you don't care. anything. like. this hour's headlines stories a new u.s. intelligence report to accuse is russian social media operatives of attempting to sway the 2016 presidential election in donald trump's favor also ahead. violent. protests in ecuador force this suspension of parliament on the government to quit. the french interior minister over his handling of the fatal islamist attack at the party's police h.q.

last week. around the clock across the world this is r t international from the team and myself you know no real hello and welcome to our top story the u.s. senate intelligence committee has published a new reports on alleged russian interference in the 2016 presidential election it claims a group called the internet research agency attempts to use social media to swing the vote in donald trump's favor and so distrust and prosy foreigner from zuck details the senate intelligence committee they report that the agents of the russian internet research agency or ira quote sought to influence the 2016 us presidential election by harming hillary clinton's chances of success supporting donald trump at the direction of the kremlin now the senate panel cited the quote

close ties of the ira's director to russian president vladimir putin as quote evidence of. significant kremlin support authorization and direction of the ira's operations and goals now the senate intel committee writes that the dissent from ation put out on social media sites like facebook twitter instagram and you tube was part of a broader sophisticated and ongoing information warfare campaign designed to sow discord in american politics and society and this activity increased after election day back in 2016 the report found that dozen from asian put out by the ira targeted specifically african-americans more than any other age group or demographic to exploit some hot button issues and even convince some people to sign petitions well earlier this year former special counsel for the united states department of justice robert muller reported how the ira designed a social media campaign to amplify political and social discourse here in the u.s. favoring president donald trump over hillary clinton now a mother indicted 13 russians and 3 businesses for information warfare so it's

interesting you know because this report is coming at the same way it did after election 2016 but this time it's before election 2020 here in the states back in july however the federal judge who slammed robert mueller along with attorney general william barr for saying that was all russia when there is absolutely no evidence of that a u.s. district judge dabney frederick he wanted to say that muller prejudiced a potential jury in this case of the russian firm concord management consulting l.l.c. which they're facing a legal battle with the department of justice right now and the u.s. government says that concorde funded be quote social media meddling campaign but says that there was a lack of evidence supporting that and concluded that russian president putin and president donald trump didn't conspire to win the 2016 election so the biggest point of judge rebuke of muller was that muller tied the internet research agency to basically all of russia rather it was individuals that happened to be russian so

the timing of this report. it's also pretty interesting you know because this latest report comes as house democrats well they've started an impeachment inquiry into president donald trump it's another chance to talk about what is dubbed here in this states as the russian collusion campaign yet again despite there being no russian collusion now it's also a chance to take a stab at the growing views that we're seeing right here on r t the report says that youtube continues to be the propaganda vehicle for russia and that the number of views are much higher than the number of actual you tube subscribers on our r t channel so to give you an idea artie's you tube now has 3.7 millions of followers and in 2017 our channel was actually at accumulated it's 5000000000 not 1000000000000003 of you and has 3300000 global subscribers on its you tube channel now r t it was the 1st self described news channel to break 1000000000 views on you tube so you could say that artie's you tube is getting

a little too popular for the democratic party taste. well the kremlin's given its reaction to the reports claiming it's just the rehearsal of old allegations the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity done in the councils believes the findings proved nothing. now this is a house built on sand is what i would say the it's quite interesting because the report begins with the assumption that the internet research agency is an agency of the russian government the judge friedrich back in july admonished mohler and his group to stop referring to concordance to ira as. the russian government because it can't be proven or here's something interesting one of the 1st sentences in the report in the summary says quote the committee's ability to identify russian activity on social media platforms was limited so here they admit the paid sick

