league. enemy of the us establishment bernie sanders surges up the polls ahead of monday's democratic caucus in spite facing attacks from the media for his socialist. in london police shoot dead a knife wielding suspect in a terror related incidents he was on the police surveillance at the time and injured 2 people. also the italian mafia gets its hands on 10000000 euros or e.u. funding as an investigation claims to reveal the criminal tactics used to pressure local farmers. then they destroyed the whole property by setting everything on fire we kind of join the dots together and realized that we were being targeted by the mafia. and public fear rises 14 states in america all the countries environmental

protection agency after the safety regulations for chemical plants. live from moscow h.q. thanks for joining us and our teams rational this one. welcome to the program. now monday marks the beginning of the road to the white house for us democrats can get it ready to do battle in the state of iowa a caucus vote that's proven influential in deciding who runs for president as the candidate stressful 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 now the iowa caucuses the start of primaries and usually a litmus test for what's about to come later bill and hillary clinton went on to victory and i want to run as a democrat candidates and barack obama as well well ahead of the vote later this

monday here's what the latest polls indicate bernie sanders shares a surprise lead far left over there with the former vice president joe biden he's joint on percentage they've left behind a centrist hopefuls go to gate and elizabeth warren just falling at 16 percent here artie's caleb moore been reports on why washington may be weary of sanders 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

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 so you can 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 he really 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 worked 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 and what is going on with the kurds a lady told us one of the democrats was wrong. i think you see a lot of these people who which in the democratic party would rather see another trump presidency than would see 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 the recession only 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 represented a sound which meant in the end of the voters mind the same movements that have left them behind all these years and seems bernie's can present hiding is this content with a democratic only survivor from less of an outspoken congresswoman rashida ploughboy has been facing a backlash after encouraging a crowd to vote sanders 2016 rival hillary clinton is a look at the incident from a campaign rally week when someone by the name of hillary clinton in said that nobody we're not going to go we're not going to we're classy here out how about bar

was clinton supporters are quick to attack players on twitter calling her move white male rage and massage any of this white the cover of someone being of palestinian origin and of course a woman saw him as being urged to cut loose from his campaign she did later give an apology of sorts same 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 here i mean 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 stick in the middle and then when you say well wait a minute where the money going to come from then what about 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 democrats 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. in life wielding suspects been shot dead by police in south london authorities say 2 people were stabbed in an islamist inspired terrorist attack but the man behind it's reportedly been identified as someone with previous convictions.

was was. was. will view authorities say the suspect 20 year old satish a man was released from jail just days before he would serve just half of his 3 year sentence for the possession of distribution of extremist material he was under active police surveillance at the time of the attack according to london police a man was wearing a fake suicide vest when he was shot dead it's believed the perpetrator grabbed a knife from a shop before carrying out the frenzied assault british prime minister boris johnson has thanked the emergency services for their response and expressed sympathy to those injured and witnesses describe what they saw at the scene of the attack. really.

understood. them in the. back and show the it was. the wrong guy laying on the floor and definitely the road where i've seen a police a plane that police uniform has and walk to the body and this is where they realize in you've got something on it and this very big team to us they say we have to leave and if they create entire street and we did leave the area i left the area and we had over reaction from chris phillips a former head of the u.k.'s national counterterrorism office. unfortunately we don't have more clues in you just 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 or been in trouble with the police for these sort of 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 lawsuits saying the ruling is putting public safety at risk. the tramp e.b.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 back in december

the agency rolled back amendments to the chemical disaster rule which came into force sure of barack obama's time in office after a series of incidents the latest changes have criticized have been criticized for lacking proper protection outside audit for example have been dropped so too have tech safety checks and strict emergency regulations many fear all lead to more accidents just 2 days after the changes a huge explosion shook a chemical plant in texas. they have dropped along with regulation in the last 2 or 3 years because you get the brother but there's not enough. i don't know if this particular here should be in your cupboard or those in the closing of. the regulations you gave wrong. i really don't know if. we stay in

a state where there is nothing but 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 of pool but there is no regulation they can do whatever they want it pretty much everybody knows that a big business if you have enough money to make stuff disappear for so regulation go. away these people they don't mess with because they mess with you know truly billions of dollars so i mean. mining made the world go around. that actually to the plight of those who were the cold chill period ploy but. you know when you know safety has always been a concern and we know the risk factors in the area to make it one of those things

