and the school is co-founder of the benoit abba don't count james carey told us what motivated him to create the parody the motivation behind it obviously i mean it's fairly clear it was to do with some of that bon was you know a piece of regime change propaganda during the syrian civil war and decisions for war were being made on the twitter of a little girl that's a ridiculous concept to think about and to expand that out to you know any country it's crazy and it was just pointing out how. raese how insane that idea is that a child and you know some on the street reporters in aleppo were basically dictating foreign policy for the united states israel turkey you know all of these countries are basing their words on what was supposedly just a child who decided to tweet one day so we just decided to run with it this time as france was you know blowing up the news and. just to point out the hypocrisy of

when this happens in a western nation nobody had any problem with macross using what are chemical weapons on his own people and we just wanted to point out that when this happens in a nato country if there is no propaganda effort there's an effort to cover it up. now does it for me i'll be back with more news in twenty nine minutes stay with us and start. thank you very much.

the u.s. senate struggling to rebuke saudi arabia over the shogi murder and calls for an end to the american involvement in the war on yemen is this a defining moment for this bilateral relationship or so-called values strong hard political reality. greetings and salutations well there must be a serious glitch in the matrix hawk watches because first michael isikoff starts questioning the veracity of the steel dossier and now and what could only be described as the biggest early christmas gift of the year it appears that contrary to previous reports the united states is pulling its troops out of syria what's next the minnesota vikings winning

a super bowl taylor swift making an album that isn't about her break up yes early wednesday morning so u.s. president donald trump to twitter and declare quote we have defeated isis in syria my only reason for being there during the presidency this two. it was later confirmed to be the new marching orders as white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders issued a statement to all the corners of the empire explaining from on high that quote we have started returning united states troops home as we transition to the next phase of this campaign she then added that the u.s. and its allies quo will continue to work together to deny radical islamist terrorists territory funding support and any means of infiltrating our borders this new change in syria policy immediately set ruffles for the feathers of the washington d.c. war hawks both in the media and on capitol hill including drum so national security advisor john bolton who when discussing syria and u.s. troops there during the u.n. general assembly assembly this fall aggressively declared the quote we're not going

to leave as long as a rainy and troops are outside iranian borders and that includes iranian proxies and militias so what manifested this sudden switch in policy toward syria and will we actually see u.s. troops finally brought home from a country where either legally occupying the only way to find out is by watching the mocks. the world view that the french are like really this would be a liar as it were to pull out of. your life would it be like you lie down there are going to. the police. would. be. welcome everybody to watching not to have

a while and joining us to discuss the ever changing plan for u.s. involvement in syria is r.t. correspondent dan cohen thanks for joining me today than to be here all right so what's the latest on this sort of this is an extremely surprising shift in policy toward syria since just monday we talked about on this. oh this story of we're not leaving we're saying there permanently we've got bases we've got airplane hangar so what's what's the story well yes this is a total about face from everything we've heard for months and months from the trumpet ministration that not only are we staying in syria until the defeat of the isis caliph it but also until iranian troops are back inside iranian borders so the latest is that the two thousand troops that are in syria in northeastern syria are actually already withdrawn coming back to the u.s. as well as state department personnel that are act evacuating within twenty four hour period as you said trying to feed tweeted that we have defeated isis and that's why the troops are coming home but actually the isis caliphate was defeated

more than a year ago and not so much by the u.s. but actually by the syrian army has been the lebanese group and the russian military wow a lot going on there it's amazing anybody can keep track of it so less than a week ago everything and everybody and everybody was talking about indefinite u.s. military presence the washington post ran a story and as i said we were talking about it now the trump administration is kind of doing this strange one eighty do we have any idea why was it we have to look at this in terms of a greater geo political strategy much of this i think has to do with repairing relations with turkey and bringing it back into the american nato sphere of influence of course nato is a turkey ally now twenty four hours ago the u.s. agreed to sell three and a half billion dollars worth of patriot surface to air missile systems which are made by raytheon now turkey had previously agreed to buy russian s.

