headline stories this hour eight german tabloid is tricked into publishing fake evidence of a russian patrol far supposedly meddling with germany's politics. the russian bots continues twitter is believed to have blocked accounts belonging to conservative americans. us on the program a medal winning russian curse who tested positive for a banned substance of the winter olympics decides to take his case to sports as we discover why. around the clock across the world this is r.t.

international from the team and myself you know neil welcome to the program the german newspaper billed as published what it thought was leaked evidence of the activities of a russian troll form but the lead turned out to be far from concrete steve explains build thought they had a bombshell the makings of an international scandal he is the meat of it build the published a report about how the socialists the s.p.d. was trying to buy the services of the mythical russian troll factory it's huge it would be the first direct evidence of russian meddling in german politics here the actors kevin head of the s.p.d. youth wing who is running a campaign against forming a coalition with angular merkel the new campaign yuri. a

mysterious russian agent offering their services of an online army under his control to spread the message what build got their hands on was the email exchange between them it reads wonderfully cold words mistrust she quit meetings like something out of a spider movie did kevin i mean you really i'd like to talk to you about supporting your no grow cold campaign thanks for your mail j already told me to expect a mail from you but just to be sure could you name me jay's favorite beverage as he can certainly understand this is a delicate matter mere mere multi ginger there 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 will be appreciated by the no 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. 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 looking forward. front page stuff but that was on friday by wednesday germany's satirists from tannic magazine revealed that it was all a prank they had written the entire exchange and sent it to build but build rabbits without jew checks and verification what with their anti s.p.d.

stunts and tabloid routes even the email tributed to kevin kuhn or was fake he couldn't have sent anything from it other german publications saw the exchange and realized it was specious but to tannic explained build that was just too excited and anonymous email to your three calls and build prints everything that fits its agenda remember the drinks name miro meo mattie ginger well that's now trending on twitter as germans online ridicule build though they're defending themselves given kuhner the star of the show is also suing billed for libel and slander but judging by this picture and he's posted he's also enjoying the show or kevin could hurt himself ses the reporter the email exchange would have made no sense even if it were genuine pavoni it does here but i don't know but it's group

but of course we would refuse any of these offers we don't work with social bots i don't have information that will even received and your. well i spoke with more it's hurt an editor a tie turmeric at margo's een who came up with the prank he say's they knew bill's a weak spot. we at atlanta go over to rick a magazine we work with the same. methods as built so we knew how to think like and build editor and what we did was we came up with a story that was tacky and like inspired and as you just said and we had a good feeling that this would work especially with bill as the way he ran a campaign against the s.p.d. a do is social democratic party which have a lot of the part of. our intent was to spin this

story more further you know there seems to be no election in 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 a make an alliance with the build a tabloid and push a story about russian meddling and as we see now it works perfectly for. the readers of builds just like the editor's a builder but there are hopeless cases so you can't help them i don't think anyone will learn anything. new we at the town ignore the people at build or german politicians or the german people but it was a good laugh now. and i think that's worth something.

ok now we continue our look at recent discoveries from japan's official archives on a long concealed eugenics program it left thousands of people infertile over the decades that it was in force jacqueline vega has been looking more into it. 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 they've been rationed to the 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 a pill to admit the practice had taken place were dismissed for years with victims

being told that the evidence was simply gone though you know the 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 doctors will sort. sponsible but in a way that we use by the government. i think that the now defunct eugenic protection law existed for the sole purpose to review the ban of disabled. when i don't breasted the disclosure of the documents regarding my sister surgery they told me the files were just said to have been strictly proceso had been thrown away the evidence of the mutilation of my sister's body will 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 a. 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 when 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. some people on twitter in the us are seeing their accounts blocked and their list of followers deleted the same time twitter has allegedly branded some people with conservative views as bots. how soon will twitter locoed be transiting parent three thousand have accounts will receive the same passage of the same moment to provide and then a text through cation code. it's enough to know what two thousand it was simply because i'm conservative six players and crissy 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 hash tag 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 was 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 with a live 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 are arrested and came back and told that it was because i was part of

a russian operative or you being with. us. that i was somehow working for russia part of the russian bots that were. sending out negative information to an election well for some time now twitter has been helping the us government catch these a magical russian bots who somehow manage to slay 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 bot and who's not a russian bot the it is you know i don't want to because you know that. i am and it goes. with the you know what i don't want to. yeah like. the problem of. them. outdoors is that. we spoke with christian monk shura christians a lawyer a political activist couldn't crèche will come to that he believes that the move

goes against one of america's couper values freedom of speech form like twitter facebook or instagram these are forms where people have the ability of expressing their freedom of speech and their opinions i think that that's the point of these social media sites so if they begin to censor people just because they're coming under pressure then you know what's going to come next i think that this country has been characterized as always for the protection of freedom of speech regardless of what you think and as long as the message that you're portraying is not racially offensive or sexually offensive and you know other ways possible then you can not censor the opinion of a person simply because they go against you or simply because you disagree with them. staying with the meddling accusations we do it too was the headline of a recent new york times article listing the many ways in which the u.s.

