lawyer i mean we had james komi who was practically a criminal accomplice in helping hillary evade prosecution or conviction or even charges for what she did and this is this is not even a minute factor this is the main factors that the f.b.i. is no longer an objective and i guess you could say ethical law enforcement agency . which is not international who just joined us this is the scene in central paris our breaking news story a huge fire is engulfed the iconic not saddam cathedral that in the french capital president. as abandoned his plans for the day and he's rushed to the scene he's now arrived along with his prime minister edward philippe said earlier in a suite this was a national tragedy french media reporting the fire brigade is saying that it's potentially linked to renovation work very expensive multi million dollar operation

to try and renovate because and you can see a lot of the scaffolding that was being used in that in your live pictures now and you can see firefighters have been working relentlessly for the last few hours to try and extinguish this blaze but with no real signs of success so far that sadly familiar orange glow still filling up the night time skyline in central paris and hundreds of thousands of people have gathered at a safe distance that being held at distance by your thirties they have gathered in the streets of paris on the bridges of the capital and they're watching with heavy hearts and sad eyes but they're watching people unable to tell you tear themselves away from seeing what has been unfolding this evening. we will be speaking to our correspondents all the dubious species close by to the same forces be keeping us up to date with speaking to her very shortly reports that have come in over the last couple of hours have sent. the roof of not saddam cathedral has completely

collapsed they came in a short time after. video reached the of the famous spire coming down this is that video. as you can see it's a couple of hours earlier still light in the french capital a fire out of control. too much for the iconic spire that would have been visible for miles around in paris for the millions twelve million tourists a year drawn. to visit not a damn cathedral for its history its beauty many worshippers of the catholic church visit of course it's a centerpiece for the catholic church in paris and that iconic tower. spire i should say toppled a couple of hours ago by the ferocious nature of this fire and it still burns on you see the scaffolding there was renovation work underway is perhaps the according

to the author is nobody knows at this point although an official investigation is already underway and those ladies pictures this the scene a couple of hours ago you see just how dangerous the situation was hence the security barriers that you can see on our pictures people are being kept at a very safe distance here and thank goodness no reports of any injuries whatsoever at this point but the last scene surnames of history and iconic damage well that is being described as a tragedy by many leading figures around the world we've heard from john claude young to the president of the commission who said this was a tragedy for all humanity. the most visited tourist attraction in france it's quite rival the eiffel tower can't match it in numbers or in history. ok

this is the saying we've been covering this story this breaking news story from central paris for the last few hours the fire still rages on. we are anticipating a live comment from the french president emanuel micron he has arrived along with his prime minister who should be hearing from them shortly. in the meantime though let's catch up with the days of the stories. first a prominent palestinian activist has been prevented from flying to the united states from israel despite having a valid visa obama guti is the co-founder of the movement to boycott israel and what it considers the jewish state suppression of palestine we spoke to him and got a story. i was. prevented from boarding a flight tel aviv airport because under instructions from the u.s. consulate u.s. immigration have banned me from entering the u.s. despite having a valid visa and valid travel documents we see this as outsourcing it's

mccarthy antidemocratic repression against the b.d.s. movement for human rights in palestine to the united states the us administration has been mobilized now to do israel's bidding and trying to silence palestinian israeli and international human rights defenders who are active in this extremely important and very effective nonviolent b.d.'s movement. human rights groups have expressed outrage at washington's decision calling it the politicized politicize ation of borders so far american or thirty seven refused to comment they insist all information relating to the case is confidential or barghouti was traveling to the u.s. to take part in a speaking tour with several prominent universities including panel discussions with policymakers and journalists barghouti co-founded the boycott divestment and sanctions movement and is b.d.s. in two thousand and five and calls on the international community to stop supporting israel and its companies but also seeks to return west bank territory to

palestinians in turn israel accuses the movement of being anti semitic than dyke is the director of the jerusalem center for public affairs who says the decision to deny barghouti entry was not arbitrary. i think that is the that's the argument that we're hearing all over the place is that this is what they call the shutting of mouse in the and the closing of free and the prohibition of free speech but this is not the issue of omar barghouti omar barghouti from the united states' point of view as a foreign agent with terror links the islamic jihad p f l p hamas and other designated terror get as asians by the united states in europe so they don't like to have those types of terror linked individuals coming into the united states. to date over half of all u.s. states have introduced laws penalizing boycotts against israel earlier this year the senate passed a bill that allowed states to terminate contracts with entities that support the

