[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, near your governor cuomo, then full foul of the very cause he at the democratic party vocally supported the me to movement. as he stepped down amid a sex scandal. nearly revealed pentagon documents shed light on how the u. s. department of defense pressures movie produces to portray the american military in a favorable light and u. k. prime minister bar. as johnston's under fire, afterwards submerged that nearly 100000 pounds were spent on paintings for dining street becomes made growing public. i enjoyed a pe freeze for teachers and police as well as a tiny pe rose offered to the coven, embattled in a chest, and

a chest is in desperate need of funding on the pay rise. i think the issue about the paintings is something company rather than ah, it's 11 am on the 11th of august here in moscow anyway. whatever time it is with you, thank you for choosing into our channel line from the world. use h q. moscow. it's kevin in here at r t. so this 1st and this fall out after tuesdays resignation to view your governor andrew cuomo, he quit after new york's attorney general concluded that the governor had sexually harassed 11 women. now joe biden has been drugged over the coals for his previous support for cuomo, your governor new york, on one hell of a job he, i think he's sort of a goal standard for the hell of a job. and i mean both on everything from access to voting,

to infrastructure, to a whole range of things. that's why i said, didn't really say until you actually are asking the question is, did he do a good job and infrastructure? i was the question he did. i'll try those personally. ok, separate to to know. and i was asked a specific question and her co, most pain on the fire from the me to movement the very cause. he and his fellow democrats back, quote, had previously given impassioned speeches about 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 ever active after a sexual attack is sexist and disgusted. i do hug and kiss people casually. women and men. i have done it all my life. 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 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. this 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. there was a new phenomenon with its happening today. lawsuits. 7 involving sexual dalliance is occur when somebody denies them. so then you follow up with defamation suit. you don't so anymore for what they did you. so for them denying what they did. so there are, he had said some pretty interesting things as far as the various women who have come forward and said he touched me here and did this. so this is not in any way done there that this is, i hate to say it's epstein, leon black fever. i mean this is, this is what we're used to in our zeitgeist. 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 to 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, as damaging to the democratic party. and the, and the democratic party mil. 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 it's been brought to bear on one of their own is acutely embarrassing to have cuomo, who was a cheerleader for the me to movement down to fall the him to the movement. and i think these, these, these accusations are backfiring, people are going to be very careful if for bring in charges like this again. and this whole episode leaves a very bad taste and everybody's mouth. yeah, the scandals running chromos harassment case became even bigger after a group fighting sex abuse got involved and none of this surgery might expect the leader of the times up charity is now resigned after coming under fire for her ties to the new york governor. controversy is her a organization actually supports victims of sexual harassment. you deserve more than just that. you are showing others that no one has the right to strip your

voice. no matter how known and powerful they are. all repetitive roberta captain has been legally assisting andrew cuomo to defend against the abuse allegations she also helped by attacking and diminishing the claims of want to court. most victims . she later explained that the 2 jobs are incompatible with each other. 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, roberta camp has mentioned in that report has left sexual assault victims furious. they wrote an open letter in which they called for her to resign from the times of board, which she subsequently did. one form a candidate for new york city council told us caplin shouldn't have been a director in the 1st place. you can't be for a cause and work against because it makes you a hypocrite and definitely undermines your credibility as an activist. so not only is it bad for you personally,

it's bad for the group that you were purporting to lead. and we know when you had this kind of scandal you should resign, which is what roberta caplin did. but i would argue that she should not have been there in the 1st place because the mission of me to was not her priority. protecting governor cuomo was and you know, their end in lives. the problem revealing next, the pentagon has been routinely bullying hollywood movie makers into portraying the u. s. military and a favorable like, according to nearly obtained documents that it also often demands scripted it to with one tv series even getting it swings clipped by us top brass concert. he rose, coff reports 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 elise got back. we're headed towards the as it turns out, the military saw the 1st effort i was before they went on air and was upset about his story line showing a marine turned congress man accused a 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 sore serious shortcomings in the depiction of the marines, cbs television has indicated a desire to correct the problems in future episodes by accepting beauty 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 tradeoffs had cost the filming community. remember, homeland and american long run and asked us thriller the

common 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'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 lens final season speculates on a full story that the russians fund the taliban insurgents, and also plays up the consequence of the wes withdrawal from again, it's then sounds like something that american army bosses might like. the pentagon doesn't always get its way though the same internal report suggests christopher no one a hot shot hollywood director,

simply snubbed the military as they showed their appetite for a script at its continued discussions for supportive chris nolan thriller. merry go round working title support requests that includes use of all spray and chic f frames and g p. an air force of indicated interest. if military characterizations are rewritten, emphasizing military mission request for support of chris snowden. thriller, merry go round working title. seemed to have stopped likely causes that producer director were reluctant to make changes needed to gain d o. d support. others like captain marbles co directors and a bowden and wine flag had to cozy up to the defense department report lee. they had lunch with air force, top command, and took part in a professional development session, whatever that means, before the film's release. no wonder a marvel movies are being branded as military propaganda in the media. more and more. the internal reports coverages, 2 years of pentagon, hollywood cooperation from 2017 to 2019. yet they cite scores of famous movies and

