twenty six thousand us presidential election it's a major escalation in the ongoing investigation as mike hanna of reports from washington. and anti trump protest march in new york shortly after his election this one of the pro and anti trump rallies the special counsel alleges were organized by the group of russians sometimes at the same time on the same day part of a massive campaign the indictment say were aimed at promoting donald trump at the expense of his opponents both republican and democrat. special counsel robert miller has indicted a total of thirty russian nationals and three companies for alleged interference with the twenty sixteen elections according to the unsealed indictment the accused conspired from two thousand and fourteen until today to interfere with the us political and electoral processes including the presidential election of two thousand and sixteen. the special counsel alleges that the group posed as americans and controlled social media accounts but focused on divisive social and political issues such as the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein states that there

election is just the beginning and not the end of the investigation mike hanna al-jazeera washington. the u.s. president meanwhile has dodged questions about gun reform visited victims of a school shooting in florida seventeen people died when former students nicholas coles opened fire on a school in pocket and on wednesday as now known the f.b.i. failed to act on a warning that may have prevented the attack and gallacher reports. president trump's first stop in florida was to the hospital where some of the victims of wednesday's shooting still recovering his visit wasn't publicly announced but he told reporters he had spoken with victims and their families if you think there is incredible i don't want to drive through it. he then went on to visit with law enforcement officials but news that the f.b.i. mishandled vital information about nicholas cruz have dominated headlines it's now down that someone close to cruz called authorities with specific information about the nineteen year old's intentions by the information was not passed to the proper authorities a startling failure by the

presidential election mike hanna reports from washington. and anti trump protests march in new york shortly after his election this one of the pro and anti trump rallies a special council alleges were organized by the group of russians sometimes at the same time on the same day part of a massive campaign the indictments say were aimed at promoting donald trump at the expense of his opponents both republican and democrat special counsel robert miller has indicted a total of thirteen russian nationals and three companies for alleged interference with the twenty sixteen elections according to the unsealed indictment the accused conspired from two thousand and fourteen until today to interfere with the us political and electoral processes including the presidential election of two thousand and sixteen the special counsel alleges that the group posed as americans and controlled social media accounts but focused on divisive social and political issues. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein states that there are no conclusions in the indictmen

second time by congressional intelligence panel but was tight lipped citing white house privilege mike hanna has more from washington. well it's understood that steve benen was questioned for a long period of time by members of special counsel robert miller's team on at least two occasions the questioning lasting some twenty hours the nature of the questions not yet known however we do understand that steve bannon did give our answers to all the questions that were put to him this is unlike his appearance before the house intelligence committee where here appeared for the second time this week there he refused to answer a large number of questions a quoting white house privilege he would only questions that had in fact been vetted by the white house and others caused a great deal of anger on the house committee members now discussing whether or not they should try him for contempt for not giving answers to the questions that they put to him staying in the u.s. thousands of people have gathered in florida at a candlelight vigil for the seventeen victims of the latest u.s. school shooting a su

russian involvement in the us election is just the beginning and not the end of the investigation mike hanna al-jazeera washington russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov gave his reaction to the indictment said a security conference in munich it's a new i have no response you can publish anything and we have seen those indictments and i've also read the statements from the homeland security adviser in the u.s. he denied the reports that any country had influence the election results the same was said by mike pence either here or maybe in another european capital so until we have the facts everything else is just blather for us national security adviser general h.r. mcmaster says the evidence against russia is now publicly available with the f.b.i. indictment the evidence is now really incontrovertible and available in the public domain. in the past it was it was difficult to attribute for a couple of reasons first technically it was difficult but then also you didn't want to divulge your intelligence capabilities but now that this is in the in the in the arena of law enforcement investigati

myanmar military leaders aimed at those implicated in abuses against residents in rakhine state mike hanna reports from washington the plight of the writhing gears highlighted in the sixth edition on capitol hill around the table discussion on the crisis is joined by some of the senators who are adamant that the time has come for military leaders to be held accountable for the world documented abuse suffered in iraq current state not go list except right here on capitol hill well help bring to the american people believe the urgency. for us to help the rohingya muslims and to prevent in the future atrocities in our community we should speak out and the world the civilized world against them even more policies that have led to this persecution discrimination in this expulsion of these people from me and more and the demand that the white house take a public position on what is happening in myanmar i want to see the president the united states cape fear stand about this ethnic cleansing about this genocide we have not had one word not one word from the oval office not one word of leadership

