yonder the corridor nothing's changed they aren't allowing civilians to leave just like the islam islam is brother and did in aleppo. and then. started to. serve you directly they're nervous to hear you couldn't have it none of these you got to. look at the muslims and what they said about you but any use for them and i've seen some sarson as. yet here in washington tell it they don't mention that they think it's joke like we're russia has called for these jokes like humanitarian corridor wars russia needs to just do what the united nations had agreed to and voted on and that is a countrywide cease fire fleeing civilians would mean less human shields it would be a p.r. blow people don't want to stay with the rebels they'll talk say all sorts of

horrible things about life and the jihad ists they'll challenge the narrative why let them leave too many problems take also rebel shelling of damascus blind aimless shells peppered damascus daily for years now so many dead and still dying still to die yet you won't see any hysteria about that in fact you won't hear much at all they won't admit that rebels are keeping people hostage because that justifies assad's operation as do those that die in rebel shelling so why mention it it ruins the narrative it's so much simpler when it's all black and white most of the united states press is clearly on the side of the rebels they believe that assad is evil person who is running an evil regime and i'd like to see it all. their. more stories about the suffering of syrians and damascus because

that rebel or meant don't make much impression and occasionally they get through the stories but they are they're not. they're not people writing a story which is that this is a brutal regime that refuses to make compromise and it's leading to a very lopsided aerator or so on thursday dozens of aid trucks were temporarily prevented from entering east and do so due to fighting on the ground on monday shell fire had forced another convoy to turn around and leave the own place the situation in the area remains dire.

that mark. a former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent according to police in the u.k. so gay and you are going to fall are in a critical condition after being found unconscious in the city of soulsby on sunday the country's top counterterrorism officer a man proudly says the pair were deliberately targeted. this is being treated as

a major incidents involving attempted murder ministration of a nerve agents i will not be providing credit for most of the state about the exact opposite incidents has been identified so to go scrip our used to serve in russia's military intelligence in one thousand nine hundred five he became a double agent passing information to the u.k. russia coarsely about in two thousand and four and convicted him and victim of revealing the identities of russian secret agents in europe he was sentenced to thirteen years in prison but he served only four years before being released as part of a high profile spy swap with the u.s. he was later flown to britain the u.k. is home secretary amber rudd says caution must be exercised in apportioning blame for the poisoning. the use of a new theory to drive you crazy is a brazen. act but if we are to be rigorous in this investigation we must avoid speculation and allow the police to carry on the first occasion well that was

her updating the house of commons on this case and she cautioned against speculation and not just speculation in the media it's something that now the politicians are doing as well many of them have pointed the finger of blame squarely at last and some are even using it as an opportunity to push for more defense spending take a listen to the circumstantial evidence against russia very strong who would harm. the. defense the first use of the room and spending two percent of defense it's not enough there will come a time for tradition and there will be consequences and there will be further information that follows but now i'm concerned about the incident and the consequences around and actually speaking in an interview this morning the defense secretary gavin williamson pulled that thread as well he refused to say whether or

not he thought moscow was behind the attack on sergei script but almost in the same breath he also referred to russia as an ever greater threat despite the home secretary's appeal for everybody to keep a cool head about this news stories about sergei script pollin the therese just keep on coming one media report has even linked him to the intelligence that came up with that so-called dodgy dossier on donald trump so some pretty wild theories swirling around in the meantime the police are getting on with the police investigation somewhere where they might actually on a few facts it's now been divided into three separate sites that investigation the script files. the pub where they were drinking on sunday with their daughter and the pizza restaurant where sergey script on his daughter thought to have eaten and the police say that they came in through all the c.c.t.v.

footage that they have and they're building a detailed timeline of events they've got hundreds of offices working around the clock trying to find out who it was that used that nerve gas on sergei script powell and his daughter and why the independent journalist luria believes politicians in the u.k. are using the case to push their own agendas we just know that this man and his daughter were for fall ill with nerve agent salisbury on a park bench and home secretary says i'm glad she did everyone should just calm down and wait for the investigation to go forward but that doesn't help the political agenda of the u.k. the foreign here is that there's an opportunity to go after russia and they're not going to leave that up to the press of course followed bush johnson's lead not rugs were screaming headlines blaming russia again. you know the point is this should be a crime tried in a court as rod is suggesting it's

