change depending on whether you're democrat or republican. am here in moscow now with blue skies and five degrees plenty of interesting stories for you today let's get into your program. has delivered his address to the u.n. general assembly outlining his vision for the world and that vision it seems is currently dominated by iran but the president warning the international community against supporting what he called a dictatorship regime iran's leadership though did not hesitate in punching back as the trunk are now reports from new york. the first punches were thrown by the two presidents here at the u.n. h.q. on tuesday from rouhani speeches were a couple of hours apart iran's leaders so. death.

and destruction the united states understand enough international relations. the corrupt dictatorship in iran. and the. plunder the nation's resources. to enrich themselves. little sanctions in themselves constituted for him. terrorism or negotiation with the us is needed because it's believed to the fulfillment of our demands i think it would be helpful if we can reach an agreement with the us. generally they have now been friends with us and they have never cared about iran you know will be. it seems that iran has taken the place of another u.s. enemy which claimed much of attention during last year's address. the corrupt dictatorship in iran the depraved regime in north korea we cannot allow the world's

leading sponsor of terrorism this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons to possess the planet's most this weapon it is time for all nations to work together to isolate a given regime we ask all nations to isolate a regime. and you're. just a taste of the headlines seen in the british tabloids over the negotiations and if they were designed to incite europe's leaders it has worked the e.u. complaining the u.k. press has gone too far on c's schalit to penske has been. it seems that he's feeling a little vulnerable in the wake of some media headlines in the u.k. hold the front page the sun the u.k. zurita meaning tabloid used a clever play on words to get its feelings across of the recent salzberg summit you

know the one where the needs of the e.u. outright rejected the case breaks it proposals well that headline has caused a tailspin in the e.u. and the commission is now calling for a more responsible approach by the media in the way that it informs the public about issues like briggs it and there i was thinking that freedom of press was a cornerstone of the new media can build the culture of dialogue or so divisions spread disinformation and encourage exclusion the braggs debate is the best example of that i would advocate for european approach to media based on quality and smart regulation if needed the sun front page which set the justice commission off is not the only hard hitting act on the part of the british tabloids known for pulling no punches and surely the breaks of debate coverage is no exception.

but oh yeah headlines like this really that offensive and sewing deficient to the extent that some sort of regulation is needed to rein them in i think a newspaper can write whatever they want to but if it's aggressive towards a community in terms of law regulation. which it should be. forbidden to media needs to to remain free whatever is written in those media and that's it. i think the freedom of speech is important so we should be able to write anything simply have to be more serious journalist to explain on the other hand it's unacceptable to write such things if it's necessary to respect why they have expressed by the

public should also be respected. it seems the e.u. justice commission is proposals all. popular at least here in paris from what i've gathered the view on the street is mostly don't touch the press we asked the same questions in london and it seems opinion across the english channel is divide it and also influenced by readers preferences i think they've got the discovery regulations in place keep playing by playing fairly i don't encourage strong language here that kind of headline could be fatal to people but that isn't going to. have a free press in this country can look after themselves they won't print it i think it's going to upset readers let's face it i think the paper should be. appealing to the lowest common denominator god.

on friday the fate of brett kavanaugh his nomination our supreme court justice will be decided following a string of damaging sex crime allegations and since the stories came to light last week senator cavanagh has been the target of trump's opponents some have questioned whether he can be presumed innocent until proven guilty. this was attempted rape. professor ford judge kavanagh has lied multiple times she doesn't kavanaugh have the same presumption of innocence as anyone else in america his credibility is already very questionable in my mind and in the minds of a lot of my fellow. committee members the democrats i don't have eyes lying that you're well i believe her let's put it that way there is credibility to her story. of sexual misconduct have been made against the first woman to come forward christine blasi ford says he sexually assaulted her while they were at high school

