from alexion confusion in iowa to donald trump's impeachment of acquittal we look at a week of frustrations for the us democratic party. weekly the arrest of an alleged war criminal who lived in hungary in france on a student visa or exposes dangerous rules in even the gratian policy. in moscow a court grants custody to social services of a completely healthy child he'd been kept in hospital by her parents for 5 years so . i welcome the latest news and look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to you watching the weekend here on r.t. international now it has been a tough week for the u.s.

democratic party its officials have tried to verify data for several days after a technical glitch in the voting app for their caucus elections in iowa despite all precinct information now being in the final result those still remain unclear when the party apologize for mistakes in the procedures and even call for a complete review of the voting the tally was also marred by chaos in the reporting process inaccurate calculations unexplained and consistencies and say missing data but that hasn't stopped some democrats from blaming external interference. 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 i can tell you we're ready was the starting pistol i'd settle 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 to stealing our 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 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 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 did another bitter defeat this week when the senate voted down both their articles of

impeachment against donald trump democrats had claimed abuse of power accusing trump of withholding military aid to pressure ukraine into probing supposed corruption by potential democrat rival joe biden the other charge was approaching of congress a with the president ordering white house aides to defy congressional subpoenas house democrats refuse to accept impeachment defeat although trump was stupid it 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 i thought was acquitted without us he was acquitted without a fair trial no matter what he says or whatever headline he wanted to carry around your impeached for ever. well despite all the trump his ratings are as high as ever saw a boy tell you discuss this with the russian pop star. business is

a collage of who was once at the center of the russia gate scandal 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 the chairman says that he has done in the bus to the world he's pretty good you know advertising down here there's a guy saying all the marketing p.r. skills you can sell any idea that's true. but you know 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 with the issue with the media with all the fake news and all the allegations that he has gotten 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.

you can watch that interview in full on our website and dorsai throughout the day after the bullets in the mall donald trump gave his annual state of the union speech this week and had his own private battle with the democratic speaker of the house of representatives in case you missed it takes an alternative. yet the state of the union is in a bit of a state and there's not much union she was just angry that she ripped up the speech at trump and house speaker nancy pelosi have taken playground politics to a whole new level you know these 2. characters in a room call the go no would be happening next this is where it starts going really good so it's coming in and handed over to proceed and turned away refused to

shake a hand although in his defense did just try and get him impeached pelosi having decided that on this occasion she would not be rather above it getting her revenge prepared takes out. what you begin to see her rip those bits of paper in all this you really think. while we're here just take a look at voice president and we all want to point. us right and. trumps comb over. couple more points where they're joining us at me gallery is the true illegitimate president of venezuela one who i do know this is the point we show that even in the darkest of times there is one thing which we always you know republicans and democrats and that is their ability to meddle with a foreign government this is how to win if you speak to the miracle or spirit is

still young. the soul is still rising. is still shining. and my fellow americans the best is yet to come which is definitive proof of one thing. from wife is a speech is. now in france this week a former spokesperson for a syrian rebel group was arrested on charges of war crimes and also thought that you had a slave been hungry for months before being granted a student scholarship in ma say the authorities were only tipped off after a human rights group that you pointed out his real identity shall devinsky reports now on the loophole that allowed him into the. torture. kidnapping war crimes these are just some of the charges brought against the syrian he was named on a student visa he went by the name of mushed enough may in france back in syria he

was is a lowish no ordinary student t. is said to have once been jayashri islamic press secretary previously nor did his freedom fighters the hardline islamist group in fact curried out a reign of terror in the eastern ghouta suburb of damascus. when you get to the global economy i can see that it was 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 bunches 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 trace of the allegations of torture or forced in this moment of children raising his history seems upped given that generation all islam ceased to exist back in 2018. as. the battle for eastern ghouta played out the french government said it was concerned about a grave violation of human rights and it called for

a cease fire now while it acknowledge the presence of 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 as just a few cation of an offensive aimed at entirely different goals its 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 toppled last year a complaint was filed to the courts in france and josh islam and its senior members and no wanted as it was criminals the complaint filed in june 29th teen was built on over 3 years of documentation of the crimes perpetrated by jaish al islam summary executions kidnappings and the systematic use of torture the group targeted

