by meddling it was affected dramatically by a really bad candidate running a really bad campaign in. not popular accommodation service urbin he is supposed to be there to help you find a comfortable place to stay right around the globe the owner personally chooses who he or she would like to host however that aspect of the business has raised the issue of people being denied booking because of their names or profile pictures in fronts for instance journalists are one. who has north african roots sais that when he tried to book an apartment in moore say his reservation was counsel without explanation his friend who he ses has a good french name later book the same apartment on the exact same days says' it's a clear example of discrimination well after the journalist wrote about his experience on twitter or a b. and b. was quick to respond it expressed regret over the incident stressed its opposition

to all forms of discrimination we were joined by political commentator nucular merkel french lawyer hosni multi who gave us their thoughts on the rights of owners to choose their guests think there's a problem with. this form committee you know it's in the large sense today in france which has got a bad image and some people would rather not rent than rent to people who got this bad image and particularly within the north african community music giving some are jews who are racist people who don't want to see african post in their house and lot of people will be people coming from north africa. crime to instability to terrorism and unfortunately these are some of the reasons why we speak a lot of the north african community today i don't agree with the thing that we can sum up the reality of people acting. having delinquent behavior

just by giving this people but this has nothing to do this has nothing to do to explain the behavior again i'm not saying the end tire north african community so a lot of this is a suggestion that i work with interests and they're not these that yasser i'm to i'm just i mean there is a problem which has to be settled i have no people from the north african community who are ashamed of what other people in their community you know and you can see this unfortunate on a daily basis imagine the french person who has no contacts with the north african community who read the press on a daily basis and we read people who have been committing crimes who have been terror who are terrorists who are advocating death to france or that they hate rats and every time to read this unfortunately again i'm the first to say unfortunately unfortunately see that they're often associated with the name from north africa now if there are people who are considering that the route the original behavior the. sexual or at a show or favor on the on faith is. good. to

discriminate they are wrong on their own not respecting the law this is what we have to remind in of in the states which is a state of low. let's head to the u.s. now in the state of louisiana where four until the pipeline activists and the journalists have been arrested and charged under a controversial new law we can take a look at the pipeline at the center of the story.

well the new law took effect on the first of august a number of weeks ago unless pipelines are critical infrastructure it explicitly prohibits trespassing on pipeline groans with those running afoul of it risking a hefty fine or as much as five years behind bars activists say about a number of off duty state police officers were also working for a private security firm to protect the construction site they've since and the line of employment activist edward hall believes the new law runs against america's core principles. let me think of the right where it is data city as well as the

desperation of this companies as well as these legislators in trying to hide how pathetically an american this kind of a law is this privatization of unconstitutional actions that have not been held up in the supreme court and clearly don't measure up to the law of the land the constitution this needs to be understood as something that should be contained it is so that it doesn't spread throughout the united states and so it does not spread throughout the rest of the world while edward wholly activists you just heard speaking took part in that the coat and pipeline protests who was against the route that runs on her a lake on this indian reservation which was feared would damage drinking water supplies. on numerous occasions the protests there lapsed into violence with state law and

forces as well as the national guard and gauging in violent standoff with the activists officers the ploy pepper spray tear gas rubber bullets and water cannon the cried sometimes and freezing temperatures hundreds of people were injured some seriously police defended the actions saying the activists were trespassing on rioting describing them as quote very aggressive but i don't hold again believes it's highly unlikely pipeline to this whatever incite violence in situations like. you i believe that any kind of perceived by influence if that would ever occur would need to be under incredible scrutiny because it's doubtful that seasoned advocates for farmers rights advocates for it landowner rights advocates for safety and see in the climate future are going to resort to that kind of to set it in a civilized approach. the news continues in ninety seconds stay with us.

the nature of our laws that say that collapsed when the soviet union collapsed because of us meddling in boris yeltsin and all that's going on they had this skyrocketing alcoholism and so shoulder. here in the us because you have this enormous financial aid reengineering to take all the money being printed and put in the pockets of a few folks and leave the vast majority in a state of zombification this is the collapse gap he was talking about the u.s.

