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report by both news which claims he instructed his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about a business deal in russian coal is among those being investigated in the lead russian collusion probe now the investigation itself is being led by special counsel robert mueller commenting on the bose feed report his office branded this story inductor it the rebuttal 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 address this best and said in a statement earlier today this categorically false well the reports detailing cohen's alleged confession to special counsel muller's investigation into election meddling has caused a sensation in the media pretty much it was branded a bombshell article out immediately led to talk of impeachment of 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 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 bomb shells being thrown around there will the media quickly as we saw it picked up on the story despite the fact that the whole piece is based on anonymous sources or washington correspondent done cohen he's got more in 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 i can and donald trump jr receives regular detailed updates about the real estate development from cohen whom they put in charge of the project a michael cohen is the former lawyer of donald trump he was sentenced to thirty six months in prison after he pleaded guilty to lying to congress about the trump tower plan he's also admitted to campaign finance violations tax evasions and thanks fraud and of course he's a key figure in the moeller investigation where the so-called russian collusion probe of 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 and it'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 and we're very confident in our reporting because 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 is being credible so maybe. this is been manufactured to give some interest 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 himself 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 it did 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 bit early pete is a wrong and who perhaps allegedly his own may call into question his veracity and nothing's ever done you have a new it's a journalistic force and factions of the american people who don't care whether this story is true they like the story because it makes trump look bad and if the story makes trump look bad they like it 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. an american born journalist who works as a news anchor on remains state t.v. has been arrested in the u.s. as a material witness in an disclosed case a court order revealed on friday though she has been detained she's not been charged with a crime. generalization seems ok bad. she was not happy. with the fact that certain doubt her instructions

were there's a statue instructions not being accounted. for her head scarf had been removed against her will. we are concerned by the arrest of a journalist for iranian state t.v. shamy we have serious concerns about her detention and we urged american authorities to clarify the situation. as she is a day mr and mr she's done nothing but journalism and the rest of mrs hosiery is a very clear affront to freedom of expression a political abuse. of an innocent individual. i believe the united states should review so even if you go to debate the.

r.t. how spoken exclusively to a close friend of the geo there rhenium t.v. anchor she shared her concerns about the galaxy marzia russian least attention on the conditions she's being subjected to in custody. the only information and contact the family have had with my z. is a telephone call to her daughter on tuesday where they received information from my . daughter that she had her job she is a muslim woman who was 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 that she was 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 and on to say 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 the children have been subpoenaed as well and they have no idea why you can imagine how worried they offer their mother and how nervous they are about the situation my see is an internationally known journalist and she's been a journalist for many decades she is an american journalist and she's 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. testifying before a grand jury investigation after she will be released or over 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 on this we're saying now donald trump's america journalism is

a crime you know i have no other answer to that that the children the i.f.j. cat all the organizations they all scream for information as to why she is being detained 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's a fighter a 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 to tension taking an internal flight. back to europe these are live behind me from paris where ten consecutive

weekend of yellow vests. protests over rising living costs on the policies of the mccrone government is on the way of course in france as well now that's all the spike the president sanford's to quell the on rest by launching what he called a national debate she's promised will result in a new social contract earlier i got the latest from paris to charlotte to the. people here are angry and despite the fact that there is a national debate now. by place and not only as a way of trying to get to this anger it doesn't seem to dissipate the anger here on the streets of paris at least i just want to through your attention to what's going on behind me you might be able to see what looks like the outline of coffins because this physical approach us who is cool by eric to a who's one of the and main leaders over these protests on this very test used to

mock to pay tribute to those people who've lost their lives as a result of the yellow that's pretty tests in accidents one individual is said to through the hit by something that came off a flash poll and also in tribute to the people who have been illusions in these protests and there have been some severe injuries since this protest movement started back in november seventeenth with rule than fifteen people suggested to have lost their eyes as well as many other debilitating injuries. on the 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 the struction and disorder. to.

take. my share of responsibility. but you can probably have the protesters surrounding me cooling for the resignation of president michael and that has been one of the cools that we have heard over and over since this protest movement started i want to get the camera to go up a bit higher and children so you can just get a sense of the size of the crowd that we're reading we are now marching this is that i meant to be a food chain kilometer march around paris as i said this is one of many demonstrations and security hey in the capital is runs again very very tight with a run five thousand security offices taking part in this and eighty thousand said

to be taking part in that security go for a shoot across france people are as angry as they've ever hook during this yellow that's protest they still think that the national debate is nothing more than a scam and many people are saying that the only thing that they want is a result of this now is the resignation of miss your macro on the tenth weekend of protests this is fall from the end of it charted to been ski life in part a still to come on the program this hour germany joins the ranks of western countries dialing up the pressure on chinese telecoms giant huawei it's right after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

please reach terminal debt. no amount of economic activity going forward will ever provide the tax revenues sufficient to pay down the step we're past the point of no return we've gone through the looking glass this means only one outcome the central banks will continue to print to keep the interest going on this insurmountable debt pile which means wealth and income gap are guaranteed to increase which means the g.l.a. show movement is going global and the global insurrection is upon us and that's a guarantee.

