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using the country's previous. day here in moscow sunday september the 20. unwelcome international. a prominent critic of donald trump. opening interpretation of the u.s. president's now infamous ukraine phone call the only going impeachment investigation appears to pick up steam mr trump struck back democrat adam schiff accusing him of simply making up his version of the conversation. going to make a political opponent understand. that there's a lot of talk about it. and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do. would be great

. i'm going to put you in touch with attorney general united states my attorney general bill barr he's got the whole weight. of the american law enforcement. behind him i'm also going to have attorney general and we will get to the bottom of it. and by the way don't call me i'll call you when you've done what i asked whenever you would like to come to the white house feel free to call give us a date and we'll work and i look forward to seeing you. choose the highest of representatives launched a formal impeachment inquiry into donald trump over alleged attempt to force his ukrainian counterpart to investigate hunter biden the son of former u.s. vice president joe biden trumps potential 2020 election opponent well legal media analyst believes alan chiffons played fast and loose with the facts when it comes to the. it is extremely duplicitous it is extremely misleading and very

troublesome for the way adam schiff came about and basically provided a parody a unique way of looking at it and he was reading what people thought was actual transcript provisions actual statements made sentences a conversation sent and then later on when pressed he says well i was. a bit loose with this i was giving you one kind of a perhaps a a parody a kind of a satirical look well that satirical look is absolutely 1st of all side necessary but it was most problematic and the cause of many many people being very very angry with what he did it was on call for duplicitous misleading and wrong. in another development america's special envoy to ukraine current vocal quits amid

the phone call scandal of course there's still a corruption allegations surrounding joe biden and his solemn some of which have been dismissed as a conspiracy theory by the mainstream media. looks of whether they're being a bit too quick to write off the story. so the reason why the president is after the man who's most likely to challenge him next year is nothing but a conspiracy so many voices are saying just that the president is again insisting today that reporters should dig into a conspiracy theory involving biden ukraine and a ukrainian prosecutor promoting without evidence the dubious narrative that biden used the office of the vice president to advance and protect his son's interests as dig into these unproven claims that trump is making about the former vice president we cannot have a debate about a conspiracy theory but just how much does the public in america know about the case of the ukrainian energy come by. me

a few years ago the root of all the stir the public deserves to be aware and make up their own mind conspiracy or proper investigation material so joe biden's son hunter was on the board of directors at bristol mr biden seen here as vice president was washington's point man with kiev at the time meanwhile this man victor schalke in the prosecutor general there was in charge of investigating barista ma and its founder for economic crimes he eventually lost his job well just have a look at how frank joe biden was about his involvement i said you not getting a 1000000000 i'm going to leave in a year i think it was about 6 hours i looked as i'm reading the 6 hours that the prosecutors not fired you're not getting the money oh son of a. u.s. fighter jets guess what happened later after the new prosecutor came in his office eventually gave the company a free pass obviously though we cannot connect any dots here but just so you know

the fired ukraine official no matter how corrupt he ended up being was confident about why he got kicked out here's a quote from his affidavit the truth is that i was forced out because i was leading a wide ranging corruption probe into peru's mode ngs and natural gas in ukraine and joe biden and biden was a member of the board of directors anyway let me move on with a few more relevant findings by a journalist from the hill who studied a bunch of e-mails and ukrainian government memo. it turns out the folks from a us p.r. firm that represented breasts were really eager to get a meeting with the most senior prosecutors in kiev one a male claimed to have been sent by ukrainian embassy diplomat to one of the people from the firm said this with regards to the missing some i suggest that you wait until the next week when the reason the expected vote on the government's. it's been revealed that. on the same day prosecutor shocking was shown the door the top

guys of the p.r. team once again got in touch with kiev it only took them several days to get a meeting with the new acting prosecutor general his memo suggests the folks that helped wrist mall raised the changes at the prosecutor's office the visiting side was surprised by the info and sent the u.s. state department has completely different information describing the failure of the reforms at the prosecutor's office but then they changed their mind and realized u.s. officials were misinformed they also promise to hook up ukraine's incoming law enforcement officials with ties to the state department and help organize a trip to the u.s. they informed me that they would seek to facilitate my visit to the u.s. to pass on the correct information to state department officials. after this man you were that sankoh officially took over from the acting prosecutor general step by step all proceedings against the firm where hunter biden had one of the top

jobs began to vanish now back to mr biden seeing here and someone who used to meet him quite often as the head of ukraine according to the fired prosecutors testimony the president was pushing too on several occasions president poroshenko asked me to consider the possibility of winding down the investigative actions in respect of this company but i refused to close this investigation now where that would lead experts in conspiracy tagging or the us public as a whole i have no clue. right moving on no mass rallies them on the election over climate change helping held across with their own tough a 1000000 marching here in montreal alone teen climate activists credit canadian prime minister just untrue do they join the rally and in fact during a private meeting between the pair she urged him to do more to save the fire base

