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i'm. donald trump's presidency appears to be on shaky ground after two former associates are found guilty of numerous federal crimes but the special counsel investigation has still not turn up any evidence that his election campaign team colluded with russia where the drugs are you know they're still looking for closure where is the komodo find the killers. plus the french interior ministry admits that a terrorist suspect involved in planning an attack in two thousand and fourteen was freed by a few to a dear crowd of failure. and russia slams nearly and forced us to think sions as counterproductive and meaningless and is vowing to respond congress is also considering even tougher measures against moscow which it did later this year.
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this is our to international bring you your global news update this hour straight from the russian capital welcome to the program there was plenty of talk on wednesday over donald trump's presidency which now appears to be inane increasingly pick a precarious position two of the president's former associates have been found guilty of federal crimes it has left trump in hot water as his ex lawyer has implicated him as the orchestrator of campaign and financial violations and the media is already getting in to spend over his possible impeachment. he be impeached with this i think the beginning has to be set and mark right now and we're in a watergate moment but there is i think a lot for the president to fear impeachment endlessly discussed in mainstream media discourse today it seems became a little more realistic for trump although it's not exactly what you might think
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nefarious links the russian agents or collusion with the kremlin something far more mundane as his former lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty to bank in tax fraud he also admitted guilt in campaign finance charges allegedly paying off former mistresses of trump for their silence on the orders of the now president in a double whammy trump's former campaign manager pulled out of fort was also found guilty of numerous personal fraud charges potentially facing years in prison but what about those russian links after all that's what the attorney general authorized special counsel miller to dig up coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of president donald trump they found buying ten tax fraud evasion lies to the f.b.i. hush money but no russian collusion fake news or the right here in which we got our big. where is the crow loser you know there's no looking for collusion
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where is there to lose your finds a delusion it's a day of embarrassment for trump and bad timing too with midterm elections approaching and democrats looking for any i mean if they can find the president though will view this as a vindication a year and a half later after several investigations the russian leak story still seems dead in the water although who knows what else the ongoing investigation will find the fact that they haven't come up with anything and that the all they've managed to claw back with paul metaphor is mis firings and some bank fraud charges. the same with cohen in violation of campaign. regulations finance regulations that proves there is no russian collusion or they've wasted two years to find fairly pedestrian violations sure if you went into any of the campaigns including hillary clinton's
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and spent two years with an investigation team in the grand juries i'm sure you'd find a lot more than ms filings and maybe some violations of campaign finance laws donald trump has given his first direct response to his former associates allegations against him the us president went on twitter praising former campaign chief paul metaphor for not breaking under pressure while the same time accusing michael cohen of making up stories an order to get a plea deal. the french interior ministry has admitted that a bureaucratic error led to the release of a terror suspect allegedly involved in plotting an attack maria financial reports from paris. an interesting story here in fronts and the alleged islamist terror plot i was freed here early in april because an investigating judge had forgotten to renew his pretrial custody and this information was first emerged in the local media but later was also confirmed by france's just as ministry the spokesperson of
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the french government has called it a failure or to go it is obviously agree failure i think the justice minister already negotiated an internal probe to identify the reason for the speech and then introduce certain amendments to prevent such things from happening in the future because obviously the priority now is to find this individual the man who was one of the defendants in the case over alleged planned terror attack in the area here in france in two thousand and fourteen and was also believed to be part of a terrorist network sending fighters to syria he was one of fifteen people accused of being involved in this activity and eight of these people have already left friends to fight in syria and iraq after the man was freed in april justice ministry says he's been under strict additional control which means he had to come to an assigned police officer twice a day to report his activity and his whereabouts and he was restricted on movements
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but just one month after that in may the same a man was found outside the restricted area he was driving a car without a license and there were pictures found on his cell phone that could be classified as islamic state group propaganda the man appeared in front of the judge immediately after that but he was freed again and as we just heard from the government spokesperson now they are sorties are trying to find this man paris based political analyst. things that this incident could indicate systemic problems in the french justice system. if it was not so tragic it would be a joke because it's time. he was treated so i mean it's completely illogical after all we can understand a bureaucracy carrot one but two types too hard but never it looks just an incredible this year there was a lot of error. and of course there is bureaucracy but there is also the fact that
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to try to do justice in france is overcrowded i mean there is too little judges for too many charges so there are problems independently from that from this case but i don't think it's just a bureaucracy error i think it's it's a general. situation. the russian leader has slammed washington's latest sanctions against moscow as counterproductive not mere pittance remarks came during a joint news conference with the president of finland in sochi. still there so it's a song regarding the sanctions those actions are counterproductive and meaningless especially when it comes to a country like russia it's not just about the us president's position it's about the position of the so-called establishment the ruling class and brutal terms i hope the realisation that this policy has no future will come one day and we will cooperate in a normal fashion. the first batch of the latest u.s.
