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Thanks for joining us this is. Donald trump is demanding to meet the anonymous official who blew the whistle on phone calls with his ukrainian counterpart the scandal surrounding the conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week of a possible collusion with a foreign power u. S. President claims that whistleblowers account of what was said was totally inaccurate reports of the most pointing out that the u. S. Intelligence community quietly changed the official whistleblower complaint form and around the time the ukraine call scandal broke the old version required they were supposed to have 1st hand intelligence but the new form made another tick box option available meaning relayed information would be considered as well and the timing of the change its noteworthy the latest version of the document says it was revised in august the same month in which the scandal triggering complaint was filed the apparent coincidence that slowed understandably i think to questions being raised its not clear to me when 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 information its funny to me at least here on the u. S. That the news outlets just immediately identified this person as that 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 is. On these and i guess the if looks at the sudden change of standard sun possible ramifications. Most of us we revere whistleblowers the men and woman who put their careers their very lives on the line out of principle you know look the other way they speak up when they see corruption abuse and then justice and you know why we revere them so as we trust them they were witnesses people on the inside they saw with their own eyes a whistleblower is 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 the 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 is the whistleblower the filing report and state in the 1st sentence i dont know this firsthand you know this list told to me by i learned this from say and then multiple shots so we didnt have any and evidence let me in our legal system here shit it never stands up in court he was told the trump said something questionable by anonymous officials told them wrong it seems at least some of it was already proved false the president pressured mrs lenski with a specific request that the ukrainian leader locate and turn over service 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 i would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine they say crowd strike the server they say ukraine has. 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 even 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 does not change my determination that the complaint relating to the urgent concern appears credible what today do. You know americans are good we say did it change the goalposts they changed the rules how could these people possibly see that 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. Is this is not receiving reports its Washington Post New York Times wall street journal c. N. N. A. B. C. Elihu resources all because theyre hiding behind us and a commonality were seeing you know you dont want me to youre just going to attack sources these whistleblower 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 move or this whistle blower 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 post stranger 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 are 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 not really sure that thats the case the think it all but crucified Snowden 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 new born name of with or blow or dies i think this is effectively making the whistle procedure in america into effect of listening snitches charter where we have a situation where someone can just report some gossip and it will be taken at face value as bona fide a whistle blowing i think this is highly dangerous in how whistleblowers are going to be perceived so rather than people coming forward and saying i have an eyewitness account i personally experience this wrongdoing this crime it needs to be investigated up to and including congressional hearings on ochs suddenly going to have rumor and gossip grubby gossip fed into the political process and its going to poison that this process. Dozens of World Leaders arrived in paris for the funeral of Jacques Chirac the former french president who died last week served as the countrys heard of stayed for 12 years our correspondents are the dubious get reports from paris. 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 seoul 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 twice 2 of course being frances president a presidency he held for 2 terms starting back in 1995 he was considered to be a political comedian somebody who stuck to his guns and perhaps is best known internationally for the fight back in 2003 he refused to let france participate in the iraq invasion that was led by the us in the u. K. Famously of course going to the u. N. Security council 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 refuse to admit it or do you want to rebuild it barack obama or you know go back to god. Let them go these dark hours for of a solo history and theyre an insult to our past and i was traditionally. 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. As a great friend to russia we know that the 2 had a fantastic personal relationship in fact shot 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 74th birthday with him and even he awarded president putin one of frances highest honors for a foreign as this is a growing classically owner so a sense of 2 men who really respected each other in fact president putin once said that was probably one of 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 including angler 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 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. The of playful he was a true frenchman there you go what i loved about human after doing it all the good it was for me for her and. Give me your 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. That was his character that was his character might all the same not everyone liked him though many in my family were fond of him its nice to know that. He