for u.s. presidential candidates democratic hopefuls ready for the 1st meaningful. american lawyer says the f.b.i. is hiding information about the murder of a democratic national committee employee. one of the pieces of evidence that they are hiding are those redactions if there were. something along those lines that seems to be a concession something. suspect

. to be a recently released convict. in what's being described as an. attack. on 10000000 euros of e.u. cultural funding as an investigation reveals the tactics used. local farmers. destroyed the whole property by sitting everything on fire we kind of joined the dots together and realized that we were being targeted by the mafia. a lot from moscow thanks for joining us this morning and welcome to the program. monday marks the beginning of the road to the white house for us democrats. well in

the state of iowa caucus vote that's proven quite influential in deciding who runs for president now is the start of the primaries usually a litmus test for what's to come bill and hillary clinton went from victory and i were to run as the democrats candidates and barack obama of course as well and republicans the democrats vote for their candidates openly and in a quite a complicated man and even more so this year in fact they're stage one all voters physically stand in an area dedicated to each candidate round to those who receive less than 15 percent of the vote declared non-viable and their followers can then select another candidate if they wish to do so finally this is all tell it up into delegates based on the number of voters and county population to give the final number to judge the winner and taking a look at the latest polls bernie sanders shares a surprise lead with former vice president joe biden auntie's caleb maupin reports on why saunders could be washington's black sheep. the iowa caucuses are upon us

and monday as the 1st primary contest takes place and jaws are dropping because the front runner isn't one of the sexy centrists favored by the d.n.c. but an elderly socialist from vermont 2 is technically not even a democrat but a registered independent can imagine any woman watching last night and saying i believe bernie i think people believe has been running bernie sanders against trump would be an act of insanity so to have him just flat out say no i think wasn't wasn't nearly enough to address that for the women watching bernie can't win according to the new york times bernie sanders is surging ahead because he has an enthusiastic base of supporters who are attracted to his left of center agenda mr saunders insurance and his apparent roys in the earliest primary and caucus states reflects both the loyalty of his core support says and their conviction that mr saunders would bring the same fighting resilience to the general election even now

as mr saunders takes the lead in the 1st 2 states his opponents have not delivered a sustained argument against his candidacy and remain reluctant to take him home bernie sanders describes himself as a democratic socialist and socialism is supposed to be a dirty word in the united states but not so much anymore polls show that younger people are not so hostile to the term and are far more critical of free market policies and austerity c.n.n. is certainly no fan of bernie sanders a paid contributor is even happy to admit it i hope that my networks clear bias against bernie sanders will convince citizens of all idiology state corporate media figures overwhelmingly for sake journalism in favor of blatant activism oddly president trump has had mixed things to say about the front runner in the rival party which bernie well. it will be interesting to see how he does i think what happened to bertie. they've was that so many so i think he was taken advantage of

you read great 4 years ago and he was done treated with respect by clinton those wounds from 2016 are certainly open and sore among bernie's core supporters leaked e-mails revealed that the d.n.c. was working overtime to deprive him of the nomination it's not just those mainstream t.v. networks or the leaders of the democratic party this former assistant director of the f.b.i. actually admitted that for years this federal agency actually works to keep people like bernie sanders from taking office the electorate in some places is putting more and more progressive than self described socialist in positions one of the missions of the f.b.i. in its counterintelligence efforts was to try and keep these people out of government he wasn't joking either the f.b.i. is cointelpro program works to isolate left wing groups and keep them from gaining any influence one radical group called the socialist workers party actually sued

the f.b.i. and spent a decade in court proving that their rights were violated court proceedings revealed that the f.b.i. had planted fake news stories infiltrated the organization broken into offices and even had members arrested on false charges all in the hopes of weakening the socialists at the ballot box bernie sanders was at one point a registered elector for the socialist workers party he campaigned for them amid the harassment and legal battles so it's pretty safe to say the f.b.i. has been on d.m. for some time with so much working against him bernie sanders seems to be pulling ahead getting more donations than any other candidate and his rallies are packed full of young people who were attracted to his message of cancelling student debt and guaranteeing health care with a 2020 primaries in full swing many observers are asking themselves can bernie sanders really pull this off. r.t. new york a political analyst occurred to lady told us why the democrats are trying to shut

