i'm thinking. china plays a more important role than the u.s. in the world today according to newly released data from a washington based think the same survey shows a lack of trust in donald trump's leadership compared to other world leaders. coming up on the program the daughter of a german rightwing politician is disqualified from a contest for her verse it comes just as the country's opposition the right wing party its record highs. may the force be with russian trolls are accused of swaying public opinion this time against the latest film in the star wars franchise.

coming from our international news center this is art my name's you know needle pleasure to have your company this wednesday morning here in moscow china is playing a more important role in the world today the united states according to a recent poll by the washington based think tank the pew research center it also shows that the chinese leader is more trusted than donald trump globally nikki takes up the story. what gets in donald trump obsessive his image sure but what else diana has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight. election i've done a lot of this is rich and john has market distortions china china china sea route

china talking china for and he has good reason to be fixated the rise of china is showing no signs of stopping with a nation poised to overtake america as the next world superpower polls conducted across twenty five countries show why the spread recognition that china is the emerging power with the might to more than rival uncle sam to china overtake the u.s. as the leadership in the learn when i think china will overtake the u.s. china's goal good chance of doing that there way above everybody else people underestimate i am actually the most powerful country now is certainly the united states but i think china will definitely surpass it in the future but here's the thing china may well become the most powerful in economic terms but people are not so keen on beijing taking the reigns as the globe's moral compass and think the u.s.

is still the best option is the world voice of reason trying to do what it's us would be in the heart of the scary. i lean more towards the usa for their democratic system and human rights so i don't think it would be better if china became more powerful however ranking leaders on doing the right thing and trump is well down the list lower than china's xi jinping. so you know sure. they lose. but that's not to say that trump and doesn't have those who hang on his every word taze huge in the philippines it seems most people there. nothing more than an outspoken well to mention provocative man in control and you don't even have to be able to hold a chill in. the. movie you can.

lose the minute you leave and in israel forget about it trump is the man pulling out of the iran nuclear deal and moving the us embassy to jerusalem has earned him serious brownie points and alienated a whole bunch of people to we have i would say probably the best relationships right now with israel that we have or had the who is close now is maybe ever before . with the term say on netanyahu on his side trun passes the pause but it's with china's when a song is coupled with america's decline does trump really have what it takes to

remain at the top of the world pedestal how likely to think you he's to succeed so i want to. watch close romney i don't think it's possible to be three zero scale but maybe fifteen one in five you know you know his influence around three come on let's be honest there are trump is trump. turning attention to germany now where the daughter of a german right wing politician has been disqualified from a poetry contest after reading at an empty migrant pool here's the verse. old. me even. though. what you just heard was part of a poetry competition that was organized in southwest germany by

a council as part of an anti racism initiative the entry you heard was by. the fourteen year old daughter of a right wing german politician her controversial entry provoked this reaction in the hall was well despite that reaction she was disqualified from the competition in fact there were boos when a different winner was announced there has been backlash though her mother the alternative for germany m.p. nicola has said that their house had been dogged in spray painted with nazi slurs this type of reaction to a teenager's poetry isn't surprising in germany right now the political divide in the country hasn't been this prominent in recent times in fact we've seen a number of right wing demonstrations across the country that were really sparked into existence following the stabbing to death of

a thirty five year old german man in the city of camden it's the two main suspects in custody a two asylum applications one from iraq and one from syria was of of. i was and all of this has played into the hands of the anti migrant alternative for germany party when they entered parliament just over a year ago and twenty seventeen with just less than thirteen percent of the vote they weren't really expected to build on not too much said. mazal. in your own states no not. a martyr. who is this bitter this kind zeke that says we're going to move just months. and then not tsunami thousands of our table. impellor men did in thailand not

tsunamis it's your list of. the i'm good for misunderstood start of on is our venting truck as his feeder. fast forward to now when the polls show that almost one in five germans is with alternative for germany the most recent poll showing that they would take over eighteen percent of the vote if an election with held today coming only second to the union of the c.d.u. and c.s.u. headed up by angle of merkel dissatisfaction with angola merkel's government is reasonably high here in germany but what these recent polls show is that if an election was to be held tomorrow well the chancellor wouldn't have enough votes to put together the current coalition government and a considerable minority among the german population has lost its trust into the christian democratic union into the social democratic party and of the established politics and media system voting for the f.t.

