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Food is received. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. U. S. President donald trump is demanding to meet the anonymous official who blew the whistle on his phone call with his ukrainian counterparts the scandal surrounding the conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week over possible collusion with a foreign power from claims the whistleblowers account of what was said was totally and accurate meanwhile reports have emerged pointing out that the u. S. Intelligence community quietly changed the official whistleblower complaint form around the time the ukraine call scandal broke the old version required a whistleblower to have 1st hand intel but the new form made another tick box option available meaning related information it would be considered as well now of course the timing is worthy of noting the latest version of the document says it was revised in august of 2019 thats the same month in which the scandal triggering complaint was filed the apparent coincidence has led to questions being raised. Its not clear to me when the people who are behind all this realized all my goodness this is not going to play well this will not go through the Inspector General process because its all hearsay is certain here from ation its funny to me at least here on the u. S. Side that the news outlets just immediately identified this person as a whistleblower but if you are a whistleblower blowing the whistle on waste fraud abuse and illegality in the Intelligence Services youre not a whistleblower youre a leaker and so i think thats really where the transformation has been arties my gosh i have looked at the sudden change of standards and its possible ramifications. Most of us we reveal whistleblowers the men and woman who put their careers their very lives on the line at a principle they dont look the other way they speak up when they see corruption abuse and then justice and you know why we revere them so because we trust them they were witnesses people on the inside they saw with their own eyes a whistleblower any individual who provides the right information to the right people thats now changed you no longer need to be a witness to be a whistleblower no longer need to have documents or evidence all you need is to have heard someone talk about wrongdoing thats all as a matter if it was false or made up just far less than hey presto you are a whistleblower like the individual who spoke on the trump ukraine scandal of the background of this of course the whistleblower the filing report and state being in the 1st sentence i dont know that for stand you know this 1st told to me by i learned this from say and then multiple short so i didnt have any for shit and evidence and that means. In our legal system here shit it never shows up in court he was told the trump said something questionable by anonymous officials all of them were wrong it seems at least some of it was already proved false the president pressured mr selenski with a specific request that the ukrainian leader locate and turn over servers used by the Democratic National committee and examined by the u. S. Cyber Security Firm crowd strike. I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it and would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine they say crowd strike the server they say ukraine has it whatever you can do its very important that you do it if thats possible the president also praised ukraines prosecutor general. And suggested that mr lansky might want to keep him in his position. I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and thats really unfair a lot of people are talking about that the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved they these in gentleman we have front row seats as we watch the noble human all noble title of whistleblower sally my deed bipartisan politics in the accuracy and bias over the Intelligence Community Inspector Generals preliminary review identified some indicia of an arguable political bias on the part of the complete in favor of a rival political candidate such evidence did not change my determination that the complaint relating to the urgent concern appears credible what do they do. You know american chargen we say did it change the goalposts they change the rules how could these people least see it we get away with this whistleblowers now essentially a 5050 anonymous source you get on c. N. N. For example fun to listen to but as practice shows as taken with a dose of salt source tells n. B. C. News Law Enforcement and democratic sources telling c. N. N. On it in a fired sources Anonymous Sources according to anonymous Washington Post source youre basing all these allegations of one or maybe 2 sources which c. N. N. Isis is not receiving reports its Washington Post New York Times wall street journal c. N. N. A. B. C. Hooman resources all because theyre hiding behind us an enemy to come and i mean were seeing this do you not me to youre just going to attack sources this whistle blower a poor it was but now for the democrats finally a chance to bring down trump but now that its showing cracks liberals are sprinting the plus the mover this whistleblower they claim can should and will be trusted you know why because hes one of them if we think of the whistleblower as a reporter the whistleblower talked to a lot of people who had firsthand knowledge or seen them post strange it to this reporters a free free to be as politically biased as they want twist news to their political agenda and then call it truth all of us who have been involved in National Security and have reported on waste fraud abuse and illegality have been whistleblowers but because this whistleblower in particular fits the Mainstream Medias narrative of donald trump committing crimes he was automatically called the whistleblower he was automatically assumed to have the National Interests at heart and im not really