a new scandal erupts over seventeen state election in alabama democrats are accused of. women in pairs holding demonstration ending in another weekend of clashes with police. and the u.k. government contingency plans. drawn ridicule truck drivers brand they staged a traffic jam near the port of.

thomas certainly glad to have you with us now new revelations have emerged on alleged meddling in the two thousand seven hundred senate race in alabama according to a new york times report democrats attempted to undermine the republican candidate by linking him to a bogus ad campaign to ban alcohol in the state. the me york times is revealing that there was a democrat and progressive group that was pushing essentially false flag advertisements during the twenty seventeen senate special election in alabama they were trying to give the impression with these advertisements that roy moore the republican candidate who ultimately last wanted to outlaw the drinking of alcohol i pledge to abstain from alcohol and live a modern life as defined in the bible i would among the all my stuff follow my lead by abstaining from the devil's tonic i pledge to fight against the decay of all

moral christian society and all that contributes to the decline of values matt osborne who is a progressive activist who was involved with spreading these false advertisements actually came forward and said he wanted these tactics to be banned he wanted them to be illegal but he said that because republicans were using them it was then necessary for democrats to use them as well and this is matt osborne it was involved in this operation if you don't do it you're fighting with one hand tied behind you you have a moral imperative to do this to do whatever it takes this is not the first time of the new york times has revealed that operations by the cyber security company known as new knowledge actually caused facebook to shut down the personal accounts of five individuals as people look on the election in the twenty seven hundred special election in alabama even the victor of that election senator doug jones is at this point calling for an investigation into the use of dirty tricks on the internet

throughout that campaign now is a very close race people look into it and say is it really possible that a few advertisements about alcohol could have impacted the race but the reality seems to be that in politics in the united states at this time it seems pretty clear that there is a lot of information on the internet but it's not always clear where it's coming from. france is preparing a crackdown on the yellow vest movement with a new law punishing the rioters one thousand people have already been convicted after eight weeks of demonstrations the move comes after clashes in paris and a women's yellow vest rally. was. for the march took place on sunday with several hundred women making a stand against falling living standards it was largely peaceful until later in the afternoon when scuffles broke down between protesters and the police and one police

union has had enough and is demanding a filed to list violent protesters or to show difference he has more well essentially this means the police could have more rights and the ability to perhaps put what they describe as violent protest is under surveillance it could also stop them the tension from being able to code to protest in the first place and that's one of the calls it's coming from the police even they've also said that they want tougher action against anybody who's found to have caused by lindt in protests we hear statements saying that we need to be tougher it's been two years since we demanded more firmness against those who assault the police since the beginning of the yellow vest movement how many of those arrested for assaulting law enforcement officers have gone to prison well that call comes after yet another weekend of violence. as protests took place across france for the gallon best moved around fifty thousand people were said to have. forced front and we saw violence from both

sides of the crowd this wasn't just the protesters this was also from the police including some pretty shocking footage that some of the decorated police command hunching several protest it's already met their burden of god god is. those who are the. very rich. but one woman who is thirty five years old says she was also attacked by that commanding officer and she's now filed a complaint which is currently under investigation interesting really though there has not been any response about that particular incident caught on camera by france's interior minister christopher kastner who has been quick to criticize violence from the protesters including one protester who is apparently

a former champion boxer who was caught in a bout of fisticuffs with officers on the bridge in paris on saturday was. was the. well the interior minister took to social media to describe that attack by this alleged former boxer as being a coward. now he is also come to attack or something else has happened this is something published on social media that appeared to be an official decree from the ministry of the interior suggesting that the police would have the right to round up any legal arms that were owned by the protesters so this is things such as perhaps hunting guns if they have a license knives or even patents now he's been quick to point out that that indeed is not true and he called it fake news story fake news another original

