money and influence a new report alleges a covertly multi-million dollar scheme to boost the popularity of the latin cross the us. school 18 violence in south africa has left 10 dead in days of attacks on migrants from other africa. and the us military exercises right next to venezuela in line with their apparent strategy of surrounding the enemy coming up we break down the tactic and run the world. views h.q. here in moscow my name is kevin and he with a half hour update for good morning to you thanks for joining us 1st than

a nearly released report by a conservative watchdog alleges there's a covert multi-million dollar strategy to promote left leaning values in the united states the document on most a scheme to push certain topics from supporting obamacare to slamming donald trump's border wall. off takes a closer look at how it's supposed to operate this morning. what's more powerful in politics than money a strong candidate with a good program and idealist would see nothing a realist would say but a politician would say dark money dark money is the millions of dollars that behind the scenes donors are spending to send the political train down the track and according to the left leaning media it's a bad bad thing because the conservatives do it because others have made billions and want to ensure that government doesn't limit their ability to make more conservative donor david koch as one half of the koch brothers came to symbolize

the influence of dark money in america but you know who's even better than conservatives that slipping the bills into their protegees pockets. democrats according to this research a group called arabella advisors little feat has been in the vanguard of the leftist money holes they shelter under their umbrella for nonprofit organizations by their nature they do not have to disclose who they're getting their money from but this research suggests that they've gathered a huge number of very wealthy donors some of the nation's largest grant making institutions including the rockefeller packard and koch foundations the donors to the funds managed by arabella it remains unclear why such large and powerful institutions seek outside philanthropic consulting but presumably a significant part of our bill is appeal lies in its ability to obscure large

financial transactions these for nonprofits have been showering and to conservative grassroots organizations with their money take this one with a name so noble calling our goal is to oppose in getting a term short list yes they get their pockets stuffed by 1633rd an offshoot of our bell advisors another group save my care has been pushing against republican attempts to repeal obamacare the president is sabotaging the system. will be another uncertainty in health care. remember this could lead to this. war for again. well their financial bad bone is made up by bills coming from a nother arabella advisor sprout the new venture fund the dark money is not

a trick exclusively from the democratic playbook yes it's been revealed they do outperform the conservatives when it comes to the amount spent by more than 20 percent in fact but pro republican donors. do that too and according to the research media coverage is way out of balance with most outlets reserving a good bashing for the conservatives when you look at the mainstream media which has deservedly declining part declining viewership both the editorial in the production staff is chiefly in the anchors are chiefly democrats or democrat leaning so of course out of the mainstream media you're going to get that that narrative reality is the independents and the rising anti-corruption anti-crime only part voting populace in united states is against the use of dark body is against the use of corruptly having foundations reality is that a lot of money comes in from unions from particularly from the public sector unions

to do their favorite politicians both legally and i think illegally but there has been a rise now of dark money and dark money is bad whether it's right or left leaning in the public has a right to know each individual's vote counts and that it can't be swamped by the activities of partisan groups that are illegally sourcing and donating money so next time you see a nonprofit banner stirring up a fight for yet another democratic staple remember regardless of what side of the political spectrum with comes from it's not just people but billionaires fortunes behind it to. a wave of deadly attacks and looting in south africa sparked a boycott against the country led by celebrities across the continent the violence has targeted migrants mother african states and flock to one of the continent's most developed nations paula slater reports from johannesburg. the violence was

triggered last week in the country's capital petrolia when a south african tech 6 rival was elated to have been killed by a nigerian drug dealer now as part of a protest against a south african taxi drivers who took to the streets because he soon that protest evolved into a demonstration against all foreign is inspired to add the same to around the country and the result has been violence hundreds of foreigners have been days to shoot off to the businesses were attacked the police were forced to use white controlled mazes such as tear gas and rubber bullets and the situation is still rather unstable now because of the nationality of that alleged drug dealer being nigerian a lot of the focus has actually been on nigerians now south africa has temporarily closed its diplomatic missions in at bouchet and lagos in nigeria for fear of reprisals against it stops south african businesses of all suppose they doors temporarily in nigeria and the south african foreign minister has said that this is

