Description
Added on the 01/03/2018 17:41:42 - Copyright : Wochit
Former deputy Trump campaign chairman Rick Gates served as a cooperating witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. President Donald Trump and his campaign were investigated for possible collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign. Now, Gates is about to publish his upcoming book, 'Wicked Game: An Insider's Story on How Trump Won, Mueller Failed, and America Lost.' According to Business Insider, Gates now says he felt he was manipulated, and that cooperating in the probe was like 'political waterboarding.' Despite pleading guilty in 2018 to lying to the FBI and conspiracy against the US, he now says the charges were illegitimate and amounted to political persecution.
Attorney General Bill Barr announces that the Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 US election concluded that neither President Donald Trump nor his campaign cooperated with the Russians. SOUNDBITE
Hundreds of people wait in line outside the Russian embassy in Paris to cast their votes on the final day of the Russian presidential election, in which Vladimir Putin is running virtually unopposed. Victory would allow the former KGB agent to stay in the Kremlin until at least 2030, longer than any Russian leader since Catherine the Great in the eighteenth century and eclipsing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. IMAGES
Controversial British-American influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan arrive at a Bucharest court of appeals, after their arrest by Romanian police over UK sex offence charges. Romanian authorities said in a statement that they executed "two European arrest warrants issued by the UK judicial authorities for the committing of sexual offences, of exploitation of persons on the territory of the UK". IMAGES
The EU should seek to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, its climate commissioner says, proposing a new interim target towards making the bloc carbon neutral in 2050. "Based on the best available science, and a detailed impact assessment, we are recommending that the 2040 target should be a 90 percent emission cut" compared to 1990 levels, says commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, calling for a "fair transition" that will allow EU businesses to thrive. SOUNDBITE
Starvation cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and his suspected accomplices arrive in court to file a plea after a Kenyan court charged them with murder over the deaths of more than 400 followers. Mackenzie is alleged to have incited his acolytes to starve to death in order to "meet Jesus" in a case that provoked horror across the world. IMAGES