that's. why they say my. pledge to the z. this is the central plank support diagram is kind of problem right now so stop. ukraine's president. he was pressured by. republicans and democrats are sticking to their party. by the white house confirms this behavior which undermines the integrity of our election call the. corrupt activities of former us vice president joe biden. well.

coming up british m.p.'s are in parliament. pension by the prime minister. number of this. tribute. to prime minister told. me that he's. already. cleared of receiving funding from overseas including from. criminal offenses. just after 3 in the afternoon here in moscow this thursday september the. the 6

welcome to our to international o'neill. a summary of the phone call between the u.s. and ukrainian presidents which comes amid an impeachment inquiry launched against donald trump has been released us democrats claim mr trump abused his powers by attempting to pressure the ukrainian leader into investigating a potential u.s. election rival in return for a military aid bill as expected the democrats the republicans have interpreted the transcript to fit their very different political agendas please know that call by the white house confirms this behavior which undermines the integrity of our election the dignity of any presidency and our national security that is the smoking gun it's right there in his own words he's admitted it and this means it is time for the house to do pietschmann proceedings what those notes reflect is a classic mafia like shakedown of a foreign leader what we have learned what has been admitted and what we see in

writing. is about as damning as you can imagine this phone call is not an impeachable offense our friends across the capital rush to judgment. and there are nearly 3 roll impeachment addiction in this for in spirit there is no quid pro quo there is no improper leverage the democrats think they're going to pitch on this i think that it will be politically fatal. within the phone call from donald trump president selinski to investigate the business dealings of potential 2020 presidential candidate for the democrats joe biden and his son however there is no mention of threats to cut military aid. being alluded to by democrats like me as the lansky on the sidelines of the un general assembly confirmed that it. you sure did we had. i think good phone call was normal we

spoke about many scenes and so i think you read it is that nobody bullshit bullshit me yes. you know there was no pressure or you have to do is see it when on the call but you know the effort you could ask the questions and i appreciate the answers and i think that somebody if you look at what he did it is over there where his son he goes to china he walks away with a video of their dollars he goes to your grave you walk away with $50000.00 a month and a lot of money in addition to that and the whole thing with the prosecutor in ukraine and he's ok this isn't like maybe he did it maybe he's out of shape doing this. reiterated he still wants alleged corruption and fall think his potential election rival joe biden a ukrainian company investigated the u.s. president's accusations now extend beyond just one country as artie's double

quarter reports. trump's doing something there's a naysaying liberal media following close behind despite president trump and rudy giuliani's repeated allegations against the bidens no evidence of wrongdoing tied to his son hunter biden's ukraine business has actually been found the allegations against him which which have indeed been been proven baseless at least to this point these are proven claims that the president is making about bud right well he's making up to the allegations against the vice president i think that's really important to understand so does biden and his family have a squeaky clean track record let's look at the facts in 2014 biden was in charge of washington's policy stance for ukraine and for some reason his son was put on a ukrainian oil company's board of directors around that same time when a prosecutor launched an inquiry into that weird coincidence biden had this to say and i went over. $1230.00 time to key events and i was good supposed to

announce that there is another $1000000000.00 loan guarantee and i got a commitment from poroshenko and from yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they did so that they're walking out. and i'm not going to we're not going to give you $2000000000.00 shortly after the prosecutor was fired and the inquiry dropped biden said neither had to do with one another just another coincidence but let's go back to biden's 2013 trip to china for talks with president cheesing paying 10 days after that a subsidiary of the bank of china cut a deal with joe son hunter to form a $1000000000.00 joint investment fund another $1000000000.00 coincidence then there was 2011 when he oversaw u.s. troop withdrawal from iraq that same year joe's younger brother sealed a $1500000000.00 deal to build homes in you guessed. iraq there's

