it make it impossible to investigate thoroughly that is what it was what we just said that there is proof militants used chemical substances who punished them have they received any punishment that the coalition and attacked them immediately i did not see anything like that because. of the news this morning germany's refugee agency is being investigated for corruption it's accused of offering asylum for bribes chancellor merkel's now also been dragged into the scandal with claims that she was aware of the problems but did nothing to reform the organization our europe correspondent peter oliver picks up the story for you. as the cash for asylum investigation into the german federal office for migration and the refugees all come from japanese speed public focus has turned to the german chancellor angela merkel and what she knew about the agency's problems its former head frank here didn't face gave an interview to a leading german sunday tabloid in which he said he held

a face to face meetings with the chancellor and made it explicitly clear that his agency couldn't cope with the pressures being put on it refugee policy. there was no structure or organized development in the form of specific tasks set of priorities or occult collation of personality acquirements since no instructions were available everyone could work as they saw feet in response to those claims a spokesperson for angle merkle had this to say it's not religion and of course there was an ongoing intense process of changing the work of the german federal office of migration and refugees when the refugee crisis broke out i'm just trying to make clear that mr vice is repeated reported on these changes in the prove to the how the federal states the boom the stock the cabinets he spoke at the press conferences and again and again to the public and major league the chancellor was informed about the plan of the reforms and the measures taken in this agency. the investigation began after it was alleged that an employee at the un fought for us

in a bremen wrongfully granted asylum to twelve hundred people on the list security services say were to islamic extremists one of whom they describe as an actual terror threat while forty four others belonged to islamist groups prosecutors allege that the female employee took both money and gifts to grant asylum wrongfully between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen as the investigation continues she did nice those charges against her politicians both from the opposition and from within and glimmer of course on coalition partners saying they want answers. it is not about accusations it is not about vindication of a conspiracy theory but rather about a sober investigation. we have to investigate the accusations of negligence and corruption and you have to do it quickly and everyone who was involved should give

testimony the former refugee card to nato and the interior ministry there is work to be done in this investigation last month the country's largest opposition party alternative for germany launched a loss. suit against anglo merkel's refugee policy they say that the chancellor's decision to welcome around one of the half a million refugees to the country should have gone through a vote in the book on the stack and the fact that it didn't is unconstitutional and so we put the legal course in front of the court to question whether there are there is a legal. explanation or a legal reason to open our borders hopefully we'll have a special committee to go into that scandal well the point we're making is probably the scandal is not something about. someone one office environment and has to do with political responsibility and we have to look who is responsible for everything what has happened there before now the big question remains if the

chancellor knew that the migration refugee agency was struggling why was nothing done to relieve the pressure betrayal of r.t. . when we told the main critics of the liberal migration policy of the right wing the party who came third in the country's general election last year meantime . the writers made a strong showing in slovenia clinching a quarter of the vote there on sunday the increase in support for the s.t.'s party there's been widely linked to the migrant crisis almost half a million passed through twenty fifty and sixty attempts to cross into western europe the party's leader yelling claims that migrants we better off staying in their own countries. which during the biggest wave of mass migration we told our european partners live for those who want to come to europe should be secured in their home countries. so really in philosophy as leverage egypt told my colleague colum bray that the rise of right wing nationalist parties is being driven by

a fundamental disconnect these days between politicians and large swathes of the public. it is the same process all at all western europe united states and so on and so on the ruling elites is usually say last song doctor we so called for them not to be thought of you know you want to get us all seen. it but i stand by european institutions in these open sobs the strays in the forest so i don't see any good story in the actions as far as slovenia is concerned at the height of the migrant crisis when hungry closed its borders many migrants made their way through slovenia but they were trying to get to france to germany and then to britain they didn't stay in slovenia so what do people where you are really think of the migrant crisis they will go to the established that a few days they're going to mostly intercepted at the bar or better into a box of trains and don't spark that directly to australia and who are

a little bit surprised incidentally how many of them when i asked would you like to stay here this trip no no you have a couple. of money laid away or whatever it's ok to be equal to be tracked like at the highest. so we totally different now the fifty six the mission to the international space station set to blast off all wednesday from the baikonur launch site in kazakhstan with a get an international crew on board it's expected to take the three month crew two days to reach the orbiting looking forward to watching the launch very much a correspondent for time jacqueline. we rode into the baikonur cosmodrome as the sun was rising in order to catch the first glimpses of the craft as it left the assembly platform to slowly surely and ever so cautiously make its way to the launch pad.

