on the election confusion in iowa to donald trump's impeachment acquittal we look at a week of prostrations for the us democratic party also weekly arrest of an alleged war criminal who lived in hungary in france on a student visa exposes dangerous rules in the immigration policy and in moscow a call custody to social services of a completely healthy child who had been kept in hospital by her parents for 5 years . but i welcome the latest news and a look back at the last 7 days to you watch and we can 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 out for their caucus elections in iowa despite all precincts information now being in the final result still remains unclear the party though apologize for mistakes in the procedures and even called for a complete review of the voting the tally was also marred by chaos in the reporting process inaccurate calculations unexplained in consistencies and missing data but that didn't stop some politicians from blaming external forces. do 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 votes counting made by a secretive company called shadow inc that i suppose was the 1st clue who contracts a company called shadow to build an open transparent voting app democrats the people who shouted loudest about russia threatening american elections that

breaking news russian hackers tried to hack wisconsin's election system russia's hacked into a lot of things russian hackers the kremlin clan it certainly looks like they're at it again and with an eye towards helping this president to combat strums popularity democrats created 2 organizations acronym and paquin him to flood the internet and t.v. with anti trump and anti russian propaganda trump spent $10000000.00 on a commercial for tonight's super bowl we fixed it for him under president truman miracle speeding or veterans setting isis prisoners free losing don't reconfirm ladies and gentlemen the worst is yet. here comes the incompetence part these groups a pact with people who ran and sank hillary clinton's campaign including shadow inc

founded by a former clinton campaign manager they've spend fortunes and amateur propaganda and apps that don't work all that. money the effort is just to see trump have the last laugh. when will a democrat stop blaming russia russia russia instead of their own incompetence for the voting disaster that just happened in the great state of iowa 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 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. while 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 suppose it corruption by potential democratic rival joe biden the of the charge was obstruction of congress say with the president ordering white house aides to fi congressional subpoenas as democrats are refusing to accept the impeachment the theat although trump of course is jubal. 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 thought was acquitted without us he was acquitted without a fair trial and what he says or whatever headline he wanted to carry around here impeached for ever. despite all the efforts to disrupt his writings are as high as ever santa boyko discuss this with a russian pop star and trump's former business associate who was once at the center

of the russian 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 negative and we rarely hear and see what the chairman says that he has done in the bus tour while 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're on 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 edition 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 he 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 throughout the day off to the police and meanwhile donald trump gave his i know say to be speech this week and had his a private battle with the democratic speaker of the highest representatives within alternative view of what's actually happened his artes in case you missed. it. 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 at trump and house speaker nancy pelosi have taken playground politics to a whole new level you know these 2 characters in a room called the go no would be happening next this was wasted on really good. comedy and handed a free speech for those c and turned away with the show. hand although in his

defense did just try and get him impeached so is pelosi having decided that on this occasion she will not be rather getting her revenge but it takes that. she. swore to begin to see her rip those bits of paper. this one really think. while we're here just take a look at voice president and we all want to find someone that looks to us right and looks at trump's comb over from there has a couple more points where they're 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 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 of those beaches. in france this week a former spokes person for a syrian rebel group was arrested on charges of war crimes and also torture the jihadists lived in hungry for months before being granted a student scholarship emaar say if they were only tipped off after a human rights group pointed out his real identity she had been at the new poll 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 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. oh. well you see 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 from not one but diverse cities 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 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 acknowledged 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 us entirely different goals it's real intentions are indeed to annihilate any a 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 east 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. altie paris political analyst nicola merk of it believes that cases like this 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. 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 of continue 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 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 the comfort of their country going legal it's a university this is very bad press so there might be some mediate coups 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. that i had here on the way to u.s.

soldiers and being killed during an operation in afghanistan will have the details in a couple. join me every 1st week on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to get a little bit politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

and. donald trump might appear showy and shallow but he has once again defied his critics this time by securing his impeachment acquittal what is it about the 44th president of the united states that makes people love and hate his son. welcome back to us soldiers have been killed and 6 wounded in eastern afghanistan 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

official has said the shooter was an afghan soldier who had got into an argument with the american personnel before opening fire efficient 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 comes as washington has been trying to reach a peace deal with the taliban and all should go she ations among afghans on both sides of the conflict in his state of the union address president trump did say that u.s. soldiers were not meant to serve as role in force and agencies for other nations. research analyst at the center for conflicts and peace studies has met as army has no doubt though that afghans will soon want american forces to leave. with all the collateral damage that's happening with all the civilian casualties that's happening and the best of the american are lies 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 are one point in a ritual you would want the americans to leave because no country wants to live under a copy of the senses very strong for afghanistan. a 1st time in nearly 100 years the dog domination of violence politics by its 2 main parties has been broken shin fein a left wing populist party is tied with governing party in a gale and for oil according to the exit poll with them all getting around 22 percent of the vote jim feigns an. expected has been the main story of the election the parties already in government in northern ireland and the elections and the board was dominated by issues of housing and only snus both phoenix. parties who

have been jointly running the government without however going into power with him fein in the run up to the vote but if you are correct there will have to be another coalition of some sort in pre-election debates feigns leader criticised the main parties for not wanting to change. their seat the soothsayers scare that seemed a solemn cynic i 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 it. when i spoke with the political commentator anthony webb of his take on the results. strike up call for some of the major issues which need to be addressed in the. us the interesting thing is in the one percent of people so the suit was an issue. clearly it will be issue the who is interesting in miles the republican vote on who

is going to be about the certain strong so you. know i'm seeing certain she's 30. 5 doctrinally do you care you. wouldn't be slightly surprised by your. years of the republic of ireland. joining 3 and leaving the thing. meanwhile is the us election race hate up twitter and you tube advantage changes to the way they fight to materials or though they have been quite famed kids don't quarter i reports. we all like a good many i know i do and that's why i'm here to warn you that they're 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 plated 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

satire is another man's trigger there's bound to be those who will find hilarious songs like this one unhealthy for political discourse when. we. actually learn a little of what 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. all 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. over the last few years we've increased or if it's to make. news and information as well as an open platform for healthy political discourse you remember that video trumps supporters made portraying their president massacring the mainstream media and the church it was funny to them to the mainstream media while 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 think a bug just quit right here. we need new babies out there think we need time to make new ones because the old ones just become so big twitters netizens have already

picked up on the controversy because people were kind of easy to see is this i love how you used the word doctored because that's the and he said tucker means the left commie twitter oh yeah well now no one can make your bed in the names which will cause harm to the draft we can read between the lines there will be no unimproved 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. the rules vague wording who knows how internet freedom will fare as a result. moscow court has given custody of a child to social authorities after parents failed to take a home for 5 years the girl had been living in hospital almost the whole of her life despite doctors pointing out that she's actually perfectly healthy parents can appeal the decision although officials still hope the girl will eventually go 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 her entire life she has never left its grounds for the wrestling machine or stress me or her captain washington's embrace. each. person can really hear too much. 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 know the reason it 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 that's the logical conclusion the child has been hospital for 5 years and the parents are not doctors they just paid the bills how reliable is information the child is healthy and 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 and that's how the weekend looks. international thanks me company thanks for watching the back again. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises apologise to the people and promise to be you know we've all pots be. ready.

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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 paid off has made a dramatic difference for this i mean just the fact that almost half these facilities are out of business who could have been patient 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. and

you still have the 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 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 in the product that you buy at the store.