at the request of civilians in the area. troops on the border line. the co-founder of linked in apologizes for funding a pro democratic party operation which created thousands of fake russian. spy allegations once again this time in the u.k. . and the u.s. government shutdown continues funding. with the media the flames of discontent even using dated video to push the.

strongly water supplies that are left in the desert everyone. has done everything they possibly can to make the trip more dangerous. live on the international a very warm welcome to. syrian government forces have entered the northern city at the request of civilians. in the area and. offensive against the code of course considers them to be terrorists let's cross live now. joining us here on the program good to see you it seems that tension is building over the potential military action how we'll. well. this is

a story we've been following for the better part of this week and certainly tensions are increasing on the ground as you mentioned what has happened now is that syrian government forces have ever entered the province of mondays and they've raised the syrian flag there now this comes after a request from the locals this is an area that is in the hands of kurds and those could both the fighters and both the civilians are now feeling this is what the y.p. g. the syrian kurdish fighters had to say. we invited the syrian government which we belong to to send its armed forces to take over these positions and protect man beach and the freeze of turkish threats. now we witnessing people fleeing because of an impending likely to be turkish offensive and we've heard such threats coming from the turkish side in fact turkish backed syrian fighters and armored vehicles have also been deployed to the area all of this follows the surprise announcement by the americans as they are withdrawing troops from syria so on the ground what we

witnessing is people afraid. from the over the past couple of years americans the best safety and stability for the north of syria this region and north syria entirely are going to be disable are just people shall flee and terrorism will prevail the american withdrawal will destabilize the security we have had for a couple of years in this region is. the american withdrawal from by don't trump was disappointing to see to you as i said all members residents are afraid that armies might come to loot just as it happened during the. we want to say situation . now the impending showdown doesn't only put fighters on the ground at each other's throats but it also could potentially see the united states squaring up against turkey. or about his policy or their lives on the program thank you. in the meantime the russian foreign minister is. it offers also commented on the situation

in the region during today's press conference with his jordanian counterpart expressed concern that the u.s. withdrawal from the region will lead to a shift in the main responsibilities to the pursuit of. it seems like washington wants to shift responsibility onto its coalition partners in syria and put additional financial burden on its allies in the region. the co-founder of online networking site linked in has apologized for funding a discredited pro democratic party operation it created more than a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to look like they backed a republican rival last year if you operation was tasked in the us with tracking fake russian accounts but then actually turned out to be the very one creating them instead here's what i guess to you well that was embarrassing to say the least and here i thought you could get away with blaming russia for anything

nowadays apparently not but it does set a new low for democrats making think russian boughts to win elections is the irony i find the tactics that have been recently reported highly disturbing for that reason i'm embarrassed by my failure to track. the organization i did support more diligently as it made its own decisions to perhaps fund projects that i would rejects the recap reid hoffman co-founder of linked in contributed wittingly or unwittingly money one hundred thousand dollars to a pro democrat cyber security company called new knowledge which it seems specialized in fraud and freak news lauri's and this information the company created think facebook pages to confuse republican voters they. did fake

russian bullets who were tweeted and followed through a movie or the republican candidate in alabama's two thousand and seventeen special election they then publicly declared that that proves he had ties to russia because think russian bullets were retreating him dirty very very dirty so surprise atop a supporting more they both have a deep love of country the countries russia but still roughly chick are good question but useful you know it's pretty alarming when a guy who slips into fluent russian or speaks fluent russian russian is everywhere year later it's moving closer to the oval office interestingly enough the democrats love to mock through him or when he accused them of setting him up last year but he isn't interesting tidbit new knowledge she jonathan morgan was also seemingly one of the mosques the minds behind hamilton sixty eight which claimed to track russian

online influence operations russian boats real russian bots. ironic again that outlets including new york times washington post c.n.n. all you. hamilton sixty eight its data to accuse russian boughts of sowing

discord and conspiracies online wonder how much of that was fake but food for thought it was more by luck the not that we found out about this quote the c. of n. y. t. yet how many more incidents like this could there have been that we don't and never will know anything about food for thought we spoke with journalist dave lindorff who believes the cove bought operation reflects broader problems in the electoral system. dirty tricks are not illegal they're. you know they're part of our our corrupt electoral system you can you can lie. you can make up stories you can libel people all these things are. allowed in us the us electoral system and then what what compounds it makes it so corrupting is

the vast amount of money that can be poured into these campaigns that allows them to pay for this kind of corruption and then on top of that we have a population that's really not capable of critical thought. so people will buy into the stupidest claims about candidates. britain's defense minister has voiced his deep concerns about a possible spying threat from chinese tech giant wild way as comes amid confrontation between the company and the u.k.'s closest ally that of the united states a point boy has details they seemed like the best of friends one side with cash to flash the other keen to court chinese investment we have a golden era of u.k. china relations. the relations between britain and china are very good issues in the past i think we've come to an understanding over

