i don't think your. questions are raised over a new york times reporter been revealed an anti-republican this information campaign in alabama it turns out that the journalist who spoke at a secret meeting of the group behind this scheme several months before he broke the story. turkish forces are seen entering the city in southern syria close to kurdish held a territory as agrees to coordinate its actions in syria with moscow and. this is. a police officer takes aim at a journalist trying to film the yellow vest protests in the french city of rohan we reflected back over the weeks of the demonstrations in france with the philosopher

. in a new series on our t.v. . get all bent out of the book because of things we are approaching that that. broadcasting live direct from our studios in law school this is our team international on john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. all right the u.s. state of alabama has opened an investigation into election meddling during the two thousand and seventeen senate race it comes after the new york times and journalist who first revealed an anti-republican this information campaign it sat in on a meeting between those behind the operation he's now being accused of failing to disclose his own role in the scandal now another person it being highlighted in this probe is the co-founder of linked in reid hoffman who allegedly donated millions of dollars to the smear project. anybody making thousands of fake russian

bots on a social media reportedly to discredit a republican candidate and he's only a patrol go comments. so it's official now that our earlier this week came out the apology from the sponsor of project birmingham 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 or the scheme to come to light it took more than a year while now buzz feed has revealed war 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 officials 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 in the n.y.t. article you'll find many differences the journalist calls the op. ration

a secret experiment however in the cited report it is referred to as an operation to influence the outcome of the alabama sen 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 affected 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 former u.s. congressman michael flanagan gave us his views on why the new york times decided to break the story he's got to break it eventually it's going to get out there's no way it can't be hidden like this for any length of time it's going to be dragged into the into the white and while his own paper can still publish it and still enjoy some level of credibility and over the holidays when nobody's really watching

they can probably get away with not being fully forthcoming wiki leaks stuff showed us several years ago that the media in this country doesn't just have its usual left of center bias they've actually come out and decided that they have to support the democratic policies and have to support the democratic views and so when the new york times or any of these others actually slants flavors or withholds its reporting to benefit the democratic party no one should be surprised amazed or upset by this it is what it is. a top diplomats and high ranking military officials from turkey have agreed to coordinate with russia on the syria crisis after holding talks in moscow this comes after the situation in syria as equated following donald trump's surprise decision to pull u.s. troops out of the country artie's more if notion has more. 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 series fate and russia turkey

cardew nato to work on the ground now off to u.s. 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 and 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 cherokees say it's he's getting ready for a military assault against kurds in syria's north korea's 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 as soon. i would not interfere in his continued work oh no there was a feeling the base sides both russia and turkey out rather optimistic on how things

develop on the ground and they have expressed their faith and believe that the new year will bring more positive changes to syria and maybe a long awaited peace will finally be returning to this war torn country. all right meanwhile turkish armored vehicles have reportedly been seen entering the northern city of. turkey has been boosting its military presence on both sides of its border with syria since the donald trump announced to the troop withdrawal. is around forty kilometers from the city of monbiot where the syrian army says it is now in control they were deployed there after an appeal from the civilians and kurdish fighters who fear a turkish offensive you could have done off comments now on 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 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 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 euphrates if they do not leave we will send them that was postponed eventually but not indefinitely unless the kurds leave man bitch. we 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 in the face of turkish threats.

in response to the requests of the population of man be huge the syrian government and its armed forces announce 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. after weeks of civil unrest in france the anti-government yellow vest movement says it has no plans to give up by that they are simply taking a break for the holidays. whatever one needs to understand is that we've decided that we won't stop the movement it's not there will be a small break or the end in january it will start all over again showing that we are here we're showing that we are not. on saturday to activists took to the streets of paris for a seventh weekend in a row there were some tense encounters with police and several arrests were made on thursday city officials said that the new year's eve celebrations in the city center would go ahead despite the protests the movement started in november against

a fuel price hike. as well as the protesters journalists have been targeted by police one have a flash ball device aimed at him in the northwestern city of ruin as officers moved in to disperse protesters journalist simon levey was pushed away by riot police and that handheld a non-lethal weapon was pointed at him protesters have also been venting their anger at some media outlets for their coverage of the yellow best one suburb on the outskirts of the capital protesters burned cars in front of a newspaper headquarters while some yellow vests could be heard praising the work

of other journalists. as protesters gathered outside a french media building they seemingly praised our team for shining a spotlight on the protests when yellow vests protesters joined our colleagues at r.t. france to tell us more of it. the movement is not over there's no risk of that we will motivate more people to join us to continue our struggle and restore order in this all of which must fall because it's no longer possible to tolerate this government. we were trying to make the police's job more complex we won't make their work any easier because they don't make it easy for us they remove our mosques protected classes and clubs we are really being attacked during these demonstrations we are confronted by armed and well equipped people that while we

