brains council lonia is poised to vote on independence from madrid people thought you think creasing pressure by moving down to the police to the region un human rights experts from voicing concern. twitter releases confidential information about how much this channel spends on ads on the social media platform as part of a report on alleged russian meddling in the us election that has hysteria over suppose an outside interference leads the media to jump to some outlandish conclusion. and the un listed terrorist group is accused of exploiting the

crisis in myanmar by raising money allegedly for the persecuted would hinge of minority. hello there you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow and the care and good to have you with us. with the spanish region of catalonia poised to vote on independence from madrid un human rights experts are voicing their concerns over the spanish government's bid to block the referendum while thousands of consul and support the vote is that demanding that the organizers be jailed. was. i.

was. punishable florentines have been stepping up their efforts to prevent the referendum from taking place fourteen regional officials have already been arrested and extra police forces have been deployed to the region frederick has ordered offices to set down all polling stations as the central government sees the photos as illegal. as what is being it's time to next sunday has been declared illegal by the constitutional court and the courts are asking that doesn't take place. in the same place absolutely determined to make sure the law is respected. by anyone describing the current situation of police presence would think that in catalonia they are hiding weapons of mass destruction a nuclear arsenal or the world's largest drug haul the description is quite rightly apocalyptic in which the whole state has put itself into motion two out of every

three are anti-riot police officers are now in catalonia to stop what that something which is as terribly criminal as a referendum of this is not only absurd but it isn't going to stop the referendum as well as the pool pro independence activists of even printed out packs and ballot papers that a secret location and volunteers are handing them out to people who want to vote our correspondent went to one of the warehouses where papers were seized by police . the national guard the police has been sent over this morning to this area here as you can see probably behind me and they have been asked by the general attorney of spain to stop anybody to fall going in or out with any material whatsoever this is obviously to prevent the material that is supposed to be used for the election to be handed over to all the boltons. it spread all across

barcelona so let's try to talk to the local people to see what the people around here think about what's going on with the police for the referendum this sunday but our numbers are another i don't think the problem is the presence of the police they're just following orders. right here continuously trying to invalidate the vote trying to confiscate the ballot boxes as a firework cocaine or heroin. because of them this is worse than drugs we discuss the issue with several political experts who told us the spanish authorities are discrediting themselves probably was not. the wisest of the moon on the other hand thing the spanish government felt that they had to do something and they had been so adamant that not allowed to run around that at this point they have to do this so it may have

a political backlash and more people would be willing to support the independence of catalonia i really do feel that anything that looks like a clampdown from national government on a regional government on democratic expression of speech and expression of use is not the way forward for any european union member state spanish authorities have been shutting down websites informing catalans about the election but wiki leaks created a mirror of the website that helps voters to find a polling station that's open we spoke to a member of the council on pirate party which is also helping referenda related websites stay active. they are doing the right thing because it's not a matter of and it's a matter of them o'keefe and some other people rights over rights are being pressed by this government because they are prosecuting with legal or against different websites they only hold information all the referral in britain all

fall. on the. trample of repression that couple has seen signs for and frankly. would kill eeks has been accused of meddling in the council and referendum but it isn't alone in this respect according to an alpine i saw sicko russian hackers are also into fairing by ensuring certain cancelling websites remain active however the spanish ambassador to russia said that there's no russian trace been found and that's also confirmed by the consul and pirate party member we spoke to we don't know a lot and it rusts you. or i didn't see helping cut the lawn you know for to get its independence but we don't think it's a real thing we think it's our money pollution from their spanish media i don't really know why usually goes back out. in the last

election by they think it's that's on a she escaped go to have you know what bites i'll get you. well the search for russian election meddling goes on in catalonia twitter has unveiled a report on how they battled against alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election also mentioning r.t. in the process. the statement says twitter has revealed confidential information on artie's advert outlay to the us senate they claim over a thousand tweets quote definitely or potentially targeted the u.s. markets artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan however stressed that all media outlets spend money on promoting themselves twitter has disclosed in congress a monstrous information we spend money on our own ad campaigns as all media organizations in the world do now we have to go even further and honestly confess

we also spend money on ads in airports taxes billboards the internet on t.v. and radio commercials were even on c.n.n. also in the reports twitter confirms it's now closed over two hundred accounts relating to what they say was spam however after referring to russia several times twitter admits there's actually quote no accounts of russian origin trying to interfere in the voting process has been found. we have not found accounts associated with this activity to have obvious russian origin but some of the accounts at pizza have been automated it's very deliberate it's guilt by association you know there there there was a lot of fake news being spewed out right and left during the campaign using social media that's not what our tea was about obviously the point is guilt by association they've got they've picked out some things which clearly

