tv Politicking RT March 23, 2018 7:30am-8:01am EDT
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seemed even leaving professional dressing rooms on the stand calling the show would bring to you why it would be a choice and if you remember. the managers put quotes from fly used to inspire the players from the greats was this i me the kids here and it's all. football or street football or great football on not not just posh. britain's defense ministry has been caught up in the scandal surrounding cambridge alison the company accused of collecting personal data from millions of facebook members and then exploiting good for political goals if they were failed at the ministry paid cambridge on it because parent company s.c.l. group for what's being described as human and social influence was on top of that the firm was reportedly granted access to secret government documents is those
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those said to have carried out research to see how people would interact with certain government messaging probably boyko takes up the story. cambridge on the ticket is seemingly everywhere apart from helping the campaign to victory by using information harvested from millions of facebook profiles it turns out the company's services have been used by the british government to cambridge on the parent company is called the s.c.l. group the whistleblower who on earth the facebook data breach calls the two entities as c.l. and cambridge on the one in the say s c l used to be on the payroll of the british defense ministry thanks to a freedom of information request from twenty six d. we know that in two thousand and eleven the energy paid to s.c.l. for the provision of external training and in twenty fifteen it paid us for psycho social research to top it all off s.c.l.
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got the green light to hold british government secrets on its premise britain's information commissioner's already investigating cambridge analytic over the facebook data breach but in light of the defense contracts with its parent company as c l the chair of britain's home affairs select committee is now demanding a why did government investigation into the company's activities there are now growing concerns about whether there should be a wider investigation into the to reduce there are concerns about the implications for democracy about information being used in a range way and no one has the chance to counteract it and the traces real problems outside of the u.k.'s c l's and cambridge analytic his client list reads like a who's who of contentious elections and political hot spots cambridge analytical was hired by kenya's ruling party ahead of its elections last year the company is accused of stoking ethnic tensions and manipulating voters online prejudices to
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help kenya's leaders stay in power the company's also accused of orchestrating. political sting operations on their client's political rivals and circulating the evidence online among s.c.l. is clients was ukraine it was hired by the kiev government to help recapture the self-proclaimed republic of donetsk. it was contracted to deliver a data driven strategy for the ukrainian government in pursuit of the goal to win back control of the netsky findings replied to designed localized communications campaigns to erode and weaken the jeannette's people's republic this particular campaign didn't bear much fruit for the ukrainian government the website reveals yet another time to the british government the ukraine report it says was delivered to kiev and shared with the u.k.'s ministry of defense i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in
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a company one arm of which at least. in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda and manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money. on a propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information and this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation it's likely that the next chapter in the cambridge analytical scandal won't be its links to facebook but to governments around the world including the u.k.'s. the british defense ministry has reacted to the story saying it has no current relationship with the group and the company
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has no access to classified information. we're turning now to our breaking news story from france where there are reports of multiple shootings in a third and french town one of the attackers is believed to have barricaded himself inside a supermarket. he joins us live now with the latest. what do we know about the situation flow far. well this is a movable feast nekesa the information is coming thick and fast in some aspects in other aspects we're getting many conflicting reports now we do know that it's quarter past eleven local time in france into a village near caucus on in the south of the country a gunman took hostage a number of people inside a supermarket supermarket and we do understand that there are reports of gunfire being shot inside that supermarket there are reports that one person has been killed other local media reporting that two people have been injured all of these
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reports remain unconfirmed present but we do understand that the gunfire has been taking place in waiting to find out confirmation of what exactly has gone on inside this supermarket as this hostage situation under way we also know that there was another incident in the same town just before the hostage taking took place in tribe and this was an attack on a group of unarmed c.r.'s police officers who were jogging in the area they were there from more say and we understand that a van try to knock them over it didn't succeed however one of the c.r.s. officers was actually injured and shot in that incident these two incidents have been treated up to now as being separate incident but this is a chance that they will be treated now as one singular. incident we know that the operation that's underway is already been taken control of by the french interior minister and we also know we've had reports of from the french government saying
