Twist in the latest scandal engulfing south koreas political leader. First, u. S. President elect donald trump has picked two women to serve in his administration. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has been tapped to serve as u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Her appointment must first be approved by the senate. It comes despite her lack of Foreign Policy experience. Donald trumpoman called an embarrassment during his election campaign. To pretend to have always been the president electss cheerleader. I did vote for him. She has previously said she has reservations about president elect trumps character, but donald trump has chosen North Carolina governor nikkkki haley as americas next ambassador to the United Nations. She is the first woman to be invited to join the incoming administration. Governor haley has a proven track record of bringing people together, regardless of background or party affiliation, to move critical parties forward for the betterment of her state and our country. The South Carolina governor was swept into the spotlight leftyear after a massacre nine people dead at a church. We must live these nine families up in prayer because they need us. She successfully argued that the controversial Confederate Flag should be removed from the front of the state legislature. The daughter of indian immigrants, she has been critical of Donald Trumps totoric and his refusal denounce white supremacist during his campaign. Power, who was a highly respected figure into kinetic circles, nikki haley has virtually no Foreign Policy experience. With his warm overtures to historic foe russia, her new job could play a key role in forming trumps america. Fillon the latest polls here in france show fillon should win the boat, coming as a blow to juppe. After slamming his rival for the brutality of his economic juppe is accusing fillon of courting far right voters. This threatens to divide the center right. I have always given my all to the fight against the National Front and opposing them will be a major stake in the 2017 election. A growing list of far right politicians including the mayor of the Southern City have thrown in their support behind Francois Fillon in recent weeks. Group alsolam encouraged its members to vote for the conservative on sunday in order to counter the socalled threats. Francois fillon has so far neither publicly accepted or rejected these controversial endorsements. Im just presenting my program to the french people and i wont get involved in these attacks. The former Prime Minister has however officially welcomes or from traditional rightwing catholic groups. Members of a movement that opposes samesex marriage and abortion shared the stage with Francois Fillon during his last party meeting. Nllon a white supremacist u obsessed with theazis has been sentenced to life in prison. He shouted britain first before he shot and stabbed to death a mother of two. At his weeklong trial, he made no effort to defend himself. Jo coxs husband says justice has been served. Ofuilty verdict on charges terrorism for his wifes murder. We have nothing but pity that his life was so devoid of love and consumed with hatred that this became his desperate and cowardly attempt to find meaning. Was alling of jo political act, an act of terrorism. He asked to make a statement only after the sentence was handed out. That request was denied by the judge. Thomas mayer is a coldblooded killer. He calmly planned her death, he lay in wait and then killed her in a sustained attack as she went about her daily business of trying to help people in her local community. The murder of the mother to just week before the referendum on eu membership had shocked the country. She was a prominent voice in the remain cap. Thomas mayer had not failed to notice this. During his first court hearing, he given his name as death to traders, freedom for britain. State troops are trapped in mosul. Captured mostave of the eastern district. Patrols were proceeding with caution. , the heading toward mosul tanks are positioned just beyond the fringes. The road is not safe and the soldiers tension increases with every kilometer. This is the district southeast of mosul. , buthe situation is call there is a steady pressure on both sides. Iraqi armyhat the sees as the main access road to mosul. For the children who have injured the battle around them, the relief is how mobile, but the situation for the civilians here remains precarious. Jihadisttells how the executed his cousin who they suspected of progovernment sympathies, leading him to flee the city. They said if you come back, we will not harm you, and if you do combat, we will torture your father. A week later they took him. It was the hospital that gave back his body. Liberated, the neighborhood is still far from secure as sniper fire remains a danger. They are hiding. Ande are three of them three in the other neighboring districts. Slow, buts has been at the current rate of advance, the iraqi army will need several months to retake the city. Fillon france will laura france will host countries assad. To delegates will attend. Have accused them of exploiting Political Uncertainty in the u. S. To launch an allout war on rebel held areas. Around 4 Million People are currently under siege in syria. Not only in aleppo. That is the reality. They are making the most of the uncertainty in america. France is launching an initiative. We will set up a meeting of the friends of syria group in paris very quickly during the coming days. Also working on sanctions to condemn the syrian regimes use of chemical weapons. Those comments, amid a worsening situation in aleppo. Dozens of civilians have been trying to