people suspected of complicity with the regime but also ordinary civilians accuse of not applying the shari'a imposed by the group rigorously enough the international federation for human rights says the arrest of most enough where in mass a paves the way for the 1st investigation of the rebel groups crimes others may be hoping that arrests such as this will help shed more light for crimes committed by opposition forces during the syrian conflict giving a fuller picture of what really happened on the ground. paris is. that cases like these should be better handled by the authorities. 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. prosperous and this in this situation is that he entered legally he

wasn't even hiding he was living in the y. which is a neighborhood in the center smack in the center of more state 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 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 going with legal it's a 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 this these types of stories are going to continue in time. 2 u.s.

soldiers have been killed and 6 wounded in the snuff ghana stands one go ha province that offer a joint u.s. afghan operation to clear an area threatened by the taliban came under attack yesterday. an individual in afghan uniform opened fire on the combined u.s. and afghan forces with machine gun we are still collecting information on the cause or motive behind the attack is our moon at this time while an afghan defense ministry official did say that the shooter was an afghan soldier who had got into an argument with american personnel before opening fire official added that 3 afghan commandos were also wounded and that the shooter was not a taliban infiltrator u.s. troops have faced growing hostility in the country of late coming under increasing attacks but it does come as washington has been trying to reach a peace deal with the taliban and launched negotiations among afghans on both sides of the conflict in his state of the union address president trump stated u.s. soldiers were not meant to go in force and agencies from other nations says.

research analyst at the center for conflict and peace studies heck more tyler as a me has no doubt though that afghans will soon want to merican forces to leave all the collateral damage that's happening with all the civilian casualties that's happening the rest of the american allies you know someone that the americans actually helped to become the president the former president hamid karzai is even speaking against the americans and criticizing the americans for whatever they're doing in the gunnison him and he thinks the american presence in afghanistan is a problem there's no doubt that the afghans at one point in a ritually would want the americans to leave because no country wants to live under a copy of the senses very strong for afghanistan. now for the 1st time in nearly 100 years the domination of ireland's politics by its 2 main parties has been broken shin fein

a left wing populist party his type of government party governing parties finagle and also phina for oil according to the exit poll with the mall getting around 22 percent of the vote we shouldn't feigns unexpected has been the main story of the election the party's already in government in northern ireland and the election south of the border was dominated by the issues of housing and homelessness both the female and from the full parties who have been jointly running government have ruled out going into power. in the run up to the vote but if the indications are correct there will have to be another coalition of some sort in pre-election debates in feigns leader criticize the main parties for not wanting change. you see the soothsayers care that fianna fáil and cynical have had us all their own way now for almost a century and the truth is that they don't want to last and i will turn to. ok let's get reaction now with the independent political commentator anthony webber

who joins us you're very welcome good evening to you anthony look we still don't know the final result do we but if the exit polls are to be believed it's going to be split between all 3 parties what will happen next do you think. well of course it is also a son who is very close there's $160.00 seats. there are 39 multi-member constituencies with between 3 and 5 members is. shown by any inventions already putting out 42 pounds 8 school 160 seats so they only have a chance of influencing government even if they call all 43 that seeds. i doubt very much work there anyone who wants again to try to should work. because of their track record of being associated with the ira in the past. i have

felt very sort of left wing agenda but the reason why she doesn't well hold on we don't know how well it. is because they decide to confront this election not hold with some certainty issues the big term most the us and the housing issue. in the republican party. the big health problems gall and other issues such as crime. they really were suddenly there's a need for change a great offer air if you listen to what some of the poets say base i. will try to they just should just surprise us very. traditionally they don't actually get their growing government so if they get more all members of the arash collins or less at this time then they need to demonstrate against to. make an

