i believe that to the german election sure i catalonia separatism yeah yeah i believe that to all take all of us how about sending bots after a star trek star trying to take him down with sexual allegations star check no star wars i would believe i have my doubts about box so i would say no. they were actually accused of that was. russia hacked into the us irish and british power grids fake russia was influencing the braggs it vote through social media fake russia hacked into cataloging a separatism and was promoting cataloging a separatism in spain real how about buying ads on social media in order to influence u.s. public opinion yeah yeah why not make up the budget actually all of those allegations were leveled against russia do you believe that do you think that they're actually doing these kind of things from what the seventeen u.s.

. intelligence agencies syndicate and the strong possibility that they did i feel it's just i saw news that to sell newspapers people just run and one story then put it on everything else that listeners showed new yorkers is dwarfed from an actual file of things that russia has been accused of it turns out that if you point the finger at the kremlin you can find a convenient scapegoat for almost any trouble that you're dealing with they will mop and r.t. new york. to europe rise and fall of crime in germany's lowest in the region may be linked to an increase in migrants according to a government study just isn't really that simple paul asli it takes a closer look. why have reports of violent crime in one german state increased by more than ten percent in the last two years but this is exactly what a group of criminologist said stuart university of applied science sits out to find and what they established is that there is a link between the increased violent crimes in lowest sex to me and the influx of

migrants but the authors say there are a number of important contribution factors the first and foremost is the age of the migrants most of men between the ages of fourteen and thirteen not generally speaking people in this age bracket are more likely to commit acts of a vine of nature than people in other age groups secondly where they come from is important mike woods who come from syria iraq and afghanistan tend not to carry out the same number of violent acts as migrants for example that are coming from north africa and then third what is also relevant is the fact that there is a lack of women among the migrants only a quarter of migrants are female which means that you have groups of young men without their wives their mothers will be sisters and they are more likely to carry out acts of a violent nature now these findings do reflect earlier reportings that suggests

that there is an increase in acts of a violent nature that are connected to the migrant crisis since two thousand and fifteen more than a million migrants have a arrived here in germany that's say that wolf is there is an important mitigating factor and this is and it could be that people may be more likely to report acts find an exit are carried out by migrants than if they were carried out by local germans not criminologists believe that only integration isn't the solution and should bring down the high level of crime rates among my goodness. from. our point of view the study shows once again that we must not abandon those who come to us but actively provide integration that means for example compulsory and comprehensive integration and language courses more places in kindergartens in schools let's ask people here in berlin what they think. i would say that this is

coming from both sides the more people that come the more the dissatisfaction will be from those who have lived here longer i think that's something that should be driven by politics but and at the end of the day it's to us as part of the society that we all need to change and it's a great people better play by changing our behavior and that he colors are really up and one of the more radical solutions would be to deport the immigrants from germany interracial stuff it's all day they need to work at some point being an immigrant and working it's a different story we kind of try to to get them get them something worthwhile to do while a solution to the problem continues to be sort of a sad reality is that the violent crimes continue policy are teen girl and. also the chairman of the response academy for integration who believes indeed the same behavioral patterns can be found among any group regardless of whether they've

got a migrant background or not. what is written in the report is basically common sense that people without any perspective with living standards which are very hard are more common to go into the thinking about criminal activities if you talk about integration of immigrants it's a dialogue and once for integration you have to build perspectives and give them the chance to be one part of the society but on the other hand you have to hear their worries about germans and find together with those people who have. solutions which can help for a better future together germany started the year by introducing a new law to tackle hate speech groups are already being criticized for blocking the twitter feed of one satirical magazine mexico can explain supply and this kind

of legislation can be a real legal minefield. well governments are now trying to regulate content on the internet by pushing the online world to crackdown on his speech extremism and of course the mysterious bots and trolls who somehow manage to elect presidents but so far there are attempts haven't exactly been successful for example in germany a new online hate speech laws only came into force on monday and twitter has already banned a parody account after users reported it as hate speech but under the law platforms have to delete violent or slanderous content by a certain deadline or face a fine up to sixteen million dollars well the first case a far right politician of the alternative for germany party had her twitter account briefly suspended after users fired her tweets as hate speech against muslims now that's after she lashed out against german police for putting out a new year's tweet in arabic and prosecutors are now examining whether or not her tweets do in fact incite hatred then on top of that twitter banned the account of

