the week's top stories on our t.v. u.s. democratic party suffers that we can frustration from election confusion in iowa to donald trump's impeachment acquittal. the arrest of an alleged war criminals who have been hungry and wrong on a student visa or exposes flaws in the e.u. immigration system. and social services in moscow take custody of a 5 year old girl whose parents had kept her in hospital since birth as despite doctors saying she was perfectly healthy.

a warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international with all the latest headlines underground that the stories that shape the week the science the 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 because this 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. do 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 were ready was the starting pistol i'd settle for a race and at the end the prize is becoming a 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 votes county 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 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 todd and the money the efforts just to see trump have the last laugh. when will a democrat stop blaming russia russia russia instead of their own incompetence for the voting disaster that just happened in the great state of iowa i hope that the i were democrats will ask for an f.b.i. investigation on the app i believe that russia has been engaged in interfering with a number of our elections dealing with the 21 election i'm sorry the 2016 election it's sad. all the complaining and moaning about how russians were out to ruin american elections most of the russians that did it it was the democrats their paranoia and competence they turned liberals and democrats against each other screaming and shouting accusing each other of foul play of russia could never do

the democrats did we've heard the people who are responsible for this catastrophe in iowa the democratic establishment claim that it was russia's intention to undermine integrity in our voting systems in our election process the question is who really threatens us elections and now i think a lot of voters within the democratic party 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 the articles 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 house democrats are refusing to accept the impeachment defeat trump of course is jubilance. i did nothing wrong. i've done things wrong in my life i will admit not purposely but i've done things wrong. but this is what the end result is. i was acquitted without facts he was acquitted without a fair trial and i have what he says or whatever headline he wants to carry around here impeached ever by all the efforts to remove trump from office his ratings are as high as a box on a boy to discuss this with a russian pulp star transform a business associate he 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

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 room in marketing p.r. skills so he can sell the idea that's true. but 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 already have seen them because you know he's been probably the most studied presidential figure in the history of the united states. where you can watch that interview in a full on our website r.t. dot com well 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 house of representatives with an alternative take on what happened has all teas 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 prompt in our speaker nancy pelosi it's taken playground politics to a whole new level you know these 2 were characters in a wrong call to go no would be happening next this is where stuff going really good . commie and handed over a speech to fellow c. and turned away with the shake a hand although in his defense did just try and get him impeached so he is pelosi having decided on this occasion she will not be right of it getting her revenge but

it takes up. more to begin to see her rip those bits of paper and. really think you voice us. while we're here just take a little voice presidents. don't we all want to find someone that looks like and looks at trump's comb over still has a couple more points where they're joining us in the gallery is the true illegitimate president of venezuela one 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 no i don't the problem wife is a speech is. rather nice now a man who represented a jihadi group in syria was arrested in france this week a suspected war criminal had lived in hungary for months as part of an e.u. student exchange program bensky reports. 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 stooge and t. is said to have once been jayashri islams 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. well you get the global economy you and i can see that because 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 to 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 joe 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 it's

real intentions are indeed to annihilate any our normal position and break the morale of civilians by indiscriminately massacring them following that offensive in the east by the syrian army gyration al islam was talked pulled last year a complaint was filed to the courts in france and josh and the senior members know wanted as one 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 measured enough play in must 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 for crimes committed by opposition forces during the syrian conflict giving a fuller picture of what really happened on the ground. ulti paris. political analyst nicole america votes believes the case points to vulnerabilities in the e.u. immigration system. and once you enter the european union you can 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 you 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 actually going to come from another country going legally to university this is very bad press so there may be some who's in the following days but i think unfortunately if the government doesn't handle the. immigration illegal immigration illegal immigration and the secretary says the government doesn't tackle these issues seriously unfortunately these types of stories are going to continue in time. 2 u.s. soldiers have been killed and 6 wounded in eastern afghanistan snowing a whole province a man wearing an afghan army uniform opened fire on the troops. 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 unknown at this time afghan defense ministry has said the shooter was an afghan soldier and not a taliban infiltrator he apparently got into an argument with the american forces before opening fire the official added that 3 afghan commandos were wounded when u.s. troops are face growing hostility in the country of late coming under increasing attacks comes as washington has been trying to reach a peace deal with the taliban a lot to go she ations 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 analyst at the center for conflicts and pay studies as army has no doubt the 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 at one point in originally would want the americans to leave because no country wants to live under a copy of the senses very strong for afghanistan. for. the 1st time in nearly a 100 years the domination of violence politics is by its 2 main parties has been broken shin fein the left wing populist party is tied with the governing party. phina foil according to the exit poll with the more guessing around 22 percent of the vote i should say is that expected surge has been the main story of the election the party is already and doesn't in northern ireland and the elections south of the border was dominated by the issues of housing and homelessness both the seen the guy and seen of oil parties who have been jointly running the

