headline stories. really border leave. this really forces. a pretty claims it's a russian spy operating in the u.s. . washington intel agencies and. protest in the capital against the. coalition assault on the main port city in which.

just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow it's the weekend saturday august fourth welcome to the program our top story the health ministry say one palestinian has been killed and over one hundred others injured in the latest great march of return protest near the border with israel the ministry added that ninety of those injured were wounded by israeli fire based journalist who sent us this report. i don't think i did i never am going to argue i don't know how to go on protests continue for the nineteenth friday i'm standing here one hundred meters away from the fence that separates gaza strip with israel and as you see thousands of holliston you protesters continue to participate in the great march of returning as

usual the israeli forces continue to use lethal force against the palestinian protesters intense strong tear gas canisters have been fired on the palestinian protesters and live ammunition has also been targeted by the israeli snipers stationed have the weapons along the fence. i don't know myself. and we just heard a live ammunition that was targeted the protesters ok that was very loud and very close for us to this is the person who was targeted by the live ammunition we heard just right now. i says the intensive intensive need that israeli forces are finding i got a stars on the palestinian prime ministers and it's very very close from where we're standing. right now i think was shot to let's just see what it's like what major always. will fire from us nothing. in this off your hands you see abundance you know but i think what started

the lag load was just in front of us. meanwhile the israeli defense forces estimate the number of what they call violent rioters out into the city friday you saw the night the great march of return rally since the began in march it comes as hamas and israel reportedly consider a deal brokered by egypt to end protests along the border i talked to political scientists professor slade near the queue says israel will begin using disproportionate force as a matter of fact is that you are using the life i mean. or over the place not only whatever it's comes to the palestinians a confrontation usually they use the motion most of the times sometimes they use their bullets but mainly in gaza they are using the life i was initially the israel say have seen fires and also people are constantly running up the fences and those

kind of protests are organized by hamas that is what israel say. well organized by a lot of busting in factions all of palestinian factions that are presenting the palestinian will to go to their borders and to to clean the right of return to their homes which was a land which was taken from them in one hundred forty. all the other hand. students have nothing what do you mean by guides israeli have sixteen and thirty five and they have tanks they have. everything and they have kites this is absolutely unmatch. russian mole inside the u.s. embassy in moscow it is just stuff on britain's guardian newspaper being reveling in good but also not so it seems as igor sit on off explains everybody loves a spy drama mystery suspense and

a russian fan for time. the name of the stabling song my name is evident then you are a russian spy. this guardian story had every ingredient for a thriller recipe the u.s. secret service as quite clearly stems from the very name is one of the most enigmatic agencies of the u.s. government its main function is to protect the lives of u.s. presidents ministers the top political brass and that is where the russians according to the guardian planted a mall the russian spy had been working under texted in the heart of the american embassy in moscow for more than a decade she had plenty of time to gather intelligence without supervision said the guardian's head of investigations claims she was operational for

a whole decade in that time through the agency's internet in e-mail systems she had access to all kinds of highly classified stuff including the shared jewels of the president and vice president all of that according to the guardian the woman fed to the be russia's key security agency before being let go last year over security concerns they had lying the narrative the details looked spectacular in the scoop which was even projected to link to a spy ploy in washington d.c. itself her activities of stealing and sharing information could shed more light on how the russians were able to hack the twenty sixteen presidential election office of the d.n.c. except the secret service was. unimpressed by the reporting and no doubt of shame or embarrassment but because of the facts according to the media release within the agency the woman in question held the position of

a foreign service national these employees have their duties outlined very strictly as by default the secret service views every one of them surprises as potential spies the woman's responsibilities were limited to things like translation cultural guidance administrative support and i don't mean to offend anybody here but this cell. it's more like the job description of a tourist guide rather than a spy a material employee and i wish i could say the guardian did not know all these things when publishing the article but they did prior to the guardian publishing their early the u.s. secret service provided they are indeed to return official statement clearly refuting the unfounded information despite all this the article was published as is after all everybody loves this spy drama but some plots i better be saved for hollywood scripts. journalist joan white believes the western movie is over

