just to look for common ground in the. a satirical newspaper prankster german media with fake evidence of a russian troll farms meddling in the country's politics. more in the ongoing hunt for suspected russian bots twitter is believed to have blocked nearly a kind belonging to conservative americans also ahead in the program this hour. no need for a trial a medal winning russian curlers tested positive for a balanced substance of the winter olympics will not be taking his case to the court of arbitration for sport we find out why.

you're cheating in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow to our teacher my names you know neal good to have your company our top story this hour german tabloid billed as published what it thought was leaked evidence of the activities of a russian troll farm but the lead turned out to be far from concrete rock as the of joins me now with all the details. this is build a lot of germans get their day's news from not so there's a duty of care here surely so why was the newspaper duped into running what's been confirmed this fake will build rushed into this one they thought they had a real bombshell on their hands they thought that they would incite a national scandal a huge political scandal basically what happened is they got these allegedly leaked e-mails which involved the. the s.p.d.

there precisely specifically their youth wing lead to kevin. kunar who was allegedly talking to a russian board factory to. an agent a russian agent who introduced himself as yuri what they were talking about according to the e-mail exchange is the s.p.d. kevin kuhn is running a campaign against forming a coalition government with the angular merkel's own party. it's called the google the group will campaign and the russian yuri allegedly offered to use the use of his bots he'd sell the s.p.d. his bots to sway public opinion in germany and de rail this effort to build a coalition would be you know this would be a huge story the first direct evidence of russian meddling in germany is in germany's in politics. we've got the we've got the exchange itself then

honestly it's something out of a spy in movie or tacky one at that but here are some bits from it did kevin i'm ury i'd like to talk to you about supporting your no grow cold campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to expect a mile from you but just to be sure could you name me g.'s favorite beverage as you can certainly understand this is a delicate matter mere mere multi ginger beer yury perfect that's a relief so what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with books again scholtz social bots on twitter or facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign. i think a targeted advertising campaign on facebook would be appreciated by the now graca movement how much money would you invest in these ads we've already roughly

calculated the campaign and expect to pay around four thousand to five thousand euros we've included the social bots don't worry we'll pay from frankfurt the payment will not be traceable. sounds good i'll collect the data for the facebook audience and send all the information to you soon so you can watch the campaign immediately as long as it looks like juices pay for their ads i'm not worried. build went into this swinging the had a huge picture of the front page of the title new dirtily s.p.d. builders very anti s.p.d. so with this new surprise you know they dived into the story that was on friday that was on friday by wednesday satirists from from the tannic satirical magazine revealed that they were behind the entire email exchange they faked the entire thing and they left bill the red faced because many news outlets

had seen this exchange german news outlets they had thought will you know this is this is new but suspicious a little bit suspect checked exactly build had no such reservations it emerged that the email address that they that this e-mail exchange tributed to kevin kuhn of the leader of the species youth wing was fake you can't send emails from this email address and his is real email address and with s.p.d. dot de so you know they they fail to carry out why they are sick checks and checks and very few cations build was left red faced and now there's. this saying themselves they should a statement on facebook on their website. saying that this just goes to show builds agenda an anonymous email to your three calls

and build prints average thing that fits its agenda. well tannic has also. been online on twitter this milking this for all it's worth on twitter. the hash tag meal meal gate. ginger of course being the drink the password drink mentioned in the email exchange . you know they're having a good laugh on twitter bill these days and what small bills while admitting that the e-mail exchange is fake they're still trying to defend themselves saying that you know they're trying to grasping at straws saying that this e-mail exchange originated from the s.p.d. servers and whatnot but. a good laugh at google around but they've been caught oh it's all right r.t.s. miraculously it brings us right up to date on that story think you. know some