has interfered in foreign elections since world war two but for some people lots apparently a good thing 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 well according to a recent study by an american historian washington tried to influence eighty one foreign elections between world war two the start of this century a former cia chief recently admitted this practice to help. we don't do that now that we don't mess around other people hold. them. only for a very good thing to do that through a vine video and those former cia director a very good cause. how 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 as i say you know are 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. turning your attention to the winter olympics ongoing inside korean are a russian courier 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 would not be taking his case to the court of arbitration for sport and looking through this story first now are to go in. 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 athlete 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 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 milton a four and a four fourteen days and courses of treatment of his mutilated

recommended by but i'd use a. one monster remonde even six months up to you it depends on the. disease 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 just on a lighter note one hunger in skier's performance at the games has fired up the twitter sphere for being spectacular in its own special way. i.

am 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 africa. elizabeth swain you disgust 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 that i dusted seat off and he's about to sway me. i'm not particularly fond of a swing he got into the olympics especially since there are other women who have trained their entire lives for getting a 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 the lengths some people have a free swain you 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 pro-immigration rally as mean held in paris following president initiative to tighten laws on refugees the latest from the french capital here charlayne have been speaking. well this is seen as being one of the biggest tests of the manual mark one has faced so far in his presidency with around two hundred people coming out on wednesday morning to voice their concerns about this new immigration law well what's in the new immigration law well first of all they want to double the time of detention that's how long my kids can be held from forty five to ninety days they also want to put in jail for up to a year those migrants who cross into france illegally and they want to shorten the

time that people have to apply for asylum well people who protested outside the consulate attack today said they were incredibly unhappy and they expressed why. besides not it has not been passed here but people won't like it because it wants to hold this attention with asylum seekers so you shouldn't work you think it's a lot selfish it's a lot of people don't like the foreigners don't like no one likes. this law is unbalanced because it's trying to facilitate the integration of fresh veggies but many people also support this law some say it doesn't even go far enough and they say they support it because they have concerns over some of the elements of this new hope to deal with including that of fake i.d.'s because fake i.d.'s have been used by some perpetrators of terrorist attacks over the last few years in france now they will face up to five years and

a fine if they found with fake i.d.'s now fake i.d.'s we used with those who carried out the paris attacks in two thousand and fifteen then just a year later brussels the attack there just over the border in belgium and also last year in march say in two thousand and seventeen and on a europe wide level there's also concern that some people who apply for asylum actually want to carry out terrorist attacks such as the. carried out the attacks at the christmas markets also in stockholm in sweden and in finland what is clear though is that this bill which is due to be debated by parliamentarians here france in april is not going to have a smooth flight. out see paris. a prominent bahraini human rights activist has been sentenced to five years in prison for criticizing on twitter the gulf monarchies role in the war in yemen and the job

is already serving in two year sentence for previously having spoken out against the regime in libya rose to prominence as an opposition leader during the mass prude protests back in twenty eleven he's also president of the barraine center for human rights and between twenty twelve and fourteen he served time for organizing on or theorize demonstrations in the two years he's currently serving one hundred done for quote publishing and disseminating rumors and false news apparently in connection with a number of t.v. interviews he gave in twenty fifteen and sixteen to remind you that really our pricing started during the bring and 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 application of the king of bahrain however police responded with what's been described as a brutal crackdown a senior adviser at the bahrain center for human rights told us the latest verdict

against job is completely unjust. well let's turn to mark corey to just a slap to the rule of law human rights values and standards and principles. after hardly more than one hundred court hearings of the two was done substantial evidence to charge and to be all that was he focused on warning. on the destructive. of war in yemen he called upon to resort to dialogue to peace rather than to war on destruction. being charged today for express think its views openly the rights groups are trying to draw attention to the case human rights watch asked by rains allies to push for his immediate release while on the sea international has been calling on

the king of bahrain to free an appeal and have launched a twitter campaign. a russian boy who was left stranded in iraqi territory previously held by islamic state has been brought back home to be reunited with relatives his parents are believed to have traveled to iraq to join the terror group here in russia his grandparents in the size of the country are waiting to bury him. was after the moscow airport where 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 just 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 waiting for. their tour motion more or. was. that this was you know of their interests which would suggest. what the great look there's there's been

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zero and welcome to cross talk we're all things 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. talking the fake news media i'm joined by my guest charles or tell in new york he is a private investor and writer as well as the host of the podcast show sunday with charles also in new york we have don de bar he's a.