and seems to have buckled under the squeeze well it has made itself very vulnerable because it has made these promises and it's even done some things to try to filter misinformation out of its social network even though they have tried to do things it doesn't appear to be working we're going to see a lot of pressure increasing pressure on facebook at unilever things that could fix it by giving including marketplace pressure on facebook i'm a little bit skeptical that that will actually work facebook is tackling an ever growing list of coles and ultimatums first from politicians and security services now it seems corporations that shipping into facebook spending to dumond's could well backfire. a top u.s. democratic lawmakers called for motives the meetings alleged russian meddling that's on top of the three major investigations already underway in the united states guy's name is jerrold nadler he thinks the current administration is not doing enough to address the threat which he described as being equivalent to

bullets we ought to protect ourselves this is a very severe threat and this is as much an attack on the united states as if there were bombs and bullets this is an attack on our essential governing structure amid the continuing allegations of russia toys one of the investigators on the senate intelligence committee now has found himself in broad controversy jacqueline bukas . in case you haven't noticed the democratic party is very worried about big bad russia the film portals into our society the kremlin claim and russia has harnessed the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media truly troubling evidence of the scope and reach of russia's interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senate's russian investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm concerned. but the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything

necessary to battle moscow's reach based on leaked text messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and clued in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with christopher steele the former spy behind the now infamous trump dossier we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we can't get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steel that would be one mr adam wildman a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did the pasta and according to the tax womyn is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin puppet now this is all way under the table warner repeatedly refused to make the invitation to speak to seal officially in writing while at the same time telling wildman that the pair's efforts would be helping america and apparently in

his mind the way to do that is to be includes with the confidant of one of the richest men in russia and according to republican senator marco rubio the whole senate intelligence committee has known about the contacts for months so if neither the democrats nor the republicans care about warner's conduct is it just that collusion is a problem reserved for only one party or is the reality here that russia is just being used in a political game of chess one or said it one point we have to be careful of paraphrasing here i don't want a paper trail now if what he was doing was fine and dandy and innocuous and no big deal then why would he care if there was a paper trail he certainly should have or his staff should have known who he was communicating with who this lobbyist represented if you're going to talk to a lobbyist about getting a one on one face to face with christopher steele then you should know who you're dealing with in trying to arrange that need. the fix was in the toys are between

the democrats and russia more so than anything trump ever had to do with russia but it just shows what hypocrites they are and the american media just ignores these things. called reverses over lead russian meddling of reach the us media to the home security problems accusing a major t.v. network of folds reporting of most coups perceived to be used during the twenty sixteen presidential of that in washington with the cone well the department of homeland security has discredited a n.b.c. news report claiming that russians hacked into voter registration rolls of prior to the election now in a statement jeanette man for the department's chief security official said that quote recent n.b.c. reporting has misrepresented facts and confuse the public with regard to the department of homeland security's efforts to combat election hacking but in the report n.b.c. interviewed man for and all she said was that twenty one states were targeted but somehow the articles headline was russians penetrated the u.s.

voter systems which according to you man for a statement she found incredibly misleading while the u.s. has been accusing the kremlin of influencing the election for over a year and a half now but there have also been rumors floating around that russia influenced the brags that now the british government's been busy trying to link russia to the braggs of folk but even you tube has gone on record saying that there's been no proof of that sort and across the pond the u.s. has been searching relentlessly for anything to pin hillary's loss on russia so this is just yet another russian interference and it successfully debunked but the u.s. establishment refuses to let go of this idea that russia supposedly hacked the election so i have to ask how many more times will this have to happen until they finally admit that there was no you know magical russian meddling. washington's top diplomat admits islamic state hasn't yet been defeated in syria despite victory being declared last year.