a no as premier league said yesterday this should be an indispensable partnership. thanks we have cemented britain's position as china's best partner in the west with the u.k. playing bragg's it really with brussels trade ties with china seem as important as ever but there's a bone of contention coming between london and beijing all rather a phone of contention we've got to look at what partners such as australia in the us are doing in order to ensure that they have the maximum security of the five g. network. and we've got to recognize the fact as has been recently exposed the chinese state does sometimes aren't in the maligned way while our way is one of china's most important tech companies that the world's second largest mobile phone producer and it makes the laptops and tablets gadgets that rival apple and samsung but crucially weiwei also sells some of the communications hardware that allows

mobile phone and wireless networks to operate and when the u.s. currently embroiled in a tit for tat trade war with beijing the chinese tech giant has come into the spotlight washington says it's concerned that using weiwei hardware will give beijing the ability to spy on foreign countries and exert too much control over western infrastructure weiwei has raised serious concerns among u.s. officials for a potential role in cyber espionage given their reported links to china's state security services while way threaten the security of our networks due to their close ties to the chinese government and now the u.s. is pursuing well ways chief financial officer who was arrested in vancouver at washington's request to now faces extradition to the u.s. over possible violations of sanctions against iran but the case appears more than a little politicized the u.s.

president suggested he might use china's tech princess as a bargaining chip with beijing if anything it's good for the country if i think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made which is a very important thing was good for national security i would certainly intervene if i thought it was necessary australia or new zealand have followed the u.s. is lead and banned huawei from providing tech for its five g. rollout citing security risks the u.k. has yet to follow although there are murmurs in that direction what we're witnessing is. more kayne of security hope something it can. russia for real an american who sees itself in a vulnerable position where it doesn't have secure access to this particular market over the margin or being talks in the background between the american state department and the british foreign office trying to pressure raise or put leverage on the british government to come out and support the years sanctions true tires of

the have been shown but i don't think for one second that britain followed america's foreign policy to dictate to the policy that britain needs for true true to world after bret's that there's little hard evidence of weiwei ever having engaged in any spying or handing over of data the company denies any ties to the chinese government beyond paying its taxes for the u.k. following washington's lead and banning way risk souring and up until now fruitful friendship as well as slowing down the rollout of vital new technology for london it'll be a tough choice between wa way and the us way. two thousand and eighteen was a tough year for cryptocurrency bitcoin exposed school did the year its bubble bust and predicted its complete demise no less than one thousand times.

thanks. to. bitcoin it was the first mass of the centralized digital currency it created more

comfortable conditions for trade on transactions and the wide popularity a bit corny. told us what he expects from the cryptocurrency after its rocky ride this year. if you look at the big queen you know price bubble as you would say yeah you could say that that maybe is has happened but the user adoption merchant adoption advances in the technology of the block itself it had twenty eight years actually been a really good year for big and maybe again not so much for that price but if you're looking at the technological aspect of the blotchy you know underlining because great year. i think that was more like the mainstream media's portrayal of the big point as like you know the get rich quick aspect of it during the boron of twenty team but i think that's kind of segue to into the mainstream more so moving into the the interest in the technology like how to block chain work where does the

price come from other than speculation the actual technological advancements so i guess for that i could think that mainstream media. i don't think it's much more of a risk than it was when they incorporated the internet into their business model what i think is it provides incredibility it may overpower any kind of security flaws there's a lot of things that happened behind the scenes in banks i think that you know a lot of end users and customers of banks would benefit from banks using open ledgers and getting that you know trust listening specht of a try when it comes to banking. just don't put more in than you're willing to lose and you won't have to worry too much about trading with emotional money plenty more of your wealth what headline still to come here to international your program with times in just a. when

our mind when the content of our mind. changed there are. the level of the physiology that is at the level of the brain the brain as a form of plasticity can rewire itself and not just the brain but the rest of the

body responds. i could have you with us today for the program while at millions celebrate the festive season in the united states the government is in the midst of a shutdown of a cash for trump's border wall president claims the stalemate is not about funding the anti immigration barrier at all. this isn't above the wall everybody knows that a wall will work perfectly in israel the wall works ninety nine percent this is only by the democrats not letting donald trump and the republicans have a when they may have the chance senate votes but we have the shoe border security two thousand and twenty. if you thought there would be

a christmas truce in the washington wars then you were wrong christmas is over and new year's is coming and the government has already been shut down for a week and it's all because of the wall we have a little bit of a shut down because we believe in walls and we believe in borders and we believe in barriers and we're going to have a wall over there see if we have to close down the country over border security i actually like that in terms of an issue federal workers are furious they're telling horror stories on social media about a penniless christmas they're blaming it all on the man in the white house whenever i talk about my air traffic control husband working without pay on twitter all i get is hateful remarks about how he will and won't lose adonai i know that but what are we supposed to do about christmas and bills in the meantime feeling so sad for you know not really you destroyed christmas but eight hundred thousand employees no one cares about you well if my husband who works for this day doesn't get paid we

