u.s. state of alabama looks into whether a pro democratic party operation involving thousands of fake russian bots violated campaign laws and influence to last year's election results. syrian forces entered the northern city of money at the request of civilians and kurds in the area amid fears of a turkish offensive. and france plans to expand its riot control arsenal despite a number of serious injuries among the yellow vests protesters caused by rubber bullets.

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r g international i'm john thomas really glad to have you with us. by the attorney general of alabama is looking into a distant from asian campaign in the run up to last year's state election the operation involved more than a thousand fake russian language twitter accounts designed to appear as if they were backing the republican candidate the information is concerning the impact it had on the election is something that's significant for us to explore and we'll go from there those behind the alabama scheme were meant to be tracking fake russian accounts but as our comments they in fact created their own. some of the activity pointed to as alleged russian meddling in the united states was actually being carried out by the cyber security form new knowledge that this new knowledge outfit was carrying out activity designed to look like russian meddling in order to hurt roy moore the republican candidate democrat jones who won the race against roy

moore he has come forward and said he supports a federal investigation into these new revelations i'd like to see the federal election commission and the justice department look at these to see if there were any laws being violated and if they would prosecute those responsible linked in's co-founder reid hoffman has come forward and actually apologized to the republican candidate roy moore for the fact that he contributed money to an outfit that apparently worked to discredit roy moore during the election hofmann contributed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars to american engagement technologies of which one hundred thousand dollars went to a cyber security firm known as new knowledge and now new knowledge during the election created over a thousand russian language accounts on twitter and then had those accounts follow roy more this created than the impression that roy moore was getting russian support so surprise atop a supporting more they both have a deep love of country the countries russia but still run through to cut good

question by jews for you know it's pretty alarming when a guy's lips in a fluent russian or speak fluent russian that is russian it everywhere year later it's moving closer to the oval office new knowledge is tied to hamilton sixty eight which is a web site that apparently purports to be tracking the activity of russian bots and trolls on the internet and apparently new knowledge this entity tied with hamilton sixty eight which is widely quoted in u.s. mainstream media the new york times the washington post c.n.n. and other outlets turn to hamilton sixty eight which works with new knowledge in order to report on the activity of russian trolls and bots.

dan apparently has not chosen to run with this story the revelations were revealed they came out they became public on december nineteenth but it was only on december twenty seventh that c.n.n. chose to report on this this information they only did so after there had been some outcry the daily caller and others had written articles about cnn's ignoring of this story and their reporting on it was very short now we've reached out to c.n.n. to see why they haven't jumped on this story and we are waiting for a response now at this point the twenty seventeen senate scheme just surfaced last week so we're waiting to see what else will surface. let's cross live now to

julio rivera editorial director at for reactionary times dot com thanks for being with us here on r t international. thank you so much so the alabama attorney general is launching a probe into whether this it does information campaign against roy moore violated campaign laws and tilted the election in any way where do you actually see this having. well i don't know whether or not they'll be able to prove that an actual crime was committed you know there's been dirty tricks in politics for a long time and you know quite frankly that was a low hanging fruit in a sense for them to go ahead and put something together like this because the mainstream media has invested so much in. to this book the men who say you know still yet unproven you know russian collusion narrative would trump in the russians are trying to affect american elections not out there you know in order to carry out this way i think is very hypocritical in this specially the fact that this organization has one of the people working with it has direct ties to broccoli baba

who gave three hundred fifty dollars three hundred fifty thousand dollars to one voice several years back to try to interfere in the election of benjamin netanyahu the reelection of benjamin netanyahu so i think this is just a desperate party that willing to go to any length to try to you know with an election year i think they saw the more jones election in is very pivotal you know into a midterm year you know trying to get some momentum for the supposed blue wave which wasn't really what they made it out to be anyway but i mean this party right now between that between what you've seen with debbie wassermann schultz in the manner in which she behaved when she was you know the the d.n.c. basically undermining the will of the american people they really wanted bernie sanders to be the democratic nominee i think this is where the modern democratic party falls unfortunately at this point so this case has received much less media

coverage than other russian stories why do you think this is the case. well because i think they've invested so much into cultivating that storyline that this kind of undermines that it wasn't really occurring in the case of roy moore it was manufactured by the democrats so i think i mean i think that's very anti-american it's i go so far as to say almost no treason reason is in a sense you know so kind of undermine the will of the american people that way so they kind of they could sweep this under the rug and make the whole ugly you know judge lawyer more mass kind of go away that's kind of where they've been running with it. when he keeping tabs on the accusers of judge roy moore judge roy moore in april filed a civil suit against these women that made these are. still yet unproven you know obviously if somebody who understands the law at the level of judge more and more feels it necessary to file suit obviously is because he feels that he was innocent

and would be exonerated if the evidence was presented so you brought up a good point earlier about we're not really sure if anything illegal actually happened but the people behind the bought operation say it was merely an experiment does this sound like it could lead to make a convincing defense. well no it's not a convincing defense in any way shape or form i mean that's just the biggest cop out and it's quite frankly intellectually insulting to try to try to frame it that way but the fact is you know in black and white whether or not was were broken is going to be harder to prove you know and then at that point i mean there may be something they can do as far as finding you know in the d.n.c. in that city or wherever you know elections operations if there were certain officials that were you know involved in making this happen you know maybe if they were to have a tax exempt status is i mean i think that people you know. have to be operating ethically if they're going to operate as a nonprofit not that i know that for a fact that is a nonprofit all right very interesting to hear your thoughts who rivera editor at

the tauriel director rather for reactionary times dot com thanks for being with us here on out to international. thanks all. right the syrian government says its forces have entered the northern city of man beach at the request of civilians and kurdish fighters in the area the kurds are trying to strengthen the city's defenses amid fears of a turkish offensive our middle east correspondent has more. what we see happening is that the conflict in the northern syrian city of monday's continues 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 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. in response to the request

