thank you would you be if you introduce you to the leaders. the election confusion in. trump's impeachment what will we look at a week of frustrations for the us democratic party. of an alleged criminal who lived in hungry then france on a student visa reveal serious and apparent you could allow in terrorist. a key regional prime minister steps down in germany straight after being elected over fury from both top politicians and the public over a pact chancellor merkel's party and the rightwing alternative to germany that brought out.

other great to have you with us you watching the weekly here on r.t. . it has been a tough week for the us democratic party and its officials trying to verify data for several days after a technical glitch in the voting out for their caucus elections in iowa despite all precinct information now being in the final result remains unclear the party apologized for mistakes in the procedures even calling for a complete review of the voting tally itself is also marred by chaos in the reporting process in accurate calculations unexplained consistencies and missing data did all the while the party obsessed with supposed external interference. given 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 carcasses and we've run through a few different scenarios but i can tell you we're ready was the starting pistol

etc for a race and at the end the prize is becoming the 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 going to 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 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. 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 i hope that the i were democrats will ask for an f.b.i. investigation on the app i believe that russia has been engaged in interfering with a number of our elections dealing with the 21 election say i'm sorry the 2016 election 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. well the

democrats suffered another bitter defeat this week when the senate voted down both their articles of impeachment against donald trump democrats claimed abuse of power accusing trump of withholding military aid to pressure ukraine into probing supposed corruption by potential democratic rival joe biden there the charge was obstruction of congress over the president ordering white house aides to defy congressional subpoenas house democrats refused to accept the impeachment defeat was jubilant did nothing wrong. i've done things wrong in my life i will admit not purposely but i've done things wrong. but this is what the end result is of that was acquitted without facts he was acquitted without a fair trial no matter what he says or whatever headline he wants to carry around here impeached what ever despite all the efforts to disrupt trump his ratings are as high as ever sonny boy could discuss this with russian pop star and trump's

former business associate i mean i get a lot of who was once at the center of the russia gate saga. i think his presidency has been unfair towards him because you know the press and the media you know everybody reflects on all the negative and we rarely hear and see what that humans that he has done in the bus to the world he's pretty good you know advertising down here he's got a lot of them in marketing p.r. skills so they can sell the idea that's true. but you know that the miller in the investigation and the impeachment. in whatever way he could he took all the positives but in the end you know he has been winning and winning and winning every battle he had with the moon in this occasion with the media with all the fake news and all the allegations that he has gotten and you would think that anybody has you know skeletons in his closet if you had them we would already have seen them because you know he's been probably the most studied presidential figure in the

history of the united states. and you can watch the full interview on our website and after this bulleted meanwhile donald trump gave his annual state of the union speech this week and how does that imply the battle of the democratic speaker of the house of representatives in case you missed it looks. thank you thank yet the state of the union is in a bit of a state and there's not much union she was just angry she ripped up the speech i promptly and house speaker nancy pelosi have taken playground politics so a whole new level you know these 2 were characters in a wrong call i think i know would be happening next this was wasted really good. commie and handed over a speech to follow c.

and turned away with the shake her hand although in his defense did just try and get him impeached says' pelosi having decided that on this occasion she will not be right above it getting her revenge but it takes out. what you begin to see how rich those bits of paper. really think it's not supposed to be while we're here just take a look at voice president might. we all want to find someone that looks like. trump comare with star has a couple more points where joining us in the gallery is the true and illegitimate president of venezuela why do this is the point we show that even in the darkest of times there is one thing which was always you know republicans and democrats is their ability to meddle with

a foreign government this is how to win if you speak of a miracle our spirit is still young the solar still rising. is still shining. and my fellow americans the best is yet to come which is definitive proof of one thing there's no way out of the problem wife is a speech is. well it's from where a former spokesperson for a syrian rebel group has been arrested on charges of war crimes and torture the jihadist lived in hungary for months before being granted a student scholarship in march say your thirty's only to top after a human rights group pointed out his real identity. looks at the loophole that allowed him into the european union. torture kidnapping war crimes these are just some of the charges brought against a syrian who was in france on a student visa he went by the name of mushed enough in france back in syria he was