an embarrassment for south africa and she has expressed her great for violence against foreign as nigeria has pulled out of the african economic summit being held in south africa and the nigerian foreign minister has also expressed concern received and depressing news of continued burning and looting of nigerian shops and premises in south africa by mindless criminals with an effective police protection in. definitive measures the last time they was as in a phobia outbreak like this in south africa was back in 2008 but this is a country where you have an unemployment of 29 a saint which means a very often the distress of people who don't have jobs turns against foreign is often instead of actually being directed against the government and its lack of delivery the 2011 census is the last official census in terms of how many foreign is in this country in the pits the figure of 2000000. dead at the waist and it suggests the figure is closer to $5000000.00 out of

a population of $56000000.00 who have the south african president has also expressed alarm over what is happening saying that there's no place for us in a phobia in south africa now i'd like to condemn the violence that has been spreading over our own a number of provinces in our country in the strongest terms i've been talking to a lot of foreigners here in south africa who are very afraid of what is happening there is a lot of fake news that's been spreading on social media with pictures that are not actually even south african showing people being burned people jumping out of buildings with the caption foreigners it leave south africa's so we're in the process of verifying another their media along with the experts but the situation certainly is dire at the moment. washington's who's really proving its relationship with the guy on of these days the south american country that borders venezuela it's launched a so-called humanitarian program led by the air force that while providing some

services to locals also is conducting training for military personnel that is where of course where the u.s. backed opposition leader failed to achieve regime change earlier this year is already encircled by american bases from every other side our senior correspondent word goes d. of examines the u.s. tactics. u.s. military has returned to guyana after many years on a joint military exercise slash humanitarian mission there's nothing quite like a humanitarian mission led by guys who specialize in bombing things it's like having a drug rehab center run by drug lords but small details the important thing is that guyana is important to you on a sits in a strategic location on the north edge of south america and on the caribbean and do look what a coincidence it borders venezuela i mean what are the chances of that the same venezuela that has u.s. bases all around it is here here here here brazil is in that it's open to hosting

a u.s. military base a mile and israel is like the center of a do nothing of u.s. bases same venezuela that the u.s. has threatened repeatedly where it is trying to spark regime change and which it is encircled with guns just in case trump decides to pull the trigger it's a regime that frankly could be toppled great complete by the military or the military. you'd think entirely surrounding nations you don't like might be a bit overkill but it's the pressure psychological pressure that matters the promises easier when the guys you're negotiating with always have something to fear specifically about their country being burned down if they say the wrong thing and it isn't just venezuela i mean look at iran as nowhere to chuck a chewing gum wrapper without hitting the u.s.

marine on the nose which come to think of it they could well use is an excuse to invade iran a few months ago trump even sent more troops to the region just in case they left an empty spot at which iran could through a chewing gum wrapper and china for the faint of heart. one gets the impression that there are more u.s. troops around in china than there are u.s. troops left in the united states but don't have the map for you for america that isn't enough the us needs to develop alternative operating locations the pentagon will continue to develop new concepts build a distributed and resilient force posture and field new capabilities to counter these threats honestly the drug metaphor seems remarkably apt the pentagon recently boasted that it has luke asians in more than 160 countries absalom sort of military presence in 84 percent of the countries on this planet and yet not enough they

just need more crave more. media and going trade war between the united states and china are many battle lines of course have been drawn in many boundaries set but now former fox news host is being accused of colluding with the enemy no less of a line of yoga gear which she says stands for american values was very made in china. absolutely we don't want to be in too diligent in the chinese we don't want to be this servants. and again someone needs to make trying out playing fair to the ongoing discussions about russia russia russia what we really should be looking at is china the running them out of business so they can buy cheap foreign beef the american consumer deserve better.

whether or not they're going to put down what about what their own is make it really doesn't matter if it's about freedom it's about the bill of rights it's about constitutional freedoms that's what this whole line is about that's going to box i was about and talking to support his friend for a long time for. me . to. see this morning all right coming up right ahead this friday morning among the stories ahead leaders meeting the russian authorities to get on the follow day of these economic forum just one of the stories we're across for you when we come back .