mike hanna al-jazeera washington let's get the latest now from andy gallagher who is in pocket and for us andy what's the latest shooter is in custody re understand what more do we know. well we're getting a clearer picture of what nicholas cruz the suspected shooter was doing and it seems like this was a very much a premeditated attack we know that he set off the fire alarm inside the school to create chaos to get the children students out of the classrooms he walked in there with an assault rifle a gas mask and two smoke grenades and it's worth mentioning that this was a building that he knew well he knew where people would be he knew how to inflict the largest amount of damage his injuries are said to be not life threatening he is now. he is now cooperating with investigators but we still don't know what the motive is we know that he was expelled from the school some time ago the police say they're already looking at his social media accounts at things on the internet they say they're already finding disturbing pictures and disturbing messages so what is clear is that this young man

strong message to the russians to get iran out of the region imran khan al-jazeera westra slim mike hanna has more now on washington's response to saturday morning's incident but despite iran's denial that it was responsible for the drone incursion the state department appears to be convinced that iran is to blame for this round of combat that we've seen emerge over the course of this particular day a state department spokesperson has released a statement saying and i quote iran's calculated escalation of threat and its ambition to project power places the entire region at risk from she says yemen to lebanon once again from state department we also heard that israel has a right to defend itself a similar statement coming out of the pentagon which also stated very clearly that u.s. played no role whatsoever in israel's combat operations at targets within syria so from the u.s. what you are hearing support for israel not surprising but at the same time there appears to be a degree of concern about the further ramifications of the conflict that's emerged in the course of the day when carl wa

and targeted sanctions appear certain against those military leaders responsible for these crimes mike hanna al-jazeera washington. turned cain is the president of the burmese ranger organization in the u.k. and has been briefing u.s. senators in washington about the crisis he called for stronger measures against myanmar singer and sounds of change. we have not seen we have seen from sinead. stronger our reason lucian's this one reason is in a still pending i hope it will be passed but administration have not done a stronger voice you know what donald trump should talk about you know rex tillerson mission it's at the nickel is in and they call for targeted only one one military so i mean i think we are running out of time the military is continuously go in on to wipe out the whole population so it is important donald trump. i mean other. ministers you know more stronger we need to speak from over all of these this is very important we must know who answers somebody is right now these days u.s. government and other western government have a strong support to her so i think she she she is she'

targeted sanctions appears certain against those military leaders responsible for these crimes mike hanna al-jazeera washington. and he over here a senior opposition leader has been released from prison after days of anti-government protests and all charges have now been dropped against. secretary general of the overall more federalist congress. was initially held on terrorism charges following his arrest in december two thousand and fifteen he was freed along with seven other opposition members. canada's government says it's looking at changing the way to resist a selected during criminal trials a comes after an all white jury acquitted a white farmer of the murder of a twenty two year old indigenous man dialect reports from toronto. colton busch she was in a vehicle with several others when he was shot in the head by gerald stanley stanley said his family and property were under attack and the gun had misfired when he tried to frighten those in the car for his trial defense lawyers rejected all potential jurors with indigenous backgrounds it took just fifteen hours for an all white jury

targeted sanctions appears certain against those military leaders responsible for these crimes mike hanna al-jazeera washington. to canada now where the government says it's looking at changing the way juries are selected for criminal trials this comes after and or what a jury acquitted a white farmer of the murder of a twenty two year old indigenous man down a leg has more colton bushy was in a vehicle with several others when he was shot in the head by gerald stanley stanley said his family and property were under attack and the gun had misfired when he tried to frighten those in the car for his trial defense lawyers rejected all potential jurors with indigenous backgrounds it took just fifteen hours for an all white jury to acquit stanley of second degree murder. protests erupted across the country last saturday against a verdict many saw as racially motivated indigenous activists say the criminal courts routinely deny them justice both as victims of violence and as defendants. their son all over again to say that his life has no meaning that this is allowed and then what does it mean

