well mostly almost are disturbed when we speak about nazi mentality but you do apply this type of mentality in germany. does you know it's a fact without question turkish nazis comparisons must stop unfortunately we see that these comparisons have not stopped. however when it comes to questions over whether german tanks are being used against the kurds. answers from the german government the norm the ground there's no official stance from the defense ministry from the foreign ministry or from those who deal with exports at the ministry of economics here no tanks see no tanks speak of no tanks the lying coming from the german government at the moment but when it comes to the german people they don't seem convinced that they should be providing arms to turkey right now i don't think so why not. because war is bad and all.

the harm has caused a disturbance in this region so i don't think we should sell him tanks but i think that's awful became from the turks of fighting against an entire people should not be happening. it's terrible we should not be sending any weapons at all no matter who is behind them. so if somebody asks where are you from would you be offended that very question has the bait about racism online after sweden launched a social media campaign with nor is any setting. where a year from sounds like an innocent enough question doesn't it but it could land you in trouble here's what i actually had to explain that i first need to tell you about an online campaign launched in sweden to help expose racism hash tag no stranger we hope to raise awareness regarding the extensive issue of racism that actually does exist in sweden although many want. i believe that we live in the

world's most tolerant country they had a wrist shakespearean sense of being subjected to racism and ten cells asking why are you from rob some people up the wrong way even though i was born here people always ask me where i'm from i hate it when they do that nobody put on a decide where my home is where i come from doesn't concern you and it shouldn't matter i say shouldn't we ever ask people about their country of origin to be on the safe side. well here's some advice from a man behind the hashtag no stranger campaign you can ask the question just make

sure you do it right it's ok to wonder about someone's country of origin but it should not be the very first thing to ask a stranger about because the reaction that follows is usually very stereotypical and racist like oh you're from viet nam i think it's quite terrible that you guys eat dogs. so its name first originated and no follow up questions got it. now the world economic forum is underway in davos at the moment where some of the world's biggest players reading for talks in the luxury swiss resort among them is the u.s. president although not everybody is happy that he's turning up around two thousand people did march through this is eve did announce donald trump's visit and the entire gathering to and several smaller protests took place elsewhere in switzerland including geneva trump is expected to make a speech later this week selling his america first economic idea at a pro globalization forum where there is

a russian presence at the divorce forum to we spoke to a delegation from the cybersecurity giant kaspersky. i would say the trend from the last two years and actually one of the main topics of this year in dollars it's fragmentation of the world unfortunately it's happening there is a global geopolitical tensions and fight between countries and the big forest private companies that make for results i would say that the pressure in the united states is enormous it's the biggest it's really disappointing for some reason and surprising for me the private company can be limited in these operations in a country with no reason to ignore facts just very decision of the u.s. government it's really frustrating because it means that we can't protect organizations in years dominant and. that is one of the best according to independence and this is just means that the. they leave themselves on protected from from cyber crime and from cyber attacks which is really frustrated and they believe that in the long term this is just very. very wrong decision to them

independent private company from its operation in the country you're watching i say we're going to take a quick break now but when we come back we'll have the latest from afghanistan on a car bomb attack there this morning. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the us exactly just pull on. the only show i go out of my way to find you know what it is that really packs a punch. is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than to see people you never heard of love back to the night i'm president of the world bank so they. sent us an email. like from many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion

from the families it's the age of the superman to kill the narrowness and spending to get to the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy great so what chance with. the phoenix. welcome back a new study has revealed that just one in four britons trust social media people complain that it promotes fake news cyber bullying and they stream is propaganda and therefore requires better regulation. has the details. it used to be seen as an innocent way of keeping up with friends and family but the love affair between the british public and the likes of facebook twitter and instagram has soured now less

than a quarter of the u.k.'s population trusts what it sees on social media according to an international marketing firm seventy percent of britons believe that social media companies don't do enough to prevent illegal or unethical behavior the majority of those all think that more should be done about preventing the sharing of extremist called intent most think the same of how social media combat cyber bullying and then there's the issue of fake. overhauls of britain surveyed worry about being exposed to it online so how to mend this broken relationship the british public thinks that tougher regulation is key to restoring trust this time these companies set up and listened the public wants action on key issues related to online protection and to see their concerns addressed through

better regulation these findings present a major shift in attitudes towards the internet when it started the world wide web was open free and unfettered that was its appeal but two thousand and seventeen was the year of a fake news and the public is now wary in britain and the us politicians have put pressure on social media giants to disclose evidence of russian interference. this house but the government and the election commission will examine these reports very carefully we must be open all the actions of states like russia.

i was concerned at first that some of the social media platform companies did not take this threat seriously enough to get these ads and posts were a very small fraction of the overall content on facebook but any amount is too much . facebook will now prioritize so-called trustworthy media outlets and downing street has announced the creation of a fake news rapid response unit the fair is now that any subsequent complaints about censorship could be dismissed as the will of the people. in other news this morning a suicide attacker has detonated a car bomb next to the office of the humanitarian group save the children in the afghan city of jalalabad we can get more details on the afghan. so far he joins us good morning just tell us them what do we know at this point.