leave they have no way of identifying which groups are russian or not even though the whole report is that the russians are behind it all and you know they're just simply hasn't been any proof yet they keep repeating the same old lies hoping that no one will know that. iran has warned turkey against a military operation in northeast syria calling for an korea to respect the country's sovereignty to run joins a chorus of concerned voices which also include european officials turkey has reportedly already conducted erland artillery strikes in the area according to local media it comes hours after washington and state was pulling its troops from the region and chris also been deploying military hardware along its border with syria on monday fidelia merge the partly showing american military vehicles leaving their posts until recently washington had to run 150 military personnel stationed kurds in the region who are long time memory can allies are furious he said taste of what they think about the trumpet ministrations decision. we will serve as

a human shield of necessary lou not to allow a new aggression against this region when we defeated isolate terrorists as you called yourself outlined and what we say now known as the coalition is letting us down and with that we're hearing constant threats coming from turkey with complete silence of the. now why do you have been displaying and subtle attended by it and have until recently and relatively safe knowing someone reject only intimidations and the heart of talking on the phone but it's an acceptable is a way to keep us a frightening us. president to impose the fend of his this claiming america hasn't abandoned the kurds he also issued a stark warning to turkey saying it would face severe consequences if it crosses the line. we've been in syria for many years you know syria was supposed to be a short term hit just a very short term hit we were supposed to be in and out that was many many years ago and we only have 50 people in that area that's

a small sector and i don't want those 50 people hurt or killed or anything i don't want anything bad to happen our people and i told that to president i said don't. any of any of our people get hurt if turkey does anything out of what they should be doing we will hit them so hard in the economy turkey's responded saying it won't be to us economic pressure that home alone trying to find themselves in hot water with vote democrats and republicans launching still having attacks over his latest this isn't on syria killam open more. standing in between the turkish an s.d.f. fighters was not a fight to win or a benefit for the united states why because they're both friends and allies of the usa so if you support one side you're inevitably betraying the other it's a perfect no win scenario and for his decision to abandon the kurds donald trump is already taking a hit so the kurds stepped up when nobody else would defy the police opened and

good luck getting anybody to help america in the future will radical islam al-qaeda and i says the kurds are now aligned with us because they have nobody to count on cause we abandon them so this is the people and for on a whim prices the president's decision to withdraw u.s. forces from northern syria as a d.p. to stop development the betrays a cottage on eyes who have been instrumental partners in our mission to eradicate isis we must always have the backs of all and i say if we expect them to have our back the kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against isis in syria leaving them to die is a big mistake losing the reputation as a reliable partner is the main concern after all nobody wants to partner up with a backstabber so we decided to ask new yorkers if they think that donald trump is taking the right moves should the usa have pulled out of syria so suddenly i do not support anything trump supports he'll flip he'll flip flop just like you know

honestly i don't think you should be there. somebody is going to suffer please stay there they suffer we leave they suffer snow we have reason to stab them in the back we've helped them as much as we possibly can and that's some point they have to be able to stand on her own 2 feet syria you think it's too soon. probably i just think there's a lot of hypocrisy. i spoke to political scientists come to office who believes the pentagon's actions increasingly differ from what the white house is claiming. mr trump is using dubai. turkish invasion and you know the destruction of the us by kurdish forces in order to rationalize ulysses' illegal occupation of syria since 2015 us really has no justification to stay in syria i mean the only intention was to combat isis

terrorists that mr trump you know claims that they've been 100 per cent defeated although that's not the fact i don't really think that we're going to see a massive. if with ratio and i would put. it to the dogs with the battle hardened kurdish forces in addition to that there's a great deal of a small can mirror on the part of trump administration in what i consider to be in syria and shell game mr trump spot because we had a very identical statement last december and now you know couple of observation polls have been vacated by the u.s. but u.s. still has some 18 military bases and operation points including 2 air bases in northern syria which has absolutely no intention of drawing so let's be very

careful distinguishing between you know. the announcement by the white house and actual policies that are in fact contradicted by the pentagon. as a stereotype protests continue to rage in ecuador the government's been forced to relocate to the country's 2nd city and suspend parliament furious that the authorities decision to end fuel subsidies demonstrators have launched a campaign that scene transport networks crippled right across the country nicholas o'dell oven is in control. i. i. am i i. was was. ecuador remains under state of emergency after days of protests following president lenin merinos decision to scrap fuel subsidies

