we choose to look for common ground. just past me moscow time headlining money and influence a new report alleges a covert multi-million dollar scheme to boost the popularity of the left across the united states. the stories we're covering today escalating violence in south africa has left 10 days of attacks on migrants from other african countries. and the u.s. carries out military exercises right next to venezuela in line with their apparent strategy of surrounding the enemy coming up we break take around the world.

they get out to doing things taking the time to change to us this is our international live from. first in this world news update a new released report by conservative watchdog alleges there's a covert multi-million dollar strategy to try to promote liberal values in the united states the document a scheme to push certain topics from supporting obama care to slamming donald trump's border wall as he goes down of takes a closer look at how it's supposed to operate. what's more powerful in politics than money a strong candidate with a good program and idealist would say 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 brothers have made billions

and want to ensure their 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 prodigy's pockets democrats according to this research a group called arabella advisors a little sleep has been in the vanguard of the leftist money holds the 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 kellogg 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 i think this one with a name so noble it's clawing our goal is to oppose in the interim a short list yes they get their pocket 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 28 will be another uncertainty in health care. remember this it led to this. we won't forget. well their financial backbone is made up by bills coming from

a nother arabella advisors 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 pop declining viewership both the editorial and the production staff is chiefly and the anchors are chiefly democrats or democrat leaning so of course out of the mainstream media you're going to get that narrative reality is the independents and the rising anti-corruption anti-crime any party voting populace in united states is against the use of dark body is against the use

of corruptly having foundations the reality is that a lot of money comes in from unions from particularly from the public sector unions to 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 i mean 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 in. i don't have any money so next time you see a nonprofit stirring up a fight for yet another democratic staple remember regardless of what side of the political spectrum would comes from it's not just people but billionaires fortunes behind it 2. weeks away you have deadly attacks and looting in south africa sparked a boycott against the country led by celebrities across the country the violence

has targeted migrants from other african states who flock to one of the continent's most developed nations paula slater reports from johannesburg. cholera i was acutely i. i. beat the violence was triggered last week in the country's capital petrolia when a south african texas driver was elated to have been killed by a nigerian drug dealer now as part of a protest against a south african taxi drivers took to the streets but fairly soon that protest evolved into a demonstration against all foreigners and spray to add the same to around the country and the result has been violence hundreds of foreigners have been days to toot off to the businesses were attacked the police were forced to use white

control mss 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 a boucher and lagos in nigeria for fear of reprisals against it stop south african businesses and also close their doors temporarily in nigeria and the south african foreign minister has said that this is an. ousmane for south africa and she has expressed her great for violence against foreigners nigeria has pulled out of the african economic summit being held in south africa and the nigerian foreign minister has also expressed concern. received signon and depressing news of continued burn in luton of nigeria shops and premises in south africa by mindless criminals with the in effect of police protection enough is enough we will take

definitive measures the last time they was is 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 percent 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 foreigners are in this country in the pits the figure of 2000000 dead at the waist and it suggests the figure is closer to 5000000 out of a population of 56000000 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 i don't number of provinces in the country in the strongest. 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 foreign is it leaves south africa's so we're in the process of verifying another the media along with the experts but the situation certainly is dire at the moment. washington seems to be improving its relations with the south american country the borders venezuela the so-called humanitarian program led by the air force that while providing some server. says to locals also seems to be conducting training for military personnel but is way low where the u.s. backed opposition leader felt achieve regime change early this year of course is already encircled by american bases from every other side our city correspondent 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 the 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 here here here here brazil is in tin 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 has tried 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 very 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 the psychological pressure that matters the promise is 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 no way to check a chewing gum wrapper without hitting the u.s. marine on the nose which come to think of it they could well uses 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 locations in more than 160 countries have some sort of military presence in 84 percent of the countries on this planet and yet not enough they just need more crave more. going trade war between the united states and china many battle lines have been drawn in many boundaries set and now a former fox news host has been accused of colluding with the enemy no less after her line of patriot yoga gear which she says done for american values was certainly made in china.

