so you don't care about anything. ordered and the judge said that the should. be. acquitted of the charges articles. the u.s. and its fine donald trump not guilty of abuse of power and obstruction of congress in a widely expected result. means on the clock keeps ticking and still no final result in iowa where the 1st democratic party caucus of the election season has been launched by adelaide's vote counts. and germany's ruling centrist party breaks its own pledge and unites with the right wing alternative for germany to oust a regional primary. very

well welcome to you you're watching r t international with me nikki erin it's great to have you with us this hour. now the u.s. senate has voted to acquit president trump pending the 3rd impeachment trial in u.s. history mr trump faced 2 challenges from democrats abuse of power and obstruction of congress which stemmed from his dealings with ukraine we can now cross to caleb walkin in new york's find out more about this good to see you now almost old senators voted along party lines to deliver this widely expected result can you tell us how it played out please. well the impeachment proceedings have come to their ultimate conclusion donald trump was acquitted on both charges abuse of power and obstruction of congress however even though it was

a quick vote with a very little unexpected activities there was certainly plenty of debate in the lead up to the ultimate vote and conclusion the proceedings this is some of what we heard. your hatred of donald trump has blinded you to the obvious this is not about protecting the country this is about destroying the president born american president to deliberately solicit such a thing to blackmail a foreign country into helping him win an election is on forgivable this part is on impeachment will in. how could such an offense not be deemed a high crime a crime against the people if you think you've done the country a good service by legitimize ing this impeachment process which you have done is on leash the partisan forces of hell. we are now at

this point the result was one that was not really surprising the republicans have a very solid majority in the u.s. senate and it requires 2 thirds 67 votes to remove a sitting u.s. president so clearly the democrats had nothing near that there was one interesting surprise which was that mitt romney who was a long time senator from the u.s. state of utah who was the republican presidential candidate in 2012 against barack obama he voted to convict donald trump on the charge of abuse of power he voted against party lines making him now the only u.s. senator in all of us history to go to remove from office a member of his own party a president from his own party so mitt romney has made history but other than that the vote went down pretty solidly along party lines donald trump is acquitted and the impeachment proceedings have concluded now in reaction to what occurred we at

this point have the democrats describing this as a dark day for the history of the country and saying that donald trump thinks he is above the law in addition we have the white house press secretary describing this as a witch hunt and a tradition for democrats and we have the white house calling this a full vindication an exoneration of the u.s. president donald trump trump is expected to speak on these results in the following day so at this point the the proceedings and impeachment of donald trump has concluded donald trump will remain in office he was found not guilty at the senate impeachment trial however we still continue to wait for further reactions as it seems like the divisions have have gone up now it's also important to note that this has not been a good week for the democratic party in addition to their failed impeachment proceedings there was an increase in popularity. for u.s.

president donald trump he has now got a 49 percent approval rating the highest approval rating he's had since taking office and the iowa caucuses in which the democrats took their 1st step toward picking their nominee to run against donald trump in the 2020 fall elections did not go so well why did debacle so not a good week for the democratic party donald trump will be speaking in response to his acquittal on the end of the impeachment process very soon and it appears that this entire impeachment situation is now past and the country is figuring out what will happen next as they move on caleb maupin thank you for those details. it's been almost 2 days since the us democratic party was due to announce the results of the iowa caucus then so far we've 86 percent of precincts reporting pizza bigoted chance a narrow lead with 27 percent of the votes ahead of bernie sound as the long delay

in releasing the result has been a major embarrassment for the democrats do have a nightmare scenario in this 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 i can tell you were ready to lose the starting pistol and settle for a race and at the end the prize is becoming the presidential nominee and that the finish line they stand around and wait to find out who won. his 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 of 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 these mess was caused by a new app designed to speed up votes county made by a secretive company called shadow inc that i suppose was the 1st clue the party is saying on one hand we had inconsistences with the data then they say oh but the data is fine and it wasn't a problem with the app so that won't what was a problem with because we also know this take the app aside and say ok the absa failure didn't work you had precinct chairs who were calling back to the democratic headquarters last night some of them on the phone for 2 hours on hold waiting to call in and say one of these guys only had 6 people at his caucus site that is needed to get 6 votes and one caucus goes over to the headquarters and he's on hold for 2 hours and can't get anybody 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 to begin 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 a new president trying to stealing our veterans setting isis prisoners losing don't they reconstructed ladies and gentlemen the worst is yet. here comes the incompetence part these groups a packed 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 time the money the efforts 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 states 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 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 are 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. has been a political upset in germany a temporary political alliance have been formed in the state of the wind with the ruling centrist party and lightning politicians joining forces to oust a regional left wing premier at defiance of pay to declarations by the ruling christine democrats that they would not work with the far right piece all of our

