strictly speaking, to do with them or with america. that effort began many years earlier. july 22nd, 2016. that s the day that wikileaks published thousands of emails from the servers of the democratic national committee in washington. those emails prove that party officials have rigged the democratic process, the primary process, in favor of hillary clinton, and against the insurgent populist candidate that year, bernie sanders of vermont. within days, the chair of the dnc, debbie wasserman schultz, resigned in disgrace. the wikileaks scandal broke on the same day that hillary clinton shows her running mate, senator tim kaine, and it overshadows the nominatit followed. but more significantly, the wikileakscen to split the democratic party into pieces. more than 13 million bernie sanders voters, many of the young people, learned that the process they had always believed in was, in fact, a sham. they had been cheated. democratic leaders had to act quickly in the face of this t
the british prime minister has sacked the chairman of his party, nadhim zahawi, following an investigation into his tax affairs. mr zahawi had to pay a penalty to settle a multi million pound tax dispute. an investigation ordered by rushi sunakfound he had broken the ministerial code. our political editor, chris mason, reports. nadhim zahawi arrived in the uk as a child, unable to speak english. he became a multimillionaire and rose to be chancellor of the exchequer. but tonight, his political career and reputation is in tatters. in a 2,000 word letter to the prime minister, the government s ethics adviser is devastating in his criticism of mr zahawi. sir laurie magnus says. minutes after the prime minister had sacked his party chairman for what he called a serious breach of the ministerial code, the questions began. for a start, why hadn t he got rid of him days ago? as a general rule, i think it is important when allegations are raised that they re investigated promptly. bu
overthrow the democratically elected government of ukraine in 2014. we had a peace deal. it was called the minsk accord, and they violated it. who did connect ukraine kept showing the don donbas, and thas why putin had to be provoked to. nobody talks about that. every news station by the way, you re the only one doing this, and i applaud you for letting people come on and speak the truth about what s actually happening in ukraine. other stations, when i watch what they do, they start history of ukraine from putin s invasion. they never tell you that we overthrew the democratically elected government in 2014. they never tell you that they didn t stop showing the people in the donbas. they don t tell you that the former german prep minister said the reason why they did the minsk accord s in the first place was so ukraine could builp their military to get ready for this where they are provoking. so the american people are
way in the east. defense secretary lloyd austin says he also expects the ukrainians to mount their own offensive in the spring. which side is better positioned to make gains? joining me is ryan evans founder of the media organization war on the rocks and the host of the russian contingency podcast at war on the rocks and is a research program director in the russia studies program at the think tank cna. thank you both for joining us. you are my go tos on all things war related. i appreciate your time. mike, i ll begin with you. as noted it appears russia s offensive has begun. you believe it will remain largely focused in the east in donbas. as you know there have been reports russia has far greater ambitions perhaps even making another at kyiv. why do you think this offensive will be more muted? so i think the offensive actually began several weeks ago and has been in progress for sometime. it s focused on donbas, at least five different axis of attack the russian military is pursui
the donetsk region. well, among those killed in eastern ukraine last week was denys sosnenko. he died while carrying out the dangerous task of retrieving the bodies of civilians and soldiers. he was buried by friends and family in the town of sloviansk over the weekend. my colleague andrew harding has more now on his story and i just want to warn you, you might find some of andrew s report distressing. fresh snow and a funeral in the don donbas. the 22 year old was a body collector. his mother is led towards his open coffin. last year, we met denys, standing in the background here, with his team of volunteers close to the front lines, a grim and dangerous job scouring ukraine s battlefields for abandoned bodies. ukrainian and russian soldiers alike. now he is being buried, a few