they report from a conservative watchdog claims that there is a covert multimillion dollar scheme to boost left wing movements across the united states. italy's former interior minister matteo salvini faces charges of inciting violence against a german rescue boat captain who illegally docked on italian shores with dozens of . us carries out military exercises near venezuela's borders in line with its apparent strategy of surrounding and enemy. are broadcasting a lot of their work force to deal with most of this is r g international almost

certainly glad to. write a new report from a conservative watchdog alleges there is a covert multimillion dollar strategy to promote liberal values in the united states the document states a scheme meant to push certain topics from supporting obamacare to slamming donald trump's border wall or tease you version of continents. 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 will see 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 4 nonprofits have been showering and to conservative grassroots organizations with their money take this one with a name so noble it's clawing our goal is to oppose in getting a term shortlist yes they get their pockets stuffed by 1633rd an offshoot of bell advisors another group. save my care has been pushing against republican attempts to repeal obamacare the president is sabotaging the system 28. now there is 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 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 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 that each individual's vote counts and that it can't be swamped by the activities of partisan. groups that are illegally sourcing and. on any money so next time you see a nonprofit ban are stirring up a fight for of 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. italian prosecutors are investigating former interior minister material salvini for inciting violence against aid german rescue ship captain or to the shark to be. well salvini is facing this libel case where he's being accused of inciting violence against a cap in this is

a captain of a charity rescue ship in the mediterranean karolyn a racket a german citizen now back in july she had rescued 53 migrants in the mediterranean and tried to dock ship this was the sea watched 3 on a tally and saw she was told no you can't do that that was one of the policies that any had when he was interior minister of italy and she then continued to try and dock that boat in doing so she actually rammed into a buddha control vessel and she was later arrested for that salvini at the time accused captain rocket of trying to sink that patrol boat and actually accused her of an act of war she was later released then put on the house arrest and later court said that she hadn't done anything illegal or though she does still face charges of helping illegal immigration now salvini during that whole

incident discussed it on twitter he said things that the captain was a criminal that she was a delinquent that the poor woman had tried to kill 5 italian soldiers and this is why he is now facing this prosecution but salvini says he stands by everything that he said denounced by a german communist drop the good immigrants. it's a model for me i'll never give up. well italy's former interior minister former deputy prime minister. is one of the country's most popular politicians riding high in the polls mainly due to his anti immigration stance and the fact that he closed ports to illegal immigrants while he was in that position now the current coalition which is the make up of the 5 star movement and the left wing democratic party is

said to be a coalition that's kind of come together to form something out of nothing and as a result many people intend that that government itself could collapse in the coming months if not the coming years but certainly many people expecting that before italy's next scheduled election as a result of that the popularity of materials salvini is seen as being a thaw in the side of the current administration so you can imagine that they're certainly rubbing their hands in glee at any attempts to neutralize salvini and neutralize the popularity of. u.s. troops have been deployed in guyana which shares a border with venezuela and is part of the so-called humanitarian outreach program by the u.s. air force providing services to locals but also training for military personnel. com. 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 here here here here brazil is in tin that it's open to hosting a u.s. military base a mile then 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 very quickly by the military or the military to do 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 news 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 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. 3 former security guards from the private u.s. military contractor blackwater have had their jail sentences have for their roles in one of the most notorious chapters in the iraq war they were convicted of 5 years 5 years ago over the deadly shooting of civilians in baghdad in 2007 which

left more than a dozen iraqis dead the man had hoped to walk free on a technicality but the judge disagreed. in the united states we hold our armed forces and a contract is accountable for their actions dustin heard had his sentence reduced the most to 12 years after prosecutors said he was responsible for only 6 of the deaths while evan liberty and paul slow were found culpable for the majority of those killed their sentences were cut to 14 and 15 years respectively the lawyers had appealed to the judge to let the man walk free having already spent 5 years behind bars the original judge gel the men under rules governing the use of machine guns in a violent crime which carries a mandatory 30 year sentence but an appeals court rejected that 2 years ago because the men had used government issued weapons in a war zone in thursday's resentencing the judge described the former guards as fine

young men and praised their characters the massacre of iraqi civilians became one of the lasting symbols of american abuses in iraq. sorry i don't have a character there are. there were dead bodies everywhere and there's an argument about the only 2 people who decide to be among the dead bodies of my own history with the summer a child that was in the middle of 7 years old of.

