movement is going. the. full stop. for just twelve euros fifty. one of the first journalist reporting the alleged. claims made in the infamous. likely we'll tell you all about it coming up a post for the syrian peace process today. from russia from turkey agree

on work on constitutional changes for syria's future also to. take on the media and civil rights groups why the u.s. imposes sanctions on. violations of neighboring homes. hello thanks for watching. the eighteenth of december. the next thirty minutes for this update first then. one of the first journalists to report on the infamous trump russia michael isikoff has said that it contains numerous claims that are quote likely folds is our top story tonight that interview of course is drawing praise from the u.s. president thank you to michael isikoff yahoo for

honesty what this means is that the fisa warrants and the whole russian we chummed is a fraud and a hoax which should be ended immediately also it was paid for by croup hillary and d.n.c. was flawed and they only put trying because our correspondent across this one some stunning allegations in the dossier but no hearing the man that supposedly put some of this out there two years ago is now saying actually some of it wasn't true take it from the start of this one tonight well kevin sometimes it only takes one spark one report from a reporter or a handful of them from a big news outlet to really send the media world into overdrive you know one good example for you was when a yahoo investigative reporter he's the chief reporter there came out with a bombshell on the infamous steel dossier that was a big one as you remember with the p.t.a.

or what other people called the home for a golden shower. and also plenty of other alleged evidence of the rush from collusion well this is what the men says now in december twenty eighth. when you actually get into the details of the steel dosia the specific allegations we have not seen the evidence to support them and in fact there's good grounds to think that some of the more sensational allegations will never be proven and are likely false. this is actually something that we find out almost two years after the dossier came out but back then hours and hours of air time were mostly about the steel memos to tell the whole world about the collusion plus it's thanks to this dossier for one the f.b.i. secured themselves a warrant to spy on one of donald trump's assistants know to use these days and use the very very long time there's been so many allegations of. connections made with

russian rigs that are going to remind us of some of the selling points of this deal dossier and there were various claims that could have been seen as proof of the trumped russia collusion most notably the dossier alleged that donald trump's former attorney michael cohen traveled to prague to somehow fix all this and coordinate all that. russia's scheming he allegedly did together with the moscow officials and then as i've said the p. tape as well was in it or the compromise as you like to call it and these were perhaps some of the most bizarre claims that the russian security services could have been blackmailing donald trump with the recording of his dark deeds in that moscow hotel in another twist to this don't accusing his old rival hillary clinton of paying full they still say it was mean by that well he's not making the

accusation he's only saying he's talking about the bombshell statement that was actually made by the author of the dossier himself it came while he was taking questions in court and christopher hill christopher steele sorry says that as a result of this dossier publication here's what should have happened. based on that's advice party such as the democratic national committee. could consider strips they would be legally entitled to take to challenge the validity of the outcome of that selection. which basically means that ok the dossier may have not been paid by hillary herself but some sort of organization that's affiliated with her something like that and again all need to find some sort of legal ground to challenge the outcome of the two thousand and sixteen election you so lead this is now or earlier thanks for spreading the twists tonight two years on all right.

next to her post freeman on the phone to syria has been thrashed out in geneva really at a meeting that was hosted by the u.n. special syria envoy staffan de mistura top diplomats from russia from around from turkey all agreed to launch a committee for drafting a new constitution for syria early next year. of a very useful meeting was the secretary general special envoy agreed to for its convening the first session of the constitutional community ingenue in the next year steps will lead to the launch of a viable and lasting syrian led syrian and un facilitate the political process in their closing statement the three foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey that they presented the positive results of their consultations on the formation of a syrian constitutional committee to either rewrite the syrian

