i. i i i. i. i. say blocking are adequate in the latest attack on russian media that. a big day for catalonia coming up later the spanish senate set to vote on whether madrid will take back direct rule of the region as the capital and president rules that a snap election. and the cyber security industry could be about tripled in value in the coming years under the constant threat of the internet.

by from h.q. it's a two year moscow time this is r t with me kevin and very good morning to thanks for watching and first it's us in the news this morning when twitter has blocked this channel from advertising on its platform in an unprecedented and out of the blue move it has to be said daniel hawkins has got the details. a story worth the plot thickens and develops almost weekly r.t. has received notification from twitter it began positively we believe in freedom of expression and in speaking truth to power it ended ironically with the news that all accounts on our brand from advertising any content on the social media platform twitter has made policy decision to all of board advertising from all accounts owned by russia today and sputnik according to twitter r t on behalf of the russian government attempted to interfere in u.s. elections as claimed by the us intelligence report back in january twenty seventh

team no clear accusations of wrongdoing misconduct or breach of policy now this turn of events is almost comical given that last year twitter offered to deliver an unbiased point of view of the us elections through an exclusive ad campaign aimed to promote artie's election coverage and bring it to a wider american audience ortiz released some details of the election collaboration offer to provide a clearer picture now this special offer included many features from customize the mode to analytics and research solutions even a dedicated team of twitter experts to help with media strategy now this had the specific aim of having a bigger reach to american voters and viewers why would twitter have offered this to a kremlin propaganda tool seeking to control the election after the negotiations r.t. didn't take up the offer because of the hefty price tag it went over all social

media budgets what happened over the last year and a half how has r.t.e. gone from trusted media partner to being on par with mysterious russian bots and trolls here are the facts r t never violated any rules while advertising on twitter r.t. has never dealt with and will never deal with bots or any other compromised tools on any. the media platform r t has never spread any sort of deliberate misinformation if this had not been the case r t would have been banned by any social media platform in question as all of them have strict rules for policy violations however twitter included this channel in their report russian interference in the twenty sixth elections it even went as far as releasing confidential information on adverts spending on the platform a marketing strategy used by most international news outlets by the way in this day and age but again no proof of real misconduct the unprecedented actions of twitter

might end up backfiring for all media outlets as artie's editor in chief has warned . honestly i didn't believe that twitter was controlled by american security services it looked like a conspiracy theory to me but twitter has just been fast it's a pity especially because american news outlets operating in russia will now feel the tenderness of russian tit for tat measures in the twitter officials will testify before congress on russian election meddling no doubt r.t. will be given a mention and while we're happy we've played by twitter's rules can twitter say they've avoided by the very principles of free expression they say they believe in reactions cohen through thick and fast in response wiki leaks founder julian assange is calling on twitter to be more transparent and release details of all placed by media or nonprofit organizations he is not alone the journalist behind the n.s.a. whistle blowing scandal glenn greenwald questions whether twitter would make the

same move if the complaints against u.s. government linked group targeting ads abroad. artie's had a social media told andrew farmer about how to it his decision has come as a disappointing shock. but we've never broken a rule on that and i dare say given the climate in america right now our team broken a rule would be very quick to hear about a right now but we haven't quite clearly and both it seems to me like there's a certain desire to squeeze us a little bit in terms of you know how to reach across the digital they've never really expressed concern about the content or any of these concerns that they've expressed today no there were there's been no can no expressions of concern about our content on the contrary you know we've always tried to be very innovative digital publisher it's it's really surprising. unfortunate that they've decided in this decision unilaterally to prevent us from campaigning but in my opinion it speaks it speaks more to the kind of level hysteria level of hysteria that's in

america from our point of view as a really important part from for us we certainly deeply regret it we're shocked by it we deeply regret that you know we could've spoken about this before hundred he's given given each other some heads up and you know quite clearly mentally you know stand our ground in terms of the integrity and the quality of the products that we publish on a platform we're bloody good at this is a deliberate move to get everybody off of what's happening right now to the hillary clinton f.b.i. investigation everybody's favorite now let me get this straight r.t. buys it ads or ads ok like the world does what did these ads do did they survive the election did they cause or were they evidence of or in d.c. of colucci ed what pray tell did these ads or complicate they made americans. i think and maybe caused

curiosity dissension perhaps and that was the collodion so that's a great move for freedom of speech way to go twitter it's disgusting while the moves against a t. have been described as a witch hunt by the russian foreign ministry last month because the big gathering pace the u.s. justice department demanded recently that r.t. america register under the cold war era era foreign agents act moscow said that would result in serious legal consequences if that happened google then removed you choose premium advertising service in the us without any notice to us the attacks against this channel started after january's u.s. intelligence report of alleged russian meddling there's never been any solid proof that r.t. influence the twenty sixteen us election despite a flurry ongoing of attacks in congress but one propaganda machine contributed to

