an alleged attack on the british institute that seeks to counter russian descent from nation 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 explained. make sense to the russians. how distressed them to be so we don't know for and the proof is you. also this hour the cia will no longer need to say how many civilians its drone strikes killed after new order by president trump. i mean. and fans of pop legend michael jackson vent their fury over a new documentary alleging the star committed child. should not be talking about

michael jackson's music michael jackson's music was created through decades of also a lot of suffering every time a michael jackson song comes on i don't for myself i'm going to think differently about it. you're watching our show international for your live news update this hour into 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. artes and associates argument has more on the story. 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 of this think tank and at the same time we're hearing that a former 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 the only thing we send to. our assessment and it is up because we're going to go for and see proof this is the g.r.u. 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 solsbury scandal the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible. is criminal and we think you're likely to do it was his decision it was highly likely that russia was responsible for. this wrecked this despicable act the russian president's spokesperson discourse has commented on these latest developments he's 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. u.s. intelligence agencies like the cia will no longer have to make public the number of civilians killed by their drone strikes but after an executive order from president donald trump recent being an obama air directive requiring annual reports on noncombatant casualties however the military will have to keep revealing those figures killed more often is 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 essentially 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 and trumps 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 with fighting wars and they're doing reports and releasing it to the public to the public because the enemy the enemy returns reports a study every line of those reports of the profit reports let him do 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 to be under the cover of darkness i think what it really means is that donald trump wants to be able to have the pentagon immunity and impunity i think that they want to make sure that lockheed martin made an embarrassing you know their. major defense contractors can continue to sell the jones in to sell their weapons this is a very very foolish way both reduce pollution is dangerous and his erratic incentive to go and do all of those things don't contribute toward. the pentagon has announced it's revising its arctics try to do in light of

a perceived threat from russia and china have picks 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 followers most closely to the control of the area updated 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 there should be some little ice 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 she bed 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 than each to get involved we need to protect our national interests we will be launching our new defense arctic strategy in 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 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 has beat almost no progress on the diplomatic front be a jew 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 go 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 its its troops as 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 american pop star michael jackson have protested outside a top u.k. t.v. channel or its documentary alleging child abuse. i mean they've come to voice their anger over a new documentary featuring interviews with two men who claimed they were abused by jackson as children since the movie premiered back in january of global reaction has followed with radio stations in canada and new zealand dropping jackson songs. 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 save chuck for years denied they had been abused they were even called as witnesses for the defense at jackson's trial in two thousand and five when he was accused of molesting a thirteen year old boy the new revelations immediately 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 debated 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 arts 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 quite cross-examine with actual evidence or other than you know interviews and documentaries that are. those sergeant you mentioned this show a lot of evidence. yeah well it's an evidence that it's not been again cross-examined in the court of law it's irrefutable 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

a 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 in 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've been looking to start 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 you know the fly some of them admitted those fair 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. to sports now where it's been an exciting couple of days in football's champions league title holders real madrid crashed out on tuesday well when so stop porto and man united through to the quarterfinals all three teams have one thing in common they were all once managed by just the marine you who's back on our team with a new show on the touchline the show will premiere later today but for now here's a little taste. the we're not afraid to to play it a bit of a guy's assured great. attitude you know that put the needle in. in the war when things go wrong. everybody goals in the direction of the guilty man those of. us are not the results of phenomenal results eventis man city barcelona and buying to take that last for local of it i would go with

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welcome back huawei has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. over what the chinese telecom 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 the u.s. authorities accuse wall way of trying to bypass international sanctions on iran and have requested the extradition of a c.f.l. from canada the company has 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 was imposed last year for in federal agencies from purchasing or using while way products evangelist 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 cio of stealing certain secrets and spying for the chinese state but whenever they were asked if there was any evidence they cannot provide any the u.s. as you know on the british street is. just. you know in this case. these chinese cus. you think this suit. is easy. joses said it was the easter weekend there is no. charge. but it's not only the wall weighs on the counterattack it's. the company's c.e.o.