a criminal case. racially motivated crimes against germans in berlin are becoming more commonplace according to the capitol security chief peter oliver more. the berlin interior minister has had some pretty unexpected things to say about how native germans a target in the nation's capital i have heard is not the norm but it is becoming more common to keep quiet about it would be wrong a recent survey has shown that where is this time last year around two thirds of the said they felt safe in their city that's around just over half these days while those that said they felt very insecure it risen from nine percent a year ago to around sixteen percent right now as for what is fueling those fears are sort of pointed towards the influx of refugees and migrants into areas like this. district the local integration officer here says this well

refugees don't fear arrest is they know that they'll be instantly released by the police should they be caught breaking the law does is the i don't think crime has decreased on the contrary it's actually increased i'd say ninety five percent of the crimes here are committed by foreigners that's way too much i think in general . people start to panic way earlier and this is way news spread quite quickly and. i would say that berlin has gotten more dangerous than any pain i think it's just because of all the new stuff like it's spread all over the balloon and they just make a big deal out of every time the crime that's committed. this is you and so political our politicians should be made to commute using the underground for one week and be made to hang out in this neighborhood that way they would see what the situation is really like has become very hostile and aggressive not nice at all.

some of the politicians who represent the area say that perception of danger could become the new reality if a majority of the people have the feeling that they don't feel secure anymore and there is some simpson basics for that many things that are not even declared to the police as crime or is there asman or whatever you can call it because you know well the police cannot do anything about it because our justice system is like that well they come in for maybe five hours and then they let them off again punishment is something that evidently or apparently in the berlin context isn't there anymore and perhaps it's the feeling that things could get worse that's driving public opinion to feel that the german capital has become less safe peter all over. california is seeing a backlash against self driving cars amid fears over safety in san francisco there

have been a number of attacks on autonomous vehicles with passers by banging on their windows and bonnets and the robotic guard was taken out of service after a public outcry the security box was given the job of moving homeless people from outside office buildings it was bundle eyes several times during its patrols and now a new robotic kitchen assistant in a burger restaurant has also been slammed. while flipping the robot that has prompted the twitter hash tag rise of the robots with some complaining jobs are being stolen from people while others see automation as inevitable physicist mark good says it's no surprise some people are angry. the

robotics is developing very fast and it's going to have big impacts and it's already having big impacts and so it's not surprising that you're already seeing these kinds of reactions from people when you start to talk about. of jobs being threatened by the introduction of ai into the economy. fifty percent unemployment ok that is a crisis that is a social political economic crisis and one of the possible outcomes and one of the likely possibility is is massive violence and you know a lot of this kind of vandalism and sabotage i think you'll be seeing you'll be seeing even larger scale disruptions if there aren't appropriate adjustments in our political and economic arrangements we need to start redistributing things more fairly we need to start to pay people to take care of people and to clean up

the communities and to do so many things and we in the end to make sure that people benefit from technology instead of being dispossessed by technology. a russian member of parliament has been accused of heresy female journalist and he took the opportunity to apologize on thursday as the country moment international women's day. has the details. the man in the spotlight is leonid slutsky a member of the russian duma and the scandal actually erupted in mid february when the first accusations of sexual harassment surface by female journalists and since then it has snowballed with more and more women coming forward one of those has been a reporter from the b.b.c.'s russian service and she joined the group saying that she has a recording of an instant worse lidsky made inappropriate advances and also groped her as well at this point that recording has yet to be released in full and throughout all this has denied the claim saying that it's actually just a smear campaign that was until today today is of course international women's day

and he used the opportunity to mix in apology and with a post celebrating the holiday i'd like to use this occasion to apologize to anyone who intentionally old norse and have caused any emotional stress believe me there were no bad intentions amid the wave of accusations against the speaker of the duma came out casting doubt on the claims and also making a suggestion to women that infuriated many is something to consider what if this was all just a provocation if you have someone you should apologize but if you provoke you should be held accountable is it dangerous for you to work in the duma if so then change your jobs all this has prompted outcry especially among journalists who are demanding the appropriate steps be taken and today a protest was even held outside of the state duma where many of those participating were members of the media at this point the ethics committee has already opened an investigation into the situation and will be required to submit answers to all

official accusations and if those are found to be lacking he could eventually lose his immunity now the one good thing coming out of this we have seen from another member of the duma that's the push she's promised to fast track in old bill enforcing gender equality and targeting sexual harassment in the government. well meanwhile cities around the world happy marking international women's day. the madrid crowds banged pots and pans in support of women's rights chanting slogans such as if we stopped the wall stops people in south korea took to the streets of seoul in support of the me too movement calling for sex offenders to be brought to justice however the p.r. efforts of some firms meant to be in support of women being branded as patronize a nation ceci takes a look. it's a global commemoration of women's rights and child to right and wrong for some

