backtracking once again the u.s. state department says donald trump did not deny that russia is targeting america. russia. is russia still targeting the us the right. way. i talk to the president he wasn't answering that question he was saying. 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. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks

for tuning in. and the latest backtrack from the u.s. government the state department has clarified trumps response when asked if russia is targeting america earlier the president went back on his words as well following monday's summit with a lot of your puter. wrestling. is russia are getting. you know. i talked to the president he wasn't answering that question he was saying no he's not taking questions. president putin he just said it's not the russians i would say there's i don't see any reason why you would be. sent and should have been and i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. so you could put that and i think that probably clarifies things for you that by the. earlier in the day term derangement syndrome was the condition ascribed by the president to those who criticize his report with putin at their

talks he's facing a massive backlash from the mainstream media after he claimed he misspoke the words of the finnish capitol hill think you there's a reason there is a big national freakout happening right now over what the president just did in public what i do with putin pitched a shutout trump got beat up in a locker room what worries me about you mr president is you seem to saying only good things about your enemies was shocking it was appalling there was a real sense of defeat you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president he had a chance to show loyalty to the men and women in uniform and instead he betrayed them it's a disaster it's not only in terms comments of the summit that are sparking uproar in the american media putin 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 to write any of your officials to help him do that. yes i wanted him to because the truth will bring us russian relations back to normal you would 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 scandal us 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 in two thousand and twelve about candid it barack obama it's just sort of. feels like he's only really wants to change much for the better but can he really. move a little you go by today's logic the bomber must have been a russian poor 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 the u.s. presidential candidate what you 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 that honest 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 said about obama is not going to be. you know caught in the media you know chumps 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 was it was just cringe 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 don't some caught up to say at

a boy russia has made no secret of it it wants to be friends of course it does sanctions conflicts all 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 ban now called brule between the two presidents the establishment isn't alone and bashing russia as i suppose the threat to america let's also in the mind of tech giants like facebook twitter and google as a real one the three testified improv congress. it seemed to me you were each a little bit vague about oh yes we found hundreds or whatever i'm asking specifically were any of those other countries besides russia that were 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

it's how i know that but who are any of them foreign entities other than russia i would have to have my team follow up with you on that 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 to europe you're not answering the question only go to ms down is about on google did you detect any other countries besides russia our security team is trained to protect our services from foreign enter we're going to get to know each other and i question i i my my guess would be that our security team are you here to gas. breaching our security from other foreign governments as well but that information has helped confidentially even internally you're only here to just. to condemn 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 russia after seventy years of

russia helping democrats make these decisions based on i was. very good at dodging that and refusing to answer the question. while the u.s. congress may be obsessed with alleged russian meddling ordinary people seem far more concerned with other issues rather painfully close to home the latest gallup poll shows the most important problem for americans is their current government immigration takes a second place racism and the economy are also a worry russia is one of the least important issues with less than half a percent naming moscow that's despite main stream media hysteria or even perhaps because of it says former u.s. diplomat jim tell us the american people are. in the session dealing by the mainstream media russia russia russia russia they want to stick here but americans real americans don't care the regular old americans the road so to speak they are not buying this they have their every day concerns about their well being they

don't believe the stuff about russia and frankly i think it's counterproductive and i think the more they try to force us to believe something we simply do not believe they become the object of this trust i think it's counterproductive the more they tell us to care about russia the more ordinary americans say those people are a bunch of liars that's all take notice. and undercover probe by britain's channel four t.v. has revealed that tech giant facebook doesn't always remove content even if it violates the company's guidelines our reporter attended a training session on facebook's content in moderation. you know so it's amazing. to see 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 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 an 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 the 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 cornewall of the social media giants not just facebook but twitter and others they need to do more to police their site spezza.

the u.s. court has refused bail to maria bush in the after she pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to act as a kremlin agent earlier on wednesday prosecutors released court papers on the russian citizen the documents claim that appear to be in contact with moscow intelligence officials and even offered sex to forge influential connections. life now to kill a mop and kill bring us up to date on the latest developments. while the twenty nine year old has appeared in federal court and entered a plea of not guilty contesting the charges against her and she's been denied bail so she will remain in federal custody pending trial now essentially the prosecution put forward a document an affidavit basically showing the charges against her essentially they argue that she's been working as an unregistered lobbyist for the russian government and this is based on they say that she appears to have been in contact with russian intelligence services they say that it is likely that she has she is

believed to have russian intelligence operatives who she's been communicating with and they have produced a handwritten piece of paper that says that they are says something to the effect of how to respond to fs to be offer of employment and now you know the the document that's provided it has a lot of very very good terminology and not very specific furthermore they went on to allege that she has been covertly offering people sex for favors and basically the charge is that she has been operating in pro-gun lobby groups and with the republican party and has been doing so on behalf of the russian government without registering herself as a foreign agent now a lot of the media reports are using words like spy and ask but none of those charges have been filed she is not being accused of doing any military related work no classified information is involved in the case it's simply alleged misuse

