of some version the the, this our top headlines here on our team and a big announcement coming right from new york where governor andrew cuomo has and he is quitting. i made allegations of sexual harassment. thereby, ultimately falling victim to the very me to call himself claims to support. and in a blow to that cause the head of a charity that supports the victims of sexual harassment also quit bowing to pressure over her ties to andrew cuomo in the program today. mog, 60 years since the us 1st use the agent orange and vietnam herbicide proven to cause serious health issues among both locals and the soldiers. a veteran and tell us it's time. immense. i mean, we really need people to sit down and take a look at it and say, hey, what is, is going to do not only to the civilians populations run into the enemy,

but also to also newly pain, dependent on documents shared light on how the u. s, department of defendants apparently pressures movie producers to portray the american military in a favorable life. ah, so just off the midnight here in moscow, welcome to the program and are you into national? what started off is a very com program. it's quickly become very busy. welcome to the new governor andrew club has announced 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 disgusted. 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 slipped and called people honey sweetheart. and darley, i meant it to be in theory 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 jane. we had one a come forward saying he had been sexually harassing her for years that another a step forward said he 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 who are speaking up and saying that andrew cuomo

engaged in inappropriate behavior with them. now. andrew cuomo has resigned, but 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 and 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 at 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. it seems like the fallout from the new level of awareness spawned 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 a short time ago. i also spoke with our legal and the media analyst lionel in new

york. he says quite most resignation was actually just 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 ice the scandal surrounding club. 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 archie on your hol, can join my colleague niel harvey. earlier in the day to get this to discuss, to shall i say this new angle to the story. will roberta 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 slogan

behind their mission is that no woman should be left behind. nobleman, she'd be left voiceless. they should be able to tell a story and get the support they need. no matter how powerful they were. the cues is up. you deserve more than just the 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 helped many, many women in the darkest hour. so what was cap plans, involvement at all this? well, a report by then you will could tiny, general lateesha. james mentioned on multiple occasions saying she actually helped to review and draft a letter written by under quote, by which allegedly calls out attacks and diminished shoes. the allegations put forth by his victims valesa went on, published apparently not enough. 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 criticised cat plan for taking part in the writing of this letter, which was described by critics as 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 one of the heads of a women's charity. this is what cow plant said the resignation statement. i can't 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 representing elizabeth, seen carroll lots of rice and soothing donald trump for defamation, with ross to write publications made many years ago as a whole other dimension to the story as well yeah, one shogun is ation the human rights campaign is for petition that 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 with advocacy group in the united states defense that promotes lobbies for minority rights across the whole country. and it's presidents. 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 victims personnel file to the governor's office when those allegations were made. now he's somebody else who said his behavior was entirely, legitimately acted well within his ream it. there 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 mark's 60 years since the 1st use of agent orange by the us military and vietnam. the highly toxic herbicide and defiant of course,

the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who have been left with lasting effects from the chemical. i should warn you, you may find the following images disturbing. the address about 5000000 people who have incurable chronic diseases, to agent, orange counseling, normal life, a fine job from the i was a gentle soldier in the bomb squad. my task was to cleared and demolish things. area was poisoned but 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 having children another award, then realize what orange pe needs to tell me when i hear from those yet. now the parents were shocked and pricing. that part of the family immediately goes with the full american soldiers are also still struggling with their injuries from exposure to agent orange. a retired a 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. most significant portion we would say, currently we're looking at about 110000 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 blue had a blue stripe, agent, pink, pink stripe, and so on so forth. as far as we know, edge and orange was the worst, but some of the others are besides had the same chemical component. the i gro, chemical john monsanto is one of the companies under fire. it was a major supplier of agent orange during the vietnam war. as by facing

a barrage of legal claims, both it and its parent company bay maintain. they can be held responsible for how the military use the product. john 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 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 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 out there, 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 on everybody depending on has been routinely bullying hollywood movie makers into portraying the us military and a favorable light. well, that's all according to newly obtained documents. apparently the append to come would often demand a massive script rewrites with one tv series even getting its wings clipped by the us top bras. it's on he's konstantin. roscoe now explains 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 elise got back. we're 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 and american long run and asked us thriller the carrion cobble for a week or 2? when, 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 is 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. army 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 one's final season speculates on a full story that the russians funded tally about insurgence also plays up the consequence of the us withdrawal from against then. sounds like something that american army bosses might like. the pentagon doesn't always get its way though the same internal report suggests christopher no one a hot shot hollywood director simply snubbed the military as they showed their appetite for a script at its continued discussions for support of christopher know until a merry go round working title support request includes use of our spring tional airframes n g b, an air force of indicated interest if military characterizations are read written,

