headlining this hour syrian forces say they've entered the northern city of the move comes at the request of civilians and kurds in the area turkey masses troops for an offensive. co-founder of the networking site linked in apologizes for funding approach democratic party operation in the us which created thousands of fake russian. front plans a boost to its riot control despite a number of serious injuries among the protesters caused by rubber bullets. in the us government shutdown continues over funding donald trump's anti immigrant project with the media fanning the flames of discontentment even resorting to outdated video to drive its agenda. they just strongly water supplies that are left in the desert of free one in the trunk has done everything they possibly can to make

that trip more dangerous to. live worldwide on t.v. and online this is r.t. international with the hourly updates now four pm this friday afternoon in moscow first for you the syrian military says government forces have entered the northern city of man beach at the request of civilians and kurdish fighters in the area it comes as the kurds try to strengthen the city's defense amid an upcoming offensive from the turkish side considers kurdish fighters to be terrorists let's go live to our middle east correspondent paula slater who's across developments paula tension seems to be building over any potential turkish military action how real are those fears. i think the fears are we see happening is that the conflict in the northern. news to escalate now we are receiving reports

from the syrian military that they soldiers have entered the city at the request of the kurdish fighters and civilians who live there they've raised their flag and the concern from locals is that they need assistance against a possible upcoming offensive from the turkish side. 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. however right now we are receiving reaction from the turkish side and they say that the claims from the syrian military that they have taken control of the city of members are nothing more than psychological warfare and that the situation at this point in time remains far from definite. this is a psychological operation they have raised a flag an hour ago i spoke with the intelligence there is nothing definite yet now all of this comes as the american president donald trump made the surprise

announcement that he was withdrawing american troops from syria of course the americans have been giving a lot of support in the form of weapons and the like to the y.p. who are the syrian kurdish fighters and what we now hear happening is that with this possible upcoming turkish offensive those on the ground many locals fear and feel that they have been betrayed by the americans. for 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 disobeyed lost 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. the american withdrawal from one beach by donald trump was disappointing for the city as i said all members residents are afraid that others might come to loot just as it happened during the. i want to say

situation. meanwhile the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov on saturday will be meeting with his turkish counterparts to discuss the situation in the region and specifically in syria now lavrov has already commented on the growing tensions and he has said that he feels that the allied forces will need to bear the brunt of the american withdrawal from syria. so. it seems like washington wants to shift responsibility onto its called partners in syria and put additional financial burden on its allies in the region. now as the situation continues to escalate on the ground we are bracing for potential showdown between the united states and turkey amongst others. ok thanks for walking us through that paul is live in tel aviv. last hour i spoke to a regional affairs research and political analyst in damascus who believes that both turkey and the u.s. have used the kurds for their own gain. i think that turkey feels that.

because a very not able to go on is a good deal a. political solution only object because for both sides i took. us to deliver a syrian uprising is very using. the using of course to achieve political of laws i think because. they're followed very closely and. members and i think it will be moderate or division between the syrian army and the courts a future. co-founder of the online networking site linked in has apologized for funding a discredited pro democratic party operation created more than a thousand fake russian language twitter account designed to look like they backed a republican rival last year the operation was tasked in the us with tracking fake

russian accounts but turned out to be the very one creating them instead as more against the of report 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 and he made it sound decisions to perhaps fun projects and 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 fake news lies and this information the company created fake facebook pages to confuse republican voters they created fake russian boats who were tweeted and followed through a move for 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 it's no surprise atop a supporting more they both have a deep love of country the country's russia but still rock critic a good question is for them it's pretty alarming when a guy 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 here's an 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 bots real russian bots.

ironic again that outlets including new york times washington post c.n.n. all use the hamilton sixty eight its data to accuse russian boughts of suing discord and conspiracies online wonder how much of that was fake but food for thought it was more by luck than not that we found out about this quote the sea 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 journalist dave lindorff believes the covert bottle peroration reflects broader problems in the us electoral system dirty tricks are not illegal there. you know they're part of our. corrupt electoral system you can you can lie. you can make up stories

you can live for all of these things are. a laugh in u.s. the u.s. 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 and so people will buy into the stupidest claims about candidates. the french interior ministry is planning to boost its riot control austell purchasing more weapons that fired rubber bullets that's despite a number of serious injuries among the yellow vest protesters caused by the non-lethal ammunition and also numerous warnings from human rights groups over the use shot to do betty reports from paris. well there are lots of dangers from these l b d forty's or more commonly known as flash for weapons that they use to launch

things such as tear gas grenades sound grenades and even these rubber bullets and those can all do significant damage if they hit people in those protests people with broken bones fractured teeth bruising internal injuries we even saw a number of our crew being injured over the last few weeks by some of the items that are being shot out of those flash pools including the rubber bullets that one of our colleagues who was injured in the face another injured in the leg but the injuries can be even more serious and not and for some people they compete a life changing week you could just believe anything. she looked like he was not believe the evil deed they called why would the french government want to pull states off still all these flash rules they can as they say

launch things such as this the rubber bullets well that's largely due to the protests that we've seen in france over the last few weeks the country has been the gulf by these violent protests for some people describing them as being the poorest royals in half a century. with a flash of balls that the french government wants to look at purchasing as i say can be used for tear gas sound grenades and also those rubber bullets and they've actually been some studies specifically into the injuries caused as a result of. rubber bullets with many civil liberties groups just saying that they shouldn't be used now a group of u.s.