the. i think you see a lot of these people who within the democratic party would rather see another trump presidency than would have seen rather see a socialist or substitute describe socialist or anyone really to the left of joe biden become president if you look at the last primary campaign where bernie sanders ran against hillary clinton and there was definitely an underhanded campaign to undermine his own campaign and whether it be true superdelegates or backroom deals there was a lot that went on and that really stripped bernie sanders of any of his power and you see a lot of this playing out today and you see these random attacks that other candidates such as elizabeth warren joe biden and people who get to judge have come out attacking bernie sanders because he represents a different wing of the democratic party and you know a lot of polls show that joe biden and hillary clinton these people who feel as though the election is owed to them don't have very high approval ratings they're

not very much like because they represent the a salish meant in the in the voters' minds of the same movements that have left them behind all these years it seems bernie's camp isn't hiding its discontent with the democratic leadership either progressive an outspoken caller someone or a few to play has been facing a backlash after encouraging a crowd to busan as 2016 rival hillary clinton is a look at the incident from a campaign rally. the week when someone by the name of hillary clinton in said that nobody we're not going to we're not going to we're classy here oh i hope i. was all clinton supporters were quick to attack you one twit calling her move white male rage and massage me at the spot the chorus of one being of palestinian origin and of course a woman son as is being urged to cut loose from his campaign she did late to give an apology of sorts saying that clinton's comments got the better of her but

looking back to 2016 it didn't seem quite so bad when the shoe was on the other foot. do we hate bernie sanders now i don't hate anybody bernie could have endorsed you quicker and had credit being hurt me there's no doubt about it hear me he was in congress for yes he had one senate to support him nobody likes him nobody wants to work with him he got nothing done and then actually go yeah well free college for everyone stick in the middle and then when you say well wait a minute where you make the money going to come from then what now you against free college you are not right now what you have in the democratic party is essentially $2.00 incompatible parties one is the party of a sensually a group of people that is indistinguishable from neo conservatives these are people who want perpetual war these are people who want a lot of government spending on those traditional areas then joined to that you have a group of essentially young socialists that have a totally different agenda now the democrat moderates and the democrat socialists

they don't they're not they're not a compared they're not compatible groups they're an uneasy alliance that's going to fall apart at the slightest amount of pressure that's always going to be at each other's throats because they are not compatible in any way whatsoever. and american lawyers accuse the f.b.i. of deliberately hiding records on the murder of a democratic party employee back in 26 thing it was posthumously involved in one of the biggest scandals of the election rice seth rich was working for the democratic national committee and died after being shot in the back twice near his home in what police called a botched robbery over his wallet what phone were not taken from his person attorney and blogger type 11 judge believes the real motive is being covered up. back in 2017 i filed a freedom of information act request for all information that the f.b.i. had about seth rich and they claimed that they conducted

a reasonable search and did not find anything but they refused to search in the washington field office they refused to search the e-mail system there and just recently judicial watch published some e-mails and lo and behold there were f.b.i. e-mails sent to riches is mentioned in the header and sure enough they came from the washington field office and so that's pretty clear proof that the f.b.i. did have records and they were not releasing them and one of the best pieces of evidence that they are hiding things are those redactions there's a redaction that talks about redacting e-mails or records of investigative significance well if they're redacting it because it mat review other investigative methods or something along those lines that seems to be a concession that there is something investigative going on libya i was quick to respond to accusations of a cover up saying they carried out a reasonable. and sufficient pos the information they found on now the bureau

explained some of the data wasn't disclosed due to the nature of the information only accusations are especially sensitive which is mud has got some people thinking up conspiracy theories some of course just he was killed for leaking the d.n.c. e-mails through wiki leaks content which may have caused that or clinton a shot at being president well though this was never confirmed the founder of wiki leaks has made some controversial statements on the matter. we don't comment on her on sources and i make a suggestion about a young guy being shot in the streets of washington because we have to understand how high the stakes. in the united states will tie clevenger again believes the f.b.i. secrecy of the former d.n.c. stuff or is what makes these conspiracy theories sound real. those records would probably show that seth rich played at least some role in leaking at the democratic

national committee e-mails to wiki leaks and of course reason why that's important is for going on for years now the. d.n.c. f.b.i. the cia the obama administration have been saying that those e-mails were hacked by the russian government or russian agents and if it turns out that they have to admit not only that it was a russian agents but that they've known all along there was a russian agents well that's going to be terribly embarrassing for them. a knife wielding suspects been shot dead by police in south london authorities say 2 people were stabbed in an islamist inspired terrorist attack and the man behind it's reportedly been identified as someone with previous terror convictions. was was.

