it emerges that the u.s. intelligence community quietly dropped its rule that whistleblowers must possess 1st hand knowledge apparently paving the way for the trump ukraine revelations which have triggered an impeachment inquiry. a national day of mourning in france as world leaders gather in the capital for the funeral of former french president jacques chirac who died aged 86 last week. and america's anti-defamation league recognizes the ok hand gesture as a hate symbol after its widespread adoption by white supremacists problems of being the symbol has become an actual code to say hey we are part of this group you are

a nod and races have to eat they have to drink water they have to breathe so we label eating food as received. a very warm welcome you're watching our c.n.n. national with minichiello and it's great to have you with us now the u.s. president donald trump is demanding to meet the anonymous official who blew the whistle on his phone calls with his ukrainian counterpart the scandal surrounding the conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week of a possible collusion with a foreign power trunk claims that whistleblowers account of what was said was totally inaccurate meanwhile reports have emerged pointing out that the u.s. intelligence community quietly changed the official whistleblower complaint for at around the time the ukraine called scandal broke the new version drops that require . that whistle blowers have firsthand knowledge of the events they are commenting

on the latest version of the document says it was revised an august 29th teen best the same month in which the scandal triggering complaint was filed the apparent coincidence has led to questions being raised it's not clear to me when the people who are behind all this realized all my goodness this is not going to play well this will not go through the inspector general process because it's all hearsay is separate and here information it's funny to me at least here on the u.s. side that the news outlets just immediately identified this person as a whistleblower but if you are a whistleblower blowing the whistle on waste fraud abuse and illegality in the intelligence services you're not a whistleblower you're a leaker and so i think that's really where the transformation has been. my ghastly avonex of the sudden change of standards and this possible ramifications. most of

us we revere whistleblowers the men and woman who put their careers their very lives on the line out of principle they don't look the other way they speak up when they see corruption abuse and then justice and you know why we revere them so as we trust them they were witnesses people on the inside they saw with their own eyes a whistleblower any individual who provides the right information to the right people that's now changed you no longer need to be a witness to be a whistleblower no longer need to have documents or evidence all you need is to have heard someone talk about wrongdoing that's all as a matter if it was false or made up just far less than hey presto you are a whistleblower like the individual who spawned the trump ukraine scandal or the

background of this of course is the whistleblower the filing report and state in the 1st sentence i don't know this firsthand you know this list told to me by i learned this from saying there are multiple shots so we didn't have any and evidence and that means in our legal system here shit it never stands up in court he was told the trump said something questionable by anonymous officials call them wrong it seems at least some of it was already proved false the president pressured mrs lenski with a specific request that the ukrainian leader locate and turn over service used by the democratic national committee and examined by the u.s. cyber security firm crowd strike. i would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it and would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine they say crowd strike the server they say ukraine has it

whatever you can do it's very important that you do it if that's possible the president also praised ukraine's prosecutor general. and suggested that mr lansky might want to keep him in his position. i heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair a lot of people are talking about that the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved they these in gentleman we have front row seats as we watch the noble even all noble title of whistleblower sally my deed by partisan politics in the accuracy bias over the intelligence community inspector general's preliminary review identified some indicia of an arguable political bias on the part of the complete in favor of a rival political candidate such evidence did not change my determination that the complaint relating to the urgent concern appears credible what today do. you know

american chargen we say did it change the goalposts they changed the rules how could these people possibly see that we get away with this whistleblowers now essentially a 5050 anonymous source you get on c.n.n. for example fun to listen to but as practice shows as taken with a dose of salt source tells n.b.c. news law enforcement and democratic sources telling c.n.n. that in a fired sources anonymous sources according to anonymous washington post source you're basing all these allegations off of one or maybe 2 sources which c.n.n. isis is not receiving reports its washington post new york times wall street journal c.n.n. a.b.c. . elihu resources all because they're hiding behind us an enemy because nothing we're seeing you know you don't want me to you're just going to attack sources this whistle blower a poor it was but now for the democrats finally

