now argentina's former president cristina kirchner has been charged in a corruption scandal the judges asked for parliamentary immunity to be lifted so she can be detained in is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes during her time in office last month the senate partially lifted her immunity so she could be investigated or any pet is the senior director for america's market intelligence he joins us now from miami sir thanks for being with us so how serious is this for cristina kirchner or you have to understand that this is actually the logical step of a long investigation is candle the started several months ago or there's already been more than a dozen people investigated and i fully indicted on these cases what happened is that the former chauffeur of the minister of planning under the current administration that kept track of the series of the deliveries of cash to this is especially the presidency under the current administration is it we're talking about eighty seven occurrence of cash delivery and this is potentially money that was provided from a large infrastructure

argentina's former president cristina kirchner has been charged in a corruption scandal the judges are asked for parliamentary immunity to be lifted so she can be detained who is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes when she was in office last month the senate partially lifted her immunity so she could be investigated. a u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and his accuser will be called to testify before the senate judiciary committee next monday kimberly how has that. u.s. president donald trump's nominee to the highest court in the country the supreme court is in doubt in spite of that the president is standing with brett kavanaugh he is one of the great intellects and one of the finest people that anybody has known cavanagh is at the center of an explosive allegation that threatens to derail his nomination it came this weekend by this woman christine blasi forward who says cavanagh attempted to sexually assault her in the one nine hundred eighty s. a charge he vehemently denies this is a completely false allegation i have never done anything like what the accuser d

argentina's former president cristina kirchner has been charged in a corruption scandal the judge has asked for parliamentary immunity to be lifted so she can be detained questioners accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes during her time in office last month the senate partially lifted her immunity so she could be investigated latin america editor racine newman joins me on the phone now from vina del mar in chile so what exactly do these charges involve how serious is this for the former president. presently the very very serious charges they are the result of camilla's called them a crushing notebook that is a notebook with very very minute details on the allegedly kids facts that were being paid by different companies private companies to the government but more specifically to christina key issues and from government throughout the twelve years that she and her husband were in office in fact according to lead prosecutor kind of a start many were talking about a hundred and sixteen million dollars at least money that was pocketed allegedly by the president and members of he

priorities wrong argentinean's former president has appeared in court on money laundering charges cristina kirchner posted her court statement on twitter saying officials wouldn't be able to prove the charges because she would never accept illicit money on monday she was charged in a separate case in which she's accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes and exchange for public works contracts the judges asked for her parliamentary immunity to be lifted so she can be detained it's time for the sports news with peter thank you very much the champions league group stages kicked off and five times winners barcelona are all for marco the winner of a dutch club p.s.v. eindhoven legal missy's have trick helping bosses to a convincing. victory in the lights of the group b. game into school two goals in the last four minutes to be taught them to one coming up next former winners brasier dalton's outlets are going to do it and if the porter will be in action and then there's the knights headline fixture between little pool and paris st germain. real madrid play romeo on wednesday looking to win the tou

argentina's for president cristina kirchner has appeared in court for a second time as part of a major corruption case she's accused of taking bribes from construction companies during her presidency in exchange for granting contracts denies any wrongdoing and has described the investigation a shameless under the law she cannot be imprisoned but time face prosecution. police in brazil have fired tear gas of protesters outside walls in the left of the national museum in the city of rio de janeiro. the demonstration followed a massive fire has destroyed the two hundred year old building protesters say public institutions have been chronically underfunded there are reports the building did not have a sprinkler system police are still investigating the cause of the blaze brazil's president has promised to rebuild the museum or latin america to lucien you would possible. only smoke in ruin i left of what was brazil's pride and joy the largest anthropological and history collection in the americas. museum the story and regina done to us could not be consoled but us. it seems like a nightmare

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new budget to congress that includes tax increases his main rival the former president cristina fernandez de kirchner has major issues of her own ahead of next next year's presidential election a latin america editor lucien newman has more. as he struggles to lift argentina from a to cute economic crisis president. limited chances of reelection next year would appear to have received an unintentional helping hand from his main rival former president cristina fernandez the q. shinar is facing a barrage of grew up in charges and is only being kept out of jail because of her parliamentary immunity as a senator. or be. as a competitor having christine affected by so many corruption indictments is certainly not an undesirable scenario for mockery. in fact a newly published poll suggests that the only candidate that motley could defeat evil elections were held today is christina care and yet the fiery populist politician is still very much in the race and. the charges of corruption against christina kirshner on all the front pages don't impact her electoral base which she runs impermeable to attacks agains

high school cavanagh has called the accusations completely false argentina's former president cristina kirchner has been charged in a corruption scandal the judges asked her parliamentary immunity to be lifted so she can be detained cochon is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes during her time in office well those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream is coming up next and i'll have another full news bulletin for you in just under thirty minutes thank you very much for watching. it is a very important for information for many people around the world all the time right or wrong i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. and i'm really could be any also freedom forum bringing together artists entrepreneurs and human rights advocates from around the world coming up we chat with two notable speakers for this year's conference today on the stream we are live now on you tube questions and comments and i will do our very best to get them into this conversation. my name is rose. has b

