wise that means they say some things no matter how horrible just have to be done these are hard core finances they have to be rooted out this is an ugly business but it is necessary business it's only after when the dust settles and you see what you've done that you start having second thoughts this is when you say damn what did i just do the devastation goes back as far as you can see it is almost beyond description how deep the damage is as many as a thousand strikes a month on record alone just strikes not including. tanks and all that more than eighty percent of the city was deemed unfit to even by the un a city hall but raised so let's start with the obvious incredible work has to be done just to get people back into their homes except we won't pay here is the

disclaimer stabilisation not reconstruction the us will help fix the pipes but someone else is going to have to sort out the rest of this mess no sir the coalition freed you you do the rest we humanity ariens including the un do not have access to iraq a city because of the presence of explosive hazard contamination which is endangering people trying to return to iraq a city and it's also endangering humanitarian access over two hundred people have died while trying to return to their homes and hundreds more have been injured from our understanding of the reports that we have only a limited number of neighborhoods in iraq a city have been cleared for returns and that's mainly in the outskirts. so who is going to pay to rebuild an entire city the guys who held the straw it say they won't the civilians returning from tents in refugee camps the syrian government

which doesn't even control raca who. say to another headline stories this hour the doping scandal surrounding team russia has taken another twist just weeks before the winter olympics begin inside career russian outlets will not be allowed to represent their country but can compete as neutrals however the international olympic committee still has to release an official list of competitors who will be allowed to compete at the games and it already looks bleak even for those athletes who never tested positive for bombs substances in their entire careers. tensions in the sports world are hitting another high as the i.o.c. has confirmed that the number of russian athletes that are eligible to compete in the upcoming winter olympics is to be reduced now unexpectedly and without explanation now the full list of who is eligible has not yet been released but the russian olympic committee has disclosed

a number of names that are thought to be who will be disqualified and that decision is ruffling feathers not only in russia but abroad as well a french sports outlet has published a article online condemning the disqualification of two athletes in particular we will not be embarrassed to speak about a denial of justice. and are banned from the olympics because they participated in the sochi games both have undergone hundreds of anti doping controls since two thousand and fourteen and dozens more in recent months control is carried out abroad controls carried out by independent bodies by federations and analyzed throughout europe never in russia the result over the last four years a biathlete has never tested positive. in the is a by athlete who brought a gold home from sochi and he and his team mates. or leaders of team russia and were both two main hopefuls for winning medals and south korea as well they're both world champions and in all of their years competing neither has ever tested

positive for doping and that's one of the reason the 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 the i was he has promised to publish the full list of eligible athletes on sunday just under two weeks before the start of the games leaving an appeal unlikely and that means the number of russian athletes who are still reeling from the fact that they will not be able to compete under their own flag will now be hit with another blow others said to be excluded from the list are prominent. hockey players and figure skaters again all of whom have never tested positive for doping and yet they will not be forced to watch the games from the sidelines with forty three other other teammates who have been hit by a band earlier and another gold medalist who is also thought to be excluded speed skater victor on that he thought korean by birth which means that his dreams of

competing in his home country are looking rather dim at this point and while condemnation of the decision has continued to flow in but unlikely to change the i.o.c. is mind well a number of international fleets as well as head of a limp committees have condemned the potential bombing of clean up plates this is the head of all carry an olympic committee saying that everyone who took illicit substances must be punished but the measures taken against russian updates have been politically motivated meanwhile one french biathlete believes that the finger is being unfairly pointed out the whole country. the international by athlone union head has claimed the organization has not been involved in the decision making process when indeed russian from seven different disciplines are said to be missing from the list let's go through some it includes five prominent russian short track speed skaters three by alkaline champions and a two time world champion cross country skier none have ever tested positive for

doping a number of russian ice hockey players stars as well bobsledders figure skaters they didn't even compete at the sort of twenty fifteen games we're also missing however the i.o.c. say it wanted to give way to a quote new clean generation. the wanted to give clean russian athletes the opportunity to participate and give a young new generation of clean russian athletes the opportunity to be at the olympic games and be ambassadors for a new clean russian sport. well ellis cashmore a sociology professor dusting university in the u.k. says anti russian hysteria is ongoing and time mr a night for the athletes to appeal be a little pick tournament itself is an invitation only event and that means that the organizers have the power to exclude nations or individuals willy nilly they can do it as they please there is some kind of attempt to ostracize russia russia is

the bad guy of sport at the moment has been for the past twelve eighteen months we know that it isn't getting a fair shake and we haven't seen evidence to support these allegations that there is state sponsored doping but the world or most of the world at least seems to have accepted that there is some kind of systematic doping going on in russia because of that reason i think that anyone who is associated with russia is automatically lumped together with a nation that is collectively guilty of doping which is not to say of course that the rest of the world isn't taking dope. to enhance their performances in sport because i think every other country is participating in some kind of doping but the point is that russia has been stuck with that label and that stigma is going to be awfully difficult to erase in the years to come the closer it gets to the the start date a couple of weeks away now of course the more difficult it is to appeal this decision

it's going to be too late to go to the court of arbitration for sport it's unlikely to get a favorable decision from that court in other words they've excluded them in the full knowledge that they won't be there in in korea to compete it in minutes into the hour still to come a humanitarian group has been targeted in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad and bringing more into that after this. global warming. dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. to do so for the tell you that because of the public but.

