and talk on the big announcement coming out of new york, where governor andrew cuomo announces he is quitting a mid allegations of sexual harassment. thereby falling victim to the very me to cause he himself claims to support the blow to that cause. the head of a charity that supports victims of sexual harassment also quits, bowing to pressure over her ties to andrew cuomo today marks 60 years since the us 1st used agent orange in vietnam. herbicide proven to cause serious health issues among both locals and american soldiers. a veteran tells us it is time men are made. we really need people to sit down and take a look and say, hey, where's is going to do? not only to the civilians populations not only to the enemy,

but also to really obtain to pentagon documents, shed light on how the u. s. department of defense of pressures moving producers to portray the american military in a favorable light. ah, i broadcast live there from studios in moscow. this is art international. i'm john thomas will be glad to have you with us. now the new york governor andrew cuomo has announced that he will step down in 14 days. 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 disgusting. i

often will give them a grip of the arm, a pat on the face, a touch on the stomach, a slap on the back. it's my way of saying, i see you. i appreciate you. and i thank you to 2nd guess how a woman should of active or sexual 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 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's 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, such as damaging to the democratic party. and the, and the democratic party mil. busy yeah, the democrats weaponized the me to movement, they used to devastating effect against red cavanaugh. it was

a very powerful weapon that was brought to bear and now has been brought to bear on one of their own. is acutely embarrassing and to have cuomo, who was a cheerleader for the me to movement down to fall victim to the movement. i think these, these are, these accusations are backfiring. people are going to be very careful if for bring in charge like this again. and this whole episode leaves a very bad taste and everybody's mouth the scandal surrounding quote, most harassment a case became even bigger after group fighting sex abuse. got involved and not on the side that 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 are to stand. hawkins join to my colleague meal harvey. earlier 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 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 that mission statements on limits. very well run organization that's no doubt helped many, many women in the darkest hour. so what was cap plans, involvement and all this? well, a report by the new york attorney general lateesha, james mentioned on multiple occasions saying she actually helped to review and draw the letter written by under quote, by which allegedly calls out attacks and diminished shoes. 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 as i get 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 would describe what critics is victim shaving and castigating those victims who want 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 k plan 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 rights at suing donald trump defamation with ross to rape obligations made many years ago. is that a whole lot of damage into the story as well? yeah, once it's showing as age and human rights, 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 country. and it's presidents all forms. 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, legitimately acted well within his ream it. there was nothing illegal untoward and what he did. nevertheless, i didn't time investigating has been lost. no doubt, a shadow will be cost over that low being group. today mark's 60 years since the 1st time of agent orange by the military. it was used

there in vietnam. the highly toxic are beside and fully and caused the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who have been left with laughing effects from the chemical. now a bit of a warning, you might find the following images disturbing the sample about 5000000 people who vietnam who has incurable chronic diseases due to agent orange and the complete normal life, a fine job on the moon. i was a simple soldier in squad. my task was to clear past and demolish things. the area

was poison, didn't know it, but then we just went on with our lives. we only realized when we started having children that go along the same game. and also when people started having children as a warrant, they realized orange pain needs. in the time you will hear from nose and the parents were shocked and writing that immediately the american soldiers are also still struggling with their injuries from exposure to agent orange, retired us 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. add some problems today. there was cases what they call the ring per besides. and it was use primarily for d, for the ation age and orange was so name because there was an orange strike around the center of the barrel of the things like agent who had a blue stripe agent, pink, pink stripe, and so on so forth. as far as we know, edge and orange was the worst that some of the others are besides had the same chemical component. all right,

now the agro chemical giant monsanto is one of the companies under fire. it was a major supplier of agent orange during the vietnam war, despite facing a barrage of legal claims. both it and its parent company bear maintain. they cannot be held responsible for how the military used the product. josh kelly, whose father was a vietnam veteran, told us about the difficulties of face was born in 1975. and i was missing both my arms at the elbow down and my left leg from the knee down. my childhood was very difficult because my dad was a combat veteran from the vietnam war. so he had p t s d really bad. and i believe that the birth defects that i have called him to feel like he was responsible for it because he was in the war and get such an orange. and then besides just the problems. because with that, i spent most of my childhood going in and out of doctors offices and they wanted to do experimental surgery on me. they were going to break the bones in my arms and