were you know pushing fake news on twitter i guess there's a concept among these people in congress and they're they're really trying to appeal to it among americans too who are fairly ignorant about international affairs and things in general to sort of go back to the old evil union and think that everything in russia is a monolithic. kind of mopin explains how the scale of alleged russian interference is being blown out of proportion in the us you've been watching american t.v. lately you probably think you know everything there is to know about russian propaganda and where to find it supposedly the vast plot to deprive hillary clinton of her presidential crown includes election meddling wiki leaks and of course this network russia's hacked into a lot of things russia was behind the election meddling russian hackers the criminal clan well according to certain voices in us media and in congress this is

just the tip of the iceberg because when it comes to russian trolls you should always expect the unexpected that it. a region and middle earth where trolls live the dark side of social media breeding ground for trolls now the news aggregator reddit the fourth most popular website in the united states may be a vehicle for russian subversion according to u.s. senator mark webb and there's a conservative news web site the drudge report it's also a tool of russian propaganda well that claim comes from media matters a center that's dedicated to quote correcting conservative dissin from ation drudge has used his sights as a weapon traffic by applying for russian propaganda sites and even sports can't escape russia spell the media's covering trump spat with the n.f.l. players around the clock but somehow it's russia that spurning this debate over patriotism at football games hashed out take

a knee and also asked checking out what caught in a cell they were chicken both shy of the argument this past weekend and pushing them off of their troll farms as much as they could to try to just raise the noise level in america yes those russian trolls are pretty hard to find let's see if average new yorkers are just as good at spotting them as our lawmakers and the media which scandal was said to be the result of russian troll. ols by a u.s. senator was it a an f l players not standing up for the pledge or for the flag was it b. confederate monuments or c. the california independence moment california on its way actually it was the first one it was a. a you're right c because i don't know i really don't know do you believe that kid a no i don't who is a russian agent is it alexander ovechkin matt drudge or tom cruise tom cruise no doubt that tom cruise strikes you as

a risky he has that now definitely tom cruise maybe i don't i don't even know dude to be honest he's an at drudge a drudge report you think he's a russian agent maybe that a is known to be very kerry close to russia but. since that's well known us a b. and you're right which is used as a tool for russian propaganda according to this same u.s. senator is it a fox news b. read it or c. snap chat. read it yeah you're right about that quoting to us and i would probably be snap chat actually it's read it it's one of those i would say b. and that's what yeah the same guy said that read and write so so let me ask you now do you buy this idea that russia is everywhere russian trolls are in fla non i think so do you buy that i think it's all over the internet so it has to be true but unfortunately the the country prefers to quick explanations without any

facts or substantiation behind it cable mopp and r.t. new york. daniel mcadams believes that the whole story is falling apart stu to a lack of evidence that russia was linked to the us election in any way i think the whole story has already fallen apart for the most are it first it was the russian government spend one hundred thousand dollars and facebook ads to support president trump all that completely fell apart so they started saying that this troll army somewhere in st petersburg spent this money that's never been shown to anyone that's never been proven a regulation we've never seen any of the ads some of them we told are pro hillary and we're anti hillary's some approach from the more into trouble i don't even know what they're trying to say of the united states i thinks is now in the grips of a kind of a mass hysteria that we've certainly not seen since the height of the cold war maybe even going back to the salem witch trials where complete irrationality his taking over if it's

a cloudy day it must be the russians involved it's absolutely hysterical. a number of human rights organizations a few areas after a course in france drop two rape charges against a twenty eight year old man who had sex with an eleven year old girl attorneys argued that the girl consented to intimate relations with the man and to show a deep and ski report. that's being anger and shock in france often it emerged that a court ruled that an eleven year old girl consented to having sex with a twenty eight year old man the girl was an annuity from a paris park by the man to his home she was told that he would show how to use instead he had sex with a child who was younger than the age of consent of almost every country in the world she thought it was too late that she didn't have the right to protest that it

wouldn't make any difference so she went into autopilot without emotion and without reaction. well the age of consent is fifteen influence the more is gray when it comes to sexual offenses committed against a minor without violence constraint threat or surprise now these acts can be punished with a five year sentence and a fine of seventy five thousand euros but it's more important what the law doesn't specifically mention concerning rape charges. how could anyone even imagine someone who might be a parent himself that an eleven year old child could give consent for a sexual act with a man of twenty eight years the age difference is enormous they're almost incapable of sexual relations at this age so this is an act of rape how could an eleven year

