living standards which are very hard 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 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. u.s. national security advisers good is knives out for the new year with the call to reveal what he describes as insidious russian meddling masters says that pulling back the curtain might be a vital first step to prevent further interference the russian player been trying to cause it full throttle but a year ago now with the release of that u.s. intelligence report that kept the momentum going throughout twenty seventeen.

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 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 and others when he 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 oliver 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 didn't think strong possibility that they did i feel it's just i knew that to sell newspapers people just wrote 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. art see new york. germany started the year by introducing a new law to tackle hate speech but it's already been criticized for blocking the twitter feed of one satirical magazine and as severe a can explains next 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 crack down 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 that said that they failed to thoroughly investigate how russia supposedly swayed the brig's that vote but the has to be them there's some commision 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 continent 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 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. truth in central southern russia is reportedly killed up to ten the broker and none of the

morning local time to the city of novosibirsk claim swiftly and go for promises for the two thousand square metre building with toxic smoke emergency services say the victims were workers for three with chinese nationals one of the two are thought to come from. it's thought electrical fault so i spoke to the law. thanks watch and still to come the french president plans to crack down on fake news by targeting foreign media will tell you about this quick break. we're going to walk around with you on the idea that dropping bombs brings me to the chicken hawks forcing you to buy the battle. that you talk to try to tell you the lobby of the public but. i'm telling you on the whole and by. all the

hawks that we all. know what. would normally manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round with the one percent. nor middle of the room six. french president found a calm but fake news with a law than to regulate media influenced by foreign states emanuel micron 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 he wasn't specific about which countries he thinks could be influencing french media but russian media including our sputnik news agency have already been in microbes far inland of course both were denied accreditation cheering his presidential campaign last year and were later labeled by him as propaganda outlet . it's russia today sputnik 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 however the r.t. families have got a christmas present for the french speaking world with the launch of our brand new newest channel r.t. france it's going on air now it immediately ruffled a few high profile furthers several french public figures published an open letter

calling for r.t. france's license to be revoked they said artie's repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries political commentator adrian yellen believes the crown 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 the 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 head of 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 unconstitutionally if you're not careful prism across also facing closer to home to this criticism of his wife

bridget is breaking protocol or behaving like a queen because she stands next to a lot of events as opposed to standing behind the. matter matter.

laws are threatening legal action against former advisor steve bannon's big news today reportedly made explosive comments about trump family members and their new tell all book about to be out about the president trump publicly lashed out at his former right hand man he said the baronet lost his mind it only worked for his own interest and was never part of trump's in a circle he said the it white house press secretaries added even more fuel to that fire to now. i was curious what these reports first was quoted as saying so and. i think furious discussed it would probably certainly felt when you make such outrageous claims and completely fast claims against the president his administration and his family the spot is over what bannon reportedly

revealed to the author of a book called fire and fury inside the truck he's quoted as saying that a meeting between members of trump's camp and a russian lawyer during his election campaign was treasonous an unpatriotic he also allegedly hit out at the president's daughter of trump to see biden left the white house in all goods two year after joining trump's election team as his chief strategist but it was a pivotal figure for the president during his campaign through two taking up office . media analyst line all things trends reactions par for the course here though. there's 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 ota about this i mean it what it does is

it throws the mainstream media the washington press corps and the mainstream media news troops and 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 anybody not pay attention trump for arrives on this he loves this little bit more of the news is shaping up so far this follow is for twenty four seven that it's on our up or the dot com kevin on folks want to stay with us if you can this more right after this break.

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greetings and salutations 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 old 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 is israel and palestine already this week we've seen the brand name in cheap united states president donald trump tweet up

a storm over who has the bigger red nuclear button himself or 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 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 for assisting palestinian refugees meanwhile on the other side of the middle east and i government protests are have taken are taking place in iran and have bill kristol and other move military industrial complex types on t.v. licking their intervention in trade interventionist shops causing many to wonder if we are witnessing the beginnings of did another cia sponsored iranian government overthrow like the one we saw back in one nine hundred fifty three. like i said what is old is new again so let's start watching the hawks of twenty eighty. three that's. the bottom.

that i got. this. week so. well a little in the watching the hawks i am sure. and that's half of the wallace twenty eight. and three stories that have been with us for a loan time no. new terms because of a lot of tweeting a lot of. battle does not put a way to twitter but so. speaking of bugs and we do that we're going to start way right there on fire today already so i want to ask you this do you believe that margaret just undercut trump states by opening up quite literally

a channel a phone line to talk to south korea the debate is going to give the big undercut like oh well never go to the table never they don't know what war they want to blow everybody up on the face of the earth it almost looks like he goes let's talk about the olympics maybe some go on yes of course because once again this is another another indication another situation in which you have the united states being undercut by another country going in and doing diplomacy you know it's a wild idea. but this is this is what's kind of hard as is we've seen this before it had to do with preconditions when obama was being elected it was this idea of in both elections it was this idea of you can talk to them without preconditions and that preconditions we have to set and that's kind of what make you really brings back the old preconditions of the obama era complaint so you have. a we said we won't take any of the talks seriously if they don't do something to ban all nuclear weapons and north korea we don't think we need

a band-aid and we don't think we need to smile and take a picture well i know i'm like this was i thought i'd almost fully you know how i felt about a lot of the passive aggressive spokesman person things that were coming out of the obama administration that i didn't think out. and i feel like this is even worse this is more this is more passive aggressive than anything it's this we want even we want even recognize that that you had a peace talks with north korea that could stop. and fighting and all of these things but it's not like there's diminishing something right so now they're saying it has to be real conditions now they're bringing up something that has always been argued that well let us let us know move to the other side of the news this week and talk. talk israel and palestine right where the donald took to twitter once again. quote we pay the palestinians one hundred of millions of dollars a year and get no appreciation or respect they don't even want to negotiate

