hearing the full truth about a meeting at trying tally in twenty sixteen now this comes off to erik prince admitting to the meeting in an interview on al-jazeera he asked whether any communique from communications or contact with a company and you said apart from writing papers putting up yard signs no what you said of the transcript of the conversation here. i mean i might have been i think it was at trump headquarters or the campaign headquarters twenty sixteen usable an israeli dude a back channel to the emirates in the saudis don't junior leaving millon there to talk about iran policy do that about iran policy to us something important to disclose to the house intelligence committee while you're under oath you did you didn't we just went through the testimony there's no mention of the trump tell me to do was twenty sixteen when. i don't know if they got the transcript wrong well adam schiff rejected that claim while telling n.b.c. that they had questioned prince because of persistent questions about whether the u.a.e. was playing a back channel role to the russians joining the campaign

erik prince, the private security contractor and former head of black water arranged the meeting that took place august 3rd, 2016 in trump tower. apparently prince didn't tell the house intel committee about that meeting in trump tower during the campaign and asked about his omission by mehdi hasan on al jazeera show head to head. >> in november of 2017 you told congress under oath that you played no official or unofficial role in the trump campaign but what you didn't tell them is on august of 2016 you were at trump tower with don jr., and steve miller then a campaign adviser, george nader who is a back channel to the saudis and emirates and a convicted pedophile and joel zemmel a social media expert, how come you didn't mention that meeting to congress given it is so relevant to their investigation. >> i did, as part of the investigation, i certainly disclosed -- >> not in the trump tower. they specifically asked you what contacts you had and you didn't answer that. >> i don't believe i was asked that question. >> you were asked any communications with the campaign and you said apar

erik prince the founder of the private us security company blackwater has admitted to meeting members of the trump presidential campaign in august twenty sixth this is despite him telling congress that he had no connection with trump's team at the time when questioned by maddy haasan on al-jazeera as head to head program the blackwater c.e.o. said the public transcript of the congressional hearing could be wrong what you didn't tell congress is on august twenty sixteen you were at a meeting during the campaign at trump tower with. trump some with steven miller then a company adviser to george nader a former blackwater colleague of yours who works as a back channel to the saudis the minorities you're supposed to be convicted paedophile and also joel an israeli expert on social media manipulation how come you didn't mention the meeting to congress given it so relevant to their investigation. i did as part of the part of the investigations i certainly disclosed in the any meetings the very new i don't in the congressional testimony you gave to the house we went through you didn't mention

himself organized and which subsequently donald trump jr's own lawyer confirmed erik prince after meeting with several of those one acting apparently as an emissary for the saudis and the u.a.e. according to the new york times the other fascinating part of this is when prince was pressed he said that he was there to discuss iran and that's interesting because the new york times account said the discussions were mainly based around a social media campaign perhaps in order to help the trump campaign and general discussion about the saudis and the amaranth he's hoping the trump campaign which incidentally would be illegal but not about iran but and we know that later on in the the lebanese american businessman who was at that meeting was touting a plan to economically sabotage iran using private mercenaries so the public is definitely thick thickening we don't know whether anything illegal was happening at this meeting whether this was just the normal not normal gray area of foreign lobbying and illegality which is quite common but certainly certainly this is terribly interesting and will be

right here al jazeera when we come back blackwater found erik prince admits to al-jazeera that he did meet donald trump's campaign team but that's not what he told congress. with briggs it coming up britain's living abroad wonder what it will mean for them. and support right a struggle to get to grips with conditions head of the first place of the new moto g.p. and seized on that stings. hell are the rains a little early but it seems to be fairly persistence or china vast amounts of cloud riggin that direction really where the rain is going with feeding in warms from the south and the cold relatively speaking countries and also by injuries where the rain is developing for jan and granddaughter particular including hong kong shanghai looks fine if not the yangtze valley is fine back to junk do with temperatures in the high teens if you're lucky with the exception of shanghai where used to go at the northerly now the rain is sort of creeping offshore for time may just about leave you in hong kong with a dry evening on monday temps just say much the same inland as far as normally breeze

ladies and gentlemen please welcome erik prince.prince is currently the deputy chairman that executive director from two years services group a hong kong based security and the just. erik prince thank you for joining me on head to head. your back in the news with a new plan to privatize basically the u.s. led war in afghanistan but you were the founder and c.e.o. of blackwater perhaps the world's most notorious private security firm which during the iraq war became a byword for violence corruption lawlessness and yet you've never apologize for any of. i think that's an unfair characterization of the company did exactly what the u.s. government asked us to do which was to protect diplomats reconstruction officials visiting. u.n. or or other congressional delegations we did more than one hundred thousand missions no one under our care was ever killed or injured and people try to characterize the company as overly aggressive less than one half of one percent of all those missions resulted in a discharge of a firearm in an era when you

