the a big announcement coming out of new york where governor andrew cuomo announces he is quitting amid allegations of sexual harassment, thereby falling victim to the very me to cause he himself claims to support an a blow to that cause. the head of a charity that supports the victims of sexual harassment also quits, bowing to pressure over her ties to andrew cuomo today marks 60 years since the u. s. first used to agent, orange and vietnam, herbicide proven to cause serious health issues among both locals and american soldiers. the veteran tells us it's time amends are made. we really need people to sit down and take a look and say, hey, what is going to do? not only to the civilians populations not only to the enemies,

but also to and newly obtained a pentagon documents shed light on how the u. s. department of defense pressure is moving producers to portray the american military in a favorable life ah, broadcasting live direct from studios in moscow. this is art international. sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now the new york governor andrew cuomo has announced that he will step down in 14 days, and it comes on the back of months of allegations of sexual harassment. he denies any wrong doing, despite his own earlier impassioned speeches on the respecting women and their 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 of the active or sexual pattern is sexist 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 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 change. 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. it was 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 in 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 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 at me to seem to be primarily targeting 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 legal and media analyst line all says cool, most resignation was only amount 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 to the man who was responsible. so they say 415000 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 cor, most harassment case became even bigger after group fighting sex abuse got involved and not on the side. you might expect the leader of the charity times up which supports the victims of sexual harassment. resigned after coming under fire for her ties to the new york governor or chieftain, hawkins joined my colleague earlier meal harvey in the studio to discuss 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. 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 are 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. when 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, 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 require by which allegedly calls out attacks and diminishes. the allegations put forth by his victims 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 criticised cap 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. 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 rights of suing donald trump. defamation with ross to rape obligations made many years ago as a whole other dimension to the story as well. yeah, one such organization, human rights campaign is reputation 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 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 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 cast over that lobbying group. today mark's 60 years since the 1st use of agent orange by the u. s. military and vietnam, the highly toxic, are beside and defiant, caused the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who have been left with lasting effects from the chemical warning you may find the falling images disturbing. the

address about 5000000 people who has a curable of chronic diseases due to agent orange homes, leads normal life, a fine job on the moon. i was a simple soldier in bomb squad. my task was to clear the past and demolish things. area with poison. 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

chat game and also when people started having children as a warrant, they realized what orange pay means in that he $82.00. so i mean, for bro, here from those yet now, the parents were shocked and pride in that part of the family immediately goes with the former american soldiers are also still struggling with their injuries from exposure to agent orange, retired u. s. navy commander and lawyer john well 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 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 stripe around the center of the barrel of the things like agent who had a blue stripe, edge and pink thank stripe and so on, so forth. as far as we know, edge in orange was the worst that some of the others herbicides had the same chemical component. the agro chemical john monsanto is one of the companies under fire. it was a major supplier of agent orange during the vietnam war, despite facing a barrage of legal claims. both it and its parent company bear maintain. they cannot be held responsible for how the military use the product. john wells again says,

too 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, what is this going to do? not only to the civilians populations not only to the army, 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. we all really, everybody pentagon has been routinely bullying

a hollywood movie makers into portraying the u. s. military and a favorable light according to newly obtained docks, often demands a script edits with one tv series even getting its wings clipped by the u. s. top brass or cheese konstantin roscoe. comments propaganda on the silver screen. so the d o. d 's been waging war the creative freedom as i've 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 to the as it turns out, the military saw the 1st effort i was before they went on air and was upset about his story line showing a marine turned congress magic. he's there, 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 of filming community. remember, homeland and american long run and espionage thriller the carrying, cobble for a week or 2. when, according to the files, the producers asked the us army to support the final seasons, 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 by what we do know is that how lens final season speculates on a full story that the russians funded talia about insurgence also plays up the consequence of the us 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 report. so jas. 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. 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 with an emphasizing military mission request for support of chris nolan thriller, merry go round working title seemed have stopped like recalls. as it produced, the director were reluctant to make changes needed to gain

d o d support. others like captain marvel, co director of an 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 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 game support or a green light from the military, including and former is the 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 a documentary on guantanamo bay. trials have been rejected completely and never came to be you're watching our international mourners up short breaks there with us

