dandle millions of people's personal information being mined for financial gain and influence cambridge and a little it's actually a data analytics company dedicated to one thing figuring out how to manipulate you at all costs this shadowy consulting firm right surreptitiously gained access to personal data online from nearly eighty seven million facebook users weaponized personal data you have to look at cambridge analytics and some of the loss of trust cambridge analytic scandal this was a huge breach of trust well according to newly leaked documents from cambridge analytical parent company as c.e.o. it wasn't just for meddling in political campaigns in two thousand and nine s.c.l. carried out a surveillance operation in yemen called project titanium it involved a network of western trained operatives tasked with infiltrating local populations and identifying potential terror threats the nice thing focuses on identifying the groups that support or are conducive to violent jihadist recruitment project

titanium was essentially a psychological profile operation against the hottest its architects wanted to find ways to divert people away from islamised ideology field research is used to identify a clear instance pass to do something target groups those who took part were deceived and led to believe that they were part of more innocent surveys but it was for a noble cause especially at the height of military operations against al qaida the s.c.l. group was acting on behalf of r.k. middies a us based military company they get billions of dollars from the defense department for intel operations around the globe looks like they were doing government dirty work and not just for washington and i know that many other governments work with them as well it's not just the united states government i believe the brits work with them in other countries and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

when you look under the surface of these campaigns the private sector is creating a gray area risk free and where international law does not apply one of the more disturbing passages and it was sort of language that was written in a sort of passive tense very euphemistically in the project titanic documents that i gathered from an internal company source is reference to eliminating. the young male target population if they can't be deterred from jihadist activity the language wasn't exactly eliminating but you know resorting to other means and that tends to refer in my mind to drone assassination what my investigation

demonstrates is that there's this gigantic web of firms whose names we don't know who are operating in the darkness and they're being contracted by governments to not only spy in conflict zones and carry out counterinsurgency operations but to export those methods back into our electoral systems in the west well the u.k. government's alleged involvement in the titanium project is based on its field operatives and we're required to register with the british foreign office for travel advice on operations we have the foreign office for a response on the out however in the reply the only attach to a link explaining what the travel advice service l's. ahead of his first foreign trip since his reelection of love we're putin has sucked on for a few with austrian t.v. in the russian capital the discussion touched on a number of topics and let the some remarkably frank exchanges between putin and the host artie's medina cost them their breaks down highlights. at the beginning

the answer you start is in a rather typical manner when it comes to foreign entities with the russian president now lattimer putting was asked about russia's alleged role in modeling another country's elections about the perceived troll factory at the center of that effort the ensign that research agency which is believed to be owned by mr proportion was a restaurant owner incent petersburg who lattimer put didn't know was tacitly because you have just said that mr precaution is referred to as putin's chef indeed he runs a restaurant business it is his job if he is a restaurant owner instant petersburg but now let me ask you do you really think that a person who is in the restaurant business even if this person has some hacking opportunities and irons a private firm in this field could use it to sway elections in the united states or european countries could it be that the media and political standards in western

countries have reached such a low level with a russian restaurant can sway voters in the european country or the united states isn't it ridiculous once again glad i'm putting stress that russia is not interested in interfering in other country's elections and rather quickly after that the conversation changed its course when armand wolf practically started firing questions at the russian president without stopping much to listen to the answers and that of course caught the president by surprise just. to know to motorscooter you pretty. much going to repeat this is going to. do. this with you in this because it's going to things if it isn't the president to. put the whole thing to. go. up so he can i learn the.

course. just live somewhere that two things are doing to a person by the end the interview turns into a full scale debates when vladimir putin started asking questions himself on the cost of independence the mh seventeen tragedy syria's alleged chemical attacks the russian elections and many other pressing issues but all these questions were laughed and answered by armin wolf so it really seemed that one report enjoyed himself during this interview and came out swear the smile. by the end of this presidential term you will be over seventy years old. i hope. after this presidential term will you leave politics or stay in power as prime minister. which would you prefer it does not matter at all i am interested in what you prefer because we can be more presidential term has just