you're back with r t international as the backlash against weiwei grows in germany join the list of western countries considering locking the generation company i'd excuse me out of its next generation five g. mobile network now the chinese telecoms giant has been embroiled in controversy and stands accused of spying on behalf of. her say on matters. huawei if you think owning one of these. chinese phones is risky in case you missed this drive 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 in putting back door was for spying into all of its products it's

more of a hunch than an evidence based conclusion but that is enough chinese phones 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 devon that these prying on you most worried all the five eyes nations the international spy services which is but one tongue. he says use 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 you all 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 is that to us a vile use 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 fust 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 or area and running foreign competitors from your home ah care that's not bad for the bank balance lie the. only thing the only thing. ok turning attention to central america or at least sixty six people have been

confirmed dead and dozens of others bobbie burned in a pipeline explosion north of mexico city it is believed to have been caused by thieves who were trying to siphon off fuel oil had reportedly been spilling out for several hours before the blast occurred officials say that hundreds of people were filling up plastic containers and the nation's president is promising all kind of activity as this weekend's blast marks one of the deadliest explosions in recent mexican history. at president trump's pick for u.s. attorney general is being given a tough time over his views on the mueller investigation into election meddling but this killer bug and explains there are far more troubling episodes in the nominee's past that haven't made it into the spotlight. 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 trump's pick 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 russian 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 patients in guantanamo bay the reason they had a. 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 each i.v. was discovered more than two hundred patients 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 in a 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 they sleep on constant hang sheets to create some semblance of privacy the other 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 and they started putting other nationalities in there too. probably not because of the associations of going tandem oh 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 bar 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. that's our new stories are shaping up at this saturday but next the future of the british prime minister the future breaks it debated on going on this is twenty four seven r.t. international. has gone into a nihilistic. best i think i got a kick. out the traveling across america by what makes america take the show i would say. this place especially american this is a point in which all of it is done so we always are on the right just a. this song culture is moving for you because.

we're starting last with is the beginning heading east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more ground on the net it may be completely different but in the midst of. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and. somehow want to. have to go right to the press that's what will befall three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. best suitable.

you want to make sure that the qualities of just a slogan of misery but it also is associated with the rise in the startup of leave how can you have it wasn't just on the group you might have seen folks reach a saving and investing. increasing the size of the national park so that you can to steve bould to everyone. i mention or thought you were going on the ground amidst a crisis in the british government coming up in the show in a week of unprecedented trouble in westminster the name of the labor prime minister who. churchill the nine hundred forty five was never forgotten we talked to lord

deftly grandson of one of britain's towering socialist leaders clever deftly and as a minority government prepares for plan b. after to raise amaze contempt and on president the defeats in parliament we get both sides of the debate with may's former home office minister norman baker and consultant editor of the ms daily mail andrew p s plus. questions to the prime minister but after the biggest defeat in history can juries of even call itself the prime minister also more coming up in today's going on the ground the first after a week of crisis in westminster affecting arguably not just seventy million in britain but about half a billion of the e.u. jeremy corbin's labor party chose to reference one u.k. politician named again and again and tuesday's biggest ever defeat of a british prime minister he and his health secretary are in bevan famous for creating the national health service clement attlee was name checked on a street sign in a labor broadcast as tories were congratulated for voting for themselves on

wednesday to keep from a prime minister a country that believes they have. no choice right. country. the names of clement attlee and the man he defeated after leading the u.k. to victory against the nazis were touchstones in the defeat of teresa mayes breaks a deal just this should be a historic day for the future of our country and parliament this was once a chamber of winston churchill and clement attlee instead if it is a day of high farce and self-delusion but as the late world war two veteran harry leslie smith who also featured in this week's labor broadcast said they believe that jeremy corbyn made him think of arguably britain's greatest post-war prime minister to may yet i may call a minute and remind you here clement in nineteen forty five and i think if he puts his shoulder to where you and i think he can be. a man

who changed new. england for the better just clement attlee did someone who would not agree is the grandson of clement attlee david cameron's former whip in the house of lords british tory government peer lord athlete who served in yugoslavia and in iraq joins me now law that they welcome to going underground so before we get to different masses why do you think your grandfather's name was invoked time and time again not only at the tourism a brix a deal vote which was the worst vote for a prime minister in recent memory maybe ever little or no confidence motion on wednesday with the closest thing about clam was his brilliance holding together disparate disparate and talented team and you saw when he went sick he did occasionally the team fell apart the longer he was. as well he held that team together and that's what we're missing now the only two promises to really change anything a post-war one was clam and there was. action but what does his legacy have

specifically to do with what's happening between corporate interests who may have to dispatch books was quite interesting because actually the relationship between clem and winston was very close in fact david cohen recently published a book about that and it tells us the relationship was even closer than i thought it was and was disappointing is that jamie coburn doesn't want to go and have a chat with prime minister. about what we could do to get out of the brics trap that we're in be interesting to see how it pans out why do you think then the most people would think of them is a mortal enemies of directly defeated churchill i mean they had their political battle obviously that they both wanted to be in front nine forty five they both wanted to be prime minister but recognised the last but they were close and they were a. member they've been the pair of them in prosecuting the war for four years

all of it was to.