thirty million kurds ever. publish confidential information how much this channel. spends on ads as proof of alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election. as wiki leaks reveals that twitter's rival apparently did interfere in. printing e-mails from a facebook official appearing to pledge to hillary clinton. i . spain's catalonia is poised to vote on independence from madrid with the

authorities increasing pressure by moving in thousands of police to the u.n. human rights. are you tired of me i'm not tired of you ever supply you with this. twitter's unveiled a report on how it battled alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen us elections by taking a r.t. in the process according to the statement the social network giant revealed to the u.s. senate confidential information on artie's advertising out twitter claims slightly vaguely that more than a thousand tweets quote definitely or potentially targeted the u.s. market parties editor in chief margarita simonyan however noted that 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 i 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. earlier earlier on my colleague jacqueline discussed fresh accusations of russian meddling and artie's alleged role with our correspondent 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 the 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 wall 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 around you 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 would 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'll give an order in the two to report amongst all these trolls bots malicious accounts. as we've said giving 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 their russian meddling sagar their 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 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 me with these radically 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 c.n.n. think that 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's baltimore and ferguson missouri and this is based on my conversation my source and the goal here was really about creating chaos and the shooting his sources my sources a lot of this information from. from official reports the 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 at all so 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 meddling are often based exclusively just on claims coming from u.s. officials there certainty of varying degrees that to those claims always hold up just a 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. by russian or russian linked hackers on the subject of the two sixteen presidential election but if we take a look at what the states have set themselves texas for example it's come back to texas secretary of state orlando problem he said and i'm quoting him here that his office has the time and it's agency was not targeted and furthermore the church has relied on incorrect information so they've been very clear they've held their hands but say hang on a minute we've not been acted toward target at all so what's the big deal here

wisconsin another state here they've said there was an attempt to hack them there was some sort of a but the target was the department of workforce development which deals with unemployment and if it's nothing to do with elections here you something russia wouldn't be able to interest at all absolutely given california take that one of the one of the biggest most important states the target in the system was the state's department of technology and the secretary of state for that state says it doesn't even use i.t. for its services so quite how that would have worked on north shore and you know as we quote said. speculation allegations mount up when you look at them in detail low break them down a lot of the validity can be questioned. west the media and twitter been busy looking for russian fingerprints around the u.s. election we could leaks pointed out that the social network giant even tried to back one particular side in the presidential campaign the whistleblower published an e-mail in which facebook's chief operating officer proposed helping hillary clinton's campaign chief sheryl sandberg added she was thrilled about the progress

that hillary was making email exchange dates back to the u.s. presidential campaign in twenty six sixteen to get more on this story from our correspondent polly boy. 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 asuncion is just sort of brought back to the surface from that trove of leaked predestiny emails and that's that we have clear evidence in these e-mails that 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 making going to help and support you can see it to work with you to look at 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. 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 a 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 u.s. elections. many viewers will remember was accused of calibrating their search results in favor of hillary clinton's campaign. subsequent leaks have revealed that eric schmidt who's the chairman of 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 were to 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 huge

flares 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. elections to black lives matter the search for russian trace continues early we discuss the recent allegations with brant budowsky columnist for the hill news website and 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 disappoint 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.t. and we're off and running i'm not discussing per se i'm talking about the general russian attempts to intervene in our election 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 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 the 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 tended to accuse russia of one bit just anything what is it you know the senate intelligence committee democrats and republicans the f.b.i. every law enforcement agency every cattle intelligence agency and. erica 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 dumb i don't understand what if somebody were to pay an ad for black lies matter n.f.l.

boycott whatever it is so what if they would have by an ad that is on the news already how is the russian bought 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 is no there there there is no here here this is a big nothing burger it says so what why no i'm 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. m s n b c's rachel maddow has accused russia of trying to divide almost everything and doing it almost every word and one of her latest t.v. series she even proposed to set up a fake secession movement to see if mosco would back it and she tried to claim that

russia wouldn't be following this latest stunt. i have reason to believe that russia does not watch this t.v. show so here's an experiment let's create a fake secessionist movement in the united states on the theory that russia will support succession of anyone in the west for any reason just because they deliberately learn for the west to break apart. ok let's cross the states now expect to r.t.c. may recall an interesting will she will russia secession group to find out what more can you tell us america. well lately it seems that rachel maddow covers russia more than any other topic for the past few months she's managed to connect almost every news event to russia even if connections don't actually exist she starts with fires at ukrainian ammunition depots but also conveniently fails to mention that such fires have happened multiple times she doesn't ford says in five and six but clearly facts don't matter when her sole genda is to blame russia and now we might

not be here to prove her wrong but we can however note that her reports are filled with in accuracies so let's take a moment to point them out. we saw that this week in iraq where russia was one of the only nations on earth that supported the northern iraq referendum in which the kurds voted this week that they should break off northern iraq from the rest of iraq and become their own independent nation. now that's completely false the russian foreign ministry said in a statement that moscow supports unity sovereignty and territorial integrity but it doesn't stop there even somehow manages to drag catalonia into this. there's also going to be another independence referendum this weekend in spain where the capital on the region is voting on whether or not they'd like to break off and form an independent state apart from spain turns out russia is supporting that one too. as she says russia supports the catalan independence referendum but contrary to what maddow says russia views the issue as spain's domestic affairs

