quitter published a confidential information of how much this channel spends on the ads as proof of alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election. it comes as wiki leaks reveals twitter's rival apparently did interfere in the vote printing e-mails from a top facebook official appearing to pledge help to clinton's campaign. spain's catalonia is poised to vote on independence from madrid but the authorities increasing pressure by moving in thousands of police to the region un human rights experts are voicing their concerns. and there are fears

a terrorist group is exploiting the fate of myanmar's persecuted workmanship minority to raise money for its activities. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow where it's just turned seven pm i'm talking boga thank you for joining us this hour. twitter has unveiled a report on how it battled alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election taking aim at r.t. in the process according to the statement the social network giant revealed to the u.s. senate confidential information on artie's ad outlay twitter claims a little vaguely but over a thousand tweets quote definitely or potentially targeted the u.s. market artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan however noted all media outlets promote 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. i discuss fresh accusations of russia's meddling and the alleged role r.t. played in it with r t is daniel hawkins. just when you think there couldn't be any more chapters in the solder a new one pops up this time it's about social media if they can't find evidence through officials then get some social media platforms involved in this particular report by twitter they've released their report to congress which is of course investigating those alleged russian links to the hacking of the election in two of the sixteen. report really discusses a lot of detail troll accounts bought stuff that twitter calls malicious automated accounts and now they've managed to find a few hundred of these accounts out of the well hundreds of millions that must

exist in the twitter sphere and in the by and those accounts effectively we can all say that those accounts those bots have been officially leaked to russia while you're absolute think so of course given the title of the report the russian interference into any sixteen u.s. election bots and misinformation so you'd be forgiven for thinking that but actually twitter themselves are saying they were unable to verify any specific russian connections we can hear it from the horse's mouth right now we have not found accounts associated with this activity to have obvious russian origin but some of the accounts appear to have been automated chorus our channel is never left untouched so what do we have to do with all this stuff and we are given an order in the to it's report amongst all these trolls bots malicious accounts. as we've said giving that information and how much exactly we spend on advertising on the social platform and as the editor in chief said something commonly done by. social media in our days there are no specific allegations of any wrongdoing against. whatsoever so quote what r.t.

is doing in that in that report is many i suppose now we had a similar story coming from facebook last week and now it does and now we have twitter so social media is just sort of the next step on the russian meddling saga they're absolutely the latest social platform to announce they found some sort of russian link they claim to have found or traced draw one hundred thousand dollars worth of spending to around three thousand adverse from the june twenty fifth dean . to me to dean so let's just put this into perspective for one hundred thousand dollars over the course of two years that's fifty thousand dollars a year i mean the orders decide is that really enough really to influence the outcome of the u.s. election will let people see i mean he's actually that's a multi-billion dollar you know a sort of facebook ads are everywhere you see something every day and you can't be that much of an effect i mean a hundred thousand dollars would make up zero point zero zero zero suddenly all of the revenue it also seems that the height of the program has gone beyond influencing entire presidential elections now and it seems to be controlling even

american society according to some at least from the rights to gun control issues more recently the black gloves months of protests all those racial tensions in the united states some pundits like the one we're about to see on the c.n.n. think the criminal is behind all this let's take a listen that was bought by this russian troll farm on facebook was a black lives matter ad that was our gated specifically to the city of baltimore and ferguson missouri and this is based on my conversation my source and goal here was really about creating chaos and the shooting his sources my sources a lot of this information from. the very from official reports that new speculation to these reports by the social media platforms they have relied on unverified sources source which haven't made public and haven't been revealed really i mean how trustworthy are they would you trust anything i say from my sources i don't

think many people would do that i mean of course nothing new for c.n.n. in the mainstream media to feel that the kremlin's reach has no end whatsoever but these allegations are brushed medling are often based exclusively just on claims coming from u.s. officials there certainty of varying degrees not to those claims always hold up just like this recent report by the ball in the field and security actually notified official notify twenty one separate u.s. states that they'd been targeted. linked hikers almost subject of the two sixteen presidential election but if we take a look at the states have said themselves texas for example has come back to texas secretary of state run the problem he said and i'm quoting him here that his office is the term and. he was not targeted and furthermore detroit has relied on incorrect information so they've been very clear they've got a minute we've not been told at all so what's the big deal here wisconsin another state here they've said there was an attempt to them there was some sort of a but the target was the department of workforce development which deals with

