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because he doesn't have a work permit but he can still train since i came here he can do nothing to staying at home going out sometimes they keep him busy with my turnings googled my. name and the human being. told you would be. over chump change. but there were. sure. but i. think one of the other. thing we should look up to people who are just a little. above. all abdul can do now is wait for his final appeal against deportation to be considered it by the home office the problems in afghanistan. are the same because there was a big third for me the taliban and i have
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a very bad depression day by day my depression is getting worse so varied about my life but nothing could happen to me pretty boy i see greater manchester officially the u.k. government says it investigates every claim of intimidation and considers all cases on an individual basis now we have asked for reaction to abdel bari situation from a number of organizations focusing on human rights still yet to hear anything back when we do we'll tell you what they say. and see russia's sentiment and i'm going over alarm clocks that's a glimpse into an alleged kremlin campaign to influence the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election from a database of tweets from a supposed moscow linked accounts released by an american news outlet jacqueline bouvier joined me earlier to talk us through some of the tweets. for a while now social media has been wrapped up along with the allegations of russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election in the u.s.
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scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook and all social networks in order to influence potential voters and sway the election that's what the idea is here and suffice to say u.s. politicians are more than a little bit concerned about this let's take a listen the film portaloos into our society russia has harnessed the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media sowing discord in the us by inflame passions on a range of divisive issues truly troubling evidence. of the scope and reach of russia's interference in our last election i would have clearly got the. dish the dirt what's in these tweets well not what you might exactly expect these deleted tweets are coming from accounts that are supposedly linked to the kremlin and they were published by a news outlet who got ahold of them through a third party and they want to miss lee so it's not exactly clear how they got them but you think that this database would just be chock full of pro trump tweets given
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that the u.s. intelligence community believes that putin's goal was to get trump to the white house let's take a listen to what the former f.b.i. director had to say about that secretary clinton so much the flipside of that corn was she had a clear preference for the first run against the person who did so much and while of course there are a number of tweets on the list that either support or specifically against hillary clinton the opposite of that is also true you can find in the mix tweets in favor of clinton encouraging people to vote for her and support for bernie sanders the other democratic candidate was also in the mix but that also comes with along with attacks on trump himself so it's all a bit of confusion that it's all in their their support for all sides while of course there is a lot about trump as well bit of everything is it all about the election now. no many are completely off topic focusing instead on the hard hitting woes of sleeping in your contacts of the dislike for alarm clocks and because it's the internet
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there was also porn in there as well we've also been told that twitter bots have been used to promote inflammatory tweets to get messages to divide people in the country and you can also find among this database tweets that are calling for peaceful solutions for unity in the country referring to black lives matters protests so it's all in there but the real cherry on the top of this whole story is the fact that there are a number of anti russia tweets in this list and a lot of them are really interesting they're going on about how russian hackers were involved in the election how heller warned us against trump russia collusion and how those ties must be investigated let's take a listen to some of the best hits of what they are to be found in there. to demand that house jewel be do its job and theirs to get drawn brushing timers things you can't ignore ration plant as you next. so americans have been so awfully
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radicalized by groups russian propaganda to electronic perhaps the biggest threat and those are supposed to be tweets that are coming from accounts that are linked to the kremlin it just doesn't quite fit together and the internet is of course it's just a very divisive place everybody has their opinions and everybody feels free to post them there so this database really just does feel like a round up of the typical things that you can find on twitter. news which dug up those tweets was recently accused of false reporting in its coverage of alleged russian interference an official from the homeland security department who was interviewed for its report slammed the network for misrepresenting a woods. we saw targeting of twenty one states and an exceptionally small number of that twenty one were actually successfully perpetrated. jeannette mountain for a clearly says has targeted the states and go to access to an exceptionally small number of systems while n.b.c.'s headline read the russians had penetrated us voting systems changing who would have
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a network stands by its report insisting it is accurate and so hasn't made any corrections. this is a spike in anti semitic attacks in germany has prompted government action i'll have the details on that for you when we come back. put them so. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. wanted. to be first this is what before three of them or you could get. interested in the waters.