tv shows that gain support or a green light from the military, including and former is the last night fast and furious. a tom cruises ta gone to the list goes on. but those are the films that made it to the big screens, despite the at it's a lot of stores like a documentary on guantanamo bay. trials have been rejected completely and never came to be forrest johnson's find himself in a foreign line again. after downing street spent nearly 800000 pounds and on to painting set to be displayed in the prime minister's official london residence lavish purchases coming 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. and also on top of a pe freeze for teachers and police officers, as well as on the 3 percent pay rise for those coven embattled health care workers . while the opposition at 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 it is in desperate need of funding on 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 the government has suggested that 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 came up with

a loss of money in its initial time to help the n h s response of the crisis. and now it wanted to turn the top off again. it's not the 1st time that the pm's found himself in trouble for his expensive home improvements any of this year . he faced questions over how pricey dining st reservations were being paid back. then the investigation concluded that he had acted quote on wisely, but didn't break the ministerial code. this time, the purchase was justified that the paintings in question were partly 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, former national health services trust. chairman roy lily spoke to us about it. he told us that the timing of this latest scandal couldn't have been was i think, is

a very poor decision on this occasion. i think there are 2 reasons why bad judgment . firstly, we've just recently gone through a pay a pay round without nursing stuff where 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 that good value for money is not as important as what does it look like? what do people think when they see the economy is not very good. we've just denied frontline and her staff, a decent pay rise and the prime ministers hanging to expensive paintings in the sitting room. number 10, a chest looks bad. so the story to watch to the taliban? no seat. 8 provincial capitals in war torn. i've got to stand and people that are not facing yet another crisis with widespread poverty feeling

a vast black market in drugs, weapons and now even human organs. we got a new don't commentary report we're putting together here revealing how they're having to sell their kidneys in some cases to help their families survive, the toughest times the programs on various times throughout the day. couple of hours the next time, some of the scenes in it are upsetting to the damage i need to talk to you or i can come by list and i may go ahead and try to come on monday and we'll finish. i'm calling on thursday and i'm in london saturday or sunday shot token. got me on mondays. are going to some officials on on

a little bit more than that. even on that one, on one of those and on the bottom of the little girl, do i get you a new way to do notice and let me in can love the boy only gave me i could put a distribution on it for me. which mobile phone you want to use and what it was, which would be a joy, me,

but it was easy. i got to watch it to get. how did she take it off? that's me going to be as long food one need to tell you the other day when you need that, because that quote should shock in store. that's to come later as a say, it's erin in a couple of hours. tom will tell you a bit closer to it, but back to what's coming up out for the break for moscow. this. yep. fires in russia to a correspondent tags, along with an air born fire fighting team rushes far east is in the grip of huge wildfires seems so many of the places where the world as well 90 seconds away, we will bring the latest on that some action pictures to oh i i join me every thursday on the alex simon

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so join us in the depths will remain in the shallows. ah, ah, why again, so wildfires raging and rushes cutie region in the far east of the country. 6 smokes covered nearby cities reportedly reached as far as the north pole for the 1st time. while in t is fire fighters, heavy machinery, and ad born forces rule involved in trying to extinguish the flames. it's heavy, exhausting work to to meet true po, found out when he joined one helicopter cru heading to the front line. so i'm about to take my 1st helicopter right before a better reason. we're going to take a look over the fires of the region, just north of the capital. of course we're going to see how about the situation is because right now the fires are threatening several villages. we will see just how about it is and deliver supplies to the people on the ground fighting it and well

take off. this isn't scary at all. on the way to the village of the views were stunning, but the closer we got to the village day became somewhat terrifying. first it's clear skies and endless horizon. and just moments later, it's a wall of smoke. soon as we land, we see a whole bunch of heavy machinery. mister defense has a lot of military equipment, vehicles, and trucks and everything to this region because it's the most under threat right now from the flyers. armored personnel carriers, a couple of heavy duty diggers and several trucks. their purpose to create the mineralized zone there, which the fire will not be able to pass, but no less important. are the human reinforcements, fearless volunteers, and professional firefighters. se 2 are getting ready to head out to battle the

fires. we, on the other hand are moving on. we travel to a nearby field where 2 trucks full of firefighters are having difficulties getting through the dense forest fires. so we lend them our helicopter right now and taking all the stuff out of all these firefighters that have been deployed here to help with the efforts. by the way, these are 40 firefighters that traveled all the way from the other side of russia. from cordelia, morland's car hunger, they who have battled wildfires in their home regions this summer. but now that they have finished the job at home, they've traveled to korea to aid their fellow colleagues. and there they go to the front line of the seemingly endless battle. we came from more months to help the regions modem and we will work to extinguish the fires, we will do everything we can when we go back to your cursor and on the way we are