sure that thats the case the think it will but crucified snowden and manning for exposing global surveillance on all of us and war crimes that wed never have known about but here you have a biased complaint riddled with an accuracy s. Submitted by an individual who saw nothing but passed on what he was told the clear political spin to it and hes applauded cheered and praised. It isnt gentleman what is the noble name of whistleblower. And is just as phony and i use the word phony its just as contrived is just as fabricated as the whole. Charge is because its true we know and we have proof that theres nothing behind those no evidence no 1st hand there if its 2nd hand evidence and now we have you created really very early on. For what it is a political ploy to get president trump. Dozens of World Leaders are in paris for the funeral of Jacques Chirac the former french president died last week at the age of 86 a memorial bands have been helped throughout the country more detail lets cross to our correspondent arwa damon who is in the capital for us charlotte whats been the mood there since the news broke. Well a national day of mourning has been declared in france here to remember the former president Jacques Chirac who died last week at the age of 86 the Funeral Service took place behind me at the church of souls well willed leaders including president putin of russia came to pay their final respects to a man whose political career spanned some 40 years going from being elected as an m. P. In the National Assembly all the way to being mare of paris to being Prime Minister 2nd time i twice 2 of course being frances president a president sees held for 2 terms starting back to 9095 he was considered to be a political comedian so to have stuck to his guns and perhaps his best known internationally for the fight back in 2003 he refused to let france participate in the iraq invasion that was led by the u. S. In the u. K. Famously of course going to the u. N. Security. We can so all queuing why that invasion shouldnt take place lets have a look back now at some of the highlights of his political career. The military operations have just started in iraq friends regrets his actions taken without the approval of the united nations. Houses burning down and we blind to it nature mutilated and overexploited can no longer regenerate and we refused to pay for dont want to rebuild it go back to my mind i go back to iran to god oh my god let it let them go this week during these dark hours for of a solo histories and theyre an insult to our past now traditions. The funeral took place with full military owners and some of those who pay their tributes last week when we heard the news egyptian rocket died came here today including president putin of russia he described him as being a man who was wise and far sighted a man who was a great friend to russia we know that the 2 had a fantastic personal relationship in fact chirac when he was at the nato summit in latvia back in 2006 on the sidelines of that summit invited president putin to come and spend his 70 full birthday with him and even he would it president putin one of frances highest honors for the foreign minister this is a growing classically. So a sense of 2 men who really respected each other in fact president putin once said that she was probably one of the the best World Leaders that he knew of one of the ones that he most respected we also heard tributes from other World Leaders over the last few days using Angela Merkel who said that he was a great partner when it came to germany and also herself and we heard from president marc cohn who said he was a great frenchman a man who embodied what it really was to be french we were also speaking to some of the crowds of people who came to see. See this funeral to pay their final respects and they told us that Jacques Chirac was a great leader and that it was important to come and say one final goodbye. They felt he was a true frenchman there you go what i loved about human after a genuine girls it was structured rock for me for friends. Gave me a place he was one of the best president s thats what i think he did many things for france including many things that people dont know about in the social sphere and things like that so i was just. That was his character that was his character but all the same not everyone liked him. Many in my family were fond of him its nice to know that. He was we heard during the service a man i had of his time a man who was fiercely proud to be french thousands of people have paid all my age and respect as Jacques Chirac now makes his final journey to his resting place in multiplan us here in paris charlotte devinsky reporting live from paris thank you. Ok him just her has been recognized as a hate symbol alongside the swastika americas Antidefamation League based its decision on the signs adoption by white supremacists. Even as extremists continue to use symbols that maybe years or decades old they regularly create new symbols memes and slogans to express their headful sentiments we believe Law Enforcement and the public needs to be fully informed about the meaning of these images which can serve as a 1st a warning sign to the presence of haters in the community or school. Ok symbols of white power meaning was initially part of an online prank but apparently white supremacist liked what they saw and started using it that way in earnest amongst them the Christ Church terrorist during a Court Appearance the d. L. Says cases like that warrant its inclusion on the list of hate symbols adding though that context is always important last year a former white house staffer was accused of making the white power sign but her defenders pointed out that shes a Mexican American and a descendant of Holocaust Survivors are guesstimated the issues raised. Because pretty ridiculous to label a thing like a bull or the ok symbol as a symbol of White Supremacy i feel like races do do certain things