all charges against the russian investigative journalist golan off dropped with the authorities saying that those responsible for his case have been suspended. messages suggest the corruption case against brazil's former president lula da silva was in fine taste designed to destroy his reelection bid. we look at the controversial figure whose death in syria is being mourned by parts of the mainstream media outlets are dumping the man who didn't danger how this 40 against president assad praised the $911.00 attacks a rebel i can't. face

are joining us this evening this is our. russian officials have announced that they have dropped the criminal case against russian investigative journalists who had been arrested for the illegal possession of drugs the evidence gathered against was being reexamined and found inviolate with more his artie's my guess. the head of russia's narcotics police has been fired the police officers who carried out the arrest there they've been suspended they're under investigation by internal affairs over how they carried out the arrest whether they use too much force whether through the legal itself they're also investigating the investigation which led to the arrest the see where the police went beyond the scope of their powers where they were where they had legitimate evidence proved to carry out those arrests and

i'm sure they'll be many more people fired because this was this was a huge scandal especially in russia very very resonant nevertheless for him the trial is now over. according to the results of forensic biological fingerprints and genetic testing we made a decision to stop the criminal prosecution of event go in of due to the lack of evidence of his participation in a crime the charges are dropped all charges dropped he's been released from house arrest the investigation is now over the investigation is switched to the investigators whether what they did was lawful and whether the went beyond the scope of their powers abused. their powers never the seas probably a lot happier today than he was yesterday in this case of course it's. media and public but it all started when he was arrested in on friday that's when the news

went public 1st police said that during the arrest they found 5 packages containers with method room a drug inside them this is all coming from the police the investigators that have now been suspended immediately after his arrest the controversy began because he said that they had been planted the drugs had been planted on him and add his house . urine tests other tests carried out by medics showed that he had new drugs in his system nevertheless police tried to charge him with the accusation was that he was part of a drug ring his colleagues reacted straightaway the ones that work at medusa the outlet the publication where he works they didn't believe the charges they believed that they were falsified they knew him they didn't believe that he could do such a thing you know sell drugs he's respected journalist there was

a lot of outrage over the arrested self because apparently he said he was assaulted by a police officer he was taken to hospital the released with the doctor saying that there was nothing serious and this scandal exploded every day it got bigger and bigger and bigger went global really do we have politicians on the other you know in the western hemisphere talking about this 1st began with russian journalists they came out in solidarity russia's 3 biggest newspapers running with the same headline front page saying we are ivan so in total solidarity with and then it was the t.v. channels the joined in our editing chief margarita simonyan she came out and supported him. even the politicians we had like me a putin spokes person come out in support of him and you know with the pressure building and building perhaps. that that is what pushed the ministry of interior to

start looking at things seriously to see whether something that gone wrong because we would had protests public protests was just journalists and politicians public protests in front of the ministry of interior that really got things go and. scandals erupted in brazil after leak messages suggest a corruption case gets the country's former president lula da silva was put. motivated the messages published by investigative news side the intercept bid to show a judge discussing the probe with prosecutors supporters of the say the league confirms their fears the case was a stitch up designed to prevent him from winning reelection last year the probe itself was part of brazil's biggest anti corruption crusade it's known as operation car wash dozens of high level politicians imprisoned religious civil was sentenced to almost a decade behind bars for corruption of money laundering including for accepting

a luxury apartment in exchange for state contracts he denies though ever owning it delete messages suggest prosecutors themselves questioned the strength of the evidence against him one of the journalists behind the revelation said they made sure the messages were genuine. we waited and waited for a response from the prosecutors for them to prove that the messages were genuine that's why we were very cautious and scrupulous recipe when you work with explosive material like this you need to be absolutely certain that what you publish is true the prosecutors and the judge haven't publicly expressed doubts about the messages they know they're genuine as do we. and the leaks have also led to accusations the judge gave biased advice to prosecute the war details. lula da silva who served as president of brazil from 2003 until 2010 is still wildly popular in that country brazilians associate him with good economic times when living standards