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sanctions against russia are set to come into force this wednesday they focused on exports of american made electronics use an aeronautical and space industries moscow says the measures won't affect the russian public in november of moscow could face a second wave of restrictions described by a us state department official as more draconian this could include more limits on trade and banking and cuts to diplomatic relations the measures under consideration may also ban russia state airline from entering u.s. airspace washington says the new sanctions are in response to the poisoning of a russian double agent and his daughter in britain earlier this year the investigation into the case is still ongoing and no hard evidence of russia's involvement has been made public him options been gauging what americans make of the latest moves against russia well if you watch the recent hearings on capitol hill american politicians are rather alpes spoke out about what they think about these new moves against russia ongoing efforts to interfere in our sacrosanct
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election process seize and those of our allies are just some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime putin wants to break apart the american republic russia's attempts to interfere in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election are well and widely known russia has undertaken a campaign of malign activities in its attempt to compete with us our allies and our partners and cats up to thirty one gives us more tools with which to respond however a new gallup poll shows that among the u.s. public fifty eight percent that's well over half favor improving relations between the usa and russia and that it's just zero. or a third thirty six percent that say they want further steps against moscow and now we decided to go out on the streets of new york and talk to people about these new sanctions more than half of americans want the usa and russia to get along better are you one of those people i wouldn't mind yes one i want everybody to get in on you know i think it unities the way to go peace. why are we fighting with russia.
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who knows the truth is obviously known only to being you know these tell you one thing but it could be do you have another reason for playing you know they've put sanctions on russia before and according to the officials it hasn't stopped their activities so do you think it's a good move to keep doing them to help them maybe more the cold war was terrible for everybody but you know we need to thread the delicate needle of not encouraging bad behavior while recognizing that there are a world power that needs to be respected for their capabilities and you know navigating through that is not simple i think it is important that we do they have to be and putting and eco substances into other countries that were allied with illegal substances in the u.k. it is prayed to be related to the gulf many russia anyway more than half of the americans want better relations between the two countries why do you think that should be more and and i mean you you think it be good for the usa and russia get
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along right you think so absolutely why can't we get along with russia i mean i think that we can but it would be really difficult right now in the situation that we're in when. you know the current president i mean is nice to get along but you can't trust russia they always been on the hand you know the me so they get what they deserve a better relationship with everybody i'm in favor of russian would think one hundred percent of our country wants a better relationship with russia and i would think a hundred percent of russians want to better relationship with us and the north koreans and the iranians and the mexicans and you know and the people in new jersey for that matter they say that this is the best way to deal with russia's malign. activities are you sanctions do you buy that argument now you know really believe anything he willing to believe the people that we spoke to seem to overwhelmingly feel that it would be better if the united states and russia could see eye to eye and get along more now that certainly just isn't the feeling on capitol hill we've heard a lot of hostility to russia from american politicians but it's just not there on
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the streets. former wall street journal correspondent joe lauria believes u.s. politicians are using the so-called russian threat as a distraction from internal problems the whole thing is quite a conundrum for me why they continue to try to politicize this issue and use sanctions of some way to help them domestically except that they're trying to cover up their own shortcomings their own short changing of the american people and to try the blame our divisions and our economic crisis and our racial divide year on and on an outside power which is the oldest trick in the book going back to the beginning of civilization if the democrats lose or do not do as well as they hope in the november election having used rusher again as their as their main talking point they may have to readjust and realize that the progressive wing of the party is growing and that the american people don't give a damn about russia and that they have to finally address the real issues here and leave this russia issue alone and get back to normal relations with this country that is that it's imperative for. for world peace essentially. trouble has
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broken out at the border of a spanish enclave in morocco where hundreds of african migrants attempted to storm the coastal city of sudan and their efforts to reach europe the resulting cautious of police officers attacked with and said. i mean i'm sad. so much. police say seven officers suffered burns from acid or a similar substance thrown at them it's the second time in a month that migrants have attempted to breach the border of the spanish territory inside morocco enjoy around six hundred migrants trying to break through into. day two of an international military expo taking place in patriot park just outside of moscow has wrapped up and russia's most famous weapons manufacturer of the
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coalition of group has unveiled a new soon to be all action robot. company . more news after this short break.