he just hope it never really happened. and what should an international advisor on offshore order 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 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 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 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 be 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. so i had this hour the latest developments from syria is that in the province where troops have been killed during operations without notifying russia or syria of attack they would think that the reaction after right.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond short and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back to the program russia's reconciliation center in syria has said that troops have crossed into the syrian province of idlib without notification 4 soldiers were killed in an attack by syrian government forces that's according to ankara for more details causes in the studio to give us the latest donna was this was an incident that went against previous arrangements previous agreements in turkey responded. that's correct and like you said the reconciliation center reported that there was no notification for turkey's incursion into the escalation zone where they very came under fire by syrian government forces now moscow has reported that there were several injuries on the turkish side which are now being evacuated and the report also says that as for syrian president positions they did

not come under fire. the airspace over the deescalation zone is being constantly controlled by russian aerospace forces planes did not violate the syrian state border and there were no attacks on syrian troops. and the turkish president just gave us his reaction and he had quite a different version of events he said that for turkish soldiers were killed and another 9 were wounded in the province where the syrian government is fighting the final stronghold of militants there but also said that the turkish military retaliated to this with efik f. 16 airstrikes on 46 syrian military positions he also claims that between 30 and 35 syrian servicemen were neutralized and that's in direct contradiction to what the russian report said and he had some strong strong words for words from moscow to boo. i want to tell the russian authorities that our interlocutor here is

not you but the syrian regime and do not stand in our way. and the turkish media has also been reporting on this but they say that only 6 syrian soldiers were killed so we've got a lot of conflicting reports right now but of course we'll bring you the latest information as it becomes available little goals there with the latest on that incident in northern syria thanks for the update. the european union funds are being harvested by an unexpected source soft an investigation has claimed this is silly in mafia has been defrauding the block of millions of euros through farm subsidies but it was good looks into the mobile 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 that evil 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 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 joined the docks 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. plans for your 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 i don't much higher rate ok so you think surely some technocratic revisits the farms and

castes annoy you what's going on right. local authorities should develop their own systematically reviews 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 forward was a brazen applications were made for land not owned by the applicant are those were made for people who were not even alive and although the scam has not been bailed 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 war does not restrict it 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 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. us 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 and 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 bill explained why you think that'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 as well works for banned gender altering surgery and hormone treatment being performed on mine is a punishment for doctors could range anywhere from a $2000.00 fine to 15 years behind bars now these initiatives though have been met with opposition as well according to some estimates around $150000.00 teenagers in the u.s. identify as transgender or those opposing the bill say such regulations would adversely affect their quality of life still lawmakers in multiple states are pushing ahead to enact the bills into law we heard from both sides in the debate with media commentator and host you know loud 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 that 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 and their acolytes to further dehumanised in general people in the o.g.t.t. can lie a community as a whole it's extremely unfortunate that the right wing orthodoxy which preaches a mirror. 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. some news from around the world in brief now starting in france where

yellow vest protests the send it into violence in the south of the country over the weekend. the clashes were focused around a central square in the city of moore probably a where $1000.00 people stood their ground for around 4 hours what police used tear gas and water cannon also making 20 want to arrest the protest movement has been active for $64.00 weeks now originally against fuel tax hikes but the rally has become a broader platform for anti government demonstrations. dozens of migrants plastered posters to a fence on the u.s. mexican border before burning an effigy of president donald trump on sunday the protest marked 172 years since the signing of the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo which ended the mexican war and expanded the size of the united states demonstrations also demand that washington return mexican territory lost in the $1848.00 treaty.

finally condemning america's peace plan for israel palestine conflict hundreds have gathered outside the u.s. embassy in lebanon revealed a plan last week to a wave of criticism for being too biased to israel it will give the country total control of jerusalem the palestinian borders and other privileges at the rally try to break through the embassy security fences while others stones at officers. the documentary channel examines the role of art in conflict zones next in syria we're back in 30 minutes with the latest. live. the russian state television propaganda machine propaganda outlet propaganda tools we are in an information fork.

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