Agree on plans for a two year transition period after breakfast and well talk with take a look at what it means for businesses. And where the European Court set rule on the case of two jailed turkish journalists we look at how that countrys crackdown on the media and Civil Society is affecting thousands of lives. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us. We begin in the u. K. Where International Weapons experts have begun analyzing the talks and used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter in the city of sauls berry says russia hits back at british allegations that it is behind the Attack Moscow is demanding that britain provide evidence to back up its claims but police in the u. K. Think that the. Evidence points the evidence or culpability points to the russian state and as it did in the case of Alexander Litvinenko the trail of polonium led back very clearly to the russian state and in the end. Mr putin is in charge and that is that im afraid he cannot escape responsib
taliban and had al qaeda on the run. it took 100 cia operatives and 300 special forces soldiers. only one cia officer was killed. as wars go, it was short, cheap, effective and victorious. but it wasn t a total victory. there was one major shortcoming that proved critical. bin laden and a few hundred al qaeda militants slipped away, even though the cia had them trapped along the mountainous border with pakistan in an area called tora bora. they were driven from power, from all the urban centers, and tora bora was their last redoubt. he direct the cia response from washington. he passed on repeated requests from his team on the ground for reenforcements, about a thousand troops, to finish off bin laden.
often going one firefight to the next. it was some of the fiercest, close combat i d ever seen. second time in less than 24 hours this outpost has come under attack. some of the incoming rounds were so close, could you hear them crack past my head. the united states had easily toppled the taliban after 9/11. now that they d regrouped, that victory seemed like ancient history. with violence spiraling out of control, in 2010, under pressure from the pentagon, president obama surged in an additional 30,000 troops. his vice president, joe biden, strongly opposed the move. his son, beau, had deployed to iraq, and the vice president thought both wars in afghanistan and iraq were pointless and doomed. but vice president biden lost
submitted questions to the president hoping that he would call on them on national television now it wasn t a total love fest whether some russians confronted with their fears over falling incomes and the country s ailing health care system acknowledged the concerns of belt declining incomes but he insisted the worst economic challenges are behind the country. when he wus moscow correspondent. careful. putin s annual call in show is like a safety valve it s an opportunity to ask critical questions in a controlled state t.v. and environment this year the focus was very much on domestic issues after all there s a lot to discuss there there are the unpopular pensions reforms there s the hike that happened at the beginning of the year there are falling real wages and rising prices usually russians tend to blame the government rather than flooding there
do you recall how many of these briefings there might have been? approximately ten. approximately ten briefings on that issue. right before michael cohen, the president s long-time personal lawyer went to prison for along other things lying to congress, he went back to congress for a final round of testimony before the house oversight committee. he said that although he had lied to congress previously he needed to correct the record. he wanted to answer the questions truthfully and lay all his cards on the table. and in that final sworn testimony michael cohen basically alleged among other things that the president s eldest son, donald trump junior, had not been truthful in his own previous sworn testimony to congress. now, this wasn t a total shock when michael cohen made that allegation. after don junior testified behind closed doors in the house, congressional democrats hopely charged they believed don