the so you system is actually made up of two parts the rocket and the spacecraft itself first out of the gate was the rocket which contains the most i catch it aspect the first piece boosters which pressure on twenty meters long it will burn for only one hundred eighteen seconds before falling away at which point the second the third stage rockets take over the top half is the actual spacecraft and it can also be broken down into three sections at the very top of the orbital module where the little sit for take up. currently the site you system is the only one in the world used to get crewmembers back and forth to the international space station behind me you can see the rocket taking its final position on the platform before takeoff.

so you system it's finally in place here at launch pad one also known as the garden start named in honor of yuri gagarin the first man ever launched in the space back in one nine hundred sixty one and that was just a few years after the first artificial satellite was also launched right from here and on wednesday i'm going to get a chance to witness my very own left. yeah it was a good show in that thing goes off to bring in live pictures then tomorrow. of course for world cup just nine days away now will be catching up off the brazilian captain cafu the talk about. joining me every week on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see you then.

dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks the battle. to stop spreading tell you that they'll be gossip and probably. tell you on the whole and by. the hawks we all love one. can say anything he wants to say and you can't fire him you know it won't be another election until twenty twenty and he's gliding in twenty eighteen probably won't even many representatives support in this election and this year. i gave very good morning it's kevin i would hear it out of this morning thanks to

needs who is so really getting close now just knowing and counted until football's biggest event kicks off in russia so what better time than we thought to catch up with the form of brazil defender in two time will cup winner cafu to give us some insight into how his nation might perform this summer's tournament. expectations are really high not only concern in the world cup in russia but also concerning the world cup in general especially regarding the brazilian team pressure is high you are fighting for a world cup with the brazilian team there are more than two hundred twenty million brazilians that still hundreds and twenty million football coaches two hundred and twenty million football fans so there is additional pressure on players to have a great world cup when we come to a world cup we come to when no one plays at the world cup just to say that it's late we come to ween of course sometimes it doesn't happen the way you wanted to but you can be sure that the b. and the lack of commitment and brazil is going to have a great world cup huge six weeks coming up to. go with our special coverage of fifa

world cup twenty eight it could be russia's first time of course hosting this huge event.

more headlines this morning federal prosecutors working on the trump russia probe accused the u.s. president's former campaign manager of pressuring witnesses to give false evidence ahead of the trial paul manifolds said to fail to register as a foreign agent when he lobbied for ukraine in twenty twelve whether america itself is no stranger to comes to a difference in the other countries affairs. explains next though that does seem to be an excuse in this case they matched meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election still dominates headlines stateside russian meddling into the twenty sixteen election russian interference russia is again trying to disrupt our elections russia did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen election but he didn't

need a history lesson to understand that foreign meddling is a global game one that the u.s. plays very well. through our history when we tried to manipulate or influence elections or even overturn to governments it was done with the best interests of the people of that country in mind given the traditional reverence for human rights according to studies between nine hundred forty six and their two thousand great powers intervened one hundred seventeen times in foreign affairs with the us making up a large chunk of those statistics. partisan in the cold interventions in other words situations when great powers that intervene in elections in other countries in an attempt to determine the election result the united states intervened in elections of this. election's in this manner in forty seven countries for this purpose between one thousand nine hundred eighty six and two thousand here's a few examples the say i publicly admitted it was behind the notorious nine hundred

fifty three case of iran's democratically elected prime minister he insisted on oil should be nationalized which perhaps wasn't in the best interest of iranians or washington so it seems so he was overthrown and the shell small installed for the next twenty six years to safeguard the west all ambitions in the country until it all ended and the west an islamic revolution. the one who is an enemy is america that is not based on prejudice or pessimistic points of view but rather it stems from experience from a crippling real understanding of the actual realities of the world from a wrong to chile two decades on and the cia is supporting a bloody military coup in south america the pinochet government prisons torches and killed some forty thousand and also political enemies including us citizens and the f.b.i. surveillance like caesar peering into the commons from distant rome nixon said the

choice of government by the chileans wasn't acceptable to the president of the united states the attitude in the why. house seemed to be if in the wake of vietnam i can no longer send in the marines then i will send in the cia he with this in mind is alleging russian meddling in the us election a little hypocritical the reelection campaign of former russian president boris yeltsin was secretly managed by three american political consultants they spilled the beans to a us magazine about their collaboration with the clinton white house to bump up his approval ratings although the americans spoke no russian and worked through translators they began secretly laying out an american style campaign to counter the public sentiment running against yeltsin the plot was thrilling so much so showtime made a movie about it based on a true story the russians how deeply the family you did not just government whether they wanted to win. the election were held today apparently for stalin. it