and the soviet union both collapsed in the one thousand nine hundred ninety period it just took a stake in the us as he describes it you no longer to realize that collapse. hello again washington concerned over turkey's the solution to buying a russian made her defense system it's even hinted at the possibility of sanctions against any of its nato allies with similar ideas now when it goes against our policy to have a nato ally such as turkey use an asse four hundred system part of the problem with that it is that it is not in iraq for a while with other nato systems and so we are against the having some of our

partners and allies around the world potentially purchase us for hundreds it would trigger katz's action i'm not going to get into that but we have made very clear what could trigger sanctions for other countries and entities around the world the russian made s. four hundred missile system is capable of hitting multiple high speed targets within a range of four hundred kilometers the deal signed by turkey in russia last year is worth two point five billion dollars on the first systems will be delivered. next year i'm for has been looking to bolster its her defenses since the u.s. withdrew its patriot missiles from the syrian border region back in twenty fifteen where russia has long time partners in the arms trade from all over the world as the head of the state arms exporter explains this year because that arm of the s four hundred is the most advanced missile defense system in the world countries are already lining up to purchase we have gained a firm food hold in the arms sales market to arab countries there is

a traditional partnership with india and china our allies in the collective security driven organization also work with the military industries on more denies and armed forces. both former u.s. diplomat jim jones trist told us washington is angry over interest purchase of the s four hundred systems because it undermines u.s. attempts to damage russia. the people behind these policies do not look at russia as a partner at all they look at it as an adversary and that their goal is essentially regime change in russia buying russian weapons is not bad because they're a competitor for business they're bad because there is essentially a full scale political warfare being carried on against the russian federation by the agency is that the american government i don't know that this is nationally what president trump wants but it certainly wanted hartman of state department of treasury and other organs of the government want and the purchase of russian

weapons is that because russia is bad i think that not only with regard to arms purchases but every other excuse we can think of we will find ways to put new sanctions on russia or countries and companies the deal with russia. a former nurse of karroubi in origin who was brought to the u.k. as a baby whose father served in the royal air force is not facing deportation from the country she's called home from most of her life charge of a tallis told her story to r.t. . i had to stop working i lost my job i was a registered nurse i went into financial difficulties i lost my dad in twenty two or my brother to suicide i ended up stealing monies from patients and. have it ended up in person getting a prison sentence everything just accumulators it was just like

a knock on effect people are dying people have literally died of stress people have committed suicide because of this it's been a tough road for sharon a former n.h.s. nurse who's facing deportation despite having lived here most of her life while waiting for an update on her status she was told she could no longer work and was advised to seek charity help in order to feed her kids if they can just allow me to go to work at least i'm not allowed to claim benefits and the person said not you're not allowed to claim any benefits you have no status so i said to her home i suppose to feed my child he's twelve he didn't do anything wrong and she said well go on line and seek charity the forty six year old was born in germany while her father was deployed during his service in the r.a.f. her family moved back to the u.k. months after her birth i mean our family has been connected to to england for years everyone was proud of him being a soldier i saw because of my dad service i shouldn't work my challenge of stuff

and i should be pushed into destitution that's it and i should be proud that he was serving the queen into our live for us. that's a punishment has siblings who were born in the u.k. have never faced problems with their status but sharon has been told she is not british on the grounds that she was not born within the nation's boundaries sharon believes she has rights to citizenship because of her father's service there's a document called the queen's rules and regulations of the armed forces and this control is everything you do as an as an army personnel wherever in the world you are and it says in black and white any children children should not suffer from their citizenship nationality problems anything were when they were born they should be treated as born on british soil if there was one the home office said that some inaccurate legislation summary of legislation so history in the queen's document is wrong one of the girls said well i'm not nationality trained i said

somewhere where you dealing with me but you give me a british but at the cricket so you have me on your numbers that i was born in britain but then i'm not british the home office has previously said that there is no guarantee for children born abroad to non british citizens to claim british nationality even if their parents served in the armed forces sharon now has no choice but to wait for an appeal decision on october the fourth sharon is just one of dozens of descendants of the wind rush generation who have had their lives turned upside down by the government's hostile environment policy to clamp down on illegal immigrants i just think it's a racist thing i don't like to preterism but. who is it happening to is a minority groups because i met my knowledge a group then i put it on to. some francisco the golden city known for its brave use and stunning landscape is apparently a warship in human waste the problem has gone so far that special crews have been

launched to clean the place or. is the worst you've seen and i will say. that there is more there's more. on the sidewalk than i've ever seen you know growing up here that was something that should not be. the norm but it's the first one i've ever seen for sure. san francisco city where you needed three hundred fifty thousand dollars to afford a median price in a city that has just announced to. the streets of so many people to use a bathroom some from cisco is going to send a patrol to pick. a six person crew that goes around the city to clean up how much would you have to make to do this job.