were rising now a newly leaked conversation sheds some light on why he is serving a 12 year prison sentence for corruption it turns out that his trial the judge and the prosecutor were in cahoots these are some of the private conversations that took place during the trial with judge mauro seemingly instructing the prosecutor about how to proceed with the case. hasn't it been a long time without an operation you cannot make that kind of mistake now the thing called with a that's a good idea and a prosecutor asking the judge for advice what do you think of these crazy statements from the workers' party national board should with fish to rebut well into silver has long maintained his innocence he says the entire case was a set up he has named names. or had a political life and all of a sudden i was convicted for money laundering and organized crime it was all a lie acetylcholine i was by the federal police the public prosecutor's office someone more of who took on the investigation with more i didn't need any proof of

crimes committed because they all had a plan in mind the plan was to paint the workers' party as a criminal organization with a criminal boss who happens to be made well it seems the new links show that lead to civil was right here is an extract where the judge is seemingly directing the prosecutor and the prosecutor himself isn't moving his case is a weak. source and for me that the contact person is annoyed at having been asked to see draft property transfer deeds for one of the x. president's children apparently the person would be willing to provide the information and therefore passing it along the source is serious. they will say that we're accusing based on newspaper articles and for gyal evidence and here is what makes it even more scandalous lloyd to silva's imprisonment is what prevented him from running for president last year and take a look at the polls just silva had a pretty solid lead so that it also narrow who won the election after his main opponent was blocked from running actually promoted judge morrow after he took

office i salute. the only man in brazil who's proving that we can do politics differently now the judge seems to think he didn't do anything wrong he says that the real crime is that these conversations have been made public it is regrettable that the person responsible for the criminal hacking of the prosecutor's cell phones has not been identified as the source there is no sign of any abnormality or providing direction since a magistrate despite information being taken out of context and the sensationalism of the articles known as it was also those accusations published by the intercept are not true and their origin is linked to a criminal hack even though i don't acknowledge the trustworthiness of the messages realized that they can create some discomfort for some people who are deeply sorry about that leak telegram conversations give the impression that the silver was railroaded in order to keep him off the ballot and there's more to come to me and

we are continuing our work on the case as we said these are just off 1st reports we have a lot of information we have analyzed i think only one percent of the conversations we will publish materials from these messages are. parts of the mainstream media in the syrian opposition a morning a controversial figure that there branding a rebel icon who died in the battle against syrian government forces in homs province according to his rebel faction fighters role in syria's uprising was the subject of an award winning documentary the goalkeeper for the country's youth football team again prominence for staging. protests against president assad and singing songs praising the revolution some of those songs the values that seem to go completely against those of western countries fighting islamic state in the country he's done of course explains a warning his report contains some scenes of an execution. he became the poster boy of the syrian uprising or shall we say the voice ringback.

and his death in battle against government forces apparently made him a fallen hero in the eyes of the media syrian football and singer of revolution killed in conflict syrian soccer goalie who became rebel i can dies in battle. syrian soccer star symbol of free vault dies after battle. that also roots was a former syrian footballer who turned rebel fighter and not just any rebel fighter oh no he became an icon of the fight against bashar al assad so he wasn't shying away from speaking the truth here's one of the so-called singer of the revolutions greatest hits judge for yourself.

perhaps the lyrics don't exactly communicate the artist's intended message that's all right though also it was much more articulate about his political beliefs in this 2014 interview about the vision of what we do blame islamic state. but that blame comes with love because we know that these 2 groups and not politicized and have the same goals as us they are working for god and they care about islam and muslims no you didn't hear that wrong the same goals as islamic state and apparently 911 was a great accomplishment to. was good you. know.

there are those in the media who acknowledge it's problematic characteristics but for them a little elbow rubbing with terrorist groups shouldn't stand between him and his rightful page in the history books. some individuals celebrated as heroes make you doubt all stories of heroes in history books others like abdul basset also root not inspire of but despite his flaws make those stories highly plausible he's a true legend and his story is well documented may his soul rest in peace so if these guys got an oscar. abdul deserves a grammy no less as in other. kovar western operations it

becomes important to to maintain this sense of plausible deniability it's clearly been useful for for the us and the us media to maintain. this whole idea of there being moderate democratic forces among the rebels in syria but clearly most of the groups fighting the government were really extreme islamist groups that's the reality and these were the groups that the cia and and its allies it's british and french and saudi and qatari and turkish allies were supporting and arming from the very early stages of this conflict u.k. mobile phone companies press the government to make a final decision on war ways involvement in the country a lot more on that story after this break.

