finds itself under this kind of leadership which is undermining the standing of this country internationally if countries acquiesce to the us and if they accept being punching bag for the american administration and voting in accordance with directives from nikki haley then what's the point of having the united nations i think we all know are in the new era in which a major. resort to blackmail and bribery in order to secure votes in the general assembly this is the first occasion on which the state decree a major. member of the security council has resorted to search measures i do think that it will be good for believe the united states will to carry through and through its of this kind because they're called indicator states in putra situations and give them a vote against the united states they do so. boris

johnson has visited moscow for the first time as the u.k. foreign secretary trip comes while relations between the two countries are at an historic low darting trying to was following johnson's meeting with his russian counterpart. well we hadn't seen a u.k. foreign secretary in moscow for five years and i can tell you that i hadn't seen such a remarkable press conference at the foreign ministry villa behind me for a long time there were many jokes many ways to poke each other not necessarily in a bad way after listing all the essential topics that are usual for such talks ranging from north korea to ukraine russia and the theories that it meddled with us and the votes all around the world and the u.k. as well came up once before just to remind you the foreign secretary boris johnson said that he hadn't seen any evidence of russian interference he even used the

words not a sausage well mr johnson seems to have changed his mind today he said that he hadn't seen any evidence of successful attempts to interfere and i asked boris johnson to elaborate on that a little bit there was last on the free abundant evidence of. russian interference in the elections in. germany. from. america but as i say there is new evidence of any successful russian interference. in the u.k. other highlights of the press conference included boris johnson speaking russian a few times saying that he has committed to fall in response to another question by me the u.k. foreign secretary confirmed that once he was in tehran a couple of weeks ago he visited the russian embassy secretly to see the venue of

the famous tehran conference during the second world war he was also asked about moscow travel advice that he received from one of the british m.p.'s which included warnings about drinking challenge game. and honey traps many other things so the question was about trust and the question was about whether he had encountered any of these threats so far in the russian capital. you know i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. soon as i got into this exit from a loose dry mediately handed my coat my hat my gloves and indeed everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to sergei lavrov in the knowledge that he would look after it. would come to to no harm more than just a few times boris johnson reminded of the differences in the views that london and moscow have on various international issues it seemed that he really felt it was

essential to keep talking about this every time he said something positive about russia but at the end of the day the common message was from both top diplomats that dialogue needs to prevail and here's what the top diplomats were served at lunch the menu included several exotic russian dishes and desserts together with tea and coffee but in case that to satisfy everyone wine and want co were also on the table the lunch was followed by the joint news conference where boris johnson even demonstrated some of his impressive russian skills. i am in a rush to find. a date committed russett college. that's the diplomatic relationship that is right for one hundred fifty years old dates from the time when the queen elizabeth sent an envoy to the terrible writing before

. from the first foreign secretary in the history channel to be cool for. customers i said the role of buying. british things for a future crisps to go to bed. somebody has just given me a pass for the figure around the sludge box because it does not stew that you can i guess that's the fs. the first said so when it comes to trust or trust poorest and trust him so much i'm ready to call him no boris nobody spoke to the police. as i think as i think. ronald reagan mikhail gorbachev used to say trust but there is. a coming war that is in russia in the program i'm ready to trust without any verification.

from all the british foreign secretary also visited red square as well as saying central moscow is on looks he and his team laid flowers at the tomb of the on one soldier a lot war two memorial by the department during the war britain and the soviet union force together against nazi germany often broadcast images you have seen things johnson's visit will bring positive aspects with time. you can see maybe some glimmer of hope on the horizon just in terms of the sort of growing report that the sitting to be at that meeting between boris johnson and sergey lavrov. but i also think that the thing that is. anything positive that's going to come out of that meeting seriously positive will only emerge in time i think boris johnson is going to come back to london he's going to say you know i've really put it to the russians i didn't give an inch. and then it will be with time that we'll see maybe they'll be some other maybe we'll have a reciprocal visit and maybe just maybe things will start to unfreeze but then you

know i'm an optimist and we're coming up to new year so here's hoping. shocking revelations have emerged after a limb pick gymnastics champion mckayla maroney claimed she was abused for years as a child by the u.s. team doctor and was then paid to keep silent the doctor at michigan state university and the u.s. olympic committee all allegedly conspired to bribe maroney not to speak out her lawyer takes up the story she hired a lawyer and asked for a settlement conference or mediation to get justice to what she did me ask for was a draconian confidentiality agreement that prevented her from telling even her brother and sister about this and then i think even worse it said that you can't ever say anything bad about us if your masters ever for your whole life. dr laura nasser pleaded guilty to first degree sexual assault and was sentenced to sixty