flee as the Syrian Army Advances on the rebel held eastern districts. A quarter Million People are trapped in conditions that have been called horrendous by the United Nations. Catherine has more. As the bomb building still burns, rescue workers struggle to free a child from the rubble. Caring for her and all the others injured in the newly intensified airstrikes is increasingly complicated. Bashar alassads forces have stepped up bombing in the last week, destroying the last functioning hospital in rebel held aleppo, and medical supplies are dwindling. These families say they managed to flee their rebel held neighborhood earlier this week after coordinating to receive cover from regime forces. The government accuses rebels in the east of using residents as human shields and preventing them from leaving, which this man agreed with. People want to leave, but they wont let them. Checkpoint 500 meters from the crossing and they prevented people leaving and shot them. Rebel groups deny they are blocking civilians and accused the regime of spreading rumors and propaganda. On wednesday, the syrian observatory for human rights said dozens of residents t tried to fleee overnight b but were forced back by gunfire, without elaborating which side it came from. The situation is bad. Everything is extremely expensive and in very small quantities. We face hunger. Ssad and his allies are pushing deeper into rebel held territory. This would be a major victory for the regime in syrias secondlargest city. Fillon has been another deadly laura there has been another deadly skirmish in kashmir. Crossborder fire hit a pakistani passenger bus. Ndia had vowed retribution india and pakistan have been fighting for control of kashmir for nearly 70 years. Cambodia Supreme Court has upheld life sentences for two former leaders of the khmer rouge. They were convicted in 2010 for their part in the genocide of pol pot. They managed to slow down the Legal Process through continued appeals. A bizarre twist in the scandal involving south Korean Leader part. Investigators found a stash of viagra in her offices. The government said the pills, which are used to treat erectile dysfunction, were first thought to combat altitude sickness. They also raided the offices of the Samsung Group. She has apologized twice already, but the calls for parks resignation have continued. The president is at the center of a corruption scandal. She is accused of allowing her inappropriate access and influence in government decisions. Choi has been arrested and charged with abuse of power and the countrys biggest organizations are also being caught up in the scandal. This wednesday, prosecutors raided the offices of both the Samsung Group and the National Pension service, also known as nps. They are investigating claims that President Park pressured them to back a multimillion dollar deal in 2015. Nps is a major shareholder at both companies. Went through in spite of significant opposition from minority shareholders. That samsunglaim gave over 3 million to inompany coowned by choi return for parks support in the deal. The president s office has dismissed the claims against her as fantasy, but Many South Koreans have had enough. An estimated 600,000 were in seoul calling for park to step down, and at least one Coalition Party has confirmed they will begin collecting signatures for an impeached impeachment motion against the president. Laura im joined by an associate fellow. As we soften that report, President Park is under an awful lot of pressure to resign. Issue likely to do so is she likely to do so . According to her, its enough. She has fire the Prime Minister and some president ial aides. She believes she doesnt have to do anything else. Then there is the question of the impeachment process. She knows that even if there is an impeachment process, it would take months for her to be ofmissed and to get her out office. She knows that she is protected for months and she might be able to go until the end of her mandate in february 2018, in 14 months. Laura the scandal is becoming orreasingly bizarre, developments when that huge stash of viagra was found at the government offices. The government says they were for all to two sickness. Of course it is used to treat impotence in men usually. Of course you have the advisor in the center of it, a friend who had undue influence on political decisions. What do South Koreans make of the whole thing, aside from being very angry, of course. South koreans are used to political and corruption president s. Cluding whats unique with the park she had,the influence that she has been never together classified information. She was able to rewrite president ial speeches. So its not a money issue, is more the policy issue or the reputation all the more that shes losing support of her own party. Parliament are very angry at her because she is tainting her fathers legacy. She was controversy when she took office, precisely because of her fathers legacy. Quick she has been criticized but political opponents, once the oppositiongh party has no interest in her resigning now, they have no candidates yet. Only one candidate may be ready, the former 2012 president ial candidate. So it is a very complex situation. Everyone is going to wait for she ising months, and very likely to remain in power. Laura we going to take a quick trip to washington now. Its the eve of thanksgiving, a major holiday over in the United States. Theres president barack obama, carrying out one of his last official acts as president of the United States. He is pardoning the thanksgiving turkey. There he is. We usually get the names of the turkeys as well and we have not got those yet. Those turkeys will not be getting the chop this thanksgiving, unlike an awful lot of others that will. There you go, i happy occasion. Tosident obama has pardoned turkeys, as he does every year. Kate moody is here to give us some business news. We just got the names, tater and tot. Lets talk about what the british chancellor is hoping is not a turkey, the british economy. Knows the prizes coming from philip hammond, he lowered the forecast for Economic Growth down to 1. 