never apologize for the sauce and then not only want the money i want the revenge. the u.s. state of alabama launched an investigation into meddling in a senate election campaign in twenty seven teed pro-democratic group is reportedly behind more than a thousand fake russian social media accounts to be used to discredit a republican rival. a high level turkish delegation heads to russia for talks on syria this its government forces there claim they vented the northern syrian city of man beat over fears that turkey is about some launch an offensive against the kurds. and the scandal surrounding a disgraced advisor to the french president wyden media reports claim alexandra but our laws been using a diplomatic passports long after he was dismissed for beating up a protester. a

very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me great to have you with us and our top story the u.s. state of alabama has launched a probe into an alleged meddling campaign during a twenty seventeen seventh's election which was earlier blamed on russia it turns out that a pro-democratic billionaire funded a u.s. group they created more than a thousand fake russian bots on social media allegedly to discredit a republican rival with more on this his kind of more pay. the attorney general for the u.s. state of alabama is looking into democratic party dissin for mation during the twenty seventeen special election it appears that roy moore the republican candidate may have lost due to some shady activities that did not come from russia 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 it's been revealed that

during the special election democratic party operatives worked on facebook and twitter to undermine roy morris campaign now doug jones the democrat who won is backing a federal investigation 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 for this scheme to undermine him was pretty simple create fake facebook pages and russian accounts on twitter to confuse republican voters this gave the false impression that roy morris campaign was backed by the kremlin and it put it into the mix of anti russian hysteria and it's no surprise that choppa supporting more they both have a deep love of country the country's russia but still rocky to push emerges forward you know it's pretty alarming when a guy's leaps into fluent russian or speaks fluent russian and it's russian it's everywhere year later it's moving closer to the oval office the operation was

carried out by the pro democratic party cyber security firm known as new knowledge jonathan morgan the c.e.o. of new knowledge is actually considered to be an expert on these kinds of issues he apparently is the mastermind behind hamilton sixty eight a website that frequently reports on social media activities which it blames on russia saying that they're intending to sow discord at the same time new knowledge helped release a senate report that was considered to be a bombshell about alleged russian meddling in the us presidential elections the irony is that jonathan morgan who says he's against dissin from ation is now banned from facebook. for just that we take a strong stand against people who say sions to create networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are or what they're doing it seems that these companies have all become meddling experts for the mainstream media that frequently covers reports about alleged russian just information d n n apparently has not chosen to run with this story the revelations were revealed on december nineteenth

but it was only on december twenty seventh that c.n.n. chose to report on this this information and only did so after there had been some outcry 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 i wonder how much coverage this new piece of information will get as we uncover some of the mystery behind the alleged russian bots and find out they didn't come from russia at all the media are so heavily invested in this russia gate story which is turning out to be a non-story or actually a very misleading story but they're not willing to admit it they sort of can't process this new information because it goes counter to their narrative so they're trying to ignore it the big media the corporate media is trying to play it down pretend they're hoping will just go away. high level turkish delegation is due in moscow to meet with russian counterparts on the situation in syria now focused

on the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria and the future of the city of man beach damascus says its forces have entered the northern city at the request of civilians and kurdish fighters in the area fearing a turkish offensive it goes on of digs deeper into what this state they call themselves freedom fighters he calls them terrorists the us use them as their proxy army well after this used to there will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria very. very orderly turkey has already begun massing its forces on the front line and the kurds know all too world the consequences of that they've been there with afrin back in january the turks launched operation olive branch against the minorities northern most territories there were reports the syrian army could have intervened but in the end the kurds put on

a brave face and decided to go it alone and their friend fell and quickly for the turkish army the operation was hardly more challenging than a drill i. the turks almost move deeper to another major kurdish stronghold of man bitch their u.s. generals literally had to put their bodies between the two to prevent bloodshed now the u.s. is abandoning syria and the kurds while erdogan has been making it clear that a kurdish held man bitch just won't stand with them. these terrorists have to go to the east of euphrates if they do not leave we will send them that was postponed eventually but not indefinitely unless the kurds leave man beach million in we

already again syria's division entire aim is to make terrorist organizations leave the area or if the terrorists leave then there is no work left for us anyway the american withdrawal has left the kurds with a limited number of options really so they've turned to damascus asking to shield them we invited the syrian government which we belong to to send its armed forces to take over these positions and protect man beach in the face of turkish threats. and on saturday 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 pages and so there they are the government forces have entered the kurdish kingdom for the first time in years with russia being a major influence on damascus turkey's once again turning to moscow so the cards have been dealt and now it's down to turkey if they will go all in a political analyst focusing on the kurdistan region and of arc that we spoke to

