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carbon neutral we look at. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow when stay february the 5th a very warm welcome to our international. the us democratic party suffered an embarrassing night in iowa the results of the 1st major vote in the 2020 primary season 9 months ahead of the presidential election been delayed due to a crippling technical glitch and are not expected to be announced. until choose the

evening there donald trump was quick to comment on the turmoil of the iowa caucus taking to twitter to have his say on the democrats' part and ineptitude meanwhile in the absence of any official results 2 of the party's presidential hopefuls decided to claim victory. so we don't hear results. by all indications we are going to new hampshire victoria. due to the failure of the iowa democratic party to release results tonight and in the interest of full transparency bernie sanders a senior advisor jeff weaver is releasing results from nearly 40 percent of precincts in i want results have been delayed so they'll be coming but they'll be coming later nevertheless this is this is a huge embarrassment for the democratic party this this is an awful start to the to the nomination process because iowa is statistically of paper it's insignificant i

mean out of the 2000 almost 2000 delegates required to be nominated as the presidential candidate for the democratic party only has fought so you know it's a tiny amount the population is small it is very representative but. it is the 1st primary it is the 1st part it sets the tone sets the atmosphere if you win it it gives you a huge amount of momentum going forward because it's an example it's a people see that you're winning in they'll jump on board and for this to happen now apparently because of a technical glitch ease awful we've found inconsistences in the reports in a free says of results in addition to the tech system has been used to tabulate results where oh so using 4 to suffer results and a paper trail to validate that all results match and ensure that we have confidence and accuracy in the numbers we report fortunately no one's come out and blame the russians yet but you know did eventually down the line though they'll be

a fall guys who think you know i can just play in the russians and nobody's going to prove you disprove but the point is the point of this app at the center of this at the center of this mess the point of this app was to safeguard the primary the election the safe guy. but from russian meddling from foreign interference from hackers they drew tens of millions of dollars and to developing these apps and to develop the developing technology to protect themselves and what you have at the end of the day at the end of the day it all goes pear shaped the entire system is an embarrassment nothing's ready. there's also a scandal brewing on live cause a lot of people a lot of the candidates are very angry that this happened especially those that were projected to win but pete booted judge one of the one of the candidates he apparently. funded cofounded may do nations to the developers of this application is conspiracy theories brewing among people that don't support him saying that you

know how convenient he was spared the embarrassment straightaway of coming in 3rd or 4th in this poll have because because obviously that would be awful for any candidate nevertheless this is this is a good nefesh this is this is awful for the entire democratic party this is. the worst part about it is that all the supporters of all the various candidates and now angry not only at the democrats but at each other they're blaming you know candidates they're saying you would have come in 3rd you would have come in 4th others are claiming victory with nothing to do with nothing to back it up. very ironic because this is exactly the sort of behavior that the cues to russia of committing that breaking news russian hackers try to hack wisconsin's election system russia's hacked into a lot of things russian hackers the kremlin clan it certainly looks like the begin

with an eye towards openness president it's ironic isn't it that democrat paranoia about russia what caused them to develop these apps to safeguard themselves with technological files or what have you eventually that and there are. incompetence was their downfall because russian hackers of never managed to stop an election to delay the results of a primary but an election in the united states. of what the reporter well i spoke earlier to richard goodstein who is a political consultant and former adviser to the hillary clinton presidential campaign about the caucus calles. iowa had no business being the 1st state to kind of act as some sort of sieves that candidates had to move through for 2 reasons one caucuses are entirely undemocratic unless you could take off from work and be there in person for some period of time which

a lot of people cannot do. you couldn't vote secondly iowa is very white it's democratic voters are very liberal and very young and frankly most voters in most states. don't have those traits so for i mean i think there's a consensus this morning that this will probably be the last time that iowa caucuses act is the 1st in the nation donald trump is going to seize upon everything he's going to seize upon your name he's going to seize upon your gender he's going to find something where he thinks he has an edge here but in this case. because the world was watching america at least was watching what happened was donald trump has every reason to ridicule what happened there that's true he can say if you make all sorts of accusations about the democratic party this was the democratic party of one rather small state iowa we will get to a state next week new hampshire also a small state then we get to increasingly larger states and i think it's