constitution or to amend it in order to allow for a wider pad syrian election presidential election part of a political resolution to this war that has raged on for so many years the ministers themselves from what we saw were smiling and laughing afterwards they described their work as again positive and they have committed to seeing the syrian constitutional committee sit for its first session early next year early two thousand and nineteen we hoop of course to be able to do this because this trio that have been working together for several years now russia iran and turkey they've been able to produce results you need concrete results we've seen cease fires in syria established with their backing we've seen withdrawals other deals deescalation demilitarized zone is established over syria so there's a lot of optimism going forward that they'll be able to get the rebels the

opposition and the syrian government to work together early on the turkish foreign minister though did remark that they had seen very little cooperation from the united states and the coalition that it leads the united states itself has shared its goals as publicly stated that its aims. with regards to syria have shifted that it no longer sees unseating president bashar al assad or regime change in syria as a goal we're not asking for regime change we're not asking for the russians to leave what we're asking for is a compromise settlement there's a strong. readiness on the part of western nations not to money for that disaster unless we have some kind of idea that their government is ready to compromise and that's not create yet another horror in the years ahead nevertheless the situation in syria remains volatile especially now with turkey

threatening to intervene to invade northern syria out of security concerns as they see the white e.g. syrian kurds that control much of northern syria as a terrorist organization and they have threatened to act we're also seeing sporadic fighting in egypt with the jihad ists joined by rebels there and the syrian arab army clashing from time to time so there is certainly motivation to get things done . we asked a former you can bust into syria but washington's assertion not to seek regime change in syria he believes the u.s. plans for the war torn country have changed. american being very ingenuous here my math. true intention which would mean regime change by all their action by withholding economic. rebuilding america are trying to prove then we recovery of.

truth all of them are within backward jeffrey the shoe envoy who we hope to be a regime which will more be more congenial more acceptable to ours and to through neighbors in other words with israel the americans are working very hard put in place the government of it of create artificial creation who will washington and why. folks on central or south america next costa rica where several hundred exiled like a regular and have been protesting against their country's president daniel ortega . the protesters are demanding going to take

a stop the repression of media and civil rights at the moment thousand acre arguments have fled to costa rica since the outbreak of anti-government protest more than three hundred people being killed in half a year of civil unrest in september nicaragua made street protests illegal so human rights watch has criticized the raids on opposition media and the closure of rights organizations mean tired nicaragua's northern neighbor honduras is also accused in a similar violations but there seems to be a big contrast in how the u.s. is treating the two central american countries or once i want receiving punishing sanctions on the other it's getting the extensive aid package. l. of two central american countries both plagued with somewhat similar problems corruption violence and government crackdowns. the rule of law has not fared so well in either country with one door us and nicaragua both sinking towards the bottom of the list ponderosa in nicaragua both

exemplify a recent regional trend of suppressing the right to protest and using excessive force against demonstrators however one hundred s. is the only one out of the two that the us seems to have a soft side for don't just take my word for it nicaragua was one of the us is tyrannical trio the spread of tyranny follows a predictable pattern media and opposition parties are silenced the regime unleashes its militants to kidnap torture and execute dissidents but one doris well they're of valuable ally especially after they voted with the us to legitimize to roussillon as israel's capital to people of hundred and stupid which does indeed need to make that decision for ourselves and decide we're we've got our embassy and that's right and we greatly appreciate not just disappeared on them but on so many . now both nicaragua and honduras crackdown on anti-government

protests this year but they've evoked quite different reactions from the u.s. when nicaragua does it it's a threat to the legitimacy of the current administration every does not victim of this violence and intimidation campaign further undermine its take its legitimacy and one hundred s. cracks down on protesters after a sketchy election well that's a time for people to hold hands and sing kumbaya how many of the elections. dynasty's digits very good if you. want to become inclusive we. suggested but that's words now what about the money in the u.s. a shoveling military an economic aid honduras is way sixty eight million tax dollars worth and at the very same time nicaragua is about to be slapped with