but i mean at a certain point they do everything or people do mean races have to eat food they have to drink water they have to breathe air so at what point do we label eating food as racist Drinking Water as received in breathing air is received its just really can of started his particular point sounds a little some of these things that have been in his ear things were a very long time with or a soused hateful subversive groups the problem is that the symbol has become an actual code to say hey we are part of this group you are not and you know the main part of it is like. Well its a far its far right movement supporting you know again far right ideologies that are very well known in this country to be you know florida and but my point is you know is vast to get for instance and it was an indian sacred religious symbol 50500 years b. C. And you know. People in germany took it put it on a red flag and now it was a symbol it was an inverted this massacre and that became the symbol of nazism and ok but the ok sign is nat day all right ok so you can find it right now on your phone via. Device phone you can find it ok so right now when you search for the new moji there is the equivalent to ok ok it is being used ok for a very lonesome it wasnt a couple years ago where it was some kind of troll thing happening on the internet there it became so on those because the Mainstream Media picked it up and i think the whole purpose of trolling campaign was to trick the Mainstream Media into doing it and of course now we hear that the a. B. L. Is looking for here is not to label every single thing that we do say or or. Or you know we communicate what they are to specifically doing is trying to inform you know people that there are certain symbols that seem innocuous but that are currently being used. As actually inside violence and crime and you know fundamentalists political ideas that put this democracy in jeopardy but were talking about a symbol that started it as something that was not necessarily what it is today the problem is that somewhere along the line that symbol that cited as it trolling can ban as a bait became an actual you know sino with a longing for though if. Its not its really not what somebody told me how do you know it hasnt. Is not some kind of hate symbol like i see it the blood game uses day im sure to have been plenty of actual killings they happen every single day and have been going on for a very loans ounces in 1970 s. When they came out but for some reason thats not been seen as a symbol you can add here right now in your phone as an emoji for the ok symbol in smartphones and all of it have come around long after the street gangs have originated so obviously we didnt think about the sting that existed in a certain context in new form of a symbol in general which is labeled as a symbol but now a lot was saying because you need to let me hold because of the trolling campaign now we want to say is a symbol is ridiculous it is not a symbol it is a n. S. A. Thing if people want to use it for whatever they want to use it for ok but to compare it to nazi flag is absurd ok millions. Like. Verses do ok so i think i was not a hate symbol until it was. An indian use a. Whole can ensure that although its not the. Still to come a russian actor whos jailing. They must protest sparked a public outcry has his sentence reduced and suspended the details after the break. What holds if. They put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president im sure. Want to be rich. But youre going to be crooks thats what before 3 in the morning cant be good. Interested always in the water. There should. Seem wrong. Just dont all. Get to shape out. Active. And engaged equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Welcome back a young russian actor who was released on bail after a public outcry has received more good news in moscow court ruled that paul boasting of 3 and a half year jail sentence for alleged violence at a protest should be softened to a one year suspended sentence they are trying to with more. Perhaps it is time for the russian public to side with relief indeed pavol was steen of skase perhaps the most attention by the russian public after the arrests during the illegal rallies in moscow that were not authorized by the russian government ahead of the moscow city duma elections hobbles dean of was put on trial for allegedly attacking a Law Enforcement official and the reason why this case got so much attention and it had so many people including celebrities talking about this because it was almost evident and papa was saying that from the very beginning that he didnt even take part in the protests and just happened to be in that area which is by the way absolutely public where the protesters though were trying to gather now went to day the 23 year old came out of the hearing room once again he said that he is completely innocent and the fact that his 3 and a half year sentence was changed to a one year long suspended sentence is not enough for the man. We disagree with the Court Decision will appeal it in any case i didnt commit any crime i didnt commit any wrongdoing thats all it was after seeing this video that so many people as ive said including celebrities fellow actors decided to stand behind pavol they launched flash mobs posted in repose to messages of support on social network the video does appear to show that the man wasnt trying to attack anyone and as ive said really just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time now whats important here was that the court initially wasnt willing to consider this video material then they changed their mind and there you have the result. Author is former chancellor sebastian corps looks poised to pull off a political comeback his conservative Austrian Peoples Party took home the lions share of ballots in sundays election securing a 38 percent of the vote he still needs the help though of other parties. Its