investigative journalist to david swanson believes the sentences handed down to the guards were too lenient. i do think it is outrageous that the 30 year. sentence for having a machine gun is tossed out if you got the machine gun from the us government what was the us government of the rule of law in another country halfway around the world and i think it's outrageous that another law requiring 10 years for having any kind of gun was tossed out on the basis that this was a war wolf what made the war legal think the entire war was blatantly illegal why should it have a gun with the end that illegal war legalized having that gun as part of your crime so i mean these are technicalities but they tell a larger story about what we sanction as a as

a culture. and indian space mission has run into trouble that story much more after a short break this is our 2 international. loss of western germany that steve globalization and this came in with trump and 2016 that he the idea of monitor ization the global central banks cooperating to put out a current same unit of accounts that was better than gold is a 6070 year experiment that is now collapsing which is leading to a dollars a synaesthete countries like russia move aggressively away from the dollar and buy gold and dig globalization simultaneously. compared to centuries of chinese history 2 years is nothing unless budgets 2 years

of donald trump with yet another round of terrorists being added to the us trade will this last week's news china's strategy of waiting out the enemy likely to work with the current american president. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. i want to. have to go right to the press as a white woman for 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the waters in the house. or sit. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wait 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. welcome back this is r t international now full disclosure i believe space is cool india has lost connection though with a space probe during an attempted landing on the v. moon's south pole mission control in bangalore last contact with the rover during the final stage of its descent if successful india would have become the 1st country to land a probe on the moon's south pole according to the country's space agency with

a trajectory deviated from the target course these assaulting a hard landing on it at $145000000.00 mission is called. to the goal was to conduct a detailed study of the moon's makeup including its geology and atmosphere economist william anderson believes that despite the setback india is likely to push ahead with the mission until it succeeds because i don't think that we keep say a fairy any time any time you get this far along you had to have had certain successes to be able to get there even if you can't finish. as you know that would something that it's not this complicated especially this technologically complicated that you can have these kinds of setbacks and you know we should be surprised about that it's not like this is going to bankrupt india or anything like that i think that they will go back to the drawing board i think that. ultimately

they're going to be successful if they stick with this particular program and other words i don't think they'll be a bad if they were to just abandon it because of this would be one thing and then you would say ok that mission has failed but i doubt that's what's going to happen i thing. they've come this far and i believe that they will just try to figure out what went wrong and then fix it like. the u.s. national rifle association has been declared a domestic terrorist organization by the city of san francisco lawmakers unanimously passed the resolution against of the gun lobby group which has 5 and a half 1000000 members the national rifle association ma says his considerable wealth and organizational strength to promote gun ownership and inside gun owners to acts of violence resolution mean san francisco will curb any dealings with the n.r.a. including through 3rd parties politically the n.r.a.

is largely a republican leaning group while san francisco is a known a democratic stronghold other activist groups have found themselves in a similar situation in the u.s. including the left wing anti fun movement major considerations being given to naming and an organization of terror the group that is called itself and chief the organization that is engaged in anonymous violent terrorism this is an extremely violent group i think they should be designated as a terror group i must a terror group. the list of u.s. activist groups either declared or monitored as domestic terrorists or extremists as many more names on it the f.b.i. has long viewed radical eco and animal rights activists as the greatest domestic terrorism threat in the spring an f.b.i. document revealed it was monitoring border protest groups as extremist organizations another internal f.b.i. paper described conspiracy theorists as

a new domestic terrorism threat as well former libertarian party executive director wes benedict told us that labeling activists as terrorists allows the authorities to stifle political debate. when you label a group a terrorist organization in america and americans are so scared of terrorists here the effect is that it chills political speech and you should have the right to advocate for something you believe in peacefully of course without the government or any government where there is since the san francisco city council or the united states government calling you a terrorist organization politicians like to use that word they use it as an excuse to violate our civil liberties to spy on us and when you start labeling everything a terrorist activity of course that just that does he since it ties us to real terrorism. moscow has voiced its concern after a russian executive was detained in italy at washington's request alexander

