i wonder what would happen if. no one could leave for a week and the world realize that without the business the lives. guards are blockading prisons across france and calling for a complete security overhaul more than one hundred prisons are affected the strike was called almost two weeks ago after a series of assaults against staff by inmates one of the hotspots has been the. facility near paris it is the largest prison in europe holding more than four thousand inmates it's also used to monitor suspected extremists among them is. faces trial in the two thousand and fifteen paris terror attacks as staff held demonstrations outside the prison on friday violence broke out. i. hope it is today we will come here first strike because discontent is spreading across from

the crucial program to the security prison personnel top of that there's the issue of islamic radicals. isolate other. it's dangerous for us to be around the inmates because for them we are everything they hate for them we are enemies by definition. with the blockades and demonstrations spreading across france are to ski has been tracking developments for us we are day number nine this is the second week of the nationwide protests and we had the sound of at least seventy prisoners yet again today now they started a week because three security guards at a prison in the north of france were attacked by an inmate. it did terrorist now

since that attack took place in these protests have been happening there have been more assaults and attacks on prison guards in prisons in france including two prison guards who were attacked on sunday evening now that the prison guards say that they would is incredibly dangerous they feel is sometimes to go to work they fear for their lives because of the types of prisoners that they dealing with they say that in some prisons like that largest prison in europe that sometimes the inmates refuse to go back to their jails and this is a prison with a high number apparently of radicalized inmates so these are just some of the concerns that the security guards have and they also say that they are very very understaffed with the suggestion that sometimes in that largest prison in europe there is only one security guard for every ninety a mate i've been talking to some of the security guards have been lining that other concerns. latoyia to go our work is very dangerous where weak teams of aggression

and. experience violence which is not taken into consideration by the government. it has become more and more difficult for us to actually be seen physical aggression towards my colleagues every day it happens every time we open the door to pull did. we denounce the working indications of our colleagues in the prison the security conditions the numerous acts of aggression against them we want salaries to be increased for those who face such risks of work as well as an increase in personnel and better security so what all the demands of the prison guards well they say they want more than the one thousand jobs that they've already been offered over the next four years by the justice minister they also say that they want radicalize prisoners to be isolated in prisons for their safety and they want to have more security services available to deal with situations we also know that president ma. go on this said that he will unveil

a runtime at the end of next month to reform the entire prison system in france that still more than a month away and the question is is she needed sitting on the prison guards to remain blockading so many of the prisons in france say it is we did see because they need to have more secure conditions to book in immediately. u.s. state department has confirmed that several americans were killed in saturday's attack on a hotel in the afghan capital kabul local officials say twenty two people died in the overnight siege by taliban militants. those people had no mercy they were anybody who came in front of them destroyed them.

best basically it was their fault you know most of you know. while the exact number of american casualties is not yet known the victims also include citizens of ukraine venezuela kazakhstan and germany most were working for a private afghan airline political consultant lou rockwell believes u.s. military presence is aggravating the situation in afghanistan prompted already talk about sending in more troops and more planes and other weapons so i think this is just a further unfortunate back down from the campaign promises he made he said some very good things about getting out of afghanistan that the u.s. had no business there and then of course as soon as he was elected he switched and is now stepping up the war in. afghanistan the afghan government itself said that

it would only last a few months if the u.s. pulled out there's a hint that the afghan government maybe they ought to go with the u.s. troops and have new people come in so that why is the u.s. killing all these people spending trillions of dollars in afghanistan to have a very unpopular government in power. terrible these people were killed i don't think we have any idea how many afghan civilians have been killed in the seventeen years with this war the u.s. needs to get out get out of afghanistan get out of syria a lot that needs to be done here at home leave other people's alone leave their countries alone stop killing people all over the world and expecting to be loved with. one of the largest consulting firms in the world world ernst and young has been accused of multiple illegal dealings he wished on of has more. the story hidden in the court papers filed by this auditor against his ex bosses could be one of the grandest smuggling scams greed money laundering and back door dealings

measured in billions of dollars. is accusing one of the world's biggest auditing firms of covering up the tracks over dubai precious metals megacorp act one. ernst and young for an audit inspectors come to dubai and the first thing they see is a pile of moroccan gold buyers casually bundled up on a desk stacks of gold at a gold refinery could be business as usual except these buyers are literally painted silver in order to sneak them into dubai four to five tons of gold gold bars coated silver smuggled out of more cool arriving in dubai declared as gold when the team found the discussed it with with colucci the admitted this is the way of doing business with the with these moral consult lawyers inspectors do some more digging and what they reveal brings us to act two some of the precious metal

