To Eliot Higgins, founder of the open source investigations website bellingcat. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, stephen sackur. What is the truth behind the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 or the poisoning of the former russian spy Sergei Skripal, or the recent assassination of a Chechen Rebel fighter in berlin. My guest today thinks he can piece together truths from the World Wide Web. He is Eliot Higgins, the founder of investigative website bellingcat. In an age beset by fake news, has he really found a way to distinguish fact from fiction . Eliot higgins, welcome to hardtalk. I want to start if i may with a self definition. Would you describe yourself as a journalist or a data analyst or some sort of online detective . I like online detective. We do acts ofjournalism and some of the work we are doing but really, the way we work with bellingcat uses open source investigation on a whole range of topics that go beyond journalism. I find it very difficult to define what we
Well take you live as impeachment proceedings, of course, continue in the house. And a china trade deal hangs in the balance. Welcome to closing bell, everyone, on this big day. Im wilfred frost. And im Morgan Brennan in for sara eisen phase one trade deal may not be completed this year. Retail is recovering with target and lows shooting higher on strong earnings and fed minutes just out officials seeing little need for further rate cuts. Joining us for the hour, josh brown, ceo for Wealth Management. Whats happening . The president stepping off the plane. Yeah. Look at this. Dow is down 142 points, s p is lower, too. Trade, is trade once again dictating the action again today . At the margins. I dont think the majority of Market Participants are making big changes in what theyre buying and elling. Even if theres resolution on, quote, unquote, phase one, will be with us for the duration. If you are somebody who was going to make a radical change to portfolio based on trade, youve had t
A vaccine is all set to be rolled out but some congolese say they are skeptical. Rockets are being fired from gaza into israel hours after a cease fire was agreed this would appear to have violated the truce struck earlier between israel and the Islamic Jihad on the group 34. 00 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes the escalation began after the israeli army assassinated a Senior Leader of the group on tuesday our forces joins us live now from gaza harry is the cease fire still in place. It appears to be for now yes that that sporadic rocket fire limited rocket fire about 5 hours ago now consisted the Israeli Military says of 5 rockets that were fired out from gaza city here and the 2 of them were intercepted by the anti missile iron dome system so far theres been no claim of responsibility for firing those rockets there been some reports that it was one of the more minor factions neither Islamic Jihad nor hamas but we dont have any confirmation either way israel is sayi
A strong link between top russian officials and separatists in Eastern Ukraine. And were in the democratic republic of congo where a new era bowl of vaccine is being rolled out but not everybody is lining up to get the shot and in sports as much cricket is set to return to pakistan for the 1st time since 2009 pakistan will host sri lanka 10 years after the Sri Lankan Team by gunmen in lahore. Rockets have been fired from gaza into israel hours after a cease fire was agreed the attacks appear to a violated a truce struck earlier between israel and the Islamic Jihad group 34. 00 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes and the escalation began after the israeli army assassinated a Senior Leader of the group on tuesday rob math and joins us live now from west jerusalem so rob it seems that already this cease fire is in danger with both sides trading fire now. Well the point in this ceasefire was 1st announced in the early hours of thursday morning the hours that came after that
A city surrounded by water is being flooded the mayor of venice blames Climate Change. The rockets have been fired from gaza into israel hours after a cease fire was agreed this would appear to have violated a truce struck between israel and the Islamic Jihad group 34. 00 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes yes collation began after the israeli army killed a Senior Leader of the group on tuesday rob matheson has more from west jerusalem. The hours immediately after the announcement of the ceasefire on thursday morning were relatively quiet but it was in mid morning that we started getting reports that 5 rockets have been fired from gaza into israel we dont yet know who was responsible for firing those rockets we understand from the Israeli Military that at least 2 of them were brought down by israels iron dome Aerial Defense system but it doesnt seem to have had any impact on the the ongoing cease fire itself we understand that israel Islamic Jihad is saying that it has