as the established. some arrangement syndrome that's what the us president says critics are suffering from after a huge backlash by mainstream media and democrats the helsinki summit with the russian president. an investigation reveals that facebook moderators did not remove the page of a far right activists as it generated revenue. and victims of the two thousand and fifteen paris terror attacks see their appeal rejected after a court refuses to blame the french state for its handling of the tragedy. this is our two international coming to you live from the russian capital with me welcome to the program. russia is not targeting the u.s.

that's the definitive response from donald trump when he was questioned by reporters russia. is russia still targeting the president right now let me say that you know. earlier in the day trumped arrangement syndrome was the condition of scribed by the president to those who criticized his camaraderie with putin at monday's talks that says he faces massive backlash after he misspoke during the summit when saying that he saw no reason why russia would hack america's presidential elections. should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. so you could put that in and i think that probably clarifies things pretty divided. by how from the president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in

public and what i don't approve which is china trump got to be dealt with a lot of what worries me about you mr president is you seem to say only good things about your enemies was shocking it was appalling there was a real sense of defeat you have been watching perhaps the most disgraceful performance as far as american presidents get a chance to show loyalty to the men and women in uniform and instead he betrayed them it's a disaster. and it's not only terms comments at the summit that are sparking uproar in the american media google statement that he wanted trump to win the election is being hailed as a major revelation but is it really takes a look. honestly the bad press and criticism were expected a given but surprisingly enough it was what putin's said that really. president putin did you want president trump to win the election and if you direct any of your officials to help him do that you're such

a loser yes i wanted him to win with you because the truth will bring us russian relations facts and. you think it's a no brainer one candidate hillary says she wants to will but crush russia the other candidates trump says he wants to be friends why is this scandalous who on earth would back the person that hates them why they acting surprised that might have been the only honest moment of this news conference when the reproducer yes he did around president trumka went yeah it's still not a secret it was never a secret who can just like any other world leader preferred a certain candidate that's best for his country and no it isn't shocking because it's happened before here's what putin told us he in two thousand and twelve about candid it barack obama it just sort of. feels like

he's the only he really wants to change much for the bits of but can he really. move a little you go by today's logic the bomber must have been a russian poor and why else would putin support him there's no other explanation but seriously we wanted to see what people think about this like calling kalibo but went out not just new yorkers he's an honest man who really wants to change much for the better. that's that's what putin said about a u.s. presidential candidate what he make of that neither one of them are on it yet. actually what putin said about obama. well i know obama is very honest actually what putin said about obama. i think obama is an obvious man an honest man who really wants to change much for the better that's what putin said about obama. well i mean i think anything's said about obama it's not going to be. you know

caught in the media you know trump's way more talk about trump it's way more. you know intriguing to the general public so i think that's probably why you know the media doesn't make it big a deal about that i found the media has gotten much more fractured and much more opinionated over my lifetime it's much more of a of a left and right kind of. mouthpiece that it used to be i think so what you might say back in two thousand and twelve russia wasn't the boogie man there was no alleged to have no reported meddling no conspiracies yeah there were it was just framed president obama appears determined to ingratiate himself with the kremlin this unfortunately seems to be the real meaning of his reset policy now standing example is the personal phone call that barack obama made to vladimir putin from and force one congratulating the russian leader

on his election as russia's next president. and yet when it was trump that congratulated putin which is completely you wouldn't formal thing to do in politics they chewed him out for it for weeks president trump's national security team warned him not to congratulate lott amir putin's explicitly writing in capital letters on his briefing papers do not congratulate talking to putin right now would be like cheating on your wife and then posing for a picture with the woman you cheated with a no right he did that to lattimer putin won an election rigged to prop up a dangerous strong man who was threatening western democracy that requires a strong response so dollops i'm called up to say as a boy russia has made no secret of it once to be friends of course it does sanctions conflict sort of that and in the obama era on the whole that was seen as

