So. We need to take a moral stance or at least have some sort of responsibility to protect the women that utilize their app. You need to take that into your own hands. Around the clock across the world this is our international from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome to the program we begin with breaking news from berlin germany. To the Russian Embassy employees persona grata in connection to the murder of a Georgian National in august russia has denied any state link called the expulsion substantiated. Arties nikki are and joins me live in the studio for a little bit more on what we know at this stage in the keys so we do know 2 Embassy Workers expelled or not came from German ForeignMinistry Statement what more was was said in the well like you just said what we know at this point in terms of the Russian Embassy in berlin have been expelled and declared persona non grata and thats amid the news that germanys attorney general is reportedly going to be taking over investigations into the murder of this chechen Asylum Seeker and then this comes in response to what is believed to be a dissatisfaction with the level of involvement or cooperation that russia has offered in this Murder Investigation but its also being seen as an indication that may suspect some level of involvement for all of the russian state in this killing. The federal Foreign Office today declared to employees of the Russian Embassy in berlin to be persona nongrata with this step as the federal government reacts to the fact that the russian or thora teas despite repeated high ranking and in phatic requests did not sufficiently participate in the investigation of the murder of torn a k k in berlin zoo there are sufficient real indications that the killing is either on commission or done by state agencies of the Russian Federation or such of the autonomy of chechen republic as part of the Russian Federation. Pretty direct remarks there from berlin what do we know that decision is based on do we know well we know that germanys prosecutors have said they have sufficient evidence to point the finger at russia said of having some involvement in this case but its interesting how it comes hot off the heels of a new article published by bell england which also presents indications that moscow had a hand or played a hand in the killing of belling cat as we know has been previously accused by moscow of having some ties to western secret services it was also involved in several high profile cases which point the finger at russia like this for power poisonings of course the downing of m h 17 as well and russia has already reacted to the decision by germany calling it groundless we can take a listen now. This is absolutely groundless speculation this topic is being somehow whipped up by german media but it does not mean that this is how things are. Can we just talk a little bit of both the victim the person who was killed how much is known about absolutely lets talk about him because a lot of the newspapers have. Spread headlines about this story but little has been mentions about the victim himself 40 year old the income cash of he was killed in what was being described as an execution style killing he was in the head at the medicaid quickly became politicized with headlines drawn comparisons to the script poisonings in the u. K. Calling it school power 2. 0 for instance but the media were less interested in delving into the history of this victim and it turns out he has a very interesting or checkered history if you like hes an ethnic chechen georgian citizen he was an islamist a former soldier a force against russia in the 2nd chechen war he also has connections to some quite in from the infamous terrorists many of the people the force alongside actually went on to move to syria to join terrorist groups there now he did seek asylum in germany in 2015 that was after a failed assassination attempt and he was actually on a terror watch list for quite some time he was only telling germans yes he was describes the person who potentially posed as a Public Safety threat and he was only taken off that list last year and 2018 now all of this information of course does not justify his killing i think its interesting that we also know the full picture of everybody involved in this. Case that does not justify his murder and hopefully his perpetrator will will be brought to justice were thinking there may be more to come from the russian state in terms of a of response later today so today we are with nikki earned bring this right up to date on what we know thanks nikki. Ok just grew up to 6 minutes past the hour lets get a check and more world news today the trump impeachment saga. In washington with the u. S. House Intelligence Committee to bring what some are calling. Dolman report it claims that the american president abused his office for personal gain arties came up and has been examining the document in a little more detail. While the report from the house Intelligence Committee democrats essentially alleges 2 things about donald trump 1st it alleges that he conditioned military aid to ukraine on an announcement that would have been beneficial to his Reelection Campaign and secondly it alleges that he obstructed the house of representatives impeachment inquiry investigation now adam schiff representing democrats came forward and painted a pretty grim pricks here donald trump and his activities this is adam schiff this report chronicles a scheme by the president id states to coerce an ally ukraine that is at war with an adversary russia into doing the pleasure of the president s political dirty work and he was willing to sacrifice the National Security of the United States by withholding military aid and diplomatic recognition in the form of that white house meeting in order to get what he wanted now before departing the country on monday donald trump dismissed the allegations that were expected to be leveled in this report this is what donald trump said prior to leaving the country before the report was released by the radical. Democrats decide what. Set up a year ago when im going that was. One of the most important. Thing. For them to be doing. Putting the rest of the table which. I grew up with in a recent interview the ukrainian leaders the lenski also dismissed these allegations about president trying to behavior and interactions with him look i never