unemployment and but if it's nothing to do with elections here you something russia wouldn't be all too interested. given california not one of the biggest most important states the target of the system was the state's department of technology and the secretary of state for that state says it doesn't even use o.t. for its services so quite how that would have worked on north shore and you know as we quote said. the speculation allegations mounts up when you look at them in detail low break them down a lot of the validity can be questioned while western media and twitter have been busy looking for russian fingerprints around the u.s. election wiki leaks pointed out that a social network giant even tried to back one side in the presidential campaign it was published in the e-mail in which facebook's chief operating officer proposes helping hillary clinton's campaign chief shell samberg added that she was thrilled about the progress hillary was making the e-mail exchange dates back to the u.s. presidential campaign in two thousand and sixteen let's not get more from our

correspondent. wiki leaks has really put this on into perspective because on the one hand you've got the u.s. senate struggling to find that clear link between the alleged russian meddling in the u.s. elections and the kremlin and on the other hand you've got what julian assange has just sort of brought back to the surface from that trove of leaked gestate e-mails and that's that we have clear evidence. in these e-mails the facebook expressed an overt preference for hillary clinton in the run up to the twenty sixteen election in the u.s. i still want hillary rodham clinton to win badly i'm still here to help as i can i'm thrilled at the progress here is making going to help and support you can see it to work with you to elect the first woman president of the united states while these e-mails beg the question is the u.s. senate intelligence committee going to be as interested in hillary clinton's

campaign manager working with facebook to elect clinton as they are in russia allegedly hacking the u.s. elections and does the u.s. senate know for example also from these leaked e-mails that mark zuckerberg facebook c.e.o. wrote a personal e-mail to protest back in august twenty fifty saying that he enjoyed spending time with podesta and that their conversation gave the zakah bug quote a lot to think about now infer what you will from that but that all read like tech spoke low being to a lot of people. i think it's safe to assume that the silicon valley or the giant tech companies that were all gunning for hillary in the run up to the us elections. many viewers will remember was accused of calibrating their search results in favor of hillary clinton's

campaign. and subsequent leaks have revealed but eric schmidt who's the chairman of alphabet that is the parent company of google he had close personal ties with the clinton campaign take a listen to a memo written about schmidt by clinton's digital strategist i have been kept apprised of the work being done by eric schmidt's group and others working directly and indirectly with your team on the whole i am comfortable with where we stand and confident in our roadmap to launch day and beyond. would be interesting to see is that no one appears to care about the links between these giant tech companies and the clinton campaign these are large companies that control future players of information but no one seems to have taken any notice of

this clear preference that they found for the hillary clinton campaign rest assured for anyone who is concerned we have got in touch with facebook and we are asking them if they're going to be reporting themselves to the u.s. senate intelligence committee for their alleged links to hillary clinton's campaign . so from the u.s. election to black lives matter of the search for a russian trace continues earlier i discussed the recent allegations with brant budowsky a columnist for the hill news website and media media analyst lionel what is troubling to most americans here is that the latest example involves playing race cards in american politics from some russian sources to try to divide americans there are allegations with some that didn't at this point even on the n.f.l. controversy involving president trump who are the russians russian government russian people people who speak russian what we don't know anti fracking ads black

lives matter how is that going to help donald trump oh i know because it causes chaos details don't matter just mentioned russia mentioned r g and we're off and running for president putin and everyone else knows the exact truth the whole truth about what happened what it would prove relations is to stop it stop whether anyone will admit it or not is not stop stop interfering in the american system stop promoting racism or racial division promoting any political candidate or party in the united states by not doing the things that were on the news now that they are doing when i came over right before i came to describe i was sitting outside in a studio that had a lot of television please let me finish that had a lot of television stations on and that this very moment all over american television on many networks the owner stories about what happened about the russian

invasion sideburn vision of america one question what is the what is the best evidence you have take all the time you want the best evidence you have of anything that you have attempted to accuse russia of one bit just anything what is it you know the senate intelligence committee die. kratz and republicans the f.b.i. every law enforcement agency every cattle intelligence agency in america many many and most republican senators and republican members of congress republican and i'm a liberal democrat republican agree with every word i just said about what russia has done i'm trying so hard to play along i swear to you i'm not trying to be don i don't understand what if somebody were to pay an ad for black eyes matter n.f.l. boycott whatever it is so what if they were to buy an ad that is on the news already how is the russian buyout story somehow worse deeper affecting people more than the other story i'm hearing ten thousand times on

ten thousand other platforms i'm sorry maybe i just don't understand it there's no there there there's no here here this is a big nothing burger it says so what why no lamo on the american team and most americans agree with me not you and i would advise the russian government to think carefully about what i'm saying it is in their interest to follow the advice that i'm more from here which is to stop it. coming up in the program 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. we cannot stop the technological revolution in any area whether with these stem cells you know the military to grow certain organs on the skin of

a human being or computer technology in a general way or any other technology because it's 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 raid in truth to stand down the news business you just need as the right questions and get the right answers. question.