they questioned erik prince because of persistent questions about whether the u.a.e. was playing a back channel role to the russians jaring campaign. well he's certainly not telling the truth in that interview there's nothing wrong with our transcript there was nothing wrong with the reporter who transcribed his testimony he did not disclose that meeting to our committee and in fact as you can see from the published transcript of his interview he was asked what kind of role he played if any in the campaign and he said he had no role well melanie sloan is a former federal prosecutor she says erik prince could now be prosecuted for lying under oath well the problem is not only was he misleading congress about his own use own role by that he was clearly trying to keep them off of a path he didn't want to admit to this meeting happening in august of two thousand and sixteen at trump tower at all he's also been very cagey and not very truthful about the meeting in the seychelles so i think there's a lot to i'm packing for the special counsel with what erik prince his role

state which we don't try to use lawyer if several months ago don't talk jr recalls a meeting with erik prince george and made another individual who maybe jack joel's a male they picture mr trump jr on a social media platform or marketing strategy so this question has been hanging around so did eric prince lied to congress when he gave his testimony last year obviously very princes to believe no he didn't i mean we haven't heard from the relevant congressional committee yet as to whether as to whether they feel they've been lied to but already the members of that committee were dissatisfied with his testimony they've already said they're going to subpoena more information the democrats are now in control of these congressional committees and they say they want to get to the bottom of this but as said that their people aren't being arrested and put in prison for collusion with russia people are being arrested and put in prison for lying to investigators to congress this does suggest that perhaps maybe in a certain amount of trouble yes she had because it meant it has and did say that the lies

of blackwater erik prince you do it move learnt a lot of personal and q. two billion don't you disagree that branded a war profiteer and a super mercenary by his critics princes were made over a billion dollars out of the so-called war on terror that also highlighted the clear danger of using private contractors on the battlefield and yet now back on the scene trying to privatized the war in afghanistan but offering to replace u.s. and nato troops there with his own private security force but will handing the war to print really help end it i'm in the house and i've come here to the oxford union to go head to head with erik prince a former navy seal and the founder of but quarter i'll challenge him on war crimes in iraq his plans for a private army in afghanistan and his loyal support for president donald trump. tonight i'll also be joined by sean fête a former private military contractor former officer in the u.s. army and author of the book the new rules of war. an award winning guardian journalist from iraq who's covered conflicts across the middle east

confirmed erik prince after meeting with several of those one acting apparently as an emissary for the saudis and the u.a.e. according to the new york times the other fascinating part of this is when prince was pressed he said that he was there to discuss iran and that's interesting because the new york times account said the discussions were mainly based around a social media campaign perhaps in order to help the trump campaign and general discussion about the saudis and the amaranth he's hoping the trump campaign which incidentally would be illegal but not about iran but and we know that later on in the lebanese american businessman who was at that meeting was touting a plan to economically sabotage iran using private mercenaries so the public is definitely think thickening we don't know whether anything illegal was happening at this meeting whether this was just the normal not normal gray area of foreign lobbying and illegality which is quite common but certainly certainly this is terribly interesting and will be interesting for congressional committees i'm sure . the full interview

welcome back there watching you head to head on al-jazeera english my guest today is erik prince the founder former c.e.o. of blackwater also a big supporter of and donor to president donald trump erik i want to talk to you about your relationship with present moment but before i do just very briefly your currently executive deputy chairman of frontier services group f s g a hong kong based security logistics firm that you found it why is f s g opening a training center for security guards in of all places province in china where up to a million muslim we are being held in basically concentration camps right now there's a lot of mis reporting on that the company is not opening any training facility up there that was actually discussed at a board meeting the reporting got it wrong the only there was some kind of memorandum signed for construction services now training the company doesn't do any training of any police or security forces why did i say that at all why did your company say it was establishing training facilities it was going to sign him or you for construction without a pr

ladies and gentlemen please welcome erik prince. prince is currently the deputy chairman that executive director from two years services group a hong kong based security and the just. erik prince thank you for joining me on head to head. your back in the news with a new plan to privatize basically the u.s. led war in afghanistan but you were the founder and c.e.o. of blackwater perhaps the world's most notorious private security firm which during the iraq war became a byword for violence corruption lawlessness and yet you've never apologize for any of. i think that's an unfair characterization of the company did exactly what the u.s. government asked us to do which was to protect diplomats reconstruction officials visiting. u.n. or or other congressional delegations we did more than one hundred thousand missions no one under our care was ever killed or injured and people try to characterize the company as overly aggressive less than one half of one percent of all those missions resulted in a discharge of a firearm in an era when you

