the u.s. state of alabama launches an investigation into meddling in a senate election campaign in twenty seven pro-democratic groups. russian social media accounts used to discredit republican rival. syrian territory the high level delegation from turkey travels to russia for talks on syria the united states. disgraced advisor to the french president. long after he was dismissed.

by the saturday afternoon three. welcome to reality. in the u.s. state of alabama has launched a probe into an alleged campaign during a twenty seventeen local senate election which had been blamed on russia it turns out that a pro-democratic funded a u.s. group that had created more than a thousand fake russian bolts on social media allegedly to discredit a republican rival as the story. the attorney general for the u.s. state of alabama is looking into democratic party. during the twenty seven 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 only 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. 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 this to see if there were any laws being violated and if they would prosecute those responsible this came to undermine it 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 the operation was carried out by the pro democratic party cyber security firm known as the 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 who create networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are 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 they 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 cable mopp and r.t. new york media analyst daniel is that told us that the mainstream media is using supposed russian meddling as a political tool. 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 spooks 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 this story this this 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 been concocted and ordered to were ordered to for other purposes. top diplomats and high ranking military officials from turkey re moscow right now for talks on syria tensions escalated since donald trump surprise decision to pull u.s. troops out of the country meanwhile turkish armored vehicles of reportedly been seen entering the northern city of drabness he's been boosting its military presence on both sides of its border with syria since trump announced the troop withdrawal droplet is around forty kilometers from the city of where the syrian army says it's now in control they were deployed there after an appeal from civilians and kurdish fighters who fear a turkish offensive he coached on of explains the crucial role the kurds play in

all of this. they call themselves freedom fighters he calls them terrorists the u.s. used 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 line and the kurds know all too well 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 euphrates if they do not leave we will send them that was postponed eventually but not indefinitely unless the kurds leave man bitch so early in we already again serious division entire aim is to make terrorist organizations leave the area 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. yeah nonstarter in response to the requests of the population of man be huge the syrian government and its armed forces announced it is sending in troops to man bitch 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. he pushed on of her while a political analyst we spoke to who specializes on the kurdistan region and the rug believes that the moscow meeting could be a potential game changer for turkey just go about quickly what happened last week when that announcement that were made by president trump it will put that he's the

main window but i was the events unfold it looks like to be actually wasn't ready for the withdrawal and it doesn't have the capacity to take the other members of this instance and the syrian army out best place and only way to get now to actually take control. approval of russia because russia will be control and as americans withdrew so they're trying to sort of work out that the with the russian sites try to either ship power or put up with the border points how the crossing works and so on i think the worst case scenario would be a syrian army comes in backed by russia and then. it is back back to. those clashes and obviously things could escalate we could see a very bad as collation area. gyptian authorities say that forty suspected terrorists have been killed in police raids in giza nichiren's north sinai the operation comes after friday's deadly attack on

a tourist bus near the giza pyramids four people were killed and dozens injured by a roadside bomb three tourists from vietnam died along with the egyptian guide thora to say they received a tip off a more terror attack. being prepared against tourist sites and churches the attack on friday is the first since a man killed three foreign tourists and injured three others in the resort city of god in july last year. but a bumpy ride for u.s. stocks in recent months with markets hitting historic lows in october blue chip companies like facebook amazon and google all ended down investors were apparently reacting to the ongoing trade war between the united states and china christmas eve saw another plunge and the democrats were quick to blame the president today's events have made one thing clear president trump is plunging the country into chaos the stock markets down another five hundred points general mattis is stepping down . from those seas the u.s. central banking system the federal reserve is the main source of the problems now

in a tweet even compared it to a powerful golfer who can put other some though that are blaming the market instability on another source computer technology around eighty five percent of all trades is controlled by programs designed to buy and sell according to market data the algorithms work much faster than humans and can check huge volumes of numbers in seconds and on to commentator charlie boyle predicts more upheaval ahead for wall street. the next year is going to bring a crash much worse than two thousand and eight we had a lot of systems algorithmic based trading and a lot of financial products that were basically made up and systems were enhancing that but then you have the human nature side of markets which which corrects and as it as it should these these bubbles are going to correct again and this is why we are experiencing a dip in the stock market at the moment we've got these artificially inflated stocks all around the world. and interest rates have been crazily low and the only people who have been benefiting from that is the is the rich institutions. but it's

going to come to a head with the biggest the biggest one issue over the next half a half the year i'd say is the is the debt we've gotten more debt than we've ever had multiple times and the problems are much bigger than we had in two thousand and eight so they can't print any more money they can't reduce interest rates any lower and men most of the banks even if you increases the interest rates a small amount they'll flexibly been the insolvent. for twenty eight hundred drawing to a close it's time to take stock of the only year here's probably in case you missed it teams look back. 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 full rich men need 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 consenting 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 eighty 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 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 in florida that would be plenty more but the us made the brave decision to do about it and mom was when twenty eight really got going

