bria put in a plead guilty in a u.s. court to being a foreign agent. politicized she has been put under psychological pressure. police launch an investigation into russian claims of doping at the twenty

seventeen world championships the competitors deny the charges and say the rumors are nonsense. and the israeli army conducts raids in. checkpoints around. the capital of palestine after two israeli soldiers were killed and another injured in a shooting near the palestinian city. watching all t.v. international live from our studio here in moscow and with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. marina maria. detained in the u.s. and accused of being an unregistered foreign agent has entered a guilty plea at a washington d.c. court was told she faces up to five years behind bars or could be deported though that this is outside of the court's jurisdiction and will be decided by other

bodies. more pending has more details. well in the washington d.c. court room we saw maria come forward and enter a plea of guilty to acting as an unregistered lobbyist now she has not pled guilty to any of the other charges and sensational accusations that are made in the media regarding being a spy espionage and out of that effect and in her statement of a fan she came forward and said that she sought to establish unofficial lines of communication with americans having power and influence over us politics now at this point we don't know exactly what sentence she'll be facing there will not be a sentencing hearing because she is still cooperating with law enforcement the next hearing will be on february twelfth a status hearing now the prosecution is not asking for more than five years and they could file a downward motion in the future to get a lesser sentence and the issue of deportation is something that will not be decided by this judge this is a federal criminal court however the issue of deportation would be decided by

immigration authorities and others so the judge is not ruling on whether or not she will be deported now in the lead up to today's hearing we did hear from the russian foreign ministry this is what was said about the pressure that was placed on boots and in the lead up to today and they wouldn't say she's a political prisoner and what's been happening with respect to put in that has nothing to do with justice or investigation of any kind but this is all the food of political pressure and blackmail she's been subjected to a whole range of methods of psychological pressure so will support whatever decision she makes that will lead to her release at this point we have heard that many russian lawmakers have come forward and called this a miscarriage of justice said that has been badly mistreated saying that the charges are fabricated so there's been quite an outrage in russian response to the way bettina has been treated people be waiting to see what happens next we discuss the issue with a legal analyst jennifer she notes there is

a scan of the evidence against patina which raises the deeply disturbing questions . he's always been fascinated by the national rifle association which is a u.s. nonprofit even creating her own so this is a woman who was politically motivated but didn't know things and then joined that or was involved in the n.r.a. when she came to united states just based on what she had been like in since childhood what i'm seeing now is that the bottom line is that the government or here the united states the justice department is arguing prosecutors are arguing that this woman was an agent of russia based merely on her citizenship in alleged communications with somebody in the russian government even though she was never paid and there is very little evidence of direct collusion to undermine u.s. policy and that to me is very problematic just because she was an outspoken supporter of donald trump who as we know prosecutors have been trying to tie to russia and this investigation so it seems like a little bit of a stretch to say that this woman was was politically motivated to help undermine

the u.s. government under our federal rules. doping scandals and back in the headlines austin police are looking into claims russian biathlete is violated on tito pools at the twenty seventeen world championships my colleague andrew from discipline to alexey who gave us the details. now we know that on wednesday night the austrian police went into the hotel where the russian national biathlon team was staying in austria during the world cup actually it was the night before some of the athletes accused were supposed to hit the track and participate in the world championship they put forward the accusations that at least four of the athletes and six members of the staff violated the anti-doping regulations back in twenty seventeen during the world championship in austria just a year ago. this is a very serious accusation because in austria it entails a criminal punishment so the athletes were pretty shocked judging by their reaction and i believe we can listen to some of those i've been accused of something i haven't done i can assure you one thousand percent everything i've been accused of

is full i want to ask a rhetorical question do russian affleck's really value this sporting curious so little that they do the things we're accused of all the accusations against me all the rumors are nonsense total nonsense i've always been true to myself to the biathlon family and to the fans i have nothing to feel bad about i have to say alex on the log you know one of the biggest stars of russian biathlon at the moment has a very good point in the question he raised in that instagram post now he himself knows what doping like he was actually on the disqualification up until twenty sixteen and after that he has never tested positive for doping again he actually reinforced his words in that post on instagram with a printout of all the doping tests he has taken since then in twenty sixteen seventeen including that championship in austria and although those tests were negative in terms of doping the russian sports ministry confirmed to us that they