people on twitter in the us are seeing their accounts blocked and their list of followers deleted twitter has allegedly branded some people with conservative views as bots. how soon will be trending apparently thousands of accounts all received the same mass which are the same moment to provide and then a text through. to not two thousand fully was simply because i'm conservative six please move me crissy wonder how many votes i mean donald trump must tonight conservative twitter users are accusing twitter of intentionally restricting or blocking right leaning voices and they're even holding the company responsible for missing followers calling it a great twitter purge and some famous users have even been blocked like mikes or no vision of the son of michael flynn and it's pretty widespread the twitter lockout has even been trending on social media but no official comments from twitter as yet

some people online think that it could be a purge of so-called russian bot accounts as this all comes amid claims of alleged russian influence but twitter and nouns back in january that they would be doing this purge to combat so-called russian influence but it seems to have backfired they're now claims that real people were locked out of their accounts in fact when launched the first wave of purges there was an american woman whose twitter account was suspended because an employee thought she was a russian bot when i realized it was permanent i was a little chart twitter kept saying that it was a permanent band suspension because of harassment and i couldn't get them to explain to me who had our rest and came back and told it it was because i was part of a russian operative or you being with. this. that i was somehow working for russia part of the russian box that we're. sending out negative information during the election so well for some time now twitter has been helping the u.s. government catch these magical russian bots who somehow manage to sway elections

and they've detected a massive number of them let's look back at a project veritas investigation for an idea on how they judge who's a russian and who's not a russian by. you know i want to because you know that. i. would go you were. like how easy this problem is i really thought. i was it you of course. we continue our look at recent discoveries from japan's official archives which shed light on the grim government run eugenics program which left thousands of people infertile over the decades and i think it was in force with the story here's jacqueline forget. records of only a fraction of the people subjected to sterilization have been revealed but this may finally help the victims to get justice after decades of suffering and some are

already taking action has a hard time going through the middle school that's when i was diagnosed with a mental disability my teacher took me for a medical check and then i was taken to hospital that's when i remember at home my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have babies my father disposed to sign documents by my teacher and welfare offices there are many more victims the government should make apologies and pay compensation to them it's believe they're up to twenty five thousand victims all under the eugenics protection law in force for almost forty years as late as the mid ninety's the procedures were in order to quote preserve the purity of the japanese race people with mental disabilities or hereditary diseases were targeted but misdiagnosis of such conditions was common causing even more unnecessary suffering we managed to speak to the relative of one such victim when i got married my mother in law told me that my sister has been sterilized after i made an information disclosure request i found out she was only fifteen when the ration took place genetic mental

disease was the only listed reason for her sterilization however it's not true when she was a one year old she became mentally handicapped because of the anesthesia three different doctors gave her so she didn't have a genetic condition and over sixteen thousand cases the procedure was even carried out without consent and shockingly victims were as young as nine years old appeals to admit the practice had taken place were dismissed for years with victims being told that the evidence was simply gone the only question is who's responsible for all of this to me is the government's fault thanks a key to the program as well as the national legislature which adopted the law needs to take responsibility and make apologies a soonest possible doctors will service. sponsible but in a way that we used by the government. i think that the now defunct eugenic protection law existed for the sole purpose to reject

a band of disabled. when i don't question the disclosure of the documents regarding my sister surgery he told me the files which are said to have been strictly process had been thrown away the evidence of the mutilation of my sister's body was simply trashed in the case of another victim mrs zucker the documents were thrown into the fire when i heard about it i was beside myself with anger. hotlines have been set up to bring together victims for what's likely to be an extremely long and traumatic battle for justice but while victims one compensation they say money isn't the main reason their goal is to create awareness to ensure that horrors like this never take place again. let's turn our attention now to the winter olympics ongoing in south korea were a russian courier who won bronze on later tested positive for doping says he won't no take his case to the court of arbitration for sport but that's despite the

russian olympic committee stating alexander crucial netsky would not have benefited from the drug based on the concentration of those found in the tests are too easily bitter brixton the story for us from. this is really unbelievable turn of events just thirteen hours before the court of arbitration for sport hearing on the russian curlers case was meant to begin the russian astley who won his country its first ever olympic medal and curling but then tested positive for twice at these winter olympics said that he is refusing to proceed with the arbitration. it's silly to deny it don't be rude violations when the presence of a prohibited substance was confirmed by two don't insist i'm ready for the verdicts which is predictably the same in all cases i weighed up the pros and cons and decided to withdraw from the cas hearings and i think in this situation it's