believes ankara views the moscow meeting as a potential game changer just go by quickly what happened last week well. now it was made by president trump it was bought that is the main window but i was the events unfold it looks like to me actually wasn't ready for the withdrawal and it doesn't have the capacity to take the other members out this instant sirrah best place and the only way to get now to actually take control. approval of russia because russia will be control and the americans with grew so so they're trying to work out that there with the russian side try to either share power or for example the border points out across in works. i think the worst case scenario the syrian army comes in. charges but. obviously things. we see. the

scandal surrounding our society advisor to french president emmanuel mccrone has taken a new twist aleksandra banner love reportedly used a diplomatic passport during business trips after his dismissal but the law was fired in the summer after a video emerged showing him viciously beating a protester by the ski reports if person a corn thought this year couldn't get any worse off the weeks of violent protests engulfing france think again now his disgraced former bodyguard alexander opener is back for a second bite of the cherry it's emerged he may have been using diplomatic post boards obtained during his time working for mark on one of which is said to have been issued trusted confidant only weeks after being filmed beating up a protester. i.

was. eventually sacked after a media circus he was put under investigation for that attack and imitating a police officer he was also scrutinised by politicians and during one of those sessions he said this is the passport returned it is of the officer while working is the one i think the elysee should have handled it that was. the french foreign ministry says it's just for their return and says they should only be used for official trips any use of these passports since there would have been despite the. maidment is made by the person in question it's alleged he used in doing a trip to africa including a visit to chad where he said to have met the country's president that meeting came just weeks before korn made an official trip to chad and was forced to red faced to

give an explanation this person was a no win official or an official intermediary on the foreign minister that diplomatic advisor to the president and his africa adviser represent the head of state in africa president macron wants to entirely void the use of intermediaries especially in africa though the former aide maintains he never represented himself as anything but a private investor corns office has formally rebuked the nala with regard to current personal it of it is ask you to ensure they are conducted with strict respect for the confidentiality and ethical responsibilities of your time in this office. and a possible judicial investigation over the alleged use of diplomatic passports is now in the workings yet despite nearly as a trying to distance itself even further from bella opposition politicians are now

questioning whether a month on still has ties to his former confidant this is because this could potentially short circuit french. boots on the dollar would be a danger for the. business clearly different probably of the image of someone who was sanctioned after what happened in may and who after these actions received two diplomatic passports when you have a diplomatic passport means that you go you speak for the country so of course on this one like why you see meeting you know people official people you know in africa if this person is no one you know according to it to do to the government if it's not a diplomat if it's not a friend if it's not an advisor then what he is then who is i mean otherwise you know why he had those passport back and who given those passport back so obviously there's a connection like somehow somewhere with one person or different people maybe the

president's else i don't know but if what has been revealed you know for the past few hours about his few trips in africa if this is true then it's very concerning. u.s. stock markets sort of its worst christmas eve trading day ever this year and that molests think they found the culprit computerized trading systems they say that the programs which have gained popularity since the two thousand and eight financial crisis fell to cope with market demands fifty paid people are buying cell. well around eighty five percent of all trade is controlled by machines or formulas which are programmed to buy and sell according to market data algorithms work much faster than humans and can check huge volumes of numbers in seconds stephen king professor of economics told us that despite the benefits the programs just can't

sense the market properly. if you have shares being valued on the basis of speculation by one group about the movement based on a set of algorithms then those speculations even though happen extremely quickly can be completely false about what the share should actually be valued at so we have a whole series of artificial models about how she is going to value which themselves have been proven false the whole so called efficient markets offices if those algorithms themselves in any way reflect those ideas they're going to make the stock market less accurate and less sensible that we spent we've put far too much in value only on the valuation of share as we have or emphasize them when there is no real sign by someone to devalue shay's when they buy songs and titles of future runnings this kind said back in the not in thirty years there's no sense in paying a share of playing ten pounds to buy a share which you think should be worth twenty pounds on the basis of your

expectations of future earnings when the market currently values it at five so you have a basic chaos in the market which was there with him and actors alone and if you add algorithms on top of that which are themselves competing with and interacting with other algorithms you simply get more chaos you don't get more accuracy. still to come this hour is around deploys a helicopter against hamas positions it was supposed to a rocket attack on its territory has the details for you after this very short break stay with us. sir.