four hundred surface to air missiles and so the u.s. is very happy about this agreement turkey is also ready to launch an operations against u.s. backed kurdish forces in northeastern syria. and so by the u.s. pulling out it's essentially sacrificing its kurdish ally which has been its number one ally in the fight against isis now the irony of this is that by allowing turkey to take north eastern syria turkey has used jihad is the free syrian army and other groups as proxies in order to just kind of run roughshod over this region so by allowing turkey to take this area it's essentially creating the possibility of bringing isis back bringing these radical groups back whether it's isis or another offshoot and it puts the kurds into a very difficult position which they've resisted for a long time in making a deal with the syrian government in order to save their own hides wow so somebody

is getting a lot lot lot of people are making a lot of money and again we're sort of put in the situation of not really knowing what's going on from that if that had what's been the the reaction globally and politically to this announcement because it's obviously we're faltering again and not knowing what the messages from the white house the administration or the military exactly i mean there's well in here in washington there's been a very mixed response i mean the kind of the establishment the washington press corps the you know the neoconservatives in the white house are not pleased with this decision actually got off a call with the state department a little bit ago where they briefed reporters and and the reporters were demanding are we still going to be able are we still going to bomb syria go in there you know just just wanting more action and really the mentoring the troops are coming out. the israelis are very much not pleased but they're going along with it netanyahu is

national security former national security advisor said the u.s. contribution to the war against iran and syria has been almost zero but the russian foreign ministry while come the decision and said that the u.s. decision to pull its troops out of syria creates quote good process. for a political solution and so we're going to see what happens there oh well never a dull day in washington the trump administration or over in syria thank you so much for helping us make some sense out of the quagmire of the daily dailies here in syria thank you so much r.t. correspondent dan cohen. every thirty seconds a woman is for believe used on twitter this comes from an amnesty international report released this week called the troll patrol the project crowdsource data is not a large data set the world regarding the online abuse of women the study included sixty five hundred volunteers from one hundred fifty countries and a subset of two hundred eighty eight thousand tweets that have been sent between

january and december of twenty seventeen and while politics doesn't seem to increase a woman's likelihood of being harassed the color of her skin does misty found that women of color in the study were thirty four percent more likely to be targets of harassment than white women in addition left leaning politicians faced twenty three percent more abusive tweens than their right leaning counterparts however for journalists it was the opposite with those working at right leaning publications like pray for the daily mail being cited in sixty four percent more abusive tweets than those with left leaning publications life in new york times now the study is nowhere near perfect or complete keep in mind that tweets that had already been deemed problematic by twitter would have already been taken down and not included in the data but now we have to wonder what any of this data will mean for twitter who has buried their heads about the targeted harassment of women for so long it seems unlikely that they would even be able to pull their heads out of the sand joining us now to help us understand this study even more is watching the social

media producer devon springer thank you so much thank you for having me so i mean as a woman obviously it's not just twitter this is happened everywhere so we know that . what has twitter's response to this study well response has been. disappointing but not surprising if you've been paying attention this is essentially been a problem with them since they started specifically how women and other marginalized groups are targeted for harassment online abuse in a response to amnesty provided to wired magazine they said quote we remain committed to expanding our transparency reporting to better inform people about the actions we take under the twitter rules now that says a lot of big words but doesn't actually say how they're going to fix the problem or what they're going to do and it doesn't actually say they're going to be more transparent it just says they're committed to thinking about it while they're thinking about it i mean this is the thing they act as if this is a new new thing that's happened as i said it's always happened online but the funny

thing about twitter is what happened with gay margate and it was oh well you know just block people and everything's fine yeah i mean twitter is notorious for picking and choosing its battles right if for instance when leslie jones the actress when she was being harassed her into sleep for several days it took them four or five days to step in for other times they've just ignored it completely and not really did anything about it so they really pick and choose their battles and it's it seems unfair and we really never know why they suspend so and why they don't right now the issue of women of color being harassed more than white women isn't isn't just a problem on twitter it's a. problem that just happens online obviously how disparate are the experiences of white women and women of color on line well i mean first you know why it's a woman or woman of color so i can only observe the sort of baseline truth seems to be that women of color face both racism and sexism and the internet is a place that magnifies those two things tremendously so if you put them together

