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welcome to r.t. international our top story donald trump has firmly rejected a damning new report by bose feed news which claims he instructed his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about a planned business deal in russia cohen is among those being investigated in the alleged russia collusion probe well the investigation itself is being led by special counsel robert mueller commenting on the buzz feed report his office branded the story inaccurate there was also by the white house press secretary who dismissed the allegation as 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 report detailing cohen's alleged confession to special constant motors investigation into election meddling has caused a sensation in the media it was branded

a bomb shell article on the immediately led to talk of impeachment. 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 that as 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 that trump must be impeached if the story is true yeah as you can see there the media quickly picking up on the story the spike the fact that the whole piece is based on anonymous sources or washington correspondent done 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 planned 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 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 cash t.v. agents and fake fraud and of course he's a key figure in investigation for 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 had 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 we've been i did say that we we've seen documents we've been briefed on documents and 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 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 mean 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 heated layer wrong and who perhaps allegedly his own 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 this story is true they like the story because it makes trump look bad and that's 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 well there you go news can certainly spread if it fits a particular nora. is exactly republican senator lindsey graham in the mainstream spotlight for a comedian tweeted that russia has him cornered. lindsey graham is so obviously being blackmailed by russia. a republican just told me that. graham is going to try and in directly because he's being blackmailed rather he probably involves some pretty serious sexual looking.

for donald trump got elected lindsey graham called a racist. donald trump or somebody knows something. about lindsey graham. i am sure there is something happening with him. that's a remarkable comment to make about a sitting u.s. senator. the at the evidence really. present. presented to us in the way that. is disrupting democracy everywhere in the united states and in me a democracy to interfere in our election if we don't care why we're going to hard.

on a normal country. to another story we're closely following today an american born journalist who works as a news presenter on a rainy and state t.v. has been arrested in the u.s. as a material witness in a case a court order revealed on friday she has been detained she's not been charged with a crime. generalization seems ok bad. she was not happy. the staff had certain dietary restrictions will just add her instructions were not being accounted. for her

headscarf had been moved 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. she is a famous journalist 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 to eat you've got to give it to the. r.t.d. has spoken exclusively to a close friend to all of the jailed iranian t.v.

on her she shared her concerns about the legality of marzia hush emmy's the tension in the condition 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 wiring information from my. daughter that she had her job she is a muslim woman who was her job a veil covering such as what 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. 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 in essence 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 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 has been detained without charge without information so it's truly very concerning. well according to the court order which was issued by the u.s. district court in washington d.c. i mean must testify before a grand jury investigation after that she will be released however many are still concerned by a bit of tension 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. 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 a 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 all stink 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 is a ferret 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. live to paris where at ten consecutive weekends of yellow vests protests over rising living costs on the policies of them across the government is now under way in.

this by the president's efforts to quell the on rest by launching a national debate which he's promised will result in a. the social contract these are live pictures from the french capital there are for us is our correspondent charlotte. who's following the protests charlotte what a quarter past four local time that's before when we saw some of the protests to send into violence any incidents of note from week ten of the rallies. there's no a sense of violence in the rally that i'm not in paris been following this rally now for number of hours thousands of people came and joined it was actually cooled by one of the well known members of the victim who we don't actually calls of people to come on this march she actually pay tribute to those people who had lost

their lives in this lesion movement this movement that's been going on since november seventeenth this is act ten and i can tell you that the anger on the streets though hasn't dissipated asked school people here still calling for the resignation of president michel so cooling for the overhaul of the government here in france and despite the concessions that are being given by the government and the fact that this national debate is now underway the president maicon is hoping would quell that anger that doesn't seem to be happening it's not just here in paris the protests taking place there are protests taking place across france in all of the major cities and also in some of the main towns i want to each turn around though we've been following this march and they were going to is invalid in paris but they seem to have turned back on trying to get back ahead of them as you can see yellow vests yellow vests yellow vests it's like

a rule here in paris and i don't know if you can get higher up but what we have seen is definitely thousands of people who've come and supported this movement followers of the number that was. rules for the guy who organized this protest eric to it they actually called for a million people to come out to the streets of paris with definitely nowhere near that but as i said people are still incredibly angry here and they feel the government is not listening to them let's take a look back now at the movement since it started on november seventeenth. of course is the right one and we're not going to change it just because the wind is poor we. will not concede anything to those who want destruction and disorder.

i take my share of responsibility. well where we are with visual issue is once again out you can fool us in paris i just want you to take a look over in the distance there you might be able to see the outline of coffins that i actually hit to represent those people being killed in accidents since the start of this protest movement and also there's a lot of anger with the number of people who've received injuries as a result of the lots of violence we've seen some think is suggesting around fifteen people have lost their armies as

a result of flash paul injuries other people being maimed one person lost their hands and other people facing severe injuries including one person who has been in an induced. coma for almost a week as a result of the flash poll injury but it's not just injuries to protesters themselves there's also concern about the violence that we've seen to watch the press doing these protests and in fact one protest today is specifically speaking out against the violence which is being directed at many spots at the local press here in france. with opposite maneuvers that we are holding this demonstration because while covering the yellow vest for nearly two months there have been acts of violence assaults and death threats against some reporters this is unacceptable in a democracy we wanted to show that by saying that we are free to inform and from.

