u.s. presidential hopeful fails to make it through to the next round of democratic debates despite becoming the most searched candidate online she's now questioning the d.n.c. selection process. plus a french marriage vows to appeal after losing his battle to protect people in his village from harmful past decides to get reaction from locals. i think the government isn't doing its job they're the 1st to say that there should be no pass to sites but they did nothing. cites we did during tests and the amount of pesticides we found was alarmingly high. and declassified documents reveal that 20 years ago the u.s.

knew indonesia would use terror to try and stop east timor from becoming independent but failed to act. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h 2 in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. one of the most popular democratic presidential hopefuls has failed to qualify for the next round of t.v. debates why representative tulsi gabbard was the most searched for candidate on google after the last 2 t.v. showdowns this time around the d.n.c. says she has failed to meet the criteria required something god has called into question. the whole process really lacks transparency. people deserve having that transparency because ultimately it's the people who will decide who our democratic nominee will be an ultimate lee who our next president commander in chief will be and when you see that lack of transparency it creates you know

a lack of faith and trust in the process it's primetime television if you want to be anybody in the democratic party you better make sure you get on the stage at the presidential debates so what do you need to do to make it 2 things 1st get over 130000 unique donations to get at least 2 percent in a national poll ah but here's where it gets tricky not every poll is the same and if the democratic national committee doesn't like you they can reject the poll results that show things in your favor now tulsa gabbert has met the donations threshold he's got over 2 percent 126 different national polls however the democratic national committee says that doesn't count they have their certified list sure it's important of that information it's being provided but let's take a quick look at some of the polls that were rejected politico the economist reuters if these widely respected outlets and news agencies aren't credible in america then

who is holing of the united states there is a club. a network of close associates and friends and they frown upon those polls that are either new or are not members of the club or the association so i would certainly speculate that has something to do with that it is a partisan organization the democratic national committee so any poll say that may have a tradition of leaning republican or not considered to be in the mainstream of democratic artists and ship you know would be would be ruled out even the polls deemed credible. the democratic party have a margin of error of between 2 and 6 percent and when the criteria for being in the debates is only 2 percent a margin of error like that is a pretty big deal so tell us again could have between 0 and 7 percent support among

american voters now keep in mind there are over 200000000 people who are registered to vote in the united states of america so what's the difference between 0 and 14000000 well whatever it is it is apparently not important to the democratic national committee there is a margin of sampling error so if the margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent what is 2 percent in the polls if if it's 1.51 percent that the candidate has then does get rounded up to 2 percent whereas the 1.44 percent which is meaningless one can argue the democratic national committee is a private organization we can establish our own rules but then they also have to be open to the charges by somebody like gambler who says this doesn't smell like it's fair and frankly i agree with there i don't think it's mills that is fair now the d.n.c. doesn't exactly have

a reputation for impartiality and fairness leaked emails in 2016 show that the democratic party leaders were working pretty hard to defeat bernie sanders and make sure that it was hillary clinton who ultimately took on donald trump now after the outrage in 2016 the new democratic party chair tom perez promised to empower grassroots activists i am will commence it than ever before to restoring votes his faith in the democratic process because even the perception of impartiality were unfair advantage undermines our ability to win that he's an acceptable to that end the new d.n.c. under my leadership is committed to the topic of making sure that all 2020 nominating process will be unquestionably fair and. transparent so as the list of candidates gets whittled down to one final nominee voters will have to decide as to whether mr perez is living up to his promise. r.t. new york. meanwhile another democratic 2020 presidential hopeful bernie sanders has

come under fire for a remark about china the u.s. under praise beijing's efforts to reduce poverty prompting condemnation from politicians and the media as i have explained. it's the strangest thing is bernie sanders one of the leading democratic candidates for the nomination and that of the blue gurus that does something that new god fearing american should ever do said something almost complimentary about china. is a country that is moving unfortunately going to war with north korea and where you have the directions but what we have to say about china in fairness to china and its leadership is of i'm not mistaken they have made more progress in addressing the extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization bad bernie good thing there are patriotic journalists free media and honest politicians who

are reminded that it's not nice to say nice things about china it was seen as bernie basically praising the chinese communist party you know which is probably killed more than any other regime on earth do you think this will be a problem for him going into the general election i think. as this again it was a wild way to answer that question well the chinese socialists killed millions of poor people so there's that dead people are poor just dead they call that the great leap forward and after that they used the tool that bernie despises capitalism i wish there was a visual metaphor for bernie's argument. just have to keep watching i don't know why just to bring everyone up to speed what bernie meant is near enough 40 years ago about 9 out of every 10 people in china

lived in poverty 9 out of 10 today 2019 it's one in 100 people one person in every 100 that's below the poverty line is it astounding yes that is great news for a 1000000000 people yeah but it's china if we lived in a fair world that send them a congratulation note and flowers don't china does something bad to raise hell about it does something good very well ignore it or in russia don't forget brought here if they want to join us are knocking out isis that is just fine as far as i'm concerned work together to beat a monstrous group that's killed untold thousands and soon terror worldwide work together not a few are god fearing american donald trump believes that russia is our great ally