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this is hard coded. the world as we know it and those trying to get their way will be destroyed by it but those who want to come on board like a friendly regulator that's ok. you know it's the classic good cop bad cop scenario that when regular. gift you have to be a little leery. welcome back on to the olympics and there are two unusual teams at this year's winter games one is the united squad from north and south korea competing is one for the first time in twelve years in what's being widely seen as a positive sign that relations might be warming between the other team is a limb pick athletes from russia known as taking part under a neutral flag after the doping scandal that hit the official team has been asking
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some of the spectators whether they recognize the rebranding of russia's athlete. it will take a long while for russian athletes journalists like myself that i can tell you first sure to forget the acronym o. a r after chang twenty eight thing well just before the winter games a group of russian designers thought they could take advantage of the international olympic committee's language sanctioned. i put one of those on myself and decided to walk around near the olympic park a little bit. what kind of team did people with this kind of sweatshirt support i'm sure. it's a limb take half really really he can see for the russian north korean i think
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north korea russia the russians the food there will be here because they do interviews do a limp and then something of a limp think athletes of russia what would you chant if you were annoying our team supporter. would come from really. long. legs some people say a russian animal can make a sound like that there you go a russian bear siberian tiger i fear was. fear will make it sound when it's hungry. for gold medals well judging by the first few days of the winter olympics the russian fans have chosen to stick to the more traditional chants and symbols.
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here we have a train go artsy n.p.r. . there's growing concern among the jewish community in germany after more than fourteen hundred anti semitic crimes were registered there last year there's also been a wave of anti-semitic demonstrations with protestors burning israeli flags and shouting anti jewish slogans. the german government says it is addressing the problem last month that launched a special commission to monitor anti jewish incidents it follows years of appeals
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from the jewish community to raise awareness of the hate crimes we spoke to a rabbi in berlin a things people need to come together if the problem is to be defeated. has to become much clear to people in this country especially to refugees that have recently arrived that we all share a personal responsibility and that it will not be tolerated where the burning of flags of israel whether the any attack on any community any child in the school will not be tolerated as years zero tolerance policy for anti-semitic attacks and that has to be clear it has to be not shoved under the carpet it has to be said loud and clear and then people will realize a recognize that if they want to be part of this country there is also responsibility there is a personal responsibility of civil courage not only not to be revived in any any of any such acts but not but also not to tolerate if you see something say something
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that we all have the personal responsibility to stand up for any minority and of course also for jewish people and jewish institutions. french president is on course to take another campaign pledge off his left and manual mccombs promising to bring back compulsory military service and his party has been busy trying to whip up support. we call it the national service because it's the place where the youth of our country and the nation meet one another where they get to know the military service on the one hand and civil engagement on the other it's where one gives his time to the nation and to society. but what about the age range it will cover all age ranges both boys and girls will take part in the service will be obligatory polls three years ago suggested that eighty percent of people were in favor of the move but now
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a little more than half the do bensky has been asking people in paris what they think now what do you play as you're ready to serve your country yes i have even tried to get in the army. i think there are many ways to help your country and not on the army but it's not all about taking a weapon in your hand. army training is definitely way streets of in the school curriculum but this experience gave me a new perspective on things. as well i think military service is something that this creates unity around the country but serve and should be optional. at the moment seems quite crazy person they say it will be obligatory then they say not for.
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the french national anthem at all. despite all that french military expert javier morrow told us he doesn't expect mccrum plan to work out. my call is no being a one of it is a new at least it did during you know it's come pain talking about three or six months is a course correction and couldn't work because to teach the basic note ages to the basic skills to a soldier it needs many mom three months is it's impossible to make something useful for a. modern army like the french army where there is a many high tech nicole systems and that is your global news right from r.t. international this out thanks for watching the r.t.
