you. spain's council lonia is poised to vote on independence from madrid but they will dorothy's increasing pressure by moving in thousands of police to the region un human rights experts are voicing their concerns. 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 laughters hysteria over supposedly outside interference lead to the media to jump to the outlandish conclusion. and the un listed terrorist group is accused of exploiting the

crisis in myanmar by raising money and allegedly for the persecuted were injured minority. are they watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow and nicky aaron good to have you with us. with the spanish region of castle learning a 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 council and support of those others are demanding that the organizers be jailed. it was i was

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 where trade has ordered officers to shut down or polling stations as the central government sees that though as lethal. it. is 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 get anyone describing the current situation with think that in catalonia they are hiding weapons of mass destruction a nuclear arsenal what 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 that to this of even printed out packs of 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 tony 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 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. because of the. drugs we discussed the issue with several political experts says hold is the spanish authorities are discrediting themselves probably was not. the wisest of the. on the other hand thing the spanish government felt that they had to do something and they had been so adamant that not allow the referendum 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 if you. is not the way forward for any european union member state spiral far as he's of been shutting down websites informing catalans about the election but wiki leaks created a mirror of a website that helps voters 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 or do the right thing because it's not the heart of the matter of the marquis some other people's rights over rights are being addressed by our government because they are prosecuting the we've got over against it for which they only information the referral. for.

example of people has seen site. wiki leaks has been accused of meddling in the castle and referendum but it isn't alone in this respect according to an l pi's article russian hackers are also interfering by ensuring first encountered on websites remain active however the spanish ambassador to russia said that no russian trace has been found and that's also confirmed by the council on pirate party member we spoke to. we don't know a lot in russia. or argentina helping a couple on you know to get it we don't. think it's our money pollution from the spanish media i don't really know why i usually go back out. in the last election it's that time a she escaped go to how you. might get you.

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 the mass displacement of the hinge or ethnic minority hundreds of thousands have fled to bangladesh to escape what's being described as ethnic cleansing by human rights organizations. the situation is spittles into the world's fastest developing graph e.g. emergency and a humanitarian and human rights nightmare. however

it turns out is not just human rights organizations that are now campaigning so that just a park is done based group listed by the un as a terrorist organization is distributing leaflets all skinks the donations the leaflets appeared in newspapers and mentioned mosques and houses destroyed in myanmar well as find out more say a closer look at this group this collecting these donations well it's one of the biggest islamic militant organizations in south asia and was reportedly funded by osama bin ladin faced accusations of conducting terror 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 qur'anic bull 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. the should which is the

charity to front office. but the religious ultra right in pakistan has been given life times to the crisis. there is a possibility. we use this crisis for purposes number one as i have said believe me when you believe this crisis. legerdemain see for dear existence number two give me. these finances for their activities inside and outside pakistan. a number of human rights organizations are furious after a court in france dropped 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 are to show the difference he reports it's being anger and shock in france after 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 moued from a paris park by the man to his home she was told that he would chair 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 started 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 in france the more is gray when it comes to sexual offenses committed against a minor without violence in street right 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 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 all the child boys who 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 love one of the all for 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 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 which releases a report of alleged russian hacking fighting this channel's. when they go on ads on the social media popped up ball we've got that story and more after this short break.

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for you. hello welcome back the u.s. 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 alerted the lawyers in various privacy groups worried about how the information could be used without reaction from both sides of the debate from private investor and right to charles a little and they put it directive the u.s. middle east aligns to support trump john hi joe. president trump was elected with a mandate to really clamp down 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 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 if 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 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 a look at this new administration that the whether democrat republican or whatever these expansive powers would know no real controls. a special australian helpline set up so people who are worried about their friends or relatives may that may have become radicalized might turn out to be a flop and has received only five phone calls in over two months but the hotline

