actually this was first treated by the house republicans and they got millions of followers is not a more you know obvious simpler explanation. oh yes and by the mere nature of the fact that a couple of times i've used that hash tag on twitter and i'm sitting in russian television media offices right now i'm colluding with the russians the problem is there's no such thing as illegal colluding with the russians and the whole idea of this facebook twitter russian involvement it's not even illegal if russia's doing it so if we don't like it if democrats don't like the russian interference on so called our social media they may be out to pass some laws because right now there is no legal teeth in any of these arguments it's like we're making this up to make it look like that even if russia or any country is involved in this that they're doing something that's that that breaks our laws we might want to start there we have no laws against what they're talking about now potentially that could be

fireworks we've had some republicans saying you know bigger than watergate the top democrat on the house intelligence committee says the release of the memo could lead to the firing of special counsel. is this a possibility in your opinion. but i think it would be a bad idea politically to fire mahler now they'll get me wrong i'd like to see that happen i think it's an investigation about nothing about nothing but i think politically when you started an investigation with the high ranking official unless there's outright corruption by muller himself and i don't have evidence of that right now we ought to let that play out because the truth tends to set you free now what's happening at the f.b.i. is incredibly important we're finding out the american people what we've suspected those of us like me anyway for quite a bit of time the system is rigged there there's a lot of cronyism in the government it's very leftist and we've got to get rid of that the american people don't trust the f.b.i. so worried about releasing the memo worrying about the facebook aspects of this

american people have already lost the trust of this level of our government the way we restore it restore it is to put the spotlight on it shine it on the problems and the corruption get those people out of there and put new people in place that will definitely rebuild the trust in the f.b.i. and most importantly i think it starts by releasing at least the most important components of this memo this all has to happen we have to make big changes at the f.b.i. or this continues to spiral in my opinion out of control for years or decades to come it's pretty clear though there are lots of democrats who are trying to find the release of this memo could it be that that's why they're concerned they're worried that this is going to cause a huge scandal that won't reflect well on them. oh absolutely let's let's be clear this country is mostly center right in my opinion meaning that that the country itself still aligns mostly with conservative republican values and the way that the democrats have maintained control in my view is that they've had corruption or at

least they've weaponized politically. cabinet members or departments of our federal government that's an example of what we're seeing play out in the f.b.i. and there's been this belief that the institution and its reputation is more important than service and accountability to the american people this president was elected because the american people felt its government where it was no longer accountable and what we're seeing play out is the you know the it gets worse before it gets better analogy which means that we're breaking down these these barriers to accountability to the people and it's going to be toxic for a while and then the americans i think will get a more accountable government it won't be perfect but it will be better than it is now and i think that this is a necessary process to restore some integrity to some parts of our government brawn much appreciate you tom's with us tonight the views that my guest brian crabtree publisher of took food you don't call me a political talk show host now the reaction to dumb

tom's first state of the union address woes makes no standing ovations the real. tom was following the speech. on foreign policy there was plenty of american exceptionalism mixed with platitudes and clichés he introduced the subject by naming every so-called threat to the u.s. but in general it was all pretty vague he didn't go into detail explaining how he would accomplish any of these goals but beyond that trump took credit for eliminating isis and he seemed to have hinted at continued military presence in the region saying quote we will continue our fight until isis is defeated he ended it with north korea calling it the worst of all dictatorships warning that their pursuit of nuclear weapons could very soon threaten our homeland even though d p r k has never attacked another country before north korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland past experience has taught

us that complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation i will not repeat the mistakes of past administration that got us into this very dangerous position while russia and china have been trying to reduce tensions between the u.s. and north korea and they even called on the u.s. to provoke them anymore but somehow they were designated as threats and from speech around the world we face rogue regimes terrorist groups and rivals like china and russia that challenge our interests our economy and i have advice in confronting these horrible dangers we know that weakness is the surest path to conflict and match power is the surest means to our true and great effects i was just

a watching mainstream coverage earlier in the only criticism big had wellies foreign policy wise was that he was apparently too soft on russia and you know the united states requires to have major enemies to justify these seven hundred. billion dollar defense budget which is actually one point one trillion if you break it down so these are all important noises for the president to make the state of the union to sort of shore up support from the defense bloc as it were to chinese it does ring a bit cold war ish to russia however we're beyond cold in terms of the cold war the rhetoric is much more aggressive much more pursuit for us the agenda is much more pernicious and it's become a centerpiece of u.s. partisan politics the whole russia gate issue. back to domestic policy trump announced he signed an executive order to keep the content of the bay detention center open despite get by becoming notorious for various human rights abuses

including torture some speed he says that barack obama vowed to close the facility back in two thousand and nine but never delivered on that promise. in the past we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous. only to meet them again on the battlefield including the isis leader. who we captured who we had who we released. so today i'm keeping another promise i just shy. prior to walking in an order directing secretary man to reexamine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities in guantanamo bay. when i came into power he said not only that he believes torture works he's going to throw want on