idea from those who dream of insurrection and who don't hesitate to spread false documents information is the best remedy for fake news to use without moderation some people may have been hoping that the yellow best movement would have died down and should have pretty much left two thousand and nineteen alone it doesn't seem to be that way in. already knowing is planned for this forthcoming saturday. american and chinese officials met in beijing on monday seeking to end of their trade war or to. take a closer look well the next round of the us china trade battle begins and both sides appear to be quite enthusiastic just had a long and very good call would presume she of china deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering all subjects areas and points of dispute big progress being made us trade negotiators will optimistically and constructively communicate with the chinese delegation on the important agreements

achieved by the two leaders during the meeting in argentina this is the first formal meeting since presidents donald trump and the xi jinping agreed a ninety day truce last month when washington hit the pause button on the shuttle to increase in tariffs and beijing vowed to buy more products from the u.s. and there's no doubt that for both countries this ongoing trade war has stirred up the financial markets and dampened their economic outlook so we saw a number of companies who have suffered financial losses and they are finger pointing towards the top political dogs for being responsible for a decline in their profits apple didn't hold back in airing its views or shortfall is over one hundred percent arthel that it's primarily a trial and what i believe to be the case is the trade between the united states and china put additional pressure on their economy they're going to be fine apple

is a great company but that's not my look i have to worry about our country plus using the daughter of a chinese telecoms giant as a battering tool might not be the best tactic to persuade your opposition to work with you either the hallway saw their court huge diplomatic ways when the company's c.f.o. miss wang once you were. arrested in canada trump even pledged to intervene when he thought it would help to secure a trade deal to benefit america beijing was furious we have made solemn representations to canada and the us demanding that both parties immediately clarify the reasons for their detention and immediately released a detainee to protect the person's legal rights pretty much the whole of twenty eight hundred passed by with china and the us at each other's throats with tit for tat sanctions and now with the american and chinese trading giants have all their fingers and toes crossed so that it can be business as usual sooner rather than later but who knows it's a very important meeting it's

a very significant meeting but keep in mind that the deadline that was set at the key to winning meeting and when those ideas argentina between the u.s. side and chinese side was more first in terms of coming to some sort of agreement or some sort of resolution i dare say that the early days of january two thousand and nineteen there is not sufficient pressure to cause either side to be reasonable i don't think we'll be going to see reasonable approaches the merger until we get closer to the date that is march first two thousand and nineteen that's where we are now and no one really has an idea of where this is all going to but one thing is for sure we're not going to be bored watching this next round of china us trading. a few hours before the talks on monday u.s. angered china by sailing a destroyer past disputed islands in the south china sea a spokeswoman for the u.s. pacific fleet said the move was not intended as a political statement but china called it a violation of international law china analyst botching liu told us that the

incident is unlikely to affect trade negotiations. so i think it's the pentagon's you know actual maneuverability of the thought that the u.s. dominance in the maritime sea particularly with the so many of their former allies will not be challenged we believe that a china kind of radio work out of its policies asian neighbors without the intervention on the pretext of freedom moment of negotiation is really being for very much a stretched to the us interpretation but. that doesn't really correlate well as the go in the. name begun because those guys are there preoccupied or. resolving or trading bassman

a market access issue so i do not think that is that really a concerted efforts. or at a traffic jam stage by the u.k. government has been branded a waste of time it was a rehearsal near the port city of dover in case of a break that no deal artie's publico has been. this is a department for transport trial it was called operation brock and it's all about stress testing the u.k. road and haulage system to see if it would be able to handle the potential disruption euphemistically speaking perhaps in the event of a no deal brags that now under the government's contingency plans they used a disused ports about thirty miles away from that and it's sort of meant to be used as a parking facility for up to six thousand lorries if there is disruption as a result of a no deal gregg's it so to test this plan the department for transport hi it's

a number of lorries and told them to drive from this disused death toll vajra number of roads to the port of dave but and this is a pretty big but only eighty nine lorries took part in this stress test contingency planning you can take a look at what operation looked like now. there was a bit of criticism first and foremost from the all thirty on roads and trucks that's the road haulage association the organization that represents hawley is and they said that the whole endeavor was quite frankly a waste of time take a lesson this plumbing should have been done many months ago on preferably on

