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Into those allegations. Paris court finds the woman behind the french me too movement for defaming a man she had accused of sexual harassment. British businessman aaron banks leave e. U. Campaign cleared of receiving millions in funding from overseas including from Russia National Trauma Agency stating there was no evidence that any criminal offenses had been committed. Live from moscow watching r. T. International daniel we need tonights welcome to the program. Controversies growing in washington over a july phone call between the leaders of the u. S. And ukraine after a whistleblowers complaint against donald trump was declassified on thursday it alleges that the white house attempted to keep details of the 2 president s conversation secret democrats say that during his talk with that of his alliance key mr trump likely committed a crime counterpart to investigate democratic 2020 joe bidens activities in ukraine came to more details. If you take a look at the complaint its from an unnamed whistleblower and this whistleblower essentially argues that they are working in the interests of the United States they heard about trumps conversation with the ukrainian leader they were outraged about it and they had to speak up now whats interesting is the whistleblower admits they never actually heard the conversation i was not a direct witness to most of the events described however i found my colleagues accounts of these events to be credible because you know most cases will officials recounted fucked pattons that were consistent with one another in addition a variety of information consistent with these private accounts has been reported publicly and therefore filling my g. T. To report this information through proposed legal channels to the role of an authority s. We were presented with the most graphic evidence. That the president the United States has betrayed his oath of office. Betrayed his oath to defend our National Security and betrayed his oath to defend our constitution sacrificed our National Security. And our constitution for his personal political benefit the director of National Intelligence says he fully stands behind this whistleblower you dont believe the whistleblower is a political hack do you director i believe that the as i said before mr chairman i believe the whistle blower on it is operating in good faith well then there was money in the law they couldnt be in good faith that they were acting as a political hack good day mr chairman my job is to support and lead the entire Intelligence Community that individual works for me therefore it is my job to make sure that i support and defend that person you dont have any reason to cuse them of disloyalty to our country or suggest that beholden to some other country i mean im sure absolutely not i believe that the whistleblower followed the steps every step of the way now the white house has released the full transcript of the phone call in question between President Trump of the United States and the ukrainian leader and as that transcript shows trump did indeed bring up joe biden his son hunter biden the issue of the firing of the prosecutor however there was no mention of a threat to withdraw military aid from ukraine as was alleged by democrats initially and that transcript is available and when they were at the United Nations speaking together trump and the ukrainian leader reiterated that there was never any pressure or threat placed on the ukrainian leader and. I think good to coal he too was normal and we spoke about many scenes and so i think you will read is that nobody bullshit bush and me yes no 3 you know there was no pressure on you. To do is see one of the fold but you know that if you could is the question and i appreciate the injury and i think that somebody if you look at what he did it is ok were his son he goes to china he walks away with a video there. He goes are you great you walked away with 50000. 00 a month and a lot of money in addition to that and the whole he was a prosecutor in ukraine and hes going to take this incident like maybe he did it maybe hes going to. Do it is at this point the democrats have opened a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump now the way the u. S. Constitution lays things out the house of representatives decides to begin impeachment proceedings that would be the House Judiciary Committee that would write up articles of impeachment but its the u. S. Senate that would then convene an impeachment trial and vote on whether or not to remove the president so at this point we have the democrats in the house of representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against us President Donald Trump in response to this phone call and the whistleblowers complained about it however at this point of the senate is controlled pretty solidly by republicans so they could very easily vote not to convene an impeachment trial so the next move will be quite interesting to see but regardless of what we now have with the transcript of a level that says that the whistleblower didnt actually hear the conversation the complaint that is now available from the whistleblower to the transcript of the conversation that is now available itll be quite interesting to see what happens next but the impeachment ball is rolling in washington d. C. Meanwhile the ukrainian president is under fire as well over his comments during a phone call and when troops remarks he said germany and other European Countries are not doing enough for ukraine. I will say that we do a lot for ukraine we spend a lot of effort and a lot of time much more than the European Countries are doing and they should be helping you more than they are germany does almost nothing for you all they do is talk and i think that some think that you should really ask them about when i was speaking to Angela Merkel she talks ukraine but she doesnt do anything yes youre absolutely right not only 100 percent but actually 1000 percent and i can tell you the following i did talk to Angela Merkel and i did meet with her i also met and talked with micron and i told them theyre not doing quite as much as they need to be doing on the issues with the sanctions theyre not importing the sanctions theyre not working as much as they should work for ukraine despite those remarks the German Government has in fact pledged nearly 1200000000. 