twitter publishes confidential information of how much this channel spends on adverts as proof of alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election. comes as wiki leaks reveals twitter's rival apparently did interfere in the phone printing e-mails from a top facebook official appearing to pledge help hillary clinton's campaign. while spain's catalonia is poised to vote on independence from madrid with your vote is increasing the pressure on moving in thousands of police to the region un human rights exposed voicing their concerns.

very good evening to you my name is neil harvey watching r.t. international. twitter has unveiled a report on how it battled alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election taking aim at r.t. in the process according to the statement the social network john revealed to the us senate confidential information on artie's and for ties it out like twitter claims. more than a thousand tweets quote definitely or potentially targeted the u.s. market r.t. said it 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 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. a colleague checked in to get discussed fresh accusations of russia's meddling in artie's alleged role with our correspondent daniel hoare kids. 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 linked 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.d. is doing in that in that report as many i suppose now we had a similar story coming from facebook last week and now it now we have twitter so

social media is just sort of the next step on the russian meddling sagar yeah 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 a decent indian 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 and if you take the total revenue from phase that facebook has made mainly from out of the ties of twenty eight billion dollars it's a drop in the ocean it also seems that the heart of the problem 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 that the kremlin this is behind all this let's take a listen that was bought by this russian troll farm on facebook was a black live matter ad that was are gated specifically to the city of baltimore and ferguson missouri and this is based on my conversation my source and the goal here was really about creating chaos as we heard a. particular pundit referring to his conversations his sources if we look at these sources from both official reports media speculation now these social platform reports a lot of these sources have never been verified that never been exposed no one's have been really told who they are or where they come from will let the public decide obviously whether they chose to believe information that comes from sources that are readily available and never actually revealed as to who or what they are

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. recent report by the ball in the field and security actually notified officially notified twin. one separate us states that they've been targeted by russian all russian linked hackers on the subject of the 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 is the term and it's agency was not targeted and furthermore the church has relied on incorrect information given california take not 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 not sure and you know as we quite said. speculation allegations mount 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 been busy looking for russian fingerprints around the u.s. election wiki leaks actually pointed out a social network giant tried to back one side in the presidential campaign whistleblower published an e-mail in which facebook's chief operating officer proposes 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 us presidential campaign in twenty 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 healer making going to help and support. 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 zucker 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 u.s. elections google many viewers will remember was accused of calibrating their search results in favor. and hillary clinton's campaign. subsequently 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 what 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 so huge flows 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 man to the search for a russian trace continues really we discuss the recent allegations he's

a columnist for the hill news website. unforgettable 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.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 when it will improve 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 tended to accuse russia 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 i'm. ruka 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 bought story somehow worse deeper affecting people more then 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 modern day american teens 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. and b. c's rachel maddow has accused russia of trying to divide almost everything and do it almost everywhere in one of her latest t.v. shows she even proposed to set up a fake secession movement to see if mosco would back it and she tried to claim that russia would 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 secession of anyone in the west for any reason just because they'd literally love for the west to break apart 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 that ukrainian ammunition depots but also conveniently fails to mention that such fires have happened multiple times two thousand and four in two thousand and five and two thousand and six but facts don't matter when her sole agenda is to blame russia 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 that 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 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 and 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 in their pressure for years in this country actively promoted the secession of texas rachel maddow sentiments were quite similar to the rest of western media and one of the only pieces of evidence cited is that the groups means contained grammatical errors but that's not the only time . russia was under rachel maddow spotlight she's been accusing trump of colluding with russia since the election 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 apparently quickly started diverting from any actual reelection campaign to instead. of being 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. thousands of pro independence activists have flooded the plus a bunch of us with a boss of the most prominent. independence referendum on the d.n.a. . in the thick of it a month and she joins me live on the line now good evening you can hear me ok lots of people though no baking plenty of noise what is the mood like. well neil now we're standing here ad spying ye which is located right in the heart

of barcelona where the probably referendum rally continues and indeed it is very crowded here where the a lot of young people who came here to express their support for the referendum many people are holding flags of catalunya as the region is poised to vote on sunday despite strong opposition coming from the spanish authorities fourteen catalan state officials have already been arrested police has been ordered to shut down polling stations and to increase security around the city now to discuss the situation in more details we are now joined a long. long locos agree cow may be thank you so much for sharing your time with us here on our genes are national now as i understand you another m.e.p. been talking to a catalan officials one expectations that you hear at today's talks what is your overall impression have you heard many complaints. over.