a long overdue peace treaty with israel. so the idea is that we give you millions and hundreds of millions of dollars one hundred of million recess millions of dollars you give us respect well here's the thing let's clear this all up and let me ask you to how much money has the united states given to both parties in that in those terrible terrible tragic fight taking place right so according to usa which is where most of the money goes through especially for policy the united states gives about three point one billion in aid to israel is a lot of money and the december two thousand and sixteen congressional report stated that since the palestinian authority is creation following the oslo process that was in one thousand nine hundred eighty three the united states has invested over that time about four hundred million dollars a year to the palestinians but according to her it's most of this money isn't just going directly to the palestinian authority in fact really none of it has gone to

it rather than usaid supported projects in the west bank and gaza which. part of me feels better about that because it's the ideas that were controlling it's going as a u.s. aid programs but then i usaid has issues i wonder how much is interesting little history with the usa so a lot of things go sour can't prove that i'm just saying no when it's being used to do certain kinds of information gathering. then let's now jump over to a row or so these protests taking place another nowhere near as big as like what we saw back at the get two thousand and nine which i like to you know but but there are protests there of course mainstream media was like going crazy everyone's talking about it it was going nuts i just want to get to this quick quote before we move on to the next piece american or any other treat apart as i writes that when compared to the massive election protests in two thousand the current protests appear much more sporadic with no clear leadership and shipping objectives for c.n.n. he writes according to witnesses i spoke to the protests were initiated by in mashad by religious hardliners who sought to take advantage of the populations legitimate

economic grievances to score points against the rouhani government which they consider too moderate so before we start getting behind protests in iran everybody all those people we saw it we need to figure out who actually are these protesters and how much the cia is kind of in the the scene there were guys these important questions. some say golf is for the birds and it was constant one golf course developers actually using golf to save birds according to the american bird conservancy in the united states almost three hundred of the seven hundred fifty native bird species are declining and population that's nearly thirty seven percent of the total population being sensitive to environmental and habitat changes birds are an important tool for ecologists protecting egos predicting an ecosystem development agriculture wildlife water and even tourism and the kirkland warbler has managed an impressive comeback on its onsen due to conservation efforts over the last ten years the bird normally breeds in northern michigan and then

migrates to the bahamas turks and caicos between up. over and between august and october but due to predators like the brown cow bird it is going to take more effort in order to invigorate the species as response and state department of natural resources conservation biologist dave and lopez put it you never want all your eggs in one basket no pun intended which is where golf course developer michael kaiser comes in he spotted the worker on land next to his seven hundred acre sand valley golf restored leaving him to purchase another seventy two hundred acres of land next to it for an open to the public recreational land for activities like hunting hiking and skiing on that swath of land he's working to restore the habitat for not only the warbler but to other endangered species the carb or blue bottle fly and the slender classless are and it's working because after simply clearing red pine trees from the land native plants who seeds had been dormant in the sand for decades bloom and the plants that support butterflies and even birds

are starting to come back now kaiser a chicago based greeting card scion is part of the reason wisconsin was named the best golf doctors nation a destination in the world in two thousand and seventeen due to the diversity of its landscape and as we move into twenty eighteen let's find more ways to use our love of the links to conserve and serve the ecosystems are part of that is a wild story plus it's like i mean i think go of course of always how about like. element like oh they look pretty but of people walking on them but they like decimate the inverter around them with all the chemicals they use. in the press the sides of all of that so this is a really wild story but there was no then you tell we both are there today the really just blew my mind that you have to tell people right now which is about bird watching as an industry. someone who clearly in the last year or two i've always been around birds because i grew up in wisconsin so bird watching is sort of bird conservation is a big thing but the actual as someone who does give money to sort of bird watching

things important part of the ecosystem bertie's is birdies but they're also a big part of. financially looking at the bird watching industry the bird watching in the united states canada and mexico generates wait for it twenty five billion dollars a year in hard cash and employs over sixty thousand people. it's he. would have thought a little dinosaurs there martin we've got to we also got to jump over to the what we've also been seeing with the and part of the thing that's killing birds and killing a lot of animals is you know human beings love of creating habitat loss. love to get rid of having to what we do. believe is the equivalent of one hundred thirty yellowstone national parks get a map look it up go to a computer look it up that's more than two hundred ninety million acres of grasslands have been converted to agriculture in north america which then impacts the species we're talking about through farming yes ripped everything apart converted to all this most recent in the way very good not good for the land i've heard more than eighty five percent of the globally threatened birds in latin

america have been impacted by large scale logging and cultural operations what was at the. you know this takes the stand take stands and what's the what are called young jack pines and they're punctuated by open areas the blue in the summer glasses top of those talked about this constant thrive in a sunnier landscape pine barrons prairie savannah's without the big canopies all of this is possible by simply kind of just allowing the land to do what it naturally does rather than trying to excavate it and create it and shipped in the what we wanted to be right you know exactly and this is the thing is that what happened in wisconsin is that a lot of non-native pines were grown there after timber in that the turn of the century a lot of houses built the united states were built with wood from wisconsin and once that was all done they started growing but the pines that they did were red pines are non-native they're used for wood pulp for what men paper manufacturing and what floors because they were made.