talked to the president from the position of the queen. Thats not my thing i dont want us to look like bagus now many witnesses testified during the impeachment inquiry hearings but observers wondered if they really made a strong case that donald trump had been inappropriate in his dealings with ukraine this is some of the testimony that was heard there was no mention of withholding aid on the call correct thats correct and there was no quid pro quo correct correct was there any reference to withholding aid you know there was not any reference to bribery no there was not any reference to quid pro quo no there was not you have any information regarding any criminal activity the president of the United States has been involved with total. Now before this report was released on monday we had a report from the republicans that was released it was 123 pages long and it defended the actions of u. S. President donald trump saying that his dealings with ukraine had not been appropriate and had not violated the law fact that donald trump is out of the country celebrating the 70th anniversary of nato the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that many have pointed to the timing of the report as being somewhat suspicious however while some are looking at the report and saying it shows very very damning evidence against donald trump others are looking at the report and saying its simply a rehash of long discredited allegations different views from different sides of the political spectrum here in the United States well there are indeed many concerned about the papers for us today so we put the matter up for discussion Florida Democratic party chair and it seems or is convinced by the report while media thinks it has little meaning. What we have here is unprecedented and no one knows what it means because it Means Nothing why do we call it an impeachment inquiry be cause if it was an impeachment hearing or an impeachment proceeding. When the president would have been allowed to invite him to subpoena witnesses but since they didnt do that and didnt want him to do that they called it an impeachment inquiry and they have not changed one i ota from what they said when they began the inquiry that and i will paraphrase it the president used his position his authority under article 2 of the constitution for personal and or political benefits and the last time i checked every president since George Washington as done this this is not impeachable i do believe that the democratic report was factual and obviously the republican response was perhaps a fairy tale that people do want to read perhaps to put some went to bed specifically you have very different responses be on the lookout for this one we have to look at is different order was given that are going to come out that will be pretty straightforward theres going to be an abuse of power because as you say in the quote he took his interest above the National Interest theres also going to be obstruction some as obstruction of congress not letting people cooperate. Ok i want to move a program because the u. K. Government is facing us of backlash after the release of a heavily redacted report on the fracking industry british authorities never intended it to see the light of day but greenpeace woman a lengthy legal battle with the government under the freedom of information act out of the 48. 00 pages 37. 00 were totally blocked and what remains of the one secret document shows a concerted plan to develop a positive image for the controversial struction method amongst the general public. The conservatives have taken money from Oil Executives address the rights of communities and enabled for i can companies to threaten their local environment the fact they have dry took out of the sub by rejecting pages of critical information for that illustrates this governments contempt for the public this is the conservatives idea of being open about their failed franken experiment forced to release their report theyve heavily censored it this heavily redacted government report shows reference to secret plans to run a processional complain used by the weight of Scientific Evidence and strength of Public Opinion against reckon i dread to think what we havent been allowed to see with more on the fight against fracking in the u. K. Heres arties go. They high tech god knows what sticking out of the grounds that earned some people cash and literally shakes other peoples homes those other people for years have been teaming up with green activists to win a war against fracking in britain. Its the believable if you can believe. In finally last month came the victory at least for the timing the controversial method of shale gas extraction was banned in the u. K. Under the Prime Minister who once called it glorious news for humanity and now that it seems there is no more need to come out and protest the Cabinet Office has at last released a secret report on the fracking industry despite these lines on the paper no parts of this report shows appendices is to be released under the freedom of information act so you want to rate something that the activists were trying to get a glance at for almost 2 years theres a little problem heres what it looks like from the 48 pages seen by the guardian 37 are entirely blacked out and only one the very front is left uncensored so if youre still keen to get to know about the skeletons in the industrys closet good luck why would so much stuff remain hidden looking at this black wall of redacted pages people will be wondering why theres so little the government is willing to reveal about fracking and so much it wants to hide if ministers have really dropped their support for this polluting industry why not publish this report in full and come clean about whats been going on behind closed doors. For years still though theres enough to scratch your heads over after reading the uncensored bits in there heres the gist of a few ideas there are issues with the fracking industries progress the main one is public opposition to fracking it needs to be dealt with the government should develop a pro shale narrative and spread the word the department for energy and Climate Change is already undertaken crucial work on communications to increase public acceptability of shale for example creation of objective information Material Development of pro Show National and regional merits of shall champions