i. was. both the u.s. president and special counsel robert miller forcefully were jackson incendiary knew both speed reporter and alleged wrongdoing by donald trump. an american born journalist working for iran's press t.v. is detained in the u.s. as a material witness in an undisclosed investigation

a friend of the president told r.t. she is extremely troubled by the move. she is an american journalist and she's been detained without charge without information so it's truly very concerning. and football's most wanted hungary and police arrest a portuguese man suspected of carrying out how can campaign against some of the world's top clubs and players and then leaking damaging documents online. very good morning to you you're watching r.t. international with me karen. donald trump passed firmly rejected a damning new report by buzz feed news which claims he instructed his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about a planned business deal in russia the u.s. president's reversal has also echoed was also echoed by the white house press

secretary who dismissed the allegation absurd. that's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today this categorically false the buzz feed's reports on what michael cohen allegedly told the special counsel miller's investigation into election meddling has caused a sensation in the media it was branded a bombshell article on them immediately led to talk of peach meant. president trump is facing new scrutiny today over a report that he told his personal attorney to lie to congress about his business dealings with russia we have breaking news tonight on the russia investigation here's what buzz feed news is reporting tonight bombshell report coming from buzz feed news president trump directed his attorney to lie to congress about the moscow tower project congressional democrats calling for an immediate investigation declaring the trial must be impeached if the story is true as for the credibility

of the reports the special counsel's office has taken the unusual step of speaking out characterizing buzz feed's article as inaccurate it's a washington correspondent down cohen takes up the story buzz feed news released a major report alleging that u.s. president donald trump has received ten personal updates from michael cohen and encouraged to plan meetings with russian president vladimir putin. president donald trump directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie to congress according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter and even as trump told the public he had no business deals with russia the sources said trump and his children if the and donald trump jr received regular detailed updates about the real estate development from cohen whom they put in charge of the project and the two journalists wrote in their article that they didn't actually

see the court documents or any evidence that they base their reporting on rather they were briefed by two anonymous law enforcement officials and jason leopold that one of the authors of this buzz feed article has a history of fabricating sources regarding the cohen story today leopold told m s n b c that he had actually seen the evidence showing that trump instructed michael cohen to lie to congress that's a total contradiction to what's written in the article and what his co-author has said i don't think that we've said that we haven't seen that but i will say that i'm very confident that your colleague said on c.n.n. this morning that you were briefed on these documents and we've been i'll just say that we we've seen documents we've been briefed on documents we're very confident in our reporting as feed has problems all the way around not to mention the people who actually write for it. the authors have real credibility problems they can't get their story straight and their sources whatever those are named an unknown

which we've gotten used to in this country as being credible so maybe this is been manufactured to give some interesting and relevance to to to that continued testimony by this perjurer by this liar by this guy you can't form a sentence in the english language without indicting him self over it i'm at a loss as to the excitement over this there's there's no there there on top of which the president through his counsel denies it flatly. so you know if there's evidence it's hard to say that you deny something if there's evidence for good journalism it's groups of people who slap together a website you get people who are paid to report who are wrong including one of these fellows who has a very early period later on and who perhaps allegedly has all may call into question his veracity and nothing's ever done you have a new a journalistic force and sachems of the american people who don't care whether the

story is true they like the story because it makes trump look bad and if the story makes trump look bad they like we've seen some democrats promise that they will investigate the report calling the allegations against trump quote among the most serious to date some have even gone so far as to call for president trump's impeachment so we'll have to see how this one pans out. meanwhile donald trump has said he will make a major announcement on the partial u.s. government shutdown on saturday he's been at loggerheads with democrats over his plans for a controversial border war with mexico which so far he's been unable to secure funding for the crisis in washington has even led house speaker nancy pelosi to call on the president to postpone his state of the union address so trump respond in typical fashion.

i'm not denying the platform rob was saying let's get a date when the government is open let's pay the employees maybe he thinks it's ok not to pay people who do work i don't and my caucus doesn't either. due to the shutdown i am sorry to inform you that your trip to russia egypt and afghanistan has been a suppose we reschedule this seven day excursion when the shutdown is over. i am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate i also feel that during this period it would be better if you were in

washington to go shooting with me obviously if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial that would certainly be your prerogative. solution lukemia except even. the wall for this place can only feel. that. i miss it i find out that. an american born journalist who works as a presenter on iranian state t.v. has been arrested in the u.s. as a material witness in an undisclosed case a court order revealed on friday that although she had been detained she has not been charged with a crime. you

know she seems ok bad. she was not happy with the fact bad certain bad hair was stretching as well as a statue of instructions not being with canada and f. so that her head scarf had been removed against her will. we are concerned at the arrest of a journalist for iranian seem to be more easier shamy whether she's being targeted either paradox when she worked about black lives matter or as a retaliate reaction in response to the iranian government's detention of american citizens either case would be an egregious violation of democratic norms. we have serious concerns about a crude tension and we urge the american authorities to clarify the situation.