and you put them on twitter it's catastrophe right so women of color often report being harassed getting death threats and all kinds of abuse and online harassment just for saying things that people don't agree with or like i think you can speak with any woman of color and they've probably had this experience before particularly black women who numbers have shown face harassment at huge rates and i think this is just a microcosm of real life yeah and we you know we sit and we try to come up with new magical answers about how there's an algorithm there is an algorithm and you know social media isn't being you know this idea that if i see it or somebody does one thing or there's a button that affects everything i'm like no it's a symptom of a much bigger problem i mean like i think social media specifically twitter is just a magnet a magnifying glass writes a microscope on on sort of the larger problems of society that just get taken out in one hundred eighty characters or hundred forty or however many it is now but so hopefully in the future we can see twitter at least taking attempts to combat this

and create specific programs to help honor the reports of women of color it's guide and what i want to say to our folks at home is that if you go to our twitter. they're watching the hogs twitter account we've got a whole they're kind of talking a little bit about you know things that are going on and this issue and beyond and and how do we deal with it so go ahead go to the go to are watching the hawks twitter account check that out be part of that poll and then tomorrow we'll talk to devon. on friday actually and to see what the results were i'm excited to thank you so much happens they are so. media guru thank you so much for joining us. as we got to watch your step for get to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are tea dot com coming up donald trump's official foundation now forced to dissolve after a new york attorney general scrutinized scrutiny investigators are well have certain eyes isn't that an investigative journalist and one joins us to discuss the art of the charity deal stay tuned to watching the hot.

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holidays are a time of giving to our loved one's colleagues and charity but what happens with giving is used as a cover for take it that's what the new york attorney general barbara underwood alleges the trump foundation did with his family's charitable foundation according to the ages investigation the trump foundation quote was little more than a checkbook for payments to nonprofit not for profits from mr trump or the trump organization and who can forget the many issues raised regarding the clinton family foundation and the bill hillary and chelsea clinton foundation over the years but you don't have to be rich to get an on the scale of the american breast cancer foundation famously spent seventy five percent of its donations paying fundraisers like the founder sun so what is the deal with big money charities and the even bigger personalities and organizations behind them joining me to help break down the pitfalls of philanthropy as investigative journalist ben swan thank you so much for joining me ben thanks that. so it's always so strange to me that we have to

talk about how shady the charities are and how to keep having this conversation most people you know most of us don't have enough money to pay someone else to give away our money it's sort of a foreign concept of a every one of the ninety nine percent so what is the point of having this charitable foundation i think there's a couple of points to it than obviously you know trump is a little bit unique in terms of presidents because most press. and for the foundation after they leave office he's one of the few who would have not the only one who's ever had a foundation before coming into office but that aside i think when you look at these charities they serve a number of purposes including p.r. to make yourself look good to look as if you are a charitable individual but also some of these charities are using ways to kind of buy publicity to counter some of the bad behavior of some companies so for instance after the two thousand and eight mortgage meltdown goldman sachs there is these

internal memos that have been leaks that essentially show that the leadership of goldman sachs decided to start donating to charity so that they could run stories and stories to reporters to run simultaneously alongside the news that they had defrauded so many americans well yeah but look we also give twenty thousand dollars to this charity and or we gave to the synagogue over here and so some of it is being done for the purpose of simply creating public relations which is what you know celebrities have done for a long time the idea is you give to a charity or start a foundation but there's so much about it that it's doesn't make sense to anybody like i said he's not ninety nine percent but from tax reasons to you know if you have the business of keeping everything you know there what exactly is the issue you know what are we talking about with the trump foundation and is it any different than any of the things that have about say the clinton foundation or any other presidential foundation or personal foundation is he doing was he is he