you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufactured to send to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final.

lift certainly the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. welcome back mobile phone networks in the united kingdom are calling on the government to clarify stunt someone way that's according to the b.b.c. we says it's obscene to drive less if i'm industry leaders to the british cabinet secretary that apparently concerned the chinese tech giant will be allowed to supply the new 5 g. network with details. they're concerned over the lack of clarity on walk away they've asked for an agent meeting with the government in order to discuss those concerns essentially there's a sense that they've been left sort of hanging over the government's indecision

over whether or not to greenlights the use of huawei technology in the rollout of the 5 g. network here in the u.k. so as a result these industry bosses khant invest in vital infrastructure going forward for the government they've stressed the importance of security above all else take a lesson the security and resilience of the key still to come snap works is of paramount importance we have robust procedures in place to manage critics to national security and are committed to the highest possible security standards while the industry has questions for the government over while away the government's got questions to walk away and it was actually one ways cyber security officer who was. was giving on says in front of a committee of m.p.'s publicly yesterday and the politicians repeatedly asked him about wild ways alleged links to the chinese states and about alleged human rights

abuses as well and his repeated was that while way works within the framework of the nor should we do business with a company that is complicit in utility pieces he should do business with all companies that stick to the little there's a lot of northern china isn't that just like there was a lot of law in nazi germany some laws are good little some was a bad move some companies totalitarian repressive one party states nothing to say communist china doesn't that put you see. who it would be for. your company is right you for whom i'm your son should. be your soldiers to the german government your research. we will. paint a different picture and of course there are strong arguments on both sides on the one hand you've got the u.s. pressuring the u.k. to reject qual way technology saying that it presents

a danger to national security and on the other hand there's the opinion that in measured doses only on certain parts of the 5 g. network using while way can be perfectly safe and moreover is actually vital for the future of britain as sort of a front runner in the lead technologically and so far this debate has been very political but now we're seeing industry step in and say actually we need clarity on what happens with wall way. new york times has officially stopped publishing political cartoons the move comes just over a month since there was a strong backlash against a controversial cartoon featuring the blind president donald trump. seeing guy israeli prime minister the newspaper made the announcement after one of its cartoonists leaked the plants. the new york times will end all political cartoons

are just learned we suffer through the publisher syndicated new to new york to the cause the scandal for me this is the end of an adventure that begin to him 2 years ago. besides announcing the newspaper's decision cartoonist patrick sharp complained about the moralistic mobs influencing the news rooms however he also slammed the image saying it should never of run in the best newspaper of the world the new york times issued an apology soon after the cartoon was published. the cartoonist sponsible for the image fired back about controversy claiming the backlash was fabricated by quote jewish propaganda he also emphasized that his art had a political and religious meaning the decision of the new york times to abandon political cartoons completely has caused an uproar on twitter. the n.y.t. really did fail this time decision not to run political cartoons by n.y.t. opinion is spineless we need political humor now more than ever 4 years ago the

new york times it was all just see surely now they're no longer publishing cartoons new york times are not throughout to be with the bathwater yes there is a terrible lapse in judgment to print that cartoon so par gys and have a keener i freak readers 3 offensive critique john and art from completely. well who better to give us some informed comment on this than a political cartoonist also an author joins me ted i only just caught up with this story on 1st inspection it twice shocking surprising i mean political cartoons are a great form of science are you know they inform and entertain at the same time what do you think about this decision. well i'm a little self interested as a political cartoonist myself but i'm also a student of the form and it goes back thousands of years into society's had political cartoons and i suspect that the combination of pointed words and images is not going to go away because of this decision but that said this is

a pretty despicable series of events i mean 1st of all i don't think we need to throw tonio the portuguese cartoonist under the bus there really is it's highly debatable whether his cartoon was anti-semitic or not and i think to portray him as an anti-semite despite the fact that he repeatedly has denied it is really egregious and something that many of my colleagues probably should have spoken out against to months ago when he got thrown under the bus by the new york times and now you have the new york times firing its own syndicate by the way tony a cartoon was distributed by the new york times syndicate so they literally fired themselves the cartoonist who ran the editors who ran the cartoons are still working at the new york times and the and now they're firing to cartoonist who had nothing to do with the cartoon in question so i mean i've never heard of a political cartoonist getting fired over a cartoon that he did not draw that doesn't happen in authoritarian states

