bernie sanders are neck and neck in the 1st round of the 2020 us democratic candidates but a meltdown of the democrats. red faced focusing on russian and republican threats. ignoring handshakes and ripping up speeches donald trump the democrat speaker. in the u.s. presidents and you will address the congress. stronger then ever before the number one producer of oil and natural great economic success we did our job. for a music festival in sweden draws. children as young as. we

debate the polarising meaning of the. app developers are merely reflecting the culture that's taking place in their community many many girls. from moscow thanks for joining us in our international this morning welcome to the program. democratic party has revealed early results from its key caucus vote almost 24 hours later 71 percent of results reported pete has the lead with 27 percent in the 1st round the beginning of the race to see who will run in the 2020 us presidential election the party's been left reeling know from its new mobile which was meant to deliver fast results despite optimism it was catching up on the

republicans. do you have a nightmare scenario and if so what do you do about it these are probably the most prepared we've ever been as a party for these caucuses and we've run through a few different scenarios but it i can tell you were ready was the starting pistol i'd settle for race and at the end the prize is becoming a presidential nominee and that the finish line stand around and wait to find out who won. as precinct caucus results started coming in the iowa democratic party ran them through an accuracy and quality check it became clear that they were in consistencies with reports the underlying cause of these in consistencies was not immediately clear and required investigation which took time this is an embarrassment all they had to do was count the votes the polling stations counted the votes all they had to do was add together the tallies what a 10 year old could do in a calculator the democratic party couldn't this mess was caused by

a new app designed to speed up vote counting made by a secretive company called shadow inc that i suppose was the 1st clue who contracts a company called shadow to build an open transparent voting app democrats the people who shouted loudest about russia threatening american elections that breaking news russian hackers tried to hack wisconsin's election system russia's hacked into a lot of things russian hackers the kremlin clan it certainly looks like they're at it again and with an eye towards helping this president to combat strums popularity democrats created 2 organizations acronym and paquin him to flood the internet and t.v. with anti trump and anti russian propaganda trump spent $10000000.00 on a commercial for tonight's super bowl we fixed it for him under president truman

miracle speeding or veterans setting isis prisoners free losing don't reconfirm ladies and gentlemen the worst is yet. here comes the incompetence part these groups a pact with people who ran and sank hillary clinton's campaign including shadow inc founded by a former clinton campaign manager they've spend fortunes and amateur propaganda and apps that don't work all that. money the effort is just to see trump have the last laugh. when will a democrat stop blaming russia russia russia instead of their own incompetence for the voting disaster that just happened in the great state of iowa it's sad. all the complaining and moaning about how russians were out to ruin american elections most of the russians that did it it was the democrats their paranoia and competence they

turned liberals and democrats against each other screaming and shouting accusing each other of foul play of russia could never do the democrats did we've heard the people who are responsible for this catastrophe in iowa or the democratic establishment claim that it was russia's intention to undermine integrity in our voting systems in our election process the question is who really threatens us elections and now i think a lot of voters within the democratic party finally seeing what the real threat is and it's with it's within the heart of the democratic party establishment the more that we talk about the reality of our election systems the more this russia gate hysteria just begins to fall on deaf ears and voters particularly younger voters who are social media savvy reject it angrily. as the democrats try

to consolidate their power against trump the all of a caucus mass has indicated that was not quite right in the blue cup and i'm open explains. what the whole world saw at the iowa caucuses can pretty well be described as utter chaos the only results from the iowa caucus at this hour are chaos and confusion never good to get ready for a crash course in chaos ok us in iowa what happened in iowa now in the absence of actual results several candidates claimed they were winning by all indications we are going on to new hampshire victorious. we don't know exactly what it is yet but we feel good about where we are i have a good feeling we're going to be doing very very well here. this time bernie sanders was looking stronger than ever topping the polls and having the biggest crowds and what is right here is the party consume the. middle

section right there with all those folks and that was you know modernization and then actually moved through volumes of the role of armies or your but then something strange happens with an app and then it was revealed that one of the main opponents of bernie sanders beat buthe she had been giving money to the company that was responsible for the app that caused the glitch now that made outrage get even louder the word rigged was all over social media. what is happening in iraq is not only scary it's unimaginable this caylee is being raped. the democratic nomination is rigged again i believe the iowa democratic bucks never intended to announce the winner last night looks like mayor cheat has rigged the iowa caucuses apparently the trolls will come to you if you say the word big so let me just say very big big big tweaked but it didn't just start in iowa rank and file democrats

were already outraged about the fact that the rules were changed by the democratic national committee in order to allow michael bloomberg into the debates michael bloomberg former new york city mayor has spent $180000000.00 on his own ad campaign and despite not having anything near the donor base of some of the other candidates the red carpet has been rolled out for him words like oligarchy are being used we should be ashamed that as americans people believe in democracy all the car if you have more money you can buy your way now my group former u.s. senator from alaska had over 67000 different donors but the democratic national committee said that was not enough and he was not welcome on the debate stage michael bloomberg is mega rich and he has donated $250000.00 to the democratic national committee needless to say he has been deemed worthy of prime time in light of this whole embarrassing beginning of the democratic selection process an online

