[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, help headlines for this hour here when off into national a big announcement coming out of new york, where governor andrew quo announces he's quitting and allocations of sexual harassment. thereby ultimately falling victim to a very mean to cause himself claims to support. and then a blow to that cause the head of a charity that supports the victims of sexual harassment. also steps down bowing to pressure over her ties. sandra cuomo, also in the program here on i see the wife of an alleged us intelligence officer implicated in the death of british motorcyclist. how redone faces, claims that she may have been on her phone undistracted when her car plowed into

him. we hear from the families adviser about the new developments in this case. the u. s. government are trying to short inquiry down the other side are being evasive and inconsistent about producing the phone records and incentive from themselves. today marks 60 years since the us 1st used agent orange in vietnam. herbicide proven to cause serious health issues among both locals and the soldiers involved. one veteran tells us it's time amends are made. we really need people to sit down and take a look and say, hey, was, is going to do not only to the civilians populations not only to the enemy, but also to our own troops. ah, well, it's a nice program to start off with a big news from the big apple. i received

a on audio international in moscow where it's now just off that 9 p. m. to new york governor andrew cuomo has an hour. he will step down in 14 days. it comes on the back of months of allegations of sexual harassment. he denies any wrong doing, despite his own earlier impassioned speeches on respecting women and that personal space to sheep in or ridicule the pain. a woman suffers from the sexual attack is disgusting. i often will give them a grip of the arm, a pat on the face, a touch on the stomach, a slap on the back. it's my way of saying, i see you. i appreciate you. and i thank you to 2nd guess how a woman should ever active after a sexual attack is sexist and disgusted. i

do hug and kiss people casually. women and men. i have done it all my life. it's who i've been, since i can remember. i mean, it's just insensitive, you don't understand the pain. you don't understand how the system tortures a person who wants to come forward. i have slept and called people honey sweetheart. and darley, i meant it to be in theory. i. that's our cross lock now to new york, i did join our team kayla muffin was caleb good to see you is some of the saying it's a better ironic how one and the same man has turned from a champion of women's rights into a villain. sure. asked andrew cuomo was attending women's marches in new york and speaking up in

support of the me to movement. but the details now seem to have emerged and he's stepping down from office. his desire to fight for the rights of women is championing of women's equality. seems to be crumbling, that image of him as a fighter for women's rights has kind of crumbled. now the allegation started in late 2020, a woman came forward and said he had been sexually harassing her son. some other women came forward, said he kissed them against their will. some other details came up that fomo had, is alleged to have, you know, and asked a woman about her sex life and suggested that he was open to having relations with women over the age of 22. and on march 1st, another woman came forward and said that cuomo had touched her on her lower, exposed,

bare back. and at this point we have andrew cuomo denying these allegations. and even today, as he is stepping down, he maintains is innocent. he claims that these allegations are essentially political and that they aren't backed up, but by anything but tweets on social media. so even as he stepping down, he claims he is innocent of what he's accused of this is andrew cuomo resigning the situation and moment. i'm not about the facts, it's not about the truth. this is about politics. and our political system today is too often driven by the extreme. twitter has become the public square for policy debate. now andrew cuomo was a vocal supportive of the me to movement back in 2018. but now it seems that this me to movement has resulted in him being removed from office. and as it has been widely pointed out, this is not

a situation where the court proceedings and evidence and, and procedures are carried out in order to determine guilt. this is a situation where accusations and social media outrage are enough to remove and elected official in the united states. i entered cuomo, he said it would have been impossible for him to continue governor and in the outrage, the situation and the atmosphere that was developing in the light of these allegations and the new report from the new york state attorney general. now many of noted that when the me to movement started, it seemed to be aimed at republicans like donald trump. however, it's democrats calling for quote, a step down. and cuomo is himself a democrat. so now it seems like, even though andrew cuomo has been governor of new york since 2011, he will soon be leaving office within the next 2 weeks. he's kellum often in new york. thank you. time ago in the program just a bit earlier i spoke with illegal and media analyst line. oh, he says that quote, most resignation was only

a matter of time. he perhaps gave one of the worst defences ever in the history of defences. i mean, it was a man who was completely divorced from reality. it's like nothing you've ever seen . you could not have possibly handled this worse by the way. he has multiple criminal charges that are pending. this is a man who was responsible, so they say for 15000 elderly people meeting their maker rather early. because he moved coven patients into nursing homes. why you might ask some say, to avoid making it look like donald trump was helping this had to happen. and today, as we speak because of his inability to appreciate consequence, he's saying, well, i'm going to step down. not because i'm guilty, not because i did anything wrong that because any of these accusers are correct.

