d. c. mike, he was a man or served on the for president, what's the reaction been to his death? well, the reactions being very mix. there are those who see donald rumsfeld test american hero as one who served as a public servant of the presidents raging from richard nixon. to gerald ford, the youngest defense minister gerald poured and also the oldest defense minister and george w bush. but his critics contend that he is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of on and iraq, including thousands of american soldiers. those were the campaigns that rumsfeld, a secretary of defense. supervised along with this close friend and colleague, then vice president dick cheney. and his could explain top to that he never acknowledged any regret for those actions that led to all those debts. in his autobiography, he said he would never have done anything different. unlike his predecessors, secretary of defense, robert math tomorrow, who supervised the vietnam war, who expressed regret for his action subsequently. rosalind jordan takes a look back at a deeply controversial career.

d. c. mike, so been against his trip to washington comes in a growing criticism of american arm sale to israel. what more do we know about his trip? indeed, yes. well, this was settled before this coalition agreement that it was something of a sudden trip. and he's only going to be spending a day in washington top of brittany against his agenda is that you mentioned there to get money to replenish is wales and baton defense system has been a lot of discussion in congress about providing arms to israel, particularly in the light of the way in which they will use during the recent war with us. however, on the question of the south system, there'll be no opposition whatsoever from within congress. but that being said, this is not the only thing that again, will have the on the agenda, you'll be meeting senior members of the fight in administration and what's likely to come up 1st of all is the issue of iran. where does gone stand as a defense minister, and importantly, where is the new government g

d. c. mike, who, how is this you correlation this new prime minister likely to be received in the us by the what else? well officially, up until this point, the white house and state department has brushed up any inquiries with a comment about not commenting about domestic processes and other countries. but there's no doubt within the binding whitehouse that they will be relieved that they is a different israeli government. to deal with joe biden had a long and somewhat rocky relationship with benjamin netanyahu, that stretched over decades reaching its lowest point, when biden was sent by then president obama, to strike some kind of relationship with nathan yahoo! when he arrived the nets and ordered a settlement process to get on the way in the west bank, which was seen as a direct snap to bite. and i was there at the time and overheard the very loudly raised voices in argument deep behind the walls of netanyahu's office. but certainly the binding administration has a very different policy fro

d. c. mike, thank you. the thing in the us president joe biden is in the state of oklahoma to mark the 100 anniversary of the tulsa race massacre. he attended commemorations of one of the worst incidents of racial violence in american history. as many as 300 people were killed when white mobs launched a tax on black homes and businesses in 1921. no one was ever charged with a crime for the violence or compensated for the destruction. with events we speak of the day took place 100 years ago. and yet i'm the 1st president in 100 years ever to come to tulsa. and i say that not as a couple about me, but to think about it a 100 years. and the 1st president to be here during that entire time and in this place in this ground, to acknowledge the truth. what took place here? for much too long. the history of what took place here was told in silence. whichever hands he is and also for his ship, obviously a very important anniversary, especially in light of what is effectively a year after the george floyd murder is s

d. c. mike, what do you make the statements come out from what health well, it's a couple of things. first of all, the speed with which it's come out from half an hour after the boat was taken in israeli parliament remembering as well that many in the, by the end of ministration on a european to at present. so it would appear that this was a pre written statement waiting for this to go out. another thing that is significant about the statement in diplomatic terms is the fact that the white house, specifically to the prime minister natalie bennett and the foreign minister paid along with other members of the cabinet. so it is making very clear that it is aware of the nature of the coalition. normally, you'd have a statement going out wishing the good wishes to the government and pledging to cooperate to them. but this is slightly different and shows the bided administration's intent on engaging the government as it is established at present as quickly as possible. also within that statement, surprisingly the white house expressing the greatest support for israel making reference to th

d. c. mike. so just remind us of the background to this facebook band and what it actually means the trump well, facebook initially banned donald trump on january, the southern thought to the events that took place in the capital and trumps comments on those particular events. the editorial board and independent body or facebook, then refused this decision and reported back that facebook is now about to decide on a duration of penalty. because at the moment it is to arbitrary. so facebook is not announced that the term of the suspension will be now for 2 years, dating back to january, the 6th. which means that donald trump will not have any social platform for the midterm elections, which are due to take place next year. and certainly which he indicated he wanted to play an active role in turning at determining the outcome of those particular elections. so donald trump, now no social media platform remembering to of course, that he's completely banned from twitter. facebook says that it will revi