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new in this day the president of turkey has sent a warning to the united states threatening aggressors with what called the ottoman slap he came in response to u.s. commanders vow to use aggression if washington but forces were confronted. respond aggressively. this aggressive exchange of words is heightened tensions in and around syria of how washington currently view kurdish forces differently or monday washington admitted that some of the kurdish groups the trains are no shifting to fight against turkish troops in the north of syria turkey is currently on the offensive against kurdish groups there and it deems them as terrorists

cullom open has more on the situation that now seems to be developing in syria u.s. secretary of defense james mattis has confirmed that u.s. armed kurdish forces in the ass d.f. have been relocating to the northern parts of syria to protect territory from turkey. the destruction of was going on up enough and right now which is drawing off some of the syrian democratic forces to see the snuff and on the run so the schools and the police there are tensions to shift. now the kurds and turkey are both key u.s. allies in the region however there's been tension between all three of them in recent months now we've heard of how the usa has been arming the kurdish forces and providing them with weapons now and carra has been quite upset by this action they consider this to be the arming of terrorists now at this point we do have a statement from james mattis confirming that he believes there are legitimate security concerns on turkey's part about these kurdish forces that have been armed

by the united states. to work with so on there is of disagreements which is how do we take them on as he was rapidly as possible they have a legitimate security concern and we do not dismiss one bits of them now there has been escalating tension between the united states and turkey especially in the aftermath of an announcement from the united states that it intended to create a thirty thousand strong border force to protect syria's border with turkey now u.s. leaders backtracked from those comments but that hasn't stopped turkey from being quite upset by these remarks now we've recently seen the beginning of operation olive branch and this is turkish forces moving into syria to fight against the kurds two allies of the united states clashing with each other in syria as the tensions escalate we're even hearing calls to rename the street on which the u.s. embassy in turkey's capital is located there are calls to rename the street olive

branch after operation olive branch the turkish operation to go into syria and fight against the kurdish forces armed by the united states there seems to be quite a bit of contradiction in the words and statements of u.s. leaders and there seems. to be rising tension between all three parties the usa turkey and the kurdish forces. with relations being tested between the two nato allies the new us top diplomat rex tillerson the visiting to his part of his middle east to until a since admitting the fight against islamic states far from over in syria despite washington declaring victory over the terror group back in november. the end of major combat operations does not mean we have achieved the enduring to future crisis isis remains a serious threat to the stability of the region our home loans and other parts of the globe last month the us announced plans to maintain an open ended military presence in syria it says some two thousand troops are set to stay all know in the

country to prevent what they term an ice will research ins and to counter iran's influence in the region washington also says it wants to ensure the civil war is resolved through political process and that displaced locals can return to their homes to that end they've also pledged two hundred million dollars in aid but russian foreign minister sergei lavrov thinks washington's presence might become permanent. but you are still that the u.s. is its presence should continue not only into military goals are achieved but also until there's a steady political process that should end with an appropriate or in other words accepted by the us transition of power that means regime change overall we have reasons to believe that the u.s. wants to stay there for a long time if not forever the united states would like to pressure damascus by whatever means it has to change to or to effect a political change over there that the united states would like to be you know

would like to endorse and then later on they could probably say ok we like that sort of change and let's get out of here otherwise we won't be getting out of here now as only the face of it the real thing is that we believe that the united states is preparing the ground for a long term separation or a permanent actually separation of eastern north eastern syria from the syrian state and the two hundred million dollars that are being placed today are not going to bring back electricity and water to the devastated rock we believe but probably bring more weapons to the kurds which is going to put some pressure on other minorities in the region to accept kurdish supremacy and the united states you know under the united states and. the time human rights watch has called for international support including the rubble of the mining of the syrian city of rocket it says almost five hundred civilians were injured in the three months after the liberation and many more were killed it says in its report the organization

also highlighted the growing risk of more civilians being killed as people return to the devastated city now didn't hurry counterterrorism program director of human rights watch spoke to us about the group's findings. just describe to you what i saw in iraq residents are very desperate to go and check on their home and because of the high risk and because a few working off are too nice for many young men you can go to a couple of in the city and for about fifty dollars you can hire people to go clear your house. you know but also. run and some war this is a time where you know they're not trained to do this it's very dangerous and many other countries. they need to provide more support what sort of support. to be more equipment more funding and increase in number of the miners and early increase

