from election confusion in iraq to donald trump's impeachment acquittal a week of frustration for the us democratic party also to come on the way to arrest them alleged war criminals who lived in hungary in france in the student visa or expose his language schools in the gratian policy and in moscow court grants custody to social services of a completely healthy child being kept in hospital by her parents a 5 year. hello there the latest news in the look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to you watch and wait to hear an r.t. international now it has been a tough week for the u.s.

democratic party his 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 being in the final result still remain unclear the party apologized for mistakes in the procedures and even called for a complete review of the voting tally was also marred by chaos in the reporting process inaccurate calculations on expanding consistencies and also missing data that didn't stop some politicians 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 already iowa was the starting pistol i'd settle for 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.

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 inconsistency is 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 america stealing our veterans setting isis prisoners free losing don't reconfirmed ladies and gentlemen the worst is yet. here comes the incompetence part these groups are 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 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 obstruction of congress over the president ordering white house aides to defy congressional subpoenas house democrats refused to accept the impeachment defeat although trump 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 3 was acquitted without us he was acquitted without a fair trial no matter what he says or whatever headline he want to carry around your impeached for ever now despite all the efforts is disrupt trump his ratings are as high as ever looks on a boy go discuss this with the russian pop star and trump's former business associate him and

a girl at all through was once the center of the russia gate scandal. i think his presidency has been unfair towards him because you know the press and the media you know everybody reflects on all the negatives 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 you got to see all of them 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 with the issue 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 that interview in full on our website and throughout the day after the bulletin meanwhile donald trump gave his annual state of the union speech this week and had his own private battle with the democratic speaker of the highside representatives with an alternative take on what happened his artes in case you missed it. thank you thank you yep 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 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 is where really good. commie handed over a speech to for no see and turned away to shake her hand while they're in his

defense did just try and get him impeached says' pelosi having decided that on this occasion she will not be right just above it getting her revenge but takes out. what's the good to see her rip those bits of paper in all this we really think he wants us. while we're here just take a look at voice president and. we all want to find someone that looks like. trump's comb over still has a couple more points where joining us in the 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 was 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 for the miracle for our 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. wife is a speech is. now to france where a former spokes person for a syrian rebel group has been arrested on charges of war crimes and torture this week the jihadists lived in hungary for months before being granted a student scholarship in marsay the authorities were only tipped off after human rights groups pointed out his real identity shot at the minsky looks at the loophole that allowed him into the. torture kidnapping war crimes these are just some of the charges brought against a syrian who was named on a student visa he went by the name of mushed enough made in france back in syria he

was is a wish no ordinary stews and 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 ghouta suburb of damascus. when you give 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 bachelor's degrees from not one but diversity's including in hungary and when it comes to

experience he mentions being the c.e.o. of the syrian news monitoring network may trace of the allegations of torture or forced in this moment of children raising his history seems an apt 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 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 if occasion of an offensive and as 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 talked balt last year a complaint was filed to the courts in france and josh and the senior members and no wanted 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 accused of not applying the shari'a posed 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 of crimes committed by opposition forces during the syrian conflict giving a fuller picture of what really happened on the ground. ati paris. political analyst nicole america vigil please the cases like this should be better handled by the authorities. and once you enter the european union you can go more or less where you walk 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

wide 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 another country going with legal it's a university this is very bad press so there might be someone who's in the following days but i think unfortunately if the government doesn't handle the process of immigration illegal 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. seeing u.s. soldiers have been killed and 6 wounded in eastern afghanistan one province that

after a joint u.s. afghan operation to clear an area threatened by the taliban came under attack yesterday. an individual an 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 and afghan defense ministry officials said that the shooter was an afghan soldier who had got into an argument with american personnel before opening fire the official added that 3 afghan commandos were also wounded and the shooter was not a taliban will infiltrate or u.s. troops have faced growing hostility in the country of late coming under increasing attacks but it comes 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 serve as law enforcement agencies for other nations

research analysts at the center for conflict and peace studies. as army has no doubt afghans will soon want american forces to leave. with 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 afghanistan and he thinks the american presence in afghanistan is a problem there's no doubt that the afghans one point will you would want the americans to leave because no country wants to live under a corporation the senses very strong for afghanistan. now is the 1st time in nearly 100 years the domination of violence politics by its 2 main parties has been broken in thing the left wing populist party is tied with

governing parties in a gale and all safina for oil according to the exit poll with all of them getting around 22 percent vote jim feigns unexpected surge 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 us use of housing and homelessness both the phoenix gale and for all parties who have been jointly running the government though have ruled out going with sheen fein in the run up to the vote but if the early indications are correct there will have to be another coalition of some sort in pre-election debate shinn feigns leader criticize the main parties for not wanting change. you see that see this is scare that scene of silence and again 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 this and. ok let's get some analysis now with the political analyst and director of pangea why. good evening to you please men what do you make of the exit polls so far in

