this is out international in the headlines this morning doubts grow that wiki leaks . met with donald trump's former campaign chairman for. new information from police in london. as former lawyer delivers explosive testimony on the president's dirty deeds but admits he has no evidence of russian collusion. he's a racist. he's a con man. and he's a cheap. knowing people including five elite athletes have been arrested at the world ski championships in a joint operation against police say is a global doping network a european. and how the right now north korea's leader lifting hopes in hanoi

saying he wouldn't be there if he didn't want to denuclearize his country. good morning it's not me on this thursday the twenty eighth of february right now here in moscow as i mentioned this is international my name is kevin owen great to have your company i hope you have a good day and you can stay with me for this update starting with this news nazi probe into allegations that wiki leaks had to. met with donald trump's former campaign chairman paul mana for cast doubt it ever happened. as this story. 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 there trump's former attorney michael cohen claims the us president was aware that we cue leaks would be dumping the infamous clinton e-mails that hillary claimed played a part in her not being elected among a 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 speakerphone and stone told mr trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian a song and that mr starr 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 actually mr science reported to the media and june twelfth that those e-mails would be leaked. we have a mass right here hillary clinton which. painting a publication that is correct so i'm not saying you have fake news have old news one of the pieces of this puzzle is a week you leave and it's rolling from the presidency founder julian the function here in london. a century job at their could do remember 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 the so-called work 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 or the resulting implications surrounding it r.t. 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 july in the sunshine and treated back in june two thousand and twelve can you please provide any documents relating to poor men affords entering or departing 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 our call 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 the evidence is on the table all that's left is to pick and choose who's claims can be trusted more and if they see a churkin or party line well as most of the adults from cisco's former lawyer michael cohen testified before congress wednesday they didn't hold back from revealing everything it possibly could about his ex boss. today i am here to tell the truth about. he is a racist. is a con man. and he is a cheat mr trump knew of and directed the trump moscow negotiations throughout the

campaign and lied about it and i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump ladies and gentlemen 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 he lied to congress through false statements and written statements he lied to congress through his testimony even able to fight his false statements by releasing him refuting his lies to the public with the. bidding of the. court was a trump confident for more than a decade and his moment in the spotlight now after that he will begin a three year prison sentence in the spring for tax and by fraud as well as lying to

congress we discussed his testimony with former u.s. republican congressman michael patrick found again. 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 that the state of new york despite of the polled 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 meanwhile a much anticipated report by special counsel on russian collusion with donald trump is due to be released soon after a two year long investigation and the media is already bracing itself in case no collusion is revealed. robert muller's work is nearly done justice department is preparing to announce its early as next week that attorney general bill maher has received a molar confidential report that's not going to the d.o.j. is telling reporters now those reports are all will he or won't bob mahler's long anticipated report into trump's alleged collusion with russia is expected to be released later this week or maybe not media is covering every leak into the possible timing at this point even though we don't have the information the media and certain outlets seem to be doing damage control this is all building up to them

all the reports and love to speculate about this because it's certainly high drama online here again focused on robert moment there's at least a possibility of miller wrapping up without more indictments this report is almost certain to be anti climatic a stark contrast to the media's previous wall to wall coverage of the collusion extravaganza the walls feel like they're closing in on the trump administration right now and i'm not sure they can hold them off for much longer the walls are closing in and everyone is freaking out the walls are closing the wheels are coming off. the walls are closing in on president trump the walls are closing it with trump on the walls are closing in on the trump white house. all of the walls are closing in at this point the walls are closing in fast and. the collusion investigation is stretched out almost two years now and it's cost the taxpayers apparently twenty five million dollars and from the beginning donald trump has been

adamant that there is nothing to find the politics of revenge resistance and retribution the entire thing is being a witch hunt the rush of hoaxes the hopes the which believe me it is no collusion dozens of people have been indicted on multiple charges but so far none of them have been related to any alleged collusion with russia you've got individuals like paul man a fort roger stone and michael flynn who been in. cited for among other things making false statements to the investigators they haven't uncovered anything related to the crime that bob mueller was originally investigating however the investigation itself has led to new crimes being committed so despite the fact that not much has really been discovered over the course of the last two years there are some who are expecting that the final report will contain smoking gun revelations that will topple the administration or maybe not the investigation when completed could turn out to be quiet and comerica not draw a conclusion about it again i don't know so the final report will draw

