bringing you your news 247 this is our international hello and welcome to all of us here in the school. monday marks the beginning of the road to the white house for us democrats candidates are readying to do battle in the state of iowa a caucus vote that's proven influential in deciding who runs for president and as the candidates just pull for a shot at the oval office outside to in socialist bernie sanders is leading the way in terms of donors on joint front runner in the polls but iowa caucus is the start of the primaries and usually a litmus test for what's to come for example bill and hillary clinton went on from victory in iowa to run as the democrats counted it as did barack obama and ahead of the vote later this monday here's what the latest polls indicate bernie sanders show has a lead in rather a surprisingly with former vice president joe biden you can see the polling that 25 percent leaving behind the other centrist hopefuls caleb maupin reports now on why washington might be wary of us on this victory. the iowa caucuses are upon us and monday as the 1st primary contest takes place and jaws are dropping because the front runner isn't one of the sexy centrists favored by the d.n.c. but an elderly socialist from vermont too is technically not even a democrat but a registered independent can't imagine any woman watching last night and saying i believe bernie i think people believe has been running bernie sanders against trump would be an act of insanity so to have him just flat out say no i think wasn't wasn't nearly enough to address that for the women watching bernie can't win according to the new york times bernie sanders is surging ahead because he has an enthusiastic base of supporters who are attracted to his left of center agenda mr saunders insurance and his apparent roys in the earliest primary and caucus states reflects both the loyalty of his core support says and their conviction that mr saunders would bring the same fighting resilience to the general election even now as mr saunders takes the lead in the 1st 2 early states his opponents have not delivered a sustained argument against his candidacy and remain reluctant to take him home bernie sanders describes himself as a democratic socialist and socialism is supposed to be a dirty word in the united states but not so much anymore polls show that younger people are not so hostile to the term and are far more critical of free market policies and austerity c.n.n. is certainly no fan of bernie sanders a paid contributor is even happy to admit it i hope that my networks clear bias against bernie sanders will convince citizens of all idiology state corporate media figures overwhelmingly for sake of journalism in favor of blatant activism oddly president trump has had mixed things to say about the front runner in the rival party which bernie well. it will be interesting to see how he does i think what happened to bertie. maybe he was that so many so i think he was taken advantage of you really great 4 years ago. and he was done treated with respect by clinton those wounds from 2016 are certainly open and sore among bernie's core supporters leaked e-mails revealed that the d.n.c. was working overtime to deprive him of the nomination it's not just those mainstream t.v. networks or the leaders of the democratic party this former assistant director of the f.b.i. actually admitted that for years this federal agency actually works to keep people like bernie sanders from taking office the electorate in some places is putting more and more progressive than self described socialist in positions one of the missions of the f.b.i. in its counterintelligence efforts was to try and keep these people out of government he wasn't joking either the f.b.i. is cointelpro program worked to isolate left wing groups and keep them from gaining any influence one radical group called the socialist workers party actually sued the f.b.i. and spent a decade in court proving that their rights were violated court proceedings revealed that the f.b.i. had planted fake news stories infiltrated the organization broken into offices and even had members arrested on false charges all in the hopes of weakening the socialists at the ballot box bernie sanders was at one point a registered elector for the socialist workers party he campaigned for them amid the harassment and legal battles so it's pretty safe to say the f.b.i. has been on d.m. for some time with so much working against him bernie sanders seems to be pulling ahead getting more donations than any other candidate and his rallies are packed full of young people who were attracted to his message of cancelling student debt and guaranteeing health care with a 2020 primaries in full swing many observers are asking themselves can bernie sanders really pull this off. r.t. new york political commentator dakota liddy gave us his take on why the democrats are trying to shut the door. i think you see a lot of these people who within the democratic party would rather see another trump presidency than would have seen rather see a socialist or substance describe socialist or anyone really to the left of your biden become president if you look at the last primary campaign where bernie sanders ran against hillary clinton and there was definitely an underhanded campaign to undermine his own campaign and whether it be true superdelegates or backroom deals there was a lot that went on really stripped bernie sanders of only in his power and you see a lot of this playing out today and you see these random attacks that other candidates such as elizabeth warren joe biden and people who get to judge have come out