companies some top p.r. by showing their support for women although not always successfully take this french anti harassment campaign showing female passengers on public transport being preyed on by animals instead of people a metaphor which hit the buffers with a few fellow travelers. have never been in a subway stop or a stop and the much of. the difference between a rule and then distant look in french jude is that i have never been harassed. and what about the people behind the retailers told to check who thought it be a great idea to make snap the civic leaf for women so you know they could be more dainty and ladylike women don't like to crunch too loudly in public and they don't think their fingers generously and they don't like to poor little broken pieces and the flavor into them are tense out there judging by the reaction online most women found it. just like with the edgy big company dog who expected female trick to

flock to them peer even if it was a bit of sarcastic stereotyping it felt that. if you have to explain the joke maybe it's not a very good job hope. is gluten free too otherwise we're really drink not the blue one it's for boys. it seems that it's a marketing minefield when fans try winning it the women take the safe path for matching votes wolf to sprint politicising. battling out today is in full swing so perhaps a mistake when the struggle for women's rights should be celebrated as maybe the p.r. guys let's face it they probably all guys should take some time out to change the pattern i think tank dropping the gender pigeonholing and remember that political

correctness doesn't wash with women in the senate to have. joy in reading. it and the culture these brands are trying to become an activist in this culture of these and depending on how well you sure the these companies have their horse. for at least for marketing their product in certain ways that. impacts consumers and make them more interested and. well i'll be back with the headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on all of our stories go to our.

donald trump says there is no chaos at the white house only great energy but insiders describe an isolated president caught inside dog days we'll take a look at this and more on this edition of. politicking on larry king heavy staff turnover an investigation seemingly getting closer to the president and his inner circle family members under extreme scrutiny and a rather unconventional chief of staff whose likelihood of remaining in his job fluctuates week to week all of these contributed to what insiders are describing his dog days for president trump he's also being labeled as extremely isolated according to reports for his part the president called such reports fake news and describes the

white house is functioning well and with great energy what's the truth we'll talk about that with chris whipple what winning journalist author of the new york times bestseller the gate keepers how the white house chief of staff define every president is a presidency rather is now out in paperback and includes a new chapter on the trump presidency he joins us from new york and mark leibovich our old friend and chief national correspondent for the new york times magazine bestselling author of says it. this town and mark is in washington for i start with chris are these dark days chris. thanks for having me larry well you know this this has been the most dysfunctional white house in modern history whatever donald trump may want to tell you and it turns out it's it's wilder than we ever thought i mean in

a new chapter of my paperback i have the first interviews with ranch priebus who talks about his first six months the first thing he said to me off the record was take everything you've heard and multiply it by fifty now he would he would be quick to add that even john kelly finds it the toughest job he's ever had but you know that the truth is that this is a white house that's spinning out of control it's in my opinion even worse now than it was on wright's previous is watch. mark are you surprised that this not not really i mean i think if you look at the even recent context of the trumpet ministration i mean there really hasn't been a time when it's been spinning in control i mean it's sort of hard to go off the rails when you're never really on the rails i mean this is sort of how he has run his life which is very much himself as his own boss the difference with his current job is that affects all of us and also the presidency is is the most powerful job

in the world and he also has new technological tools like twitter in which he can you know influence or you can exert his own power and voice and opinions and even thoughts and even even orders through those tools so it's a very very different unprecedented thing and also i think you're seeing a lot of the chaos that he's brought to his adult life and acted on to all of us why is you say there is only there's no chaos only great energy. well it's been i mean it's been i mean look i mean you can there is technically great energy to a building that is on fire i mean this is. you can look at it any number of ways and he is a sales person and he's a spinmeister and that's how he's going to portray this this way of the port report that doesn't mean it's any less. larry i guess workers and chiefs of staffs does the chief of staff have a responsibility in a chaotic white house absolutely you know picking up with what mark said donald

trump is not the first president to come into office full of your breasts thinking he's the smartest guy in the room intoxicated by a selection victory most presidents get over that most presidents ultimately learn that there's a difference between campaigning which is demonizing and dividing and disrupting and governing and it's the chiefs of chiefs job to help the president figure that out you know in my opinion john kelly we all had great or some had expectations that he might be the grown up in the room who smoothed over donald trump's rough edges he's been the opposite of that he's reinforced donald trump's worst partisan instincts and that's really not what the chief is supposed to be about mark investigators have found that kellyanne conway counselor to the president violated federal laws last year by mixing official government business with political views

