from exotic to toxic decades of environmental damage on a portuguese island in the atlantic leave locals fearing for their wellbeing as they continue to suffer cancer rates. the german tabloid newspapers left red faced after being duped into running a bogus story about russian meddling in german politics one of the pranksters tells us how they did it. and what we did was we came up with a story. like in spite. claims of child sex abuse at an orphanage in central russia shocked the nation and a major investigation.

into the program updates from the news team here at r.t. international i'm calling brian welcome to the program first off the exotic portuguese island of tests in the azores in the middle of the atlantic ocean is in desperate need of decontamination decades of u.s. air force activity have allegedly left it polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals and islanders say they're worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious illnesses. the latino community but back to twenty thousand this is not constant also like this if this is releases and have a constant as to why now that is eighteen twenty twenty eight hours and twenty

thousand twenty thousand. new them freely and it's time to run away from here as well ready to stay too long twenty thousand becomes a reason out of the box golf is already a substantial value. most what we have of this series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by having my toes on hydrocarbons and the heavy metals have series of facts on how there are very high levels of lead in some of those i think molybdenum most of them heavy metals that in certain concentrations can cause surreality cancer in a wreath me and a never ending amounts of problems associated with the nexus of these substances and they. don't think of one i'm thirty four years old and i lived my whole life in dry of

the victoria right by the entrance of the american base and all my family they've been that area both of my parents died of cancer my mom of breast cancer and my dad was a different kind of cancer in my when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer my mom had already been in the same situation as the other and passed away on the same year and i was diagnosed with the same pathology. good much confusing the more cancer cases there are the more the cure lation asks why is this happening why it cried the story on the roads is that on one side all houses have had at least one case of cancer and on the other side it's almost every other house that is not normal yours as it was i was and doesn't know.

if it's caffeine i want to raise my children in a place where i have a guarantee that i will be able to give them a good quality of life and this is a doubt that i have that am i doing the right thing for the future generation. the u.s. has maintained a presence on the island since nine hundred forty three tests are serves as a stopover for transatlantic military flights and it houses the sixty fifth air base group although it's not known how many personally currently stationed there the raw one hundred sixty houses to accommodate them one former employee told us about the health risks the workers there have also been exposed to. you know if you going to you're meant there was also a senate commission that came to to share or to check a legal process from some members of the american military who were dying of terminal cancer and were exposed to radio. you were here for a week and june this is our mother found out what they were doing here you are here

to confirm the existence of radiation on the chair island radioactive contamination from the dar environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a declassified report written in two thousand and three now it lists seventeen major fuel spills in recent decades in one fifteen thousand gallons of oil were released when a pipeline was unintentionally activated that was in one thousand nine hundred four but there's been no cleanup since the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in the soil air and water here's what local experts have been telling us. well five we found in the data that was published referring to the two thousand and seven two thousand and eleven period a higher number of certain cancers in the prior divots or area than the rest of the source especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can see with thirty three percent of the cases being in prior divots order while the area has only eight point five two percent of the dorian population.

this is a howl that repeats itself from various silence that are occupied by the americans this is almost a scorched earth policy where the problems accumulate and the local government doesn't react the population has no capacity to take a stand maybe as a result of scientific illiteracy or look of knowledge on the cause of fact relations. and we've been in touch with both the united states and portuguese governments but we haven't received any responses to our specific questions what we did get there was this from the united states which for the press release from last december it says that the protection of the island's environment and the health of its population are of the utmost importance to both governments. germany's best selling newspapers published what it thought was smoking gun evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics but in its rush to break the sensational story the tabloid failed to check its sources and it's backfired spectacularly as more augusta have explained build thought they had

a bombshell the makings of an international scandal here's 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 a huge it would be the first direct evidence of russian meddling in german politics here the actors kevin kuhn are head of the s.p.d. youth wing who is running a campaign against forming a coalition with angular merkel the new grow cold campaign yuri a mysterious russian agent offering the 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 secret

meetings like something out of a spy movie do you kevin i mean you re i'd like to talk to you about supporting your no girl code campaign thanks for your mail j. already told me to expect a man 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. dear yuri perfect that's a relief so what can you offer me basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with books again shows social bots on twitter or facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign 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 there and t s b d stands

and tabloid routes even the email tributed to kevin kuhn or was think he couldn't have sent anything from it other german publications saw the exchange and realized it was suspicious but as to tally it explained bill that was just too excited and anonymous email or three calls and billed prints averaging that fits its agenda given kuhner in the star of the show is suing billed for libel and slander but judging by this picture and he's posted he's also enjoying the show the social democratic party's youth wing leader was named in that prank says that even if he had really been made such an offer he would have flatly refused it. we at atlanta go over to rick a magazine we work with the same. methods as