but for the sake of this state, for the sake of governance, i'll do the right thing and fall on my sword, because that's the kind of magnanimous person i got all surrounding corners harassment case became even bigger after a group fighting sex abuse got involved, but not on the side, you might expect the leader of the child he times up which supports victims of sexual harassment. resigned off. they're coming under fire for her ties to the new york governor. he's daniel hawkins. join my colleague niel harvey. earlier in the studio to discuss this angle of the story, while robots kaplan is a lawyer and she's one of the co founding members of the times up shower seats, organization that defends and supports the victims of sexual harassment and sexual abuse. it's a charity that raises funds for that legal costs and their main slogan. the floating behind their mission is that no woman should be left behind. no woman should be left voiceless, they should be able to tell

a story and get the support they need. no matter how powerful they will lead accuses up, you deserve more than just you are showing others that no one has the right to strip your voice. no matter how known and powerful they are. when you can even buy merchandise, clothes, and other items with their mission statement on limits, very well run organization that's no doubt helped many, many women in their dog as our so what was cap plans, involvement at all this? well, a report by the new will concerning general lateesha. james mentions on multiple occasions saying she actually helped to review and draw the letter written by and required by which allegedly calls out attacks and diminishes the allegations put forward by his victims. the letter went on, published apparently none of the people were willing to sign it to actually get behind the new governor. but nevertheless, her mention in that report has angered many victims and survivors of sexual abuse.

they've written an open letter around 30 signatories, which have criticized cap plan for taking part in the writing of this letter, which would describe what critics is the victim shaving and castigating those victims who wanted to come forward and tell a story. and surprisingly, it was viewed as untenable with her position as the head of a, one of the heads of a women's charity. this is what cow plant said in her resignation statement. i can offer the degree of transparency about my firms matters now being demanded. since that would be contrary to my responsibilities as a lawyer, a couple and also the law that's representing elizabeth seen carol, that's the rice of suing donald trump for defamation, with ross to rape obligations made many years ago as a whole lot of damage into the story as well. yeah. one such as ation, human rights campaign is reputation tarnished. it seems by involvement with the quote most scandal tell us more about language. well, the human rights campaign is the most prominent l g

b t. i was advocacy group in the united states. it defends, it promotes lobbies for minority rights across the whole country and its president . so david found himself under fire as an internal investigation is launched into his role. he was also mentioned in the attorney general's report, allegedly releasing the victim, his personnel file to the governor's office when those allegations were made though he's somebody else who said his behavior was entirely legitimate. he acted well within his ream it. there was nothing illegal untoward and what he did nevertheless, and in time of estimation has been lost. no doubt, a shadow will be cost over that lobbying group. today mark's 60 years since the 1st use of agent orange by the us military in vietnam. highly toxic curbside and to foley, and of course, the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who have been left with lasting effects from the use of this chemical and warning. you may find the following

images disturbing. the address about 5000000 people who has a curable chronic diseases, to agent, orange homes, lead normal life, a fine job on the moon. i was a simple soldier in a bomb squad. my past and demolish things with an area with poison. didn't know it back then we just went on with our lives. we only realized that when we started having children that go along

the same game and also when people started having children as award, you know, they realized what orange pay me in the time you will hear from know how the parents were shocked and writing that immediately the american soldiers are also still struggling with the injuries from exposure to agent orange. a retired u. s. navy commander and lawyer, john wells spoke to us about the consequences of the chemical and the attempts of veterans to claim compensation. we are significant portion we would say currently we're looking at about a $110000.00 claims have been filed. some of those are the same person,

multiple plans for the same person. but it's probable that we're, i would say 706070 percent of those folks had some problems today. there was cases what they call the ring per besides. and it was use primarily for d, for the asian edge and orange was so name because there is an orange stripe around the center of the barrel. of the things like agent blue, a blue stripe agent paying a thanks tribe, and so on, so forth. as far as we know, edge and orange was the worst that some of the others herbicides had the same chemical component. the grow chemical joined monsanto is one of the companies under fire. it was a major supply of agent orange during the vietnam war. despite facing a barrage of legal claims, both in its parent company base maintain, they cannot be held responsible for how the military use the product as well. again,

so too many people have suffered unnecessarily. i think primarily the v. a system is over bureaucratic and they have difficulty processing them by even now, you know, we've had 2 and a half years since a court decision. they've only processed about 60 percent of the claims that are in file. we really need people to sit down and take a look at it and say, hey, what is this going to do? not only to the civilians populations not only to the enemy, but also to our own troops. if the world are united states that learned our lesson, and i certainly hope they do because, you know, we wind up spending a lot of time causing a lot more pain and we have to not the, or is it easy? it's never easy. but it's, you know, we should do everything we can to minimize the effect on. we don't really know