a chance to bring down trump but now that it's showing cracks liberals are sprinting the plus the mover this whistleblower they claim can should and will be trusted you know why because he's one of them if we think of the whistleblower as a reporter the whistleblower talked to a lot of people who had firsthand knowledge or seen them post stranger to this reporters a free free to be as politically biased as they want twist news to their political agenda and then call it truth all of us who have been involved in national security and have reported on waste fraud abuse and illegality have been whistleblowers but because this whistleblower in particular fits the mainstream media's narrative of donald trump committing crimes he was automatically called

it was a lower he was automatically assumed to have the national interest at heart and i'm not really sure that that's the case the think it all but crucified snowden manning for exposing global surveillance on all of us and war crimes that we'd never have known about it here you have a biased complaint riddled with a natural sees submitted by an individual who saw nothing but passed on what he was told the clear political spin to it and he's applauded cheered and praised. these and gentleman what is the noble name of whistleblower. and is just as phony and i use the word phony it's just contrived is just as fabricated as the whole. charge is because it's true we know and we have

proof there's nothing behind those no evidence no 1st hand the refits 2nd hand evidence and now we have you created really very early on and shown for what it is a political ploy to get president trump. dozens of world leaders are in paris for the funeral of jacques chirac the former french president died last week at the age of 86 as memorial events have been held throughout the country for more details let's go live to our correspondents on the defense dude who's in the french capital for as i saw the can you talk us through the mood in the capital right now. a somber and respectful mood in the last few minutes we've heard the coffin carrying the body over shot chirac our right at some peace where this memorial service is just taking place today announcing his body was taken out the coffin was taken out of the hearse there was a round to the pools from the many many onlookers who gathered to pay their

respects to their country's former president inside sold some piece of packed memorial service is just about to get under way moved leaders have come here to pay their own respects we've seen president putin of russia he's there we've also seen former u.s. president bill clinton arrived we saw former president of afghanistan thomas because he arrived as well as prince albert of monaco and of course former and current ministers and prime minister such as nicholas as are cozy the former president the sarkozy and former president francois hollande. arriving here to pay their own tributes this great man this man who president michel described last week as in 40 in france this is a man who spent a political career of some 40 years 1st being elected all the way back in 1967 to the national assembly as deputy he served twice as prime minister for france he was

mayor of paris for many years and then of course he was president of france for 2 terms 1st being elected back in 1995 a man who saved what he thought stuck to his guns and was fondly remembered by the people for doing such that one of the things he's perhaps most famous for on the international circuit is for his unwillingness to join the coalition of the u.s. and the u.k. without invasion in iraq in 2003 famously going to the u.n. security council and telling them why that invasion was wrong and creating a lot of admiration for as jacques chirac in the fact that he was somebody who would stick to his principles his later years will modify some political scandals but despite that he is fully remembered by the french people let's take a look now at some of the highlights of his political career. the military operations have just started in iraq friends regrets his actions taken

without the approval of the united nations. houses burning down and we blind to it nature mutilated and overexploited can no longer regenerate and we refuse to. rebuild it but you know. let them go. dark hours forever history and they're an insult to our past and now traditions. well that memorial service is now underway at the church of souls who police here in paris for people to say their goodbyes to the. former french president i was speaking to some of the people who have been waiting for hours in the crowd and signed this church who told him that they thought he was a great leader a strong leader somebody that they respected also many many tributes coming in from those world leaders including some of the ones that are present at this memorial service today we know that president putin who was

a postal friend of jacques chirac described him as being a wise and far sighted statesman saying that he was somebody who was a great friend to russia and he will be fondly remembered for the development in those relations with russia we know jacques chirac yourself i thought very much of president putin actually dined with him on his 74th birthday back in 2006 when jacques chirac was attending a nato summit and he invited putin to come and celebrate that special occasion with him he also awarded president putin france's highest award for foreigner this is a growing cross of the lesion on our so a real friendship between the 2 and president putin has come here today to pay his personal respects and almost to that great personal friend we also heard tributes coming in from merkel the german chancellor who described him as being a great personal friend and a great friend to germany also people like sean cliffjumper saying his legacy is going to be long felt not just here in france but across the european union and