about candidates in that alabama special lessons investigators say she violated the hijacked sent the report to the president you think they'll be any action. probably not i mean since it's the president's call on what to do about all this and i don't think he's going to make a big statement about one of his closest the most trustworthy aides and look this is something that. is pretty small and relative to a lot of the other stuff he's being accused of in the administration is being accused of i don't think he'll do a big you know bill make a big statement on this at all what i do think is interesting though is this is very much part and parcel of the larger sort of day to day sloppiness that we've seen from this white house and i think what's interesting about this move by the special counsel is that he's just using to discipline them although you have a feeling that they're just sort of shooting fish in the battle of the barrel and this was a kind of an interesting choice for them to go after chris what do you know about the relationship between kelly and conway. well you know there's

a agree with mark there's a much more fundamental problem here for kellyanne conway and everyone in this white house and that is that you know truth was the first casualty on day one when sean spicer stepped up to the white house briefing podium and told those flagrant lies about the and nog euro photos i write about the phone call that that writes pre-vis got at home at six am from an irate donald trump demanding that he fix this and they chose to lie about it and the rest is history i mean their credibility was the second casualty it's been true ever since donald trump lies with regular regularity his unfortunately his current chief of staff has not only enabled that but he's contributed to it so that's the much larger problem with this white house and anything kellyanne might have said recently on a personal note martin. when you did a story about me for the new york times magazine tom called me and he was still he

loved the stories it was a great story and did i think he should sit down with you and i said absolutely he says sit down with you and that you'd be very sad based on that interview that you did with him did you sense something in that that this was coming well i think. not really i mean i think clearly i mean this is this is not like a pivot that you see in this kind of. brief political history and this is who he was two years ago when i wrote about him during the campaign with who he was twenty years ago fifty years ago what have you and and look i mean again what surprises me and i think with the process everyone is that there has been no evolution whatsoever i mean this could have you can easily i mean look at any president sort of two years before he takes the job or she takes the job and a year plus into their presidency and that's not something he would think anymore here it's the exact same straight line and so no nothing at all to present this in

mid february you said john kelly was making a run for the title of the worst white house chief of staff in modern history based on what well you know up to this point i think everybody would say that don reagan ronald reagan's hapless second white house chief of staff was was that had a lock on that title iran contra happened on his watch and it was no coincidence but kelly's failure in my mind has been has been worse than wright's previous as you know we all thought that donald trump just ran overwrites priebus that he was a sycophant that he that he couldn't tell the president hard truths that's been equally true of john kelly you know and he has now failed even by its own very narrow definition of the job which was to make the west wing trains run on time as mark says the trains have been off the rails you get thirty people. without security clearances you've got somebody who's in charge of middle east peace who

doesn't have a security clearance you have rob porter thrown out you know it's it's it's just total chaos and and so that's that's why i think kelly's a contender is it possible mark that trump cannot have a successful chief of staff i think it's very possible and i think that's something that people even coming in before he was he was sworn in we're talking about i mean this is someone who will get the flattering way to put it would be is his own chief of staff but on the other hand i mean he can't be managed at all i mean i think kelly very very early on said i'm not even going to try to manage upward and that's arguably outsourcing the most important part of his job and as chris said he defined his job very narrowly which is to make the west wing more orderly than it was under priebus and that seems to be not working out so well either but no i don't think donald trump i mean it's it's really hard to believe who would be

lining up to take the job from john kelly if and when he he decides to leave or mr isn't going to get better or worse. i think it can only get worse if you can believe that you know every time we think we've hit rock bottom the bottom falls out you know again it's you've got a president who is you know i wrote about this when the ten white house chiefs of staff former chiefs went to the white house in december of two thousand and sixteen gathered around a table with wright's priebus the incoming chief to give him advice they all came away or virtually all of them came away thinking good luck godspeed god help him this is a president who is intellectually and temperamentally unfit for office and that makes it virtually mission impossible for a white house chief of staff in my opinion so it's going to get worse and you know we see it on a daily basis you've got that interview with terry this for the update in your book

was previous apprised i think that look priebus was i think surprised i think. on the other hand he knew going in despite everything that the former chief had told him he knew going in that that donald trump is who he is and donald trump would not tolerate a traditional white house chief of staff who is really empowered to execute his agenda. that's just not trump trump's model was the twenty sixth floor of trump tower which was people coming and going and nobody no chain of command well you can't run the country the way you run a manhattan real estate firm and priebus so priebus knew it was going to be tough but again i don't think he had any idea you know for every half baked ill conceived thing they tried like the executive order and immigration put previous claims he stopped and.