alleged cyber attack on a british institute that seeks to counter russian this information is now being investigated by the u.k. crime agency having no friends and evidence the head of the institute already insists the russian intelligence is the black. thing which makes the russian attack our assessment. for the proof. to state says that the fight against the high school is far from over the terrorists and their families leaving the last stronghold in syria vowed never to be defeated .

if they can make its own decisions china tells the us is the white house plans to become the first g. seven member to join beijing's massive. global infrastructure initiative. and first this hour a suspected cyber attack on a british institute that seeks to counter russian this information is now being investigated by the u.k.'s national crime agency the suspect is the russian intelligence agency g r u c a chicken as mine. 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 a lack of proof so far the only thing we send to. our assessment and it is up because we go in for and see proof is you this so 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 reckless and despicable act the russian president's spokesperson discourse has commented on these latest developments he 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. hundreds of i saw faces surrendering to the u.s. bank forces in the syrian village of by guus the last time still hold area near the iraqi border in addition to jihadists who surrendered there are also women and children at the scene some of them are wives of ice or fighters and they still believe this is not the end of the caliphate. the village of boozers been a hot spot for the syrian democratic forces for several weeks last week u.s. bank troops in syria launched an assault on what they call the last i saw in the country despite donald trump repeatedly declaring victory over i saw the top u.s.

general says the fight is far from over. reduction of the physical caliphate is a monumental military accomplishment but the fight against isis and violent extremism is far from over we have won against isis now we've won we just took over you know you kept hearing it was ninety percent ninety two percent the caliphate in syria now it's one hundred percent we just took over as general votel testified in congress recently or just today he said that. yes this is the end of the territorial state which is very important but it is not by any means the end devices there are a lot of fighters that have gone to ground and that have formed we believe that farms sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know ed at some future date there's going to still be a lot of isis trouble and we're seeing bomb attacks carried out in iraq on

a weekly basis and there have been isis attacks in northern syria as well so i says is far from over and. whatever claims about this the president is making are misleading. but make up its own mind that's the message from china's foreign ministry after the white house slam drums plans to join beijing's massive belt and roads global infrastructure project we view built and road initiatives as he made by china for china and initiative we're skeptical the italian government's indorsement will bring any sustained economic benefits to the italian people and it may end up harming italy's global reputation in the long run this position taken by the u.s. side is lawful as a major country it's really knows exactly what policies of its own interests and it can make its decisions independently. well there are reports that italy will sign up to the initiative when chinese president xi jinping visit at the end of the month at least coalition government has been talking of the benefits. one way for

us to increase trade values is to first increase investment this is done by these memorandums one belt one road it is a very fertile area for investment on his belt and road initiative is a huge global trade and infrastructure projects proposed five years ago they would link china to europe asia and africa with roads railways and ports through both land and sea routes but italy's g seven colleagues have security concerns and question china's motives with the u.s. most vocally against the head of the human sciences department at italy's in super university paolo benedict he believes that italy has all the reasons to make this deal. a political crisis because the last they are thinking about this of these guys is to act in this particular. frankly. i mean on the. national would even be. telling us what we have to do this kind of product or not

is in the way. you know a stall and we know what. we're hearing. from him about. the nation. acting for the poor the benefit also for the benefit of the man america i think will be a great that. you know we. have seen that many there were in trade between. the both of. us that we have to remind the. six sections of or pull them away or. when you see and they are all these two very beneficial for you there would be a new link between the same great continent all the way through and i don't see any

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songs. sequence where. 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. even neverland is a joint production between channel four and h.b.o. both of the alleged victims featured in the movie wade robson and james saved up for years denied that they'd been abused they were called as witnesses for the defense jackson's trial in two thousand and five another case and he'd been accused of molesting a thirteen year old boy the new revelations immediately sparked public outrage. the film itself is being condemned by the jackson estate which earlier issued a statement saying that the accuses 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 curtailing 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 the 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. those sergeant you mentioned this show a lot of evidence. 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 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 bought mitzvoth 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 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. 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. the democrat party in the us has refused to allow the conservative fox news channel to host any of its debates during the twenty twenty presidential election cycle of trump's threaten to do the same with pro democratic channels though he didn't specify which ones recent reporting in the new york on the inappropriate relationship between president trump his administration and fox news has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates therefore fox news will not serve as a media partner for the twenty twenty democratic primary debates democrats just

block fox news from holding a debate good that i think will do the same thing with the freak news networks and the radical left democrats in the general election debates. democrats made the decision to boycott the channel citing a report from the new yorker magazine about how close the term for ministrations ties are to fox news it says that the channel is essentially trumps propaganda machine the article notes that different fox news pundits are now working in trump's administration like former fox president bill shine who's now the white house communications director and also claims citing sources that trump was given advance notice of a primary debate question with the help of fox news former chief executive roger ailes. now whether the leak of a debate question on the other side of the political spectrum in twenty sixteen was actually confirmed for c.n.n. commentator donna brazil admitted that she used her position to give a heads up to hillary clinton on questions and topics at the c.n.n.

