because he was quote damn good for their bottom line according to the c.e.o. of c.b.s. for example so you know if you're looking for intervention in the election or interference how about the interference of big corporate media that had billions of dollars in free airtime to throw around for a candidate that benefited their bottom line but then there is this photo of her sitting next to russian president vladimir putin and former trump national security advisor michael flynn at a moscow dinner in two thousand and fifteen i was in russia to talk about a peace offensive in the middle east to talk about nuclear weapons and to talk about climate change and ending fossil fuel use this was not selling out to the russians i did not receive funding i wasn't paid by russia they didn't even pay my way. and as greens put forward a slate of candidates running for congress in the mid-term elections she dismisses

concerns that their progressive platform will divide opposition to the party of trump as democrats work to retake control of the house of representatives people are not buying into term paving and russia baiting that's really the extent of the democratic party agenda right now at least its establishment its leadership people are ready for something different and the better alternative stein says is green kristen salumi al jazeera salt lake city utah. well the movement that looks to be gaining momentum is democratic socialism a left leaning faction of the democrats the most prominent of course senator bernie sanders who is an independent but does consider himself to be a social democrat making him the only one in congress alexandria ocasio cortez is the rising star of the democratic socialists last month the congressional candidate pulled off a stunning victory against a prominent house democrat in new york in all forty two people who run. for offices

of federal state and local levels who have the formal endorsement of the democratic socialists of america county ng is a democratic socialist he's also a member of hawaii's state legislature and he's running for a seat in the u.s. congress joining us now from honolulu county on the ng are you a socialist in the old fashioned the old fashioned sense of the word or thought thanks for having me and i think democratic also with them is not so much about centralizing power within any it's in be it government or corporations more than just making sure that power is shifted back to the people that supposed to be represented on the democratic side on the socialist side just making sure their basic needs are met i think democrats for too long have been focused on process and the frames that the right use like they use it to justify cutting programs that help working people and. profits and really need the people in the conversation back to human need and wowing and why that is the case that in the richest country

in the history of the world we still have so many homeless and uninsured and you know postscript of basic. basic human rights and i think that here is going to interrupt you for a second here's the thing when you talk about shifting power not quite sure what that means does it mean in real terms for example if you're a socialist that means free education a point of delivery free health care at point of delivery nationalizing the railway network for example you will never manage to get those ideas to take off in america . well not with that attitude but for my generation i think the stakes are really high you know it used to be the case that you can get a get out of high school or college and be on trial for homeownership might be straight eight hundred thousand dollars for an average home making two hundred thousand dollars a year so in just the basic at the patients of what it means the pursuit of happiness and that american dream is just out of reach i think apple is especially

at this time what with raisins and strolled both parties in congress for forty long and the only way to really great that's like it will is the stand up to corporate donors and that's why a lot of folks that are running as democrats with this today are also all the same candidates want any quarter of that's not we're running a race and when we will by working people getting five and thirty dollars at a time you know where else that it will have to choose between the owners who brung him and the donors because the only reason why democrats at any rate of you know that they're afraid of big donors and when i talk about shipping the power back to the people that's what i mean rejecting their money and standing squarely with the working people that are you know our salaries being stolen from us so you're clearly hoping for political success alexandria ocasio cortez has already had a stunning political victory isn't there a chance though that your rise the rise of your beliefs if it happens come the midterm elections is no more than

a political aberration because it's is purely and simply only a reaction to the guy that's in the oval office that's absolutely false the things that we believe in medicare for all to which in free college and the reckless wars housing as a human right to use things have broad support by the public in red and blue states and really is my position is foles just to interrupt you because the subtlest going to go down again if my propositions foles we should have bernie saunders as us president we don't. well i think some of the changes in the primary election are already happened a lot of warmth that would allow someone like bernie sanders to run again and have a chance and a lot of it you have the voters being told over and over like are you just there that it's impossible for a lot of us they'd all but after seeing what happened in twenty six the were fired up and full of all and all that it we just came out and rather than staying home while we get it we got to win a better world and our strong he's not he's not like

