the the soap headlines that are here on t and a big announcement coming out of new york and governor andrew cuomo announces he is quitting. i made allegations of sexual harassment. thereby falling victim to the very need to pause he himself claims to support. and then a blow about cause the head of a charity that supports victims of sexual harassment. also quit vollings of pressure over her ties to andrew cuomo today about 60 years into the us post huge agent, orange and vietnam. herbicide proven to cause serious health issues among both the locals and the soldiers. one veteran tells us at the time amends are made. we really need 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 enemies but also to newly obtained. the pentagon documents shed light on how the u. s. department of defense pressures producers in hollywood support. patricia the american military and a favorable life. ah, it's a fox putting into a busy evening for your worldwide headlines. my, for moscow, i'm real re sushi. nazi in the new governor, andrew cuomo has announced he will be stepping 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 their personal space to sheep in or ridicule the

pain. a woman suffers from 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 of active or sexual pattern is services and discuss that. 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 slipped and called people honey sweetheart. and darling, i meant it to be in theory straight to new york now, and it is kayla multi standing by caleb. apparently the type of turned, but i run it to some perhaps how the same man who champion women's rights find himself caught in the crossfire. indeed and the not so distant past, cuomo was going to women's marches and speaking up in support of the me to movement condemning sexual harassment, talking about the rights of women. but in 2020, towards the end of the year, that image started to change. we had one aide come forward thing he had been sexually harassing her for years. then another age stepped forward and said he had kissed her against her will. then someone else stepped forward and said he had

inappropriately touched her on her, exposed, lower back, and then someone else came forward and said he had asked her about her sex life and hinted that he was open to having sexual relations with somebody who is at least 22 years old, and at this point we have 11 women were speaking up and saying that andrew cuomo engaged in inappropriate behavior with them. now. andrew cuomo has resigned. buddy insist that he is innocent. he says he did nothing wrong. it would simply be impossible for him to continue governing in this atmosphere created by these allegations. and at this point, he is, he is stepping down within 2 weeks. he will no longer be the governor of new york. here's what he said. the situation and moment are 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, cuomo says this is politically motivated and that the only evidence is a bunch of tweets on social media. however, while most supported this very same movement, the me to movement in similar situations, and many critics of me to have pointed out that all it takes in order to have a politician, step down is allegations the word of accusers, as well as social media outrage. there's really no procedure. there is no way of determining guilt or innocence. the accusations, fly, and careers are destroyed. now, many have pointed out to me to seem to be primarily targeting, you know, republicans and conservatives, donald trump. but cuomo is a democrat, and his accusers are democrats and the new york state attorney general leticia james, who issued the report that seems to have been the last straw, was also a democrat. so me to is continuing within the democratic camp. andrew cuomo will no

longer be the governor of the state of new york. and at this point, it seems like the fallout from the new level of awareness respond by the me to hash tag campaign on social media is continuing with andrew cuomo, who has been governor of new york since 2011 being forced to resign. i kayla. thanks for that little bit earlier in the program, i spoke with a legal and media analyst, lionel. he says, 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 how 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, not 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 saw the scandal surrounding. quote, most 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 charity times up which supports victims of sexual harassment. resigned after coming under fire for her

ties to the new york governor. daniel hawkins joined my colleagues neil harvey earlier in the studio to discuss this angle to the story. while robots are 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 suits of charity. that raises funds for that legal costs and their main slogan. the slogan behind their mission is that no woman should be left behind, nobleman should be left voiceless. they should be able to tell a story and get the support they need no matter how powerful they will accuses. are you deserve more than just that. you are showing others at no one has the right to strip your voice, no matter how known and powerful they are. well, you can even buy merchandise, clothes, and other items with their mission statement on limits. very well run organization that's no doubt help. many, many women in their dog as our so what was cat plans,

involvement, and all this? well, a report by the new york attorney general lateesha james mentions are multiple occasions saying she actually helped to review and draw the letter written by under quote, by which allegedly calls out attacks and diminishes the allegations put forward by his victims. the letter went on, published apparently not enough. people were willing to sign it to actually get behind the new governor, but nevertheless, her mention in the report isn't good. many victims and survivors of sexual abuse. they've written an open letter around 30 signatories, which have criticized cat plan for taking part in the writing of this letter, which would describe what critics is victim shaving and castigating those victims who wanted to come forward and tell a story. unsurprisingly, 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 kaplan's also, the law that's representing elizabeth seen carol, that's the rice of suing donald trump. defamation with ross to re publications made many years ago. is that a whole lot that i mentioned to the story as well? yeah. once that she's going to zation human rights campaign is reputation, that tarnished it seems by involvement with the quote most scandal tell us more about that group. 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 country. and it's presidents. so david has 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 victims personnel file to the governor's office when those allegations were made. now he's somebody else who said his behavior was entirely