nobody wants to step in feces i have children i don't want to do that either i don't like finding use needles but there are approaches in the city is we actually need some federal help in this case in my opinion. you've got to get your hands dirty if you can do with. live from here in the russian capital this is r t international more great program started in just a moment and i'll see you again in thirty. wrong

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the aftermath of the cohen guilty plea is and man affords conviction what does it mean for the president and the russian probe to take a look at that on this edition of politicking. politicking on larry king michael cohen donald trump's personal attorney and fixer pleads guilty to eight counts of criminal charges paul not afford the former campaign manager of the donald trump's presidential campaign convicted on a charges against him leading democrats labeling donald trump as an unindicted coconspirator to say the least it's been a lousy week for the presidency and that has had many horrible weeks it is twenty month existence so what is the man avoiding throwing cases being the donald trump and where does robert moles rush a probe which has been the thorn in the president's side for well more than

a year where does that go from here for answers to these an. issue it's constitutional scholar harvard law school professor emeritus bestselling author his latest book is the case against impeaching trump. he joins me via skype ok alan what's your reaction to the cohen guilty plea but i think both sides are over stating their positions the democrats say he's in a data coconspirator total nonsense and the republicans are saying there's no risk at all let me tell you as a criminal law scholar not as a supporter of donald trump i voted against in my campaign against him here's the situation a candidate has a perfect right to contribute as much as he wants to his own campaign and so if donald trump paid two hundred thirty two hundred thousand dollars for our money to women if he paid it out of his own money there's no crime at all nothing at all

maybe there was a reporting requirement that's like jay walking now but if if in fact michael cohen paid it without authorization from the president with no expectation of being paid back then it was michael cohen who committed a crime because a third party can't contribute more than thirty two hundred dollars to a campaign so the prosecutor has himself a little bit in a catch twenty two to the extent he said that it was directed by donald trump he loses the criminality because the president is entitle to direct his lawyer to make a payment from the president from the candidate to his own election campaign and to the extent he says it wasn't directed then it's only the crime committed by the lawyer not by the candidate himself so this business of an unindicted coconspirators total nonsense you can have somebody commit a crime michael cohen without the person who directed him to do it being guilty of a crime because the person who directed to do it had a perfect right under the statute to make that contra alan ball logically we both

know if the progeny michael cohen put didn't put a bizarre money in the present reimbursed a matter of minutes and that is giuliani admitted that that's what happened here a let's say on the strict legal code you're right but isn't this a case of if it looks like that dumb. and it sounds like a duck and feels like a duck it feels like a crime nerd serial guy saying hey you paid instead i'll pay you back. doesn't look good out it doesn't look good it's terrible and all of my life i made it the same shit in my last several books between political sins that look terrible and actual federal crimes and under the rule of law it's very important that we keep that distinction sharp and so what i think trump has done is committed massive political sense for which he should have to pay a heavy political price but he's not going over the line in my view and committed any serious crimes he may have the campaign may be guilty of failing to report

a contribution by the candidate that generally results in some fine but not really any kind of criminal certainly not follow me a slight feeling but what you saw if he can't be an unindicted coconspirator if it isn't a crime right that's that's right yeah so why did he and his prosecution think it's a crime why do they disagree with you where the prosecution hasn't said that it's only been pundits who have said that the prosecution says that it was a crime committed by michael cohen and that's plausible for you if you made a contribution or excess of what he was allowed to do that would be a crime but if it's the president's contribution it's not a crime and so you know remember there's no indictment here or we have a plea and an allocution and the elocution isn't admissible against trump in any court proceeding and it's just like it was if it was

a statement made under of the civil proceeding it doesn't have any real impact criminally look i spent a lot of today reading the morass of laws that regulate campaign contributions and it's very difficult to figure out what does and what doesn't it's very complicated you know thomas jefferson once said that for a criminal statute to be the. alet you have to be able to understand it while running while running but you know and i can't even understand this one well see while sitting it's very difficult and the idea of threatening people with criminal prosecution for the general open ended statutes should threaten every civil libertarian but civil libertarians are so against trump that they're prepared to compromise civil liberties and rule of law in order to rid the country of a president who they think is to serving the interests of america and as a civil libertarian yourself have you lost some friendships over this and are you a little embarrassed when trump quotes you. well i have lost friendships over it i