a bigger scale it should have been continuous stress tested i don't many truck drivers will be impressed by this what we need is a deal through police the transition deal business is simply not ready for this briggs it. yeah and the local m.p. there as well called it a wild goose chase and the journalists following this story had a bit of fun as well some saw operation brought as sort of reflective of the entire brags that planning process take a listen to what some of those on line had to say lori's kune say traffic. using eighty seven norreys to try and see what five thousand plus who do so perfectly on brown bricks it is like preparing for a famine by skipping lunch rather than using a load of lorries to create a fake traffic jam surely they should have used red buses with we're out of ideas

emblazoned on the side well the tweets may be funny some of them but they are beginning to reflect this sort of quiet painfully constant hysteria that's beginning to surround or continues to so hound the issue of bragg's it here in the u.k. embrase it is of course still a massive cliffhanger for us here this week the u.k. parliament is set to debate the u.k.'s withdrawal from the e.u. ahead of to reason may's crucial and delayed vote on withdrawal next week in parliament and the parliamentary mark for the prime minister it's not looking good her team say they've got a week to convince the doubters and those that are dead set against the deal but there is an awful lot of people in parliament who are against it so it's pretty optimistic thinking that they can all be won over and if the deal isn't approved by parliament well then the u.k. could be staring down the barrel of a no deal bragg's it where contingency planning like the sort we saw today from the

department for transport it's not going to look so funny anymore the new leader of brazil is considering allowing the u.s. to set up a military base that story much more still to come this is our two international. you know like the e.k.g. for countries is their ten year bond rating look at that you see all the countries healthy the countries not healthy well looks like big health of the chinese economy based on that their interest rates are better than america. shows small seemed wrong when old rules just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape our disdain comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. join me every first week on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to get us to the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. all the magazines are to international now the new president of brazil says he is considering whether to invite the u.s. to set up a military base in his country he made the announcement a few days after a visit by the u.s. secretary of state. would that include the possibility of having an american base

in brazil and across the physical the physical issue of it would be symbolic nowadays the american shoney's and russian military powers can reach any part of the world independently with their bases but still pending on what might happen in the world who knows if we have to talk about a us base in the future. or president or both n.r.o. was sworn in on new year's day and was immediately congratulated by donald trump on twitter and a top u.s. officials were quick to welcome. to power we believe the opportunity between present president paul snow and our two teams creates a truly transformative opportunity for our two nations for two peoples who. live along with whatever happened to them and. we want to work with. the pentagon has not yet given a response on the prospect of a military base in brazil however human rights lawyer dan kovalchuk thinks that

trump and boston are united by a common hostility towards left wing governments in latin america. it's very clear that a pulse in our at the new president is in lockstep with the trump administration in wanting to militarize latin america and wanting in particular regime change in countries like venezuela nicaraguan cuba and it's a very concerning situation both in our and trump share in a right wing at the augie they share antipathy towards the left wing governments of latin america so clearly balls in our own we've done work very close with trump he will try to do his best to partner with the united states but i think the us has more bases throughout the world than any country should i mean they just don't need a military in terms of national security so i don't see why the u.s. should have a base they are i think it could only be viewed as an aggressive stance again towards countries it doesn't like like venezuela. it baby boy who was pulled from

the rubble of an apartment block in the russian city of money to go to new year's day has regained consciousness he is now in the hospital here in moscow the ten month old baby had spent almost thirty six hours in freezing temperatures after an explosion caused the building to collapse killing thirty nine people. playing. the bass player. please. mum. your new system is. in the interests of the least some of the kids on the. snow lists.

