an alleged cyber attack on a british institute that seeks to counter russian descent from ation is now being investigated by the u.k.'s crime agency despite having no forensic evidence the head of the institute already insists that russian intelligence is to be blamed. thing which makes an. our assessment that he's up for in truth. you. the cia will no longer need to say how many civilians its drone strikes kill after a new order by president try. and fans the pop legend michael jackson and their theory or a new documentary alleging the star committed child abuse. should not be talking

about michael jackson's music michael jackson's music was created for decades of also a lot of suffering every time michael jackson song comes on i don't for myself i'm going to think differently about it. this is our to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned five pm welcome to the program a suspected cyber attack on a british institute that seeks to counter russian descent from ation is now being investigated by the u.k.'s national crime agency the suspect is as usual the russian intelligence agency the g.r.u. like not to london and are for fun and it's just to check in the us to see it what do we know about the story so far. well jacqueline here in the u.k. the now infamous highly likely formula pops back into the spotlight as reports circulate citing white hole sources claiming that russia's military intelligence

service the g.r.u. had been according to them the one to hack and up until recently not very well known british beast institute for state craft now we understand that now that's been announced that the national crime agency here in the case carrying out an investigation into the cyber attack him or senior ministry of defense civil servant who is also a co-founder of this institute for statecraft is already claiming that it could only have been russia despite lack of proof so far. bill nothing we send to the. our assessment that it is up for and the proof. of this institute for statecraft and its program the integrity of initiative that has been in the headlines for the last couple of months on and off is a program that aims to tackle what's called russian descent for me ssion they try

to expose feek news all of this is done to the tune of over two point two million pounds provided by the british government and this institute and its files had been taken and posted on a third party website first time back in november so this is how all of this unraveled and the g.r.u. is now brought into all of this and of course if you remember the g.r.u. is familiar with this sort of highly likely accusations ever since the sold very scandal. the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible. and we think you're likely to do it was his decision to hold russia koku culpable culpable for the attempted murder case is culpable well the russian president's spokesperson discourse has commented on these latest developments he has said that the russian state is not involved in any cyber

attacks and in fact that russia had offered international cooperation with when it comes to issues of cyber security however to no avail but in this particular case let's see what happens of course this investigation is going on so let's see if they do end up providing some proof in the end to all of these accusations. and it's just a check and i thank you for saying cross that story for us. u.s. intelligence agencies like the cia will no longer have to make public the number of civilians killed by their drone strikes that's after an executive order from president donald trump we're sending in the obama era directive requiring annual reports on noncombatant casualties or the military will have to keep revealing those figures as across this development. a new executive order from the white house is reducing the amount of transparency when it comes to u.s. drone strikes now the executive order basically revokes regulations made by the

obama administration in twenty sixteen a sensually the director of national intelligence will no longer be required to release information regarding un classified u.s. strikes and the non civilian deaths that are associated with them and that would be in areas outside of active hostility the pentagon will still have an obligation to report on civilian casualties in compliance with the national defense authorization act of twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen that was very clear in trump's executive order now this is certainly not the first time that donald trump has indicated frustration with the level of information related to military activities that has been made public the fighting force and they're doing reports and releasing it to the public to the public because the enemy the enemy reach us reports i study every line of those reports should be private reports lead them to a report but they should be private reports the history of drone strikes is quite

shocking there have been a number of rather tragic incidents that have taken place over the years. so what we're basically doing is telling the american people these wars are so important but they're nestle important that we actually have to tell you about them is so important but in fact we can't carry them out with clandestine a-t. under the cover of darkness i think what it really means is that donald trump wants to be able to have the pentagon commit war crimes and crimes against humanity and do so with completely immunity in. i think that they want to make sure that lockheed martin raytheon and boeing you know their major defense contractors can can continue to sell the jones in to sell the weapons this is

