and on the country in question this is the precise picture of a long oppressed people rising up against their dictator still with all the money i mean in any country people can protest against high prices but when i have a such them astray sions happen in our country opponents of the establishment come out and support them and some western leaders are barely able to contain their enthusiasm for regime change and are rushing to throw their weight behind the demonstrators we are now seeing an organic popular uprising organized organized by brave iranian citizens on the largest scale since two thousand and nine the greats of rain young people have been repressed for many years they're hungry for food for freedom along with human rights the wealth of iran is being looted song for change it is essential that western powers. the west the powers. back in the arena. because it's only with their

backing that the the iranian people are secure and can go all the way in securing their freedom in the previous regime but we've seen where this apparent pro-democracy fervor can loot. join a you get the american president says he supports the protesters but these protests are not protests against the government these kinds of demonstrations happen in any country and they are against rising prices but each time these demonstrations happen and we see that the authorities opponents use them for their own purposes the majority in iraq i believe want evolution not revolution people arab spring style which has brought so much suffering elsewhere on the other hand the west seems awfully quiet about the massive rallies that are being held across iran in support of the government chanting the sultan. the root of it is just

a canard it's the problem of youth unemployment i personally haven't been able to find a job for a long time but if people have a job they don't have any problem with the government because most of the raw economic problems are domestically generation but another reason why investment in new jobs have been slow in coming is that contrary to their obligations under the new agreement western countries notably the united states have not taken sufficient steps to facilitate normal financial flows when it comes to iran the west says it's listening but clearly selectively as co-opting democracy for its own ends is a difficult target to break and especially churkin r.t. london. now a rise in violent crime in germany's lower saxony region is being linked to an increase in migrants in the government back study poor slayer breaks than the

study's findings to save the situation is really that cut and dried. why have reports of violent crime in one german state increased by more than ten percent in the last two years but this is exactly what a group of criminologists at subic university of applied signs to find and what they established is that there is a link between the increased violent crimes in lowest sex to me and the influx of migrants but the authors say there are a number of important contributing factors the first and foremost is the age of the migrants most of man between the ages of fourteen and thirteen not generally speaking people in this age bracket are more likely to commit acts of a vine and nature than people in other age groups secondly where they come from is important migrants who come from syria iraq and afghanistan tend not to carry out the same number of violent acts as migrants for example that are coming from north

africa and then third what is also relevant is the fact that there is a lack of woman among the migrants only a quarter of migrants are female which means that you have groups of young men without their wives their mothers will be sisters and they are more likely to carry out acts of a violent nature now these findings do reflect earlier reportings that suggests that there is an increase in acts of a violent nature that are connected to the migrant crisis since two thousand and fifteen more than a million migrant have a arrived here in germany that's say that wolf is there is an important mitigating factor and this is and it could be that people may be more likely to report acts find them in acts that are carried out by migrants than if they were carried out by local germans not criminologists believe that only integration isn't the solution and to bring down the high level of crime rates among my goodness kind of from

a. our point of view the study shows once again that you must not abandon those who come to us but actively provide integration it that means for example compulsory and comprehensive integration in the language courses places in kindergartens in schools let's ask people here in berlin what they think. i would say that this is coming from both sides the more people that come the more the dissatisfaction will be from those who have lived here longer i think that's something that should be driven by politics but and at the end of the day it's just this part of the society that we all need to change and if you get people better kleiber changing our behavior and that you can lose a really of it one of the more radical solutions would be to deploy all the immigrants from germany integration stuff it's all day they need to work at some point being an immigrant and working it's a different story we're kind of try to to get them get them something worthwhile to

do while a solution to the problem continues to be sort of sad reality is that a violent crimes continue. our team. well the chairman of the vice pardon academy for integration does believe the same behavioral patterns can be found among any group regardless of whether they have a migrant background or not. what is written in the report is basically a common sense that people without any perspective with the living standards which are very hard are more common to go into the thinking about criminal activities if you talk about integration of immigrants it's a dialogue and on the one for integration you have to build perspectives and give them the chance to be one part of the society but on the other hand you have to