once again reminded of just how chaotic situation is with the several more fires and even a new one apparently as we circle around it and the fire washers known as location on their maps. all in all, not bad for my 1st helicopter flight. you know, big job that relentless isn't it will cost, which is not the only country badly. well sizes, you know, fallen tears and 5 fighters in greece still fight in the flames. there we go. drug for to show, you know, showing you the extent of the damage caused by those fires in recent days. housings of people have had to be evacuated from the region and the great pm. apologize. say that they've done everything humanly possible, but that it was not enough. he also described the situation is a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions. almost 600 wildfires burning across the country. several european state to try their best to how greece to battle those fires. i shoot him, an order was sent to move or should we do just get the pin go. we can't. if we don't save our houses, who will? they're doing nothing. today is the 4th day and there are no aircraft yesterday.

they only carried out to water drums that gather the local people, save the place to rest with little children left of course, but we are not leaving. even if the fire reaches to see we will not leave our village. we will stay for as long as we can and do whatever we can do about us. we're going to stay here and try to save our places. we need to stay strong for our children. the day is an important days, but a year to the day since the splitting the z code vaccine was registered here in russia. what a long year has been for us all a since then. almost 70 countries though have adopted the job on that list, continues to grow

ah ah. ready but despite is proven track record and the ongoing threat of new more virulent corona virus strain. sputnik, they continues to face problems getting accepted. the job still hasn't been approved by the world health organization or the european medicines agency. we, australia, that project managers, michael tool, just why he thought 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 start in journalists about me because i felt it was important that people in the west under doing that is

a very good next thing produced in russia. it was developed by an excellent world redound research institute access to vaccines, and i'll try to it's not as good as it should be, given our ability to purchase them. i think the government acted too late last year . there are 2 order enough facts to where you are in the situation of only about 20 percent of the people in the study. i have been fully explanation that 40 percent of the c one c meeting looked melvin's in lockdown. both health and economic logic going in hard and then coming out of locked down pretty quick. yeah, we can come sit enough for all of us. say that's it so far you'll find so much more about what we're talking about at r t dot com, right? ever socials, but for reporting for moscow, kevin know in the teams safe. thank you for watching. and revenue changed around the world of

a great day. me ah, ah, i think it's part of the mental health revolution. we increasingly freeze political claims use the language of mental health became more common. so if you disagree or something i said on this program, you know, just say i just agree with you. i think you're wrong because of the following problems in your evidence or logic. your see micro aggress. you say you triggered me. you said you hard me again, some psychological way, just news or psychological terms. and i guess an enormous problems or politics because it's almost impossible to have a discourse on that terrain. the

the, the news the the was not an action or can see we're getting underground uncovering the live, told by the so called mainstream media coming up in the show as the us and gun ships into afghanistan is why just suppose withdrawal from the country. we speak to award winning journalist, simple, my british army captain, who and smith my 2 decades of lives told about the war and ask if truth can be found in the fog of war. while the west and media defer to power and is u. k. bright minister johnson,

the government backs new colonialist actions around the world. we speak to the artist to his bringing colonial sculpture to the heart of imperialism, london strip. how get all the more coming up in today's getting underground, but 1st taking place today is another extradition hearing. in the case of julian, the son j trial, that could decide the fate of journalism around the world. there were helix, publisher is famous among other things for the african war logs, one of the largest leeks in u. s. military history. they detailed the horror of the nature war and f can it's done, including hundreds of on reported civilian killings. so what was it all for now that us troops appear to be finally leaving f canister? joining me now from norfolk and the u. k is warn smith, a former soldier and award winning journalist who is embedded with the british army in afghanistan and 27. and also gave shelter to julian a sergeant's home in 2010 in the wake of the release of the wall logs is the founder of london's front bank club for journalists. welcome back von, to going underground. it wasn't that long ago. i seem to remember that there were

journalists that your front line club telling us things were going fine in this war after 911 will do. i'll give you the saudis, that we're more involved in afghanistan. you were embed, it would soldiers in helmand, after serving the british army and you get slow via what do you make of events now? and i tv screens. yes, i did. i did trim beds. actually, i was embedded with my own old regiment, cried being a soldier myself in the old days. and yes, you right, that's been so much news and discussion of this, this more effectively go on. on the 20 year. we've been in a kind of phone for 20 years, very long time. and so i think today people are slightly dumbfounded and, and didn't quite see what it was. it was all for. i didn't get make sense to people . i think the reporting was being probably quite poor and i think people's understanding of what happened that doesn't make sense. i think people are very