and. he sees. you mark you join you. us republicans ask why intelligence agencies dropped the rule that lowers must possess 1st hand knowledge in the run up from ukraine revelations. world leaders gather in paris for the funeral of former president jacques chirac who died last week aged 86. the university of edinburgh comes under fire for hosting a so-called anti racism conference white attendance from asking questions during a q. and a. hawkins

review tuning in from tonight's welcome to the program. or donald trump is demanding to meet the anonymous official who blew the whistle on phone calls with the president of ukraine the scandal surrounding the conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week over possible collusion with a foreign power us president claims was the whistleblowers account of what was said was totally inaccurate i mean while pointing out that the u.s. intelligence community quietly changed the official whistleblower complaint form around the time the ukraine call scandal broke the old version required a whistleblower to have 1st hand intelligence but they knew for made another option available meaning relayed information would now be considered as well the timing of the change is noteworthy the latest version of the document says it was revised in august that's 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 old my goodness this is not going to play well this will not go through the inspector general process because it's all hearsay it's separate continue from ation 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. artie's moraga if looks at a sudden change of a standards it's possible ramifications. most of us we revere whistleblowers the men and woman who put their careers their very lives on the line at a 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 because 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 of the background of this of course is the whistleblower the filing report and state in the 1st sentence i don't know that sure stand you know this 1st told to me but i learned this from saying there are multiple shots so we didn't have any and evidence and that means in our legal system your shit it never stands up in

court he was told the trump said something questionable by anonymous officials told them wrong it seems at least some of it was already proved false the president pressured mrs lansky 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 bipartisan politics in the accuracy and 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 do they 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. on it in a fired sources anonymous sources according to anonymous washington post source you're basing all these allegations of one or maybe 2 sources which c.n.n. isis not receiving any reports it's washington post new york times wall street journal c.n.n. a.b.c. elihu resources all because they're hiding behind us and a commonality we're seeing you know you don't want me to you're just going to attack sources these whistleblower 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 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 are 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 the whistleblower he was automatically assumed to have the national interest at heart and i'm not not really sure that that's the case the think it will but crucified snowden and manning for exposing global surveillance on all of us and war

crimes that we'd never have known about but 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 braised it isn't gentleman what is the noble name of with all blower dies i think this is effectively making the whistle procedure in america into effectively a sneak snitches charter where we have a situation where someone can just report some gossip and it will be taken at face value as bona fide a whistle blowing i think this is highly dangerous in how whistleblowers are going to be perceived so rather than people coming forward and saying i have an eyewitness account i personally experience this wrongdoing this crime it needs to be investigated up to and including congressional hearings on oath suddenly going to have rumor and gossip grubby gossip fed into the political process and it's

going to poison that this process. dozens of world leaders arrived in paris for the funeral of jacques chirac the former french president who died last week served as the country's head of state for 12 years short of doing ski reports from paris. well a national day of mourning has been declared in france here to remember the former president jacques chirac who died last week at the age of 86 the funeral service took place behind me at the church of so well willed leaders including president putin of russia came to pay their final respects to a man whose political career spanned some 40 years going from being elected as an m.p. in the national assembly all the way to being mare of paris to being prime in the 2nd time twice to of course being france's president a presidency he held for 2 terms starting back in 1995 he was considered to be

a political comedian so he has stuck to his guns and perhaps his best known internationally for the fight back in 2003 he refused to let france participate in the iraq invasion that was led by the u.s. in the u.k. famously of course going to the u.n. security council all queuing why that invasion shouldn't take place let's have a look back now at some of the highlights of his political career. the military operations have just started in iraq friends regresses action taken without the approval of the united nations. houses burning down and we blind to it . mutilated and overexploited can no longer regenerate and we refuse to. rebuild it barack obama you know. let them go these dark hours for of a solo history and they're an insult to our past and now traditions. the funeral

took place with full military honors and some of those who pay their tributes last week when we heard the news egyptian wreckage died came here today including president putin of russia he described him as being a man who was wise and far sighted a man who. as a great friend to russia we know that the 2 had a fantastic personal relationship in fact shot chirac when he was at the nato summit in latvia back in 2006 on the sidelines of that summit invited president putin to come and spend his 74th birthday with him and even he awarded president putin one of france's highest honors for a foreign as this is a growing classically owner so a sense of 2 men who really respected each other in fact president putin once said that chirac was probably one of the best world leaders that he knew of one of the ones that he most respected we also heard tributes from other world leaders over the last few days accusing angle of merkel who said that he was

a great partner when it came to germany and also herself and we heard from president marc cohn who said he was a great frenchman a man who embodied what it really was to be french we were also speaking to some of the crowds of people who came to see this funeral to pay their final respects and they told us that jacques chirac was a great leader and that it was important to come and say one final goodbye. playful he was a true frenchman there you go what i loved about human after a genuine it was for me for friends. and to me your place he was one of the best presidents that's what i think he did many things for france including many things that people don't know about in the social sphere and things like that so our system. that was his character that was his character might all the same not everyone liked him. many in my family were point of him it's nice to know that.

he was we heard during the service a man ahead of his time a man who was fiercely proud to be french thousands of people have paid all major respect as jacques chirac now makes his final journey to his resting place. in modern us here in paris. the university of edinburgh has found itself in the firing line after rolling out its red carpet for a so-called anti racism conference that has banned white people from asking questions during a q. and a will therefore not be given the microphone to my people during the q. nace not because we don't think white people have anything to offer to the discussion but because we want to amplify the voices of people of color if you know wide person with a question piece share it with a member of the community always speak it after the panel discussion of the event was organized by a group called the resisting whiteness collective the organizers say there are a must the raise awareness about the importance of race is that actions in the u.k.