boycott movement. says that this legislation comes from fear and they could be growing in popularity. the u.s. supreme court ruled that boycotts for political social and economic change are considered free speech protected by the first amendment of the us constitution so all those twenty seven states are following israel's orders basically but they're violating their own u.s. constitution we will challenge that we are challenging that in u.s. courts a.c.l.u. is challenging at least three states on their antidemocratic. laws and we think we will prevail in that struggle israel is trying to suppress b.d.s. from above by passing laws because it has miserably failed to stop the immense growth of the movement at the grassroots level among the unions churches women's groups energy beauty groups and so on and so forth. ok back to our

breaking news story and that fire in central paris that not one cathedral you can see on your screen that continues to burn let's go live to charlotte dubiously our correspondent is the same the not. sky or ministry suddenly lit up by that glow of the blaze what more details can you tell us about what's been transpiring. indeed as it's getting dark it's easier to see how big that fire still is inside the center of not it's been burning now for the last few hours the firefighters have been working furiously away trying to dampen down those flames but those flames still licking away at this iconic building at the center of paris president matt corn has already been at the scene to try and get a sense of what's going on but of course it's far too early to have any clear idea of how much has been damaged inside this building this building of eight hundred

and fifty years it was undergoing restoration after the french catholic church made an appeal for donations last year because this classic french gothic architecture church was actually crumbling away that appeal saw donations poor in and those restoration works have been undergoing but we do understand that the roof of and not down cathedral as well as the spire on the inside have both collapsed and the intense heat of those flames flames that when we arrived at the scene just a few hours ago the smoke was pluming out and actually bringing some of the embers all of the inside of not to put their arm and floating them across the prison sky they were actually landing on us where we stand around a hundred and fifty meters away from this iconic building visited by around twelve million people every year and something that really sticks at the heart for

parisians i've been speaking to people in the crowds who've been just gobsmacked what's happening describing it it's tragic tass trophy and some people saying you know what we're seeing here. why is the culture of france going up in flames and no matter how hot this fire fighters work to try and dampen those flames down in matter how hard they work to try and get this fire and control the damage has already been done and not will never be the cathedral it once was a very sad scene many people calling it a tragedy in central paris our correspondent charlotte do reporting live this is the scene and if any of you at home are just wondering to yourselves a question that was actually posed via twitter by the u.s. president of trump short while ago when he put the question perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. well there's been

a response clearly paying attention french authorities response come from france's civil security agency said. all means excepts water dropping aircraft have been used on the cathedral the reason for that being the fear that the sheer weight of the water could cause the entire structure to collapse we know already that the spire has been toppled and other reports saying the entire roof collapsed the fear of course the most effective use of water up in africa aircraft could actually be a fatal blow to the in. structure. and we'll be staying with this story of course throughout the evening here on international but let's go to some of our the stories from today now. living next to the chinese tech giants were way which has been making headlines for

plenty of wrong reasons in recent months amid claims that its products used to help spy on countries for beijing now though the belgian center for cyber security says that it's found no evidence the company's technologies pose an isa. what a threat he to oliver has been. the belgium center for cyber security the c.c.p. of completed well the main part of their investigation into chinese telecommunications giant who are way they say that they pose no threat to the security in belgium to cyber security in belgium they say they will continue monitoring the situation however this whole investigation was started amid allegations that who are way products could be used for spying to date we do not have sufficient evidence to establish a new threat coming from quote a final report on the issue will not be produced as yet because this edition is still going more neutered. prime minister sharon's michel hasn't made any statement

as of yet he had said he would hold back comment until he heard from the c c b a that comment seemingly at the bottom of his to do pile right now but the one group that have been very vocal against her away and continue to be very vocal is the united states now allegations coming from the u.s. leveled at the chinese telecommunications giant include that they are spying on governments for beijing that they're stealing intellectual property that they used in money laundering and in bank wire fraud as it stands across the e.u. there's no unifying attitude towards who are way products here in germany there was draft legislation put forward that would make. a increased standards on telecommunication companies operating within germany and as it stands that could push out of the market that prompted applause from the united states saying we need

more like this please it's hard to see how chinese technology would meet that standard at this point we're looking for governments to adopt security standards like we're seeing in germany however the standards laid out in the draft proposal by the german government aren't that difficult for the way to live up to and then of course there was also the incident that followed the u.s. telling germany that they shouldn't use a product that prompted i'm going to merkel the german chancellor to say you don't tell us whose products we should be using for our own security methods what we're hearing though from the chinese side from who are way themselves is they deny all of the allegations and charges that are being brought against them. the british this is. just. the. so.

