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good. for. the leader of the. joint forces with. stories for this friday. a very warm welcome. the new york times has released an opinion based film allegedly.

takes a closer look at their supposed history. the seven commandments of fake news that come on earth click big headlines were not this would be a masterpiece of the. cold war style missions in the american heartland twenty sixteen the same techniques same region even. the same. great production value music showing in their opinion how russian this information evolved from the cold war can you give regions was evaluated on how many proved to do soon promotion of versions of the. quick disclaimer this is an opinion piece so you can bug the new york times about factual inaccuracies which seem to make up the bulk of

this series for one the defected spy that gave the interview and confirmed all of this never even worked at the k.g.b. he fled from czechoslovakia which wasn't even part of the u.s.s.r. putin started funding something called the internet research agency this is serious said who was the proof how are her hold on i forget opinion piece. well you know it's just like. your opinion the centerpiece of the k.g.b.'s seven commandments on fake news find a crack in society create a lie so big nobody would believe that it was made up wrap it in a kernel of truth conceal your hand as if the story came from someone else find a useful idiot deny everything and play the long game inevitably of course we get

in on rubble mention isn't it nice to have your own t.v. show wow that does it they got us stellar journalism mit except you know. i have this nagging feeling this doubt the k.g.b. playbook that they claim to have exposed fits one story even better to this probably new york times style commandment one the crack in society donald trump new york times is personal enemy check commandment to the outlandish lie donald trump the president of the united states of america is a russian spy check commandment three sprinkle of truth everyone moves donald trump met with the russians he's been to moscow checks out c'mon mint for conceal your hand the anonymous sources unnamed officials political experts they all seem to

spend more time talking to the press than doing anything else check come on month five find a useful idiot hope come on this is too easy his opponents will believe anything about trump remember the secret dossier that said he hide who gets to peel in a bed check commandment six deny everything check we didn't reveal anybody reported c.n.n. or because he did well you're going to. first but i'm going to be you know when c.n.n. did come on and seven play the long game that's what they've been doing in the endless cycle of stories about russian hackers speak news invasions aggression it's been long all right. seven commandments have been followed faith is strong father in fake news heaven hallowed be thy name you can it's come you news be done

on earth as on the internet men. everyone knows how the french love wine so when the us president said american wine is just as excellent as the french seemingly. so we decided to put parisians to our very own arty wine challenge to find out who comes up. as donald trump thrashed out at france's president this week on twitter he also took a much what he saw as unfair trade practices when it comes to wine tariffs way sis said the french who are very precious about that wine they don't said both countries made excellent wine but france made it very hard for the us to sell its wines to the country and charges big tariffs so that got us thinking who makes the better wine the us all fronts it's time for a battle of the new world wine this is the old and the judges it's the parisians

say. new rules will soon. know. the full say. don't you know. really think of it. i would say our pool room. but the only big thing the big have to do most of it. where you just don't live very much.

in the wake of. this is. but who will sit with you so the verdict is in a hundred it's clear parisians preferred the wine from the us all her well maybe for once the donald has been vindicated as the wind from his country seems to have trumped that from france so on this occasion from paris we admit defeat but nevertheless we will always weighs a gloss and say so and say show that you can ski r.t. paris. british prime minister tourism a has defended her draft brecht's deal saying it will put the u.k. on the right course for a definitive divorce from the european union despite a climate of criticism over her latest plan she again urged members of parliament to unite and get behind it. yes difficult and sometimes uncomfortable decisions have had to be made i understand fully that there is some who are unhappy with

those compromises but this deal delivers what people voted for in the national interest and we can only secure it if we unite behind the agreement reached in cap and it yesterday. so with the march on twenty nine thousand bricks the deadline looming to reason may has come under increasing pressure to secure concessions from the e.u. but on thursday the prime minister suffered yet another bruising day in office after her latest divorce plans triggered a wave of resignations and talk of a no confidence vote she also had to face a three hour morning in parliament by m.p.'s. we can choose to leave with no deal we can risk no breaks it is all we can. i or we can choose to unite and support the best deal that can be negotiated this deal the withdrawal

agreement and the outline political career a should represent a huge and damaging failure prime minister comes before us today trying to sell us a deal that is already dead in the water i'm almost tempted to ask if one of the members opposite will put their hands up actually do support i prime minister i suppose i thought it was my right on a vote for which served we would leave the customs union. the next two says otherwise my right on friend said that she would maintain the integrity of the united kingdom the whole protocol so it's all the wise my right on her frode so that we would be out of the jurisdiction of the york and court of justice ask one hundred seventy four says otherwise it's very hard to see her staying perhaps even beyond the weekend because at least forty eight conservative m.p.'s have i

understand put in a letter of no confidence in her which triggers a no confidence debate and then vote and even if she won it as mrs that charge did i remind you if sufficiently large. minority votes that they have no confidence in her i would have thought her goose was cooked it's been a series of cabinet resignations government minister resignations and parliamentary private secretary of resignations even the vice chairman of the conservative party itself has resigned saul it's very hard to see how someone who's dug in behind a brick deal which seems to be almost friendless this is a failure is an orphan and success has a thousand parents well this breaks that deal look very much like an orphan to me today. a terrorist group in syria is claiming to have united rival