cost almost four million u.s. dollars and his plan to operate for three is it's not just the whole line that's got low traffic only around eight hundred people 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 it has received positive feedback we spoke to anti terror expert jennifer britain who told us that australian muslims don't believe the governments can be trusted as national security council of australia their sort of intelligence community started this. terrorist activities and the world trade center attacks and attack on a certain police officer in australia and security forces from radicals from

extremists helpline only got all those because it's just that counseling service won't even investigate these people they will quote counsel them to route wise 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. 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 artie's out late to the u.s. senate they claim over a thousand tweets quote definitely or potentially targeted the u.s. market 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. . ok with that daniel hawkins joins me live in the studio now with more on this story. and then you thanks for coming in now what's this report by twice all about exactly well there's a lot of threats this nicu so let me just start with this report that was released to congress to a corner of committee investigating specifically russian election interference it's not a new story it's been going on now of course for weeks and months long as any of us can remember twitter described as more greedy just said spending. on the social platform that's the main international channel to america and also

the spanish they spoke about how much spending there was two hundred seventy four thousand last year which really is confidential information according to contracts you know between between the channel social media platform now the main report itself featured informational but some trolls and inauthentic accounts which had actually been banned by to it but what was quite surprising was that he was actually feed should quote randomly here in the middle of the report alongside these accounts as well. saying you know that these. these boats and these trolls spent money on this. on these adverts and if you should in the middle of all that but twitter themselves said that there was no conclusion that there was a russian trace specifically. with these boats trolls that just take a listen to that. we have not found accounts associated with this activity to have obvious russian origin but some of the accounts appear to be automated. now this

all goes back of course a few weeks to facebook and other social media platform i also weighed in on the russia twenty six the election hacking scandal they also found spending that was rising as well as much as one hundred thousand dollars spent on what they say up to three thousand four topics linked to american domestic issues not even necessarily the election but simply domestic issues like gun control black gloves. again they allege this was linked to a russian troll factory linked to russia again nevertheless one hundred thousand spent between may twenty seventeen and june twenty fifth hardly seems like the figure or some would be likely to influence the outcome of a whole general election in the united states so very much a lot of questions raised because of these reports and this comes house off the back of the department of homeland security alleging that twenty one states were hacked last year but some of those states seem to think otherwise don't say well

that's right the u.s. as you said they contacted these twenty one election officials were election offices saying that they had been targeted specifically to do with the elections but we have some of these states who have commented publicly about these allegations that can give you a couple texas for example where the secretary of state. he's replying to the already saying that this information is incorrect overload and inaccurate information. there was no attempt attack at all on his agency's website wisconsin as well. there was some sort of hacking attempt some sort of interference but it was to do with the department of workforce development which oversees of course job training and unemployment benefits nothing to do with electoral issues california as well. there was an allegation there that the hackers all these alleged hackers targeted the state's department of technology but the governor

again said. state rather said it doesn't uses for its services so that was also kind of an accurate no this raises a lot of questions obviously because there's story after story after story about russian hackers or russia link targeting the us election specifically but every time you information comes out it does raise a lot of questions with a lot of arguments that review seems to be quite half baked i mean that allegation seem to go on and on and does seem to be running out of steam thanks for that update that's not a sign of hawkins. ok can explain now how the scale of alleged russian interference is being blown out of proportion in the us we'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. 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 hashtag ing out taken and also asked checking out what caught in a cell they were chicken oh shards 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 troll. by a u.s. senator was it a an f l players not standing up for the pledge or for the flag was it be confederate monuments or c. the california independence movement california but it's. actually it was the first one it was a. a you're right see because i don't know i really don't know do you believe that kid 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 i don't even know to to be honest he's at drudge a drudge report you think he's a russian agent maybe 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 be read it or see snap chat. read it yeah you're right about that quoting to us and i would probably be snapchat 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 it i said so let me ask you now do you buy this idea that russia is everywhere russian trolls are in fla. so do you

buy that i think it's all over the internet so it has to be true unfortunately the the country prefers the quick explanations without any facts or substantiation behind it cable mup and r.t. new york on the back at the top of the hour with a headline story that. probably . so did.

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