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i. counted from protest is accuse the president of supporting far right extremism after his delayed condemnation of hate groups two days after the deadly violence in charlotte. cools accused of censorship after its automated tracking system skews searches and deletes videos from journalists and groups on.
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popularity falls faster than any french president ever polling even less than his predecessor after just one hundred days in office. now i am here in moscow this tuesday the fifteenth of august my name's kevin owen for a good morning to welcome to this latest thirty minute news update from r.t. if you're watching around the world and first two days after bloody clashes in the u.s. town of charlottesville donald trump has bowed to overwhelming pressure made a second statement denouncing racism in hate groups he's been under fire though for failing to single out the role of white supremacists in saturday's brawls which culminated in a car being driven into a crowd of counter protesters killing one woman. we condemn in the strongest
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possible terms this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many sites on many so. racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the k.k.k. neo nazis white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans all but said much of the media still criticized the president though for his delayed response leading him to tweet that the fake news media will never be satisfied he then headed to new york way he was met by crowds of protesters outside trump tower accusing him of racism and a skull of mopin this morning looks at how america's political debate it's all about labeling. one of the chants most frequently used at the protests is no trump no k.k.k. hell fascist usa essentially trump and his supporters are being tarred with the
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same brush as white supremacy. now the suspect in the horrific charlottesville car ramming was himself a member of the far right but the mayor of the city was very quick to put his blame on the white house and president romney and he wasn't alone he should look in the mirror and he made a choice in his presidential campaign the folks around with him to you know go right to the gutter to play our worst prejudices and i think you are seeing a direct line from what happened here this weekend to those choices trump has made it clear with bannon gorka in the white house and the klan in the streets it is now the white supremacists house. the incitement of hatred to that got us here is as real and condemn the bill as the white supremacists and i was tweets the democratic
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response to the car ramming mirrors the way republicans responded to the shooting at the congressional baseball practice they blame democrats for stoking up the atmosphere when reality attack was carried out by a lone wolf republican a guy you had an increasing intensity of hostility on the left three percent tension has been building. i think since election night the hyperball that vitriol from the left has spurred threats and now action without historical parallel events like today are exactly why we took issue with and why elites glorifying the assassination of a president now most americans liberal conservative or otherwise are not violent however it seems like the leaders of the two major political parties try to make the other half of the electorate look like they are and that seems to be mobilizing people in both camps if you want to start something. and demonize me and i don't your mouth.
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was. thank you. thank you that is. that. the united states has created a political system in a way to demonizing one side means supporting the other side for many voters those who haven't really learned that much about their parties yet the solution to this is to reduce some of these impediments to we need a system in which political parties have to fight for their own ideas they have to show why what they believe is good and why it's right and watch an excellent idea. and not just focus on demonizing be other side so no matter what your political outlook is the best strategy seems to be the same generalizing demonize it will
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happen art see your. right wing protest in charlottesville centered around the removal of a civil war monument which had lastly been regarded as symbolizing racism similar confederate statues elsewhere have been targeted by companies in recent months monday protest is destroyed in north carolina. there it goes demonstrators gathered outside the county courthouse to topple the statue some people seem climbing on it ever so pulled so on the road to bring it to the ground the crowd all such on that slogan such as we are the revolution and no k.k.k. no fascist usa. spits by you. divide people about. thirty. two i was six three you could. see the democratic. leader.
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of. one of the reasons i won the election is very very divided nation. before the next morning you tube and its parent company google being accused of stifling alternative viewpoints seems they are cracking down on extremist content but also removing is the allocation of legitimate files from journalists and opposition groups jaclyn voters go. internet regulation is becoming ever more automated meaning the machines are now in charge of monitoring what you write and post so when you have your video taken down it's nothing personal it's just the algorithm you tube now has computers largely responsible for blocking extremist content and the company is head over heels with the cutting edge technology that makes this all possible over seventy five percent of the videos we've removed for
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violent extremism over the past month were taken down before receiving a single human flag and that all sounds well and good given that in theory machines should be objective but it turns out they're not recently we've seen a number of journalists monitors and syrian opposition groups have their content blocked despite the fact that very similar videos which untouched on mainstream news channels are two pages those who are targeted say the site is purposely trying to erase certain documentation of the war i think what's so troubling about this if we look at the syrian accounts this is video chronicling a six or seven year war and some of the most important parts of that war from the perspective of syrians you tube though still has faith that its machines know best . well these tools are imperfect and untried for every setting in many cases our systems have proven more accurate than humans and videos that need to be removed and the video sharing website isn't alone in being found at fault google has also
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come under fire for showing bias that was after a number of left wing and progressive news outlets were removed from search results after new protocols were enacted by google those alternative sides claim they've seen a drastic drop and i to be on their pages sense then yet the search engine giant says the newly adopted policies or applied simply to help improve the quality of results we updated our research quality reader guidelines to flag upsetting user experiences including pages that present conspiracy theories unless the query clearly indicates the user is seeking an alternative viewpoint and that last little bit is very important to take note of unless a user specific lee indicates they are interested in a quote alternative view point they will be getting them when you look at the actual application of the artificial intelligence programs what you actually see is the. common and very natural organic stupidity of
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silicon valley elites who are since sorious in nature and actually seek to scrub the internet of divergent opinions the journalist yasha levine actually tested google's artificial intelligence which rates certain phrases as toxic so yasha levine put in phrases for example like america is corrupt and that was rate is ninety two percent toxic meanwhile one yasha levine answered the phrase hitler was right in everything he did it was only thirty four percent toxic so censorship continues to rear its ugly head online but where a group of experts could have been made to answer for this before there are now only machines which as we've seen aren't as unbiased as we first thought. r.t. washington d.c. . elections are looming for europe's powerhouse germany but despite the potential far reaching consequences of the vote things seem to be a lot less to a sofa less income trust the french company was running at this stage.