attacking bernie sanders because he represents a different wing of the democratic party and you know a lot of polls show that joe biden and hillary clinton these people who feel as though the election is over to them don't have very high approval ratings they're not very much like because they represent the a savage meant in the in the voters' mind of the same movements that have left them behind all these years that it seems by discount isn't hiding its discontent with the democratic leadership either progressive an outspoken congresswoman rashida to me it has been facing a backlash of to encouraging a crowd to boom as solid as 2016 rival hillary clinton let's take a quick look at that incident from the campaign rally. week when someone by the name of hillary clinton in said that nobody we're not going to we're not going to we're classy here no no i'll go. clinton supporters were quick to attack to leap on twitter cooling her move white male rage on the such despite the fact that the congresswoman is of palestinian origin and of course a woman saunders is being urged to cut loose from his campaign as a result she did late to give an apology of sorts saying that clinton's comments got the better of her but looking back to 2016 it didn't seem quite so find out when the shoe was on the other foot. do we hate bernie sanders now i don't hate anybody bernie could have endorsed you quicker i could have been aren't me there is no doubt about it hear me he was in congress for yes he had one senate to support him nobody likes him nobody wants to work with him he got nothing done and then actually go yeah well free college for everyone stick in the hollow and then when you say well wait a minute where is making the money going to come from then what about you against free college you are not right now what you have in the democratic party is essentially $2.00 incompatible parties one is the party of a sensually a group of people that is indistinguishable from neo conservatives these are people who want perpetual war these are people who want a lot of government spending on those traditional areas then joined to that you have a group of essentially young socialists that have a totally different agenda now the democrat moderates and the democrats socialists they don't they're not they're not a compared they're not compatible groups they're an uneasy alliance that's going to fall apart at the slightest amount of pressure that's always going to be at each other's throats because they are not compatible in any way whatsoever. now to a developing story police officials in the u.k. have revealed that the man behind sunday's knife attack in south london had time in prison for terror related offenses was being closely monitored by the authorities the assailant went to 2 people in the assault before he was shot dead by armed offices so to add with the reports. well terror has now come to the streets of london for a 2nd time in just 2 months and already i saw have claimed responsibility for the incident that occurred on stratton's high street just last night but there were similarities between this latest incident and the last terror attack that happened on london bridge one of which is of course the very fact that both assailants were wearing a hoax device on their chest before being shot dead by police officers at the scene the 2nd month potentially more controversial is in fact that both of them were released early from prison for serving 'd sentences related to terror offenses now the government is already outlining its response to the latest incident but birth johnson has already reiterated that he wants to bring forward legislation to stop and prevent this early release from prison for convicted terrorists but all he isn't stress is that it could be quite complex to do so the problems we have with reeducating and reclaiming and rehabilitating people who succumb to islam is a very very hard and very talk and it can happen but the instances of success are really very few and we need to be frank about that we do think about how we handle that you know in our criminal justice system so 20 year old sue desh only served half of his sentence it was a full sentence of 3 and a half years but he was in fact released terror offenses including possessing and distributing bomb making material now his mother though argues that her son was actually radicalized within the prison system and therefore the questions are raised when it comes to that but other issues too including the fact that at the time of the incident a man was actually under close police surveillance in fact 2 officers were trailing behind him so many argue how could this incident have happened under police watch well london he says that immediate answers need to be questioned by the government . so that's a question i've got for all from for the government to ration to what they're doing to keep us safe i'll give you some examples we know there are some to your people who have been convicted of a torah fence and have been released from prison what are the government doing to make sure that they are not a danger to the public with roughly speaking children plus people convicted of terrorism in prisons no what are we doing to make sure they're being punished and reformed rather than be the recipients of radicalization where prisons are universe of crime rather than proper probably but it's i decided quite worried erosion to the government's response but well police have been searching the hospital where it is believed that the stratum attacker has been living over the past few days that many questions have come into play particularly how a