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plus 90 connect to an unbiased agenda subscribe now on you tube. this is state of the news live from thailand then you moved to disrupt this information campaigns targeting upcoming elections to its fall and despite a massive push to encourage people to vote efforts to stop the spread of foreign until a new propaganda may prove too little too late also on the program. one in 5 children around the world lives in a complex of
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a group save the children sounds the warning as it marks a 100 years of service so is today a day to celebrate on the program. u.s. president donald trump declares that national emergency on families businesses for foreign telecoms the pose a risk to national security directive doesn't name any specific company but is believed to be targeting the chinese tech giant. i'm phil gale welcome to the program. europe goes to the polls next week and the european union is behind a massive push to encourage people to vote 400000000 voters in 28 countries will have a chance to decide their representatives at the european parliament for the next 5 years so let's take a look at how it works the number of every piece each country receives is roughly proportional to its population europe's most populous country
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a germany with more than 80000000 people gets $96.00 the e.u. smallest country malta gets 6 m. a piece to represent its population of less than half a 1000000 once elected the m.e.p. join transnational groups with similar political with similar political leanings at the moment there are 7 such groups representing the center right socialists greens euro skeptics and others i mean he's votes on new laws and approve the e.u. budget by also helped choose a president of the european commission the current head man in charge is that this man is shown claude a younger favors to replace him german conservative m.e.p. man fred vega here and they and this is the dutchman this is a france to months of the european socialists but in the countdown to next week's vote the e.u. is very much on its god after the brics it shock and because of growing euro
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skepticism across the block and that's before we get to the disinflation campaigns trying to influence voters with lies and half truths last year the e.u. commission has set up a task force to deal with this threat but critics say its efforts may be too little too late they don't use teri schultz as this ripple. whoever you are wherever you are you can get involved european union institutions have poured enormous resources in to get out the vote campaign but have they invested enough in stay 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 western spin 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
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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 things are really
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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 an anti troll farm with a staff of one. wrote almost every insight martin shanking 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 that we take a closer look at that. smells funny. especially the kind of story that makes people angry or upset or. confirms people in their bias like i knew muslims this or i knew trumpet that after showing brand speak content with
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a big red banner on his website he also formally notifies dece 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 votes in the certain district or in a certain state. that might the balance and you cannot make this coalition or that coalition because once he has 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. dr rasmussen nielsen is from the reuters institute for the study of journalism at the university of oxford he also advises the e.u. commission on this information welcome to the w. we hear a lot these days about to descend from asia and russia and troll farms is it just
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russia doing this. no not at all i mean i think it's very clear that there are a number of information operations coming and they are probably a bit was that games with extensive ones but there has been a number of incidents in which other forms shown to be active around the world in trying to sow confusion and increase the strikes in the political process and if it's just vegan if i can put it that way away at it as well as the west that it. i think it's clear that the line between information operations and is sometimes a bit hot to draw on and there are probably instances in which western governments are accepted ways that other governments might think of as interference i think what we need to give in mind is that the majority of misinformation and sometimes it is a nation are you to mistaken or to profit from international actors and this will be the case of old europe as well during the elections we see many examples of
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domestic actors you to fall off it all political purposes trying to misuse it is so when you talk about domestic matters you are not talking about government you're talking about to pressure groups or even political campaigns. i'm sure though he's on examples of governments doing this to unfortunately or he's going to ari's yes i mean we see examples of the mystical political him as a political parties and politicians for storms of various forms of misinformation we see a well organized and highly motivated often very partisan activist groups trying to exploit tensions decided by who flame these tensions and we see what is probably the hardest parts of we see individual user sometimes in good faith sharing information that is in fact polls and this is being so how should we the public can decide who's telling us the truth how can we tell. there's no simple way really i
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mean i think we have to start. in building strong institutions and ensuring that everybody has reliable sources they can they can trust so this isn't part of media literacy that people are look making informed decisions it's in part about the importance of independent professional journalism so that everybody has access to a bias range of different sources of credible and transfer of information and then it's about ways in which you can only companies like facebook or google need to do much much more to help people see the origins and problems of the information advertising come across and hell independent 3rd parties including both researchers spectators and journalists analyze and research what's actually going on in these margins you talk about the need for a wide range of credible sources we hear a lot of complaints these days from people with unpopular views or perhaps fringe views about the fact that the mainstream media doesn't tell us the whole truth. do
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they have a point. i mean different journalists will cover the same stories in different ways this is the way in which journalism is always the brasses and of course it was the community's theo their views on represented some of these are issues they are fringe others i think we need to recognize that groups in society marginalized by the establishment and some of these people perhaps have reason to be. since that with the way in which journalists have dealt with some of the issues and this is not just a label for ice age an extreme political view is that if you many other issues to. women are presented. there are many racial and religious minorities that are not low percentage in journalism so you will never get a single provider of a full picture but that's why it's important we have a diverse news media to cover a wide range of different stories from requiring to different points of view and perspective why arrange their speeches inside
