you. spain's catalonia is poised to vote on independence from madrid but they were thora t's increasing pressure by moving in thousands of police to the region un human rights experts are voicing their 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 laughters hysteria over supposedly outside interference lead to the media to jump to some outlandish usually. a un listed terrorist group is accused of exploiting the crisis in

myanmar by raising money allegedly for the persecuted were hidden minority. allowed are you watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and they care and good to have you 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 consequence of showing their support for their vote some k. about to oppose it. was and i. was and

the. the spanish authorities have been stepping up their efforts to prevent the referendum from taking place foreseen regional officials have already been arrested and extra police forces have been it's their way to nigeria has ordered officers to shut down all the polling stations as the central government sees the vote doesn't move to. the basic you know if 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 of. this king interested by stuff it will give 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. independence activists have been printing out packs of valid papers that are secret location and volunteers handing them out to people who want to vote our correspondent went to one of the warehouses where papers were seen 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 call 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. 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. drugs were discussed the issue was several political experts who told as the spanish authorities are discrediting themselves probably was not. the wisest of the moon on the other hand. the spanish government felt that they had to do something and they had been so adamant not allowed. 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 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 they are doing the right thing because it's not a matter of the matter of democracy or some other people's rights over rights being raised by hardinge government because they are prosecuted we got over against science they only hold information the refrig. for. example of

repression has seen signs from frankly. wiki leaks has been accused of meddling in the castle and referendum but it isn't alone in this respect according to an alpine stance a cold russian hackers are also interfering by ensuring certain castle and websites remain active however the spanish ambassador to russia is that no russian trace has been found and 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 or to get it in the band 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 i usually go back our. last election try thinking beats that's on a she is good go to how you know we're right arrogant you.

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 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. . the town now joined in the studio by artist daniel hoare considerably more about

this story hello daniel so what's this report by twitter all about exactly what is the latest chapter in the russia election saga nikitin this time it's all to do with social media this was an official report released by two or two members of a congress committee investigating the russia king links it discusses troll accounts in authentic accounts that are usually automated so not real accounts what so it's a really described as malicious automated accounts many of which they were subsequently banned they said themselves however twitter also mentioned it was unable to verify any specific russian link or russian connection in those accounts take a listen. we have not found accounts associated with this activity to have obvious russian origin but some of the accounts appear to have been automated so as margaret was mentioning there are also given a mention of among all this all these links specifically releasing what's usually

confidential info releasing how much money was spent on advertising although this is of course as we heard earlier a normal activity for any news channel all over again no specific allegation of any wrongdoing by r.t. is mentioned so while it is included among these bots and malicious accounts it has baffled quite a few people and of course this social media scandal goes back to facebook just a couple of weeks ago if you remember now twitter facebook sorry released this report saying they were going to fire one hundred thousand dollars worth of spending on up to three thousand ads between june twenty fifteen and may twenty seventh you know allegedly those were also connected to russian troll factory or russian linked both accounts but the question of course also has to be lost in the grand scheme of facebook's advertising revenue is one hundred thousand dollars over two years really enough to substantially influence a you know the american presidential election fifty thousand dollars a year could really but enough that question will be asked and this follows correct

me if i'm wrong and off the department of homeland security allege that twenty one states had been hacked last year but now some of those states seem to think otherwise say yeah absolutely this goes beyond social media this was an official release by the department of homeland security they said that as you say twenty one states had been targeted specifically to do with the u.s. presidential election of twenty sixteen but some of those states have since got back to the department of homeland security to clarify what's going on texas for example the secretary of state were down the pub last. quote his office has determined conclusively is agency website was not taught with the target. furthermore the d.h.s.s. relied on incorrect information so a complete refutal of the allegation from texas wisconsin another state they've said it was actually the department of workforce development that was targeted nothing to do again with any sort of electoral process is here and california as