a lot of us in the working class and like native why injuries that we saw it coming because we were desperate and they won big and bold and the democrats weren't able to offer that so they went with big bold and wrong so that's why we're coming out with that firm idiot because you know one of the role that would ask is work for us an economy that works for ninety nine percent and that's a message that will win and it's not you you seem to be talking about some sort of new touchy feely caring community conservatism but what's the difference between you and george bush not george w. bush i'm talking about his dad because listening to you i'm thinking about george bush's inauguration speech and he turned to his wife barbara he saw a thousand points of light he saw a kinder gentler america there's not much of a difference between you and him and that's what twenty five years ago in late eighty's early ninety's first gulf war. it didn't really go any place because it can never go anyplace because of the way that say you talked about health care you

didn't actually answer my question but you were talking about health care the drugs companies are in bed with the politicians who are in bed with the advertisers who are in bed with the very wealthy doctors. but not just politician who will take your money so the reason why medicare paul had broad support among democrats and every obviously not to be supported and look the bolts would be whatever every democratic office will vote for it but it still somehow dies because of big donors and when you speak against the donors of control of government you're also speaking against the average as the controller media but they want to bury your message you're right that's why we need more folks that stand up and not make their money at all and i and one last time i was a very very brief question come the midterm elections if you're going to get traction in the square states in donald trump's heartland give me one policy that people will vote for your movement over voting for his interpretation his vision of the republican party one policy. medicare for all also how they were also

banning corporate money the reason why donald trump was able to get some of that ceci said i'm self funded i don't rely on these capitalists and people bought into that message and medicare for all is going to be cheaper for everyone you're paying less in ukraine a private sector with much much better outcomes and we need to communicate that when we try to be we try to move to the right needs red states the people get to choose between a republican and and a republican lite they're going to choose republican but really these people were rooted in the workers' movement back in days and we just need to organize them and really speak to their needs and greatly our candidate hillary clinton didn't come out a lot of these states so you know that was the mistake that we made but again our ideas have brought up you know and they and they help people no matter right or you know there's no such thing as a republican or democratic is the ease thanks so much for coming on we do appreciate your time we'll talk again i'm sure thank you. and so much for

politicians in the german state of bavaria trying to win over voters ahead of elections there in october it's the c.s.u. which is in a coalition with the chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats it's moved to the right in an attempt to stop people voting for the anti immigration a f d more from dominic aine. on a warm summer evening for many bavarians the beer garden is a must certainly that's true for three and tonight accompanying the salads and schnitzels there's also political chat because the local m.p. has dropped in to hear people's concerns as this is election year the christian social union is taking no chances this is a belief that once we're here to speak for the voters to persuade them that ours is the right way as a genuine people's party we can govern very that we can keep our society pulling together not apart and so our economy prospers and sharing it. but that's the

problem for his party. traditionally this parliament has been a stronghold for the c.s.u. in election after election since world war two it seemed to have a stranglehold both on parliament and politics here and yet if the opinion polls are accurate that grip may be slipping where once the c.s. you could count on winning almost half the votes now that's fallen below forty percent the nearest rivals are the center left green party with the social democrats a few points back in third place and the far right anti immigrant a.f.d. close behind some people blame this man for the c.s. use present predicament horst zero of federal interior minister and long time party leader his plan for tougher border controls and an accelerated program of deporting failed asylum seekers pleases the far right but it's also galvanized the left and center left in opposition and some analysts say some of his ideas seem to be

a serious threat to civil liberties it is a very slippery slope in that sense that you gradually have a degree deshaun of after the rule of law and of human rights because if you look for instance at there and. media coverage of migrants and especially the more right wing media you see that you have they don't see migrants as humans anymore they see them as an issue such thoughts seem quite distant in sunny gears from the c.s.u. insists instead it's based on humanitarian pragmatic policies but as october's election draws nearer perhaps that pragmatism may well be tested dominant cane al-jazeera in bavaria. staying in europe in spain the opposition popular party has chosen a right wing congressman pub local as its new leader he replaces the former prime minister mariano rajoy he stepped down last month after losing