that doesn't tell you on the cool enough to buy. all the hawks that we along. with one. 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 for without it. a low again told us democrats are claiming that russian balts are once again attempting to manipulate public opinion this time by amplifying calls for the release of a potentially explosive memo on social media and joins me live from new york with

a little bit more on this i do feel we've been here before what's going on. well the memo in question is a memo showing f.b.i. misconduct possibly as much as spying on donald trump now there's been a huge upsurge on social media people demanding that this memo be released now the democrats say that this is a kremlin plot and they have just released a letter asking facebook and twitter to reveal the alleged conspiracy let's take a listen we are witnessing and doing it by the russian government through kremlin linked social media actors directly acting to intervene and influence our democratic process we urge your companies to need to take necessary steps to expose india to counts involved in this influence operation now how do they know that it's russia that's to blame for this social media upsurge well all of the citations in

their letter is simply media reports that are rather unsubstantiated now what's particularly interesting is that this memo was very clearly started by republicans who saw the memo and called it jaw dropping let's take a listen to that i had that same shock feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our justice department and this f.b.i. that's how serious this is that there has been a real attempt to undermine this president that is the type of information that we need all americans to see immediately the american people deserve. they must say they want to know what's in this document sadly much of the mainstream media will not be covering this today but in this house on this day let us know that indeed we are still one nation under god and willing to protect life. now the calls for the

memo to be released were clearly started by top republicans and at this point the hash tag released the memo is being used by millions of americans on social media however are the democrats say this is all a kremlin conspiracy it looks like they're falling back on their old canard ok do keep us abreast with what comes of this it looks to have some legs at least killer and life from new york city this hour thank you. at least two people have been killed and dozens more injured in the afghan city of jalalabad a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb the office of the humanitarian group save the children reportedly up to fifty people were in the building at the time save the children has now announced it's temporarily shutting down work in afghanistan according to afghan media eisel has claimed responsibility for the here's how witnesses described the assault. and the sound of gunfire then a very big explosion i think it was

a car bomb there were several other explosions and more gunfire. first i heard gunfire when a car bomb exploded and suicide attackers came. in this area several residents were brutally killed the situation was very parent well with the security situation worsening in afghanistan the u.s. is increasing the number of combat aircraft it has in the south of the country according to a nato press release washington wants to step up efforts to cripple taliban control infrastructure and called off the fundamentalist movements revenue streams it is estimated that the taliban effectively controls run forty percent of this town and on sunday it was behind an attack on a luxury hotel in kabul that left at least twenty two dead political analyst muslim believes there will be no stability in the country until the u.s. withdraws. president carries out of the hand of his government as

a valve you criticize saying you are doing insane and they are in afghanistan at all and there is no chance are there is no hope to be a stable afghanistan under the dominance of united states the big question is why it day by day the situation is going to do it day by day the afghan people has become hopeless if the united states is couldn't defeat i is all taliban in the country so they should confess that. more than two hundred high profile saudi arabians are at the forefront of the gulf states corruption crackdown dozens have been detained at the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh or over all criminal proceedings may be dropped if they agree to pay a hefty sum for their freedom. well

just an update talks with those suspected of corruption were expected to end this month with huff of the detainees already agreeing to pick up the check that means according to local media to run one hundred of those who didn't pay up are soon

going to be referred to the public prosecution for trial it's a story we'll be keeping a close eye on as the weeks progress all the news for no you can read more on all those stories on our dot com and i'll be back and watch just about half an hour's time with more global news live from our. a flight from many flips 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 super money joe. has been spending. twenty million one playa. it's an experience like nothing else i'm here because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy my great so what more chance for. peace it's going to.

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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 is 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 i'm 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 son a 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 you see. as you get to the bottom if you look at. what it looks like you know that i got. this. week except. for the last of the hawks i have a robot head on top of the wallace. so yeah it's a genesis and the whole idea of trump coming to washington was to drain the swamp 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 that there were some checks and balance there 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 vote down and did their jobs and held them in check more and i want to know that other 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 that they not only had to inform 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 we'll say that the intelligence community will get it and waste and then that exactly you know and that's service for you and it is it's all it's i mean that's the question is how much of our politicians so afraid of the intelligence we do you kind of brings back memories of les 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 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 late 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 must civitas as underfoot his every move. 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 your shirt 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 refineries on the east coast have had to rely on more costly crude imports from foreign sources and the continued 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 corps and lobby when senators from corn producing states like iowa threaten to block trucks 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. 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 following the 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 is pretty progressive for george w. bush actually do i'm shocked you know we are all so agree 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 i 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 oil that's decided that's all we got but apparently that apparently we're just going forget about you know solar. energy you know because that's not a narrow minded thinking because money and lobby is 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 and central park can't see what's going on around the white if you don't want the horse to freak out at all freak out if they don't know 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 i o. feel oh. come on it you know and that's the thing and that's what people don't realize about biofuels like 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. 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 incredibly important the goal for bio energy to me 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 produced in court you know and we already are over farming for industrial far you know we're for industrial farming and things like that but tab of the big question is is it illuminates the audience of why is it 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 or 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 c.e.o. biofuel production and the mandates are responsible.