plenty of money for everyone if this project goes through and that mountain of benjamin's 2 was only a coincidence it seems when you're related to the former vice president things just tend to work out and joe's got no problem with it mr vice president your take on that was a conflict of interest there was a clear conflict of interest what you heard and people move along nothing to see here i'm not seeing now questions about well it could also be distracting us from what joe biden has done and others have been involved in maybe there really is something there that's a question that's not coming through really the questions that are being asked in the hope i think for those who are were answered from this have this leads into really great. leaked information or juicy information not about joe biden but about donald trump. people who are upset with his politics and this could be a way to move us away from when joe biden might be involved in

a family that. had all of a space there let's go through some of them with ben horace quiney bennis chairman of conservative think tank the very welcome to the program ben so a summary in essence of donald trump's call with the ukrainian president was released democrats republicans both claim it proves what they had been saying before it was made public do you think the full transcript would change the. when it appears not because it seems that both sides don't actually particularly contradict the version of events it's a question of what the intent was it appears clear that hunter biden or joe biden wasn't mentioned in the call but there was a call to action from president trying to investigate some of the nefarious activities that were going wrong what people around on the trunk would say as well

what's wrong with that the democrats would argue of course is that that was an attempt to cajole the ukrainian authorities into investigating a presidential candidate. so really the out of the case rests i think on whether there was wrongdoing and indeed something to investigate or not from what we know at this stage do you see any illegal conduct on mr trump's part well i. if indeed the summary of the call is accurate but i don't think that went wrong with a president asking another head of state to look into corruption. i think is is the president of the united states it is us. we seem to lost the guess that just the blue of a connection from a band horace quiney been to the chairman of

a conservative think tank will try and get him back on the program he was leading into an interesting avenue there at lots more to ask him in another twist so i want to speak about donald trump stated it was the democrats that pressured kiev to reopen the investigation into him part of the motor probe into collusion with russia saying they sent a letter to crane's then prosecutor general in 2018 done it will make he spoke to r.t. he thinks the democrats are guilty of rank hypocrisy this whole thing is about supposedly trump saying hey we give you a lot of money you need to investigate biden it didn't come out that way but you know in fact in march 2018 the u.s. senate sent a letter to the ukrainian prosecutor general saying if you don't investigate trump there's going to be trouble so there's actually a record of the senate explicitly mentioning u.s. aid and threatening that aid if they don't investigate trump so this is another

example of the democrats accusing trump what they have actually been doing it we've got ben horace quickly back on 'd the line ben just to just reiterate one more interesting point to put this story there was a whistle blower apartment lee involved saying that he or she had expressed concerns about how the white house had humbled the records of the phone call between donald trump and the ukrainian president we're expecting more enough to come to today. it's been hyped this whistleblower's report by leading democrats by trump opponents with that in mind do you 1st see something incriminating or. well from what i understand the whistleblower wasn't actually party to the call in question ulf and i think what's what's happening in this case is you've got a situation where the democrats won't don't trump out of office by hook or by crook

and obviously the republicans and trump's team want to push back against that and so i would hope the suspect was with cases like the confirmation of brett kavanaugh artlessly and all sorts of other issues in u.s. politics this is been driven by our chief political allegiances and my 1st question would be is the motivation of this whistleblower to get to the truth of the case or is it merely an attempt. there we go again we have of course a loss there ben we'll leave it there we're talking to ben as horace quinn a term of conservative the bow group. ok all to more world news this hour on all the repentant boris johnson has returned to britain to face and pains after the u.k. supreme court ruled his suspension of parliament on lawful a prime minister faced a barrage of criticism take a look. thank you thank you are you willing to

move aside and give the people a say the prime minister should have done the honorable thing and resign thank god these government stands in shame tendering you legal advice to a monarch and not even able to uphold the most basic but most important of principles abiding by the rule of law he's the one you see that clearly you knew if you like to go procure you should shut down the stoush that was what i said time a tactic assembly problem i write you a party like this i don't lay just like they describe in our stuff to talk about you are no right or yes i guess right. well in response to the criticism the attorney general for the british government geoffrey cox blustered m.p.'s for ignoring the will of the people. we now have very wide number of this house tribute. to. government draws