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america has not only one of the world's most powerful leaders she may well be one of the world's most laid back politicians so much so that she decided to take three weeks off and then telling else right before the german voters determine whether or not she can run for a fourth term next month the fact that she chose to wear the very same outfit for the last five trips she took to the same location just goes to show how well she understands her people that they prefer the status quo and change isn't necessarily good don't take my word for it just take a look at the polls support for merkel drop ten points while she's breathing in that italian a mountain air but she's still way ahead of her main rival as speedy leader martin schultz who couldn't get any hiking sessions in his schedule because he's busy campaigning like any other politician would the former european parliament spokesman even try to provoke a reaction from the chancellor by claiming of germany is not prepared for the future influx of refugees but not only that merkel ignore all of these prosecutions
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just pepper spray diminishing the chancellor shadowboxer courtesy of the local media the feeling of solidarity between states has been the most how did it get to this when did it start did it begin with a man whose decision to open borders and you agree with our partners in a moment when those partners were overloaded. on the horizon is quite easy to describe it's an s.p. the led government in september. i came to the streets of berlin to ask german voters not campaigning is a more subtle and effective form of election nearing when i ask you what you think about the election campaign so far because it's. right. there campaigning. like. yeah i'm not so into.
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it too i can. tell you right now because i think like i'm working so moderate now i'm not. i don't know anything about right now i'm not into the election right now so far but the actual. german well it's a good question and it's like to tell you they're enjoying the summer and cast the right ball come autumn says this poster by miracle c.d.u. party which aptly symbolizes her laid back campaign style and they still are t. . all right in the thick of it but from summer holiday and fresh on the election trail i'm going to merkel got a frosty reception one rally. speaking about the country's refugee policy supporters of the right leaning alternative for germany party staged a protest against the policy of open borders the refugee there welding banners
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reading merkel must go borders instead of see reference to merkel's party they also called for the chancellor to resign to political analyst and consultant told us the germans generally though don't take political risks. well the german is different and if you compare him to the american or to french people germans usually rather conservative they do not like experiments and they do not tend to support political movements that are under heavy criticism so if something like they are turning to for germany or also deutschen. them you will immediately see that the political players with the help of the media will attack those movements and people will just be scared away from supporting such parties and therefore the germans they are specifically conservatives they are fiercely
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even. supporting the movements that are under criticism and therefore i think you cannot expect from germany a leadership in the real big challenges of our times. coming up the honeymoon is already over for president micron in france as the french public compared to fallen out of love with their leader just one hundred days into the job we check out what's going to go on the rest of it choose the morning stories what it. seems wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me at all if you have to shape out this day become educated and engaged because the trail.
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when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line big get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. like to be for us this is what before three of them all can't be good get. interested always in the water out. again an elderly palestinian couple who've lived in the same house in east
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jerusalem for more than fifty is among the less about to be evicted by israeli authorities. we lived for fifty three years think this house it was a great injustice israel should give us back our land they take our homes and claim . they take all of tree. farm is seventy six her husband's eighty four moved into their house back in one nine hundred sixty four that's three years before israel took over east jerusalem she says the threat now though of a vision has left them in despair. then last lesson and the police are threatening us we don't know what to do we are sitting here like fools we don't know whether to stay or leave we have nowhere to go maybe if you were to find at least a room we could leave but even if you were to drag out my husband and he refused to do it what are the women who are well israeli law stipulates the jewish residents
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can claim the rights to a property if they have proof that their families lived there prior to the nine hundred forty eight war a right leaning settler group called the israel land fund won a court battle to claim the only couple's house in this case the group's director insists it's not about discrimination but writes i know you expect to be alone in the middle of. the middle on dawn to tell your payment to go out and if telling you no i don't want to go out and this is what you must bid now after all they did this they told that they not they don't want to give to let you go out from our apartment so very we told them we took them to court the decision sparked anger amongst east jerusalem arab population where people of held prayers outside the couple's house and support the same fate awaits other residents of east jerusalem to according to human rights watch indeed fifteen thousand palestinians have been stripped of their residency status over the last fifty years. believes the strong
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presence of the israeli lobby abroad to prevent any condemnation turning into any real action. situation now just horn is truly awful idea that these seven people might be evicted from their homes any day now is something that should trouble each and every person in jerusalem and not only in it there are forty four other families who might face of action if this election takes place and there is the peace chance for peace for all the people in jerusalem and in this region that is in jeopardy every time new hatreds goes into our homes into people's houses throws people out and put violence at those instead of them persons are being talked about a lot and the issue of the occupation is being brought up again and again in different places around the world but that actual action is not really been taken i think that israel has a very strong lobby around the world. after just one hundred days as the president