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on welcome to a party after a marathon called negotiations germany's ruling parties have agreed on the compromise that made. by social democrats rank and file constituents is this toggle war in forming a new government a sign of regular birthing pangs or something extraordinary happening in german politics to discuss that i'm now joined by didn't call. politician and former prime minister. mr been called it's an honor talking to you thank you very much for your . time and the make up of the future german government is still very much up in the
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air even though a provisional deal has been agreed upon i wonder what does your intuition tell you do you think the asp e d voters a likely to endorse this deal. finally the voters and it's especially the voters on the part of the source or democratic party. who. decided to ask all the members. agree to the negotiated. negotiated cooperations between the social democrats and the christian democrats. i think that it will work people who are waiting finally waiting restlessly said that the government should be formed as fast as possible now if these deal stands germany will get the same all the political arrangement the
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same grand coalition that got friend germany sense two thousand and thirteen even though the very difficulty of forming this government stems from the fact that german of politics has changed and the election results do demonstrate that do you think it's a good idea in principle to have the same all political arrangement when the politics has changed so much no it's not it's not a good idea. it came along because it seemed very difficult to form a government because we didn't have a two party system it would very much work one way or the other but we have an open system where everybody who has more than five five percent of the electorate on. side can be will be a member of or will be represented in the parliament now we had small parties
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really have large larger parties but one of the facts is that the cd you see is you are out talk about the christian democrats and the social democrats had lost in the that asked election and that was really a trend of the two parties for instance in ny and in the seventy's or eighty's where the main major party and one additional party the freedom of right now we have a mixture of parties and to form a government if neither of the parties has it dominated. is dominating in size if you have to have two or three partners work together and that's difficult and the why is that so difficult for the christian democrats to be
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still the main one of the dominant parties to enlist the support of the smaller players well the social democrats were very uncertain as to. continue their come the combination with their christian democrats even though the democrat christian democrats did not have a majority or needed two other parties at least for a majority. were inviting the social democrats supporters of paid but in this participation doing the last couple of legislative periods the social democrats lost in influence and power and that's one of the reasons i didn't want to rejoin with the christian democrats i got it from your articles that there is a lot of disagreement in germany about the. expand all of this social bird and the state has to take upon itself and for example you had
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a very interesting idea that one of the reasons why the support for the a of do you was so strong they all turned to for germany was the kind of resentment towards the state assuming more social obligations including towards the migrants the migrant question and the immigration question the immigration question and the review she question have raised considerable resistance in the within the population because there's a very uncertain condition as to how to integrate this influx of a great number of people. emanating coming from areas in this world which have a very different. way of life different added two different religions cetera and i'm not necessarily or are not
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at all from or were from european origin so the population will have to adapt to different composition of the population and that makes it very difficult to know a great number of people in a very short period of time to. germany this is one of the basic issues. that the if t. as you mentioned it's has been built into a party has taken an issue with that one thing that up sad and frightened to many about the latest german elections was the success of the alternative for germany or the a of d. which entered parliament for the first time and people who dislike the. usually refer to it as xena folbigg or even fascist but you make an interesting point in
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one of your articles that one of the factors driving the support for the a of do you was this sense of resentment about the expanding social obligations including towards many thousands of migrants do you think the critics and the detractors of the appreciate this social grievance enough. that there are very different issues one of the issues is that germany has an older population so the words the younger generation is much smaller than for instance they are under generation when i had my family and my children. so there is. an aging german population and the aging german population will need. young people from abroad from other countries if it wants to maintain its present
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industrial and economic strength. so there would be a great. no an important reason to have foreign young people into germany. and the older population has great and has great difficulty to adept to a substantial change of their calm decision of the german population as we have different levels of inflicting. interest or. or influx of difficult adjustments now i heard you say in one of your interviews that one of chancellor merkel's motivations and letting my gran's in such large numbers was precisely to address germany's long term demographic problem just as you said the shortage in the labor
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force as well as the increase in the elderly population but that may seem like a viable policy option but do you think the german people have were even asked why they they want to pursue that truth and did they have to be asked whether they want to follow that policy option well they've they're being asked in the context of elections and since we have elections both in the state and on the nation level as on the state level of sixteen states. and they are not all the same time we have a very. very interesting and operative. way to find out what the population think but the the real problem that we have is that the refugees were not coming into germany to.
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add to the small of german younger population they were fleeing from for. wharfs and the issue was a moral one not an economic one when. america decided to open the door so to speak and of course we had an influx of tremendous influx in a short period of time until research seated in sort of good order and through that process. the most young people who tried to come to europe and germany really had reason to flee their own countries. in the process and. more and more young people did not come because they had to flee but because they read wanted to come to europe and to germany and
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especially to enjoy the opportunities that that have risen in germany for a long period of time we had one of these processes in the sixty's and early seventy's mainly the sixty's when a couple of when about two to three million immigrants if you want to call it that way from turkey from italy and spain but then from turkey came into germany because we needed. this time it is not an invitation to young people to come to germany but there was a resistance and there is a resistance within the book religion to have for immigration to germany because people were worried and this is one of the issues that. is playing on
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the national character of germany might be changed to some way but mr been called i would agree with you that the a.b.c. is perhaps exploiting this issue too much but don't you think that part of the reason why they have been allowed to exploit it is also that the government hasn't had a full discussion and open discussion of this extremely touchy subject because it's not just a moral issue as chancellor merkel likes to present it it's also a social issue it's an issue about how your country is going to look like for decades and decades and i when i say look like i don't mean the ask nick aspect of it but it's a serious decision and it's a serious policy change don't you think that that issue perhaps should have been discussed a little bit more with the society so that people wouldn't feel that migrants are being forced on them ever since the first measure of i'm going to go.
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