graphic and disturbing video emerges showing the body of yemen's former president ali abdullah saleh he is understood to have been killed by the fighters after an alliance between them collapsed last week. the president of mali contradicts the french account of an airstrike in northern mali in october saying the bombardment killed soldiers not. the other retraction from a major us media outlet over coverage of the scandal surrounding the white house and team trump's alleged illusion with russia. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is art international thomas certainly glad to have you with us now we begin in yemen where former

president ali abdullah saleh has been killed in fighting in the capital sanaa a video has been released showing his body now please be aware that the footage we're about to show you is extremely graphic and upsetting to see. was at the helm of yemen from one thousand nine hundred two thousand and twelve and was ousted during the arab spring the internal conflict that ensued saw him team up with the rebels against president hadi however salai made a public break from the shia rebel fighters in a speech on saturday that former ally saw this move as a betrayal and moved to drive forces loyal to him out of the capital sanaa. who the rebels say that the politician was killed while he was trying to flee in the city the car that you see here is believed to be the one he was trying to escape and militants claim is now under their control with militias that defeated a local journalist in the yemeni capital believes that there's been a clear divide among yemenis over dealings with the saudis. this latest decision to

turn back to the domination of saudi arabia has angered many yemenis specially the saudi women has led to the killing of. thousands of civilians and also it's a devastating impact over its blockade will be imposed of the country. such a decision betty. for. saudi arabia to offer their new. relations with. such a new is also have been welcomed by some yemenis. the u.n. says it cannot confirm the safety of its staff in the moment and fears there will be more instability and violence in the country security and political analyst omar not should be believes the saudi led coalition could soon retaliate heavily for the death of this politician it's not the first time he switches sides this shift has been part of his political career it's not the first time that he changed his

political position and his alliances this time was a drastic failure the people of yemen after so many years of saudi bombardment i don't think they were ready to sit and talk with the saudis as if nothing happened there was a statement by the saudis actually where they threatened to bomb the night so there's going to be more bloodshed this failure in this conspiracy perhaps will push the saudis for more aggression more destruction and that's very unfortunate for the yemeni people. to mali now in west africa where the country's president has confirmed its soldiers were killed in a french airstrike in october french army earlier said that their operation targeted forces that had deserted to join an islamist group it is now believed that those soldiers had been taken hostage by harvests. the hostages and the should be. between french friends and one of those stories where the truth is really hard to be established but what we know for sure so far is that at the end of the toper the

french military stationed in africa as part of the anti terrorist operation but hunt carried out a strike targeting the northern part of mali the country's troubled region suffering a lot in the last five years and currently from violence according to the french commanders fifteen jihadist were killed in the attack including who they believe were former mollen soldiers who joined the ranks of the islamists but what is surprising in this situation is the reaction of president despite the death of the country's soldiers that could have been killed by mistake and could be considered as collateral damage his reaction is very moderate it's regrettable unfortunate happen in these types of operations we should. exist why is he doing that it's really hard to say how he may have his that his own reasons and we

know that mali has been helped a lot by friends to fight against islamist groups in the northern part of the country but again this is one of those stories where the accounts could be different from assad's involved and it's really hard to establish where is the truth or political analysts. believe that there is more to the mali president's warding than meets the eye. don't forget that it was the mali and interim government which invited the french soldiers over there and france for historical request oracle reasons has a lot of power in mali today so i think you know he is holding back it is however quite surprising that he's going public with such a statement and saying that france so should acknowledged that it is responsible for such an attack this is rare in such a situation that they my insinuate that france is actually lying on this situation so i definitely think there's a that this is an agenda between kate and the french government today something is