the commentary that we've heard many people are saying this is a success story fane i'm thinking if the party is refusing to go into coalition with how much of a victory or cysts excess story is it really. as it was a question i think you have to 1st of all andrew wait and see what the actual results are you know we can speculate all we want before we see the results come in but i think we'll have a clearer idea of where the country goes next once these results come in but let's take the speculative results now take a split 3 ways and historically it's been a 2 party system coming into the mix now we will see a change in politics. and a change of sentiment as to what happens with aravind in the next 5 to 10 years now i think so it's going to be an interesting time for ireland and we'll see what the actual results say health conscious moves forward. what you put the increase of the surge in popularity for fain to mean what they campaigning on.

but i think it was perhaps more opportunistic than anything i think it was doing a perceived as being doing a good job with foreign affairs with what's happening with making sure our disposition is clear but also in talks with the u.k. but i think they took the ground of domestic domestic issues as you mentioned in your in your brain the beginning of homelessness i think the public services the rise of living in ireland has gone it's got a little considerably and the populace may see that there's not really address these issues properly so we will see if she does take a big chunk of the vote props more focus what happens with northern ireland perhaps the issue of the irish language act being brought back into the picture as they have leverage now of you know putting these issues forward and making some sort of change happen for their own benefit i also know that much of the vote i mean obviously not all but a large portion came from the young age between the age of 18 and 25 what do you

make of that what does that tell us. but again i think the polls will be one thing but we'll see what the results say all they captured the youth imagination they probably in their campaigning gave a vision of ireland which was counter to what the other 2 parties had we need to remember darling has been sort of in coalition with the 2 main parties for a long time so coming in with a different approach perhaps was what was the refreshing enough to capture the demographics of the youth. but if they do come into a coalition i think that will really change the trajectory of irish politics for the next as i mentioned 10 years at least this may be a good thing for some may be a setback for others but a change comes with responsibility and i'm sure all 3 parties know this do you think there's a chance that could happen that you could find themselves in the coalition despite

everything that people have said. well i think politicians in the 1st place love to put out what their intentions are but again results fact stuart really match well with intentions when the facts come to be so if you come into a coalition of interest and see which which partners will take them on and may not be just a 2 party coalition we may see a coalition with me because greens or the labor party will see how they play it moving forward i have this sort of reminds you of when the conservatives want a coalition with the liberal democrats there are some references to be joined there but they will be interesting to see what issues will bring forward if they do global coalition what issues they will put out the 2nd and 3rd 'd this will probably be very different to what the main 2 parties wish for it will be fascinating look listen we've got to leave it there good to see that with a morality and a little bit of analyst and that directive than g a y. case will brief 90 police officers have been shot within the space of 12 hours

and 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. where a plane from the russian airline air has crash landed in the north of the country all 96 people on board the boeing 770. and predictable wind shear occurred during the landing causing the wheels to collapse as the aircraft the runway at the flight had departed from moscow. and finally. germany the 2nd highest level of storm warning has been issued across much of the country the storms have been a sweep the storms have been sweeps in britain and ireland but the storm is named here have also faced the battering of hurricane strength winds of up to 120 kilometers per hour that has led to the cancellation of trains and flights across

parts of your. moscow courses given custody of a child to social authorities after parents failed to take a home for 5 years the girl has been living in a hospital almost all her life despite doctors there pointing at that she's actually perfectly healthy the parents can appeal the decision but officials do hope to eventually give her 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 its grounds for the wrestling machine or stress me or her captain washington's in my case. you. don't have to be here to do much for the voice or hearing 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 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 think that's the logical conclusion that the child has been hospital for 5 years and the parents are not doctors they just paid the bills how reliable is the information the child is healthy there is no need for her to stay in the hospital. on monday the core 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 you can watch and we can hear on r.t. international s i things looking don't forget they plenty of stories too as usual at a website. eat . eat. eat eat.

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a. part of. the welcome to worlds apart show and shallow though he may appear in 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 about the 45th president of the united states that makes people laugh and hate him so much to discuss that i'm now joined by somebody who's had direct access to decent don't singer interpreter and former business associate of don charm i mean that a lot of history a lot of hits pleasure to talk to thank you very much pleasure so much now let me

start by asking whether you had 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 a jury of his presidency is surrounded by so much fake news is a face 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 you always believed he would be a president and you have. the paid merican for how come with 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 to 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. job. 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 3 presidents it's interesting though to say that because current day he. is riding very high in the polls according to gallup 63 percent of the americans approve of the of he's handling of the economy which is a record not only for trump but also for any president since 911. in your view or is it primarily due to the real deal.