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 in the one she claims the washy was all detained none have a constitutional rights of an advisor and another is that her luggage have been searched even though she had no idea she was under arrest now this the united states pressuring a lot of the employees and people that are dealing with while we're 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 file to criminal. just like just claiming that they were scorned u.s. sanctions on iran and that they were stealing trade secrets from america to look communications 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 thoughts are much closer than what you look. political analyst just chang believes the whole wall way case is being used as leverage and the u.s. china trade negotiations. what the chinese authorities involved i would like to demonstrate is that the chinese. cooperation the chinese and the price fall why has done nothing wrong and then at the same time but also. tried to persuade the impact that it is ready to go to court to prove it in those terms to prove that the united states government has acted illegally from the american. government's point of the deal the process is more meant to exert pressure on the wall was

to exert pressure on the chinese government in the trade negotiations the trade macos stations can be resolved in the united states. that it. is ready to make concessions and to follow. international intellectual property rights for collations then these cases become significant and the american government government may well be willing to settle that case. you made a generous man. as islamic state continues to make its last defiant stand in syria those who fled its remaining stronghold near the iraqi border faced 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 very since about jihad in the qur'an. what about the killings let's return to a truth that i let someone experience for me an out of their religion they left these clerics tanks but especially in the beginning it had divisive. the conditions are definitely dying in the county the problem is nobody was expecting these kinds of numbers so it has been overwhelming and it hasn't stopped .

that's a wrap up of the day's top headlines for this hour but don't forget you can always find us on your favorite social media platforms such as twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports. my son was doing drugs my nephew's was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in a. population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for . sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade

it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. the maternity town the slums go in and you may never get out some sort of the most of. my teenage gang rules here. go to one of the movie then let the mind of those who were. named you will be. told.

you. might have seen her. and now it's looking for the yeah. and melanie when nobody knew who. you were the monkey and the little musical i see. skies are this is the car as a route for us my radio voice. sounds good because you have a face for radio max but for a wario. you know it's hilarious is when michael cohen was in front of the

senate this past week or congress whatever you know testifying he said that donald trump his client made him send up to about five hundred threatening letters and when i was listening to that i was like you know i received threatening letters from lawyers and i tell threatening to tell lawyers to some threatening letters from me i mean does a lawyer ever write a kind letter right so i went to google to search threatening letter from to see how frequent it is and sure enough threatening letter from lawyer was the first and the second option number three was threatening letter from t.v. license saying i the u.k. where you know it's not state funded b.b.c. but you will be arrested if you don't pay your t.v. license number four are threatening letter from santa. like what was.

threatening letter from santa who doesn't that and that i heard what santa has shaken folks down what's this all about to me to me i don't like the mocha cookies list you so i'm going to deprive you of this year's present what it means writing a letter from santa claus it doesn't make any sense that was the number four option ahead of threatening letter from solicitor which is a lawyer in the u.k. employer landlord him r c which is the i.r.s. of the u.k. and i.r.s. so centers pretty threatening it could kind of fit in with your casino gulag sort of system is like to me you didn't ask for enough goods you know how we got to keep the. if you're just asking for a little football this is set the look. for me or you will begin a little red truck this year. due to not only were you not good you know who's naughty very naughty but. we didn't like the way you post in the social media so we're going to have to cut you out of the bag of goodies as you and i who

else was not easy this year in the u.k. who cares a headline from just a week or two ago bankrupt businessman set fire to seventy thousand pounds cash after telling creditors he would rather burn the money than pay them court hears official said bird of prey expert david lowe's bird seventy one was consumed with hatred towards the insolvency practitioners he owed so that julie burned a bundle of cash to avoid paying them right so he burned the money this bird of prey expert burned his lawyer should burn the money off of money should be burned you know that's the way it goes i mean that's what we need to do we need.