everybody that's being a new development in the case of british teenager hurried, done. if you remember, he was kill 2 years ago in the u. k. in a road accident involving the wife of an alleged us intelligence officer, that the families, lawyers say, answer coolers may have well being on the phone. when her car plowed into harry's motorcycle, they add the relevant phone data has since somehow disappeared. and the american has been apparently evasive about whether or not she was on a call at the time of the collision. i spokesperson for the don family says they just want accountability. we've been trying to get to the bottom of the phone issue in the u. s. civil case for the last 3 months and as our lawyers have put it, the other side are be evasive and inconsistent. about producing the phone records and the phone themselves for u. s. government are trying to shut doc inquiry down the civil case. united states may represent b only chance that this family will get of justice. it's never been about money,

they want accountability there, and they want to get to the truth. in terms of the criminal sense. our position has always been you don't get to kill somebody or walk away. our request to mrs are true. this in the united states government is that she simply. ready presents herself to the united kingdom justice system and goes through the process. the parents are pursuing every single avenue justice open to them and it's a cooler. so it's claimed, as the wife of a cia officer was driving on the wrong side of the road when the crash occurred. she was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in the u. k. although she never denied her guilt, she fled back to america, claiming diplomatic community, an extradition requested by the u. k, it was denied. well, in july, the u. k. prime minister raised the issue in a meeting with joe biden or the latter expressing sympathy to the family and that the 2 countries were working together on the case. later this month, the hurry done, parents will come face to face with mister coolers for the 1st time in a court house. in virginia. as

a civil claim they filed is being heard that and families spokesperson again and says progress is being made. thanks to the continued media coverage, we count many americans amongst us. as our friends, we supported these people for decades and diminished. one of their employees killed harry. their reaction was to not stop and think about this family and the consequences that they faced. but they thought about themselves, they recalled her, and the catastrophic miscalculation that they made was that nobody would find out about it. and thanks to your good sales to your colleagues in the media. thank goodness you all came to this family support. this issue is never going to go away until the united states government realizes that there is a broken hearted breast family here who need help and needs support. we've reached out and all the rest to them numerous times continually get slapped in the face. ready for doing so,

they're entitled to accountability and they want justice both in the criminal sense in the civil sense. i roughly halfway through the program here on to national still lots to come, including the wildfires, continue raging in eastern russia, emergency crews and taking to the skies in a bit sudden make it rain really boarding a plane for them to see how they do this after a very quick break and the the good

news the what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk the 20 parts of the out here on the russian capital wildfires all raging and russia is your cutie region. the

smoke reportedly reaching now as far as the north pole. it's a 1st time, carnes, as we understand here at archie, of corresponding to meet your power has been joining a group of apple and firefighters in the troubled region as now they are seating the clouds to make it rain. so we are now at the you could concern national airport where we're going to watch the launch of the airplane and $26.00. the what this plane does is it goes up into the clouds as long as there are a cloud and shoot these projects for chemicals that turn these regular cloud into precipitation clouds. because as a reminder, this year has been one of the drivers in this regions history the last time the precipitation is where this low was back in 1888. right now we're going to go talk to the airplane pilots. the engineers who will probably explain in more detail how this plane works,

the running through the flight to where the fires are and on command fi. so iodide into the clouds, depending on the clouds, we have to go around and sometimes we shoot canisters to the right hand side. sometimes the left, but we are trying to fill the clouds silver iodide, which hopefully causes them to rain. so these are the actual cartridges that are going to be fired into the cloud to once again make them rain cloud room. if you just sit on these kind of stairs work, sub 0 temperatures silva, ideas most suitable for ice crystal had an altitude of more than 4200 meters moisture, 6 the crystal, they freeze and then fall in the form of raise the me now on command, we will, should the canister of the clouds in the bus with just

targeted some promising clouds of one of the 5. the flight was a success. the plane did its job and only a few hours after the silver iodide cartridges were deployed via are fighters on the ground. started reporting rainfall, which tremendously painted their efforts when she was supposed to see one more but firefighters. professional rescue workers and military personnel aren't the only ones battling these wildfires. countless volunteers from all over you could hear young an old could not stand idly by and have been joining the fight to save their homeland security. but there is typically open here. the guys are all patriots. first of all, they want to save you here. of course we conduct a briefing so that everything is safe. we send dozens of volunteers to help every day. i decided to help myself protect the homeland road. you know, isn't it scary much?