perhaps president mccone really summed it up summed up what i've heard from so many people in the last few days since his death was announced is that he was a great french when he embodied exactly what it was to be french and he loved us as much as we love him thousands of people have gathered outside source of peace to pay those final respects to the former french president jacques chirac who died last thursday at the age of 86. chawla thank you for that report that's hard to best be recording 2 of live from paris to. be ok hon gesture has been recognized as a hate simple alongside the swastika america's under defamation league based this decision on the signs adoption by white supremacists. even as extremists continue to use symbols that may be years or decades old they regularly create new symbols means and slogans to express their hateful sentiments we believe law enforcement

and the public needs to be fully informed about the meaning of these images which can serve as a 1st a warning sign to the presence of haters in the community or school ok symbols white power meaning was initially part of an online prank exposé but apparently white supremacist liked what they saw and started using it that way in earnest among them the christ church terrorist during the court appearance the a.d.l. say's cases like that warranted think luzhin on the list of hate symbols i think though that context is always important last year a former white house staffer was accused of making the white power sign but her defenders pointed out she's mexican american and a descendant of holocaust survivors our guests debated the issues raised. i think it's pretty ridiculous to label a thing like global k. or the ok symbol as a symbol of white supremacy i feel like races do do certain things but i mean at a certain point they do everything or people do mean races have to eat food they

have to drink water they have to breathe air so at what point do we label eating food as racist drinking water as received in breathing air is received it's just really can of started his particular point sounds a little some of these things that have been in his new things were a very long time with or a soused hateful subversive groups the problem is that the symbol has become an actual code to say hey we are part of this group you are not and you know the main point of it is like. for well it's a far it's far right movement supporting you know again a far right ideologies that are a very well known in this country to be you know forest and but my point is you know is vast again for instance and it was an indian sacred religious symbol for hundreds 500 years b.c. and you know. people in germany it's ok to put it on a red flag and now it was a symbol it was an invert the swastika and that became the symbol of nazism and ok

but the ok sign is nat day all right ok so you can find it right now on your phone via. device i phone you can find it ok so right now when you search for the new moji there is the equivalent to ok ok it is being used ok for very long it wasn't a couple years ago where it was some kind of troll thing happening on the internet there it became so on those because the mainstream media picked it up and i think the whole purpose of trolling campaign was to trick the mainstream media into doing it and of course now we hear that the a.b.l. is looking for here is not to label every single thing that we do say or or. or you know we communicate what they are to specifically doing is trying to inform you know people that there are certain symbols that seem innocuous but that are currently being used. as actually inside to violence and crime and you know

fundamentalists political ideas that put this democracy in jeopardy but we're talking about a symbol that started it as something that was not necessarily what it is today the problem is that somewhere along the line that symbol that's cited as it trolling can ban as a bait became an actual you know sino with a longing for though it. it's not it's really not what somebody told me how do you know it hasn't be the symbol is not some kind of a symbol like i see the blood gain uses day i'm sure to have been plenty of actual killings they happen every single day and they've been going on for a very loans ounces in 1970 s. when they came out because some reason that's not been seen as a symbol you can have it right now in your phone as an emoji for the ok symbol in smartphones and all of it have come around long after the street gangs have originated so i've usually we did think about this thing that existed in

a certain context in new form of a symbol in general which is labeled as a symbol but now what was saying because you need to let me hold because of the trolley campaign now we want to say is a symbol is ridiculous it is not a symbol it is the n.s.a. thing if people want to use it for whatever they want to use it for ok but to compare it to nazi flag is absurd ok millions do. you like. versus the ok so i think i was not a hate symbol until it was. an indian you they did. a whole can ensure that no it's not about with mornings after the break. the be. one else chose seemed wrong. but old roles just don't hold. the old

belief yet to shape out these days you can stick up to it and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. what holds as you supposed to. put themselves on the line. they did accept the reject. so when you want to express. some want to. watch it right. this is what. you do get. interested as it. should.