acceptable but times a different now you get the impression that the only thing the establishment would have been satisfied with is a brutal bloody bad cold brule between the two presidents this stop us mint isn't alone and bashing russia's i suppose threat to america that's what's also on the mind of tech giants like facebook twitter and google as revealed when the three testified in front of congress. it seemed to me you were each a little bit vague about oh yes we've found hundreds or whatever i'm as can specifically or any of those other countries besides russia that we're using your platform in appropriately it should be a yes or no i don't have the details i know we definitely work to detect and repel a time no doubt but we're in the foreign entities other than russia i would have to have my team follow the team so you came prepared to help the democrats establish about russia but you can't point out any other country is there right. and

we've put public statements ok well let me go. you're not answering the question only go to. about on google did you detect any other countries besides russia our security team is trying to protect our services from foreign enter we're going to get to an internet question i i my my guess would be that our security team are you here to guess. breaching our security from other foreign governments as well but that information is health confidentially even internally you're only here to just . to name the russians thank you how about you mr pickles are you prepared to identify any other foreign countries are just here to help the democrats play as russia after seventy years of russia helping democrats make these decisions based on our. very good at dodging that and refusing to answer the question and. staying with social media and undercover probe by britain's channel four t.v.

as a real that tech giant facebook doesn't always remove content even if it violates the company's guidelines or reporter attended a training session on facebook's content moderation. no you go first to me through . the city of utah. undercover reporter he goes in and one of the things that he's instructed to do in his training is not to delete for example certain racist means or certain images also to do with child abuse he's also told that he shouldn't remove hate speech or anything to do with fringe groups now as the course of the documentary goes on one of the content moderators says to the undercover reporter that the reason this kind of content isn't removed is because it's so lucrative to facebook

close kind of pages have huge followings that in the case of groups live person of leaders like tommy robinson then that content wasn't brought down and now who is tommy robinson his real name is steven yaxley lennon is the former leader of the english defense league the e.t.l. and he's currently serving a thirteen month prison sentence for live streaming about some on going trial on facebook and his sentence for content of course that's to do with cases regarding child grooming and he had been told previously by another judge that if he did this type of behavior again then he would get a custody or sentence and when he repeated this behavior the second time he was arrested and jailed facebook they've apologized for the revelations which have come out of that dispatches documentary and have vowed that they will investigate we take these mistakes incredibly seriously and are grateful to the journalists who

brought them to our attention we have been investigating exactly what happened so we can prevent these issues from happening again so it would appear that far right groups like. britain for leaders like tommy robinson it's not so much what they say or what they do which is important to facebook but how much money they can make for the social media in terms of deciding what is and isn't hateful and it's interesting that it comes as off carm wall of the social media giants not just facebook but twitter and others they need to do more to police their sites better. maria britain has pleaded not guilty in a u.s. court to charges of conspiracy to act as a kremlin agent earlier on wednesday prosecutors released court papers on the russian citizen the documents claim the court's not appeared to be in contact with moscow intelligence officials and even offered sex to forge influential connections mufon reports. at the moment federal courts are in the process of deciding whether

butta now will remain in custody in the lead up to her trial or whether she'll be granted bail and released the documents presented by the federal prosecutors have a lot of really unclear words in them for example it says appears to have ties to russian intelligence services they believe they said that was in contact with officials believed to be russian intelligence operatives furthermore they stated that they have a handwritten note that says how to respond to f.s.b. employment offers so this is what they have a lot of very unclear statements in the document furthermore that this point they are alleging that she traded sex in exchange for favors now at this point she's being charged with being an unregistered foreign agent it's basically being alleged that she was operating within pro-gun and gun rights circles as well as within the republican party on behalf of the russian government and in doing so she was an

unregistered lobbyist she did not lobby she did not register as a lobbyist on may have a foreign government and that she conspired to do so that she engaged in conspiracy in order to do that so it's conspiracy as well as being an unregistered agent of a foreign power now a lot of the mainstream u.s. press is using words like spy but however there are no espionage charges that have been filed it's important to be clear about that others know military secrets that are alleged to have been involved in this there is no there are no classified information that she's been handling or anything like that have heard from the russian foreign ministry. the spokesperson for the russian ministry has come forward and said they are alarmed by the case and they are calling the charges groundless and politically motivated we've heard they are saying essentially the f.b.i. instead of dealing with its basic duties to combat crime is carrying out a plain political order her attorneys have come forward and said that she is not