years in prison but this is the first time sporting organizations are alleged to have bribed victims to stay quiet usa gymnastics and says that a year ago mickael as lawyers approached the organization to request a confidential meeting that resulted in a mutual nondisclosure settlement ok or shared her experiences in a series of testimony is but she was far from the doctor's only victim. it started when i was thirteen years old and it didn't end until i last bought it seemed whenever and wherever this man could find the chance i was treated this scariest night of my life happened when i was fifteen years old i had flown all day and nights with the team to get to tokyo he'd given me a sleeping pill for the flight and the next thing i know i was all alone with him in his hotel room getting treatment i thought i was going to die that night i don't want to be in the courtroom telling about how. you know pandered to me in front of

my mother when i was eleven the fact that he just thinks oh i pleaded guilty and now you guys can start healing is ridiculous to me i don't think. i don't think you truly understand how many people are hurting and how bad people are hurting over this well earlier we discussed moronis claims with forward you must rachel then hollander she was the first woman to publicly accuse a former usa national team doctor of sexual assault which she wasn't surprised about the allegations of a wide scale coverup. you know i think there's plenty of evidence that there was a cover up not just because of the way usa g. has handled larry nasser's case but again because this is their longstanding policy they have been covering up sexual abuse in the organization literally for decades you know some of the most prominent coaches in usa do you have trained olympians who have worked alongside bella and martha curley those those coaches have been found guilty of sexual abuse too and again like like their member coaches they were allowed to continue preying on little girls and even their elite athletes for

decades so when you have an organization that has a decades long policy of supporting sexual predators a decades long policy of silencing victims by literally shoving reports in a file cabinet and then they can defend their actions by saying they want to avoid a witch hunt it shouldn't come as any surprise to us that they're treating their elite athletes the same way they're treating the youngest gymnast in their member gyms so i think we already know that usa g. has a longstanding policy of covering up sexual predators larry nasser is not an exception by any stretch of the imagination. a lot. of dropping. by to. tell you. about

that. so you got manmade global warming incinerating climate or is it causing an eco but the corporations feel like you know what that might cost us a penny at the end of the year so we do have donek adjustment to our algorithm it will take out the city of alaska that would flag us to take action appropriate first survival of the species and we're going to instead rely on our balance sheet and our algorithm like a good g.p.s. monitor in your car that's pointing over a cliff i don't care if the cliff is there by algorithm says it's not there so i keep driving going to a film and always going to go right over the cliff because after the data tells me .

the families of british soldiers killed in the iraq war have abandoned their legal battle to have former prime minister tony blair and other u.k. government officials prosecuted for war crimes the lawyers say they have exhausted every possible means to get justice for those killed during the invasion well most fifteen years have passed since the invasion of iraq tens of thousands of british troops took part with one hundred seventy nine losing their lives well the official british inquiry into the war known as the chilcote report was published last year it criticized the government for rushing into the conflict based on flawed intelligence artie's pretty boyko met one man lost his brother in the war. on numerous occasions of been mistaken too like white as a ghost is all to the cost someone telling me on facebook not so long book and thought i was david mike wilson lost his identical twin brother lance corporal david wilson in iraq in two thousand and eight david was twenty seven he'd become

a father to his daughter poppy weeks before his death people say the twins have a rare twin bond kind of thing and i never really believe in this kind of thing i'm quite pragmatic. bought there is the you realize it's me who switched off together with other families of the soldiers fallen in iraq might push for a civil case against tony blair but lawyers have told them that british courts can't make judgments on matters of foreign policy military decisions or the legality of war for the grieving relatives the legal route here in the u.k. has been exhausted condemned the loss of a loved one in a conflict that the chill court report concluded was based on flawed intelligence will never be forgotten. the damning report revealed that saddam hussein presented no immediate threat and that politicians spoke of weapons of mass

destruction with a certainty that wasn't justified forging tony blair has been made immune from. prosecution in the high court seems that pretty much the can do what they want and get away with it where does that leave the families was destroyed some of the families you know to this day you know some of them haven't recovered a lot of them still you know relive what went through you know from the day that they got that knock at the door it seems a bit pointless now that we know we were told to have weapons of mass destruction then we found out that it didn't and then when the chilcot inquiry came out of the blue sort of we got the. the outcome was kind of like well what was all this for you know and all sort of from a sort of nine years down the line does not quote it at all it just all seemed very very pointless with all the legal avenues closed off the iraq war families campaign

