with everybody else in the boat i will most of you will be partial to the film oh thank you before we talk to you. thank. you where state of alabama launched an investigation into meddling in a senate election campaign in twenty seven speed a pro-democratic group is reportedly behind more than a thousand fake russian social media accounts used to discredit the bible. a high level turkish delegation heads to russia for talks on syria this is government forces that claim they've entered the northern syrian city of man beach and the fear is that turkey is about to launch an offensive against the earth. and the scandal surrounding a disgrace to the vines of the french president blinded media reports claim alexander but alas been using a diplomatic passport come off that he was dismissed for between.

a very warm welcome to you watching r.t. international with me if you erin great to have you with us this morning our top story the u.s. state of alabama has launched a probe into an alleged meddling campaign during a twenty seventeen senate election which was earlier blamed on russia it turns out that a pro-democratic billionaire funded a u.s. group that created more than a thousand fake russian thoughts on social media allegedly to discredit a republican rival with more on this his. 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 is slips 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 distance from asian is now banned from facebook. for just that we take a strong stand against people who is a sions who 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

descent from a ship to get out 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 they only did so after there had been some outcry that 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 bought and find out they didn't come from russia at all tabletop and r.t. new york media analyst. told us that the mainstream media uses these third cold russian meddling as a political instrument. but 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 we have the spokes booking themselves i mean everyone is pointing to russia they're putting out dubious information about russian influence and then they're trying to use. the specter of russian influence in order to influence american elections so it's like you know it's like it's media disinformation squared mueller has been looking investigating the story this question since may of two thousand and seventeen he has not come up with one bit of evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the kremlin all along it was quite evident that the the story was very different the story was how the russia gate story was being concocted in order to were ordered to for other purposes.

a high level turkish delegation is due in moscow to meet with russian counterpart from 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 fearing at turkish offensive a cowshed on of explains their kurdish position. 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 deliberate very orderly turkey has already begun massing its forces on the front lines. the kurds know all to the world the consequences of that they've been there with afrin back in january the turks launched operation all of 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 efren fell and quickly for the turkish army the operation was hardly more challenging than a drill. 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 the euphrates if they do not leave we will send them that was postponed

eventually but not indefinitely unless the kurds leave man bridge. we're already against syria is the vision because our entire aim is to make a terrorist organizations leave 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 and the freeze of turkish threats. yeah nonstarter in response to the requests of the population of man beach the syrian government and its armed forces announce it is sending in troops to man bridge 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 they will go all in investigative

journalist max blumenfeld broke down for is why a kurdish assad collaboration worries turkey so much. we've heard conflicting reports of actually the syrian government entering the city of men being which was recaptured from isis in two thousand and sixteen by the kurdish and this would indicate that there is on the ground collaboration between the kurdish s.d.f. and the syrian government a lot of people are troubled by this in turkey the u.s. didn't consider this a possibility but the fact is that these kurds are syrians they're syrian citizens and actually this is a natural partnership against a common enemy in isis and so both the syrian government and the s.d.f. are determined not to see isis return and i think it's actually a positive development as far as stabilization goes. the u.s. stock markets or its worst christmas eve trading day ever this year and analysts

think they have found the culprits computerized trading systems they say that the programs which have gained popularity since the two thousand and eight financial crisis fail to understand market demands. big paper by. their lab rats will made a spectacular amount of money. around eighty five percent of all trade is controlled by machines all formulas which are programmed to buy and sell according to market data algorithms work much faster than humans and can take huge volumes of numbers in seconds stephen king professor of economics told is that despite the benefits the programs 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 have an 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 about a stock market less accurate and less sensible that we spent we've put the. value on the on the valuation of shape as we have or emphasize them when there is no real sign by some which devalues shay's when they buy so on the future running this kind said back in the not in thirty years there's no sense in playing a shed paying 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 county values it at five so you have a. in the market which was there with him and act as a loan 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. for those grades doesn't matter when you're young get hot sun for one russian grandma that means cooking up more and more. new. york yes good sort of are you happy with that.

yes you do and you want to thank you thank you i do i do. with the year drawing to a close is time to take stock of events in the old one has the first positive polly boy in the in case you missed it teens look back at twenty. twenty eight year to remember sex tramp. and two men on a mini break to look at the big clock his twelve one advice see why my eyes look back at the last twelve months it's a christmas miracle we need to be. there yet to go off to a sexy dot making january a scary time for rich men as the need to redraw continue to stalk them these fred

that u.k. defense secretary gavin williamson was involved with a married woman when he was a manager at a fire place but it was fourteen years ago and confess. you can do i sympathize with him until you realize it's kevin williamson january was also the high point in a trend that so immediate seating toilet bowl it's. just natural 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 in the u.k. into a mad max style distaste a few months later he quit and oddments britain is still very very also marked the first major u.s. school shooting and this time florida would be plenty more but the u.s. made the brave decision to do about machos when twenty eight really got going someone normally chopped. and his daughter yulia pets that got