factions to fight the government in evenly province this comes as the russian foreign ministry accuses so-called moderate rebels of helping extremists violate an internationally mediated buffer zone agreement it into trying to reports. terry is the province is still an unbelievably complicated melting pot of anti assad militias from those known as syria's moderate rebels to internationally recognized terrorists like hayat to harir al shaab probably the mightiest group it's the former nusra front otherwise it in syria should ring a bell. well

a so-called spokesman for the armed wing of that same talk. has given an interview for there are many. who feels like he is not. the man didn't come up with any kind of full list of who's involved but kept repeating everyone in the free lands that's how he refers to areas not controlled by damascus question if we are to believe the guy have the lines between terrorists and moderates been blurred completely an adlib technically there's a ceasefire between the government and the rebels and a buffer zone in the province right now it was brokered by turkey and russia and eventually backed by france and germany the buffer zone is meant to be free of any terrorists but if it is the terrorists that are now taking control of a joint command center for everyone how does the cease fire deal make sense anyway

at least you're going to zation the programs guest works and fights for doesn't seem to have any intention of laying their guns down and show no one would you who he said have been. doing mostly the. and then we. have a. total this video also deserves a quick look to the right at the interviewer some t.v. stations used to love having be lobdell kareem on air people executed it's as simple as that what can i do here and see a blend in the crowd i don't think so am i going to turn my so over to the regime forces absolutely not i'm out to see some of them. i'm after a night that we spend some. time sometimes you will hear someone say that they are

part of al-qaeda but what is their real affiliation to al qaeda other than some romantic notion to be honest with you he was one of those who were once sending out last messages from besieged aleppo before death from assad's bombs here in besieged aleppo. we may not be able to see any one messages as regime forces push closer this might be close to if not be a last communication but his reports have since kept coming and he was even accused of links to al qaida something has denied c.n.n. actually try to distance themselves from a bill karim and one of their more recent documentaries well november twenty. two interviewing a high profile figure of tough we're all shocked aka x. news. aka al qaeda in syria. journalist patrick henningsen believes that

by supporting moderate rebel groups western powers are now ultimately helping terrorists now you have effectively a consolidation of all the militants under one terrorist on bravo effectively so if the west is going to intervene diplomatically if the us is going to want to stop syria from retaking its own territory and its allies who are helping them do that then effectively they're taking the side of of a terrorist. confound officially according to h.g.'s nusra front in charge al-qaeda affiliate all under their control now so any and if they were moderate yesterday they're not moderate today syrian army. turkey. even the u.s. everyone has to accept the fact that it lived as a terrorist occupied. region right now if friday news program continues in just a moment here on our international in the mix if you will stories members of

a youth poddy have been caught singing a nazi era song in public and their reactions have been foster and you know yes story in just a minute. this reserve bank unable to see yes is it at the center of america's descent into

financial armageddon can you blame the fat for such things as the infrastructure collapse across america the ecological collapse. california wildfires and hurricanes across the nation. busted in detroit leading our stick boys in love yes yes you can because they give money to the bad beat. you can join us for the program today a new children's toy aimed at kids aged five and up that's going on sale in america has sparked concern the critics saying it brings the political divisions in the country straight into the kindergarten artesian here and now looks at whether it

this time of heightened sensitivity used parents and millenia old to easily trigger . in these extraordinary top see tovey times one would hope that the lives of our kids could at least for now remain innocent and protected from the political craziness but think again this christmas one conservative website would like us. children to build the wall of the law you know the wall is real the wall and not just any wall but one that will keep your country safe as a mob yes a mob of ten thousand migrants march across mexico until war to the border sounds like an ideal stocking fella or maybe not.

as this politician will tell you you'll never too young for politics brian loves playing the kids build the wall then mr trump said you're fired right about that part of building blocks on your child's thing perhaps they'll have more fun putting hillary clinton behind bars with this play set and while we're at it these are not the only games being criticized as highly inappropriate now we all adore a six hour game of monopoly that usually ends in tears but now players may start crying before they even open the box but a new millennial is addition of the game office and i watering taste of reality the tag line says it all forget real estate you can't afford it anyway forget about passing go because you don't make money you just collect experiences like sleeping on your friend's couch or visiting a vacant b. stroke mr monopoly also got a make over taking a selfie with

a participation medal the company insists that the game is aimed at adults something to chuckle about on christmas morning with uncle john but spoof or not the outrage has been relentless so it turns out we could have called classic monopoly boom a monopoly all along has a bunch of money you have no debt everything is affordable. and you can go straight from starting out in life to a rich british state mogul with no formal education you are aware that student debt and the rising cost of rent is crippling the economy talking about it a yogic but then when we need to judge what's acceptable for kids to play with some point out that today is that old crow playing with unrealistic female role models like barbie and racist not to mention sexist stereotypes like super mario and let's not even get started on fairytales. a

