this is deja vu news a live from berlin president trump declares a national emergency to protect u.s. computer networks from foreign adversaries the president signs an executive order which bans american companies from using foreign telecoms believed to pose a national security risk the order does not name any company but it is believed to be targeting the chinese tech giant huawei also on the show. european leaders are being warned there at 1st to stop this information campaigns in the upcoming few

parliamentary elections may prove too little too late. and here in germany a small rightwing party takes its message to the streets with marches a vote being announced that there are local authorities turning a blind. eye brian thomas thanks so much for being with us u.s. president trump has signed an executive order that bans u.s. companies from using foreign telecoms equipment deemed to be a national security risk the president's directive declares a national emergency to protect u.s. computer networks from what it calls for an adversary is no specific country or company has been named but the order is thought to be in part at least at china's leading telecom company away now the action comes as the u.s. increases its economic pressure on the. then soon

from business desk is here to talk more about this good morning ben does this mean that all u.s. communication technology will now be coming from domestic american providers this is trump strategy america 1st and it's working to a certain degree. while the way though is very important to the regional markets to local operate is the big ones have already cut ties with huawei in line with what mr trump wants but it could be a setback for the 5 g. network in total a lot of these local operators as i said use switches and gear from away from said he as well and far away at the end of the day is the leader in this technology it can make it faster it's more innovative it can do it cheaper but it also works a little sloppy than the rest it's not as precise as say a swiss engineering firm and this is the worry he had not that it may have links to the state but that it could leave gaps in its hardware if the hackers to infiltrate

ok so this will also hurt some american companies that rely on while way particularly ok now how much of a setback is this for awhile way and its push to become a major player in the global telecoms market ok this is interesting because in the u.s. that its u.s. business is only a fraction of its global business as i said it's the leader it's a huge company also with handsets not so much in america but elsewhere in the world this will be a setback for a while way in that it relies on mary many american suppliers for pots within its hardware that's the tricky part way of working in a globalized world and all these companies as so into link and have been for years have been for years now and that's something that's difficult to on ravel ok we have to look at the timing of this move as well and it comes at a critical juncture and the trade talks right now a very important time and we saw this already with trump and which i mentioned the other. how about

a factor which is big in in china and in the world trump stepped back when he banned said he insulted the company was about to flop basically because of much. and that was overturned and here we come again with this band not directed at any certain company but obviously at wild way. to analysts now the term for an ever search is very interesting as well we don't know who that is exactly but the tension could be european country companies in the future as well i don't know it's difficult is difficult to say who this can be applied to exactly exactly and it's a really tricky situation and hard to gauge exactly what the trumps what trance tragedy is here and how this is going to pan out because there are so many buggering shapes that he does have and that he is effectively using i mean his strategy isn't bad if you talk to many adolescents and he's actually getting some way on china in the way china does business because the way china does business is

unfair with the rest of the well we're talking about state capitalism versus regular capitalism ben thanks very much for coming in on this let's check out some of the other stores preview on them right now sudan's transitional military council has announced it has suspended talks with protesters on civilian rule that after clashes in the capital khartoum the military council saying this is special last $72.00 hours or so out a number of conditions to be made before we go see asians can be resumed including the dismantling of barricades arrested by the protesters. and protesters have clashed with police in rio de janeiro after a day of demonstration against government budget cuts the administration of the far right president also naro has announced cuts of over one and a half 1000000000 euros to the country's public education system that mainly affects universities. and

a sculpture by the american pop ars jeff koons has fetched over $91000000.00 at auction that's a record for work by any living artist the piece simply called rabbit is well sculpture of a rabbit in fact its stainless steel cast of an inflatable child's toy. now 28 countries 400000000 voters peter paul from across europe will be going to the polls between may 23rd and may 26th to decide who will represent them for the next 5 years of the european parliament now here's how it works the number of seats each country gets is roughly proportional to its population europe's most populous country germany of course with its 82000000 people gets 96 seats while the smallest country in the e.u. guess who that is it's malta that will have 6 emmy pieces are called to represent its population of a little bit less than half a 1000000 now once elected the members of parliament join transnational groups with