a judgment that people have made that for all the strengths of the economy he's not the person they want. in the white house for the next 4 years but that could change . it to europe and to france where a former spokes person for a syrian jehovah script has been arrested on charges of war crimes and torture he had lived in hungary for several months before being granted a student scholarship in mar say the authorities were only to dolphin after a human rights group pointed out his real identity shola dubin skin looks now at the loophole that allowed a suspected war criminal and tree into the. torture kidnapping war crimes these are just some of the charges brought against a syrian using on a student visa he went by the name of mushed enough may in france back in syria he was is a lowish no ordinary stews and t. is said to have once been jayashri islamic press secretary previously nor did his

freedom fighters the hardline islamist group in fact curried out a reign of terror in the eastern ghouta suburb of damascus. when you look at. him he's linked in profile he describes himself as being specialized in security and terrorism affairs with a focus on syria he boasts of an impressive academic background with bunches degrees from not one but diverse cities including in hungary and when it comes to experience he mentions being the c.e.o. of the syrian news monitoring network new trace of the allegations of torture or

forced in this moment of children raising his history seems an apt given that all islam ceased to exist back in 2018. as the battle for eastern ghouta played out the french government said it was concerned about a grave violation of human rights and it called for a cease fire now while it acknowledge the presence of joe harvests it also accused president assad of using the ongoing conflict as

a fig leaf to wipe out any opposition. the syrian regime and its allies are brandishing the fight against jihad his fighters the need for which no one is disputing as just if occasion of an offensive aimed at entirely different goals its real intentions are indeed to annihilate any our normal position and break the morale of civilians by indiscriminately massacring them following that offensive in eastern guta by the syrian army gyration al islam was talk pulled last year a complaint was filed to the courts in france and josh and the senior members and no wanted as one criminals. the complaint filed in june 29th teen was built on over 3 years of documentation of the crimes perpetrated by jaish al islam summary executions kidnappings and the systematic use of torture the group targeted people suspected of complicity with the regime but also ordinary civilians accuse of not applying the shari'a imposed by the group rigorously enough the international

federation for human rights says the arrest of most enough where in mass a paves the way for the 1st investigation of the rebel groups crimes others may be hoping that arrests such as this will help shed more light on crimes committed by opposition forces during the syrian conflict giving a fuller picture of what really happened on the ground. paris and just a little further reaction to this political analyst nicol america which believes similar situations will continue to arise on lest the french government tackles both legal and illegal immigration head on. once you enter the european union you can go more or less where you want there are no border controls how we entered hungary would be an interesting question to know that what is. prosperous and this in this situation is that he entered legally he wasn't even hiding he was living in the y. which is

a neighborhood in the center smack in the center of more state could continue studying in france with no problem whatsoever that means the police cannot do their job properly today in western europe they don't even know who's in the country we've gotten so low as to say that we don't even we don't even know if you've got the means to stop terrorists we don't even know if terrorists are in the country we know there are some but we don't know how many and it's you know it's already difficult capturing those who are not even in hiding so i think definitely this is going to hurt a bit the government because this is very bad press very bad press having a terrorist. somebody accused of terrorism entering legally competent a country going legal it's a university this is very bad press so there might be some mediate coups in the following days but i think unfortunately if the government doesn't handle the process of immigration illegal immigration illegal immigration and the secret terrorists if the government doesn't tackle these issues seriously unfortunately this these types of stories are going to continue in time. britain is rolling out the green carpet with the country's energy regulator unveiling plans to scrap

guelfs heating and the sale of all new petrol and diesel cars by 2035 in the hopes of hitting a net 0 emission target 15 years after that but there are worries it will hit the most vulnerable in society as every home in the country is set to pay more. well this is it the moment we've all been waiting for the beginning of the end of carbon emissions as the u.k. could be on the path to net there are a monday the u.k.'s office for gas and electricity markets all of gen presented its new action pattern which is aimed at transforming the country's infrastructure to make it more eco friendly britain has come a long way it is de carbon ice faster than any other major economy but we must go further particularly on heat and transport we are taking an approach that recognizes that our role protecting consumers includes a cheering net 0. it is now vital that the energy industry rises to the challenge

and demonstrates how it will work with the government and off jim de carbonized britain's energy system at lowest cost well it's a $9.00 point plan and if you don't drive electric car yet you may be in trouble as under the scheme 10000000 petrol diesel cars will be replaced with the green immobile and for the time being you better keep your winter jackets on because gas central heating is to be ripped from every single home well the plan also wants to shift towards renewable sources of energy like solar and wind which is great news for g.b. then with all the rain so how much will this cost that well as our demographics it would put it you can put a price on saving the globe can you and doesn't have a direct answer either to recognize the broad tradeoffs to overcome such a scale is spreading the cost of a low carbon energy system between today's and tomorrow's consumers when apparently this $9.00 point plan is all down to you so it could all go up in smoke when you know how much it can set you back well the rollout alone of electrical vehicles

