that. journalists report on alleged russia collusion now says the main claims made in. the still likely fall will bring in. the syrian peace process the top diplomats from russia iran and. changes for syria's immediate

future also. in the news today. of nicaraguan president crackdown on the media and civil rights groups look at why the u.s. imposes sanctions on but country then turns a blind eye to violations in neighboring home to. just ten eleven pm to choose day the eighteenth of december life martin to nationals world news h.q. or moscow it's kevin with you for the next. company that first tonight's one of the first journalists to report on the infamous trump russia dossier michael isikoff has now said that it contains numerous claims that are quote likely false interviews droll praise from the u.s. president. thank you to michael isikoff yahoo for honesty

what this means is that the pfizer warrants and the whole russian witch hunt is a fraud and a hoax which should be ended immediately also it was paid for by crook hillary and d.n.c. of course but at least by trying to find out more about this puja you turn on the face of it all in this deal dossier. 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 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 golden shower compromise and also plenty of other alleged evidence of the rush from collusion well this is what the men says

now in december twenty eighth saying 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 most sensational allegations will never be proven and are likely folks 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 its thanks to this dossier for one the f.b.i. secured themselves a warrant to spy on one of donald trump's assistants because we had a geisha. connections play with russia to remind us of some of the salient points of this deal dossier and it's there were various claims that could have been seen as proof of the trump 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 that he allegedly did together with the moscow officials and then as i've said the p. tape as well was in it or the format as you like to call. 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 to this dome accusing his old rival hillary clinton of paying for this door see it was me but this isn't just something that randomly came from donald trump the american president was pretty much only repeating the bombshell statement that came from the author of the dossier himself it came when he was taking questions in court and according to christopher steele this is what should have happened as

a result of the dossiers publication based on the voice party switchers the democratic national committee and she could consider steps they would be legally entitled to take to chinese the validity of the outcome of that election 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 twenty six thing or. a positive agreement report next on the fate of syria it was thrashed out in switzerland geneva meeting hosted by the un special syria envoy stephan de mistura top diplomats from russia iran and turkey have 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 efforts

aimed at convening the first session of the constitutional community ingenue occurred 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 the 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 get 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

. work out if a city correspondent we asked two former u.k. to syria about washington's assertion not to seek regime change in syria he said he believes the u.s. plans for the war torn country in fact have never changed. americans are being very disingenuous here that might be to match their true intention which would mean regime change by all their action by withholding economic. or rebuilding america are trying to prevent the recovery of. the installers they go with in the moment and backward jeffrey the pressure envoy who we hope to be a regime which will more be more congenial more acceptable to ours and who through neighbors in other words like that with israel the americans are

working very hard put in place the government of egypt of create artificial creation who will washington and why. central america so they haven't had a brief show on where several hundred exiled nicaraguans been protesting against their country's president daniel ortega. but. they're demanding that media and civil rights stop being repressed there thousands of nicaraguans of fled to costa rica since the outbreak of anti-government protests more than three hundred have been killed in six months of civil unrest humanitarian groups have been critical of government raids targeting opposition media and rights organizations it nic iraqi what a number of other central american countries have also faced similar accusations over their human rights records but the u.s. seems to handle each case differently is done well quarter explains next. it's

a tale 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 hunder us 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 honduras and stupid which does indeed need to make that decision 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 doors cracks down on protesters after a sketchy election well that's a time for people to hold hands and sing whom by coming of the election regions.

in. the united states to it's very important if you do come together we start to become inclusive and we find success but that's words now what about the money the u.s. is shoveling military and 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 the united states is not concerned about human rights and democracy in fact we know that the us supports seventy three percent of the world's dictatorships but uses human rights they are very. arbitrarily and selectively in order to justify

its own geopolitical ends up of course is a classic example where the us and ordered the supposed dictatorship for decades and now when there was a popular all revolution by the sandinistas worked for over ten years supporting counter terror against their 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. a feud between democrats and republicans over plans for that war between the united states and mexico has now led to threats of a u.s. government shutdown donald trump lashed out after seeking five billion dollars for his long talked about wall to prevent illegal immigration where on the other side of this the democrats insist on less than two billion and a much simpler border fence. anytime you hear a democrat saying that you can have good border security without it will 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 greats of safety and control so still fanatic still not clear what's going to be build on the us mexico border after all this till. 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 i 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 vance 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 me this type of ball of walls. if we don't get well we will. one way or the other whether it's through you through a military through anything you want to call i will shut down to go ok this temper

tantrum that he seems to throw will not get him is wall and it will hurt a lot of people because he will cause a shutdown. of the news media polluters castigated the us for threatening to pull out of a crucial nuclear weapons treaty saying it could 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 came during a speech to the country's defense officials. so this was a. shot of. the u.s. leaving 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. well vladimir putin has focused a lot on this deal and his position has remained unchanged in the united states

pulling out of it unilaterally will do a lot of harm and no good really and 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 so 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 putin also says that in fact the united states intentions to pull out of the deal are well based on

