a journalist accuses his former network n.b.c. of trying to impede his pulitzer prize winning exposé harvey weinstein's a legit sexual abuses he also names hillary clinton among those that stood in the way. the man suspected of murdering a 9 year old girl is taken into custody hundreds have rallied in the central russian city of toronto demanding the death penalty for him we spoke to the girl's aunt. lisa wasn't the ordinary sweet seeing and gymnastics just a sweet child. and as u.s.

politicians celebrities and media express their sympathy for the kurds currently defending against a turkish offensive we look at whether the group is really that valuable for their supposed american supporters. you're watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 4 pm welcome to the program and a new book a former n.b.c. news employee details the difficulties he faced trying to get the network to run a sexual abuse exposé run and farrow accuses the channel of trying to kill his 2017 investigation into the now disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein and claims too that even hillary clinton did her best to get in the way and has the details. harvey weinstein the man who triggered the me too movement for more disturbing accusations emerged about hollywood executives are the one seen the most powerful

man in the hollywood was a serial predator up to 67 accusers ranging from inappropriate touching to great they've been sexually assaulted by this monster is terrible terrible and just gusting even the former 1st lady couldn't stay away because women stick together i was shocked and appalled i was just sick i was shocked i was appalled the issue really is how terrible his behavior was and finally women have come forward to speak out about it this almost became a story that could have been because the investigation into weinstein and the rape allegations was almost killed by a channel that considers itself to be a big hit of women's rights there has been no clear example this year of journalism's ability to change the world training films do almost nothing to stop the harassment when it comes to women and sexual harassment and a topic you know i care a lot about it appears need to movement has finally hit wall street ronan farrow

a pulitzer winning journalist says that n.b.c. wanted to end these investigations they ordered a hard stop to reporting they told me and a producer working on this that we should not take a single call they told us to cancel interviews the question for years has been why why because the network got a call from a certain harvey yes the same harvey harvey weinstein who threatened to expose matt lauer's nefarious activities if the story saw the light of day well it did anyway and farrow went to the new yorker and even wrote a book catch and kill weinstein made it known to the network that he was a well behaved and capable of revealing it and it looks like hillary clinton didn't want pharaoh's investigation to be published either her of all people hillary clinton had scheduled an interview all of us at the. weinstein reporting and her folks got in touch and said we hear you're working out a big story sounded very concerned and tried to cancel that interview over the weinstein over the weinstein stuff there are claims that clinton's publicist

approached him and pressured him to drop the story that what he says was weinstein's behest clinton's press people tried to distance themselves from the scandal. i genuinely respect ronan's work but have no idea what weinstein was saying to people to save himself what i do know is simple i've already rejected the weinstein co proposed talk about the election before talking to if i misrepresented facts it wouldn't be the 1st time n.b.c. denied any wrongdoing n.b.c. news signed the harvey weinstein's story to ronen we completely supported it over many months with resources both financial and editorial after 7 months without one victim witness on the record he simply didn't have a story that mess our standard for broadcast nor that of any major news organization. now for n.b.c. to say that ronan farrow didn't have a story has got to be embarrassing at this point not only did he expose the rich

and powerful but he got a pulitzer prize for doing it makes you wonder if news outlets ditch their principles when the powerful start pressing i think his words can entirely be trusted i think what we're seeing right now is just the advancement of fake news in america you know it's like the president said just last week it's no longer fake news it's now corrupt news and n.b.c. has jumped right on that train you would think that these liberals would be all about this being that they preach social justice and feminism and women's rights but the reality is that these people have deep pockets i think that hillary clinton is only about women's rights when it's convenient for her so when you have somebody like weinstein who is able to contribute to the democratic party and able to you know have the media in his pockets because of the amount of money he has the agenda for these democrats goes out the window we've been shown this time and time again that money talks over policy so they can pretend that the policy is something that

they want it here too but the reality is when their friends have money and their friends can finance their campaigns and finance their agendas they play dirty and i think hillary clinton's about as dirty as they come she's right down there with harvey weinstein. the central russian city of serato is in shock over the murder of a 9 year old girl the suspect has been taken into custody after confirming his guilt hundreds have been protesting demanding the death penalty for the male. you know the judge did. such as the.

