news paper german media with fake evidence of a russian troll farms meddling in the country's politics. and on the program more. on the first suspected russian twitter is believed to have. conservative american. trial put on ice a medal winning russian curlers tested positive for a substance at the winter olympics will take his case to sports highest court to discover why. you're cheating in from right around the world this summer welcome to moscow and to

our team international and you know neal our top story this hour german top lloyd builds has published what it thought was leaked evidence of the activities of a russian farm but the lead turned out to be far from concrete. joined me earlier with the details. well build rushed into this one they thought they had a real bombshell in there and 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 socialists the s.p.d. there precisely specifically their youth wing leader kevin kunar who was allegedly talking to a russian border 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 deal real this effort to build a coalition it would be you know this would be a huge story the first direct evidence of russian meddling in germany's in germany's in politics. we've got the we've got the exchange itself and 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 girl code 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 bots 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 graco 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 high ury sounds good i'll collect the data for the facebook or 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. 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 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 occasions to 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 e-mail two or three calls and build prints everything 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. of course being the drink the password drink mentioned in the email exchange. you know they're having a good laugh on twitter at the bill these days and what small build while admitting that the e-mail exchange is fake they still trying to defend themselves they saying that you know so they tried 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 the right guy steve

speaking to me earlier well i also talked to moderates hurt in an editor out titanic magazine who came up with the prank he say's the news builds weak spots. work with the same. methods as built so we knew how to think alike and build editor and what we did was we came up with a story that was techie like in the spine movie and we had a good feeling that this would work especially with bill as they already ran a campaign against the s.p.d. and there seems to be no election and the past years where there wasn't talk of russian meddling or interference but this s.p.d. voting which is now evident in germany about whether they go into the coalition with merkel or not there were no rumors about russian meddling and we thought this this cannot be we have to make an alliance with the built tabloids push

a story about russian meddling and as we see now it works perfectly. some people on twitter in the us sorry seeing there are a kind block on their list of followers deleted twitter has allegedly branded some people with conservative views as bots. how soon will be transiting parents thousands of accounts will receive the same passage of the same moment to provide and then a texan through. so it's enough to know what most value is simply because i'm conservative sixpence and live chrissy i wonder how many votes i'm wrong worse 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 hashtag 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 shot twitter kept saying that it was a permanent ban suspension because of harassment and i couldn't get them to explain to me who had our red state came back and told that it was because i was part of a russian operative or you're being with. us. 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. you know i want to. i. was . like. the problem is the fault of the. outdoors is that you of course. let's delve a little bit deeper into the issue no with mike riley coeditor of b s news mike you're always welcome to the program could have you there has been no official statement from twitter but from this from perhaps what you've seen in the past do

you believe there is something going on here are they adopting a blanket ban on specific content. no i really doubt it the reason being is because the twitter has maybe three hundred three hundred thirty million active users and only three and a half thousand members of staff so it's really unlikely that those members of staff are going to go through possibly one hundred thousand twitter accounts and determine whether they are right wing or conservative accounts or whether they're bots or not so this is all being done by an algorithm and all of us see these things aren't perfect but it's reasonably straightforward certainly for human beings and therefore it should be for straightforward for an algorithm at least to determine if something looks like a bot. that it looks like and some kind of automated program that is generating a twitter account and then retreating and comments in. and yelling things you know we can do we can discern what these are. but i suspect the algorithm initially

was fairly crude and they just went after what they what the algorithm detected or thought was both accounts and they've simply captured a lot of real accounts in the process yet they have done that but we've also seen perhaps a those with. mainstream views on twitter before perhaps you know have their i kind block then there are a lie back on on the same thing happens again i put it to you is this perhaps beyond the private company of twitter because social media companies they have been under a great deal of pressure from government agencies before this. yeah i think so and i think people that i know personally have said the same thing in fact that we used to this news was blocked on twitter just recruit criticized in a multibillion recently we were blocked for twelve hours but this whole me most of the boats and especially the russian boats is actually being used as

a kind of defensive mechanism when you would have people criticize the corporate media here in the west we've done it with the guardian and they come back and say oh it's that you paul the russian bottle army or you know part of you know the typical question is what's the weather like in some petersburg is it snowing in moscow yet so it's a very useful. for journalists to deflect any kind of criticism especially with the topics such as syria. and things like this that they don't want to defend themselves so they just really not be going on like that he said i just i'll not because we showed a video before and i'm sure you're well aware of it from project very tough swear we heard twitter employees bragging about tampering with the kinds being able to delete being able to change if they want from what happened to you personally from what we have seen do you think more bombs could be ahead if they're able to get away with this and not really questioned about it. yes absolutely but we have to remember that twitter twitter the company is

a private platform i know it's it's called on the stock exchange but it is a private company effectively they can do what they want and if they see challenges serious challenges to the status quo they're likely to limit activity or even block accounts or delete accounts and that we're certainly seeing that but i think that the the people the crane the bots. the fairly crude and i've been just this week in fact a friendly people have bought on facebook that used my own profile picture as his profile picture so i lose a fairly crude attempt but this this lots of this going on none of it is exactly sophisticated but it could be made to believe to be sophisticated by this mean i mean people. can be ports created that appear to be generated in russia. so anyone can mask there were tents the mask where they're coming from on the internet it's rigid militantly easy to do so when you go down and you actually drill in and you try and find out where the where this truck it's coming from it might appear to come from one direction but it might be actually coming from g.h.q.