convicted terrorist could cause such an atrocity just days after being released from prison but of course this latest incident is just one of many over the last few years that have been carried out by a known by the intelligence and security services. on terrorism expert talk today i think that a number of countries are facing the issue of radicalization within prison. i'm on seem to be deeply get more and more deeply in there with the islamist narrative before he was sentenced for his previous conviction for with you was released but you there is an issue when it is a big concern in the u.k. prisons i think not just the u.k. i think of the state out of this so we've seen it in france we've seen it in other states where there is a degree of radicalization going on within presence of all 3 parties they they may want to a point the finger at each other but they've all had a hand in the culpability of this and it does need reform not some individuals who are terrorists in a so deeply imbue. but to have this sort of ridiculous situation as we seen with them he's quite clearly was was was keen to carry out attacks he's been out for a week and he's in the close police surveillance that shows you the risk that they were showing him and there's a 3000 individuals who are specified interest on all of those risks or risk assessment is made. let's head stateside because the u.s. is environmental protection agency has sparked outrage over its decision to ease chemical plant safety regulations now 14 states all across the country are preparing to follow suit thing the warning is putting public faked out with the tramp e.p.a.'s cutting critical safeguards against explosions poisonous gas releases and other accidents and this facilities accident prevention is a top priority of the e.p.a. and this rule promotes improve coordination between chemical facilities and emergency responders and reduces unnecessary regulatory burdens. now back in december the agency rolled back amendments to the chemical disaster rule which came into force bomber after a series of incidents the latest changes have been criticized for locking proper protection outside all dates for example have been dropped so too have tech safety checks and strict emergency requirements many fear it will need to more accidents and indeed just 2 days after the changes a huge explosion shook a chemical plant in texas. they have dropped along with regulation in the last 2 or 3 years because you get to grow up a bit there's no you know. i don't know if this particular hit should be in your cobra movie the closing of. the regulations you david brought home i really don't know. police say in a state where there's nothing but chemical plants and oil fields and stuff like bit so you never know how close or how far he might be to get it and if those rules of pool but there is no regulation they can do whatever they want and pretty much everybody knows that a big business if you have enough money to make stuff disappear with the regulation go. away these people they don't mess with the dollars they mess with you know truly billions of dollars so i mean. mining made the world go. actually to the play purport of. the coders to kill career employees were hunted out of. the way in which you know safety has always been a concern and we know the risk factors and they carry out i think it's one of those things he just hope it never really happened. which should start as an international fights on offshore oil environmental risks he believes that the rule puts everyone in danger. there's no question that regulating these high risk industries such as chemical plants petroleum were fineries offshore oil and gas operations increases the risk of public safety risk. environmental risk and catastrophic risk to the the people living around these industrial activities and that's in nobody's interest it's not in the public's interest certainly and it's not in the industry centrist either because of the enormous price tag that comes with that i suspect the political operatives at the top of the e.p.a. which are directly from industry and the trump administration would suggest that. that it will improve and improve. public safety and such like that by reducing regulatory burdens and such like that that's absurd if they can't meet these very reasonable public safety and environmental regulatory standards and then they're not doing the best and safest technology standard that we know we need to hold them to so it's it's an absurd contention by the political operatives of the e.p.a. . after the break i'll tell you what a possible lead to tap by the tiny mafia to play for you look insecure right. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person with those great. things . we dare to ask. you know world of big. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back tot he says it's too much to tell you attacks against syrian government forces up to 6 of its miniature personnel were killed in the war ravaged syria at the province on monday according to the russian defense ministry ankara had not notified the other parties to the conflict of the treatment but a claim it denies don't of course has the details. well a syrian war monitor is now reporting that 13 syrian soldiers were killed after turkey's unannounced incursion into the syrian region of it was there that turkish troops came under artillery fire by syrian government forces just hours after a turkish military convoy crossed the border now syrian troops are currently engaged in a renewed offensive in italy against the last stronghold of militants in the country but turkey's president says that this campaign