a built so we knew how to think like and build editor and what we did was we came up with a story that was techie and like inspiring and we had a good feeling that this would work especially with built as they already run a campaign against the s.p.d. of the social democratic party which kevin not as a 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 editors a builder but there are hopeless cases so you can't help them i don't think anyone will learn anything. new we at it on 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. as one of the editors from the titanic internet magazine explaining just how easy it was to dupe bills into publishing a bogus story that. an orphanage in central russia is at the center of a child sex abuse scandal that shocking the nation and suspects under arrest right now but investigators want others brought to justice as well his medina caught in a. allegations of the rape of boys says an orphanage for children with disabilities in

the region after lab has shocked russia the accusation emerged once several boys broke down and told their new foster families about their experiences at the institution when my son decided to tell me everything he came up to me and confessed you know mom i was so afraid they told me that they draw means lake and will lock me up in rehab for the rest of my life. when i try and talk to my child his wee strawn starts crying and runs away he says mom i don't want to discuss it but just to we could go with managed to get him to talk all the children give the same small details it just impossible they made it up together david show the places where they were great they told us what their rapist did to them. i called the director to find out who the man was visited the kids they knew about him there

they told us that he supposedly wanted to adopt one of the kids but he refused and never came back the director again and again wrote sure does that what the boy said was a figment of his imagination she said that kids was such a condition have a good imagination and can make stuff up easily do it yourself. so we'll see if you know what i was going to. repeat your work the way it is you know the. story it is have now opened a criminal investigation and have already detained a suspect is a reporter the s.s.t. one year old. a local man allegedly unknown to the children as friends if found guilty he could face up to twenty years in prison the police are investigating

other we've ports that staff sold time well the orphan boys to a different man we were turned away when we went to the facility for comments which . you would. think. that when you don't meet with mr me it would mean the machine the next to me and. it was just this news. with the general feeling is that it would. mean that the machines at night. that used to. take you to make you could. but did manage to speak to some locals who said that there was no discipline at the orphanage and children were all from left on the turned it. to. the question of the. if you have not

yet when you're in the bushes know when you british time if your previous cabinet are still present. and you know your profession. the children's rights commissioner is now calling for the prosecutors general's office to get involved. to it is being accused of political censorship by right wing users as thousands of accounts shut down the details when we come back. when gold make its manufacture come sentenced him to the public wells. when the roman closest project themselves. in the final merry go round lifts and me the one percent.

we can all middle of the room signal. the real news is. the low. level war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings produce to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they don't. produce ought to try to tell you that every gossip the public by file for the most important news today. off of our eyes and tell me you are not cool enough and let's buy their products. all the hawks that we along with our loved ones. welcome back there's growing anger among right wing twitter users who claim they're being purged by the social network in a crackdown against supposed russian bots account which automatically post tweets

thousands say they've been wrongly locked out of the site the hash tag twitter lockout began trending on the site shortly after the suspensions began many conservative users say the move comes as part of a sustained attack by the network on rightwing voices one claim to have lost as many as three thousand followers in the space of a minute some users believe that the move is linked to a pledge that twitter made in january to combat russian interference in u.s. political life following the kremlin alleged to hack in of the presidential election as part of the initiative the platform sought to target people believed to be working for the internet research agency in some petersburg which has been accused of being a tool for meddling we spoke to one user whose accounts been suspended she was somewhat surprised to hear about her connection to the kremlin been on twitter twenty ten basically when i realized it was permanent i was a little shot they were actually accused of being a russian operative so they. know that i was somehow working for russia part of the russian bots that were. sending out negative information during the

election in the past a team of investigative journalists known as project veritas of cast doubts on how to determine who should be blocked. yes you know i don't want to. go. like. this problem of. course is of course a separately to top u.s. democrats have called on congress to provide the f.b.i. with an additional three hundred million dollars to help prevent meddling in future elections the call was made by senate minority leader chuck schumer and former speaker nancy pelosi and a letter to the senate they say that the additional funding would help to counter the influence of hostile foreign actors particularly russia media analyst lionel told us however the would be a waste of money three hundred million dollars. and we get this straight from the

f.b.i. to battle russian interference the same f.b.i. that's been trying to investigate russian interference that has netted nothing we cannot point to anything other than buying an ad and as was indicated last week in the indictment so we discord now we want the f.b.i. to continue this investigation which netted nothing you could pin you trying to find nothing. and to prove or to expose or to ferret out examples of russian collusion where cured of war have proved nothing the democratic party are vowing more money more money earmarked not to stop real crime where the real victims and real pain in real sadness and know they were to go after

russia in collusion. it's exactly four years since the violent anti-government uprising in ukraine culminated in the overthrow of president the protests began in response to endemic corruption and the government's decision to abandon an economic deal with the e.u. but it quickly spiraled out of control. a. leg. length.