and among other useful moves that whitehall needs to take is finding ways to speed up planning in response to operators concerns which is also sometimes an obstacle planning times need to be shortened and process needs to be predictable which all makes you wonder why would the guys in charge ban fracking at all in such a document there are always going to be sensitive parts that are embarrassing to the government that are sensitive that could harm you know the industry potentially in the future or that could show the government being too cooperative with industry that might show motives. That are the public would not see in a good light its to protect their their image and to protect their ability to move forward and continue to do what they think they need to do for the nation which is different from what they tell the public of course because they tell the public whatever narrative suits them in terms of getting elected and so on but typically its for domestic political reasons that you would ban it theres no other reason that i can think of depending on how things develop geopolitically there might be a big impetus to develop u. K. Shale and in which case theyll want to do. As quickly as possible. A lot of reaction to this next story popular free dating app such as tender and others owned by a company much group are not protecting their users from sex offenders on their platforms a new investigation has plagued the probe took a look at more than 150 incidents of Sexual Assault over the past decade it far enough the majority of victims were women who met their attackers through match ups in 10 percent of cases they were paired with men who had already been accused or convicted of sex crimes. Or much group which owns over 40 of the most popular apps so they do conduct background checks on their members but only for paid a cut furthermore the Company Claims that they do not agree with the investigations result. The implication that we nor bug such offenders on our side and dont fight to keep them off is as outrageous as it is falls and stick knowledge evolves we will continue to aggressively deploy new tools to eradicate bad actors including users of our Free Products where we are not able to obtain sufficient and reliable information to make meaningful bank ground checks possible Chadwick Murray spectator magazine journalist Reece Everson womens rights advocate gave us their thoughts on dating platforms and their screening policies. The magic group is a 1000000000. 00 company there is no reason why they couldnt allocate just a small portion of their revenue to screen the people on their ab just so that theres just a smaller since of increased safety its a precaution its a measure but its deserved if they if theyre suddenly saying that we want in order to join the service we want to perform background checks on everyone who joins 1st of all that would kill the business and they know it theres a moral responsibility on these companies that are making billions of dollars 1700000000 dollars from women looking for love to say oh you know what its too expensive for us to do a little bit to protect you nobodys going to want to join these apps with these kind of 1 if theyre doing that theyre being this invasive about background checks with that said people maybe shouldnt be on them especially women and not only are these dangerous for women but its destroying women so just give up the dating apps if you dont perform your own background checks in your own time with your own money get off were not going to restrict women from using the internet because there are predators we do desire for these companies to at least take the step into the right direction why do you want to put that kind of power on these monolithic Tech Companies and up saying you know ban women from dating apps im simply saying you shouldnt rely on this and you cant trust these companies to tell you whos good and whos bad you need to take that into your own hands so if you meet someone do a background check before you did for you go out on a date if they work in tandem with the courts to get the names at least of the 1st and last names in the location of where these people are and perhaps create some type of monitor of their internet thats a step in the right direction its going to be a mess i think no matter what and theres always going to be people who perhaps squeak through or dont get picked up who then commit assaults and crimes get a gun ladies. Protect yourselves and we dont and by the way these incidences are obviously extremely rare and you know by and large the vast majority of men are not sexual predators one woman is enough we need the companies to take a moral stance or at least have some sort of responsibility to protect the women that utilize their ad and then what happens you know its its never going to be a perfect system. Right lets return to our breaking news this hour from berlin were germany has announced its made 2 Russian Embassy employees persona non grata in connection to the murder of the Georgian National bach in august russia has denied any state link and has called the expulsion on substantiated well im happy to say were joined live on the program by author of this Martin Mccauley martin good to see you what do you make of the case and in particular what supposedly substantial evidence of official oficial russian or chechen involvement might german investigators think. I think that if you go back to 9091 the collapse of the soviet union the chens were very active in various parts of russia but also in germany and some of the chans were in fact involved in assassinations and things i get. Organized crime and and therefore the German Authorities would have a lot a lot of data on georgians and so on and therefore they would be collecting a lot of that and also on the russians and remember that relations between russia and germany are in fact quite good the much much better than between britain and russia so therefore what does come up here is obviously something quite serious theyve obviously find found or they claim to have found some direct evidence that the russian state was involved which is a very serious allegation because the chens have a reputation for being involved in organized crime and theyve been accused of sas missions in various countries around the world and therefore this one the German Authorities the German Police and so