and the full interview with erik prince on head to head with. over one hundred hours g.m.t. on sunday and then online dot com. here's what else is coming up on this news hour with break that coming up living abroad are wondering well what little mean for them. and the women's world football champions launch a lawsuit over gender discrimination sonorous along with your sport and later. the deadline for civilians to leave the syrian village of fast approaching the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say they will resume their assaults on ice on saturday after they polls the fighting to allow civilians to get out more than sixty thousand people mostly women and children are now seeking shelter in the kurdish run whole camp and living in cramped conditions in the camp is now said to be at breaking point the capture of will mark the end of isis rule in parts of syria and iraq the un's refugee agency chief has been experiencing firsthand what life is like for syrians who fled the fighting for the program the visited refugees in lebanon and says the u.n. won't pressure them into r

congress is accusing blackwater found erik prince of not telling the truth about a trump town meeting in june the twenty sixteen presidential campaign is what prince told al-jazeera journal recently into the. last whether any communicate for communications or contact with the campaign you said apart from writing papers putting up yard signs no. what you said of the transcript of the conversation here . i might have been i think it was at trump headquarters or the campaign headquarters probably twenty sixteen usable and israeli do a back channel to the on the saudis. and even millen there to talk about iran policy related iran policy something important to disclose to the house intelligence committee what did you didn't we just went through the testimony there's no mention of the twenty sixteen. i don't know if they got the transcript wrong. well adam schiff has rejected that claim he told n.b.c. that they'd spoken to prince after questions about whether the u.a.e. was playing a back channel role for the russians during the campaign certainly not telling the truth in that interview the

as with so many other things it all smacks of complete uncertainty largely al-jazeera in lisbon erik prince the founder of the private u.s. security company blackwater has admitted to meeting members of the trump presidential campaign in august twenty sixth is despite him telling congress he had no connection with trump's team at the time and questioned by matty hassen on al-jazeera as head to head program the blackwater c.e.o. said the public transcript of the congressional hearing could be wrong what you didn't tell congress is that on august third twenty sixteen you were at a meeting during the campaign at trump tower with don jr trump son which stephen miller then a campaign advisor to trump with george nader a former blackwater colleague of yours who works as a back channel to the saudis there moralities you're supposed to be convicted paedophile and also joel's imo an israeli expert on social media manipulation how come you didn't mention that meeting to congress given it so relevant to their investigation. i did as part of the part of the investigations i certainly disclosed any any

erik prince has denied that's what that meeting is for. seychelle islands between him and the russian investment fund guy, that was just a business meeting and not an important one at that. he said it had nothing to do with the trump campaign or the trump administration at all. but if that same russian investment fund guy who met with erik prince, if that same guy was not just in contact with erik prince, but he was also in contact with the incoming trump national security adviser mike flynn, well, first, that would be something new we never heard about before concerning an alleged high-level contact between the trump campaign and the kremlin. but also, it would make it much harder to believe that that meeting in the seychelles was just some random erik prince business meeting that had nothing to do with trump or the campaign. so we've been trying to track this down, because this is a new assertion. there is an assertion in court filings from bijan kian that flynn was in contact with this russian investment fund guy named kuril dmitriev af

particularly because it seems erik prince has not been telling the truth about that meeting. now in the filing which suggests that russian guy close to putin wasn't just randomly having a beer with erik prince. he might not have been the only one in the trump campaign to have secret contact with him during the transition. kian's lawyers now say in this letter they want more information on, quote, mr. flynn's contacts with russian officials including dmidmitrev. trump's national security advisor had contacts with that guy, too, the money guy close to putin who's everyone been lying about talking to? we've never heard this allegation before. we know he website out of hiways to publicly praise mike flynn during the transition. he praised him for flynn's willingness to have an open dialogue with russian. but as far as we can tell from public reporting there was never any known contacts between mike flynn and this russian guy. there were never even any public allegations they'd had any contact. now, i should say this is just an assertion by bjon kian's lawyers. asserting is not th

the full interview with erik prince is of course online and al-jazeera dot com if you had to the showsmenu select head to head that set running there it also has it's next on iran on the channel oh one hundred hours g.m.t. sunday it's the run ten hours from now and as you saw just from that short clip it is well worth a watch the just a quick comment before we hit the break and as unfortunately i only got this comment after hashim had left talking about algeria lot of you asking well if there are so many people against president bush a flicker then why don't they just allow him to run and then vote against and vote him out of office at hashim a whole i think h a h e l on twitter if you want to put that question directly to him and have a chat to him as well after the show and see if we can get his thoughts on that as well in the meantime any of your comments or questions to send them through hash tag ha it's great this is the news good if you with us on facebook live about a story for you know about why an abortion law in el salvador cost three women ten years of their lives and then l