similar political views at the moment there are 7 such groups representing the center right socialist greens euro skeptics and others yemeni peace vote on new laws and improve the e.u. budget they also help choose the president of the european commission a very powerful position the current president is this man claude younger well known to many of you the favorites to replace him are the german conservative to less known people m.e.p. . and the dutch politician fronts timmermans for the party of european socialists now in the run up to the europe wide elections there are growing concerns over online dissin from asian campaigns in the late $28.00 team the e.u. commission launched a task force to step up its response to deceptive and you content but critics are warning these efforts well they could be too little and too late whoever you are wherever you are you can get involved and european union institutions have poor

enormous resources in to get out the vote campaign but have they invested enough in day out of the vote effort in ways to prevent malicious meddling it's not like there was no warning 5 years ago the kremlin's internet research agency in st petersburg was revealed estimated to spend more than a $1000000.00 a month pumping out anti west. unspin 3 years ago u.s. elections were the target of that russian troll farm yet the european commission waited until just 6 months before the european parliament elections to launch its action plan against this information we should have been doing much more kalinski spent 3 years in the european commission's struck on task force a communications unit created in 2015 to counter russian efforts to smear the e.u. now with an independent think tank kalinski says brussels is way behind expecting that we will solve the problem in the last 2 months before the elections or even in

the last month of the elections when the russians have been working on it for the past 5 years i think it's very naive facebook google and twitter have a role in the commission's plan pressed to better verify users' identities and remove fake accounts faster and to make clear who's paying for advertising and content facebook has just opened its own war room in dublin to target in authentic activity ahead of elections let's go in or from the e.u. is external action service says there has been progress it's not as much as we would have liked to but we have seen in terms of transparency rules are things are really moving and i think the platforms understood that they also need to take a much closer look at what is happening there but not everyone is counting on bureaucrats and big tech to lead the battle out in the quiet flemish countryside is what you might call and anti-trade farm with a staff of one. hi martin welcome. martin debunks false online stories on his own website lead stories dot com and also as

part of fact check e.u. a collaboration of european media outlets working to keep the record straight ahead of the elections anything that looks suspicious take a closer look at the. smells funny. especially the kind of story that makes people angry or upset or. firms people in their bias like i knew muslims this or i knew that opened up after shank brands speak content with a big red banner on his website he also formally notifies dease book which immediately reduces the items visibility in its news feeds shank is convinced even small doses of dissent from asian can be dangerous for democracy if you can swing a few 100 foods in the certain district or in a certain state. that might tip the balance and you cannot make this coalition or that coalition because one seat as moved so it will undoubtedly have an influence

with so much at stake across $28.00 countries experts say we're likely to see intense just information campaigns right up until the final votes are cast. let's bring in the correspondent who put that report together for us teri schultz good morning to you terry after looking into this what can you tell us about the kremlin's and game what does it want to achieve whether it's this information campaigns. what the kremlin wants is a divided europe it wants to see people so confused by misinformation all over the social media platforms that they don't really know what to believe that they don't know who to vote for and even possibly that they feel so hopeless about all of it that they don't vote at all in this way the kremlin and other maligned actors hope that they can get their own candidates into positions where they can make key decisions and remember at the e.u. level that means just one vote can can block sanctions so it's really important

they don't need many votes in some cases to change the entire composition. and you that's what you heard martin shanks say why he gets up every day and knows he can't catch everybody but feels like he has to try and to be fair it's not only the kremlin there are populists on both sides of the political spectrum increasingly using this iran north korea have also been traced to some attacks so that's really the problem you know the attacks are out there you know that information is being spread going viral that has no factual basis you don't really know who it's coming from there's no one to hold accountable and there's really very few ways to reach the general public with with the facts with the truth so it's really an enormous problem ok. that the powerful internet players like of facebook and google that have been enlisted in the effort to prevent political meddling but there are a lot of reasons to ask if silicon valley corporations are the right partners to

help your protect the integrity of its elections. it's true and it's there that's always a controversial question if you want fake stories to be taken down who gets to decide which ones come down and which ones stay up does anybody really want google or facebook to decide what deserves to stay on their platform so what happens is basically everything stays there and that's why they are essential partners because you've got fact checkers like martin shank and other people like him they can put out all the facts in the world but if it in a google search the misinformation the lies are still at the top or in a facebook news feed the the stories that have been debunked are still running top you really can't wait you know. truth campaign and so the big players the big platforms have basically been forced by the european commission into signing a code of conduct under threat that legislation will be coming if they don't they have to do more to take down fake accounts they have to do more to be transparent about who's paying for advertisements who's paying for content and the commissions