a logical inference from our position which is that it must leave there after all we've got to do you have to. do very didn't know. the chocks of having. heard how this matter should be resolved this parliament is very good. the question of what happens next it's been an ever present question how can it it's still all no one territory but there are several possibilities could get a break deal as he says he will try to do which would eliminate the options of asking the e.u. for an extension or plunging of the e.u. without a deal and a photo of no confidence in the prime minister's government could also be called likely triggering a general election but the opposition appears unwilling to pursue. the new let's get some back into this just in case we forget boris johnson suspended he per room

and parliament earlier this month which was supposed to stay shut for 5 weeks it was seen by critics as a move to prevent m.p.'s from scrutinizing his job to exit the european union and hollowing with or without a deal now he really for his 1st day in office the prime minister has maintained he's ready to leave the e.u. without necessary however at the beginning of september parliament passed a law designed to stop and real deal that we spoke to a lecturer in international politics who says the chiefs of the other side of all this are tired of the entire. letter to brussels and say we would like an extension and the government is already implied that it will send a 2nd letter full of reasons why the europeans shouldn't grant the extension because it's not an automatic process just because we asked for it doesn't mean we get it and the europeans especially the french seem to be running out of patience with the united kingdom there's been no alternative put forward this is what the europeans are so for us. about nothing on paper that is feasible has been for put forward as to what another extension will achieve it's anyone's guess it does take

no deal imminently off the table and that would be damaging for the country but it just kicks the can down the road more delay more drama and the people seem to be getting a little tired of this faffing around. the u.k.'s national crime agency has found no proof of wrongdoing by the brains of campaign group leave dot edu of its fundraisers are in banks it's clear him of receiving donations for the bracelet company and from a foreign source namely russian with more on the story part. britain's national crime agency says it's dropping an investigation into aren't banks one of the biggest donors behind the referendum campaign the n.c.a.a. looked into potential offenses concerning 8000000 pounds worth of funding it was claimed banks wasn't the true source but the inquiry found banks illegally took out a loan from a company theo and so he could give the money to the brits that campaign the

n.c.a.a. investigation has concluded that mr banks was legally entitled in his capacity as an individual to release these funds to the better for the country limited by instructing another of his company's rock services ltd to make the transactions on his behalf but it's worth noting the n.c.a.a. felt the need to highlight the hype surrounding the case the investigation has been subject to press and social media commentary the n.c.a.a. has not received any evidence to suggest that mr banks and his companies received funding from any 3rd party to fund the loans or that he acted as an agent on behalf of a 3rd party why is this important because our in banks with the russian ambassador to the u.k. a few times as well as russian businessmen as is often assumed by associating with russians you must be a russian agent something banks. that crimea you know what the police are going to

investigate lunch with the russian ambassador but of the universe to go but the media seem eager to find a russian connection or exit is now being pinned on russian interference baron banks has been dogged by repeated accusations of close links with russia the parallels between the russian intervention and brags and the russian intervention in the trump campaign appear to be extraordinary so we travel to south africa to find one they also filled russian opposition figures with no knowledge of the case as they brought up his russian wife mr banks is a perfectly good reason to visit russia whenever he wants his family. he has 3 children by his russian wife in 2015 aaron banks tried to raise money in russia to invest in his mines here in south africa and surprisingly they try to connect banks with donald trump and felt it was newsworthy to discuss banks some time visit to transcribe and publish pictures of it too controversial backers of the brakes movement were guests last year at donald trump's mar

a lago club iron banks and the week more known as the bad boys of bricks visited the palm beach club in april according to a review by the palm beach post of instagram post tagged at the spot mainstream politicians also pushed him on the issue so much so banks walked out of a select committee meeting as m.p.'s questions on her exit and russia ran late i think like you're told this isn't just one. story it is that it was it is it is which is the n.c.a.a. found no evidence banks had committed any criminal offenses he says the allegations against him were part of a political witch hunt as with claims of trump russia collusion reports of banks to russia collusion were apparently founded and perpetuated on fear rather than proof the decision to leave the european union was something so monumental that it impacted the elites in britain both in the politics in civil service and in business and media that they needed to find the enemies they needed to find

