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around the clock across the world this is our international from the team myself you know neal hello and welcome. a newly released report conservative watchdog alleges there is a covert multi-million dollar strategy to promote liberal values in the u.s. the document scheme to push certain topics from supporting obamacare to slamming donald trump's border wall. down of takes 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 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 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 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 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. other uncertainty in health care. remember this it led 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 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 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 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 that 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 a nother 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 inside africa sparked

a boycott against the country led by celebrities across the continent now the violence has targeted migrants from other african states who have flocked to one of the continent's most developed nations all this leader is in johannesburg she filed this report. thank you i was. i. was i was the violence was triggered last week in the country's capital pretoria when a south african techs who tried to was i lived 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 protests 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 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 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 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 a saint 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 and it puts the figure of $2000000.00 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 around a number of provinces in our country 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 people jumping out of buildings with the caption foreign is it leaves south africa so we are 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 lot of the american nation but borders venezuela it's launched a so-called humanitarian program led by the earth force there to provide some services to locals but also training for military personnel the move has now seen neighboring venice will encircled by american bases just months after the u.s. position failed to achieve regime change in caracas our senior correspondent steve examines washington's tactics. the u.s.

military has returned to after many years on a joint military exercise slash humanitarian mission there's nothing quite like a humanitarian mission led by the gods who specialize in boring things it's like having a drug rehab center run by a drug lords blip. 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 us bases all around it here here here here brazil is in thing that it's open to hosting a us military base a mile and israel is like the center of a do nothing of us bases same venezuela that the us 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 over even that frankly could be toppled great booklet 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 promise is easier when the guys you are 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 us 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 fool you for america that isn't enough the us needs to develop alternative operates in the cations the pentagon will continue to develop new. it's 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 $160.00 countries after some sort of military presence in 84 percent of the countries on this planet and yet not enough they just need more crave more. amid the ongoing trade war between the united states and china many battle lines

are being drawn and boundaries set and now a former fox news host is being accused of colluding with the enemy after her line of patriot you get here which he say stands for american values was found to be made in china. absolutely we don't want to be into the to the chinese we don't want to be this servants. and again someone needs to make china playing fair but the ongoing discussions about russia russia russia what we really should be looking at is china 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 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 what a box of is about and talking to support and expression for

a long time for. a russian executives being arrested in washington's request let's spark fury in moscow planes of suspected industrial espionage a political follow play we'll bring you all the latest on a lot of reaction coming up after the break.

after almost 2 decades of war not be patient american military involvement in afghanistan appears to be winding down i deal with the taliban will see the majority of american troops leave while still allowing a sizable contingent to remain just what exactly is washington's geopolitical interest to be in afghanistan america's longest ever and. you know world a big part of the law and conspiracy 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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.

60 minutes into the program welcome back there is anger out russia's embassy in the united states after a russian executive was the tainted italy of washington's request he's been charged with suspected industrial espionage against an american aviation company. like younger question off is a director at a key russian engine. it's claimed he conspired to steal trade secrets with a tele and director a g.e. aviation both men were arrested in naples in southern italy well it's not so take a look at what exactly the men are accused of conspiring trying to steal

intellectual property belonging to g e aviation relating to a craft engines production of the u.s. justice department say he's hired stuff from the company as technical consultant those employees then allegedly filed a report containing sense of the details a lot more putin's hit on the u.s. over the arrest seeing it threatens to worsen relations even further. this is very bad practice it complicates our bilateral relations and i'm not joking we often see no reason for hostile actions of this kind moreover i have every reason to believe that sometimes these actions are connected with unfair competition including in the aerospace industry which if there is some kind of criminal activity here then it's our law enforcement agencies that should cooperate. well the united states terms made similar moves before arresting foreign citizens in a 3rd country the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant weiwei you may

remember was arrested in canada in december over bank fraud at washington's request . let's not bring in political analyst martin mohali for his take on busy developments martin good to see you just starting with the president's remarks on this martin how damaging do you think the arrest is likely to be the u.s. russia relations how significant. the relations the president of pretty bad and presumed is just another date in the coffin and it's very interesting that alexander cochon off has been arrested in italy because his couple of days working with the italian company and the united states say that he is in fact stevie american airspace secrets so there's a very interesting combination now if you look at it to the president the previous government has failed went but the prime minister tzipi conte maybe the new prime

minister has exactly the problem he does know he didn't want to land on his plate because an incoming prime minister because italy has a record of objecting to e.u. sanctions on russia they would like better relations with russia because they want to do more trade with russia so from the from the italian point of view this is quite an embarrassing situation not only for russia and also for italy. president putin also labeled martin the detention practice of her competition highly likely is it doubt the justice department is being overzealous here. well we don't know what they know because presume they say they presume they have discovered or purport to believe that question off and that he's italian counterpart have actually stolen american high tech secrets in here or space industry.

