from election confusion in iowa to donald trump's impeachment acquittal we look at a week of frustrations for the u.s. democratic. also to come on the weekly directs of an alleged war criminal who lived in hungary and france in the student visa exposes flaws in the new immigration policy and in moscow a court grants custody to social issues of a completely healthy child who had been kept in hospital by her parents for 5 years . good evening you're watching the weekly here in r.t. international now it has been

a tough week for the us democratic party it's 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 precincts information now being in the final result still remains unclear when the party 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 inconsistencies and missing data but 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 ready was the starting pistol and 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. 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 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 states 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 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 did suffer another bitter defeat this week when the senate voted down both their articles of impeachment against donald trump their kratz 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 with the president ordering white house aides to defy congressional subpoenas as democrats are refusing to accept the impeachment defeat although trump of course is 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 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 here impeached for ever well despite all the efforts to disrupt his writings are as high as ever the son of boyko discussed this with a russian pop star and trump's former business associate to who was once at 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 achievements that he has done in the bus to the world he's pretty good you know advertising down here you got to see all the marketing p.r. skills you can sell any 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 movie motivation 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 of course. the bullets in the mall donald trump gave his annual state of the union speech this week to you and had his private battle with the democratic speaker of the house of representatives with an alternative take on what actually happened. in case you missed it. thank you thank yeah 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 to 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 fellow c.

and turned away to shake a 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 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 find someone that looks like. trump coma or still has a couple more points where they're not joining us in the gallery is the true illegitimate president of venezuela why do this is the point we show that even in the darkest of times there is one thing which will always you know republicans and democrats 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. from wife is a speech is. in france this week a former spokesperson for a syrian rebel group was arrested on charges of war crimes and top cheer the jihadists lived in hungary for months before being granted a student scholarship to maher say the authorities were only tipped off after a human rights group pointed out his real identity shala difference he looks now at the loophole that allowed him into the u. . 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 wish no ordinary stews and 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. with the belief 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 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 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 talked balt last year a complaint was filed to the courts in france and josh and the 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. that's glamorous and 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 patrols 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 you could 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 come from another country going with a girl 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 these types of stories are going to continue in time still to come on the we continue to

u.s. soldiers have been killed during an operation in afghanistan we'll have a look at that story person others take just after this break. thanks guys or. the girl i. loved it is it is essential plugs for diet good news for the club and right now it's a stop to. welcome

back to u.s. soldiers have been killed and 6 wounded in eastern afghanistan. after a joint u.s. afghan operation to clear an area threatened by the taliban came under attack on saturday. 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 and afghan defense ministry official said that the shooter was an afghan soldier who had got into an argument with the american personnel before opening fire if issued added to 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 from the state to you that u.s. soldiers were not meant to serve as law enforcement agencies of the nation's research analyst at the center for conflict and peace studies hack gnutella as army has no doubt 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 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 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. the 1st time in nearly a 100 years the head domination of ireland's politics by its 2 main parties has been broken in fein the left wing populist party is tied with governing party in a gale and also if you know for oil according to the exit poll with all of them getting around 22 percent of the. vote gin feigns unexpected has been the main

story of the election the party is already in government in northern ireland and the election south of the border was dominated by the issues of housing and homelessness both the phoenix. parties who have been jointly running the government room back going into power with fein in the run up to the vote but if the early indications are correct they 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 that see this is care that fianna fáil and senate game 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 i says and earlier i spoke to the political commentator anthony where bertha his take on the results. strange hochuli for some of the range of issues which need to be addressed some. of those the the interesting thing is only one

percent of all so it was going to shoot. it clearly it will be a shoe the loses interest again miles the republicans are going to be about the certainly trying to see you. once you start and she's fairly. they're going to try doctrove. do you care you. wouldn't be surprised the year over year of the republic of ireland. joining me big thing. now is the us election race heats up twitter need cheap haven't and changes the way they do fight dr materials though they have been quite vague tell you is don't quarter now 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'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 rather coldly. 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 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 trump 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 is extremely violent it is disturbing and those bad liberating videos could also be interpreted as politically misleading you're probably only day like

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 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 bed in the eames which may cause harm to the left 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 to the rules vague wording who knows how internet freedom will fare as a result. finally this hour a moscow court has given custody of a child to social authorities after parents failed to take a home for 5 years the girl has been living in hospital for most of her life

despite doctors there pointing out that she's actually perfectly healthy parents can appeal the decision although authorities do hope that she 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 our entire life she has never left as grounds for the wrestling machine or stressing me or her up in washington. you. don't have to be. the voice or shearing 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 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 i think that's the logical conclusion if 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 hospital. on monday the court delivered its verdict that the animal 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 not a word back again at the top of the hour. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only closely and going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

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 45th president of the united states that makes people love and hate him so much. in his community there are people who believe that it's ok. it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that ask and as a parent. i can come up with lots of arguments there's a lot of conflict in the game between the 2 most of the conflict i would say revolves around money and most of them money is made. close one you know the

children's cosimo each other is good business the state of california alone makes 6000000000 dollars a year of prison complex just to get some point in your life where. you don't care anymore nobody cares about your so you don't care mind anything. welcome to front running 2020 coming to you from brooklyn as we take

a look at all the economic policies of the democratic candidates facing 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 guest 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 mamma 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 there.