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so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it will the day after may's claims the times newspaper alleged russian interference in the vote using internet trolls one example was a supposed russian tweeter whose profile didn't fit a typical british political observer yet posted or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning breck's it alone correspondent polly boyko looks at the facts behind the allegations. in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the brags it talks on the problems facing to reason mazed government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many

trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story in london do you think four hundred twitter accounts from from russia was enough to change the outcome of the referendum here in the u.k. well i think it could i think it could sort of and the could be a lot more yeah so you think it's only the tip of the iceberg yes i think it's just the tip of the iceberg i believe there is some of the books movies and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there's usually if russia did this. the idea of a four hundred twitter people will affect the movements of millions as it were mostly mostly people who don't read anything on twitter is absolutely laughable the prime minister's spokesperson has said that downing street didn't have any evidence

of successful interference in british electoral systems and this was the way the foreign secretary put it. to lose. but that doesn't matter because if you ask a member of the public care if russia did magill the answer is most likely to be. to these or me and other leaders are doing across the west is trying to divert attention from their on responsibility for for the enveloping crazies political crazies are taking place at home and abroad too in this context they don't need evidence russia is seen as an easy target well the tourism a was later forced to clarify her attack on moscow it turns out she wasn't implying that

russia meddled in the process they learned to look at the speech i gave on monday that was see the examples i gave of russian interference when not in the united kingdom. but britain awards far from the only one to dig deeper on and russian claims this week spanish officials also alleged moscow meddling this time in catalonia has separatist movement. many messages and many interventions that have occurred through social networks come from russian territory and they use the expression russian territory that does not necessarily mean that we have confirmed that it is the russian government so therefore we have to act through a lot of prudence here more than anyone could imagine. but mainstream media insisted russia may have destabilized the country however spanish leader mariano rajoy denied all the allegations revealing he simply had no information about any of it. i have no data which can be used as evidence on the involvement of the

russian government nothing more the blame russia card has also been played in the deepening scoundrel over sexual misconduct in the us entertainment industry star trek actor george takei was this week accused of acting inappropriately with a male model in the early one nine hundred eighty s. he denies the allegations in now deleted tweet said a russian bought. the allegations against him he had touched a chart which claimed to show he was targeted by russian troll however he didn't seem to win the backing of social media.

he should have said the cling on may have done it no he says russian box so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true they're not making this up they're not lying they're not crafting some story of you having been and all they're doing is repeating all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this this absolutely specious idea that somebody is going to go through all of this work to make some some strange and some cryptic association with some has been star trek actor or naturalisation that's forty years old i mean

it doesn't make any sense but it's great commentary on how after months of growing pressure from washington this week on see america was forced to register as a foreign agent in the united states so we could continue broadcasting and you the channel will now have to abide by a law set up to combat nazi propaganda during the second world war it will have to disclose all of its broadcasts and social media i'll put to the u.s. government it must have a transparent financial structure and be ready for a full inspection at any time and he said now it looks at the roots of the issue. let's talk about the first amendment more american than apple pie freedom fries and gun violence the first amendment is supposed to protect the freedom of speech right right it allows anyone to have a voice until you speak too loud artzi america was forced to register as a foreign agent wife forced because the other option was legal action and accounts

frozen so let's say you're an american journalist and you want to cover stories the mainstream media will never talk about it and then all of a sudden your employer is labeled a foreign agent that makes you a spy the d.o.j. is using a law from one thousand nine hundred thirty eight created to fight nazi propaganda against america but the law doesn't apply to any other foreign broadcasters cats are the u.k. france and many other countries can have their say as long as they don't say too much remember when al jazeera was al qaida t.v. that changed to real quick as soon as they started walking washington's line they became respected journalists you are not a respected journalist if you cover imperialism nato expansion israeli occupation if you talk saudi arabia straight up if you go inside guantanamo to reveal human rights abuses and that's a spine currency wars exorbitant military spending manmade interventions and soft

coups you are not a respected journalist if you go on live t.v. call out the country that funds your network but keep your job you are not a respected journalist if you risk your life to cover proxy wars violent protests police brutality and coverage without corporate censorship you are not a respected journalist if you win multiple prestigious awards the emmy nominations you are not a respected journalist if you only work for our team because it's one of the larger outlets that will actually let you say what you know mother. will and touch topics you would be fired for anywhere else you are a spy a foreign agent it's official the u.s. government now decides what is journalism and what is not but this is just the beginning it starts with russia and it will and after home right in the heart of

america. meanwhile the russian state duma responded to the treatment of all of the america it voted in favor over acquiring media outlets followed from abroad to register as foreign agents although the law does not mention any specific names of the list of foreign media sources operating in russia has quite broad a failure to register would lead to prosecution of the outlook could be banned and just like with america all output by the channels will have to be mocked as a product released by foreign funded media a former london mayor ken livingstone believes it's folly to believe in the freedom of press nowadays. i think there's more of a tent over the years to come to try and suppress what the american people get here because if people could see the truth about a lot of what's happening around the world they would be questioning what their government is doing behind all of that and so on the idea that there is a free press is nonsense any. i mean here in britain and certainly in america so many of the newspapers are owned by billionaires who don't pay their taxes locally