that gemini that steve globalization came in with in 2016. the idea of monitor the. banks cooperating to put out a currency unit of accounts that was better than gold is a 6070 year experiment that. dollars a country like russia move aggressively away from the dollar and buy gold and globalization simultaneously. after almost 2 decades of war and occupation american military involvement in afghanistan appears to be winding down i deal with the taliban will see majority of american troops leave while still allowing a sizable contingent to remain just what exactly is washington's political interest

to be in afghanistan america's longest ever. again broken one of the south's international life from me kevin owens 50 minutes past the hour 16 past the hour and if you're watching the clock now next in the russian far east and city of leaders a meeting of the final day of the eastern economic forum president putin and he joined discussions with the indian the japanese the malaysian among goliad leaders talking about how best to try to move forward on trade technology the environment how to avoid global military escalations. for us. that was quite a company in that room the leader of the 2nd most populous country in this world

and as we began to realize in the last few years a staunch ally of russia and the plus the leader of japan an ally of the us in the 1st place but as she puts it himself a great friend of the russian president vladimir putin and finally the heads of 2 asian mongolia and busy malaysia a lot was said about what's left of global security now that the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty is gone because the us administration thought that was the way to go in the 21st century mr putin said that he believes the world will have plenty of reasons to worry about after all a potential new arms race is a very big deal at the fuel which was in the least it was a serious challenges facing humanity imagine if there's some weapon maybe a nuclear bomb in orbit over our heads i'm very it's this could drastically change

the security situation across the globe as for my own american partners keep silent when we suggest continuing to negotiate to some moments there's nothing new in that . another key message from the russian president was that moscow will keep up with all the missile r. and d. that the west will get itself involved in but when it comes to the deployment that won't happen on the part of russia when it comes to the weapons previously thought by the i.n.f. treaty until america starts taking the boxes on their deployment plans no matter how difficult and serious this issue is though vladimir putin decided it's worth adding a bit of humor and jokingly suggested that america should waste money if it can buy some of the arms technology from russia. but i still don't know do you want us to sell you those weapons they are saying they will soon produce their own that might be so but then why would you spend the money if we have already spent it wouldn't

breach security but would create balance. another landmark international agreement that is now in real jeopardy because of the new diplomatic methods of the u.s. administration as a so-called away and nuclear deal while judging by what the japanese prime minister said at the plenary session donald trump and shinzo abhi aren't on the same page in this regard despite them being allies. we have long told the u.s. we have our opinion concerning iran and the nuclear deal i wish it would be resolved through negotiations i talked to the supreme leader and he said that iran isn't going to produce or use nuclear weapons he said it very clearly believe it or not before shaking hands and vladivostok mr putin and mr abbay met $26.00 times before and the japanese leader was keen to point that out once again after

all they don't call each other great friends for nothing and he even entertain the audience with his knowledge of a russian prover that suggests that. you have to eat a lot of salt together to become real friends. the audience here might not know that the summit meeting we've just had was our 27th meeting ladies and gentlemen it's important for you to know that president putin and i have had so many meals together time and time again that one might say we were even kilos of soul together it was clear that the prime ministers of india and japan wanted to be good guests and show a bit of admiration for the country that they're visiting and that's when the name of russian pole woodson riders started coming up and even quotes around ramadi the indian prime minister even compared to the renowned washington writer leo tolstoy with someone who is known as the father of the nation and in the mahatma gandhi so

it's this kind of warmth respect and the desire to hear each other's opinions that there is for him and vladivostok will be remembered for. was because all corporations have spent $50000000000.00 on projects that undermine climate goals according to reports of financial think tank carbon tracker a world climate activist and says large companies and governments should come up with proper initiatives to tackle the problem seems some experts proposals are pretty radical.

