new york times claims moscow has been waging a fake news campaign against the west since soviet times. millions of dollars in its first ever ordered field the agency admitted it didn't think it would pass given decades of overspending. take artie's wind challenge we asked them to blind taste american and french reds after donald trump claimed that u.s. brands are just as good. i would say. be. pretty only

be. good evening and welcome this is arty international. new york times is. the soviet union or to deceive from a campaign to the west the parts of takes a closer look at this suppose it russian obsession with fake news. the seven commandments of fake news that come on earth click big headlines were not this would be a masterpiece of. cold little style missions in the american heartland twenty sixteen the same techniques same region even. the same trade.

great production value music showing in their opinion how russian this information evolved from the cold war the coming year if we agents was evaluated on how many prove do soon promotion of versions of the. quick disclaimer this is an opinion piece so you can bug the new york times about factual inaccuracy which seemed 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 that 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 center piece in 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 the 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 it 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 to 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 arch enemy check commandment to the outlandish lie donald trump the president of the united states of america is

a russian spy check commandment three the sprinkle of truth everyone moves donald trump met with the russians he's been to moscow checks out commandment 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 commandment 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 hired hookers to peel in a bed check commandment six deny everything check we didn't reveal when it was reported c.n.n. or because he did well you're going to want went first but i'm going to freely not blithely you know it c.n.n. did come on and seven play the long game that's what they've been doing 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 and fake news heaven hallowed be thy name you fake news come you news be done on earth as on the internet men. french wine is renowned across the world so went on to. america's attempt at the tipple is just as good well that left a sour taste in many french mouths so we decided to put parisians to the test to see if the president should be swallowing his words as donald trump thrashed out at france's president this week on twitter he also took aim at 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. for silly me you won't. know. where. the whole thing coming. from i would say our pool room. would be.

the only big. city mosul a bit more where. don't live very much. in the wake of. the banquet. so the verdict is in hand quickly clear parisians preferred the. whining from the us or 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 glass and say so and say show that you can ski r.t. paris. went on has failed its first ever full budget audit

spent millions checking through the books over weapons personnel and military property and wasn't even surprised it didn't pass after decades of wasteful overspending. we never thought we were going to post an audit seventy one was bet against us that we wouldn't even do the old it the air force the marine corps the defense logistics agency the u.s. special operations command and the u.s. transportation command a number of sections agencies divisions were given disclaimers saying that they had multiple issues that needed to be fixed the inspection involved over one thousand two hundred auditors some of the things that stand out for example we've got fifty three million dollars worth of an installed missile motors that were in not working condition they were at an air force base in utah well the auditors discovered that actually these missile motors were functional the pentagon is notorious for wasteful spending of taxpayer money.

apparently unconcerned the deputy of defense the defense department came forward and said that they were not surprised that this was simply not a pass fail audit and now the audit itself cost the taxpayers for over four hundred million dollars and the result is that more money is now going to be spent to correct the wasteful spending that was discovered by the audit pentagon turning to the american taxpayers for more money to correct the problem of wasting money to begin with. a copy in place there is seems to reveal to us prosecutors

preparing charges against the wiki leaks chief today in a song is discovered in a related cool filing which was said to be made by mistake. the complaint supporting affidavit would need to remain sealed until saunders arrested in connection with the charges in the criminal complaint and could therefore no longer evade all of void or wrist and extradition in this matter assigned has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for more than six years he fears extradition to the united states for publishing secret government documents last year sex assault charges against australia national were dropped by swedish authorities however he still faces arrest in the u.k. for breaking bail terms of exact details of the potential u.s. charges remain a mystery or science theory is that he could face a life sentence and he charges could date back to twenty turnover leak of diplomatic cables and secret military files regarding u.s. atrocities in iraq and afghan wars last year wiki leaks published the largest leak

in cia history concerning the agency's asked of cyber tools and he could be prosecuted for publishing stolen e-mails in the democratic national committee as of the twenty sixteen election a special investigation by robert miller into trouble russia collusion claims they were hacked by moscow. a science that can't make any comment on the issue because in an increasingly strained relationship is dorian host a place the series of restrictions on him limiting internet access visitors and public statements he was a blow as lawyers say these charges are for real or that would set a dangerous precedent for press freedom on my six of the name of sean believe such a notion is becoming ambiguous to the mainstream media. obviously when we he exploded into the international consciousness about eight years ago he had a lot of allies in the international media and worked particularly closely with organizations such as the washington post the new york times and the guardian newspaper in the u.k. then there seem to be a lot of in-fighting and these all the legacy media outlets started turning on on