seems as though outside intervention in domestic politics is as old as politics itself and when it comes to u.s. meddling it's all change your country for the best whether you want it or not the death toll from the volcanic eruption in guatemala now is reached sixty nine according to officials at least seventeen of those people have been identified so far the number of dead could grow further scores of people still missing this morning notice the workers are trying to retrieve bodies from layers of acid destroyed villages over three thousand people have been moved to safety many of the housing temporary shelters set up works being hampered by the lack of electricity the most heavily affected areas the way go so they're living up to its name which means volcano will fire erupted on sunday covering nearby villages and coffee farms in ash it's considered to be the biggest eruption in over four decades in fact this video shows the moment it all kicked off. rather than. that if there

was. a little i'm going to get out of here out there out of reality i don't really want to again they can be. a lucky escape but not for the others it seems this one will keep an eye on see how the injury toll continues to develop or not that's the way the world's looking for moscow this tuesday morning i'm kevin zero in a day. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling

classes protect themselves. in the final. we can all middle of the room sit. room. for maneuver sitting in a car when the phipps gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way you could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner. salutation

. insert tap slides return and click those are the new sounds of current seahawk watchers gone are the days of the ching and the jingles and jangles of paper and coins this is the a of the bank card the credit card and the mobile plat pass plastic plastic plastic plastic plastic everywhere and if you're not swiping tapping or inserting plastic to spend those magical numbers on your bank statement your double clicking your mouse banging away on your keypad or swiping your touchscreen but what happens when those small important pieces of plastic no longer work the swipes in the taps no longer feed the role of receipt paper at the register the touch screen reads decline what happens then after hard currency is gone the way of the video store in the dinosaur this past week in the

good books of europe got to experience firsthand what happens when that imagined scenario becomes reality yes vsa cardholders across the united kingdom found their cards no longer working thanks to what the credit card giant is calling a hardware failure from personal card holders the businesses you cavies the customers and europe use the customers for over twelve hours half a day got declined for making purchases in payments forcing many shops and bars to go cash only or risk closing down thankfully basis reporting this hardware failure was not the result of anything criminal and that they have no reason to believe this was associated with any unauthorized access or malicious event. but the cold harsh realisation that comes from truly realizing the tight rope we are on will definitely linger rot in the minds of those affected as we

continue to move further down that paperless wireless line we have to ask just what will happen if the grid goes down and our wealth and purchasing power vanishes in a microsecond. the so the questions that arise when you are watching the hawks. what is. the. real thing. at the bottom. like you know that i got. sick so. well over the logic of science i robot and. cashless society when the wonderful isn't it interesting yeah right like i mean this is one of those stories

that when i saw a break i was like oh this is like a harbinger of what could come because i like we all kind of have that weird feeling in the back of your skull like what happens if the plug gets pulled you know what happens if i can't go and use my magic magical card or tap of my magical numbers on this computer screen that i see that says i have money what about doesn't exist anymore what about just goes down the script right yeah and you're looking at it so it happened around two thirty in the afternoon and started at eight thirty in the afternoon which i think it's horrifying to think about at that time of day right after lunch and then right before people are going home suddenly none of your i don't write a on a friday. you get to the pot then you're like i'll have a point and they're like no you all right that's the scary among other things i mean whatever you want to count what if you got to i mean how many people were literally stuck right and then this is like mental movie very well passionate more yeah i mean and it's interesting because it's like less than twenty seventeen was

the first time ever that actually you know credit cards or bank cards over took cash for retail payments in the united kingdom and that's according to figures from the british or. consortium but that's been supported by member twenty something according to be subpoenaed where do you hear this number according to beas a payment processing through its systems accounts for. one every three all retail spending in the u.k. one out of every three in us to be like one out of every three u.s. dollars for those use up the monstrous number that's all put on credit cards it's all run through so. remember these are just like putting credit this is are now everybody has a debit card you have all of these things that everything we do is done through these cards because you can't do anything without it you can't do things and casting more it's rare that you can find a place where you can rent a hotel room with cash or you can but you can't rent a car with cash right now i mean there's places what won't even take i've been at

an airport and gone to pay cash for something. and they just literally like i don't even know what to do it costs three managers to figure it out and that's the thing that kind of scares me because this isn't just about whether you have plastic or whether you have a piece of gold or a piece of tin or something that stamped inside is that it's giving banks a lot a lot of power and that's really scary it's kind of like cashless society is this you from euphemism for you know bank payments you know here we are everything's every transaction passes through a bank card companies phone providers payment processing fee is more a processing speed and we have to pay money in order to use our own money and brett scott who writes wrote in the guardian had said that in granting financial corporations complete control of our money system every hour every economic interaction ends up log in their databases for analysis and this is the part that