of the population of man beach the syrian government and its armed forces announce it is sending in troops to man page 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 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 what this possible upcoming turkish offensive those on the ground many locals fear and feel that they have been betrayed by the americans who are this over the past couple of years erika's give the best safety and stability for the north of syria this region and all syrian tire we are going to be the stable our 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. of the american withdrawal from unleashed by donald trump was disappointing for the city as i said all members residents are afraid the army is going to come to loot just as it happened during the era we want a safe situation meanwhile the russian front. mr so gay lavrov on saturday will be meeting with his turkish counterparts to discuss the situation in the region and specifically in syria iraq 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 lucian 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. we spoke to a security and political analyst who believes that the kurdish crisis can only be resolved with a political solution the syrian army is you know can be flexible and inflexible at the same time it can be flexible if there is a situation that can create stability there is an agreement to morrow is a decisive day foreign minister lavrov will meet with his counterpart from from turkey it is important to see if agreement can be reached to control the situation if the syrian army is capable i think it is capable but with the backing of the russian army and the iranians to actually control the situation and create you know a certain dialogue. that turkey the kurdish problem there is a kurdish problem in the north part of syria and in the north part of it are going to affect the security in turkey and this matter would have to be resolved it can only be resolved politically that is the position of the foreign minister of russia however you know the turks would have to pay

a proper price for their miscalculations by delving into syria and creating this chaos and contributing to this chaos. the french interior ministry is planning to boost its riot control arsenal purchasing more weapons fire rubber bullets that is despite a number of serious injuries among the yellow vests protesters caused by the non-lethal ammunition and numerous warnings from human rights groups over their use r.t. shoulder pinsky reports now 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 balls but the injuries can be even more serious and that for some people they competed life changing around them either were going to come or are. going to do it. why would the french government want to pull states off still all these flash rules they can as i 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 host royals inhofe a century. 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 moving. saying so late they said three percent of those injured specifically by rubber bullets actually went on to lose their lives so the question is why is the french government still deciding to go with using the flash tools which have been proven in some cases to be deadly and still will to spend more than two million euros on its version of protecting the state. or a common stereotypes on terrorists are being challenged by a study in the united states after nine eleven the so-called average terrorist was

often portrayed as being a muslim typically of middle eastern descent with arabic as the language of choice and they were also commonly thought to have beards but a study by global policy think tank the rand corporation has found that the reality may be very different they claim that the majority of terrorists recruited in the u.s. are caucasian or from african-american backgrounds the study also indicates that young males are more likely to be radicalized but said those being recruited had nothing distinctive about them the findings come in contrast to the stereotypes that we are familiar with sociology professor so you believe this has led to some dangerous assumptions. at tribute inc any any any issue to 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 us 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 so that the g. and a political strategy required a blanket condemnation and a mass generalization of 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 about a racist the so-called golden era in british chinese relations is being put to the test again over a smart phone giant that story and much more still to come this is our tradition.

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a lot of people tell. twitter and somebody pops up with something really really interesting. i welcome back this is archie international now the british defense secretary has voiced concerns about a possible spying threat from chinese tech giant wall way this comes amid a confrontation between the company and the united states as artie's political reports they seemed like the best of friends one side with cash to flash the other keen to court chinese investment you have a golden era china relations and one of the relations between britain and china very good issues in the past i think we've come to the. standing over.

there 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 are 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 where the u.s. currently embroiled in a tip 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 by the way 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 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 main ones you now faces extradition to the u.s. over possible violations of sanctions against iran but the kasab. here is 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 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 can of security hope something it can. russia for real other word you know sees itself in a vulnerable position where it doesn't have secure access to this particular market over the margin or been 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 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 to treat through the world after a break 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 will be a tough choice between wa way and the us way. two thousand and eighteen was a tough year for crypto currency but coin experts called it the year its bubble burst and predicted its completed demise at least ninety times. thank you thank you thank you. thanks to

our thanks to cut down to our. education. education. corner was the first mass decentralized

a digital currency had created more than more comfortable conditions for trade and transactions and gained wide popularity but quite enthusiastic can boss october 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 book itself had twenty eight years actually been a really good year for before and maybe again not so much for the price but if you're looking at the technological aspect of the blotching underlining because great year. i think that was more like mainstream media's portrayal of 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 thank 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 in credibility it may overpower any kind of security falls 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 that banks would benefit from banks using open ledgers and getting that you know trust listening aspect of 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. all right that does it for me back now.

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance i'm part children in washington d.c. today we welcome you to a special edition of food bust if we focus on the great recession which is now a decade in our rearview mirror we'll look at the causes of the calamity and what went down on that rough and rocky road to ruin and how it incredibly impacted the u.s. the eurozone and the rest of the world plus we'll look at where we are now how safe are we from another monstrous economic meltdown and what might be the next point and crisis ready let's go we start with bill clinton a democrat who was u.s.

president and his financial policies clinton nomics which began in one nine hundred ninety three when he took office and lasted until he left in january of two thousand and one he started following the single term of george herbert walker bush a republican now known by many as bush forty one or simply forty one president clinton was handed a growing economy from bush forty one with annual gross domestic product g.d.p. rate of three point five percent the good economy was however partially premised upon years and years of increasing spending and rising us budget deficits clinton nomics sought to keep the economy going while balancing the deficit and with the help of congress which was then controlled by democrats legislation was passed to increase taxes on the wealthy furthermore defense spending was cut from five point two percent of g.d.p. in one nine hundred ninety to just three percent in two thousand the house passed the tax increase without a single republican vote.