is actually in violation of a cease fire treaty that they had previously. i want to tell the russian authorities that our interlocutor here is not you but the syrian regime and do not stand in our way or no one claims that a number of turkish troops were killed in this incursion and that the number of wounded was actually higher than previously reported he also says that the turkish military already retaliated with air strikes involving f. 16 s on syrian military positions according to him between 30 and 35 syrian servicemen were quote neutralized but the russian reconciliation center had quite a different account of what happened the airspace over the deescalation zone is being constantly controlled by russian aerospace forces planes did not violate the syrian state border and there were no attacks on syrian troops the so far we've heard no reaction from the syrian government and we're left with 2 very different versions of what happened from russia and turkey. european union funds a big harvested by an unexpected source often investigation of came to sicilian mafia has been deformed in a block of many ads of heroes through farmland subsidies shouted depends who looks into the mob 21st century tactics. the exit may be officially done and dusted but for the even the headache of trying to balance its books without the u. case contribution is only just beginning no one the area that has been earmarked is farm subsidies to support agriculture and livestock breeding at a cost of around $60000000000.00 euro every year it's the biggest expense for the e.u. and while farmers are up in arms at the me hint there subsidies could be about to change it seems that evil has been accidentally blowing the budget for the last decade not on farmers but would you believe it the mafia. example and a farmer who's also a neighbor asked me to lease out my land to here that would allow him to obtain community funds and to graze flock obviously are known a week later the house you see behind me was a heavily damaged by austin. we wanted to bring about an eco village community a landowner an elderly gentleman some land and redox on one evening and identified people sneaked onto the property and cut all the beams on the roof making it unfit for use then they destroyed the whole property by setting everything on fire we kind of join the dots together and realised that we were being targeted by the mafia they were interested in our land because farmers receive money based on the amount of land they hold so the more land you have the more you can ask for european funds. the problem was so bad at times honest farmers stopped a bidding for the land giving the mafia. free reign to suck up any other land could be used to claim subsidies and as e.u. subsidies are based on possession of land rather than what's produced on the land there was no need for the mafia to do anything but to sit back and count the money so much here clans could rent land for next to nothing and claim subsidies i don't much higher rate ok so you think surely some technocratic revisits the farms and castes annoy you what's going on right now. local authorities should develop their own systematically reviews to check up on european funds besides the judicial one currently this review is carried out only on paper but actually there are not any real checks on the funds and whether they arrive in the territory. in some cases the forward was a brazen applications were made for land not owned by the applicant others were made for people who were not even alive and although the scam has not been unveiled with 94 arrests so far only 2 matthew families have been implicated the problem could be much worse it's also clear that this type before does not restrict it to just sicily in italy similar claims about mafia gangs fleecing the e.u. have been made in slovakia and romania it's thought these investigations in sicily could now lead to changes elsewhere in the e.u. but many will be questioning why it's taken so long for this type of fraud to be unearthed and why the e.u. has been allowing itself to be milked for so long. r.t. paris while we finish up let's look at some other stories from around the world in brief starting in france where yellow bus protests descended into violence in the south of the country over the weekend. if you. play. ashes were focused around the central square in the city of mumbai where $1000.00 people stood the ground for around 2 hours riot police used tear gas on water cannon and also meet $21.00 of us the protest movement has been active to 16 weeks now originally against fuel tax hike but really the rally has become a brutal to a platform for anti-government demonstrations. meanwhile dozens of migrants posted posts posters to a front of the us mexico border for food bombing an effigy of president donald trump on sunday the protests marked 172 years since the signing of the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo which ended the mexican want to expand the size of the u.s. demonstrators also demanded the washington return mexican territory lost and not $848.00 treaty. and finally condemning america's peace plan for the israel palestine conflict hundreds have gathered outside the u.s. embassy in lebanon donald trump revealed the plan last week to a wave of criticism for being too biased in favor of israel it would give the country total control of jerusalem the palestinian borders as well as all the privileges some up the road he tried to break through the embassy security fronts this while those 2 stones offices. that's how things are looking for now ought 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