drill pins in there. and then they were going to separate the bone and make my arms grow back. and then they were gonna try to get hands from somebody who passed away . and so them on the ends of my arms to make me be able to have fully barnes and stuff. and that was when i was like 10 years old. but i didn't want that surgery because they said it was gonna take like 10, maybe more years. and then it would be extremely painful. and then like when i was going to school and growing up a lot of the other kids to bully me and laugh at me and make fun of me and try to beat me up and all kinds of stuff. it was very difficult for me to find jobs because people would look at me and automatically assume that because i was missing my arms and my legs. i wasn't able to do anything. if my mom would have been a veteran, my disability would be 100 percent covered by the v a and they would take full responsibility for it. but since it was my dad, they said that there is no way that it could've affected me. the pentagon has been

routinely bullying a hollywood movie makers into portraying the u. s. military, the favorable light, according to newly obtained documents and often demands script at its with one tv series even getting its wings clipped by the us top brass as our teeth constantine roscoe, comments propaganda on the silver screen. so the d o. d 's been waging war. the creative freedom is scrape writers and directors. perhaps the most blatant case is the 200-1900 c. b s. trauma serious. the code about marine corps lawyers, which was canceled soon after release school pack, were headed towards the as it turns out, the military saw the 1st effort i was before they went on air and was upset about 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 cool leadership was apparently provided advanced 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 tradeoffs it costs to filming community. remember, homeland and american long run and ask 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 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 on 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 tally about insurgence also plays off 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 reports and 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 offspring. tional airframes n g b. an air force of indicated interest in the military characterizations are read, written, emphasizing military mission request for support of chris nolan thriller, merry go round, working titled seemed have stopped likely causes that produced the director were

reluctant to make changes needed to gain d o. d support, others like captain marvel, co director as an a bowden, l. y and 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 site 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 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 b. u. k prime minister boars johnson has found himself in the firing line after

splashing our 90000 pounds on 2 works of art for downing street. the lavish purchase comes after the u. k. government approved a 20 pound a week cut to the universal credit benefit system, which was intended to support low income families during the pandemic. it's also on top of a pe freeze for teachers and police officers, as well as a pay rise. only 3 percent for health care workers position had a field day the prime minister spending priorities. it's always about himself, as government cuts, universal credit and freezes, frontline nurse police pay. johnson has found more money to treat himself again and a chassis in desperate need of funding and the pay rise in order to be able to recruit and retain staff and catch up with the enormous backlog of work. so i,

i think the issue about the paintings is something covered irrelevant. my understanding is it's largely paid for through public money rather than donors. as governments, as suggested by government, is going back down stairs. at the root. whereas the beginning of the coven, we were able to see that when money was needed, it could be found. in fact, the treasury meant that came up with a loss of money in its initial time to help the n h s response of the crisis. and now i want to turn the top off again, is not the 1st time that the british pm has found himself and hot water for his expensive home improvement. earlier this year, he faced questions over how pricey downing street renovation were paid for investigation, including concluded that he had acted, quote, unwisely, but did not break the ministerial code. the government said that the paintings in

question were paid for with a dedicated fund. the government art collection helps to promote the creativity of british art and culture. it acquired new works after consulting and securing the approval of an independent expert panel. and the majority of funding for acquisitions comes from philanthropic sources, not taxpayers, money or informer. national health services trust chairman roy lily told us that the timing for this latest scandal could not have been worse. i think is a very poor decision. the governments like all governments around the world by works at all from their own office aiding carriages. the arts in their own country and it encourages people to think about arts and in the literature on this occasion . i think there are 2 reasons why it's bad judgment. firstly, we've just recently gone through a pay a pay round without nursing stuff where the,

