i believe you. will still not know. the complaint which sparked impeachment proceedings against president trump is released but the whistleblower admits not being a direct witness to most of the events. democrats are sticking to their guns. we were presented with the most graphic evidence yet. that the president the united states has betrayed of office. betrayed to defend our national security and betrayed his oath to defend our constitution. reiterated his desire for kids to investigate the alleged activities of former u.s.

vice president joe biden and his son which we we. well beyond ukraine we look into those allegations. and british businessman erin banks and is it leave you campaign are cleared of receiving millions in funding from overseas including from russia u.k.'s national crime agency stating that there was no evidence that any criminal offenses were committed. and also in paris court finds that the woman behind the french need to movement for defaming a man she had accused of sexual. abuse most of this is r t international and sean thomas certainly. all right a controversy is growing in washington over a july phone call between the presidents of the u.s. . and ukraine after

a whistle blower's complaint against donald trump was declassified on thursday that alleges that the white house attempted to keep the details of the 2 leaders con conversation secret democrats say that during his discussions with of what appears lenski mr trump likely committed a crime by urging his counterpart to investigate democratic 20 and 20 hopeful joe biden's activities in ukraine and he's come up and explained if you take a look at the complaint it's from an unnamed whistleblower and this whistleblower essentially argues that they are working in the interests of the united states they heard about trump's conversation with the ukrainian leader they were outraged about it and they had to speak up now what's interesting is the whistleblower admits they never actually heard the conversation i was not a direct witness to most of the events described however i found my colleague's accounts of these events to be credible because in almost all cases officials recounted fucked pots ins that were consistent with one another in addition

a variety of information consistent with these private accounts has been reported publicly and therefore filling my g.t. to report this information through pro police channels to the relevant authorities we were presented with the most graphic evidence yet at the present the united states has betrayed his oath of office betrayed his oath to defend our national security and betrayed his oath to defend our constitution sacrificed our national security and our constitution for his personal political benefit the director of national intelligence says he fully stands behind this whistleblower you don't believe the whistleblower is a political hack do you director i believe that as i said before mr chairman i believe the whistle blowers are operating in good faith well then there's money in the law they couldn't be in good faith that they were acting as a political hack could they. mr chairman my job is to support and leave the entire

intelligence community that individual works for me therefore it is my job to make sure that i support and defend that person you don't have any reason to cuse them of disloyalty to our country or suggest that beholden to some other country i mean i'm sure absolutely not i believe that the whistleblower followed the steps every step of the way now the white house has released the full transcript of the phone call in question between president trump of the united states and the ukrainian leader and as that transcript shows trump did indeed bring up joe biden his son hunter biden the issue of the firing of the prosecutor however there was no mention of a threat to withdraw military aid from ukraine as was alleged by democrats initially and that transcript is available and when they were at the united nations speaking together trump and the ukrainian leader reiterated that there was never any pressure or threat placed on the ukrainian leader and. i think good

point cool was normal we spoke about many seeing that and the so i think you will read it is that nobody bush and bush and yes no 3 at this point the democrats have opened a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump now the way the u.s. constitution lays things out the house of representatives decides to begin impeachment proceedings that would be the house judiciary committee that would write up articles of impeachment but it's the u.s. senate that would then convene an impeachment trial and vote on whether or not to remove the president so at this point we have the democrats and house of representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against us president donald trump in response to this phone call and the whistleblowers complained about it however at this point in the senate is controlled pretty solidly by republicans so they could very easily vote not to convene an. preachment trial so the next move will be

quite interesting to see but regardless of what we now have with the transcript of vailable that says that the whistleblower didn't actually hear the conversation that complaint that is now available from the whistleblower to the transcript of the conversation that is now available it'll be quite interesting to see what happens next but the impeachment ball is rolling in washington d.c. we discussed this with independent journalist to joe laurie who thinks the media is focusing on the wrong part of the story no one in the mainstream media is talking about why biden should be investigated in the ukraine and the u.s. now we know from the victoria nuland and the. undersecretary of state for the european affairs and american investment turn at the time that joe biden was to coordinate the midwife thing of the overthrowing of an elected president in ukraine that's the biggest crime that in this whole story no one is talking about evil overthrow of a government and as booty to that 2014 crew the sitting vice president's son joe biden gets a seat on the board of new friends biggest gas producer this is