van and has also been quizzed again by congressional intelligence panel but was tight lipped mike hanna has more from washington. well it's understood that steve benen was questioned for a long period of time by members of special counsel robert miller's team on at least two occasions the questioning lasting some twenty hours the nature of the questions not yet known however we do understand that steve benen did give our answers to all the questions that were put to him this is unlike his appearance before the house intelligence committee where he appeared for the second time this week there he refused to answer a large number of questions a quoting white house privilege. thousands have gathered in florida at a candlelight vigil for the seventeen victims of the latest u.s. high school shooting it's emerged b. i was previously warned about nineteen yo suspects nicholas cruz has appeared in court charged with the met is and agalloch every pore some the vigil in pockets north of miami. this is a community in mourning but a people determined to come together the grieving process will be lon

twenty six thousand us presidential election it's a major escalation in the ongoing investigation as mike hanna reports from washington.

is backing israel's right to defend itself with more on that mike hanna joins us from washington d.c. so my. there we go mike we're obviously the s.s. are there also deeply concerned about this that they will obviously come down on the side of israel so what does all this mean well we've heard from the state department now and despite iran since distance that it was not responsible for that drone incursion state department appears to have no doubt to the spokes person saying that this was another example of iran attempting to project its power something that she categorized as a real major threat to the region and said that while this continues there is a threat to the region from yemen to lebanon as she put it so certainly u.s. state department making very clear that they believe implicitly in a rainy an involvement we've also heard from the pentagon which says that it had no part in the operations carried out by israel against targets within syria however the pentagon also reiterated the statement that we heard from state department that israel has the right to defend itself so supp

see van and has also been closed again by congressional intelligence panel but was tight lipped mike hanna has more from washington.

seventy women accused him of sexual misconduct including rape which he denies it's more now from mike hanna is covering this he is in washington d.c. so mike as we understand there are police investigations into harvey weinstein but this is separate and apart from a criminal investigation so explain what this is. yes indeed this is the result of the four month investigation by new york's attorney general are all schneiderman and he has now filed suit in the new york county supreme court now suit has been filed not only against harvey weinstein personally and his brother robert but also the weinstein company now the reason for this is that the attorney general's deeply concerned that the sale of the cunt of the company was imminent that victims would not be compensated that those within the company may still be empowered despite their wrongdoings in the past so this is a reason for this very quick filing of this particular action but it provides immense details of what happened within the company itself it makes very clear that there were various levels of executives within the company who h

putin and the man accused of funding the so-called troll factory twelve other people also named mike hanna reports. an anti trump protest march in new york shortly after his election this one of the pro and anti trump rallies a special council alleges were organized by the group of russians sometimes at the same time on the same day part of a massive campaign the indictments say were aimed at promoting donald trump at the expense of his opponents both republican and democrat special counsel robert miller has indicted a total of thirteen russian nationals and three companies for alleged interference with the twenty sixteen elections according to the unsealed indictment the accused conspired from two thousand and fourteen until today to interfere with the us political and electoral processes including the presidential election of two thousand and sixteen. the special counsel alleges that the group posed as americans and controlled social media accounts but focused on divisive social and political issues. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein states that there are no conclusions in the i

we'll have a live update from our correspondent and a gala in parkland shortly but first here's mike hanna this report on what we know so far. reports of gunfire were received shortly before classes were dismissed for the day a code red alert was issued the school was locked down with many students still sheltering inside there are more than three thousand students registered at the school and the rescue operation was made more difficult by the vast size of the campus. multiple casualties we've had approximately fourteen people transported to area hospitals with varying degrees of injuries there are multiple casualties aerial footage showed hundreds of students running from the area some of the injured being treated on the scene the suspect here we are being a maroon shirt was taken into custody. in this footage she's shown being placed on a gurney he's been identified as a nineteen year old former student at the school the daily white house briefing was canceled because of the shooting and president trump took to twitter my prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the ter