accused of doing anything that we haven't seen before no he's really not. doing anything in fact i would say he's being accused of doing far less than what the clintons were accused of doing with their foundation so for instance in trump's case he's accused of basically taking money and putting very little of his own personal fortune into it and instead he collects it from others which is pretty typical pretty standard for foundations and then using that almost like a slush fund to be able to pay for certain things including one of the accusations that he's been hundred one. thousand dollars to take care of legal problems for one of his gulf states in mar a lago so there's accusations like that or that ten thousand dollars was spent on a portrait of trump that was hung up at his residence and so he used the foundation to pay for that so that some of the accusations against against the trump foundation and by the way the trump nation has agreed to dissolve now under kind of the auspices of the court but look at the clinton foundation you know peter schweitzer when he put together his book clinton cash talks about and

a lot of it came out at that time about the foreign governments that were giving money to the clinton foundation while hillary clinton was secretary of state we know multiple governments did that and these were very large sums and at least one of those governments did so in violation of an agreement that hillary clinton had with the obama administration that she would not take money from that particular government and yet they did so you know listen this whole thing is very messy to begin with but the idea that trump is somehow this monster in the way he was using it compared to the way that you could argue that the clintons used it and abused it much more deeply when europe and the acting secretary of state and you have a foundation and foreign governments are donating to that commission you know that's one thing that i've never quite understand what it was and looked at and why that shouldn't be a bigger issue especially someone who might be president doesn't put you in a bad position and there's this idea do you think sometimes that politicians use it as that cover i can take money from that is quote unquote bad country or the wrong

ally as long as it's for a good purpose while the clinton foundation put a bunch of money and to helping aids research or education sort of washes the blood . well i think that's exactly the idea behind it right the idea behind these foundations is that it doesn't matter what we've done and this goes back to the goldman sachs story as well doesn't matter what we've done over here because as long as we're doing good work also and i believe this i believe that ninety nine percent if not one hundred percent of foundations do some good work they put some money into some place where it's used for some good but i don't really think that's the argument here right the argument is actually about the fact that these become again slush funds and have the ability in the way that they're shocked should under the tax system to pay huge salaries to family members or to different people who are associated with these organizations as a way for them to simply have massive incomes and so you're the foundation director you're on the board of directors you can take in big salaries from these

foundations that again are accepting money from from these foreign entities it's it's not very different also than what we see with the saudi crown prince right now pouring money into tech companies and those tech companies not wanting to do anything that upsets. the royal kingdom and saudi arabia so it's a similar idea here where you're almost buying yourself cover and control authority the ability to dictate terms on so many levels by funneling money into these foundations one of the things that bothers me as always bothered me is our complete lack of prosecution or investigation into white collar crimes and for me i see like you brought up goldman sachs to me wall street uses this charity i mean i when i was a caterer waiter way back in the day and during the first tech crash after two men one in ninety nine two thousand they have some very big parties for a lot of charity and i very expensive gift bags and all of that when you look at

someone like look at red cross at one point by the way the red cross was considered was actually rated lower than the clinton foundation for how it handled things why do you think we don't prosecute why aren't we doing something about this when really what it's doing is cheating the tax kitty for all of us they're cheating people out of charity money and taking people's money under false pretenses so why don't we prosecute it why are we doing anything i think there's a couple reasons first of all the people who would be involved in prosecuting or giving money to a lot of these organizations again a lot of it has to do with buying influence you know you give money to a foundation you give money to these organizations you would tend the fund raisers in the galas and to rub elbows with people and so why would you want to mess up that system if you're at the top in that system you're loving that system so why create a problem there where i don't think a lot of these folks see a problem but also consider you know some of these amounts so so trump for his

