r.t. has spoken to some former abu ghraib detainees who described their ordeals. when their americans arrived with their tanks we thought they would readers of the harsh regime everyone would have their own house and car just like in the wealthy arab countries or in the west but it turns out to be the opposite. they would hang a prisoner on the metal door of the cell and subject them to electrocution or urination they would stick a rifle into sensitive areas or they would use

a broken broomstick causing internal bleeding prisoners would need surgery. after i was released whenever i saw americans on the street i would be terrified they would send me back to that place and torture me again it still keeps me up at night remembering the torture they hear it screams. the time i spend in the prison felt like a lifetime an hour all that pain humiliation and unchastity this stays with you forever that's young and yet i still have nightmares and suffer physical and mental pain as if it all happened yesterday i work night and day to try to forget it what we went through and what happened to iraq was a terrible crime it broke us even now i can't get inside a barked up because it makes me think of waterboarding.

one iraqi m.p. told us that after the toppling of saddam hussein the invasion has brought one catastrophe after another. it's a mixture of feeling. feeling of happiness and joy. because that invasion to remove saddam hussein from power. and free people. but on the other hand. what followed after the removal of the regime is a disaster after disaster. because the american invasion immediately created an absolute vacuum. and the security in the economy and in politics in iraq. and. and move transformed the country from absolute

dictatorship. to. freedom without limits. freedom without responsibilities. the u.k. is seeking a warrant to search the servers of cambridge analytic is accused of helping donald trump to win the presidency the data obs some fifty million facebook users was allegedly used to predict the choices of american voters facebook claims its information it was used illegally and what some are already calling the largest data leak in the social media giant history. think back to the last personality quiz you completed on facebook what if i told you that data was allegedly sold to help trump win the presidential election it may seem a bit far fetched but that's exactly why u.k. data analytics company is in trouble with facebook in two thousand and fifteen we learned that a psychology professor at the university of cambridge named dr alexander kogan lied

to us violated our platform policies by passing data from an app that was using facebook logon to s e o claim which analytical firm that does political government military work around the globe facebook is now under scrutiny trying to explain how the data fifty million of its users was harvested by a trump links and let x. company and what appears to be the largest data leak in the social networks history did anyone say the russians have to get the words in russia or because the russian have these organizations we've never worked in russia as far as i'm aware we've never worked for a russian complete have never worked with a russian organization in russia or any other. country now if they in fact one cambridge university professor created a facebook personality app and then simply passed all the info quide from its users to the third party the third party is the cambridge analyst company which many in the media suspect played at least a part in trouble success once facebook realized it violated their terms they

wanted all the data to be destroyed it led both companies to a data feud which of course has the potential to become a lengthy legal battle but according to n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden facebook is really a surveillance company in sheep's clothing. businesses that make money by collecting and selling detail records of private lives were once plainly described as surveillance companies rebranding us social media is the most successful deception since the bombing of war became the barman of defense according to twitter more and more users seem to be clued up on data terms and conditions found on social media platforms for is a love of god everyone talking about facebook can bridge before you come and please learn how targeting works and that it's commonplace it looks like data might have been leaked but it looks a billion times worse if you don't understand how data targeting works i don't know

about everyone else but the people i know don't blindly trust facebook with information their data was leaked and used against the whole nation you know they continue to refuse to protect the data their time is limited if i understood this correctly facebook has access to loads of personal data gives third parties access to the state or and when the state is abused the major problem is that these facts were leaked shooting the messenger does not solve the problem so it should be no surprise to learn that when you next complete a quiz or pollen facebook there might be an ulterior motive behind it. a chef in the u.s. city of new orleans has made white customers pay more for food in a bid to educate people about the wage gap when already there is nigerian a food stand paid twelve dollars while the white people can spend either the same or two and a half times more that's reportedly the wage disparity between white and black people in that city of the chef social pressure made eighty percent choose to pay

more while those who did and apologized. if i created the framework where i outline a problem that is indisputable and i position you as an antagonist and i give you a way to solve the problem title and be the hero in the moment anything other than the thirty dollars choice becomes anti social behavior that explained to me why the folks who refused to pay the thirty dollars were equivocating because they understood that they were participating in anti social behavior their experiment has triggered a mixed reaction while some support of the idea some others were offended so we put it up for debate. there have always been a significant decisive number not the majority but a good number of people who understood the horrible legacy the triple the sea of suffering that african-americans have had i think it's very interesting that this issue is being raised by an african who moved here and started the thriving