a flight risk and that she's already been cooperating with u.s. federal officials in the lead up to this indictment so they say that she is no flight risk she should be released on bail pending her trial however the prosecution is saying that you know that she has all these contacts and that she engaged in sex in exchange for favors and the debate is whether or not she should be released pending trial rhetoric over the alleged russian spy in the u.s. was filled on twitter where one journalist appeared to insist that we had visited trump in the oval office other users stepped in with a reality check. a

french court has rejected in the peel by survivors of the two thousand and fifteen battle plan terror attacks against the state over its handling of the tragedy the lawsuit looked at the actions of the group of soldiers ordered not to intervene despite being armed and posted outside the battle climb concert hall in paris as they assault unfolded. we cannot go to paris to our correspondent charlotte

devinsky for more details charlotte what else do we know about this ruling and the claims made by the survivors. well these claims were brought in front of the court just about a month ago and they were brought on relation to the victims and the families of those who didn't survive the battle plan attacks and some of the other attacks took place in paris back in november two thousand and fifteen when one hundred thirty people were killed including ninety at that music venue at the battle plan what they had claimed is that they wanted to know more information about what was happening on the night of the attack and what in particular some of the soldiers who were attached to an anti terror operation group were doing outside the music the battle plan and not intervening in what was happening in the terror that was unfolding inside so what they claimed basically is that the french state failed to assist those in danger by not intervening in what was happening that night at the battle plan because the soldiers were not only given not to go in to be they were

also given not to give their weapons to the police who actually wanted to go inside and to troy and assist those who were being injured in this century that's new to that was taking place now the court documents that were also alleges that the terrorists were able to freely move within the european union because of the showing in area now we know that some of the terrorists held belgian citizenship and many of them had already been into some countries such as iraq and syria and they had reentered europe through the flow of migrants and the final major claim that was made is that the security services actually let them slip through the net and that's because many of the perpetrators of this attack were actually known to the security services before that terrible night back in november two thousand and fifteen so what they're saying that there was a lack of protection around venue such as the battle plan now the court rejected

those principles saying that the state there was no evidence that the state could have known that the battle in for to kill. would be targeted in this event now we've also heard from one of the lawyers of the victims today saying that she just doesn't accept this ruling. in november thirteen attacks were not inevitable everything was known degree of danger was known to state failure to draw conclusions from previous attacks failures linked to the lack of surreal and and vigilance by the security services of the french state well we know that the courts has rejected this case or no wednesday in paris but what we don't know is whether the lawyers will now trying regroup and see if there's any further action that they can take what we do know though is that many of the questions that the families wanted don't sit still haven't been no answer not by this case today nor by the parliamentary inquiry which followed those

attacks just a year or so ago a but we do know is as those are answers remain those questions remain unanswered they will be something that those families will continue to think about and wonder whether in their minds they could have been done to save their loved ones and help more people survive this attacks back on the phone the thirteenth two thousand and fifteen charlotte devinsky reporting live from paris thank you. over six decades worth of arms exports by the u.s. have been revealed in a new project mapping the flow to all major recipients using information from an arms transfer database well gary created a flow of u.s. weapons across the globe spanning from one nine hundred fifty to last year and trucks a shift in recipients from europe japan and canada to more recent years when saudi arabia and australia have become top buyers of american weaponry anti-war campaigner jonathan shafi told us it's crucial that the public finds out about

these phenomenal expenditures. research like this is very important because so much of what goes on when it comes to the arms trade is undisclosed is not in the public domain and it's very important and in the public interest that everyone knows about what's going on if you look at the extent to which the american economy is reliant on these arms sales then you start to get a picture of why it's so important for us power to continue to sell arms to the skeins of people that it does obama ways kneedeep in terms of who. they are most and history was progressing. great even further this isn't sustainable and it's not progressing our common good in a way that we tamely less need to be doing. the general heading the u.s. mission in afghanistan has reiterated remarks by the secretary of state on the

