r.t. america is this. we are apparently better than. the sea ever heard of. jack tonight president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. twitter gets us r t blocking our currency in the latest attack on russian media. long it's going to be a big day for catalonia potentially the spanish senate set to vote on whether madrid will take back direct rule of the region if it does there's a warning of the trouble as the country president rules out a snap election. in the multibillion dollar cyber security industry could be about to double in value in the coming few years under the constant threat of the internet where.

my life. it's eleven am moscow time thanks for being with us kevin with you this hour and that we're starting with this them this morning it's us that is in the news this morning twitter has blocked this channel from advertising on its platform and an unprecedented and out of the blue move to be clear it doesn't affect news feed which is still follow as usual daniel hawkins explains more and explains what it does mean. 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 r.t. 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 it's entered to interfere in the us 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 bartz or any other compromise tools on any soche. 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 well 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 our tear 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 ok well since twitter's already disclosed confidential data say confidential data about the contract with r.t. let's get it all out of the open showing in twenty sixteen twitter made

a special u.s. election offer to us they came to us with quite a hefty price tag it would have cost one point five million dollars over just four months but with a few more bolt on options too we could have ended up spending three point three million dollars if we did what they'd asked what you get for that of one thing or customized emerging that would have said eight hundred thousand dollars value for money management decided to decline to it is kind offer artie said the social media told andrew farmer about how to if his decision has come as a really disappointing shop now after all this. 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 iraq now but we haven't quite clearly and both it seems to me like that 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 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 from for us we certainly deeply regret it was shocked by it we deeply regret that you know we couldn't have spoken about this before hundred he's given giving each other some heads up and you know quite clearly adamantly you know stand our ground in terms of the integrity and the quality of the products that we publish on our platform bloody good 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 ad or ads ok like the world does what did these ads do did they survive the alleged should did they cause or were they evidence of already in d.c. of colucci what pray tell did these ads are complex they made americans. i think and maybe caused curiosity dissension perhaps that was the collodion so that's a great move for freedom of speech way to go twitter it's disgusting and i know there were the moves against describes a witch hunt by the russian foreign ministry last month they've been gathering pace let me remind you the u.s. justice department demanded that r.t. america register under the cold war era foreign agents now moscow said in return if

that happened it would result in serious legal consequences then google removed you choose premium service in the u.s. that any prior notice to us those attacks against this channel started after january's u.s. intelligence report of alleged russian meddling there's never been any solid proof that he influenced the twenty sixteen u.s. election despite the old going flurry of attacks in congress. run 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 the experts we talked to believe twitter might have been pressured though into making this move against us. it's them

trying to curry favor with congress before having to go before congress i know this is coming from from from from some sector in the government we just don't know which one but i think that when the hearings take place and twitter comes up and asked 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 this mayor in the count's me is showing clinton and trump i mean it's just another not just to bashing out a but bashing 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 year ins of free speech but we're increasingly seeing senshi and if anybody day is to talk out against them mainstream narrative so i understand where this attack has now come on and come see what r.t. have done wrong or to we get this unholy alliance between the force the state machine the press and the people and politicians it's not a good and it's not a healthy relationship. no i don't think it was an accident or or a mix up or is in any way i think it was directed look you know back during the old days during the cold war it was the soviet union that sought to protect protect its population from infection by any voice that descended from the dissented from the official media now we have american media companies and the american government trying to shut down dissent and make sure we could only listen to c.n.n.

. and we see no defense in the voices at all this is a very ominous development it's not so much even r t but what does this say about what the american girl with the american agencies and now these social media companies are willing to do to compromise information coming to the american people well i'm sure we will developments on that throughout the day we'll be across some will keep you posted this is could kick off as well this next one spain senate is set for a key vote on the escalating catalonia crosses later today and it comes after countless president yesterday decided against calling a snap election thursday. to do belsky is following it all in barcelona could be approached day to day not in as a word that could be trouble to. yes that's why i said being you're not speak for on tenterhooks waiting to find out exactly what will happen as you mentioned there the spanish government in matric senators will continue discussing today whether or not to implement article one

fifty five a vote on what is expected later it's been described as the nuclear option by many people and that's because this is a part of the spanish constitution that has never been used before essentially it will allow the trade to take control of the powers of catalonia if senators vote yes to article one fifty five later today which they many are expecting them to do so now that would also allow them to be able to remove the catalan president from his position now many people are unhappy that that is being discussed today and the reason the senate is in madrid can continue those discussions is because of mr bush of all colors because you want the president refused on tuesday to rule out a snap election take a listen to what he said. who got more than willing to put forward an election as long as there's a go and see validated and treated with respect. has been such currency to date.