a way of discrediting the whole campaign and so the 1st thing they did was start to attack the donors to the campaign to leave and of course mr sharon banks and the leave means to leave movement came into the firing line of their anger without a doubt this was a witch hunt it was a witch hunt against those who campaigned for bricks at like myself and the leaders of the movement it was a campaign to discredit those who donated it and they also tried to discredit it by saying that there was collusion from other. nations such as russia that there was russian money behind. and all of this was to discredit the movement discredit the referendum it was a disgrace and should be something that's looked into by a royal commission in my view in the way that we look after our elections in the future. ahead the finder of the french me to campaign is slapped

with a fine for defaming and media executive she accused of misconduct just one of the stories we have for you after the break.

join me every thursday on the alex simon field and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you there. 22 minutes into the program welcome back a court in paris has ruled the founder of the french me tune meant the famed the man she accused of making lewd and sexist remarks in 27 do or to show dubinsky or more. has been told to pay some $20000.00 euros in fines and damages after being found to have defamed to t.v.

executives who she said had sexually harassed her now she is known as being the leader or the start of the meaty movement here in france which is called paul which means right on your pay them back in 2017 she had tweeted about an incident for many years before in which she had said it executives who she went on to name and shame had made inappropriate advances to her but the t.v. executives in question says as a result of this he was labeled as a sex offender he received a huge parish of criticism on social media and he was unhappy he said even more so when she rejected his had phone sex which he admits actually happened he then went on to apologize effectively i did make misplaced comments to sandra during a drunken cocktail party very late one night but only ones i like i told her was so heavy handedly and only once i must point out i don't want to exonerate myself from

my boorishness of the to. i'm i read to read my apologies well sundram isn't happy with this verdict in the court neither is her lawyer and both say that they will now look to appeal. i didn't win the other woman and won i lost here today but in any case we win it all genders have started talking this decision doesn't take away from the fact that women's voices have been liberated that he must continue to speak out that he must continue to do now is reprehensible acts of any kind fear must not win here must not change sides well this isn't perhaps the 1st embarrassment for me to movement to think about the italian actress an activist asieh our center who is one of the 4 bearers of the me too movement across the globe and also new york professor vito ronald both who talked about

being victims of sexually inappropriate behavior in the past but both women were later accused by young men of making them the victims of sexually inappropriate behavior and many people have long questioned this idea of naming and shaming people who are being accused of being sexual offenders or sexual predators given that in a public space such as social media there's often little to no evidence to back up that those allegations those claims have got a real grain of truth to them and many people saying why didn't you take them to the courts in the 1st place and some saying as a result of that their careers have also been growing their personal lives have also being ruined so some people question now whether this defamation case marks a real reversal in the fortunes of me to movement not perhaps just here in france but across the globe with many other people perhaps looking at this case and wondering if they too now could bring their own defamation case.

former french president jacques chirac has died at the age of 86 the politician active political career of him being. the prime minister truck with the president of france for 2 terms from 1995 to 2007 he was known for his economic reforms and being an opponent of u.s. actions in iraq his career was however marred by corruption which he was convicted in 2011 the native was later devoted to various humanitarian activities. staying in the country 200 firefighters are tackling a large fire up to a chemical factory in the northern city of ruin there are no reports of casualties of this time we can take a look though at what we're talking about security cordons are in place i run the facility which makes all the operatives residents of the surrounding areas helping

us to stay at home and schools are closed the spike the thick smoke authorities say there is no evidence of any serious risk associated with the fumes but people to be cautious in any case it's. well outside if there is the stories are shaping up for now i'll be back with all your updates in just over 30 don't go too far though more great programs get their start in moments. where we are 2019 when they get them interest rates and multi $100000000000.00 trillion dollar thank your capital unicorns are all going lost and the colossal

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