reliance on all name sources is eroding the audience's trust for this is very sure the reporting in this is the epitome of fake news because without naming sources then we can make anything up they want and expect people to believe them and this is a narrative that's been spun over the last few years when it comes to russia they are forced to rely on unnamed sources because that is noted placing proper investigative journalism and this is just part of a downward spiral when the only feed growing distrust in the group is growing this juncture between what people who are supposed to be reading the guardian and no longer are believe is going on no world that what the guardian is tell them is going on it's a really big problem for the mainstream and the west. friday was a day for of the trial of donald trump's former campaign chairman paul muller ford it's the first trial to result from the moeller investigations probe into suppose

that collusion between the u.s. president's campaign and moscow and yet the charges brought against him on a ford have nothing to do with russia or they campaign itself instead they're related to a legit tax fraud. big day for the question the station at the planet center once the center rather trance presidential campaign gets a call it's called man a ford is on trial today and it's already moving at lightning speed it could also create if we thought a man afford to cooperate with an all or on a broader investigation into russian collusion with the trump campaign. the fifteen thousand austria to come out of her body with an international way transfer according to

a man's cloudier who testified today government exhibit it's not about cool i mean if you're going to jail in part over a cold make it to college at least if i spend one million in suits and fifteen thousand and jacket only to come out looking like manna ford i would see. taste of some of the headlines there surrounding the trial well i'm happy to say we're joined live in the program by charles or sell political analyst always good to have you charlie paul munna ford is the first to face trial as part of robert muller's investigation into russian collusion and yet the charges against men of

ford have nothing to do with russia your thoughts on that. you know i think this is a sad day and a gross miscarriage already of quote justice in the united states of america i mean the way the system is supposed to work you bring in a special counsel when it is view that the department of justice cannot handle the case with its own personnel and the special counsel is supposed to be independent and non conflicted and is supposed to investigate a crime not a person so the crime in theory is probably not collusion but conspiracy to interfere in the election they haven't even framed that properly. they're bringing up charges against a man or they keep referring to him as trump's campaign chairman that's not even really true he was temporarily campaign chairman for a period of time to get through the convention and what are they charging him on

their charge on conspiracy to commit various types of fraud and they go all the way back to give me two thousand and five they're charging them on foreign agents registration act violations an act that was promulgated in one nine hundred thirty eight and you know there's supposed to be balance here here we see the storm troopers literally a modern day storm troopers beating down the door a metaphor for suburban home when his wife and he are sleeping to get all the records they could find vacuum them up and then sift through them to try to come up with a crime in contrast and then over this is over seventy five million with the clinton foundation almost three billion dollars they still haven't managed to get all the records convene as far as we know a grand jury and investigate serious on go and crimes involving an aspirant for president states herself a former president at a whole bunch of fancy clothes is the balance is not there and by the way the man doing this robert muller was head of the f.b.i.

and did missed all of this clinton foundation for aught when he was head of the f.b.i. so it's just it's really an embarrassing chapter i gree with the. this needs to end and the people who got this trial together the show trial together rod rosenstein mahler and others the tables need to be flipped yeah and some believe that most primary goal in the trial is simply the pressure and money for it so he would provide information about rushing collusion with the trump campaign how do you see it playing out i actually think you know this is an enormous waste of money in my view it is a gross miscarriage of justice it's setting for a lot of bad precedents and so it must be corrected i think in the end this trial judge judge ellis is a remarkable individual he's being very tough on both sides but particularly on mahler i think the metaphor is likely to skate here i think that the special

counsel is likely to be told to stand down and then i think there's going to be a wholesale housecleaning in that i was hopeful anyway the wholesale house cleaning of the partment justice is ongoing housecleaning at the iris elsewhere and then we're going to see real investigations into who was conspiring to rig the primaries and rig the general election in two thousand and sixteen internally and where there are foreign powers other than russia involved in this. charles thanks so much for coming on the program and sharing your thoughts political analyst charles or tell this hour. we're back live in ninety seconds.