a very very foolish way both reduce pollution is dangerous and his erratic incentives to go and do all of those things don't contribute toward. the pentagon has announced it's revising its arctic strategy and light of a perceived threat from russia and china have picked apart the geo political rivalry around the north pole. the arctic what comes to mind when you hear that word sea fish ice it's always russia isn't it russia because that is one of follows most closely to their to their borders they've begun to move on periodic times to the different weapons systems of control of the area dated our plans as a response as a result of that we've had to change the posture of some of our forces so that we in fact deter and we send a signal of the importance of the arctic to us but there is a new gold rush brewing thanks to global warming it is opening the arctic up around

fifteen percent of the world's undiscovered oil thirty percent of natural gas may be there perhaps more important though is the northern sea route by two thousand and forty they should be suitable i say that ships will be able to pass year round terrible for the environment rate for shipping it would have the journey time for ships travelling from east asia to europe a journey that usually takes them through the suez canal it would save billions upon billions for consumers companies governments ergo the gold rush contenders have been quick to make and file their claims and oil their gardens the united states is going at it intensely with military war games reportedly to train military forces to fight and win in the arctic speaking of russia it hasn't been

idle either during the recent exercise that successfully tested a new hypersonic antiship cruise missile thats it. because there's also the flag which russia planted exactly at the north pole seabed a decade ago still annoys other contenders that norway another big claimant they're spending hundreds of millions rebuilding old the cold war facilities in the north perhaps symbolically norway also moved its military headquarters within the arctic circle in fact norway was so involved and enthusiastic about recent nato war games that one of its brand new warships ended up colliding with an oil tanker which is neither very covertly nor very fast

people are still wondering how that happened then there are the spoilers great britain for example nations with no arctic claims but rather an each to get involved we need to protect our national interests we will be launching our new defense arctic strategy the u.k. has unveiled a new arctic strategy where they plan to defend the arctic which may be difficult to do with britain's couple of ice breakers but they go to make up they've even sent a royalty to the arctic great for the cab or is. also china it has potentially hundreds of billions at stake just in trade chip transport

costs it recently launched the snow dragon to an ice breaker that doubles as a research vessel the least goes on and on. and frankly the degree of militarize ation is alarming but what choice is that russia for one filed its claims that the un will back by geographic data year is years ago and nothing is beat almost new progress on the diplomatic front be it jus to political pressure or incompetence the fact remains that when diplomats have paralyzed the military but pays every nation state wants to grab all they can grab and some are much worse than others so we have the us putting all their military in there because allegedly. there are afraid of the russians doing so us of course is as good as.

its troops everyplace and all over africa over asia all of a lot of america they're going to have i guess mr trump would like to have the more in latin america this is all terrible the us military budget is far too big it's as much as all the other countries in the world put together and of course they keep needing more and more more more more more killing machines it's a sad thing to see this happening in what is actually the spectacular beauty of the arctic but of course the. military is never mind destroying destroying things. and that american pop star michael jackson have protested outside a top u.k. t.v. channel over its documentary alleging child abuse. i mean they've come to voice their anger over a new documentary featuring interviews with two men who claim they were abused by jackson as children from the movie premiered back in january

a global reaction house falls with radio stations in canada and new zealand dropping jackson songs. secrets will. you feel so alone. i want to be able to speak the truth. as loud as i had to speak a lie for so long leaving neverland is a joint production between channel four and h.b.o. both alleged victims featured in the movie wade robson and james safe chuck for years denied they have been abused they were called as witnesses for the defense at jackson's trial in two thousand sparked public outrage. the film has been condemned by the jackson estate which earlier issued a statement saying the accusers have testified under oath that none of the allegations are true our guest abated whether an artist's work can be evaluated separately from the person. this is still pending and investigation and also the whole outrage is happening because of a documentary that is obviously one sided because we only have the version of the