was we heard during the service a man ahead of his time a man who was fiercely proud to be french thousands of people have paid all major respect as Jacques Chirac now makes his final journey to his resting place. In modern us here in paris. The university of edinburgh has found itself in the firing line after it rolled out its red carpet for a socalled anti racism conference that has burned white people from asking questions in a q. And a we will therefore not be given the microphone to by people during the q. Nace not because we dont think why people have anything to offer to the discussion but because we want to amplify the voices of people of color if you know wide person with a question piece share it with a member of the community all our speakers after the Panel Discussion on the event was organized by a group called the resisting whiteness collective the organizers say that their aim is to raise awareness about the importance of anti racist actions in the u. K. The host of the event though created 2 separate rooms called safe spaces for those who could feel overwhelmed or comfortable with one of them barring white people from entering and bring university expressed concern over certain aspects before the event including the safe rooms with the universitys officials claiming organizers have started reviewing that particular point but no changes if any were made were ever published on the official event page and all of that provoked a strong reaction online this sort of stupidity by Edinburgh University actually fuels racism if the years who came up with this idea lived in the real world theyd know inclusive ety not up a tide is whats needed and where University Hosts racist event banning polish people from talking the aim of the event is to end racism presumably by actively being racist they have come full circle in an effort to become normal racists theyve become racist talk about overcompensating briggss Alliance London Assembly Member david gergen believes that this event hasnt than anyone any favors. Its blatant racism theres no such thing as reverse racism racism is excluding people because of the color of their skin and this does that whereas before weve had the kind of racism that excludes people and discriminates against people because theyre black this blatantly discriminates against people because theyre white and this doesnt do any good for anybody whether theyre white or black or brown and this kind of thing just simply should not be happening im for giving a platform for for any group you know whatever anyone wants to say but thats the whole problem with this event is that theyre not allowing a platform for people who are white on the basis of their color of their skin if someone decided to put on an event called resisting blackness can you imagine the outrage which we would have had from the same kind of people who are putting on this events are there everyone would be up in arms from people on the extremes of the political spectrum and all of the liberal if you like elites in the media would be be writing about it condemning it and we wouldnt hear the end of it for days if not weeks so that just goes to show the kind of hypocrisy. The ok hand gesture has been recognized as a hate symbol alongside the swastika very is Anti Defamation 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 means and slogan sticks to press their hateful 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. The ok symbols white power meaning was initially part of an aligned prank expose but apparently white supremacist like what they saw and started to use it that way in earnest among them the Christ Church terrorist during a Court Appearance d. L. Says that cases like that warrant its inclusion on the list of hate symbols adding that context is always important last year a former white house staffer was accused of making the white power sign that her defenders pointed out shes Mexican American and a descendant of Holocaust Survivors we put the issue up for debate. I think its pretty ridiculous to label a thing like global k. 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 forest and but my point is you know is vastly out for instance and it was an indian sacred religious symbol 50500 years b. C. And you know. People in germany its ok to put it on a on a red flag and now it was a symbol it was an inverted this massacre and that became the symbol of nazism nieces and ok but the ok sign is nat day all right ok so you can find it right now on your phone via. Device i 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. D. 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 fundamentalist 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 sign no with a longing for though if. Its not its really not what somebody told me how will you know it hasnt be the symbol is not some kind of a symbol like i see the blood gain uses day im sure to have been plenty of actual killings they happen every single day and theyve 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 have it 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 ive usually we did think about this thing that existed in a certain context in new form of a symbol in general which is labeled as a symbol but now what 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 you want to use it for ok but to compare it to nazi flag is absurd ok millions do. You like. Versus the ok so i think i was not a hate symbol until it was. An indian use a day early his whole can ensure that people in stock. In somalia are us a bill. Base has been attacked by the local Islamic Extremist Group alshabaab claims loyalty to al qaeda and is listed as a terrorist group in the u. S. And u. K. European military convoys also been attacked although so far no ones claimed responsibility for that somalia is being wracked by civil war for decades with 2 significant parts of the country proclaiming itself autonomy the Us Armed Forces have been fighting al shabaab since 2007. Africom says that it killed 10 militants following the recent attack on the us space but journalist an African Affairs specialist johnson believes that airstrikes will only worsen the crisis one thing is clear is that our ship out is clearly not a force thats going away they are all jihadists the belong to the somali itself