like a law in a months almost. so this is somebody will look. at the rules for. pakistan says it has shot down two indian air force jets over disputed kashmir capturing two pilots as the nuclear armed rivals violence escalates. lawmakers grilled donald trump's disgraced former lawyer michael cohen who has admitted to lying to congress before. lawmakers about his ex boss with claims ranging from being a racist to dirty financial deeds. arrests are made

at the world ski championships including five elite athletes in a joint operation against what police say is a global doping network also ahead. also ahead is the news this is our international incheon thomas certainly glad to have you with us all right there has been a dramatic escalation in tensions between india and pakistan india is demanding the return of a fighter pilot arrested by pakistan accusing it of violating the geneva convention by harming him pakistan earlier released video of the pilot with blood and bruises on his face the pilot was captured after pakistan shot down an indian war plane this video which we cannot independently verify as of yet is said to show a downed indian made. twenty one fighter jet parts claimed it shut down two

aircraft in its airspace over kashmir and that it arrested two pilots india says it is one plane and a single pilot stanway that closed its airspace or he's looking at winds the discrepancy between the two sides quite. well what we have absolutely so we're seeing now is the culmination of tensions that have been building with more regularity in recent years and essentially things have now come to a head to the importance and consequence of how things play out from here it is very significant not just because these are two very powerful countries but because they are a nuclear armed enemy is so if this does continue to spiral downwards this doesn't just impact the region this could have an effect on the whole world pakistan is claiming claiming to have shot down two indian ass force jets and captured two pilots and says that it's jets have launched air strikes in the indian territory a move that they claimed was in self-defense. pakistan is a responsible country and we don't want to endanger lives of masses we have yet

retaliated to india all being done is just what irresponsible country does for its defense our message use peace and not the war now india however claims that these those pakistani jets had been pushed back. was because you do. and for this point. in the. course. of the hour. or that you do. this is. what. is missing in action. because. he is in their custody this comes just one day after india claims it hit a militant training camp and killed a very large number of fighters from the militant group jaya shaimaa hommage which took responsibility for that suicide bombing earlier this month which killed forty

indian troops now in a bizarre twist pakistan rejected india's claim saying that indian fighters were confronted before they conducted those strikes on the training camp and actually just dropped four or five bombs in an empty field and then fled back across the border so what's making the situation all the more hard to follow is how the two sides have these conflicting media campaigns both sides are pushing their own narrative and so a single source of contradictory information online and in the news but at the core of it what is very clear is what we're seeing is the first of the first aerial attacks across that line of control across that delicate kashmir border since the two countries were at war in one nine hundred seventy one now speaking in the past hour the pakistani prime minister imran khan has called for a responsible approach he said noting how both of them are nuclear powers they really couldn't afford a miscalculation. and there are so ali in the sun who would say i want to ask

a question of the indian government that considering the nature of the weapons that both of us have this can we afford any miscalculation should we not think at this moment that if the situation escalates then where will it go it will not be in my control or narendra modi's control i'm going again tell you that a better sense should prevail now and we should resolve our issues by sitting together and through talks. with them are those days get a lot of spikes in tensions have a kashmir they have been up and down over the years and a fresh wave of violence really took hold in the summer of twenty sixteen but kashmir has always been contested territory even before india and pakistan won their independence from britain and nine hundred forty seven.

there is now a multinational appeal for both sides to show restraint in conduct talks we've been getting reaction from experts on both sides here is some of what they had to say. i'm from the box on air false but i would like to see peace in the region because both india and pakistan are mutually have weapons equipped and we do not want this to escalate to have mutually assured destruction because that is what will happen it will not remain a right action if then and definitely escalate into a full scale of all it would be norms barred but you see india took an action yesterday and going to action today and retaliation and shut down i'm hoping that

we let it go our back and sit down and talk to each other and if india has actionable intelligence ah prime minister has a cure or even a big different action i don't know where there will be no response from india because there was a response and this is like a counter response which is a was part of the pakistani body see that if there is an attack on their tertiary day it will have to respond and since to order a nuclear powers country and leaders know this to serve any high and we just can't afford a full fledged gone truly so the hope is that change for the not spin out of control and the science was sort of kind of dead loss of to say and decided at. let's modi distractor i'm going to look forward to some other means being of doing the war my own means maybe to

