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the world. international line means you don't know. if your company our top story further claims of election meddling by us democrats have emerged this time in the twenty seventeen state senate race in alabama a new report revealed that activists trying to link the republican candidate with a bogus campaign to alcohol in order to undermine his support base and brings us more. the new york times has revealed that the twenty seventeen special election in the u.s. state of alabama was hit by a false flag facebook campaign and it did not come from russia democrats tried to create the illusion that republican candidate roy moore wanted to ban alcohol i pledge to abstain from alcohol and live a moral life is 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 the idea was that roy moore standing among moderate conservatives would be hindered if they could create the illusion that he was a religious fanatic who wanted to ban booze no man woman or child alive today he'd never live to see the stars and stripes we were a little russian salute in the united states for end of america i'll fight the saloon from the high wire i won't keep on this long as i have a foot i'll touch and as far as i have a feast it was a false flag campaign on facebook backed up on twitter now we've reached out to both twitter and facebook but have not heard back now matt osborne a democrat who worked on the project said that he hopes someday these tactics would be made illegal he said however as long as republicans are using them democrats shouldn't give them up 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 revelations about the shady

activities of the cyber security firm known as new knowledge that actually led facebook to shut down the personal accounts of five individuals now at this point u.s. senator doug jones is calling for a federal investigation into the dirty tricks that may have helped win him his seat now did a few dry alabama ads actually cost roy moore the election well the impact isn't exactly clear but what is clear is that the democratic process can be rather fragile. r.t. new york. will the us. a democratic senator who won the alabama race in twenty seventeen saves he was all no where of what was happening he also said that if any laws were violated during the campaign those responsible should be punished conservative commentator and writer john briefing told us he believes that cynical electoral dicks are extremely damaging for the country this is an endless game of political musical chairs year by the democrats and they only care about one thing

that's keeping power and getting better or that's it i do believe that there's always going to be a new salon or new york times story or having to revelation about some new russian plot that absolves the democrats from any electorial accountability for their actions it's not helping diplomatic relations even though it's body and president putin's laughed about it for the tribes left about it the rest of us aren't laughing because there are so many on informed human beings who vote in the united states. and other big story of the week now an m.p. from the right wing turn to for germany party is currently fighting for his life after being attacked in the northwestern city of braman with more on what is known about the incident up to this stage here's polis leader in germany. a member of the german parliament belonging to the far right alternative for germany the a if the

party has suffered serious injuries after being attacked by three men as he exited the new year reception that was held at a local theater in the northern german city of bremen on monday now the party has issued a statement in which he described this as an assassination attempt what we understand happened to the parliamentarian mr frank magnet is that he was knocked unconscious onto the ground and as he lay there these three men continued to beat him the incident was only stopped after reportedly a builder intervened and chased the main away now the three suspects are stood at large the police in the local prosecuting office have opened an investigation and the politician himself has been described as being in a serious condition he is in hospital with a head wound we've also heard from and if the spokesperson saying that this is a black day for democracy in germany this is not the first time that members of this party is being threatened with extreme violence you might remember that last may have a demonstration that they held here in the city of learn. and other left wing

extremists threatened to stop the demonstration what if necessary also last thursday bomb went off outside a local office belonging to the party in the city of toobin now three suspects were arrested in that incident there was no loss of life but there was extensive damage both to the office and to nearby buildings and although the motive of that attack has not been conclusively proven police are working on the assumption that it was politically motivated. or we welcome onto the program do you remember member of the berlin parliament for the turn or for germany party who brought soon to discuss the attack on a colleague her horrific firstly is there any update on mr magnet condition that you know. yes right now he is still at intensive care he's in stable condition and he's. tall he said he cannot remember anything

of this horrific attack that almost killed him but doctors a confident he can leave intensive care at the hospital probably this weekend so we would hope for his speedy recovery yes some good news for his family there at a loss for him with he thanks for updating us. has been directed towards the party as its popularity grew in germany we saw just last week an explosion of the f. f. the office in lower saxony didn't we how does this threat develop more recently well the threat has been growing ever since my posse the dea which is only being in existence for the last five and is approaching our sixth birthday now ever since we've been in existence these attacks have been intensified now you mentioned the bombing attack on one of those now mr magnets has been attacked in the tense of cab

