you. don't look like. a journalist accuses his former network n.b.c. of trying to impede his pulitzer prize winning expose a party weinstein's alleged sexual abuse is also named clinton among those standing in the way. also this hour the man suspected of murdering a 9 year old girl is taken into custody hundreds have rallied in the central russian city of surat of demanding the death penalty for him we spoke to the girls and. using your piece wasn't working the sweet. 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 valued by their supposed

american supporters. you're watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 7 pm welcome to the program. in 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 ronan farrow accuses the channel of trying to kill his 2017 investigation into the now disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein and claims that even hillary clinton did her best to get in the way and purports. 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 hollywood was a serial predator up to 67 accusers ranging from inappropriate touching to rape they've been sexually assaulted by this monster is terrible terrible advantage

disgusting 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 in the rape allegations was almost killed by a channel that considers itself to be a beacon 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 in 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 head of the. weinstein reporting and her folks got in touch and said we're working on 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 rodent's work but have no idea what weinstein was saying to people to save him so what i do know is simple i've already rejected the weinstein code proposed dork about the election before talking to if i misrepresented facts it wouldn't be the 1st time and b c denied any wrongdoing and b c news signed the harvey weinstein's story to ruin and we completely supported it over many months with resources but financial and editorial of the 7 months without one victim witness on the record he simply didn't have a story that my standard for broadcast no that's 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 and 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 gerty 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 the suspect is a 35 year old local he claims he killed the girl fearing that the grown cheese belonged to her parents and she would tell them hundreds have been purchasing since the girl's body was found demanding the death penalty. the dutch good.

locals are mourning the deceased girl placing flowers where lisa's body was reportedly found we spoke to the girl's aunt. used to release it 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 or to respond to him no matter she was a good and sweet child he says grandmother quote me when they discovered that she was not at school she said lisa had disappeared. it was one of the brotherhood in egypt form such bodies people started such a long rap path but it was all in vain if 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 such. a

bunch of others that i express my deepest scratched you to the people it is an incredible response many thanks really lisa's mother is holding on as best she can you. don't see this for the. other children go to school that way when i saw paul for the past time i was shocked it was terrible i understand the i. some people they ask why let a child go. but not the children he said a few days recently. officials have promised to ensure the john school is safe and i hope the mashes will be taken but we will not sit him 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 it says ankara is destabilizing security in the region and putting in danger in u.s. allies the current however defense secretary mark asked for says they will not take

action in the conflict we have pows 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 help positions prior to the operation the us had withdrawn its forces in the area something currency as a betrayal withdrawal son shock waves across america with many condemning trump for turning his back on the allies but there seems to be double standards are the issue as mark explains. the kurds a heroes 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. are 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

to send out to people who are sure c.n.n. time right now on the frontier of the border point you saw it was one of the 1st targets of the p.k. county terrorist organization as you can see at that point there was a huge explosion that area is in the hands of the p.k. terrorist organization and we see an end price of the boundary approximately 70 meters away in 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 and 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 kurds surely they're 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 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 that president obama pulled out of iraq you that list unpatriotic cowards that feckless unpatriotic

callid is also you daddy meghan or have you not seen this photo as your father and next to him is syrian rebel commander general salim idriss who your daddy did his best to train who is now eradicating those same 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 can't have different opinions again last example justify this contradicting yourself we destroyed our ices 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 a recording of a righteous senator speaking to pranksters who pretended to be the turkish minister of defense your y.p. g. kurdish problem is a real problem i told president trump a bomber made a huge mistake and relying on the wipe e.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 and sympathetic to the wipe e.g. problem and those to prostrate court for 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 vantage. 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 costs

would go up most in coal reliant countries but let's look at the impact on europeans and particularly as you can see 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 a hobby system which is build on fossil fuels which is built to exploit the planet and then to basically made individuals in a neo liberal logic pay for it we actually already pay too much taxes for things actually i would say even nonsense but often we depend on the ring come for those special role yes i can see why the prices should go up but if you do that there has to be support for the people at the box in the corn to food it going that's a good way of approaching climate change aspect of things yeah things would be good we're going to amend their utilities to securely in my opinion the risk is that

wealthy people would pay just more money for the bells while people would an average salary would be put in a difficult situation for me it's not a practical solution yes except of course it's not a fact if not everyone can pay everyone can go for it for me it's a bit difficult because i live alone. 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. there's been a deadly attack on a mosque in west africa our correspondent will bring us a live update in the 2nd half of the program after this break. you know world big partisan movie lot 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person of those. who dares thinks. weak dear to ask.