on they must have believed they have some evidence which links the nation to georgia and to russia would it not make sense though to establish who was responsible before expelling diplomats at that level. Well the police especially the Security Police the. Danged they would be unwilling to give information. To the public about exactly what they know and how they arrived at this conclusion that they in fact have identified 2 Russian Diplomats as being responsible. From be behind this this assassination therefore this in fact you could say this is normal that Security Services are all was reluctant to reveal the information and if they have any informants they want to protect those informants and therefore they presumably have collected information and informants perhaps some informants have identified these 2 Russian Diplomats and of course that has not gone before a court of law its not going to a court and you cant actually say whether that is true or false that is just an allegation the German Authorities will make this allegation and then say were going to. Declare these diplomats persona nongrata. And the result will be that in moscow the russian authorities will declare 2 german diplomats from the most were misled as persona nongrata and this is what happens in International Relations eventually relations between the 2 countries how damaging could it become between russia and germany as a result. Well germany doesnt want a confrontation with russia theyre one of the countries which is really working to reduce the number of sanctions against Russia Germany business would prefer to have normal business relations with russia before these these. Difficult times which began really back in 2007 there were some back 6000 german firms working in russia now theres many many fewer and German Companies would like to get involved which more deeply in russia and in the russian economy and so on so therefore the German Government would be hoping that this would not in fact become a big scandal but in fact when the russians expelled 2 diplomats they would be hoping that lets put this to bed that this pos on untold positive things but on this matter we feel that we have to expel. Declare these diplomats persona nongrata because we have evidence which we cant reveal to you that they were linked to it ok and just the last round of this martin i just wanted to touch upon while youre here battling cat has produced an investigation into the murder were not sure how much of an impact and how the German Authorities decision or otherwise but why do you think they might have done that what is the reason for their sustained focus on russia. Because its business russia is a very good place its very very difficult to get information from russia and its no the delegate count has sources within russia and therefore they wish to protect those sources and they wish to expand their sources and saw that is like its like a business involved in International Relations finding information in russia which governments businesses and others wish to find for instance if you want to do business with a smitten company in russia you may go to belly cat and say. Give us a breakdown if you go. And the noses of this company do you know anything about the people who lead it and so on other related to how they in relation to government of in relations to president putin and so on and if they do then thats a very important business and it would be of interest to doing business with them so belling cap if you like it will expand because of the demand if there is no demand outside the country then they have no business so therefore the must be businesses governments and other institutions which want information about russia which they are counted obtain serves and therefore the they paid to do this Research Martin thanks very much for your time and your thoughts this hour we are live on the program with author on russia analyst Martin Mccauley thank you. One of the u. S. President s personal lawyer says set to address the International Criminal courts in the hague this one thing hes seeking to thwart sell attempt by prosecutors to open a formal investigation into alleged war crimes committed by American Forces in afghanistan in 200304 here started charlatans. Well trumps personal lawyer has gone to the i. C. C. In the hague citrulline volcker temps to open up a war Crimes Investigation just scrutinize the alleged actions over u. S. Soldiers in afghanistan against taliban detainees back in 20032004 now tremseh lawyer says that he is that to defend the interests of u. S. Military personnel who she says sacrificed everything for back country but he wouldnt boy groups say that if the Court Rejects this appeal to open up this investigation then the impunity will never end without the International CriminalCourt Justice in afghanistan is an empty slogan and never ending impunity in afghanistan shows why the i. C. C. As a court of last resort is so desperately needed there had been no serious efforts to prosecute perpetrators responsible for work crimes or crimes against humanity in afghanistan an i. C. C. Investigation could be the 1st step in writing this wrong and hopefully bring the people of afghanistan some much needed justice and accountability well donald trump has made no bones about his views about the i. C. C. Previously denouncing it as board unaccountable and having prosecutorial power as hes even made moves to paulton soldiers whove already been found guilty of war crimes. Well this is of course an appeal hearing because the only c c had previously rejected. The idea of opening up the investigation into alleged war crimes they hearing will last 3 days and of course well be bringing you all the twists and turns here thats altie for more of the midweek stories affecting your world today to check out our ti dot com always worth something youre scrolling ton more Great Program start here though in moment. My feeling with this world its what now is were so confused and fearful and this is a certain generation thats controlling all the Politics Around the world when that generation dies and children are brought out of this. Movie are just materialistic dont really care about these things dont even want automobiles want to write the right job want to ride a bicycle this movement its global and its going the world is going to has to go in the sky rection and its going to change