would put it differently i've learned who my real friends are and i've learned to the phony friends are many people misunderstand my position they don't know that if you larry quintal been elected president they were going after i'd be saying the same thank you making the same arguments and they would have built a statue to me on martha's vineyard because what i'm saying helps trump people have refused to associate with me they told others not to associate with me. they have tried to shun me in every possible way but i have a thick skin and it's affected my wife she's lost some friends which is ridiculous why should my wife lose friends she doesn't even agree necessarily with what i'm doing but the emotions of own people feel so strongly about this that they're prepared to give up friendships over differences in interpretation of the constitution that's all this is about difference isn't interpreted in law alan you didn't have to speak out you don't have the right deadbolt i did why do you want

why did you choose to i didn't choose to i had to i'm a civil libertarian and my position is i have to always pass the shoe on the other supposed would have written it merely when i have to write it for donald trump i can't apply a deferent a separate standard i wouldn't have written it if the a.c.l.u. were involved in defending the rights of donald trump but they've chosen sides and they're on the other side completely i wouldn't be doing it if other civil libertarians a criminal defense lawyers i'm the only man standing i'm the only guy who's making this trade anti trump pro civil liberties position and i have to keep making it i think i owe it to myself i owe it to people who want to hear what the constitution says and i don't think i can remain silent to be silent would be hypocritical to make my what do you make of the man a four decision trump said he feels very sorry for well managed for would not have been investigated probably not prosecuted if he had not been close to truck don't believe me on that listen to judge ellis the presiding judge of the case he said.

that special counsel wasn't interested in metaphor is crimes they were just interested in squeezing him and getting him convicted so that maybe he will either saying or compose composing means obviously elaborating embellish ing on stories prosecutors don't want witnesses to embellish but witnesses often do because they know the better the story the better the deal do you think the president will pardon them it's possible he certainly has talked the talk apartment him he said he's a decent guy is a good person that he worked for reagan and he worked for this and that so it's certainly possible he's not going to parton cohen that's for sure he's declared war on cone cone as declared war on him with conan trump it's a zero sum game and they're going to fight to the end. ok are you as a citizen how concerned are you about russian interference with american elections very concerned and that's why i call on day one for

a nonpartisan expert commission like the nine eleven commission to look into the whole issue of russian interference with american elections it would've been much better it would be transparent that wouldn't be political there wouldn't be targets on people's back but this time we have a report we know what russia was doing and we could stop them from interfering in the three thousand and eighteen elections having a special council did not serve that purpose so i care deeply about russia collusion i think russia good galoot a metro with whom they clearly want the truck to be president they didn't want to be the president they're continuing to collude they're now going after you know republican think tanks that are anti trump and russia is the villain here and we should have a commission to probe that the one good thing about the motor investigation that they conducted twelve people will never bring them to trial they're not coming to disneyland any time soon to be served rested so i think it's going to be a pyrrhic victory but nonetheless it's true that russia did try to fear with our

election the coup didn't somebody but the question is with whom inclusion of course is not a crime it needs to be an act that violates the criminal law and the only time collusion is mentioned in the criminal law is when for example football teams collude in order to raise prices or violate and i competitors why do you think what do you make of the white house counsel mcgann spending thirty hours with more well i think in the end it probably backfired on the white house i think the white house in good faith thought that if they allowed mcgann to provide the information that would help bring the investigation to close but it's going on and on and i think now the current team probably is but sorry i'm just spec. that they allowed him to testify or or sit down at length because you know even though he says that trump did nothing wrong he can fill in blanks he can help put together the jigsaw

puzzle that the special counsel is trying to put together so in the end i'm not sure if it will help trump or hurt trump but it's not something as a criminal lawyer in retrospect that i would not want to make a movie giuliani saying truth isn't truth but what he meant is so clear what he meant if a person testifies truthfully it was speaks to the prosecution and says truthfully i didn't know about the meeting at the trump tower i didn't tell call me to go easy on flan i didn't say what mcgann says i said but if he's then contradicted by other witnesses even if he's telling the truth he can fall into a predicate perjury trap so what he was saying is the truth is always determined by prosecutors who can decide which truth to believe of course in science there is a true sceptic or vision but there is a truth but in a criminal justice system it's often the prosecutor and ultimately the jury and the judge who decide which truth to believe when you have. so you're saying.

it's right but he put it very in artfully i would have put it where he put it i think if he had explained it more carefully that even if you tell the truth you can end up being charged with perjury if somebody else tells a different truth that the prosecutor believes that's the way i would put it now and thank you so much the book is the case against the teaching trump the guesses the felix frankfurter the professor of law america's at harvard law school thank you so much alan as old goat oh it's a pleasure thank you be well stay right there we'll have more politicking right after the break.