it shows that we would have to start looking beyond bombs beyond guns beyond bullets and something and how if at all theres an opportunity for negotiating with this route because weve shown over time that the military capabilities that the have the ability to go on the ground. Its going to continue and the United States and the African Union are on likely to be to dislodge him in the short to medium term. A young russian actor who was released on bail after a public outcry has received more good news say a moscow court ruled that pavel the stand off 3 and a half year jail sentence for violence at a protest should be softened to a one year suspended sentence with more. Hobbles dean of was put on trial for allegedly attacking a Law Enforcement official and the reason why this case got so much attention is 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 when today the 23 year old came out of the hearing room once again and said that he is completely innocent and the fact that his to have your sentence was changed to a one year long suspended sentence is not enough for the map. The decisions you got when you said last night we disagree with the Court Decision will appeal it in any case i didnt commit any crime i didnt commit any wrongdoing thats. The video does appear to show that the man was inclined 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. A controversial canadian psychologist whos known for his strong views against Political Correctness has been making headlines again after screenings of a documentary about him were pulled from several cinemas. And you send your peers if you want a piece that has to produce a canadian psychology professor or somebody people mom or learn to hate so youre anti stick are you a bad man miller i watched the professor as Political Correctness video and i was just so disappointed and i get. Jordan peterson is a clinical psychologist and University Professor whos risen to fame in recent years via Public Interest and debate over his ideas peterson challenges Political Correctness with his views on masculinity and firmin ism as well as gender ethnicity and identity politics could be a man born in a womans body and thats biological but if youre a woman born in a womans body that socially constructed like really thats to be an argument do you think a trans woman is a woman. No you overwhelming proportion of people who are in prisons are male i do want to equalize that just out of curiosity what about bricklayers there are 99 percent male and and when men work longer hours they work more dangerous jobs theyre more likely to move. Or peterson has lots of fun seal certain acts plenty of criticism early this year Cambridge University councils an invitation for him to speak there over concerns his views violated the quote inclusive environment in new zealand his book was pulled from shelves after a shooting at a mosque in christchurch what is more if an option or so in speaking to the filmmakers behind this latest documentary. Your movie as far as i understand is about Jordan Peterson and the journey to where hes now and through his ideas what is about it that its a wrong to see it or scrapping earlier great plans to show it. Well they had agreed to a week long run of the film but there were some staff complaints and that put them in a difficult position so they decided to cancel those plans and of course you know there are some things that people really disagree with in terms of ledger in peterson has said sell people disagree with the idea of giving him a platform and although making a film about him i dont think its the same thing when they were all sorts of reasons we were getting in the instance of the cancellation of the staff complaints as far as we know they hadnt seen the film the people that had agreed to show the film initially they had seen it it really is a shame that that happens our film is and isnt like a complete celebration of everything about jordan i mean there are parts of parts of it that are critical its not a fluff piece and there are the voices of the people that have disagreed with him in public that are in the film so we also hold space for those bonuses in the film so you have all of the people that are talking about him and its this kind of like a left and right culture or you know you have people on the right that kind of see him as on the side but also see him as kind of like a Political Tool to kind of top of their their agenda when you have people on the left like and t. V. And activists of that nature and they they think hes the devil and they want to bring him down and they want to destroy its reputation which people usually do is that they listen to journalists that theyre used to and those journalists usually only read other journals that think just like them so it is weird little in this specific context that its a liberal bubble where they kept they tell each other the same stories and it gets they gets compounded and compounded when it gets pretty different from reality as far as i understand Jordan Peterson himself was not too much into ferreting to your words very open and he respected the process he you know was never really you know trying to. To interfere with that you know anyway what was that story that these journalists that you mentioned kept saying like presenting jordan percent as someone dangerous to something well you know their ideas that hes. Leading the all right or you know motivating him sells or that he has a really dangerous idea that hes the custodian of the patriarchy as the New York Times article stated so it closes peoples minds to a nuanced film about him which is what our film is and its a film that is as was mentioned is for friends but also for people who arent and its really something in it for everyone to really paint a complex picture of what we witnessed throughout these 3 and a half years. And we have approached the carlton cinema in toronto about this decision to cancel the screening of the film will bring you any response if someone we receive it. Time after time so were going on the ground as saudi arabia takes the podium to conclude the u. N. 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 investigative coming up on the show as the United States Senate Debates a trade war with hong kong that could drag the globe