have received a formal accusation from the austrian thoughts on the matter but it gets a little confusing because the austrian side on their matter they say that they have notified the russian authorities before bringing in the official accusations into the hotel of the of the national team on wednesday night with regard to russia's anti doping a. what if they said well we are seeing this story happening in the times when the russian anti-doping agency looks to be reinstated by wide of the world anti-doping agency that decision in september caused a lot of surprise among many nonetheless i actually had a chance to go to the russian anti-doping agency this morning and spoke exclusively to the head of russian and i don't mean agency i believe we can listen to that. inspection yesterday it was completed and through it was a thorough in series all the documents through a thorough look through the results so good we confident that sharks will reveal no violations we will take the results seriously and implement through the motions to

do. so in regards to the latest scandal in austria the gunnels they had. said that he was cautiously optimistic yet still had some concerns about the story that needs to be investigated needs to be looked at but next week water is here in moscow he has every reason to be concerned it's a big meeting when they will enter the laboratory with urine samples which is the key condition for result as reinstatement and obviously will be all over that story on tuesday next week and we'll update our viewers with that michael up from the court of arbitration believes the results of previous stepping tests for the athletes will stand in their favor. he says turn it into a it's a bridge may be a big if it leads to if they really don't take into it. the preliminary investigative research and the police need to send information from sound weird it might be it was the blue or.

the day we did the information we be this information recreated like that real time but they waited until the moment when the innocence that they wanted to hit that information very well known strain territory and could be said to me. in this occasion else it would be too quickly. that's right prime minister benjamin netanyahu has ordered it to increase the military presence in the west bank as comes just hours after an attack by two israeli soldiers were killed and another injured in a shooting at a bus stop with a palestinian city of ramallah it led israeli forces to immediately impose a strike checkpoint goes around the area local reporter hala cassis has more according to reports and initial reports was that palestinians opened fire on

israeli soldiers on of flying checkpoint near i'm a little bit as soon as that happened all roads were closed and israeli army has entered the mall lodges the defacto capital of the palestinian authority and there are currently confrontations happening between palestinian youth and israeli forces the model has been completely closed off by the israeli army and there are also problems on the main roads between palestinians and israeli settlers settlers have been throwing rocks at palestinian cars so those real army has been from all over the past four nights conducting raids searching houses searching stores. even taking camera footage from cameras throughout the area of israel has put the blame on the palestinian authority and at the same time the palestinian authority is putting the blame on the israeli government it all comes amid deepening tensions between israel and palestine since donald trump in a lottery recognized as the capital of israel twelve months ago that's led to

palestinians in the gaza strip organizing mass protests throughout this year known as the great march of return i discussed the recent escalation between israel and palestine and the deaths of the two israeli soldiers with the head of the asian jewish congress ariel stein starting with the situation in palestine area what can israel do further avoid escalation of violence in ramallah tries to do its best to avoid this kind of this collision but israel's duty. to protect our citizens it is totally unacceptable that israeli civilian woman president can be attacked at the bus station do you think however you describe a terrible situation but do you think surrounding ramallah was a reasonable action on the part of the israeli forces considering the palestinians day of rage was planned for friday characters each pointed towards israel didn't

start three days ago or three years ago it was started one hundred forty years ago and unfortunately the main motives the main reason for this kind of hatred that we suffer from. unwilling this. arab population to a jewish state in any borders so we first of all should try to learn to live together and we should accept each. ariel there are different perspectives to this obviously there's the israeli side and the. the palestinian side and i ask you again this action. the israelis would have known that it would cause an escalation and my first question was what can israel do to avoid escalation israel first world supplies all the humanitarian needs of the palestinian population in a fortunately we suffer from terror only apply israeli population terrible first

of all to stalk the perpetrator who wants to kill civilians and this kind of imply all for. some reason of some region story unfortunately terrorist are hiding in its force proper reply its purpose is to the right for protection for israeli arabs to give the people. after google see testified about the company's alleged control of information the issue of speech regulation has popped up for all media platforms one democrat has found himself embroiled in what could be an even bigger scandal by simply commenting on it with the details his tongue quarter. if you're perhaps looking for new ways to put your foot in your mouth democratic congressman ted lew is the guru for you especially after his recent statement to c.n.n. regarding free speech i would love to be able to regulate the content of speech the

