week's top stories on our t.v. the us democratic party stuff is the week of frustration from election confusion in iowa to donald trump's impeachment acquittal. the arrest of an alleged war criminal who lived in hungary and france on a student visa or exposes exposes what was in the e.u. immigration system. and social services in moscow take custody of a 5 year old girl whose parents have kept her in hospital since birth but doctors say she was perfectly healthy.

a warm welcome you watching the weekly here on our c.n.n. international with all the latest headlines and the roundup of the stories that shape the week. democratic primaries in the u.s. got off to a difficult start this week the results of last monday's iowa caucus are still unclear after a long delay caused by a technical glitch of the party is currently reviewing the results from 95 precincts and has apologized for the chaos the caucus was marred by inaccurate calculations and missing data partly caused by a faulty smartphone up 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 already iowa 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 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 very conflicted 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 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 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. the democrats suffered another setback this week when the senate voted down both there are schools of impeachment against donald trump the president was charged with abuse of

power for allegedly pressuring ukraine to investigate joe biden's son and withholding military aid and the 2nd charge was obstruction of congress democrats are refusing to accept the impeachment defeat trump of course is jubilant. did nothing wrong. i do things wrong in my life i will admit not purposely but i've done things wrong. but this is what the end result is. was acquitted without facts he was acquitted without a fair trial a matter of what he says or whatever headline he wants to carry around your impeached ever but despite all the efforts to remove trump from office his ratings are as high as ever on a boyko discuss this with a russian pop star and transform a business associate 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 negatives and we rarely hear and see what that humans that he has done in the bus to the world he's pretty good you know advertising down here there's got to be a little them marketing p.r. skills so they can sell the idea that's true. but you know 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 mood in this occasion with the media with all the fake news and all the allegations that he has gotten and you would think that anybody has you know skeletons in his closet if you had them we would of 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 later after this bill is said we want our

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 with an alternative take on what happens here's oxys in case you missed it. thank you thank yet the state of the union is in a bit of a state and there's not much union she was just angry she ripped up the she ripped up the speech i promptly and house speaker nancy pelosi have taken playground politics so a whole new level you know these 2 were characters in a wrong call i think i know would be happening next this was wasted really good. commie and handed over to the no c. then 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. again to see her rip those bits of paper and. really think it's not supposed to be while we're here just take a look at voice president might. we all want to find someone that looks like ants. from my roof and or has a couple more points where joining us in the gallery is the true and illegitimate president of venezuela one who i do know this is the point we shows that even in the thoughts of times there is one thing we 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 spirit is still young the solar still rising. is still shining. and my fellow americans the best is yet to come which is definitive proof of one

thing. from wife is a speech is. in other news the man who represented a jihadi group in syria was arrested in france this week the suspected war criminal had lived in hungary for months as part of an e.u. student exchange program schiller did bensky reports. torture kidnapping war crimes these are just some of the charges brought against a syrian who was in france on a student visa he went by the name of mushed enough in france back in syria he was is a wish no ordinary student he is said to have once been jayashri islamic press secretary previously nor did his freedom fighters the hardline islamist group in fact carried out a reign of terror in the eastern ghouta suburb of damascus. oh

. we've given them 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 but not one bit 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 cooled for cease fire now widely to acknowledge the presence of just harvests it also accused president assad of using the on going conflict as a fig leaf to wipe out any opposition. the syrian regime and its allies are brandishing the fight against jihad his farts is the need for which no one is disputing i just if occasion of an offensive and it's entirely different go it's

real intentions are indeed to ignore like any other normal position and break the morale of civilians by indiscriminately massacring them following that offensive in the east to bind the syrian army generational islam was talk pulled last year a complaint was filed to the courts in france and josh and the senior members and no one would criminals. the complaint filed in june 2019 was built on of the 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 imposed by the group rigorously enough the international federation for human rights says the arrest of most enough play in march say 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 the crimes committed by opposition forces during the syrian conflict giving a fuller picture of what really happened on the ground charlotte ulti paris political analyst nicholas markovitch believes the case points to ponder abilities in the e.u. immigration system. once you enter the european union you could go more or less where you want there are no border controls how we entered hungry would be an interesting question to know that what is. prosperous 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 the past 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 legally to 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. ration legal immigration illegal immigration and the secretary says the government doesn't tackle these issues seriously unfortunately just these types of stories are going to continue in time. 2 u.s. soldiers have been killed and 6 wounded in eastern afghanistan a whole province a man wearing an afghan army uniform opened fire on the troops 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 unknown at this time. well the afghan defense

ministry has that the shooter was an afghan soldier and not a taliban infiltrator apparently got into an argument with the american forces before opening fire the official added the 3 afghan commandos were wounded u.s. troops have faced a growing hostility in the country of late coming on the 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 while research analyst at the center for conflict and peace studies heck martin as army has slowed down to afghans will soon want american forces to move out. with all the collateral damage that's happening with all the civilian casualties that's happening 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 afghanistan and he thinks the american presence in afghanistan is a problem there's no doubt that the afghans one point in a ritually would want the americans to leave because no country wants to live under a competition and the sense is very strong for afghanistan. the 1st time in nearly 100 years the domination of violence politics by its 2 main parties has been broken since saina left wing populist party has tied with the governing party seen a guy and seen a foil according to the exit poll with the mall getting around 22 percent of the vote in feigns are expected surge 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 feeling and fear for all parties who have been jointly running the government ruled out going. into