him up the only reason why i can say this is because there's no precedent for people being prosecuted for war crimes and i think it's important that this would praise the said the war crimes carried out in kuantan immobile graham and all the other detention for the cities by the americans in fact recently now for the first time i think in recent history the i.c.c. the international criminal court is finally investigating some of the abuses that the americans carried out in afghanistan and perhaps later in kuantan and it's an unprecedented move so to be saying that at a time when this investigation is taking place that i'm going to keep want on a more open is an affront to the very notion of justice. the russian hacking group. is claiming that the canadian olympic committee covered up a positive doping test of its national poll champion prior to the rio olympics my colleague discussed the details that are. well it looks like an

raising e-mail exchange supposedly between the people from the canadian olympic committee and also their national body that is responsible for sports ethics some pretty disappointing tactics in there it looked like attempts to play down an anti-doping rule violation and some corkey damage control around the summer olympics in rio and here is the athlete at the center of this what can you tell us about him well it's all of the case of the former pole vault champion from canada his name is shawn barber prior to rio he had tested positive for cocaine but instead of being thrown out of the olympics after several and turned all disciplinary proceedings with that in canada he was allowed to go and moreover this case was hidden from the international olympic committee for a while he was not permitted to disclose sean sue wish and prior to or during the

games we do not condone this behavior sure has apologized for his mistake and poor judgment. now for a moment just bear in mind all the treatment that the russian olympic athletes have been getting and listen to how shawn barber was cleared to basically what he did was claimed at the hearings that he had inhaled or ingested the cocaine during a sexual intercourse with someone he called a professional woman she found him allegedly on craigslist and the cocaine was transferred when a kiss happened so canadian officials were happy to let him go and keep the odyssey in the dark about this by the way just for your information the pole vaulter and came out as gay a few months after the olympics and said that he was proud of it very interesting i have presumed the i.o.c. has taken this on very seriously well i can tell you it was too late to take this

seriously they couldn't do anything about that when they found out but apparently some people at the i.o.c. weren't so happy with the situation president thomas allegedly called the ruling a decision that was influenced by national interests but in the meantime if we go back to the e-mails some top canadian sports officials appear to have been trying to do everything to make sure that this case doesn't get any further attention including legal attention and if you look at the wording it suggests that anyone who's concerned or anyone who's just even trying to ask questions about this is doing something terribly wrong it does not seem right that this is being suggested publicly would have an independent bruces determined the athlete was a new fool in this case. and the i.o.c.

had the right to appeal the decision of the time and none of them did well this is the point where i once again want to mention all the russian olympic bans well everyone has their own understanding of the words double standards. we discussed the issue with professor of sociology at aston university ellis cashmore he believes there's an issue of double standards given russia's athletes have been banned even without testing positive for doping what is novel of course is this apparent relaxation of warder's rule of strict liability warders premise with all its other rules regarding drugs is that the individual athlete is slowly responsible for his or her own body as if you're in a bar and somebody spiked shore drink your responsible for it even if you'd left your drink unguarded while you went to the toilet or something like that or turned

your back your the perpetrator of the crime russian athletes have been banned from competing even without giving any kind of positive don't test at all being guilty by association so there is this kind of striking difference between the treatment that russian athletes are being given and those that have been afforded to north american athletes at the puncturing olympics looming only one hundred sixty nine of russian athletes will be invited to the games out of almost five hundred initially put on the list was from president vladimir putin has apologized to the athletes saying that the country failed to protect them. you know better than anyone else how hard it is to gain victories and how much it is that you need and it's two times harder when you supporters mixed with events and for millions of sport politics we apologize for not managing to protect you from that artie's talked exclusively to a number of russian athletes who were spoken to by the president. so you're going

to there is a certain amount of pressure on all of us of course it's quite a complicated situation are really want to do my best one to overcome my anxiety and distance myself from all the stir the media is causing around us now i want to address our fans i want them to be more kind and to keep supporting us no matter what i need to forget about our desire to win forget that everyone is against us and just continue doing our job. within ourselves we know what country were present it matters what we feel not what we wear just have hard feelings for those who weren't allowed to participate even though they were innocent and maybe we're still a bit angry about that. as afghan and u.s. forces have increased their attacks against militant strongholds in afghanistan civilians are finding themselves caught in the crossfire in their own homes. islamic state militants came here the government then dropped off

a leaflet to warn us so we fled our village and then the americans were martyred and destroyed these houses we demand the government help us. the three villages who were killed did not belong to i saw all the taliban they were in their houses during the bombardment a man a woman and their son were killed in that incident. we were on our way villagers said the u.s. forces were coming here then we continue our trip to or to central district during this time they bombed us there were eleven of us and vehicle on the i survived theater ten people including my appearance in cousin were all killed. of the latest statistics from the u.s. air force makes the situation abundantly clear in the last year the united states dropped more than four thousand bombs in afghanistan in saugus the u.s. carried out twice as many as strikes as in the previous two years combined american military forces insist that they take all precautions to avoid civilian casualties

