the president said he did not believe that north koreans had the capability to hit us here to which the president replied i don't care i believe. a former acting director of the f.b.i. whips of controversy this morning by claiming he believes that donald trump may well be a russian asset. still for the americas. announces that he's going to run for president twenty two promises to complete his revolution . plus president putin hunting in taiji tiger in the wilds of siberia those yellow vests protesters marching under of. the stories that stole the ceremony in france for the first fake news items of the past

year. for good morning this is out international with me kevin though in life. i just turned eleven am now this wednesday headlines a bit more detail first the. acting director of the f.b.i. andrew mccabe has provoked a firestorm of controversy by claiming both in a new book to the media that the u.s. president is in the kremlin's pocket do you still believe the president could be a russian. i think it's possible i think that's why we started our investigation i think the president is a threat is that what that means i think it's entirely possible i think that's one of the reasons why we opened the case against him we had. good reason. to consider that the president might be a threat to national security did you suspect the president might actually be

working for russia he thought that might be possible the u.s. justice department fired. last year just before he was set to retire as a lead lloyd multiple times other wrote about comments that he made to the media he claims though the decision was politically motivated our senior correspondent were guys to have takes up the story this morning. sensation selves it's a fact of life the bigger the dirtier the ruling shia your story the more people listen this book is dirty but we'll get to that first his revelations who could have believed that senior u.s. officials discussed seriously talked about declaring trump mentally or physically unfit to be president meaning he could be constitutionally removed from office discussion of the twenty fifth amendment was was simply rod raise the issue

and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort and the attempted coup some call this in the united states of all places insanity and was this an attempted bureaucratic coup i don't know this was a coup attempt there's no doubt about it but hey one man's coup is another's revolution and would you believe there's worse stuff in this book allegedly trump trusts putin more than his own intelligence agencies unbelievable the president said he did not believe that north koreans have the capability to hit us here with ballistic missiles in the united states intelligence officials in the briefing responded that that was not consistent with any of the intelligence our government possesses to which the president replied i don't care i believe putin

it's almost too crazy to be true come to think of it that is a pretty outlandish claim but hey folks buying it because you know one of the things that impressed me about mccabe in the interview was how careful he was about what he knew what he didn't know and what he had overheard he. it was very almost as if he was justifying a trial did seem like mccain was being credible and it's a pretty incredible allegation that he's making that trump a word trust putin's view on this over the u.s. intelligence agencies well some people will believe anything especially if it tarnishes trump the more sensible bull look at the author andrew mccabe who may not be the most honest person in the world at all according to the justice department inspector general report with the sensation here when he was the f.b.i.

as deputy director leaked sensitive information to the press and then lied about it four times three of those under oath mccabe is rightly perceived already as a lie before with a major set of conflicts of interest you know mccabe is i think he's under criminal investigation already he's trying to sell this book now so the guy might be a liar ok it's given the benefit of the doubt trump trusting putin more than his intelligence guys which is strange because trump threatened north korea with biblical vengeance meaning he must have taken the threat seriously they will be met with fire fury more than that in two thousand and seventeen russia joined in on sanctions against north korea meaning moscow to saw

a threat facts fly in the habits theory a lie to spice things up get the book selling and then the timing of the timing just as trump and kim jong un prepare for another summit. bernie sanders is but there's a few. into the ring of the twenty twenty u.s. presidential election the veteran sun this is an ounce of these drawn to mix the self-styled democratic socialist loot will be able to win the white as others argued no it simply says look who's back it's the veteran left winger who put the phrase democratic socialism into the american political vocabulary he's got crazy hair and economic populism and he hit a chord with voters. a

socialist country. but from behind the scenes we saw that mainstream media and democratic party leaders were looking to put out the flames e-mails leaked from the party's governing body the deep misconduct there will probably complain regardless actually does he believe in it goads he don't say yes the jewish heritage i think i read he enters was actually more popular than hillary clinton and could have won in a final action against trump what that did not matter to

a rigged democratic party machine headed by debbie wassermann schultz donna brazil her replacement revealed the inner workings of a rigged democratic presidential primary i called gary gensler the chief financial officer of hillary campaign he described the party as fully under the control of hillary's campaign which seemed to confirm this. the bernie camp they can paint have the d.n.c. on life support given it money every month to me it's basic expenses while the campaign was using the party as a fundraising clearing house and the media was in on it as well and schultz who was an archie host until his death last summer was working with m s n b c during the primary he described how he was specifically told not to cover sanders campaign i go to bernie sanders house that afternoon in the interview in the backyard he's going to announce that he's running for president we're going to carry it live later on of the day it's five minutes to air and i get