in colossus coffers could be blood gold shuffling through papers auditor's discover the refinery was more than happy to shake hands with small mining operations in sudan and the democratic republic of congo apparently colossi asked for no licenses offering cash in hand in exchange for gold proceeds from surge sales in conflict torn countries are known to directly fuel gang wars which are responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths soldiers naam group leaders see in control of the gold mines as a way to money guns and power for forty each other ruthlessly often targeting civilians in the process so ernst and young employees calm through colossus cash transactions that's when we get to act three apparently the company deals in cash almost as much as in conventional bank transfers. that billions of dollars go into a legal black hole impossible to trace so the auditor's diligently record every

failure of the dubai giant but there's no pads on the back for them from the boss we requested a meeting with the babies to get it or when they realized that we're not going to alter our findings or change them they went ahead and. changed their own guidelines in such a way that our findings and or for their conclusions will not be made public ernst and young have denied allegations they were in cahoots with the group the dubai refinery is still in business saying there's been no material impact on their ability to operate or trade i'm just rehired the man who led the team and expose the alleged wrongdoings says the audit ing giant branded him a troublemaker and sacked him so is blowing the whistle a noble thing or just a falls there and in this saga it's left up to the court. of r.t. the pentagon has responded to turkish concerns over u.s.

support for kurdish forces in northern syria a spokesperson issued the following statement. if the u.s. backed forces on to s t f carry out military a prey sions of any kind not specifically focused on isis they will not have coalition support but say for example a unit of white peachy says' rule no longer fight isis and we are going to support our brothers in a free and they are not our partners anymore last week the u.s. announced it would help train a thirty thousand strong kurdish led border force in syria turkey considers the kurdish why p.g. to be a terrorist group and has stepped up its military offensive in the area dozens of people have been killed in the operation including civilians. we heard from. a former adviser to iran's nuclear negotiation team he believes in the us is using the kurdish forces for its own agenda the united states has used

the kurdish chess pieces to. own geopolitical interests in the region. demonstrating much. put on interests and this latest is tantamount to the trail of the kurdish forces to. basically washington's or really on playbook. i mean while the presidents of russia and turkey have held a phone conversation to discuss the turkish military offensive line report and expressed his hope that the operation will only target terrorists and will not harm the territorial integrity of syria cover office the army again believes russia as a vital role to play in the area. russia house. kurdish forces in the north and northwest in syria and one can only hold the

mosque or will utilize all its resources. to include. turkey syria and. will do so not only unilaterally by those in tandem with other regional powers the turkish offensive in syria is causing tensions as far afield as germany on monday a brawl erupted at hanover airport between pro kurdish activists and turkish passengers almost two hundred people were involved was it was it was it was it was it was it was it was it was it was turkey began its latest offensive against

kurdish fighters in northern syria at the end of last week it fused them as terrorists is concerned about their growing power in the region political commentator darwish told us that washington which is allied to both needs to help the two sides work towards a solution. kurds will find themselves powerless against the might of turkey as we have seen and the unfortunate scenes from frankfurt and probably other places it could actually spill over and affect europe affect people who think they are far away it's very very hard actually to read the american foreign policy at the moment first the americans have to explain to their allies that our side words what is there is rather easy and the policy bondsteel wish. to the world actually to have a peaceful settlement in syria and keep the.

to be a political integrity of syria as a nation state as this one and number two do the actually and want to end the conflict and see peace and not. a double car bombing has claimed the lives of at least thirty three people in the libyan city of benghazi the first blast took place outside a mosque in the city center as people were leaving evening prayers on tuesday after emergency services arrived at the scene a second explosion went off according to officials victims include military personnel so far no group has claimed responsibility. russia's defense minister has revealed that talks are under way with several nations on the purchase of a state of the art russian missile defense system or he's really trying to go as one. it's acknowledged as one of the best air defense systems out there it can strike eighty targets at a time at a range of four hundred kilometers even if they're travelling at five kilometers

a second i'm always about to say an hour but no a second so perhaps that's why there is high demand as four hundred isn't developed technology still on the drawing board or sitting in a dusty warehouse it's on active duty in syria protecting russian units there. the russian army's top man hasn't revealed the names of the system's next buyers but he did mention the regions the middle east and southeast asia he's touring that

part of the world right now mr scheuer who says whenever he's talking to army bosses from other countries there's always discussion about buying russia's defense technology so soon we'll find out who is next in line for the f. four hundred i say next because turkey has already got a contract and when they signed the papers it was big news sure that's a nato member washington's key ally that's counting on russian engineering to keep its safe somewhere else that's military might is all but dependent on america is saudi arabia but a few months ago the saudis and the russians agreed on an ass four hundred deal as well china is getting it and india too let's see if the name of the next customer comes as a surprise. all right that does it for me it is about thirty four minutes until we give you the headlines watching our t.v. international. thank.