legitimate. he acted well within his room, it was nothing illegal untoward and what he did nevertheless, and in time of estimation has been lost. and no doubt, a shadow will be cost over that lobbying group. today marked 60 years since the 1st use of agent orange by the us military in vietnam. highly toxic herb side and to foley. and course the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who have been left with lasting effects from the chemical of warning. you may find the following images disturbing. the

address about 5000000 people in vietnam who have incurable chronic diseases due to agent orange. they complete normal life, a fine job. the i was a simple soldier in a bomb squad. my task was to clear paths and demolish things. the area was poisoned, but we didn't know it back then. we just went on with our lives. we only realized when we started having children that go along the game and also when people started having children that was normal to stuff that weren't then realized what orange pay means in 9082. so i mean, when for bro here from those yet now, the parents were shocked and pricing that the father left the family immediately.

the former american soldiers are also still struggling with their exposure to agent orange or tied u. s. navy commander and lawyer join wells. i spoke to us about the consequences of the chemical and the attempts of veterans to claim compensation. 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 ation age and orange was so name because there was an orange strike around

the center of the barrel of the things like agent who had a blue stripe agent, pink, pink stripe, and so on so forth. as far as we know, edge in orange was the worst that some of the others are besides had the same chemical component. the i grow chemical giant. monsanto is one of the companies under fire. it was a major supplier of agent orange during the vietnam war. despite facing a barrel of legal claims, both it and its parent company bay maintain. they cannot be held responsible for how the military use the product. a joint wells again says to many people have suffered needlessly. 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 that 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 and say, hey, whereas is going to do not only to the civilians populations not only to the enemy, but also to our own troops. if the world or united states had learned a 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 really, really on everybody. all right, halfway through the program program. now a quarter past the hour here at moscow as wildfire continue raging in russia. east emergency crews are taking to the skies and the bid to make it rain will be boarding a plane with them to see how they do it. just a moment here are nazi international. ah

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the in the are going to be to join us for the program. here on our tea. wildfires are raging and russia is yet cutie. a region with smoke reportedly reaching now was far as the north pole. as we understand that is a 1st time event to meet your power that joined the one group of ab on firefighters in the region. they're off into the sky to see if they can actually see the clouds . 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 news. what this plane does is it goes up into the

clouds as long as there are a cloud and shoot these projects out of chemicals that turn these regular clouds into precipitation clouds. because as a reminder, this year has been one of the dryers in this regions. history, the last time the precipitation 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 ah, running through the flight to where the fires are, and on command by 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. though these are the actual cartridges that are going to be fired into the cloud. so once again,

make them raincloud on the few, just leave it 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 to the crystal, they freeze and then fall in the form of right now on command, we will should the canister of the clouds me with just targeted some promise, and 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. firefighters on the ground started reporting rainfall, which tremendously aided their efforts you were supposed to see 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 and old, could not stand idly by and have been joining the fight to save their homeland. who submitted there is typically here the guys a rule 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. isn't it scary much? well, it's a little scary of course, but you need to protect your homeland. the pentagon has been routinely bullying a hollywood movie makers, into portraying league us military and a favorable light. now, all of that is a calling to newly obtain documents and says, apparently though, the, those from the pentagon often demand that scripts are edited and one tv series, or even got its wings clipped by the u. s. top military bras. let's get all the

details now. here's a correspondent ortiz konstantin or ross golf propaganda on the silver screen. so the d o. d 's been waging war. the creative freedom is scrape writers and directors . perhaps the most blatant case is the 200-1900 c b s. trauma serious. the code about marine corps lawyers, which was canceled soon after release school pack, were headed towards the as it turns out, the military saw the 1st effort i was before they went on air and was upset about a storyline show and a marine turned congress man accused of brutally execute and then iraqi civilian and another service man who killed a spanish citizen while drunk driving. marine corps leadership was apparently provided advance copies of several of the episodes and was displeased enough that they communicated what they saw a serious shortcomings in the depiction of the marines. cbs television has indicated a desire to correct the problems in future episodes by accepting d. o. d assistance as a 1000 pentagons official web page. the department has

a long standing relationship with hollywood. what it keeps quiet about is how many trade offs had cost the filming community. remember, homeland an american long run and asked us thriller the carrion cobble for a week or 2? when well, according to the files, the producers asked the us army to support the final season, filming, but initially were turned down by the military. after they saw the script on the entertainment office is currently in talks of the producers of homeland who have asked the modern army support initial request was declined due to a storyline, that was not an accurate portrayal of soldiers. sure, in a responded with some significant edits to the problematic areas on the has agreed to provide support. as requested. show runners responded with significant ad. it's what they were. we don't know why. what we do know is that how lens final season