in the treating the. local residents in the mining while there have been some mining efforts i don't direct. the mining is funded by the international coalition or through training this is not sufficient compared to the need and local residents are desperate for more support for the efforts. of british courts expected to announce the results of an appeal it could be imminent by the wiki leaks that had to julian sunday against an arrest warrant for breaching bail in the u.k. here in a week ago held up the warrant is of course still stuck in the door an embassy in london has been a phonetics six years now after seeking asylum first off and this is the look says fight for freedom that is ongoing. when one door closes another door opens but not for julian a songe holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london for years on end he has heard all after hurdle to overcome to walk

a free man without being forced to look over his shoulder but the seemingly endless international saga could be about to turn a new page as a judge in london continues to consider whether the arrest warrant against the weak you leaks founder could be dropped last week amidst a media frenzy it was decided that this is spend should have an investigation into alleged crimes in sweden that first led to his arrest was not sufficient reason to drop the warrant but a songe and his defense team believe his freedom is long overdue new judgment on whether to lift the u.k. warrant for my arrest two issues one cover up by the u.k. government of its collusion to keep me to taint to already served over three times the max theoretical sentence even before seeking asylum the cover up of sondre first two is based on newly released confidential e-mails between prosecutors in sweden and the u.k. seen and reported on by the u.k.'s guardian newspaper swedish investigators who reportedly want to the suspension of an investigation much earlier only to be told

by the british side to hold on as costs shouldn't be an issue and that the case should not be treated as just another extradition the latter has always been a songes biggest fear he believes the united states want him for scandalous revelations wiki leaks published about their activities around the world this case is and has always been about the risk of extradition chain united states and that risk remains real he needs an issuance and he will not be extra to the united states to face prosecution and those are assurances that won't come from inside a courtroom what happens there is significant in terms of potentially opening legal doors one by one but the end game is much trickier than that because it's what happens even if a songe walks out these doors that's going to decide his future. in the long run and if the teacher can our client. has a break breaking news just before i go could be something could be nothing u.k. police are currently investigating what they describe as an incident at the houses

of parliament in london there's a heavy police presence there visible outside the building apparently the parliament current of course in recess this time we're so father thought he's in london unable to immediately give any extra information but they said they would provide it up thanks shortly if we get hold of that in the next half hour we'll update you as well to dot com of course for all our stories twenty four seventh's flows kevin always saying thanks for watching out international we always appreciate it having a good afternoon. tell us stein is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos. to listen to you like you know. this is my cousin he is going to study hall meeting. john tells. me the only palestinians who gets the most help from his jerusalem counterparts i

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the middle of a video game. jewel as a warm up before the first match of the season for the university's american football team the wildcats are going to drink a beer before you can start the race so your way to paraphrase cheers a lot of. these students have found themselves a great way of supporting their team since breakfast is a shock. a large supply of strawberry banana flavored vodka david and brandon down four shots in less than two minutes on empty stomachs and the beach is about cause good. for the students university sports events are a great chance to get away from the pressure of best. bodies but also a particularly good opportunity to party and dress. all. your grandson isn't twenty one years old yet the legal age for drinking alcohol in the

usa. but on campus circumventing the law has become a national sport. about another on the way to the stadium they get thirsty again yeah the competition has started. in the streets of lexington the behavior of these young men doesn't seem to shock anyone you go there. and the students even walk along with a bottle of vodka in their hand however as is the case on many other american campuses alcohol is illegal here the cops don't care that is that there was a default down for you to hammer though like a residue but as long as you can spare. the gold rush or somebody on university match days anything goes for almost anything. just outside the stadium the traditional parade has started. led

by kerry their leader the cheerleaders galvanized the crowd. here a triumphant parade announces the arrival of the uncontested stars of the campus. around fifty student football players accompanied by their team of staff. all eyes are on this group of players good enough to play for the big professional team. in the usa the love of university sports goes much further than the campus supporters . in the stadium parking lot many supporters teds have been set up. fans of all ages from all over kentucky support the wildcats. is beyond me this weekend. but we will bring. it to. the fans are very loyal and also very generous. tickets sales related merchandise supported donations last year the football team brought in more than

