suspended hundreds of thousands more will work for free until an agreement can be struck they've lindelof a founding editor of the online news website discount be happening thinks it's all a bit of a gimmick it's it's all theater it's playing to the media the media is making a big deal out of it. and it really isn't a big deal unless it blew up into something that was going to last for a month or two months or something and started hurting me in the government's ability to pay its debt on time as happened one time with this but it you know it's becoming kind of a joke in the united states that you know this super powerful super rich country can't come up with a budget every year and it's almost every year thing that trump has made it more so with this continuous threats to shut down the government but it's really a joke it is unclear how long the shutdown will last but president champ earlier stressed it could be for a very long time we look at we took a look back at the main reasons for shutdowns in previous this. a speech therapist in the us is suing oath or if he's in texas off to bein

just surfaced last week so we're waiting to see what else will surface american journalist have lindelof believes the cove bought operate reflects broader problems of the u.s. electoral system in time. early tricks are not illegal they're. you know they're part of our. corrupt electoral system you can you can lie and you can make up stories so you can live all people all these things are. allowed in us the us electoral system and then what what compounds it makes it so corrupting is the vast amount of money that can be poured into these campaigns that allows them to pay for this kind of corruption and then on top of that we have a population that's really not capable of critical thought and so people will buy into the stupidest claims about candidates. the syrian military says government forces eventa the northern city of mumbai the quest of civilians and kurdish fighters in the area it comes as the kurds try to strengthen the city's defense amid an upcoming turkish offensive unkrich considers kurdish fighters to be terrorists is our middle east correspondent paul asleep what we see happ