a line in the sand and everyone can just move on can't they if he finds that there was no direct collusion between the trump campaign and russia well we're going to have to do our own investigation and we are a short mother report would mark the end of the beginning not the beginning of the end this saga for the president as legal saga doesn't appear to be anywhere close to being over as the president hopes so we've got a rather costly report that has not yet been released the conclusions of which we have not yet seen but yet the media is already making excuses for it and we're hearing that congress may pick up the investigative baton why because as they say the show must go on welcome to american politics in twenty nineteen cable mopp and r.t. new york story for europe next nine arrested in a joint all street german operation against a doping network at the nordic world ski championships here's our europe correspondent peter all of. on wednesday police carried out raids on sixteen

properties across austria and germany in connection with a major doping probe nineteen arrests were made we understand that five of those arrested are elite athletes involved in nordic and cross-country skiing incidentally two of those arrested are being said to a said to be cadets in the austrian police force who are also members of the austrian nordic skiing team what we know about the five elite athletes two of the said to be austrians two is said to be a stone ians and one is from kazakhstan reportedly now these arrests may well be connected to revelations made by another austrian who is already admitted to blood doping nazi hunters during he took part in a german documentary that aired on t.v. here back in january and which he admitted his guilt in using e.p.o. in taking part in blood doping he also went on to say the sport of nordic skiing does not work without doping that's

a direct quote from him with the austrian police say that these arrests a part of a much wider probe and may of uncovered a conspiracy to cheat in sport over many years. 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 those athletes arrested in austria appears to have been caught well almost literally red handed your. record an athlete in action who was in a blood transfusion in his arm when the police arrived of the arrests in germany we know that a forty year old man he's been described as a sports doctor was taken into custody the austrians have been far more forthcoming when it comes to information and their german counterparts we usually find that the austrian prosecutors saying that this my. maybe at the heart of

a doping conspiracy that goes well beyond the realms of nordic and cross-country skiing and may well take in other sports as well the world doping agency wada they've said that they're paying very close attention to this news coming out of austria and germany and say that they'll be cooperating with the place well online as you'd imagine the reaction to this has been pretty intense how do you think the federal broadcasters are reacting now it was russia that and said d.f. was continuously discredited by in terms of doping 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 we're see that it's only russian athletes as they've been forced to never start in the program i feel about doping in cycling most of the standards are well cost sports are supported by dope of one kind or another i think would be playing

that game for the past two or three years a blame game that has been pointing the finger at russia and saying that this is the source of all evils when it comes to doping in sport it all starts in russia and it ends in russia no ass in the world is really involved on the kind of scale there russia's been involved and now we have new urgency that hate going on it is not just in russia this is happening elsewhere in europe and probably beyond europe the truth is that it's going on everywhere and i don't think anybody's going to start accusations that austria or germany are involved in state sponsored doping but we could say that the something rather more sinister force here because if there are the so-called international global criminal gangs who are at work then there could be supply and potentially anybody in the world illegally knowing some contras the kind of dope that's use habitually by athletes is not illegal what is

illegal is to deal in and maybe that's what they're going to pin on this particular gang sixteen on the but near moscow the swanning good morning a big news story we're following another one north korea's leader lifts hopes in hanoi saying he wouldn't be there if he didn't want to denuclearize his country that came in a statement a journalist during a summit with president in the vietnamese capital. are you are you going to do or. you'll go over you'll join us. for a minute or. do you believe that. we are we are going to get when we. are. there on looks cordial enough we hear now the sitting down to a working lunch brown the scenes we thing as always everyone is looking for a clue in

a body language out of acco. or . not the most scientific survey that was let's get some proper perspective on it simon shen the china u.s. relations expert and i think she time this morning so kim jong un said the journey as he would not be there if he didn't want north korea to be denuclearized is a really positive statement and a follow through on it though because a lot at risk this is a big dog getting caught isn't it. you know. some kind of consumption will be made