she's a premature she saw nothing but good reviews in. the us obama says health care is a very good start to freedom of expression a political abuse. by the innocent individual and. i believe the united states should review so you need to review that so that if it. r.t. has spoken exclusively to a close friend of the jailed iranian t.v. anchor she shared her concerns about the legality of must see a detention and the conditions she's being subjected to in custody the only information and contact the family have had with a telephone call to her daughter on tuesday where they received information from

him as he told her daughter that she had her job she is a muslim woman who was her job a veil covering such as will time wearing at the moment that was taken off against her will the mug shot was taken without her job on that she was given only a short sleeved t. shirt in contravention to her own islamic dress code her that she. has and that she had to gain another t. shirt just to be able to cover some of her hair she also told her daughter that she wasn't absent given adequate food because she was not given allow muslim option or a vegetarian option on tuesday the only conversation they've had with her she told her daughter that she only been able to eat a cracker or some bread that came with that food since being detained if they had questions about four miles here in regards to an issue she would have all of them that is what her son has said look children have been subpoenaed as well and they

have no idea why you can imagine how worried they are for their mother and how nervous they are about the situation is an internationally known journalist and she's been a journalist for many decades she is an american journalist and she has been detained without charge without information so it's truly very concerning. according to the court order which was issued by a u.s. district court in washington d.c. as shammy must testify before a grand jury investigation after that she will be released however many are still concerned by the detention including a number of human rights groups. there's a grand jury investigation nobody knows what it's about and she's being held as a material witness which means that she's not the person accused but they think that she knows something about a crime a felony a very serious crime and it's serious enough that a judge has authorized her arrest so whatever is happening it is under the

supervision of the judge what's disturbing is that two of her children were also subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury here in washington d.c. so what could she possibly have been involved in that her children also would know about she has the rights to do journalistic walk for whichever outlet she chooses to do in any part of the world that she chooses to and she also has the right to travel freely as a journalist and as a citizen throughout the united states that she's a journalist unless we're saying now donald trump's america journalism is a crime you know i have no other answer to that that the children i have a cat all the organizations they are all school information as to why she is being to tell you there's something very dark going on in the united states at the moment you know there's islamophobia there's this anti iran sentiment there's this anti

media anti journalism sentiment unprecedented times in the united states and i said that my friend i'm a journalist and she is a foreign journalist as has been victim to that and it's unacceptable and the lack of information is unacceptable and the family is demanding to know what is going on with their mother their grandmother that you know she is a sister she was traveling to the united states to. see her ailing brother she has the right to do so without fearing detention taking an internal flight. as the backlash against huawei grows germany has now joined the list of western countries considering locking the company out of its five gene most. well network the chinese telecoms giant has been embroiled in control of the sea and accused of spying on behalf of beijing pull the boy goes deeper huawei if you think owning one of these suspicious new cheap chinese phones is risky in case you missed this try working for the company that makes the. chinese tech giant huawei which is mandarin for

web definitely not spying on you ernest is finding itself under a spot of pressure for a nation also known as western competitor to is accused of having links to the chinese state and of putting back door was first spying into all of its products it's more of a hunch than an evidence based conclusion but that is enough chinese phones are also different to their western made counterparts because that cheap and they may be spying on you as opposed to i phones which are expensive and definitely spying on you most worried all the five eyes nations the international spy services which is but one tongue. of the anglican world will know one way is well ahead in developing and selling its five g. network five g.'s the network and the future it will allow your bathrooms scales to directly tell your fridge who's been eating all the pies as part of the internet of things and it will probably be in charge the first time a driverless car is down

a group of koreans because of the potential for espionage the f.b.i. director even said that chinese are in a ship of five g. networks to us in volume q what looks suspiciously like politically motivated arrests market manipulation and unproven accusations and to protect those who are nothing like a good old pudge to protect free markets and the rule of law while ways chief financial officer was the first to go arrested in canada at the request of washington apparently for breaching sanctions on iran which is such a geopolitical double whammy for america next hour while way employee was arrested in poland on espionage charges. and chinese five g. networks could soon be vanden britain australia has already started china called it western egotism and double standards which i'm going to say you can have a certain sympathy for western governments are no fans of uncertainty they need to know exactly who's doing the spy in facebook google. and running foreign

competitors from your home market that's not bad for the bank balance either. there's no end in sight to the turmoil in france as a monument to appease the country's yellow vest protesters we've got more on that after this break.

you want to make sure that the quality is not just a slogan of misery but it also is associated with the rise of the start of the believe how can you have a rise in the stuff. by having people who are rich saving investing. broadening increasing the size of the national park so that you can distribute balls to everything. welcome back a visit by the embattled french president to a town in the country southwest triggered furious on to government protest sons

clashes with police on friday. it was. her feet. i mean it was you it was it was. emanuel mccrone who was traveling there to meet with around six hundred french matters as he seeks to appease the best movement the town where the protests took place have been put on lockdown ahead of the french president's visit. meanwhile france is bracing for a tense consecutive weekend of yellow vest demonstrations they were first triggered by proposed fuel price hikes back in november as well as a general decline in living standards and quickly snowballed into a nationwide protest campaign.