mike hanna al-jazeera washington or turn him in is president of the burmese ranger organization in theu.k. he's been briefing us senators in washington about the crisis he's calling for the international community to get tough on me and mass leader aung sang suu kyi we have not seen we have seen from senate and house that we are strong our reason. one reason is in a still pending i hope it will be passed but administration have not done a stronger voice you know what donald trump should talk about and you know rex tillerson mission it's at the nickel is in and they call for target ascension only one one military so i need i think we are running out of time the military is continuously going on to wipe out the whole population so it is important donald trump. i mean other. ministers you know more stronger we need to speak from over all of these this is very important we must know who answers somebody is right now these days u.s. government and other western governments have a strong support to her so i think she she she is she's covering must across it is against rohingya that is what y

mike hanna reports from washington d.c. the plight of the writing is highlighted in this exhibition on capitol hill around the table discussion on the crisis is joined by some of the senators who are adamant that the time has come for military leaders to be held accountable for the well documented abuse suffered in iraq kind state and i hope this exhibit right here on capitol hill well help bring to the american people the need the urgency for us to help the rohingya muslims and to prevent it in the future atrocities in our community we should speak out against the world the civilized world against the million more policies that have led to this persecution discrimination in this expulsion of these people from me and more and the demand that the white house take a public position on what is happening in myanmar i want to see the president the united states cape fear stand about this ethnic cleansing about this genocide we have not had one word not one word from the oval office not one word of leadership against this horrifi

involvement in the us election is just the beginning and not the end of robert muller's investigation mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well bruce fein is a former us associate attorney general and he explained what possible ramifications the charges could have for the russian investigators in. where this stands now with the next phase that we'll look at will be questioning mr trump and donald junior and others to see whether or not once the investigation was underway through firing of mr cohen we through collaboration and really say a misleading statement as to what happened in june of two thousand and sixteen with regard to meeting with the russians regarding mr trump's apparent efforts to have his white house counsel on the one hand tell that the attorney general should not recuse himself and disobey an order that from gave a one time to fire mr moore those are the areas in my judgment where mr molder will now turn his lights on but i want to go back to the basic idea of the political element here and that is why would an a a special counsel issue an indictment he knows he's never going to go

and targeted sanctions appear certain against those military leaders responsible for these crimes mike hanna al-jazeera washington. the scandal surrounding the british charity oxfam is widening with new allegations of abuse by its staff in south sudan some aid workers are accused of sexual assault and rape in some cases exchanging sex for aids policy allegations that staff these prostitutes and its operation in haiti following the two thousand and twenty nine earthquake and also in chad on top of all of that oxfam international chairman juan alberto fantasy night has been arrested at his native guatemala over correction allegations from his time as a government minister there brian kahn cannon is the executive director of the institute for justice and democracy in haiti he says oxfam scandal and the case systemic problems and the humanitarian community the oxfam scandal is really just the tip of the iceberg and the iceberg is a long history of unaccountable interventions by the humanitarian community in countries like haiti but also many other countries that are poor and this is an oxfam sex

by president assad's forces the strikes targeted government and alleged iranian assets in syria mike hanna monitoring reaction in washington the state department appears to be convinced that iran is to blame for this round of combat that we've seen emerge over the course of this particular day a state department spokesperson has released a statement saying and i quote iran's calculated escalation of threat and its ambition to project power places the entire region at risk from she says yemen to lebanon turkish military helicopter has been shot down in northern syria during an operation against kurdish fighters this video is said to show the helicopter moments before it was hit for and killing two soldiers on board kurdish led syrian democratic forces say it's fights to shut down the aircraft but he says the cause is still unclear a total of eleven turkish soldiers were killed in fighting on saturday. north korea's kim jong un has invited the south korean president to pyongyang for talks on g. and hosted kim sr in seoul on the sidelines of the winter olympics it's the latest sign of warming

says israel has the right to defend itself mike hanna now from washington the state department appears to be convinced that iran is to blame for this round of combat that we've seen emerge over the course of this particular day a state department spokesperson has released a statement saying and i quote iran's calculated escalation of threat and its ambition to project power places the entire region at risk from she says yemen to lebanon. a turkish military helicopter has been shot down in northern syria during an operation against kurdish fighters this video is said to show the helicopter moments before it was hit the afrin killing two soldiers on board kurdish led syrian democratic forces say it's fights a shot down the aircraft but turkey says the cause is still unclear a total of eleven took your soldiers were killed in the fighting on saturday making it the deadliest day for the country's forces since they began the campaign enough for in last month's north korea's olympic delegation has had a lunch meeting in seoul with the south korean prime minister lead that yong the group incl