foundation after two thousand and six gave virtually nothing to it works fine i mean he's you could argue he's collecting money for his foundation to disperse it doesn't really put money into the foundation other people do in order to have access to it but the same goes for the clinton foundation how much of the clintons actually put into their foundation they just take money from their foundation. and even in the goldman sachs case you know the blankfein who was really sitting at the top of goldman sachs gary cohen who was sitting at the top of goldman sachs when they decided they were going to start giving money to charity in order to help stave off some of the negativity they were giving amounts like twenty thousand dollars twenty thousand dollars these are tens of millions of dollars a year and you can if you're going to scratch around for twenty grand to give to a synagogue and say look look at the good work that i'm doing if anything they should be embarrassed by the way that some of these amounts are so measly when they're you know giving to help the world become a better place it is true and that's what's strange to me because i look back at not that you know the days of carnegie are the great days of america but what he

did was build a library. the library of the very first library ever went to was a carnegie library because he said i have all this money i'm to build libraries i'm going to schools i'm going to build these things to make up for the bad things i did which is fine with me every month so we do but now i'm not seeing that they're not building things they're not putting the money where it really needs to be it's about a twenty thousand dollar table at a fancy dinner you know i think that you know i think that's a really good point i think that's a fair point i mean if you look at back at what some of the robber barons we're going to hear in order to help with their image when you're building you know museums and you're building libraries and you're building public places that are supposed to help preserve the nation in some way or preserve the arts in some way now we can have an argument about whether that's good or bad or not but again it's your money and you're going to say i want to pour it into these things so then the future i leave behind a legacy other than being a robber baron i think there's some something you could argue was noble about that

i mean you look at vanderbilt out in asheville north carolina the biltmore estate that was built there was only built to save that town and to provide people jobs that was being built for something like a dozen years and had thousands of people working at it soley. in order to create jobs for people so there are times when you can look at charity work that's being done to say let's really provide something for people but you're absolutely right those days are long behind us and today we live in a time where it's basically a wash the system for tax donations that again to buy you fluids wow well yeah and it's crazy for me to say a farmer of a good old day is a robber barrons but man it's like somewhere in there if you're going to put that kind of money put your money put your name on the building i'm cool with that just so the building give us something to do that well thank you so much ben and so on for breaking this out and talking to me about it thank you so much again. ever since the solar system humiliated its distant stepchild pluto in two thousand

and six fans of our galaxy s small unloved underdogs have been looking for some good news well today we have it and that's the discovery by the carnegie institute for science of far out no fellow avid gamers i apologize in advance but far out is actually not a surprise new release combining far far cry and fallout but what it is now is the most distant object to ever be detected in our solar system not much is known yet about far out or twenty eighteen the g eighteen as it's provisionally distant designated but scientists do already know that it's a small dwarf planet pink in color and filled with ice the reason scientists were able to find it in the first place is that because it's one hundred times further from the sun than we are here on earth telescopes have long been noticing far out pole affecting all different objects scattered around the outer solar system without yet seen with cold culprit. and by the way hop watchers if you thought this

past year has been excruciating long just keep in mind as you go to sleep tonight that for the yet undetected residents a far out twenty eight scene lasted over one thousand earth hears a long year well hello everyone that's our show for you today and remember every one of this we're not told we're locked enough to tell you all i love you and keep on watching and have a great day and night everyone. you mentioned again six thirty five and you have a career and unclear involves using your arsenal in your computer and things like that being in an office and perhaps you sort of getting to that circular. you could

have to stop doing all this i mean this is totally lou the minutes before. my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it in a box. or out of a very strong magnetic field on a car i felt in my head. it's like a real heart pressure on my skin burns and that wireless access point there just continues on with our students in the school so. we are just continually bathing our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electoral small and it's getting worse. the u.s. senate struggling rebuke saudi arabia over the shogi murder and calls for an end to the american involvement in the war on yemen is this a defining moment for this bilateral relationship will so-called values trump.

trungpa takes credit for defeating islamic state terrorists in syria and is now considering a total troop withdrawal also ahead. if i see exchange in the british parliament as faces hostility over her contingency plans for a no deal brags that. after weeks of tackling violent yellow vests demonstrations french police launching their own protest over working conditions and unpaid overtime at the same time some media.