but there's a backdrop to this the march has taken place just as an undercover investigation canadian companies have been sending plastic waste overseas instead of recycling at home color they exported more than 10000 tonnes of it to malaysia in 28 days it's claim that it's led to a drastic increase in the number of illegal processing factories that are inside this factory we see workers exposed to potentially toxic fumes without proper protection. whoever this sand. ways to malaysia ways where those plastic weighs a lot of ways we will send it back and we will fight that even though we are a small country we cannot be bullied by a developed countries. and it's an issue that simi is getting bigger and bigger we asked people at the climate march in montreal whether they were aware of what is happening with callous waste. and you know what happened months ago you can take

a look no. pointing to a recent c.d.c. report a lot of this plastic containers we shipped to malaysia were going to get treated i just wanted to get your response about how you dealt with that but your cereal a few issues with it we should take your. dishes in a sense i'm sorry to hear that my building has not. kept up with what's happened so fast. it's terrible for civil servants shockey to say. we should do something about it long enough raise. children should be due diligence as well little things as they would. be to do a lot of things with respect to plastics to build houses to grow a lot of things which i think these initiatives that things here start service like we're sitting here that have said it over their words has said well it's not just malaysia the philippines is experiencing problems in recent years but president

eternity put an end to the violations and sent tons of rubbish back to counterbalance 8 other countries to a physicist and environmental scientist dennis run courts is canadian politicians only pay lip service to environmental concerns. true or not such a hypocrite he would not be marching in montreal he would be making an announcement that they're going to ban this kind of moral and improper behavior in the world which is to export your talks that garbage most canadians do diligently recycle and they participate in the recycling programs in the. cities and governments are you know following how companies collect and store and recycle this material they can't imagine or the most canadians. think that these companies are actually

selling the materials off to distant lands to to the developing world countries it's mass hypocrisy is what we're seeing now among our politicians they don't do the real things that they have the power to do instead they would prefer to do token gestures like walk in this march. of history starting to get some traction and we are closely following victims of oppression in sudan are accusing a major french bank of complicity in human rights abuses in the country b.n.p. party but worked us to duns the fact to central bank during a period when widespread rights violations by the regime were carried out our friends correspondent has been taking a look at the accusations. charges of what crimes and genocide linked to the conflict in sudan's darfur region have been made against the country's former president bashir big now an alliance of human rights organizations waltzed to

broaden the responsibility to include french bank b m p. we call on the french authorities to promptly open an investigation to determine whether b.n.p. is criminally responsible for its dealings with sudan 2 out of knowing plaintiffs have waived their. right to remain anonymous they are my son an activist who spoke out against the government he was injured during an attack on his village in darfur later arrested and beaten and he says he saw close relatives shot and killed the 2nd is how a silly who was kidnapped by jun jaweed forces an oil to the former sudanese government she was shot tortured and saw 100 family members executed so why did they hold the bank responsible for what has happened to that behind the greatest crimes and human rights violations that there is always money by granting

the sudanese regime access to international money markets b.n.p. power allow the government to function pay its staff military and security forces make purchases abroad all while sudan was a pariah on the international scene for planning and committing crimes in darfur. and the crimes were horrific widespread human rights violations between 20022008 led to the deaths of more than 300000 sudanese civilians b.m.p. power to sudan's defacto central bank giving the former government access to international money markets that's according to the u.s. department of justice the complainants say that despite substantial evidence of such crimes they have largely gone on punished we want to make the voices of sudanese victims heard through this complaint to this day the have been denied the possibility of justice whether in sudan before the international criminal court or

in the u.s. that reference to the u.s. relates to a previous case against b.m.p. party about the violation of u.s. sanctions partly for its dealings with sudan back in 2014 the bank 2nd that case for a record $8900000000.00 following so why did the money end up was it used to compensate the victims who had been identified and submitted their testimonies quite simply. before these testimonies could be taken into account the us congress passed a law the diverted the b.n.p. progress fine to american victims of terrorism leaving the sudanese and other victims without any form of redress for the harm they suffered and which the bank is believed to have played a role so with the money in the pockets of the americans and the sudanese victims now making another attempt to receive restitution this time here in france that's because it's allow for corporations to be prosecuted if they've played

a role in crimes committed a brought r.t.s. to b.m.p. power for a statement it is yet to respond to that request the parish tribunal must now decide if this new complaint warrants a criminal investigation into b m p. as involvement any case though is likely to prove complex and lengthy meaning the victims still have a long way to go before they may feel that they perceived any justice. altie paris defiant afghans turned out to vote for their next president on sunday in some cases risking their lives to do so we'll have all the details after the break.

manufactured incentives to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime. be the one percent. we can all middle of the room. you know world of big partisan. and conspiracies 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. minutes past the hour welcome back voting has closed in afghanistan's presidential election but it's been marred by tragedy local afghan media are now reporting as many as 32 people were killed and more than 100 wounded dozens surgeon violence rocked the country and we're working to verify that figure explosions and missile attacks occurred and polling stations are undone the troubled nation the taliban has claimed responsibility it's the 4th election since the u.s. forces leave remove the taliban from power in 2001 the 1st since donald trump broke off peace talks with the group earlier this month more than 9000000 people were registered to vote. in the election although turnout is said to have been low the