further sanctions just last week congress passed the nneka act over the latin american countries corruption and human rights violations so two countries with very similar problems but two very different approaches the view of those two countries has been highly. distorted by the mainstream media by the us government united states is not concerned about human rights and democracy in fact we know that the u.s. supports seventy three percent of the world's you tater ships but uses human rights very. arbitrarily and selectively in order to justify its own political ends up of course is a classic example where the us ordered the supposed dictatorship for decades and then when there was a popular all revolution by the sandinistas worked for over ten years supporting culture terror against that country people forget about that you know and those

things need to be remembered in the context of the of the situations we're talking about today. next mexico war might go france was going to people as a feud between democrats republicans over plans for a war between the united states and mexico there's no lead to threats to u.s. government shut donald trump lashed out after seeking five billion dollars for a wall to prevent illegal immigration he's told her that for so long while the democrats insist on less than two billion for a simpler border fence. anytime you hear a democrat saying that you can have good border security without a wall write them off as just another politician following the party line time for us to save billions of dollars a year and have at the same time far greater safety and control for that sort of clear what's going to be built on the us mexico border than. border security to the people of our country very important the wall is

a big factor in border security number one we are for strong border security. speaking for myself consider the wall and moral walls can be scaled over walls can be tunneled under the wall doesn't stop any bad things from happening it just makes it impossible for the folks on our side to see what's developing and makes it more difficult for them.

the president through executive order one three seven six seven directed us to build a wall on the southwest border the wall that we're going to put in here is a wall that we're going to put in here you may be wondering why are we choosing the type of fence that we're choosing the bollard wall that we're going to be putting in place excuse me to safety aspects that a wall provides this type of fence or be this type of ball of walls. if we don't get what we want one way or the other whether it's through you through a military through anything you want to call i will shut down the guy who can have it or not this temper tantrum that he seems to throw will not get him his wall and it will hurt a lot of people because he will cause a shutdown. we'll keep you posted still to come off the break here a death threat to a toddler respond to an investigation of right wing groups in the german police of

all places we'll tell you more when we come back. is going. bankers. are. rightfully seen as the enemy full stop. you know world a big part of the new law 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 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 salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. him in putin's castigated the u.s. for threatening to pull out of a crucial nuclear weapons treaty saying it could on balance world security washington announced its potential withdrawal from the cold war era intermediate range nuclear forces treaty back in october the comments now from the russian leader coming during a speech to the country's defense officials. so you know when this was going to see you when you see just fine you. the u.s. leave the i.m.f. a nuclear missile treaty could have serious negative consequences weakening

regional and global safety it could collapse the whole architecture of arms control and the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. putin has focused a lot on this deal and his position has remained unchanged of the united states pulling out of it unilaterally will do a lot of harm you know good really in fact i should say this correlates with what many other nations have been saying as world because see back in the day when this deal was signed between the united states and then the soviet union it essentially and did the arms race the world could breathe freely for once and nowadays its main purpose is viewed as this crucial tool of deterrence as this tool of containment of not allowing this called war this arms race to restart this is why we've heard so much concern coming out of europe just a few months ago when the united states only announced their intentions to pull out of the deal because after all europe would then find itself between a rock and

a hard place the united states and russia well a lot of putin also says that in fact the united states intentions to pull out of the deal are based on a false pretext of alyson. look. as a reason for the unilateral withdrawal from the i.m.f. the us use the familiar trivial way unsubstantiated accusations of russia violating its obligations under the treaty or the us already violated it themselves and did it a long time ago another reason why washington wants out of the deal is because it binds only the united states and russia and so as washington puts it other nations all other nations in the world are free to pursue their military ambitions and goals. but according to blood in a putin this is hardly a problem because he doesn't see an issue with inviting other nations to join. in the deal instead of killing a good document instead of killing a good treaty that works but right now of course it looks like that washington is

