News Round Up - March 3rd, 2019 - Morning
Today's most interesting news articles with links and brief summaries...
BBC News: Donald Trump launches furious attack on Robert Mueller
LINK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47430996
US President Donald Trump has launched a furious attack on Special
Counsel Robert Mueller and on his critics at a conservative summit.
In the longest speech of his presidency, Mr Trump railed against the
inquiry into alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, Mr
Trump lashed out at his detractors in a wide-ranging speech.
The president repeatedly said that Mr Mueller had "Never received a
vote", nor had Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mr
Mueller to his position.
LINK: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/senate-intel-committee-now-investigating-trumps-various-trips-to-russia/
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence apparently has a new
series of leads on President Donald Trump and his Russian contacts over
the years.
According to The Atlantic's Natasha Bertrand, Senate investigators are
combing over at least three separate trips Trump took to Russia and the
Soviet Union during each of the last three decades.
"Meanwhile, the Senate has kept up a steady pace of questioning witnesses
with knowledge of Trump's trips to Russia to scope out real-estate deals,"
Bertrand writes.
The Senate Intelligence Committee recently interviewed architect Ted
Liebman, who sketched a proposed Trump International Hotel for Trump to
present to Moscow city officials during his 1996 trip, according to two
sources familiar with the matter.
LINK: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47426138
Fears over chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-fed beef are "Myths",
according to the US ambassador to the UK. In the Daily Telegraph, Woody
Johnson urged the UK to embrace US farming methods after Washington
published its objectives for a UK-US trade deal.
Its British counterpart said the UK government should not accept a US
deal "Which allows food to be imported into this country produced in ways
which would be illegal here".
"Any future trade deals should reflect the high standards that the UK
public both wants and expects."
Despite the NFU's insistence that consumers are keen to maintain the
current welfare standards in farming, Ms Batters said there was a
possibility the UK would give in to the US. She said: "There's always been
the risk - and agriculture has always been the last chapter in any trade
deal to be agreed - so yes there is a huge risk that British agriculture
will be the sacrificial lamb in future trade deals."
LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-google-refuses-to-remove-saudi-govt-app-that-tracks-women-2019-3
Google reviewed the app - called Absher - and concluded that it does not
violate any agreements, and can therefore remain on the Google Play
store.
INSIDER last month reported how Absher - an all-purpose app which Saudis
use to interact with the state - offers features which allow Saudi men to
grant and rescind travel permission for women, and to set up SMS alerts
for when women use their passports.
The 14 - including Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Katherine Clark, and Jackie
Speier - said that Google and Apple are "Accomplices in the oppression of
Saudi Arabian women" for hosting the app.
"As of today, the Absher app remains available in both the Apple App
store and the Google Play Store even though they can easily remove
it."
LINK: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47426798
NASA Canada will contribute US$1.4bn to a proposed Nasa space station
that will orbit the Moon and act as a base to land astronauts on its
surface.
"Canada is going to the Moon," Mr Trudeau told a news conference at
Canadian Space Agency's headquarters near Montreal, according to AFP. Nasa
plans to build the small space station in lunar orbit by 2026.
Nasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine commented: "Nasa is thrilled that
Canada is the first international partner for the Gateway lunar outpost.
Space exploration is in Canada's DNA.".
According to Space News, Canadian aerospace companies have been lobbying
government for years for a new investment for space programmes.
Senate Intel Committee Now Investigating Trump’s Various Trips to Russia
US urges UK to embrace chlorinated chicken which has been banned since 1997.
US wants UK to lower food standards for agricultural trade.
Google, siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove widely-criticized
government app which lets men track women and control their travel
Canada will contribute US$1.4bn to a proposed Nasa space station that will
orbit the Moon and act as a base to land astronauts on its surface.