hear the worries about germans and. find together with those people who have worries solutions which can help for a better future together. now the u.s. national security advisor has his knives out for the new year with a call to reveal what he describes as insidious russian meddling master here says that pulling back the curtain might be a vital first step to prevent further interference the russian blaming trend hit full throttle almost a year ago with the release of a us intelligence report that kept the momentum going throughout twenty seven. arguably the biggest story of twenty seventeen was russia it was on the lips of world leaders and politicians but this wasn't always the case this was obama's analysis of the country back in twenty fourteen russia is

a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. not out of strength but out of weakness regional power weakness well that was the past in the last year we've seen russia propelled to be the greatest threat on the planet in the words of the former f.b.i. chief what kind of threat do you believe russia presents to our democratic process given what you know about russia's behavior. well certainly that in my view the greatest threat of any nation on earth well here's how it all began on january sixth of last year u.s. intelligence agencies issued a report saying that russia had tried to influence our elections with this russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in twenty sixteen aimed at the us presidential election russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the us democratic process denigrate secretary clinton and home her electability and

potential presidency we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president elect trump now the authors of the report at the time said they had high confidence in their judgments a few pages later they explain exactly what they meant by high confidence with a little disclaimer high confidence generally indicates that judgments based on high quality information from multiple sources high confidence does not imply that the assessment is fact or a certainty such judgments might be wrong well after the report the word got around that blaming russia was now a thing and that opened the floodgates in twenty seventeen hardly a lection went by in europe without russia being accused of meddling. the balance disruptor covert group in two thousand and sixteen covert disruptor. part of our responsibility to educate the russians about what's going on in the

united states germany france the other one in montenegro. from hacking into the danish defense ministry to trying to meddle in the maltese elections russia has had a truly diverse collection of accusations thrown at it russia is accused of influencing the bragg's it vote through social media probably yes sure i mean i believe all of this it's russia they're crazy right russia was accused of intervening in the french election yeah you know why i believe that to the german election sure i catalonia separatism yeah yeah i believe that to all take all of them about sending bots after a star trek star trying to take him down with sexual allegations star check no star

wars i would believe if i have my doubts about a box so i would say no. they were actually accused of that was. russia hacked into the u.s. irish and british power grids fake russia was influencing the braggs it vote through social media fake russia hacked into cataloging a separatism and was promoting cataloging a separatism in spain real how about buying ads on social media in order to influence u.s. public opinion yeah yeah why not make up the budget actually all of those allegations were leveled against russia do you believe that do you think that they're actually doing these kind of things from what the seventeen u.s. . intelligence agencies syndicate and the strong possibility that they did i feel it's just i saw news that to sell newspapers people just run and one story then put it on everything else that listeners showed new yorkers is dwarfed from an actual

file of things that russia has been accused of it turns out that if you point the finger at the kremlin you can find a convenient scapegoat for almost any trouble that you're dealing with they will mop. artsy new york. meanwhile germany has started the year by introducing a new law to tackle hate speech but it's already been criticised for getting a satirical magazines twitter feed blocked in the samir a car now explains applying this kind of legislation is proving to be a legal minefield. well governments are now trying to regulate content on the internet by pushing the online world to crackdown on his speech extremism and of course the mysterious bots and trolls who somehow manage to elect presidents but so far there are attempts haven't exactly been successful for example in germany a new online hate speech laws only came into force on monday and twitter has already banned a parody account after users reported it as hate speech but under the law platforms have to delete violent or slanderous content by a certain deadline or face