locals are mourning the deceased girl placing flowers where at least as bonnie was reportedly found we spoke to the girl's aunt about her memories of a little girl. which lisa was an ordinary sweet guy should adopt seeing and gymnastics just a sweet child i'm not sure she would talk to strangers on the street she was an open and trusting child but she was told not to approach strangers all to respond to a nomad she was a good and sweet child he says grandmother called me when they discovered she was not at school she said lisa had disappeared. you are no problem but they need to be formed such parties people started touching or along that path but it was all in vain we did not expect such a public reaction we simply began to post requests for help on social media and people responded and it resulted in such

a big. part of this that i expressed my deepest scratch teach the people it is an incredible response many thanks really he says mother is holding on as best she can. that's if it's worth it's all the children go to school that way when i saw that paul for the fast time i was shocked it was terrible i am. the anger of some people they ask why let a child go along the path but a lot of children use it every day he said was i'm lucky officials have promised to ensure the johnny to school is safe and i hope the measures will be taken but we will not sit he says mother will write to them again and again. the pentagon has called on turkey to stop its operation against kurdish forces in northern syria and says ankara is destabilizing security in the region and putting

in danger u.s. allies the current however defense secretary mark asper says they will not take action in the conflict. and are greatly disappointed by turkey's decision to launch a unilateral military incursion into northern syria this operation puts our s.t.'s partners in harm's way to be clear we are not abandoning our courage partner forces but i will not place american service members in the middle of a long standing conflict between the turks and the kurds operation peace spring began on wednesday with turkey launching airstrikes on kurdish held positions prior to the operation the us had withdrawn its forces in the area something currency as a betrayal they were all sent shock waves across america with many condemning trump for turning his back on the allies but there seems to be double standards over the issue as more and explains the kurds a hero's shout the people who couldn't point out on the map where the kurds live

brave say the people who never have and never would fight alongside them how how could try but trade them say the people who couldn't care less about. it's just fashionable these days playing the odd using them to get attention for pathetic little political games whereas the honesty is the truth. well let's try c.n.n. in this case you're looking at not only betraying the kurds and betraying some of our other allies in the gulf region what the president has done to the kurds the betrayal of the kurds to be butchered by the turks. but the ground forces that destroyed the caliphate with american air power we've abandoned them there breaks my heart the message is clear c.n.n. stand by the kurds or well rather some cnn's other

cnn's want those terrible kurdish terrorists stamped out as soon as possible this year not to go as c.n.n. time right now on the frontier of the border point you saw was one of the 1st targets that the p.k. k. terrorist organization as you can see at that point there was a huge explosion that area is in the hands of the p.k. k. terrorist organization and we see an end a ricer the boundary were approximately 70 meters away and the areas that you see around us all of them are in the hands of the p.k. k. terrorist organization absolutely remarkable c.n.n. turk license is the name on the condition that they adhere to cnn's strict journalism standards so how how did the same journalistic standards end with one c.n.n. almost worshipping kurds and the other c.n.n.

all but cheering their deaths but come on. picking an easy targets what sane person trust journalists these days scratch the journalists what about celebrities with their newfound admiration for. surely this sincere i want you to ask can there is blood on anyone's hand starting with has a president trying to is letting this happen because these people are being slaughtered after standing with our troops in the middle east for extreme a long time fighting against terrorists powerful words from the daughter of the late john mccain like father like daughter but i've been so mad this morning and so upset about this news that we are abandoning our kurdish allies in the middle east these are allies of ours that american soldiers are still continuing to fight alongside all we did was arm them and they fought for america and to everyone in the white house and every republican who is mad at president obama pulled out of

iraq you unpatriotic cowards that feckless unpatriotic callid is also your daddy meghan or if you not see in this photo there is your father and next to him is syrian rebel commander general salim idriss who your daddy did his best and train who is now eradicating the kurds we are ready for the operation to the east of the free t. s. these lands are currently under the control of the syrian democratic forces group which includes the kurdistan workers party ringleaders these terrorists occupying our homes but c'mon meghan mccain isn't john mccain she may have reason to fame entirely for being his daughter that doesn't mean she have different opinions again last example justify this contradicting yourself we destroyed.