julian songe so the question is why are they not protecting one of their own today not realize that if they don't protect one of their own they would be equally vulnerable under these sort of laws and i think that's something that all the legacy media in the west needs to really seriously think about either we have press freedom for all we have press freedom for none of. the russian defense ministry has drawn attention to thousands of militants living in a huge syrian refugee camp with dire living conditions and the terrorists can apparently gain easy access. rukh ground refugee camp is in an extremely difficult humanitarian situation the total number of people in it is about fifty thousand of which about six thousand are militants controlled by the u.s. . like alexander farmer discussed the situation at the camp but our correspondent maria finisher. how on earth do they get into these refugee camps is it very easy for the militants to get inside it's not easy but you have to remember that it's

very hard to detect them once a militant throws his weapon he looks like not very severely and and plus you have to remember that our flows in flows of people stream inane and you have no time to check their documents and you also heard from russia that they keys that these militants are u.s. backed and this camp is situated in the territory in the southern part of syria border in jordan that is under control of u.s. military. ok we know the officials are saying a russian officials that they believe six thousand militants about this camp how would they know that how would they come to this figure is not on the russian side that is claiming that to run militants inside this camp we heard that from the u.s.

embassy as well that there are some i say scrape and just had a looser group extremist groups members hiding in these can then using the surveilling and displaced people from stay where as a human shield it's really unclear whether they have weapons where they're armed or not but the thing is that these people are of a certain background what is the situation like inside this camp pretty dire by all accounts oh yeah from what we hear from russians defense ministry the situation is simply dramatic health care there are five medical facilities opened on the territory of these camps and they provide all of the very limited services at a very high price and the same for forty so-called pharmacies so you may think it should be free of charge but it's not it's very expensive and all the people can afford these treatment. un offer medical services free of charge in neighboring jordan but people from the can cannot leave the camp unless they pay

a fee to those who control this camp the militants that the russian general mentioned so again not everybody can afford that and this is why we hear about cases like human traffic where prostitution including sex with minors and gender inequality all those terrible cases a violation of human rise aid agencies have been sending aid to me and just last month she arrived we know what happened to that those these are distributed all of this is the thing that international humanitarian aid find its way to the camp but it ends up in the hands of those who control things can those militants and it's a terrible situation in russia says that since the camp is on the territory controlled by the u.s. military america is responsible for those terrible things happening inside the camp and they want of course the international communities to stopping to react somehow . you north korea's leader has reportedly observed the successful testing of

a high tech to cool weapon according to state media the specific details were given as to the type of weapon that can be very satisfied with the results. this result is a justification of the party's policy focused on defense science and technology and the display of all rapidly growing defense capabilities to the whole region and a groundbreaking change in strengthening our military's combat capabilities respond use of the military test the u.s. says that it remains confident all the commitments made at the singapore summit in june between trump and kim jong il would be fulfilled the new test came as peace talks between the countries remain stalled earlier this month the u.s. secretary of state canceled a meeting with north korea's top officials washington blame should tilling issues gang recently warned that it could restart its military development if sanctions imposed over its nuclear program weren't lifted. is

an asia pacific strategic and economic policy specialist and he believes that it's other people in the trunk of ministration rather than the president who are unwilling to bridge the gap in relations. for quite some time the north koreans have been unhappy with the trump administration not with mr trump or sick but people under him who have not been very forthcoming in engaging north korea with compromises up insertions north korea's willing to make concessions and compromises that it's in but doesn't see anything in return and therefore over the last two weeks it has hardened at sea lines somewhat and has suggested that if the u.s. is not really to be more forthcoming the north koreans themselves might not be as forthcoming and might again revert back to their military testing in fact that those the next summit the second summit is a very much on between kim jong un and president trump. president pence talked about that yesterday itself and so the hope is that when kim jong un reads

president trump again sometime early next year by the head point of time because it's happening at the presidential level senior leaders level also to come a little bit more ready with something to give to each other. the u.n. more u.k. government government austerity has inflicted great misery on its people that's according to a damning new report poverty is really a major challenge in the united kingdom what i found in my discussions with ministers. is basically a state of denial and they are happy with the way in which their policies are playing out and i think that sort of punitive approach to benefits is utterly inconsistent in fact breaks it is going to make that worse because those in the lower income levels are really going to suffer. despite being the world's fifth

biggest economy one in five brits live in poverty more than a million people can't even afford basic essentials the report by the u.s. on extreme poverty and human rights philip alston as if policies continue within four years four in ten children could be in poverty but the u.k. government denies the problem. we are absolutely committed to helping people improve their lives while providing the right support for those who need it. or for a food bank britain raible foot has concerns about the grim statistics in the un report. a why in twenty eighteen people are literally starving to death not just in india not just in yemen not just in kashmir but also here in london one of the richest capitals on the planet why isn't it this story is not number one on the b.b.c. number one on i.t.v. poverty one in five that's twenty percent of the population are in poverty so

