more and more people get involved in visualizing the world around them always the story we tell ourselves about ourselves changes. the. new york times claims russia has been waging a fake news campaign against the west since soviet times. failed its own budget audit after spending millions of dollars to check spending on weapons and personnel. take artie's one challenge we asked them to blind takes the american and french reds to claim that u.s. brands are just as good. i would say. what.

have you with us this hour this is alt international. new york times released the film climbing the soviet union last edition from ation campaign to the west a part. takes a closer look. 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 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 who you 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 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. 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 life soup 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 properly 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 a sprinkle of truth everyone moves donald

trump met with the russians the moscow checks out come on mint for conceal your hand the anonymous sources unnamed officials political experts 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 he is to peel in a bed check come on six deny everything check we didn't reveal anybody reported c.n.n. or about as he did when you're going you're going to. first now we're going to. you know when 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

loam 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. little terms recent line that americans make wine just as well as the french was met with widespread crits get them so we went to the streets of paris to find out whether people can actually tell the difference. 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 the 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. and the roads will soon roll through live on the move you'll see us move good to see the full city where everything's gone. if you don't. really know the whole thing coming. down i would say after the roof. gone be. that close. to live it had to be most of it. because you don't get very much because it is. just. a

little bit. a little bit low. in the week. before the food bank with. the verdict is in hand pushing clear parisians preferred the wine from the us all her well maybe for once the don't rule has been vindicated as the wine from his country seems to have trumped that from france so. on this occasion from paris we admit defeat but never the less we will always ways it's a loss and say so and say show that deep. paris. pentagon has failed its first of a full budget order is looking into spending on personnel and military property and the top officials said their souls were unsurprising. we never thought we were going to post an audit several 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 running to the american taxpayers for more like me to correct the problem of wasting money to begin with. copy and paste there is seems to have revealed u.s. prosecutors are preparing charges against wiki leaks chief julian assange it was discovered in an unrelated court filing which was said to be made by mistake. the complaint supporting affidavit would need to remain sealed until songes

a rested in connection with the charges in the criminal complaint and could therefore no longer or avoid a wrist and extradition in this matter. on has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for more than six years last year six assault charges against the australian national were dropped by swedish authorities however he still faces arrest in the u.k. for breaking bail terms u.s. charges could date back to twenty turn of a leak of data from u.s. operations in iraq and afghanistan and last year wiki leaks published the largest leak in cia history concerning the agency's cyber tools and his lawyers say if the u.s. charges are genuine it it set a dangerous precedent for press freedom for my six officers and he believes media outlets should be standing up for wiki leaks. obviously when wiki leaks broke into the international consciousness about eight years ago you 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 they seem to be a lot of in-fighting and these are all the legacy media outlets started turning on on julian songe. 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. defense ministry has drawn attention to thousands of militants living in a huge syrian refugee camp were living conditions are said to be dire the terrorists can apparently gain easy access brown refugee camp is in an extremely difficult humanitarian situation the total number of people limits is about fifty thousand of which about six thousand are militants controlled by the u.s. or calling under former discuss the situation again with our correspondent river national. 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 times the militants about this camp how

would they know that i would they come to this figure is not on the russian side that is claiming that the 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 displace 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 them very limited services at a very high price and the same for for the so-called pharmacy is so you may think it should be free of charge but it's not it's very expensive and all the people can afford this treatment. and u.n.

oil for medical services free of charge in neighboring jordan but people from the camp 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 like prostitution including sex with minors and gender inequality all those terrible cases a violation of human rise aid agencies have been sending you to me just last month . we know what happened to be distributed or 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 and russia says that since the camp on the targets were controlled by u.s. military america is responsible for all those terrible things happening inside the camp and they want of course the international community is to stopping to react

somehow when you come your way of a short break. just stand out in this is this the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice or the biggest reach. to stand losing you just the right questions. the right answer.

thank. the north korean leader kim jong un has reportedly observed the successful testing of a high tech tactical weapon 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 despite

news of the military test the u.s. says it remains confident all commitments made of the singapore summit back in june between trump and kim jong un would be fulfilled the peace talks between the countries are installed earlier this month u.s. sect of state council meeting with north korea's top officials and pyongyang threatened to restart its nuclear activity if sanctions are not lifted asia pacific analysts sort of got to believe that there was strong resistance within the trump of ministration to improving ties with north korea. 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 line 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 there's the next summit the second summit is a very much on between kim jong un and president trump. president prince 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 talk a little bit more already with something to give to each other. the u.n. one hugh kate government austerity has inflicted great misery on its people 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 actually inconsistent in fact breaks it is going to make that worse because those in the lower income levels are really going to suffer. despite having the status of an advanced economy one in five brits live in poverty and over a million people can't afford basic essentials a report by the u.s. reporter on poverty and human rights adds if policies continue within four years four in ten children could be in poverty and 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. author of food bank britain walford has concerns about the grim statistics released in the un report. why in twenty thousand 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 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 supposedly it's an issue we all need to be addressing and 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. pressures on the israel gaza border of the forty palestinians injured hundreds of protesters gathered despite a ceasefire with israel. however

