Lot of drama there today. The lead starts right now. World leaders taking the stage, pushing their priorities for some of the biggest issues of our time. Casting Russias Vladimir Putin as global villain number one, while fighting against waning support for ukraine. And here in d. C. , a House Republican calling his party the, quote, clown show. While infighting and name calling do nothing to solve the more immediate problem of federal government set to shut down in just 12 days. Plus, new allegations against celebrity Russell Brand as a new accuser comes forward. Police now looking into the multiple allegations of rape and Sexual Assault against the disgraced comedian. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. The world lead dominates the week with so much focus on Foreign Policy and this comes against major accusations by one democracy, canada, accusing another democracy, india, of directing an assassination. On canadian sovereign territory. Well dive into that democracy versus direction a
Escalating tit for tat up north and india, the largest democracy in the world. Reporter a brutal murder with all the hallmarks of an assassination. Hardeep singh nijar was a controversial sihk gunned down in front of his place of worship. The canadian government has now said out loud what many are suspected, that there is credible evidence that the killing took place on the orders of the Indian Government. The Government Of India needs to take this matter with the utmost seriousness. We are doing that, we are not looking to provoke or escalate. We are simply laying out the facts as we understand them, and we want to work with the Government Of India. Trudeau says before going public, he confronted india Prime Minister, Narendra Modi with his accusations last week, as modi hosted trudeau and other leaders at the g20 summit. They were allegations the Indian Government refused to accept. The killing of a canadian citizen on canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty. Da