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already deadly shelling incident. every hour of the day this is our to international my names you know me 30 minutes of news and views start in. the us democratic party has 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 or not expected to be announced on till choose the local. well donald trump was quick to comment on the turmoil of the iowa caucus taking to twitter to have his say on the democrats' apart and ineptitude meanwhile in the absence of any official results to all of the party's presidential hopefuls decided to claim victory. results.

all indications we are going to do here. due to the failure of the iowa democratic party to release results tonight and in the interest of full transparency bernie sanders a senior adviser 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 cry 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 a 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 eventually down the line will there be a fall guy who'll think you know i can just play in the russians nobody's going to prove you disprove you but the point of this app at the center of this mess was to safeguard the primary the election safeguarded 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 course a lot of people 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 a 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 because because obviously that would be awful for any candidate nevertheless this is this is an egg and that is this is this is awful for the entire democratic party this. the worst part about it is that all the supporters of

all the various candidates and now are 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 certainly looks like they're in it again and with an eye towards openness president it's ironic isn't it that the democrat paranoia about russia what caused them to develop these apps to safeguard themselves with technological files or what have you eventually that and their own incompetence was their downfall because russian hackers of never managed to stop an

election. delay the results of a primary election in the united states. let's delve a little bit further into this i'm very happy to see investigative journalist mark blumenthal joins us live on the program mike i'm just seeing a lying coming in on the wires here from the democratic chair who has been speaking seeing that they will release 62 percent of the results soon but it will take time to process it all we're going to take time we need to process it it's not getting any better 24 hours on here. no this is it feels unprecedented and after 2016 primary in which bernie sanders supporters feel that the whole process was rigged this it just fulfills the darkest conspiracy theories i mean let's consider what happened here democratic the iowa chair of the democratic party tony pryce who is a hillary clinton person kept secret from all of the precinct chairs just exactly which

company was behind this voting app that they were supposed to download 2 days before the primary in order to report the voting results it turned out it was produced by a company called shadow incorporated that pete booted judges campaign was paying and which was created by a dark money nonprofit run by hillary clinton campaign veterans and funded by hedge fund billionaires that were simultaneously funding pete due to judge and as the voting count is delayed and bernie sanders the presumptive victor who is shown as the winner in every exit poll was prevented from giving a victory speech people to judge in one guy dove fashion appears on stage and declares himself the victor in a scenario like this the conspiracy theories write themselves it just will not point you how bernie sanders as you say was leading in a lot of polls or at least joint leader with joe biden for a lot of it and people to judge both claiming victory essentially even though no

one knows the results is not not misguided though when you've got the eyes of america looking at the democratic party and seeing what kind of job they do here you've got the you know these nominees coming out and saying i've won but the actual facts say otherwise because we don't know the result. well for the last 2 or 3 years we've heard the people who are responsible for this catastrophe in iowa the democratic establishment claim that it was russia's intention to undermine integrity in our voting systems in our election process and then for the whole night if you turn on a network like m s n b c which is booted judge and biden central you heard one pundit after another including david plouffe who is a board member of the dark money nonprofit behind this mysterious voter app try to get him eyes iowa was importance the importance of the iowa caucuses and to confuse

voters about the results and so 24 hours later nobody knows who the winner is and the same people who've been claiming russia was going to destroy our elections integrity have done just that another line just coming out here just to get your thoughts it's actually happening right now. we're hearing the british judge leads some to a 2nd with those 62 percent of the results that's the indiana seeing votes with 26.9 percent but the church has it 60 percent come to c.n.n. also stating that that's what 2 thirds roughly put a judge leads do you think that's going to change. you know i haven't heard anything about this poll i followed the exit polls closely sanders was winning among every demographic bernie sanders campaign released its own exit polls i think 60 percent of them which showed that he was the clear winner and now you have