the government have been pretty mean in the way that they've approached it. and secondly, of course is the overall economic situation. so whether or not these are good paintings and whether or not they're good value for money is not as important as what does it look like? what do people think when they see the economies know very good. we've just denied frontline and h her stuff, a decent by rise and the prime ministers hanging too expensive paintings in the sitting room. number 10, it just looks bad. it's been exactly one year since these putting at v covered vaccine was registered in russia since then, almost 70 countries have adopted the job and the list continues to grow.

but despite its proven track record and the ongoing threat of new more virulent current of our strains, splitting the v continues for 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 really clear why. for example, the world health organization hasn't provided emergency authorization. they have done for 2 of the chinese kuranda back and sign up on their policy. and that's why agreeing to, to speak to the store in general, about 5,

because i felt it was important that people in the west i'm the do with that is a very good next thing produced in russia. it was developed by an excellent world redound 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. so we're in the situation of only about 20 percent of people and i have been fully explanation that 40 percent of the c one looked melvin's in lockdown for health and economic logic. going in hard and then coming out of lots i'm pretty quick for wildfires are raging and rushes yet could you region with smokey a smoke reportedly reaching as far as the north pole

a 1st time occurrence or he's dmitri park 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 what this plane does is it goes up into the clouds. as long as there are clouds and shoot these projects for chemicals that turn these regular cloud into precipitation clouds. because as a reminder, this here has been one of the driest 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 and on command fi, so iodide into the clouds. depending on the clouds, we have to go around and sometimes we shoot canisters to the right hand side. sometimes the left, but we are trying to fill the clouds silver iodide, which hopefully causes them to rain. so these are the actual cartridges that are going to be fired into the cloud to once again make them rain clouds. run the fuel system on these kind of work. sub 0 temperatures, silver ideas, most suitable for ice cream, had an altitude of more than 4200 meters. the moisture as 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 faded their efforts to bring soon. we're 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. who submitted better is typically open 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 much. well, it's a little scary, of course,

but you need to protect your homeland. former us state department spokesperson jen. saki has claimed that she has been the victim of russian propaganda. she made the claims during an interview to vogue magazine, saying that she felt that she was being picked apart during news prefix r t, the russian state funded news networks. launched a campaign to cast an airhead publishing a list of what he called jim perfect. he's most embarrassing fails. she would mock the room is herself and tease the asi reporters when they needled her during press briefings. nevertheless, saki said it was good preparation for later roles and even became fun towards the end of her time at the state department. here's some footage of saki inaction. you know, there are, there are, there are flow of gas, natural gas, i should say, that go through from western europe through pain crane to russia, and we are, i'm sorry,

you have any problem with the way he put it. i think i point you to them and i just stated that wouldn't be the way that we would. we would state it from here. we wouldn't, we wouldn't state it and those say, why says joe biden advice key of to take such action? nor was it just simply restating foreign minister allows us to lose the claims from this. what is the response? i think we're ready to move on to a new question. methodology was also highly success with report to the parents of voting, pre mark balice, what's carousel? you know, the truth is i was reading that i'm not familiar with that term either. it may be that people weren't checking and i'll check and see what, what our team and you may know the story of how she lived on a russian vote for about 8 months when she was 23. and she learned how to perfect, perhaps certain words and a couple of languages. she's english. i was making a tell about her learning 1st or it's on a fishing boat. hugo is a,

our position has not changed, but you don't have a position. you don't have a position that could, could change the position you're taking a saw or taking a stance or making a determination. and since you didn't do that, you do not by definition, have a position we have direct. i would disagree with you that you have a position on whether what happened in egypt was or could we have determined that we do not need to make a difference? is that the same as not having a position? i will. i will let you part of yourself. does it for me? headlines in about 29 minutes. you're watching our teacher national me. i so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation, let it be an army.