host a debate in two thousand and sixteen she was working as a party chairwoman at that time. let's bring in political commentators the mall's burgo to get some analysis on this the republicans the democrats that are going to conduct debates on rival t.v. platforms for the twenty twenty race would you make of this. oh the whole thing is so ridiculous i mean fox news is acting inappropriately with the trumpet ministration you know how many members of the obama administration are now staffing the positions at c.n.n. and m.s.n. b.c. and n.b.c. and c.b.s. and a.b.c. the whole thing is just of seen and ridiculous and of course it neal as you pointed out the donna brazil and since they don't care about what c.n.n. did with donna brazil because she was helping hillary clinton the d.n.c. stole the nomination from bernie sanders to give it to hillary clinton so they

don't care about that this is just more dementia if you will or trumped arrangement syndrome whatever you want to call it they hate crime so much so you know how we're going to take it from fox news fox news is the epitome and the body image of all that's evil in the world it's so ridiculous when i hear them say that fox news is in the tank for trucking and i watch a lot of cable news all day as part of my job and i go crazy if you watch c.n.n. and emma said b c because in the tank they all are the opposition to donald trump they're not fair and balanced they don't they're not journalists so the whole the whole premise is crazy on its face. why do you think it needed this new yorker article to program this response within the obvious to them beforehand that you know folks use as a pro republican slant. well yeah i don't i think one way or another see it motivates their base if they say all we're not going to

give a debate to fox news yet they're just like you know socialism is motivating their base their base is small their base is totally biased that base is far to the left so one way or another they were going to pull off of fox news but here's the thing they have talk show hosts on fox news but they have real journalists like like bret baer and like martha maccallum and like chris wallace they were going to be the ones to do the debate to conduct the debate not sean hannity and other and tucker carlson who i like but they're they're certainly talk show hosts and bias towards trump but they were going to conduct the debate so so to say that they're you know they're not fair they're incapable they're biased they're with trump the three people who are going to conduct things are not and they know it and they were just looking for some excuse to pull off of fox and then they came up with an excuse another liberal member of the media did an exposé which is ridiculous in my point

of view they took that said c c we're not going to be on fox news i mean whatever people think of folks news is it not fair to say that pretty much all the main channels a party line to one side or the c.n.n. amiss and b c everybody's got the people they're rooting for. absolutely and they're all it's all of them against fox and i'll say this about fox and i don't work for fox i have nothing to gain by saying this fox at least has real democrats and real liberal hosts as well shepard smith is a news guy he's to the left and they have analysts and contributors who are really democrats the republicans quote unquote that they put on c.n.n. on panels or on m.s.n. b.c. on panels they hate trump they're never trump or so there is a sect in a sense you know not to a fair representation of people who actually support trump so fox is more fair and

balanced than c.n.n. or m s n b c when it comes to representing different points of view so again the whole thing is just ridiculous it shows how intolerant the left and the democrat party has become on just about every issue and aspect you could think of so it seems to me there's not going to be many if any major channels to host any of the debates so where are they going to stay for the welcomes comandante a compromise that a fair hearing. well you know i think they're going to have fifty fifteen debates the democrats almost as many debates as they have candidates right now starting in june on m.s.n. b.c. and then n.b.c. you're telling me they can't squeeze warded to fox although fun look the democrats support every every debate they'll have a whole plethora to choose from because they're all on their side when it comes to the actual presidential debate when it's trump against whomever the nominee is for

the democrats see only trump would say what he tweeted out yesterday that you you put up on your screen that hey maybe i won't go to any debate where the fake news is involved and he means it and he could stick to that and i hope he does because too many times republicans give in and don't play the dirty game that they need to play that is played by the democrats the republicans are always it's ok we'll be fair we're not going to do this the democrats a dirty dirty dirty and i think it's time and only donald trump that's why he beat hillary because he played the game by their rules and that's what the republicans need to do. some interesting thoughts the political commentator steve malzberg my guest. pentagon has announced that it's revising its strategy in light of

a perceived threat from russia and china to strike as the 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 when the fall is 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 she bed a decade ago still annoys other contenders that norway another big claimant there 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 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 a royalty to the arctic great for the cabaret 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 over the lot in 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 that the. military is never mind destroying destroying things . you know what you're going to international appreciate thing with this storm for updates in half an hour. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for and let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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carcinogenic and you need to eradicate what's left by simply getting a lighter fluid throwing it in a big pile and setting on fire. her . hello and welcome to worlds apart from the recent clashes on the indian pakistani border while sparking 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 can it make it last while to discuss that i'm now joined by in the road by

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 it's time for you 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 col and on india exercising restraint and pakistan acting more belligerently now it seems the tables have turned what explains these dramatic reversal in posters. 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 you know to extremism which we unfortunately phoned and lived in because of you know the historical baggage of the war and becoming a more progressive society.