a diplomat and you could create economic and on because there are no winners and the military who are as we have seen so far. nine people have been arrested in a joint austrian german operation against a doping network at the nordic world ski championships here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. on wednesday police carried out raids on sixteen addresses across germany and austria resulting in nine arrests linked to a blood doping scandal in the sport of nordic in cross-country skiing and what we understand is that five elite athletes are among those that have been arrested we know that two of those austrians two of those are a stone ians and one is from kazakstan we also understand that two others being named as cadets in the austrian police force who were also members of australia's national nordic nordic skiing team well the arrests may well be in connection to

revelations about blood doping in the sport that were made by this dirt the thirty one year old made his claims in a documentary aired here in germany back in january of this year he admitted to using e.p.o. in carrying out blood doping in fact when he was talking about the sport of nordic skiing he said it does not work without doping that's a direct quote from him but the austrian police say that these arrests are part of a long time and wide ranging investigation. based criminal group is strongly suspected of having carried out blood doping on elite athletes for years to increase their performance in national and international competitions and thereby to gain illegal income one of the athletes arrested in austria was well pretty much caught red handed according to the authorities your work record an athlete in action who was undergone a blood transfusion in his arm when the police arrived of the arrests that were

made in germany one was a forty year old man described as a sports doctor by the austrian authorities have been far more forthcoming with information than their german counterparts the austrian saying this well this doping scandal that they believe they've been covered it could well extend beyond. nordic in cross country skiing and may well extend to other sports as well the world anti-doping agency wada say they're paying keen attention to the news coming out of austria and germany and say that they're cooperating with the police now the reaction that we've heard from this well as you can imagine it's been coming in loud and clear how do you think the federal broadcasters are reacting now it was russia that iridium city f was continuously discredited by in terms of doping well as the lynchpin of doping is built already in the studio have they finally learned

adopting is not only part of cycling still i would like to see equal limits and rules among all sports. doping is rampant in sports but our biased media is still obsessed with a cold war see that it's only russian athletes as they've been forced to never start in the program i feel about doping in cycling. and our team has received an answer regarding and on that corroborated story about joining a songe meeting trump's former campaign chairman paul metaphor more on that after a short break this is our country. and what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more some want to. let you go on to be for us to see what the forty three of them all can't be good.

i'm interested always in the waters and out. there should. the world com to forward to return to the unrestrained nuclear competition of the cold war that was the plea made by the u.n. secretary general earlier this week with the u.s. pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty and russia rolling out new nuclear weaponry should we be more worried about the weapons themselves or the people who have the codes.

this is art international now it is received a response to a freedom of information act request we sent to london police request was made following a guardian newspaper article published back in november it broke the uncorroborated story that wiki leaks founder julian assange had met with trump's former campaign chairman paul metaphor or his. status on associate turkana has more sources say anonymous sources say well placed sources say one source multiple sources and on and on and on goes the merry go round the game of he said he said a staple of journalism and politics alike these days when so often so much is at stake across the atlantic action in congress is stealing the show or their trump's former attorney michael cohen claims the us president was aware that we would be dumping the infamous clinton e-mails that hillary claimed played a part in her not being elected among the bunch of other allegations trump knew

from roger stone in advance about the wiki leaks drop of e-mails mr trump mr stone on the speaker phone and stone told mr trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian assange and that mr songe told mr stone that within a couple of days there would be a massive dump of e-mails that would damage hillary clinton's campaign mr trump responded by stating to the effect when that the great was that in you said late july do you know the exact day. i believe it was either the eighteenth of the nineteenth and i would guess that it would be on the nineteenth but it was definitely july i believe so yes you know that was public knowledge in june this was mr assad like to submit this you know with this for the record without objection so mr science reported to the media and june twelfth that those emails