the influence campaign by serving as a platform for kremlin messaging using russian government funded outlets russian propaganda media outlets like r t i think it's a propaganda arm of government that is definitely not on our side reports have it that russia not only wanted to weigh in in the election with they also want to undermine u.s. confidence the citizens confidence in our electoral process and in our democratic values so what's really going on here well the experts we talked to believe twitter might have been pressured into making the move against us. it's them trying to curry favor with congress before having to go before congress and i know this is coming from from from from some sector in the government we just don't know which one yet that's the issue right now and i think that when the hearings take place and twitter comes up and has to explain this and they're going to come up and say hey look what we did now leave us alone it's not they're not going to leave them alone they're going to push them even more so when the hearings take place i think

we're going to find out who behind the scenes is done this again it's probably within the american intelligence community but it definitely is pressure it's just the question is from what area of the government is it coming from of course it's not a coincidence i mean the smear in the count's me is showing clinton and trump i mean it's just another go not just of bashing but bashing of russia as well i don't lot of people they look at the social media accounts like twitter and facebook and instagram and somehow believe that these are the past years of free speech but we're increasingly seeing sentient if anybody gets told how to gains that mainstream narrative so i understand where this attack has now come on and i can see what r.t. have done wrong to the problem at the moment is the the new age oligarchy run twitter and facebook and the other accounts the problem is they all powerful all the advertising has gone away from print away from bull gets

a lot of it has gone to the site so they are all powerful and what you've gone now especially say for example of facebook where most of them but there's even rumors he might want to run for president of the united states we get this unholy alliance between the fourth the state machine the press and the people and politicians it's not a good and it's not a healthy relationship to. spain the senate is set for a key vote on the escalating catalonia crisis later today. the madrid government could decide to take direct rule of the breakaway region when it comes off the catalan president's decided against calling a snap election of. more than willing to put forward an election as long as there's a go and see validated and treated with respect and has been such a currency to date more than three weeks after going to the polls catalans remain in limbo many had expected decisive action from the catalan president instead he

handed the final say to the we channel parliament that sparked a wave of criticism on social media. care on the streets of boston learned the reaction was moved. i think that he did make the right yes i stand right now we only have one option that these declared independence disappointed. because i think that it's new

it's. no use to wait more time to declare independence sometimes we have to wait for the good things to come and i think today is are they to take take things calmly what we expect is republic the catalan parliament is due to vote on friday and so much waiting there is a call for just to be any easy insights but what the council and the. it was quite a clever move with the president the very clever move because we devolve the decision to have a cattle in parliament now as you know there's a pro independence majority there so obviously that points in one clear direction that probably you will have a vote in favor of an attorney but he warns that when that happens the violence witnessed by many during the referendum could be repeated things might get

very ugly here with the repression of the spanish government we are a peaceful people we are a civic we are for so obviously you can expect some massive resistance from the catalan people because we are very proud nation now we're not more than any other nation but we're not less than any other nations we have a right we have the right of self-determination and we are going to support that we're going to defend our rights no matter where the final independence decision is taken all senate is in madrid it will also be voting but on article one fifty five if that is implemented it will impose direct rule on catalonia. which was once described as an atomic bomb by the spanish former foreign minister so if

the cattle and the public is declared independent it may not have time to get on the map as a sovereign state. barcelona or slow a ripple effect see it across the border in the south of france is also support for catalan independence for centuries the region was in fact part of carb load here but it ceded to france in the seventeenth century it's still known as northern catalonia with its own regional language and dialect is what locals there to say about the independence push the. so. what's happening is very serious and sadly our fund elected representatives say much this. passage was boring for people who claim to be democratic. nations and will collect a large sum of money of course but this is only the beginning we also want to show that we are here to tell our friends in the south don't worry you're not alone.

when there is an oppressor and oppressed those who say nothing to give their press their power work we want our representatives and our parliamentarians to come forward and to clearly say who they support. all the way or why there's a sinister side to the internet you should very well know. why it's hard to tell right from blue these days in u.s. politics just a couple stories ahead this morning. anyone

and you go there to resist the american designers if. you will be a terrorist it can be. there has been happening with. the. again welcome to our team's national smalling so as a center for the break the internet's long of course had this sinister side which few have or experience but which should be a concern to anyone who gets online it is called the.