is mostly or even completely an emotionally driven voting those who voted for the a of d. simply wanted it clear we have lost trust in the it's political party a swede want to punish them and the most severe punishment for the political establishment is voting for the f.t. and this is how the things are going on in germany right now. russia's military has released video of an herb defense system being delivered to syria it's being deployed there to protect personnel after the dawning of a russian military aircraft three weeks ago off the syrian coast a total of forty nine elements hundred over to damascus including four launchers. i. i. i i.

i well according to russia's defense ministry the s. three hundred system has a range of two hundred fifty kilometers and can intercept several targets sibel tenuously the friend or full system will also go in t. that syria can identify russian aircraft syria accidentally shot down a russian il twenty reconnaissance or craft during an attack by is really fighter jets the kremlin accused israel of using the larger russian plane as cover israel confirmed conducting the air strikes but say it's jets were side syrian airspace when the plane was it. well the u.s. state department reacted to b.s. three hundred deployments saying it could escalate the situation in the region.

french authorities say they have frozen the assets of our runs intelligence agency after alleging tehran planned to bomb on a rainy an opposition groups rally near parlous the u.s. state department has not moved. we've seen what iran has done in syria we've seen right iran has done in other countries we see iran's devastation that it causes around the world as the world's us stop top sponsor of terrorism like comes after and then really unrepresentative accuse of sponsoring terrorism during a speech of a recent un general assembly meeting held in new york everybody knows very well that saudi arabia supports terrorism and a very blatant and widespread manner in the framework of we key in two thousand and nine hillary clinton is said to have stated that saudi arabia is the greatest donor

to terrorist groups around the world. well according to those documents obtained by wiki leaks then secretary of state hillary clinton called saudi arabia the most significant source of funding to sunni terrorist groups worldwide she also allegedly named saudi arabia quote a critical financial support base for al qaeda the taliban and other terrorist groups political scientists counter offer a sabi ses the u.s. applies double standards in how it treats a run and how to treat saudi arabia. why are the saudis not targeted and all the focus is on is on iran well the answer is very obvious so dear be a is a us client state that purchases billions and billions of dollars of arms and furnishes oil to the western governments who in return protected and immunize it from criticism we saw

a very recent law and report lambasted in saudi arabia for the at or us cities in yemen and the humanitarian catastrophe there without anyone including the french diplomats raising an eyebrow or. the scandal surrounding donald trump supreme court nominee has moved into different territory as brick bottles three allegations of sexual misconduct his name on face are not only in pretty much every headline but on quite a few t. shirts to. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh brett kavanaugh cavanagh judge dr christine blas a ford a pool cues this cavanagh of sexually assaulting her when the two were both in high school. and never had sexual intercourse or anything close to it during high school or for many years after that some crowds

was probably a little on our working we shot i got my inexperience. tried to hide that. i drank beer with my friends almost everyone did i liked. i still like beer.

america is a house deeply divided and that division only continues the entire brett kavanaugh saga has turned into blood sport demanding each and every one of us pick a side we're in new territory and that place is called winner takes all. you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up

to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. fighting a fake news about swats we've heard from web search giant google pretty much right from the moment the first faults reports sneaked in take

a look. we have to take the problem very very seriously we have to think about what we can do there we have very clear policies in place which are just that some of our policies were moving really really fast with what we can control and indeed here it is the word fake next to google itself an investigation by the u.k.'s times newspaper only covered the search giant allowing fake web sites to buy advertising space under terms like fake credit card works well google offered the service for up to one pause a click has even been coming up with its own suggestions offering to buy similar search terms to boost views well many see it as a breach of the company's core values. we value honesty and fairness so we don't allow the promotion of products or services that are designed to enable dishonest behavior. well google was quick to respond

claiming over three million so-called bad were blocked last year alone new era consulting funder of building new ses well most of the effort and resources are being focused on the most profitable areas no matter what they are. i think it's notable that. we're looking at areas where they generate the most money for their own services and that is in the targeting of they have put a lot of resources into making the algorithms far more sophisticated where they have lacked sophistication such as in the identification of insight for materials inappropriate materials and sort of some of the fraudulent activity that we're looking at today those are areas which aren't actually front and center in terms of their ad business and therefore there's been less resource put into these areas in

terms of making the algorithms more sophisticated what we need to see is google and facebook and others stepping up and actually improving those algorithms otherwise they're going to face some fairly draconian regulation. to something a little different first it was the presidential elections are not alleged assault on american democracy you know those russian trolls are up to something even more sinister they've had a galaxy far far away apparently targeting hollywood and the star wars franchise. hey america they stole your election hey britain they stole your dream of a united europe democracy will never be the same because of russian memes thralls boughts well surely there is something still sacred in western culture are off limits to the russians.