much less attention though even the reagans ignored them brain for the cells reporting squarely on russia and soon russian diplomats were sent packing from western capitals moscow denied any involvement and did a couple of cloak loving cathedral enthusiasts neighbor was busy this group. 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 quote i don't remember them they don't trump announced that my children so around in the british capital that is practically a war that they say because it is really angry they insisted that just because the moderates of the highest has been in a decade that does not mean the us president can be so mean also the ginger only treats him celebrity distrust you will see wearing a dress that didn't fit in here in the great romance of the year reached base politically speaking donald trump finally met with korea's cuddly tire and kim jong

il in a single pool hotel the best bugs agreed to denuclearize north korea and three was delayed by a week at least. in the first. six months of twenty eighteen. funny scandal is brewing around a former french presidential advisor socks this summer after he beat up a protester details for you after this short break. when almost choked me seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. the world get to shape our disdain you can't get educated and in detroit because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look

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what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. get it right to be close to see what the fuck are you the more people. interested always in the lives of. their sick. welcome back now the scandal surrounding the fact advisor to the french president

among the crown has taken a new twist alexandra but a lot of reportedly used the diplomatic passports during business trips off to his dismissal but the law was fined in the summer off the video emerged showing him viciously beating a protester solid dubinsky reports. if person a caller thought this year couldn't get any worse off the weeks of violent protests engulfing phone one of which is said to have been issued to americans trusted confidant only weeks after being filmed beating up a protester was was . eventually sacked after a media circus he was put under investigation for that attack and imitating a police officer he was also scrutinized by politicians and during one of those

sessions he said this is the passport returned it is of the officer compiled while working at the one i think that the elites say should have handled it that was both the french foreign ministry says it's just for their return and says they should only be used for official fripp so any use of these passports since then will have been despite the commitments made by the person in question it's alleged he used to 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 corn made an official trip to chant and was forced red faced to give an explanation this person was a no win official or an official intermediary on the foreign minister of the diplomatic advisor to the president and his africa advisor representing the head of state in africa president macron wants to entirely void the use of intermediaries

especially in africa. the former aide maintains he never represented himself as anything but a private investor corns office has formally rupie for the nala with regard to current personal it to ask you to ensure there 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 monk on still has ties to his former confidant just this is as this could potentially short circuit french. boots on the ballot could be a danger for the republic this man is glittery differently are going to resort to someone who was sanctioned with after what happens in may and who after this action

has received two diplomatic classrooms when you have a diplomatic passport means that you go to 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 him to do to the government if it's not a diplomat if it's not a friend if he's not an advisor then what he is and who is i mean otherwise you know why he had those passport back and who given this 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.k. government has been slammed for its latest push to reduce the use of plastics 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 the government's own national program to deliver for it and vegetables to schools make the extensive use of plastic packaging sean sutherland's co-founder of the campaign group a plastic planet. please the government is anything but a paragon of virtue if the u.k. government to 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 as 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 b u k to think that we are actually showing extreme leadership in this issue that that noise is translated into action but the reality is we are. 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 a ban on plastic straws and cotton buds 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 why a mental journalist all of a to kells hold is that although commendable cutting out plastic in a single shots 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 waste in the supply. and so if we have to take it straight away then either we shift to another material which would also have. us. 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 lives short . and that we are reposing one problem with another. thanks for joining us this hour on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest see them.

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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 sewer 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. certain sins for owner 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 a business it's just it doesn't get easier. it's hard to imagine decades after the war a nazi don't it was still. active rich in a not in seventies current all had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz

a german company grown until it developed for the denied a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy and it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby is anything paul. she said is just cut short arms minix a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. welcome to our very special episode of redacted. camp and i'm joined for i think the first time with all four of us have been at the desk i'm joined by john of o'donnell now a mcgill. yeah feels a little crowded as very crowded very crowded with a little placemats. but this is

a place i was because we went down to miami always out of miami nebraska actually miami florida. gets no love there would be no pleasant lesser known but we went down to miami we did another redacted stand up comedy special and we ended up with some amazing footage that we burned you know we have it here for you right now and i don't well let real quick real quick twenty eight it was a big year we did a lot we got a lot done redacted what do you think twenty eight and you happy to see it go over . here and sell the show ok this is it had a good run i was going to say like you know i'm a big fan big fan of renee and i can't remember anything that we covered but i know that it was important and i think that there's still a lot of problems going on in america so we'll probably be good for twenty nineteen and still surprise you have a voice by the end. but not all of our social media accounts but a few of them are still we're still trucking along and met

a literal. yeah i hear a lot and i know you've made the idea that we're still allowed to be aired anywhere oh that's a good. yell about that right now you know i mean listen i'm prepared you know let's get to our first clip right here with my man john of o'donnell down in miami so when i first heard miami i was like oh and then i was like. why the. high forever big. bird is in miami is all about over the top that cereal is a cookout.