i have never once tested positive for doping and that's why the outlets the decision as an injustice. the tone of this editorial will not please everyone that's obvious but there are still questions about the integrity of the decision makers since when can we condemn innocent sportsmen to punish the guilty is obvious to ban the russians that don't also for the rest know. when will we know. well the i.o.c. has promised to publish the full list on sunday and that leaves less than two weeks before the games are to start meaning that an appeal is all but hopeless and that means that many russians who are still reeling from the fact that the decision came down that they will not be able to compete under their own flag are about to be hit with another blow and we've been hearing that prominent hockey players and figure skaters will also be included on the list and will be forced to watch the games from the sidelines with forty three of their teammates that are also that have also

received last year now another gold medalist victor on a russian speed skater is also supposed to be on the list and he's in fact a south korean by birth and that means that his dreams of competing in his home country are looking rather dim and this decision has received a fair amount of condemnation worldwide but that is unlikely unfortunately to sway the i.o.c. is decision. plain thanks very much for the update on reporting from davos in switzerland. thousands of protesters across europe are running against his military operation against kurds in syria demonstrations were held in athens and london as people waved kurdish flags and carried on down is a similar protest took place in the german city of mannheim people angry that german may time something in the turkish offensive his speech to all of the little . turkish military operation against the kurds in syria house caused some consternation here in germany however officials in berlin say that they're only

somewhat concerned about the actions of ankara the military confrontation between turkey and the kurdish forces carys reached. the last thing syria needs is another standoff imagine the surprise when juve and saw the footage all of these military offensives against the kurds and they saw. tanks as the. spearhead of that offensive it comes at a time when germany's foreign ministers there is pushing. for the tanks supplied by to encourage this includes things like upgrades to the mine protection abilities that they would have with rumors that other upgrades are in the pipeline for the hundreds of tanks provided by germany to turkey this is all seen is part of a charm offensive by the german foreign minister as he seeks to normalize relations

between germany and turkey. they are disturbed when we speak about nazi mentality but you do apply this type of mentality in germany. does not effect without question turkey snatches 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. and says from the german government the no on 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 tying speak of no tanks is the line 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 the right now i don't think so one of. it because boris bed and all.

the han 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 a fighting against an entire people the should not be happening and this is it's terrible we should not be sending any weapons a tool no matter who's behind. conway look at the findings of a new survey in the u.k. as people fall out with social media that's after this break. join me every first week on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. little blogs telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the

chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you talk to try to tell you that every gossip the tabloid lifestyle. as they tell you all and by. all the hawks that we along with all the one. days ago the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis updated in revived 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 for war without it. my bottom line to the program the world economic forum is underway in davos with some of the world's biggest players readying for talks at the luxury swiss resort

and this channel's deputy editor in chief has been taking part in a panel on fake news during the debate the b.b.c.'s representative went out of their way to criticize r.t. and question our role as an alternative voice in the media there's no equivalent solomon you know the b.b.c. yes you say aussies just a national broadcaster just like the b.b.c. is you know b.b.c. subjected to. independent you know. regulator as art which is nothing to do with the with the government and the b.b.c. regularly makes reports and invest vest occasions which criticize the government. we absolutely do that on our we are regulated actually by off com as well all of our programming and just as joe was describing the process are. less than to be than the b.b.c. and never find like the b.b.c. has done so this is but this is this is this is the problem very where you moving the goalposts we're constantly moving the goalposts something and this is the

problem that errors that our team has made and of course we've made errors in our reporting and we've addressed them we've corrected with issued clarifications to inform their audience but when it comes to archie or other alternative voices legitimate alternative which is in the news media those kinds of accusations become a way of just summarily misrepresent the nature of what you keep. at it in chief and she joins us now annabel who was caught up in the debate in davos a look quite heated there anna what conclusions did you draw from the debate. hall i think the debate demonstrated that there is still quite a lot of work to be done in combating false information in combat in the nominal. fake news the positive sign is that the debate is taking place that there seems to be. some willingness to invite a diverse range of voices demonstrated by my own presence on the panel but i think

you could see from the very beginning of the panel just how quickly the participants lost. sort of a common. a common target of what it is we're supposed to be fighting. the same journalists or media professionals who are very quick to for instance. ridicule or. pick apart statements by donald trump or ridicule his deployment of the term fake news as a way of dismissing any kind of reporting that he doesn't like are doing in fact the same thing themselves they are doing it for instance to r.t. and. completely wrong and baselessly accusing it of things that our network has never done does not do as a way of silencing an alternative voice in the news media space. you know the whole point of the debate was to discuss fake news and its impact in your opinion do you