this is going to continue for some time yet though the big question that's being asked is all these concerns that are being raised by the united states a genuine concern for the security of their european allies or is it more along the lines of they want to cut the chinese telecommunications giant out of the market and convince the european partners that for security services they should buy u.s. products political analyst joseph chang thinks that the findings by the cybersecurity center could mean the e.u. doesn't now follow the united states bad. well you know. if you were to be. held in the. country more who johnny the american boy core of why wait at the moment he brought the

million. if you. know and who are right i'm in agreement. on the even minor allowing your union when we have. nothing no treatment the. government will continue. despite the fact that no american agreement. who told the president of the war is very likely. the world health organization says the cases of measles worldwide is have risen three hundred percent in the first three months of twenty nineteen compared with the same period last year this comes as the united nations children's fund unicef sounded the alarm over the spread of anti vaccination narratives are the what

messenger service into the social media platforms it claims it's led to a sharp rise in people refusing vaccinations in india and hence an elevated risk of a disease outbreak. you have seeing a fellow below it is emerging is the use of social media and the use of mass media to spread rumors regarding roxy and that are given to selected how do. we saw them only socially review i don't want to know them stage of by then you are in the states like drought which is invested in india and other parts like the believe it was predominately from those already seen we're going to preemptive steps we're getting really close. romulan media holding during the visual media and our own david with positive stories countered with the right information. messaging in the public space. reports in some cases skills have prevented health

officials from vaccinating students on a new delhi parents are opposing vaccinations due to rumors spread they need three whatsapp and facebook some of the phones messages in the vaccines are linked to autism and other disorders. every year more than one hundred thousand people die from measles across the globe a third of the cases happen in india according to unicef another type of communicable disease rubella causes tens of thousands of birth defects in the country each year social media lawyer yeah cohen explains our misinformation is being spread. in india it is estimated it did they are about three hundred million what's up uses so the influence of this media is absolutely incredible each piece becoming one of the most common sources of communication in the country now the reason why facebook acquired what's up was in order to gather more in moral

data about people take for example a situation where a person has been saint and the vaccination propaganda that person is very likely later on in the day to see more material about on the vaccinations appearing on facebook it's about the interaction between the different apps did facebook cause we choose our facebook itself what's up an instagram so the results system here. facebook is good the power. to stop at least to an extent because one platform feeds the other up. linda is not alone in falling victim to fake news about vaccinations this year the u.s. registered one of the biggest outbreaks of measles in almost two decades something that has been put down to misinformation posted on various social media platforms facebook for its part has already vowed to reduce the ranking of groups and pages

that spread anti vaccination messages. ok let's go back to our top story this evening go you can see it there on the screen latest pictures of the huge fire that's engulfed the iconic knocked down cathedral in paris this is the scene live that fire that has been burning for several hours now the damage. can't be assessed it's being called a tragedy though by world leaders president obama. he has now arrived at the scene we've seen pictures of him and the french prime minister has declared this a national tragedy. the french media they've been quoting the fire brigade saying that the fire is potentially linked to renovation work he saw the scaffolding there from it it's a multimillion dollar project underway on the cathedral suspicions at this point nothing more that this may have been because of the blaze reports say the roof has

completely collapsed and earlier we saw this seems the iconic tower it stood over two thousand feet tall completely leveled by the forces of nature. the fire really running wild at this point has been down been down slightly by the continue around the clock efforts of the firefighters but yet still it burns . is prices are at work inside that cathedral and there has been an attempt been reported by the emergency services to try and salvage save some of them it's not looking good though because we've yet to hear any official confirmation of a single firefighter managing to step inside the building such as been there the range of this fire it's spread right across the building to several of the rectangular famous for a tangle of towers on the cathedral you can see some of the firefighters have managed to climb the exterior to one of those towers but yet it's yet no

confirmation of anybody managed to make it inside thank goodness we're hearing no reports of any injuries or worse. members of the public they were quickly evacuated from the. immediate proximity of the building they've been held at a safe distance. emergency services although it is clear that this is can really captivated the. the people in the french capital this evening hundreds of thousands stood around security cordons watching the blaze stood on bridges and it's a very sad day that's the reason not just that this. of something of great interest to people people have been really saddened by this a beautiful building historic and many people calling this as i mentioned a tragedy for france.