is a wish no ordinary student he is said to have once been jayashri islamic press secretary previously nor did his freedom fighters the hardline islamist group in fact carried out a reign of terror in the eastern suburb of damascus. where you. can see in his 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 with universities 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 an act 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 widely to acknowledge the presence of just 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 was just if occasion of an offensive and it's entirely different goals it's real intentions are indeed to annihilate any and all opposition and break the morale of civilians by indiscriminately massacring them following that offensive in the east by the syrian army gyration al islam was talk pulled last year a complaint was filed to the courts in france and islam and the senior members and no one 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. ati paris. political analyst the nickel american which believes that such issues should be handled by the government better. once you enter the european union you could 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. preposterous in 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 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 we 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 come from the country to go and 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 illegal immigration and the secret service if the government doesn't tackle these issues seriously unfortunately this these types of stories are going to continue in time. in a major shake up in german politics

a key regional prime minister has quit just hours after taking up the position that's amid a huge backlash over an unprecedented pact between the ruling christian democrats and the right wing if the party that brought him to power odessa erupted across the country against the big. family. to quitting as prime minister in the wake of the growing scandal thomas kemmerer consisted the feature deals with alternative for germany out of the question. is

just resignation was inevitable the dissolution of the parliament is inevitable if detroit yesterday with a perilous trick of damage democracy there was no cooperation with the f.t. there is no such cooperation and will never be told us carrick they're quick to say that he had nothing to do with a deal with alternative for germany but well how long he sticks around at the higher levels of the free democratic party with that may be measured in hours similar to his reign as prime minister of the state of to ensure he's fairly much in the firing line at the moment and it's been a huge backlash to this situation it's unfolded into india backlash from politicians also from the public is well it follows this union basically this alliance between the c.d.u. which is angle of merkel's party the right wing alternative for germany party the f.d.a. to support and back thomas kennedy to be the prime minister of the state of to even

get that resulted in condemnation of condemnation from all the high angle of merkel herself having something to say about it and this is unforgivable and that's why the results must be reversed the election of the prime minister was a unique process that broke with the basic conviction of the c.d.u. and also of mine namely that no jury should be one with the help of the a.f.p. this is a band day for democracy. chancellor merkel have to say something because she often repeated that promise that there would be no alliance between alternative for germany and her christian democratic union it's really seen as the big to boo in german politics to have anything to do with a half day to try and use them to gain power in fact you saw large demonstrations across germany on wednesday evening against what we've seen happening today nya

christian linda who's the head of the free democratic party that thomas kennedy belongs to at least for now in fact he's called for a vote of confidence while speaking to the party leadership when it comes to the c.d.u. themselves local representatives in the state of today just saying they don't want to see new elections in the state it does look like that's the direction we're heading in at the moment when you look at that it's hard to think that would have been possible just a short while ago while angle a miracle was head of the christian democratic union that there would be a local faction of the pasty that would be so publicly. against what head office is saying is one of the smallest states in the german federal republic it's the rock that's being thrown in there and not pool has certainly cast ripples far afield. we go reaction to the story from different sides of germany's political spectrum. parliament voted with this majority for does

liberal and it is clear that our deputies from f.t. also supported this liberal candidate but it's completely constitutional completely democrat democratic the political left wing a leader of the centrist elite and bowlen is not willing to accept that in a federal state parliament elects a liberal to be prime minister because they say he has the support of the wrong after all party if he into the 2nd largest force and the people voted for it chose and which states democracy in germany as an hour after government of i get our merkel to lead a. regional federal government and you elected through fascist this is. a group of a child who is it's not a question of legal it's a quest question of politics and this. of course in the professional

political. system on the federal level you are professional you move all and you think forward rich scenarios. and if you know that sooner you can happen the. trick tries to bring in. a government religion to meet that it's all just politics you should do anything to him. as the us election race heats up twitter and you tube of announce changes to the way they find doctored materials don't go to take a look at the tech john says some of a good thing in these new rules. we all like a good me i know i do and that's why i'm here to warn you that there are potentially in danger because of twitter's new war on altered images and videos that might mislead voters we know that some tweets include many pleated photos. or

videos that can cost people harm today we're introducing a new rule and a label that will address and give people more context around this tweets one man's satire is another man's trigger there's bound to be those who will find hilarious songs like this one unhealthy for political discourse i love it when you told. me. what it is boiled its definition of so-called doctored images down to a few criteria editing of the contents composition changes in its visual or auditory information and anything that simulates real people but who actually gets to make the call on what does or doesn't harm is anyone's guess are these trump dog and rocky memes politically misleading maybe this one with bernie sanders is harmful a political satire well it's always bound to hurt someone's feelings but if you're not on twitter don't think this isn't going to step on your toes you tube's got its