business so he apparently didn't have any problem based on the color of his skin this restaurant owners perpetuating a myth and a myth that somehow white people are in the business of keeping black people down and i think that restaurants perpetuating that most white people get up in the day just like most black people get up in a day they want to get they want to do the best by their family and they're really not worried about keeping anybody else down most of the money that's gone in the social programs has gone to the professionals for the upkeep of the buildings the energy it has not gone into the hands of the people if we don't do right by this this country would suffer your guest randy here wants government taking from white people based on the color of their skin and giving it to black people based on the color of their skin and that's just evil we have many historic reasons for poverty in america we hear that more white people in our in poverty than blacks donald

trump has shown the best way to raise everybody's plight is to lower corporate taxes and create jobs black homeownership is at an all time high under donald trump and it was at an all time low under barack obama i voted for donald trump but you look at my skin color and assume i didn't to try to put me in this liberal basket without knowing who you're talking to you assume based on my ethnicity that you know how i thought and how i would argue so you're a good example imagine if i were going in for a job interview i can already assume you think how i am i conduct myself i probably how i live what my family's like without knowing we do need to correct this problem in the country or still to come here on an international special coverage of law to me of putin's presidential victory that will be continuing to break.

we put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. wanted. to going to be close to see what before three of the more people. interested in the war. american minutes one is the melting pot and the second is the ratio. of the bootstrapping of any one can see that america works are so this is a whole group of people all generation in america is saying that there is no melting pot we're not being assimilated there's no opportunities we can't live up so their response essentially is to go into conflict and this is

a major. it is good to have you with us today on sunday russia elected as president for the next six years the turnout was almost sixty eight percent with an overwhelming majority voting to give lot of me a fourth in the kremlin he was on red square for the big event. come to it from red square it's seven zero in the here and with as we digest some of the final results that come through and get some final reaction to it from a number of guests especially because lined up yes invest in a presidential election has been for it and it's been we'll be bringing you all the

latest developments and yes. but i'm a putin and pulls off a huge win on sunday getting over three quarters of the vote it means he'll stay on as president and could remain in the kremlin for up to another six years the election result comes with increased tension with the west something that's been reflected in some of the reaction coming in there are t's peter all over your correspondents got the latest from berlin took a long time to get any reaction out of germany where i'm talking to you from when it eventually did come it actually came from brussels in the form of heiko must the new german foreign minister speaking on his way into a meeting of european union foreign ministers there in the belgian capital city give mr voluble the results of the election in russia which was as a surprise in two words as the circumstances of the election russia will remain a difficult partner but russia will also be needed for solutions to the international conflicts and so we want to remain in dialogue for that was followed

by a congratulations from the german president front. before angela merkel added congratulations to that list the german chancellor stressing the importance of dialogue in the future is bright to me appeared takes over a fourth term as russian president and she wished him luck with the challenges that he would face during the messages of congratulations coming from elsewhere from china from bettas way ron and japan however less congratulatory messages coming out of poland where the deputy foreign minister said that the north stream to pipeline should be sanctioned that nine billion euro project should actually be stopped elsewhere in the european you. and in a group of member states headed up by the high representative for foreign affairs federica mark rainey said that they would not acknowledge the results of the votes took place in crimea they were also joined by scallop at norway in saying that it comes to more congress tauriel messages they certainly came from the italian

president. expressing his actual ations that lie to me at burton and finally from france we heard from mr marquand he said that he wished to meet putin every success in his new view from george galloway joining us like the little commentator a full member of u.k. parliament either george looking to. your immediate thoughts than this when for let him approach in he says he doesn't want to start an arms race for a start which is good news for all of us around the world we want to engage in dialogue is this a new message surely not. well it does take two to tango the potential dance partners are currently storming out of the dance hall and threatening to leave the siege to those inside the ballroom saw i'm not sure how that's going to work any time soon but it's good that the president signaled that is his wish this is an