a position which spain's ambassador to russia believes to be perfect and accusations of course don't even and there. russia for years in this country has actively promoted the secession of texas. according to rachel maddow russia supports the secession of texas and the only proof cited is that the group's means contained grammatical errors but that's not the only time russia was under rachel maddow spotlight. you're not having a terrible terrible dream also you're not dead and you haven't gone to hell this is your life this is our election now this is us this is our country we know of the russian attack on our election russian efforts to try to elect donald trump president it did not seem to be a super labor intensive process it was like an industrial process but you do need people to do the work they're apparently still working now this summer still against us you apparently quickly started diverting from any actual reelection

campaign to instead paying his lawyers on the russia thing even though rachel maddow is enjoying these record high ratings it seems as if political discourse has been reduced to celebrity gossip which is quite unfortunate that there is no longer some sort of boundary between news and entertainment interesting that first of all . rachel maddow she seems lovely very independent told opinion must be writing as to what you go thank you. with an independence referendum in catalonia looming thousands of protesters have been taken to the streets of boston lot of the crying madrid's tough stance against these folks the central government's orders police have already started to block the polling stations independence activists trying to stop the authorities from taking over the premises ortiz but in a culture that is outside one such as those. who are standing very close to one else the schools located here in the barcelona city center it is

a place for voting on sunday now police have been ordered to shut down old polling stations so the people of this neighborhood decided to stay within the doors of the school inside of the school to prevent this from happening now we see a lot of people here it is indeed quite crowded there is also a lot of for media presence and we hear students inside the school clapping and shouting slogans in support of the referendum as well as their right to vote we managed to speak to one person who. decided to stay inside. what you see here was not planned beforehand we're all moved living in this area of the city and with defending the place where we want to vote on some day if you turn around you will see more people when the doors of the school open will just swap places in order to keep defending this voting station catalan is poised to vote on sunday despite some fierce opposition to the smoke coming from madrid now the spanish authorities have

already taken some harsh measures to prevent this referendum from going forward fourteen council and state officials have been arrested x. tripoli's has been sent into the city un experts are saying that these sorts of restrictions are quite boring as they may violate fundamental human rights now meanwhile as the date of the referendum draws nearer at the splits and the council and society is really getting more and more avid and with the protests now taking into the streets people are protesting both for and against this vote and council and police as well basically a left caught between the two well they have to obey orders coming from a treat but at the same time they won't stay and the good graces so for local independent supporters. the commitment of the catalan government is very clear we want people to be able to vote but we also 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 the ones that we're supposed to avoid. this is the biggest really constitutional crisis spain has seen in decades and neither seems to be willing to somehow backtrack and meet the other one halfway. humanitarian human rights nightmare that is how the u.n. secretary general has described the ongoing situation in myanmar which has already resulted in the mass displacement of the road ethnic minority hundreds of thousands have fled to by the dash to escape what's been 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.

and other claims that the plight of the rangers is being exploited by no less than a terrorist organization the pakistan based militant group is distributing leaflets asking for donations leaflets of appeared in newspapers and they mention mosques and houses destroyed in myanmar. so let's take a close look at this terror group one of the biggest islamic militant organizations in south asia reportedly was funded by osama bin ladin faced accusations of conducting terrorist attacks it was recognized as a terrorist organization by several countries including the united states russia

and the e.u. he spoke to chronic palko author of the book pakistan terrorism ground zero he thinks the terrorists could capitalize on this crisis by using any raise money for their own purposes we have actually seen not only for he had found issued which is the charity for and off. but the religious ultra right in pakistan has been given a new life to the crisis. there is a possibility. be used this crisis for two purposes number one as i have said believe me many believe this crisis is to clean more legit to me see for dear existence number two be me use these finances for did activities inside and outside bike aside. number of human rights organizations are furious after a course in france dropped rape charges against

a twenty eight year old man who had had sex with an eleven year old girl attorneys argued the girl had consented to intimate relations with the man with more his r.t. shala due to ski. it's been anger and shock 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 lured from a paris pok 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 in france 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 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 of crowds 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 ones 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 from in line with the already in place in almost every other country in the world so what do you can ski altie paris. with a new special australian helpline set up for people who are worried. friends or their relatives may become radicalized it could turn out to be

a flop it's received just five goals in two months long cost more than three million u.s. dollars it's planning to be operating for another three years but it's not just the hotline getting low traffic on the around eight hundred people have visited the associated website despite the high cost though 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 kelly they're also insists the community as well can the initiative and that it's received positive feedback we spoke to an expert jennifer bring to she told us that a server muslims don't believe the government can be trusted national security council of australia they're sort of the 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 that all's because it's just a chance a lean service even investigate these people they will quote counsel them to you out 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. russian surface of started to d. mine the area around the syrian city of sort of clear routes for humanitarian convoys and this is after the syrian army backed by russian air power broke a thirty year siege of the city by islamic state.

meanwhile the operation to clear resort of terrorists that's ongoing with pockets of resistance remaining and these are the latest pictures for you from the front lines according to russia's defense ministry just twenty percent of syrian territories now still held by islamic state. you all watching all teams in national really appreciate you being with us this evening i'll be back with the very latest news headlines sell see you in off announced on.