that has nothing to do with jobs don't. have the. enemy of the us bernie sanders surges all the polls ahead of monday's democratic caucus in iowa the spied facing attacks from the media for his socialist style that's. coming up in the program there's anger in the u.k. as it emerges the man behind some of these knife attack in london served time in prison for islamist terror related offenses but was released before he completed his sentence he was shot dead after wounding 2 people. at a hong kong dramatically tightens border controls with china in an attempt to halt the spread of the coronavirus stop short of a complete closure we hear from

a journalist in the chinese to be which is the epicenter of the. around the clock across the world this is our team international from the team myself you know neal a little welcome. monday marks the beginning of the road to the white house for us democrats candidates are readying to do battle in the state of iowa caucus vote that's proven influential in deciding who runs for president as the candidates joshua for a shot at the oval office socialist bernie sanders is leading the way in terms of donors and there's no the joint front runner in the polls know the iowa caucus is the start of the primaries and usually a litmus test really for what's to come bill and hillary clinton went on from victory in iowa to run as the democrats' candidate and barack obama too under head

of the vote later this monday here's what the latest polls indicate. bernie sanders now shares a surprise lead with former vice president joe biden who's leaving behind the other centrist opponents over here progressives as well is about warrant. and has been reporting on why washington might be wary of a sunder spectrum. 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 on 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'll be interesting to see how he does i think what happened to bertie. 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 for the 2020 primaries in full swing many observers are asking themselves can bernie sanders really pull this off. r.t. new york or just staying with this story political commentator dakota literally told us why he believes that democrats are trying to shut the door and bernie sanders. 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 a 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 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 good a 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' mind of the same movements that have left them behind all these years. it seems the bernie count business hiding its discontent with the democratic leadership either progressive spoken congresswoman rashida to lead has been facing a buck lush after encouraging a crowd to sunday's 26000 rival hillary clinton the week when someone by the name of hillary clinton in said that nobody we're not going to we're not going to work

classy here oh my. god the clinton supporters were quick to attack to leap on twitter calling her move white male rage a missile jenny despite the congresswoman being of palestinian origin of course a woman saunders is being urged to cut loose to leap from his campaign she did later give an apology of sorts saying that clinton's comments on the campaign rally golf the better of her but looking back to 2060 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 code have endorsed you quicker i don't credit being hurt me there is 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 ohio and then when you say well wait a minute where the money going to come from then what about you against free college you are not right now what you have in the democratic party is essentially

2 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 they're doing the programme all night police in the u.k. of reveal nothing behind sunday's knife attack inside london had served time in prison for islamist terror related offenses was being closely monitored by the

authorities the assailant wounded 2 people in the assault before he was shot dead quickly by armed officers shall be at risk dusty tells us more. well terror has now come to the streets of london for a 2nd time in just 2 months and already i saw have claimed responsibility for the incident that occurred on stratton's high street just last night but there were similarities between this latest incident and the last terror attack that happened on london bridge one of which is of course the very fact that both assailants were wearing a hoax device on their chest before being shot dead by police officers at the scene the 2nd month potentially more controversial is in fact that both of them were released early from prison for serving sentences related to terror offenses now the government is already outlining its response to the latest incident but birth johnson has already reiterated that he wants to bring forward legislation to stop and prevent this early release from prison for convicted terrorists but auggie

isn't stresses that it could be quite complex to do so the problems we have with reeducating and reclaiming of rehabilitating people who succumb to islam is a very very hard and very talk and it can happen but the instances of success are really very few and we need to be frank about that and we need to think about how we handle that you know in our criminal justice system so 20 year old man he only served half of his sentence it was a full sentence of 3 and a half years but he was in fact released terror offenses including possessing and distributing bomb making material now his mother though argues that her son was actually radicalized within the prison system and therefore the questions are raised when it comes to that but other issues too including the fact that at the time of the incident a man was actually under close police surveillance in fact 2 officers were trailing

behind him so many argue how could this incident have happened under police watch well london he says that immediate urgent answers need to be questioned by the government. so that's a question i've got for from for the government to ration to what they're doing to keep us safe i'll give you some examples we know that there are 70 or people who have been convicted of a terra fence and have been released from prison what the government doing to make sure that they are not a danger to the public with roughly speaking children plus people convicted of terrorism in prisons nell what are we doing to make sure they're being punished and reformed rather than be the recipients of radicalization where prisons are universe of crime rather than proper probably be but its ideas are quite worried erosion to the government's response but well police have been searching the hospital where it is believed that the stratum attacker has been living over the past few days that many questions have come into play particularly how a convicted terrorist could cause such an atrocity just days after being released

from prison but of course this latest incident is just one of many over the last few years that have been carried out by a salience known by the intelligence and security services. of terrorism expert dr david a low things a lot of countries are facing the issue of radicalization from within prisons. seem

to be deeply get more and more deeply in deal with the islamist narrative. he was sentenced for. it is because conviction for with you was released but you that there is an issue when it is a big concern in the u.k. prisons i think not just the you can think of the states out of this too we've seen it in france we've seen it in other states where there is a degree of radicalization going on within the presence of all 3 parties they do they may want to a point the finger at each other but they've all had a hand in the culpability of this and it does need reform and not some individuals who are terrorists it was so deeply imbued. to how this sort of ridiculous situation as we seen with. quite clearly was was was keen to carry out attacks he's been out for a week and he's in the close police surveillance that shows you the risk that they were showing him in there's a 3000 individuals who are specified interest on all of those risks or risk

