a looming humanitarian disaster increased attacks on a limb by assad regime forces are putting millions of civilians at risk. plus w. continues its journey along the road to bragg s it with a key vote due today in the british parliament d.w. talks to swell a fernandes one of the conservative party s leading the euro skeptics. and he is one of millions of chinese rarely seen in public we look at efforts to empower the mentally disabled in china rather than hide them away. i m sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. u.s. president donald trump s former chief strategist steve bannon has refused to answer lawmakers questions about trump campaign s alleged contacts to russia bannon was
i hope this will make us more difficult persons what would life be like as a cyborg in what effect will it happen society does this human rights movement upgrade i think it s only the beginning of this. cyborg human machines starting february first on t w. welcome back you re with your news i m sarah kelly and our top stories the u.s. has cut sixty five million dollars from a funding package for palestinian refugees two weeks after president trump threatened to cut future payments state department officials say that washington wants other nations to help share the burden of palestinian. and u.s. president donald trump s former chief of staff chief strategist rather see you back and has refused to answer lawmakers questions about the trump campaign s alleged contacts with russia when bannon declined to answer their questions they issued
voters in the republican center so that s the view on on how this book might and impact public perception but how about when we talk about legally speaking because of course we know that there is an investigation that is underway and on to the truck campaigns ties with russia bannon describing a meeting that the trump campaign had with a russian lawyer as quote treasonous what does that do for the investigation and potentially for the trump presidency in legal terms. in legal terms it will not change a lot because it s only an assessment from an outsider one might say but politically of course it strengthens position it will strengthen the view that there must be an investigation like this it will make it harder for trump to to fire him and to go against him so this of course increases the credibility of mahler and the findings that he might get in the end i would assume there will be. things to do to
testifying in a closed door session before the house intelligence committee when bannon declined to answer their questions they issued a subpoena in an attempt to force him to talk about and reportedly said that he was under instructions from the white house not to discuss certain subjects. but this was affectively a gag order by the white house preventing this witness from answering. almost any question concerning his time in the transition or the administration and many questions even after he left the ministration. that was democratic congressman adam schiff as you saw just right there are joining us now here in the studio and barker he is program director at the aspen institute germany here and welcome to tyson including. you know we heard adam schiff alleged there that this was a gag order from the white house was it and is it possible for bannon to claim executive privilege you know this is
speaking because of course we know that there is an investigation that is underway in onto the trunk campaign s ties with russia bannon describing a meeting that the trump campaign had with a russian lawyer as quote treasonous what does that do for the investigation and potentially for the trump presidency in legal terms. in legal terms it will not change a lot because it s only an assessment from an outsider one might say but politically of course it strengthens muller s position it will strengthen the view that there must be an investigation like this it will make it harder for trump to to fire him and to go against him so this of course increases the credibility of mahler and the findings that he might get in the end i would assume there will be. things to do to be dragged into the open that will make the trump family or the compay look bad but it might be that trump himself didn t really. is not really