work at some point being an immigrant and working is a different story we kind of try to to get them and get them something worthwhile to do while a solution to the problem continues to be sought the sad reality is that violent crimes continue. our team. while the chairman of the vice pardon academy for integration believes 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 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 once for integration you have to build perspectives and give them

the chance to be one part of this 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 cool through view what he describes as insidious russian meddling a jam master here says that pulling back the curtain might be a vital step to prevent their interference the russia blaming trend hit a 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 of late 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 then the great secretary clinton and home her electability and potential presidency we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president trump now the authors of the report at the time said they had high confidence in their judgments a few pages later they explained exactly what they meant by high confidence with a little disclaimer high confidence generally indicates that judgments to 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 hoover for in two thousand and sixteen covert disruptor.

part of our responsibility. to rush the mood 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 believe it 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 oliver

about sending bots after a star trek star trying to take him down with sexual allegations star trak no star wars i would believe if i had my doubts about a box so i would say no. they were actually accused of that was. russia hacked into the us 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 knew that to sell newspapers people just wrote of 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 it will mop . r.t. new york. meanwhile germany has started the year by introducing a new law to tackle hate speech but it's already been criticized for blocking the twitter feed of a satirical magazine and its america are now explains applying this kind of legislation can 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 the has to be them is so mechanism of saying if you fail to do that if you ignore a request to arms if you fail to police the science effectively and deal with highly problematic content then one has to be some sort of sanction against you. so the only trace of russia the companies were able to find were three ads 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 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 so america still plenty to 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 known as a venomous attack against his old boss got the details to stop the.

los angeles the city of luxury and free but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in it's been a struggle. to get this man from his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle to the earth or to use accept such solution tiny house on a parking space is not a solution you craft someone monitoring the site otherwise it will be

a free for all the news there a better alternative to envy homelessness crisis. welcome back here with r.t. now the french president is vowing to combat news with the law to regulate media influence by foreign states when you matt corn announced the move to journalists in paris what was initially tween fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed in 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 thinks could be influencing french media but russian media including r.t. and the news agency have already been in macros firing line both were denied

accreditation during his presidential campaign last year and were later labeled by him as propaganda outlets. it was shipped to the russia today have been influential outlets which have several times spoken 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 well the r.t. family did have a nice christmas present for the french speaking world with the launch of our newest channel r.t. france and it immediately ruffled a few high profile feathers to several french public figures published an open letter calling for r.t. france's license to be revoked and they said that r.t. has repeatedly face numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries political commentator. believes 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 a 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 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 unconstitutionally if you're not careful. in other news donald trump's lawyers are threatening legal action against the former advisor steve bannon he reportedly made explosive comments about family members in a new tell all book about the president trump earlier publicly lashed out at his former right hand man 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 secretary added even more fuel to the fire. i was curious what you were to. say. 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 author of a book called fire and fury inside the white house he's quoted as saying that a meeting between members of trump's camp and a russian lawyer during his election campaign was treasonous and arctic he also allegedly hits out at the president's daughter ivanka trump with steve bannon left the white house in orcus to year after joining trump's election team is his chief strategist and was

a pivotal figure for the president through his campaign right up to taking office legal and media and this line all things that trump's 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 a death grip you've never seen does anybody think that anybody in the drug administration cares one i older about this i mean it 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 trump 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 pay attention

trump thrives on this he. meanwhile with his trump style. we 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 is doing well trumps optimism there is the 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 as 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 and now i see everything we do is a big bubble and all those kiwis 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 an 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 at that brings you up to date what you say more news from us at the top yeah.

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just like there are competing species on planet earth for energy and survival but there's only one the apex predator that is at the moment before he dies from oligarchy. happy new year and welcome to the i like some until today we have a special focus on europe not about blacks of the european council on the council of europe an organization which long predates the european union and which has not twenty eight members but forty seven stretching across the entire continent from east to west. today we find out what it is what it does and why many people believe

it to be both relevant and the cortlandt in meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow before starts here from the middle of a rundown of what you can look forward to it today is our exam and show thank you alex we'll be hearing from the data directly form a leader of plate country and the party saw pir in the house of lords here in the studio who'll be stating his case on the importance of the council of europe from strasburg alex who'll be interviewing lots of key players but first to your tweets facebook messages and e-mails now the debate around breaks it of course rages on and we have a tweet from stephen morrison who says excellent show alex salmond was surprisingly even hundred allowing kids to unite eleven's room to air their views a clever way to expose the fragility of their enterprise he says. many people have watched alex's interview of the president of lebanon michel aoun and we have a message here from carol hutton who says here's hoping the lebanese people see

through trump's palace or starting attempts to manipulate them as he has done with the us she actually xenophobic rightwing it's up to the lebanese government to set the tone for their people and ignore trump for the narcissist child he is strong through some color and indeed jacqueline who also messages us to see this will be so interesting and was too close to trump's declaration on jerusalem he's a loose cannon i can't understand how and why he's allowed to continue as president mind you i can't understand how you managed to get voted in in the first place i think there are many jaclyn who share your view across the world we also have a message from our nickel who attended our christmas show where we had an audience who said i'm really glad you find a new career in the media and i'm enjoying your short stay well alex and thank you for all your many and continuing contributions to scotland story thank you finally a message from chip lead lawyer who says hello alex i'm from edinburgh i watched every episode of your show as it comes on more thank you think i'm proud of your