poverty is an issue we all need to be addressing all political parties are responsible why is it with one in five people in poverty in this in the u.k. not one political party has a minister dedicated to eradicate poverty and that in itself is a scandal that poverty is not being addressed it's not being seen as having any value and the reality is too many people are making money out of poverty. forty palestinians are confirmed injured by israeli fire in the latest border clashes friday according to gaza's health ministry came as hundreds of protesters gathered amid the reported cease fire with israel. however there have already been reports of violence with israeli defense forces clashes have been happening for seven months during protests known as the great march of return policies are demanding the right to return to the lands they say

have been illegally occupied by israel since march more than two hundred palestinians have been killed thousands more injured if they denies it deliberately target civilians. russia successfully launched a cargo rocket to the international space station. also use will deliver some two and a half tons of supplies to the crew including food fuel water and gas supplies set to dock with the isis on sunday the first time this type of rockets. new since last month's manned mission which fails due to a major engine malfunction the two person crew was forced to make an emergency landing just minutes after blastoff by this flight has been insured for almost fifty million dollars just in case anything goes wrong this time around. a group of members of anglo metals either party of outrage in berlin after being

caught singing a nazi or a song and shouting homophobic slurs incidents allegedly took place in a bar earlier this month on the anniversary of the infamous nine hundred thirty eight nazi pogrom against jews. the god. god god god was the controversial verse developed song dates from one nine hundred thirty two it was frequently sung by nazi soldiers during invasions including that of france and the netherlands remain part of germany's official military songbook until last year there are fifteen new party members were called singing the festival and were heavily criticised by politicians. to sing popular very marked song on the eightieth anniversary of the november programs is stunning i am ashamed of the j. ews brunches to sing a 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 hughes youth wing party

is 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 the left party he says the incident on the as shame to one of the country's darkest chapters. as a german i am disgusted by the way here the discredits everything that people did after the who are to break that image nasa is soldiers marching into. the sea you have greenhouse radicalised there's always that more right wing and right wing extremists. and it was always balanced by liberal are liberal for you. and if you look at the see you in general it's not an isolated incident at all it's moly holy pronounced and nazi ideology major it is.

a minute of silence on that day to commemorate the people that were violated by the nazis it's a day of change oh well they did it the c.d.u. now growth was intensified shall i ask it all the educational little education of the last eighty years as a parent then made those red wings. a new children's toy and kids ages five and up has gone on sale in the u.s. but it's raising concerns with critics saying that it brings the political divisions in america right into the can together the parties need care and looks at whether amid this time of heightened sensitivity as people are too easily triggered . in these extraordinary top see turvy 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 your

children to build the wall of the law you know. 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 untoward 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 bron loves playing the kids build the wall then mr trump said you're right you're right about them. building blocks on your child's thing perhaps they'll have more fun putting hillary clinton behind bars with this play sets 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 offers and i watch ring taste of reality the tug 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 riveting of a can be 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 spirit for naught 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 one way to judge what's acceptable for kids to play with some point out that there is that old crow playing with an willis stick female role models like barbie and a racist not to mention sexist stereotypes like super mario and let's not even get started on fairytales. on the. latest inhofe and. dollars. dollar a dollar is what i believe. we got over here we care the music with us.

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welcome to sophie and sophie shevardnadze their recent exchange of fire between hamas and israel has sparked fears of another war is the middle east peace process on the verge of collapse well today i talked to a good by iraq's former prime minister of israel. the hail of hamas rockets over israel has rocked the nation sparking military strikes from gaza civilian casualties and even leading to israeli ministers resigning. shaking the ruling coalition. will the cease fire has to be put in place last for much longer will israel's reluctant restraint help stop another looming gaza war or only embolden hamas to carry out more attacks. by rock the former private a service route welcome to the show it is great to have you with us so mr barak the latest for having me the latest escalation in gaza broke out after two hamas

commanders were killed in a watch israeli special forces rate hamas fired hundreds of rockets into israel in response while israeli planes bombed the hundred of sites in gaza over the past few days and now as a military man tell me why provoke palestinians if it's known in advance that any sort of undercover military action there will end up in heavy response from the militants. i cannot fully explain the behavior but that is the no most will fly for. its citizens how did the gaza strip and. the idea of two responsibility aggressively this story using old maybe some who attacks and destroyed some sensitive installations of hamas of course it doesn't end the whole.