nothing but. very brutal. by the government. never seen before. besides. i mean. they said that probably there are. to justify the police interrogation whether he used by salman khan to lining out turning a deaf ear to the will of the local us wanting to break away from spain and

european and should brussels be paying closer attention to local demands you know the very. few fame. and up here yesterday and i believe in that that the e.u. should either free or not to take sides for the referendum and they did but as they say that the those measures taken by. the government are not acceptable he must. have done the same thinks there will be an international on the resolutions for the measures everything i now . know i would like to the european. peace. negotiation mission. while you're going to be an observer as i

understand it sunday is votes now what do you expect from the referendum and what are your main concerns whether regard to possible violations. i expect or. i hope that there will be no violence the people who will be led like. everywhere but i really don't know whether it will be. true referendum because with all the measures and the sort of. you know it could be the vote of the boxers and everything i don't know if this referenda will be. will remain a seat and i will live be very careful. well back in twenty four eighteen if we remember when the scottish part. amends pushed for an independence referendum london didn't get in the way of the votes and let it take place now here in stark contrast we see really fierce opposition coming from the spanish

authorities why it's different approaches what do you think because people and the british people. and they are more of them are the rock quarry. what do you do actually is that he pushed so many people especially young people so was there for the those you know you for some years before only ten percent supported by those now which over forty percent because of the measures and the pressure of most of the gays. so of course. political points in the rest of the spain and in his own party people don't forget you know respond on the court option. but i think he he he was given as throughout this six below sort of basic blow to the relation between there is no space if. we take many air force or must i do to be repaired.

very thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us here on r.t. international. law glow and greek thank you again now what we were just over here is really one of the first constitutional crisis a spain has seen in decades and really it seems that neither the science wants to compromise or meet each other halfway. the day in the culture of barcelona for us thank you very much. onto the news a humanitarian and human rights nightmare that is how the u.n. secretary general has described the ongoing situation in myanmar which is already resulted in the mass displacement of the road ethnic minority hundreds of thousands of fled to bangladesh to escape what's been described as ethnic cleansing by human rights groups. the situation is spittles into the world's fastest developing graph

e.g. emergency and a humanitarian and human rights nightmare. and the other claims the plight of the rangers is being exploited by a terrorist organization no less the pakistan based militant group is distributing leaflets asking for donations the leaflets of appeared in newspapers that mention mosques and houses destroyed in my own mark so let's take a closer look at this terrorist group it's one of the biggest islamic militant organizations in south asia reportedly it was funded by osama bin laden based

accusations of conducting terrorist attacks and was recognized as a terrorist organization by several countries including the united states russia and the european union we spoke to qur'anic barley's co-author of the book pakistan terrorism ground zero he thinks that the terrorists could capitalize on this crisis by using any raise money for their own purposes. we have actually seen not only for . bishop which is the charity front office. but the religious ultra right in pakistan has been given a new life time to the crisis in myanmar there is a possibility. me use this crisis for two purposes number one as i have said believe me when you believe this crisis to claim more legit to me see for dear existence number two me use these finances for activities inside and outside pakistan. a number of human rights organizations

off fear eous 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 had consented to intimate relations with the man with more his artie's charlotte. that's being anger and shock in france after it emerged that a court ruled that an eleven year old girl consented to having sex with a twenty eight year old man the girl was 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 committed against a minor without violence straight right or surprise now these acts can be punished with a five year sentence and a fine of seventy five thousand euros but it's more important what the law doesn't specifically mention concerning rape charges. how could anyone even imagine someone who might be a parent himself that an eleven year old child could give consent for a sexual act with a man of twenty eight years the age difference is enormous they are almost incapable of sexual relations at this age so this is an act of rape how could an eleven year old child who has just left school who might be scared who might be too

afraid to speak how could she say no this is unimaginable. the charity is also concerned about the impact this case will of crotch the child of all 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 loved one of the all four 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 thanks so much for staying with you watching our two

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