Numerous times being counted 8 to 10 times i knew i was returning to the. Cells and. Found saw further wild by claims of theyve Mainstream Media bias as tapes of c. N. N. Briefings on leaks by conservative groups. Ive been on these call theres no diversity of opinion nobody objects nobody challenges. Must go slams the quite complicated accusations against journalists for true russia affiliated news websites charged with violating e. U. Sanctions. A very good morning to you from our team here in moscow youre watching Aussie International with me the carol. U. S. Intellects joe bidens invited donald trump to his inauguration claiming it will give a positive sign that the postelection chaos is ending but its unclear whether the millions who still think victory was stolen from trump think this move will heal the divisions. No. Charms the poor design still coming out chanting stop the deal and fighting multiple irregularities thats despite officials in swing state georgia saying a 2nd recount should confirm biden is the winner aussies dont quarter looks at how the reputation of u. S. Elections as a whole may be starting to get a little tarnished. Is only about a month left until the big transition of power in the white house and yet it looks like the battle for the presidency is not yet over this may be the most important speech ive ever made i want to provide an update on our own going efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place during the ridiculous lee long nov 3rd elections if we are right about the fraud. Joe biden cant be President Trump is sticking to his guns still insisting he was cheated out of the election and calling on the Supreme Court to overturn the results his lawyers though have yet to prove their case and the Justice Department says the Current Administration is full of baloney so what is it that the Trump Administration is making such a fuss about while in new york one u. S. P. S. Driver claimed a trailer with thousands of ballots disappeared into thin air i knew it with return addresses filled out thousands of them while in wisconsin an x. Postal worker even claimed his coworkers were ordered to backdate the ballots u. S. P. S. Employees were ordered to backdate ballots that were received too late to be lawfully counted ballots in liveries in the middle of the night people filling in the blank ballots for by misplacing duplicate souther wisconsin poll workers claim similar violations as well as the widely shared testimony from this michigan election contractor who claimed she blew the lid off some dodgy dealings in detroit there was. Actually the ballots being ran through that had delayed machines numerous times being counted 8 to 10 times her testimony has already been put through the wringer of Public Opinion and the Justice Departments also made up its mind about these claims we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. The thing is though the d. O. J. Wont say why what does raise the eyebrows of conservative officials all were asking for is own where there is evidence of improper impropriety that you examine and we want the transparency we want to understand is investigation going on. What kind of investigation what are you looking for for years americans have been told evil russian meddling is undermining democracy and now that biden seems to have won the election theres not so much as a whisper on that front that the russians really just decide to sit out this very important election or perhaps the very system itself is at fault here its clear that these elections are corrupt through and through but not for the reasons that donald trump highlights the corrupt through and through because theres an Electoral College that does not recognize the popular vote theres already a complete lack of trust people do not respect the Electoral College most americans cant even explain the Electoral College or provide any type of justification or logic for which there is none Many Americans dont even participate in president ial elections because they understand that its. A choice between 2 oppresses for the next 4 years between Tweedle Dee Tweedle dum trump is just expose the system from the right in created these decisions that have long existed. First on c. N. N. Biased against donald trump was a u. S. Conservative groups calling leaked tapes of the News NetworksConference Calls and want to clip released by project very tough a c. N. N. Special correspondent describing how shes been advised by no makers to avoid giving trump too much at a time. I just keep hearing the same thing bugs from republicans who have not been there to congratulate biden but but also to the who happen the democrats and that is that we have to be you know news organizations have to be very careful in the response of all of that out not keeping track of too much of a platform when he is shooting. Video patrols useful to go forward. And that work says project very task may have broken the law by snooping on its staff and have referred the case to lawrenceville was meant the Communications Manager for project very task gave my colleagues ask a tale of his views on the tapes and whether he faces legal action. Youll hear the outgoing president of c. N. N. Jeff zucker dictating to his hosts Reporters Editors and producers what the news will be not based on whether it is true not based on whether its important but whether or not it fits jeff zuckers world view and personal political agenda theres no diversity of opinion nobody objects nobody challenges c. N. N. Did react very quickly on twitter that said that is going to get your enforcement involved my question is are you ready and t. Think the door is on your side i dont believe for a minute that the police are to come knocking on our door everything that project veritas