would be leaked. we have a massive write hillary clinton in which. pending publication that is correct so i'm not saying you have fake news have old news one of the pieces of this puzzle is we can leave that it's rolling from the presidency founder julian the funds even your money. especially at their core doria members who did or didn't visit him in the time leading up to the major week and from what the guardian reported in november that trump's then campaign manager paul mann a fourth had been at the embassy in twenty sixteen months before the emails were released something both man a fort and we can leaks deny the paper reported that man of ford's visit was not logged as would usually be normal protocol but let's not forget that london's metropolitan police had kept a watchful eye on the embassy twenty four seven from twenty twelve until twenty fifteen when nonstop surveillance ended but

a so-called covert plan was bolstered it is no longer proportionate to commit officers to a permanent presence the m.p.'s will not discuss what form its continuing operation will take all the resulting implications surrounding it are to be filed a freedom of information request with the metropolitan police service to find out more since the confirmation of any controversial visits from the police would provide at least some certainty something that washington too had requested details on. it's no secret that you have been conducting surveillance of the equador an embassy in london since june in the sun and treated back in june two thousand and twelve can you please provide any documents relating to paul man a for its entering or departing from the ecuadorian embassy since two thousand and twelve until the present and this is what we heard back to confirm or deny whether the m.p.'s holds any documents in relation to pull manifold entering or departing from the ecuadorian embassy would cause operational harm to the m.p.'s and affect our

ability to fulfill local function of law enforcement a yes or no from the police on what did or didn't happen at the embassy would have potentially turned out to geishas into certainty but until all of it is on the table all that's left is to pick and choose whose claims can be trusted more and if they hear churkin are. blunt well as an associate mentioned donald trump's disgraced former lawyer testified on wednesday before congress about his ex boss and he did not hold back michael cohen called the u.s. president a racist a cheat and a con man after his moment in the spotlight michael cohen will begin a three year prison sentence in the spring for tax and bank fraud as well as for lying to congress he claims he lied out of loyalty to trump but admits the president never directly asked him to do so but also came up in the republican criticism of cohen who was a trump confidant for more than a decade. it to lying about his actions he lies

to banks all of those laws were done on fraudulent documents apparently he even lied about delivering his own child which is wife had to correct the record so i will certainly as mr cohen was lying then. why should we believe him now ladies and gentleman how on earth is this witness credible he's a fake witness his presence here is a travesty and you have a history of lying over and over and over again he said we were in search of the truth i don't believe that michael coleman is capable of telling the truth and i would hope that this committee moves forward as we call it in the united states when election season comes near we call it the silly season and in the silly season silly things happen this is a little early. something that you'd see in the silly season cohen is willing to use the word racist and criminal and liar and anyone who's willing to speak in that

absolute in that strongest terms in washington will always have an audience on one side or the other there was just an angry man who wanted to be chief of staff who didn't get to be chief of staff who was furious he couldn't make a ton of money off the trump name after trump was elected president has decided after all that he needs to get even in a vicious new york stupid sort of way and so he's going to come to congress and lie some more he's been disbarred for lying in the state of new york to spar they pulled his law license because he's a liar a man who took their promise who took that oath and then took another oath in front of congress and has lied constantly can't be trusted ever to tell the truth even if he is telling the truth it will require cooperation substantiation and some backup and none of that was provided today. in landmark a meeting has been taking place between the u.s. president and the north korean leader in the vietnamese capital they took part in a photo call earlier with the body language coming in for some scrutiny.

donald trump does is put his other hand on top of that is dominance so he is asserting his dominance we see it when he's sitting down and he puts his hand in a downward steeple position that again is dominance it's that confidence but he's trying to pull it back and from what i'm seeing here though he is feeling dominant and naturally trying to dominate him so look he is also trying not to over do

it he's trying to make him comfortable i suspect it's a head of the main set of talks that are going to take place tomorrow the first round of talks have now concluded artes of angelo cips us has more on what's to come. this is president trump second attempt at making peace with north korea the two leaders met briefly for the cameras and are now having close discussions behind closed doors the talks are made up of two rounds one formal dinner and one on one talks but before coming to vietnam prison trip was under severe pressure to make a deal at the summit that came after criticism from opposition back home that said not enough was made through the last summit between the two leaders in singapore but the first summit was a great success and i think this one hopefully will be equal or greater than the first we made a lot of progress and i think the biggest progress was our relationship is really a good one i think that your country has tremendous economic potential unbelievable