someone norm. and his daughter yulia pads that got much less attention though even the reagans ignored and embracing for themselves reporting on russia and soon russian diplomats was 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. the way the armed groups in that brazen welcome to know the results. i don't remember that name a don't trump announced that my claim is so around in the british capital that it's practically a war that the state doesn't really angry they've insisted that just because the moderates are the highest it's been in a decade that does not mean the us president can be so mean also the ginger i do not need some celebrity status to morsi wearing a dress that didn't fit in here in the great romance of the year reached base

politically speaking donald trump finally met north korea's economy tire and kim jong il and in a single poll hotel the best buds agreed to denuclearize north korea and while most three was delayed by a week at least. in the first six months of twenty eighteen. got to see the back of twenty now they say age doesn't matter when you're young at heart i'm for one russian granny that means cooking up more and more skydives.

yes. yes. yes. thank you. i'll keep my feet on the ground thanks and you scandals brewing around a former french presidential advisor sacked this summer after he beat up a protest is our next story after the break.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars more in tempe each day . eighty five percent of global will to the rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first check in bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show you can afford to miss the one in only. you know twenty callout of crazy things going up a lot of people you know. twitter rising and occasionally somebody pops up with something really insightful really interesting.

and so demanding explanations from president mccrum they want to know why disgraced former adviser still has diplomatic immunity and represents friends abroad alexander reportedly used a diplomatic passport during business trips after his dismissal the former presidential security advisor was fired in the summer off the video emerged showing him viciously beating a protester politicians in france a people with his status called travel without the knowledge of the foreign ministry. when you want to visit a country with a diplomatic passport you need to send a verbal note your ministry of foreign affairs informs the embassy when you're arriving to facilitate the visa process if the ministry is not able to provide us

with a verbal no then the must have been an intervention from outside maybe from a higher government or body which allowed mr bernard law to make visits to the country via standard diplomatic procedures if person a called the thought in this year couldn't get any worse off the weeks of violent protests engulfing france think again now his disgraced former bodyguard alexander another 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 from that corner one of which is said to have been issued trusted confidant only weeks after being filmed beating up a protest was was

the french foreign ministry says it's just for their return and says they should only be used for official for it any use of these passports since there would have been despite the commitments made by the person in question it's alleged he used them 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 the diplomatic advisor to the president and his africa advisor representing the head of state in africa president macron wants to. i live with 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 rubik been allah with regard

to current personal it to that is ask you to ensure the conducted with strict respect for the confidentiality and ethical responsibilities of your time in this office. despite neely's a trying to distance itself even further from the nella opposition politicians are now questioning whether matt corn still has ties to his former confidant this is having them as this could potentially short circuit french diplomacy who examined the now a good bit of danger for the republic this man is different from the image of someone who was sanctioned after what happened in me 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 a two 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 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 the. british government's been slammed for its latest push to reduce the use of plastic in british schools the education secretary is calling 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 fruit and vegetables to schools makes use of extensive plastic packaging campaign group plastic plan as a campaign for that belief of the government's anything but

a paragon of eco virtue. if the u.k. government is 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 it's it's math 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 then 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 they want to ban on plastic straws and cotton buds as well as an increase from five to ten pounds for plastic bags given out in stores the possible changes could come into effect in january twenty twenty environmental journalist oliver to cal told us that commendable cutting out plastic in a single shot could pose challenges. the real problem is that passive his cheek that it does such a good job. in keeping food fresh and in reducing waste in the supply chain. and so if we have to take a pass we got it straight to work in the night that we shift to another material which would also have. its. own although we will find that the cost of food goes up and that we move food is it is being damaged and

wasted in the supply chain and that show floyd's shoot. and that we are replacing one problem with another it. seems that facebook has its own rulebook when it comes to banning members and some of those surprising guidelines have been published in the new york times.

and that show all the news for now thanks for checking in with us this saturday at x. update from a the same as in just over half an hour. you know world of big part of. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for

the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. my seven minutes doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just spent doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abusers who 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. a long sentence in this for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier.

welcome to a very special episode of redacted. camp and i'm joined for i think the first time we all four of us have been to 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 with no pleasant letter no 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 have to see it go over. here and sell the show 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. well not all of our social media accounts but a few of only are still we're still trucking along. a literal. and yeah i realize and i know. the idea that we're still allowed to be aired anywhere oh that's a good. deal 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.

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