that they only know what what actually went on so therefore we don't actually know the exact situation nor we have it all we have is the justice department say he goes you know if is guilty of of has been ours and we have to wait for further developments now will the justice department then ask for caution off to be deported or transferred from italy to the united states and that live in crease increase the tension between russia and the united states and also between italy and the united states your take on busy the big picture here as i mentioned the u.s. house arrest foreign citizens and other countries before such as the way executive how big is it for the u.s. to implicate other countries with this type of behavior. in many ways is just a warning. that the americans will act but at the end of the day it's very very difficult

to extradite anyone from a 3rd country to the united states. and one case of the other has been rejected so therefore. the justice department now believe that the question of can end up in the united states and be prosecuted for it and i was there that's highly unlikely but what they're doing is sending a signal to everyone that they will act and they can identify. by the company and they would act against the person and so on because at the end of the day there's no muslim on display knowledge going on in the arab street interest. in high technology and everything everyone is at it everyone's doing it what the americans are trying to do is to warn people that they will pay a price but it is end of the day it's very very difficult for the americans direction died somebody whom they believe he's guilty of espionage against them from a 3rd country because most of the crimes are very reluctant to do it just finally

on the on the 3rd countries martin what risks to you forsee for those nations where the arrests are conducted when they take part in events such as these. well if they then. in fact extradited a russian to the united states that italy would be criticized the russians would be saying why did you do that and they would be putting pressure on the. government. tell you government not to do this and to let the let the case if you like just fade away he's arrested but that just means age in detention what happens next so therefore from italy's point of view they want this soldier as quickly as possible and as i said but in between government and becoming to whom he said he will remain as prime minister is a balance by this this is a situation that he doesn't want russia doesn't want it italy doesn't want it but the united states does wanted martin thanks as always for your time and your

thoughts political analyst mark macaulay life on the program. ok let's get a check now of other stories making headlines or run the world starting in the southern african country of zimbabwe roberts in a gallop a former president has died at the age of 95 he led the country for 37 years until he was forced to resign and 2070 and parts of africa he was were known as a fighter for freedom being among the funders of a free zimbabwe however in the international community macau they became notorious for brutal human rights abuses corruption and for running a barbaric dictatorship. in russia's far east hundreds of emergency workers helping taking part in on going rescue operations severe flooding continues to hit the area surrounding the river in the region heavy rains have fallen there since early august and more than 100 residential buildings remain underwater things are improving there but only slowly say the weather service.

2 years of struggling against widespread reform more than 60 social organizations took a stand against the chilean government on thursday the planned demonstration in santiago was against what the groups have called slipping education standards and also social worker's rights the authorities in santiago were forced to use tear gas and other tactics to disperse the protests. or write a glimpse of space and a quick plug for wall over shows on air it's a day is there life on mars british cosmologist an astronomer royal morton reese talks to sophie shevardnadze about the possibility of living organisms there on future missions to the red planet. we could have a wound that provides a decent life for all the 7000000000 people in it and at the moment we have

a couple of 1000000000 in abject poverty and some people mention 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 while the crazy adventurers who may be living away from the on. and of course they would be ill adapted to that habitats and so they would be the people who would have the incentive. now the opportunity because their way to the regulators to enhance themselves and adapt themselves so i think if we imagine some species emerging which is different from who would be it will have 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 the nails of millions and we

certainly know that many of those planets are going to be rather like in terms of temperature and sides ounce of their potential opposed to life. or. yes fascinating conversation sure and throughout the day here r.t. is there finally an end in sight for america's longest war cross-talk debates quitting afghanistan and its next. i. ready ready ready ready ready

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