come back now young russian actor he was released on bad last public outcry has received more good news i must go corporate that pawel stint of 3 and a half year jail sentence for violence at a protest should be softened to a one year suspended sentence joining me live with the details now is if the tranq correspondent you know well let's this decision and why is it so significant. you actually said the words public outcry now. case perhaps grabbed most of the public attention after the arrests following the series of rallies those rallies were illegal they were on authorized by the russian authorities in the center of moscow ahead of the city duma elections pawel was steen of was on trial

for attacking a law enforcement official but the reason why this case had everyone including the celebrities talking about it is because the 20 year old maintains that he didn't take part in the protests at all he just happened to be in that area which was absolutely public. when the protesters gathered here and right now when he came out of the building where the hearings happened once again he said that he's completely innocent and for him the fact that they changed the 3 and a half year sentence to the suspended sentence one year long is not enough. we disagreed with the court decision will appeal it in any case i didn't commit any crime i didn't commit any wrongdoing that's all. now once again the reason for this public outcry was actually the video of the detention where at least in these

pictures it was seen that pablo wasn't trying to attack anyone he was standing there doing something with his phone and perhaps he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time that's why i got so much support fellow actors started flash mobs there were further protests in support of the 23 year old and at some point that led to him being released on bail he wasn't allowed to travel and now as you can see this was changed to a suspended sentence but as i've said they will be fighting to get rid of this decision all together. and i thank you for the state house that's not easy or trying to. i'll stress former chancellor sebastian kurtz looks poised to pull off a political comeback his conservative austrian people's party took the lion share

of ballots in sunday's elections securing 38 percent of the vote here still need to help those who are of the party. it's incredible it's an amazing day it's the story results of part 2 and it will try to exclude talks with all the other parties in the parliament and try to form a government to 1st for the people of austria thank you. for the last 4 months the country's been ruled by a catholic a government as our nation scandal broke down curtis conservative coalition back in may his coalition partner was films promising political influence for funds political scientists tines that god says cuts may well reach out to the same policy again. to get the kurdish leaders the freedom unless the freedom party is sort of doesn't want to. myatt red chose to go into their own position. quotes might try to form

a coalition resist social democrats however are the issues so separate the social democrats and comes out with these about the play much so that a kurdish group negotiations will be really difficult to set option for your quits would be a kurdish an is the green but the base of the green party doesn't they didn't want to have a kurdish and it's a concern about these people who are it's where friends where people have your beak bought into kurdish which supports more of this he's issues or the other option some more difficult for him thanks for joining us here on r.t. for your monday headlines my colleague dr leigh vinocur will be with you at the top of the hour with all the latest. you know world big partisan. 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 smarter 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 we're watching closely for watching the hawks. because they copied and he's so good that even such a bad be sending. i'm not anybody in. the find that makes the. top. about getting any human being done the in feltham phaedra blog she even dumped the

a dump. the deflection move for the c.e.o. to say to the deflection board after you say. that is a got to bed then i got up a miniature. he and others are going to going to yell out about that on the horn a lot about that that you can't buy a gun you've got to get the fuck up. long all the next you know is along the bottom there's a bonus which i live on can choke a lot older. than do a new person and they've done a move $100.00 gandhi a new law and gunned. down the phrase christ david begnaud to you then go to mock you then damon join you. the world is driven by shaped by our own personal.

dares thinks. we dare to ask. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things we can see. peter lavelle from calls for trump's impeachment to the saga known as briggs and political elites

appear to be terrified of democracy and the people's will also should we lament the passing of the new liberal order. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest robert bridge he is a our t. website writer we also have dimitri he is a political analyst and editor at in a semi internet media project and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he is the editor of politics 1st magazine original uncrossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate as usual go to our guest in london marcus i'm glad you're joining us today look i mentioned in my introduction the impeachment proceedings that are starting against trump and talking about brags that but there's one theme that kind of ties them together and it is my sense that in these political elites across the atlantic and in the u.k. they really want the status quo to be maintained they don't want to lose power and

they are terrified terrified of the people's will they want to undo a referendum in the u.k. and they want to oust a legitimately elected president of the united states by extremely dubious means as we speak marcus your thoughts. well 1st of all we must be clear that the american and british establishment comprised of conservatives and liberals and they are as the coasts if as each other and they are as dangerous to international peace and stability as each other and it is abundantly clear that the liberal elements in america and the little elements in britain it is refusing to accept the we are what the people in america that we have a democratically elected president mr trump want to see for us and 16.