academics published a study in december of last year saying that fifteen percent of people who were injured by rubber bullets specifically actually ended up with permanent injuries with the majority of people losing sight they said three percent of those injured specifically by rubber bullets actually went on. so the question is void is the french government still deciding to go with using the flash that should be proven in some cases to deadly and still wilting to spend more than two million euros on its mission of protecting the state. celebrate the festive season in the united states the governments in the midst of a shutdown over cash for donald trump the president though claims the stalemate is not about funding the anti immigration barrier at all. this isn't above the wall everybody knows that it will work perfectly in israel the wall works ninety nine

percent this is only by the democrats now letting donald trump and the republicans have a when they may have the town 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 shutdown because we believe in wall said we believe in borders and we believe in barriers we're going to 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 fruiting so

sad for you no 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.n. b.c.s. 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 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 mean 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 not to trump 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 the. 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 of wind when you and yet they are out there destroying the water supplies the good samaritans put out there for people who find themselves in this 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 money to afford to 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 in again a lot of it was his people like him personally and therefore we looked at all these types of terrible things where as one truck does them they take notice it may be

winter but that he didn't washington over donald trump's all just keeps getting time table artsy new york a so-called golden era in british chinese relations is being put to the test again over a small phone giant i'll tell you all about that after the break. when our mind when the content of our mind is changed there are fees to

ratio of 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 also the rest of our body responds to. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i'll come back britain's defense ministers voiced his deep concerns about a possible spying threat from the chinese tech giant well way it comes amid confrontation between the company in the u.k. its closest ally the united states reports. 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. relations between britain and choice of very good issues in the past i think we've come to an understanding over. premier li you said yesterday this should be an indispensable partnership. 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 or rather a phone of contention we've got to look at what partners such as australia in the us doing in order to ensure that they have the maximum security of the five g. network and we've got to recognise the fact there's 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 tip for attack 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 raise serious concerns among u.s. officials for a potential role in cyber espionage given their reported links to china's state security services and wire way threaten the security of our new. works 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 i think 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 which is 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 that can. russia for real other berga know sees itself in

a vulnerable position where it doesn't have secure access to this particular market over the margin having talks in the back room 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 to the tires of the harben chairman but i don't think for one second that britain following america's foreign policy to dictate to the policy that britain needs to treat through two world after approach that there's little hard evidence of why our way 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 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. i'm going twenty

eighteen was a tough year for the cryptocurrency bitcoin experts called it the year it bubble burst and protected its complete demise one thousand times. alex thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks al thank you thank you alex think

of. coing was the first masti centralized to digital currency and create more comfortable conditions for trade and transactions and of course gained wide popularity as well the current enthusiastic prozac told us what he expects from the cryptocurrency offer its rocky ride this year. if you look at the big coin 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 box in itself had twenty eighteen is actually been a really good year for big and maybe again not so much for the price but if you're looking at the technological aspect of the blace in underlining because great year . i think that was more like mainstream media's portrayal of big going 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 the 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 at 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. that's the way it looks from moscow so far this friday i'll be back to update you again in just over half an hour after watching the whole. my son doing drugs my nephew. just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states. drug. users in a prison population. we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. the war on drugs.

number of people who are in prison for. for. minor offenders. it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you. and say. this is just it doesn't get easier. welcome to unique addition of. questions from you the viewers some of the very interesting.

greetings and salutation. out of chile to saving with the full moon high in the sky here at this house of big gambles and long shots the political world here in the united states was shaken to its very core because it was here at canterbury park in minnesota the former wrestler a hollywood actor and the mayor of brooklyn park minnesota jesse ventura shocked the world and became the thirty eighth governor in the state of minnesota today and watching the hawks we will look back on that historic win and take a look at his time in office and the true changes that he implemented and the things he fought for in his battles with the political establishment and the

mainstream media so take a journey with us as we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of governor jesse ventura. so what did you treat the thing like feel the tributes would be analyzed to the bottom to. see. what they like you know that i got. that we. could see that this is. what caused me to run for governor i kind of french myself to help us celebrate and remember the twentieth anniversary of the political campaign that shocked the world former governor jesse ventura was joined by several key figures in his campaign and administration.