last report there they give an assessment every month they said much has been done but more needs to be to still be done and again the elections are in just over a week's time so they're unlikely to be completely satisfied with the progress briefly if you could give us a level assessment about this information for these elections. that's very hard to do because we don't know everything that's out there and if you'll recall in the in the election there was this huge dump of information that was released under the hash tag on leaks just a couple of days before the vote and experts say we could be looking at that in any number of countries that that malign actors may be holding some of their biggest caches of information that they hope to confuse people until the very last minute when it's too late perhaps for a fact checkers to get on top of it and to to put out the debugs version of events so i think that we're not going to know until just before the elections if they're going to be any huge splashes and then there's the other point that you may not

even know then think how much we're still learning today about the 26000 election in the united states we're still learning every day details about how this insidious influence campaign was was used to try to thwart those elections so it may take a long time before we see the full extent of what was done we have to leave it there terry thanks so much for your report and for coming in this morning terry shells for us from brussels still to come on the show this right wing group is trying to spread its fog was using a small town in germany with marches opposing the country's nazi past is its message gaining traction. well 1st though as we've been discussing tech giants are under pressure to keep their platforms from being used for this information and for promoting terrorism the leaders of france a new zealand have been holding special some parents to tackle that issue the meeting came in response to the christchurch attacks which were live streamed on

facebook. when the rightwing extremist in new zealand shot and killed 51 people in 2 mosques in christ church he live streamed the act on facebook. the footage went viral. now new zealand's prime minister just in the are done and french president and manuel mccrum are taking a stand against hatred and violence online the end of the christ church call for action is to prevent the spread of extremist content on social media. what happened in christ church was not merely an unacceptable object terrorist attack it was a transformation of the internet into a full on propaganda machine that aims to destroy any form of cohesion in our societies but it's across huge core action and action plan for change it's a global response to a trade you did it. on the shores of my country but we're also met liefeld around the world fundamentally it ultimately commits assault to build

a more humane internet. which cannot be misused by terrorists for the hate for purposes of facebook founder mark zuckerberg announced new restrictions for the online platform if users break certain rules they will be blocked from transmitting live material in addition a research project aims to improve the analysis of images which is especially important in recognising videos with terror related or other violent content if these measures had already been in place the perpetrator would not have been able to broadcast it live participants say this is only a starting point they want to gainst overly optimistic expectations of the christ church call. well one of the parties running in the european elections in germany is the party that had to vague the 3rd path it's a minor right wing radical party in east germany mainly that openly aligns itself with national socialism a reporter cows a went to plough on and talk to members of the extremist group this

calls for the bat. this is plough and in eastern germany and the office of the clip of a political party the 3rd path they offer used clothing to germans only and portray themselves as a party of the people the german people the neo nazi party also offers information on their ideals they want to see the german borders go back to where they were before the 2nd world war and cut right through the middle of poland they say german women should have more children and immigration should be stopped by the honest ones my ideal germany is a land where politicians have the final say they should always act 1st in the interest of germans we support the borders being firmly closed we believe this foreign infiltration cannot continues. to wish i'd look in. again and again the 3rd path has marched through plow and most recently at the beginning of may there

marches show clear parallels to hitler's 3rd reich torches flags drums strict marching all reminiscent of the nazi dictatorship. the neo nazi party has a polarized the people of plough and. they were allowed to carry torches to our uniforms it was creepy i find it a bit frightening and soon some of their ideas are impeccable. strikers as it's horrible that they've set up base here and even worse that people indulge them. whether groups are allowed to demonstrate here is up to the local district office if demonstrators wear uniforms or if there is the threat of violence then a rally can be banned but already see or have yet to ban any activities the district office says the right wing demonstration was not violent or intimidating and they were powerless to stop it from taking place there were no grounds to ban it. the east german authorities have often been accused of not using the full

extent of the law against right wing groups many say. they play down the threat they pose or turn a blind eye the marches are repeatedly allowed as good as it is about rights under the rule of law i think it's important that the playing field is extended as far as possible for sometimes i would like to see more courage from authority is much more me a mood often if i was a. political scientist says just restricting than the demonstrations is not enough he's calling for a complete ban of the organization. even though they are a small group i think they need to be banned because they audiology and the orientation is fundamentally the same as national socialism reasons and he's not a party then it's still far off the legal requirements for that are high in germany that means the 3rd path party is able to contest the upcoming european elections.