polls. it's not often we're talking about high drama in german politics but it's fair to say that it's been shaken to its very core by the election of a new state premier in turn into well this is after the far right and t. immigration party alternative for germany essentially played the role of king maker . the free democratic party candidate thomas kennedy will be the new state premier it's worth noting his party only picked up 5 seats in the election that was held back in october of last year but with the backing of a day along with people all members of the christian democratic union angler merkel's party he was able to win the election in the in the state parliament by just one solitary vote well it's been described by the outgoing state premier who lost the election he's the representative of the left party as they discussed sting

charade in fact the left party going on to slam the free democrats saying that they've essentially achieved power by joining forces with fascists the christian democratic union as i mentioned angle and merkel's party well their party leader callum bauer who is widely tipped as a potential to successor to mrs merkel as chancellor of germany has said that their local party representatives acted without the authority of central office this is not a good day this is not a good day for touring this is not a good day for the political system in germany but what this is doing is it sparked protests across germany including here in the german capital impromptu demonstrations outside of the free democratic party headquarters some very angry scenes there as they came out to slam the f. f. to appear for what many see as breaking one of the most optimal. in german politics

of doing it dale or getting into bed with a day at their party leader christie unlimber was speaking to the press saying well toss certainly doing his best to distance himself from alternative for germany the . eve does support comes as a surprise because it is not motivated by an agreement on substance but purely tactical the f.t.p. does not negotiate or cooperate with the d. there is no basis for cooperation who do not support the goals and values of that party thomas kerik although accepting the vote of their representatives has said that he won't be entering into any type of coalition government talks with alternative for germany but it's worth noting just how serious this is being taken here without war and senior figures from within the christian democratic union describe the free democrats as having played with fire and set of politics in

germany a place. where we had from beijing thomas only a member of the german left party and by strain from the alternative for germany. the question is what would the voters of on. the touring young people said quite clearly we would like to have a conservative coalition and this is the majority we have this is this. they have behaved majority and the communists and the socialists they were just ignoring it they wanted to build the government without having having a majority so they failed and how they are driving mad. but in a normal situation the deal with that would get a 2nd chance to build the government after the communists were not able to do that . just because all the other parties with a book

a thing on us we had to do it in this way of course it's about the this where you. have nothing it is an unprecedented day and we have thousands of people demonstrating in the streets because they cannot believe that cash is a once more deciding who is in power in germany and the way by which they stole the rightful government from our party is by instigating a coup basically it was it was secretive negotiation so when he says that we are the losers then you have to look at the vote tallies and it was my project the left party that actually won this election in choosing the man in charge of the a d is someone who has compared who has been compared by many many people to hitler himself so he's the most radical elements of the f.t. and this man has now decided who will form the next government in choosing still to

come we have the details on an abuse scandal that has shock front we have the story on time so long after this short break stay with us. you know world the big part of. law and conspiracy it's time to wake to dig deeper to get the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. 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 for watching closely watching the hawks.

chose to build their economy in such a way as that spawn the crisis of the problem by iris and for that there is an economic model to and the us could inherit a benefit of that economic a similarly the us build its economy in ways that cause other kind of extra analogies that are highly detrimental to the u.s. economy. welcome back now as sex abuse scandal in french sports has seen paris prosecutions open up an investigation after former ice skating champion broke her silence after 30 years and the recently published book saar up its all accuses her ex coach of

rape but claim has triggered an outpouring of support from the country's top athletes. we feel appalled appalled but then fortunately not the surprised ones who the truth becomes chilling and isolated keys becomes many the more honest there is omnipresent how many victims remain locked in a state of shame and fear how many cases could have been avoided we can no longer be silent it is time to act collectively and realize that breaking this silence also means serving sport with the scandal growing in the wake of the claims and reaction the french sports minister have demanded the resignation of the figure skating federations president who herself previously made controversial statements on the issue he has 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 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 victims 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 paul says she previously spoke out against him in the northeast including to the then minister of sport john points while or more but was shut down while he called me back and he said to me listen to men tangibly yes we have a file on him but we are going to close our eyes let more 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. these horrors that i discovered today i would never have advised. to close her eyes according to the sports newspaper keep 2

investigations were carried out into by a year in the early 2000 including one white sports ministry now his contract as a technical advisor was terminated following the 2nd 10 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 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 ati paris.