well, it's a little scary of course, but you need to protect your land. the pentagon's press secretary says afghanistan must rely on its own armed forces to defend itself against the taliban . islamic movement has seized more territory in the last 2 months than in the last 2 decades. this is their country, these are their, these are their military forces. these are their provincial capital, their people to defend. meanwhile, at britain's defense, secretary has criticized washington's agreement with a taliban on the pull out of us forces that dispute a deal was struck last year and aim to keep terrorist groups such as al qaeda out of the country. the deal was a rotten deal. it is flawed, it saddens me that's the deal picked apart a lot of what had been achieved. and if the dentist on over 20 years will probably be back in 10 or 20 years and extraordinary from side to deal, basically to pull out on conditioning. i mean,

the very name of the agreement signed in february 2020 was design. talk about an agreement between the islamic amber to the kindest on which is not recognized by the united states and is known as taliban. i mean, that's an extraordinary thing. negotiate with a group of richard says he doesn't recognize metric individuals called terrorist organizations. nothing was granted demanded of the toner gun, except the saw not to attack us troops as they withdraw. and the u. s. also agreed to release 5000 taliban prisoners unilaterally. fall, as you probably know, as nato forces started to pull out, the taliban has moved to fill the void. as you can see here on this map for you, the terrorist group now controls most of the country, particularly up here in the northern regions, is where the latest flare ups have been happening. it's where the militants have recently, as we understand now, sees a 6 provincial capital in less than one week. now,

many experts was that the taliban may seem to recapture the entire country. thus gotten military forces seemingly powerless to hold back their bonds. over the course of 20 years now, the war and chemist on his left 47000 civilians dead, almost 3000 soldiers from the us and u. k. alone of lost their lives for american tax payers. the bill is looking at about a trillion dollars for the u. k. the bills about 40000000000 pounds, a professor of international political science. i'm a lendue. misery believes the truth pull out. was premature. the resist recommend or broken up members that perhaps will pull out was be made. you're, you're not, your states didn't think so as to what is going to happen in the event of the troops will out the way you see them sort of taking over regular phone up to down city, up to city and on the latest county had 4 cabbage falling to the horses

. so just imagine time people go except perhaps goblin from nearby 80 years. the, all of these are pretty much imminent. in the meantime, a german politicians are called on the government to re establish a military presence. and i've got it down to stop the taliban. bundis dogs, foreign affairs committee head has said that berlin should make us troops available for another operation in afghanistan is also words that us not to withdraw. so is history set to repeat itself? i question is debated on our website right now at our see dot com, who's well, the former us to state department spokesperson, john saki has claimed she's been the victim of a russian propaganda. she made the claims during interview to vogue magazine, saying she felt she was being picked upon during news briefings. ocoee, the russian state funded news network last campaign to cast an airhead publishing

a list of what it called jim, perfect ease, most embarrassing fails. she would mock the broom as herself and tease the asi reporters when they needled her during press briefings. over the last, saki said it was a good preparation for later rolls, and even became fun towards the end of a time at the state department, his up, some photos of up saki inaction. you know, there are, there are, there are flow of gas, natural gas, i should say, that go through from western europe through pain crane to russia and we are, i'm sorry. do you have any problem with the way he put it? i think i'd point you to them and i just stated that wouldn't be the way that we would. we would state it from here. we wouldn't, we wouldn't state it in those say, why says joe biden advice key of to take such action, nor was it just a coincidence, think you're simply restating of farming for a lot of claims from yes, what is the response? i think we're ready to move on to

a new question. methodology was also highly suspect, with reports of carousel voting, pre marked ballots. what's carousel? you know, the truth is i was reading that i'm not familiar with that term either. it may be that people weren't checking and i'll check and see what, what our team and you may know the story of how she lived on a russian vote for about 8 months when she was 23. and she learned how to perfect, perhaps certain words and a couple of languages. english. she, i was making a tell about her learning 1st, or it's on a fishing boat. you go and say our position has not changed, but you don't have a position. you don't have a position that could, could change my position, means taking a saw or taking a stance or making a determination. and since you didn't do that, you do not by definition. have a position. we have wrecked. i would disagree with you, matt. you have a position on whether what happened in egypt was a, could we have determined that we do not need to make a difference?

is that the same as not having a position? i will, i will let you part of yourself. and you can see more of a job. psyche is a career highlights online at odds here, dot com for the meantime. we are back at the top of the oh welcome to mac kaiser's financial survival guide. looking forward to your benjamin this is what happened is the benches in britain tell us that you watch kaiser report ah, cities all over the world are reintroducing co restrictions and pushing vaccine