a magazine that was actually mocking her but in doing so repeated her line now the magazine's editor said he was shocked by the decision and the association of german journalist said that it qualifies as censorship adding that they've warned of this danger when the law was drafted last year a private company based in the united states decides the boundaries of freedom of the press and opinion in germany now this is even going on in the u.k. where twitter and facebook are facing sanctions after m.p.'s that said that they failed to thoroughly investigate how russia supposedly swayed the brig's that vote but the has to be them there's some mechanism of saying if you fail to do that and if you ignore a request to arms if you fail to police the science effectively and deal with highly problematic content then one has to be some sort of sanction against you so the only trace of russia the companies were able to find were three ads that worth less than a dollar however the idea that maybe russia didn't influence the election is apparently off the table so who exactly polices the internet is it

a good government or is it the social media companies or is it the government through social media companies that's all very unclear at the moment. yeah a good question though samir khan the reporting from d.c. a life without international me kevin owen still a lot more to come including the french president planning to crack down on fake news by targeting foreign media. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

when you. see. what. he. said. no i meant that. if you speak french. choosing out international coming from moscow this so that the french president is vowing to fake news with a law to regulate media influenced by foreign states. notes the move to journalists

in paris on wednesday. was finished between fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed presidential campaigns in almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with a response. in a speech he wasn't specific about which countries the things could be influencing french media but of course our news agency a drop in the past both were denied access to his presidential campaign last year and he later labeled us propaganda. this shit is russia today in sputnik have been influential outlets which have several times spoken mistruths about me and my campaign that's why they have not been invited in my headquarters anyway b.r.t. family at a christmas present for the french speaking world or just go on the launch of our newest channel r.t. france is literally just on air it immediately ruffled a few high profile feathers to several french public figures published an open

letter for a start calling for the france's license to be revoked they said artie's repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries political commentator adrian yellen believes micro-loan should be careful about taking legal measures against any media i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. and sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of the conversation to make this movie about the use of the head of what he calls false news fake news i think you need to tread very carefully i think that it's a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. people's rights and not have their their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if you're not careful at home on your micro himself has become infamous for his difficult

relations with the media he's repeatedly accused him of being narcissistic and often refused to speak with journalists giving comments is not the role of the president. only. when the quest is for something for some for six assists in the i don't ship off our special forces under such a way that. i consider for my part that it is not worth of the debate to take place in a public forum. the reality is that international media television news internet is now a fact of life and if you wish to be a statesman on the world scene you need to engage with media rather than running away from it he in my view did himself no favors and i do think that he's very clearly now trying to do a bit of a youth and trying to sort of embrace those who support him whilst perhaps shunning those that don't so you hasn't done himself any favors. big in the news today donald trump's lawyer is now threatening legal action against former white house strategist steve bannon they say balance broken

a non-disclosure agreement by making a number of incendiary claims and comments about a new book about the president already struck but that is former right hand man who claims among other things that trump wasn't ready for the presidency a lot of claims in the book the president says bannon was never part of his inner circle only work to further his own interests and has lost his mind since being fired the white house press secretary has also weighed in on the issue to now. i was curious what these reports first supporters so. i think furious disgusted would probably certainly felt when you make such outrageous claims and completely fast claims against the president his administration in this family the book at the center of the sparks caught fire and fury inside the trump white house in a band is quoted as saying that a meeting between members of the camp and the russian lawyer during his election campaign was treasonous and. he also allegedly hits the president's daughter ivanka

trump steve allen left the white house in august a year after joining from selection to he was his chief strategist but then was a pivotal figure for the president during his campaign through taking up office legal and media analyst lionel thinks trump's reaction here now in response is par for the course that. here's a simple rule if you don't go after trump he doesn't bother you go after him in any way insult him criticize him take him to task and he's on you with a death grip you've never seen does anybody think that anybody in the drug administration cares one i older about this i mean it's what it does is it throws the mainstream media the washington press corps and the mainstream media news troops and throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after he's

done with bannon he's going to say something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does anybody not pay attention trump for arrives on this he loves this. news of russia ten people have been killed in two inches in a fire in the siberian city of novosibirsk on thursday that's coming from local authorities you can see the pictures as they go fire broke out run on a quote this morning local time flames quickly engulfed the premises filling the two thousand square meter building with toxic smoke emergency services say the victims were workers factory all of the dead are thought to be in foreign nationals it's believed electrical fault caused the fire. and that's where the news is shaping up their followers for twenty four seven updates on our upgrade up or r t door camos maysan resources meantime kevin zero in with the way saying folks of

what should stay with us if you can there's a lot more right after this break. hello my name is peter and i've been living in russia for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got full time. i mean because it was fun though because. i still does not give.