welcome back you'll want to head to head on al-jazeera english my guest today is erik prince the founder former c.e.o. of blackwater also a big supporter of and donor to president donald trump eric i want to talk to you about your relationship with president trump moment but before i do just very briefly your currently executive deputy chairman of frontis services group f s g a hong kong based security logistics firm that you found it why is f s g opening a training center for security guards in of all places province in china where up to a million muslim we are being held in basically concentration camps right now there's a lot of mis reporting on that the company is not opening any training facility up there that was actually discussed at a board meeting the reporting got it wrong the only there was some kind of memorandum signed for construction services now training the company doesn't do any training of any police or security forces why did i say that at all why did your company say it was establishing training facilities it was going to sign him or you for construction without a pr

welcome back you'll want to head to head on al-jazeera english my guest today is erik prince the founder former c.e.o. of blackwater also a big supporter of and donor to president donald trump eric i want to talk to you about your relationship with president trump moment but before i do just very briefly your currently executive deputy chairman of frontis services group f s g a hong kong based security logistics firm that you found it why is f s g opening a training center for security guards in of all places province in china where up to a million muslim we are being held in basically concentration camps right now there's a lot of mis reporting on that the company is not opening any training facility up there that was actually discussed at a board meeting the reporting got it wrong the only there was some kind of memorandum signed for construction services now training the company doesn't do any training of any police or security forces why did i say that at all why did your company say it was establishing training facilities it was going to sign him or you for construction without a pr

>> i don't know if they got the transcriong. >> so, this was about another meeting that erik prince believerepresentatives of other countries, in trump tower, the second so-calledo trumpr meeting, not with russians but with other foreign based on what you heard there, is mr. prince fetelling the tru? >> he's not telling the truth on that interview.hi there is som wrong with our transcript. there was nothing wrong with the reporter who transcribed his testimony. he did not disclose that meeting to our committee. and as you can see from the published transcript of his interview, he was asked what kind of ro he played, if any, in the campaign, and he said he had no role, apart from on his own submitting written papers, hanging a yard sign or making a contribution. and he was also asked about any ntive policy conversations that he might have had.so his interview was certainly looks inconsistent with h testimony. bob mueller has that testimony already. and bob mueller will have to make the decision about whether th rises to the level of deliberate falsehood. we had questions at the time of his t

erik prince, the brother of the secret education, but also has been before your committee, having tos that he had set up in the seychell seychelles. he was on al-jazeera and he was asked about some testimony to your committee and about whether he lied or not. take a listen. >> we're tere to talk about iran policy. >> there to talk about iran policy? isn't that important to disclose to the house committee under oath? >> i did. >> there's no mention of the trump tower meeting in 2016. why not? >> i don't know if they got the transcript wrong. >> so, this was about anoer meeting that erik prince had, i believe with some other representatives of other countries, in trump tower, the second so-called trp tower meeting, not with russians but with other foreign countries. based on what you heard there, is mr. prince fetelling the tru? >> he's notlling the truth on that interview. there is something wrong with our transcript. nere washing wrong with the is orter who transcribed testimon he did not disclose that meeting to our committee. d as you can see from th published transcript of his int

with the was the american occupation of the house and holding erik prince to account. twenty sixteen how come you didn't mention not meeting to congress and i did i don't know if i got the transcript wrong. i don't think you're that sharp but you can tell the difference between a polish guy a french guy. at the head. there is a short time to be a trusted news source where you want to know what's going on. very quickly. look at some nations prison. we are probably international everybody will learn something watching our coverage. be showing that we can be fast international news and make trusted source of stories that people actually can't find elsewhere and that's going to continue. his ear explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how life already influenced the course of history was the cuban revolution communist away feel castro is a feudal east the not a communist that castro wanted his country che wanted international revolution became a point when the relationship came to an end the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american polit

and you can see the full interview with erik prince on head to head with matty has and at zero one hundred g.m.t. on sunday it's also online at al-jazeera. for the third time in a month in a boat a treatment center in the democratic republic of congo has been attacked medical teams are trying to control the latest outbreak of the virus which is already killed more than five hundred people in the east of the country barbara reports. soldiers dragged a suspected attacker through the forest close to the temporary bella center in the democratic republic of congo is one of several men said to have fired shots into the buildings where medical teams battling to contain the spread of ribera after finding myself a barrier to what i was washing glasses when i heard bullets i wondered what's going on one of our colleagues who was busy burning but garbage began shouting but the attackers were already entering the treatment center from the main entrance. it's less than a week since the potential center reopened after it was attacked in february is said north kivu province source of the republic's lates