a transparency neo-cons can't really prove the government you installed the son of the vice president even an american citizen was maybe ukrainian citizen the neighbor where she was made the finance minister then i was looking into this from putting biden bolts in public that he withheld a credit line of $1000000000.00 until he got that prosecutor fired and he was fired within 6 hours so this points to the other major part of this story that's not being told and that is this is the routine way the u.s. government conducts foreign policy threats intimidation bribes blackmail much. when donald trump has a reiterated he still wants alleged corruption claims involving his potential election rival joe biden and ukrainian company investigated and the u.s. president's accusations now extend beyond just one country as artie's donald quarter comments. and 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 players 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 $1000000000.00 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 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 dollar 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 scott 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 when joe biden and his son and others have been involved 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 and 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. u.k.'s national crime agency has found no proof of wrongdoing by the braggs a campaign group leave dot edu and one of its fundraisers and banks it cleared him

of receiving donations for the braggs it campaign from a foreign source and leave russia with more on the story here's artie's kid part. britain's national crime agency says it's dropping an investigation into our and banks one of the biggest donors behind the brics referendum campaign the n.c.a.a. looked into potential offenses concerning $8000000.00 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 he opened 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 a bunch of what the police are going to investigate lunch with the russian ambassador butler university case but the media seemed 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 bragg and the russian intervention in the trump campaign appear to be extraordinary so we travel to south africa to find one they also filmed 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 the exit and russia ran late in the thank you joy it was all this isn't just one. story that 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 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 aaron banks and the leave means 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 brix it 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 our and banks 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. france has declared next monday a day of mourning following the death of former president jacques chirac the veteran politician died at the age of 86 early on thursday morning a truck served 2 terms as president and prior to that he was twice prime minister as well as the mayor of paris for 18 musical but during his it nearly 50 years in the spotlight he became known as a leading globalist and an influential figure in shaping world politics at home sure arc was critical in redefining france's footing in europe becoming

a leading champion of the european integration project he also worked to improve ties with former french colonies in africa. legacy is also marked by many other bold letters. this would be. the military operations have just started in iraq friends regrets this action taken without the approval of the united nations it fix your mortgage free. house is burning down and we blind to it nature mutilated and overexploited can no longer regenerate and we refuse to reinstitute in the face of intolerance and hate no interaction is possible no compromise is possible no debate is possible. what do you want me to get back to my own way and i go back to god then let's let them go these dark hours for of a solemn histories and they are an insult to our past and now traditions. during

his time as president jacques chirac favored close ties with russia in 2006 truck awarded president putin france's highest state award the legion of honor for his contribution to multilateral cooperation in return he later also received an award from the kremlin for his role promoting russian culture for what's going to. switching gears but staying with france now a court in paris has ruled that the founder of the french meet to movement deep famed the man she accused of making lewd and sexist remarks in 2017 here is our friends correspondent. well sundram has been told to pay some $20000.00 euros in fines and damages after being found to defame to t.v. executive 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 rattling your pig and back in 2017 she had tweeted about an incident for many years before in which she had said it the executive who she went on to name and shame had made inappropriate advances to her but the t.v. executive in question says as a result of this he was labeled as a sex offender he received a huge barash of criticism on social media and he was unhappy he said even more so when she rejected his advances 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 later 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 time i retreat my apologies will sundram isn't happy with this verdict in the court and neither is her lawyer and both say that they

will now look to appeal. i didn't win the other one 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 the me too movement to think about the italian actress an activist asieh our center who is one of the fall. bearers of the me too movement across the globe and also new york professor vito ranelagh 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 where the this defamation case marks a real reversal in the fortunes of the 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. lawyer. told us he believes society has lost the ability to resolve conflicts privately.

one aspect of me too phenomenon was to encourage the idea and propagate the idea that if if genuine victims of sexual violence come forward then they will be ignored and disregarded by the system and therefore it's necessary to take your complaints to social media if it is genuine sexual violence you should go to the police and attempt to evolve it resolve it in a formal setting but i think when you're dealing with the kinds of complaints that we've seen arise as a result of me to which really deal with very often very low level sexual misconduct i think there must be an argument that to resolve this informally and i think we've lost as a society the ability to sort of look at this is something that can be resolved privately between the parties one of the greatest injustices arising out of miti which was kevin spacey you know one of the great actors of our generation who had very recently the case against him completely dropped and he now faces no criminal charges whatsoever he had his life taken apart in response to those allegations he

had his career wiped off the cultural map that is not justice no matter what you think of it it is not justice and i think what we are starting to see is how me the meeting we've been wall all ghibli it drew attention to issues that have been out of the public realm for a while it has some very dark consequences when it comes to considering the just resolution of these claims. it's sort of the world's banks have signed up to a un initiative on efforts to tackle climate change such as cutting back on investing in fossil fuel projects among them are major players like george bank citigroup and barclays in total $130.00 financial institutions in $49.00 countries have signaled that they are on board although notably 7 of the world's 10 biggest banks are missing the un initiative calls on banks to harmonize their strategies with the pairs climate agreement and work towards a sustainable future from being seen as an overdue move to mobilize the info. will