probably going is being discussed right now don't forget that twenty eight thousand is going to be a new year a lot of elections in mali local regional and presidential elections so this may have to be to do with something between negotiating between france and political parties today and in my own. it is claimed that a british aid company is inadvertently funding jihad ists in syria adam smith international which aims at improving living conditions in third world countries is accused of letting its funding end up in the hands of terrorists now according to a t.v. documentary broadcast in britain what happens to that cash when it gets over the boom to syria that really matters. as we've discovered some of it ends up in the hands of extremists. or to possibly go as the details on the allegations. well up until last night the british government harvest scheme whereby it provided funding for policing and community projects in open vision

held areas of syria and this project was all about funding the so-called free syrian police and it was implemented by a company called adam smith international its offices are in this building in london and adam smith international it's a think tank it's a lobbying group and it also promotes democratic reforms around the world given the chaotic nature of civil war and given the makeup of the syrian opposition an investigation done by b.b.c. panorama now alleges that some of that government money may have ended up in the hands of extremists as a result according to the documents seen by this investigation police in the lefkow province were forced to hyundai the cash to the extremist group that was in control of the area that it also claims that the syrian branch of al qaida to battle

nuestra hand hand picked the offices for two of the so-called free syrian police forces in the aid live province there are also allegations that there were dead and fictitious people on this force's payroll and the foreign office has now confirmed that it has suspended the funding towards the ajax scheme that is the access to justice and community security scheme in syria take a listen would take any allegations of cooperation with terrorist groups and of human rights abuses extremely seriously and the foreign office has suspended this program while we investigate these allegations it's important to note that these allegations have already called somewhat of a brown hair in the u.k. adam smith international have called the allegations entirely. untrue and misleading they put out a statement saying that it refutes the claims every legal avenue to defend the

reputation of the project and the company as well as the choke pic of britain's foreign aid is highly controversial here is one that's been part of public debate because it's all about times his money being censored brought to help countries thirteen billion pounds a year to be precise and many his say that the government should be spending at least some of that money on funding things like the national health service or education instead so allegations that some government money could be getting into the hands of extremists in syria is only going to fuel that argument. the top u.s. political reporter working for a.b.c. news has been suspended without pay after making false claims about potential collusion between team trump and moscow he stated that former national security advisor michael flynn was directed by trump to make contact with russia before the election took place flynn is not believed to have established dialogue until after

the vote trumps former aide has been making headlines since friday when he pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with the then russian ambassador to the u.s. flynt became the first former white house official to be charged in the so-called russia investigation but as jacqueline vogel explains fake news is masking what the probe into alleged has actually uncovered. after almost a year of investigations into whether team trump and big bad russia were in on it together the only concrete things to come out of those inquiries is a couple charges of making false statements and a shocking revelation that we knew a year ago this building doesn't see anything necessarily. you know you know appropriate about. members of the incoming administration and foreign officials that are what's on trigger right now and again this is an ongoing we have no. you know no commenter no problem with them doing such on their own the obama

administration saw no issue in michael flynn's conversations with the then russian ambassador because it was par for the course but that didn't stop the media running wild over his guilty plea for in fact checking to the wind like a.b.c.'s award winning chief investigative correspondent brian ross who won't be on the air for the next four weeks because of his false reporting on flynn he's prepared to testify we have told by a confidant against president trump against members of from family and others in the white house is prepared to testify the president as a candidate donald trump ordered him directly to make contact with the russians which contradicts all the government has said this point that bombshell report sent shock waves across the nation even taking the u.s. stock market only to be proved fake in reality michael flynn was asked to contact the russians only after trump had already won the election which makes a world of difference you can't sway a vote that's already played out a.b.c. issued an apology about how they deeply regret the serious error saying they had not fully vetted ross the story well maybe they should have known better given his

history of producing fake news back in two thousand and one ross made the explosive claim that saddam hussein may have been responsible for anthrax attacks in the u.s. citing only anonymous sources the white house personally shot down that story and what they refer to as concocted claims one news agency describe ross as quote having produced more high level haphazard reporting than perhaps any other reporter . although to be fair he's far from alone when it comes to reporting especially when it comes to stories on russia. will dispute it that he ever assured the president that he was not under any kind of investigation. the march the thirtieth of again and he. told them we're not investigating personally that was true.