thank you. thank. her for. greetings and salutation so the united states federal government is finally up and running again. at least until february eighth when more than likely will get another front row seat to the budget circus all over again but they believe the paki derms donkey's and deep state clowns didn't leave us without any snacks to chew on in the meantime take this little bag of peanuts that was lost in all of the hullabaloo and hubris during the

keep the lights on vote on monday apparently buried in the stopgap spending bill passed by the house and senate and now magically on its way to be signed by the brand name in chief himself president donald trump is a curious little change to how spending is done within our illustrious intelligence community the intercepts alex emmons and ryan graham report that the provision removed language requiring intelligence agencies to spend the money according to congress's instructions and replaced it with a provision that allows the agencies to move money around freely and without congress is knowledge this move as many are now pointing out would essentially cut off the senate and house intelligence committees at their knees not that they really stood up to the magical security state in the first place something that but hey you know at least they had the ability they had the ability to do their jobs now not so much you know even the republican chair on the senate intelligence

committee richard burr was speaking out against this provision and was trying to change it before monday's votes were cast afterwards brassed his fellow lawmakers on the senate floor why would you take away the tools that we have to actually hold them accountable. one can practically hear the crickets on capitol hill now in response to birds question because remember according to his senate colleague mr spaghetti noodle for a backbone and self chuckle schumer you don't mess with the intelligence community they have six ways from sunday at getting back at you unless of course shark yeah actually want to do your job and start watching the hawks. what. it looks like. it's what he. has to keep the ball out of it. like you know what i got. this.

week except. for the what the hawks i have to go to the top of the wallace. so yeah it's very generous and the whole idea of trump coming to washington was to drain the swamp base really hold people accountable and the resistance to trump the whole idea was to make sure that they held those checks and balances in place and not. confuse i know it's been i'm a little confused by where this is it's a little confusing because especially when you look at like what it was what this year what the language in the spending bill and how you know these intelligence communities operated with their black budgets and where they were allowed to spend money and where and how they were to move what it would look at beforehand it was

it was a very different situation right there was that there were some checks and balances obviously whoever was on those you know on these committees and there's all of that i mean you wouldn't have someone like chuck schumer saying you know they'll get if if everyone on those committees was was at a full. a range of things that they're able to button down and did their jobs and held them in check once and i want to tell that to the but they won't so previously if the intelligence agencies or the administration wanted to shift and shift funding around that's going to budgets ari said move it from one area to another they had to inform congress that they not only had to inform ground risk but in theory the idea was that congress get had veto power on a power on the spending changes that hadn't been pre-approved but now because intelligence budgets are top secret and we can't know about them there's no way of knowing how often or if ever a congress block spending changes and who did what and for when and if that was

related to them being coerced or scared or you know as i have heard people are gap it all will say about the intelligence community oh gotcha and ways from sunday exactly you know and that's of interest for you and it is it's all it's i mean that's the question is how much of our own politicians so afraid of the intelligence we do you kind of brings back memories of late hoover when no one was with j. edgar hoover the f.b.i. because he had dirt on everybody yeah you know and now when you kind of give not just the trump administration but any administration going on down the line this kind of you know ability to move monies and work in conjunction with the cia or n.s.a. to kind of you know throw funding over here to this you know black budget operation that maybe congress wouldn't approve of or the american people would write of why would you not me it's interesting because this spur this new provision first appeared in the house version of the bill that was like last week that modified get this a seventy year old law that was chartered like that was first chartered when the

cia came into being it was like back then and a member my dad always told me that whenever you see government you know changing something that's been in place for a long period of time out of the blue when no one asked for store watching now because something something misty vss underfoot his every move. c.v.s. because they're doing everything so out neopets now i feel like this administration and its resistance are going to have a hard time covering anything up you know anything why i would hope so but generally they're still that deep state they're working behind the scenes problems during the you know you don't know what's going to go on it's interesting there's a tour according to tech crunch dot com this move would make the entire black budget of the intelligence community discretionary and overseen only by the people who are moving the money around basically no checks and balances right now the light apparently on the horizon is that this will only last until february eighth when they have to all come back and do the same dog and pony show again and senate majority whip john cornyn assured lawmakers later that monday after everything was