power with sinn fein in the run up to the vote but if the early india indications are correct stay there will have to be another coalition of some thoughts and prayers and debates feigns leading me to criticise the main parties for not wanting change. you see the soothsayers care that fianna fáil in senegal 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 well earlier we spoke to political commentator anthony weather for his take on the results. straight talk also some of the major issues which needs to be addressed in the road or bar and. that's the interesting thing is only one percent of people so broach it was an issue. clearly it will be an issue because our interest again miles the republicans are going to own to the right about the same time and say you. know i'm seeing something she's truly. not going to try dr

a war it's rigged it with the chariots and it wouldn't be surprised the year over year of the republic of ireland. joining the only big. as the us election race heats up twitter a new chip have announced changes to the way they fight doctored materials although they have been quite vague as don't quarter 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 plaited 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 rather coldly.

with. every level of what is boiled its definition of so-called dr damages 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 you

tube. and information as well as an open platform for who flee political discourse you remember that video trumps supporters made portraying their president massacring the mainstream media in a church it was funny to them to the mainstream media 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 or probably every 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 twitters netizens have already picked up on the controversy because people were kind of these fantasies this i love how you used the word doctored because that's the elisa talker means the left

caught me on twitter oh yeah well now no one can make your bed in the us which may cause harm to the left we can read between the lines there would 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. and also a court has given custody of a child to social thora tees off the parents felt take her home for 5 years the girl has been living in hospital almost her whole life despite doctors pointing out she is perfectly healthy the parents can appeal the decision but officials 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 his grounds for the wrestling machine or stress me or her captain washington. eat. just enough to be here with him but. the voice or sharing is not her mother it's her nanny the mother has decided that her daughter is hopelessly ill and must be confined to a hospital. however doctors say that the girl is perfectly healthy and there is no medical reason to keep her in the clinic although they have been unable to discharge her without

parental consent nor the reason a dog which she doesn't know and yet in life but she's a good normal girl the girl's parents have paid the hospital huge sums of money almost $200000.00 a year to keep her there in the company of private nannies almost a year ago the parents stopped sending their payments but they still refused to take her home and a legal battle has been raging so the hospital convinced the parents to leave their child in the hospital all this time i guess the logical conclusion if the child has been hospital for 5 years 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 santa maxime of a 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

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little while culture worlds apart show we are in shallow though he may appear and donald trump has once again defied his critics by securing the impeachment acquittal from the sound of a rising ever higher in the public opinion polls what is it the fall of the 45th president of the united states that makes people law and hate him so much to discuss that i'm now joined by somebody who's had direct access to the. singer interpreter and former business associate of their own child i mean there's a lot of mystery a lot of hits pleasure to talk to thank you very pleasure. now let me start by asking whether you had any chance to 'd forward the impeachment proceedings this past week and did you root for any of the sides well i haven't followed the thoroughly because. i've been traveling

a lot lately and you know the whole trump segment jury just presidency is surrounded by so. so much fake news is a face so i never believe that he should 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 flag with the magnets logo and spelled out and it's very rare for somebody in russia to have such an artifact is that an expression of a personal or political sympathy it was a gift by a russian artist that during the election and during all the hype about me being somehow involved in. mr trump's presidency. this was given to me for my birthday and i really liked it and that's part of my collection here in the room where i spend some of my time do you actually think that he's making america great absolutely in the way in every possible economical. way

considering that you know g.d.p. is above the roof. joe blow's. crowd is almost gone in america and i think he's been a very successful president at least financially as a businessman with the business background he's been more successful than a lot of his presidents it's interesting that you say that because he is riding very high in the polls according to gallup 63 percent of the americans approve of the of his handling of the economy which is a record not only for trump but also for any president since 911. in your view is it primarily due to the real deal the deliverables or is it primarily he is talent if not obsession for self marketing well i think it's a combination of both but there is a reality behind the numbers and considering that he has been you know says b. he became president he is dedicated to protecting the local manufacturers he's

dedicated to creating new jobs he is. making sure that the local market responds positively to his actions he understands how the business works because his came from the business world and most of the presidents or politicians that come to power. i would say like that experience they like being able to control and surprise a big corporation and you know a country could be treated as a big corporation because you do monetize the taxes you distribute them and that balance creates a positive or a negative environment he has created a positive environment for the economy has created a positive for environment for the economy but there's still a lot of people who hate him very very pale in jealousy well is it really jealousy or is it really. something that looks as it or he does that well you know it's obviously he's you know he's always very straightforward in you know sometimes i

think he says things on an impulse and if you want it back you may be the more diplomatic about those things but the reality is he says what really is in his belief so you do get the the president that is very thorough very straightforward and most importantly what he says people are capable to understand because sometimes presidents use the language which you watch and you like i don't even know what this is all about and in his case he makes it very accessible to people that maybe are not as. understanding of the economic code numbers trends and exciter so i think he. he deserves to be hated in the says that he's very straightforward but you know the polls of 63 percent are absolutely fantastic if you remember when he ran for president. those polls.