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of yemenis have turned up it's in the capital in protest an ongoing saudi led coalition airstrikes it was prompted by a deadly raid which killed dozens in the main port city of whole data so the arabia denies carrying out air strikes in the area at the time instead putting the blame of the attack on which the rebels please be warned the video you're about to see contains graphic scenes yemeni officials say twenty eight people were killed in iran seventeen injured however a local t.v. station also reported that fifty two are dead and least a hundred were injured here strikes in an area near the city's main hospital yemen's health ministry is clear it with things says that there. was a lot of. the health ministry strongly condemns the crime of targeting the hospital in the fishermen's market in the d. . i mean that in states bears full responsibility because the united nations and its organizations and the international community have remained silent in the

freeze of the gratian from the american is really the coalition and its allies and their crimes for more than two thousand two hundred twenty days ago and. that all the saudi led coalition has been at war with thirty rebel since march twenty fifth well it sided with the government don't join the civil conflict since the intervention the u.n. say is the situation in yemen has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis and aid organizations are struggling. two recent. three. districts consist of think as the. population is in need of eight in terms of health. and sanitation. in all of the us and the international committee of the it's gross and this. humanitarian aid.

they were interested in that includes an old school. that's true do you really should try to use to reach the. saudi arabia the us have enjoyed wind military cooperation both under the trump and obama administrations washington provides riyadh with billions of dollars worth of planes tanks and other military equipment but now the united states u.n. ambassador seems to perceive the latest attack on civilians as a new development despite the same scenario having played out for years. we had that a saudi led coalition had airstrikes today against a fish market and a hospital in who data that may have caused dozens of casualties we've hit a new day now in yemen.

and we've had a new sense of urgency and you know. that if this is what started to happen so those are at risk infrastructure is at risk for nikki haley it just occurred today which is unfortunate because the united states is actually supplying a lot of the logistics and the. intelligence for the saudis and you don't hear too much criticism he should have been out there months ago condemning what the the humanitarian catastrophe that's occurring in yemen is just you just you just cannot be nice about this any longer or or just overlook it because it's gone on for too long and too many people have been have been killed and you wonder and you have to ask yourself the question what's the point. in precedented ruling a british judge has recognised on this law make more of just being legal under u.k.

law the case was brought by a muslim woman who wanted to divorce her a strange husband the couple were married to other traditional muslim wedding ceremony known twenty years ago but it was regarded as a religious ceremony and therefore no the civil marriage under you kill the husband block divorce proceedings invoking sharia law under which a union can only be dissolved by a council of muslim leaders but such councils have no legal jurisdiction in the u.k. here's a slice of our earlier debate. how significant do you think this ruling is in terms of how britain regards religious weddings and the marriage there after it is essentially the first time that the british courts our legal system has essentially recognized a parallel legal system nearly shari'a law it does set a precedent with the right perhaps establishing what the bindery serang that should be so i view this as troubling misguided and potentially very disturbing for the

future the judge was talking about recognizing it as a void marriage under english common law which is not exactly the same as shari'ah although this might might be similar yes in fact to clean made that point that this is not about recognizing a shari'a law it's about recognizing and implementing what is seen as a marriage or avoid marriage and english common law not shari'a law in actual fact it's good everything to do with it couldn't be more clear and you being ingenuous by suggesting it's somehow completely divorced from islam it's everything to do with shari'a law as it's on there stood in this united kingdom and we cannot have i'm sure you'd agree with me there is no place for parallel legal systems within the u.k. with the years over the centuries english law has improved to the level where it's very very similar to the general aims and objectives of sharia anyway so. a marriage under english common law is very similar to marriage under serial or

anywhere in syria has certain guidelines certain rights and one to responsibilities for a husband and wife or people who are you know showing the world that there has been work and likewise english common law does as well someone to suggest that should real or in its full manifestation has any compare ability to british law is a little cross i believe this judge has set a precedent which does carry consequences those consequences seemed it tell of the it is. to particular prominence which it doesn't deserve above any other fee if and those my read on her islam of the whole was her the opportunity to get the rights was this judge has no veil there and by simply having a simple a civil certainly a look if you want to get my daughter shari'a law that's one thing but burn maine but it isn't does not provide you with legal status under british law and this judge has given them a backstop i think that's all well to be fair the woman in this case she was

arguing that she did ask for the civil ceremony and that her husband refused to go forward with it that her father had also asked for it and it just was not an option for just the same if she asked for a divorce and he would not give it to her so someone if we could go to you again what do you think this means for other women who are an unhappy marriage just possibly that they might also try and take this route the rights that women i mean did men have in this scenario are the exact same rights that they would have under the english common law so when you look at things for example the division of assets and so forth if there is an asset which is truly shared like the marital home or a car or something that work together then regardless of if then why we don't not. even under the english common law let alone shari'a obviously they have an enticement too they both have an entire term to that thing presidents can lead to all kinds of situations and in this case what we're seeing is a parallel law being legitimized in the u.k.