00 in Financial Assistance to ukraine since 24. 00 team is that line to comment on a conversation between trump and zelinsky. Lets go live now to germany and International Relations professor Peter Shilton from getting any of the thanks for joining us professor great to have you on today this is a bit of an awkward situation is that for mr selenski what do you think do you think its relaxing or raise eyebrows in berlin is it going to somehow fecht this relationship with other european leaders. Definitely but berlin so far has the side it not the commons and i think this was a correct decision but definitely there were racial ins Office Conflicts on off the then situation in the United States but it was earned. Our influence the relationship in the atmosphere between the United States and the European Union and especially with germany and the end of the United States i mean we know from from the past that germany and especially russians merica is the my last enemy are. Mr trump and he does Everything Possible just to our criticize her and even not knowing the facts the European Union since 98 since 2015 or so on has spent more than 15000000000 euros for support also. Financial banking infrastructural and economic projects and your crane what the European Union is not doing is giving not military 8 to our suzi a crane business none and basically by some members they its of the European Union like poland generally about 6 they. Are romania so in a way its a its a kind of arm division off of work the United States is of course the in the most important military approach rider of arms or grain and European Union and the Member States like france germany and others are focusing on economic and social development here in that phone conversation you mentioned germany is there nothing for ukraine the numbers there was a mention early in the report quite different 1400000000 pledged since 2014 why do you think he said that. I think guernsey wants to deflect from the. Crisis and United States n. T. And he opens basically is a 2nd front line and so are we ever see probably in the in the future there will be a kind of overarching on that and a conflict on it between germany the European Union and to unite the aunt and washington and the Trump Administration and this will reduce a little bit says the men the the end of the intensity of the conflict known as United States and by the but the the consequences for the european ukrainian or the u. S. At the or crania to the United Nations the United States relations are incredible negatives because of probably a Similar Development in the washing of relations as we have seen between washington and moscow are due to the domestic mention also of the crisis which should erupt at the moment and the United States so everything whats alinsky is the cranium president was hoping for that the United States can play a card over the sides of role in solving the conflict went on bus that means in the Eastern Ukraine is basically on the agenda and are probably under the next elections and United States nothing really there and this is a very negative the relevant data be interesting to see what the what a divide that fallout from this is as well International Relations professor Peter Shilton thing many of us thanks for joining us today thank you i dont trump has reiterate he still wants alleged corruption claims involving his potential election rival joe biden and Ukrainian Company investigated the u. S. President s accusations now extend beyond just one country as the quarter explained. And trumps doing something theres a naysaying liberal media following close behind despite President Trump at Rudy Giulianis repeated allegations against the bidens no evidence of wrongdoing tied to his son Hunter Bidens Ukraine Business has actually been found the allegations against him which which have indeed been been proven baseless at least to this point these are proven claims that the president is making about bud right well hes making up to the allegations against the Vice President i think thats really important to understand so does biden and his family have a squeaky clean track record lets look at the facts in 2014 biden was in charge of washingtons policy stance for ukraine and for some reason his son was put on a Ukrainian Oil companys board of directors around that same time when a prosecutor launched an inquiry into that weird coincidence biden had this to say and i went over. The 1230. 00 time key event and i was goose supposed to announce that there is another 1000000000. 00 Loan Guarantee and i got a commitment from poroshenko and from. You know that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they did so that theyre walking out. And im not going to were not going to give you 1000000000. 00 shortly after the prosecutor was fired and the inquiry dropped biden said neither had to do with one another just another coincidence but lets go back to bidens 2013 trip to china for talks with president paying 10 days after that a subsidiary of the bank of china cut a deal with joe son hunter to form a 1000000000. 00 joint Investment Fund another 1000000000 dollar coincidence then there was 2011 when he oversaw u. S. Troop withdrawal from iraq that same year joes younger brother sealed a 1500000000. 00 deal to build homes in you guessed. It iraq theres plenty of money for everyone if this project goes through and that mountain of benjamins 2 was only a coincidence it seems when youre related to the former Vice President things just tend to work out and joes got no problem with it mr Vice President your take on that was a conflict of interest there was a clear conflict of interest but you heard him people move along nothing to see here im not seeing how questions about well it could also be distracting us from what joe biden has done and others have been involved maybe there really is something there thats a question that is not coming through really the questions that are being asked in the hope i think for those who are for him to drum isnt this leads into really great. Information or a juicy information not about joe biden but about donald trump. People who are upset with his politics and this could be a way to move us away from when joe biden might be involved and if anything more news come your way just after the short break they threw that out the international. Join me every thursday on the alex im unsure and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics or business im show business ill see you then. Back to the program of course in paris has ruled the founder of the french me too movement to fame the man she accused of making lewd and sexist remarks and 2017 is shot at the. Well sundram has been told to pay some 20000. 