a phone call from phil griffin you're not covering this ultimately sanders ended up accepting the results and endorsing hillary clinton but this time around we have even heard from other democratic party candidates who accept and confirm that it was indeed rigged against him do you agree with the notion that it was rigged yes this is a real problem but what we've got to do is democrats now this we've got to hold this party accountable so with traps set to run for reelection in two thousand and twenty many democrats are lining up to be his opponent now sanders at this point in the game in what's already a pretty packed feel this time there's got to be many rank and file democrats who are asking themselves will they let it happen caleb oppen r.t. new york so what do new yorkers think of bernie sanders chances in twenty twenty if you think about bernie sanders. is too old i hate to say it we did it you young fresh face you represent the party very well and he represents the progressive saw

i strongly well so i think he's good for the party he has a chance. yes i do think he has a chance of being nominated no unfortunately but i like it i like the guy i think he's i mean all agree with everything he says but again i think his attentions are good that many supporters as we saw and two thousand and sixteen election i think he's going to be a drag for the democratic party because i think we need a consolidated mass of voters supporting one candidate and i think he kind of divides the the the wholeness of the effort history shows that the united states has never been socialist country and i doubt that they will be in the future. awards ceremonies but how them frogs to celebrate some of the best pieces of german journalism of the past year the best fake you stories outage he's got the

rather dubious round. breaking news in folks the spread of this information we're all being told to be on all go out for it well here in france they like to go one step further let me introduce you to the book. it's a mock awards show which looks to celebrate some of the ones this examples of fake news which are actually broadcast as real stories here in france where the winner is taking home a statuette of water elf but a golden pinocchio first up let's take a look at the international category where a chilling tale of the russian media. chefs. but it was completely fake news turns out these images were actually taken of president putin when he was visiting a reserve which protects the endangered siberian tiger on the fake news stories

given the north included this mysterious case of a severity of flag which was hoisted during a yellow best protest measure. on the mall. but this flag which the expert so expertly gave his opinion on is actually a local for i from the northern pick out the region now in the general category here in france there was plenty of competition just like this a lot of media reported that we started and identified that there had been russian meddling that the russian state orchestrated interference in the banal a scandal ah yes russian meddling again also croyde the mainstream media

without doing much checking or even it seems actually reading the study by the lab in the hit turret the misinterpretation of their work we never said this the fact that the government spokesperson immediately exploded this for political ends created this sort of hype there was never the object of our study. then there are those soon question easy ways to get fi can use of course as we found out from one local french channel sports anything wrong you'd be forgiven for thinking that the opposition to antigovernment strikes was more than half but it seems that this pie chart was artificially inflated and when all else fails you can always just to raise anything that you don't like take a look at this sign in the yellow vests protests amok or support it in the midst of the yellow vest protests. are no in fact this is what the so i

reset seems two thousand and eighteen was a bug year for fake fronts with many outlets seeing their noses grow more than one show it's even ski artsy. spanish newspapers caused fury after publishing an article praising the heroism of volunteers who fought alongside the nazis against the soviet union the piece by a.b.c. details the many hardships the fighters out of face including brutally cold temperatures and a lack of provisions but in glorifying the struggle it fails to give any context or balance the blue division which is the focus of this controversial piece we're talking about was a volunteer unit created back in one hundred forty one to demonstrate spain's devotion to hitler's cause without drawing the country actually into the war the third reich even created a special medal to recognize supposed heroism of the spanish fighters who served on the russian front line during world war two the unit helped nazi germany to

maintain the siege of leningrad indeed warning you may find some of these pictures from history coming up upsetting. our. geopolitics expert fernando morrow gone told us that spanish society is woefully ignorant of the history of world war two. but this topic is ignored by spanish society and people who lived during that period are already dead unfortunately young people nowadays know very little that help is only known about by those with special interest in it most people don't know anything about it at all only

historians and scholars can talk about it and at least have an opinion everyone knows that the play division was created by franco after the coup you know they fought on the side of the nazis that's clear we were their uniforms and forth against the u.s.s.r. especially in the northern regions of the country that's a fact and there's no doubt about it the majority of the population know about the war in general terms that it was against the nazis and they know thanks to american and british films that europe's liberators with the u.s. and the u.k. they rewrote history with their films and many people believe it was not the soviet union that won the war and liberated europe but the us is spain's you can now have a falsified deal of world war two it was in fact the us s. r. that liberated europe and suffered most of all especially in leningrad when more than one million people died. but it had there was something happening with the next hour or so russia's president vladimir putin is set to deliver his neural state of the nation address.

it was a good watch to try and work out where russia's going to be headed with foreign policy and domestically it went on for two hours last year liz who was expected. kevin hello there well the best way to explain what kind of event we are about to weakness in about an hour is basically comparing it with america's state of the union but the russian president doesn't make an appearance in either of the chambers of the parliament known as the duma or the senate and the lawmakers don't come to the crop when it's happening in a separate location so where i'm standing right now is called the old merchants court of moscow and it is anyone's guess whether vladimir putin will mainly focus on domestic issues or whether the things that he is about to say are going to be more important for the landmark things he said last year was

when he spoke about russia's newest weapons according to the russian president they are unmatched by any other existing arms in the world and another highlight of his speech was when again he said addressing russia is a bursaries you have not listened to us before well listen now so as i've said to the speech is going to start the disc edgel to start in about forty minutes we are all waiting for it here and the old march in support of moscow. all will be coming to you roland right about forty minutes so my guess is due to start the. time that address to tell just by forty five minutes will have coverage but you laid it before the show but the president right after the break will tell you why hundreds of protesters occupied the british museum over the weekend just one of the stories we're covering this wednesday morning.