possibility of direct talks with the taliban one day later though he said that his words had been mischaracterized by some elements and insisted that he was not suggesting working with a terrorist organization mr said that we the united states are ready to talk to the taliban and discuss the role of international forces we hope this will help to move forward the peace process more real from ation of six to pump it was statements in which he said that the united states is ready to work with the taliban the afghan government and the afghan people towards last in peace was mischaracterized. america's war in afghanistan is now seventeen years old and appears to be in stalemate the taliban control roughly forty percent of the country and there are currently fifteen thousand u.s. troops stationed there even though donald trump promised during his two thousand and sixteen campaign to declare the war a lost cause and pull american forces out last month's three day cease fire but civilian casualties are at a record high one thousand six hundred and ninety two people were killed in the

first half of this year that's according to the u.n. that's more than in any half year period in the decade before and it seems that the u.s. doesn't have a clear strategy when it comes to the taliban. we have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table this is no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and i'm politically legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban crumbles as a there are. thirty three you've got the taliban side you can point to for the call for the taliban cannot when their choices are to reconcile living or relevance or die the united states government is treating afghanistan like another state and they're in the country and this is not you know the first time that the you know undermine the government of afghanistan the civilians who have often

a strong and this is again you know they are doing what you know they have been doing in the past like bombing you know over though the permission of the afghan government via bin grading houses at night they have been killing and torturing people without permission of the afghan gomen he said that they will have the technical solution of the taliban undermining afghan civilians he once you know there was a lot of criticism about this mission and change the a tone and they said what we didn't say we will talk to the. to the taliban but we will facilitate and we will talk about the you know the stand of the united states on the all of the united states and all troops and stuff this is not the first time they have done it in the past so they would do it again and again. the russian foreign ministry has commented on reports that members of the controversy all syrian group a white helmets are being evacuated spokeswoman marie as a harvest says there may be more quote provocations as the humanitarian group leaves the country or if a national reports. we have heard reports about several nato countries discussing

possible evacuation of the members of the white helmets groups working in syria to some western countries reportedly due to fear is off assess the nation of these people by damascus and russia's foreign ministry spokesperson has expressed deep concerns over the move stressing this will be a large group of people according to some reports around one thousand individuals with in fact unclear intentions and controversial reputation but emaciation far more artsy according to the information we have the one helmets convoy arrived in the town of and among the and rivals for several chemical experts miss out the missile parts were also unloaded we do not rule out the possibility that the east shall we say souvenirs and looted by the white house will be used as intended are even when is the nouns that these members of the white house have been evacuated from the region we cannot rule out the possibility of a large here provocation and pinning the blame for this purpose on the syrian

government the white helmets group was founded in turkey and is funded by several western countries they claim they are working in syria to save lives to help people but they have been repeatedly accused of working rather on the side of i really just extremist in syria and they have been many pictures emerged showing the the members of the white helmets group shoulder to shoulder with al nusra front members this is and the tour is jihadist group operates in syria for many many years they have been accused of being behind several deadly incidents in syria that they have helped orchestrate taking to later put the blame on the syrian government and therefore law being their interest of the countries in the syrian president bashar al assad to go to the reputation is actually control for sure and indeed they could be risks behind the move off it. thank you eating around one thousand people from

this group to western countries europe and u.s. . as a trail of vigilante mob attacks and started by fake news leaves dozens killed across india 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 recurrent packing the 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 kidnapper since the start of may this kind of fear inciting fake news about child abductors as filled what's up chaps 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 or state 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 the now those suspected piece of lynching was suspicion of child abduction a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in cannot part of this furtive 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 amand his friends one of them atari 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 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 restructuring in 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 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 deaths usually how are almost even before we give them enough but it leads to the legalized it and it is not strictly on the body region but knowing what was wanted to do a lot several things for the skill of these are going to be much bigger now it is much harder most people would be going to have this problem also because of the raising of information you know normal for solution groups that it will explode is decent resolution and create chaos and also the sense of mission that so the voices

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