00 euros in fines and damages after being found to have defamed to t. V. Executives who she said had sexually harassed her there she is known as being the leader or the start of the meaty movement here in france which is called pole which means rat on your pig and back in 2017 she had tweeted about an incident for many years before in which she had said it executive who she went on to name and shame had made inappropriate advances to her but the t. V. Executive in question says as a result of this he was labeled as a sex offender he received a huge barash of criticism on social media and he was unhappy he said even more so when she rejected his advances which he admits actually happened he then went on to apologize effectively i did make misplaced comments to sandra during a drunken Cocktail Party very late one night but only ones i later i told her was so heavy handedly and only once i must point out i dont want to exonerate myself from my boorishness of the time i retreat my apologies well sundram isnt happy with this verdict in the Court Neither is her lawyer and both say that they will now look to appeal. I didnt win the other one i lost here today but in any case we win it all genders have started talking this decision doesnt take away from the fact that womens voices have been liberated that he must continue to speak out that he must continue to do now its reprehensible acts of any kind fear must not win here must not change sides well this isnt perhaps the 1st embarrassment for the me too movement to think about the italian actress an activist asieh our center who is one of the fore. Bearers of the me too Movement Across the globe and also new york professor vito ronald both who talked about being victims of sexually inappropriate behavior in the past but both women were later accused by young men of making them the victims of sexually inappropriate behavior and many people have long questioned this idea of naming and shaming people who are being accused of being sexual offenders or sexual predators given that in a public space such as social media theres often little to no evidence to back up that those allegations those claims have got a real grain of truth to them and many people saying why didnt you take them to the courts in the 1st place and some saying as a result of that their careers have also been growing their personal lives have also being ruined so some people questioning now where the this Defamation Case marks a real reversal in the fortunes of me to movement not perhaps just here in france but across the globe with many other people perhaps looking at this case and wondering if the 2 now could bring their own Defamation Case. Hugos National Crime agency as far no proof of wrongdoing by the Brooks Campaign group relieved or to you and our banks one of us fundraisers that cleared him of receiving donations for the bricks at a campaign from a foreign source namely russia with more on that heres kate partridge. Britains National Crime agency says its dropping an investigation into arent banks one of the biggest donors behind the Referendum Campaign the n. C. A. A. Looked into potential offenses concerning 8000000 pounds worth of funding it was claimed banks wasnt the true source but the inquiry found banks illegally took out a loan from a company c. E. O. And so he could give the money to the brits that campaign the n. C. A. A. Investigation has concluded that mr banks was legally entitled in his capacity as an individual to release these funds to the better for the Country Limited by instructing another of his companys Rock Services ltd to make the transactions on his behalf but its worth noting the n. C. A. A. Felt the need to highlight the hype surrounding the case the investigation has been subject to press and social media commentary the n. C. A. A. Has not received any evidence to suggest that mr banks and his companies received funding from any 3rd party to fund the loans or that he acted as an agent on behalf of a 3rd party why is this important because our in banks with the Russian Ambassador to the u. K. A few times as well as russian businessmen as is often assumed by associating with russians you must be a russian agent something banks. That crimea you know what the police are going to investigate lunch with the Russian Ambassador Butler University case but the media seemed eager to find a russian connection or exit is now being pinned on russian interference baron banks has been dogged by repeated accusations of close links with russia the parallels between the russian intervention in bragg and the russian intervention in the Trump Campaign here to be extraordinary so we go they travel to south africa to find one they also filled russian opposition figures with no knowledge of the case as they brought up his russian wife mr banks is a perfectly good reason to visit russia whenever he wants his family. He has 3 children by his russian wife in 2015 aaron banks tried to raise money in russia to invest in his mines here in south africa and surprisingly they try to connect banks with donald trump and felt it was news worthy to discuss banks some time visit to transplant and publish pictures of it too controversial backers of the brakes movement were guests last year at Donald Trumps mar a lago club iron banks and the week more known as the bad boys of bricks visited the Palm Beach Club in april according to a review by the Palm Beach Post of Instagram Post tagged at the spot mainstream politicians also pushed him on the issue so much so banks walked out of a select Committee Meeting as m. P. s questions on the exit and russia ran late but i think like youre told this isnt just one. Story it is that it was it is it is which is the n. C. A. A. Found no evidence banks had committed any criminal offenses he says the allegations against him were part of a political witch hunt as with claims of trump russia collusion reports of banks