law into their money off shore the result of this is going to be more people now finding out on here what's on our t.v. i mean there be people out there now. now that want to know. what's going on i would be a total surprise to find foreign listeners around to see will be more in a few weeks time than they are now. in the summertime to catalonia now where on saturday rival crowds marched in barcelona and made deep divisions over the region's independence movement thousands took part in a unionist march under the catalonia is spain is the latest in a series of pro unity rally since last month's referendum which was branded illegal by the spanish government meanwhile a group of pro independence activists gathered denouncing madrid's crackdown on the movement. so in his new show here on c former scottish first minister alex salmond spoke exclusively to be ousted cattle and

president carter's boojum order was sucked in october and is now facing charges of sedition and rebellion spain issued an international arrest warrant after he fled to belgium where he is currently on bail on friday a belgian court delayed till next month his decision on whether to extradite puja monton for other members of his former government to madrid and speaking to r t he recalled the region's referendum day and told alex diamond how he sees the future of catalonia. let me take you to that the that extraordinary day in the first of it told her and tell me what your emotions were that the in the one hand there was the celebration of one hundred millions of your fellow country people coming out to exercise a vote for self-determination on the other hand it was the the violence that we all saw on our television screens from that the state police or what will the conflicting emotions that you felt as president of catalonia when that famous day

there was a day of the victory of catalonia and the other hand of course there was a day of the extremely violent. i couldn't imagine the direction like that from the democratic state european union it was a tragic day today because i see directly the violence in my face school in my home town there are a lot of injuries oh of injuries by the start of the next week the spanish judicial system or rolled into actual and took away the constitutional prize that catalonia had gained well this mistake in fact start a new era in the end of his era that will start a catalan rapidly because in these conditions is not possible is not possible there is no future at all and to remain misspending these conditions what is your message

to the people of catalonia we must to be confident resilient because we will win. we will succeed finally democracy will prevail. quarter past the hour here in moscow a light plane crashed in eastern russia on wednesday killing six people but amid the tragedy there was the minox marital story of a three year old girl who did manage to survive.

unless same deal is it related to show to the girl that she was found lying or in the she under the endless close games which just leave check out of it if. we are lucky that the miracle happened. in. a u.k. think tank claims the e.u. is criminalizing people who help refugees cross borders it says laws fail to distinguish between people traffickers who exploit migrants and smugglers who may act in the interests of the refugees one person mentioned in the document is british former soldier a rubber lorry he made headlines last year when french authorities around on him for trying to help a four year old illegally cross into the u.k.

he found living in the notorious kalai jungle cab here's his story. years ago i went over to help in in france in the notorious jungle and i was building shelters there. and i befriended a young afghan girl and their father and she used to help me for many weeks and you know months building shelters until one day i found out she had a family who lived literally two miles from myself and i decided to you know with with you know a little bit of thoughts of what would i decided to try and get still her family is quite obvious that you know i didn't do it for money it was quite obvious i didn't do it for you know any political gain or anything like that it was quite will be she had a purely did it out of a humanitarian. desire to help this little girl the french

government the three judges in the cos so all this for what it was they viewed it as a stupid act by next soldier. he faced five years in prison of all his punishment was reduced to a thousand euro fine and his actions were called a crime of compassion by the media here's the rub again on the french authorities. i think i could only presume that agenda would be that if they were to stop aid workers are humanitarians going to hell then that would force refugees and then back off awesome away unless you've actually lived among refugees and heard some of the stories you can't really understand why they would want to come over you know two european shows the refugees about which i've met these. you know these are escaping you know be you know real last let's look at what's happening with

governments around the world at the moment let's take donald trump's america showing donald trump is trying to internalize america with itself coupled with the fact that donald trump is completely out of his depth with any kind of knowledge of refugees around the world so i think governments think by restricting humanitarian aid workers other volunteers are charities to help on the ground that kind of kid him selves in a kind of trying to sweep you know the issues under the under the captives so to speak the situation is going to grow when we realize that you know something has to be done. thousands of people took to the streets of paris on saturday to voice their anger at president micron's social policies. was.

was the crowd was by police as a move towards official residence the alleys a palace the protest was against labor reforms which the president claims will spur growth and cut employee unemployment but critics say they simply help the rich and reduce job security. is also been accused of violating civil rights with a new one t.v. camera in the. south as riley was just the latest in a string of protests in towns and cities across france. do once he has been following this story. well what we have a thousands of people who have decided to join this small watch which was set up by the trade unions some of the three biggest trade unions in frogs call the nine members for a day of national action and this is one of a number of protests taking place across france what we're finding from people is that they're incredibly angry about what they describe as being the liberal reforms