useless and senseless so alexander crucial needs he has admitted that there was a formal violation of anti-doping rules although he maintains that he has never taken muldowney and pills on purpose and the concentration of the drug and his body from these two doping tests points to single use and this could have played in favor of the athlete if he were able to prove that there was some sort of sabotage then and the last couple of days we heard other curlers and even coaches say that someone could have spiked alexander's food or drinks plus the man who invented the drug don't e m house confirmed dead if you take the pill once or twice it's absolutely useless military is not medici in which can be. used once or twice or three times you should

take milton a four and a four fourteen days. course of treatment of his mutilate recommended by the producers. one man's three mon's even six months up to you depends on the. disease of the patient have. it is still very early morning here in south korea and to get the reaction of the international olympic committee the russian side and all the others here at the winter olympics i guess we'll have to wait till thursday afternoon everyone really expected a long legal battle but now it seems it's not happening plus something else that you have to bear in mind is that the audio c. was meant to announce its decision on february twenty fourth on the possible cancellation of the band of russia's national committee and also on whether to

allow the russians to march on their flag at the closing ceremony and everyone thought that this ruling depended on alexander's case what's going to happen to it now is a very serious question. and we betray a lighter note one hungary and skiers performance of the games has fired up the twitter sphere for being spectacular in its own special way.

and to them competed fair and square why great elizabeth sweeney is a hero for every average person in the world she gets the gold in effort. elizabeth sweeney you disgusts me people have worked their entire life to make it to the olympics and you make a mockery of that your family should be ashamed gotta give credit to the audacity to lose about swaying me. i'm not particularly fond of powell is a bit swaying he got into the olympics especially since there are other women who have trained their entire lives for getting the financial backer and have a lot weighing on them to even qualify for a team which is just average with money list but sway me is my hero some people are amazing athletes some people have a dream sweeney had in their big dreams and she made it come true which to me

deserves a medal in that so. really big games are about universal latina about reaching out around the world they are also about leasehold the two can go together and we saw really good case there's a great story. escalation in the middle east the syrian city of a fourteen is under bombardment by the turkish army that details off after this. is the day of reckoning coming will the liberal corporate media ever own up to their dismal and even dishonest coverage of what is called russia gate there is growing evidence the media are at the very center of this fake scandal. played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball

isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the funnel school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the super money kill you narrowness and spending to do the twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy was great so one more chance with. the base it's going to. hello again the northern syrian city of offering has come under heavy shelling from

the turkish army. in the region to dislodge the kurdish fighters which it sees us terrorists. but if you cut to the middle class cost. a lot of but. i think the bombardment came after a pro syrian government militia arrived enough to join the fight against the turkish tree turkey's president early one sees the shelling forced the group of fighters to retreat ten kilometers. today towards evening he was determined by the page ts militia that about ten pickup trucks were coming towards africa they were then forced to turn back following the shelling this case has been closed to now but reports suggest that pro syrian government forces have taken up positions enough rain you're currently seeing pictures of their arrival in the area on tuesday night middle east analyst joshua landis ace

the kurds have fallen victim to america's power play in the region. the u.s. has been supplying a lot of weaponry to the kurds east of the euphrates when the united states first entered syria into turkey and the united states came up to an agreement that everything west you're free to use was turkey ends everything east of the euphrates the united states many beige is a sore point but that's still to be decided on but that's the way it's been and the united states that's been giving a lot of weapons to the white egypt now it's obviously telling a white sheet do not attack turkey would lose weapons because the moment you do that you will justify everything in the air to a war that says it's going to happen that you're connected with it and so the united states is sitting on the kurds and in essence is telling the y.p. cheat you have to sacrifice your brothers and i mean to preserve us out east of the

euphrates. meanwhile the situation in another syrian hotspot is not developing violence in the eastern the area that is close to the syrian capital damascus is on the rise and it's provoked an outcry from the united nations the organization is calling for an end to hostilities following reports that government urge strikes on the rebel enclave killed at least one hundred people in recent days. is one of the few remaining opposition strongholds the syrian government says it strikes on the militants are in retaliation for shelling attacks that have killed civilians in the capital the area was among the deescalation zones that were established by the warring parties last year we are across the story in of course we keep me up to date with any and all developments. the. ok back to woman top stories now as some twitter users in the u.s.

