on to see action it's difficult to believe the government what asked for consultation if would know that they are calm boss to all my tools are still wrapped around buildings today we should discuss it in parliament we should take action to be because we need to have and are grateful they should be diversity they should be presentation if there is no representation in democracy is not democracy is not just issue raj to cause more year to argue that we needed adversity in that it is the kind of want to see that we view what was obvious how long will it take us to get justice a group of filmmakers had been looking into the tragedy and its aftermath in that documentary called failed by the state you can watch on the redfish you tube channel and on facebook here's a quick preview. for tower it was my hole for twenty five years the fire on the floor if. a hold in our world. that was the most

heartbreaking thing of everything in my life it was so it was beyond traumatic you know we will felt by the state before and after the fire. to change everything to politics now and how we can take power. if we continue to stand and make the noise and people out we can change this community. we need to realize that collectively we have real power we real real power to shape our destinies and to be our designs of office and we need to seize these opportunities and move. what donald trump has ordered an investigation into his own investigative and independent inspector general will now look into whether the f.b.i. has twenty sixteen probe into alleged russia collusion was legal and the scale of morgan explains it's starting to become difficult to find someone that hasn't been

caught up in the wave of suspicion. the u.s. department of justice is currently expanding its investigation into whether or not its investigation of donald trump is legal are you confuse don't worry so are lots of americans but this is just a slice of the pie political leaders on both sides of the aisle are being investigated for criminal offenses with their opponents calling for them to be to walk down make america great again. that's our president and the media is fantasizing about seeing him in handcuffs or if he fires any secret service agent who would allow the federal marshals and one of the ultram simply decides i don't have to follow the law i refuse to be held under the law no marshal can get into this white house and any secret service agent that defies me is fired well at some point he's going to have to come out of the

white house trump's old nemesis isn't in the clear either i think that there is a lot to investigate. she may not be in the headlines very much after her electoral defeat however we did find out last week that she's still under investigation much to the delight of donald trump who wants promised to put her behind bars it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country because you'd be in jail secretary clinton. and then there's obama's topps by john brennan the former cia director he was concerned about because of known russian efforts.

trump called him a disk. race to the american intelligence community and one former u.s. attorney thinks he ought to be assembling a legal team n.b.c. news's consultant a former director of the central intelligence agency the most partisan hack leader of the cia in history needs a very very good lawyer criminal lawyer yes criminal oh yes and then there's devon newness now he's been digging up dirt on the intelligence community but now he's got some of his own we are going to get the documents. members of congress want him to be looked into basically what he has done is he has got old and put a cloud over his own investigation and he has become the subject basically he should be going let's forget it it's

a real problem investigations are flying like bullets in a western shoot out high profile politicians are being accused of breaking u.s. laws and could face legal proceedings this is leads fighting one another and this kind of legal war and that has nothing to do really with the american people and it's a great distraction actually from the issues that are important to the american people but it's consuming the white house it's now consuming the f.b.i. it's consumed the democratic party there's enormous tension between both sides and things are pretty ugly right now pretty ugly between the sides and i think it's going to get worse i really do is this just politics look at some of these charges actually stick. r.t. new york. the syrian army has reportedly driven islamic state out of its final enclave near damascus and development means that all areas around the syrian capital are now back under government control local journalist mohammed ali brings

us this report from the newly liberated suburb of damascus. the syrian army has taken full control of has it a less wide area and yet a move refugee camp in southern damascus following through should fighting with high school terrorists also known as doris. them both you know those who did see them. securing president assad and that yahoo graffiti count means that the mask is now a terrorist free city for the first time with this countryside since seven years securing them would save the capital damascus from deadly mortar attacks that were previously launched from goes areas on residential government house orders damascus the syrian army to continue its going to operations across the country the syrian army command issued a statement saying that the syrian army is currently much more stronger and much

more determined to continue its with its operations until every end of syrian soil after terrorist groups currently damascus and it's going to decide is a terrorist the area the army aims to continue fighting and it is expected that the army will be heading towards either the north and or the south and got off. of bribery scandal that may have allowed thousands of illegal migrants to remain in germany is putting pressure on officials in berlin ron that after the show. joined me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business i'll see you then. well we'll go twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest

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back now a top danish minister has sparked outrage off the she called the effects of ramadan a risk to everyone in the storybooks said that fasting leaves muslims observing the holy month lacking energy and it becomes dangerous for the rest of society. i want to call on muslims to take leave from work during the month of ramadan to would negative consequences for the rest of danish society i wonder if a religious order commanded observance or fourteen hundred year old pillar of islam is compatible with the society and labor market that we have an intern to eighteen this can be dangerous for all of us the outspoken politician clarified that both strivers hospital workers or people operating heavy machinery are a danger to themselves and others as they haven't eaten all day the minister is already known for making controversial statements aimed at denmark's muslim community in two thousand and seventeen the politician posted a photo of herself holding

a cake to celebrate the country's fiftieth measure on tougher immigration laws and with the refugee crisis continuing to divide denmark our guest earlier debated why people are so split on the issue. there are millions of people here in the united kingdom who are benefiting from muslim doctors muslim nurses most important drivers in people working in takeaways or restaurants and in every walk of life who are contributing to society as well as they are practicing their faith can we sure it sees other companies insurance is aware of those people who are actually fasting then becoming a risk not eating or drinking for ten hours nor do you know these exceptions and if the person is not well of the issues in the can like defer that period of time but surely the insurance company should know if your job in a boss and your fasting then they should know it's common sense increases in

traffic accidents do occur it is a fact i'm sure those drivers who drive people surround having those conversations you know if stephen god forbid was to be admitted to a hospital and he was to be seen morse likely by a muslim who is fasting would be what he paused and said well i don't really want to be seen by this guy because he's a muslim and he's fast in the issue out here is that this is an attack against islam and muslims ability to practice our faith no it's not it's an issue of health and safety mohammed our outfit and safety will trump your religion. muslims are partaking in the health and safety conversations there is no whether it is to suggest there is no evidence to suggest that muslims are deliberately ignoring health and safety all muslims are less able to carry out their jobs no one in the bush industry has ever put down into a risk of fatigue index when doing the rotors that should be in because that

drastically affects them levels of fatigue in. germany's refugee agency known as ban is looking into what is reportedly a mass bribery scandal possibly involving over a dozen my. offices office centers in the country the country's interior minister has said the extent of the problem could have consequences for him too as an internal investigation gets underway into claims immigration officers were giving people asylum illegally well this comes after a reported one thousand two hundred asylum applications were approved without legal grounds between two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and sixteen in the city of bremen one former official and five other employees are being investigated the federal migration agency also plans to review about eighteen thousand previously approved applications and the agency's head says it could see some like current at their status as vote. we're continuing to review all positive decisions made by

the edge and see branch in bremen these are about eighteen thousand cases since two thousand and five dept locations don't meet the necessary criteria who will consider whether these decisions to grant asylum should be cancelled or will be also considering sanctions against certain employees of the federal office for migration and refugees. and the scandal has sparked outrage even among some left wing politicians in berlin is questionable whether the events in bremen were really the exception trust in the federal office for migration refugees or shaken we won the office for migration and refugees to be able to work in accordance with the law starting now and not just a few years from now the allegations against the migration agency colors confidence in the body is that with eighty percent of germans saying their trust has run out gere political consultant raina roth first gave us some additional insight and

thoughts on the scandal. solemn seekers have said that they have paid one thousand euros to the lawyer and then they did not even have to show up the man and it's obvious that even has taken asylum decisions far too hastily without making also security background checks this might only be the tip of the iceberg and many more similar cases may have occurred in other. dependencies but it sells is not the real problem what is the real scandal is that the detection of the problems has occurred already in twenty fourteen and nothing has been done by bombs by the former minister of interior we've reached out to germany's migration body to clarify exactly how many of its branches are under scrutiny we'll get back to you as soon as we have