the host of the event however have created 2 separate rooms called safe spaces for those who feel overwhelmed or uncomfortable with one of them barring white people from entering at emory university expressed concerns over certain aspects before the event including the safe rooms with the university's officials claiming the organizers had started reviewing that particular point however no changes if any were made have ever been published on the official event page well this has of course provoked a strong response online. this sort of stupidity by edinburgh university actually fuels racism if the years who came up with this idea lived in the real world they'd know inclusive ety not alba tied is what's needed and very university hosts racist event banning polish people from talking the aim of the event is to end racism presumably by actively being racist they have come full circle in an effort to become normal racists they've become racist talk about

overcompensating bricks london assembly member david curtain believes the event has proven counterproductive. blatant racism there's no such thing as reverse racism racism is excluding people because of the color of their skin and this does that whereas before we've had the kind of racism that excludes people and discriminates against people because they're black this blatantly discriminates against people because they're white and this doesn't do any good for anybody whether they're white or black or brown and this kind of thing just simply should not be happening i'm for giving a platform for for any group you know whatever anyone wants to say but that's the whole problem with this event is that they're not allowing a platform for people who are white on the basis of the color of their skin if someone decided to put on an event called resisting blackness can you imagine the

outrage which we would have had from the same kind of people who are putting on this events are there everyone would be up in arms from people on the extremes of the political spectrum and all of the liberal if you like elites in the media would be be writing about it condemning it and we wouldn't hear the end of it for days if not weeks so that just goes to show the kind of hypocrisy. a seemingly innocent hand gestures been branded a race symbol on why after this break. just manufactured consent to public wealth. when the ruling closest to

protect themselves. with the flame of merry go round to be the one percent so. we can all middle of the room sick. soul reposed scandal is ongoing the whole negative interest rates are the same is that we were in the better in the bond market these things are happening or experiencing a breakdown of markets all over the world so what we have we dodged one bullet call the we work i.p.o. we're getting gunned down in a hail of financial bullets from financial bad guys shooting out as with impunity.

welcome back to the program the ok hines yes she has been recognized as a hate symbol alongside the swastika america's anti-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 or they're ok symbols white power meaning it was initially part of an exposé apparently though white supremacists liked what they saw and started using it that way in earnest among them the christ church terrorist hearing a court appearance the a.d.l. says cases like that warrant its inclusion on the list of hate symbols though that

context is always important last year a former white house staffer was accused of making the white power side the defenders point out though she is a mexican american and a descendant of holocaust survivors put the issue up for debate. i think it's pretty ridiculous to label a thing like a bull 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 very soused it's just really can of started his particular point sounds a little some of these things that have been in his ear things were very low 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 part of

it is like. well it's a far it's far right movement supporting you know again far right ideologies that are very well known in this country to be you know forest and but my point is you know is vastly out for instance and it was an indian sacred religious symbol 50500 years b.c. and you know. people in germany took it put it on a on a red flag and now it was a symbol it was an inverted this massacre 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 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 a very loans and 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.d.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 incite 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 cited as it trolling can ban as a bait became an actual you know sino with a longing for though if. it's not it's really not what somebody told me how do you

know it hasn't. is not some kind of 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 have been going on for a very loans ounces in 1970 s. when they came out but for some reason that's not been seen as a symbol you can add here 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 obviously we didn't think about this thing that exists in a certain context in new form of a symbol in general which is labeled as a symbol but now what was soon because i need to let me hold because of the trolling campaign now we want to say is a symbol is ridiculous it is not a symbol it is in a city 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. like.

verses do ok so i think i was not a hate symbol until it was. an indian you say. whole can ensure that no it's not keep. a young russian actor who was already slammed by a law for public outcry has received more good news a moscow court ruled that pavel's thin off 3 and a half year jail sentence for violence at a protest should be softened to one yet suspended sentence of more. hobbles dean of was put on trial for allegedly attacking a law enforcement official and the reason why this case got so much attention and it had so many people including celebrities talking about this because it was almost evident and papa was saying that from the very beginning that he didn't even take part in the protests and just happened to be in that area which is by the way absolutely public where the protesters though were trying to gather now when today

the 23 year old came out of the hearing room once again he said that he is completely innocent and the fact that his 3 and a half year sentence was changed to a one year long suspended sentence is not enough for the man. we disagree with the court decision will appeal it in any case i didn't commit any crime i didn't commit any wrongdoing that's. the video does appear to show that the man was inclined to attack anyone and as i've said really just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time now what's important here was that the court initially wasn't willing to consider this video material then they changed their mind and there you have the result. in somalia u.s. military base has been attacked by the local islamic extremist group al-shabaab claims loyalty to al qaida that is listed as a terror group in the u.s. and the u.k.

and european military convoy has also been attacked so far no one's claimed responsibility somalia has been plagued by civil war for decades now with 2 significant parts of the country complaining self autonomy the u.s. armed forces have been fighting us about since 2007. lafe recall meanwhile says it killed 10 al shabaab militants following the recent attack on the american base however a journalist and african affairs specialist johnson believes their strikes will only worsen the crisis one thing is clear is that. it's clearly not

a force that's going away they are local jihadists they belong to somalia itself it shows that we would have to start looking beyond bombs beyond guns beyond bullets and something and how if at all there's an opportunity for negotiating with this group because we've shown over time that the military capabilities that they have the ability to go on the ground. it's going to continue and the united states and the african you know on likely to be able to dislodge him in the short to medium term. well let's say for the saudis he went back in half an hour with the latest news headlines we'll see about them. the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own person. who

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