. the the ah me self governance is before us further and further away from the day to day reality of people on planet earth in

particular america, with that claim to have a government bind for the people. but if the fed is now completely controlled by wall street banks and the said it's not completely controlled by the map, which is the super national organization that serve the global as the recall. then the idea of self sovereignty in america takes another huge quantum leap of subversion. ah, welcome back. this is our t international. now. wildfires are raging in rushes. you could hear the region with smoke reportedly reaching as far as the north pole. a 1st time occurrence or teacher mitree park joined a group of airborne firefighters in the region as they seated at clouds to force it to rain. 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 clouds and shoot these projects out for goals that turn these 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 in more detail how this plane works, the running flight to where the fires are, and on command fi silver iodide into the clouds. depending on the clouds, we have to go around them. sometimes we shoot canisters to the right hand side, sometimes the left, but we are trying to fill the clouds of 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 clouds. 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, the most just 6 to the crystals. they freeze and then fall in the form of rate. now on command 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 firefighters on the ground started reporting rainfall, which tremendously aided their efforts to

bring soon mister barclay's 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. isn't it scary? well, it's a little scary of course, but you need to protect your homeland. as the 20th anniversary of the 911 terror attacks nears the families of those who lost their lives in the atrocity want joe biden to stay away from this years. memorial event, at least if he doesn't declassified documents that some suspect provide evidence of

saudi involvement. 6 months ago, the 911 community had great hopes that president joe biden would be the long last champion of those directly affected by this murderous attack on our nation. since the conclusion of the 911 commission in 2004 much investigative evidence has been uncovered, implicating saudi government officials in supporting the attacks through multiple administrations, the department of justice and the f. b. i have actively sought to keep this information secret and prevent the american people from learning the full truth about the 911 attacks. as we approach the 20th anniversary of 911 and having been used as a political bargaining ship for 2 decades, our patients has expired. when president biden says he supports a recent department of justice decision to reopen their investigation into the

classified documents, adding, he would strive for maximum degree transparency under the law without tough compromising state secrets. the saudi government has long denied any role in the terror tact. earlier we spoke to monica. i can who lost her husband in the 911 attack. she told us that the victims have a right to know what happened in the day. we can't bring our loved ones home, and it's so important that we don't let this happen. we need to know exactly what happened and how it happened. it was a lot of negligence, we'll say, or not transparency. we look to our leaders, we need them to do the right thing by us now and make sure there is transparent. you know, there was people to blame, but i don't think is one particular person or one president. i think it goes way back with a right is to find out whatever you need to find out. and that means sometimes not things that you want to know about has been exactly one year since this putting it

v covered vaccine was registered in russia since then, almost 70 countries have adopted the job and the list continues to grow through the oh but despite its proven track record, and the ongoing threat of new more virulent corona via strains is putting the v continues to face serious headwind. the job still hasn't been approved by the world health organization or the european medicines agency. we asked australian epidemiologist, michael tool, why it's taking these organizations so long to give the vaccine the green light.

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 same kuranda back and sign up on their politics. and that's why agreeing to, to speak to the store. in general, it's about 5 because i felt it was important that people in the west, i'm the student, that is a very good back thing produced in russia. it was developed by an excellent world renowned research institute access to vaccines. and that's true or is not as good as it should be, given our ability to purchase them. i think the government acted too late last year up to order enough vaccines. so we're in the situation of only about 20 percent of people in the study. i have been fully vaccinated that 40 percent of the c one

using looked melvin's in lockdown. both health and economic logic to going in hard class. and then coming out of locked down pretty quick. just under 32 minutes when i will be back to the full in freshly news, this is art international there with me the ah, i use

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have is crazy. plantation let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. developments only personally and going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk to me. one of the worst ever mess. shootings in america was in las vegas in 2017. the tragedy a close a little of the real last vegas lamb. any say elected officials are controlled by christina learners. the vegas shooting revealed what? the l v m p d really is. and now it's part of the stem machine to the american public barely remembers that it happened. that just shows you the power of money in las vegas.

the powerful showed that true colors when the pen demik had the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades. and then you have a mayor who doesn't care to, here's caroline goodman, offering the lives of the vegas residence. to be the control group, to the shiny facade, conceal a deep indifference to the people by going to say that they would take an action. absolutely, keep the registering and keep the slot machines being in vegas is a money machine is a huge cash register that is ran by people who don't care about people's lives being lost. the bus one business. so you can't afford to miss branch the board and i'm rachel. love is in washington coming after you.