first amendment prevents me from doing so conservatives immediately slammed lou in the media and on twitter they met his statement with skepticism with some of them accusing him of harboring secret tyrannical desires but according to him his statement was actually made in defense of the first amendment i would love to regulate your speech but thank goodness the first amendment prevents me botha's and republicans from doing so get it i'm defending the first amendment perhaps the republicans just wanted an opportunity to grab their pitchforks but lose timing made everything worse came after google c.e.o. son dar pinchas testimony before congress amidst accusations that the company is censoring conservative voices and the accusations themselves they came along with bright parts leak of e-mails from google employees e-mails that allegedly outlined an entire conspiracy to censor the right wing news outlet for hate speech and you

want to hold the news and look through broad don't come for hate speech the e-mail said breitbart was quote on their radar and that google had a moral argument according to pinch i though google employees had no means of manipulating search results it's not possible for an individual employee groups of him plough you demanding plato or so it's just those you know we have a robust framework including many steps in the process whether or not there are actually procedural problems that google the company embodies a much bigger problem one highlighted by a protester who came to the testimony in the monopoly man's clothes but lou didn't seem to think a monopoly on him for. mation was the problem he'd rather pin the blame on people who don't do positive things if you want positive search results do positive things if you don't want to search results don't do not do things and do some my

colleagues across the aisle with you getting bad press or calls and bad search results don't blame google or facebook or twitter consider blaming yourself so as lou continues to take criticism from the media and twitter it begs the question who's to blame for that lou google you donald quarter artie. will be criminally charged in court at least that's according to a lawyer for one of the women who claimed their silence on alleged affairs through the through the president's former lawyer michael cohen. michael cohen was sentenced today donald trump is next thank you the felony is. colon to commit a felony it's pretty basic you pay someone to commit a crime they committed a crime you are liable criminally liable for their commission of their crime as well as their be able conservative in judicial. pilot time as well

to appears to believe trump could face criminal charges as a result of this after form a lawyer for donald trump pleaded guilty to a number of crimes and was sentenced to three years behind bars on wednesday some have raised questions over the future of his old boss one of the crimes committed by current was paying hush money to two women who claimed they had affairs with trump according to current testimony he did that at the request of donald trump well let's discuss this further now and bring in luke guitar from the spine. coming into the program now if we start with cohen's plea his guilty plea could this pave the way in your opinion for trump's impeachment. well the key revelations really came from some sentencing memoranda that were. issued by miller's robert miller's office to assist the sentencing judge in sentencing cohen and the

information that came from those memoranda was that cohen had assisted in various aspects of militant vesta geisha now melissa investigation is looking to the broader contention the russian state interfered in the two thousand and sixteen general election presidential election and so miller was effectively providing the sentencing judge with information as to how cohen had assisted them and that really gave rise to a number of heads of information about how trump was brought in to current activities and how he is connected to them or basically the most clear of these is this incident with regards to the hush money where it's alleged that he basically as your as the previous contrary to said paid money to cohen in order to pay their women to be quiet but other areas of possible trump influence here

including the possibility that he encouraged current to keep quiet about the trump tower project in moscow which trump was very clear did not extend into the relevant period in two thousand and sixteen where it would have the potential to impact on his presidential campaign now the allegation being that trump actively encouraged her into b. to mislead congress about the nature of that arrangement how long it was going on for the real difficulty with all this is to kind of disentangle what is actually alleged against her and what he's pleaded guilty to. broader aims the connection between what cohen is dumb and the allegation that the russian state interfered in the american presidential election at the moment i think remains quite. tenuous there is very little to connect what cohen has pleaded guilty to even with the new information we have in the sentencing memoranda with miller's broader contention that the russian state somehow influenced the outcome of the american presidential

election and i think that's still the gap in knowledge here and i think the worrying way in which this is being discussed is there is a tendency on behalf of trump's detractors especially in america to jump on these revelations as a way of defeating trump through any means other than the ballot box and i think this is actually a very dangerous tactic for trumpet's actors in the states if we look at the results of the midterms we can see that all these allegations all the stuff that's going on with co in the stuff about the hush money and really miller's probe in totality has very little impact. on the voters' view of trump and of his political expediency so i mean what impact does it have on his impeachment perhaps it does make the the impeachment process more likely we heard a lot about that in the lead up to the midterms and now the congress of you know