group of members of angela merkel's youth party have sparked outrage in berlin after being caught singing a nazi era song and shouting homophobic slurs at the isn't intellectually took place in a bar earlier this month on the anniversary of the infamous nine hundred thirty eight nazi paul graham against jews. at the controversial of best of old song is originally from one hundred thirty two it was a frequently sung by nazi soldiers during invasions including that of france and of the netherlands in fact it remained a part of germany's official military song book until just last year around fifteen youth party members were caught singing the best of old drawing condemnation from politicians. to sing popular a very marked song on the eightieth anniversary of the november programs is

stunning i am ashamed of the j. ews brunches to sing it song that was sung during the invasion of belgium luxembourg and france is not acceptable this is not my j u the local chapter of the cd used youth wing party has issued an apology for the disturbances caused by its members at the bar although it dismissed any wrongdoing describing the nazi era tune as a german folk and hiking song we spoke to a member of germany's left party who says the incident only adds more shame to one of the country's darkest chapters. germany i'm disgusted by the way here the discredited everything that people did after the war are degraded that english nazi soldiers marching into our last see you through a hash regulus that's what it is always bad more right wing and right wing extremists. but it was always balanced by the liberal liberal

part of the youth and if you look at the see you in general it's not an isolated incident at all it's lowly wholly pronounced in nazi ideology major it is. a minute of silence to commemorate the people that were violated by the nazis and today are changing. the c.d.u. now gross well so intensified shall i ask all the educational little education of the last eighty years and how you've been. reading us. a split between the ukrainian and russian orthodox churches could soon become official and my colleague bill harvey discussed the situation with our correspondent daniel. while religious scandals around churches in ukraine to many

might seem irrelevant a historic theological debate but actually carries a lot more meaning to orthodox believers need to look at the basics first the eastern orthodox church is made up of fifteen different churches each of which one has autonomy in religious language that is called autocephaly being a church has its own self governance independence and jurisdiction now the russian orthodox church for centuries has had rule over the key of orthodox church have been political and religious factions of the country which a very long time pushed for a independent ukraine an orthodox church to be established indeed the president of ukraine petro poroshenko has been a supporter of this he's implied that the creation of this church is just as important to ukraine's independence and rebirth as joining the e.u. or nato autocephaly is the most important event from the same serious as our aspiration to join the un nato the association agreement a visa free regime with the e.u. withdrawal from the c.i.s.

rejection of the deceptive treaty and friendship with russia etc all this is the basis of our all my way of development development of ukraine so if this is going to happen it's not going to come easily it's quite a complicated situation in ukraine is that yes there's more than one orthodox church in ukraine apart from the main one recognized officially as part of the moscow patriarchate there are also two other churches now they broke away in the early ninety's when ukraine got its independence from the u.s.s.r. this is the key of patriarchates and ukrainian autocephalous church these claim independence but they have never been recognized officially as official corrugations that's until very recently when the patriarch of constantinople made. moves to give them that autonomy that independence as well this is very much angered the moscow patriarch the russian orthodox church doesn't accept these decisions and will not follow them schism is schism and its leaders are the leaders of the schism and the church that accepted the schism excluded itself from the

economical field it decision has been made to rupture food communion with the constantinople patriarchate we cannot be in communication with this church which is in schism what about the everyday church goers were they in any way be affected or i think it's going to cause a lot of confusion and division i mean this is seen as a wider context as part of that conflict between russia and ukraine east and west those debates over independence and cultural heritage in the bigger picture here tensions have been rising since about twenty fourteen there have been dozens of attacks since then by ukrainian nationalists orthodox churches aligned with moscow they view them as enemies of ukraine as effectively tools of the kremlin in terms of church property there may be conflicts as well the moscow aligned church owns around twelve thousand parishes in ukraine those two other ukrainian churches which may soon unite control about half that number so in terms of ownership of churches in terms of income revenue in terms of where followers are going to go and practice

their faith this is certainly an issue that's not going to go away and is likely to certainly cause some more confusion and division in a country already deeply divided. thanks for sharing some of your time with us here at r.t. international on this friday program we are back at the top of the hour with much more. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round listen to the one percent.

you know middle of the room sick. room. with. trump versus the media what was once a battle of angry wars an accusation is now a legal case in the courts perspective on the war suit of c.n.n. versus the white house from legal expert dan abrams on this edition of. the good of politicking i'm larry king and i'm in new york c.n.n.

that it's white house reporter jim acosta both frequent targets of the president's ire are suing this robin ministration for yanking the cost of this press access to the white house following a recent incident during a press conference when jim acosta refused to surrender a biker phone during a back and forth with president trump does c.n.n. and jim acosta have a case and well what do. will it mean for the president's already bad relationship with the press corps going forward i talked about that with dan abrams this week dan is the a.b.c. news chief legal analyst he's founder of the law and crime network and host of the dan abrams show where politics meets the law on sirius x.m. here is that interview what what do you make of the c.n.n. case about jim acosta does he have the right to have a press.