oh no the kremlin folks even got their hands on star wars russian trolls weaponized style was criticism as an instrument for information warfare with the purpose of pushing for political change this was from a real study by a brave jet i call or i mean who claims there's been a force that was fighting to make the last jet i fail wow thirty seven pages remember how the movie got booed at when those need fans couldn't forgive the director for spoiler alert killing luke skywalker and forgive him for going against all the tropes so dearly cherished by the fandom remember how the star wars lovers army even campaign to fund a remake well now you know who did it the sitz sorry the russians

had a great disturbance in the force as millions of voices suddenly cried out into the sun the sun just to prove it the guy behind the research analyzed almost a thousand online messages for the director and his result was more than half of the hate tweets came from trolls some of them were russian. the director didn't just pay attention he shared the link to the study with his twitter followers. mark. it wasn't disney not even the director it was the damn ski's public companies in the u.s. state of california are known legally required to have at least one woman on their board of directors. it must happen by the end of the year without number increasing to three in the coming years companies could also face fines of at least one

hundred thousand dollars for not complying a long awaited for many the bill has however provoked concern with the state's chamber of commerce saying it will prioritize gender over other aspects of diversity. creates discrimination now against other people in favor of women who might not even be qualified i mean you're talking about putting one woman in place there and now we're having to mandate that where there are many women in the workplace that have been working hard so rather than hoping for encouraging in the workplace there to be equal treatment of women who do a good job now we're just regulating than mandating it which is undoubtedly going to cause anarchy in the workplace is going to cause dissension among people perhaps amongst other women who have been working hard wondering why this woman got chosen just to meet a certain quota i think it's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that there is not a single woman qualified for the board of any public company in california i think we all know them and loads of women who are super well qualified to the question

should be why haven't they been appointed to those schools already why have we put up with this outdated you know white male boys' club for so so loam i think there are a lot of people on boards in california and all over the world you want qualified and i'm afraid to say the vast majority of them all men it only causes tension to grow against women against the very party that they're trying to eliminate discrimination over and so that's going to end out only cause backfiring a lot more animosity against women not just from other men in the workplace who have been working very hard but from other women in the workplace who might not be chosen to fit this one woman quota type thing for women who aren't going to be doing that and so you know it's causing dissension it's really going against it and it's going to continue to backfire against that until we change who we are intrinsically as americans in the workplace allowing equal rights because there are deserving of it and not because a lot mandates absolutely california should and will in the back of the success of this legislation for the legislation that mandates that there be

a person of color on board and then to put people of color and so on and so forth i think that's absolutely not conflicting issues it shouldn't be the case that women and people of color who incidentally many women are also people of color but we shouldn't feel like there's a sort of diversity. and we all have to fight for it we should feel like we're all part of a movement that's working towards the best of balance on boards and working towards a future which people where companies like this belong to all of us not to a tiny you know pie on my island stale corporate meat which unfortunately seems to be solved you know a cup which no one can break at the moment starting in moments laurie king talks midterm elections in the shadow of the coven or hearings stay with r.t. international. with lawmakers manufactured to sound stupid to the public well. when the

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it's a multinational of a particular kind one you all know some of you may even visit it's present across the globe and on the corner of your street. the catholic church. with its hierarchy. its communication. and its very darkest secret. to feel you. get australia seven percent of priests are thought to have sexually abused minors four percent in the united states. we discovered the clergymen found guilty of better phoebe are still active often in contact with children. thanks to internal documents will reveal how church leaders protect priests accused of sexually abusing minors. by sending them from country to country

notably in africa. the investigation into these international exiles took us to cameroon. to argentina. to the united states. to france and to italy. during our travels we stablish to this unprecedented amount that regarding the transfers of priests involved in cases of that of feeling. yeah come m. sits in the. play that up with his off by a few that most of all that it was you know i'm not that into bang up stakes i mean that of the victims number tens of thousands marked with scars. for the rest of their lives. our investigations would lead us all the way to pope francis who revealed how when he was archbishop of buenos aires he tried to influence the argentine justice department. says the. list was these

could be the best. investigated the mysteries of the church where on the altar of truth god's law seems to prevail over that of men. our inquiry into the international transfers of priests accused of pedophilia begins in the united states. we're in chicago in the shadow of this cathedral to what disavows a unique kind of protest. all are victims of pedophile priests. in their hands portraits of famous children when they were abused.