emphasizing military mission request for support of chris nolan thriller, merry go round working titled seemed have stopped like records as a producer, director were reluctant to make changes needed to gain d o d support. others like captain marvel, co director of n, a. bowden and wine fly had to cozy up to the defense department reporter leave. they had lunch with air force, top command, and took part in a professional development session, whatever that means, before the film's release. no wonder a 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 cite scores of famous movies and tv shows that gain support or a green light from the military, including as former is the last night fast and furious. a tom cruise is top, gone to the list goes on. but those are the films that made it to the big screens,

despite the at it's a lot of storage, like a documentary on guantanamo bay. trials have been rejected completely and never came in to be more details on that story right now. it r t dot com right now we have hopefully through the program here at the international way back in about one minute. the so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation 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, a very critical time. time to sit down and talk rather driven by

a dreamer shaped by those in me dares thing. we dare to ask me. ah ah. right now 20 past the hour here in the russian capital wildfires continue to rage in rushes. the cutie region with smoke reportedly reaching as far as the north pole, as we understand. that's a 1st time occurrence dmitri, of how it joined

a one group of airborne 5 hide is in the region there in the skies, trying to seed the cloud. so we're 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 full of chemicals that turn regular clouds into precipitation clouds. because as a reminder, this year has been one of the drivers 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 more detail how this plane works, the news 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 and 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 them sitting on these canisters work sub 0 temperatures silva, ideas most suitable for ice crystal had an altitude of more than 4200 meters, a moisture 6 to the crystal, they freeze and then fall in the form of right. now on command, we will see the canister of the clouds in there with just talk to some promise. the 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 to bring seamless to see my work. but firefighters, professional rescue workers and military personnel aren't the only ones battling these wildfires. countless volunteers from all over you, cool, young and old, could not stand idly by and have been joining the fight to save their homeland, who submitted by their supervisor. 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 or you know, isn't it scary? well, it's a little scary of course, but you need to protect your homeland. not that was a gunman opened fire at

a hotel in miami gardens, florida on wednesday afternoon injuring 3 people. one of the victims is believe to be in a critical condition, while the other 2 suffered non life threatening injuries according to local police . suspect has been taken into custody. according to miami gardens, police, all 4 of the men involved in the incident on 19 year old students and members of a college football team. shooting is believed to be the result of some sort of altercation between them. depended collins press. secretary says i've got install must rely on its own armed forces to defend itself against the taliban. the is the mr. movement has sees now more the more territory in the last 2 months than in the last 20 years. this is their country, these are their, these are their military forces. these are their provincial capital, their people to defend. meanwhile, britain's 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 aim to keep terrorists group such as al qaeda out of the country. the deal was a rotten deal. it is floored, it saddens me that's a 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'm in the very name of the agreement signed in february 2020 was talking about an agreement between the islamic member to the dentist on which is not recognized by the united states and known as taliban. i mean, that's an extraordinary thing. negotiate with a group of richard says he doesn't recognize richard individuals called terrorist organizations. nothing was going to monitor the turn of been sent to not to attack us troops as they withdraw. and the u. s. also agreed to release 5000 television

prisoners naturally. as a nato forces started to pull out, the taliban house move to fill the void. you can see here on this matter, bring up fuel. the red area is essentially under taliban control. the latest major flare ups right along here. the northern border of afghanistan. that's where basically the flare up is happening where afghan forces are battling taliban millison. we do understand though, that northern region is where militants have now secured that 6 provincial capital in less than a week. now many experts warned that the taliban may soon recapture all of the country. that's gotten military forces, seemingly powerless to hold back the advance. now, of course, over the last 20 years, the war there is laughter. 47000 civilians dead waller, almost 3000 soldiers from the us and u. k. have lost their lives. we spoke to one of the guests we had earlier in the program, alessandra mitchell, who says, basically the future of afghanistan looks bleak. the visa recommend

closing up to members that pops up until pull out was be, make sure you got your schedule. didn't seem to cause to what is going to happen in the event of the school out the way you see them sort of taking over regular phone up to down up to city. and on the latest type county had full coverage falling to the hosting. so just imagine time people to take pictures, but nobody is stuck on this pretty much imminent. the former us state department spokesperson gent, saki is claim she's been the victim of russian propaganda. she made the claims during an interview to vogue magazine, saying she felt that she was being picked upon during various news briefings. r t,

the russian state funded news networks last campaign to cast an airhead publishing a list of what it called jim perfect ease. most embarrassing fails, she would mock the room is herself and teeth. b. r. c reporters, when they needled during press briefings. nevertheless, saki said it was good preparation for later roles, and even became fun towards the end of a time at the state department. let's go back and check out some of the career highlights of jen stuckey. you know, there are, there are, there are fluids of gas, natural gas, i should say, that go through from western europe through paint crane to russia. and 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, but we would state it from here. i, we wouldn't, we wouldn't state it in those say, why says, and joe biden advised you to take such action, nor was it just simply restating. pharmacy allows us the claims from what

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a position on whether what happened in egypt as 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. now you can see more of a gen psyches or career highlights at all t dot com or ortiz youtube channel. thanks for joining us here for the program. we're back soon with with the i .