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 supposed outside interference leads to the media to jump to some outlandish conclusion. spain's catalonia is poised to vote on independence from madrid with the authorities increasing pressure by moving in thousands of police to the region un human rights experts are voicing their concerns. there are fears of a terrorist group is exploiting the fate of myanmar's persecuted minority to raise

money for its activities. you're watching r t international with me jacqueline coming to you live from r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us. tour has unveiled a report on how they battled against alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election also mentioning r.t. in the process the statement says twitter has revealed confidential information on artie's ad outlay 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 where even on c.n.n. . parties dana hawkins joins me live in the studio with more on the story so dan what's this report by twitter about exactly it was a report. released by the congress as part of their investigation into the russian quote allowed big name russian interference in twenty sixteen u.s. election misinformation i was the report actually contained well it mentions a lot of accounts that discovered that were bought strolls. into accounts that were automated now many of these according to twitter were malicious and automated accounts and which twitter subsequently. but these accounts were all proven to be russian accounts correct well you'd think that given the type of the report but actually twitter themselves have mentioned in their report that they can actually

find any specific link or verifiable link to russia 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. now mentioning into this report as well he's given a mention specifically releasing details of their contract and for how much r.t. is spent on advertising and as more greed to mention of course it's normal for any news channel to promote itself on social media nowadays it's a key part of marketing strategy in this report there is no real specific allegation of any wrongdoing gates the altie anyway so quite why i would mention there is is baffling now this of course isn't the first time social media has been dragged into this whole russian hacking scandal correct just a couple of weeks ago if you remember facebook released the very similar information that they found around three thousand that were purchased the literally

by russia legibly exploited social divisions and social topics of the day in the united states now those were boards allegedly by russian linked troels russian linked to troll factories for the price of one hundred thousand dollars and that was between june twenty fifth of may twenty seventh team which sounds like a lot but if you look at the grand scheme of things how much advertising revenue facebook generates this would generate more poise more money more so the total revenue and one hundred thousand over the course of two years i mean is that really sufficient to change the outcome of an entire election i think many questions would be raised in the donald trump himself has labelled entire facebook which of the hoax take a listen no russia did not help me ok russia. i call it the russian hoax. and actually this scandal has now gone beyond all

all the framework of u.s. elections what started off as something specifically with russian interference in the twenty sixth election last year. beyond boundaries that the kremlin is now true to explore the amounts of movement the gun control movement movements as c.n.n. reported the kremlin is responsible for racial tensions in the states let's take a listen. that was bought by this russian troll farm on facebook was a black live matter ad that was targeted specifically to the city in baltimore and ferguson missouri and this is based on my conversation my source is that the goal here was really about creating chaos. now the department of homeland security has also alleged that twenty one states were hacked last year but some of those states seem to think otherwise don't they well that's right it was quite a serious allegation that quite a number of states were targeted again specifically to do with the presidential

election last year but since then some of these states of come back and said i'm going to minute that's wrong we haven't actually been targeted here for example texas. the secretary of state for texas he said and i'm quoting here that his office has the term and conclusively it's agency web site was not targeted and furthermore the d.h.s.s. relied on incorrect information so they've been quite clear that they haven't been talking to all wisconsin another one they said it was the state's department of workforce development which was subject to some sort of nothing to do again with elections california as well they've said that their system as it was the state's department of technology which they've also said isn't actually useful i.t. services so quite how that could be linked to the election again is quite baffling now if you look at all this sort of mounting evidence every week every month there does seem to be a new russia election hacking scandal in the grand scheme of things there the seems

to be a whole host of events here but if you actually look at things a division you break them down and sort of you know take a bit of a bird's eye perspective there are a lot of questions to be asked about how valid all of this evidence actually is are to you dana hawk and thank you so much for staying across this rather complicated story for us thanks now let's go now cross over live to speak with edward for a french m.e.p.a. . now what do you make of the report itself and its references to r.t.e. and alleged russian meddling. if you go. with your. shoes. i mean. groovy she was really good you should between these between medias and. now the report also states that twitter has no evidence to back up that those accounts were actually linked to russia so why do you think they chose to post the report at all given the fact. for me it's

a good home in the. us there were press lobbies so short it was inside it was too good for information nothing. but easy for russia a so much for our inside us networks it's very boring you know for these countries you they see. and of course our two expenditure confidential information was also released in this report is that acceptable acceptable or even legal to do so when on social network dispute what you see. there is a beast that he's a big creep on social networks. and twitter side of it's rules as to why it closed over two hundred accounts without confirming what they were for what they were close for should be will we be worried that multiple accounts could be close for just no reason just citing the rules. is that the

sin for everybody i could you do your position. of course of course at ord friend a french i mean thank you so much for your insight today and being with us on the program we thank you very much. kaleb muppet explains how the scale of alleged russian interference 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 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 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. sites 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 stash checking out what caught in a cell they were taking those shards 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. russian trolls 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 moment california pundits will 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 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 but 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 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 snapped up 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 let me ask you now do you buy this idea that russia's 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 mop and r.t. new york. meanwhile wiki leaks has published the email in which hillary clinton's