really scares me because i don't think our credit is being checked the way it was before i think what they're doing is another source of data that they are selling off to probably. politicians and research servers and everything else they're selling all this data off because they know everything about us how we spend where we spend and essentially how we move money from ourselves just to them to somebody else and i don't like it once you give people that be so or that whatever their card you know they have a you know you give it to the obstructive everywhere you drove you know based on those pretty much all of your spending habits appear with these are just so you know how many people are with these to get this in twenty one point you said one point nine billion cards in circulation like credit debit right billion cards in circulation twenty sixteen two point eight billion cards in circulation and experts are predicting by twenty twenty one three point eight billion cards just be we're

not including american express master card all that three point eight billion cards what happens if what you saw in him would becomes the trend that plugs polled and suddenly boom well one thing to think about is that while this wasn't malicious activity or a hack that's the thing that scares me is you could have something taken out in a heartbeat you know is it backed up is it taken care of because. if it you know it's kind of maybe would be nice to for federal reserve actually back the u.s. dollar buy gold again that would be cool but we can only hope for so she. who's the leader of the club that's made for the one percent and i c k e y m o u s c yeah it's the house that the mouse felt disney just got burned as for months senator bernie sanders zeroed in on the corporate behemoths grand canyon style wealth gap between the skyrocketing salaries of its corporate suits and the rock bottom wages for the blue collar workers in the happiest place on earth in los

angeles are to correspondent now has the story. it's only deja vu looking a lot like twenty sixteen all over again senator. he sanders is blasting disney for making billions in profits while failing to pay employees what he called a living wage sanders told the crowd he wanted to hear the moral defense of a company making nine billion in profits four hundred million for their c.e.o.'s as a thirty year old worker is going hungry a senator saying a similar tune in twenty sixty anybody here making a living wage from this like the sanders took to twitter on friday saying i have a feeling a.b.c. will not be asking on its nightly news program tonight how disney can make nine billion in profits well three quarters of disneyland employees can't afford basic living expenses in another tweet sanders posted a video criticizing coach chairman and c.e.o. bob iger for making a reported thirty six million dollars in twenty seventeen the video also claims

that i got received one hundred million in stock awards for disney's deal with fox this as through the video centers claims a whopping seventy three percent of disney employees aren't making enough for basic needs it also says one out of ten disney workers reported being homeless in the past two years sixty percent of disney employees said they were food insecure meaning they couldn't afford a nutrient dense diet and although a one thousand dollars bonus was promised to employees after president trump's tax deal was signed into law the video says more than thirty seven thousand will not receive the bonus that is unless they sign a contract agreeing to more low wages according to workers the average salary is ten dollars seventy one cents an hour disney responded to my request for a statement saying distain is now negotiating an increase of wages to fifteen dollars an hour by two thousand and twenty two years ahead of california's minimum wage and the statement goes on to say that sanders really criticizes disney to stay in the headlines that are launching an educational program to help for their

employees to breeze in anaheim to talk to sweets artsy. not the happiest place on earth by a long shot of their work in a seventy five person. they're trying to i like how they brag like oh we're going to bring it up to fifteen an hour by twenty twenty sorry i'm sorry you could do that eight today and be it's actually twenty dollars twenty to twenty four dollars an hour that actually gives people a truly living wage meanwhile hey let's give the present company thirty six you know bad sort of before there's got i actually agree that i think that we should talk we could talk about basic minimum wage but let's talk about like an upper stopgap you know. because after you get passed what thirty six million a year what do you need what more could you buy at that point you know. what's really kind of strange is how much money is sort of. going around that big

suv that is disney and full disclosure i've worked for disney companies before when i worked at miramax a couple others these are disney on property so i know a little bit about how they work and there's a lot of free stuff when you get up out of that bottom blue collar area when you start going into salaried employment when you start getting the secretaries and not you suddenly get discounts on mattresses and cars and all this stuff and it's so great and free breakfast on friday as i was a bob iger things like free breakfast only simply given to you and you don't realize you actually go to the park and you realize that people are making like ten dollars an hour and that this gusting especially in areas both in orlando and in the california disneyland those are not these are some of us expensive places in the entire country to live. and you've got you've got employees that were homeless at one point you know in the last two years i'm sorry if you're advertising yourself as disney we all love business but if you're advertising yourself as the happiest place on earth keep.