victims i really have a huge issue with access to art and to things that have been created in the past by somebody like i said who is dead and who cannot do anything about this at the moment if radio stations want to ban the music i think if listeners of those particular radio stations are calling up and saying you know what this is criminal behavior that r. kelly and michael jackson have actually engaged in. and we're not ok with that i think that's perfectly fine it's a scary area if we all are judge him for ourselves with very limited facts with facts that we don't really quiet cross-examine with actual evidence or other than you know interviews and documentaries that. those sergeant you mentioned this show a lot of evidence. while it's in evidence that it's not been again cross-examined in the court of law it's your refutable we should not be talking about michael

jackson's music michael jackson's music was created through decades of also a lot of suffering but actually i think maybe the real lesson in all of this is that you know every time michael jackson song comes on i know for myself i'm going to think differently about it i mean i'm not going to say i'm never going to dance to a michael jackson song again because you know maybe it'll play at a wedding or vomits but i might start dancing but at the same token i said i am never going to think about michael jackson and the way i used to and maybe that's the real lesson so let me ask you this when you look at a picasso painting or you read a hemingway book or or you can look at a stop to that was created during the renaissance period where like you know the catholic church was you know torturing and killing people in the name of god are we not able to separate the our that was created. the best moments of these artists from the actual person who was a human being like even the fly made mistakes and some of them admitted those fair to good argument but i think also i think we're entering. a new era where i think

people that engage in criminal behavior and sexual abuse shouldn't be rewarded in this society and i don't think there's anything wrong with that and if their music doesn't get played so be it. it's been an amazing couple of days and football's champions league holders a real madrid crush out on tuesday or wednesday stop porto and man united through to the quarterfinals all three teams have been managed by just a marine you know who's back on our team with a new show on the touchline the show will premier later today but for now a quick look behind the scenes. to football yourself not just among those of us not to find a son. would you get on do you think so thanks i think so. well positioned to play in the in the colorful position. how would you describe yourself as a player and i think you know the culture on the pitch you know organizing speaking

the. simple and love the. show with a little bit of. still to come while away hits back at a u.s. ban we'll tell you the details after this short break. what politicians do you suppose to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. something i want to.

get you going. this is what the. report keep the. interest of all those at the water. welcome back huawei has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. over what the chinese telecoms giant calls an unconstitutional federal ban on its products the company is seeking to reverse the ban which it says has affected its

ability to compete on the american market u.s. authorities accuse wall way of trying to bypass international sanctions on iran and have requested the extradition of its c.f.o. from canada the company's also been accused of industrial espionage after allegedly trying to steal trade secrets from its competitor t. mobile washington also claims the tech giant engaged in espionage on behalf of beijing a ban on the chinese telecom company it was imposed last year barring federal agencies from purchasing or using weiwei products evangelise obsessed picks up the story. well it seems the wall way is now on the counterattack the chinese still a communication company is suing the united states government the lawsuit comes after a bill was passed in the united states last year restricting while ways business in the u.s. the chinese telecom firm claims that the national defense also known as the n.b.a. is in on constitutional legislation the united states government has long accused wall way of sealing certain secrets and spying for the chinese state but whenever

they were asked if there was any evidence they cannot provide any. hands on the british or. if. this. is. these chinese cus. you think this. is easy. joses this these. there is no. charge. but it's not only the wall ways on the counterattack it's. the company fall after she was announced that she would face extradition to the united states she filed a lawsuit against comedian the forty's claiming that her constitutional rights have been violated and the one she claims the washi was all detained none of her constitutional rights of an advisor and another is that her luggage have been

searched even though she had no idea that she was under arrest now this the united states have been pressuring a lot of the employees and the people that are dealing with while we in the tour last month all u.s. top officials michael pale and mike pence warn its european allies that if he proceed on using any of the equipment while building any of the infrastructure in the in the continent they will face consequences when dealing with the united states in january one of the employees in poland was arrested for allegedly spying for the chinese state and in the same month the united states government filed to criminal. charges against huawei claiming that they were still in u.s. sanctions on iran and that they were stealing trade secrets from american telecommunications companies now this is very interesting because both of the officials from the countries from china and the united states claim that this has nothing to do with politics but critics around the world believe that they're much closer than what they look. as islamic state continues to make its last defiant