a vote of no confidence because i was appointment is seen as a lurch to the right for the party has taken a hardline stance on catalonia as independence movement and he also wants to lower taxation. riot police in the philippines are fired water cannon and demonstrators outside the american and chinese embassies they were angry about the ongoing u.s. military presence in the country and they accuse the president mr thirty of not upholding philippine sovereignty they also want him to be tough with beijing over territorial disputes in the south china sea the thirty will deliver his third state of the nation address on sunday. when voters in zimbabwe are being courted by the rulings on a p.f. party for the first time since president robert mugabe was forced last year the incumbent president emerson. says the government's controversial policy of grabbing land from white farmers is a thing of the past or metasearch has more now from the campaign thank you to many white zimbabweans have a farm seized and given to black families because of land reform laws passed when

robert mugabe was president over the years some felt his black economic empowerment policies excluded them from mainstream politics and job opportunities the army forced mugabe to resign and the man who replaced him says land grabs would no longer be tolerated president. who's seeking reelection has been looking for votes among whites the barbarians at a rally in had any. reform men are sitting near word what everyone. must. wonder. what. to. some a skeptical about the timing of the president's reassurances to white voters a few days before the parliamentary and presidential elections others are more optimistic we need to come together.

not. from from politics and voting day at the end of the month will be the first without deposed president robert mugabe the elections are being closely watched by the international community. generally. true. even though they haven't complained for intimidation. or generally been able to get their work done. but the main opposition leader nelson chamisa isn't happy he believes the electoral process is floored alleging the voters are all contained so-called ghost voters and that the rulings on the party is tampering with ballot papers election observers are urging politicians to resolve their differences through dialogue before voting day time is running out the general election is on july the thirtieth some opposition supporters say they will protest next week if

the issues aren't addressed these accusations and counter-accusations have heightened tensions something election observers say they are aware of how these disagreements are managed could determine the success or failure of the first post mugabe elections since one nine hundred eighty. al-jazeera had. still to come here on al-jazeera thousands more a live pick figure skater killed in cassocks stop. when diplomacy fails and fear sweeps then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and its will to sixty's instead of being an obstacle to tell wastes it became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts

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welcome back time for sports news his far. thanks very much sebastian vettel put for ari on pole position for his home german grand prix or city's driver valtteri bottas had thought he sealed the position but that was before the world championship leader moved to the top of the leaderboard with just seconds left in qualifying vettel produced a nearly perfect final lap to edge bottas who will race from second on the grid it was a very good day for ferrari with can be right can and thirty six. excellent excellent session for as the car was for the movie in q one i could already feel that yeah i can play so then it was you know about getting through and trying couple of things and q three it was important to put the laps together which was the case so really really happy and yeah you don't have many of those days especially at home so let's reverse. stop stop stop stop. but not

a good day for vettel title rival lewis hamilton who suffered a major setback the mercedes driver had to get out of his car try to push it back to the garage after his car was hit with hydraulic failure he finished down in fourteenth place hamilton is eight points behind vettel in the standings. trying to see if i can get the car back together to try to push it back in the hope that maybe they can they can fix it but. i could see there was liquid hay and it was a long way to go and they wouldn't let me push it back and forth. which is tough you know everyone works so hard when you're fighting for a championship this close kind of four days like this golf's open championship has become a really tight affair three players are tied at the top jordan speech was particularly presses on saturday with a sixty five in the third round he's tied on nine under with kevin chester and zander shuffle. tiger woods is tied for sick and is five under who has won the

competition since two thousand. that was i was i was big for me just to not finish on you know with the two bogeys last three holes playing as well as i did. i've said i really didn't have a bad shuttle eighteen and. a lay up i don't which is perfect up the left side so i have a lot that flight only had eighty three yards and i figured this is just i saw a hole to six like i practice in a back yard and the number watch the scores this morning near the course was very gettable seem like i said putts short putts for birdie on every hole starting out and sometimes it's good to see sometimes not so good to see but.