welcome back with an independence referendum in catalonia looming thousands of protesters have been taking to the streets of barcelona decrying matric tough stance against sunday's vote artie's medina coachable is in barcelona with us for us with the latest. concha line is poised to vote this sunday despite some fierce opposition to this move coming from a treat now to prevent those traffic around them from going and have the spanish authorities have taking some harsh measures fourteen cattle on authorities have been arrested so far acts through police have been sent into the city security services have been ordered to shut down all polling stations u.n. experts are calling these restrictions and these measures warring as they fear that they may violate fundamental human rights but here in spain it really seems that the two sides are at the moment irreconcilable. what is being at

something next sunday has been declared illegal by the constitutional court and the courts are asking that it doesn't take place this is the law in this case absolutely determined to make sure the law is respected. understood by. anyone describing the current situation i would think that in catalonia they are hiding weapons of mass destruction a nuclear arsenal where the world's largest drug the description is quite apocalyptic in which the whole state has put itself into motion two out of every three anti-riot police officers and i mean canceling it to stop what something is terribly criminal is a referendum this is not only absurd but it isn't going to stop the referendum meanwhile as the first officer dros near the splits within the council and society is getting more and more average with protesters now taking to the streets both for and against the vote and castle and police are also laughed caught between the two

they have to have they order is coming from madrid but at the same time they want to stay and the good graces self local independent supporters. the commitment of the catalan government is very clear we want people to be able to vote but we also. you have to accept that we're a police force with legal responsibilities we have this order we cannot forget this and we must carry out our obligations without creating bigger problems than your ones that we're supposed to avoid. while this is the biggest constitutional crisis spain has seen in decades and neither sign seems to be willing to backtrack and meet one another halfway pro independence activists have years of resulted to printing out 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 these areas here

as you can see probably behind me and they have been asked by the general tony of spain stop anybody 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. as break 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 i'm not i don't i don't think the problem is the presence of the police they're just following orders. needed. an occupation forces that we have right here continuously trying to invalidate the vote trying to confiscate the ballot boxes as if it were a cocaine or heroin shipment because of them this is worse than drugs spanish authorities have also been shutting down websites informing catalans about the

election but what do you experience a mirror of a website that helps voters find a polling station that is open we spoke to a member of the callon pirate party which is also how hoping referendum related websites stay active. they are doing the right thing because it's not the bottom of the bed it's my fear of them o'keefe and some other people rights over rights are being replaced by this government because they are persecute the we've got over them again it's different with science they only hold information the refrig. for. the max. tempo of professional scene science from current funk which wiki leaks has been accused of meddling in the cattle and referendum but it isn't alone in that respect according to an article russian hackers are also interfering by ensuring certain catalan websites remain active however the spanish ambassador

to russia so that no russian trace has been found and that's also confirmed by the catalan part party member we spoke with. we don't know a lot in russia. or argentina helping a couple on you know for them to get its independence but we don't. think it's our money pollution from their strange media i don't really know why they usually go back out. in the last election it's that time a she escaped go to have you know what right i will get you. 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 male artists arlo devinsky reports it's being anger and shock in front off to it emerged into

court ruled that an eleven year old girl consented to having sex with a twenty eight year old man the girl was in lieu of from a paris park by the man to his home she was told that he wouldn't 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 said it was too late that she didn't have the right to protest that it wouldn't make any difference so she went to the 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 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 who've had the child several 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 words are all for is now calling for the who 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 mood that's already in place in almost every other country in the world so what do you can ski altie powers. a humanitarian and human rights nightmare. that is how the u.n. secretary general describes the ongoing situation in myanmar which has already resulted in the mass displacement of the row hinge or 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 graph huge emergency and the humanitarian and human rights

nightmare. and now there are claims that the plight of the road in just 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 myanmar and let's take a closer look at the terror group itself it's one of the biggest islamic militant organizations in south asia and reportedly was funded by osama bin ladin 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. we spoke to paul 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 he had foundation which is the charity front of. but the religious ultra right in pakistan has been given a new life times to the crisis in myanmar there is a possibility that. me use this crisis for two purposes number one as i have said the me many believe this crisis is to claim more legit to missy for their existence number two they me use these finances for their activities inside and outside pakistan. that's all for me but my colleague neil harvey will be here at the top of the hour with all of today's top stories.

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