spain's consular india is poised to vote on independence from madrid with your party's increasing pressure by moving in thousands of police to the region un human rights experts are voicing back. twitter releases confidential information about how much this channels spends on ads on the social media platform as part of reports on alleged russian meddling in the us election not to ask hysteria i suppose the downslide interference leads the media to jump to some outlandish inclusion. on the un listed terrorist group is accused of

exploiting the crisis to me on my own raising money allegedly for the persecuted were hidden just minority. that are you watching on t.v. international broadcasting to you live from moscow and you karen good to have you with us. when the spanish region of consul odio poised to vote on independence from madrid un human rights experts of voicing their concerns over the spanish government's a bid to block the referendum while thousands of consul and support the vote others are demanding that the organizers be jailed. was. i. i

was with the the spanish authorities 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 make sure it hasn't looted offices to shut down all the polling stations of the central government sees the vote as illegal. what is being it's time to next sunday has been declared illegal by the constitutional courts and the courts are asking that it doesn't take place this is a line in the sand when it absolutely determined to make sure the law is respected . get this thing interested by so called give anyone describing the current situation and would think that in catalonia they are hiding weapons of mass destruction a nuclear arsenal where the world's largest drug called the description is quite rightly apocalyptic in which the whole state has put itself into motion two out of

every three anti-riot police officers and now in catalonia to stop what something is terribly criminal is a referendum this is not only absurd but it isn't going to stop the referendum. pro independence activists have even printed out packs of ballot papers as 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 that 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. anybody to fall going in or out with any material whatsoever this is obviously to prevent the material that is supposed to be useful the election to be handed over to all the voting centers 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 and 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. related. right here continuously trying to invalidate the vote trying to confiscate the ballot boxes as if the work ok no. because of them this is worse than drugs we discussed the issue with several political experts who told us the spanish authorities are discrediting themselves probably was not. the wisest of the moves on the other hand thing that the spanish government felt that they had to do something and they had been so adamant that they would not allow the referendum that at this point they had to do had to do something 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 clamp down from national government on a regional government on democratic expression of speech and expression of use is not the way. a forward for any european union member state spanish authorities have been shutting down websites informing catalans about the election but what he leaks created as mirror of a website that helps photos to find a polling station that's open we spoke to a member of the council on pirate policy which is also helping referendum related websites stay active they are doing the right thing because it's not a matter of in the end it's a matter of them o'keefe some other civil rights over rights are being pressed by this government because they are prosecuting with a legal order against science they only hold information of the refrig in the original all well for.

example of repression has seen signs from going from going to wiki leaks has been accused of meddling in the catalan referendum but it isn't alone in this respect according to an alpine starts a cold russian haka is also interfering by ensuring certain cancelling websites remain active however the spanish ambassador to russia said that nobody can trace has been found and that's also confirmed by the council and pirate party member we spoke to we don't know a lot and in russia. or argentina helping a couple on you know to get into but we don't. think it's our money pollution from their spanish media i don't really know why i usually go back out. in the last election but they think it's that's on a she escaped go to how you. might get you. or 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 adverted outlay to the u.s. 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 report 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 at mit's that actually quote no accounts of russian origin trying to fit interfere in the voting process of being found. we have not found accounts associated with this activity to have obvious russian origin but some of the accounts 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 t. 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 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's monolithic kind of more pain now explains how the scale of alleged russian into ferentz is being blown out of proportion in the us. if 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 u.s. 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 read 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 sides 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 and football games hashtag ing out taken and all squashed checking out boycott n.f.l. they were chicken bowshot of the argument this past weekend and pushing them off 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 trolls by a u.s. senator was it a and f l players not standing up for the pledge or for the flag. was it b. confederate monuments or c. the california independence movement california independence movement 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 kidding no i don't know 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 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 us senator is it a fox news be read it or see 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 in 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 rush is everywhere russian trolls are in fla anon. do you buy that i think it's all over the internet so it has to be true but unfortunately the the country for us to quit explanations without any facts or substantiation behind it cable mop and r.t. new york john mcadams from the wrong paul insists he believes the whole story is