won't have money to give our elderly cat his insulin shots so would have to put him down it seems that the hysteria is not going to end trump says the government won't be open for business until he gets funding for his border wall and the democrats are still resisting that he cannot accept the offer they made to put a billion dollar slush fund for the president to implementing his very wrong immigration policies that would happen to trump temper tantrum may produce a government shutdown it will not get him his will moreover the mainstream media is turning up the heat during the discussion of the recent death of a seven year old migrant girl m.s. and me sees got a heart wrenching clip of border patrol agents dumping out water left for undocumented immigrants who illegally cross the border everyone in the trunk of administration has done everything they possibly can to make the trip. more dangerous more deadly they just strongly water supplies that are left in the desert

by samaritans who are doing what donald trump's bible tells them to do yes that means spiritedness is put squarely on the shoulders of donald trump except if you look at the clip it's from way back in two thousand and eleven the border patrol agents in that clip were actually accountable to the obama administration when they took those actions that took from that fact however didn't stop m s n b c from playing the clip somehow as an example of the brutality of the trumpet ministration some border patrol dumping water that was meant for desperate migrants being dumped out on the ground this is sort of extravagant cruelty is unusual for any administration but for this administration they seem to think it's affective for their base and severe dehydration with this cannot be dealt with it's just water when you and yet they are out there destroying the water supplies the good

samaritans put out there for people who find themselves in the situation there is folks who are inclined to view trump is this unique evil and he certainly you know does a lot of terrible things including you know having more children being taken from their parents but at the same time people forget how terrible obama was not integration why wasn't there a scandal again when he to forty two now million people why wasn't there a scandal when he was instrumental in the coup in honduras in two thousand and nine which has helped lead to this migration crisis obama got a pass on all of these issues it again a lot of it was people like him personally and therefore we look at all these types of terrible things where as one truck does them they take notice it may be winter but the heat in washington over donald trump's wall just keeps getting time table artsy new york. the common stereotype that we sometimes hold of

terrorists is being challenged by a study in the united states after nine eleven the so-called average terrorist was often portrayed as being a muslim or arab descent with our pick as the language of choice and they were also commonly thought to have beards but a study by a global policy think tank that of the rand corporation has found that the reality may be all well two different they claim that the majority of terrorists recruited in the united states come from a cook asian or african american background the study also indicates the terrorists can either be black or white are also not highlighting any particular attributes the findings come as a contrast to the stereotype we're somewhat familiar with professor of sociology at the university of wisconsin parkside saif done a believes this has led to some dangerous assumptions but three of you think any any any issue to a race basically is intended primarily to result and blanket condemnation and

blanket condemnation of the people of the middle east are up some muslims and all the people of the middle east was actually necessary for the for the u.s. policy in the region although it was from day one understood by most social scientists to be based on a false premise but obviously it was setting up political strategy and the political strategy required a blanket condemnation and a mass generalization or the notion of to apply to any person coming from the region or the middle east region north africa and southeast asia and the study that uses race as a primary viable to explain or to just default to. find out facts about crime or about terrorism is actually highly misleading let alone actually is a very basis for. people in new york. being left dumbfounded by

a neon blue light blazing across the skyline the posted videos over the blue horizon with some even wondering whether it was an alien invasion certainly a lot by the phenomenon of the city authorities dispatched a police units and fire trucks that were timed out of the incident had nothing to do with a galaxy far far away rather was the result of a transformer explosion. thanks for sharing the time with us here at the international and joining us here if you like us worldwide news headlines my colleague column gray is here in half an hour's time to bring you. my seven 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 who are 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 inconceivable sentences for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in wave and say by day as you're walking out of this is just it doesn't get easier. to make this manufacture come sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts and be the one percent of. the time we can all. the middle of the room.

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here in view of the u.s. capitol in washington d.c. this is a second installment of our infrastructure deficit special if a structure isn't just a nice thing to have isn't only about having less bumps on a rider about convenience it's much more including national security we asked the former director of the national transportation safety board jamie finch about that and more. research group or is a national security issue. goes about going all the way back to president eisenhower having him be the germans autobahn he brought the concept to the united states as a as a system to build across america so you can actually travel from the us from the east coast us to the west coast the u.s. in a sort of about time versus the several months that it took him when he was a private when he first made it into the army.

the world has become more connected with people in places that ever before and we can now reach just about any city on the planet in a single day and none of it would be possible without airplanes and airports in fact the national air traffic controllers association says there are over eighty seven thousand flights in the united states every single day at the same time u.s. airports are decomposing before our eyes for an aerial view on the current state of airport infrastructure we handed over to our correspondent nicholas on. most people coming into the u.s. the first thing they see is one of these and they're poles and although america considers itself to be the leader of the developed world the truth is that it's a full on always want passengers from the middle east asia or europe would expect

president trump didn't hesitate in saying the america's airports a third world facilities when i look at airports in china when i look at airports in abu dhabi and qatar and the different places like a third world country you land in new york at la guardia airport a kennedy airport it's like a third world airport system and its latest report the american society of civil engineers graded the country's aviation infrastructure with a very unimpressive score of d. you know the united states has had. in an aging and. in aging infrastructure for about a generation so we sort of look back and the united states really built out our infrastructure in the fifty's and sixty's and early seventy's and then in some respects we've taken some time off from from from doing a lot of building and we've been.