finance sector to a fad that will cause more problems than it solves we put it up for discussion here on r.t. . what we really need to be looking out looking at is eliminating the funding of fossil fuels as quickly as possible and the key thing here is not to focus too much on the banks they will do whatever they can within what is profitable and legal key thing is to put pressure on governments to utterly change the rules in terms of what banks do to get rid of anything that is destroying the future for our children the green technologies that are presented as growing are not at all in many instances in the energy sector they say no to nuclear energy there is no reason to say no to say no because nuclear energy doesn't make any c o 2 it's time to stop and the gulf numbs must progress of course in the reduction of c o 2 emissions but they should do it normally at a normal pace and for bidding the use of coal of few or gas is stupid

especially for example in germany they need coal plants to to produce the energy when there is no went to identify you know perhaps correctly perceived problems with some of what is being pushed forward is green at the moment as a reason for carrying on burning fossil fuels when we know it is ready a crime against humanity in the form of catastrophic droughts floods typhoons clones hurricanes you know and the strength of these things is absolutely vastly greater than before and you know so to try and identify some of the problems with what's being put forward by you know the mainstream green narrative as a reason to carry on destroying ourselves this is just madness about what the science is saying in terms of what happens when we go over one with photographs are not as if these are one of the obscene or save the i.p.c.c. the i.p.c.c. only represents a fraction of the scientific world so many of us disagree that global warming is not necessarily due to c o 2 alone or 2 main thing we must be very careful what we do because c o 2 is essential to the growth of plants and to to life on earth. so and 2 oxygen

creation so it's not that they say if we get to a point where we're running out if they are going to do that why they have a congress passes that we're not running out in you know to we must 1st half solutions and it's not because of a thumb barack spoke on monday that we need to go faster and we need to do the right thing at the right time it's not people why are extreme extreme activists that need to decide governments cannot allow this and the united nations should not allow this the only reason that the solutions required to deal with these problems are now so extreme is that well we've had 13 years of people like luke saying oh well we need to wait till we know more until the technology is about and what has happened over that period is that we have produced more emissions in the last 30 years than the entirety of human history before so the very can the very tempting rationale which is that anything that looks greener than before is a step in the right direction we must go at the normal pace we cannot stop planes

from flying from today on because that's what the extremists want to paraphrase cannot have been progress with your question i think what he obviously rests on this. previously classified f.b.i. documents obtained by the new york times have shed light on some of the bureau's covert activities they reveal that multiple court orders have been used to quote personal data from a lot more companies and institutions than previously thought. the demands can scoop up a variety of information including user names locations ip addresses and records of purchases they don't require a judge's approval and usually come with a gag order leaving them shrouded in secrecy fewer than 20 entities most of them tech companies have ever revealed that they've received the subpoenas known as national security letters. all right the new documents also show that the f.b.i. has interests spread far beyond just tech companies banks credit agencies mobile phone companies and even universities received hundreds of national security

demands they let us have been the subject of controversy for decades now since the 1980 s. the f.b.i. had been required to show clear reasons for sending at the orders not anymore now they can be sent in a broad range of cases linked to information on terrorism counterterrorism or a leak investigation the f.b.i. has yet to comment on this particular revelation but has previously said the security letters are needed for public safety and they only investigate if there is a suspicion of a threat and if a whistleblower william binney believes the agency's actions are illegal. the national security letters are issued by the individual federal agents of the f.b.i. and they simply couldn't say right away to say give you all the data on all your people and they've been after all data from the beginning that's all done and every executive order went to triple 3 which they're using as a basis also to collect book data across the biographic lines around the world and

inside the united states do so it's a matter of that and collecting everything that's there at what they're after all the data on everybody so they can monitor anyone for criminal activity or use it against them to pressure then to do anything they want basically i call this population control that's what it is in terms of using leverage to get people to do what you want them to do and when you have knowledge about people to this extent that's easy to happen. that does it for mel be back in 30 minutes with more news interest. since rio or a little bit messed up by a d.n.a. and something way on over the police i'm told that surely isn't such a quick thing you know i'm sure you look better now than when he had hair come on

it's nice of you to say so but i do i went bold when i was 25 and it wasn't so great then. in 2040 you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still loyal i mean you know liz put me in the. spelling you know to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2014. those who took part in this to do over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. led. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll

see you then. reading salutations while the impeachment horns are blaring all over your cable news feeds and pedantic punditry this week or watchers it's important to remember there was more going on in this world than just us president donald trump versus nancy pelosi out of the ship joe biden the reality that there is more news out there than what's allowed on jake tapper's teleprompter every night news that is important thought provoking and even scary in other words news that affects you in the rest of us just as much as political impeachment games played by me.