journalist to reveal the possible dissin from a shin experiments in the usa develop a smear campaign against a republican rival reportedly took part in a meeting but the group behind the operation. vehicles are reportedly seen entering a city in the northern syria to kurdish held territory as a high level delegation from turkey greece to coordinate with russia today during talks that were held in moscow. police officer takes aim at a journalist trying to film the yellow vest protests in the french city we reflect back over the weeks of demonstrations in france and the philosophy. in a new projects here on this channel. to get out of.

approaching. international welcome my name is kevin i hope you stay with me for at least the next thirty minutes or so as i bring you our latest news today and first off the u.s. state of alabama is open to an investigation into election meddling during the twenty seven thousand senate race it comes after the new york times journalist who first revealed an anti republican distin from ation campaign reportedly sat in on a meeting between those behind the operation one person highlighted in this probe is the co-founder of linked in reid hoffman who allegedly donated millions of dollars to the smi a project aimed at making a thousand fake russian bots on social media reportedly to discredit a republican candidate picks up a story. so it's official now that our earlier this week came out the apology from

the sponsor of project berman that's how they call it americans not the russians have at least in one case been behind setting up an army of pseudo russian bots for dirty election tricks for the scheme to come to light it took more than a year while now buzz feed has revealed more details that could make this story much more serious scott shane the author of the new york times piece that shed light on what the democrats were at an alabama last year it turns out spoke at an off the record event of that very same group behind project birmingham none of that was mentioned in his article though mr shane explained he thought that wasn't necessary i don't think there's any kind of disclosure that's relevant but i'm happy to be corrected if you've been to meet with intelligence or defense official

of an off the record meeting it's always a tradeoff as to what the ground rules of whether you get something useful for your readers and in this case i did get something useful well what's even more important is the question why the event the new york times journalist took part in happened back in september however the article only came out ten days ago there will be people wondering why it took mr shane three months to write about this plus buzz feed is now citing a report with assessments and conclusions of how well project birmingham worked and if you compare the language of that report with the language and the n.y.t. article you'll find many differences the journalist calls the operation a secret experiment however in the cited report it is referred to as an operation to influence the. of the alabama senator race as to how much influence the project

had on the actual election tallies the journalists wrote that probably it was too small to have a significant effect however the report says that it enormously effected the turnout our producers have reached out to both the new york times and scott shane himself however they haven't gotten back to us yet. and when they do we'll let you know no media analyst on the lizzie told me earlier the mainstream media is using supposed rush meddling as a political tool. 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 we have the spooks us 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 for order to for other purposes. help diplomats and high ranking military officials agreed to coordinate with russia on the syria crisis of holding talks or moscow which finished up this morning it

comes after the situation in syria escalated following donald trump surprise decision to pull u.s. troops out of the country with those talks. despite the meeting taking place in snow in moscow that is now as you can see totally into new year holiday season very serious topics on the agenda serious fate and russia turkey card you need to work on the ground now up to us and nouns joe it is expected to take up to one hundred days but certainly change in this situation already now specially in the area east of the euphrates river this is where the american military have been present once they're out this territory that is now officially under the control of the kurdish forces may become especially vulnerable and that's especially after cherokee say it's he's getting ready for a military assault against kurds in syria's north korea that and kara's sees as

terrorists so the russian and turkish delegations that included intelligence chiefs defense ministers and top diplomats met in moscow to discuss how to avoid any military confrontation on the ground in that area what should be done to boost joint work to return the refugees back to syria or displaced people back to their homes in syria's north speaking to media following the meeting russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has specifically mentioned the work being done regarding syrian constitutional committee that plays a very important role in a political solution to syria's crisis from let's take a listen. during the talks we specifically mentioned that russia and turkey with the participation of iranian colleagues did everything promise to create a syrian constitutional committee this is being done by all states as mediators