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a good job of defense for joining us dr ross was kleist nielsen from the reuters that institute for the study of journalism. and. his take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a clashes have broken out in the indian controlled kashmir a day after a gun battle between security forces and separatists killed 5 people in the town of pawan the presence of the funeral of one of the dead rivals confronted in the shoot stones. rescuers have pulled an 11 people alive from a collapsed building in china's financial hub shanghai at least 9 other construction workers are believed to still be trapped in the rubble of the building was being renovated when it collapsed. a sculpture by u.s. pop artist jeff koons says been sold at auction for more than $91000000.00 that's a record for a while i have been artist the piece called rabbits is a statue off
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a rabbit in fact it's a stainless steel cast of an inflatable children's toy. now to the sudan we have the struggle for democracy has been marred by violence the ruling military council is refusing to hand over power since president obama al bashir was overthrown in april after months of protests have now broken off negotiations with opposition groups about a transition to civilian rule but the protests continue we have this report from the capital khartoum. for as long as you can remember i met hamdan has been on the front lines of sudan struggle for democracy 1st protesting against the government in 2013 now spending months on the streets as part of the latest uprising against former president ahmedabad bashir but have done has paid a high price one night in january on his way home from a demonstration he was followed by security forces. you know some people came from behind me and started beating me with an electric
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but. they didn't say anything. i was hit directly in my. eye told the officer that i had had i surgery that i had lost my cornea he said we could kill you never mind your i. have done might never see with his right eye again and the harassment continued when he was taken to a detention center by the security forces there and officer recognized him as a prominent activist that. forcibly stripped me they ripped my shirt and trousers they started saying inappropriate things and threatened to rape me i felt ashamed being in front of so many people and being naked and having all these things said to you it's been a huge psychological toll so. another witness to the cost of the revolution is dr now. she helps run this field clinic at the heart of the sit in in front of
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the army headquarters in the days leading up to the removal of ahmed al bashir in april this clinic was at the front lines of the by. and. there were people coming in with all kind of gunshot wounds head wounds i were inside leg wounds and all of the body that were just randomly shooting people even had sniper when those. doctors themselves were also targeted by al bashir is regime. cannot i don't i think this video taken on new year's eve shows 4 doctors being arrested by the military on the street in front of a hospital in what to. call the. doctor said that it says it's because doctors have historically been at the forefront of organizing strikes and protests against the regime. no matter how many times doctors were attacked they stayed in the hospitals this was very annoying for the ownby shia regime that's why they tried everything they could against us and arrested us i took part in demonstrations and
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matches but i never did say i was a doctor it was dangerous despite the violence dr frederick doesn't believe retribution is the way forward for sudan and this is the message i met hamdoon has for those attacking and abusing protesters. despite you torturing me i went out to protest for you too. sometimes i think about revenge. but i rather we have accountability because we protested against illegal practices so we can't turn around and do the same thing. in latest developments a deal was struck to set up a committee to investigate the targeting of protesters how do now hopes that his sacrifice and that of others won't be in vain. or save the children marks its 100th anniversary today its founder eglantine jab believe that every war
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is a war against the children of this motivated her to set the aid group. every day children are killed maimed abducted recruited or sexually abused their homes and schools are bombed and sometimes they have denied aid in february save the children reveal their 420000000 children are living in areas affected by conflict that's one in 5 around the world as they mark the 17 and spare save the children has been highlighting the impact of war and conflict on children. save the children's founders wrote a declaration of the rights of the child which was adopted by the united nations in 1959 the charity helps to feed starving children after the devastation of 2 world wars. there's no end to conflicts in the world so while child welfare has improved worldwide save the children says one in 5 children now live in conflict zones
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they're at more risk of harm now than at any time in the last 20 years. money were just 12 years old and lives in gaza 5 years ago he played in the street there was an explosion nearby despite the best efforts of doctors he lost an eye. on all of the sort has children make fun of me at school they keep calling me one eyed man even in the street. i keep getting infected and i wished infections would stop. my dream and wish that i could go abroad and get a good eye fitted it looks really ines it's not only children caught up in conflict so you the children believe that every child deserves the future wherever they are whatever their circumstances place isn't peace can be just as dangerous for children as places that will. save the children's director of conflict and humanitarian policy advocacy on campaigns is george graham he joins us
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from the hague welcome to team w. so the situation for 20 percent of the world's children looks pretty dire is there anywhere where it's getting better. but there's a good question because the trend is negative so your piece shows over the last 20 years the number not only have the numbers of children. gone so to the report file ations that those children who suffered that meeting getting bigger in terms of scale and most of it now obviously there are some countries where. the particular conflict that was affecting children may have improved a bit think of columbia. the. george graves. the technology does seem to be serious
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failing. let's let me know. ok we're going to try to reestablish a connection and perhaps come back to you later that sometimes the technology just doesn't allow it let's move on. apologists for us and china has criticised an executive order signed by u.s. president to donald trump which places a strict regulations on business with foreign telecoms the white house says the measure is not directed at any specific country or company but the move is widely seen as targeting the chinese telecoms giant while way beijing says it will protect the company. the u.s. government has long viewed the chinese company as an espionage threat and has sought to keep while way from playing a major role on the u.s. telecommunications infrastructure market. this new move is likely to prevent it
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from supplying the equipment being used to set up cutting edge 5 g. networks donald trump's decision has come at a key moment in negotiations with the chinese government about future trade relations between the countries where having a little wobble with china because we've been treated very unfairly for many many decades or actually a long time. should have been handled a long time ago it was handle it now. the executive order makes it easier for the u.s. government to directly regulate foreign telecoms which could theoretically exploit back doors and systems to pose a threat to communications and national security in addition the u.s. has a place to walk away and 70 associated companies on a blacklist firms on it have to be granted licenses from the u.s. commerce department to use components made by u.s.