thirty million dollars for the university a cash machine which contributes to its fate. inside the stadium the great event of the sports business has begun. the brass band on the cheerleaders provide a great show. for the play it's a rifle. that cheered on by a crowd of sixty thousand supporters. twenty two year old frenchman tom giambi has a front row seat. look it's a touchdown i missed it almost a tester. tom as a top level tennis player recruited by the university to defend their colors. with. the

frenchman was awarded a sports scholarship which allows him to study for free today's his moment of glory . a nun attainable treat for the majority of students because behind all the show and the american universities hired a reality that is very different. columbia dartmouth new york university american universities are among the best in the world renowned for their teaching their sports establishment but also for campus life. and party. studying. it can cost up to eighty thousand dollars a year so when students don't receive scholarships like tom they take on a debt in order to finance their studies i broke thirty two thousand and it's up to

one hundred twenty. to get by financially some female students like it don't hesitate to look for support. or to take the first few hundred dollars. aside openly matches up generous donors with indebted students and so the controversy breaks out. you are a prostitute and you are a mit educated person. on campus the pressure to succeed is so high that american students open window binge drinking to let their hair down. but also taking amphetamine derivatives to boost their academic results there's a real trafficking of substances going on in. the fraternities are a symbol of prestige in american universities they attract students who want to be part of the elite. to join these influential and secret societies some are willing to be put through all sorts of humiliation we would get points for vomiting

on each other. diving into the heart of american campuses where the obsession to success justifies all manner of extremes. lexington is the second largest city in the state of kentucky. over the last three years tom giambi has become one of the local tennis teams mainstays and thanks to this he lives in this residence with the swimming pool free of charge also known for the eagles who. need. to keep. the lexington campus holds more than twenty eight thousand students cost of studies up to twenty thousand dollars per year. but even so the tennis player doesn't pay a penny it gets better in a. to enable him to succeed on the tennis court the university adapts to his sports schedule. one here in intervals of your active directory i.v.

and password. thomas and his final year of communication studies now with the many matches he has scheduled for the season he will often be absent with such students the university asked that the teachers off lexical visitors have to physically. alright it's for the spirit official university sponsored event yeah that's not a problem so teachers have to be accommodating was students like tom yeah we have to be able to work with work with them in their schedule we can do that. because at lexington the campus lends itself to sport and the olympic size swimming for a climbing wall of running track the city is also home to the largest basketball stadium in america. to attract the best athletes the university lays out its red carpet. almost twelve million dollars of scholarship money is shared out every year.

but the schedules of the school students are not restful in the slightest. most students are still sleeping with thomas back at the changing. the world. with a new university term new supplies await him in his. views on the joys of. those who think like a new few. gifts bearing the acronym of a big sports equipment brand the university's official sponsor. even the more than . you know i just for the for your. call there was. this. tome of his eleven team

members trained on average for four hours a day coached by fellow frenchman city called. blue we told you about. this former professional player has led the kentucky tennis team for the last two years . to strengthen their teams american universities recruit internationally the contract is simple they have to wait for the spotless no longer for him to not return. and the university of kentucky certainly provides the means. here there are almost two hundred people to ensure the welfare of the athletes footballers basketball players tennis players after training that all meet in the state of the art care facility. with a mandatory dip in the i spoke. with the. children or their. families on american campuses the athletes are

not quite like the other students. every year they bring in about one hundred four million dollars for the university. on the top of the podium american footballers and their indispensable cheerleaders. nineteen times university champion the kentucky team holds the most titles in the history of the united states toned flexible agile here cheerleaders are reluctant. kiri is twenty two years old she's one of the team captains. like tom no school fees are completely covered so this young woman likes to get things right. today is official photo day these photos will grace the posters on the calendars for the upcoming season carrie therefore wants to look perfect they are actually the image of the school we are we are us along with the wildcat.