RT News - January 8, 2019 (12:00 MSK)

A fake temperance movement joins fabricated Russian bot accounts on the list of alleged US Democrats' efforts to sway a 2017 election in Alabama. Russian military police set up patrols in the Syrian city of Manbij, while US-backed Kurdish forces withdraw from the region. Animal rights activists celebrate victory in Belgium where a region has banned halal and kosher slaughtering practices for being cruel. But the decision draws ire from religious groups. Britain's stress test for a no-deal Brexit draws ridicule as truckers brand a staged traffic jam near the port of Dover 'a waste of time'.