does is legal we have a very well trained and very well paid legal staff and im highly confident that everything we did was within the legal guard rails you know and no one has called us from from Law Enforcement thats just something they said that tweet came from cnns p. R. Staff and i think you can call that a p. R. Stunt and i want to ask you one of the tables what todd and and youll private discussions without his work space would you support it as well don. Who who is objecting c. N. N. I mean they ran secretly recorded tapes of 1st lady malani a trump just weeks ago they were in the access hollywood tapes they ran tapes secretly recorded of mitt romney when he was the 2012 republican candidate for president the idea that c. N. N. Is suddenly upset. About somebody were chris secretly recording a meeting or a Conference Call and put and putting out to the public thats absolutely absurd. Leaked also appeared to show c. N. N. Chief jeff zucker ordering employees not to normalize trumps claims on the election legal or Media Outlets lionel told us he believes that news outlets which shout the most about their impartiality usually show the least. So the question is what role did okeefe play because if he if he just got the number himself and somebody lets it just gave it to him and he dialed in himself never being a part of us i think you may have legal problems but this is weird because now we have zoom cause and now we have new areas of conversation and conference its not a one on one conversation and dont forget lionels law the law always lags behind technology if we had done the same thing lets say to our stocks or matter or energy on the bed you we would maybe hear something maybe not as blatant as that but certainly a journalistic bias and there are other people who say this is the brand the idea of you tuning in to c. N. N. You want to hear a liberal anti trump stuff im sorry but thats a fact so be true to the bank brand to the shareholders they have to produce but heres the thing which is amazing when you look at people who go out of their way to see we are the news we are unbiased fair and balanced is this in essence a form of trademark of law is this perjury to say enjoy any kind of liability for misleading the consumer if i tell you something is 100 calories but its 200 youve got a believer may get a lawsuit well from lying about the content why shouldnt it apply otherwise watch this being addressed in the courts coming up. 2 brothers have sustained horrific injuries after Israeli Soldiers apparently detonated an explosive device at their refugee camp home one of the man who is still in an hospital shared his story with us. But for the so the army came at around 6 am while me and my family were asleep the soldiers placed an explosive device at the door and blew it up i woke up from the pain in my legs and found out that my brother was injured as well thats what i remember i was injured and then arrested while i was on the stretcher i was in a coma for 18 days i had surgery 9 times they even wanted to amputate my leg a month and a half later my father visited me and i didnt even recognize him at 1st and then i slowly started to improve but its now been 3 months mohammed the brother has been detained without trial according to his family the father described to was the shock of seeing his injured thunked and questions of why it happened where the burb came downstairs and from both my sons drowning in their blood their legs shredded with pieces of flesh on the walls when the soldiers swarmed in i couldnt handle seeing my children like this it is brutal and inhuman why did they have to use this huge explosive device even their neighbors from 2 kilometers away heard the explosion i was allowed to visit my sons in the hospital a week later they were in a serious condition and then they arrested one of them without charge or trial he was sent to prison when i visited him he was walking on crutches he had platinum in his legs replacing the bones because his prose was shattered. Israel says it was carrying out an anti terror raid seizing on to military operatives weapons and ammunition a statement describes their brothers as active if the adding arc mother will be held in administrative detention until march but the family of the palestinian victims wants also. Well its a model for the treat everybody seen innocent through and so we went to court because of the way the soldiers burst in as for ahmed they said his case is classified and accused him of being a member of the Islamic JihadMovement Even though there was nothing against him. He got 6 months in prison. Hes really army told me that i was injured by mistake a mistake made by one of the soldiers who thought there was someone inside the house so they decided to burst into the house in a brutal way which none of us expected after we were injured the soldiers started arguing with each other about why it happened but when i reached hospital they paid for everything and when the lawyer arrived he also said that the army had knowledge is that its there for. Me and my brother were both hit because of a mistake but he was arrested because hed been arrested before. One of 3 Small Businesses have called time in some us states and one of the most disturbing effect of the pandemic but americas mega billionaires are making unprecedented cash as the rest of the country suffers at a herd of levels arties kelly warping takes a closer look. American politicians love to sing the praises of Small Businesses however with a pandemic going on weve got Small Businesses disappearing very fast at this point one 3rd of Small Businesses in both new york and new jersey have gone under with more expected to disappear soon its really bad and without federal dollars coming into new jersey the monsters