argentina as former president has appeared in court on money laundering charges cristina kirchner posted her court statement on twitter saying officials wouldn't be able to prove the charges because she would never accept illicit money on monday she was charged in a separate case in which she's accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for public works contracts the judges asked for her parliamentary immunity to be lifted so she can be detained. president nicolas maduro has angered people in venezuela after being pictured enjoying a lavish meal of steak on a recent trip to turkey my duro was filmed dining at a restaurant in istanbul where he was served by the celebrity head chef widely known as salt bay the opposition says it shows how out of touch she is with the people red meat is considered a luxury in venezuela which is struggling under food shortages caused by an economic crisis. in this town bully dined in a famous restaurant from here in venezuela ice in the shift my greetings he attended to us personally we chatted and had a good time with him a very pleasant ma

la ex-presidenta ar arantxa: cristina fernÁndez de kirchner se negÓ a declarar.ximo mes de febrero, el inicio del primer juicio por otro caso de presunta corrupciÓn. en su primer dÍa como alta comisionada de las naciones unidas, la expresidenta de chile pidiÓ al gobierno que libere a los dos periodistas condenados a siete aÑos de prisiÓn. con mÁs de 2.3 millones de venezolanos emigrados se comienza a tratar esta crisis migratoria como el mayor Éxodo en latinoamÉrica en las Últimas cinco dÉcadas, y para afrontar el tema hoy dio iniciÓ una cumbre en la capital ecuatoriana donde representantes de 12 paÍses buscarÁn soluciones y acuerdos. reportero: se trata de la crisis migratoria mÁs grande en la historia de amÉrica latina. 2 millones y medio de ciudadanos han huido de venezuela en los Últimos aÑos. para tratar este problema, delegados de 12 paÍses se dan cita en la capital ecuatoriana para buscar soluciones y dar una respuesta a la movilizaciÓn masiva de venezolanos. >> son altamente vulnerables a la trata de personas, el trÁfico ilÍcito de inmigrantes, la explota

argentina's former president cristina fernandez de kirchner has been charged of a bribery allegations stemming from a wide ranging corruption inquiry or is accused of accepting tens of millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for public work on tracks a judge in the cases are. asked her parliamentary immunity to be lifted so she can be detained. well to zimbabwe now where the government has launched a crackdown on illegal food vendors in an effort to control the spread of cholera at least thirty people have so far died of the disease from the capital harare harm the tasa reports what many consider a controversial move. the streets of harare are much quieter than usual there has been since the government imposed its ban on stores selling street from what it says has had to take such measures to stop the spread of cholera vendors try to keep their distance from right police who have orders to remove anyone who refuses to leave but some people say they have no choice but to ignore the ban they say they need to make money they must find a way to care about two things that's in korea or j

export taxes this was a measure that was taken during the presidency of former president cristina fernandez de kirchner it was a popular measure. sectors but the president said very necessary at this point he also said that he's going to cut ministries by half he's announcing also a bonus to help the most vulnerable in the country but the big question right now and that's why the president spoke before the markets open here in argentina is whether the president will be able to convince him best that argentina won't default once again and we're seeing some pictures of protests over the past week how generally argentinians reacting to this. well that's a big question is because argentina and especially the working class has been struggling in the past months let's not forget. came to power with a promise to reduce inflation and what the president basically said during his speech is that for a period of two years that would work he took a gradual approach towards reducing the deficit but that the situation has changed right now and for the government it is tested maybe that this year's inflation rate is g

of workers and those on subsidies as being very severely eroded argentina's former president cristina kirchner has appeared in court for a second time as part of a major corruption case she's accused of taking bribes during her presidency from construction companies in exchange for granting contracts curt's third tonight is any wrongdoing and has the scribed investigation as shameless under the law she cannot be in prison but is not immune from prosecution. police in brazil have fired tear gas on protesters outside the national museum in the city of rio de janeiro. the demonstrators were demanding to see the damage caused by a massive fire which destroyed much of the two hundred year old building it's not yet clear how it began the museum held twenty million items including some of the region's best preserved human fossils brazil's president has promised to rebuild our latin america editor of a sea of newman has more. only spoken ruin are left of what was brazil's pride and joy the largest anthropological in history collection in the americas. museum of the story and regina done to us could no

something that was already implemented back during the government of former president cristina fernandez de kirchner he also announced that he was reducing ministries among other measures there's lots of skepticism about what this is going to achieve devaluation has continued i mean for what we know right now the u.s. dollar continues to go up but nobody really knows what the consequences of that market analysis will actually be in the economy when it's very difficult to understand what he can do considering how difficult situation is right now in argentina do you think that we're going to see even more proposals as he tries to take control of the situation. well nobody really know because when this crisis actually began back in may and that's when argentina was forced to go to the international monetary fund to request an emergency loan at that point the president was expecting that that was going to be enough to prevent the currency from devaluating even further but that didn't happen and the situation continued to deteriorate and now we know that the ministry of economy is traveling once again to

export taxes this was a measure that was taken during the presidency of former president cristina fernandez de kirchner it was popular measure. sectors by the president said that they were necessary at this point he also said that he's going to cut ministries by half he's announcing also a bonus to help the most vulnerable in the country but the big question right now and that's why the president spoke before the markets open here in argentina is whether the president will be able to convince him best that argentina won't default once again and we're seeing some pictures of protests over the past week how general argentinians reacting to this. well that's a.