a reply. ten prominent saudi feminists have been arrested and called traitors for undermining the kingdom's national security their detention comes just two weeks before a ban on women driving cars in saudi arabia will be lifted when one of those jailed was a woman caught driving in dubai and was extradited back to saudi arabia to face charges human rights watch stress that the only crime committed is to women's rights in general and denounced her extradition riyadh responded saying the detained feminist sunda mind fundamental religious and national law with and accused them of cooperating with foreign groups that undermine national security. very cues to trespassing against a country's religious and national foundations species communication with foreign entities recruiting people working in government positions funding hostile groups abroad to undermine saudi national security stability social peace and destroying

social cohesion. saudi arabia's crown prince has called himself a reformer who advocates women's rights arguing those changes are essential to the kingdom's development he also previously said he wanted to return the country to moderate islam saying he wants an open society not a hardline one all this all mohammed bin some on praised by celebrities and politicians during a recent tour across the us hollywood actor doing johnson for examples that he supports been so long for his modernization efforts and even wants to visit saudi arabia soon we heard from the coordinator of the antiwar coalition who told us the reforms that could actually make things worse in saudi society. he met with leaders of. the entertainment industry met with a financial and industrial leaders and really met with the whole spectrum and they

think they are trying to give a legitimacy to saudi arabia and. i think that's a problem because saudi arabia is becoming. more and more problematic in the whole region of the middle east this reform is it's just a facade and when women take advantage of the very slight openings that have happened in saudi arabia there's a crackdown. i think a lot of the purpose of the facade was to placate forces outside of saudi arabia and not really for the saudi people themselves. and i ten year old woman who survived the siege of leningrad during world war two and the recent civil war in ukraine is facing one more fight now with the russian authorities who are refusing to give her a citizen ship fighting technical reasons but after our channel brought up a struggle it appears some good news is in the offing. i was.

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our. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. greetings and salutations from nineteen seventy six to one nine hundred eighty six in california there were forty four rapes and twelve murders connected to a perpetrator dubbed the golden state killer four decades after the violence began

a seventy two year old retired police officer was arrested and is being held on multiple charges of first degree murder based on d.n.a. evidence now try to imagine if that d.n.a. evidence had been lost destroyed or simply left on a shelf for decades to rot and ultimately be forgotten well that is what is happening in california a state wanted for its work clearing a backlog of over six thousand rape kits just ten years ago now has an estimated thirteen thousand untested rape kits and it's backlog again which is why democratic state assemblyman david chow recently introduced a bill that would require all law enforcement agencies medical facilities crime laboratories and any other facilities that receive maintain store or preserve sexual assault evidence kits to conduct an audit of all sexual assault evidence kits in their possession and report certain data to the department of justice by no later than july first twenty nineteen it's also why senator conny leyva of chino

hills california wants to change the existing laws wording from should to process all evidence kits to show and well california twiddles its thumbs for another decade arguing semantics in late two thousand and seventeen detroit committed to testing their backlog of over ten thousand rape kits and do you know what happened they identified eight hundred and thirty potential serial rapist for crimes in forty states. a hundred and thirty combined with the capture of the golden state killer maybe it's time we speak up for these forgotten victims find some solutions and start watching the hawks. but. there's a. real good look. at the part of. the day like you like i got. this.

week so i. welcome everybody to watch him a hard time top of the wall is and joining me today is legal expert and media expert lionel of line on media how are you today excellent so why not since one thousand nine hundred ninety three the rate of sexual assault and rape in the united states has fallen by sixty three percent a number that should you know make us happy there should be something to say for that but yet according to the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the united states rein only six out of every one thousand perpetrators of sexual assault will end up in prison and the average rate clearance rates for police departments bear that out when you look at it statistically where murders tend to be in the fifty's fifty six percent to sixty percent range of clearance rapes are at twenty six to thirty at best and most cities so why not how do

a law enforcement agencies justify ignoring this problem yet again. yet they don't they don't imagine if they did the same thing for drug abuse or drug trafficking and they said you know we've got all these drugs are and as you know you have to test the substance to make sure it is what you say it is imagine if there was a back cocaine and people would be screaming but you know what's fascinating about this is that you have now by virtue of the the genius of d.n.a. and s.t.r. sequencing and all of these fascinating. tools you have a very interesting case here a lot of the time to think about this when ever you have a sample from a person who claims to have been the victim of sexual battery and they have a sample of d.n.a.