tool is not the establishment going to make it through the winter while Small Businesses are falling on hard times other folks have been raking in the benjamins. Things are going great for amazon with people stuck at home and shopping online the Corporate Giant has been on a hiring been with 427300 new employees in just 10 months it appears theyre not afraid to kick the little guys even when theyre down Many Small Companies have told us during this year long investigation that they were mistreated abused and tossed aside by amazon the. Shoes that amazon is only interested in exploiting its monopoly power over the ecommerce marketplace now on the surface of it looks like this is just simply a pandemic its a case of bigger boat staying afloat during a storm however if you look a little bit deeper it seems like things have been rigged. A radical lefty if youd like but i refuse to accept a system that enables jeff bezos to grow his wealth by 66000000000. 00 in 5 months during a pandemic the slip full 2000000. 00 americans on the brink of eviction american politicians have been talking about imposing restrictions and regulations and raising taxes on the rich however it all seems to just be talk those rich corporations are getting richer while the american middle class is dying off Small Businesses have to be competitive they dont have the money to buy the politicians they dont have the money to get the laws written for them think of it this way we have to capitalism we have one capitalism for the Big Companies that youve heard about tesla or much or amazon or easels those youve heard about and then we have another capitalism much more competitive much more relying on each business man or woman to try to find a way to divide us thats a completely different system as different rules as different limits to itself and we live in a system in which these 2 coexist but with much bitterness between them and the irony is very dangerous for the United States is that in a sector this is to whiten too deep the inequality of the rich have gotten much much richer and the mechanics of people have gotten to the United States often likes to hate all the accoutrements of the free market and free competition however it seems like when certain people rise to the top they often like to change the rules in order to make sure they stay there caleb oppen r. T. New york. Will take on the top u. S. General creates a questionable new buzzword for pentagon achievements in afghanistan or tell you what he says after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports im sure ill see you then. Welcome back. Criminal proceedings against employees all the russian affiliated bolt news on sputnik latvia News Agencies for alleged violation of e. U. Sanctions we can go to calls or if you joined me in the studio now thanks for coming in this morning and good morning to you ramanan what exactly are they being accused of well that remains unclear and of course were trying still trying to find out following amassed attentional for russian speaking journalists in. The about what we do know already is that they accuse journalists and theyre called leagues are absolutely outraged and mind you this is a criminal indictments and the journalists are now being persecuted for coal parading with a russian affiliated to the news outlets or russian speaking news outlets the crackdown on these russians being allowed in. All of the intimidating attributes if you will there were searches followed by a really long interrogations with some people being questioned for as long as 8 hours so basically a full working day if you can bring that analogy. To journalists their personal property was confiscated their professional property was confiscated im talking about say computers bank our bank cards and all of those things and in the end the journalists were asked not to leave the country and they were also asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement thats probably why we still dont know what theyre exactly accused lets take a look at the statement from sputnik news agency. The latin citizens are accused of violating the sanctions regime because of their work for the receipt of civil and news agency according to a lot of lithuania and estonia the agency subject to the personal sanctions of the imposed on the agencys general director joins ricky sort of in 24. 00 scene and of course the outrage is not only from colleagues and journalists themselves Russian Foreign ministry already reacted to what is happening in that regard in latvia they say that the countrys crackdown on russian speaking journalist under the pretext of violation of e. U. Sanctions is absolutely unacceptable the Foreign Ministry also said that those e. U. Restrictions are over a personal nature against the seal of. A News Agency Sputnik falls under that as well and those sanctions they cannot apply to everyone who call parades with these News Agencies sold its personal versus professional they also added that it considers the aggression aggressive actions of the state Security Service a blatant example of violating the foundations of a Democratic Society and freedom of the media and expression lets take a look at what else Foreign Ministry said that it is a completely punitive action which leaves no doubt there are also 4 big subtext of the fabricated accusations. Now the Foreign Ministry im of the only ones to react to this Russian Mission at the sea they also expressed their concern and they tweeted this is another flagrant violation. Of always sea commitments on freedom of speech and access to information now the persecution of russian speaking journalists in the Baltic States is not something very new people theyre already getting used to basically just on the 1st of january of last year make a