extraordinary monday the german in france reaction is that they don't recognize the votes of the people who cast them in crimea that went along to those polling that made their choice nonetheless france and germany says we don't know about that is that in any way to legitimize the overalls although not as you say. well i think the people in crimea will tell them to go and whistle ninety two percent of the voters in crimea voted for president putin and the quicker they get that bridge up relinquishing crimea with its motherland russia the better and i think the crimean people have voted with their feet for russia and more than once. this year the vast majority of polling stations were equipped with web cameras streaming everything that happened that meant that anyone could be the observer if they wanted to write the code but at the top of that the most you know it's paid

off as well the practice was first introduced to a ten to twelve presidential election and indeed this time it's helped to expose multiple electoral fraud cases in this focus just on this well. if you. like joining us here on r.t. international for our program today we are back in half an hour with more.

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be exact where you live what you like who you like are you happy sad mad glad at the world around you are you religious how often do you vote are you liberal or conservative why what are your friends political preferences for advertisers and marketers these cut this kind of information is gold gold for political campaigns manage vibranium yes pulled it from marvel you universe so of data is indeed the most precious of resources in today's world than facebook has to be the new fort knox which would make camera journalistic and its parent company strategic communication laboratories a u.k. military contractor the bank robbers who stole fifty million gold bars worth of facebook profile data and used it to help donald trump become president except unlike the actual fort knox facebook appears to share your gold with whatever university egghead or advertiser that comes in knocking which has put the social

media giant in the political hot seat once again this week the alleged highest breaks down like this in two thousand and fourteen cambridge analytic hired a cambridge university professor to develop an app to farm the data which included people's location information jobs educational histories and page likes on facebook the professor paid some two hundred seventy thousand test subjects to install the app which then allowed him to harvest information off of some fifty million facebook users without their permission because at the time when you fill out the cute little quiz on facebook that was the app facebook's rules allowed apps to access the. the app users friends info as well as their own your friend puts that on they can also see your stuff that they can base breakdown like that so this info was then paid for and used by the trump campaign to predict target and influence voters has all their information but is this really the trump campaign information

heists that is being made out to be with steve bannon playing the robert de niro role or is this actually all just part of doing business in the information age and we just got to catch on up let's find out as we start watching the hawks. get the. real thing. as we keep the ball out of it. like you know that i got. this. week so. well the watcher the harks the entire robot and on top of the last thing came very gentle into biggest story of the weekend coming into this week that was was the fact that fifty million facebook users information was hijacked room facebook back in like twenty fourteen twenty fifteen

campaign used it to selectively go after certain sets of voters you know to say that it's their way to basically just did they knew what this person might be interested in and how to advertise to this person how to sell donald trump the republican party whatever to get them to vote donald's way. right there who is hacking your work and that's the that's the thing i mean you saw the mainstream media just. chilling like oh ok we get this somehow tied to russia maybe this company met with the company a few times. they have really made those connections again i mean i haven't seen anything yet that really makes that connection it really looks like this is you know data mining and russian war put her in the twenty first century you know when to my question would be you know where the where the line is between what this

company and what makes what was the name of the company or the camera or strategic communication laboratories what makes the strategic communication laboratories different than the internet research company well that's that there i mean you know when you when you look at this it kind of breaks down like you know one is the parent company of like the other you know i mean it's just it's all that twisted game above that i mean what makes it different if this is a company that's a military or a tractor that is looking out for these kinds of things and going out and saying i'm not going to it's a british company going into a foreign doing business for a foreign entity and which to. facts change although so much so what is different than the internet research agency and those which now we look at. how yes it is only different. deny any wrongdoing but if you are scared analytical is analytical is and in part by a hedge fund billionaire robert mercer and so that's where i ask that question like where is the moral line that how why is this illegal or not illegal why are they

working is everybody working so hard to make excuses for it tapered out a little while demonizing something like internet research agency where they both seem like something that shouldn't be there is somebody like data mining companies are going to to confuse them you brought it up just now though you know i was there and i don't know. but you know so they said that they were their idea was it promised to target voters what they were selling to their clients was that i would target voters unconscious psychological biases therapist and trying to be about fair as advertisers are and trying to do that for years the act that this idea that they were going to magically figured out was facebook is another one of the cons the the world of selling the internet is but they want to get this personality profiles of of users and then use that obviously to target their or their biases into who would be good for trump or good for breakfast it was another when they were involved but what's interesting is that so now facebook has suspended cambridge analytical from the platform in your mind what i think is strange although it's probably looking through what you know what it's going on is that