could be $2000000000.00 pounds a year which is the equivalent to 30 pounds on every household bill. chandler police use. i think. it is going to be good for the planet if we do have to pay a bit more money if i live. in a freezing cold tap system so that's my. baby and it will not take the trouble. i guess providing it's not done and i want to buy seats with people just paying money out. there so that i mean well jim could cause an uncomfortable atmosphere as it has a history of hiking prices for consumers for its own good just a few days ago the national audit office revealed that electric bills were unnecessarily high 3 year is setting the public back 100000000. pounds annually but

if it's all spread out equally for the good of the planet then 1st fair right well the royals wouldn't get the warmest reception on this one when prince charles hopped on his private helicopter producing c o 2 emissions to get to climate change conference this in order for him to undertake his many engagements as he does across the u.k. and around the world he sometimes has to fly as he has often said assume is there is a more sustainable way of making these journeys he will be the 1st to use it so as to use it or a 1001 is hard to believe when buckingham palace top the list for the most environmentally damaging buildings in london all about the time when her majesty used the state's poverty fund to heat a humble abode i don't think robin hood would approve of the time being there are many proper private alternatives out there to flying around the thing is fairly broad for me to say. you can stop him too you sort of get that he's a boy and he needs to be. high security. doesn't make sense but when it

comes to the climate it seems like the ordinary britain should brace themselves to be ready for the additional financial sacrifice but everything is on the altar of a carbon free future. the leaders of russia and turkey have spoken by phone discussing the fallout from a deadly incident in syria 8 turkish soldiers were killed by shell fire on monday turkey blame the syrian military and retaliated with strikes on government targets also halted joint patrols with russia. for knowledge or to call. for more on this. i suppose it really is a highly complex situation you've got presidents putin and erdogan supporting different sides in the long running conflict in syria but also trying to somehow work together bring us up to date well indeed they may be supporting different sides but the goal they have insight is one bringing peace to syria and to the region. in particular now the turkish president he has shared his concerns with

lattimer putin saying that this incident that you've just talked about some would undermines the joint efforts at bringing peace and stability to italy so that i'm a putin his turn has pointed out the fact that terrorist activities inside of this problem province they have searched and he has called on the turkish on his turkish counterpart to take actions to bring down the terrorist activities to kind to move apart the more radical elements from more moderate ones from the groups that are ready to cooperate with the syrian government now both sides have agreed to take urgent steps at improving the situation the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has already pointed out has outlined what key things have to change in syria for this whole thing to move forward. unfortunately for now turkey was unable to meet a couple of key obligations which were said to solve the core of the problem one of

them to mark off the armed opposition that's working with turkey and ready to have a dialogue within the government within political process from the terrorists. well on monday a turkish troops in a war killed in a shelling during a shelling and the circuit has blamed the syrian forces the syrian army for the incident receptive earth again for instance he sounded furious. oh. we said it's no longer possible and we responded appropriately whether by aerial or artillery bombardment we are making them pay the necessary price and will continue to do so. so turkey says that their retaliation against the syrian army is fair game but the syrian government itself has not yet neither admitted nor denying there that it was them indeed who bore mda who shelled the turkish forces so the

situation is yet to unfold but so far russia and turkey seem to be the gun towards they seem to be moving this with this whole thing forward they at least seem to be in a productive mood with their lives developments artie's or should i live. in an unprecedented move some of britain's most senior political journalists have walked out on my ass from a dining street briefing on the prime ministers of plans picking up the story artie's and you're a traitor. a number of political journalists have boycotted a number 10 briefing after the prime minister's a try to ban selected reporters now as a consequence of this a number of journalists refused the briefing and walked out including the b.b.c.'s laura cohen's bird i t.v.'s and robert preston and political journalist from the daily mail telegraph the sun financial times and the guardian and this is a big statement the source from number 10 said there was

a normal briefing following the pm speech for all lobby journalists but confirmed that there would be and i quote a smallest selected briefing for specialist journalists the source went on to say that a number of uninvited journalists barged into number 10 and demanded to be part of it they were told that they were not allowed to attend the implication of these actions of course categorize the journalists present at the time apparently some were specialists and some one not in fact all of the journalists present were political journalists and it hasn't gone unnoticed that tensions between boris johnson and the media have been escalating over recent weeks and there's been a huge reaction online to this latest incident kudos to reporters from the b.b.c. mail telegraph the sun financial times and guardian who walking out of a government briefing after the mirror i haven't imposed riband see would you like about u.k. newspapers with the journalists working for them or undeniably good. also this idea