stone you know that stone is a neighboring country to. Also former soviet states now their staffers were forced to serve their contracts because. They were receiving threats of jail terms from the. Police and they were also sizing these 2014 ease sanctions against the c. E. O. Of make and. And so however the these outlets themselves they dont appear on any sanctions in this stole what is happening in latvia right now still remains to be determined hopefully will builders and theres a waiting game and i can see what happened thanks for coming in rome on thank you. Lets go to a gash now to an hour and a veteran International Reporter and political commentator thank you for joining us on the program are you surprised to hear journalists being cianci from violating sanctions against the boss. Well you know 1 may argue for and mostly against the very idea of sanctions and boy caught and then secondary boycott this is not a very fruitful measure in International Relations but yes once you have such a punitive measure in place then to go ahead and try to punish journalists working for the sanctioned persons this should not be an accepted norm and you know state affiliated media. Are all over in the United States in israel in many other places what is the army radio in israel what is the b. B. C. What is the voice of america if one starts treating journalists. Other then Media Persons just because their livelihood depends on the state or on some rich person who owns the network that is unfair and journalists the world over should rise up against the well the sputnik the ready been shut down and i start many are for similar reasons do you think russian affiliated media being deliberately targeted in this part of the wild. Well you know it seems this way because russia seems like a great power used to be a superpower soviet union and affiliates are of course recognized as having something to do with the regime but you know then again and no one has to follow certain. News site a certain t. V. Channel 1 may simply flip over to ones favorite news outlets the reason no reason to punish the working journalists so when you say theres a risk the phobic subtext of all this thats been described well the subtext is that the reason he received in a global or 1st. Take for instance outgoing secretary of state mike compare when he wants for his own domestic domestic political reasons to placate israel he says that what is happening on the Golan Heights are facts on the ground and that there is. Really no use in ignoring them but when some other country invades a 3rd country he says that we will not let that stent so there you go hypocrisy i suppose the question now is how to stop this trend said do you think fits that measures from moscow the only way well we are now. Not only at the turn of the year and hopefully we are seeing the beginning of the end of the covered 19 pandemic but also perhaps a new thought in International Relations with the coming of the Biden Administration new or renewed alliances hopefully this will be part of the improved relations worldwide she left him hour and thank you for your time. Not a can of success 1000 how u. S. General has assessed american achievements off the 19 years in afghanistan. We believe that now after 20 years 2 decades of consistent effort there weve achieved a modicum of success i would also argue that over the last 5 to 7 years as a minimum we have been in a condition of strategic stalemate and success appears to be replacing progress as the buzzword for the war torn country making progress right now on a very very sort of critical to our combined success with afghanistan the progress is real and importantly that progress is sustainable make no mistake the progress there i think is very rose myself and mistake and its very substantial 2016 has been a significant year for afghanistan and progress has been made we are making progress towards our common goal that is to ensure that we and our allies never again face terrorist attacks from afghanistan it comes after the taliban and Afghan Government signaled a breakthrough in talks with a Greenman Sona negotiation mechanism the countrys struggling amid leaks revelations from the us governments of mismanagement and corruption by successive white house administrations in afghanistan top u. S. Officials privately admitted the war was unwinnable but had any such that just in from the public scott writes a former marine corps Intelligence Officer says that havent been any american achievements in afghanistan at all. You know some issues are so dire that they they they cant be resolved you know amicably between the warring parties and the reality is weve accomplished nothing in afghanistan except to destroy the country further to thousands of american dead and tens of thousands of afghanis dead the only future for afghanistan will be if one power can take control there will be no negotiated settlement between the taliban and the Afghan Government these are incompatible visions of afghanistan eventually one side will win the only way the Afghan Government can win is if the United States doubles down or send hundreds of thousands of troops and seeks to rebuild a nation there just simply isnt stomach for that in america nor in the world america will have to withdraw and the taliban are going to win that is the ultimate outcome we can choose to drag this out as long as we want joe biden will be loathe to admit defeat and be the president the last afghanistan so we could see american troops in afghanistan for another 4 years and then the president after that will have to make a decision do they want to go for another 4 years or do they want to withdraw but eventually american troops will have to leave afghanistan. 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