when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. in headlines today money and influence a new report alleges a covert multi-million dollar scheme to boost the popularity of the left across the united states. slipping violence in south africa has left 10 dead in days of attacks on migrants from other african countries. the us care is a military exercises right next to venezuela in line with their apparent strategy of surrounding the enemy coming up we break tactics around the world. one of the afternoon moscow time one welcome to you this is world news live from on

th q with me kevin thanks for the company so the 1st a newly released report by a conservative watchdog alleges that a covert multi-million dollar strategy to try to promote liberal values in the u.s. the document on mosques is skiing to push certain topics from supporting obamacare to slamming donald trump's border war. off takes a closer look at it. 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 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 the prodigy's 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 and bring 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 did lead to this. we won't forget. well their financial bad bone 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 democrat 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 and 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 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 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 would comes from it's not just people but billionaires fortunes behind it to. a wave of deadly attacks and looting in south africa's sparked a boycott against the country led by celebrities across the continent the violence is targeted migrants from other african states who flock to one of the continent's most developed nations the fall asleep as this from johannesburg. the to

the it was. such. i was the violence was triggered last week in the country's capital petrolia when a south african tex you drive a was a legitimacy of being killed by a nigerian drug dita now as part of a protest against the south african taxi drivers took to the streets but very 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 toot 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 a blue shirt and lagos in nigeria for fear of reprisals against its stop south african businesses have also closed their 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 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 an illusion of nigeria shops and premises in south africa by mindless criminals within a fact of police protection enough is enough we will take defensive measures the last time they was in a phobia outbreak like this in south africa was back in 2008 but this is

a country we. have an unemployment of 29 percent which means a very often the distress of people who don't have jobs turns against foreigners often instead of actually being directed against the government and its lack of delivery the 2011 same says is the last official senses 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 over our own a number of provinces in our 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. following this to washington seems to be improving its relationship these days with the south american country the borders venezuela it's the so-called humanitarian program is led by the air force but while providing some services to locals also conducts training for military personnel for those 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 a senior correspondent examines the u.s. tactics them. 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 is here here here here brazil is in thing 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 very complete by the military 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 a new 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 luke asians 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. the ongoing trade war between the united states and china many battle lines of course being drawn very publicly about and reset and no form of fox news host has been accused of colluding with the enemy no less of the headline of yoga gear which she says stands for american values was fun to be made in. china.

absolutely we don't want to be into the list of the chinese we don't want to be their servants. and again someone needs to make trying out playing fair to be 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 in it really doesn't matter it's about freedom it's about the bill of rights it's about constitutional freedom that's what this whole line is about that's the box on the ballot that's not going to support the expression for a long time for the. best

laid plans coming up allegations fly this on the world's largest oil companies are spending for choose to undermine projects toggling climate change issues they'll miss it after the break. ok. most of us are a gemini that steve globalization and this came in with trump in 2016 that he the idea of monitor ization the global central banks cooperating to put out a current scheme unit of accounts that was better than gold is a 6070 year experiment that is now collapsing which is leading to dollars a synaesthete countries like russia move aggressively away from the dollar and buy

gold and did globalization simultaneously. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time. 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. again some the world's biggest oil corporations have spent $50000000000.00 on projects that undermine climate goals according to a report by financial think tank carbon trucking along climate activists insists

that large companies and governments should come up with proper initiatives to tackle the problem seems some experts proposals in part pretty radical.

well those brainwaves aside of course the beneficial initiative is the 2015 paris climate agreement ratified by under $85.00 states it cites measures that country should take to limit global warming easier said than done it seems most of the signatures of failed to live up to the commitments. discussed the issue with a pile of experts that. 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 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 is 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 you know the 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 when the extension and the extinction barely end is. not what i want now is agent to make change it means

the government. is going to make massive changes to make this happen we've got ourselves into a situation sine he said there wouldn't about. and this isn't going to be something that we can just make quite a bit. it's going to be a long haul we're going to need it was this is i. can she is less differently we get we a lot of economy and that is not made that without sun and i think that people the popular 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 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. 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 for both renewables are nuclear is to to provide alternative sources because i just don't think people are ready to cut energy use for too addicted to our our lifestyles 3 more world news headlines now condensed we're going to start in the southern african country of zimbabwe where the zimbabwe's former president has died at the age of 95 he led the country for 37 years until he

