i. i. i but it was that was. the new york times claims russia has been waging a fake news campaign against the west since soviet times. also this hour the pentagon fails its own budget toward it off to spending millions of dollars to check spending on weapons now. and as we all security ends to blind taste french and american wine softer donald trump claims u.s. browns and just as good football i would say our core group. so you're close we're still a big market out of the record profits. hello

and welcome to our city international with me in isha sesay good to have you with us this hour. the new york times has released a film the soviet union wants to distance from nation campaign to tear the west apart more it 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. cold war style missions in the american heartland twenty sixteen the same techniques same region even. the same place. great production

value music showing in their opinion how russian this information evolved from the cold war the coming year. was evaluated on how many propose 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 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 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 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 rabble 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 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 archenemy 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 he's been to moscow checks out c'mon meant for concealed go hand in on him a 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 he is to peel in a bed check commandment 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 be in my 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 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. krauts in the german city of kennett's have given a hostile reception to chancellor angela merkel she's visiting the city almost three months off to see migrant riots triggered by a deadly stabbing piece all of the details. chancellor merkel certainly enfold a rough ride a rough reception as she spends her friday night here in kemet this demonstration one of several it is taking place this creep it's up to a satirical approach they tell me invoking the imagery of the third reich to

symbolize what they see is angela merkel's reign they told me they're not happy that she's come here as a chemist's and it's a fact that it's taken her three months after the incident took place it to actually rife he had there was an attack here against our citizen she should have come here a long time ago and she was hesitant and only showed up with massive police protection this is a show of cowardice from all chance of a divided us foothill it took a long time for people to wake up she should have gone have back citing gays sooner and stepped down long ago she should have quit everything after the elections and has a in bavaria ten percent of how voters tend away from her her regime is allowing her to hang on to power by her fingernails device guns cannot you know is exactly why she is not welcome here she tried to wait until things had calmed down instead of face and the music there for that's why she took a quarter of her year to grace us with her presence she knows no one wants her hear what angela merkel is doing she's selling out her own nation we have compassion to

doze for really came from a war people who will who escaped from a war will never harm anybody now that not the country in late august thirty five year old cuban german man was stomped to death after a confrontation in the early hours of the morning following an one thousand celebration. starving to death resulted in demonstrations and the far right groups that came out on to the streets and the violence that we saw erupt then. that's is what happened there start people and i get it it cost right wing

demonstrations and in general people have the right to protest but this doesn't justify using national socialist radical symbols nevertheless i understand that it's over the migrant issue not only that but in a broader sense and there are also problems of cross border crime and even drug smuggling there are all questions that we should discuss naturally as shouts of. vagueness and must go be ringing out from the crowd say well she is going to go she said chill step down as chancellor and twenty twenty one she's already about to relinquish the leadership of a policy of the christian democratic union for these people here in canada it's it's her legacy as the person that opened up germany's borders to refugees that should be most remembered in their opinion it reviled for the shoulder for all take emmett's. don't trumps race and claim that americans make wine just as

white as the french was met with widespread skepticism 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 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 the don't said both countries made excellent wine but france made it very hard for the u.s. 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. compulsion. and the road full sail rolls through live on the throne move.

through q do you feel as though the pulse is where real skill. if you don't. really think of it. i would say our full group. go to. that club but the other big thing of it has to do most of it looks like when. it is it's don't get very much. and the. little bit of hole. in the wake of. the stick with the banker who said we'll see so who the verdict is in a hundred is pushy 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. so on this occasion from paris we admit defeat but nevertheless we will always weighs a gloss and say so in a show that you can ski r.t. paris. the pentagon has failed its first ever full budget order it's looking into spending on arms and personnel and to top officials have the results were surprising. we never thought we were going to post a new 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 the pentagon turning to the american taxpayers for more money to correct the problem of wasting money to begin with. a copy and paste error seems to have revealed u.s. prosecutors are preparing charges against the wiki leaks chief julian the sanj it was discovered in an unrelated court filing which was said to have been 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 evade avoid a wrist and dick's tradition in this matter sanchez been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london since twenty twelve last year sex assault charges against the australian national were dropped by swedish authorities however he still faces

arrest in new case for breaking bail terms the us charges could take back to twenty ten over the leak of data from u.s. operations in iraq and afghanistan that same year wiki leaks started releasing hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic cables and in twenty seventeen the group published the largest leak in cia history concerning the agency's cyber tools songes lawyers say if the u.s. charges a genuine it would set a dangerous precedent for press freedom former m i five officer an emotional believes the media should be standing up for wiki leaks. obviously when we spoke into the international consciousness about eight years ago we had a lot of allies in the international media and works 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 infighting 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. north korea claims to have tested a new tactical weapon that story and more still to come. you know world of big partisan movies. 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 on the back 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. honoring the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the first world war french president emmanuel mccrone claimed patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism this is widely seen as a criticism of donald trump after all trump calls himself a nationalist is nationalism a dirty word says so. welcome back to the program the russian defense ministry has drawn attention to thousands

of minutes since living in a huge syrian refugee camp where living conditions on. the terrorists can apparently gain easy access. band refugee camp is in an extremely difficult humanitarian situation the total number of people in its is about fifty thousand of which about six thousand militants controlled by the u.s. . my colleague andrew farmer discussed the situation at the camp with our correspondents maria fanaa. how on earth do they get into these refugee camps is it that 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 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 had a looser group extremist groups members hiding in they scanned the news in 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 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 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 those cans emotions 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 of violation of human rise aid agencies have been sending

aid 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 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 community is to stopping to react somehow . the north korean leader kim jong un has reportedly observed the successful testing of a high tech tactical weapon this is all to do as a justification of the party's policy focused on defense science technology and those 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 the commitments made at the singapore summit back in june between donald trump and kim jong un would be fulfilled however peace talks between the countries remain stored earlier this month the u.s. secretary of state counseled a meeting with north korea's top officials and pyongyang threatens to restart its nuclear activity if sanctions are not lifted. asia pacific can list believe says a strong resistance within the trump administration to improve 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 is 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 relink to be more forthcoming the north koreans themselves might not be as forthcoming then 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 bence 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 have 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. a un official has accused the british government of inflicting misery on the country's poorest people for austerity policy of. 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 therefore a million people can't afford basic essential there are reports by the un's reportory on poverty and human rights that child poverty could hit forty percent within a few years but the u.k. government denies the problem we are absolutely committed to helping people improve their lives on providing the right support for those who need it or through a fierce bank breton ray well fed has consents 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 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. no 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. and your children's toy aimed at kids age five and up that's going on sale in the us has raised concern karen has the story. in these extraordinary

top sea 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 i love 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 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 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 it will weigh to judge what's acceptable for kids to play with some points out that today's adults grow up playing with only realistic female role models like barbie and racist not to mention sexist stereotypes like super mario and let's not even get started on fairytales ok with even half an hour with more top stories but next up it's crosstalk.

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a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remember of one one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only. hello and welcome to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle honoring the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the first world war french president emmanuel mccrone claimed patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism this is widely seen as a criticism of donald trump trump calls himself a nationalist is nationalism a dirty word says who.