many people are very unhappy about that decision not to call a snap election also not to declare outright independence many people are hoping that he would decide to be on one side of the fence or the other instead he didn't and said there will be no snap election there will be no declaration today of independence for catalonia instead he's now given that position back to the catalan parliament and they are due to discuss that today and to put that measure to new makers in catalonia to decide whether or not they who declare that independence that many people on the street said that was the only decision you could have it was the best thing to do that is good thing for democracy but some people who are incredibly unhappy about what they see is yet another step another waiting before any decision is made over what's happening in catalonia some of his harshest critics came out and social media take a look at what was set. well

we've been taking a look at some of the morning papers here in barcelona and as you can see they are percy unhappy about what's going on this one here says that. does insisted it reach me on independence catalonia but actually what he's doing in catalonia itself to carry on with this only intervention no one here is saying that you want has already allowed article one fifty five seen happen because he did not call that snap election and then on a very different note this is the local cattle on paper that's in favor of

independence and they are. predicting that they will be a declaration of independence today do you why this is a declaration of independence and a message for the madrid government that's what they want the division here is clear to see people on both sides of the camp but there is a feeling that perhaps today it will be some sense of what is happening whether that is madrid taking control of this region and sucking. all whether there is a declaration of independence waiting to see. or go we think the vote kicks off in a couple of hours from. now earlier we spoke to a county parliament member who's pro independence he believes the regional parliament may push to break away as things may turn ugly with madrid. but what the catalan did was quite a clever move with the catalan president that very clever move because we devolve the decision to the cattle in parliament now as you know there's a pro independence majority there so obviously that points in one clear direction

that probably will have a vote in favor of an attorney and you see that 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 our rights we have the right of self-determination and we are going to support that we're going to defend our rights and there's a ripple effect across the border to in the south of france where there's plenty of support for catalan in japan this is a reason for that for centuries the reason was in fact a part of catalonia but it ceded to france in the seventeenth century but it's still no nonetheless as northern catalonia you can see the connection there it's got its own regional language and dialect is what locals there have to say about

the independence push. so what's happening is very serious and. elected representatives on say much of this will be young neutral passive. 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 give their press their power we want our representatives of the military and to come forward and to clearly say who they support busy news day a lot more to come because stay with me all the way why this is sinister side to the internet you should know more about and also what's how to tell red from blue and us politics these days.

anyone and you go there resist the american design is a list. it can be. that has been happening. under margaret thatcher there was a transition away from public housing and government assisted government underwritten public housing and they sold off all the council estates as there are now people bought into the units across the country and they became the land owning the new land owning neoliberal gentrification under the current government in the u.k. it's another socialist scheme of government underwriting property but not for the poor people they do it for the rich people.

the perils of the web the internet is long at a sinister side which few of us thankfully ever experience that is now and again but which should be a concern to anyone who gets online is called the web. this is just. as we all know securing information held online is an endless ongoing battle as him to get tougher and tougher cyber crimes rocketed in recent years it's thought the

cost of countering it could double in fact over the next five years to cyber security expert barry spielman explain to us some of the dangers lurking out there on the dark 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 the dark web 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 reflect like look like amazon where they 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 can imagine. it's also a place that is beginning to threaten organizations because if someone is breached and there's large data breaches this information can find its way for sale on the dark web or just the dennehy of people being stolen whether it's students at a university whether it's the medicare program in australia which is bridge recently so a dark way of cyber intelligence company is a company like ours sic skill that basically is analyzing information that's on the dock where 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 in these areas of. thinking which party to back in the us used to be pretty straightforward but now it seems with more than a few republican senators vocally turning against their own president and sounding more like democrats it's getting tougher kalam opens but now the 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 that 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 over her for the sake of some a half they sure is nationalization i would guess 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 saddam and our executive branch are normal they are not normal

reckless outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is. when it is actually just reckless outrageous and dignified and dignified democrat actually that's a relief when 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 into their new third party well they certainly have political weight i don't know if they have the popularity to form a third party of 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 the president they can say what they want to about the president but they can't they

can't win elections and that's why they were and i think senator corker and now senator flake see you not really you know if they do decide to run for reelection they would probably would 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 cable poppen r.t. new york is a funny oh well that's the way your news is putting it so far this front. by the way the thing on ice is simple and the point was still very much in the usual ways if you want to follow us for usual updates as such for auti or any of our correspondents the us will find us it's good to know you follow is to thank you i'm kevin o. in concert to them the next live update from moscow. i .

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