4 . To compensate for the weaker growth, he said the government would increase borrowing by 23 billion pounds over the next five years. They gave no new fixed date for reaching the target. I asked about the longterm people are. The economy is in pretty good shape heading into brexit so the 1. 4 percent growth in the next year and the 1. 7 growth the year after is not that disagreeable, but the longterm impact of it suggests growth will slow to about 1. 8 per year rather than 2. 1 . Imagine what that means for spending and taxation. It means more spending on unemployment people and negative income tax. It also means less taxes from Business Revenues and consumption. Its probably likely the chancellor will overshoot even his increased forecast for the next five years. Do you think these efforts have not been enough to counter inflation and the rising prices we are expecting to see . Certainly the rise in the income tax rate and the higher Rate Threshold is positive. So the people can decide whether to spend or invest and save their income. If the u. K. Faces inflation next year, that will have a real effect on wage growth. Increase to seven pounds 50 in april wont do anything to offset the inflation that we see next year. These are the sort of things that grabbed headlines but in effect they dont do much for the economy. Kate european markets fell slightly, the Banking Sector in particular was weighing on european trading. A mixed session on wall street after u. S. Stocks hit record highs on tuesday. The dow jones set a new intraday record in midmorning trade. Overall trade is fairly stable with the nasdaq and s p in the red. It reinforced expectations that a rate hike is indeed on the horizon next month. A strike by lufthansa pilots will continue on thursday with an estimated 1800 Flights Canceled over two days. The strike was extended after a report rejected an application by the airline to block the industrial action. If the 14th time pilots have walked out in their dispute over pay. The union says theyre prepared to negotiate, but not to sacrifice the basic demands. Almost 100,000 passengers are affected, and each of them is a sad case. Families and colleagues cannot see each other. A long planned holiday might not take place. One must realize that the Cockpit Union is more interested in escalating the conflict than solving it. We are sorry for the passengers and cannot understand why of times a is not able to make a negotiable offer and makes the passengers suffer. We are ready at any time to return to the negotiating table. Lufthansa must show a willingness to budge. Kate the war is on his side, thats the word from president elect donald trump whos been pushing back against those who are worried about his business dealings. He has the largest Business Empire of any incoming president. Its nearly unprecedented in United States history. The president elect with a net worth of several billion dollars in overseas Business Holdings around the world. Its potentially very damaging and my vice to the Trump Administration be to do not only what the law requires, but what the public appearance requires and the confidence of the american people. Donald trump told the New York Times that the president cannot have a conflict of interest and while the trump brand has benefited from his election, the only thing that matters to me is running the country. Politicians have historically tried to separate themselves from assets that could influence political decisions. He said he would transfer his assets into a blind trust to be run by his children, but they are also rumors of his Transition Team and his daughter has already sat in on meetings with world leaders. Leases the building from the General Services administration. The Washington Post said foreign diplomats are already booking rooms at the hotel to show goodwill to the new president. In one of his first postelection meetings, he told a british politician that he should oppose offshore wind farms because the windmills would ruin the view from his new golf course. List ofa growing potential conflicts of interest before he enters the oval office. Finally, just because you are the boss does not mean you are not subject to technical errors. The chief executive of twitter had his own account suspended briefly. He cited an internal mistake there. Twitter has been cracking down on accounts seem to be spreading extremist rhetoric. Members of white supremacist groups have been blocked in recent days. He was only lot for about 15 minutes. He does appear to have lost about 700,000 followers. I would not want to be the person responsible for that internal error. Laura thank you very much indeed, kate moody. Stay with us, thiso qn [captioning made possible nermeen from pacifica, this is democracy now t the situation inin easternrn aleppo isis really so horrendous. It is beyond wordsds. We are allll struggling to say anything new about it because it is so unremittingly awful, despite the occasional let ups, overall, the picture is horrendous. Nermeen the United Nations is warning nearly 1 million syrians are living under siege, and says the last remaining hospitals in heaven destroyed, we will get an update and speak with bassam haddad
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