absolutely we don't want to be into the chinese we don't want to be this servants. and again someone needs to make china out playing 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 deserves better. whether or not they're going to put it down in a way that i put their phone to it really doesn't matter 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 from a box of us about it's not going to support the expression for a long time for the. best

laid plans like this check in for a minute the russian far east in the city of la they've all stopped because leaders meeting there for the final day of the east and economic forum present discussions with the indian the japanese the malays are now mongolian leaders talking about how best to try to move forward on everything from trade to technology to the environment void global military escalations a correspondent covering the. 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 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 which was in the least it was a serious challenges facing humanity imagine if the some weapon maybe a nuclear one in a little bit 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 the summons 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. 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 of 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 or when nuclear deal well judging by what the japanese prime minister said at the plenary session donald trump busy and shinzo abhi aren't on the same page in this regard despite them being allies. we have long told the us 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 even keyless 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 names of russian pole busy woodson riders started coming up and even quotes in iran drum modi the indian prime minister even compared to the renowned the russian writer leo tolstoy with someone who is known as the father of the nation and india mahatma gandhi so it's this kind of warmth respect and the desire to hear each other's opinions that is form and vladivostok will be remembered for. talking of a story for russia this is another one as well look at the depth of water that

russia's far east hit again by severe flooding is not the whole thing was pretty but there are many homes underwater for a month now. tell you what the prognosis is but we come back. you know world of big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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 hard.

to the public well. when the ruling classes protect. the room. 20 minutes past the hour the world's biggest oil corporations have spent $50000000000.00 on projects that undermine climate goals according to a report from carbon track ip climate activists and says large companies and governments should come up with proper initiatives to tackle the problem seems some experts were pretty radical.

with those ideas a sort of course the main official initiative to this day is the 2015 paris climate agreement ratified by 185 states citing measures that country should take to limit

global warming but easier said than done it seems most of the signatories failed to live up to the commitments. discussed with a panel of experts. the powers of cold was not legally binding there was no reason for anyone to stick to it they can do what they like and they've carried on doing what they've 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 they'll be the effect on the ice sheets capitalism is have 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 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 law 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 at scale 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 with extension of the extinction barely again is. not what i want now is agent to make change it means that governments are public and they need to make massive changes to make this happen and we've got ourselves into

a situation sine he said they want about blockades and this isn't going to be something that we can just make it quite that. way. it's a long haul we're going to need it was this is site. seems less differently we get we think a lot economy and that is not how they now write that without some impacts i think that people the public and politicians aren't 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 don't like this but really the only country that ever successfully carbonized itself. is france and it did it in the 1960 s. and 1970 s.

by by going for nuclear power 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 to provide alternative sources because i just don't think people are ready to to cut energy use wood to addicted to our our lifestyles. we take 3 world news stories in brief starting in the south african country of zimbabwe robert mcgarvie zimbabwe's former president has died at the age of 95 he led the country for 37 years until i was forced to resign in 2017 in africa he was ramon does the time for a while anyway as a fighter for freedom who was among the founders of a free zimbabwe but in the international community in later years mugabe became

notorious for brutal human rights abuses corruption and willing to take issue. in russia's far east. some pictures earlier of really deep waters there in places hundreds of emergency workers have been taking part in ongoing rescue operations severe kind of annual flooding has to be said continues to hit the area around the i'm a river in the harbor oskar region it's been going on since early august more than 100 residential buildings remain underwater the things improving slowly but only slowly the weathermen will keep you posted on. a certain program cuts in social benefits in argentina has triggered yet more protests in the capital one as ari's demonstrators camped out overnight and set fires outside the social development ministry political instability has worsened economic uncertainty in argentina following a presidential primary in august that gave a significant lead to the country's opposition the. day $26.00 that said from the news desk for now here at r.t. h.q.

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tony sheridan joins us from the united kingdom to give us a view from on the ground of the ever more tense and tangled bag the talks. that have been a part have been the darlings of wall street as they plan their i.p.o. but it's not all that means today we break down what the future holds for these companies and if the valuations are a bit overhyped and the leader will have a hard shipley the c.e.o. of vera software in studio today to break down the latest in a string of scandals coming from facebook as millions of phone users are at risk from the u.k. to unicon of the much more ready to take you around the world let's go. a reset for us china trade talks leads are global reports today as officials from beijing say they will visit washington early october u.s. trade representative walberg robert white hisor treasury secretary steven nugent and chinese prime prime vice premier you spoke well by phone on thursday morning and worked out the details for the upcoming meeting the meeting would be.