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firms in their technology and the restrictions will come into force in the next few days however one way executives are taking the pressure from washington in stride. more you put up that our business in the united states is not that big due to our global operations any change in one country has little impact on our global business let me. in the face of the possible challenges of cybersecurity in the future. way is a positive contribution not a destructive force someone itself will know what we are looking forward to the future willing to continue to invest more from innovation to cooperation. but i want to go but for now it seems while way won't be cooperating with many of its american partners. here's a question for you should women be ordained as priests the catholic church is ban
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on female clergy is a controversial issue pope francis has indicated that he's unwilling to change the policy but in switzerland a young theologian with priestly ambitions has decided to take on the vatican and she's getting a lot of support from other catholic women. from above the swish town of brain garden west of sharif looks tranquil but the situation on the ground is anything but. this theologian is taking on the roman catholic church over its ban on female clergy. piece of the i want to become a catholic priest i feel it's my calling and since i was a teenager a felt a fire within me in my heart in my whole body i should be standing at the altar and be there for people to serve them and go out but because i'm a woman i'm not allowed to stuff that latin is very difficult in. german is 28
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she study catholic theology in switzerland where she now lives she's given a number of sermons at the st nikolaus church in brain garden even though that's not really permitted the parish priest there says women need to take the initiative . as long as women hold back there won't be any progress fulfillment the church i don't think men will simply make way for them for. thousands of women post comments on strobes blogs to inspire her to keep fighting she's also written lots of letters to the vatican the answers are always friendly but firm thank you for your commitment but the priesthood is reserved for men. all been just because i'm a women i can't go to the bishop and tell him i have a calling to review my case and if you consider my calling genuine then me a priest that's not an option from god in her spare time likes to box so she's learned how to focus closely on her opponent and not back down. to think of us i
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think the catholic church is bigger than me it's quite a sparring partner but time now also though and i have lots of women and men all over the world on my site who are pushing for reforms in the church who want to give it a cake and wake it up cool market and boy strauss certainly won't be. her punches even if her opponent is far bigger than she is. take a look at some more of the stories making news around the world full of australian prime minister bob hawke has died he was 89 in power through much of the eighty's mr hauck was the center left labor party's longest serving prime minister in the last an election as leader but was toppled by his own party in 1991 a leader of the basque separatist militants group atta has been arrested in france after 17 years on the run josue 10 net is accused of involvement in several acts of killings the group responsible for more than $800.00 deaths during its campaign for
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basque independence it disbanded in 2080. strikes by the saudi led coalition have killed at least 6 civilians in yemen's capital sana'a as according to health and health officials linked to who is the militants the strikes reportedly targeted that night 3 sites in and around the city they come to days after insurgents claimed responsibility for drug attacks on 2 saudi oil pumping stations. protesters have clashed with police in rio de janeiro after a day of demonstrations against the government budget cuts the administration the far not present a giant has announced cuts of more than one and a half 1000000000 euros the country's a public education system these cuts may have the effect universities. sport not and in football i.e.
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premier league champions manchester city have been referred to european football's financial regulators investigators allege the club has inflated the value of a multi 1000000 euros sponsorship deal the city claimed by 2nd consecutive english title at the weekend reports say they could now face one season fan from the champions league the accusations are sent on how the abu dhabi team declared sponsorship money from abu dhabi ally and yet city has denied any wrongdoing. by his reminder of our top story i campaigning has entered its final stretch for the yeah you have you have a new parliamentary elections due to begin next week there's growing concern that the block is unprepared for foreign disinflation campaigns aimed at discouraging voters. china has warned that it will protect its companies from what it calls unfair treatment by the united states this after president trump
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issued an executive order giving his administration time greats of powers to regulate business with foreign telecoms is thought to be aimed at chinese tech companies. that have next here on the t.w. have focus on europe and especially on these are coming out of the european parliamentary elections have not sought next i'll be back at the top of the hour have a good day. going to.
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i mean a man who's proud to call himself a european. next d.w. . war or. small acts can inspire a big change in some people making it possible for the cold africa. fantastic right trying that. as they set out to say feel. good learn from one another. and work together for the church. to come for. an action packed life. anything is possible as long
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as our coffee and his friends country are. his movie theater. refugee camp. his life story may have ground to a halt. 27 years ago but there's no holding back his dreams. thank you for watching. cinema starts may 27th on the job. to. 28 nations joined in one union and strausberg is the seeds of that poem and welcome to a special edition of focus on europe with me peter craven.
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