. let's bring in robert nyman he is the policy director just foreign policy group we kind of heard the statistics and it makes a good reading the number of civilian deaths tripling in afghanistan since two thousand and fifteen what's going wrong. well the first of every war produces civilian casualties aerial bombardment always produces civilian casualties and the more aerial bombardment the more civilian casualties will be produced the main thing is the escalation in bombing there's no way to do this kind of bombing without producing civilian casualties you can do worse or better but it's guaranteed that there will be some the main problem is the escalation in the fact that the trumpet

ministration has no political diplomatic strategy to end the war just more violence it's been sixteen years the idea that more bombing is going to accomplish something fundamentally useful is preposterous by the term administration has decided by the administrations before and unfortunately both democratic and republican to continue kicking the can down the road the thing that needs to change is there needs to be a us choice to push for a diplomatic political solution that's not going to yield the result positive result right away situation is messed up by the status quo is guaranteed to produce more on a serious civilian deaths accomplishing absolutely nothing. in the last month the biggest string of horrific terrorist attacks in afghanistan why are they not being

somehow you know reduced the number of terrorist attacks by this increased u.s. offensive they in fact being inspired are they results of increased bombing campaign. it seems that they are likely in part caused by the increased bombing campaign as the u.s. succeeds in taking some territory from the taliban taliban is retaliating by showing that it has the ability to carry out these mass attacks in kabul so also the case that multiple causality in tards exactly but there is political dysfunction inside the afghan government that is. you know split there are there some people say it's making it more difficult for the afghan government to do

security take responsibility for security in the capital you've talked about you know the need for talks to try and resolve this peacefully but if it's a choice of fighting or pulling out what's the best solution at this stage you know is a victory possible against the taliban and i saw through conflict. i don't believe that a victory is possible military victory. against the taliban is possible and you know somebody could always say well if only we had more troops if only we did more bombing then somehow we could win but we've had sixteen years of that the us had under president obama much more troops than it has now while we believe that further escalation was going to produce a different result it can save us to see. now likely to produce a different result you know we just had the movie the post come out talking about

the pentagon papers one of the reveals of the pentagon papers during the vietnam war was us a u.s. official saying that the continued u.s. military escalation was ten percent about helping the south the enemy's twenty percent about defeating the communists seventy percent about avoiding the humiliation of u.s. military defeat we have a similar dynamic now nobody wants a no us partition certainly not the president it's one of the last one for want to take responsibility for the past the implications of knowledge in that the u.s. that taliban cannot be defeated militarily therefore there has to be a political diplomatic solution rather than what i'll have to interrupt you there we're about to run out of time so civilian deaths but do appreciate your views interesting thoughts there robert nine and policy director at just foreign policy.

and very quickly finally israeli legal entity safad a lawsuit against t. new zealand as one of whom is jewish a self because they apparently influenced pop star lord to cancel a gig in tel aviv pulis lyrics blanks. late last year the new zealand pop star norwood announce that she was canceling a performance that she was scheduled to have given here in tel aviv in june this year now it seems as if her announcement was made following an open publication of acorn by two new zealanders urging her to boycott the country lord posted her response on her twitter feed noted been speaking with many people about this and considering all options thank you for advocating me i am learning all the time to now is really activists are suing those two new zealanders in what appears to be the first lawsuit filed under a controversial israeli anti boycott law the law goes back to two thousand and eleven and it could open the door to civil lawsuits against those calling for

a boycott of his role including of lands it's occupied if it can be proven that that call knowingly led to a boycott now the noise part of the israeli government's way to try and deal with the boycott sanctions and disinvestment movement there has been growing traction against israel in recent years it does allow the courts to impose damages against defendants now critics of the law of course argue that it stifles freedom of speech and freedom of expression. with the latest news headlines for you at the top of the . riser financial survival guide. when customers go buy your stuff for a. good while reducing work. that's undercutting but what's good for markets is very good for the global economy.

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here in captivity the counts are read by stuff at the panda breeding center in the wild it's the mother who takes care of the young she just swallows anything the cub wants to get rid of. these might well be the most helpless little ones in the world as well as the most endearing and quite probably the most expensive. pander is china's national treasure. even its coloring is a living symbol of the past an illusion to the home country where you know young a balanced opposites. black and white light and dark day and night sun the moon sky and earth peat and cold.

war i think oh. my god what a compass born it becomes the property of the people's republic of china. there's no getting around that law but zoos can rent pandas from the state for a limited period it's not cheap so they have to pay over a million dollars a year to the government. says. this is one national treasure that's guarded like the most priceless of jewels. they may be predisposed to laziness but pandas still wake up early and that means their keepers have to as well. and judging paying work at the panda center starts at six am i worth their while i told. you they're thinking and think about. how many mama. rewarding and ohio.

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several cubs a bone here each year. in two thousand and sixteen the panda was removed from the red book officially it's no longer an endangered species but it is still vulnerable. building up the population is just the first step the toughest challenge for the breeders is still ahead. of us there's more. to do. however years maybe even decades of work needed to make that possible.