old child who has just left school who might be scared who might be too afraid to speak how could she say no this is unimaginable. the charity is also concerned about the impact this case will look at the child. we don't know and this is also one of our goals how she is and that's another problem to see how this child will be taken care of psychologically especially in light of the media coverage and how she will be protected loved one of the all four is now calling for them to be clarified so there's a child under the age of fifteen cannot give consent it says that is the only way to completely protected child from sexual predators and bring friends in line with the already in place in almost every other country in the world so what

do you can ski altie paris. the u.n. secretary general describes the situation in myanmar. after this short break.

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refugee emergency and the humanitarian and human rights nightmare. however it's not just human rights organizations that are now come paving for the region just a pakistani based group listed by the un as a terrorist organization is distributing leaflets asking for donations leaflets appeared in newspapers and mentioned most and houses destroyed in myanmar well let's take a closer look at this group this collecting these donations it's one of the biggest

islamic militant organizations in south asia and reportedly was funded by a sama bin ladin faced accusations of conducting terrorist attacks and was recognized as a terrorist organization by a number of countries including the us russia and the e.u. when we spoke to a couple co-author of the book pakistan terrorism ground zero he thinks the terrorists could capitalize on the crisis using any raised money for their own purposes. we have actually seen not only for life. which is the charity front office. but the religious ultra right in pakistan has been given new life times to the crisis. there is a possibility. be used this crisis for purposes number one as i've said. many believe this crisis is. more legit to me see for date

existence number two me use these finances for did activities inside and outside park assad. special australian helpline set up for people who were worried their friends or relatives may have become radicalized might turn out to be a flop as it's received only five calls in over two months the hotline cost almost four million u.s. dollars for the three years is planned to operate it's not just the hotline this got no traffic though only around eight hundred have visited the associated website but despite the high cost the new south wales counterterrorism minister remains positive about the projects we only need one successful phone call and the helpline has paid for itself david elliott also insists that the community has welcomed the initiative and that it has received positive feedback we spoke to an anti terror

expert jennifer breeden who told us that australian muslims don't believe that governments can be trusted. national security council of australia their sort of intelligence community started this hotline who are suspected terrorist activities in the wake. of an attack on a certain police officer in australia and security forces from some radicals from extremists helpline only got all those because it's just that counseling service they won't even investigate these people they will quote counsel them to radicalize and nobody in australia especially the muslim communities trust the australian government that is predominantly non muslim to be able to radicalize people when they have no knowledge of islam the way some of these people do these muslims that are trying to stop extremism. the us department of homeland security is planning to collect social media information and search results on all in the

currents to the united states starting from october the eighteenth the decision has already got lawyers and various privacy groups worried about how the information could be used we can reaction from both sides of the debate from private investor to charles alltel and deputy director of the us middle east alliance to support trump on her. president trump was elected with a mandate to really clamp down on on illegal immigration and although these are illegal immigrants he's making a big push to make sure that immigrants to this country are assimilated and that includes you know leaving out potential terrorists and jihad is where i do draw the line though is i think that if you start with this wide sweeping search and let's say john's name or my name comes up does that government then have the right to make a search of my e-mail and me generally rise to the top of the list of priorities that is alarming this information in the public domain so if our government

officials can use it. to to gather information on you know on people that may be susceptible to terrorist ties that by all means it should be done before we give a hunting license to our existing government to go and exercise this wide sweep you know we really ought to understand what tools are being used i don't think it's as simple as the postings and the actual words that are up there i believe that our government and companies like facebook and twitter and others and advertisers can use the method data the hidden data you know you hate to see this system being used in a corrupt way to stop a terrorist attack or interdict you know a criminal activity before it takes place you know assuming it falls within the parameters of what the. homeland security or any other government agency lays out

then that's good that's great i mean i'm happy to hear that we can use technology to our advantage and not always let the terrorists and the evil doers of the criminal the criminals be the ones to to do you know to to to be able to use it successfully or you know we really need to have a session i think understanding you know how far the government can go in abuse its powers before we will be nearly you know embrace and let this new administration whether democrat republican or whatever have these expansive powers with no no real controls. well do you get in touch and share your thoughts on the day's stories by following guys on facebook on twitter you can also find me as mccarran on t.v. and join me again at the top of the hour with all your latest headlines.

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