this hour on r.t. international from exotic toxic decades of environmental damage on a portuguese island in the atlantic leave locals fearing for their wellbeing as they continue to suffer increased cancer rates. the german tabloid newspapers are running a bogus story about russian meddling in german politics one of the pranksters tells r.t. how they did it we knew how to think like an editor and what we did was we came up with the story of the techie like in the spine it was a. prominent conservative commentators in the united states claimed that being censored by twitter after a way for a temporary account suspension. lose

you this wednesday thursday sorry the twenty second. in moscow this is your world news from r.t. international first off the exotic portuguese island of tessera 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 loss of like subsistence releases another constant one now that's eighteen twenty twenty

thousand twenty thousand twenty days of. the them freely and it's time to run away from here as we're ready to stay too long. mostly what we have a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by how much goes on hydrocarbons 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 a heavy metals that in certain concentrations can close the relates to cancer in the earth me and a neverending amounts of problems associated with the nexus of these substances. i'm thirty four years old and i lived my whole life in cry at the victoria right by

the entrance of the american base and my only family they've been that area both of my parents died of cancer my mama breast cancer and my dad was a different kind of cancer unlike when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer my mother had already been in the same situation as me on and passed away on the same year and i was diagnosed with the same with elegy one. the more cancer cases there are the more they look you lation asks why is this happening why if the story of the road says 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 your the place that was. it 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 am i doing the right thing for the future generation. of the us has maintained a presence on the island since nine hundred forty three turks are serves as a stopover for transatlantic military flights and it houses the sixty fifth base group although it's not known how many personality currently stationed there there are one hundred sixty one houses to accommodate them one former employee told us about the health risks the workers there i've also been exposed to. that you know if you're 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 are dying of terminal cancer who were exposed to radio santiago. who were here for about a week and journalists found out what they were doing they were here to confirm the existence of radiation on the chair a radioactive contamination of the door environmental situation on the island was

first acknowledged in a declassified report written in two thousand and three 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 there's been no cleanup since the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in the soil and water here's what local experts have been telling us. 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 in the rest of the years or so especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can see with thirty three percent of the cases being and proud of its aura while the area has only eight point five two percent of the story and population of.

this is a howl that repeats itself from various silent that are occupied by the americans this is almost a scorched earth policy where the problems accumulates in the local government doesn't react the population has no take a stance maybe as a result of scientific illiteracy the look of knowledge on the cause of fact relations. always been in touch with both the united states and portuguese governments so far though we've not had any responses to the specific questions that we've asked them the us though did forward this press release from last december it says that the protection of the island's environment and the health of its population or of the utmost importance to both governments. next 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 backfired spectacularly has more i guess they have explained. bild thought they had

a bombshell the makings of an international scandal here 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 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 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 man from you but just to be sure could you name me g.'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 books again shots 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 time inc 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 fake he couldn't have sent anything from it other german publications saw the exchange and realized it was suspicious but as to talent explained bill that was just too excited an anonymous email to all three calls and billed prints everything that fits its agenda given the star of the show is suing billed for libel and slander but judging by this picture and these posts that is also enjoying the show of a social democratic parties youth wing leader whom i was talking about there and is named in the prank says that even if he had really been made such an offer he would have flatly refused it. i don't know but this group but of course we would refuse any of these offers we don't work with social mobs i don't have information that

will even received. the satirical magazine behind the hoax posted this triumphant photo online shows one of its employees posing with a transcript of the fake e-mails and the build article one of the pranksters told us just how easy it was to pull off. we had to turn it over to rick a magazine we worked with the same. methods as a built so we knew how to think like an build editor and what we did was we came up with a story that was techie and like an aspiring movie and we had a good feeling that this would work when there's a story like there for four built they don't care about details it's only interesting if the story is good and it was a good story indeed and it was. like a good movie i hope it will be made into a movie sometime for. the readers of built just like the editors at build

there are hopeless cases so you can't help them i don't think anyone will learn anything. new we turn 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. it's exactly four years since the violent and the government uprising in ukraine culminated in the overthrow of president yannick over to the protests began in response to demick corruption and the government's decision to abandon an economic deal with the e.u. but it quickly spiraled out of control. now

years on from that uprising some of the mind and activists now see the protest in

a very different light they say their hopes for meaningful change in the country have not materialized we spoke to one of them about her change of heart. to the students compassion for them and sharing their anticorruption and socially oriented ideas which recent cme but were hijacked by the want to gox almost at the very start. using it is a 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 it come true because your appeal 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 nationalist radicals there mantises and became a smokescreen for extremist slogans which had nothing to do with the initial protests. during the uprising the protesters in kiev received strong support from the united states and the european union a number of top american politicians were in the thick of it even addressing the protesters on the ground and distributing bread european officials also helped broker a settlement between the opposing sides but now the bloc appears to have become disillusioned with the country's ability to deliver reforms the e.u. is reportedly shutting down a border checkpoint scheme with ukraine which was supposed to ease customs

proceedings and boost trade political analyst martin mccauley told us that the e.u. is becoming frustrated with ukraine's inability to carry out reforms. ukraine from brussels point of view from the american point of view is an important state these countries wish to keep ukraine as a partner as a friend and i thought that. and but they're finding it increasingly difficult for the european union and western europe become e increasingly tired of ukraine and exasperated at the lack of progress. in certain areas the main problem was corruption within the government within the state the elites. caught in fact. siphoning off some of the money for themselves or awarding contracts in the new self and so on european union has been . hoping that ukraine would begin to limit corruption within the state