corrections clarifications and apologies are all well and good but more often than not once the fake stories out of the bag the retraction does little to put it back at. meanwhile donald trump has hit out at the f.b.i. saying it ruined the life of his former aide michael flynn he also hinted at double standards in how the agency treated hillary clinton over her use of a private e-mail server well i feel badly for general allen i feel very badly. very wrong rice and i feel very badly john i will say this is hillary lies many scientists nothing are for your lies destroyed his life i think it's a shame earlier neal mccabe a washington based political journalist and editor editor at big league politics

joins us to shed more light on this and give us his opinion he believes flynn's crime pales in comparison to actions allegedly taken by former presidential candidate hillary clinton. it's only a double standard it's it's a question of magnitude where general flynn literally told a fib to some f.b.i. agents who were setting up an obstruction trap whereas hillary clinton had this entire enterprise of secret e-mails and deleting e-mails under subpoena and then lying about the e-mails that are under subpoena and then members of her entourage who are sort of working back and forth between witnesses and and investigators and then there then the f.b.i. somehow gives them all immunity and nia this whole sort of enterprise around hillary clinton and then really what did mike flynn do pretty much nothing what's happening is the f.b.i.'s inspector general michael e. horowitz is investigating that right now which is why we found out that two people

from the f.b.i. were taken off of robert muller's team. because of the sort of funny business going on inside that investigation and it just seems like every time a republican wins the white house the democrats will spend a year or two or maybe longer just trying to invalidate that election. for the record we should mention that in july two thousand and sixteen an f.b.i. investigation cleared then candidate hillary clinton of any criminal responsibility for maintaining a private e-mail server during her time as secretary of state there is more on the russian vessel question coming up the f.b.i. is now in hot water on capitol hill after one of its top agents was removed from the case over possible bias details on that after a short break you are watching our. there is no center in the united states political discourse it's all center right ever since the clinton people came into power the center right has become the right

and there is no peace party that exists in my country and i don't see any evidence of it except this third party that is so criticized to redeploy. the wealth concentration a bureaucratic concentration is sapping the economic vitality from this entrepreneurial nation called america and the machinations and the costs associated their way of keeping the prison population in place are draining money away from all aspects of society and you've got the problems that you would normally associate with the ghetto like people nodding out in the middle of the day in the middle of the street.

we welcome back this is our two international line from moscow the f.b.i. has been threatened with legal action after it was accused of hiding information from lawmakers the u.s. house intelligence committee says the agency needs to explain why it dropped a key agent the so-called rush investigation from new york here's artie's killed and with more well the u.s. lawmakers on the house intelligence committee want information from the f.b.i. and if they don't get it there could be criminal charges for contempt now at this point what the committee wants to find out is why top f.b.i. investigator who was looking into tromp in the allegations of russian collusion and such they want to know why he was fired now reports seem to indicate that he was fired for an anti trump an anti republican bias that can committee has set monday

as the day that they want to know they want testimony and they want answers from the f.b.i. this is devon noone is the chair of the house intelligence committee explaining their frustration. by hiding from congress from the american people documented political bias by a key head investigates for both the russian collusion probe the clinton investigation the f.b.i. and the engaged in a willful attempt to thwart constitutional oversight responsibility so if information is not provided with monday being the deadline it appears that legal action could be taken against the department of justice and the f.b.i. now republicans are pointing to peter strock and his possible bias as proof that the investigation into russia and donald trump may be politically motivated from the beginning now in his usual style donald trump got on twitter and he