question of is a director at a key russian engine manufacturer he was arrested along with an italian director at g.e. aviation for alleged industrial espionage both men were detained in naples in southern italy was not take a closer look at those charges they're accused of conspiring to steal intellectual property belonging to g.e. aviation relating to aircraft engine production the us justice department says question of hired staff from the firm as technical consultants those employees allegedly filed a report containing sensitive details vladimir putin has said the arrest could further harm relations between russia and the united states. they are practical 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 on law enforcement agencies that should cooperate with the. united states has made similar moves before arresting foreign citizens in a 3rd country the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant wall way was arrested in canada in december over bank fraud at washington's request we have been getting reaction from political analysts about the latest move. this is obviously titian i think all major powers now realize that competition for technological superiority in the future will be so we're almost be decisive in major power competition the united states certainly adopts the and america 1st strategy under the sun and ministration and it is more interested in seeking an advantage is position rather than

engaging in economic cooperation and the expansion of say investment and so on it emphasizes the fact that high tech is a serious problem for the no stage for china for russia for every country now because everyone is trying to gain actually is to every other country's high tech. and there's a tremendous competition going on and therefore the americans are saying right warning everyone you want prayer price if you in fact steal our secrets but from the american board of view it's quite difficult for them to prosecute someone. in a 3rd country or gain access to that person who have been whom they're cute overstating their high tech secrets. 35 and a half minutes that's when i'll be back with another look at your news you are watching our 2 international stay with us.

it's a very dangerous newson to think we can escape the earth for us by telephone is that simple compared simple to deal with climate change as compared to making the triple tariff so too dangerous to do this and to think that we should be able to just give those people we've got to do the forms here. during the grid to pretty. old must remember there was most of my family were unemployed working. on that one and it was been much worse subject to listen today but there was an expectation of the things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hope. there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles

according to no on. one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the. roof wilf which is dedicated to increasing power virtue of just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. loss of western and gemini that steve globalization and this came in with thompson 2016 that he the idea of monitor as ation the global central banks cooperating to put out a currency unit of accounts that was better than gold is a 6070 year experiment that is now lapsing which is leading to dollars

a synaesthete countries like russia move aggressively away from the dollar and buy gold. globalization. join me every thursday on the alex island show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics school this list i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome to redacted a night this is a comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. how the world assured operate all right a certain country or an area try something and if it works other places do it if it doesn't work you don't do it it's like when you were

a kid and you know you saw your brother slide down the banister and then rock him self on the newel post. and you thought to yourself maybe that's not for me. that's how our government should work but it's not for profit health care corporate person or the drug war etc etc we keep rocking ourselves on the new york post and. try it again. but the reverse should be true also if a city anywhere in the world try something and it works great we should do it this brings me to the idea of universal basic income. everybody receiving money from our government simply for being a citizen no questions asked i think it's about time we try it and see that works oh wait it's been tried a 1000000 times and worked a 1000000 times and how do i know that reading. has rugger bregman details in

his book utopia for realists you. has been tried many times in canada and alaska and africa and europe there was a study in britain where 13 men who had lived in the streets for years were given 3000 pounds each about 4500 dollars at the time did they use it for hundreds of all milk lattes or giant bags of cracker or drivers wadded up and white themselves. no it turns out not 18 months after getting the money over half were no longer homeless and all of them had improved their lives significantly in the mid beyond figures for malnutrition took a nosedive from 42 percent to 10 percent as did those for truancy from 40 percent to nothing and crime down by 42 percent so you're telling your story. to tell me there's practically a silver bullet for ending poverty and decreasing crime well we better avoid that

like the plague. me let's go back to giving homeless people can a soup and a pair of socks if they collect enough cans they can build a house. basic income is not untested by 2010 there were income transfer programs for 110000000 families in 45 different countries in north carolina in 2001 the cherokee were getting 6000 dollars a year per family thanks to a casino they had built when they said when that when that started for most of those families that money took them out of extreme poverty and the cherokee children saw a drastic changes their crime rates behavior issues alcohol abuse all went down significantly the money changed their lives and sure yes all casinos are. drunk people spending money they do.