on monday those protests turned into riots as students and other groups finally clashed with police forces afterwards thousands of indigenous people came here to quito and violence continued throughout the night as protesters surrounded the presidential palace the tension was so high that the president decided to move the atman to minister to capital from here from quito to kill those 2nd largest city that's not the us what it was it was. 5 am but what's behind these protests well at the center of it all is an economic reform package that the government has implemented under a $4200000000.00 financing deal signed with the i.m.f. ecuador wants to use this money to cope with a large foreign debt and fiscal deficits parts of the package include the scrapping of subsidies to gasoline and diesel that had been in place the for decades the rise

in fuel prices has triggered a domino effect and other basic goods are going up in price to create an uncertainty among the people but many here say that fuel prices are just the tip of the iceberg and they disagree with the neo liberal agenda but in place by lenin marina the neo liberal policy of lenin marina's government which of bays and listens the international monetary fund cancels their nations and not affect students since we're all children of workers if he increases the cost of living and leave salaries of the same level this would lead to the fact that many students will not be was continuous studies led the government leave little in the. more end of leave we don't want him to be president because it does too much harm to all of us now the government is also implementing measures such as tax cuts to balance the higher cost of fuel and incentivize economic growth but many here say it's too little too late meanwhile here in quito the city prepares for more days of violence schools are closed and some businesses are closed down to public transport is down

to a minimum but for some protesters here are just using this political unrest as an excuse for violence and vandalism others this is a vital fight for the country's future nicholas o'donovan r.t. . president marino has blamed the current turmoil on his predecessor rafael korea along with the leader of another nation and this will is the tyrant who has acted along with career destabilization plan. there the corrupt people who have the food stamps and just disclose known as mable the issue of they're the ones that are high and this is time to do who did it heart but it's. all talking to r.t. former president rafael correa hit back saying you know there's no one to blame but himself. it's a difficult time for my home and this shows dramatics of merino in his government

he's already been in power for 2 and a half years and he still blames korea for everything economic crisis for security for his political fault say these mass protests of my folks is just crazy and he's not doing this in the name or a no is not interested in democracy for him the most important thing is to control power control the ecuadorian public so he create projects that can damage the majority would be beneficial for his goals. nor inclusive the i.m.f. we're juggling numbers and fooled people by distorting the amount of ecuador's debt belgium's debt where i live now amounts to 100 percent of g.d.p. eventually the i.m.f. had to publicize real debt numbers i left my presidential post at the beginning of 2017 after that the debt started growing but the problem doesn't even lie with the debt it's all a sham from the start merinos government betrayed the economic program and in

general the political program to which people get their votes for all they decided on a neo liberal approach to appease the powers they handed over the reins to those powers lost the elections but in the end got control because of marino's betrayal those powers aimed for neo liberalism towards a run for your life politics open up imports to support the interests of major exporters give absolute freedom to banks and minimize the government's responsibility. you know it is in your dreams you know that man cancelled the previous government program he thought they could create something new and better than before but they achieved only destruction we left ecuador's economy in a state of growth it was like that until 20172018 this year will see a decline unemployment's risen that lead to instability 500000 ecuadorians are facing poverty yet again and now these austerity measures they aren't justified by any external factors there was no abrupt drop in oil prices they were already

included in the budget there was no earth quake it's just a net economic management how is it possible to curb people's worries now the history of ecuador has seen this before which is why it's so hard for me to observe all this it's like we've gone back to the past. the u.s. military is planning to hold the largest military exercises in europe in a quarter of a century we break that story died out more after. being wrong but. just don't call. me. yet to say