show and how it deals with its issues by asking and often post i did a story unlike most news broadcasters keep up the good work upright scotsman supporter of the alec salmon shill thank you very much indeed and now let's hear from lloyd after directly who's going to state his case on the council of europe. of all the aspects of your a four year that have been generated by rex it the most incredible is the hostility to the european court of human rights and i fear that the u.k. government shares the subversion. this is frankly ridiculous this strasberg court is no spinoff from the european union but established by the european convention on human rights it's a shame were drafted in one thousand nine hundred fifty eight long before the was born and one of its early supporters was winston churchill those basic human rights go to the core of european civilization they are to protect individuals from abuse

by state power safeguards against torture slavery forced labor rights to a fair trial and freedom of conscience. european fascist regimes viciously get nor these rights so it is vital that individual citizens could take court action against guilty governments the european court of human rights has forty seven states as members including countries such as switzerland norway and the ukraine way beyond the use twenty eight members whatever the outcome of the current grex debacle surely no democratic politician can argue against such a civilised institution hatred of all things european threatens to drown out decent human standards a red line must be drawn in the bracks a debate to safeguard this fundamental european institution it's in the interests

of every person throughout europe that this be done a lot of weekly a warm welcome thank you but don't the un to europeans have a point when what is the purpose of drawing from the european union to get out from under the luxembourg court and then staying under the jurisdiction of the court in stars but will i of course would like to remain in europe and the both courts to be applicable but they are two totally different courts of the court in strausberg deals with fundamental rights extends way beyond the twenty eight countries and it was something established after world war two to avoid the sort of happenings that we experienced in europe during the years of fascism and that is something that we should always be aware of and awake to and therefore the fight to maintain a system that protects citizens in countries that could be vulnerable to that is mightily important but they will assist the suggesting that if the u.k. withdrew from the jurisdiction of stars but court that fundamental liberties in this company wouldn't be protected by the supreme court in london well there are

times where that has doubts about it any court including of course the courts as a book it doesn't always get it right but i want to see britain and united kingdom and particularly wales or scotland in a system that in. sure is those rights for all our colleagues in europe and not just in the european union it is so important because once you start getting a rotten apple in any box that can start affecting the rest and therefore we want to ensure there's a generality of fair play and human rights running throughout our continent but surely to these amaze opposition to the strasburg court is based on her experience of home said when she was frustrated that she wasn't allowed to deport people because of darth rulings about the domestic animals and pets well of course there may well have been deft rulings although in that context i think it was massively misinterpreted and wrongly projected in the media but you don't throw out a whole system a system or of course just because one ruling may have gone wrong and in any case i

can't help but feel that terrorism is been playing this for political purposes she's now in a position where she wants to make sure that she can carry so the pro european wing of a party with her and therefore as a token is reversing a position with regards to gear the stress because so do you suspect that she could reverse again the ones blacks are safe where the way that the her opposition to the court of stars but the european convention to the parliamentary assembly could be a mess i think that her feelings are very fundamental feelings it's as if somebody has trotman her susceptibilities and she wants to put the booted and she can't do so no but there will come a time when she may well try to souping that she lost the course but i think the argument is much wider that it's in terms of our rights throughout these islands and throughout our continent we've got to stand by those and what is the would be the impact on the devolved positions in scotland and wales if some point in the

future there was to be a u.k. with goal from the jurisdiction of the stars because we're course that assumes that scotland and wales are still an integrated part of the u.k. scotland has a slightly different position because scotland has its own legal system and have that have been a wrecker. of cases arising from scotland i know you yourself wrote it as first minister in that context but scotland and wales will have to make their own course for the future and i would hope that scotland and wales whatever their relationship with london is that they would be fully supportive of the european court of human rights but they're more words take my own experience you know space and welsh politics i mean they have had a member collectively the scottish government lost the case on on their internal sanitation of prison cells where peter had personal and we were forced to to rebuild peter had personal is something that you should be ordered to do by a court in stars says luke rebuild that person because we're not satisfied with the

party availability for persons well i think there is a question of the standard at which you hold people in prison not just in scotland or particularly in wales and england at this point in time it is just not good enough human decency should be respected even if people are paying the price by losing their freedom and being locked up for the fact that a european court may have directed this must make you think whether the course of scotland itself should have addressed the issue first. in terms of the future when very few people in this country know all the difference between the european court and luxembourg and the strasbourg court of human rights very few people even know of the existence of the parliamentary assembly and stars would come in something which is so relatively unknown which is regularly in the press confused with the european union itself can something so unknown really this all important well if

you ask the question to what extent do people in these islands know the details of the court to take different term decisions and operate the law here it's not something people talk about in their daily lives but it's important that is. the human rights element particularly is there as a safeguard it is the backdrop to which people can revert when things go wrong within their own jurisdictions and i think for that reason it needs to be available to law are you confident that your case for retaining u.k. membership or scotland and welsh left. of the european convention will succeed well if it doesn't succeed would have to reinvent it because it's so important not only in our own terms but in terms of all our fellow citizens in europe that we're going to thank you very much know before you go as a new year gift. this is a quick gallop for the loving cup of whiskey and there are none of that well stuff only scotch we have excellent welsh whiskey but i will abate that and i'm very very

grateful for this gift and also for the opportunity to talk ludwig with thank you so much thank you so lot wigley is constant but the future of the council europe but one of the key players seeing across the continent coming up after the break strasburg to find out. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would sleep. i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. going to be. a cut above the glory like going to school you know to simulate it to still give up food for the store. clerks. but you don't really feel like human being in that. and then. the guy just

came over to me so me and gave me a change of this book. when else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. the world get to shape out these days to come out of it and engage from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just in the. los angeles this.