falling apart as to a lack of evidence that russia was linked to the us election in any way. the whole story has already fallen apart for the most are at 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 money that's never been shown to anyone that's never been proven that's regulation we've never seen any of the ads some of them we told are pro hillary and we're anti hillary some approach from the more anti trump 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 massive area 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 has taken 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 soft of course in france and drops rape charges against a twenty eight year old man who had sex with an eleven year old girl and sony's argue that the girl consented to intimate relations with the man are to show a deep and ski report that's being done so 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 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 are 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 scream 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 catch on 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 and love one of the all for is now calling for them to be clarified so that a child under the age of fifteen can not give consent it says that is the only way to completely protected child from sexual predators and bring from in line with the more that's already in place in almost every other country in the world so what do you can ski altie paris. the u.n. secretary general gist of the situation in myanmar as a night. we

cannot stop the technological revolution in any area where. you know to grow certain organs on the skin of a human being for computer technology. in a general way or any other technology because it's in driven by human curiosity. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest read. truth to stand down the news business you just need the right questions and demand the right answer.

question. hello welcome back a humanitarian and human rights nightmare that's how the u.n. secretary general describes the only growing situation in myanmar which is already resulted in mass displacement of the rich ethnic minority hundreds of thousands of fled to bangladesh to escape what's being described as ethnic cleansing by human rights organizations the situation of spittles into the world's fastest developing refugee emergency and the humanitarian and human rights nightmare.

however it's not just human rights organizations that are now campaigning for their hinges pakistan based group listed by the un as a terrorist organization is distributing leaflets asking for donations the leaflets appeared in newspapers and mentioned mosques and houses destroyed in myanmar let's take a closer look at this group collecting these donations is one of the biggest islamic militant organizations in south asia and reportedly was funded by osama bin laden it's based accusations of conducting terror attacks and was recognized as

a terror organization by a number of countries including the u.s. . russia and the e.u. well we spoke to qur'anic ball co-author of the book pakistan terrorism ground zero and he thinks that terrorists could compazine lines on the crisis using any money raised for their own purposes we have actually seen not only for life inside your town issued which is the charity front office. but the religious ultra right in pakistan has been given a new life times to the crisis. there is a possibility. be used this crisis for purposes number one as i have said believe me when you believe this crisis is. legit to me see for dear existence number two me use these finances for did activities inside and outside pakistan. a special australian

helpline set up the people who are worried to their friends or relatives may have become radicalized might turn out to be a flop and this received only five calls in over two months the hotline cost almost four million u.s. dollars and his plan to operate for three years is not just the hotline is quite low 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 project. 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 two thousand received positive feedback we spoke to anti terror expert jennifer breeden who told us that australian muslims don't believe the government can be trusted the national security council of australia their sort of

intelligence community started this suspected terrorist activities and the world trade center attacks and attack on a certain police officer in australia and security forces from from 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 predominately 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 immigrants to the united states starting october the eighteenth and the decision has already got lawyers and various prophecy groups worried about how the information could be

used we got reaction from both sides of the debate from private investor and writer charles or deputy director of the us middle east alliance to support trump. president trump was elected with a mandate to really clamp down on on illegal immigration and although these amount 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's 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 then 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 and the hidden data you know you hate to see this system being used in a corrupt way to stop a terrorist attack or interdict a 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 crim of the criminals be the ones to to do you know to try to be able to use it

successfully but 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. as i get to get in touch and share your sunday stories by following goes on facebook and twitter you can also find me at mccarran on stage and join make at the top of the hour with all your latest headlines. right. there already the was.

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tonight money is set to roll in for that border wall between the united states and mexico if the house homeland security committee has its way and china's security is regulatory commission is set to deep in bad countries capital markets by speeding up the launch of crude futures trading also my guest explains how the new tax reform proposal affect businesses large and small and even those overseas stand by to bust out right now. in an effort to deepen the nation's capital markets the chinese securities regulatory commission plans to grant access to more foreign investors in a speedier manner it's set to launch crude futures trading in home.