i says with the help of the kurds we can't abandon the kurds now we can't turn it over to turkey to think that will work is really. really mr graham it seems like there's 2 possibilities either the senator really supports the kurds with his heart or ease just another spineless hypocrite using the kurds to score cheap political points in case you're on the fence enjoy this it's the recording of a righteous senator speaking to pranksters who pretended to be the turkish minister of defense you're why p.g. kurdish problem is a real problem i told pros to trump a bomb or made a huge mistake and relying on the why p.g. kurds everything i worried about come true and now we've got to make sure that turkey is protected from the spirit in syria sympathetic to the wipe e.g.

problem and those to prosper quite frankly it honestly seems like principles and integrity going extinct i feel sorry for you abandoned by your allies facing invasion death and on top of all of that every 2 faced hypocrite has called out from under the rocks to use your hurt your pain your suffering for their own pathetic advantage. the international monetary fund has weighed in on the debate over climate change advising nations to increase carbon taxes. to limit global warming to 2 degrees or less the level deemed safe by science large emitting countries need to take action for example they should introduce a carbon tax set to rise quickly to $75.00 a tonne in 2030 the i.m.f.

added though that it will be the public who will have to foot the bill they say electric bills could on average go up by 43 percent over the next decade and actually costs would go up most and call reliant countries but let's look at the impact on europeans in particular as we're going to show you here in the u.k. france and germany electricity bills will on average go up by a 3rd we asked people in these countries if they're willing to pay more for a greener environment. i think it's very unfair to ahava the system which is build on fossil fuels which is built to exploit the planet and then to basically made individuals in a new liberal logic pay for it we actually already pay too much taxes for things that are actually i would say even nonsense but often we depend on the ring come for those better off so i can see why the prices should go up but if you do that there has to be support for the people at the bottom in contra ford it feel like

that's a good way of approaching the climate change aspect of things yeah think of a good thing we're going to i'm in a veto security in my opinion the risk is that wealthy people would pay just more money for the bells while people with an average salary would be put in a difficult situation for me it's not a practical solution except of course it's not a fact if not everyone can pay and everyone can go for it for me it's a bit difficult because i live alone but in fact as long as major countries who do nothing at national or international level i believe not as much would change at the individual level unfortunately. still to come a court refuses to back a german muslim soldier who refused to shake hands with female troops that story and more after the break.

you know world's big partners. 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. we've got a crumbling infrastructure roads bridges tunnels are not working we've got students that are in massively in debt and probably will never add to the productivity of society all because of this. propaganda that debt doesn't matter we just know it to ourselves.

and. welcome back the ongoing syrian crisis russia's middle east policy and economic ties with arab countries these are just some of the topics touched upon in a far ranging interview given by vladimir putin to our to arabic all our bia and sky news arabia that's ahead of the russian president's state visits to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates here's a short preview. they stepped out of the woods 1st if anyone thinks that seizing tank is an attacking oil infrastructure can in any way affect cooperation between russia and iran friends saudi arabia and the u.a.e. they can undermine or break down our cooperation with opec plus then they are profoundly wrong. you're a big country like iran which has existed on its territory for thousands of years it has its own interests persians and iranians have lived here for centuries and we

should respect those interests. but as i brought out so with your new answer you need to have dialogue to understand each other to puzzle out all the nuances intricacies and issues without dialogue you cannot solve any problem that is why i think i can share the concerns of the u.a.e. and saudi arabia but in the case of bilateral issues it is up to them to resolve them which is to say you. do all the forces deployed illegitimately inside any sovereign state in this case syria must leave this is true for everyone if syria's new illegitimate government chooses to say that they have no more need for russia's military presence this way just is true for russia right now we are discussing this openly with all our partners including iran and turkey and we spoke about it with our american partners many times and i will be open with you as i have been with my counterparts syria must be free from other states military presence and the territorial integrity of the syrian arab republic must be completely restored.