group is launching a petition demanding that parliament holds to politicians responsible for the war to account tony blair you know was you know even there the decision was his and he was in full fact. in full knowledge of the of all the facts that circumstances surrounding her and the reasons why we went in been privy to all of the information so dual him personally responsible for the petition is mike's initiative his way of continuing the fight even after losing the possibility of a legal battle for politicians in museums the iraq war may have been pushed into the archives for families like mike's the wounds of losing their loved ones are is rule as ever the dissemination are never a great time for us as a family but you know all those little aversion betweens or like the nineteenth for example was the. you know eleven's when we brought him back in the stuff it does feel like a little bit of kicking the you know consumer which saw alone for the ruling. party

darlington. that he made putin has addressed russia's military at his annual meeting with the defense ministry. has more on the president's plans for military spending and foreign policy well wouldn't go ahead on a number of issues everything from pensions to the military budget with of course a heavy emphasis on international defense strategies and he referred to america's current military strategy as being on the offensive and said that if you were to look at it from a military point of view that it was definitely have to be described as quote restive and in reference to the build up of nato missile launchers on russia's doorstep who then said that his defense ministry can't ignore such potential threats and will have to be ready to react to them he added hardware that's moscow is not interested in anyway and being the least of the world and leslie extending its military might let's take a listen i'm seeing this without any irony we will rely on our peaceful foreign

policy it's important because we don't need. to run the world and we don't want to be the world's policeman. i want to come to russia's military budget will in fact be shrinking next year and already pales in comparison to a number of countries throughout the world and putin also mentioned that it's better to take a brain over brawn approach to the world again we can take a listen to what he had to say on that absolutely. we need wisdom that says that we won't rely exclusively on our so-called military muscle we won't be dragged into an economically pointless shell exhausting arms race there is no way we will do that. he would do it. so there you heard him while there are still fears arising of an international arms race putin himself said that russia will not be want to participate and that. there have been shot rises in the value of

cryptocurrency is this year but there falls have also been spectacular bitcoin dropped under certain size in dollars according after hitting all time highs of more than twenty thousand over the weekend he goes down have joined me in the studio earlier to discuss this. this freefall has triggered some very polar reactions to it because some are saying that bitcoin now is absolutely done and dusted others are saying that it's just a correction nothing to be afraid of and this is a good opportunity to get more big corn at a more well attractive price and but there's also one other trend going on here some of the earliest and most passionate supporters of bitcoin are now looking at it from a more critical standpoint of investment and between right now i would say is the riskiest investment you can make it is an extremely high risk as soon as people realize that this is how it works they will start selling there's no fixed definition whether it's a currency or not this issue is a difficult one it has not yet been proven to be credible enough to become

a currency so i need to watch because in for a little while more imagine your average stock increasing in value not two not five not ten but twenty fold while this is bitcoin twenty seventeen in a nutshell for you this crypto currency has been really breaking one price record after the other as you've just mentioned over the weekend in fact on sunday it brushed the twenty thousand dollar mark now this is something insane and this latest plunge is the most serious hit bitcoin has taken so far this year and when i say serious i mean losing somewhat over a third of its value in a matter of days so no wonder that this skyfall may have very well caused a few heart attacks among the big newbie's things group. to make you realize what's a maybe hold looks like a very volatile week for b. to coin a disappointing end to what was a very promising year that's it going keep dropping let panic ensued let the want to be investors sell then i'll buy it's like the christmas sales have come early

really you've heard it but corn is a is as high risk high gain as it gets so don't let yourself get deceived by these outrageous charts don't think it's an easy profit because trust me there are as many big millionaires now as those who have lost fortunes on it. more news guys here on c they'll call at the top of the hour my colleague neil harvey will be here with the headlines but for me. in the news with me one of the other. dentist in the you out on the three of these

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from want to see beyond the. point continues to take the finance world by storm back on the infamous cryptocurrency in two thousand and eighteen markets analyst nyima will join us to discuss plus the homeless population in the u.s. continues to rise across the board are two correspondent or portmore for us from los angeles now let's get to today's top business and financial headlines. facebook's advertising tools are in hot water yet again an investigation by pro publica and the new york times says dozens of companies are using the web site's ad

tools to restrict the age groups that see their job postings in order to filter out older applicants these companies include risin amazon goldman sachs and even facebook itself this could be in violation of the federal age discrimination in employment act of one thousand nine hundred sixty seven which forbids bias against applicants aged forty or older.