petition has been started calling for the head of the d.n.c. to resign the whole incident shows a major split in a party that has been pushing a united front against donald trump for the longest time and donald trump couldn't be happier. big win for us in iowa tonight thank you now many assume that donald trump was referring simply to the fact that many republicans turned out to vote for him as the presumed nominee in iowa but maybe he meant more than that with the election in november or months and months away it looks like the meltdown on the other side of the aisle has already started democrats are going to have to decide to come together in just not talk about iowa anymore for this election whatever the results are the best thing for them would be to say look either we won over or i lost and let's just move on because this makes us look really foolish that we can't even get this process right how are we going to run the country we see divisions within the party and in every single election certainly there are players like

bernie sanders who are kind of on the outside of the inner circle and so that is part of the process is working through that tension and infighting amongst each other and so people either drop out because they're embarrassed or they're shown to be incompetent and they run out of money and so democrats are going to really be looking for who's the person who can stand up the most to trump well while the democrats were busy wondering where it all went wrong in iowa donald trump was giving his state of the union speech to the backdrop of his own impeachment trial and said it could seal his fate one way or another within 24 hour as defiant though the president spent most of the address looking back at his own successes instead of forward. the state of our union is stronger then ever before it was. the world would not now be witnessing this great economic success be.

thank you united states has become the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. little. companies are not believing they are coming back to the usa ily i keep my promises we did our job. the only debate debate over wearing of the head job has been rekindled in sweden that's off their mobile app linked to a song competition allowed users of all ages to dress their own screen events with the traditional muslim head scarf for women.

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shortly after. is a symbol of oppression. with the rest. of us. apple developers are merely reflecting the culture that's taking place in their community i think right now what the media what magazines and you know the beauty standards are trying to do is just be more inclusive and say there is a spot for you here i do feel as though only one narrative is shown in the west when we talk about the job it's often a very positive narrative but i think that the other side also has to be addressed many many goals of forced into wearing the job without any full understanding of what it represents and the how difficult it will be to take it off there's definitely a community where this is a very real and present apparently you know issue and concern and so we have to just allow the app designers to kind of. basically play to their audience if you

will i do find a huge problem is in perpetuating this idea that children as young as 3 need to wear the he job in any in any form and i would also like to say that he is not a culture it is very much a religious symbol see when i myself see a little brown skinned girl on a t.v. commercial as a little girl i believe i can grow up to be that person so what we don't want to do is not show women and have jobs because we don't want you little girls who wear jobs to feel as though they can't be a part of this larger story that we all are a part of i think that women should be able to choose what they wear and that is exactly why i'm an advocate for no job day because i stand for the choice to take it off which is something that is just not extended to people around the world and people within even my own community here and in the u.k. still to come this hour after 30 years of silence

a former french figure skater publishes rape allegations against her coach it's having shock waves around french sports lotsof this break. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. you know world of big. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle

for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. were told it's a total meltdown confusion consumes iowa as officials struggle to report voting results for the boche i will caucus is the ultimate political metaphor of our time . welcome back to the program sexual abuse scandal and french forward a scene paris prosecutors open up a broad investigation after a former ice skating champion broke her silence after 30 years in a recently published book sara a big ball accused of rape now france's sports minister has demanded the figure skating president resign sort of levinsky us across the story. when a minister makes a public pronouncement you probably would hope that they had checked all of the

facts just like when in 2017 france's former sports minister declared that at the height of me too there wasn't a problem in her sphere the former uk fencing champion must now be considering for laying on her sought after the latest explosive revelations of rape by sports coaches have emerged they've been made by frances 10 times the national skating champion sara a bit in a new book she accuses her former coach year of regularly raping her in the ninety's when she was aged between 15 and 17. i was sleeping with my teddy bears and he woke me up with his torch it was a nightmare it was horrible and it's still horrible today and that's why i'm talking about it as unfortunately i'm still not well i'm taking antidepressants and i'm speaking up for all the other big tims who can't speak themselves this exchange

2 year old former coach admits having sex with a skater but his version of their relationship differs though my memories of the exact circumstances differ from hers i am aware that given my duties and her age at the time these relations were in any event inappropriate it's not the 1st time questions have been raised about a year sarabeth ball says she previously spoke out against him in the us including to the then minister of sport john points while or more but was shut down . he called me back and he said to me listen to me tangibly yes we have a file on him but we are going to close our eyes let moore says he doesn't recall that conversation i do not question at all what she say's but i have no memory of this exchange above all if i had. knowing these horrors that i discovered today i

would never have advised so rabbit ball to close her eyes according to this sports newspaper keep 2 investigations were carried out by a year in the early 2000 including one white sports ministry now his contract as a technical advisor was terminated following the 2nd one a bit but although it is not the only person making accusations 3 other former skaters say they too were raped by their coaches including usually by ear when they were minors suggesting the problem was much deeper accusations which of either being denied or declined to be commented on questions are now being asked about the leadership in french sport with the current sports minister demanding the resignation of did you get the books of french skating along with other allegations of sex abuse in other sports many are suggesting that these revelations are just the tip of the iceberg and that france has done precious little to protect its