erik prince the founder of the private us security company blackwater has admitted to meeting members of the trump presidential campaign in august twenty sixth in that is despite him telling congress he had no connection with trump's team at the time there's been a third attack on an ebola treatment center in democratic republic of congo hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization armed fighters targeted a facility in bhutan b. which was attacked last month the assaults on the facilities have made it even harder to contain the virus which has now killed five hundred seventy eight people since august. targets are no longer the army or the police they've become healthy structures it's not just the ebola treatment centers that are being attacked it's also some health facilities simply put more people joining the terrorist group students have been protesting in sudan's capital khartoum despite a state of emergency they're angry with the government for detaining protesters during demonstrations that have been going on since december on friday president ordered the rel

but i doubt it. >> erik prince is part of this very wealthy family.os is the secretary of education, and he has been lobbying heavily to take over afghanistan from the u.s. military with private, private soldiers responsible to him. >> right. so he's certainly new -- he ought to have known who he was talking to, what the penalties for not being honest would have been in front of the senate -- the house intelligence committee. so it's striking that he said, well, i might have forgotten or might not, or the transcript was wrong. again, this gets back to credibility. and if they can't believe him, which it looks like they don't. again, investigators, as i know this through law enforcement, always have more evidence and information than we do as the public. so he's in pretty bad shape here, i think. >> now let's talk about what's happening this week, because you've got manafort, the sentencing in d.c. >> right. >> on wednesday, that's going to be a huge thing. and then roger stone on thursday has to face the judge and explain the book deal, the book that'

i think that point, the fact there are other potential defendants out there, erik prince is one. there are employees of the trump organization have liabilities in the separate investigation, why this question of pardon for paul manafort is so important. if the president were to issue a pardon for manafort, it will, number one, be a reward for lies to investigators, before he pled guilty and more importantly his lies to investigators about that meeting where he shared polling data with kilimnick after he cooperated, still lied about it. it would be a reward for those lies. number two, it would be a signal to everyone else in the president's orbit, if you just happening on long enough, you may have to go through trial, it may be unpleasant, may be hard on your family. but at the end of the day if you don't cooperate with investigators and don't tell the truth and protect the most important secrets, i will be here for you with a pardon at the end. i think it's why this question of a pardon is so important. i think harry is right, in most normal situations you wouldn't expect a presi

erik prince the founder of the private u.s. security company blackwater is admitted to meeting members of the trump as anshul campaign in august twenty sixth is despite him telling congress he had no connection with trump's team at the time when questioned by mehdi hassen on al-jazeera as head to head program the blackwater c.e.o. said the public transcript of the congressional hearing could be wrong what you didn't tell congress is on august third twenty sixteen you were at a meeting during the campaign at trump tower with don jr trump some with steven miller then a campaign advisor to trump with george nader a former blackwater colleague of yours who works as a back channel to the saudis the emirates.

erik prince the founder of the notorious private military for blackwater he's got a plan which he's been pitching widely to replace fifty thousand nato troops with some of his guys and a few thousand special forces and make millions of bucks along the way no doubt but hey peace has a price one that afghans don't seem to want to pay so how do you justify that you'll get a contract and go into the war in afghanistan given that you're making money out of this business please do us a favor and have a bold line between death of mercenaries of the democracy out mercenaries of death or fall from wrong though these guys mercenary groups like blackwater never went away in fact they expanded turned into a company rebranded and now they want back into the big boys war but i never heard that. they were dead bodies everywhere and is the argument honest with you people in society among the dead bodies lying on the street that's which of course is the middle of seventy years old. just for a second the us hasn't had a stellar. rock record in afghanistan on the ground remember the scandal about american

matthew has an old erik prince to account. at the head on a jersey or. hello there the weather is all very mobile across parts of north america at the moment see the cloud there working its way into the western parts and we have seen some flooding recently here so we don't really need any more rain but the rain is coming anyway and it's working its way eastwards and as it does so it's going to be tipping up as we head through sunday so we'll see it pushing its way down towards the southern states bringing heavy rain here and a fair amount of snow on its back edge as well and then that system will sweep its way eastwards as we head into monday and it will turn a good deal cooler behind it at lunch or at best getting to ten degrees on monday and fourth in dallas will only be getting to three so really quite cold for many of us here as we head through the next couple of days a bit further towards the south and there's generally a lot of fine settled weather to be found across many of us in the central americas currently few showers perhaps started about one