stand in syria those who fled its remaining stronghold near the iraqi border face new threats namely hunger and illness. i didn't leave to join i sell my last second jihad for god because we are all muslims and we have three since about you hide in the koran. what about the killing slaughtering untold true that someone experience for you now to the religion they left the slum exchanged but especially in the beginning it had divisive. the conditions of death and to die in the come the problem is nobody was expecting

these kinds of numbers so it has been overwhelming and it hasn't stopped. the russian ministry of defense has released a video showing a russian fighter jet intercepting what it says was a u.s. aircraft u.s. plane it was a done a five as a boeing r c one thirty five aircraft that was heading towards russian airspace over the baltic sea after being trailed by the russian su twenty seventh the american plane changed direction and left the area. that's our global news update for this hour but i'll be back in just over thirty minutes with more thanks for tuning in.

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are. following the welcome to worlds apart from the recent clashes on the indian pakistani border while sparking invites you over a potential war between nuclear rivals provided a curious lassen in political judo the pakistani leadership confronted to strikes on its territory not only managed to defuse tensions but also turned it into a minor p.r. victory kenneth make it last while to discuss that i'm now joined by him the robot a hard pakistan's former foreign minister and currently a member of the national assembly but i'm hard it's good to talk to you again thank

you very much for the time. so good to be here now the tensions between india and pakistan obviously have a very long history and there were times not so long ago when the one that was much more likely to count on india exercising restraint and pakistan acting more belligerent lee now it seems the tables have turned what explains these dramatic reversal in posters and you know it's interesting that you point it out because we've been saying this for the last many years that pakistan has changed by this is changing for the better getting out of extremism which we unfortunately found ourselves and looked in because of you know the historical baggage of the one war and becoming a more great progressive society i think the democratic regimes the last two democratic regimes had much to do with it whereas at the same time we see india going deeper and deeper into this ultra nationalist extremist almost in the state

non-secular and all thanks to mr moody who has not been the treated his vision into the fabric of indian society i think this crisis is unfortunate as it was exposed the change pakistan worse is the change to india and if i were the world i would be very scared of what i see in india right now for both leaders it was definitely an opportunity to exercise leadership and they chose very different strategists one of them chose to flex muscles the other one i thought to rely more on his weights do you think that's more reflective of the personality of the two leaders mr modi and mr han or is it indeed more long term reflective of the country's national standing and national post. personalities certainly have a role to play i think you will hear more than mr khan's personalities mr moody's personality which has had a rule to play in what india has become in the last five years i've been screaming at the top of my lungs for the us by years that india is being let that literally

it's playing with fire and it will. be able to put this genie of extremism back in the bottle because once you allow people to become so extremist in this thought process in their action in their reaction then that becomes you so india's no more the secular shining raising india that we thought was possible and the promise to watch your friends from the moment it's a very different india in pakistan i think the process of the reintroduction of democracy and the political parties maturing has had a huge role to play in it and i think you saw the parliament acted in reacted to this crisis it was restrained it was considered it was debated the prime minister supremacy confound it very easy to take this posturing which was what the parliament and the people of pakistan wanted so it's actually a reflection of changing society behavior and changing national priorities for both countries it's a swizzle to people like you. know perhaps from this incident while i met him what

is also visible to people like myself is that india is a democracy and it is facing a major parliamentary election in may which may explain why prime minister modi may be more motivated to burnish his strongman image i've also heard people say that this could be something more long term this could be a change in india a military strategy in becoming more assertive what do you think is more likely do you think it's mostly political or do you think it's indeed strategic look i think it's a bit of both to ok because.