incredible its an amazing day its if the story were solved. And it will try to. Talk straight folding out a pot to piss in departments and try to form a government what if people of all stripes thank you. For the last 4 months the country has been ruled by a caretaker government a donation scandal brought down courses a conservative coalition back in may as Coalition Partner was filmed promising political influence for funds political scientists hands says course may well reach out to the same party again. Beasts be to try to get the kurdish understood for you dont doubt it unless the Freedom Party it sort of doesnt want to lose doing. This they dont buy might read choose to go into their own position. When its my own i will form a coalition resist social democrats however are the issues so separate the social democrats and cons of what these about the plan to much so that a Kurdish Group negotiations will be granted if the court let us out option for your quits would be kurdish and is the green but the base of the green party doesnt need long to have a kurdish and its a concern about the people who its my friends who are people who have your beak bought in the kurdish which supports more of this hes issues or the other option some more difficult for him thats a global news wrap up for now but ill be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for telling it. From calls for trance and pietschmann to the saga known as briggs and political beats appear to be terrified of democracy and the peoples will also should we lament the passing of a new liberal order. Rather than perform and then comes out of a war. Of the sort of one among them. From 80 way to hide not the high i might be. At the salon month. But to the how long since one. Of the thought of. A muslim youth the lock of the. Neck that he is someone who did the board. Time after time so were going underground as saudi arabia takes the podium to conclude the Un General Assembly just ahead of the one Year Anniversary of the killing of the Washington Post Jamal Khashoggi a crime over which the u. N. One saudi arabia investigated coming out of the show as the United States Senate Debates a trade war with hong kong that could drag the Global Economy down amidst president trumps existing sanctions against china we speak to a member of on kongs executive council preparing for tomorrows 70th anniversary celebration of the peoples. And on the day saudi arabia concludes the u. N. General assembly we go to the country with the largest number of u. S. Troops in Europe Germany to hear its left Party Dealing can slam any possible angle or merkel plan to join Donald Trumps and Boris Johnsons soldiers against iran plus brechts at the berlin wall and microwave meals with suede supporting artists more funny how all this of all can we have a days going underground a festival remarks the 70th anniversary of the peoples republic of china or an event covered in nato nations not so much for the lifting of 850000000. 00 out of poverty as the triumph of a brutal state that today abuses human rights in on kong the chief villain appears to be hong kong chief executive kerry lamb joining me now from the new Peoples Party at what is known gong is one of our cabinet ministers regina thanks so much for coming on the show before we get to whats going on in on kong how is it how is the special Administrative Region going to be celebrating 70 years of china that will be flecked ways and seventies and celebrations as usual and the Hong Kong Government will be sending a large delegation to beijing to attend the parade and various celebrations in the capital but no new fireworks because some people think that having no fireworks in on kong is a capitulation to the enemies of ongoings really its a great pity but i think there are Strong Security considerations considering that in the past 100 days there have been a lot of. Outbreaks of violence attacks on in those 7 bystanders if you if you find somebody who would disagree with you you bash that person so in view of the potential for fights and the breakdown of law and order i think the they all thought that these were rights to ken so deep if i worked this year well. As you know media here in britain is covering the protests we have pictures in the studio of the american flags and british flags being flown by the protesters media here says they are Peaceful Protesters and in fact british media sense thora g. s are investigating c g n the Chinese International channel for bias the western Media Coverage on the hong kong events have certainly been highly biased in our view you know there have been a lot of description of the events in hong kong as Police Brutality whereas actually although the poachers have taken place for over 100 days there have not really been serious injuries and no fatalities compare with the way Weston Police hendo the los angeles riots in the 1970s occupy wall street in 2011 and the london riots in 2011 also in 5 days there were 5 deaths several 1000 arrests that whereas in the whole call we have over 200 policemen injured maybe a similar number of members of public also injured but really no serious injuries and no fatalities yes but arguably in london when there were riots the authorities here doubled down and they created austerity where is you know on kong it seems to be one cave in after another to protest as you called off the legislation very legal unity with china back in 2012 you called of education curriculum changes because of protests why is it the hong kong authorities do everything the demonstrators appear to want them to do although some western media would like to portray our government as suppressor of the masses actually as you said our government has come pick children had several times to mass demonstrations because we are strong protect our rights and freedoms and we got jealously our reputation you know and there is a lot of external pressure on us if there are any echoes