have nothing unfortunately the media belongs to the oligarchs who. most all the media except you it turns out that the media are inevitably dependent we would like to receive real at time mainly so that we can organize and give answers through the media proportionate to the media attack that the state puts out towards us today the yellow vest movement does not have a unified structure we have a horizontal structure and each acts as it sees fit everyone can do what he or she wants no one gives orders this is the true power is that. the loss of first one voice has been reflecting on the french on rest in a new r t mini series called how to watch the news you can watch part one on our you tube channel if you have to ask ordinary people what they want they want to get that we want a stronger horse we eat less or whatever no you have to all four of them something

did they don't even know that it may set of a dead this is why protest yet or get out of it because they seek to know that we are approaching a deadlock thank you. thank you. but i think we need in life i. believe that if you. look at today. my forward that he would not be doing bureaucratic so from this inside the i would like to leave aside whether state bureaucracy or some kind of whatever public good are going to be somehow organized this baby he could be in a way a recluse known impenetrable to me somehow walked out of electricity a car was very good and i don't have to go well how would this works i can live in my own nice. i think that if you can and.

again if you can be at all kind of the end of. the u.s. government is being accused of failing to meet its obligations under the freedom of information act that story much more still to come you're watching r t international. you know a lot of crazy things a lot of people. twitter rising and somebody pops up with something really. 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 think. they

put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go to the press this is what the three of the more people. interested in the water. this is are to international now the trump administration has proposed as some changes to the freedom of information act which could make it harder for the public

to access the records from the department of the interior have voiced their outrage over this move. this is a wool run transparency this is a calculated attempt to shield the interior department from scrutiny to shield it from watchdogs and to shield it from accountability the u.s. government says the changes are needed to handle an unprecedented surge in freedom of information requests and to improve customer service if approved the new rules would allow the interior department to reject what it considers unreasonably burdensome applications and impose limits on the number of any one person can make investigative journalist david lindorff says the new plans go against the spirit of the freedom of information act what it's going to do is force people to have to go to court to get action on freedom of information request which is totally antithetical to open government and to what the foyer. of the freedom of information act was designed to do it had been set up so that you could

write and get information and not have to go to court to get anything other than classified information these are not classified things that people are looking for there they're open government things that should be freely available and quickly available if they say it's to be more efficient and to respond better to quote customers meaning citizens that it's a complete joke they're doing the opposite it reflects. basically the fact they're trying to run a secret government. broadcaster in sweden has come under fierce criticism over its coverage of the murder of two scandinavian women by terrorists in morocco viewers say the channel downplayed the horrific incident one in the region and one danish woman were killed while hiking in the atlas mountains a video of their deaths was posted online in its reporting s n b t failed to

mention that one of the girls was a beheaded or that islamic state was involved in the broadcaster did though warn people against sharing of the video for legal reasons. i have now seen this very strange report and you look at 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 be do let alone share read not well more upset about the proliferation of crime instead of beheadings. to sum up coverage of the muslim terrorist attack in morocco and dieth warriors one you'll be sent to prison if you spread the beheading film to die it 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. are to be asked of the swedish broadcaster s.p.t. to comment on the situation and are waiting to hear back from them meanwhile

criminal lawyer mohammad. and political and social commentator more ansari gave us their views on the story. yeah i think this is tricky because it brings into question. ideas around editorial impartiality bias to national broadcasters like s.p.t. and others have a responsibility to report carefully on such issues and so we've got three main issues the first is under article ten of the year prevention of 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 americans migrants that's exactly what they want to do we cannot play into their hands. i come 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 close the narrative of these of these images and this these images have gone viral internationally and the commentary around it is now being effectively hold by the far right and some of the more extremist elements rather than mainstream me. being able to pull pull the conversation so that it could be properly discussed 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 islamist inspired now let's remember these are not muslims at least 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 at the borders we cannot let them in they can't integrate. french politicians are demanding explanations from president micron they want to know why a disgraced former advisor still has diplomatic immunity and apparently represents france abroad alexander reportedly used a diplomatic passport during business trips after his dismissal the former presidential security adviser was fired in the summer after video emerged of him showing him viciously beating a protester while the preliminary investigation is being launched in paris french politicians say people with this status can't 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 but 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 ben-ami laughter to make visits to the country is obvious standard diplomatic procedures but if person a call 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 call one of which is said to have been issued to americans 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 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 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. the former aide maintains he never represented himself as anything but

a private investor koons office has formally rebuked banal or with regard to current personal it to the dismay ask you to ensure that 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 been l.-a opposition politicians are now questioning whether a monk on still has ties to his former confidant this is having them as this could potentially short circuit french diplomacy examined banal a good big danger for the republicans this man is different from the of the image of someone who was sanctioned after what happened in may and who up to this action has 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 meaning 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 and 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. all right that does it for me i'll be back with more news at the top the hour you are watching are two international glad to have you with us. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bushnell for about seven years and

this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got in the time. i mean because it has been there still a do a deep breath because. i still does not get the same if. you know world a big part of new things. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig

deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats 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. 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 better job so 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 not 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 cover 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. well not all of our social media accounts but a few of only are still we're still trucking along. a literal.

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