sporting hopefuls and heroes charlot even ski r.t. paris. the e.u. has condemned washington of the session to lift a ban on the use of personnel landmines saying it could cost thousands of lives around the world. this in the mines the global norm against personal minds a norm that's to say tens of thousands of people in the past 20 years these of the weapons anywhere any time by any act remains completely unacceptable to the european union the u.s. state department says the imposed by barack obama's administration has put the u.s. army at a disadvantage in the land mines are buried in the ground and death an 8 under pressure now there are 2 types though the old kind can be the activated remotely but the new so-called smart lad winds of a function to self-destruct trumpet use that argument to say the latest land mines can be removed safely former pentagon official michael maloof told us the decision could escalate u.s. tensions with countries further. trump administration's decision just adds

one more layer of. tea to warfare and encourages it it's very difficult to determine. what where these mines would be laid and and how they could be deactivated even though the they claim they're going to be fielding a new and new type that can deactivate on its own but that's not sure certainty the obama administration however had agreed to. even though it would not sign the ban it agreed to deploy them except. along the demilitarized zone in separating north and south korea i think the land mines are just terrible they they they affect civilians primarily and i don't think there's any foolproof way of developing a what i would call

a smart landmine could deactivate itself. or even remotely or on. a particular time timeline. the u.s. . impose heavier penalties on companies and entities involved in the construction of the nord stream to gas project according to german media the punitive measures may be introduced as early as this month apart by the project which would carry russian gas to europe via the baltic sea was among the topics we discussed exclusively with russia's ambassador to germany said against i've. seen him we appreciate the german government's continued support for the north stream too despite external pressure projects highly beneficial for germany and to europe as a whole as it's aimed at ensuring the energy security of the continent it's environmentally friendly in comparison to liquefied natural gas an idea that's being forced on europe this project works out much cheaper and we have plenty of

experience in supplying this kind of field to the european market we have proven ourselves to be a reliable and effective partner and we have never failed to meet our obligations this is a win win deal which is especially important for germany as it turns away from nuclear and coal energy in favor of greener alternatives natural gas is indispensable here. yes no construct human lives you might be close and meaningful in cooperation between russia and germany can have a positive impact on both international relations in europe and resolving problems around the world the crisis in libya is one focus of our cooperation with berlin we are also ready to collaborate on resolving the conflict in syria for a long time we've urged our western colleagues to be more active in returning syrian refugees to their homes but this is not always possible because of the need to rebuild infrastructure some of our western partners are not very enthusiastic about this because they're all reluctant to cooperate with the legitimate

government of syria all in all we're trying to create a positive agenda in the interest of furthering russia germany relations. if they should occur but as for the joint comprehensive plan of action on the iranian nuclear program things have been complicated and this respect following washington's unilateral poll that we hope that our european colleagues will understand the origins of the crisis over the iranian nuclear program and that historic to the ultimate cause of the problem and as the us withdrawal from the. little book we are working to prevent any rewriting of our history and we find understanding here that the german authorities know who started the 2nd world war and how it ended. up next the d.n.c. as i will caucus leaves more questions than answers what's in the works tells the people. i walked through the streets of moscow now drew blood 100 people i was down each of

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music because everybody fights his way. to. the floor you can call the fee out of his will for this woody allen grabbing hold of the ability to pick it up. but i think is this is the fund that is a constant. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok to suffer actually it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that ask and as a parent. i can come up with arguments there's

a lot of conflict in the game between the teams most of the conflict i would say over balls around money and most of their money is made. close wynonie children's cosimo each other this could cost the state of california alone to make $6000000000.00 a year of prison complex just to get some point in your life where. you don't care anymore nobody cares about your so your care might anything. greetings and salyut asians my friends yes you know the phrase dumpster fire gets

thrown around a lot these days but never has there been a more accurate metaphor or description for what took place on monday night in the u.s. state of iowa it was supposed to be the starting line of the democratic presidential primary where we would finally see this horse race start to take shape what we've got instead like many of the democratic party's recent adventures was indeed a dumpster fire of chaos mismanagement and accusations of conspiracy and rigging as rolling stone reported in the wee hours of tuesday morning due to a technology snafu party leaders and volunteers found themselves struggling to report their final caucus tallies the candidates were periods the public went to sleep with no clue about the outcome for the democrats it was nothing short of a nightmare scenario and what was this technology snafu that caused this nightmare scenario you may ask well apparently it was a brand new smartphone app that was produced specifically for this primary season

by a company called. wait for it shadow yes shadow was the name of the company it was designed to help calculate and transmit the caucus results more efficiently and quickly except as an p.r. writes the app ended up reporting and reporting out only partial data because of the coding issue within the reporting system. a coding issue you say well will who coded it shadow will what is shadow well according to their website they are quote campaign and technology veterans who have built and implemented technology at hillary for america obama for america google kiba apple f.l. c i o n the d n c and that they received money not just from the d.n.c. but according to analysts reviewing federal election commission filings the presidential campaigns of former vice president joe biden and former south bend indiana mayor be booted huge the same.