on its way out and so according to glad i'm a putin russia in that case will have no other choice but to respond and to respond swiftly he said that if that moscow won't spend much time developing countermeasures for whatever the united states will have in store for russia then but the deal is a deal of that aside it wasn't the only thing of course that a lot of important talked about in front of all of those generals he once again reiterated the importance of combating terrorism in syria he also said they're developing a nuclear capabilities of russia's military will remain a top priority has well as such things as developing military technology and unmanned warfare capabilities that is in store that is planned this is prioritized for twenty nineteen but all of that russia's president has stressed is only as a deterrent so that as a defensive and not an offensive plan. it's been revealed that the death threats

against a two year old daughter of a german turkish lawyer last august prompted an investigation into the police in frankfurt authorities in the german city suspect that a right wing extremist cell is operating within the police forces ranks the probe is now reportedly spread to other forces in the region to war on this the letter was sent by fax and was supposedly signed by the national socialist undergrown that's a german neo nazi terrorist group uncovered in twenty eleven the any issues responsible for ten murders most of immigrants the lawyers says it's quite unusual over the earth to get threats but this time it was different. i receive up to fifty written threats or insults every day and usually i don't care but this time they mentioned my daughter by name and knew her age and my address was also in the fax my personal data is not publicly accessible it can only be obtained by the authorities said herb or sealed it is a german lawyer of turkish origin who represents the victims of far right violence

she was involved in a five year long trial of an s u member who was sentenced to life in prison for multiple murders in july of this year or the threat soon started after that then according to local media investigators have already found evidence that an officer search for information on her without any reason to do so further the initial probe discovered that a group of officers had exchanged nazi symbols and remarks in chat rooms the five of them have now been suspended in the case jan respond to outrage over shows right wing extremist ideas propagate xenophobia threats and repulsive violence and uses police instruments for his actions has no business in our police which is firmly grounded in the constitution radicals have no business with the police and they must not be given a pass otherwise the trust the police enjoy in our country will be destroyed. and m.p. for germany's left party believes the investigation should be checking all government bodies no in the country. there is probably a right wing cell in what is

a front truck. and that is very worrying i don't see that right we are missing is only coming from from all sides there are always powered off state structures. as one of the true dreaded to the right wing ideology i think the government should do more about this should be not cover up or the issue was and real investigation are all indications that state structures are as well and often there's a lot of cover up of the issues. well this is so far over so much more a course to r.t. dot com a main site up straight to your mobile device you never miss out on any of the news for now kevin i was saying thanks for watching more for me and often i was tied.

my seven years doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake or our current with the number of people who are in prison for inconceivable certain sins for whom minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. with make this manufacture come sentenced to public wealth. when the

ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime and merry go round lives and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. i mean really really. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. any world that is yet to say proud disdain comes to educate and in games from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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a particularly socially responsible investment firms with shane very merrily harvest what they are doing is really impressive all that directly had but first we get some headlines with daniel britto let's go. next part the escalating one m.t.b. corruption scandal leads our global report today as malaysian authorities file their first related criminal charges in the case against goldman sachs bank as an entity and goldman employees goldman's exposure on this front increase dramatically in november with published reports that goldman c.e.o. lloyd blankfein attended a two thousand and nine one m.t.b. fund raising meeting in new york with low take joe aka joe low a key figure in the massive multifarious scandal malaysian prosecutors are now charged mr low as well as tim weisner goldman's former chair for southeast asia in

the case and are demanding three point three billion dollars in penalties for goldman's role and directing six point five billion dollars in investment into the debacle that was one m. d. b. goldman sachs stock was down two point five percent on the news. on sunday canadian prime minister justin trudeau said in an interview with the c.t.v. network that he will quote try and see if canada can cancel a thirteen billion dollar order from saudi arabia for military equipment. including canny quips armored assault vehicles made by the canadian subsidiary of general dynamics even that weak statement is a notable shift for mr trudeau the canadian leader who went to tober worried about what he said would be seven hundred fifty million dollars canadian or one billion u.s. dollars and cancellation penalties if the deal were next in november aid group save the children said eighty five thousand.