the credit. welcome to worlds apart the russian the united states have long had different takes on power and its constraints but those now find themselves at an interesting juncture while russia's development is slowed by too much power invested in the

executive the united states seems const trunk for the exact opposite phrase and tells you all how many checks does it take to undermine the governing balance to discuss that i'm now joined by. a bestselling author and management consultant dr i.d.s. is great to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you welcome now a few years ago one russian bank. invited you to speak on what's more important leadership or institutions and that seems like a stupid question of course you need both but i think in russia where political leadership historically tended to supplant institutions that was actually a very pressing issue i guess i would try to rephrase it into how much or perhaps how little leadership does it take to build proper genuine institutions in a country the program really is not either or.

we need leadership and we need a situation is the question is what kind of leadership and what are the situations how do we work together the usual problem is where you have a very strong leadership if forced into what's called the threat in other words when the leadership is doing a problem or making a mistake there's no countervailing power to control the mistakes not to be done in america this need to show some relatively strong they can control what the president is making in decisions who they're going to be very disastrous when you have. as weak and strong majorly station being made and there is no controlling controls absolutely and the russian state is quite used to having expansive powers but on the other hand the increasingly hear it complaining about paternalism add a lack of initiative from the people and that's ultimately i think is a question of management how do you manage to without being overbearing how do you

exercise control without subduing do you have an answer to that. being interviewed by. russia on the same subject and repetitively saying that the russian leadership is in a trap. what is a threat russian culture is used to having strongly this or the kinetically that if their leader that is not very strong and very well to critique then they discard them and they look at them as if they're not good enough now on one hand. the notion of saying we need more democracy we need more openness we need more ability to participate but on the other hand discouraging that because you believe that is open participative that discovered him so the us can for what to do with us can for is what the rejecting the most i believe that the russian leadership thought he was putting going all the way down they can not change their style if

they wanted to change the style or they will be pushed aside and is regarded i know that you also and used to matter for also marriage in your speeches but i think in the russian context again a highly perturbed at least the context the parenting matter for is actually more playable you don't want your children to endanger themselves but if you don't blab to make their own mistakes you will never see them grow into what you want them to be and i wonder how do you introduce freedoms into a society that has been so traumatized by both control and cares like russia the key word that you use is with the children you can know the reason to be what you want them to be that's where the mistake is you cannot make your children what you want them to be they have to be what they want to be and you know to enable them and environment within which they can become the best they can be without being look legitimate or were doing something illegal or something which is in danger in

their health as long as i'm not doing that they can do whatever is good for them to be reflected i think the problem is with this culture is this potential is them that is they live there no better than you and you better do what they tell you to do in medicine we say that to be held the you should listen to your body the program with the russians system is that the head is detached from the body you don't listen to the body you dictate to the body and that is where the disease is that's where the problem is well dr id's i'm afraid it's easier said than done especially for. country with history like russia this year we are marking this in tannery of bolshevik revolution and this event changed not only the course of russia's history i think it changed the entire world history of the twentieth century and it was one in the in the series of events that made the russian people the russian authorities the russian psyche extremely risk averse you can see that

in many studies russians still value security over everything else which certainly leads to quote unquote i rest the development in both politics and economy do you think the russians will ever be able to overcome it i don't think that they agree with you i think that the russians as individuals that are willing to put in a real you think to russia put them somewhere else and they will blow. it is the environment that doesn't allow the russian person the russian individuals to exhibit or the capabilities as you know i used to joke and say the problem is with the russians they're not giving a chance to use the brain you invent a lot of things you have innovations you have incredible cup abilities in the people with the system resettle katie now why is the sister suffocating is very interesting because the whole system is organised their own efficiency and not on the thickness you efficiency is everything so the planning the scheduling the