it doesn't it did not happen it is just does not happen so the new york times has literally declared nuclear war against my art form they've decided that all the traditional editorial cartoons that depict a strong opinion about the events of the day will no longer appear there and it's a great concern considering the outsized reputation and influence of the new york times here in the united states like i said i haven't even seen i have to be honest the actual card in question but it doesn't change the fact that as you said the baby's being thrown out with the bathwater here that that the base effectively banning all political call to arms full stop when that what on earth would motivate such a decision yes said the cult in itself let's say people found it offensive maybe cross the line that's not a raise and surely to to do way with political culture is altogether. well i've had conversations with the top editors at the new york times over the years about this

topic and probably the best explanation i ever heard was in response to my question of why they stopped running stuff editorial cartoons back in the 1950 s. during the mccarthy era there were 4 staff cartoonists on staff at the new york times and i was told that editors there are very concerned about their inability to edit cartoons with words they can take those techniques out they could insert a new sentence for clarity but cartoons are so simple and straightforward you know you can't exactly say he changed the shape of that guy's nose or you know whatever change i mean you can edit editorial cartoons it just requires a working through a process involving rough sketches but a lot of editors just seem so unfamiliar with the form that they just shrug their shoulders throw up their hands and say ok we don't even want to be bothered the new york times ironically has hardly really ever run that many political cartoons and they ran a lot of mine back in the ninety's in 2000 but they don't run the never really ran

as many as a typical american newspaper but the influence of not running them anymore could be just absolutely devastating to a profession that's been under deadly attack for years would you categorize the satire absolutely it's. should sets a restore around the world now to be getting concerned. well they probably already are i mean look political cartoonists have been arrested and jailed all over the world and they've been under attack here in the united states as well obviously in your in the open or you mentioned the murders at the mass murder at the offices of charlie hebdo in paris there's currently one of my colleagues is in prison in turkey so there's there's a lot of problems around the world but yes this is a this is very this is a big deal this is one of those we really need to scramble we need to go to defcon for whatever metaphor you want this is a big deal it's

a big active major media censorship. people listening to this might be quite concerned they might think is this you know the thin end of the wedge is it now becoming very difficult to make fun of to criticize the power as they in certain countries should we be worried are we are we getting a bit too carried away as. the thin end of the wedge as i said. well i mean people are going to respond and say look there's political satirical television and obviously political satire is alive and well on the internet and that's all well and good but when you're talking about a very venerable art form that you can literally find on the walls in the ruins of pompei being attacked simply picos of its format you have to be concerned and you have to wonder about the thinking process that goes behind it i mean look they did york times didn't say we don't want liberal cartoons we don't want conservative cartoons we don't want to send centrist cartoons it's not about politics they're

literally saying that when you take ink and draw something on a piece of paper and you add some words that there's something inherently toxic about that and dangerous and therefore it rather than risk a mistake like writing an anti-semitic cartoon which again there's really no evidence that it was anti-semitic in the 1st place that it's just something that a newspaper of record a an upright newspaper should not do you could say well this is going to be more damaging to the new york times than it is going to be to the art form and that might be true in the long run but yes when we can't laugh at ourselves when we can't poke fun at our political leaders we've got a major problem on our hands politically ted great to have your appreciate your perspective on this political cartoonist author as well ted roll is my guest thank you ted. thank you a thank you guys at home for cheating on you watching our team to national dates coming your way at the top of the.

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been averted for now but what could be the impact of such a move lauren fix the car coach takes us on a spin through just how many move out of the lamb on the break. we get a bird's eye view of baghdad and its impact on business in great britain hillary ford went on a british american business association london to hand her way through the coffee waters of the u.k. trade and their newest shipping endeavor finally defense stocks are on the again as raytheon and united states knowledges strike a deal that would make them a behemoth in the sector molly barrows of america's warriors on hand to give us an old take on the newest player in aerospace you've got a packed show to the let's go ahead and dive right in. a deal to avoid u.s. tariffs on mexican imports leads our global report today as u.s. president donald trump issues a quickly contested declaration of victory on friday night mexican and u.s. officials.