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they are treating the situation as extremely serious we do know that this is what we've heard from prosecutors in the area that the gunman who's taken these hostages inside that supermarket has pledged according to them allegiance to eisele that's islamic state the group has been waging a war on terror of course europe including particularly here in france for many years starting all the way back in two thousand and fifteen when we saw that attack on charlie abdo the satirical magazine here in france and then there was also an attack at a supermarket here in paris which four people were killed and many people will be hoping that today's hostage taking is not a repeat of that nikki but what we know so far is that there has been sounds of gunfire heard inside that supermarket local media some reporting that one person has been killed others reporting that two people have been injured we are waiting
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for official confirmation on whether there are any injuries or any deaths as a result of this act that is being described as a terrorist act thanks for you said the reports are coming in thick and fast hopefully we can shine some light and confirm some of those reporters some point or unconfirmed let's see what happens for national defense kate thanks for that. donald trump has revealed who will take over as his new security advisor the man being appointed is former u.n. ambassador john bolton who's known for his strong stance on north korea and iran the appointment was made in typical trump style on twitter the u.s. president also made use of the social media platform earlier this month when he fired his secretary of state rex tillerson caleb morgan has a look now with a new arrival through washington's revolving door. he is the third national security advisor to the donald trump administration in the last fourteen months and
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john bolton is a long time advocate of the use of force against iran and against north korea now those are two countries that are rather vital for the trumpet ministration in the coming months in may donald trump will have to weigh in on the iran deal whether or not it will continue and furthermore the usa is on the verge of carrying out the historic meeting the first meeting between a head of state of the usa and the leader of the democratic people's republic of korea so at this point a lot of questions remain so the fact that john bolton has been selected is rather interesting i think they want to make peace i think it's time so it could be a long and unproductive meeting where it could be a short and unproductive meeting we hope that these new measures directed at the arena of dictatorship will compel the government to reevaluate its pursuit of terror at the expense of its people well i think he's on the verge of making a mistake i think his advisors are pushing him in the wrong direction you know are
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destroyed the certification question is utterly irrelevant john bolton served as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations under the administration of george w. bush and his appointment was quite controversial at that time for statements he had made harshly criticizing the united nations can trail donald trump was quite critical of military intervention isn't by the united states saying that he wanted to stop toppling regimes however john bolton is a long time advocate for military interventions around the world so big developments on the horizon regarding iran and north korea from a u.s. diplomat told is the appointment of john bolton could aggravate the situation with iran a lot of people mistakenly said that during the campaign trump said he would tear up the agreement because it was a very bad agreement he did exactly said that he said it was a very bad agreement but. he likes to make bad agreements good i think he came in with the notion that if he was threatening and up we could get the europeans on
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board and pressure the russians or the chinese to say that we want to add missile technology and not threatening israel a lot of other things to the agreement to change the agreement to something he likes better maybe that's still their game play and maybe they think if they have somebody who is sufficiently bellicose they can scare the europeans into siding with the americans on changing the agreement and not have to pull out of it but i have no doubt now that regime change is going to be a cardinal conscious goal of american policy and failing that there would be an attempt to do so by military means. not a is that some launch a large scale a digital project school think romanov's one hundred three thousands of personal photographs that tells the story of russia's last royal family that's all a century reign ended with the revolution in one thousand nine hundred seventeen a digital mosaic of four thousand photos will begin a pairing across social media from the eighth of april and that takes marks one
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hundred days before the centennial anniversary of the execution. the project will allow people to view the last decades of and peril of russia interactively and will feature accounts of each royal family member given a unique narrative of their lives through the photos watch out for women over one hundred across the last social platforms including facebook you cheap twitter and the instagram.
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back now to our breaking news this hour from france where reports say there have been two incidents in the south of the country a shooting targeting police officers occurred in one town in in the town of caucus on sorry in a town close to the caucus on the region shortly after a hostage situation unfolded in a supermarket in a nearby town it's not yet clear whether the two incidents are related but the french authorities have treated the hostage taking as a terror attack local prosecutors say the assailants there has pledged allegiance to islamic state and french prime minister called the situation serious there is conflicting information about whether there are any victims at this point we will of course be bringing you more details on this breaking news story as soon as we get it. the protests
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are growing in the u.s. city of sacramento after the release of bodycount video showing the moment u.s. police fatally shot an unarmed black man in his grandparents' backyard the incident happened last sunday when officers responded to a suspect breaking car windows in the area people say they mistook the man's smartphone for a weapon and opened fire on him twenty times. nine one one one case in the emergency. the one that occurred in my turn wonder. if you can find a chase for the charger for the backyard. for the description of the middle of the body. i got a guy at a backyard. where. thank you. i get up trying to get up.