was forced to resign in 2017 in africa he was renowned as a fighter for freedom moves among the founders of a free zimbabwe however more broadly in the international community mugabe became notorious is the years went on for brutal human rights abuses corruption and running a barbaric dictatorship. here in russia in the far east hundreds of emergency workers have been. king part in ongoing rescue operations to try to tackle this where to start severe flooding is going to need to hit the area surrounding a river in the barrow region it's been going on actually since early august more than 100 residential buildings remain underwater i guess it could be worse things improving say the weatherman but only slowly. out of storage stay with the program cuts in social benefits knowledge and tina triggered yet more protests in the capital one as eris demonstrators camped out overnight and set fires outside the social development ministry political instability is worsening economic uncertainty in argentina right now following a presidential primary in august to give

a significant lead to the country's opposition leaders. coming up to 122 in the afternoon moscow time before i say goodbye quick glimpse now into outer space that stretch our minds again and a quick plug for one of our shows coming up later today question is there life for mars well british cosmologist an astronomer royal no less martin rees speaks with r.t. sophie shevardnadze or about the possibility of maybe life in outer space and future missions to the red planet. could have a world that provides a decent life for all the 7 and a half 1000000000 people in it and at the moment we have a couple of 1000000000 in abject poverty and some people are mentally wealthy and the fact that the richest 2000 people in the world have the resources to double the income of the bottom 1000000000 in the world and this is not happening is an ethical indictment i do think that by the end of a century there will be a few wild crazy adventurers who may be living away from the earth on mars and of

course they will be ill adapted. to that habitat and so they will be the people who will have the incentive. at the opportunity because their way through the regulators to enhance themselves and adapt themselves so i think if we imagine some species emerging which is different from he would be it will the birds from those crazy people on mars we now know that most of the stars in the sky orbited by retinues of planets just as the sun is orbited by the earth and health of millions and we certainly know that many of those planets are going to be rather like the earth in terms of temperature and sides down to their potential opposed to life.

or. brave new worlds maybe will but we are now that's it so for me this friday here are th q. morse code kevin 0 in thanking you for your time as ever the watches were these update a tip off that you didn't see to take you through the afternoon for me the rest of the team right now though have a great day. it's faded into the news into the christmas day the earth from this terrible day is that simple compared and simple to deal with climate change as compared to making the terrible terrible so is it dangerous to do this and to think that if we got the planet be full list of those people who got to do the homes here. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were unemployed working. there wasn't it was bed much worse objectively than

today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy at tax soloed out engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds according to no i'm chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.

well you know that they were kind of adopted because we're all pirates there's a lot. of being there in the small ball it sticks it hard pulling him and he did. not. kill. emmel self did beak told fish already a 9 diverse endo be darren dot i need to wall in the connor and you conduct fifteen's coops son to tire for tormes true not the door with several times a day with the big fleet it's a know your get an idea own war in the ocean is a full which we have to understand we could north still use through or were just be with in this oh be deuced deal more you can do the ouster of i'm doing this because i want the for the future or world to the future of can generations to have out and enjoy the ocean isle we have

now found it olds down but not this is one of the lest important issues if not the most important and she that humanity means to be talking about and he had nobody who wants to target that it exists everybody's scared to talk about it everybody knows that sir you know an

emotional as she you in stripper personal in else subject and people are scared so peoples are still talk about it and then just sad that in our species survival is truly dependent on us addressing this and if we can even talk about it if we can even have a conversation about it then. we're in trouble. when i was studying biology at the university of california in san diego i had a bio chemistry professor that one day came into class and told all the students to close their books and said we're not going to talk about biochemistry today we're going to watch a film about population and i was probably about 20 years old and i remember just

being completely devastated by what i learned in that film and i walked across the entire campus talking to my professor about human population and i really decided on that day that i didn't want to contribute to our rapidly growing population and really every environmental issue that we face ocean acidification and climate change habitat destruction pollution species extinction loss of biodiversity the collapse of ecosystems all of these things are accelerated by our rapidly growing population growing up i never really was planning towards having kids but i think somewhere in my mind i always thought i was going to have kids that i was going to find a wife get married and having kids when i 1st met lonnie she kind of told me that having kids wasn't something that she was really that interested in you know i

thought that's fine i'm good not having kids and 10 years later 14 years later you know to me it was one of the biggest decisions that we've made no regrets really really happy to be childfree by choice raising a child can be stressful so for mouse them point i think another one of the posse. in our relationship we get to spend more time connecting with each other and i think that that you know for us it's really important a relationship i don't know necessarily that one relationship or one style or relationship is going to be better than the other because i think there's you know some people that have kids and that is their whole life and that actually brings people closer together but then on the same instance there's people who have kids and it kind of drove drives a wedge between them because they don't get to have that quality time together and that's something which they valued before they had kids and they don't get to have that now so this is tim tim is there.