in russia collusion were apparently founded and perpetuated on fear rather than proof the decision to leave the European Union was something so monumental that it impacted the elites in britain both in the politics in Civil Service and in business and media that they needed to find the enemies they needed to find a way of discrediting the whole campaign and so the 1st thing they did was start to attack the donors to the campaign to leave and of course mr sharon banks and the leave means to leave movement came into the firing line of their anger without a doubt this was a witch hunt it was a witch hunt against those who campaigned for bricks at like myself and the leaders of the movement it was a campaign to discredit those who donated it and they also tried to discredit it by saying that there was collusion from other. Nations such as russia that there was russian money behind mr arrow and banks and all of this was to discredit the movement discredit the referendum it was a disgrace and should be something thats looked into by a Royal Commission in my view in the way that we look after our elections in the future as if it is our join us again in 30 minutes with the latest global news headlines. Here we are 29. 00 with negative Interest Rates and multi 100000000000. 00 trillion dollar thanks to capital unicorns are all going to cost and the colossal sell out is being self and every corner of the Global Economy and thats why smart countries are buying gold. Welcome to alex aventura where we once again ask our team of top commentators to attempt the impossible to forecast whats next for brics that over the summer they performed here medicals and anticipating both the controversial probing of parliament the legislative disappoints in the commons and the Prime Ministers attempt to dash to the polls how do you stop a government determined to go out with a no deal with thats what happens. All they theoretically united to stop the parochial. And to stop no deal yes and i think the sense of well intensified over the coming weeks rather the opposite however even mystic meg would have been hard put to forsee that Supreme Court deliberations would be the talk of the steamy as the top justices decided whether to back the scottish courts im the former 20 Prime Minister and declaring the cut in 20 Prime Ministers actions unlawful. The judgment when it came was unanimous im devastating the court is bound to conclude therefore that the decision to advise her majesty to probe parliament was unlawful the probation was also void and of no effect parliament has not been pro wrote this is the unanimous judgment of all 11 justices. It is for parliament and in particular the speaker and the lord speaker to decide what to do next to consider these remarkable events alex turns back to our panel of commentators in the blue corner we have peter oborne nobody knows more than this man about the inner workings of the conservative party now hes in number 10 hes seeing the warnings from the Civil Service about the calamity of no deal its an absolute nightmare mr bob johnson knows that ive had reports ive spoken to senior Civil Servants and the govt is goes wild with fear now they know that if they go for no deal its going to cause utter chaos and in the yellow corner we turn to form a liberal president ial candidate but opec has it all to meet finally find the formula to shift off the toward equalization please my frustration is as a referendum nobody said oh well best of 3 and were heading down that path lib dems in fantasy totally consistent have been for 3 years theyve actually become more militant and there remain they want to now say if joe sensor becomes Prime Minister she probably wont believe she did they wouldnt even have a referent of the the junk remain so theres somewhere for remain as to go but i just dont think that fits comfortably with those of us who thought we had one referendum and democrats and liberals would respect the outcome and to take the temps are from north of the border from National Columnist and broadcaster ruth wishart the courts brought the scottish dimension to breaks it back to the center stage by ruling in favor of the case against probation led by s. N. P. M. P. Q im a chatty cathy i scottish politics going to be the real story of this epic autumn briggs isnt just damaging to the u. K. As a whole briggs is damaging to scotland there but all kinds of coakley shes done about the job losses lately in scotland the last coca least i think was 100000 jobs lost so i think the Scottish Government has taken the view that for in the short term at least. Stoping briggs or at least open a new do briggs it has to take priority but 1st your tweets messages and emails in response to last weeks show where alex interviewed Michael Sullivan the author of the leveling robert says we cant wait that long now this is in response to michael suggestion the Scottish Independence will come within the next 5 to 10 years moreover says westminster ny resembles alice in wonderland and its not fit for purpose we need out not lets says again in relation to michael fantastic guests here ill get the bit louis says professor bosch give a nice summary of the thinking behind the whole independence and that weve been away dobsons 1990 or so he also pointed out the threat to selfdetermination and equality of the sensualist empire like United States of europe and finally jamie says i think you should get nice a choice for your case where to me i quite like if youve got a suggestions for new chairs please do said the major now since our last consultation of the commentators Political Drama in the u. K. Has finally reached the surreal stage this is the woman of the moment to cheer on a charity id say the Supreme Court on tuesday is advice given to her majesty the queen was on lawful his position is untenable and he should have the guts for wants to do the decent thing and resign the government attempted a poor going against parliament and ended up facing a parliament she could against the government with the commons once again seizing control of legislation to rule out a no would you break that Boris Johnson Dominic Cummings latests not interrupt for the opposition who probably refused to walk into it leaving the Prime Minister hi im dry when parliament resumed earlier this month he had a bare majority now after a perch