you worked for russia today don't you while it is because of people like you that russia wake used of meddling in the election. will be showing that interview and for throughout the day on sunday here on r.t. you can also find it on our website r.t. dot com. in germany a court has ruled against the appeal of a muslim soldier who was sacked for refusing to shake hands with female colleagues the plaintiff's position on the refusal to shake hands with women contradicts constitutionally ordered gender equality and represents disregard for the free democratic order there are a series does that the soldier who refuses to shake hands with women serving with him will be able to perform his duties and be ready to stand up for protection of his fellow female soldiers after 4 years as an army contractor the soldier was dismissed last year he refused to shake hands with women due to his religious

beliefs. $3000.00 muslims currently serve in germany's armed forces that 7 times less than the number of female soldiers we discussed the issue with women's rights activists power d'anna and work or spawn in iran ridley. if this soldiers you know they're not willing to respect the law and the rules of the country in which they're leaving i think it's better if they leave it's better if they go and do another job unfortunately muslim soldiers have not been treated equally in the german military which is quite shocking when this pointed out germany is a democracy as for this soldier i don't believe he should have been sacked obviously battlefield conditions are quite different to the social. conditions we have to put women's rights and of course human rights on the top of

everything on top of traditions on top of relations if not to we could be trucked we can allow you know not a single religious you know traditions way of thinkin to overrule the rules of the common law and what about the female perspective since you are saying that you you promote women's rights i promote women's rights i'm a muslim woman i would not go and shake a man's hand. if i thought it was inappropriate we can balance women's rights and at the same time respect someone's religion totally we have to respect a c.v. will you know what rights of these women or doesn't feel comfortable in shaking hands of man fine but here we are talking about a saudi air and we're talking about other soldier serving with him and risking their life with him and we're talking about this we men are risking their lives

with these you know and not to feel respect not feeling you know comfortable feeling that he's some kind of extremists who doesn't believe they're not only my have to do is clearly that it wasn't a stand his religious point of view. but then i also know it's a very proud. not very practical judy i mean you can save someone if you can even touch the hand how can you save someone in the battlefield without touching hair only not healthy and without any finally now you're being no no no no i'm just i'm just me and you we all sang to me living in the west does not mean the people have to. face it's normal that traditions have to change with society but there's nothing bad with that or that's what i'm saying it's just normal ghani. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. the

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we talk turkey with a former m i 6 by who is one of asama bin laden's top al-qaeda operatives and will trump keeping his promises on stopping u.s. wars within the white house again in 2020 we ask a pair of 2020 congressional candidates from both sides of the aisle all the more coming up in today's going underground versus the nature of parliamentary assembly meets today here in london is the organization in crisis as donald trump arguably gives the green light for nato member turkey to invade syria and wipe out u.s. backed kurdish militias joining me now is a former ally of asama bin laden turned m i 6 by ayman. thanks for coming on so grab u.k. foreign secretary is hosting this whatever is need to palm tree assembly where loads of politicians gather what shape do you think nato is in today of to troops decision to withdraw u.s. troops role in syria i think trump was trying to save nato. as it is because he

realized that the number of american troops there in northern syria read a small and he knows that are gone is incredibly difficult person to deal with look at what happened with the s 400 and the national to 5 you know deal where he preferred that's 400 over the if you really want yes 400 is connected to this the russian defenses not the 70 i'm just saying that for tom he knows that don will defy us not that they know much of what whenever he is single mindedly fixated on something he will do it and he realizes that it will be difficult for america because if he leaves the small number of u.s. troops there and by any mistake they end up being killed by turkish fire whether direct or indirect then that would be unprecedented it would be the 1st time ever that nato soldiers killed by you know hostile fire from another nato force and therefore.