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of from the seams the. little off the manual mccrone for a lot of people was heralded as the champion of democratic values he's now even more unpopular than his predecessor partridge breaks what's behind this fall from grace. on may the seventh emanuel macross went to power as president of france. his share of the vote was sixty six percent he's thirty nine years promised a fresh new era i am totally for the construction of a new model of governance people do seeing that we need reform we want to do reform so we will reform we are a movement of profound renovation fast forward one hundred days and macros popularity has fallen faster than any french president even his previous francois hollande known as mr unpopular by the end of his presidency because of his record
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low ratings was doing better one hundred days in the nosedive. kranz popularity came after he said he wanted to reign like the mystical jupiter father of the gods while his first divine intervention was to force his military chief to resign after telling him in public that he macro knows better because he is in charge as you would wish if you near city didn't place you. in another high handed move macro cancelled the traditional bastille day media conference apparently because he regards his views as too deep for the shallow press and when micro wanted to make his wife the first lady with a public salary over three hundred thousand signed a petition against the plan saying they didn't want a queen bridgette so in just one hundred days the darling of french voters and the new face of french politics has lost the love of his people experts suggest voters
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fail to notice he was really offering them anything new in the first place he claimed to be and their turn a diva to the order way of doing politics but he was born and raised in this system his education his you know forested jobs to be an investment bank go over there he made all his career and the oprah's fear is of of our elites the only difference between him and you in my corner of the vicious or it system is his age or in his mother is in his way of governing arkell predicament the same after three months the president has already fallen from grace or as one commentator put it the comments macron or indeed jupiter has come back down into the atmosphere a partridge party paris well in the mix here with all this microns ratings are also believed to be influenced by his apparent obsession with his public image he wanted a bigger office photo than any other president for instance and it looks like he
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tried to copy of the leader's heart winning photos to check this out just like his predecessors he said seizing every photo op we care is a big football fan to like barack obama mccrone also seems to be taking some cues from another former french president french publisher and journalist emirate morville believes image is the only thing that can control within his party right now. he's compelled to enter the fray because the m.p.'s he has over the fish his posse has been created it out of the blue and because they have a percent of the center seats they have hired people like in a business firm but without any experience of the political world you have for instance m.p.'s who said that there will be late at their trench assembly because they had their tennis lessons you can find m.p.'s welcome to unable to answer two simple questions to journalists mr merkel doesn't have any party that's why he pay so much attention to his image that's the only thing he can control effect. well
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that's how the news for martin shaping up this tuesday morning i'm kevin owen but with the next live update from r.t. h.q. you're a moscow in thirty minutes as always don't forget you can keep up with the latest two online from us r.t. dot com twenty four. the city of minima so mark was here the hardest by the twenty eleven tsunami but it was damaged mostly by the radiation after the nuclear disaster. you may not know what you did not. know mom also a lot of what i. am a little slow to return to the rule decontamination is not complete but many locals could not leave their houses and farms also consider.
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i. greetings and salutations now is a time for reflection or watchers by now i assume most of the syrian the united states of see read or heard about the young man whose moral compass have been so consumed with hate that he would turn a vehicle and weapon in the attack of those who would stand in opposition to his fractured and important beliefs our hearts go out to have her hair and her family along with the seventeen others who were injured by this act of one justify violence and pure collars now while the corporate media scrambles to churn out
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their sensational headlines and the politicians scramble to turn this tragedy into political capital to bash their opponents with. let us not forget just how much of a key role these two players played in the radicalization of so many people in groups across this country politicians and the media how often have we seen the corporate news media feign discussed while parading out white supremacy in their race as leaders for click bait interviews and headlines how often have we seen politicians capitalize on xena phobic fears playing the political extremes for votes stoking the fires of hate by exclaiming how in godly and evil the other side is then throwing their whipped up base a carefully coded bill or two to keep them voting in order to hold their seats of power all these kind of actions by our political leaders and ratings hungry for this state give legitimacy to those who peddle racism and fear of anyone who looks
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differently thinks differently or believes differently than they do. in the republican party deep down you know you've played this most dangerous game for a very long time now but all you democrats now revelling in your sanctimony of see we knew this was going to happen sorry but folks you're just as guilty as the republicans because for a party that supposedly wraps themselves in tolerance and liberal ideals i've seen a whole lot of mockery intolerance and outright hate coming from you towards those who believe who you believe are your political enemies apparently in the age of trump hate is now the only acceptable currency in both our political parties will hate only begets hate and hate leads to violence leads to the violence we saw this weekend i say let's break free from the hate and violence let's go back to showing those that morally are politically disagree with us some compassion and love because that is what changed.
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