was. was. well the authorities say they're confident the suspect was 20 year old suit a sham on it was reportedly released from prison just days before after serving just hoffa's 3 year sentence for the possession and distribution of extremist material he was under active police surveillance at the time of the attack it was believed the perpetrator grabbed a knife from a shop before carrying out the frenzied assault british prime minister boris johnson's thanked the emergency services for their response and expressed sympathy to those injured wouldn't describe what they saw. really. suicide. came.

back and shot. i don't. want lighting the fire definitely. i've seen a police planed police uniform has some walk to the body and this is where they realize in he got something on it and. they came to us they say we have to leave and if they create entire street and he did the day we left the area we got reaction from chris phillips former head of the u.k.'s national counter-terrorism office. unfortunately we don't have more police in utah so i think it will become clear soon whether this person has been released from prison where there he has come back from syria and known as a fighter that way the world will know more about him and why he was considered a real threat and that will be the time when perhaps the criminal justice system

again will be held up as not protected because the chances are this person is very well known easy. been convicted or been in trouble with the police for the simple things and that's why they knew so much about. the united states environmental protection agency sparked outrage over its decision to ease chemical plant safety regulations now 14 states across the country are preparing to file lawsuits saying the rulings putting public safety at risk. the trump e.t.a.'s cutting critical safeguards against explosions poisonous gas releases and other accidents and this facility accident prevention is a top priority of the e.p.a. and this rule promotes improve coordination between chemical facilities and emergency responders and reduces unnecessary regulatory burdens. all the back in december the agency rolled back amendments to the chemical disaster rule which came into force during barack obama's time in office after a series of incidents the latest changes have been criticized for lacking proper

protection outside orders for example up and drop so to have tech safety checks on strict emergency requirements and many fear this could lead to more accidents just 2 days after the changes a huge explosion shook a chemical plant in texas. they have dropped a lot of regulations the layers to it because you go to grab a big no. no. i don't know if this particular incident is covered. one of those. regulations you did wrong. i really don't know. we stay in the state where there's not a chemical plants and oil field itself like that so you never know how close how far you might be to let it and if those rules are fallback there is no regulation

they can do whatever they want in pretty much everybody knows that big business if you have enough money to make the dispute was a regulation go to. where these people are they don't mess with the towers they mess with you know truly. want to make the world go. actually i put the word. kill career. on hold over the winter. safety has always been a concern and we know there were actors in the area to make it fun and i think you just hope it never really.

thought out international advisor offshore oil environmental risks thinks that the rule puts public safety in danger there's no question that deregulating these high risk industries such as chemical plants petroleum refineries offshore oil and gas operations increases the risk of public safety risk environmental risk and catastrophic risks to the people living around these industrial activities and that's in nobody's interest it's not in the public's interest certainly and it's not in the industry interest either because of the enormous price tag that comes with that i suspect that political operatives at the top of the e.p.a. which are directly from industry and the trump administration would suggest that. that it will improve and improve. public safety and such like that by reducing regulatory burdens and such like that that's absurd if they can't meet these very reasonable public safety and environmental regulatory standards and then they're

not doing the best safest technology standard that we know we need to hold them to so it's it's an absurd contention by the political operatives that the e.p.a. still to come gender medical treatment for minors is in the spotlight across you more of states and america would look at that story after this short break. good politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. want to be. too great to be crooks that's what the 43 of them all can't be good. i'm interested in the why is it.

seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to say proud just being educated and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. pretty. much the program the european union funds are being harvested by an unexpected source soft investigation has claimed this is silly and mafia has been defaulting

the block of millions of euros through far beyond subsidies so let me ask you looks into the mobs 21st century tactics. reg's it may be officially done and dusted but for the even the headache of trying to balance its books without the u. case contribution is only just beginning no one area that has been earmarked is farm subsidies to support agriculture and livestock breeding at a cost of around $60000000000.00 euro every year it's the biggest expense for the e.u. and while farmers are up in arms at the me hint their subsidies could be about to change it seems the eve has been accidentally blowing the budget for the last decade not on farmers but would you believe it the mafia. example and a farmer who's also

a neighbor asked me to lease out my land to him that would allow him to obtain e.u. community funds and to grace's flock obviously i replied no a week later the house you see behind me was heavily damaged by arson. when the if we wanted to bring about an eco village community a landowner an elderly gentleman land and redock so one evening an identified people sneaked onto the property and cut all the beams on the roof making it unfit for use then they destroyed the whole property by setting everything on fire we kind of join the dots together and realised that we were being targeted by the mafia they were interested in our land because farmers receive money based on the amount of land they hold so the more land you have the more you can ask for european funds.