organisation of the system of the zation they try to make it criminal in directed from the top down efficiency and by doing it so i fish and you make it so controllable that you lose effectiveness and you lose flexibility and you lose innovation and yourself look at the people from the bottom up now you asked me the other question before which i do not answer how do you make a change how do we change this culture because the russian people are not being used i'm telling you the only the things that are thinking of the leadership the rest of the people i'm not allowed to think which means a company is subtle created if you want to move out of the gas and oil dependency to high tech and to some services you have to allow the rest of the body to enter pretty nerve to think to create to innovate rather than only at the center of making that change is very difficult i will give in the bottom line of the election . the expression in all languages is the fish stinks from the head but you clearly

it's from the tail we need to make the changes last dog down it's impossible we have to leave the changes vote them up well but he's actually i don't think you are contradicting anything that the kremlin says because president putin just the other day a meeting with german investors sad that the kremlin is actually very interested it has a goal also increasing the share of small and medium sized businesses in russia from a couple of percent to forty percent by two thousand and thirty and he actually asked for german advice on that i'm sure he would appreciate your advice as well do you think this is just a way of getting around the canonic sanctions or do you think there is a potential for something bigger here a building that capacity that citizenry compasses you've been referring to. is. the truth russia needs economically. he can afford it political is a different question because the moment you have small businesses you have small

medium plus the movie a medium club you have a lot of political freedom which is going to bake a little bit problem for him to control the system so as long as you have big companies you have control well but i'm sure it's going to be a very interesting not only for him but also for for the rest of the society and i think it's pretty clear that the petroleum economy or the hydrocarbon economy that we have been enjoying for the last several decades has reached its limit it's no longer producing enough resources to sustain russia both domestically and internationally if the west is really interested in making russia more democratic wouldn't it make sense to take putin on his word and how russia to develop this small and medium business capacity as a matter of not only diversifying its economy but also making russia more open and more risk. possible more democratic i think this will be the ideal of the late

decision to delay the city by the election but that means really changing the. culture of the pendency on the classic leadership you have to change the culture is the change in media you with in which children is issues can grow today it's not that media does that exist but i wonder if that is also a matter of perspective because what i sense here in russia is that the word freedom is becoming more and more of an economic rather than political category something that fuels sufficiency creativity flexibility innovation everything that you need in a society set to succeed in post-industrial an informational age i want you that could be the way just changing the perspective from you know west the west trying to preach as you know with its liberal ideas and focus more on on the economic angle but the day and at the end of the day they all wrote seem to be leading in

one direction that that amanda's into the bend the civility in political and economic environments when you change the economic environment in the vote in the eventually you have to change the political environment that will that been to china china will when they cannot take root decentralize market economy and now the political power is. the pressure for the political power to change as well you cannot have market economy on one hand and said there are less political power that's what happened in yugoslavia and it was the philip out you cannot have this until his vision at the bottom is that there is a show that oh so then surely if you open the market if you open it for the market economy and a lot of middle class that's going to them that will lead to them across this nation of russia and i don't know whether we're ready for that it's interesting you mention china but you know if you look at the chinese example there how has actually. been a number of trance for example the chinese authorities efforts to make courts more

independent and as again a matter of attracting more investment into the country there's also been. a heightened concern about the environmental protection and environmental rights there has also been a growth in the number of small and medium sized businesses so i wonder if that is actually because again we we we hear this argument that fred from the wires that first you need to change the leadership on down everything will follow suit i want even if it just the other way around first you change the system you build institutions and then you will gather you will get the leadership that you deserve no no i agree with you you don't just the leadership you have to change the system that's going to create the leadership you want in other words with which is a culture we have to start you know what we really have to start through school for medication to teach the people not only to know but how to learn how to participate we have to develop a culture where people can disagree without being disagreeable and resulting skill

to being disagreeing and that's it that's here to start on the issue of the bottom up it is not going to happen by. good to happen by the be the same from now on the environment is what to be open it doesn't happen by the way the creed it happens but it took a shoulder to really study that from the family the families that if you said from the beginning of this interview very paternalistic ali it is autocratic starting from the family does he will talk about the from the duke of system everything is from the bottom of the election in the same direction which is doing what they tell you don't discuss and that is a culture that if he does not change he will be able to diversify you will be able to develop the small businesses you will be able to get the dependence from doesn't always well dr jesus i have i beg to disagree with you because i actually live in this society i have a kid who goes to school and i don't know where the western westerners stay take these id.