[000:00:00;00] the who's lives this out here on r t and a big announcement coming out of new york and governor andrew quite lower down says he is quitting amid allegations of sexual harassment, thereby ultimately falling victim to the very mean to cause he himself claims to support and then a blow to that, of course, the head of a charity that supports the victims of sexual harassment. also with following the pressure of her ties to andrew cuomo, also in the program here on our team today about 60 years since the us 1st used 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 people to sit down and take a look and say, hey, where is this going to do? not only to the civilians populations finally to the enemy, but also to also newly obtained a pentagon documents shed light on how the u. s. department of defense pressures movie producers to portray the american military in a favorable light on the big screen. ah, just after 1 o'clock in the morning on wednesday here in moscow, and this is on the international a very warm welcome to the new york governor andrew cuomo and he will be stepping down in 14 days. it comes on the back of months of allegations of sexual harassment . now he denied 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 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 have an active or sexual pattern 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 share. we had one a come forward saying he had been sexually harassing her for years that another age stepped 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 are 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, i'm not about to fax. 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 lateesha 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. i also spoke with illegal and media analyst lionel, who says mister cuomo, resignation was simply 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 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, not because any of these accuser 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 personality. the scandal surrounding cuomo, 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 after coming under fire for her ties to the new york governor. daniel hawkins joined my colleague, neil harvey, earlier in the studio to discuss the angle of this 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 should be left voiceless. they should be able to tell a story and get the support they need. no matter how powerful they accuses. are you deserve more than just 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 that mission statement on limits. very well run organization. that's no doubt, help many, many women in the darkest hour. so what was cap plans, involvement at all this? well, 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. vanessa went on, published apparently not enough. people were willing to sign it to actually get behind the new governor,

but nevertheless mention in the report design good 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 would describe what critics is the 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 plan and 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 is representing elizabeth seen carroll lots of rice said suing donald trump defamation with ross to re publications made many years ago as a whole lot of damage into the story as well. yeah. once that shogun station human runs,

campaign is reputation. 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 was advocacy group in the united states, it defends it promotes lobbies for minority rights across the whole country and it's presidents often. 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 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 mark's 60 years since the 1st use of agent orange by the u. s. military in vietnam. the

highly toxic herbicide and to foley and cause the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who have been left with lasting effects of warning. you may find the following images describing the somebody about 5000000 people who have a curable of chronic diseases, agent or in the home sleep normal life, a fine job fun. the i was a simple soldier in a squad. my demos thing was, area was always and i didn't know it, but then we just went on with our lives. we only realized having children that go along

the same game and those who haven't shown up the work, you know, they realize what orange pe needs in the time you will hear from those. and the parents were shocked and i like the family immediately. douglas, the full, the american soldiers are also still struggling with our exposure to agent orange, 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. 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 of 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 is an orange strike around the center of the barrel of the things like agent who had a blue stripe edge and pink. thanks dr. 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 agro chemical dr. monsanto is one of the companies on the fire. it was a major supply of agent orange during the vietnam war. this by facing

a barrage of legal claims, both it and its parent company, bay maintain. they cannot be held responsible for how the military used 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 . i'm not 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 and, 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 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 answer 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. the pentagon has been a routinely bullying hollywood movie makers into portraying the us military in a favorable light that is according to newly obtained documents. apparently the department of defense and dependent on the demand scripts to be edited and rewritten. one tv series even got its wings clipped by the top us bras. at ortiz cars in rush golf now explains propaganda on the silver screen. so the d o d 's been waging war. the creative freedom is the script 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 pentagon's 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 caring couple 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 talk of the producers of homeland who've asked

the modern army support, initial request is declined due to a storyline, that was not an accurate portrayal of soldiers. sure. and 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 insurgents and also plays off the consequence of the us withdrawal from a dentist in 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 continue discussions for support of christopher nolan till the merry go round working titled support request includes use of our spring tional, airframes and 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 titles seemed have stopped likely causes that produce the director were reluctant to make changes needed to gain d o d support. others like captain marvel, co director, as an a, bowden at wind flag, had to cozy up to the defense department report 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 coverage is 2 years of pentagon, hollywood cooperation from 2017 to 2019. yet they side scores of famous movies and tv shows that game support or a green light from the military, including transformers to last night, fast and furious. a tom cruise this top gone to the list goes on. but those are the films that made it to the big screen despite the it is a lot of stories like