government and ruled out going into power with sinn 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 prayer lection debates in faintly to criticize the main parties for not wanting change. you see the soothsayers care that fianna fáil and senate go 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 as. well earlier we spoke to political commentator anthony for his take on the results. strain can call some of the major issues which need to be addressed a number of. the the interesting thing is in the one percent of all so that broach it was an issue are equally will be shaved the loses interest again miles the republican brand going to be about the same trying to see you. once

you start and she's fairly. well but are you trying to try to restrict it will do you try. looking surprised by your over the years of the republic of ireland. joining. you. as the us election race heats up twitter and you tube have announced changes to the way they fight talk to the 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 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 i love the cold. war what has 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 unfolds 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 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 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 elite talker means 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 would be no unapproved thought 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 court has given custody of a child to social authorities after parents failed to 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 as grounds for the wrestling machine or stressing me or her up in washington. you. don't have to be here to do 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 her without parental consent knowing 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 that 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 corps delivered its verdict. and your resume 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. we're back with on monday morning headlines in 35 minutes.

time after time here we're going on the ground ahead of us democratic new hampshire primary but surely can't get any worse than iowa but which either way will have implications for the presidency and the world coming up on the show as palestinian president mahmoud abbas is set to address the u.n. security council about donald trump's deal of the century we speak to former israeli peace plan negotiator daniel levy who says the plan uses colonialist supremacism and diversity saunders is allowed by the d.n.c.

to win tomorrow's new hampshire primary is trump toasts we speak to trump 20 advisory board member lieutenant steven rogers who thinks no democrat is going to get the pennsylvania avenue keys anytime soon both sides of the debate pointless and arguably rigged us to buy the system we ask former green party vice presidential candidate a job or aka dollars or more coming up in today's going underground refers to the international community's rejection of donald trump's so-called deal of the century as palestine's president abbas prepares to denounce it in the next 24 hours at the u.n. security council and while israel continues to aerially bombard gaza joining me now is president of the u.s. middle east project who was involved in bill clinton negotiations at camp david daniel levy thanks so much for coming on so israel bombing gaza as i said the p.a. cutting all ties with israel international community not celebrating it was able to well i think we've had the arab league formally come out the e.u. formally come out but this was

a very curious document because the headlinese vision for peace. you then dip into the text and misses an exclusive one sided narrative of one side in a conflict which manages to hit every israeli propagandist talking point for generations and rub the palestinian noses in it to an extent that even in a document of surrender you wouldn't have that kind of imbalance so it's anything but a peace plan there are no aust whatsoever from the israeli side and the palestinians literally being told live a 2nd class citizens without a state some of the headlines have done an injustice to what is going on in this plan how bad it is some of them said other person is getting a little less land maybe they're getting not quite the exact neighborhoods in jerusalem they're giving us embassy in jerusalem or no they're not they're getting

perhaps when the plans implemented which it never will be let's just be clear about that all the upfront goodies go to israel any of the neat things the palestinians might get come only when the israelis concur and agree to that and they would be getting an embassy in the outskirts of what is not considered by them to really be jerusalem anyway behind the wall that israel is erected not not in jerusalem proper . the palestinians are getting so little that this looks more like a 180 page hate letter from america to the palestinians than anything that could possibly be peace and i'm telling you as someone who used to negotiate possible texts for a peace plan this is like copy paste and put through hate grind ok what i want to get on the water can be preempting in a secular you're well versed in corruption in the palestinian authority there's tens of billions of dollars on the table. given the class conflict within the

palestinian community with the voices they're thinking they could buy off the top level elite levels of palestinian the palestinian authority in some parts of the administration they may actually think. both given the history of corruption as you said and that there are good days that eventually and mostly because they're squeezing the palestinians so hard especially if they have another 4 years if if president trump is reelected that maybe they'll get the palestinians to sign up so that i can't see that happening a few months before the release of this plan last summer in menominee in bahrain there was actually an economic conference in which move up 50000000000 worth of goods was put on the table and they didn't manage to get one significant palestinian political economical business figure to go to menow unama refused to go because let's.