or any sales something like this so it's very hard to determine exactly who the culprits are at the end of the day my cake your time this hour my karate coeditor of b.s. news giving us his take on that story. staying with allegations and accusations of meddling now a little bit longer we do it that was the headline of a recent new york times article suggesting the u.s. is promoting democracy and therefore has moral grounds to interfere in other countries elections and that argument seems to find quite a few supporters to there is some truth to the fact that the united states has engaged in the election meddling over its history the cia has but it's not always the same thing right like here you can help and democratic movement deal with a despot or according to estimates u.s. intelligence agencies have tried to influence foreign elections eighty one time

since the end of the second world war the former cia chief reacted to questions about u.s. meddling we don't do that now that we don't mess around other people. are only for a very good getting to do that through a vine video and those former cia director a very good cause. i wonder whether the people of libya agree with the gentleman or maybe we could talk about nicaragua or el salvador or the whole host of countries now of course america has involved themselves in other people's democracies in other people's countries just as the united kingdom house and so i don't really understand where this guy is coming from when he sort of says it's ok for them to do it because they're the good cops but it's not ok for russia to do it and you know we need to ask the people of libya say you know they happy with the involvement of the americans will they brought to libya was terrorism civil war and massacres of many many innocent people but they forget this when they then start

complaining about whether the russians have meddled on social media i find it the height of hypocrisy myself so this is just nonsense just absolute nonsense. let's turn our attention once again to 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 that it was in force without story. 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 all 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 move him the government should make apologies and pay compensation to them it's believe there are up to twenty five thousand victims all under the eugenics protection law enforcer 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 that your ration to place genetic mental disease was the only listed reason for her sterilization however as 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 it's the government's fault thanks akita the program as well as the national legislature which a doctor the law needs to take responsibility and make apologies a soonest possible doctor as well 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 press to disclosure of these documents regarding my sister surgery they 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. a staying in asia moving to the winter olympics in south korea a russian curler who won bronze and later tested positive for doping will have to return his medal according to the russian curling federation the athlete earlier said he wouldn't be taking his case to the court of arbitration for sport talking us through all volunteers are to go in. this is really believe a bold 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 ass league who

won his country its first ever olympic medal and curling but then tested positive for twice at these winter olympics said that he's 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 to doping tests i'm ready for the verdict which is predictably the same in all cases i weighed up the pros and cons and decided to withdraw from the cas hearings 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 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 that 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 milk in a foot and for fourteen days and costs ease of treatment is mutilate recommended by but i do say that they. won mons three months even six months up to you it depends on the. disease the patients 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 staying in south korea only blighter notes one hungary and skewers performance of the games has fired up the twitter sphere for being

spectacular in its own special way. done 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 swain you disgust me people have worked their entire life to make it to their limp

legs and you make a mockery of that your family should be ashamed gotta give credit to the audacity to our lives about swaying the. i'm not particularly fond of these of a swing you got into the olympics especially since there are other women who have trained their entire lives want to get in a financial backer and have a lot to do a nomad to even qualify for a team which is just average with money list but sway me is my hero some people are amazing the lengths some people have a dream sweeney had in the olympic dream and she made it come true which to me deserves a medal in that so. the 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. a problem in brainy

human rights are to this job has been sentenced to follow years. in prison for criticizing the gulf monarchies rule in the war in yemen on twitter he's already serving a two year sentence for previously having spoken out against the regime now bill that rose to prominence as an opposition leader during the mass proved a mark of c. protest back in twenty eleven he's also president of the bahrain center of human rights between twenty twelve and twenty fourteen he was imprisoned for organizing or theorize demonstrations in the two years he's currently serving well the one hundred done for quote publishing disseminating rumors out of the news apparently in connection with a number of t.v. interviews he gave back in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen to remind you that bahraini uprising started during the arab spring a wave of protests across the middle east and twenty eleven the main demands of the opposition were more rights for the shia population on the abdication of the king

of bahrain however police responded but what's being described as a brutal crackdown by senior adviser at the bahrain center for human rights told us the latest verdict against the right job is completely unjust while the son turns the mockery to just a slap to the rule of law human rights values and standards and principles. after hardly more than one hundred court hearings. he took substantial evidence to charge and to be. was he focused on warning. on the just. of war in yemen he called upon to resort to dialogue. rather done to war on destruction. being charged today for expressing his views openly. well rights groups are trying to

draw attention to the case human rights watch allies to push for his immediate release while on the sea international has been calling on the king of bahrain to free not be launched a twitter campaign. a russian boy who was left stranded in iraqi territory previously held by islam mixtape has been brought back to russia to be reunited with relatives his parents are believed to have traveled to iraq to join the terror group here in russia his grandparents are waiting for him when he was out of moscow airport when he arrived. this is a three year old boy who is coming back home from the orphanage in baghdad is happy he is finally going to see his family again here at the moscow airport the child looked tired and lost he was trying to hide his face from all the cameras and

didn't respond to any questions or when he was called by his name he doesn't know what happened to his mother nor does he remember his father is too small to understand what happened to his parents that small boys traumatized is missing one little finger on his left hand and the injury that he sustained during a shallowing attack has spent over five months in an orphanage while all his documents were prepared for him to be able to leave iraq zaid has a little brother who's only one year old but his status still unknown moscow is not his final destination his next step is travel to the city of grozny where his grandparents are waiting for him. here to emotion more or. was.

that this was your idea interests groups just. do what their great look. this business. you do. you want to you furious. parties the break crosstalk is back on your screens in just a moment right after that i'll be back with more of the stories affecting your world today so you have a. oh

and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle 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.