campaign chief thanks to top facebook manager for quote help and support the e-mail exchange dates back to the u.s. presidential election in two thousand and sixteen we cannot cross live to argue wholly boyko pauli tell us what else was significant in those emails. well it's interesting because while we've got the senate you know trying to find this trail for alleged russian hacking back to the kremlin and they're having trouble establishing any evidence and finding anything to back up these claims at the same time julian assange kind of waded into this scandal bite tweeting a reminder of a leaked email from hillary's campaign manager the pedestrian mails between faced chief operating officer sheryl sandberg and. john podesta himself and i

think this should really put things into perspective higgs if you compare what's happening this e-mail exchange has john podesta writing to the c.e.o. of facebook saying look forward to working with you to elect the first woman president of the united states and you've got sheryl sandberg replying saying that she's thrilled by the progress that hillary clinton is making so fascinating really bias that you've got coming from the c.e.o. of facebook now talking about how they are on hillary clinton's side and there's also other e-mails that wiki leaks have alluded to in those leaks pedestrian mails one in particular from the c e o of facebook monk zaka bug talking in a personal e-mail in august two thousand and fifteen to protest saying that he enjoyed spending time with him and that is conversation gave him a lot to think about now the big question here is. this is pretty much

a smoking gun in terms of evidence that facebook is certainly on one side when it comes to those u.s. elections where everyone accuses rusher of hocking them all they going to be investigating it is the senate going to be looking into this. bias is facebook going to giving up. these e-mails and asking the senate to investigate them we've asked them for a comment on this we've asked space that to comment on it so far we haven't had a response r.t. is probably going to reporting live from london thank you daniel mcadams from the ron paul institute believes that the whole russia hacking story is falling apart due to a lack of evidence that russia was linked to the us election and anyway i think the whole story has already fallen apart for the most part 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 its money that's never been shown to anyone that's never been proven this 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 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. u.n. human rights experts are voicing their concerns over the spanish government's bid to block the referendum in catalonia more on that after a short break. the modern international border centers on two basic principles the sanctity of

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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 callahan's have shown their support for the vote some came out to oppose it. it was. i was. the spanish authorities have been stepping up their efforts to prevent the referendum from taking place fourteen reason officers have already been arrested and extra police forces have been deployed to the region but there it has ordered officers to shut down all polling stations as the central government sees the vote

as legal. because the. 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 . this king interested by so called get 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 are 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 a packs of ballot papers at 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. anybody to pull 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 is 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 the numbers are another i don't think the problem is the presence of the police they're just following orders or needed. right here. trying to do good by trying to accomplish here. because of the work. because of. drugs we discussed the issue with several political experts who told us

the spanish authorities are discrediting themselves we was not. the wisest of the moves on the other hand. the spanish government felt that they had to do something and they had been so adamant not allowed to refer and 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. spanish authorities have been shutting down web sites informing catalans about the election but wiki leaks created the mirror of a website that helps voters to find

a polling station that is open we spoke to a member of the kalim pirate party which is also helping referendum related websites stay active they are doing the right thing because it's not a matter of that but i thought of them all to see some other people's rights over rights be replaced by our government because they are the first the we throw we go again this is true with science they only peripherally refer you. both for. the. temple but for official. site. wiki leaks has been accused of meddling in the catalan referendum but it isn't alone in this respect according to an article russian hackers are also interfering by ensuring certain kalin websites remain active however the spanish ambassador to russia said that no russian traces have been found and that's also confirmed by the catalan part party member we spoke with

. we don't know about russia. or i don't see how being a couple on here for them to get into but we don't. have to and we think it's our money pollution from their spanish media i don't really know why i usually go back out there. last election i think it's that time a she escaped go to a house where you know what right i will get you. a humanitarian and human rights nightmare that is how the un secretary general describes the ongoing situation in myanmar which has already resulted in the mass displacement of the real hinges ethnic minority hundreds of thousands have fled to bangladesh to escape what is being described as ethnic cleansing by human rights organizations the situation is spittles into the world's fastest developing refugee emergency and the humanitarian and human rights nightmare.

ok. and now there are claims that the plight of the road hinges is being exploited by a terrorist organization no less the pakistan based militant group is distributing leaflets asking for donations the leaflets have appeared in newspapers and mention mosques and houses destroyed in my and mark. now let's take a closer look at the terror group itself it's one of the biggest islamic militant organizations and south asia and reportedly was funded by osama bin ladin it 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. we spoke to crawl mol co-author of the book pakistan terrorism ground zero he thinks the terrorists could capitalize on the crisis using any raise money for their own purposes we have actually seen not only for life and sagna transition which is the charity to front office credit but the religious ultra right in pakistan has been given a new life thanks to the crisis in myanmar there is a possibility. let. me use this crisis for two purposes number one as i have said believe me when you believe this crisis is to claim more legit you may see for date existence now but to me use these finances for data activities inside and outside pockets. i'll be back at the top there with more of

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