welcome back the ongoing syrian crisis russia's middle east policy and economic ties with the arab countries these are just some of the topics touched upon in a far ranging interview given by bottom or putin to r.t. arabic all our obeah and sky is arabia will be showing that interview in full on sunday on r t you also be able to find it at r.t. dot com but for now here's a short preview. we 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 us then they are profoundly wrong so. you're a big country like iran which has existed on its territory for thousands of years it has its own interests and potions 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 you. to all the forces deployed illegitimately inside any sovereign state in this case syria must leave this is true to everyone if syria's new illegitimate government chooses to say that they have no more need for russia's military presence this way just as 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 in syria must be free from other states military presence and the territorial integrity of the syrian arab republic must be completely restored.

you work for russia today don't you while it is because of people like you that russia were accused of meddling in the election. center via comes ahead of his official visits to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates which will be the 1st since 2007 earlier russian journalists visited the saudi oil refineries that were attacks last month the facilities are working to end but some of the destruction is still visible oil. and trade along with regional security our own president putin's agenda during his visit to saudi arabia. at least 16 people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in the west african nation of bergen a fast so gunmen opened fire inside the building during friday prayers during live in the studio by a correspondent for more information tell us what we know while reports have just come in as you said 16 people have been killed and 2 others seriously injured in a mosque attack in kenya faso this actually happened late on friday boy only now

beginning to piece together the story because there's very little information and now what we do know is that a number of unidentified gunman opened fire in a mosque in a village of the west african country and this is not the only country suffering from attacks well no again we don't know anything about the motives of the group involved in this particular attack but we can say that the incident isn't in the region i mean has been batting in as the mist insurgency and we're seeing the terror spill into for example mali which is also knocked in a conflict with the hardest. and in fact to the very start of october we saw one of the deadliest attacks in the region in recent times and that was off to mali and army bases on the border with talkative and that resulted in the death of 38 soldiers and several dozens all still missing as is often an affiliate of al qaeda

claimed responsibility for the attack this of course led to heightened pressure on the government from its people who say that not enough is being done to tackle the issue of the islamist insurgency and this frustration is really bolstered by cries of several of the west african countries who are war and obviously about the spillover into the wild within the borders why particularly. well. this is a hot spot it's something they want to get the hands on because it's part of a vast space called so hell and this is a land that stretches from africa to coast all the weight or trade and for them they believe that if they can establish their presence in that region and gain access to certain major ports they'll be able to establish a clear trafficking route for both drugs and weapons from 01 or a perception of what's the international reaction to what's going on in the region

while the international community would argue that it's doing its best to try and calm the conflict the e.u. for example is committed to building security in the region and it's keen to prevent any spillover of crime terrorism and crucially migration it is of course in the europeans interest. to get to the root of the issue so that they do not have any mass migration to the continent which is obviously as we well know proved a controversial and divisive political issue in europe since 2015 the french for example adult boots on the ground on the ground and various nations including the u.k. and spain surveillance they've been a bit more hesitant to send in troops but there's been little success from these efforts because the contributions are widely considered small poorly coordinated too often just come too late and it's possible as a sort of final point here that cynics would say that international efforts to help

including providing aid as well as troops are part of a wider geopolitical game the u.s. and china for example are both keen to gain influence across africa since it provides an amazing opportunity for infrastructure including the building of pool of railways of roads china is actually slightly ahead in the race for sort of trade and influence in the region so a lot of political issues in play here africa is important strategically and unfortunately all these major powers of just sitting for influence in the region we are seeing an increasing number of attacks just like this artist thank you for joining us in the studio to bring us that report that's a news break down for this hour and that's all for me as well today but neil harvey will be taking over in about 30 minutes with the latest thanks for tuning in wherever you may be.

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join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. last. night of the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. this week kevin michael lehman the current. secretary of homeland security and a former commissioner of customs and border protection went to give

a speech at georgetown law school here in d.c. so he's a peace is in charge of overseeing our borders as importers are just something we're told to believe in like the tooth fairy or santa claus or trickle down economics or the american dream you know what we're told to care i have a lot about the borders so that we hate other human beings i don't know about you but i have more in common with a dirt poor mexican farmer than i have it common with a mega rich douche bag like jeff bezos or george soros or jay z. . at least the farmer knows what it's like to have to use a porta potti like. none of those other guys have used one in 3 decades ok but let's be honest the moment that you decide. yeah i'm going in there. that's the

moment we're most human. anyway let's get back to the secretary of homeland security kevin mclean and i'd like to play some of his speech that he gave this week because i think it's very important that we as as citizens of this fine nation give him a chance to tell us about all the wonderful things you guys you know maybe he'll tell us how we can fit a child in a small tupperware container maybe maybe hold let us know how to best teach border patrol agents to be so very racist right like i could i was trying to figure out do you show them swatches of skin colors and whenever it's darker than say in uncooked marshmallow you might come on the nose and go bad that. please mr secretary tell us your secrets.

well i thought i was an excellent speech. seemed like the par with the secretary of homeland security. but i can't believe those protesters don't want to hear the man speak i mean he's a celebrity our human rights are human rights abuses at the border are world renowned. luckily one of the georgetown administrator has quieted everybody down and got things back on track. mr medlin. goodmorning everyone.