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that she you know was communicating with a government bank in russia she was communicating with government officials in russia all while she was do lobbying and trying to you know work in the interests of russia and work with the national rifle association and other interests that's what's essentially alleged now from there we've seen a lot of international media jump to making allegations about spying and engaging in some kind of asked me in objectivity but if you read the affidavit that's not what's alleged what's alleged is essentially that she engaged in a lobbying this is actually what we heard from senator chris murphy regarding the arrest but no the russian operative was rolled up in what appears to be. a coordinated attack against the united states elections by the n.r.a. and the russian government that's not actually what the affidavit says it says that she was developing relations with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics for the purpose of advancing the interest of the russian federation the algae geishas that she was lobbying not that she was doing any spying or anything to that effect
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now it's also interesting is the affidavit mentions that an exchange she allegedly had with a russian government official was titled posner two point zero and this is of course a reference to latimer posner now the f.b.i. goes on to describe the lattimer posner the russian american t.v. personality as quote a propagandist who worked in the dissin from ation department of the soviet k.g.b. now lattimer posner has spoken up and said he never had any contact with the k.g.b. and did not work with the k.g.b. it's also interesting to note that according to the f.b.i. affidavit she was communicating with government officials in russia over twitter which is not exactly a secure private communication mechanism not the kind of thing one would use of they were engaging in some kind of high tech intense espionage activities so a lot of questions are being asked but at this moment she is facing those charges and she was a rang on monday. attorney made a statement denying shoes and agent you also said the woman offered to be
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interviewed by the special counsel's office but the office for some reason showed zero interest in even speaking to her. meanwhile the russian embassy in washington says it's not been given it's not been granted i should say access to boot into the materials and cold case of also being sealed the embassy says adding that it will continue to stand by using all legal means available now all of the hype over the alleged russian spy in the u.s. was fueled on twitter where one journalist appeared to reveal that had visited trump in the oval office but twitter users were quick to expose the truth.
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by quarter past the hour here in moscow as a trail of vigilante mob attacks and cited by fake news leaves dozens killed across india the country's highest court is urging the government to enact anti lynching low voice. the horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be permitted to inundate the law of the land the recurrent pattern of violence cannot be allowed to become the new normal in one of the latest cases indian police have arrested more than two dozen men involved in the lynching of a man over fake rumors spread that he was a child kidnapper since the start of may this kind of fear inciting fake news about child abductors has failed what's up charts india has the most users of that messenger service by country. picks up the story. fake news
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a big time with a bad rep preferred by leaders politicians and the mainstream media labelled as a menace to democracy and sometimes just a way to dismiss a story which you don't agree with you are free to do big news in your facebook pages faces on twitter too but in india the consequences of spreading fake news have become far more tongil and deadly over twenty five people have reportedly been killed since may over child kidnapping claims spread via the whatsapp messaging service dozens of alleged lynch mob members have been arrested following one recent case alone but in another suspected case of lynching over suspicion of child abduction a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in front on. this british shares the moment mohammed as a twenty seven year old software engineer was murdered by
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a mob of over two thousand people wielding sticks and stones as a hammer and his friends one of them a qatari national offered some schoolchildren chocolates as a gesture of generosity but suspicious locals spurred on by whatsapp rumors inferred that the out of towners were part of a child abduction ring video like this one may have set off the crowd to punish the alleged kidnapper as it's gone viral in india porting to show a child abduction it was originally made by a charity promoting child safety in pakistan back in twenty sixteen at the end of the original video the little boy is returned to the problem with fake news in india has got so bad that the indian government has urged whatsapp and its owners facebook to do something about it we're stressing in education campaign in india on how to spot fake news and rumors. so the company launched
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a series of newspaper ads in several languages the headline says beware of whether a story is hard to believe and watch out for spelling mistakes it's not going to be easy though what's that messages are encrypted that means identifying the source of each reema is near impossible india is also what saps biggest market the company counts over two hundred million users that combine that with a sense of panic a very stubbornly high rate of violent crime and you have all the conditions for fake news to turn into real death many of the developing their lives don't have a cassady who really want to do the corner there is going on this move towards other online social media sources saw we need to release them but we need to also be disciplined some of these so his free wireless these platforms like
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facebook and watson are reaching the bottom nor who are in the corner and therefore this chaos has been spreading our forces users will say they should bring more dispensable rule spending almost so it's very important that you don't it is a coordination between the citizens and to prevent these from snowballing so we need to look you straight to the internet governance and sovereignty i think there is and we. do this from. the lawn muska the man behind tesla motors and space x. is a bit of a well tough time recently certainly falling from grace will a couple that story just. with lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect them. so. the final.
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like if you could join us today a wave of violence has hit pakistan where general elections i do to be held on the twenty fifth of the string of attacks a c. one hundred and seventy five people killed and we understand almost one hundred fifty of them in a single suicide blast at a pre-election rally it's going down as one of the worst ever terror attacks in the history of pakistan. among the victims were some of the elections candidates pakistan's human rights commission has slammed the violence as an attempt to manipulate the result of the
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upcoming vote the election has been marred not just by violence though but also by a corruption scandal one of the main parties is the pakistan muslim league now led by ship as sheriff his brother is former pakistani prime minister nawaz shoddy who used to head the party but was detained over corruption allegations just days ago. main rival these cricketer turned politician imran khan he represents the center right pakistan movement for justice and we spoke to him around khan about the main issues faking facing up pakistan these days. it is probably the biggest crisis financial crisis never was this such a fiscal deficit no was this such a huge deficit and never would the institutions in such a bad state as they're in august the way forward is immediate reformation or for students to sions regulators for financial regulators off the corruption ward
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watchdog. we need peace stability we need good relations and we certainly do need good relationship with the u.s. u.s. is a superpower cannot be ignored unfortunately our relationship has been very one sided in the past the relationship has been whether you were us as used as a hired gun so we are paid to do their work you know to to fight their war the u.s. has looked upon pakistan as an ally or once point and then as an enemy had the same tone so it's the only time in history i can recall where and like its ally i mean the drawings were bombing killing pakistani pakistani people causing damage and pakistan territory it's never happened i don't know of any situation like that which is have been before and that's why the anti americanism grows in pakistan.
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must the man behind tesla motors and space x. has suffered a bit of a fall from grace as of late the entrepreneur is under fire for calling one of the thai cave rescuers a paedophile for which he has since apologized to his political donations of also led to some online attacks. he is tony stark he's a hero superstar entrepreneurial and must go on the great fun of a long lost i love you know i think he's a genius. you
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