spoke up and was highly critical of the f.b.i. he said that the reputation of the f.b.i. is in tatters and he said that it's tainted he called the f.b.i. dishonest now the house and house intelligence committee says that they want answers from the department of justice about why this topic agent was fired they want answers they want information and if they don't get it this will be going to court and senior white house adviser says president trump has not yet decided on whether to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel speculation has been rife that he might make that decision this week president's going to make his decision and. he hasn't made his decision he's still looking at a lot of different facts and that when he makes his decision. he'll be the one to want to tell your nominee. jerusalem is a holy city for muslims christians and jews and it has been a key area of dispute in the conflict between israelis and palestinians israeli government claims your islam as its capital but most of the international community

does not recognize it as such now if the u.s. were to recognize it it would likely inflame tensions in the middle east dramatically trump's initiative to move his country's embassy to jerusalem which he did outline on the presidential campaign trail has been condemned by the arab league countries their secretary general warns that the proposal would fuel extremism and lead to violence and there was similar sentiment from jordan's of foreign affairs minister he warned of a negative outcome for all of the arab and muslim world and jordan has already called an emergency meeting of the organization of islamic cooperation and the arab league on the potential consequences of trump's decision journalist and media activist. thinks that the u.s. does not understand how sensitive the issue actually is. not seeing a country today has an embassy in jerusalem because they understand that this is a sensitive issue and they don't want to kind of hurt or tap to tamper with something that sensitive so i think the u.s. is playing with fire the u.s.

doesn't understand the jerusalem is not a palestinian issue alone it is an arab issue it's in the muslim issue and it's an issue of real consequence and sensitivity to millions and over a billion muslims around the world so i think. their idea is that they want to make sure washington understand that they're tinkering with their very dangerous ally. in a grenade here and if it's going to blow up we're going to lob in everybody's face . russia's fate in the upcoming winter olympics in south korea and whether it will be hit by a blanket ban is to be decided on tuesday the international olympic committee is due to meet in lausanne switzerland to discuss the findings of two commissions into alleged state sponsored doping in russia just ahead of that meeting an interview with a key figure in a doping scandal has been released trying to fix up a story. this further act in law as long it could still be anything has got plenty

of options from a blanket ban of the entire russian team to giving an option to the sporting federations the international ones to decide on specific disciplines and individual athletes when it comes to making decisions on either the young chang twenty eighteen the limbic hopefuls or saatchi champions or both so far the i.o.c. has been sticking to an individual approach in all cases are being looked at separately which does give hope to the russian athletes however as the investigation continues the man who was behind all the end to work in accusations in the first place the former head of moscow's anti-doping laborde three grigori watching call of keeps coming up with more things to blame the russians for just to remind you mr rajan cause of is wanted over criminal charges in russia after he fled the country and disgrace he is called a whistleblower by the western media and the i.o.c.

calls him a credible witness well ahead of the international olympic committee's verdict a video interview with mr watching called surface and the russian media where one of the things that he's talking about is apparently his motivation. but even. the minister. is that a seeing this. is this is. what mr rotten cover is referring to the documentary film he's talking about the curse film which brought up the russian doping scandal and he was one of the main contributors to it but it looks like from what he said

that there are always folks that are ready to offer plenty of cash for what the doctor says or what he allegedly has how this affects his motivation you can decide for yourself but let's move on to listen to another bit of that interview sunni shia are going to. be going to. east. you know he's you know getting. these effects that you need. if you actually need. school. so once again in a nutshell grigori watching cup just refer to his all lab as one of the two almighty laborde terese it is allegedly capable of cheating both ways to clear the

russian team of positive doping tests or to destroy the russian sport and entirely for a few years so you might as well bear all that in mind when you listen to the international olympic committee delivering its verdict on wednesday evening when you hear words like credible witness trusted evidence the international olympic committee stands by all that evidence but remember that mr raja in call of said it out loud that he was seen the whole lot of money for that evidence it doesn't for me i will be back in about thirty four and a half minutes you are watching art international live from moscow and we are glad to have with us. here's what people have been saying about rejected and i suspect it's full on

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