booted judge coming out and proclaiming himself the victor with no results reported after this very shady scenario it reminds me distinctly of the stolen election in honduras in 2017 when the challenger to the u.s. backed candidate won or lando hernandez pulled ahead voting results were stopped 36 hours later hernandez declares himself the victor the organization of american states says the vote count was faulty but the u.s. accept the results and today one orlando hernandez is president if this goes through and people to judge declares himself the victor there will be a massive open revolt inside the democratic party that will go all the way up to milwaukee and will cause chaos some paper saying about the analogy with obamacare a fiasco back in 2013 when the website just wouldn't run or couldn't cope with people trying to gain access to it in this case do you think that the final results of the caucus itself whatever it is hasn't lost credibility will people just be

questioning it now whatever happens. well the entire party apparatus has lost credibility and it's an apparatus that's been installed by the corporate elite which are paying the bills of the democratic national committee including now longtime republican mike bloomberg robbie move who was hillary clinton's campaign manager had gone to iowa to test out worst case scenarios before this disaster occurred in the worst case scenario turned out to have been carried out by fellow clinton campaign veterans who were in the heart of the d.n.c. so the question is why aren't all these people fired i mean we don't need to be conspiratorial this all comes down to incompetence why aren't they fired but as long as they're there there's going to be the perception that the game is rigged against bernie sanders who is the clear front runner in iowa and in new hampshire life from the u.s. couple of service our investigative journalist thanks for your time thanks for

having me. let's move to europe on fronts where a former spokesperson for a syrian javascript has been arrested on charges of war crimes and torture he had lived in hungry for several months before being granted a student scholarship in marci the authorities were only tipped off after a human rights group pointed out his reluctance to charge a dominican looks now at the loophole that allowed a suspected war criminal entry into the e.u. . 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 made in france back in syria he was is a wish no ordinary stews and tea 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 bachelor's degrees but not one diversity's including in hungary and when it comes to experience he mentions being the c.e.o. of the syrian news monitoring network may trace of the allegations of torture or forced in this moment of children raising his history seems upped given that all islam ceased to exist back in 2018.

as the battle for eastern goo to 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 is for it says the need for which no one is

disputing as just if occasion of an offensive and it's entirely different goals it's real intentions are indeed to annihilate any normal position and break the morale of civilians by indiscriminately massacring them following that offensive in eastern guta by the syrian army generational islam was talk built last year a complaint was filed to the courts in france and islam 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 measured 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 well we got some reaction to this for the global listener limerick which believes similar situations will continue to arise or less 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 hungry 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 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 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 huge it's already difficult capturing those who are not even in hiding so i think definitely this is going to hurt the government because this is very bad press very bad press having a terrorist. somebody accused of terrorism entering legally come from another country going legally to university this is very bad press so there might be some who's in the following days but i think unfortunately if the government doesn't handle the process of immigration legal immigration early in the go the immigration and the secret service if the government doesn't tackle these issues seriously unfortunately these types of stories are going to continue in time. the leaders of russia and turkey help spoken by phone discussing the fallout from a deadly incident in syria 8 turkish soldiers were killed by shellfire on monday turkey blamed the syrian military now retaliated with air strikes on government

targets also halted joint patrols with russia telling me more earlier igor should sell off. now the russian president has discussed the situation with the turkish counterpart and erdogan has shared his concerns and saying that well essentially he believes that this incident somewhat undermines the joint efforts of russia and turkey at bringing peace and stability. glad i'm appalled in his turn has shared his concerns about the surge in terroristic. ities in this syrian province but both sides have agreed to take steps bringing at moving this peace plan back on track now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has outlined the key things that he believes have to change in order for that to happen. 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 with an political process from the terrorists. back on monday turkish troops stationed in in this province they were shelled and 8 people a turkish soldiers died in that shelling and now the turkish side blamed the syrian army for this incident and we tally neutralizing from 30 to 35 of syrian soldiers according to recip tape erdogan and as he was announcing us as he was talking about this retaliation he kind of sounded few reus. 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 sees this retaliation as fair game because they are blaming the syrian army for the satanic but we still haven't heard anything from the syrian government