this is just. securing information held online is an endless battle with becoming rocketed in recent is that the cost of country it could have doubled over the next five years alone sub security expert barry spillman explained some of the dangers lurking out there on the web. the dark web has become a place where a lot of very bad things are going on over there it wasn't always that way and it wasn't meant to be that way at the dark where was a set up a originally by the united states navy to be used as a place for dissidents or people in third world countries who want to have connections with the outside world or to provide privacy and anonymity but the

problem is is that the dark web has been hijacked by bad people because of the same reasons that it's providing that same anonymity and basically today you have tremendous amounts of cyber crime that are being run off in the dark where different sites different forums marketplaces were flipped like look like amazon where they're actually selling things broken down into categories and i say selling things i mean everything you can possibly imagine drugs weapons pornography all the bad things you could imagine. there's also a place that is beginning to threaten organizations because if someone is breached and there's large data breaches this information could find its way for sale on the dark web or just the dennehy of people being stolen whether it's students are universally whether it's the medicare program in australia which brits recently saw a dark where cyber intelligence company is a company like ours six that basically is analyzing information that's on the dark

ware and other sources like the deep web and basically providing a threat intelligence picture of the different threats that are out there and these different and these areas. are scary keep your purse was updated now next the trumpet ministration on choose day and it congress a list of russian companies and organizations that might fall on the new u.s. sanctions it lists entities from russia's intelligence services and the militia to military industries such as the federal security service the foreign intelligence service and the defense manufacture a kalashnikov the new sanctions bill will be passed in july to punish russia for its supposed aggression in eastern europe and alleged interference in the u.s. election in twenty sixteen the list appeared after pressure from congress which accused the administration of failing to enforce the measures adopted against moscow and it was campaign richard back in the explains why he thinks the latest targets were chosen here. i think that they're showing hostility toward russia and

that they see russia which i think would probably be considered the second military power in the world as a as an obstacle to a strategy of global domination which is shared by the top levels of both the democratic and the republican parties and those who are behind them as well in the ruling circles of the united states so i don't think it's a coincidence that they decided to name all of these defense and intelligence organizations companies and branches of the russian government because they see those as as as the main problem that the u.s. and its nato allies face in this global strategy. picking which party to back in the u.s. used to be a pretty straightforward affair but now it seems with more than a few republican senators vocally telling against their president to something more like democrats it's getting tougher kalam open has been out in new york to play

spot the republican. in the usa it's coke or pepsi mcdonald's or burger king and we all know in politics it's democrats or republicans but now we've got three senators who don't exactly fit these categories you know you would think he would aspire to be the president united states and act like a present united states but you know there's just not going to be the case apparently a democrat sounds like a democrat democrat so that it was actually senator corker a republican. say something like that to abandon the idea as we have advanced around the globe to really use the ugly gauge of international leadership and our duty to remain the last especially. for the sake of some half they sure is nation against republican and you're correct that john mccain a republican we must stop pretending that the dick degradation of our politics and

the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal they are not normal reckless outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused in countenance as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless outrageous and dignified and dignified democrat actually that's a republican now they might sound like members of our classic democrats attacking trump but these are republican senators at least for the moment now at least two of them say that they're not planning to run for reelection well there seems to be a falling out within the republican party but they're not democrats so where do they fit are they in new third party well they certainly have political weight i don't know if they're have the popularity to form a third party all three represent the paul six of the old republican guard the establishment republican party and they see the writing on the wall and frankly there's no future for them in the republican party as it is being led by president

trump they can say what they want to both the. president but they can't they can't win elections and that's why they were going and i think senator corker and now senator flake so you don't really you know if they do decide to run for reelection they would probably would if they were facing a primary opponent and they would probably lose the election so at this point the u.s. senate has fifty two republicans forty six democrats plus two independents who caucus with the democrats so three republican senators marching to their own drumbeat isn't a small matter last july they played a decisive role in defeating republicans health care bill intended to overturn obamacare. now it's worth noting that both the weekly standard and the national review both of them ideological voices of neoconservatism are with the senators and against the president and they've even had a popular hash tag alert the day care staff so these anti trump republicans may be

leaving the senate but until they do they're making sure trump doesn't get his own way. art see new york. go so far this morning by the way how the new feel we're cool still open to a tree if you want to follow is for all the news updates as they search for a t or any of our correspondents and feedback you'll so upset at any time it's good to know you follow us i'm kevin zero in back in thirty to update you again and thanks for watching ulti international.

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it's rather than go through with a ring primary battles back home both have exchanged shots with the president on twitter and in interviews and their announcements this week leave their g.o.p. counterparts split over the ways in which donald trump has conducted himself since assuming office by the way all of this political drama plays out in a time when north korea stands on the brink of achieving nuclear weapons four americans are killed in an ambush in nigeria and while former top adviser steve benen promises more political casualties in his promised war against the g.o.p. so what's the latest what's likely to happen next let's talk about that with eleanor clift political commentator and author and columnist for the daily beast eleanor joins me from washington eleanor what. what do you make of that. well i think what i'm wondering is whether the comments by senators

corker and flake will accelerate the disintegration of the republican party and encourage more people to come out and speak against president trump the attacks against him this week were more about his character and the way handles the office senator corker said he's he will very be remembered for de basing the presidency it's not as much about policy differences senator flake did say that there's no room in the republican party for someone like him who believes in immigration and free trade so he brought an element of issue differences into his decision to run again but he can't he can't win a primary and you.