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a rallying cry to france calling for unity un vigilance in the fight against islamist extremism the president may be appealing the owner of the victims of a knife attack at a participant station last week. so. in the face of islamist terrorism we can find a relentlessly civil servants of our police prefecture in the security and intelligence for the job of course and part of the response the security institutions alone will not suffice the government alone all state services alone cannot defeat the islamist hydra no the whole nation must unite. on investigation into thursday's incident find the attacker followed a radical version of islam a number of early warning signs were also reportedly missed that's led to calls to be interior minister who claimed there had been nothing suspicious in the assailant's behavior charlotte dubin ski reports. that's prone to pays tribute to those murdered in that attack at the h.q.

of the paris police by a colleague suspected of having being a radicalized questions being asked as to how it was possible and where the problems with radicalization in the police in. disturbing information about the attack of 45 year old bone has emerged since he killed full colleagues and injured several others u.s.b. sticks found at his home contained did use of executions and propaganda they also worryingly held personal details of several police officers and it turns out they were even more signs that could have signalled the attack.

despite that was never. flagged up to an investigation and even had a top security clearance well thought says interior minister had initially claimed that there had been nothing to indicate a problem with me this man is known to have worked in computing he never had any behavioral problems and he never acted suspiciously. and in paris seeing gas led to calls for his resignation i said very clearly christoph castor no longer has a place in the interior ministry his resignation would be an honorable action for him i am demanding the resignation of custer near because he has deceived the french he lied about the killer's profile by saying he had never presented any warning sign despite the fact he was rather causation was known after the revelations about behavior and radicalization kasten as position that the killer

did not have any behavioral difficulties is untenable he must finally take responsibility and resign and while the interior minister has brushed off those calls anger is mounting within the police force we want him to resign but for everything he. has been nominated he has been a very bad very very poor minister of interior you was he was a jew we are afraid that the problem is much more bigger we we know that some some cops when the. as inquiry about knowing if the person can come and work in the police some so this is a no i don't think that this one is a good one and sometimes people above him know we want this man because we think that's something. is not the decision without.

taking the position of. the last many are now wondering how many enemies working within it's being reported 19 officials. history of interior are currently being monitored for islam missed radicalization while around 10 others have been dismissed resigned the people who we knew. were probably very. few feel to say anything because though there was on the line. there were fred to be said that there were some of the big that there were overseas down the the didn't care about people who were a problem. there was 3 of them that to speak and when you say something in french in the french british when they say that there is a problem you become you also become a problem and part of the problem so if you don't say anything if you'll notice

something anything you don't say in a sling you have much more chance to get promoted and not to have any problem than to say anything the phrase yet to uncover that urn to react to the radicalization of all people has cast a dark shadow of security forces here and problems eroding trust with many offices perhaps now left wondering how many more extremists are hiding in plain sight so let's even skate ot see. the u.s. military is planning the largest military exercises in europe in 25 years the drills called defender in europe 20 will take place in germany in april and may next year. once again we bring to the security of our strategic readiness to deliberate. the u.s. army's 7th. 37000 troops will take part

including 20000 from the u.s. the aim is to improve the american army's ability to move its forces rapidly to europe in response to a potential crisis defender europe 20 is a great opportunity to demonstrate the u.s. army's unmatched ability to rapidly project forces across the globe while operating alongside their allies and partners in multiple contested domains or with germany playing host and taking a key part in the drills themselves the moves come in for criticism from some of the country's politicians they claim germany should play no part geopolitical unless runnerup 1st told me creating an enemy in the east is the only way to justify nato continue to exist. the west is also under pressure to show that there is an enemy in the east by the military that nato would lose. its its reason for investing so many euro's and dollars

into a defense and this is so what needs to be sold also to determine public in the coming years why we should spend many many billions or 2 percent of our g.d.p. in the future for defense and therefore it's self marketing and i think russia understands this very well it has to be seen. yeah really illogical it's not even absurd to assume that russia could invade the nato member state territory of europe because russia totally depends on a good economic and trade relationship with europe ok that is me signing off the time being done in the hawkins will have all your midweek updates in 30 minutes or so but now after a quick break some more great r.t. shows get their start.

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