the night they have neither confirmed nor denied it was indeed them behind the shelling so but at least we have russia and turkey seemingly still on the same page and it is it was in the stream important phone calls for russia and turkey to regional powerhouses facilitating the peace process in syria. dump and the mood over the opening of a new swiss payment mechanism the cello was set up to a large lifesaving aid to be sent to the islamic republic while eradicating any risk of falling foul of american sanctions however to rumblings washington is still the private of essential food and medical supplies by constantly imposing penalties this channel fall short of implementing the international court of justice order which ruled that the united states does not have the right to block the entry of food and medicine into iran this is not a sign of america's good intentions it is not even a sign that the united states has taken the smallest step in the direction of

fulfilling its commitments. well the newly established humanitarian channel for food and medicine has already started shipping counter and organ transplant drugs the united states sees that china will come under strict scrutiny to ensure it isn't misusing it although a run produces much of its own basic medicine advance treatment is generally imported now as the road between washington and tehran deepens vital medicine is getting really harder to source in 20 a teen alone 56000 patients died of cancer in the islamic republic just the one year period between 2018 and 19 the cost rose by about a month almost a 5th of medical services however washington still sees its sanctions are not hurting the industry since medicine does not fall under the sanctions i want to talk directly to the iranian people to dispel myths about u.s. sanctions that continue to be promoted by the iranian regime myth number one the

united states sanctions medical supplies going to the iranian people the truth is that the united states exempts medicine and medical devices for the iranian people ok very direct very clear but we spoke to a fessor from tehran university explained why iran is still experiencing medical shortages despite the sector being exempt from u.s. penalties. the americans are saying that they have not sanction humanitarian goods such as medicine and food but in reality because iran is not able to do financial transaction and also because of the fact that the rein in transportation is under sanction essentially it is very difficult to import and export any goods and it doesn't matter whether this is medicine or food or any other material for that matter so it has had a very real effect on iran now iran actually imports over $4000000000.00 of medicine and medical goods every year and what this happened

through the so-called suicide annele is only $2500000.00 so it is essentially peanuts considering what iran and its iran is a country of 80000000 what do you on really need is is much much bigger than what the swiss embassy carried out recently. in a precedent that some of britain's most senior political journalists have walked it's almost from a dining street briefing on the prime minister's bragg's at plumbs picking up the story if 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 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 small a selected briefing for specialist journalist 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 the 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 rethinks rist some political journalists excluded is a joke excuse this is about the major plank 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 this society of editors thought that the ban was disturbing and an attack on free speech now this walk out certainly suggests that some very high profile british journalists may finally have had enough. in july last year r.t. sputnik journalists were barred from a conference on media freedom hosted by b. u.k. and canadian governments explanation the british foreign office accuse the 2 agencies

of spreading misinformation without providing any evidence to support the accusation veteran british journalist peter oborne sees it's unprecedented to hold a separate briefing for selected journalists in downing street. incredibly unusual and quite sinister here i think if they're trying to split political reporters into 2 categories one who get better at briefings get special access than the others who were put in a different room or allowed into the briefings and that is it's never happened in my 30 plus years as a political journalist we're talking here. to manipulate and bromide journalists you come on our side you write what we want you to write and then your your for you're a given special status and if you don't do what the government wants and your frozen are. written is rolling over to the green carpet where the country's energy

regulator unveiling plans to scrap gas heating under seal of all new petrol and diesel cars by 2035 in the hopes of having 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 nets there are a monday the u.k.'s office for gas electricity markets or presented its new action which is aimed at transforming the country's infrastructure to make it more eco friendly britain has come a long way it is decarbonise 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 jam to decarbonise

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 greenham appeals 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 demographic would put it you can't put a price on saving the globe can you and also doesn't have a direct answer either the recognizes there are 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. please 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. so that's my. baby milk to topple. i guess providing it's not done and i'm on a roll basis with people just paying money out. there so that i'm welsh and 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 fee yes 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 as 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 to use it or a 1001 is hard to believe when buckingham palace tops the list for the most environmentally damaging buildings in london or about the time when her majesty used the state's poverty fund to heat her humble abode i don't think robin hood would approve of the time being there are many proper trial turn to sound the flying around the thing is fairly bright for me this whole. you can't stop him do you sort of thing i get that he's a boy and he needs to be. high security. yeah this makes sense but when it comes to the climate it seems like the ordinary britain should brace himself.