The chance to be one part of this society but on the other hand you have to hear the worries about germans and find together with those people who have worries solutions which can help for a Better Future together. Now the u. S. National security advisor has his knives out for the new year with a cool through view what he describes as insidious russian meddling a jam master here says that pulling back the curtain might be a vital step to prevent their interference the russia blaming trend hit a full throttle almost a year ago with the release of a Us Intelligence report that kept the momentum going throughout twenty seven. Arguably the biggest story of twenty seventeen was russia it was on the lips of World Leaders and politicians but this wasnt always the case this was obamas analysis of the country back in twenty fourteen russia is a Regional Power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. Not out of strength but out of weakness Regional Power weakness well that was the past in the last year weve seen russia propelled to be the greatest threat on the planet in the words of the former f. B. I. Chief what kind of threat do you believe russia presents to our democratic process given what you know about russias behavior of late well certainly that in my view the greatest threat of any nation on earth well heres how it all began on january sixth of last year u. S. Intelligence agencies issued a report saying that russia had tried to influence our elections with this russian president Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in twenty sixteen aimed at the us president ial election russias goals were to undermine public faith in the Us Democratic process then the great secretary clinton and home her electability and potential presidency we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for President Trump now the authors of the report at the time said they had high confidence in their judgments a few pages later they explained exactly what they meant by high confidence with a little disclaimer high confidence generally indicates that judgments to based on high quality information from multiple sources high confidence does not imply that the assessment is fact or a certainty such judgments might be wrong well after the report the word got around that blaming russia was now a thing and that opened the floodgates in twenty seventeen hardly a lection went by in europe without russia being accused of meddling. The balance disruptor hoover for in two thousand and sixteen covert disruptor. Part of our responsibility. To rush the mood about whats going on in the United States germany france the other one in montenegro. From hacking into the Danish Defense ministry to trying to meddle in the maltese elections russia has had a truly diverse collection of accusations thrown at it russia is accused of influencing the braggs it vote through social media probably yes sure i believe it i believe all of this its russia theyre crazy right russia was accused of intervening in the French Election yeah you know why i believe that to the german election sure i catalonia separatism yeah yeah i believe that to all take oliver about sending bots after a star trek star trying to take him down with sexual allegations star trak no star wars i would believe if i had my doubts about a box so i would say no. They were actually accused of that was. Russia hacked into the us irish and british power grids fake russia was influencing the braggs it vote through social media fake russia hacked into cataloging a separatism and was promoting cataloging a separatism in spain real how about buying ads on social media in order to influence u. S. Public opinion yeah yeah why not make up the budget actually all of those allegations were leveled against russia do you believe that do you think that theyre actually doing these kind of things from what the seventeen u. S. Intelligence Agencies Syndicate and the strong possibility that they did i feel its just i knew that to sell newspapers people just wrote of one story then put it on Everything Else that listeners showed new yorkers is dwarfed from an actual file of things that russia has been accused of it turns out that if you point the finger at the kremlin you can find a convenient scapegoat for almost any trouble that youre dealing with it will mop. R. T. New york. Meanwhile germany has started the year by introducing a new law to tackle hate speech but its already been criticized for blocking the twitter feed of a satirical magazine and its america are now explains applying this kind of legislation can be a legal minefield. Well governments are now trying to regulate content on the internet by pushing the online world to crackdown on his speech extremism and of course the mysterious bots and trolls who somehow manage to elect president s but so far there are attempts havent exactly been successful for example in germany a new online hate speech laws only came into force on monday and twitter has already banned a parody account after users reported it as hate speech but under the law platforms have to delete violent or slanderous content by a certain deadline or face a fine up to sixteen Million Dollars well the first case a far right politician of the alternative for Germany Party had her twitter account briefly suspended after users fired her tweets as hate speech against muslims now thats after she lashed out against German Police for putting out a new years tweet in arabic and prosecutors are now examining whether or not her tweets do in fact incite hatred then on top of that twitter banned the account of a magazine that was actually mocking her but in doing so repeated her line now the magazines editor said he was shocked by the decision and the association of german journalist said that it qualifies as censorship adding that they had warned of this danger when the law was drafted last year a private Company Based in the United States decides the boundaries of freedom of the press and opinion in germany now this is even going on in the u. K. Where twitter and facebook are facing sanctions after m. P. s said that they failed to thoroughly investigate how russia supposedly swayed the brigs it vote but the has to be them is so mechanism of saying if you fail to do that if you ignore a request to arms if you fail to police the science effectively and deal with highly problematic content then one has to be some sort of sanction against you. So the only trace of russia the companies were able to find were three ads worth less than a dollar however the idea that maybe russia didnt influence the election is apparently off the table so who exactly polices the internet is it government or is it the social Media Companies or is it the government through social Media Companies thats all very unclear at the moment so america still plenty to come this hour including the french president is planning a crackdown on fake news by targeting foreign media plus Donald Trumps former right hand man known as a venomous attack against his old boss got the details to stop the. Los angeles the city of luxury and free but also an Alarming Number of People Living in the streets. The simple fact in l. A. Is theres just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in theres nowhere to come in its been a struggle. To get this man from his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. You know having Something Like this may as well be a castle to the earth or to use accept such solution tiny house on a parking space is not a solution you craft someone monitoring the site otherwise it will be a free for all the news there a better alternative to envy homelessness crisis. Welcome back here with r. T. Now the french president is vowing to combat news with the law to regulate media influence by foreign states when you matt corn announced the move to journalists in paris what was initially tween fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed in president ial campaigns and almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with