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thank. you and yes. lets get on the stool hit him a couple times is that before we are. born you guys want to go hands cover . we're going to be any idea what you are. the victim is twenty two year old stephan clock he was a father of two both his children under the age of three his brother described him as an entrepreneur. more than eleven hundred people were killed in two thousand and
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seventeen alone by u.s. police it was reported throughout the whole year only fourteen days went without a fatal police incidents in response cycle mentzer police have placed the officers involved in a fatal shooting on paid administrative leave. the case has outraged locals who are demanding justice demonstrations took place at city hall under the sacramento kings basketball arena a major highway was also blocked during rush hour the black lives matter movement is calling the incident murder and are demanding answers we spoke to sanju lewis from the movement. they don't take any value black life because we are collateral damage we are always when it comes to this kind of history at the end of the day the motive has always been a lack of value for black life or black bodies and so it's easy to shoot first ask
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questions later sort things out after the fact come up with near to it was. what actually was taking place during the time of the incident so when you come out with the story and say yes he had a good or at the in the next story was he had a tool bar or crow bar then the next story was he had a bridge it took find out that he was shot with a cell phone in this here we want to see those officers prosecuted for their decision to shoot their guns twenty shots we could no longer live with and be satisfied with officers being fired or given slaps on the wrist for murdering people mark. twenty three british diplomats and their families have left the u.k. embassy in moscow their return home as a reciprocal measure after london expelled the same number of russian diplomats over the square power poisoning case a british council in russia has also been forced to stop its work tension between the two countries. escalated after london declared that moscow was highly likely to
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be behind the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in the u.k. moscow strongly reject all the accusations and called on london to disclose all the evidence. back now to our breaking news this hour from france where there are reports of a shooting and hostage situation in the south of the country the shooting targeted police officers in the caucus on the region shortly after a hostage situation unfolded in a supermarket in a nearby town it's not yet clear whether the incidents are related but the french authorities are treating the hostage taking as a terror attack local prosecutors say the assailant has pledged allegiance to islamic state while the french prime minister has called the situation serious there is conflicting information about whether there are any victims at this point the latest we are being told is that there may be two hostages dead we will be able
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to confirm that for you in the coming hours and stay tuned for more details on this breaking news story to. the b.b.c. is under fire for its alleged bias against opposition leader jeremy corbett viewers claim the british broadcaster is deliberately trying to portray the labor party had as two russian alessia churkin as the story take a look at this image that the b.b.c. used in one of its news programs causing quite a stir in the u.k. germany spain or germany has been on the wrong side of history for the last thirty five years or for the right side of history of libya on the right side of history on afghanistan the right side of history in relation to iraq so which is which side of history the picture depicts the opposition party leader jeremy corbyn on red square wearing something that strongly resembles a russian hat and here is the original image. suffice it to see twitter wasn't happy most impartial backdrop the b.b.c.
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newsnight perhaps could be split with a picture of pm clutching first rules of roubles and laughing. that backdrop is some absolutely shameful shameful stuff asking for international cooperation and strong evidence before we ramp up war rhetoric is russian collusion now is it shameful columnist for the guardian and corbin supporter or when jones pointed this out to the b.b.c. on air yesterday the background of your program you have jeremy corbyn dressed up against the kremlin. is no no no it's got to make it work for you and i'm not dressed up as a soviet state was it was a real picture and i mean cause if you even photoshop is hard to look over should this part of the debate was left out of the version posted online something that also didn't go unnoticed the b.b.c. denied photoshopping the image of the labor party leader but then joe rome a top u.k. barrister himself a corbin critic threw his weight behind the claims of b.b.c.