there should be technical and specialist separate briefings rist some political journalists are excluded is a joke excuse this is about the major plan of johnson's policy all outlets and their readers have a right to know the details. u.k. media is proud of their ability to report freely but incidents like banning the mirror for example from the campaign bus during the election have not gone unnoticed at that time the editor of the daily mirror said that the society of editors thought that the bad was disturbing and an attack on free speech now this walkout certainly suggests that some very high profile british journalists may finally have had enough. and just to recap in july last year r t and sputnik journalists were barred from a conference on media freedom hosted by the u.k. and canadian governments explanation the british foreign office accuse the 2 agencies of spreading this information without proving providing any evidence to

support the accusation veteran british journalist peter oborne sees its own precedented to hold a separate thing for selected journalists in downing street. but what's incredibly unusual and quite sinister here i think is they're trying to split the political reporters into 2 categories one who get better briefings get special access than the others who are put in a different room or allowed into the briefings and that is how it's never happened in my 30 plus years as a political journalist we're talking here about an attempt to manipulate and bromide journalists you come on our side you write what we want you to write and then your you're free you're of given special status and if you don't do what the government wants then your frozen at. the top u.n.

official in mali hern said deploying more foreign troops in the african country will not solve the ongoing conflict that is after france pledged an extra $600.00 soldiers to fight armed groups in the region i do not believe that more military would help what we need is more engagement on the political front we need different pressure on the different sides. well mali has borne the brunt of a terrorist insurgency in recent years spanning the asahel region of north africa since 2012 follows ns of people have been killed in mali and more than 200000 displaced in the latest incident on sunday 20 saudis were killed by islamist fighters fronts currently 4500 troops deployed in the region. let's cross live abrams fellow at the quincy institute for responsible state craft

. just 1st of all our u.n. official is saying more french troops will not help the situation in mali. is a pretty big statement that your thoughts do you agree. i do agree i mean the french intervened in mali 20132014 when they were quite successful and that could create the impression that military force is a good solution to this insurgency. but in general those kinds of successes tend to be quite. this is a very difficult insurgency to cause. for one thing we're not just talking about mali we're talking about the greater region and next to mali. you know faso further away nor libya which is

a contributor in terms of weaponry to the stockers syria in so this entire year. is full of militants and the militants or very there's a variety of we're talking about. isis guys local guy who grievances who have latched on to these transnational group. so it's very hard for me to imagine that the french will simply have $500.00 troops and that is going to resolve things the fear is always in the talks on ongoing talks in this case with just how this will legitimize them us a political force in that region you were just going through there what do you think the main consequence of that would be. well even though i'm a skeptic that military force will be the solution i also don't think that many of these are the kinds of guys that one could sit down with him negotiate just let

islamic state is growing in mali and throughout this a hell and they do poc want a peace process. is it islamised group also very difficult to negotiate with and so even though i'm a skeptic that military force you know is not going to work that doesn't mean that i think that negotiations are also necessarily the answer the reality is that sometimes there is no good answer fighting them isn't going to work talking to them probably won't work either even if it did that the big question mark is that would just have to stick to any possible deal. right well probably no deal would satisfy them unless it was a really really big scream deal that didn't have the support of the government and the majority of the population and so i passive if you need to if you want to

talk to a group like isis or al qaeda the 1st thing that would have to happen is for those kinds of groups to moderate themselves beyond what's realistic in terms of their political preferences and so of fighting them probably won't work negotiating won't work either the international community is always looking for some sort of a fix x. against terrorists so but frankly sometimes empirically there just isn't one does that international community have to have more of a say and what is happening in the style. i think that increasingly there will be more and more multinational perth's because a greater portion of international terrorism will move out because especially south oh and as well as in libya for example right now the u.s. hasn't had as proactive as a role as it could but imagine if we see

a scenario where something like the caliphate which was established in syria were to move into africa were to move into mali perhaps you know in smaller size up but nonetheless with surveyed as a springboard for terrorist attacks not just throughout the region but all over the world that would certainly bring in more more of a larger counterterrorism coalition and frankly i have some concerns that we're moving in that direction as the caliphate was routed many of these you know it stream it's are moving to africa and again right now there's no solution in so these insurgents are growing in strength and the local powers aren't strong enough to deal with max always good to have you on the program thank you for sharing your expertise max abrams fellow at the think tank the quincy institute for responsible

state craft and. another is about the new.