but them the kind of welcome blue. ocean is highly unlikely at this moment but that will be submission for presenter on the plane. as it crossed no diplomatic achievement. for him so that we get women do these tube videos but people around the world looking on want to get an idea what it is actually mean trouble said there's no rush so what one what is the best you think is going to come out from this joint statement in two three four hours time when they finally come before the cameras it's not there all nuclear weapons are going to be got rid of there what what what is actually going to happen you think truck just one hole to testing still here is the best we're going to get. first there would be a symbolic statement about peace probably measuring the korean war but not depends on the actual wording of the most important issues are different. sanctions economic sanctions is expected as some kind of construction could be made by the

americans along the border some kind of collaboration cooperation could be a large exchange north korean side could agree to some kind of peace new consumptions only one solution. for instance. going to examine. that would be alone in the treatment of londoners i don't think only structural accomplish the liberalization look you want your. son is really powerful but could you explain to us in our views a small what what the relevance of this may be announcing a formal treaty ending the korean war is all about this is going on for decades what relevance what difference does it going to make even if the end of war is officially signed off on or is it really going to mean. no it is only about the war . on the notion of the hostile relations between the two sides but it is a done deal. but it practical and so we have this how do you.

assert they would have. actually had on the american army stationing on korea and i would be so many people would expect that the gesture would be made but i would not affect the americans doctrines of the army otherwise there would be two sessions that. i got to say i didn't quite hear then oh yeah no totally clear got it simon said china u.s. relations expert thanks for your time we'll follow this story closely come back to you for more thoughts my big thank you thank you. next in a bit to ease the humanitarian crisis in yemen the u.n. has raised more than two and a half billion dollars at a high level pledging event in geneva but that's well short apparently. the target sum of four billion dollars needed to fulfill this year's aid plan on top of all that interesting lee many of the donor countries are ones linked to the conflict in yemen in the first place either by fighting there by selling arms for example

britain's weapons sales to saudi arabia since twenty fourteen are almost ten times higher than spending on humanitarian aid and u.s. arms exports last year were four times higher than a donations back in the norwegian refugee council has raised concerns over this anomaly now. more billions are spent on bombs and weapons bringing death and destruction much less is made available to see civil war the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world with eighty percent of its population in dire need of aid up to sixteen million people like access to safe water and sanitation yemen as we've off reported on this channel has been in conflict since a coalition of arab states launched a military operation to defeat who threw rebels and restore the ousted yemeni government so much bloodshed since then many human rights groups have already called on the countries that pledged donations to the u.n. to stop simply selling arms the current treats selling arms to worrying parties in yemen need to stop these deals with immediate effect and put in place strong

monitoring in accountability mechanisms so the devastating weapons will no longer kill injure a civilians in yemen arms must stop flowing into yemen and political negotiations need to be supported by all involved in this conflict. with me now is the middle east regional media adviser for the norwegian refugee council hey there cal good morning thanks take the time to be with us why are you drawing a parallel between certain nations weapons export earnings and the humanitarian aid donations back what you hope to achieve here. well we're looking at the top donors of the humanitarian response for yeah that includes the united states saudi arabia united arab emirates and further down the road at the united kingdom they are the top donors they have been traditionally the ones most generous in funding and where it's very innate for them but at the same time they are also the most active directory or indict at least with the sales of weapons or dropping one side if you

want to yemeni civilians so we're calling for an end to the hypocrisy ended up licit the old school feeding with one hand the yemenis to keep them alive destroying their cancer with the other. eight to be clear car look at these figures of saudi arabia in the u.a.e. committed a record breaking one billion worth of humanitarian aid for yemen despite as a we've been reporting so much you know the general studies leading this near war for year long aerial bombing campaign why are they doing that a guilt. well you'd have to ask them what what what we can see very obviously from where we stand and that i work with ordinary yemeni yes that's why the aid is desperately needed they themselves are being in the closing down of course air force the sea ports and and the abandonment of the civil services public services for people in the in the in certain areas of yemen which