world the state said that the system targeted was the department of technology which isn't actually used for i.t. services so again questions are asked over just how valid this the h.s. department on the security allegations are when several states have already come forward and said look we haven't actually been targets or the wrong system self on top of that it seems that it is that more and more groundless accusations that thanks for the update that started daniel hawkins. what kind of woman explains how the scale of alleged russian and severe 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 hashtag ing out taken and also asked checking out what caught in f.l. there 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 trolls by a us. 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 and it's. 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 idea 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 but maybe i don't i don't even know the dude to be honest he's an at drudge drudge report you think he's a russian agent maybe a is 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 it's one of those i would say b. and that's what yeah the same guy said that read it down right 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 prefers to quick explanations without any facts or substantiation behind it cable mopp and r.t. new york tanya mcadams from the ron paul insists he believes that the whole story is forwarding a pot 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 part first it was the russian government spend one hundred thousand dollars in facebook ads to support president trump well that completely. 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 our 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 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 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 softer quote in france dropped rape charges against a twenty eight year old man who had sex with an with an eleven year old girl and sunnies argued that the girl consented to intimate relations with the man artie shaw the deal with the reports that's being anger and so 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 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 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 that are 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 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 loved one of the all four is now calling for them to be clarified so there's a child under the age of fifteen and lot 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 describes the situation in me on. as a nice math story and more after this short break. the modern international border centers on two basic principles the sanctity of sovereign borders and self-determination in this regard the kurdish question is particularly vexing and even dangerous will some thirty million kurds ever. capitalism requires capital which require savings which requires a rate of interest that encourages people to say that rate of interest has to be commensurate with the global or the americas risk reward profile in issuing bonds

from a wall street bond issue or. than the market can absorb i should watch the price of my bonds go down i know i just can't issue bonds about goldman sachs every day billions and billions and they never go down in price because the federal reserve is always going to print money to buy them that's not even remotely tied to capitalism in any stretch of the imagination that's right. welcome back i see monetary and and human rights nightmare that's how the u.n. secretary general describes the only growing situation in myanmar which is already results in the mass displacement of the or hinge of ethnic minority hundreds of

thousands of fled to bangladesh to escape was being described as ethnic cleansing by human rights organizations. have spilled into the world's fastest developing graph e.g. emergency and the human. and human rights nightmare. pat . however it's not just human rights organizations that are now come painting for the rangers a 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. let's take a closer look at the green collecting donations is one of the biggest islamic militant organizations in south asia and reportedly was funded by us arm of bin ladin now it's based 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. but we spoke to qur'anic ball co-author of the book pakistan terrorism ground zero and he thinks the terrorists could capitalize on the crisis using any raised money for their own purposes. we have actually seen not only for. issued 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 two purposes number one as i have

said believe me when you believe this crisis is to claim. for dear existence number two me use these finances for did activities inside and outside pakistan. a special australian helpline set up for people who are worried to their friends or relatives may have become radicalized might turn out to be a flop and it's received only five phone calls in over two months the hotline cost almost four million u.s. dollars and is planned to operate for three years as much as the hotline it's got low traffic though only around eight hundred people a visit to 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

polls have feedback and we spoke to anti terror expert jennifer britain 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 hotline for suspected terrorist activities in the wake of the world trade center attacks and attack on a certain police officer in australia and security forces from some radicals from extremists this helpline only got line calls because it's just a counseling service they won't even investigate these people they will quote counsel them to be radicalized 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. and i think as you get in touch and share your thoughts on the day's stories by following us on

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. yap is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same. apparently better than booth. and see people you never heard of redacted the night president of the world bank hate. me seriously send us an e-mail. and. donald trump said that military options are on the table for dealing with kim jong

un's nuclear ambitions and he's blaming predecessors full evening and what he called the mess with north korea it's all next on this edition of. the politicking on larry king on tuesday don't trump blame previous administrations for what he calls the mess he's been left to deal with regarding north korea's nuclear program so is that a fair assessment and how exactly did we get to this point anyway all this is mr trump also said he's not ruling out military options for ultimately dealing with kim jong un. for the latest in water all means i'm joined by david jolly foremost u.s. representative republican of florida he joins me from tampa and joel rubin who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in the obama

administration he is president of washington strategy group and he joins me from the nation's capital trump said three of these administrations are responsible for this mess joel is that fair well certainly the world we live in now is shaped by the predecessors but our current policy is not going anywhere good and for the president to look backwards when we have a clear and present threat now that doesn't do us and any any benefits we really need to have a different policy from the current one which is encouraging kim of north korea to accelerate his nuclear and missile programs and putting us in a position where we have very few diplomatic options and so the president by criticizing the predecessors really doesn't help expand the opportunity for us to find a solution that is not military david jones exactly right listen litigating who might be responsible for this is a domestic.