previously we found out because of a petition has been how's this attack. being destroyed this is a very worrying development and i fear it's only a question of time until we see the first deadly assault on one of politicians which are all democratically elected parliament and we are the strongest opposition party in the butler's talk ear and m.p. your high profile in the party how where do you have to be of your own security. i'm very much aware of my own security we think about advertising our addresses of hate mail i mean we with killing me and i'm very very careful about where i'm going at night and party members considering bodyguards before they go out in public and this is not this is

a very serious issue my party member friend from story is never leaving the house without two policemen. whenever there's any f.t. really article or we have the f.t. member on the program some of the reaction to it is quite direct some say the f.t.'s policies marginalize minorities in germany they say it coupled with inflammatory comments poorly chosen language without in mind a not so some people feel about your party do you expect these attacks a certificate as they are of course to continue. i'm afraid they will continue and they will intensify the reason is very simple let's take a look at east germany there will be three federal elections this year. in regional government regional parliament and regional stakes right now. twenty seven percent of the votes according to the latest opinion polls we're leaving all the

old parties behind our party is extremely successful not just in east germany also in west germany and the established parties feel for influence that petrified and i'm afraid to say specially the left they send in their storm troopers to the empty which is being classified a terrorist organization in the united states and they do all the dirty work on the streets and i'm afraid these attacks will intensify and there's also growing support for the left in germany as well when you take your side of the pew the right the left would there be more insecurity there are among them in terms of being fearful against more establishment parties in the middle kind of thing is there a fear that on the edges that there is more to be worried by in the center. i've never heard of a politician from probable left nearly beaten to death and never heard of. a number

of fire attacks or hauser's on hearts this is is directed purely against politicians from my party and the established parties always say oh we're truly sorry this is not the democratic way but if you preach hate you can hatred you would receive hatred and it's not nice but it's all legitimate in fighting against right wing policies now this is not democracy this is back to the times where we had streetlight things and where killings on the street in germany hundred years ago dominated. the public land scape and this is not what we want and left we politicians are actually enticing the anti fought to go against us with all means possible the thoughts of hugh bronson member of the berlin parliament member we wish mr. full frank and hasty recovery thank you for your

support thank you. russian military police say they have started patrolling a rural area to the west of the syrian city of month each with a view to ensuring security there right because the of has more now on the development and how it's likely to ship the ongoing power struggle in the region. this safe zone a buffer zone really was established off the kurdish why p. g. forces moved out they handed the area over to the syrian government the syrian army and it was declared a demilitarized zone. patrolled by russian military police monitors who arrived on the seventh of january now the kurds weren't acting out of altruism but because turkey was and is threatening to invade use the y.p. g p k k its terrorist. the turkeys targets in

kurds are russian all took you started to the kurdistan workers spot to tahrir groups one of the goals of turk to struggle against the p.k. k. in that syrian suits is to save the kurds from the tyranny and suppression of the terror group trumps declaration that he's pulling out of syria suddenly threw things into a state of flux u.s. allies the y.p. gee who had lived and depended on american protection suddenly face being left alone with hostile turks rebels isis syrians on all sides their own arab allies ready to dump them reportedly and u.s. national security advisor john bolton is desperately trying to secure a future safety for his could allies we're going to be discussing the president's decision to withdraw but to do so from northeast syria in a way that makes sure that the chance of israel and other friends in the region. is

absolutely assured and to take care of those who fought with us against isis and other terrorist groups at the end of the day the us will leave the kurds understand this obviously and they're fast tracking the goo she sions with president asaad with the syrian government could into various reports reconciling perhaps obviously they have their differences but it's a hostile neighborhood friends a few and far between and as we see now they can leave at any moment. of the united states national security adviser said on sunday however that his country's troop withdrawal will be dependent on a number of guarantees from turkey one of john bolton's demands was that i'm correct aren't the safety of washington's kurdish allies in northern syria provoked and i agree response from. the whole john bolton has made

