today the big announcement who coming out of new york, where governor andrew cuomo now says he is quitting amid allegations of sexual harassment. thereby failing victim to the very me to cause himself claims to support. and in a blow to that cause the head of a charity that supports the victims of sexual harassment also quits bowing to pressures over from her tie to andrew cuomo today, mark 6 years since the u. s. first used agent, orange and vietnam, herbicide proven to cause serious health issues among those locals and american soldiers. a veteran tells us it's time amends are made. we really need people to sit down and take a look at it and say, hey, where's is going to do not only to the civilians populations not only to the enemy,

but also to our own foods. and newly obtained the pentagon documents shed light on how the us department of defense, pressures, movie producers, to portray the american military in a favorable life ah, for broadcasting larger studios in moscow. this is our team to national. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. 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. cuomo has previously given impassioned speeches on 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 active or 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 change. we had one a come forward saying he had been sexually harassing her for years. then 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. 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 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 to discuss the issue where joined a live now by a journalist and author, daniel lazar, thanks for being with us here in our international. thank you. so, cuomo was defiant during his resignation. speech though,

he supported me to movement when it as to the other alleged sex, passed without trial a taste of his own medicine maybe. oh, unquestionably. yes. i mean that the democrats flocked to the me to banner. they supported all the way they play down fears of you know, of lynch mob, justice they, they said that women should be believed that they should be taken at their word regardless of you now without any indication of a need for corroborating evidence. so yes, so andrew cuomo was that very, definitely hoist by his own petard now. but of course, i mean, the fact is that the, the, these, these allegations are quite plausible. he has not denied him, denied them. he does agreed to the interpretation. and at the very least, cuomo behaved like a poor, a bully, a sexist and a ledger. so therefore, he's, he, whether he's criminally guilty,

or whether he is able, able or unable to carry off his duties as governor. i mean, the guy comes off in a very, very bad light. now allocations against equipment, we need to be sure and be clear that they are still allegations. they've not been trying to court of law, but he has still stepped down. do you think that there is the risk of the me to movement becoming politicized in some way? i mean como even said in his statement there that the attacks against him are political. was this had to job? well, one suspects it is. it's hard. it's. i have no evidence, no latisha, james, the attorney general who brought these who issued this report as a fiercely ambitious person. and we'll see whether she runs for governor to replace cuomo. so it's hard not to imagine that it's hard to imagine that politics are not somehow working in the background, but you know, but, but the,

but the women who came forward were, you were outraged. they were, they were angry. and there's no reason to take their accusations at anything other than their work so so it doesn't look good for cuomo, the this is extremely embarrassing if there was a impeachment hearing, it would have been agonizing for him. so we clearly decided to cut his was what is next for him? what does cuomo hold in his future? i don't really know. i mean, he is kind of disgraced, but he's a, he's a huge personality, very famous person. that could be a future for him in finance or even on a, on television. we don't know. so, i mean, i wouldn't count him out yet. there have been other politicians as well who have been hit with these keys. ations biden was accused of harassment by former staffer in 2020 allegations. that date back to 993. he denied it. of course also. famously,

trump, how many women have come out against him? do you think that these claims could re surface oh, of course, i mean, i mean, anybody who knows american politicians will well know that they are as, as a breed tend to be very aggressive, very strong personalities. and they tend to often have, you know, act on their most childish impulses. this is kind of endemic to the american political political class, which is why yes, i am quite confident that other politicians were one of fallacies, accusations. let's turn to the involvement of the head of the times up movement. how embarrassing are roberta kaplan's ties to quote for this whole women's movement? do you think this could be damaging to the time's up side of it? of course it was canceled damaging as damaging to the democratic party, and the, and the democratic party mil. yeah. which, which encompasses, you know, the, the feminist movement, entertainment, publishing, journalism, etc. you know,

the democratic 1000000 is very broad and it's very, you know, it's very influential. and the chattering classes, especially in the northeast where, where do york is as located. so this is acutely embarrassing to have cuomo, who was a cheerleader for me to movement down to fall victim to the movement. kind of suggest that the, that the, the, the monster is eating its own young. right. daniel lazar journalist and author, thanks for being with us. in helping us kind of unfold us as it's happening on auction international. thank you. or another scandal surrounding quote, most harassment case became even bigger after a group fighting sex abuse got involved. you heard us talking about just they're not the side you might expect the leader of the charity time top which supports victims of sexual harassment. resigned after coming under fire to her ties to the new york governor park. you can you hawkins? earlier joined my colleague niel harvey in the studio to discuss 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. 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 are accuses up. you deserve more than just me. 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 helped many, many women in their dog as our so what was cat 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 draft a letter written by under quote, by which allegedly calls out attacks and diminishes the allegations put forth by his victims. the letter went on, published apparently none of the people were willing to sign it to actually get behind the new governor. but nevertheless, her mention in that report has angered many victims and survivors of sexual abuse. they've written an open letter around 30 signatories, which have criticized cap plan for taking part in the writing of this letter, which were 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 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. couple and also the law that's representing elizabeth seen carol. that's

the rice of suing donald trump. defamation with ross to rape obligations made many years ago as a whole lot of them into the story as well. yeah, one such as ation, human rights campaign is reputation tarnished. it seems by involvement with the quote most scandal tell us more about language. well, the human rights campaign is the most prominent l g b t. i was advocacy group in the united states. it defends, it promotes lobbies for minority rights across the whole country and its president . so david found himself under fire as an internal investigation is launched into his role. he was also mentioned in the attorney general's report, allegedly releasing the 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 ream it. there was nothing illegal untoward.

