a new scandal erupts over the two thousand and seventeen state election in alabama democrats are accused of false flag ads linking their rival to. alcohol campaign. women in paris hold a yellow vests demonstration ending in another weekend of clashes with police. and the government's contingency plans for a broad ridiculed truck drivers brand a stage a traffic jam and near the port of dover as a waste of time. are

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our national and sean thomas really glad to have you with us now new revelations have emerged on the alleged meddling in the two thousand and seventeen 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 parties give him up and has come to . let 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 moral life as defined in the bible i would among the all my stuff follow my lead by abstaining from the devil's tonic i pledged to fight against the decay of our moral christian society and all that contributed 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 rioters one thousand people have already been convicted after weeks of demonstrations move comes after clashes in paris and women's yellow vest rally. was was was. in 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 out between protesters and the police and one police union has had enough and is demanding a file to list violent protesters or to show dubinsky has. well essentially this

means the police could have more rights and the ability to put haps put what they describe as violent protest is under surveillance it could also stop them tension from being able to code to protests 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 cause to file an encroach tests we have statements saying that we need to be tougher it's been two years since we demanded more 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 here in paris as protests took place across france for the gehlen best moved around fifty thousand people was said to have forged a force 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 notion of a decorated police commander hunching several protest it's already met their burden that god you know that you know that her was. very. was. a one woman who's 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. 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 on the door ajar for something else that's 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 that just 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 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 gallery best would have died down and should have pretty much left two thousand and nineteen alone it doesn't seem to be that way and already knowing is planned for this forthcoming saturday. american chinese officials met in beijing on monday seeking to end their trade war party's new twitter takes of course will. well the next round of the u.s. china trade battle begins and the both sides appear to be quite enthusiastic just had a long and very good coal were present she of china deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering old subjects areas and points of dispute big progress being made. u.s. 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 and 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 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 it is primarily china 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 first

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 when once you was arrested in canada trumped even pledged to intervene when he thought it would help to secure a trade deal to benefit america beijing was furious we have made a solemn representations to canada and the us demanding that both parties immediately clarify the reasons for their detention and immediately release the detainee to protect the persons legal rights pretty much the whole of twenty eighteen 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 in buenos aires argentina between the u.s. side and chinese side was march 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 will be good to see reasonable approaches the merger until we get closer to the date that it's 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. for a few hours before the talks on monday the u.s. angered to china by selling a destroyer pass to 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 a divine elation of international law china analyst. told us the incident is unlikely to affect trade negotiations so i think it's the pentagon's you know the

actual maneuverability of the thought that the u.s. dominance in the maritime sea particularly wears the many of their former allies will not be challenged we believe that or china kind of ready to work out its ourselves east asian neighbors without the intervention on the pretext of. negotiation as really being for very much a stretched total. u.s. interpretation but. that doesn't really correlate well as the go in the go show should then begin because those guys. they're preoccupied it was resolving the trading bassman american access issue so i do not think it is that really

a concerted efforts. of a jam staged 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 brags that no deal on his point waco has been. this is a department for transport triall 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 disused ports about thirty miles away from 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 brags that 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 hole 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. 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 for the new leader

of brazil's considering allowing the u.s. to set up a military base on story much more still to come this is r.t. international. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to.

get it right to be close this is what the full screen can't be good. i'm interested always in the logs of our. first six. magnus's aren't international now the new president of brazil says he's 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 u.s. secretary of state. would that include the possibility of having an american base in brazil and of course 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 of 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. all right president high or both and it was sworn in on new year's day and was immediately congratulated by donald trump on twitter and top u.s. officials were quick to welcome both rise to power. we believe the opportunity between present president also know in 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. or at the pentagon has not yet given a response on the prospect of a military base in brazil however human rights lawyer dan colleague thinks that trump and bolton are are united by a common hostility towards left wing governments in latin america. it's very clear

that a pulse in our of 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 tube 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 both in our own we've done work very close with trump 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 magnitogorsk on 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. here knew from the start. of the destruction but of these. kids and some of. them sometimes.

basically you see the more of these cases still. so she's lutrell said. this is like you know this it's a mistake to. actively begin to option it's mommy. working again she viewed and pulls. his book three orange to the point of local problems. lattimer putin has pledged to help india find international terrorism the russian president spoke by phone with the indian prime minister on monday among 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 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 the. province of belgium has joined several other european regions in banning the muslim and jewish methods of slaughtering animals the law states that animals should be stunned before slaughter so that they are incapable of feeling pain kosher and halal rituals however require the animals to be fully conscious the move in the belgian region of flanders has caused outrage among jews and muslims. today is the last day in which kosher meat and poultry can be prepared for the jewish communities of brussels this is a sad day for the jews of europe a sad day for religious freedom in europe opponents of the hall and kosher

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 that did mean didn't get to desist back then without having to answer to the law all right flanders joined sweden norway iceland denmark and slovenia in providing no exceptions for hall and kosher meat we heard from the chair of the islamic human rights commission and a belgium based journalist on the possible implications of the bat. i don't think it is against any religion or troll 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 started there you're talking about electric shock or in the case of cows in the middle rock being fired into the rain really

that is no more humane. 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 i 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 where do we have your state or should what majority exposing and

putting pressure on minorities for no reason if you listen to north oratory of islam. of the great basque 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 accurately according to that is true that. does much more true than you highlighting one abu bakar from france. as your reason for forward the reality is that also you're not going to stop we are living in a global european community and indeed those slaughtering which is now is not going to be done in belgium it's going to be done in france and elsewhere so the reality is that all you're doing you're surely excluding your muslim and jewish community from being part of the germ. all

right that does it for me i'll be back in about thirty three minutes with a full of news you are watching our to international standards. country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think i got to hit the road and get out to traveling across america to find what makes america the charlatans the genius of this place especially american hero this is it we found a point around which alan what he's done since we always are on the current system this whole song culture listening party. we're starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast and i think i want to leave now governor anymore gondo than it may be completely different but the end of this journey.

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them. for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. i determine that you're the one. who did it. so i'm going to move into the interrogation. i leave the role electricity there for several minutes because i

want you to get anxious. to think about the error of your way. and then i'll walk back and when i walk back in i'm going to have a big fix file with me. all kind of a person and i may have seen just like our surveillance video game i'll be blank. but it's a show you that i have a strong investigation and i have all this evidence. so the first thing i tell you is. our investigation has proven that you're the one who committed this crime there is no god about it whatsoever we have the evidence that you did it there is nothing that you can say that will convince me otherwise all i want to know is why . could you confess to a crime that you did not commit. and interrogation technique used by the majority of police officers in the united states is causing.