a fine up to sixteen million dollars well the first case a far right politician of the alternative for germany party had her twitter account briefly suspended after users fired her tweets as hate speech against muslims now that's after she lashed out against german police for putting out a new year's tweet in arabic and prosecutors are now examining whether or not her tweets do in fact incite hatred then on top of that twitter banned the account of a magazine that was actually mocking her but in doing so repeated her line now the magazine's editor said he was shocked by the decision and the association of german journalist said that it qualifies as censorship adding that they had warned of this danger when the law was drafted last year a private company based in the united states decides the boundaries of freedom of the press and opinion in germany now this is even going on in the u.k. where twitter and facebook are facing sanctions after m.p.'s said that they failed to thoroughly investigate how russia supposedly swayed the brig's it vote but there

has to be them there's some mechanism of saying if you fail to do that and if you ignore a request to arms if you fail to police the science effectively and deal with highly problematic content then the has to be some sort of sanction against you so the only trace of russia the companies were able to find were three ads that worth less than a dollar however the idea that maybe russia didn't influence the election is apparently off the table so who exactly polices the internet is it a good government or is it the social media companies or is it the government through social media companies that's all very unclear at the moment. smear a can there will radio talk show host dave perkins believes that such laws do go against the principle of free speech. the law is too serious and grim and rigid and humorless as are by the way the group of people they're trying to prevent from rioting by them. on social media and in the end it becomes a matter of law being inappropriate i think there's

a definite intrinsic tension between freedom of speech and hate speech which is a rivera a recent development that i saw coming a long time ago and protested from the beginning the idea that what you say is against the wall is directly contradictory to the idea of freedom of speech. you're watching on t.v. still plenty come this hour including the french president is planning a crackdown on fake news by targeting foreign media plus donald trump's former right hand man though inches of venomous attack against his old boss we've got the details in a couple of. months . when you don't socialize see the teacher try to

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welcome back now the french president is vowing to combat fake news with the law to regulate media influence by foreign states and money macron announced the move to journalists in paris it was finished between fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed presidential campaigns and almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with a response when he wasn't specific about which countries he things could be influencing french media but russian media including r.t. and the sputnik news agency have already been imap crohn's firing line both were denied accreditation during his presidential campaign last year and were later labeled by him as propaganda outlet it's the ship of the russia today sputnik have been influential outlets which have several times broken mistruths about me and my campaign that's why they have not been invited in my headquarters all media

including russian had access to my campaign russia today and sputnik have not behaved as media outlets and journalists but as organs of influence and false propaganda on it well the r.t. family did have a christmas present for the french speaking world with the launch of our new this channel r.t. france and immediately ruffled a few high profile feathers to several french public figures published an open letter in fact calling for r.t. france's license to be revoked they said r.t. has repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries political commentator i don't yell and believes that mccrone should be careful about taking legal measures against any media. i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a quote him from his press conference today i threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. and sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of

the conversation to make this more about the use the better what he calls false news fake news i think you need to tread very carefully i think that it's a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. people's rights and what have their their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting on constitution if you're not careful meanwhile micron is also facing flak closer to home because this criticism that his wife bridget is breaking protocol and behaving like a french queen because she stands next to her husband at events as opposed to standing behind him. the.

matter matters to come. now donald trump has publicly lashed out at his former advisor steve bannon he said that bannon had lost his mind and it only worked for his own interest and was never part of trump's in a circle the white house press secretaries added even more fuel to that fire. i was

curious what you want to first before you say so. i think furious discussed it would probably certainly fit when you make such outrageous claims and completely false claims against the president his administration and his family well the spot is over what bannon reportedly revealed to the your new tell all book on trump's presidency he's quoted as saying that a meeting between members of trump's camp and russian lawyers during his election campaign was treasonous and the arctic he also allegedly hits out at the president's daughter ivanka trump steve bannon left the white house in august a year after joining trump's election team as his chief strategist banham was a pivotal figure too for the president from his campaign right up to taking office legally media and this line all things that trump reaction is par for the course

there is a simple rule if you don't go after trump he doesn't bother you go after him in any way insult him criticize him take him to task and he's on you with the death grip you've never seen does anybody think that anybody in the drug administration cares one i older about this i mean it's what it does is it throws the mainstream media the washington press corps and the mainstream media news troops it throws them into disarray which trying thrives on and after he's done with bannon he's going to say something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does everybody not pay attention trump thrives on this he loves this meanwhile with his first anniversary in office coming up the u.s.