speculates on a full story that the russians funded talia about insurgents and also plays off the consequence of the wes withdrawal from against them. sounds like something that american army bosses might like. the pentagon doesn't always get its way though the same internal reports, the jazz christopher, no one, a hot shot hollywood director simply snubbed the military as they showed their appetite for a script at its continue discussions for supportive christopher nolan thriller, merry go round, working titled support request includes use of ospreys, tional, airframes and g b. an air force of indicated interest in the military characterizations are read, written, emphasizing military mission request for support of chris nolan, thrill at merry go. round working titled seemed have stopped like recalls as a producer, director were reluctant to make changes needed to gain d o. d support. others like cap marvelous co directors and a bowden and wine flag had to cozy up to the defense department report leave. they had lunch with air force, top command, and took part and

a professional development session, whatever that means before the films release. now, one of the marvel movies are being branded as military propaganda in the media. more and more. the internal reports coverages, 2 years of pentagon, hollywood cooperation from 2017 to 2019. yet they side scores of famous movies and tv shows that gained support for a green light from the military, including transformers the last night, fast and furious. a tom cruises top gone to the list, goes on, but those are the films that made it to the big screens despite the it is a lot of stores like a documentary on guantanamo bay. trials have been rejected completely and never came to be dependent on suppressed secretary. so it's kind of odd must rely on its own armed forces to, to defend itself against the taliban. the is a mr. movement has now 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, britons that defense secretary has criticized washington's agreement with the taliban on the pull out of us forces that disputed deal was struck last year and aims 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, an extraordinary front. so i didn't deal basically to pull out on conditioning. i'm in the very name of the agreement signed in february 2020 was design. talk about an agreement between the islamic member to the kindest on which is not recognized by the united states and is known as taliban. i mean, that's an extraordinary thing. negotiated with a group of richard says he doesn't recognize richard indigenous called terrorist

organizations. nothing was granted demanded of baton again, except the saw not to attack us troops as they withdraw. and the u. s. also agreed to release 5000 taliban prisoners unilaterally. now as our nato forces started to pull out, the taliban has moved in to fill the void. and you can see on the map right here, the terrorists group is taken huge areas of us kind of on under control, but particularly in the northern region right here. that's where a lot of the violence is still ongoing, is also where the militants have recently seized as we understand now, a 6th provincial capital in less than one week. now, many experts warn but the taliban may soon recapture the entire country. that's gotten military forces, seemingly powerless to hold back and bonds. over the course of the past 20 years, the war in afghanistan has left 47000 civilians dead while almost 3000 soldiers

from america and the u. k. have lost their lives for american tax payers. the war is looking at an estimated trillion dollars plus and for the u. k. the bills about 40000000000 pounds. i'm a lender, mister, a professor of international political science. he told us the future for i've got his don. looks bleak. the visa recommend are 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 off the spool out. the way you see them sort of taking over regular on up to down city, up to city. and on the latest call we had for capital had fallen to the horses. so just a matter of time before they go, except perhaps some new about 8 years the, all of these are pretty much imminent. so the former us

state department folks, person gen saki has claimed she's been the victim of russian propaganda. she made the claims during an interview to vogue magazine, saying she felt she was being picked upon during certain news briefing. r t, the russian state funded news network last campaign to cast an airhead publishing a list of what he called jim perfect ease. most embarrassing fails, she would mock the broom as herself and teeth the reporters when they needled her during press briefings. nevertheless, saki said it was a good preparation for later rolls, and even became fun towards the end of a time at the state department. if you're interested in hearing some of the career highlights from her time at the state department, you know, there are, there are, there are flows of gas, natural gas, i should say. they go through from western europe through pain crane to russia and we are, i'm sorry you have any problem with the way he put it. i think i point you to them

and i just stated that wouldn't be the way that we would. we would state it from here. i, we wouldn't, we wouldn't state it in those say, my friends and joe biden advice key of to take such action. nor was it just a coincidence here is simply restating. foreign minister allows us ludicrous claims from yes. what is their response? i think we're ready to move on to a new question. methodology was also highly assessed with reports, with carousel voting, pre marked ballots. what's carousel? you know, the truth is, 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 a 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 or act. i would disagree with you mat. 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. okay. yourself, jones are career highlights, can be found a continued on our website, r t dot com, just have a small look. that means how your program returns the top with the the interest in what we've got to do is.