well i was able to speak to a provincial council member in the last few minutes the afghan special forces or attacking at least three attackers who are armed with rocket propelled grenades heavy machine guns and hand grenades we also know from very worried family members who are waiting outside and some of them have been in touch with me including my own relatives that there are a lot of people who are stuck inside save the children would invite their afghan employees from the districts and they were trained them they would invite them for seminars in these are afghans do very important work in many of the districts of our province outside of the city of jalalabad period where the health education or shelter for refugees or internally displaced people so obviously a major source of concern is how could this attack of taken place because the

office is only two hundred or three hundred meters away from a police station and i think that's what you're looking at for two thousand and eighteen as well these security and intelligence breaches continue to really undermine the confidence of the afghan people in the afghan government. at a time when major cities have been attacked time and again. we know anything about casualties at the moment because we know the car bomb went off method to pay is that militants then stormed the building have you heard any word about injuries. speaking to a doctor in to the spokesman for help. at least twelve people were wounded some of them include afghan employees of the organization but none of the injuries are life threatening what may have happened

inside because now it's almost more than two hours we really don't know but what we do know from our police that this operation is quite difficult because the office is in a residential area there are a lot of buildings in the attackers are using the second and third floor of the building and using it as a launching pad against the afghan national security forces unfortunately for the moment. it's those families waiting for their loved ones someone couldn't reach his son on the phone. you know the people of afghanistan continue to really suffer and we only had the terrorist attack against the intercontinental hotel in kabul so unfortunately those memories are fresh and people really have real fears for their family members in the afghan government just continues to really fail to protect major cities ok thanks very much for the update we do appreciate it that was a. journalist there live from kabul thank you. now

a sculpture american artist to commemorate the victims of the twenty fifteen paris terror attacks is drawing heavy criticism in france not only over its meaning but also its shape and choice of location which you can see here it is a giant hand holding a bouquet of balloons it's planned to be installed next to the tokyo modern art museum in paris however it will block the view from there of the iconic eiffel tower and in response artists and activists have written an open letter demanding the project is scrapped the final look of the piece for me has nothing to do with what happened to the better clown. put means going to be used only that people are going way selfies in front of it and i don't i don't see you visually for me when i look at it ohio this was we are. victims i don't feel that at all it's not even in the area over there but. well charlotte minsky has been gauging public

opinion about this in the french capital this is where the sculpture would be installed there would be a huge hand for truth out of the ground grasping at twelve to lips with this view of the eiffel tower behind it which some say will be ruined as a result and while it's clear that some in paris do not appreciate this gesture what's the view on the street so colorful it's nice to be different really stand out i don't like it so it's a modern horrid europe london jr to see showing his vision why not it's a good thing cheerful and full of color it's better than the stuff you memorial day when the gesture is very very kind but if it's a weather not. fit for the people that lost their lives it's a little bit weird also to be donated by in america an architect maybe maybe it should be a french one remembering those people is. a really good idea but probably with

something a little bit different if you saw that image of what would it make you think of disneyland i think this better way after the membrane people have died and then terrible attacks and that's not the scope i would say for controversial reasons it's a nice sculpture but when you want to associate it with that day and what happened then. yeah i probably wouldn't actually know bones of the artwork include the u.s. ambassador to france who's been spearheading this gift idea and the mayor of paris however so far it seems that the for. french scene and many people on the streets of paris just don't appreciate this piece of american law. so it's even ski. carice thanks being with us this morning don't forget we've got plenty of other stories for you today on our social media pages and you can check.

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days ago the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis updated in revised america's global defense strategy it is a dark vision of the world and calls for a massive defense spending what he calls a defense strategy critics say is a blueprint without it. greetings and salutations 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 money according to congress's instructions and replaced it with a provision that allows the agencies to move money around freely and without congress' knowledge this move as many are now pointing out would essentially cut

off the senate and house intelligence committees at their needs not that they really stood up to the magical security state in the first place i mean that but hey you know at least they had the ability they had the ability to do their jobs now not so much. 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 burr asked 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 son a colleague mr spaghetti noodle for a backbone themself 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 would be. nice to keep the ball out of. your. like you that i got. with. this. week except. for the what the hawks i have to go to the top of the wallace. so yeah it's strange and i suspect 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. i'm confused 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 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 points 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 and from congress 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 congress blocks 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'll will say about that intelligence community and ways from sunday exactly you know and that's of interest and it is it's all it's i mean that's the question because how much of our politicians so afraid of the intelligence we do you kind of brings back memories of like hoover when no one else was 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 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 a star watching now because something something must civitas is underfoot his every move. c.v.s. because they're doing everything so out neopets now i feel like the third ministration 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 because 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 refineries 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 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 treat the trump administration has lost its energy to fight the big corn lobby when senators from corn producing states like iowa threaten to block trips 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 following the money in the washington and now we're at a point in history we don't need this know and this was the thing is that you know

initially in two thousand and five this is 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 the 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 energy now 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 to run a white disease you don't want the horse to freak out it will freak out if they do 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 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's you know and that's the thing and that's what people don't realize about biofuels what look the. 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. but the world produces today that's a ton of corn yeah that's a lot that's more corn than than someone's feet that's incredible record the goal for bio energy to meet twenty percent of the world's total energy demand by two thousand and fifty would require humanity 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 corn 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 far you know we're bringing things like that but tell me that 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 vegetable or whatever you can use either 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 the livestock say so when the prices for a fee goes up you have the meat corporations and the us into. farming corporations are hormel xin 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 commodities because they're going into biofuel so then you look at the fact that they're just it's not a very green alternative to gasoline so because of the use of water and fertilizer so. it's a lot of people say it's just about equal to gasoline as far as greenhouse gas well really look at it there was a two thousand and eleven study from tepper school of business income.