begun because i'm only at the beginning of this journey so let's not jump ahead of you. an iraqi court sentenced a french woman to life in prison sparring her the death penalty for joining the islamic state turf milena deer was captured last year in mosul and sentenced to seven months in prison for entering the country illegally after the end of the sentence she was due to be deported home back to france but prosecutors demanded a retrial saying she violated the country's terrorism law by following her husband to iraq they say he went there to join i saw not of the almost two thousand people from france that went to fight with a terror group it's believed many where radicalized while serving time in french prisons but the authorities are not raising the alarm over the problem five hundred convicted terrorists are currently imprisoned in france while it's thought around

twelve hundred other prisoners have reportedly been robert collides with forty two for release over the next two years the country's leading kuntar terrorism prosecutor poses a major threat to the public. who are these good measures a major risk of seeing people who are not a troll repentant at the end of the sentence leave prison and yet be even more radical over their time behind bars with many questioning the initiative sharla dubin ski has been to visit europe's largest. not only is there concern over the threats these individuals may pose to the outside world but also while they're incarcerated this is a flaw it's europe's largest prison and amongst the thousands of inmates being held here some unknown jihad s.

yeah every day in fronts prison guards are attacked we have been often next one thousand one hundred supervisor over the next four years from now we don't see anything happening we're tired of this but you were the first t.v. channel i'm telling this to you but yesterday we had a suicide and since january we've had ten other cases exhaustion amongst all the sayings for their own welfare spilled over into protests. still the calls for help a going on and sit and now prisons like this could soon be and locking their doors to let those radicalized inmates back into society zero say la pook on this prison is the largest in europe there are four thousand three hundred inmates it's overcrowded and we don't have enough staff and we have more than one hundred twenty

radicalized inmates here so you can imagine i difficult it is for a prison supervised to handle this the forty alleged radicalized inmates who will soon get out of jail will likely. find themselves on a current to terrorism watch list and listed already one into the tens of thousands four thousand of whom are considered dangerous tragically even those on the what's next often slip through the fingers of security services. the french authorities say they have to do more to properly monitor form inmates

and with france having suffered so much through terror attacks in recent years many would argue it's about time they did charlotte even ski r.t. paris. more of the day's news in ninety six. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. say anything he wants to say and he can fire you know it won't be another election until twenty twenty and he's gliding into twenty eighteen probably won't even live as many representatives and support in the end this election this year. with our to international. party house come out on top in another european election sunday's vote in slovenia so the democratic party or s.t.'s win the most seats although it did fall short of a majority in the increase in support for s.d.s. has been widely linked to the migrant crisis on the party's hard line stance on the

issue almost half a million people pass through the country in twenty fifteen and sixteen as they attempted to cross into western europe its leader claims migrants would be better off staying in their own countries. the biggest wave of mass migration we told our european partners life for those who want to come to europe should be secured in the home countries of the. slovenian philosopher as low voice told colin bray that the rise of right wing nationalist parties is being driven by a fundamental disconnect between politicians on large swathes of the public. it's just same process all out on western europe united states and so on and so on the morning league elite's is usually say last song dr week so quote we're going to be all of you know you want to get us all seen don't eat it but it's a bite. institutions and these opens up the strays and.

as far as living is concerned the height of the migrant crisis when hungry closed its borders many migrants made their way through slovenia but they were trying to get to france to germany and into britain they didn't stay in slovenia so what do people where you are really think of the migrant crisis they will go to the established. they're going to mostly intercept the ball get into a box of crayons and i'm spot that directly to australia and who are a little bit surprised you see then tell me how many of them when i asked would you like to stay here this is no no. no you've gone through a period of money or whatever. he will lead to a beach like at the highest. well a neighboring italy the freshly formed euro skep the government is also sending out a hostile message to illegal immigrants the new interior minister

a material. some described as italy's donald trump has said his country will not become a refugee camp and that newcomers need to make other plans. here you know treatment is really every need not yet replied outrage after it was very apparent when he was speaking in the silly import of a promise to reduce the number of illegal immigrants arriving in the country he also as he saw pledged to get to work on deportations a policy that's proving divisive in italy. i think that so venus writes i hope he stops these illegal migrant arrival ones what can they do here they are people without a house they have nothing. so very should not be in the italian government today each country is composed of diverse ethnic groups and diverse people becomes completely closed immigrant traffic eight.