a response. When he wasnt specific about which countries he thinks could be influencing french media but Russian Media including r. T. And the news agency have already been in macros firing line both were denied accreditation during his president ial Campaign Last year and were later labeled by him as propaganda outlets. It was shipped to the russia today have been influential outlets which have several times spoken mistruths about me and my campaign thats why they have not been invited in my headquarters all media including russian had access to my Campaign Russia today and sputnik have not behaved as Media Outlets and journalists but as organs of influence and false propaganda well the r. T. Family did have a nice Christmas Present for the french speaking world with the launch of our newest channel r. T. France and it immediately ruffled a few high profile feathers to several French Public figures published an open letter calling for r. T. Frances license to be revoked and they said that r. T. Has repeatedly face numerous allegations from the u. S. And several European Countries political commentator. Believes mccrone should be careful about taking legal measures against any media. I think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a quote him from his press Conference Today a threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r. T. And sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of the conversation to make this more about the use the better what he calls false news fake news i think you need to tread very carefully i think its a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. Peoples rights and what have their their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if youre not careful. In other news Donald Trumps lawyers are threatening legal action against the former advisor steve bannon he reportedly made explosive comments about family members in a new tell all book about the President Trump earlier publicly lashed out at his former right hand man he said that bannon had lost his mind and it only worked for his own interest and was never part of trumps in a circle the White House Press secretary added even more fuel to the fire. I was curious what you were to. Say. I think furious discussed it would probably certainly fit when you make such outrageous claims and completely false claims against the president his administration and his family well the spot is over what bannon reportedly revealed to the author of a book called fire and fury inside the white house hes quoted as saying that a meeting between members of trumps camp and a russian lawyer during his Election Campaign was treasonous and arctic he also allegedly hits out at the president s daughter ivanka trump with steve bannon left the white house in orcus to year after joining trumps Election Team is his chief strategist and was a pivotal figure for the president through his campaign right up to taking office legal and media and this line all things that trumps reaction is par for the course there is a simple rule if you dont go after trump he doesnt bother you go after him in any way insult him criticize him take him to task and hes on you with a death grip youve never seen does anybody think that anybody in the Drug Administration cares one i older about this i mean it what it does is it throws the Mainstream Media the Washington Press corps and the Mainstream Media news troops it throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after hes done with bannon hes going to Say Something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does everybody Pay Attention trump thrives on this he. Meanwhile with his trump style. We can now make miracle created more than two million jobs unemployment is at a seventeen year low the stock market is at an all time high fantastic for the economy our economy has already surged to three percent growth unemployment is at a seventeen year low liberated the American Economy and our economy is doing well trumps optimism there is the former u. S. Congressman ron paul he told us that the growth in the u. S. Is principally benefited those already at the top. If youre in the stock market no wealthy person here doing quite well but what were forgetting here when we listen to this rhetoric of all this optimism is that theres a large segment of our population as have been a difficult time where there is prosperity and more jobs it depends on death yes an individual can feel very good if they have a line of credit to the bank but eventually that line of credit runs out we in this country benefit because we have the reserve currency of the world we can run up a lot of debt and we can spend a lot of money and even with that weve had a great deal of difficulty is last eight years trying and now i see everything we do is a big bubble and all those kiwis that we have dealt with in these last eight years have just created a huge bubble and everything is in excess whether its our military budget our overseas engagements whether its the welfare state and that bubble will come to an end were going to have a sudden cataclysmic an which is sort of what happened to the soviet system its not going to be identical and our states arent probably going to break up but i do sincerely believe that we will no longer be able to afford our empire around the world rumpole speaking at that brings you up to date what you say more news from us at the top yeah. 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Happy new year and welcome to the i like some until today we have a special focus on europe not about blacks of the European Council on the council of europe an organization which long predates the European Union and which has not twenty eight members but forty seven stretching across the entire continent from east to west. Today we find out what it is what it does and why many people believe it to be both relevant and the cortlandt in meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow before starts here from the middle of a rundown of what you can look forward to it today is our exam and show thank you alex well be hearing from the data directly form a leader of plate country and the party saw pir in the house of lords here in the studio wholl be stating his case on the importance of the council of europe from strasburg alex wholl be interviewing lots of key players but first to your tweets Facebook Messages and emails now the debate around breaks it of course rages on and we have a tweet from Stephen Morrison who says excellent show alex salmond was surprisingly even hundred allowing kids to unite elevens room to air their views a clever way to expose the fragility of their enterprise he says. Many people have watched alexs interview of the president of lebanon michel aoun and we have a message here from carol hutton who says heres hoping the lebanese people see through trumps palace or starting attempts to manipulate them as he has done with the us she actually xenophobic rightwing its up to the lebanese government to set the tone for their people and ignore trump for the narcissist child he is strong through some color and indeed jacqueline who also messages us to see this will be so interesting and was too close to trumps declaration on jerusalem hes a loose cannon i cant understand how and why hes allowed to continue as president mind you i cant understand how you managed to get voted in in the first place i think there are many jaclyn who share your view across the world we also have a message from our nickel who attended our Christmas Show where we had an audience who said im really glad you find a new career in the media and im enjoying your short stay well alex and thank you for all your many and continuing contributions to scotland story thank you finally a message from chip lead lawyer who says hello alex im from edinburgh i watched every episode of your show as it comes on more thank you think im proud of your show and how it deals with its issues by asking and often post i did a story unlike most n