own version of this new policy of the 2020 lection season kicks into high gear in the united states people who visit you tube to learn about the candidates and watch the election season unfolds over the last few years we've increased or if it's to make. news and information as well as an open platform for who flee political discourse you remember that video trumps supporters made portraying their president massacring the mainstream media in a church it was funny to them to the mainstream media well they were a bit offended the white house correspondents association says it is horrified by this and is calling on president trump to denounce the video c.b.s. has decided not to show that video we can't show this video because it's so disgusting it's extremely violent it is disturbing and those bad liberating videos could also be interpreted as politically misleading or probably every day like a bug just with my. we need new babies out there think we need time to make new

ones because the old ones just become so big twitter's netizens have already picked up on the controversy cause people harm what kind of insanity is this i love how you use the word doctored because that's the elites attack on memes the left caught me on twitter oh yeah well now no one can make your battin names which may cause harm to the left we can read between the lines there will be no unapproved thought in the people's republic of twitter coverage it seems that without any ultimate authority to make the call on what is and isn't a violation so many decisions will be left to the rules vague wording who knows how internet freedom will fare as a result. moscow courters given custody of a child to social or after parents failed to take a home for 5 years the girl has been living in hospital almost her entire life despite doctors saying that she is perfectly healthy the parents can appeal the

decision but officials hope to eventually give the girl to her. this girl is 5 years old and she's had a bizarre sheltered life. this is the room where she lives it's not in a house or apartment and her relatives are not by her side it's an elite private hospital in central moscow and for entire life she has never left his grounds for the wrestling machine or stress me or her captain washington's embrace. each. person who can be here with them but. the voice or sharing is not her mother it's her nanny the mother has decided that her daughter is hopelessly ill and must be confined to a hospital. however

doctors say that the girl is perfectly healthy and there is no medical reason to keep her in the clinic although they have been unable to discharge or without parental consent norman isn't a dog which she doesn't know and yet in life but she's a good normal girl the girl's parents have paid the hospital huge sums of money almost $200000.00 a year to keep her there in the company of private nannies almost a year ago the parents stopped sending their payments but they still refused to take her home and a legal battle has been raging so the hospital convinced the parents to leave their child in the hospital all this time i guess the logical conclusion if the child has been hospital for 5 years i'd be parents are not doctors they just paid the bills how reliable is information the child is healthy there is no need for her to stay in hospital. on monday the court delivered its verdict that and your resume can the

parents are to be stripped of parental rights to the girl and she will be placed in the custody of child welfare services perhaps soon she will finally leave the confines of the hospital and see the world she has been drawing for all these years and stay with us each other for updates on our top stories in half an hour. you know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter 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 truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. are. going the welcome to worlds apart so we are in shallow though he may appear and donald trump has once again defied his critics by securing the impeachment acquittal from the sound of a rising ever higher in the public opinion polls what is it the 45th president of

the united states that makes people law and hate him so much well to discuss that i'm now joined by somebody who's had direct access to do you don't sing your interpreter and former business associate of their own child i mean there's a lot of mystery lot of france pleasure to talk to thank you very much pleasure is all mine now let me start by asking whether your house. any chance to 'd follow the impeachment proceedings this past week and did you root for any of the sides well i haven't followed the thoroughly because i've been traveling a lot lately and you know the whole trump segment jury in his presidency is surrounded by so much fake news as a say so i never believed that he could be impeached i always believe that he'll be a president and you know all in all he is what it is he always believed he would be a president and you have. the paid merican for how can we have the magna slogan spelled out and it's very rare for somebody in russia to have such an artifact is

that an expression of a personal or political sympathy it was a gift by a russian artist that during the election and during all the hype about me being somehow involved in. mr trump's presidency. this was given to me for my birthday and i really liked it and that's part of my collection here in the room where i spend some of my time do you actually think that he's making america great absolutely in the way in every possible economical. way considering that you know g.d.p. is above the roof. joe blow's. crowd is almost gone in america and i think he's been a very successful president at least financially as a businessman with the business background he's been more successful than a lot of his presidents it's interesting that they say that because.