are seeing their accounts blocked i'm there a list of followers deleted twitter has allegedly branded some people with conservative views of balts well for more insight into the issue we're joined live on the program by christian munch you're a lawyer a political activist on congressional candidate in twenty eight high christian there has been no official statement from twitter but do you believe they're adopting a blanket ban on specific content here. well i find that difficult to believe but we would have to go further and establish what type of accounts were blogs and perhaps some of the content that was blogged was either racial you know offensive or perhaps you know some twitter users use some you know sensitive content but i believe that if this did go on and there has been some blockade from twitter towards the conservative accounts i think it's a terrible terrible thing to happen because we have to keep every single channel of

communication open and just because a person has a conservative view doesn't make that person anatomy or doesn't make that person politically incorrect so i think that i hold that twitter comes forward and clear of eyes clarifies what's going on because it might send the wrong message critics of the decision whatever that may be are seeing that twitter is blocking people with strong views which some in the company may not be a line too. well as i said i think that twitter has began this campaign of eliminating or blocking people that have different ideas to what the company wants to portray of the message that they want to get out i think is very harming for them ocracy and for freedom of speech i think that i've always been an advocate of supporting people that have different ideas believing that someone has to be eradicated or alley unaided simply because they think differently i think is a mistake and whether you are conservative whether you are

a person of the left or the center we all have ideas that can war to benefit our communities and i think that if twitter does this this will definitely go against its message of getting across a broad audience and the future and then what's next i mean we can be blocking people simply because they don't think just like we do or the company wants to portray a message that that particular user doesn't share so i think it's very very critical and delicate and i hold they come very fast forward to clarify this situation because we can be censoring freedom of speech just in this way of blocking accounts with no reason whatsoever to phillips all of christian muncher a lawyer and political activist this year thanks christine. that's old news from my broom bus that is just around the corner stay with us and i'm here and often are with more global news from our t.v. each cube in the.

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that's a good way to be for us this is what before us three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. i'm part shelton and coming up we'll talk with laura fix the car coach about driving cars and ask her how they handle the winter roads and in the wake of the here round us florida shooting ashley banks looks at gun manufacturer earnings and

the toughest week reports on the iconic los angeles times and it's due on or plus we have the second part of my interview with indian minister katie ram our roe and what he has to say about renewable energy for the future but first let's get to them have. kentucky fried chicken has closed five hundred fifty of their nine hundred restaurants in the united kingdom due to what the company called operator issues which has to do with actually getting the chicken and other menu items to the stores via the delivery company d.h.l. k f c in the contract to do business with the h.l. only a week ago but the incomplete or delayed deliveries has become one of the worst logistical failures in recent memory the owner of k.f.c. yum brands can reconfigured the u.k. supply chain last november and is now using three delivery services including

a bid that's quick service logistics and d.h.l. d.h.l. actually boasted that their engagement would quote rewrite the rule book and set a new benchmark for delivering fresh products to k.f.c. in a sustainable way. talk about over promising and under delivering k.f.c. says it's too early to say when the stores will reopen the first k.f.c. restaurant in the u.k. it was a stablished fifty years ago. the u.s. government's national climate assessment a report which is issued every four years as mandated by congress points to an even greater threat from global warming that has been shown in the past temperatures in europe and north america are the highest they have been in the eleven thousand years which is leading to rising sea levels and greater frequency of storms like we witnessed this past hurricane season the assessment involved hundreds of scientists in the government and universities.