see fake news as a threat to politics. of course fake news false information let's be clear of what it is we refer to as fake news false information is a threat to politics anywhere but it is a threat to public discourse overall and we should all be fighting this it's harmful for absolutely every news media organization for every public debate unfortunately it's not helpful when politicians or media outlets are deploying this term as a smear as a way of avoiding answering hard questions as we've seen with regards to our team for instance being down by the president a man on the ground and his campaign staff during last year's presidential election in france for some reason my peers on the panel war willing more than willing work cited to scrutinize the statements by american president donald trump but somehow

for whatever reason i'm willing to hold another public leader accountable and to even check the statement for veracity before deploying them as an accusation as a smear against archie proper and we saw the clip of the debate as i said before is extremely hated and you were put into a position to defend altie how did the panel guess react to the statement that all t.v. is a victim of misinformation itself. well you could see that there was quite a lot of skepticism and i think that would be a nice way to say that they really did not want to give that statement any credence and that's really unfortunate because that perpetuates this problem of false information off a can you said so if they're not willing to hold themselves to the same kind of standards. to objectively evaluate these statements this kind of information that

is just perpetuating the exact same echo chamber of news that has led to the audiences everywhere but particularly in in the u.s. . u.k. and some european countries to increasingly lose trust in their media as countless studies have already shown and to be more open to consuming even sharing false news i have to say that among the positive sign in this was after the debate we didn't get to see that the encouraging thing is how many people from the audience people from a wide range of countries from every part of the world have approached me and told me how refreshing it was to see an alternative voice to hear them sort of voice to see an alternate perspective on a stage like davos and i think it demonstrates the real need the real demand for voices like r.t. and for different perspective for alternative perspectives and a wider range of stories in general i think that is a very encouraging sign and i hope things will move in that direction. as you

rightly pointed out is interesting and important now isn't it in this day and age to have that debate and it's fantastic that you are part of the panel. the outcome of this you must have gathered information from all sorts of perspectives as you said. did you see or do you see now a solution to stop the spread of fake news. i think unfortunately we're still a fair bit away from that from finding a solution and it's not going to be one solution i think as you can see from the debate there are multiple aspects to this phenomenon and to this problem including economic including questions of regulation and including just of the international news media environment but i think that speaking as a member of the media i see the solution as fostering a more open more diverse global news media space one that is more inclusive of

voices like parties and one that applies the same standards and the same scrutiny to all media outlets and public persons ok. thanks very much for talking to us. and he said he has revealed that just one in four britons trust social media people complain that it promotes fake news as we've just been talking about cyber bullying and extremist propaganda level requires better regulation polly parker has more on the findings 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 are 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 news over half of britain's surveyed worry about being exposed to it online so how to men. this broken relationship the british public thinks that tougher regulation is key to restoring trust this time these companies sat 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 fake news and the public is now where

e in britain and the us politicians have put pressure on social media giants to disclose evidence of russian interference. sure this house but the government and the electoral commission will examine these reports very carefully we must be open eyes about the actions of hostile 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 if there is now that any subsequent plaints about censorship could be dismissed as the will of the people. london. guards at a prison in paris have been in a standoff with police trying to block the transfer of an inmate being moved to trial on extremist charges however the man suspected of playing a role in the twenty fifteen paris terror attacks has been moved to court that standoff was part of a wider action by prison guards over the past ten days they've set up blockades at two thirds of jails across france the demonstrators a demanding better security after a spate of violence attacks by inmates against present stuff. i'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest news so don't go away.

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another front row seat to the budget circus all over again but they believe the package 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 stop gap 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 that the crickets on capitol hill now in response to birds question because remember according to his senate colleague mr spaghetti noodle for a backbone themself chuckles 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 harks. you. want to go to sleep you'll get the. real thing it's like. as if you were to fall out of. your sleep. or the like you like i got. this. week so i. rolled over the last of the horse i have to go to the top of the wallace. so yeah it's very generous the whole idea of trump coming to washington was to drain those banks 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. going fears 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 water 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 are allowed to spend money and where how they're to move what do we 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 range of things that they're able to go but down and did their jobs and help them attract more 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 into budgets ari said move it from one area to another they had to inform congress they not only had to inform ground respond. theory the idea was that congress gave had veto power and 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'll we'll say that the intelligence community will get it and waste and then that exactly you know and that's their biggest fear and it is it's all it's i mean that's the question because how much of our own politicians so afraid of the intelligence we do you kind of brings back memories of like 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 the 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 star watch now because something something must have us is underfoot has every mysterious 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 and that is why i would hope so but generally there's still the 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 committee 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 this 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 byrd 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 trips e.p.a. nominees surprised don't be 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. there are so many layers to this and i carry out again because on one hand i'm not a big fan of big oil not a big fan 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 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 know that's not 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 on around him like to see you don't want the horse to freak out at all 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 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 on io fuel. couple it you know and that's the thing and that's what people don't realize about biofuels what look the. world resources institute calculates that 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 someone's feet that's incredible amount of color and that's 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.