what i understand many of the problems highlighted by the yellow vests and i give them an opportunity to speak sometimes i'm as scared as they are of the police and i don't understand why some of them try to beat us up because they really want to have the yellow vests express themselves constructively and it's not very constructive to go beating up journalists. to r.t. journalists have also been injured as a result of these protests including us some of my colleagues at the local channel here r.t. france one had a flash poll haiti's face in terry in the skin and others have been injured in the legs and received bruising as a result of that this acuity presence here in paris today remains very tight around five thousand security forces out stage trying to keep these protests under wraps across france around eighty thousand for the moment though here in paris this protest seems to have gone off without

a hitch without any violence and people are here they say just to express their continued turning against president matt brown and his government really just hearing some firecracker. in the background as you're speaking charlotte so far it's seen. as a i suppose authorities kind of hope for a charlotte thanks so much for an r. t. shirt to do been ski and. more news continues in ninety seconds time. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and

talk. reach terminal debt. that no amount of economic activity going forward will ever provide the tax revenue sufficient to pay down the steps we're past the point of no return we've gone through the looking glass this means only one outcome. central banks will continue to print to keep the interest going on this insurmountable pile which means wealth and income gap are guaranteed to increase which means the movement is going global and the global insurrection is upon us and that's a guarantee. twenty two minutes past six pm here in moscow welcome back. the backlash against weiwei

group germany has joined the list of western countries considering locking the company of its next generation mobile network the chinese telecoms giant has been embroiled in controversy stands accused of spying on behalf of beijing has probably boy goes and take. huawei even governing one of these basically cheap chinese phones is risky. if you missed it try working with a company that makes the. chinese tech giant huawei which is mandarin for wear 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 have put in back rooms 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 a parent 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 top american. of the anglican world will know one way is well ahead in developing and selling its five g. network five g.'s the network in the future it will allow your bathrooms scales to directly tell your fridge who's been eating all the pies as one of the internet of things and it will probably be in charge the first time a driverless car goes 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 present 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 the markets and the rule of law. 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 on earth founds of uncertainty they need to know. exactly who's doing the spying facebook google or that area and finding foreign competitors from your home mom can't that's not bad for the bank balance right. ok some astonishing tell us the figures coming out of central america today at least sixty six people have been confirmed dead dozens of others badly burned as

well following a pipeline explosion north of mexico city it's believed to have been caused by thieves who were trying to siphon off fuel oil reportedly been spilling out for several hours before the blast occurred officials say hundreds of people were filling plastic containers the nation's president is not promising a crack down on us this weekend marks one of the deadliest explosions in sick in history. right dots our stories for no but coming up next is america's middle class disappearing and stacey put the kaiser report spotlight in moments this is our team turn up oh.

oh . you know world of big partisan new law 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 fast 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. reflect there's someone else living inside of me like controlling my body. the byproduct of that drug is the cause like severe depression. because it literally made him into a zombie it's crazy. you know we don't have to do anything it's not our fault you know since crazy and all that. took years traumatic time to get rid of.

backscatter this is the kaiser report due out tomorrow will be episode three of gonzo back to stacey traveling around the country documentaries then me and we're going to be in san francisco and it's going to be awesome and you've got to tune in to watch it because so many people are you know want to go to work tomorrow and people say hey did you watch the reaction stacey gonzo show and you'll be like. oh you're so you don't want that to happen watch it. yes gonzo max and stacey it's a new series where in the third episode tomorrow at ten part series we're traveling from the west coast all the way to the east coast we're looking at transamerica seeing with you know the mood of the america is right now and it's quite fast and tomorrow we're in san francisco we talk to no no's only highways and then we head over to yosemite it's really fascinating so part of the reason why there's so

much meltdown in the fabric of our societies whether here in spain where you have independence movements and lord knows what i think with briggs in the u.k. it's true art to figure out and there's not enough time in the day to cover it and then you have italy you have germany now on the brink of recession you have france in the g.l.a. shown and that's spreading the yellow vests well here's some information from the i.m.f. . am is there a look at global debt and they look at they have some great charset should go to its new data global the i.m.f. blog and the other from one nine hundred fifty eight till two thousand and seventeen and i find that global debt has reached an all time high of one hundred eighty four trillion dollars in nominal terms the equivalent of two hundred twenty five percent of g.d.p. in two thousand and seventeen on average the world's debt now exceeds eighty six.