are. nice it would usually be more of these places still in a bunch so she's neutral so she'll still like new additions in this day it's a. victim of a good option it's mommy. thank you. for saying that once you get in peoples pull with. you because look there's reason . for local problems. we spoke to a rescuer who led the operation to extract the baby from the debris. so you must

look at the laws and we are trying to keep up to date with the news progress we keep in contact with these parents but try not to bother them we all me and my colleagues who rescued him are waiting for the moment when doctors allow us to visit him in hospital i think many envy venue's great fortitude because he showed real courage to stay alive and to cry out when help came after such a long time in the freezing cold. blood a mere putin has pledged to help india fight international terrorism russian president spoke by phone with the indian prime minister on monday mung other things moscow has invited narendra modi to a major economic forum in russia later this year. well a serious economic forum wouldn't really work without very big names so even though the landmark event and vladivostok is nine months away moscow is sending out

invitations in advance in a phone conversation flat america pope and told prime minister modi that he wants him to be the number one guest at the forum and september and guess who that number one guest was last year chinese leader xi jinping indeed when it comes to setting records in scoring economic points beijing and new delhi are competitors in asia but russia is not trying to take sides as you can see in this case the only thing that moscow wants to do is to show that it's looking forward to doing business with all the top players in asia so this year it will be mr modi stern and just to remind you twenty eight thing russia and india have set a trading turnout target of thirty billion u.s. dollars of the two countries want to achieve that goal by two thousand and twenty

five. banning the muslim and jewish methods for slaughtering animals evil law states that animals should be stunned before slaughter so that they are incapable of feeling pain kosher and whole all rituals however require the animals to be fully conscience to move in the belgian region of flanders has caused outrage among jews and muslims. today is the last day in which kosher meat in poetry can be prepared in belgium the jewish communities of brussels this is a sad day for the jews of europe a sad day for religious freedom in europe. and cultural traditions have welcomed the ban as a humane development. they want to keep living in the middle ages and continue to slaughter without stunning and the dignity didn't get to exist back then without having to answer to the law. sweden norway iceland denmark and slovenia and providing no exceptions for hall and kosher meat we heard from the chair of the

islamic human rights commission and a belgian based journalist on the possible implications of the bat. i don't think it is against any religion at all fifty percent of muslims in belgium believe that indeed animals could be or should be stunned before being killed following the ritual i don't see where the problem is it's so much more humane the reality is when you see it start there you're talking about electric shock or in the case of cows in the middle rot being fired into the brain really that is no more humane than the kosher way this is the sort of all the evidence points out to muslims and jews are going to be given the perception that they are not full citizens and indeed their rights in their own country and in their own area is being undermined while in europe i mean in belgium

for example it's more than one hundred fifty years ago that it was decided for humane reasons to stun the animals before killing them we simply respect our laws i have seen myself oxen and cows being killed it is pure cruelty for three four minutes this is unacceptable frankly anybody could see this whether a muslim saw a christian saw whatever they really don't understand that the animals suffer unacceptably that's all the jews community members and the muslim community members are belgium too we can have a situation that you have your state issued what majority exposing and putting pressure on minorities for no reason if you listen to north oratory of islam. of the great mosque in paris he says that to him the stunning is acceptable if the animal could come back to its senses after the stunning scientifically proven there is no extra hardship is brought on the only mall when it is not over is

a accurately according to so that is true that. it sure does much more true than you highlighting one of a bucket from friends. as your reason for completely forward the reality is that also you're not going to stop you're living in a global european community and indeed those slaughtering which is now is not going to be done in belgium is going to be done in france and elsewhere so the reality is that all you're doing you're actually excluding your muslim and jewish community from being part of the bill joe. but as a female black money is a top down this is our international savings.

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us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circuit events officers were got back and destroy their governments and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for.

hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle not long ago the political left are the guardians of free speech along with the big the left today has gone from protecting speech to enforcing speech even to the point of penalizing you if you say the wrong thing in public you could lose your job and liability welcome to the era of simply shut up and not. talking in forced speech i'm joined by my guest emanuel galvin paris he is a french lawyer in new york we have lionel he is a legal analyst and the news decoder at lionel media dot com and in.