unlimited and i think you will have a familiar future your country a great leader and i look forward to watching it happen and helping it to happen and we will help with that trumper to read it in a tweet that the potential for a deal is quote awesome both countries to sign a piece the collaboration to symbolically end the korean war the conflict ended in the arms that is not actually a peace treaty back in one nine hundred fifty three which means the war is technically still ongoing north korea would agree to return more the remains of troops who died in the korean war also the u.s. is considering to opening up diplomatic office in north korea. could show the relations between washington are actually getting warmer north korea will agree to stop producing nuclear materials one facility and perhaps at the other ones as well in exchange the u.s. will push to lift some of the sanctions on pyongyang and will pursue a joint economic project with south korea but again it's not clear what the deal

exactly we can expect from this meeting but the summit does not actually only concern washington in pyongyang so let's actually have a little look and see what are the other regional neighbors feeling about it. despite the fact japan's also over a north korean test missiles flying over it the concern over. the outcome of the talks after all if a deal is struck it's unclear whether japan's concerns will be addressed what made the situation worse with the allegations that japanese prime minister abby officially requested for trump to be nominated for the nobel peace price in fact i think i can say this prime minister robbie of japan gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called a nobel price he said i have nominated you or we specially in behalf of japan. i am asking them to give you the nobel peace price that did not go over well for

the opposition especially after prime minister's office refused to comment on the allegations abduction nuclear insult to mid range missile issues. i'm concerned that it would give the wrong message to north korea and the international community if we accept that the current situation deserves the nobel peace prize. south korean president again just like his ally in washington that has also said that he is expecting great things coming out of the summit. i expect it to be a turning point that advances complete to denuclearization of the korean peninsula new u.s. north korean relations and a peace regime on the korean peninsula president moon might come out as the biggest winner of these talks and in a way it seems that he's risking more than anyone else if these talks lead to a dead end after all it's this country that will be among the prime targets for the nuclear capable north korean missiles south korean foreign minister said his country is looking forward to a quote tangible and substantial results with all the hopes skepticism and fears

involved coming to a specific results might turn out to be a very tough challenge for everyone involved in the situation but considering that the idea of i.q. west north korean summit started absolutely impossible just two years ago maybe there's still a chance for a happy conclusion. the british parliament have voted on a number of amendments in the prolonged fight over the future of bragg's it two out of five amendments were passed as a result of the vote delay to britain's exit seems possible now if may's deal for leaving the e.u. gets rejected again on march twelfth tempers flared in parliament and throughout the debate here is just a taste. parliament will not be bullied into a full choice of accepting her very bad deal or no deal at all times an extension to article fifty or a second referendum that doesn't actually solve the problem but doesn't deal with the issue the issue is very simple do we want to leave with the deal or without

a deal and that's the question. every other m.p. will face when the time comes the prospect of the prime minister being able to achieve the necessary changes have been done turn to go shooting position has been weakened i mean that's the reality of the situation i'm can we have an assurance in terms of any possible extension this is big the bank of england for cost growth through this year will be the slowest over a decade does the prime minister blame her shambolic handling of bricks it or. policies for this down would you feel you know mighty u. turn on her breakfast it starts and what it all means essentially is that theresa may has effectively changed her position from it's my deal or no till two it's my deal or a delay so she's given m.p.'s a vote not only on her tail but also what happens next now is her deal fails to get

past parliament on march the twelfth or potentially even before that date and these will then be off for two separate votes the first on a no deal set on march the fifteenth which could remove the immediate threat of crashing out of the block without a deal and then on the very next day with a vote on a short extension of article fifty which would delay britain's departure beyond march the twenty ninth now the prime minister has categorically said that she doesn't want to see an extension but it seems like he's made being tracked into this position by her cabinet ministers who are threatening resignations if indeed she wouldn't take any scenario off the table now effectively putting that to a vote almost does do the. but crucially one thing that hasn't been clarified today is what happens if both delaying breaks it and a no till is voted down by m.p.'s in parliament but there's a for me a thirty two and a half minutes we'll be back with more news watcher to trip. over

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