the problem was so bad at times honest farmers stopped a bidding finning land giving the mafia. free reign to suck up any other land could be used to claim subsidies and as e.u. subsidies are based on possession of land rather than what's produced on the land there was no need for the mafia to do anything but to sit back and count the money so much you clowns could rent land for next to nothing and claim subsidies at a much higher rate ok so you think surely some technocratic usually visits the farms and castes annoy you what's going on right. local authority should develop their own systematically reviews to check up on european funds besides a judicial one currently this review is carried out only on paper but actually there are not any real checks on the funds and whether they arrive in the territory . in some cases the forward was a brazen applications were made for land not owned by the applicant others were

made for people who were not even alive and although the scam has not been unveiled with 94 arrests so far only 2 matthew families have been implicated the problem could be much worse it's also clear that this type before does not restrict it to just sicily in italy similar claims about matthew gangs fleecing the e.u. have been made in slovakia and romania it's thought these investigations in sicily could now lead to changes elsewhere in the e.u. but many will be questioning why it's taken so long for this type of fraud to be unearthed and why the e.u. has been allowing itself to be milked for so long. r.t. paris. the u.s. state of south dakota is on the verge of passing a bill that could lead to the criminalization of children being given gender altering hormones if the state senate agrees the new regulations would mean hefty

fines for doctors who fail to comply is one of the lawmakers behind the explained why he thinks it's necessary. the solution for children's identification with the opposite sex isn't to poison their bodies with mega doses of the wrong hormones to chemically or surgically castrate and sterilize them or to remove healthy breast and reproductive organs the solution is compassionate care and that doesn't include catastrophic lee and irreversibly altering their bodies are suitable to have been proposed in other states as well which would ban gender altering surgery and hormone treatment being performed on minors the punishment for doctors could range anywhere from $2000.00 fine to 15 years behind bars and alleys initiatives though have met with opposition of course as well according to some estimates around $150000.00 teenagers in the arctic states identify as transgender those opposing the bell say such regulations would adversely affect their quality of life still

lawmakers across multiple states are pushing for the bills to be enacted and put into law we heard from both sides of the debate with media commentator and host gina loudon and political activist anthony rogers right. we do know for a fact that gender identity dysphoria is a medical condition which has been accepted by the american medical in american psychiatric association so these kinds of bills that are very specious and insouciance aren't really about protecting children as much as they are about not protecting transgender people folks who have some sort of gender identity crisis do need counseling there's no question about that and we've known that for a long time counseling can have many of the same benefits as hormonal therapies that are much less life changing so again we have to ask ourselves are we really doing what is human chain when we as adults are trying to perhaps impose what is

our politically correct interpretation on teenagers who are going through something that is perhaps only temporary i think that does go actually teach the way that ability for parents in children and youth in minors to make decisions that best suit them and at the same time we can be putting them at more risk for mental health a woman's as well as physical ailments later on in life children or adults who transition their gender tend to have a 41 percent higher tendency to commit suicide this is a very disturbing number and so that's already in play but then if they go ahead with the gender transit transition surgery they tend to have a 19 times higher rate of suicide if we go ahead and facilitate that is it really compassionate if it's increasing your suicide rate this is

unfortunately and it's by conservative and right when hundreds and their acolytes to further dehumanised in general people in the old b t q i a community as a whole it's extremely unfortunate that the right wing orthodoxy which preaches america. values of freedom and liberty and justice for all don't seem to believe that so i don't think that this is this is anything to do with protection this has to do with oppression and suppression of people whose lifestyles that they don't agree with. isn't news from around the world our brief start in france where yellow vests purchased the sentiments of violence in the south of the country over the weekend. clashes were focused around the central square in the city of mumbai where a 1000 people stood their ground for around 4 hours police used tear gas to go out and also by 20 want to arrest a protest movements been active for $64.00 weeks now originally against fuel tax

hikes ronnie's become a broader platform anti-government demonstrations. a large turkish military convoy has moved into northwest syria as the mascot's continues a renewed offensive against militants there dozens of armored vehicles fuel tankers and personnel carriers could be seen in libya is the last militant stronghold with the syrian army having significant success in the fight there since tuesday turkey's president though says the syrian army's actions are in violation of a cease fire agreement brokered by ankara and moscow last year has warned of possible military force. syrian tango continues on r.t. documentary shuttle and for u.k. viewers afshin rattansi presents a brics a special with going underground.