they've also. suspended the page of whistleblower christopher wiley who brought it forward he was the whistleblower who told the truth about it so i don't remember the first worked with ted cruz in the presidential campaign they didn't originally work with them so trump so there's a lot of sort of connections and what that's not so very interesting and what really i think what's really interesting to me is you have to ask the question just how culpable of space book and all of this because yes this company was you know illegally got this because the app itself told the user. the they will share information within the app to make it a better app not that will turn around and sell your information which is what happened to this the odds of this vote you know there's a lection company. but it has that but you know how culpable is facebook because basically you know data mining and using shills be deployed forms to reach voters is exactly what most campaigns and all the obama campaign was allowed for it. sure

you know that's what you do in elections these days so i wish it's also understanding about and before we run out was one thing is that snowden edward snowden actually tweeted out a really interesting part which kind of answers your question a little bit and said facebook makes some money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions far beyond the scant details you voluntarily pose they are not victims they are accomplices this is a business taking your using that information and selling it is the only way they're going to make money so i don't see them not selling our information. to. the only woman on the forbes list of the world's one hundred highest paid athletes for twenty seventeen with serena williams a number fifty one in twenty seventeen eight of the ten highest paid female athletes were in tennis williams who's won about thirty nine grand slam titles for an eighty one million dollar fortune while the highest paid man novak djokovic took home one hundred eight point six million dollars for only twelve grand slams like

its grand slam titles and martina navratilova discover that the pay and quality in tennis isn't relegated to the court in an interview with the b.b.c. programme had around the never told of her shock when the b.b.c. published the salaries of their top personalities and it turned out the never to load was being paid ten times less than her fellow wimbledon commentator john mcenroe who is earning over two hundred thousand dollars for two weeks' work compared to the twenty thousand the b.b.c. contends that john and martina perform different roles in the team and john's role is of a different scale scope and time commitment they're simply not comparable he is a defining voice within the b.b.c.'s coverage he is widely considered to be the best expert commentator in the sport highly valued by audiences his pay reflects all of this gender is a factor of course if this really was just about skill and expertise then it is never too low though with eighteen grand slam titles who edges out mcenroe who only holds seven grand slam titles by the b.b.c. is own standard mcenroe should make about less than one thousand dollars in. should

be making over half a million dollars if it's based on titles for the sports they're experts on and it isn't just tennis that's the pay in gender equality becoming an issue whether it's w.w. wrestling finally figured out that female wrestlers sell lots and lots of tickets to the women the olympic hockey team demanding the pay and respect they deserve all the way to the women who write and talk about sports cheating us today it is that the lack of love for females out of players a map way of is our team sports correspondent steve welcome state great to be here steve that's a great interesting fascinating subject matter i think we all can agree on that and that one things i want to ask you is there's been lots of excuses for that kind of pay disparity over the years between men's and women's sports of see you know the women's play shorter seasons and they're not quite as mark of the bowl and like every excuse under the sun i mean even even mcenroe himself said quote and twenty ten said quote the women have a better in tennis than any other sport thanks to billie jean king but you shouldn't push them to play more than they're capable of so you see these kind of

like you know this ingrained indoctrination our female athletes really given that much an advantage in sports or is mcenroe just kind of bitter about his eighty four loss to ivan lendl at the french open where does this all sit in the in mcenroe he's a bit of a hot on the court and off the court obviously so i mean i think i don't think they're given an advantage at all they put the same blood sweat and tears they practice they prepare the same you know they should be given equal pay for equal work you know just like in any other profession so but they definitely are getting you know i think. the short and to secure in terms of you know for me it's a systemic and a cultural problem i believe because from a young age you know women as girls are told you know play with dolls if you play sports you're a tomboy and that kind of as a stigma so from a young age boys play sports girls you know are told to do that and that that's the problem i think we're all the.