the second deborah ramirez claims cover now exposed himself to her at a yale university party in the nineteen eighties a third is also expected to come forward this week i've got occasions have democrats to call for cavanaugh's nomination to the country's highest court to be blocked on thursday he will give testimony on the claims leveled against him though he does deny all allegations of a fair process at a minimum. of waters hearing from both sides before rushing to judgment we invited guests to debate the possible political motives behind the story and what's happened to the idea of innocent until proven guilty. convincing people who probably had no idea anything about this case or even that there was a supreme court nominee to suddenly think that brett kavanaugh is a monster based on these these these allegations these paintings of how he's been meanwhile all we have are the words of two people that's not to say that they are lying but we have absolutely no evidence for that and that is simply the complete

opposite of what the united states constitution and our judicial system was set up to to create. so i don't think anybody is assuming that anybody's guilty but that doesn't mean that we don't have a responsibility to take victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment very seriously and i think that's what we're doing right now particularly as it applies to the misuse of power by people and in particular men in power in our institutions in this country so i think right now it's perfectly plausible and important to hear out these women a lot of people believe some very important things in danger of being overturned and i think there's a some very serious implications there is not and i understand the road again general but i hear your. disagreements and the fear that roe v wade is going to be overturned but again these are more media allegations these are more allegations from from liberal stating that if trump has his people and if conservatives come in

that then roe v wade will be overturned in all of this that's simply not due process of the american legal system or the supreme court they can't just come in and overturn laws there have to be cases there have to be precedent that this is politically motivated against cavanagh it has nothing to do with any evidence that's actually been brought forth besides about besides allegations from two women all processes that bring about the interpretation the production of law in any society is inherently political trumps appointment of cabinet is political there is an agenda at play here this is a field of deceit are you mentioned that the legal status of an american in america is actually contingent on political ideologies but in fact actually the code of judicial conduct itself which all judges and all legal process people are supposed to adhere to is why do you think our founders actually passed these things presumption of innocence there is no presumption of innocence right now in the media there's no presumption of minute and a sense right now in the u.s. media what i'm suggesting and what many people are suggesting is that we take this

seriously and put forward a real process that hears out these voices and puts forward the converse a. do we want to put this person into this position is that who we want to represent us is that we want to have tried to have something that i as you reside on certainly. so the point that you're making was that we need to listen to these voices the question is now going to is this going to be is this the person that we want in the in the highest office of our judicial system of the supreme court of the united states and so now we're already talking that he's he's guilty i think the fault is more on the media it's more on some of the loudest voices against this by automatically assuming that it was that i don't think anybody is not a horse's aren't your voice is that those are voices from the u.s. media. to afghanistan where hundreds of locals who had previously carried out work in the country for the german government have blocked an entrance to its military base demanding help when they say their work has put their lives in danger but it

seems that request for asylum fording on deaf ears. we want justice. we want justice. on top of that you know. just. i was working at the front line with them. together german senior mentors with the german generals when i started my duty they told me. we would help you if you for some problems.

now we have this german war in afghanistan in our war here so from german officers to clean this. to the safe place. the rule we received direct and direct threats. was killed sixty days ago by the militants tortured and. his face smashed on. the other hand on family. should show them that we are really in danger we are not here for picnic we are not here for our time we are here to show them that we are really in danger we have really a big problem. with

our fans. on. coming up here on the program on austria's interior ministry is caught telling the police which media should avoid giving information. much more just and. i've been saying the numbers. they matter to us is over twenty trillion dollars and . more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth to the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent year

some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one showed ford to miss the one and only. nearly twenty foster in moscow austria's far right freedom party has been accused of trying to restrict press freedom offer a memo advising the country's police not to share information with certain media