between the syrian government and opposition and we hope that those including our western partners he called us down a group to finish his work as soon possible as. would not interfere in his continued work oh no there was a feeling that based sides both russia and turkey are rather optimistic on how things develop on the ground and they have expressed their hatred and believe that the new year will bring more positive changes to syria and maybe a long awaited peace will finally return to this war torn country. meantime turkish armored vehicles have reportedly been seen entering the northern city of. turkey's be boosting its military presence on both sides of his border with syria since the troop withdrawal troublous has run forty kilometers from the city of mumbai 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 makes it goes down off explains the crucial role the kurds play

in all of this. they call themselves freedom fighters turkey 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 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. 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's division our 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 and the feet of turkish threats . in response to the requests of the population of man bridge 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. after weeks of turmoil of violent protests in france the anti-government yellow vests movement says it isn't finished yet and that they're simply taking a break for the holidays. what everyone needs to understand is that we've decided that we won't stop the movement it's not over there will be a small break over the holidays and in january it will start all over again so we are showing that we are here we're showing that we are not tired well quite of the same scale as before but some yellow vests are out in paris for

a seventh weekend in a row this saturday for a number of scuffles with police say the arrests were made on thursday city officials said the new year's eve celebrations aleutians uneasy will go ahead despite protests i think actually started back in november thousands of people gathered to demonstrate against a fuel price hike. no it's not just protest as a journalist to being caught up in the police's crowd control techniques one got a little too close for the authorities comfort that a flashbulb device aimed at him in the northwestern city of rwanda also

a police demonstrators faced off with each other at one point has offices moved in quickly to remove protesters journalist simon levey was pushed away by riot police that tells nonlethal weapons pointed out and back in paris meantime some yellow vest could be heard praising the work of journalists. i. i as protesters gathered outside a french lady a building loosely praised dark table shouting a spotlight of the protests indeed we have covered them extensively since november philosophers leverage egypt has been reflecting on the french protesting mood in a new r.t. mini series called how to watch the news he says the whole political system needs an overhaul further you can watch the first part of this mini series on our you tube channel is quite low if you get to our ordinary people what would be you on they would get said we want a stronger horse eat less or whatever no you have to all four of them did

they don't even know that it may sort of again this is why did that get out of it because they seek it out that we are approaching a deadlock thank. you each say what they think we need in light. leadership i'm not afraid of my forward i'm not being. there are practical socialism the society i would like to leave the short side to beat whether state bureaucracy or some kind of whatever public there are crazy somehow organize this basic think in a way which we've known impenetrable to me somehow water comes electricity comes that it's health care and so on i don't have to know how all this works i can live in my own needs. i think that this is the future and we shouldn't be

afraid to put. our motto again as if and bureaucracy and a level of as a nation but more to come here not international for the brakes they will.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome to the crystal ball edition of crosstalk what can we expect in the new year we have a great lineup of guests telling us they. are going to see was thought facebook has its own complex rules when it comes to banning members and some of those surprising guidelines have been published in the new york times.

so we need the extra precaution sweetness come into fierce criticism over its coverage of the murder of two scandinavian girls by eisel fighters in iraq are

awful pictures or viewers say the channel downplayed the horrific incident this what we'll talk about next did there didn't they were they right were not right one norwegian or one danish girl were brutally killed while hiking in the uk this mountain's recently the video of the death spread on life and that so s.p.t. the t.v. station slammed for not mentioning that one of the girls was beheaded all the islamic state a claim to be behind it and the book us that did the warn people against sharing the video for legal reasons. have now seen this very strange report and you lower the has been created to protect say rape victims from having media of the crime spread is now being applied to the beheading of the denish and the region girls in morocco i myself would never watch such a video let alone share it now we're more upset about the proliferation of crime instead of beheadings to sum up their speech he's coverage of the muslim terrorist attack in morocco and dyess worry is one you'll be sent to prison if you spread the

