanks torching i'm kevin though and hope your weekend is going good stay with us if you can find us on facebook you tube and. was. the.

economic development is all about numbers really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six points. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think about the fact that our c.e.o. mike do. over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says. with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right. is that just how a free market works. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are. just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devoid society from the protests of the government try to do. it might be making things worse.

by saying this is not how capitalism works this is lose them goes hopelessly disastrously wrong. welcome to the kaiser for imax kaiser well we're wrapping things up here at freedom fast in los vegas has been a fantastic journey for us a lot of great guests thought we maybe should just take a stroll around talk to some folks out there on the floor get the pulse of what's happening here let's go. all right so we're prowling the floor freedom fast oh my gosh the can we pump into peter schiff and what's happening i'll work it out by bruce get ready for the big bear debate oh that was ok this year is what i i am.