and what he did, nevertheless, and in time of estimation has been lost. no doubt, a shadow will be cost over that lobbying group. today mark's 60 years since the 1st use of agent orange by the us military and vietnam. the highly toxic herbicide and defiant cause the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who have been left with lasting effects from the chemical and a bit of warm warning. you might find the following images, disturb the address about 5000000 people. vietnam who has a curable chronic diseases due to agent, orange homes, lead normal life, a fine job. the i was

a simple soldier in a bomb squad. my past and demolish things with an area with poison, didn't know it back then we just went on with our lives. we only realized when we started having children that go along the game and also when people haven't shown up that award, you know, they realize what orange pe needs to tell me when i hear from those how the parents were shocked and pricing. i like the family immediately. the

former american soldiers are also still struggling with their injuries from 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. most 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 is an orange stripe around the center of the barrel. of the things like agent blue, a blue stripe agent paying thanks tribe and so on, so forth. as far as we know,

edge and orange was the worst that some of the others are besides had the same chemical component, viagra, chemical giants. 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 their 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. 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 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 worlds are 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 war is easy, it's never easy. but it's, you know, we should do everything we can to minimize the effect on. we all really on everybody watching our tension national morning after short break. stay with oh i use i me

ah ah, i use so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy going from station let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. developments 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 the welcome back. this is art international

and the pentagon has been routinely bullying hollywood movie makers into portraying the u. s. military and a favorable light. this according to newly obtained docks, it often demands script at its with one tv series even getting its wings clipped by the u. s. top. press as our to constantine roscoe, comments propaganda on the silver screen. so the d o d 's been waging war on 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 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 turn. congress magic, he's the brutally executed and 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. c. b. s. 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 to filming community. remember, homeland and american long run an espionage thriller. the council 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 some 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. 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 lens final season speculates on a full story that the russians funded talia about insurgents also plays up 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 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 thriller, merry go round working titled support request include use of offspring, 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 likely causes that

produce the director were reluctant to make changes needed to gain d o. d support. others like captain marvelous co directorate 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 film's 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 gain support or a green light from the military, including transformers to 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 screen despite the, as a lot of stories, like a documentary on guantanamo bay trials have been rejected completely and never came

to be been exactly one year since the splitting it v covert vaccine was registered in russia since then, almost 70 countries have adopted the job. and the list continues to grow. thing. ready but despite its proven track record and the ongoing threat of new more virulent corona, virus streams is putting the v continues to face serious headwinds. 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 kuranda back and sign up on their politics. and that's why agreeing to, to speak to the australian journalists about but me 5 because i felt it was important that people in the west i'm to do it. that is a very good next thing produced in russia. it was developed by an excellent world renowned on 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 to order enough vaccines that were in the situation of only about 20 percent of

people in the study. i have been fully explanation 40 percent of the c one meeting last melvin's in lockdown. health and economic logic. going in hard class and then coming out of locked down pretty quickly. wildfires are raging and rushes. yet could you region with smoke, reportedly reaching as far as the north pole, the 1st time a current r. t. dmitri power could joined a group of airborne firefighters in the region as they seated 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 a cloud and shoot these projects out for chemicals that turn these regular cloud

into precipitation clouds. because as a reminder, this year there 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, the running through the flight to where the fires are and on command fi. so iodide into the clouds, depending on the clouds, we have to go around them. sometimes we shoot canisters to the right hand side, sometimes the loud 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. once again, make them re cloud room. the fuel system sitting on these kind of stairs work sub 0 temperatures,

silver 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 raise the me now on command, we will, should the canister of the clouds in the bus, we're 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 make sure we're still supposed to see one more but firefighters. professional rescue workers and military personnel aren't the only ones battling these wildfires . countless volunteers from all over you could hear young and old could not stand

idly by and have been joining the fight to save their homeland. this is about the reciprocal. 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 much? well, it's a little scary of course, but you need to protect your homeland shed. does it for me this i'll be back in about 30 minutes and 30 seconds with another phone for news misses are controversial me. ah, ah, ah. ah,

i will. i me, one of the worst ever mass shootings in america was in las vegas in 2017. the tragedy a close a little live in real life vegas. where many say elected officials are controlled by christina learners. the dangerous shooting revealed what? the l v m. p. d really is and now it's part of the spin machine. most of the american public barely remember that happens.