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so. look. at what politicians do something. to put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so if you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be rich. but you'd like. to see what the fuck are you people. interested
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always in the logs. to. come back to the program videos emerged of a british police officer slapping a fourteen year old girl during an arrest the images soon spread online and fired up reaction from both the public and the police please be aware that the video we're about to show you does contain violence. thank you your god it was. ok for you to come out was ok. ok ok all right god you. know
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police say they responded to a disturbance involving use fighting and while officers attempted to get the girl under control the male officer struck the teenager in the face it's claimed was in response to her trying to grab the officers taser and radio as a result of the girl and a fifty two year old woman were arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer two officers had to receive medical treatment for bite marks and cuts to their heads the officer's actions have divided opinion in britain with some calling for him to be sacked while other praised him for doing a difficult job one would have fully grown man police officer need to palm strike a fourteen year old girl the video shows nothing more than police brutality the officers in question need sacking the open palm head was to disorientate her so they could get her she was being very violent to my opinion i'm not force was very
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necessary meanwhile police chiefs have defended the officer's actions saying the video does not give the full picture of the situation we understand this finish ma'am appear concerning however officers are trained untrained on little curse earlier on r t a former british police inspector and a social justice campaigner went head to head with their reactions. clearly to many people like myself it seems that there must have been a better way of dealing with that situation than bashing that go in the head in bashing the head into a metal shutter to grown place officers can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old go back to them i'll tell you what you say tell us i just tell us that's why this is this is wise and tell us your the police officer you tell me the only alternatives available to that office that i could see were allowed to keep them and some action is taken radio which wouldn't have ended well or take it to the ground and then you'd be moaning about the police officers on
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a four year old go on the ground and if the officers use of force isn't right then he would be prosecuted or disciplined for it that act of bashing that bashing that girl in the head and i do think it makes a difference that he was a fourteen year old go if he was a six foot four man i think would be a different situation in terms of what the placement even when i think if the police aren't trained to deal with four zero girls that are being violent in ways that don't require them to bash them in their heads into metal metal shutters since any police officer uses any force whatsoever it's described as police brutality which it isn't you also keep saying for a girl like that has any relevance fourteen year old girls calls are just like anybody else telling me that two grown police officers two grown police officers with four limbs to deal with on one person they can't restrain those four limbs and and the body without bashing the head into mental chatter and to go back to a point i made before and i don't for you this wasn't about having a hate to a man you should have taught it was. this is about recognizing that if the police
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can respond to a video like that with with pure defensiveness i think the problems are only going to get worse between sections of the public they already have a lot of doubts about the police black clothes matter in the us for instance it's not as if the police haven't been brutalizing people for many years it's that people now have smartphones and can record it clearly to many people like myself it seems that they're my. to be in a better way of dealing with that situation than bashing that go in the head in bashing the head into a metal shelter you would be better off supporting the police in trying to keep order and questioning why fourteen year old girls are brawling in the street with other children of that age instead of questioning the actions of the police doing their best to deal with that situation. there's concern over facebook's latest tool to tackle fake news which will involve evaluating users based on how trustworthy they are online it's in addition to the sites existing efforts to stem the spread
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of misinformation the idea is to protect users from others who indiscriminately flagged up fake news as real and vice versa this is done will even be used to predict which articles need fact checking based on that user's history of posting stories now despite facebook's boosting its efforts to get rid of fake news there are still a few big questions about the sleuth method like what users are which countries will be part of the new fake news initiative it's also not known how the evaluations will affect individual users on the site or how the process will be monitored it's put facebook in the media firing line but the social media giant insists it's not as bad as it sounds we developed a process to protect against people indiscriminately flagging news is fake and attempting to game the system the reason we do this is to make sure that our fight against misinformation is as effective as possible but not all facebook users are convinced by the company's reassurances they accuse it of moving towards censoring
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content. this is the beginning of the end this model is up to the chinese social credit score example selling friends with joan joan as an outspoken critic of the government until sally and follows john to raise her score no loans benefits etc wasn't that how facebook started. girls at college. when deep suspicion years of privacy and fear frustration near total distrust and a lack of ethics at a company holds sway good news may appear bad. black mirror is here on the side of your boy in the fire that just sounds so good. is really something. the c.e.o. of online privacy company crypto hippi outlined the ethical implications of facebook's practices i think it's political pressure i think it really comes down
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to that they are putting themselves in the position of mediating human relationships which is first of all a very unhealthy thing to do and it's something that they really are grossly. incompetent to do and users primarily will not know what is being done to them and they will be manipulated in all sorts of ways we don't know what kind of place people need to understand that if you're using facebook you are not the customer you are the products and they are going to use you and every single way they can get away with because the better they use you the higher their stock price goes. that's our breakdown of the day's top headlines for now and that's all for me as well as always thanks for tuning in.
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the unemployment rate is down the labor participation rate is high so this goes against all the doom mongers before the election to trump and and of course nobody in mainstream media want to focus on this because it be lies there is spirity there . when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it means to live the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is
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just no way to present and that we want even many of victims families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent i just want to secure some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the
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