there have already been reports of violence with israeli defense forces clashes have been happening for seven months in process known as the great march over a listing as are demanding the right to return to lands they say have been illegally occupied by israel and its march more than two hundred palestinians have been killed thousands more injured denies it deliberately target civilians. russia successfully launched the cargo rocket to the international space station. will deliver some two and a half tons of supplies to the cure including food fuel water and gas supplies to dock with the isis on sunday the first time this type of rockets been used since last month's manned mission that failed due to a major engine malfunction the two person crew was forced to make an emergency landing just minutes after.

the children's toy aimed at kids ages five and up has gone on sale in the u.s. and it's raising concern nicky aaron has the story. 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. 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 filler or maybe not.

as this politician will tell you you'll never too young for politics brown loves playing the kids build the wall then mr trump said you're fired them for 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 new millennial is addition of the game offers 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 monopolies 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 ya dick but then what are we to judge what's acceptable for kids to play with some point out that there is that old crow playing with only realistic 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 like thing with here and r.t. international this evening likely going to bring about it today in half an hour. the reserve bank unable to come toxic yes this is at the center of america's descent into financial armageddon yes can you blame the fed for such things as the infrastructure collapse across america the ecological collapse. california wildfires and hurricanes across the nation and busted pipes in detroit leading to our stick poisoning left yes yes you can because they give money to the bad people . does it have to do with the shooting to

achieve the goal get the that is a middle fold agenda of us come undone inch. by the government. which aims if we should newcomers in strengthening i was in the woods reading through the. trunk vs the media what was once a battle of angry wars an accusation is now a legal case in the courts perspective on the wall suit of c.n.n. versus the white house from legal expert dan abrams on this edition of. politicking i'm larry king and i'm in new york c.n.n. that its white house reporter jim acosta both frequent targets of the president's

ire are suing that's probably the straight shouldn't for yanking the cost of this press access to the white house following a reason incident during a press. conference when jim acosta refused to surrender a microphone during a back and forth with president trump does c.n.n. and jim acosta have a case and we'll what 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 van a room show where politics meets the law on sirius x.m. here is that interview watch what do you make of the c.n.n. case about jim acosta does he have the right to have a press pass in the white house. so it is not a fundamental right to have

a press pass through a speech and well that's the question right so if the if the white house had said what they said today about why sarah sander why there why they revoked his press pass which is his conduct and he wouldn't let go of the mike and he wouldn't let other people ask questions and he wasn't asking questions he was making statements well you know what there's an argument there that did white house get out of the matter that the events of the first argument was well he actually physically hit the internal no he did that's not true and then the president comes out on friday and the president says well he's a disgrace and the white house is a sacred place. again that's not quite good enough serious that the current explanation has got to be the one they stick with because they're not an easy spot it feels like they're going after a cost of because they don't like his questions but there are restrictions that can

be placed even on members of the media not about the questions they ask but about their conduct and the way they handle. you're a lawyer member of the media yet how do you react to donald trump's attacks on the media the fake news are you personally angered not personally angry but i think it's i think it it's definitely troubling i mean it is it is troubling to hear the constant references to fake news when the president doesn't like what's being reported i mean again i take words seriously the word fake means one try if you want to talk about media bias we can have a discussion i would i would say that i think that the media on the whole has had a left leaning bias i think that's a fair criticism of the mainstream media. but that doesn't mean that when the washington post reports something or the new york times or c.n.n.

that the president doesn't like that it's fake news it's fake news if it turns out to not be true the problem for the president has been that much of the news that he is called fake has turned out to be true and so if you care about facts and you care about the truth you're going to be bothered when anything he doesn't like is referred to as fake news then there is a big disagreement over mr whitaker and whether he as acting attorney general that is legal look i think that there are two questions there is one which is a constitutional question about the what's called the appointments clause meaning do you need advice and consent of the senate for an appointment like this one. that argument is a really close one i think but i think in the end the president probably has the leeway to make a short term temporary appointment it's close though the main case on point on this issue involves someone who is.