effort to conjugate sciri to government but of course weak on ignore the fact that probably will be at least 10 in the pendant so that's it looks like the green faulty. possibly the. numbers on the palm. the well i'm sure all the passerby's is just a question note. what the other 2. current coalition parties are going to come up with in cern so you know what the results are going to be really regard can't see anyone going to occur. but that said. politically among the powers that be nobody wants to go into coalition with them but you know many members of the public have decided to side machine fane they obviously like their politics that's going to have an effect an impact isn't it on how politics go forward in the future in the republic of ireland. yes i mean

that's a fact so because of bad mind very good will try they've had one count of a city should be constituencies and that is the view it's one people are going to lump or various they might just give one of those very soon to a posse which is there any question on candidates. both will be off the main parties are going to loose if they go through the x. rays and 5 candidates saw one no one would choose them against a least because a very extreme given sufficient vote in america was so says that this does happen with other parties as well because as far as your larry this process selection of aussies. in the selection. it has been sector juden prime sugar 1st up more candidates but it's actually john cole whether they've got the colts 2 candidates the person across the republicans on the none of

the so. and in fact they only really hold the side in percentages a cheaper place in north not having served but it's the see some of the shouldn't foreign. pacer go off and let's say to all of us preference. eighty's or better wake up call even if it surprises us for you that's right come call for some of the major issues which needs to be addressed in the republican. or that's the interesting thing he's only one percent of people so precious it was an issue because he will be an issue because interesting enough the the republican bond and the right about the same time seed now i'm seeing signs he's very. very tied up trade wise with the with the chariot.

wouldn't be surprised by your over. your degree only big interesting caylee anthony i'm going to leave it there but really nice to talk to you as anthony webber a political commentator thanks for coming on. ok some world news in brief now 2 police officers have been shot within the space of 12 hours in the bronx neighborhood of new york officials suspect the attacks may be linked and have apprehended a suspect one officer was shot inside a police station and the other while out on patrol both are in a stable condition a plane from the russian airliner has crash landed in the north of the country all 96 people on board the boeing 737 were on the airline says that a sharp unpredictable wind shear occurred during the landing causing the way it was to collapse as the aircraft hit the runway the flight had departed from moscow. and

finally in germany the 2nd highest level of storm warning has been issued across much of the country storms and being sweeps in britain an island where the storm is named here also faced a battering today with winds of up to 120 kilometers per hour that's led to the cancellation of trains and flights across parts of europe. moscow court has given custody have a child to social authorities are parents fail to take a home after 5 years the girl has been living in hospital almost a whole life despite doctors pointing out that she is actually perfectly healthy the parents can appeal the decision although officials do hope to eventually give the girl to her grandparents 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 as grounds for

the wrestling russian or stressing me or her captain washington's embrace. if. you. don't have to be here to accomplish. 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 her without parental consent nor the reason i don't wish she doesn't know and not 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 own 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 is the child has been hospital for 5 years and the parents are not doctors they just pay the bills how reliable is information the child is healthy there is no need for her to stay in hospital on monday the corps delivered its verdict that's over 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 final leave the confines of the hospital and see the world she has been drawing for all these years and that is the weekly for this hour we're back with more stories in about 30 .

welcome to front running 2020 coming to you from brooklyn as we take a look at all the economic policies of the democratic candidates today saying it was bernie sanders the man from brooklyn who 1st introduced medicare for all in 2016 hillary clinton called it a shiny pony for the people well it looks like the united states might actually get universal health care for the 1st time and i want to introduce our guests here dr michael hudson james howard kunstler and randy kohler dr michael hudson why does the united states not have universal health care and do we need it because of the united states is an arena over what kind of central planning are we going to have

is it going to be centralized planning by wall street that's out to squeeze as much monopoly pricing is it can or are we going to have the more decentralized planning by government where you're obviously going to have the same doctors as before there are only so many doctors in america but are the doctors going to be working for the patients and for the government that people vote for or are they going to be working for wall street and the financial firms that are trying to squeeze more and more money out for a pharmaceutical profit and for operating profit and to make it a money how did health care become a wedge issue in other words you would think it would be something that everyone for decades would agree is a basic necessity and a functioning economy and a functioning society and yet it's used like guns or like abortion as a wedge issue which they can tell its message so when you look at what dr drew.