democratic hopefuls ready themselves the 1st meaningful vote on the road to the white house. of being socialist bernie sanders shares a lead in the polls. police shoot dead a knife wielding suspect in a terror incident he was under police surveillance at the time and injured 2 people . also the italian mafia get his hands on 10000000 euros of e.u. funding an investigation claims that. the excuse to pressure local farmers. they destroyed the whole property by setting everything on fire we kind of joined the dots together and realized that we were being targeted by the mafia. public

fear rises states in america but all the countries environmental protection agency after safety regulations for chemical plants. from moscow thanks for joining us and all of the international hawkins welcome to the program. now monday marks the beginning of the road to the white house for us democrats at least the candidates are ready to do battle in the state of iowa a caucus vote that's proven influential in deciding who runs for president and as the candidate stressful for a shot the oval office and socialist bernie sanders is leading the way in terms of donors and joint front runner in the polls for the iowa caucuses as thoughts of primaries and usually a litmus test for what's to come bill and hillary clinton went on from victory and

i want to run as democrats candidates. as well they were head of the vote monday here's what the latest polls indicate bernie sanders shares a surprise lead with former vice president joe biden and then left behind centrist hopefuls. with lauren as well. reports on why washington might be wearing off as a victory. 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 it

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 early 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 are 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. for the gladness to go to lady told us why the democrats are trying to shut the door on this. 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 substance describe socialist or anyone really to the left of your 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 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 savage meant in the in the voters' minds of the same movements that have left them behind all these years and it seems barney is hiding its discontent with the democratic leadership by the progressive an outspoken congresswoman or a shooter has been facing a backlash after encouraging a crowd to busan his 2016 rival hillary clinton is a look at that incident from a campaign rally. the week when someone by the name of hillary clinton in said that nobody when i got a bow we're not going to work laughing here oh no oh my god

all clinton supporters were quick to attack the label on twitter calling white male range missile jenny the spot the cover of someone being of palestinian origin and of course of woman saunders's being used to cut loose play from his campaign she did lay to give an apology of sorts saying that clinton's comments got the better of her looking back to 2016 though 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 that kind of being aren't me there is no doubt about it hear me he was in congress well 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 yeah it's taken a while and then when you say well wait a minute it will make the money going to come from then what have you against free college you know 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. a knife wielding suspect there's been a shot dead by police in south london or 2 people were stabbed in an islamist inspired terror attack the man behind it has reportedly been identified as someone with previous terror convictions.

was . was. was. there authorities say they're confident the suspect was 20 year old. reportedly released from prison just days before after serving just off his 3 year sentence for possession and distribution of extremist material he was either active police surveillance at the time of the attack it's believed the perpetrator grabbed a knife from a shop before carrying out the frenzied assault the british prime minister boris johnson's thanked the emergency services for their response and expressed simply to those injured witnesses described what they saw. was really.

understood. and they know the. number to. them of that i can show. it was. long idling on the street and definite road where i've seen a police plane that police uniform has and walked to the body and this is where they realizing he got something on it and this where they came to us they say we have to leave and if they create entire street and we did leave the area i left the area already got reaction from chris phillips a former head of the u.k.'s national counter-terrorism office. unfortunately we don't have more clues in use of what i have but so i think it will become clear soon whether this person has been released from prison where there he is come back from syria 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 all been in trouble with the police for these little things and that's why they knew so much about a. united states environmental protection agency has sparked outrage over its decision to ease chemical plant safety regulations now 14 states across the country are preparing to file a lawsuit saying the ruling is putting public safety at risk for trampy e.p.a.'s cutting critical safeguards against explosions 5 poisonous gas releases and other accidents and this facilities 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 of back in december

the agency rolled back amendments to the chemical disaster rule which came into forth during barack obama's time in office after a series of incidents latest changes have been criticized for lacking proper protection outside audit have been dropped so too have tech safety checks and emergency requirements many fear this could lead to more accidents and just 2 days after those changes a huge explosion a shock a chemical plant in texas. i . dropped along with regulations in the last 2 or 3 years because you go to grover but there's no you know. i don't know if this particular you should be in your cobra movie the closing of. the regulations you did wrong. i really don't know. we stay in a state where there's nothing but chemical plants and oil fields and stuff like

that so you never know how close or how far you might be to get it and if those rules of pool but there is no regulation they can do whatever they want you pretty much everybody knows that a big business if you have enough money to make stuff disappear for so regulation go to. the way these people are they don't mess with the dollars they mess with you know truly billions of dollars so i mean. mining made the world go around. actually to apply purple those were the colors to kill period point but. you know when you're you know safety has always been and a concern and we know the risk factors in the area to make it one of those things you just hope it never really.

should start on our own international advisor offshore oil environmental risks thinks that the rule puts everyone 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 risk 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 centrist either because of the enormous price tag that comes with that i suspect the 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 at the e.p.a. still to come agenda medical treatment from manas is in the spotlight across numerous things in america when it came to that story after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic. only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and

talk. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. to be like to be close it's like them before 3 of the same people. interested in the waters of. the program and european union funds are being harvested by an unexpected source

often investigation has claimed this is cillian murphy has been the fraud in the block of millions of euros through farmland subsidies shout out demons kulaks into the mobs 21st century tactics. rigs 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 the 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 a hint there subsidies could be about to change it seems that evil has been accidentally blowing the budget for the last decade not on farmers but would you believe it the mafia.

example in 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 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. and redox on one evening and 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. for you rain to suck up any other land could be used to claim subsidies and as e.u. subsidies are based on possession of land roll them 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 i don't much higher rate ok so you think surely some technocratic haitian revisits the farms and castes annoyer of what's going on right. local authority should develop their own system matthew refused 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 restricted to just sicily italy similar claims about maffia 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 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 a hefty fines for doctors who fail to comply is one of the lawmakers behind the bill 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. a similar bill it has been proposed in other states as well which would ban gender altering surgery and hormone treatment being performed on mine as a punishment for doctors could range from 2000 dollars to 15 years behind bars now these initiatives that have been met with opposition of course as well according to some estimates around 150000 teenagers in the united states identify as transgender

should get the graphics up there those opposing the bills say such regulations would adversely affect their record quality of life still lawmakers in multiple states are pushing ahead to enact the bills 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 the 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 and are much less life changing so again we have to ask ourselves are we really doing

what is humane 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 transister 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 in 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 has anything to do with protection this has to do with oppression and suppression of people whose lifestyles that they don't agree with. but to some news from around the world and refile starting in france where you'll have us protest descended into violence in the south of the country over the weekend. well clashes were focused around the central square in the city of montpellier

where a 1000 people stood their ground for around 4 hours riot police used tear gas and water cannon also making $21.00 arrests for the protest movement has been active around 60 for weeks now originally against fuel tax hikes rally though has become a broader platform for government protests. a large turkish military convoys move into north northwest syria as the massacres continues a renewed offensive against militants there dozens of armored vehicles fuel tankers and armored personnel carriers could be seen in the last militant stronghold with the syrian army having significant success in the fight there since tuesday so president though says the syrian army's actions are in violation of a cease fire agreement brokered last year and has warned of possible military force . in mexico dozens of migrants plastered. on the fence over the us mexico border before burning in effigy of donald trump on

sunday a protest marked 172 years since the signing of the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo which ended the mexican war and expanded the size of the u.s. demonstrators also demanded the washington return to mexican territory lost in the 1848 treaty. up next time he was going on the ground and for all u.k. views its right to get back in 30 minutes with the latest. russian television propaganda machine propaganda however probably we are getting information. change the world. now you tube videos that. are such a long neck. brushes

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