and. join me every week on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports i'm show business i'll see you then. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the book different books on one hand it is logical to say fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. you.

i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can sink i was going to go. by the way what is it the. good morning the british museum has found itself facing a wave of criticism over ongoing exhibition and was a fight over run by hundreds of protesters over its close ties to the oil giant british petroleum and we can put a boy has got the story from london. they say ought to cleanses the soul but for these processed is the latest exhibition at london's british museum whitewash is the image of a less than squeaky clean or oil company. the i am exhibition here at the british museum has been nor did by chris also facts

from what is now modern day iraq many of which were taken during britain's colonial rule but the exhibition is sponsored by british oil giant b.p. which is accused of profiting from the war in iraq and contributing to climate change through its dedication. a fossil fuels protest group b p or not b.p. says that group sponsoring cultural events like these the oil giant is. its image i was very upset and frustrated and shocked when i saw that this incredible exhibit was taking place but it was sponsored by b.p. was a massive slap in the face for me b.p. was one of the biggest supporters of their all quare they wanted to go into it all because it was an opportunity for them to make money and to get oil and as an iraq and as somebody who wants to learn more about my cultural history you know to have

to face this moral conflict of being able to learn about my history because it felt as though purchasing a ticket and supporting the sponsorship would make me complicit in its in this form of neo colonialism essentially secret memos that emerged in two thousand and eleven review the b.p. encouraged the british government's decision to launch a war in iraq. iraq is the big oil prospects desperate to get in there an anxious that political deals should not deny them the opportunity to compete the long term potential is enormous and now b.p. jointly runs one of the world's largest oil fields in iraq and the conditions are allegedly in b.p.'s favor reportedly the oil giant still gets paid by the iraqi government even if circumstances like natural disasters or terrorist attacks affect

oil production and that is exactly a form of neo colonialism and of itself at all really rely unfortunately are on western companies like b.p. it's to invest in that the country as a means to kind of create revenue and to make money but b.p. is obviously going to have the demands and requests in their contract because they know that they have the power to do so and it was actually forced the iraqi government to comply with their demands because the government is desperate for money campaigners take issue with b.p.'s environmental record to. contain. the deep water horizon disaster indigenous resistance to a fracking in argentina where protests against profiteering and pollution in iraq but here's a cute. accusing b.p. of lobbying against clean energy in favor of fossil fuels in twenty seventeen

another renowned british museum the tate didn't renew its contract with b.p. after three decades of sponsorship following environmental protests and the british museum is already under constant pressure from campaigners and foreign governments to return artifacts looted during britain's days of empire. stolen treasures only adds fuel to the fire. there are those who say that corporate sponsorship is a reality if you want to keep the arts funded but the campaign is the british museum's acceptance as b.p.'s money is tantamount to accepting its business practices t.v. . footnote to this we are supposed to be pm the british museum to comment on the controversy the oil company hasn't responded yet but the museum a supposed person has and says they respect people's rights to express their views so long as they're not damaging the artifacts or posing a threat to visitors museum added the funding from british petroleum allows it to

put on some of these expeditions and first place. there's a military confrontation between india and pakistan have been growing in the wake of a devastating suicide bombing in the disputed region of kashmir last week indian officials have said that they hold their counterparts in islamabad responsible for the terror attacks. we demand to pakistan stops misleading the international community and takes credible and visible action against the perpetrators of the poor terrorist attack and are the terrorists and terror groups operating from areas under their control. your summary if you think you will launch any kind of attack in pakistan will think about retaliation and after that with things going on we all know it's easy to start a war and one can start will easily but it's hard to stop a warps up then with things will go only god knows well tensions really high right now that terror attack that's caused this flare up and it took place last thursday a pakistani suicide bomber attacked

a bus and killed more than forty indian paramilitary police officers the pakistani militant group in mohamad claimed responsibility the atrocity was then followed by a gunfight in the region on monday which have nine dead kashmir is being disputed since india's petition in one hundred forty seven it is claimed its entirety by both countries though and has a long history of violence. that's it for us for now but that news tip off for you just joins us in about thirty

minutes or so as mentioned earlier special coverage coming up of president putin's annual address to parliament outlining his plans for the main directions of domestic and foreign policy he sees russia heading in right now over the coming year or so we'll bring that to you full translated as it happens maybe two hours but the present though this starts international next programs for us right after this break i'm kevin oh and good morning. her mum. mum leapt from the bus made me why it's no good keep the slime to you or smear the focus on the best of you so he's. played one good luck you see in the prison for the most good moment you know. where we really lasts.

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