protected for the process. well let's understand the unique about the scottish government process is that talking about events of many years ago when i'm not a serving scottish government minister not you the name peer they may speak at the present moment and therefore it's really important if you try and introduce such a reckless spanked of procedure that you make sure that the passion who is being complained of it has the opportunity to properly present the case the scottish government's been making the position look the should apply to everybody including former first ministers i absolutely agree and everybody including former first ministers and everybody in the land is intitled to a fear of process and a chance to state the case fairly what could be wrong without the vote you know when i say the only good i can see coming out of this is we're on our way to the court of session that's a real court of real judgment with fear process is they'll meet with decision and then we'll all have to buy. french police have described the city of grenoble near

the alps as the french chicago they've expressed great concern over the rocketing crime rates which has seen some politicians even try to avoid the area. live. weird too many things happen when up till now we are afraid you're afraid to go out in the evening why we can steal your jewelry you can grab your bag we have never seen anything like that the police used to be more tough but now even they are afraid. to outrun her.

shower they are used to the crime rate is significant in grenada compared to cities of the same size the city is plagued with drug trafficking there's not a single week without a knife attack or a criminal settling their schools. said to have renewed the fact that interior minister came to visit because in the assail region he thought he would visit grenoble even for a short visit. in the future and we will of course make additional efforts in just very. little click on that so i'm talking to preserve grace because there again he said look male and female he would just come and rob them in broad daylight yes and no one even moves because they're scared to death and the police are afraid of those crooks and only because they have kalashnikovs they're on to the teeth with the weapons of war and the municipal police have nothing to get there by the national police are barely christian is just it is the criminals who are the law in this city.

dozens of palestinians have been wounded in a protest along the. gaza border according to the local health ministry israel has responded saying it was defending its border and accuses hamas of using demonstrators as a cover to breach the border fence and who dari reports from the protest holliston units are are protesting in solidarity with the palestinian paramedics and journalists have been killed in the past few weeks of the great march of return. to the. living as you see this is the jeep that charles do you guys canisters on the palestinian protesters to disperse them and to keep them away from the front you can also hear live ammunition work only one hundred meters away from the fence

edwards very close and it's very very dangerous here. and we're going to direct that was coming from someone who's still to come a former nurse who's lived in britain since she was a baby is facing deportation she talks to r.t. about the when russia scandal and the devastation it's caused that story and more after this break.

the features are 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 she describes it you no longer to realize that a lot.

welcome back french property owners using the online renting service a or b. and b. are facing legal action for refusing perspective hold a tenant's based on their ethnicity french journalist marouane. who's of north african descent claims that when he tried to book an apartment in march say his reservation was canceled without explanation but when he got have friend who he describes as having a good french name to try and book the property he was told it was available for hire after posting his story online he says hundreds came forward saying they've been treated the same by other landlords air b.n. b. has responded saying it's sorry for what happened and underlined that it doesn't tolerate any form of discrimination we discussed the incident with a french lawyer and a paris based political commentator. i think there's a problem with part of the foreign committee usa and the large sense today in france which has got a bad image and some people would rather not rent than rents 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 enough african post in their house and lot of people will be people coming from north africa crime to incivility 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 or having delinquent behavior just by giving the roots of this people these have nothing to do this has nothing to do to explain the behavior again i'm not saying the end tire north african community each there are a lot of this is a suggestion that i work with interest and they're not skis that yasser i'm to i'm just telling you 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 doing and you can see this

unfortunate on a daily basis imagine the french person who has no contacts with the north african community but who read the press on a daily basis and weeds people who have been committing crimes who have been terror who are terrorists who are advocating death to france or that they hate tracks 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 the faith or the own faith is. a good purpose 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. no. in the u.s. state of louisiana for anti pipeline activists and journalists have been arrested and charged under a new controversy the law there are many activists say they're now facing increased

police repression and quoting the use of tasers let's take a look at the pipeline at the center of the story.

that new law took effect on august first and lists pipelines as critical infrastructure which makes trespassing on the ground they're being built illegal those disobey at risk a heavy fine or as long as five years behind bars activists also say that a number of off duty police officers were working for a private security firm to protect the construction site but that they're no longer working in that capacity activist ted hall believes the new law goes against america's core principles. let me think of the right word data city as well as the desperation of us companies as well as these legislatures 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 had a whole the activists you just heard from also took part in the dakota pipeline protests that projects face opposition over fears that drinking water would be polluted and indian heritage sites destroyed. on numerous occasions the protests there turned violent with state law enforcers as well as the national guard engaging in stand offs with the activists officers use force to disperse crowds and water cannon in freezing temperatures hundreds of people were injured some seriously but police to find that their actions saying the activists were trespassing and rioting describing them as very aggressive here's ted hall again with his take on that. you know i believe that any kind of perceived by influence if that would ever occur we need to be under incredible

scrutiny because it's doubtful that sees the advocates for farmers rights advocates for landowner rights to actually kids for safety and see in the climate future are going to resort to that kind of to set it in a civilized approach. a former nurse who's lived in britain since she was a baby is facing deportation shown by tallis who was originally born in the caribbean and whose father served in the royal air force is one of the hundreds caught up in the so-called wind rushed scandal a government policy which wrongly targeted commonwealth citizens immigration status sharon's been telling her story to r.t. . i had to stop working i lost my job i was a registered nurse. 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 prison getting a prison sentence everything just accumulators it was just like

a knock on effect people are guide people have literally died off stress people have committed suicide because of this it's been a tough road for sharon a former n.h.s. nass 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 lost it us 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 online 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 in the royal air force. 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 did wasn't as an army personnel or 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 when they were born they should be treated as born on british soil if they want the home office said 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 so well away 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 preach or misses him but. who is it happening to is a minority groups or if it's i met my mother to group then i put it on to. her global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the latest on all those stories and much more. am

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the aftermath of the cohen guilty plea isn't man a force conviction what does it mean for the president and the russian probe 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 a for the former campaign manager for 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 in his twenty

month existence so what is the man affording cohen cases being the donald trump and where does robert moses 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 a constitutional scholar harvard law school professor emeritus bestselling author his latest book is the case against impeaching drunk. 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 against him i can't paint 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 of but 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 him self 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 at a perfect right under the statute to make that controversial alan ball logically we both know if the progeny michael cohen put didn't put a bizarre money in the present reimburse the man admitted to an ad is juliani admitted that that's what happened sure a let's say on the stick 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 pay this and i'll pay you that. doesn't look good out it doesn't look good it's terrible and all of my life i made a distinction 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

a massive political sense for which he should have to pay a heavy political price but he's not gone 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 allow me a slight billing but what a selfie he can 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 said that the prosecution says that it was a crime committed by michael cohen and that's plausible 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. alet you have to be able to understand it while running while running but you know and i can't even understand this why well sit while sitting it's very difficult and the idea of threatening people with criminal prosecution for the general open ended statutes should frighten 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 were equanimity elected president met with wrong 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 it's 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 a lot allen you didn't have to speak out you know they have the right that both 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 debts about what i've 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 or criminal defense lawyers i'm the only man standing i'm the only guy who's making this trip an 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 in the case he. 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 composer composing means obviously elaborating embellishing 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 cohen conus 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 there 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 did pollute our 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 is that

they've indicted 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 was there 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 brinkley 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

allow 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 what do you make of rudy giuliani saying truth isn't truth but what he meant is so clear what he meant if a person testifies truthfully or 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 to think. so you're saying. he's right but he put it very in artfully i would have put it the way 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 allan 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.

there are three russian and lights. in a world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.