a false pretext of a listen. 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 unhampered 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 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 blood i'm a putin russia in that case will have no other choice but to respond and to respond swiftly he has 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 lattimer putin talked about in front of all of those generals he once again reiterated the importance of combating terrorism in syria he also said that developing 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 a desperate against the 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 indeed that

a right wing extremist cells operating within the force's ranks the probe is now reportedly spread to other forces in the region to the back story of this letter was sent by fax and was supposedly signed by the national socialist underground a germany or nazi terrorist group uncovered by a kid twenty eleven the any issues responsible for ten murders that believe mostly of immigrants lawyer says it's quite usual for her to get threats but this time this 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 we're judging by what she's saying i guess you can see this lady's concern said there but say this is a german lawyer of target origin who represents the victims of far right violence in fact she was involved in a five year long trial of and as you remember was eventually sentenced to life in prison for multiple murders that happened in july this year the threats then soon

started very shortly afterwards and according to local media investigators already found evidence that an officer search for information a lawyer without having any specific reason to do so there's more initial progress cover that a group of officers had exchanged nazi symbols and remarks in chart rooms five of them have now been suspended the case is generally sparked outrage. whoever shares 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 more reaction an m.p. from germany's left party believes the investigation should be checking all government bodies in the country now there is probably a right wing cell in what is

a front truck. and that is very worrying i don't think that right we extremism is only coming from. there are always parked off state structures. as well and from thread to a 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 off the issues. vesper bank goldman sachs is facing criminal charges i'm a lazy or over the loss of billions of dollars from estate investment fund or the financial services giant says the former government in kuala lumpur is to blame claiming it lied to the bank that a bushel investigates whether the company's going to face any consequences and if they do and last thing will be. the indictment states goldman sachs not only got

ridiculously inflated fees of six hundred million dollars for helping start malaysia's corrupt national wealth fund were in coalition leader and what abraham says the wall street bank must be complicit in the whole affair probably the most stunning financial scandal of the decade is the failure of governance and we were allowed. to board this one is much a bottom up and if these were. complicit to the. international financial institutions and blew a single person in instead of investing it in the nation prosecutors say the funds cash was blown on a five year spending spree from beverly hills mansions to a rare twenty two carat pink diamond seethrough grand piano gift to australian supermodel miranda kerr a quarter of a billion dollars on this three hundred foot mega yacht called the equity and bankrolling hollywood hit the wall of wall street about oh the irony but in crimes on an industrial scale the real question is this was this legal. absolutely the.

defendants deny the claims and goldman blames those malaysia crimes on a few rogue individuals notably goldman's then celebrated star partner in life but at the end of that six five years spending spree in twenty fourteen indictment points out goldman actually promoted him worse liason his guilty plea notes others at the bank helped him conceal bribes what he did even quote very much in line with the culture of goldman sachs that culture thrives thanks to what's called the revolt. door where goldman chiefs worldwide made lawmakers and regulators and vice versa to get elected donald trump railed against goldman as a villain the symbol of the corrupt us establishment but as soon as he got in he filled his team with goldman exacts like gary cohn as chief economic advisor goldman gave cone a living presence free broyard a senator elizabeth warren dubs it of a quarter of

a billion dollars kerry cohen picks out the sacks full of mining goes into government and rewrites the tax laws marriages to cram it through and pointed called once again show savvy investor u.s. senators railed at goldman selling ordinary american products they knew would fail them betting on their failure practices that contributed to the two thousand and eight world economic crash then treasury secretary hank paulson nevertheless handed goldman a ten billion dollar bailout paulson just happened to have been yes you guessed it goldman sachs chief the evidence shows that goldman repeatedly put its own interests and profits ahead of the interests of its clients and our communities when the system finally collapsed under the weight of those toxic mortgages goldman profited from the collapse using a fictitious exchange rate in two thousand and one gold magically disappeared greece's debt so it could cheat its way into the e.u. the bank is said to have trials at an eye watering three hundred million dollar fee

in fact greece's debt actually rose and was handed to its citizens suffering to this day the great trick was arranged by this man who infamously said the bank is doing god's work promoted to goldman boss blankfein reportedly met privately with the disgraced merchant at the head of goldman malaysia malays whole scandal is now spawned a best selling board game clip hopefully to goldman sachs is one of these high level finance capital companies in the us that is very close knit group close to the leaders of power on both sides. the clinical aisle if they can get away with what they get away night and states they can certainly get away with it elsewhere not what's going on in malaysia is just the tip of an iceberg that's going on everywhere they just haven't been caught in any other places it's criminal it's the biggest criminal white white collar criminal event i think. of the last century

many even greater we are on the verge of a of another crisis here financial crisis that will make the last one pale in comparison and the goldman sachs in people and businesses like them are at the center of the cause of this. well without thought thus it so far always so much more among side out so you don't call me forget are up for download it all the headlines as they happen will go straight to mobile devices now just to keep in the loop twenty four seven for now from moscow is kevin though in saying thank you for watching r t international. my seven years doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my system 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 there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. a long sentence in this for 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 a business it's just it doesn't get easier. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. that you'd like to be for us that's what before three of them or people that i'm interested always in the water. this should.

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