of course as it sounds at the moment the main official initiative is that 2015 paris club agreement ratified by 185 states citing measures that country should take to limit global warming but maybe just said than done most of the signatories a failed to live up to the commitments next up teased. discusses the issue with a pile of experts. the hours of cold was not legally binding there was no reason for anyone to stick to it they can do what they like and they carried on doing what they were like i'm afraid we're in the grip of a series of systems which are putting profit before everything they're going to wring the last drop of profit out of all the old world industries such as the fossil fuel industries we've known about this problem we've known about c o 2 we've

known about me thing we know about the feedback loops we've known about the effect on the ice sheets capitalism has had plenty of time to solve this problem but i'm afraid it hasn't dealt with it so we have to start dealing with capitalism the only way we're going to do that is by taking radical action on the streets i've been on the streets myself with extinction rebellion and the people come up to us and they're with us u.k. for example there was a lot of activism. in the last 20 years and running up to 2008 went to. school the climate change act that was supposed to deal with the problem and hold the government and all future governments to hold their feet to the fire in terms of doing what's required. and that was certainly the result of lots of different you know different environmental groups and you know hundreds of thousands of people marching repeatedly so i think you know we have seen change but it's just nowhere near enough to tackle the crisis do you as a climate scientist feel that the activists play

a serious role in the in the development of towards a solution for climate change problem when extension of the extinction barrie again is. not one who now is agent to make change it means the government. need to make massive changes to make this happen we've got ourselves into a situation sine he said then well i'm about to say and this isn't going to be something that we can just make quite a. it's a long call it was this insight. she was less differently we think a lot economy and that there's no way that without some impacts i think that people the public and politicians are quite aware of the drastic changes we need to start reducing our carbon emissions and one of the things that i

think we need to consider which is anathema to many people in the green movement is that we we increase our use of nuclear and i know many in the green movement like this but really the only country that ever successfully carbonized itself. is fronts and it is in the 1960 s. and 1970 s. by by going for nuclear power why why worry is that i don't think people are ready to cut their energy use worldwide since 970 we've seen worldwide energy use increased dramatically and. that we're not going to be able to persuade people to reduce their energy use and one of the only ways i think we're going to combat climate change is to to for both renewables are nuclear is to provide alternative sources because i just don't think people are ready to cut energy use were to addicted to our our lifestyles losses so far this friday q moscow's kevin thank you

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oh i'm so feet shevardnadze for 60 years well enjoy it thoughtful and honest conversation with global leaders and their crunch issues but today one of the bigger picture what is a catalyst that makes us take what matters today and what really matters tomorrow welcome to. visionaries. the 21st century an era of mind boggling a breakthrough but among all the solutions are there are dangers lurking in the unknown. how can we grasp all that science has to offer and still stay safe while i've talked to lord martin rees astronomer royal then amoret is a professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the university of cambridge. martin rees a pleasure having me on our program so we had all of the questions you know.

many of your colleagues are actually wording that technology may help human race advance and thrive and prosper but it can also. hinder many things and hurt humanity in many horrible ways so why is it because where evil or technology or we're just too dumb to be interested with it well there is a huge and growing gap between the way the world could be the way the world is we depend very much on technology indeed the population which has doubled in the last 15. couldn't all be said without the technology that we do cheesed longer life expectancy much better and cetera so all these things are due to technology and of course we have a connected world to the internet and technology is but of course what many of us is that these technologies if you will powerful. for not only can they provide

more benefit but they open up new dangers. worried also about the downsides to take an example we know already that cyber attacks. kind of terrorism is can be very dangerous. biology biological advances they need to know 70 exciting health benefits but also ethically jupitus ways of changing the human genome and also potential dangers. creating transmissible of. the dangerous technology of those which unlike nuclear energy require just fairly small facilities access to a computer the cyber attacks or access to order the bar free to do. issues

so that is why it's very very hard to regulate and even if we have agreed international regulations as already have been developed for genetics and similar technology is forcing those regulations globally it's going to be very hard just as hard as enforcing the drug laws globally or the tax laws globally we haven't much access to doing either of those and that's why i do worry that we will have a bumpy ride through this century because we can't really avoid having just a few people somewhere in the world who will. buy in tension or by misadventure create some a vent which could cascade globally and be a very serious setback but also i feel like a lot of the problem. and mishandling of the new technological progress is probably due to the pace of the progress.