so let's talk more about this now with our political correspondent report vivaldi good morning virt morning are there moves to ban this party right now all this clearly is an unconstitutional party following unconstitutional goals though they say they want to overthrow the system or to as we have heard already and in the report the threshold to a political party in germany is extremely high the 2 last times we have seen to a new right wing extremist group that was the n p d then they have been both rebuffed by the german constitution constitutional course thank you very much they said well these parties even if they are wrong concede to tional they have to pose a real threat to society if they really have to pose a threat to overthrow the system and these parties are just too small and the entity was much bigger they were even if we presented in parliament and this party the path is not even represented in any parliament it ok it's not represented in any parliament yet but what kind of a political force is the 3rd path and other parties like it right now while it is

not be. a political force in the means that they really have the chance to gain any influence in parliament me they the chances of them to be successful in the european election right now. are more or less by 0 but that's not the idea of this party the party for them is a protective shell these are groups neo nazi groups which in the past able to be back to that was very easy a normal group come to bound by the authorities but by no means in the end. by forming a party they get this protective shell by the constitution and then it gets very very hard and that's what they really want to they now they are they have the possibility to push their goals in public and that's the actual impact of the as we saw there very present in public is that mainly in rural eastern germany where there is this a national following it is

a national phenomenon you can find neo nazis everywhere in germany not only in the form socialist east book the socialist east has proved to be a quite a football ground for for these parties or for right wing beliefs and we can only speculate by this is like this is. the house it is that during the past 2530 years . the people there have been connected to democracy and the way as the people who out the people in the democratic west and right big. believes are considered to be normal opinions that i don't think that's part of the problem you know parties on the left claimed that there's a relationship between groups and extremist parties like the 3rd way with the immigration right wing alternative for germany the a.f. de that's something the alternative for germany turnit of germany vehemently denies and it's necessary to to separate themselves for political survival isn't it

absolutely but but but is there any connection or as you said did nice any connections to any extremist groups and that they even have some version resolutions saying it is not possible for anyone who has been in an extremist group to be a member of the a of d. foote what is also evident is that there are some ties between the i have deeply titian's and some right wing extremist groups as we have seen last year in candidates in candidates off them on board stuck to death allegedly by foreigners and refugees big protests broke out protest but led by rightwing pro right wingers and the politicians have been among them have been leading these protests ok richard thanks very much for that review devolved bring us up to date on the story thanks you know we're moving on to some sports now and every year the german football world selects a coach whose social involvement abroad as made a contribution to the positive image of germany their name the german football

basser the word comes from the cash prizes given to the charitable project of their choice then this year's winner liverpool coach you're going to the. a crowd of football luminaries gathered at the foreign ministry in berlin all to congratulate germany's football ambassador for 29 tain your gun club the former dormant and current liverpool coach could not attend the ceremony but sent his thanks for a video message. thank you for the prize. i'm proud to be german proud to be european and i'm enjoying living here in england. club is busy preparing his little poolside for the champions league final he's exploits on the field as well as off the field sealed the decision for the voting panel. in england i tell people that germans are not only punctual but also funny sometimes and that this ends up with this on a i didn't expect it but i'm happy nevertheless. thank you once again and

don't do anything i wouldn't do. then choose there was also awarded an honorary prize for his role as both a player and coach across a career spanning more than 40 years which included spells with spanish joints real madrid and barcelona. it makes me proud it makes me happy many years of pasta my job as a footballer and coach so to receive this recognition is great. great. gratings. he won a fan award given to active players. if you're a quick reminder now our top story this hour president has issued an executive order of the bans american companies from using government to force security it's. going to be back with more on that story the president putting the brakes on auto

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