of missed the mark on the mr michael has made changes to the code to define the term via this is the working code in france. but just want to bring you up to date with some of the latest that we've seen a nice some of the damage to the shops that we're seeing along the street where this protest is going on this is that a transfer western union shop and this is one of a number of shops that we've seen a small group of individuals taking part in this protest trying to break and smash what they're using around them is not just rocks on the street but it's when you take a look down here these are the great they're pulling up from around the trees and they've actually been trying to use those to ram into the shops to cool some of this damage this is a small select group of people but as you can see the great still in the shop door here where they attacked in fact that she went in and asked all the customers to leave before they attack the shop but this is what we're seeing along this street

now. what we saw is them smashing up buildings like banks building societies and places that rent apartments here in paris and it was seemed to be very targeted very angry stuffing the crowds and in fact in the suv that we were trying to film that she brought to our camera and frightened us and said you know you not allowed to film us doing this because they concerned about the police being able to work out what their identity is well apart from that. we've been speaking to some of the protesters about what this protest was really about. this whole thing that the way mccrum passed a law by executive order is an attack of democracy. where very angry because this law is not for employees they simply lose all of their rights.

to liberalize to miners and destroy all the security of workers he wants labor costs to be at a minimum and we are here to denounce this policy which is not in the interests of workers. people who are here are hopeful that the fact that the code you provided and the fact that although my point has signed this and given his approval it still needs to be debated by the parliament here in france and they're hoping that by holding protests like this by showing how many people are unhappy and concerned about these changes that they might be able to get parliamentarians in france to change their mind or the editor in chief or the popular magazine we're very believes about actions are undemocratic. occupies to the center of the political spectrum the full center and so the extreme left which is the only support that the unions have in parliament in the us. are seventeen seventeen members of parliament this is not very democratic the these executive

orders and most politicians say repeatedly that they won't use it until they use it in this instance probably it was the only way to get it through because the french people are very reluctant to go to let it go through and this labor reform was really the first big stumbling block for michael moore if he manages to pass that through then he will have a period of of let's say. a long period to do what he wants to do on all the points but this was key for him for his movement all much. of british schoolteacher has been suspended for praising his students joshua sutcliffe congratulated his math class by saying well done girls that upset one pupil who now identifies as male teacher insists he apologized immediately and says it was a slip of the tongue. the student in question. came in did very

well eyes and then i said well done girls you started really well and i was met with a fierce rebuttal. and i sincerely apologize. i then found out six weeks later that i was going to be under investigation for a missed gendering within the community and initially for one day that transpired to be two days and then three days and then it's now been six days where i've been sat in a in an office not being able to teach my math lessons when i dropped her work told us he believes he's being singled out by the school over his religious beliefs i think i've been bullied really for you know for who i am within the school setting up a bible club and then it being shut down with an iron fist really having so many people coming along to the bible club and being interested in the bible i feel like

i've been discriminated against within the community and i think that's a trend. nationwide is that christians are able to. live out their faith in a professional setting. over the whole incident provoke debate over whether the school is rightly had some sort of issue or perhaps overreacting. this particular teacher accidentally missed gender by calling a trans boy pupil a girl it was not intentional his suspension is disproportionate i think that that he made a mistake which of course he doesn't recognize and then get his assurance that it won't happen again i think that is the end of the matter it's absolutely stupid he called the girls girls because he thought it was a class of girls made him an honest mistake too much influence in the british media and embrace society there are very small minority i feel sorry for anyone who

thinks they are trapped in the wrong body they should be treated with respect and tolerance but where is the tolerance for this man he's a christian but of course you're not allowed to be a christian anymore are you in modern britain i don't see that he's done anything wrong actual and the majority of people in the u.k. i'm sure will agree with me. it is r.t. international vice for joining us so far kurdish forces have reached an unprecedented deal with moscow to allow dozens of russian speaking children to return from syria as after they were taken there by their parents who we understand joined islamic state artie's in what i witnessed them as they prepared to go back. with isis now on its last legs flights like this becoming a regular thing russian citizens looting the wives and children of isis fighters being collected wherever they're found whether they've surrendered or been captured

and taken back to russia to rejoin their families it isn't often that a high ranking syrian could visit the russian airbase in syria but this is a special exception nineteen russian speaking woman along with twenty six children were being held by the y.p. they came from all around from rocka there is order my idea and it took time to confirm their identities and to secure their release that it was dangerous to flee directly for three or four months we try to find a way out of syria. for them but you still have to. worry turkey and i'm on this went to the beach and then our fathers told us we were going to visit someone who got into a black car that took us to syria the children their obvious signs of trauma stunted speech and the development excessive nervousness and other symptoms brought

about by what they saw war and carnage. when we first tried to flee eisen militants caught and imprisoned us were put in prison on three separate occasions the last time they didn't release my father and later this he had died when all is said and done there is some responsibility to be taken here that these women came to syria voluntarily and that they may yet have to answer for it but you move at the then you need to be honest just for the thrill. i mean. i didn't have a husband version less ideas but the family got there they took all close. money watches rings everything they could so it was just me. and you let's move up after we divorced i came to tell my husband i was going to leave the country to the full when day he took my son and told me i would never see him again almost all had

family relatives who were more than willing to help. job which were and. i want to go home to my grandma. by joining us here on our to international survey the weekly returns at the top of the hour on. in america a college degree requires a great deal. decades of debt.