welcome back to that story but in the meantime still in u.s. politics twenty twenty u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders has been lashing out at the think tank that even belongs to his own party is accuse the center of american progress of stirring up infighting and of damaging the democrats' hopes of taking back the white house and i and other democratic candidates are running campaigns based on principles and ideas and not engaging in mudslinging or personal attacks on each other meanwhile the center for american progress is using its resources to smear sen it's a booker senator warren and myself among others this is hardly the way to build unity or to win the general election the center for american progress promotes none left candidates within the democrats in two and sixteen it through its weight behind hillary clinton presidential hopeful alvin vora from the libertarian party thinks that the center is establishment through and through in all parties you're going to see something tanks there are basically designed to promote the

establishment values center for american progress certainly does that they're very cautious about pushing the agendas that are going to be frightening to powerful lobbyist to moneyed interests because that damages their own funding and they're going to keep on trying to do everything and they carry on to push the establishment interest and so it's not necessarily about hillary clinton specifically but rather promoting establishment candidates generally. first on the bernie sanders is complained about the way the democratic party nominates his presidential candidates his criticisms of so-called superdelegates to reforms last year those kind of open experience now they are unlikely to have much impact. its campaign season once again in the united states and with trump as the presumptive nominee for reelection on the republican ticket it's the democratic primary that is the focus so far there are eighteen different candidates running for president as

a democrat and at this point it's expected that the number may increase. as i'm running for president and i'm running to serve you as the next president of the united states of america i am a candidate i announce my candidacy i now it's my candidacy same i'm running for president i'm filing an exploratory committee for a city i stayed. last time the democratic primary was a bit of a circus with bernie sanders supporters declaring that the process was rigged against them there will be threatened bernie sanders supporters clashing in nevada angry bernie sanders supporters fighting over delegates in nevada tonight coming to represent a nasty few shaking up the democratic party now not every vote counts the same when it comes to nominating the democratic party's candidate the infamous super delegates appointed by party bigwigs have the ability to overturn the popular vote over four hundred of these superdelegates in their k.

did their support for secretary clinton before everyone else was in the race but now the democratic party has changed the rules to make everything fair well sort of we passed major reforms that will not only put our next presidential nominee in the strongest position possible but will help us elect democrats up and down the ballot across the country these reforms will help grow our policy unite democrats and restore voters trust by making our twenty twenty nominating process. the most inclusive and transparent in our history now this time around the superdelegates won't get to vote at the convention unless there is no clear majority in the first ballot however at this point with eighteen different candidates in the race none of which are polling above thirty two percent it's pretty likely that will happen and that might actually be part of the plan for twenty twenty democrats jampacked field is already on track to surpass the republican seventeen way rumble of twenty sixteen and lacks an obvious front runner

at the dizzying pace small and large dollar donors are bankrolling their favorite hopefuls many democrats could have the financial wherewithal and even pressure from their backers to campaign deep into the primary calendar dramatically increasing the odds no candidate will capture a majority by the convention if the superdelegates do end up voting it's not clear who they would support however it's pretty clear who they would not support at this point bernie sanders is favored in leading in many polls among rank and file democrats however he's pretty hated by the party elite a socialist candidate is more dangerous to this company country as far as the strength and well being of our country the donald trump i would vote for donald trump a despicable human being twenty sixteen was not the first time that things got messy at the democratic national convention back in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when the democratic party selected a candidate who supported the vietnam war things got ugly outside the convention on the streets of chicago. so what the democratic party still stinging from tribes

upset victory and with a lot of internal strife and divisions it's starting to look like primary season might become a little bit chaotic for the oldest party in america the changes that we're seeing in the democratic primary are basically joke changes it this is purely an empty p.r. move in two thousand and sixteen the democratic party had to resort to pretty extreme maneuvers to get hand the election to the established. candidate but note the way that they did that was not just about superdelegates they also gave for example clinton the debate questions beforehand the democratic party will be able to do this just as long as democratic voters let them get away with it.

we came here where did you work before you came here when as you live well death row i'm in many us states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor of the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up the right to live among us somebody even proven innocent doctor years on death row but how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. join me every thursday on the alex salmond's show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then.

breaks out of one of the world's most iconic cathedrals not saddam in paris leading to the medieval spot collapsing in flames. shooting the songs now in jail for. and police hold a media conference outside to show their support for a man they see as a hero because the media shock was simple. and human rights organizations cry foul after palestinian activist is denied entry to the united states we spoke to mark barghouti about his experience. with the u.s. administration has been mobilized now to do israel's bidding trying to silence.