a grave mistake it is not possible to accept or swallow the message given by bolton from israel those who are in the terror corridor in syria who learn the necessary lessons for us there is no difference between the white p g p y d p k k and diet we will very soon take action to neutralize the terrorist groups in syria. ok for more on this we can bring the live on to the program political analyst youssef good to see you how do you think russia's presence in the countryside. is going to affect the power struggle i'm thinking particularly will it deter turkey from launching attacks against kurdish militants. i don't think will deter turkey from launching an attack when you look at russia's stance and you look at the u.s. stance in the region turkey would probably prefer a russian presence in the area as president and president putin have

a much better relationship and they've proven to be pragmatic with each other other topics relating to syria. i suppose with the u.s. leaving the region if if they do for sure of course that is another issue how likely then is turkey to borrow to washington's demands not attacking the white b.g. coordinating military operations etc or is that going to be very much a second thought. well. before trump propose the u.s. withdrawal turkey was ready to launch a military operation it was within days maybe hours of launching an operation until present president trump surprised everyone with this u.s. withdrawal announcement so regardless of what the u.s. does turkey is going to launch a operation east of the euphrates and this is a fact this is a very pressing national security matter for turkey so it's not like it has a second decision national security is paramount to the country's health now we

look at what bolton saying and especially right before he comes to meet with the turkish officials and he basically crosses a red line when he's in israel the night before he comes to turkey and i don't understand what he was expecting in negotiations with turkey today but he definitely was expecting what he got in turkey is not going to bow down to the u.s. and turkey is not going to protect these kurdish fighters the kurdish fighters are terrorists in turkey turkey doesn't protect turkey neutralizes terrorists just to point out what you're saying john bolton not having a meeting with the turkish president president erdogan for all intents and purposes pulling out of meeting and. state that the u.s. and i'm interested to get your take on some of these big statements being made he said that the u.s. plays a played past tense of course a major role in the defeat of beisel we can take a listen and get your response. we've taken down ninety nine percent of the

caliphate ninety nine percent of the kind of should be the first sentence in every story right everybody agree. how do you assess that statement from pompei oh you said. the u.s. has played an important role and be defeating isis what we should call them defeated yet but we should we should say that they've played an important role in minimizing the isis. threat to a very controllable level but let's not forget that turkey launched operation euphrates shield in two thousand and sixteen where they took down the isis strongholds of jobless and now bob three thousand fighters or isis fighters were neutralized during that operation and that's also very important turkey played an important role in the fight against isis and many people choose to ignore this fact . has demanded that washington take back the weapons it's supplied the

kurds with what are the chances of that happening especially when you consider that there are a lot in washington a lot of people in fact around the world say that the courage with the most effective fighting base on the ground against him not to deserve those weapons in order to save their lives and others run the region. the the chances of the u.s. taking it back its weapons from the wipe each year absolutely not feasible what are they going to do walk around door to door and say hey give me your weapons back that's not going to happen i had a chance to talk with a former spokesman just a couple of days ago we sat down talked i asked him about this weapons this weapons story what's of what's happening with these weapons and he told me that he was one of the people that actually signed off on these weapons in no way shape or form when they signed for these weapons were giving the weapons back part of the and he told me that after they stored the weapons in a warehouse that. would come in take some of these weapons and bring them to

a private warehouse in separate parts of syria and try to transport these weapons to the turkish side so these weapons aren't coming back and most likely these weapons are going to be used against turkish soldiers in syria and turkey civilians in turkey unfortunately in this is a nato ally supplying these weapons all right the thoughts of a political analyst speaking to us live from istanbul thank you as always. still to come this hour we look back at some of the must sporting moments of twentieth seen on days are lent versus russia set to happen back in the ring or in the the column for twenty nine thousand that's all set to come out of this. you know like the e.k.g. for countries is their ten year bond rate you look at that you say oh a country

a country is not healthy well looks like the health of the chinese economy based on that their interest rates are better than america. would hope to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want. to go on to be pros that's what before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested in the waters and my. friends should. join me everything on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business.