led. a leg. for years on from but uprising some of the mind and activists now see the protests in a very different light they say that hopes the meaningful change in the country if not materialized we spoke to one of them about how the change of heart.

the students compassion for them and sharing their anti corruption and socially oriented ideas which recency it but were hijacked by the oligarchs almost at the very start. using it isn't that i believe it was a mistake to fall for the slogans of the nationalists my personal mistake is that i should have realized that much sooner the people who started those spontaneous protest could answer the question of what they were against but couldn't say what they stood for that was the key problem they didn't have a plan and therefore allowed themselves to be used but i have no right to judge people for taking part in the protests. but it's thought that people at my done were supporting so-called european values but can a country be called european if it sits at the bottom of the least on freedom of speech if it's

a country where journalists get killed in rest of the persecuted why did the revolution for freedom not result in freedom and if europe stands for multiculturalism why did the european revolution in ukraine result in the victory of nationalists radicals there mantises and became a smokescreen for extremist slogans which had nothing to do with the initial protests. the european union which supported ukraine after the coup also appears to have become disillusioned with the country's ability to deliver reforms media reports say that the bloc shutting down a border checkpoint scheme with ukraine where it was supposed to ease customs proceedings and also boost trade we discuss that with political analyst and historian martin mccauley. crane from brussels point of view from the very can point of view is an important state but these countries wish to keep ukraine. as a friend and. and but they're finally increasingly difficult the european union and western europe becoming increasingly crazy and exasperated at the

lack of progress. in certain areas the main problem is corruption within the government within the state the new leads. in fact. siphoning off some of the money for themselves or awarding contracts and so european union has been. hoping that ukraine would begin to limit corruption within the state for years two decades now so therefore very slow progress would be to cheat and unless it's sieved the ukraine of the european union in the western world will not come closer together right that should use finance thanks very much for watching if you look up on facebook and twitter you can get breaking news alerts twenty four seven i'll be back here though in just over half an hour with your next level news from the international.

me that's been created by financialization of everything outsourcing manufacturing to countries like china totally ignore that just made that word up to ignore something. of your local infrastructure bill now we want to do infrastructure we've got to go borrow a trillion or two trillion dollars from our biggest creditor now the. chinese owning all the cars in the. second century america can't even get from point a to point b. . fifty years ago britain and within to come together as a sleeping pill does this is what i mean because the truth does said this thought the side effects what terrible but not on known as shown induction on football in

the world here not the war then build them up across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation in something in two ways first will the physical damage itself but as well that the consumer mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been able to justice and there has been a couple of. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so if you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to the press that's what them before three of them all can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. i should.

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greetings and salutations will grab your butter and pop your popcorn hawk watchers because there appears to be more than one collusion investigation taking place here in washington d.c. you see while t m z sorry c.n.n. is busy ambushing innocent trumps reporters in their homes for sort of but not really in any possible way conspiring with indicted russian internet trolls a major allegation of collusion is creeping out of the federal communications commission yes the inspector general of the f.c.c. has rather quietly opened an investigation into chairman i and his actions surrounding the sinclair broadcasting three point nine billion dollar deal to buy

tribune. media according to fortune the investigation is focused on pis decision to relax rules limiting the ownership of television stations by a single company you see the rule change the pie champion the melting that league got pushed through created a loophole that allowed for sinclair's accurate acquisition of tribune media which ultimately put sinclair channels in more than seventy per cent of u.s. households that's a lot congressman frank pallone out of new jersey told the media that for months i've been trying to get to the bottom of the allegations about chairman pi's relationship with sinclair sinclair broadcasting i'm grateful to the f.c.c. as inspector general that he has decided to take up this important investigation so was conspiring including well there appears to be some fire and that's all that smoke a new york times investigation published last last august uncovered several meetings and correspondences between pi his staff and sinclair executives including one

taking place just days before pi took over as f.c.c. chairman now that is the appearance of a legend collusion i hope all you russia get out there is are taking notes this looks like collusion this doesn't look like delusion now let's start watching the hawks. as. you know that i got. welcome everybody to watch and i wrote the story and that happened very surprised as the fire behind.