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 if 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. and he made a statement denying she's an agent he also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but for some reason the office showed no interest in even speaking to her meanwhile the russian embassy in washington says it's not been granted any access to the materials in her cold case of also being sealed the embassy says adding that it will continue to stand by using old legal means available when the hype over the alleged russian spy in the u.s.

was fueled on twitter and one journalist appeared to reveal that bhutto had visited trump in the oval office but twitter users were pretty quick to expose the truth.

quarter past the hour here in moscow as a trail of vigilante attacks inside here by fake news leaves dozens killed across india and the country's highest court is urging the government to enact anti lynching laws. 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 arrested more than two dozen men involved in the lynching of a man over a fake rumors spread that he was a child kidnapper a sense of the start of may this kind of fear inciting fake news about child abductors has filled what's up charts and india has the most users of the messenger service by country. picks up the story. fake news 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 page who's 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 lynching over suspicion of child abduction a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in qana. this footage shows the moment mohammed as a twenty seven year old software engineer was murdered by a mob of over two thousand people wielding sticks and stones as sam and his friends one of them atari national offered some schoolchildren chocolates as a gesture of generosity but suspicious locals spurred on by what sat broom is 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 kidnappers it's gone viral in india but poaching 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 an education campaign in india on how to spot fake news and rumors. so the company launched a series of newspaper ads in several languages the headline says beware of whether a story is called 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 the one who can't speak who want to do the corner that is going on. charity online social media sources so we need to really we need to also be disciplined some of these so he's free wireless these facts. want to read you know boston or. google margaret in the corner and therefore has been spreading all sports as you can say that should bring more dispensable rules spend the 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 of the sovereignty i think there is and we. do this from partial to come here on the program on our american

on. bus famous for his test space x. companies used to be the darling of the public and media but now he is facing a serious backlash explain why. when gore make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. can all middle of the room see. real news.

you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the fast and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. thanks for joining us here on r.t. a wave of violence has hit pakistan where general elections are due to be held on the twenty fifth the string of attacks has seen a hundred and seventy five people killed almost one hundred fifty of them in a single suicide blast at a pre-election rally it does go down as one of the worst terror attacks in pakistan's history.

and then i don't. think anybody let me down i tried to meet was. not. one. among the big. some of the elections candidates pakistan's human rights commission has slammed the violence as an attempt to manipulate the result of the upcoming vote though the election has been marred not just by violence but also by a corruption scandal and one of the main parties there's the pakistan muslim league now led by shadi for his brother is a former pakistani prime minister now was shoddy who used to head the party but was recently detained of a corruption allegations a main rival is a cricketer turned politician imran khan he represents the center right pakistan

movement for justice and we spoke to can about the main issues right now facing pakistan. 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 there in pakistan the way forward is immediate reformation or for students to sions regulators for financial regulators off the corruption ward 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 by this time as

a hired gun so we are to do their work you know to to fight their war the u.s. . has looked upon pakistan as an ally at one point and then as an enemy had the same tone so it's the only time in history i can recall where an ally keeps bombing its ally i mean the drawings we're 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 happening before and that's why the anti americanism grows in pakistan. the law and mask the man behind motors and space x. 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 though his political donations of also lead to online attacks.

everyone knows he won muskies tony stark he's a hero superstar entrepreneurial line mask i'm a great fan of a long mask i love you you know i think he's a genius. just sold my tesla stock. just counseled with three older you see the reason

why in the coal mines i don't want my money going toward supporting the republican super pacs. have no conception of what a k. possible are so i just to pay off them. you know what's done for the showing video to make one of the many so called going all the way to k five no problem sorry peter guy you really did ask for it. all right wrapping up as i was program here on r.t. international but so many more of your wednesday world headlines to come about will be in about twenty minutes.

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said east just. minutes a little mind victims i have to this day received no compensation and never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. time after time saying we're going underground on the south bank of london's river thames here an exhibition about today's one hundredth birthday of nelson mandela with his friend former tony blair cabinet minister lord hain will investigate just seventy two hours after donald trump's meeting with vladimir putin this ignorance of moscow washington did.