the democratic majority in the congress mean they have additional powers of subpoena. but will that really alter the political position for trump i think the evidence suggests no because at the moment that connection between the russian state in the outcome of the election is still very tenuous and impeachment i still think you'd still need to get it through the senate and obviously one of the big problems with getting that through the senate is that the republicans still remain in control of the house so does it make it more likely possibly does it make make it politically more advisable i don't think so at all. good points there from the spike magazine thank you so much for coming on to the program to talk about that. a person who had been working for r.t. has been detained in connection with our documentary my mother told me about the fate of girls who end up in prostitution in cambodia authorities accuse him of

faking testimony something his family denies eagle diana takes a closer look at the case. these girls cannot hold back their tears as they recall their lives going from bad to worse and then to a living hell just over a month after the r.t. documentary channel revealed their ordeal the commode ian police said one of the families had later confessed that they'd made up the story for money this story but . they got you on that our. phone number with the hoplite and but. they lack the port i think for. the filmmakers suspect the families police confession was given under duress. it looks like those children were forced to do it they might have told them that they'll arrest their mothers and offer them some kind of deal of course i cannot say for sure i don't know but it was surprising for me that the girls would be

pushed like that out of their sorties and now have a warrant out for one of the film's producers molly roth is now awaiting extradition and as his wife put it to me legal persecution they accuse me has been on inciting discrimination monye help the crew document the nightmarish life stories of several girls who say they were forced to sell themselves to make ends meet one of them told how she was too young and naive to understand that she was being pimped out by her former boyfriend but on science one of the planes i thought they were in the know to move what part of me in on something coming out of my heart not by the way but to bet it's not. what i believe. in some time before i think today she's a teenager often with no place to call home but dreams of running her own beauty salon so that she no longer has to resort to prostitution as circus fashion it's

a dream she shares with her close friend. a victim of sex trafficking forced into it by her own mother because of debts the documentary's director says there are countless stories like these around combat. which we've spent a lot of time with these girls and their families we became a part of their everyday lives they were just living their lives and we were just observing it r.t. documentary is not the only channel exposing the ugly truth about underage prostitution in combat the un is trying to tackle it together with you can body in government it's quite shameful that some people in cambodia are so poor that they would consider selling their daughters to money they're quite desperate there is a very large a sex industry commercial sex industry in the country that's no that's no secret

the issue of child sex child sex prostitution this is one that has been an issue in cambodia for many years and many people believe that cambodia has made progress on this but obviously it's still it's still going on bible says the r.t. crew travel to combat deal with the goal of showing both the human side of the suffering and how the police are endeavoring to deal with it the authorities were initially helpful but then became distant and less co-operative. our main goal was not only to shed light on the problem but also to show the other side how the government solving it we wanted to film a police special operation to find such children. and you didn't manage to film that you know we couldn't do it the governor promised to help us with everything but when we went to the police station twice the human rights department was locked . artsy documentary released the film and it went viral the producers wife says the authorities are trying to smear the filmmakers to cover their own failings to me

they can bloody and goutman want to be scary didn't she and then my daughter so to me raphael right and oh by thousand people around there was and in the cambodian so the government one of the people if i get about what bad rest. i asked pavol and mrs gnome if the crew paid that goes for their testimony. see how she made any money for that did she want to be paid out of that no no no no no we're you we didn't promise any kind of payments to these girls and they didn't ask for anything no they didn't after we finished filming one of the families we went to buy diapers food and a crib for the baby this is the best help we could provide for them when you see the conditions in which these people live and he wanted if they had the chance would try to help them the family of the girl that went to the police has said that we gave them two hundred dollars that was the money that we wanted to spend on

a washing machine for we just didn't have the time to buy it for them so we just gave them the money instead so that it would help the laundry business. bible says he's puzzled and frustrated he'd hoped there would the girls and the authorities not make things worse mrs long told me she wants the combat in government to fight child sex trafficking and persecuting her husband won't help because they still have aids investigation not the way that they try to tell people that may investigating and set this up in the right to address the producer this is not a good way are the appropriation to get this is the. done of r.t. . we request comment on the issue from the un human rights office in cambodia it's representative told us that the office is not aware of the exact charges against rot and that the accused is now in the process of obtaining

a lawyer. have been found guilty of human rights violations during the country's period of dictatorship is not the first time the its child has been linked to a troubled past.

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