1st results are not expected by the way until mid october figures show that around 20 percent of afghans only believe the vote was free and fair. but the afghan government currently controls slightly more than half the country the rest is either under the taliban or contested now and there were around $5000.00 polling stations open on saturday but that is done from the more than 7 phones and initially planned hundreds of them were situated in dangerous areas afghan based journalist certain phases spoke to us earlier by the election. today morning the elections kicked off however the turnout is very low in many parts of the country especially in north and parts of afghanistan we have heard more than 20 blasts took place in the capital kabul in south or in kandahar province as well as in

logar province and crudest province the taliban are really no warrant to disrupt the process but you know despite all these threats spite all these insecurity the process hasn't which is a very big damage or a very big let's say obstacle to prevent you know the whole process but we could say that you know so far we have heard that 3 big attacks have been thwarted by the government forces because the afghan government announced that more than 100000 afghan security forces are deployed to secure the process still the turnout overall turnout shows that people are scared off the going to the polling stations doing good c.q. very busy with. the. missing 3 youths.

that trying to see voters and for these kind of laws no one should be afraid of anyone who should vote for president because it is their right to vote the security model. with. the suspicion. the security is good right now we are voting to have a democratic country on land should be peaceful and our people should be happy. well a research analyst at the center for conflict and peace studies our line for us the complexities the challenges posed by today's election. i hope i'm wrong but we will enter through election crisis where the top contenders particularly for the president in his chief executive of the loved both refused to accept the results so i think that point the likely scenario would be that yes election cannot be sorted out 4 then let's have a an interim government where are the taliban are so. happy about it in

that it could give a chance to. the peace piece as well but i think you know one of the key reasons for the taliban to not negotiate with of one of government is president romney because in 24000 before the elections he made promises to them but once he took power. he could not fulfill those promises so i think that's a likely scenario where interim government will be created. after the election crisis come in so i think that would be the only solution in if you look at the reports that are coming that a peace process is going to start in a week it makes more sense. brits of thousands of people gathered in hong kong this weekend to mark 5 years since the start of the cities on breland revolution the 2014th civil disobedience campaign saw this semi autonomous chinese city state occupied for 79 days as protesters call for free elections saturday's

rally also represents a continuation of this summer's pro-democracy demonstrations. security forces quickly try to disperse the crowds with water cannon tear. demonstrators through bricks molotov cocktails and other objects at officers event was fully authorized by the authorities and was organized by the civil human rights front which has brought millions to the streets in recent. months was. the. new stories for this hour some greats r.t. programs though starting in moments don't stray too far.

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times you're going on the run of the day afghanistan elects its next president coming up on the show does the spirit of the line of timeshare live on 18 years up to 911 and the assassination of the man who warned the usa of the imminent al qaeda attack the younger brother ahmed shah masood runs to be the next president of afghanistan we speak to him just days after a u.s. military attack that killed or injured at least 17 civilians and we continue our series looking at a new generation of u.s. congressional candidates challenging the status quo ahead of the 2020 a lecture with a democratic candidate didn't north carolina campaigning for a socialist america told us of all coming up in today's going on the ground before us today the country britain and the united states bombed catalyzing the killing

would you go displacing of millions goes to the polls. what happens in afghanistan has shaped the course of the 21st century from $911.00 towards all around the world while the us is brown university estimates around 150000 were killed after $911.00 in afghanistan the u.k. saw 13000 of its own soldiers killed or wounded there the international criminal court dropped all investigations into coalition war crimes earlier this year after donald trump's top diplomat mike pompei o effectively banned court members from traveling to the usa i'm announcing a policy of u.s. visa restrictions on those individuals directly responsible for any i.c.c. investigation of u.s. personnel so today's afghan elections take place it means deliberate u.s. attempts to curb international law as well as taliban claims washington is interested only in perpetual conflict mr barak is the problem is that he says you're going to do if you're doesn't bother well so if you don't have the office

why did we could not go to one of the other so we have this is what i wanted to do different i would simply have different people who defeated ignore the people of modest. one who are going to. be different people it was not always like this in fact 911 only happened 2 days after the al-qaeda it's as a nation of afghan leader ahmed shah masood who had warned the european parliament of upcoming al-qaeda attacks on the usa his killing prompted vladimir putin to warn george w. bush the day before 911 of his worries of an imminent terror attack but nato with ortiz appeared to have ignored afghanistan's implications for global security will not ignore them ongoing underground presidential candidates and the younger brother of the so-called line of pants here ahmed wali mustard joins me now from kabul thanks so much for coming on the show you know even before we get to the elections can i just ask you about your reaction to u.s. drone strikes i understand there was a terrible drone strike on. 70 dead or injured civilians are these just

continuing every other day thank you very much well i do believe that august on is becoming i'm sold off. unfortunate case because. we don't have a responsible government at the moment to really kind of. check what is happening in this country and who was fired into where and who was only who was friend it's a very kind of unfortunate case he had enough quantised son so that is why it's becoming som how field of different entrusts of foreign countries that's very very unfortunate and i'm. i don't know i mean the only thing i can say is that the government of afghanistan is very very weak it's not responsible it has to duty to give back.