enemy of the establishment bernie sanders surges up the polls ahead of monday's key democratic caucus in iraq that despite facing attacks from the media for his socialist. police shoot a knife wielding suspect in a terrible incident he was under police surveillance at the time and injured 2 people. to get his hands on 10000000 euros of e.u. agricultural funding as an investigation claims to reveal the criminal tactics used to pressure local farmers. 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. and public fear rises 14 states in america are set to battle the

country's environmental protection agency officer safety regulations for chemical plants. from what you are to international law daniel hawkins thanks for joining us the program this one. now monday marks the beginning of the road to the white house for us democrats can the battle in the state of iowa that's that's proving influential in deciding who runs for president as the candidates jostle for a shot at the oval office outsider and socialist bernie sanders is leading the way in terms of donors and joint front runner in the polls the iowa caucuses the start of primaries and usually a litmus test for what is to come in the future bill and hillary clinton went from victory and i were to run as democratic candidates and barack obama. as well now

ahead of the vote later this monday here is what the latest polls indicate bernie sanders shares a surprise lead with former vice president joe biden leaving behind center as hopes of people to go and elizabeth warren in last place here caleb maupin reports on why washington may be weary of sourness 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 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 snake 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 written 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. political analyst because it's a little of the list why the democrats are trying to show. i think you see a lot of these people who within the democratic party would rather see another trump presidency than would see 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 it seems bernie's camp isn't hiding its discontents with the democratic leadership why the progressive outspoken congress on what to shoot or play by has been facing a backlash after encouraging a crowd to busan as 2016 rival hillary clinton is a look at the incident from the campaign rally. week when someone by the name of hillary clinton said that nobody when i got a bow we're not going to work laughing here oh no oh my god all turned and supporters of

a quick to attack on twitter calling him move white male rage on missile journey that the spot the congress on being of palestinian origin and of course a woman saw him as being and 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 looking back to 216 it didn't seem quite so bad when the shoe was on the other foot. do we hate bernie sanders no i don't hate anybody bernie could have endorsed you quicker and kind of 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 law 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. life wielding suspects been shot dead by police in south london authorities say 2 people were stabbed in an islamist inspired terrorist attack or the man behind it's reported on the fight as someone with previous terror convictions. was

was. was. was. with the authorities say they're confident the suspect was 20 year old sudesh he was reportedly released from prison just days before after serving just half of his 3 year sentence for possession of distribution of extremist material it was an 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 u.k. prime minister boris johnson has thanked the emergency services for their response and expressed sympathy to those injured when this is the scribes what they saw at the scene. so really. it's like us. under scrutiny. and in the.

other. and. then of that i can show the it was no. longer living on the street and definitely the only way i've seen it probably is a plane that police uniform has and walked to the body and this is where they realizing he got something on it and. they came to us they say we have to leave and if they create entire street and we did leave the area and left the area we got reaction earlier from chris phillips the former head of the u.k.'s national counterterrorism office. unfortunately we don't have more police in you just 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 his decision to use chemical plant safety regulations now 14 states across the country are preparing to file a lawsuit saying the rulings putting public safety at risk. to trump e.v.a.'s cutting critical safeguards against explosions 5 poisonous gas releases and other accidents and this facility's 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 well back in december the agency rolled back amendments to the chemical disaster rule which came

into force sure in 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 have been dropped so too have tech safety checks and strict emergency requirements many fear this could lead to more accidents just 2 days after those changes a huge explosion shook a chemical plant in texas. i they have dropped along with regulation in the last 2 or 3 years because you go to grover because not you know. this particular you should be in your cobra movie the closing of the regulations you date dropped i really don't know if. we stay in a state where there's not a chemical plants and oil fields and stuff like that so you never know how close or how far he might be to get it and if those rules are pulled back there is no

regulation they can do whatever they want and he pretty much everybody knows that a big business if you have enough money to make stuff disappear or so regulation going to. the way these people are they don't mess with our dollars they mess with the so truly billions of dollars so i mean. mining made the world go around. actually to apply for the worst the coldest to kill period why you should. know when your safety has always been 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 our international advisor offshore oil environmental risks thinks 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 to public safety risk environmental risk and catastrophic risk to the 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 to interest 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 trumpet 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 and 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 gen the medical treatment from on is in the spotlight across numerous states in america when it came to the story after this break. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go on to be press which is what the before 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested in the water.

let's talk about 20th century socialism this is when governments made mal investments and then they bailed out those mal investments and so the economy went bankrupt versus 21st century capitalism this is when banks make malinvestment they when they go bad they bail out the malinvestment and the cycle continues until the economy goes bust and those who are are. going to. the international european union funds are being harvested one unexpected source of investigation is claiming this is silly and mafias been defaulting the block of

millions of euros through fall the subsidies show that they've been skewed looks into the mobs 21st century tactics. drugs 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 hint their 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 a week later the house you see behind me was heavily damaged by arson. in that if we wanted to bring about an eco village community a landowner an elderly gentleman low dose of land and redox 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. for you reign to suck up any other land could be used to claim subsidies and as you 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 asian revisits the farms and castes and all you know what's going on right. local authority should develop their own systematic refused to check up on european funds the size of 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 fraud 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 of fraud is not restricted 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 look 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 here's one of the lawmakers behind liberal 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 breasts and reproductive organs the solution is compassionate care and that doesn't include catastrophic lee and irreversibly altering their bodies or similar bills have been proposed in other states to which would ban gender altering surgery and hormone treatment being performed on minors punishment for doctors could range anywhere from $2000.00 fine to 15 years behind bars with these initiatives that have been met with opposition of course as well according to some estimates around $150000.00 teenagers in the united states identify as transgender those opposing the bill say such regulations would adversely affect their quality of life and

still lawmakers in multiple states are pushing ahead to enact those bills into law we heard from both sides in the bait 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 buildings that are bigger species than 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 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 this bill 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 could be putting them at more risk for mental health elements as well as a 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 transistor 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 of their acolytes to

further dehumanised in general people in the o.g.t.t. why 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. although some news from around the world in brief now starting in france where again of us protest descended into violence in the south of the country over the weekend. clashes were focused around the central square in the city of one pele where a 1000 people stood their ground for around 4 hours riot police used tear gas and water cannon also made 20 want to arrest the protest movements been active for

$64.00 weeks now originally against fuel tax hikes but the rally has become a broader platform for anti government demonstrations. a large turkish military convoy has been seen moving into northern syria as the massacres continues a renewed offensive against militants there dozens of armored vehicles tankers and carriers could be seen as the last militant stronghold with the syrian army having significant success in the fight there since tuesday but turkey's president says the syrian army's actions are in violation of a cease fire agreement brokered by anchor and moscow last year and has warned of possible military force. dozens of migrants plastered posters to a fence on the us mexico border before burning in effigy of president donald trump on sunday protests marked a 172 years since the signing of the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo which ended the mexican war and expanded the size of u.s. illustrators also demanded that washington bridge turn mexican territory lost in

the treaty. and finally condemning america's peace plan for the israel palestine conflict hundreds have gathered outside the u.s. embassy in lebanon donald trump revealed the plan last week to a wave of criticism for being too biased in favor of israel would give the country total control of jerusalem the palestinian borders and other privileges some at the rally tried to break through the embassy security fences while others roof stones offices. up next cross-talk examines what's next to a post bricks that were written as well as u.s. ukraine relations are back in 31. it's with that i just. haven't is later system i. just.

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