d. c. mike, so many gun since trip to washington comes immigrating, criticism of american arm, sale to israel. what more do you know about his trip? well, there has been some criticism of on sales, but on the issue of the missile defense system, that's going to be a little argument in congress. in fact, there's been total support for replenishing those files that israel expended during that recent war with a month. but this is not the only issue on the table. now that is what benny gan sees. this is priority on the spirit, but there are other issues that are really going to come up top of that have the question of iran. now the bye. didn't administration wants to talk to guidance about his views on iran, the bite and administration wants to push forward with seeking ways in which to read, negotiate that iran nuclear deal, which it believes is the best way to preserve security and peace in the middle east . as a whole, now the outgoing government to the netanyahu government absolutely opposed to

d. c. mike. so just remind us of the background to this facebook band and what this means for donald trump. well, donald trump was initially van the day off to the generally the 6 insurrection in the capital. and then he was banned for an indefinite period of time. now, a facebook oversight board and independent body, which is funded by facebook investigated the ban and came up with the with the thought that while the band was justified, it did need to have some kind of set time fixed. it also recommended that facebook amended rule, but in terms of which politicians have an exemption from things like hate speech, facebook arguing that anything a policy she says is in the public interest. but the editorial board said no, that should no longer be the case. and facebook in announcing that it is bending president, a former president, trump for 2 years, also said that it was removing politicians from the exempt status. now this is important because it has ramifications far beyond the united states. it

d. c. mike, for the us justice department has released a statement on seizing these websites. was this happening? and what more do they have to say? well, the department of justice, as you say, has just released a statement explaining why this action was taken place some 33 have various entities control to all linked to iran and a number of its allies. now the justice department says that the iranian television and radio union had been designated a special entity back in october last year because of what it alleged was election interference. this requires all of its bodies to get special permission to operate in the united states, which the justice department said it did not do so. as a result, some 33 entities have been shut down. all the websites have been shut down by the department of justice. and now that is the situation there. but at the same time, what you have is these entities moving almost immediately within a matter of hours to radio controlled websites. so they are now continuing to operate, but the timing as well. there are some questions about that. it's only a

d. c. mike. so do we know who this person is? who's paying $20000000.00 for the pleasure? well the person who one suppose as must be a billionaire has not yet been identified. the blue origin say that the identity of the winning bidder will be made known in coming weeks. but whoever it is, only has a month to prepare for that flight which takes off on july. the 20th, not the bidding had been under way 4 months within 4 minutes up at the beginning. the original price, the highest price, which is around $4000000.00, had risen to over 20000000 and 7 minutes into the bidding. this massive, $28000000000.00 bill was put in and when in the end. so certainly this is a massive amount of money to pay for what is likely to be an exceedingly short flight. at the rocket itself, the shepherd rocket has been used as being used on a number of occasions. it has landed faithfully on a number of occasions and ship base us together with his brother. mark will be accompanying the unknown, but a long of course with the crew of 4. but it's a lot of money to spend for the flight. that, as i said,

mike hannah, that for us in washington d. c. thanks so much, mike. well, that's now speak to port brennan. he's been following this for us from london. for the reason saying this is, has to be one of the biggest sting operations and in the history of spanned continents. can you give us a bit more of a sense of just a scale of this? yeah, i'll build on what mike said there as well. i mean, the slow burn nature of it is what striking the f b i came up with this app, these devices around 2 years ago 70 over 18 months ago. and what happened was that it developed a small, nice kind of audience in the criminal on the world, small usage. but then last year we know the encroach at the encrypted criminal network was cracked by, by law enforcement. and then earlier this year, sky global, which is another one of those encrypted messaging services, the criminals have been using both of those were compromised by law enforcement. so the organized gangs were struggling around trying to find an alternative alarm. behold, the go to apple was an unwitting unbeknown to

d. c. as we are saying, mike johnson and johnson in, in reaching this settlement avoids going to state trial. but how are they alleged to have contributed to this prescription painkillers epidemic in the country? well, johnson and johnson, despite this agreement, insist that they will not accept any blame in the matter. they says well that they stop transporting or producing opiates or ploy some 5 years ago. but in the agreement that they've signed with the new york attorney general, they do pledge that they will not distribute or manufacture any more periods. but certainly, johnson and johnson in this particular case, had now pulled themselves out of what was going to be a massive trial within the next few days. they were one of the companies that was facing a jury trial brought by the new york state with regard to producing and distributing opioids. but now that johnson and johnson has reached this agreement. but the new york state is removed itself from that trial and remove to tell from the risk stop any a war that may be given in a jury trial, which is always a gamble, according to most