here shirred them that the wording flagged by bird associates will be fixed by february eighth i mean hey if you can't trust congress as a source or and says that they'll do something i mean who can you trust really. it's just as. well who else. big oil big corn oil refiners on the east coast have had to rely on more costly crude imports from foreign sources and they continue to drop in the price of black gold due to the pipelines from canada being built across the u.s. however the reason behind one of the east coast largest independent refineries philadelphia energy solutions recent filing for bankruptcy may have more to do with big corn than big oil seed turns out in order to meet its regulatory demands they would have to quote purchase credits with an aggregate market value of about three

hundred fifty million dollars this year that's twice the cost of their payroll before march thirty first to settle its compliance obligations the reason is a george w. bush two thousand and five renewable fuel standard that requires refiners to either blend ethanol with their gasoline or buy credits from companies like exxon and chevron who are that one of the few companies that actually out of the necessary blending facilities those in the industry say the regulations are putting independent energy producers at a disadvantage while lining the pockets of politicians and the big corporations even true the trumpet administration has lost its energy to fight the big lobby when senators from corn producing states like iowa threaten to block trump's e.p.a. nominees surprised don't big the corn lobby showered federal lawmakers with ten million dollars in campaign donations between two thousand and eight and two thousand and fourteen and the various members of the ethanol corn lobby of pumped over one hundred eighty seven million dollars into government lobbying between two

thousand and seven and two thousand and seventeen. so big oil big corn big bucks and big problems for the rest of us. and. there are so many layers to this that i carry out again because on one hand i'm not a big fan of big oil not a big fan of new i mean the more i learn about like the you know the let's call it the big corn market or read everyone call that because i'm not a fan of that either just because of this very thing they're just they just follow money in the washington and now we're at a point in history we don't need this you know and this was the thing is that you know initially in two thousand and five this was pretty progressive for george w. bush actually do i'm shocked you know we all thought i was a great but i don't get it so what he did was put this stuff into place the idea was that we would slowly get off of you know the whole point was to lower our dependence on foreign oil which in two thousand and five was

a major issue because of nine eleven and the war on terror and all of that so the idea was reduce greenhouse gas emissions get off foreign oil so that i mean it's not doing so there is there are choices corner or you'll decide it that's all we got apparently apparently we're just going forget about you know solar. energy you know because that's not my hero minded thinking because money and lobbyists do that to washington they kind of the or they close the gap all they can see it's like the horse with blinders on in central park can't see what's going on around him like if you don't want the horse to freak out at a freak out of say today what's really going on where there's green energy in this world wait there's other alternatives for energy and we don't have to have you know or oil companies drilling off the east coast or pipelines crisscrossing the country and the idea is that the what the plan with george to george w. bush's plan was that it would this number of how much ethanol would be mixed and goes bigger and bigger and bigger the idea is we're all going to be

a bio fuel. couple it you know and that's the thing and that's what people don't realize about biofuels what look to. world resources institute calculates the providing just ten percent of the world's liquid transportation fuel in the year twenty fifty would require nearly thirty percent of all the energy in a year's worth of crops. that the world produces today that's a ton of corn yeah that's a lot that's more corn than the speed that's incredible record the goal for bio energy to me twenty percent of the world's total energy demand by two thousand and fifty would require humanity to get this to at least double the world's annual harvest of plant material in all its forms that is a massive number that's impossible to reach plus we talked about earlier core if i'm remembering correctly is not exactly good to the topsoil if you're over producing core you know and we already are over farming for industrial for you know we're for things like that but tab of the big question is is it illuminates the

audience of why is corde so bad i mean i love corn look i'm i'm all for a biofuel alternative unfortunately biofuels like this and which you can use any you that ship owner whatever you can do you say no soybean is another one but again these are things that keep getting subsidized by the u.s. government and subsidize and subsidize now senators congressmen love that because they go to washington these bring these big subsidies and you have situations to the point that we're paying farmers to not grow things so that the prices remain a certain so that the corn market says so according to the cvo biofuel production and the mandates are responsible for about a thirty five percent increase in corn commodity which here's the thing it's not that it makes corn more expensive because we don't really grow corn for food the majority of the eighty million acres of corn fields in the u.s. are made to feel livestock say so when the prices for

a fee goes up you have the meat corporations on these in the. farming corporations are hormel zz and tyson and produce are going to ultimately have to going to pick up somebody is going to have to pay for that increase in corn for in the corn or commodities because they're going into biofuel so then you look at the fact that there are just it's not a very green alternative to gasoline so because of the use of water and fertilizer . it's a lot of people say it's just about equal to gasoline as far as greenhouse gases really look at it there was a two thousand and eleven study from tepper school of business at carnegie mellon university and what they found was that using corn based ethanol resulted in a. twenty percent greater greater greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline and that's simply because you're using fertilizer it's the process and you're tearing up the earth which again brings us you know to which makes mars a greenhouse gases we.