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tv   Boom Bust  RT  July 18, 2018 8:30am-9:00am EDT

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why quarter past the hour here in the russian capital as a trail of vigilante or mob attacks incited by fake news leaves dozens killed across india the country's highest court is urging the government to enact unseat lynching loss. 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 a fake rumors spread that he was a child kidnapper since the start of may this kind of fear inciting fake news about
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child abductors has filled watts up chats india has the most users of that messenger service by country when a boy picks up the story. fake news a big time with a bad rep preferred by leaders politicians and the mainstream media labeled 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 or spaces 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 the now those suspected peaceful flinching over suspicion of child abduction
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a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in for not part of this voted shares 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 a qatari 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set off the crowd to punish the alleged kidnapper as it's gone viral in india porting to show a child abduction it was originally made by a charity promoting child safety in pakistan back in twenty sixteen at the end of the original video the little boy is returned to the problem with fake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
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facebook to do something about it we're stressing an education campaign in india on how to spot free news and. 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 if a 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 do you see how almost even before we need to make enough money when used to be very very little ice did not spread the region but
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knowing what was wanted in a large sandbox and things for the skill of these going to be much bigger than average is much higher most people would be going through this problem also besides the raising of information you know. that it is decent resolution and create chaos and also the sense of mission that is so poses definitely is one of the. news feed on there is going to be it's a complex you know when you go to the society you are a little activist you have to look at how much government the country has and we need to also discipline some of these so he's free wireless these facts. so i sold a copy of the program on our t.v. american entrepreneur must famous first test solar and space x. companies that used to be the darling of the public and media not so much at the moment but explain why our.
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one else seemed wrong why don't we just don't fall. in. just to see how it. comes to educate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. she says look for common ground. but. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present. to be close this is what you look for three of the more people. interested always in the water.
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thanks joining us here for the program the way of all violence has had pakistan where general elections are days away the going to be held on the twenty fifth of a string of attacks though it's seen one hundred seventy five people killed almost one hundred fifty of them in a single suicide blast at a pre-election rally it's all going down as one of the worst terror attacks in the history of pakistan.
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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 upcoming vote the election though it's not been marred just by violence but also by corruption one of the main parties is the pakistan muslim league now led by shadi his brother is former pakistani prime minister nawaz shodi who used to head the party but was detained recently of a corruption allegations. made rifle is cricketer turned politician imran khan and he represents the center right pakistan movement for justice we spoke to current about the main issues right now facing pakistan. it is probably the biggest crisis financial crisis never was there such a fiscal deficit never was this such
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a huge trade 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 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 at once point and then that enemy had the same tone so it's the only time in history i can recall where and like its ally
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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. the lawn musk the man behind tesla 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 which he has since apologized as political donations though as well have also led to some attacks online. he's tony stark superstar entrepreneurial and must go on a great. i think he's a genius. just
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. to see the reason why in the. republican super pacs.
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have no conception of what ok particular so i just a payoff. you know what's going to make one of them. all the way to k five no problem. it. is all about green energy and the like just a general mistake in nora's so that's why a lot of people on the left really like. elon musk in general is kind of an eccentric person to me that was just al qaeda is kind of what does he have the number one thing you can't do is support the republican party anyway oh no that's where the line is drawn that's out the left they pretty much will allow anything to go things they are obviously not ok but then when you go to the other side in talk about supporting him that is enough for him to no longer have the iconic status in
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their mind all wrapping up by this program here on r.t. international but so many more of your wednesday well headlines to come in about twenty. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars and. more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show you can't afford to miss the one and only.
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