assessments is made. with figures continuing to grow over the spread of the coronavirus hong kong has tightened border controls with china stop short of banning all travel to and from the mainland the cities chief executive carried out they following advice for the territories and. like. i strongly advise home clear is a defense to friend from going to places where there is an outbreak including the main that would elicit absolutely necessary. while a would based journalist where the corona virus was 1st recorded gave us a rare glimpse into how the chinese city state is coping with the spread of the disease. given the potential human to human transmission there's no public transportation in the epicenter of the current of ours the city is situated by younger river near where i'm standing and locals may take ferries from one side to

the other side and commute by buses taxis and subways then and we can read a notice saying at a stop each of the ferry began at $950.00 on january 23rd in there is no definite for the recovery who has health authorities has issued a travel ban to album tourist groups and vehicles entering and leaving the city will be subject to checkpoints where the temperature of passengers will also be monitored there has been no outdoor entertainment over the chinese new year which is absolutely unprecedented of the traditional holiday was extended by a week that many non essential sectors have now prolonged the holidays even further shopping malls restaurants and cinemas that orginally busy during this period are all closed but it's a very different story for hospitals here their medical staff have been working around the clock and are in dire need of resources over the past week we've seen 60

medical teams from across the country featuring 6000 personnel arrive in the city this includes teams dispatched from the military the dell the actual head says china is setting a new benchmark in its response to the outbreak he praised the speed with which china detected the outbreak isolated the virus sequenced the genome and shared it. with the organization meanwhile we've also seen a considerable halt in international airliners flying into will harm whereas airports both in china and in about 70 countries have introduced measures to restrict travelers from the city and this all comes despite opposing travel restrictions among the patients i interviewed a nurse who was effective with the current of ours during her work and she has now recovered and will go back to work soon another nurse i spoke to quarantine herself for a week meaning she was unable to breast feed her 6 month old son fortunately her

husband was able to contact breast milk donors through social media and after receiving support the men said he felt there is power in unity and love so amid the crisis there are still touching moments in the virus city. this is our to international after the shortest of breaks we took a look out of the alleged attempt by the italian mafia to defraud the e.u. of millions of euro.

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

just approaching 20 minutes into the our welcome back european union funds are being harvested and unexpected source in the investigation us claim the sicilian mafia has been defrauding the block of millions of euro through. charlotte dubinsky has been looking in to 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 now 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 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 of land and redox so 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. 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 asian revisits the farms and castes and all you know what's going on right. local authority should develop their own systematic 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 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 italy similar claims about mafia 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. proclaimed it deal of the century which was meant to be a solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is now a fishing rejection from islamic countries the organization of islamic cooperation which has $57.00 member countries that will not support the u.s. proposal palestinian journalist rami alma garri explains more. the plan by by us a president different from doesn't look for doesn't look good for poorer peoples concerned to be accepted as the organization of islamic regime and rejected this a plan the organization of islamic cooperation calls on all member states not engage with this plan or to cooperate with the us administration in implementing it in any form planned rejection came 2 days after the legal therapist hating cairo can rejected the same plan coalinga describing it that it does not meet the

minimum rights of the palestinian people iran which was not being allowed to take part in this meeting of the corporation organization had blamed the studio arabia for not allowing the raid in the really did engage in to take part in there and the islamic corporations leading. the governments of saudi arabia has prevented the iranian delegation from participating in the meeting to examine the deal of the century plan at the headquarters of the organization of islamic cooperation regarding the planet that was presented by the president the tram does giving the israeli severity over. security control over the palestinian territories and it allows israel to the teens of earlier to exclude over jerusalem within what the united states says undivided the character of israel which is

jerusalem actually the plan also gives israel the upper hand in controlling the security of the of the palestinians in these in the palestinian territories and also gives and offers palestinians a package of $50000000000.00 u.s. dollars for the investment at the grassroots level palestinians including factions political factions also. rejected that plan and accusing their american administration all. in favor all for their. let's cross live to london and speak to middle east expert abdel bari atwan on their sabel welcome so this deal of the century has not been rejected by the organization of islamic cooperation and the arab league as well why such wary

unanimity in that grouping to this well i believe you know when you look at the day's. deal you will find it very very out and the palestinian as spiritu. writes this is the better complete leave it to sleep so you should kill the peace process get the palestinian up out of. what used to happen in south africa and see. which the modern 30 percent of those and exceed the jordan valley where the water of the sources are so i believe the palestinian left with nothing actually the planet still in who gave up at least. 80 percent of all been historic palestine duty also agreement with that deal of the same city they will have less than 8 percent of historic palestine to establish their own state there and have been built state so that it is it is normal and it

is anticipated that the palestinian will to. make cooperation organization did so and he pointed out that of legal so you have down under most of his vision to egypt to. say that actually is a dead in the water no i doubt because as you've been going through the palestinian certainly don't want to many say it would only benefit israel anyway. yes definitely israel is and a major winner out of this i believe but as they actually who want this the who actually dictate it on the president and he signed it that's old because this 5 days or 88 all that they want them to see and to have some sort of understand and then run it in their own direct that is so that i wouldn't buy the you is simple men and they have any right to have their own state so that's that's how

they feel there are that and they believe it would be dejected and it would be to assisted also by the kind of scene and by the arabs by the muslims and this is a huge setback to all president and his deal to try to solve the palestinian problem he is not honest broker anymore american is not actually going to be involved and if he's deals and a future well we appreciate the reaction this hour a middle east expert life from london abdel bari atwan. well the stories are shaping up on the 1st monday of february having a great start to the week i'll be here again in the 32 scenes with. the russian state television propaganda machine propaganda outlet propaganda tools we are in an information war.

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