against isis in syria but what russia is doing in syria is setting up missiles that only shoot down planes which isis does not have i think it's incredibly naive to think that vladimir putin would do anything in the us press interest and then you may run among us presidents for getting things like when jimmy carter praised yes praised hugo chavez but no you didn't really praise him but it's just too close we came to know a man who expressed a vision to bring profound changes to his country to benefit is specially those people who had felt neglected and marginalized and once again in the. free media and patriots had to remind mr carter that chavez is bad and venezuela together with china russia iran may be a little north korea definitely geez bernie better grab a pen them and more than

a baddies and even if they do what america does you can't compare the 2 because you actually can't compare them it's entirely possible and even reasonable but because . just don't as trump found out when asked by a journalist about president vladimir putin being a killer a lot of killers killers why you think our country is so innocent. well it's technically right but it's not what america wants to hear one patriotic american put it and no i don't think there's any equivalent i do think america is exceptional america is different i think there's a clear distinction here and when you're exceptional you don't have to make sense you're just special you do bernie and be quite so nice here. a french mayor has lost his fight to protect people in his village from pesticides although he banned the use of

a court overruled him and he's now appealing the decision over his case has inspired other mayors across france to take similar action and charlotte explained . this tiny breton village of language it has found itself at the center of controversy in the battle over the pesticides in may the local mayor to quote some saw as being a bold decision to ban the use of pesticides within $150.00 metre cordon of the village farming unions were furious and the matter ended up in court now the man daniel coeff had his ban overturned but the debacle is now shining a light on the deep political contradictions surrounding pesticides in france where president mark corn praised his intentions for tackling phosphate a burning issue over health concerns he said the solution was not to issue a decree that doesn't comply with the law for mad cow if that's

a double standard. i don't understand what is happening micron and the ecology minister said that i am right and doing a good thing to protect my people but in the mean. time i'm facing court for a decision to keep pesticides at a distance of 150 meters i don't understand politics now it seems the decision by the court to take his ban all pesticides was illegal has also earned good residents in this usually sleepy village. 2 children wit lots of fields around long where and it's important health matter for us especially for children we breathe the in the press the sights we did your intestine the amount of best the sights we found was alarmingly high even though we eat organic and we grow some of our own food that is also organic. i think the government isn't doing its job they're the 1st to say that there should be no pesticides but they did nothing and it was in the genes or coupon says we are in

a small village that is close to a farm an area we need to protect people too we never know what kind of health issues could be created by pesticides so i think the decision by the mayor was intelligent and he needed to make a decision to protect the people but now he has difficulties with the justice system the world health organization has said gleich phosphate often used to weed killer probably causes cancer well gov phosphate has hit the headlines over health concerns much corn had promised to ban the use of phosphate by 2021 that provoked an outcry by farmers in unions who said they needed an alternative mark and then pushed the ban back to the following year when the current license will expire now across france the ban imposed by mcewan has gained traction he may have lost the 1st battling court but now around 20 other matters have followed his lead

banning the use of pesticides close to homes while farmers are furious and decry these bans as being politically motivated saying they are getting on the environmental bandwagon ahead of my oral elections. mayors are already thinking of the next election environmentalists are wreaking havoc on our agriculture and our only factories floundering in this these may is our outstanding scientists they are taking advantage of people's fear to make this kind of decision which is good for their image as protectors of the environment and the population but it seems the government has been backed into a corner there must be a minimum distance between residential areas and best decided sprain and will advise in the coming days forming unions and the companies that produce pesticides ashore to have something to say about that but so too does make a wish who believes that these things all the only way to protect people who live

in their farms which use pesticides otherwise he says their health is screwed so let's even ski altie language it in for to me. in hong kong 2 leaders of the anti-government protests that have gripped the chinese territory have been released on bail they were arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of organizing unauthorised rallies one more protest leader was arrested on thursday and remains in custody the hong kong authorities have refused permission for a planned march on saturday in response the event was called off but it's unclear whether protesters will turn up anyway one of those released on bail today is the leader of the pro-democracy it to mr easter party joshua one he rose to prominence during the 2014 umbrella movement earlier a photo of long meeting a u.s. consular official regarded suspicions that western governments are meddling they were state department confirmed the encounter took place but said it's regular

practice for us diplomats to meet government officials and opposition protesters try to specialise and along who is currently in hong kong so some protesters are inciting violence. in the international press it's also highlighted that this is. seen as suppression of freedom of expression suppression all people is a separation of the offices but all the other hand i think the world also has witnessed people demonstrations in recent weeks all over a 1000000 law some people said even 2000000 people marched on lala to march on the streets by peacefully so resume that of freedom of expression i think what the government in fact most of the public are seeing is they wanted this stopping of putting barricades at will attacking police stations disrupting the of all international airport and also causing both of the home of even all the resistors