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bias my conversation which was conducted entirely in writing took place with x x is an individual at the b.b.c. who seniority and work is such that it could not sensibly be suggested that x. is not properly qualified to speak on such matters x. stopped explicitly and unambiguous fully about how criticisms of korban that the b.b.c. could not voice were deliberately coded into imagery or to approach the b.b.c. for comment but the broadcaster said it would not release a statement as it hadn't seen the evidence it did say though that the views of its program editors as expressed in their tweets did largely reflect the b.b.c.'s own mom says he can swear on the truth of his tweets adding that lying in his position would be a very big deal this storm of controversy comes after corbin called on the government to take a more measured approach to this cripple poisoning case it could be argued we only take these days to be branded a foreign agent and if there is
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a target an artsy london. club a security giant kaspersky lab has warned its customers about a highly sophisticated paid. of malware doing the rounds that can steal your private data however by highlighting the threats the firm is now being accused of undermining u.s. anti terror operations because perske hasn't identified who was behind them are where but a media company called cyber scoop claims is part of a classified u.s. program that targets potential terrorists and that by revealing it because birky has essentially burned the operation they antivirus lab explained it aims to protect people against such low where and gave its own warning about the malicious program falling into the wrong hands but it generated remained eate all forms of malicious programs regardless of origin or purpose furthermore the company does not whitelist any malware samples not even mild were used for so-called legal surveillance one can easily imagine the situation in which such malware falls into
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the wrong hands and can be used to launch attacks against law enforcement we're just regular users of cyber espionage program is allegedly code named slingshot and they say able to steal large amounts of data including images and passwords from infected computers using internet root is this a first a gated malware is those who have been online for over half a decade already targets all of them out where have been discovered in africa and the middle east with over half the attacks believed to be on yemen and kenya generally it has targeted the computers of individuals but in some cases it may have breached government institutions we spoke with a security expert about the dangers of the so-called slingshot program. after examining it for some time we can confidently say that it is intended for cyber espionage because all it does is collect data from your computer what makes this malware so dangerous is that it stayed under the radar for quite
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a long time we discovered it last year we can see huge use this malware the operators of the small way were using it for obtaining data and remaining unnoticed because this malware is so advanced and uses many tricks to avoid detection. debate over the history of the holocaust as we just boiling point in poland the father of the current prime minister who is a former politician himself has sparked controversy with recent remarks do you know who chased the jews away to the warsaw ghetto the germans you think know the jews themselves when because they were told they would be an enclave that they would not have to deal with those nasty poles the polish government was quick to distance itself from the comments by the interview with flounder in israel and by polls as well with many saying that such comments are offensive to the memory of those who died at the hands of the nazis.
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the issue of the holocaust was again focused on in poland after a new law was adopted that last month and made it illegal to accuse the nation of complicity in the city and prohibited the use of the phrase polish death camp we spoke to professor israel charny from the institute for holocaust and genocide. i'm going to have the opportunity to make at least one prole polish position statement. is that the concentration camps in poland i agree they should be called the polish concentration camps they were nancy
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concentration camps in poland but beyond that the insistence on the creation of a war that is it is illegal to discuss what the poles did in the holocaust is an insult to humanity the poles did many things on both sides of the fence all of the truth should be broader. factually. returning now to our breaking news from france where an armed man has taken hostages in a supermarket in the southwestern town of treb and was being treated as an act of terrorism a police union official is quoted as saying one person's been shot dead inside the grocery store but that's not been officially confirmed at this point earlier there were reports that police officers were shot out in nearby carcassonne that's
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believed to be about a fifteen minute drive away a lead police units have moved in local prosecutors say the assailants there has pledged allegiance to islamic state the french prime minister has called the situation serious where across developments and will update you as we learn more we'll be back after this short break. the far right to in britain isn't just on the march it's taking violent muggers action i don't like it at his inaugural i see these organizations which are all usually split into which we forget which take different names i'll give you that look. at. the complex web of richard fascism.
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most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand down lose business is just the dance the right questions and demand the right answer. question no. one else seemed wrong but all along just don't call. me that he's yet to say proud disdain become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look
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breaking news a hostage situation is under way at a supermarket in southwest france the gunmen inside has pledged allegiance to eisele unconfirmed reports say one person has been shot. hundreds of police are now at the scene and the area has been put on lockdown. as r.t. international with me mccarran good to have you with us this hour we start with breaking news from france and number of people have been taken hostage in a supermarket by an armed man in south west of the country shots were reportedly fired earlier on the instance being treated as.
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