money influence a new report there is a multi-million dollar scheme. across the us. coming up. from african countries. in line with their apart. from the surrounding the enemy we bring. across the world.

just after 2 in the afternoon here in moscow this friday september the 6 the warm welcome to our 2 international i'm you know neil with your world news this hour. a newly released report by a conservative watchdog alleges there's a covert multi $1000000.00 strategy to promote liberal values across the u.s. the document on the scheme to push certain topics from supporting obamacare to slamming donald trump's border wall artie's done of has been taking a closer look at just how it operates. 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 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 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 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 an interim 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 it led to this. war for again. 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 narrative reality is the independents and the rising anti-corruption anti-crime only part voting populace the 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 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 ban are 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. get another part of the world where a wave of deadly attacks and looting in south africa has sparked

a boycott against the country led by celebrities across the continent the violence has targeted migrants from other african states who have flocked to all of the continent's most developed nations policy are based on what is happening in jails. was at that was was. i. was the violence was triggered last week in the country's capital petrolia when a south african texas driver was a latest to have been killed by a nigerian drug dealer now as part of a protest against a south african texan drivers took to the streets because he soon that protest evolved into a demonstration against all foreign is inspired to add the same to his 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 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 stops 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 with 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's shops and premises in south africa by

mindless criminals within a fact of police protection enough is enough we will take definitive measures the last time they was in a phobia al break 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 same says is the last official same says 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 these no place feels in a phobia in south africa now i'd like to condemn the violence that has been spreading over our own 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. washington seems to be improving its relationship with the south american country that borders venezuela it's launched a so-called humanitarian program led by viewer forced out while providing some services to locals conducts training for military personnel bennis we know 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 steve examines washington stockton's. 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 this intern 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

over even though frankly could be toppled gracefully by the military or the military or do 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 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 or 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. now amid the ongoing trade war between the united states and china many battle lines have been drawn and boundaries set

a former fox news host is being accused of colluding with the enemy after her line of patriot yoga gear which she say stands for american values was found to be 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 of the ongoing discussions about russia russia russia what we really should be looking at is china as they're 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 us down in that we're not going to put our phone in it really doesn't matter it's about freedom it's about the bill of rights it's about constitutional freedoms and that's what this whole line is about that's going to block someone's about and talk going to support and spread for a long time for the.

allegations flying about some of the world's largest oil companies are spending fortunes to undermine projects targeting climate change issues we get further into after the break. the big. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest street in truth to

stand losing business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. seem wrong but old roles just don't all. get to shape out disdaining to come to council. and engagement because the trail. once and many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

crosstalk started to 10 years i think it's time to shake things up maybe change the branding maybe the format here is what i've been thinking about next season related episodes filmed on an island 10 experts fight it out for a trophy what do you think ok a more affordable option 25 text for. one red rose another suggestion with jeopardy no political cookout we will literally. be elite. late night show it's a rare format these days and it's all you need is an old microphone in a printed banner. to leave me with i guess i can do this and laughter politics gone wild like music. ok crosstalk is not about hype it's about meaning 10 years of talk and still going strong.

peter if you want to change something why don't we get rid of the. no that is too much. look at what we start back with figure quite a big figure out that $50000000000.00 that is what some of the world's biggest oil corporations have spent on projects that on their mind climate goals according to a report by financial think tank carbon tracker while climate activists insists large companies and governments should come up with proper initiatives to tackle the problem it seems some experts proposals are pretty radical.

the main oficial initiative though is the 2015 part climate. so much done in the years by so many people know it was rather by a 185 states citing. that countries should take to limit global warming but most of the signatories have failed to live up to the commitments are to. discuss the issue with

a pile of expert. 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'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 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 with the extension and the extinction barely again is. not one who now is agent to make change it means the government or the public and they need to make massive changes to make this happen we've got ourselves into a situation scientists say they want about blockades and this isn't going to be something that we can just make it quite that. way. it's going to be

a long haul we're going to need it was this is site less consumes less consumes differently we get we think a lot of economy and that does not have made the night 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 and which is nothing more 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 its elektra's output is france and it did it in the 1960 s. and 1970 s. by by going for nuclear power why why worry is there 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 combine 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 to cut energy use with too addicted to our our lifestyles. let's go check and some stories making headlines around the world for you know starting in the southern african country of zimbabwe robert 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 $27.00 in parts of africa he was renowned as a fighter for freedom was among the founders of a free zimbabwe however in the international community became notorious for brutal human rights abuses corruption and rolling a barbaric dictatorship. in russia's far east hundreds of emergency workers have

been taking part in ongoing rescue operations severe flooding continues to hit the area. were river in the region heavy rains fall in there from early august or so more than $100.00 residential buildings remain under water things are improving there but only slowly though say the weather. austerity program cuts in social benefits in argentina i figured yet more protests in the. demonstrators come overnight and set fires outside the social development ministry political instability has worsened to economic uncertainty in argentina following a presidential primary last month that saw gains for the country's position leaders . a glimpse of outer space indeed a quick plug for one of our shows coming up later today is there life on mars

british caus. astronomer royal martin speaks now with our tease sophie shevardnadze a little bit about what will be coming up in the program among the topics the possibility of life in the real block beyond future missions and to the red planet we could have that provides a decent life for 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. 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 on. and of course they would be ill adapted. that's habitats and so they will be the

people who will have the incentive. and the opportunity because their way through the regulators to. themselves and adapt themselves so i think if we imagine some species emerging which is different from he would be it will now be those crazy people on mars we now know that most of the stars in the sky orbits and by retinues of planets just as the sun is orbited by the earth and held a 1000000 planets and we certainly know that many of those planets are going to be rather like the earth in terms of temperature and sides. and so they're. both the life. you know that one on one can be watched in full in just over 2 hours international

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last month u.s. manufacturing shrank for the 1st time in 3 years what impact will this have on donald trump's 2020 reelection bid we're taking a look on this edition of. welcome to politicking i'm matthew cook in for larry king recent data from the institute for supply management's manufacturing index shows that sector of the economy shrank for the 1st time in 3 years the index is a widely watched gauge of factory activity in the u.s. and its august numbers show the lowest reading since 2016 is this a cause for concern regarding the health of the u.s. economy and is this coupled with the recent talk of looming recession more bad news for donald try. i'm heading into the 2020 election let's talk about this with chris

lew the former deputy secretary of labor during the obama administration he also served as the former white house cabinet secretary for president obama he is in washington d.c. chris welcome to the program matthew always a pleasure so let's jump right in is the u.s. manufacturing sector. for the 1st time in 3 years since in august so is this a cause for concern it absolutely is a cause and it needs to be looked at in the context of other economic data that has come out last week we saw that consumer confidence fell by the largest amount since december of 2012 and so when you have an economy where manufacturers are trying to deal with uncertainty from the trade war and perhaps aren't producing as many goods or not hiring as many people you have consumers that are possibly pulling back on their spending that's not a good recipe for economic success going down the road so is this.