mike had reports from washington, d. c. in this divided institution, a rare moment of bipartisanship, as democrats and republicans came together to remember the countries dead. the number of fatalities in the us account for some 15 percent of the reported total worldwide. this week there were $25000.00 cases, reported each day, 57 percent lower than the figure a month ago. there are still too many lives be lost. we're still average in the last 7 days. the us of $370.00 deaths per day. $270.00 deaths, that's significantly lower than at the peak of this crisis, but it's still a real tragedy. just under 50 percent of americans are fully vaccinated. but there's a marked disparity in terms of vaccination figures. the top 5 states with vaccination rates of 60 percent, all over are all in the east. the bottom 5 with rates of 30 percent or lower are in the south with republicans controlling the bottom states. it's clear there's a political as well as geographical divide. and the vice president went to south carolina. as the adminis

mike, hannah has more from washington d. c than term.

mike, hannah has more from washington d. c. the justice department says that the iranian television and radio union had been designated a special entity back in october last year because of what it alleged was election interference. this requires all of its bodies to get special permission to operate in the united states, which the justice department said it did not do so. as a result, some 33 entities have been shut down. all the websites have been shut down by the department of justice. and now that is the situation there. but at the same time, what you have is these entities moving almost immediately within a matter of hours to radiant controlled website. so they are now continuing to operate, but the timing as well. there are some questions about that. it's only a few days since iran elected a new president. and importantly to it's only a few days since the 7th round of negotiations about restoring the nuclear view with iran concluded now the u. s. and iran are not taking part face to face in those negotiations that happeni

mike hannah, for us in washington, d. c. well, the us government has declared the opioid crisis of public health emergency. it started in the late ninety's when doctors began to prescribe, prescribe brother opioids, a greater rates, the mistake mistaken belief that they were not addictive. by 2018 around 10000000 americans were misusing the medication. more than 800000 were using heroin. many of the addicts who tend to elicit drugs when they could no longer get prescriptions refilled. the us department of health says more than 130 americans die every day from you. a related overdose is $48000.00 a year. gerald pulse there is an investigative journalist and author of pharma agreed lies, and the poisoning of america, he joins us live by skype, from miami. thank you for your time. first of what you get your take on this johnson and johnson settlement. i'm not as impressed with the johnson johnson settlement as the headline would lead you to believe any $272000000.00 sounds like and it is a lot of money. but this is a company th

d. c. thank you. the u. k. its health minister has that down over an affair with a colleague, mike hancock admitted breaking his own coven 19 rules by keeping an age in his office. the scandal has outraged government ministers and the british public who faced months of locked down at the height of the pandemic hancock has made regular tv appearances, telling people they must stick to the rules. author resigning, he explained his decision in the video message on twitter. i understand the enormous sacrifices that everybody in this country has made that you have made. and those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them and that's why i've got to resign. well, the devil is charlotte. chelsea pill has more on why hancock decided to resign from london. prime minister saying he accepted the health minister apology and the matter was closed, the case is closed. that is what he said yesterday. the fax is though the story was not going away. there was a huge amount of public actions, a public anger rather the actions of the health minister was not to the sensation of the fire. indeed, the health minutes in my

mike, thanks very much. indeed. my kind of talking to us from washington d. c. while the british government is delaying its plan to ease restrictions in england by a month, the final stage of lockdown was due to be lifted next week. but a rising case is linked to the foss bedding delta variant. which 1st originated in india, as prompt to the government, pushed back a full reopening. paul brandon reports from london, which are like a home testing test kits being handed out in kingston market. square. this barbara a south west london, one of more than 20 across england was sharpie rising infection rates have prompted intensive search testing to identify and isolate cases. the steepest increases among young people and school children groups, which haven't yet been vaccinated. statistically, they're less likely to become seriously ill. the concern is about the various katie . we want to try and keep the case rate as low as possible, having the virus spreading because we know more spreads more likely to get more mutations and more variance of the virus that may actua

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mike to berg. right. so i'm going to start with mikaela mikaela. grammatical c, d, u has emerged from the election well ahead of the a f d yet sac to me and how it is a relatively small german state. so why does this regional action matter so much? well like so often in life, it's the timing because this is the last test ahead of those elections in at the end of september that will mark the end of the macro era. and we'll decide what comes next. but it's also because it's one of those eastern states where the a s d did particularly well in the past, and it's still actually doing well. it came out of nowhere, 5 years ago, almost got 25 percent. now just round about 22 percent and i'm going to macros party really bouncing back here and exceeding all expectations. one can say, because the next question we have to ask, what's up with those opinion polls. even the most optimistic one, put, i'm going to proceed. you party, not above 30 percent, now it might be $36.00. if these exit polls translate into results and nobody has seen the sd do below 23. and that is exactly what happened here, according to those exit p