i. welcome back to the biggest fights in mixed martial arts history twenty nine thousand could see repeats of spoken irish fighter conor mcgregor on his russian rival near mega madoff the ultimate fighting championship chief has expressed his desire to get the two men back in the octagon later this year in the run up to their first spike in october mcgregor launched a vicious verbal assault on the russian fighter but in the end it was have be who came out on top causing wild celebrations back home in dagestan their sports correspondent alexia chef skee the story. the sleepless night in the capital of dagestan makhachkala followed by street celebrations when local hero had beat them again the other beat irishman conor mcgregor in the biggest u. of c. fight.

not only was the night tense but everything leading up to it this while the notorious irishman connor mcgregor the absolute king of trash the u.f.c. fighter won a lot of fans with his swagger and style but when he attacked. a new york everyone knew this time would take it to the next level. for me is more their fight for the title more them and even me as personally get that money the last song to play them again if she can just. all sat and that was only one way to find out who was the real tough guy you may have to that question was plain and simple mcgregor tapped out in round four with a russian fighter already way out in front on the points ahead of the fight many m.m.a. experts predicted about how he could win what happened after his triumph hardly anyone expected that. the eagles literally flew out of the off the gun triggering

a mass bulls team mcgregor several of the beeb's entourage sledge attended by nevada police and he sparse with health as a deserved winner of the bout was the school to do away with doubt his belt and the after fight scrap was followed by a flood of public criticism. of his heavy weight you have seen fights in his fight against american derek lewis came on the same night in las vegas two fights before he'd be just like many he was surprised to see his compatriot explode after months of stone cold calmness in front of the media understand why he. but i would never do that many things. to him. but you never know maybe it was a plan to get people talking about them even more after arriving back in his homeland was having none of that criticism. i don't think

they consider. despite the antics of swindon game the highlight of the year for many. different ocelots have always been. safe to say. it might just be eclipsing the popularity. not only did the result feel and trade james for the muslim world cup he immediately became something of a hike and to respect the guy on the field about just how talented he is for us. resonates in. humbleness and his principles but with. parents and students country whether he's pondering his next move with a boxing fight against floyd mayweather on everyone's lips or simply enjoying the moment as a global celebrity it's hard to tell. someone to distance himself from the media

but without a doubt millions of his fans in russia and across the world are holding their breath for the next flight of the eagles in twenty nine. reporting from moscow. while staying with sport it's been just under one hundred a year since the biggest spectacle of twenty eight. luzhniki stadium and it attracted color festival flavor from all around to russia last summer. i think it's generally accepted that russia pulled out all the stops to host the twentieth teen fifa world cup and while fans cheered on their teams russians were busy making everyone feel told our correspondents well they didn't have too hard a time of it either liz. liz

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live. to four years. i'm not sure how to live. belgium france are going to win rosie the riveter was going to win but both were going to run you know he did. i think it i'm. incredible memories of an incredible summer this is r.t.d. international stay with us.

greetings and salutations while much of the world has been focused on u.s. president donald trump's reason recent decision to remove u.s. military forces from syria we shouldn't in the course of all that debate grandstanding in the hoopla forget about the hundred forty nine some odd other countries around the world that currently have u.s. troops operating inside their borders take africa for example where the united states currently has an estimated thirty four bases spread across the continent lily pad style deployment strategy that according to modern middle eastern history ph d. eric shoe not only permits the maximum projection of military power with the least commitment it also allows military commanders to publicly depict all such deployments as temporary and to conceal their existence from the public well just

last week buried in the headlines was the announcement the president drum did find the time during our illustrious government shutdown here in the u.s. to inform congress that he is sending u.s. troops into central into central africa over supposedly fears of violence erupting in the democratic republic of the congo. according to n.b.c. news the eighty combat equipped troops sent to the bone would be tasked with securing u.s. citizens and diplomatic facilities in neighboring congo in the event of violent demonstrations breaking out in the wake of the in the wake of the presidential vote recently but no sooner out our troops arrived in bomb than a violent who attempt actually erupted inside that country the congo i'm not making this up my friend yes according to stars and stripes on monday members of the bones military launched a coup attempt and seize control of a state radio in the country.