beheading film to deice worries have returned home to sweden three they died of knife wounds sort of for the murder in morocco has nothing to do with islam. hasn't given any comment yet on the accusations a little bit with the right thing or maybe was it being too editorially say thirty or was the right thing wrong thing to do lawyer couldn't g.'s with this political commentator. with a. tragic tragic story to have been people complaining about how. covered it was so that they should have been more open about this you know the story of selves what you think and i go to you first. yeah i think it's tricky because it brings into question. ideas around editorial impartiality us. national broadcasters like s.p.t. and others have a responsibility to report carefully on such issues now i was

a little bit broiled after twenty thirty in which terrorist attack i was one of the first mainstream commentators on the scene did a lot of the global coverage was put in a terrorist video back in twenty thirteen that was not shown to the public and some of the other terrorist videos that been showing can't be shown to the public so we've got three main issues the first is under article ten of the european convention on human rights the second issue we have is about editorial freedoms for broadcasters to report responsibly and lastly why on earth would we show such brutal horrific killings because it's exactly what terrorists and exactly what the far right who want to demonize muslims foreigners immigrants migrants that's exactly what they want to do we cannot play into their hands. right here. where. most of the responsibility of broad causes no when you have a

a national broadcaster they have to be sensitive to the local population and the current events that are affecting the local population and so the rise of the right wing and what have you so little room decisions are made. from a difference review point in the sharing of something that is quite that horrific is certainly not something you'd want to see thrust upon you without any sort of warning but also the mainstream media doesn't cover these things in more graphic detail means that the content stays online and organizations like i.a.s. can cloak. these images and this these images have gone viral internationally and the commentary around it is now being effectively hold point the far right and some of the more extremist elements rather than mainstream media being able to pull pull

that conversation back so that it can be properly discussed. going back to. their national broadcaster they have to abide like all stations do their license like us by taste and decency. you know surely. you can what this what this company did is describe rather than show what some of these poor girls went through it's not something you would want your kids to even particularly hear about i'm not sure whether this was before the watershed or not but i mean sure surely you can't really argue people are arguing that they have acted responsibly here they've done the responsible thing or was it an editorial flip. well certainly in terms of showing graphic content i've seen the video it's absolutely terrific and you wouldn't want anyone to see that in any sort of direct way but in terms of applying blurring and cutting out some of the worst most the most emotive parts of it might have been might have been another

way to go splitting hairs and also i really i really think that was not the best way to go. so what would you like to see bones. i thought. and i say this with a degree of caution normally i'm very much for freedom of expression whether it's whether it's in the media the difficulty we have is that having worked with counter radicalization counter extremist programs if these type of images were to be shown they would radicalize the far right white supremacist which is burgeoning across europe it would also radicalize inspired let's remember these are not muslims this has nothing to do with islam the same twisted ideology is used by the likes of the terrorist is used by the likes of the right wing islamophobia lobby to peddle the idea that somehow muslims are the edwards side other that they need to be held back to the borders we cannot do not mean they can't integrate now. it's going to bring

. the family at all or any of the people in and around this case to show these graphic images quite rightly. however national broadcasters have responsibility sweden is subject to the european convention on human rights and. freedoms there are limitations including terrorism national security and anything that would ferment height disunity in our communities we cannot have these terrorist incidents being used to divide our communities to divide people who live side by side as neighbors we can't have in this day and age. mohammed. political and social commentator mo and so thanks ever so much for your time sad story and the thank you for watching us as well that's up so far as more common in social media right now it's twenty five minutes past the evening from with us and enjoy the rest of the festivities if you're celebrating.

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yes. 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

financial 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. just three percent in two thousand the house passed the

tax increase without a single republican vote that vote was particularly difficult for democrats after bush forty one has popularized this phrase. push and i'll say no and they'll push again and i say to them read my lips the a in and candidates for congress were asked to take no new tax pledges and while the bill passed it cost many democrats their election in one thousand nine hundred ninety four republicans won control of the house and clinton nomics faced tougher hurdles in congress clinton was first kept the us economy moving along in addition to policies put in place like welfare reform and free trade.