lobbying and behaving as a lobbyist without registering as a lobbyist on behalf of the russian government now we have heard from the russian foreign ministry and they've spoken up to about the case they've said that they are greatly alarmed by her arrest which took place on july fifteenth they've gone on to say that. these are groundless and politically motivated allegations and basically what we've heard from the spokesperson of the russian foreign ministry is they said the f.b.i. instead of dealing with its basic duties to combat crime is carrying out a plain political order now at this point we understand that though she remains in federal custody the russian consul in the united states is trying to get access to her in order to to meet with her and begin working with her but she remains in federal custody and she will remain in federal custody she will not be granted bail pending trial now her lawyers argued that she has been cooperating with federal officials in the united states for the last few months that she is not

a flight risk but the judge didn't hear it and the judge said that she was denied any bail so she remains in federal custody awaiting trial on these charges of being an unregistered foreign agent lobbyist. and stan cross the story for us thank you rhetoric over the alleged russian spy in the u.s. was killed on twitter or one journalist appeared to insist that i visit trump in the oval office other users pointed out the reality.

a french court has rejected an appeal by survivors of the two thousand and fifteen batter clan terror attacks against the state over it handling of the tragedy a lawsuit looked at the actions of a group of soldiers ordered not to intervene despite being armed and posted outside the bad acclaim concert hall in paris as their salt unfolded here's our paris correspondent charlotte with the details 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 so what they claim to basically is that the french state failed to assist in danger by not intervening in what was happening that night at the battle plan because the soldiers were not only give nudism not to go in intervene they were also given orders not to give their weapons to the police who actually wanted to go inside and. to try and assist those who were being injured in this century that small to that was taking place now the court documents that were put in also alleges that the terrorists were able to freely move within the european union because of the showing in area 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 now the court rejected those principles saying that the

state there was no evidence that the state could have known that the battle in particular would be targeted in this event now we've also heard from one of the lawyers of the victims today who saying that she just doesn't accept this ruling in november thirteen attacks are not inevitable everything was now one degree of danger was known to stage really or to draw conclusions from previous attacks the link to the lack of surreal and and vigilance by the security services of their french state many of the questions that the families wanted answered still haven't been answered not by this case today nor by the parliamentary inquiry which followed those attacks just a year or so ago but we do know is those 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 those attacks back on

a vote on the thirteenth two thousand and fifteen. 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 will gary created a flow map of u.s. weapons across the globe spanning from one nine hundred fifty to last year it tracks 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 under school 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 was 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 the way that we 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 outlets and insisted that he was not suggesting working with a terrorist organization. mr pompeo 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 sixty pompei 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. far but civilian casualties already a record high one thousand six hundred 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. you have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table there's 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 political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban crumbles as they drop. their you. know the taliban boys or the call for the taliban when their choices are to reconcile live in a 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 undermined the government of afghanistan the civilian for afghanistan 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 go and he said that they will have that if negotiation of the taliban undermining afghan civilians he once you know there was a lot of criticism about this and change the

a tone and he 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 of the united states and our 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 controversal syrian group the white helmets are being evacuated spokeswoman maria's a harvest says there may be more quote provocations as the humanitarian group leaves the country maria financial 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 fears of 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 end rivals were several chemical experts miss out the missile parts were also unloaded we do not rule out the possibility that these shall we say souvenirs and loaded by the white house will be used as intended art even when as 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 or 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're working theory to save lives to help people but they have been repeatedly accused of working rather on the side of really just extremist in syria and they have been many pictures emerged showing the now the members of the white helmet group shoulder to shoulder with. 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 country's. syrian president bashar al assad good so the reputation is actually couldn't traversal and indeed they could be reached behind the move of evacuating around one thousand people from this group to western countries europe and us. as a trail of vigilante mob attacks and sided 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 and one of the latest cases indian police have arrested more than two dozen men involved in the lynching of a man or a fake rumor spread that he was a child kidnapper since the start of may this kind of fear in tiding fake news about child abductors has filled a what's up chats 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 pages fake news 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 cannot part of 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 school children 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 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 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 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 these days how almost even before we were believed to be legalized it and this is not strictly on the border region but knowing what was wanted. for such things for the skill of these much bigger it is much harder most people. have this problem also because of the raising of information for solution groups there. is decent resolution and create chaos and also peace in the region that it can so the voices definitely is one of the. news phenomenon that is going on because it's a complex do not want to go to say you are. going to look at how much of government the country has and we need to also he says in some of these service providers these are. the men behind tesla motors in spain.