and targeted sanctions appear certain against those military leaders responsible for these crimes mike hanna al-jazeera washington the scandal surrounding the british charity oxfam is widening with new allegations of abuse by staff in south sudan its international chairman has also been arrested in guatemala on corruption charges relating to his time as finance minister. there's anger in canada after an all white jury acquitted a white farmer of killing a twenty two year old indigenous man canada's government says it's looking at changing the way juries are chosen for criminal cases the trial over the killing in the province of saskatchewan led to nationwide protests protests u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has warned that the end of combat operations against eisold doesn't mean the fight against the group is over at a meeting in kuwait he called on nations to step up commitments to stab allies parts of iraq and syria that used to be under ice or control and the lower house on the of the cum body in parliament has passed a new law that makes it a crime to insult the king if approved th

again by a congressional intelligence panel but remained tight lipped citing white house privilege mike hanna has more. well it's understood that steve benen was questioned for a long period of time by members of special counsel robert miller's team on at least two occasions the questioning lasting some twenty hours the nature of the questions not yet known however we do understand that steve benen did give answers to all the questions that were put to him this is unlike his appearance before the house intelligence committee where he appeared for the second time this week there he refused to answer a large number of questions a quoting white house privilege he would only arms the questions that had in fact being vetted by the white house now this caused a great deal of anger on the house committee members now discussing whether or not they should try him for contempt for not giving on says to the questions that they put to him. cracks have appeared in australia's fragile coalition government after a public spat between the prime minister malcolm turnbull and his deputy prime minister barnaby

denies the lawsuit has stalled the planned sale of the company for five hundred million dollars mike hanna is following the story from washington d.c. . well the new york attorney general eric schneiderman has filed suit in the new york county supreme court not only against harvey weinstein personally but also against his brother and the company as a whole now the reason for this as the attorney general is because of what he believed was an imminent sale of the company this could result he was concerned in victims not getting sufficient compensation in those within the company who empowered harvey weinstein in what i described his predatory actions maintaining their positions and getting some financial benefit out of the sale of the suit details very very closely numerous allegations against harvey weinstein in particular but also against the company as a whole for various contraventions of new york code and new york business practices it makes very clear that there were layers within the weinstein company that will well aware of the activities of the principal shareholder and in fact empo

says israel has the right to defend itself mike hanna has more now from washington . the state department appears to be convinced that iran is to blame for this round of combat that we've seen emerge over the course of this particular day a state department spokesperson has released a statement saying and i quote iran's calculated escalation of threat and its ambition to project power places the entire region at risk from she says yemen to lebanon a turkish military helicopter has been shot down in northern syria during an operation against kurdish fighters this video is said to show the helicopter moments before it was hit near killing two soldiers on board kurdish led syrian democratic forces say it fights a shutdown of the aircraft but turkey says the cause is still unclear north korea's limping delegation has had a lunch meeting in seoul with the south korean prime minister lee not yong the group includes the sister of the north korean leader kim jong il and on saturday she extended a rare invitation to the south korean president of his appeal talks on the sidelin

has backed israel and blamed iran for the escalation mike hanna has more on all of that from the u.s. from washington. well despite iran's denial that it was responsible for the drone incursion the state department appears to be convinced that iran is to blame for this round of combat that we've seen emerge over the course of this particular day a state department spokesperson has released a statement saying and i quote iran's calculated escalation of threat and its ambition to project power places the entire region at risk from she says yemen to lebanon once again from state department we also heard that israel has a right to defend itself a similar statement coming out of the pentagon which also stated very clearly that u.s. played no role whatsoever in israel's combat operations at targets within syria so from the u.s. what you are hearing support for israel not surprising but at the same time there appears to be a degree of concern about the further ramifications of the conflict that's emerged in the course of the day was such a draw all of this together with no one couple on who'