i repeat should be in courts how likely is in the united kingdom. a suicide bombing has had a mosque in eastern afghanistan during friday prayers official there are now being quoted as saying that at least thirty nine people are dead more than eighty others wounded here's a local journalist. the casualties and fatalities could be much higher the attack took place during the friday prayer when the sun mosque was busy hosting a big number of worshippers in the provincial capital of cairo this is the capital of paktia province in southeastern afghanistan the shias in afghanistan are extremely vulnerable especially when it comes to places of worship islamic state of attack them now that part of the country on the border with pakistan was erased on region in the koran agency is aware militant pakistani groups are also operating

like jenga v. in different capacities as well as the pakistan based militant network their carney network so we'll have to really see who was behind this attack but what is an extremely dangerous trend now in afghanistan is that the afghan government and its international allies continue to fail to protect lives in afghanistan and when you have such a big number of casualties in fatalities you are actually thinking about the destroyed society almost you're talking about families losing their breadwinners people are losing their lives their aspirations their dreams in this friend six really dangerous trend actually continues and in most major cities across afghanistan and so the question is what if any. security strategy is in place to prevent these sort of attacks in the future this is our to international remember

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administration take a look at that on this edition. of politicking on larry king a troubling series of reports suggest that north korea may be building new long range missiles and exploring ways to hide the extent of its nuclear weapons program from the united states this after donald trump recently tweeted his anger with critics of north korea's progress to denuclearize what's going on and what do these reports means that the agreement signed at the singapore summit. let's talk about that with gordon chang an expert on asia and north korea columnist. for the phone through nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world he joins me from new york

our what's your read gordon on the reports that north korea is building new ballistic missiles the young yang. that washington post report from the beginning of this week is certainly correct north korea is building these wasan fifteen's that was the missile that was tested november twenty ninth and it has a range to strike the east coast of the united states the big story here actually there are two stories one of them is that all of these revelations undercut the notion that the trumpet ministration has been propagating that north korea has made a strategic decision to give up its weapons if it's made that decision then it wouldn't be building these missiles and it wouldn't be producing fissile material the other story larry is that you have an intelligence community in the united states which is angry upset and is actually playing a paul revere role where you have senior administration officials trying to downplay all these developments and then the i.c. comes up with all of these leaks which show that the north koreans are going full

steam ahead and so essentially the intelligence community is undercutting senior trump officials the president and secretary of state pompei of specifically so what have been in singapore did conjunct law didn't trump did trump this read him what happened. yeah there's two possible explanations neither of them are good one of them is that chum that kim jong un really had no intention of giving up his weapons and that's probably the case the other one is that kim was sincere in giving up his weapons but he doesn't control the military and the military are the ones who are actually in possession of the missiles in possession of nuclear warheads and are directing all of this research and development and production it may be a little bit of both but the point is that this is just inconsistent with the assumptions that underpin trump policy so what does what does trump do now. well i think president trump should pivot basically he should be starting to impose

costs and not just on the north koreans but also the chinese and the russians who have been blatantly violating u.n. sanctions over the last several months president trump has referred to this a couple days ago when he was speaking about the chinese getting in the way they certainly have and they will continue to get in the way until he imposes those costs so for instance he can go after the chinese banks that have been money laundering that would be a direct statement that would tell sea jinping the chinese roller that he's got to cut it out but until president trump does those things the chinese are going to continue to violate sanctions and the north koreans are going to continue along this very dangerous path why does mike pump aoe continued to remain upbeat about all this is going to turn out fine he's just implementing trumpet ministration policy and you know pompei as testimony last week at the senate foreign relay.