called course is the right one and we're not going to change it just because the wind is blowing. i will not concede anything to those who want destruction and disorder. i take my share of responsibility. french teachers have also been joining the protests they have in fact sound started calling themselves the red pen movement they're campaigning against funding cuts for schools we caught up with a spokesperson for the group. not our profession hasn't been thought about in the

last forty years our salaries have fallen by forty percent it's a big problem and we're not being listened to they decide to put money elsewhere when what we need is investment in schools because we're motoring future generations. so we're not just complaining we're here to claim what we deserve we're proud of our profession and we want to be paid accordingly for what we do and to be treated better given what we do with it we were born as a result of the yellow vest movement we were inspired by this popular movement against the government but we're different as we're specifically defending our profession i don't want to say that we're opposed to their claims but we're more concerned with fighting for our rights as education professionals. police in hungary have arrested a portuguese man who suspected of computer hacking and having links to the website football leaks the whistleblowing portal has caused to several huge scandals by publishing damning documents that they claim to have obtained from anonymous

sources artie's alexy he has the story. if you haven't been holed up in your room for seven years you will of course have heard about the weekly leaks and julian assange but since twenty fifteen the planet's most popular sport has also had its own whistle blowing web site football leaks revealing the dark side of the beautiful game. now football league finally has a face named in some media as thirty year old rui pinto or from portugal he's been detained in budapest and facing numerous criminal charges been tools alleged hacking activities have reportedly targeted portugal's football elite leaking

sensitive contract and player details to the press and football's cyber version of robin hood has got a few superstars in a spin. i'm very sad very upset because they're making this thing up things are not real. the arrest comes with football league's popularity beginning to peak after some time in the wilderness following a criminal investigation football leagues returned with a bang in twenty eighteen taking aim at one of europe's financial powerhouses manchester city believe me. you know which happened because. in the emails claimed to show how a man city is circumvented financial fair play rules aimed at keeping clubs from overspending and retaining a competitive unfair to domestic and european football this allowed the current english champions to dig deep into the mega money pockets of the middle eastern oil state and it's got some big names in the game admitting the rule simply isn't

working i'm not convinced that we can maintain it at the moment it looks like we have created rules that cannot be respected nevertheless europe's footballing body is taking football leagues claims seriously and sas an investigation will happen we are assessing the situation we have an independent body the club's financial control body working on it very soon you will have an answer on what will happen in these concrete case if guilty manchester city will likely face i have to find and possible banned from european competitions the club the hemant lee denies all these accusations but thanks to football leagues their fate now seems to be something money cannot buy while the man named as the routine door will be tried in portugal and could face up to ten years in prison julia songes long running refuge inside the ecuadorian embassy in london has not stopped we can leaks and football league

says the arrest would not stop them either but will a hacker trying to clean up sport get the same backing as the whistleblower looking to call out governments. r.t. reporting from moscow. president donald trump's pick for u.s. attorney general is being given a tough time over his views on the investigation into election meddling but as caleb morgan explains there are far more troubling episodes in the nominee's past that haven't made it into the spotlight. the ninety nine is bush era official william bars on the roster to once again become the u.s. attorney general but as the confirmation process continues at this point the media is focusing on one particular aspect president trying to run the justice department says he would let special counsel robert mueller finish the investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election the president's pick for attorney general said things about the russia probe that would be welcomed people are picking apart barcena testimony to see how he's going to treat them all

investigation another scandal related to william barres past that might be a bit more scandalous than his opinion on the russia gate hysteria has surfaced it turns out that in one thousand nine hundred ninety one he was responsible for the detention of thousands of haitians in guantanamo bay the reason they had. testimony revealed that the haitians were told that they could be a guantanamo for ten to twenty years or possibly into a cure for aids found after hiv was discovered more than two hundred haitians were moved to a separate camp they were held there for over two years the conditions were rather shocking a federal judge who oversaw the case saw it as almost an i.v. prison camp they live in camps surrounded by razor barbed wire the type plastic garbage bags to the sides of the building to keep the rain out the sleeping cars and hang sheets to create some semblance of privacy the air guarded by the military and are not permitted to leave the camp except under military escort but even decades later william barr still feels this was the appropriate action when asked

if he would do it again well would you again house asylum seekers in guantanamo. well the clinton administration. doubled they doubled lee and they started putting other nationalities in there too. probably not because of the associations of going time to mow now as americans come to terms with the war on terror and the role played by guantanamo bay. they should remember the actions of william barr in one thousand nine hundred one and those human rights violations that he would back once again as he prepares to take the attorney general hot seat. r.t. new york well here don t we love to hear your thoughts on all of all stories so do get in touch by following us on social media and leaving all your comments that we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines joining.

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