the us navy has expanded its nuclear arsenal by deploying new low power warheads on submarines capable of launching ballistic missiles coming out patrolling the atlantic but if they were decision was made in an attempt to contain russia or the pentagon claims it will lower the chances of a nuclear war russia says it's a dangerous move. department identified the requirement to modify a small number of submarine launched ballistic missile warheads to address the conclusion that potential adversaries like russia believe that employment of low yield nuclear weapons will give them an advantage over the united states and its allies and partners this reflects the fact that the united states is lowering the nuclear threshold thereby allowing itself to conduct a limited nuclear war and ensuring its victory in any such conflict well let me weapons call the w $76.00 more to the low yield firm a nuclear warhead is about 20 times less powerful than the earlier versions of the

w $76.00 which had been in service on u.s. submarines since the cold war the trouble ministration requested the new tactical nuke in the 2018 nuclear posture review we discussed the issue with security analyst and former u.k. army officer charles ship which. it is absolutely a high risk i mean on the face of it reducing the size of nuclear weapons sounds an attractive option and it should surely be welcomed by everybody the problem is this is more tempting it may be for commanders for the united states for example in this case deploying this weapon system to use in circumstances which wouldn't have merited the deployment and use of the massively powerful systems that they currently have thinking perhaps that i might reduce civilian casualties and so on you can well imagine a situation where if for example president trump feels that international tension is rising that he could delegate for example the use of these so-called you lower your weapons to commanders in the field and therefore you've lost political control

or together russia doesn't need to worry because we're only deploying a weapon against you that's low yield the whole theory appears to be flawed in this case even before that we saw a landed on enemy let's say russian or chinese target you would expect russia or china to have launched its own missiles against the u.s. or its facilities in response. to the top u.n. human at un humanitarian official in mali has said no foreign troops will not help with all of the countries conflict mali and other countries in north africa saw how we can have suffered a surge in terrorist activity over the past few years in france recently pledged an extra $600.00 thought which is to the region $4500.00 french troops are already there the u.n. official told us why the situation in the country is was thinning despite the increased security presence. if you look at the needs that have been identified for 2019 over $3000000.00 people needed support from humanitarian activists

and we hand planned to use about $324000000.00 however only 51 percent has been received obviously you cannot cover the needs of all the people. and to find this vulnerable if you only receive half of the money particularly as the situation is getting worse and looking at a situation where more people will need all the supports and we do have. $1100000.00 people that are in additional. humanitarian assistance well since 2016 the number 8 of jihadi attacks in this our whole region has increased 5 fold thousands of people have been killed or displaced and the latest incident on sunday 20 soldiers were killed by extremists in mali leppla found on the list next abrams thinks negotiations with terror groups are likely to

fail a greater portion of international terrorism will move to africa especially so as well as in libya their fighters are going to continue to increase in number particularly because we're dealing with one of the world's poorest areas with weak governance these kinds of field states create a power vacuum ideal for terrorists of all sorts of brightness so it's very hard for me to imagine what the french will simply have 500 troops and that is going to resolve things 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 islamic state is growing in mali and throughout this a hell they do not want a peace process is it is alarmist 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 chasing r.t. international where in 30 minutes with the latest we'll see if. but.

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of those he know each other is good business the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year of prison complex just to get some point in your life where. you don't care and one of my cares about your so your care might anything. there are a lot of lawmakers in the state of missouri that we know received huge financial contributions from agricultural industry groups those are the groups that oppose proposition b. and there is no doubt in our minds that those same groups pressured lawmakers to overturn proposition b. and before the session even started there were bills that were pretty filed to do just that you feel bad because it was repealed but you know all of your work all of your effort paid off as made a dramatic difference for this i mean just the fact that over almost half these facilities are out of business who could have envisioned that things are definitely

much improved with many of the worst operations but you still have chronic while leaders who are operating you still have any humane treatment of the animals and you still have this defiant attitude that some folks believe they can do whatever they want there are so many issues out here so many porton issues and everybody is struggling in their own way that we don't necessarily want to pick up the other guy struggle eventually i have to go back into my town and face this neighbor and face the other neighbors and i will meet them at church i'll meet them at the grocery store or meet him at the restroom at the sale barn and i'm responsible i am responsible. and i think this is where the buck ends we individually have to take responsibility as producers and also as consumers but i mean i think for the public very clearly you know you have a choice.