sure seems wrong. why don't we just don't call. yet to shape our business actually. and in detroit it looks betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back israel defense forces say they've deployed a helicopter to attack

a mass positions in retaliation to an earlier rocket attack this comes after one palestinian was killed and at least six injured in the friday protests on the gaza israel border israel used tear gas as well as rubber bullets and as live ammunition to disperse crowds there according to reports warned of rockets and sniper fire in response to the killing a total of two hundred ninety five palestinians have been killed and more than twenty nine thousand injured in twenty eighteen by israeli forces that's according to the us. now they say age doesn't matter when you are younger hard to answer one russian grandma that means clocking up more and more power shoot ups.

i. looked near to the circular production of the trickle here near. the woods where. you have to go and what's it like even. the little. i keep. i. hate government has been slammed for its latest push to reduce the use of plastic in british schools the country's education

secretary has called on all schools to drop single use plastic items by twenty twenty two and use environmentally friendly alternatives but critics were quick to point out that government's own national program to deliver food and vegetables to schools makes extensive use of plastic packaging in sutherland co-founder of the campaign group a plastic plan it believes the government is anything but a paragon of eco virtue if the u.k. government are going to encourage organizations like schools to reduce their plastic usage to create plastic free schools then of course they must also show by leadership by cutting out. much plastic as they can possibly do it is not defensible for the government of the u.k. to send out calls to schools to say let's cut down on plastic in communication that is that should be packaged in plastic. i think at the moment the

u.k. particularly there is a huge amount of noise about plastic i think we're probably the noisiest nation about plastic in europe if not the world and it's very easy for people outside you kate to think that we are actually showing extreme leadership in this issue that noise is translated into action but the reality is us in the u.k. and we need to speed up. the target for schools as part of a wider drive to reduce the use of plastic in the u.k. among other things it wants to wants a ban on plastic strolls and cotton as well as an increase from five to ten pence for plastic bags the possible changes could come into effect in january twenty twenty and via mental journalists are all of a tickle told is that although commendable cutting out plastic in a single shot could pose challenges. db real problem is that pasty he's cheap and

it does such a good job. in keeping food fresh and in reducing food waste in the supply. and so if we have to take it straight away then either we shift to another material which we also have or. over all we will find that the cost of food goes up and that we are more food it is it is being damaged in the food waste in the supply chain. and that show marks. and that we are reposing one problem with another. twenty eighteen drawing to a close it's time to take stock of the old year party boy in the in case you missed it team take a look back now. twenty years. to remember sex trim. and two men on

a mini break to look at the big clock it is twelve one if i see why my eyes look back at the last twelve it's a christmas miracle. there you go to off to a sexy start making january a scary time for rich men me to draw on you to store these fred that you can defy the secretary gavin williamson was involved with a married woman when he was a manager at a fire place it was fourteen years ago and you can do my sympathize with him until you realize it's kevin williamson january was also the high point in a trend that's so easy it's eating tight and just not selection working its magic in february an official report declared that the u.k. was facing brags that. that's paraphrased president secretary david davis calmed everyone down by saying the president won't turn on the u.k. into a mad max style distain c.m.

a few months later he quit and oddments britain is still very very also mock the first major u.s. school shooting and this time florida would be plenty more but the us made the brave decision to do about it and mom was when twenty really got going someone normally a child. and his daughter yulia pads thanks so much less attention though even the reagans ignored in february from the cells reporting. on russia uncertain russian diplomats was sent packing from western capitals moscow denied any involvement and did a couple of cloak loving cathedral enthusiasts neighbor was busy in the script. in the u.s. the u.k. and france launched airstrikes against syria but in my full way the armed groups in that brazen welcome to know the results. i don't remember in may donald trump announced that my film is so bad in the british capital that it's practically a war zone this is going to really angry they insisted that just because the

moderator is the highest it's been in a decade that does not mean the u.s. president can be so mean also the ginger some celebrities lastly rosie wearing a dress that didn't fit is a great romance of the year reached base politically speaking donald trump finally met north korea's cuddly tyrant kim jong il in a single poor hotel the best buds agreed to denuclearize north korea and world war three was delayed by a week at least all of this in the first six months of twenty eighteen. well you have it thanks for joining us this hour we're back at the top of the next hour with all the latest to see. you know when it's gala crazy things

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