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grow. ah ah. ready however, despite its proven track record and the ongoing threat of new more virulent corona virus strain, splitting v continues to face headwinds. the job is still hasn't been approved by the world health organization all the european medicines agency. so let's open this up for discussion right now. and go live to michael tool and epidemiologist at the bernard institute in melbourne, australia. thank you very much for joining us today. we appreciate you coming off the international. why do you think it's taken the w h o and the european medicines agency, so long to approve sputnik v?

hi, laurie. it's not particularly clear why, for example, the world health organization hasn't provided emergency authorization. they have done so for 2 of the chinese, like st. kuranda back and sign up there were some suggestions that there was a problem at a plant in india which had the role of filling the bottles to the vaccine, not actually making the exit. so i don't know if that issue has been fixed. as for the european medicines agency, i believe they have some concerns about whether it has been adequate monitoring of re a side effects. and the reason i have that concern is that the technology

use for the sport 5 vaccine center is very similar to as to danica and johnson and johnson. and both those back things have been associated with very rare, but quite severe. closing blood clotting events, as, as you, as you say, as you say, mister tul, astrazeneca moore, during pfizer. some of these have been listed as having a issues of hot inflammation in young people and actually quite a mix of potential side effects as well. the lancet medical journal is, as you well know, one of the most respected medical journals out there has a reported splitting. the v is safe and effective up to 90 percent effective, potentially better than others. and there are european countries and 70 countries around the world who are lining up to get it. is it possible that that's politics getting involved here? oh, i think definitely there are politics. and that's why i agreed to, to speak to the australian journalist about but 5,

because i felt it was important that people in the west understood that is a very good back saying produced in russia. it was developed by an excellent world renowned research institute. again, the wire, which i had visited, $991.00 and also of course, to vaccines produced in china. as you mentioned, the results of the clinical trial of the banks and published 2 millions that showed a very high efficacy of almost 92 percent. and it was 100 percent effective against a severe carbon 19 disease. so it's a very good back saying, the reason it might not have blood clotting events is that the vaccine has 2 different what it call irises, that kind of piggyback the strands of

a protein from the covet virus. and then that induces immunity. so they use one of ours numbers is closed colds. they're very, very modeled one for the 1st does a different one to the 2nd us. and that may be a feature that is different from astrazeneca and johnson and junction. michael, if i could ask you off the previous success is australia is currently experiencing a reported spike in, in, in cases. what is the vaccine situation like that? and australia, as i understand the lock downs in australia, have been roaming and extremely severe due to people that have access to the vaccines that they need. well, i'm afraid access to like st. strider is not as good as it should be, given how economic our ability to touches them. i think the

government acted too late last year to order enough vaccines. so we have 2. 1 is astrazeneca, similar to support 5, but it has a lower efficacy. and 5, but we don't have very much 5. so we're in the situation of are only about 20 percent of the people in the strike have been fully maximized. that 40 percent received one notes. and so we're fighting these outbreaks of the delta variance, particularly in sydney, sidney's in lockdown melbourne in lockdown. and that was not reporting as many cases, but were very cautious in australia. very, very cautious and australia, mr. tool because in some of the regions are, you know, i've seen reports of 20 new infections and they looked down the whole city. some people are saying, look, towns and australia at the end of the day are going to be seen as some sort of psychological experiment on the public mentor lockdown. so been extreme in australia. i lived through 6 so far in melbourne,

but i think what was shown last year was that if you go in and look down very quickly as my strength, victoria has done, then the lockdown tend to be much shorter than if you slow to act as sidney has and now sidney looking at possibly months, more of all the locked down. so i think that's this both health and economic logic going in hard class and then coming out of locked down pretty quickly mr. tool. it's a conversation i would love to take further just regrettably out of time here, epidemiologist, michael tools and the bernard institute in melbourne. really appreciate your time and your insight. thanks for joining us for nazi international pleasure. a wildfire as raging and russia yet could hear region with smoke, reportedly reaching as far as the north pole. that's as we understand

a 1st time occurrence to meet your power, joined a group of apple and fly in the region up into the sky. they go to try and feed the class. so we're now at the you could consider 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 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 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,

riding 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 loud but we are trying to fill the clouds silver iodide, which hopefully causes into rain. these are the actual cartridges that are going to be fired into the cloud. once again, make them rain cloud. on the future, i'm sitting on these kind of stairs work at sub 0 temperatures, silva ideas most suitable for ice crystal had an altitude of more than 4200 meters most just 6 of the crystals. they freeze and then fall in the form of right 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 wasn't success. the plane

did its job and only a few hours after the silver iodide cartridges where deployed firefighters on the ground started reporting rainfall, which tremendously aided their efforts you pretty soon was supposed 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 could hear young an old could not stand idly by and have been joining the fight to save their homeland security. but there is hypocritical. 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?