president has been talking up his economic record in typical trump style. he can now make miracle created more than two million jobs unemployment is at a seventeen year low the stock market is at an all time high fantastic for the economy our economy has already surged to three percent growth unemployment is at a seventeen year low liberated the american economy and our economy doing well well despite all of that one man doesn't share president trump's optimism and he's former u.s. congressman ron paul he told us that the growth in the u.s. is principally benefited those already at the top. if you're in the stock market no wealthy person here doing quite well but what we're forgetting here when we listen to this rhetoric of all this optimism is that there's a large segment of our population that's have been a difficult time where there is prosperity and more jobs it depends on death yes an individual can feel very good if they have

a line of credit to the bank but eventually that line of credit runs out we in this country benefit because we have the reserve currency of the world we can run up a lot of debt and we can spend a lot of money and even with that we've had a great deal of difficulty is last eight years trying to get out of the recession and i see everything we do is a big bubble and almost q.e. s. that we have dealt with in these last eight years have just created a huge bubble and everything is in excess whether it's our military budget our overseas engagements whether it's the welfare state and that bubble will come to an end we're going to have a sudden cataclysmic a on which is sort of what happened to the soviet system it's not going to be identical and our states aren't probably going to break up but i do sincerely believe that we will no longer be able to afford our empire around the world rumpole speaking that you're watching on t.v. to national things become from this morning we'll have more news he in just over half and i don't forget that you can keep updated on our social media pages and.

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greetings and salutation. merry new year hawk watchers we are back we are live we are ready to take on this upcoming year of our lord two thousand and eighteen and i see that less than a week into the life of the new year what is older is new again i'm not talking about side ponytails and political and the politically correct crowd freaking out over dave chappelle jokes no no i'm not talking about that i am i am talking about north korea iran and the long running horror show that israel and palestine already this week we've seen the brand name and cheap united states president donald trump tweet up a storm over who has the bigger red nuclear button himself or the north korean leader kim jong un with trump tweeting out. will someone from his depleted and food starve regime please inform him that i too have

a nuclear button but it is much bigger and more powerful and a more powerful one than his and my button works. our president sounding like an apocalyptic via grad on the w w e network. but while the donald was busy tweet bragging kim jong un was busy extending an olive branch to south korea yeah you actually heard me correct north and south korea have reopened a long suspended cross border hotline in an effort to start official talks over north korea sending a delegation to the twenty eight thousand winter olympics which in case you've been living under a rock are being held in south korea but while peaceful talks may be near or on the korean peninsula they are nowhere in sight on the border between israel and palestine since the donald declared drew sloan the capital of israel this week the netanyahu trump crowd added even more gasoline to the gaza fire by threatening to withdraw u.s. aid to the un r.w.

a united nations agency responsible first system palestinian refugees of the middle east and i government protests to another move military industrial cup we are witnessing the beginnings of it another cia sponsored iranian government overthrow like the one we saw back in one nine hundred fifty three. so let's start watching the hawks of twenty eight hundred. forty. three that's. the part of. you that i got. this. week. well the middle of the watching the hawks i am

old ventura and then haven't i was. only eighteen and three stories that i've been with those were alone time now taken fresh new terms all because of a lot of tweeting a lot of. again donald is not put away to twitter but so being of but speaking of buttons when you look at that look at that segue right there fire today all right so i want to ask you this do you believe that north korea just undercut like trump and the united states by opening up you know quite literally a channel a phone line to talk to south korea today just going to give the big undercut like oh well never go to the table never they don't they all want war they want to blow everybody up on the face of the earth and almost on this like hey guys let's talk about the olympics maybe go on yes of course because once again this is another another indication other situation in which you have the united states being undercut by an.