outlets was somehow make. picks up the story. the austrian interior ministry has been left red faced as after an internal memo was leaked in which they instruct the police how to handle the media essentially if they don't write nice things about us give them nothing i would suggest that communication with these media should be limited to only the most necessary levels and that they should not be allowed to contain sweetie's such as exclusive accompaniments unless you see real added value or the possibility of neutral or even positive reporting the leak included some of the media organizations on the do not engage list it is raging with the ministry and interior minister but this is informational blockade for bad media and sweets for the good ones our democracy does not have to be in darkness just because a minister feels too weak to withstand criticism and appears unfit for the

sensitive ministry there are violations of their all the law and fundamental values then he must end up for it the sense of security is just the fear of arbitrariness the austrian interior ministry of justify the email saying it had nothing to do directly with mystical saying that this was an attempt to try and establish a united front between the interior ministry and the police against a media that they say is biased against them this is their right and the best way to communicate both from a legal perspective and for the journalists themselves considering the suspicion of bias against certain media doesn't come out or other things but austria's top officials have been unequivocal in expressing their anger at the news that this e-mail existed freedom of expression media and press freedom are the cornerstones of hollywood all democracy and our constitutional state in austria and restriction of press freedom is an acceptable there can be discrimination against individual media. governments and public institutions have

a grave responsibility to protect free and independent journalism. and any restriction of freedom of the brits is unacceptable the austrian chancellor deemed this leak important enough to take time out from the un general assembly to comment on it it doesn't look like it's going away from the austrian press any time soon we'll have to wait to see if mr kurtz follows up on his words with actions when he returns from new york peter all of. the. missile defense system has been put through its paces during military drills in the arctic. the system was only delivered to a base island on monday

a special military exercises during which it was tested are aimed at securing the northern sea route in the arctic. complex as a coastal defense system and ship missiles can reach super sonic speeds and have a range of at least six hundred. so our weight watchers has been offering a weight controlling solution since one thousand nine hundred sixty three but it's given up its name now and decided to go with a slimmer version however the decision has left some guessing the motives behind it . we are really excited. around the world.

new york times columnist is being mocked for asking social media to remove a clear photo shopped image of a heroic donald trump kevin roose warned social media they could easily have blocked the image of trump which shows the president supposedly helping victims of the twenty fifteen texas flooding. stressed that the image had gone viral and had

been shared by almost three hundred thousand times on facebook over the public has gone to town on his claims noting the absurdity of censoring any altered images. this is is i'm sorry pathetically laughable on many accounts i don't know if he actually thought he was doing people a favor by this where he said listen i don't know how to break it to you but me thinks perhaps this might not be an actual legitimate authentic photo just letting you know because after all i am the new york times technical expert here just

wanted to let you folks now in a cage per chance you thought president trump and all full suit wearing a suit was in a rowboat handing out maga hats to flood victims who case you might have thought lead the gold standard of american journalism at one point has been so many fact ed by this this this anti trump his steria and other versions of anti that they've lost that only their sense of humor i do sense of fair play and their sense of of journalistic correctness twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow are up on the program for this hour though so many stories to bring you on this day we are back in about half an hour.

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the worst drug disaster in history would spread through more than forty six countries and produce up to twenty thousand badly deformed babies worldwide. but historians today single out one birth in one nine hundred sixty one that changed the course of history in hamburg germany linda shield hill and age twenty three gave birth to her first child her husband wasn't with it at the time and it was quiet there. and then lay back and was relaxed and some and then somebody whispered into my ear is your husband not all right and i was here white awake and i said. what what's got what has happened to my baby is anything wrong you know she said just. let's say.

without any emotion oh yeah he's just got short arms and i like a child would have asked possibly i said and aren't a calling anymore and shit this card grow this will be like it is now. and then i felt like i was beaten to death. a doctor gave the first time mothers. some friendly advice just get another child. like forget about him you know. i'm a way to get to. shortly afterwards linda's husband arrived and gave her some bad news he'd been keeping from her six weeks earlier his sister had given birth to a baby with similar deformities it looks alike like there must be something that is the same all region the same difficulty the same problem in the background and

we'll find it and we'll search and we won't stop until we fall and. the every day.