of those so i think that this is a very dangerous situation when a lot more and more people see the whole calls now descending into anarchy. newly declassified documents reveal america's role in indonesia's decades long occupation of east timor that story and more after the break. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracies 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 back 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 we're watching closely watching the

hawks. see globalists are actually against banker occupation we started that really before i could buy wall street before the revolution in cairo before obviously this year in france or the protests in iraq on they're off connected all these protests are connected they're all connected to a rebellion against the have money and banks are all global insurrection against banker occupation. welcome back plans to slash by half the number of american troops stationed in afghanistan with further withdrawals dependent on peace talks with the taliban. we're going down to 8600 and then we make

a determination from then as to what happens we'll make a determination but we're going down to 8600 we're bringing it down we have a very well controlled after nearly 18 years of war and there are currently around $14000.00 u.s. troops in afghanistan even if half are now pulled out it's unclear when a full u.s. withdrawal will happen and it remains vague how the situation will change in the region now back in 2017 there were 8400 soldiers at the station in afghanistan that number has sent almost doubled and that's despite long standing plans and promises to withdraw all troops from the country starting next month we will be able to remove $10000.00 of our troops from afghanistan by the end of this year and we will bring home a total of 33000 troops by next summer fully we're covering the surge i announced at west point. after this initial reduction our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace by 2014 this process of transition will be complete in the afghan

people will be responsible for their own security middle east expert i risk things the complete withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan cannot be expected any time soon. trump is being subject to some significant pressures within america pressures from the deep state there are close allies to trump in the republican party who have voiced their objection to any complete withdraw i refer here to lindsey graham of the well known republican senator who was also closely allied with trumpet lindsey graham has been very vocal in saying that deal was so that should not completely withdraw in fact he had an article in new york times with the former a year where survivors chief of staff jack keane in that article graham and mccain said that the withdrawal shouldn't be a withdrawal which is all which meets the conditions of the taliban and shouldn't

be there for a. process which only satisfies the demands of the taliban but should satisfy the demands of america or meet the american conditions so we do have these well known figures within the united states who have clearly object to a complete with drew have been very vocal in and appears that bold trump has succumbed to those pressures. if tomorrow on friday marks 20 years since a u.n. box vote ended a bloody 8 decades long occupation by indonesian forces and paved the way for it to become an independent nation australian prime minister scott morrison has arrived in east timor capital to attend the celebrations along with other dignitaries 2 decades on there has been little justice for the families of those who died and post independence referendum violence which is about by australian led united nations peacekeepers. there's a look back at if to my story. i

have decided to contribute to the force in a limited but essential way. including communications and not just a call a. intelligence airlifts of personnel and material and coordination of the humanitarian response response to the tragedy. the violence sense is apparent to all of us who care about human dignity and democracy newly declassified

documents reveal that the u.s. knew months and advance that indonesia would try and disrupt the vote but washington refused to act instead pushing for closer military ties which a card in the trunk of picks up the story. all those declassified u.s. security papers so many times they've led to red faces at some very uncomfortable moments in august 29th one release revealed american officials were perfectly aware of what the indonesian military was up to the cia notes said their methods were to cue drive or intimidate into silence independence activists and to the general population into acceptance of phonies to move on to jakarta's control the pentagon was at the time very keen to keep up its stars with indonesia there's another document which shows a us admiral referring to the head of the indonesian army as a friend digging a bit further into the past has led us to more awkwardness or even ugliness how

about this on the part of australian diplomats in the seventy's an embassy memo pointed at daily torturing raping and exit puting the captured population on the island of to more yes back then that was also on the hands of indonesian troops the ugly part is this handwritten remark by an aussie diplomat it says sounds like fun another dark page in indonesian history was when the government got rid of hundreds of communist sympathizers throughout the sixty's guess who helped put together the lists of alleged communists the us embassy here's how one of its staff recalls that support it really was a big help to the army they probably killed a lot of people and i probably have a lot of blood on my hands but that's not all. there's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment so again there's hardly any doubt the americans knew exactly what

the rulers in charge in jakarta were like and so time magazine found no better words to describe their rise to power than the west's best news for years in asia so this friday do watch out for any redness on the face of the assistant secretary of state or perhaps you'll need some very powerful optics well i think unfortunately most countries including the us back in the 1990 s. and early 2000 would would be guilty of engaging and political alliances for geo political aspirations and for things other than preserving the rights of other people of course a state government's 1st priority should be to its own civilians but unfortunately we don't see that in many countries now that being said what we're talking about and needs to more in indonesia since the us had interest with the indonesian government and the military and where actions were taken alliances made and even violence allowed to preserve an interest to preserve an interest of the

administration but it is true that countries all governments should absolutely make sure that the 1st priority is the maintenance of their people their own economy before they go into to preserve other interests in another place even if it's under the false guise of human rights that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our website our team dot com for the details on all of those stories and many more. said she stressed to make sure that the british at the bill of voted out that it

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