are not under the control of the government the central government of. party so we what we are saying is look these these people there are millions that we're talking about twenty four million yemenis in need of aid of some sort either because they haven't received salaries because they are sleeping hard have a meal every day new they've been displaced multiple times they've lost their houses so these weapons this fighting this having a direct impact on women children civilians who have absolutely no stay in this conflict car but the contradictions you're talking about here the u.n. secretary general doesn't seem to see there's a big contradiction between the damage cause and the a being offered why. well look he has his job on the pledging conference they went when we were asking for funds is to make sure that there are the money that so that we can reach out to the

people who need it most of course we are pointing out this contradiction because it's at the root cause of this problem and we as a as an international humanitarian agency feel compelled to point this out in a bid to to solve this madness from all sides because this is this is ultimately a proxy war which involves other states including iran who have huge influence on the on what is going on in yemen and we're calling on all of them to be responsible there are millions of lives at stake this is the biggest crisis we have on our watch right now karl thank you for your time and your input here and your oversight of it color schembri the middle east regional media adviser for the norwegian refugee camp appreciate it spitting news just coming in to the donald trump summit with kim jong un really really quickly press conference was meant to start about forty minutes time apparently it's been abruptly cut short it's going to happen a bit sooner than

a root what that really means but as soon as we get more it will tell you now sporting goods return it to catherine has dropped plans to sell a sports version of the job in france the company says it hopes to build on the success it previously had in morocco to do bensky explains why it sparked controversy before these things went on the shelves. it's incredible how such a small piece of material can cause such a commotion but here in france that's exactly what's happened over plans by the retailer to cast on just stock a sports version of a hit job a muslim headscarf. as well as an outpouring of twitter outrage several politicians have called for a boycott of to cast all. sport emancipates it does not submit my choice as a woman and a citizen would be to no longer trust a brand that breaks with our values the french health minister has also waded into the debate to the gods. it's legal but it's

a vision of women that i do not share i think it does not fit well with the values of our country to get different parts is a secular country with a hit job as well as the christian cross have been banished from state classrooms and also from government offices no religious symbols outlawed and in fact there were a common sight on the streets of france but many argue that face and body covering garments such as those worn by loosely women are seen as being a method to subjugate them but others including castle say such items make it easier for muslim women to take part in activities such as sports interest emotional screwed if i may apply women and should be able to wear what to the from because the silver is close and each has to d.q. miss bascom a shot at me and then they have to cancel the sales it's not an act of securities and it's rather marked i will go she started something called make my despair and

islamic. people should dress according to their own tastes i don't think there's much controversy about this issue play pool with brick if women choose to merit a masters practiced so if she wants to wear it you know it's her choice but the backlash has been. so big that even to castle staff say they have been threatening . our customer service team has received over five hundred calls and emails since this morning our teams in our stores have been in solid unfriend and sometimes physically before the product even caught out of the starting blocks the force of the opposition soared to capital back down it would no longer sell a sports teacher up here but it's a no win situation for the retailer which is also being criticized for pandering to collectively styria that reveals the level of islamophobia here in france show that you can ski r.t.

paris. right through an online activist money. from the french national front party or this a on it. we choose to cover up because it reduces our body on our terms independent of the milk it's necessary for us to have the different options available for different types of when it that'll weight is that is special in industries like fashion actually tickets are fully supported at decision to put the heat on the sporty chat on the french market in their stores it was only after there was a huge public outcry. that steady crawl back so you know basically a ticket now has no scruples they don't know as a capitalist company they only want to make profits and they weren't forced they were forced to take. off their shelves here in france because of the huge pressure from the public. right before i leave you this news a shoulder earlier on kim jong un president from course the big meeting and summit

i've got news it seems that the summer has been cut short the press conference that was meant to start in about two hours time maybe happening forty minutes it seems now kim jong un has been pictured leaving the metropolitan discussions of being held there's no joint signing statement no further appearance between the two leaders so but a mixed news all of a sudden coming from there may not be as successful as was planned we'll keep you posted the party dot com by your side i'm kevin zero in.