there is an extremely powerful likelihood that that substance that matter come from a possible serial rapist or somebody who's done it again those who rape once more than likely have done it before so it is another reason to focus because it is still a a rare in the scheme of things event you know that in twenty sixteen in cuyahoga county they looked at. two hundred forty three cases fifty one percent and this jibes with the two were say fifty one percent were linked to the serial rapist they state they save the time forty eight million dollars and terms of not that money should be concerned but for people who have to put a price tag on things in terms of incarceration getting people off the street there's no reason not to do this it makes complete and total sense and how this now remember that's the that's one part you still have the other

part proving it because consent it's not like murder you can presume no one consented to their own murder but was sexual battery you do have this little glitch and that's that yes you may have found samples you may have found evidence of this but you also have the consent part of it then you also have some time situations tab or there where you have other people who other by virtue of this s.t.r. sequencing you find other d.n.a. how do you ferret that out and let's assume there is an innocent individual who may have deposited a sample innocently or by consent does that go into a database as well does that of the innocent go there as well and it's d.n.a. it's not just a fingerprint it's who you are and that's your genome family history and the civil

liberties questions just explode right and i would be remiss to fight and bring that up i mean i am the last person and i am not making any excuses i think the idea that there are any rape kits still after all of this i mean you had it us all s.p. you episode about it it became a much thing it was a major case and now it's like well it's twice as bad as it was before but you know money this is one of the strange things where there's this is. shoe of privacy and wall on the one hand it seems to make sense we should absolutely be more centralized databases for people who are already been convicted of sex crimes and they can run these things against people who are in those d.n.a. databases for criminal activity but what happens again when someone who gets cleared which happens a lot you'll get a d.n.a. profile in order to clear somebody who did have consensual sex or somebody who was there but they're checking does that do you do we have a right as americans to then say i was found innocent i was cleared of any and bald

men i want my d.n.a. expunged from that database is that something that may have to come on oh the road absolutely absolutely let me give you an analogy when i i used to prosecute and used to defend used to have my private practice of people who were charged with a variety of. child abuse not child abuse but abuse abandonment neglect people who were clear parents who might have been accuse of beating their children who didn't or you have a vindictive child who calls a child protective services rats out their parents turns out it was bogus now we have to go in and ask that their record be expunged you don't want to be on the hit parade for the rest of your life what they told me was only oh no this isn't this isn't a rap sheet this isn't like some bad fight goes score you know this is just our it ministry the record that this case yeah but it's still there now let me go back to

one other thing which i know this is going to be very taxing for some people to have the because the last thing in the world anybody's concerned with is the genome privacy of a suspected or convicted rapist so last thing we're thinking of but d.n.a. is you it's not a fingerprint is something hair samples it's you the technology gets. it's fascinating but if you have a rapist was out of a sect to me now there are other ways to look at empathy you yourselves too but this is not as simple as they think you have multiple samples and that sort of thing but when you have this and we also have hippo laws and we have remember lionel's law the law always lags behind technology you say what do we do this i have now i have cabin wallace's d.n.a. this is your genome this is you i know about your family medical propensities perhaps maybe one day sexuality intelligence who knows political affiliation the

more we learn about this what do i do with you and it almost takes of a fascinating status it's not just a piece of forensic evidence now do we owe any duty of privacy or removing it expunging it from this database how do you say well you for example hipaa laws and insurance are very very strict but do we say but not if you're accused what if i was exonerated well we'll get to you later nobody's thought about this in france you know body lesson they haven't thought about it so much they're not even asked and amazing that the you know that test cases show which is who are you about genomes and the like well moving from cold cases to cold war hillary clinton spoke this weekend at yale and i'd love to get your thoughts part of the event is this idea of donning these over the top house and and she got a proudest paschal one for the kids let's take a look a russian hand.