for years well two decades now so therefore very slow progress has been achieved and unless it's sieved the ukraine of the european union and the western world will not come closer together you know without coming up in a couple of minutes right wing twitter he says he's out of the social network of the claims of censorship. he. joins me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see that. apply to many clubs over the years so i know the game guides. the ball isn't only

about what happens on the beach or the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money. and spending twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else only because i want to share what i think i know about the beautiful game great chance for. hello again anger is growing among the right wing twitter users following an apparent bolt purge on the social network a number of prominent commentators have claimed that their accounts were wrongly targeted and that the sites cracked down on accounts that automatically post tweet is actually aimed at censoring conservative speech the hash tag twitter lockout

began trending on the site shortly after the suspensions many conservative users say that the move part of a sustained attack by the network on rightwing voices a number of them claimed to have lost thousands of followers as a result of the initiative and some believe the moves linked to a pledge that twitter made in january to combat alleged kremlin interference in u.s. political life has been claimed that russian bots have in the past been used to amplify and spread divisive views on the network and we spoke to one user whose account was suspended she was somewhat surprised to hear about her apparent connection to the kremlin. been on twitter since two thousand and ten basically when i realized it was permanent i was a little shot they were actually q.'s in me 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 doubt on how twitter determines who should be blocked. you know i want to.

like. the problem of. course is a huge story or separately to top us 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 in 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 told us though that it 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 can point to anything other than buying an ad and as was indicated last week in the indictment so we discord now we would 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 curative or have proved not the democratic party are vowing more money more money earmarked not to stop real crime where the real victims real pain and real sad i know they were to go after who russian collusion. meddling accusations but from

a different quarter the new york times article has listed many cases in which the united states has interfered in foreign elections since the second world war and yet for some people that supposedly 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 the despot research by an american historian recently found that washington trying to influence eighty one foreign elections between world war two the turn of the century and one former cia chief admits it still happens. we are designing our way don't mess around other people. and. are only for the very good to do that through a vine video and those former cia director a very good cause and. i wonder whether the people of libya agree with the gentleman or maybe we could talk about nicaragua or el salvador or a 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 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. robin all quite done with the top i guess either because with the increasing focus on russia's alleged meddling it also seems that a growing number of russian woods are making their way into the english language so .

the previous administration kicked the russians out of their dodges we have kept them out of their touch. he's an old k.g.b. colonel after. russia had engaged in attempts at developing compromise. a civil viki this sort of the inner circle of their business interests have remained fairly stable. for the top of the pyramid of what so as the visitor tour which is where the at the speed the s.p.r. and the g.r.u. the military intelligence guys are.

right what i have been taking notes is going to be a vocab test next hour news for now from me in the moscow newsroom i'll be back in just about half an hour to update you on the latest political news thanks for watching. america has an economy that's been created by financialization of everything and outsourcing manufacturing to countries like china totally out the ignore ation just made that word up means to ignore something gratian your local infrastructure bill now trumps saying we want to do infrastructure we've got to go borrow a trillion or two trillion dollars for

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welcome to the alex salmond shore from dublin from the public of violence this is a city that country deeply suspicious this breaks it moves not least because of the implications it has for the peace process on the border between the north of ireland and here and the public but could also be. bonus for the us bustling city of dublin as jobs flock here out of the city of london i speak to betty i have the longest serving prime minister of ireland so. this is what you have to say. that. you're liable and second longest serving the shock after the. you have the could negotiated from the

the the good friday agreement. how much of a risk is the bricks process to that crucial agreement that brought peace to the whole idea was to try and make. the island of ireland one economic yunus. so that we could move freely without any restrictions without any regulations whatever that trade was true or frictionless barter. which meant because now there are so many arguments about it at the time it was a boarded up was free of any security of free of any checks free of any passport or reg the two controls of any kind then we've had you know fifteen years plus. of niland was developing and i lent out how do you cannot make links and was more compare fickling and unfortunately breck says and so many ways. do you think in the

way that almost two decades of peace. of practical peace has made keep politicians in the u.k. complacent about the solidity of the good friday agreement of industries m a o david davis even though you know on either side of the complacent because of speed and p.t. it of comparative peace and we tried hard in the bracks at the base at to get the irish message over. i went to some of the universities and textures and accordance dead and tea smoke went over to some debates both the reality is that none of them care two hoots about northern ireland it was no longer an issue it wasn't one of the. top three stories as it was for for generations and the news it's as simple or as complicated as this and i think that. if.

u.k. pull out of the close of union and forget the single market we know that are done for get to you but if they pull out at the close and you know how can you have a friction this border how can you have a border that would have controlled somebody of checkpoints along leader of a country i've been do not feel some sympathy for the prime minister to these i'm images caught between a rock that is to say that the at the point you make that the customs union may be necessary to fulfill the frictionless border and some very hard cases in the black city with a cabinet it's the nightmare for any and prime minister to have a cabinet as the vitus as hard as the difficulty for all so if i can be a bit parochial and the irish position pascal lamy who is that the expert on world.