good good food russia sharing good. headlines here nazi u.s. court refuses bail to a russian citizen. charging the lobbyist with conspiracy to the united states and even claiming she offered sex in a bid to forge influential connections with americans. over principles and on the cover investigation reveals that facebook moderators have been ordered to leave . that violates the company's guidelines if indeed it generates revenue. also. russian military is a new generation arsenal featuring some of the most powerful weaponry in the world surely enters into operation with video released of lasers and the hypersonic

systems and. market timing midday in moscow on this thursday you are watching to international. a u.s. court has refused bail to russian citizen maria after she pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to act as a kremlin agent earlier prosecutors released court papers relating to her case of the documents claim that bhutto was in contact with the russian intelligence officials and even that she offered sex in exchange for a job at a u.s. special interests organization. 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 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 had 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 and 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 of 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 have heard they are saying essentially the f.b.i. instead of dealing with its basic duties to combat crime is carrying out a plane political order 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. an agent lobbyist. facebook moderators have been instructed not to remove content that violates the company's guidelines if it generates enough revenue that's according to an undercover investigation by the u.k.'s channel four

their reporter attended a six week training session on facebook's content moderation policy and role for. the. one example is the page of jailed far right activist tom robinson this was given the same kind of protected status normally reserved for government pages and big news organisations toby robinson it used to lead the english defense league street based social movement opposed to islamists and islamic extremism after leaving the league he became a freelance journalist and robinson was recently sentenced to thirteen months for contempt of court after live streaming over facebook a report on an ongoing trial r.t.c.

now takes a closer look at facebook policy. so this channel four documentary dispatches sends an undercover reporter to work for c l now they're a contract for facebook and they provide a number of services including moderating content for the social media giant and not 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 the normal facebook rules state that should a page violate the rules or the terms of conditions five times or more than the entire page is to be brought down and not just the offending content but in the case of leaders like tommy robinson then that content wasn't brought down all those pages weren't brought down 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 and 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 the wall of the social media giants not just facebook but twitter and others that they need to do more to police their sites better. the russian a defense ministry has unveiled a video orbitz new generation of weapons in action some of the world's most powerful armaments are now fully operational in the russian military. takes a closer look at the new arsenal. when putin announced this new arsenal it came out

of nowhere seemed like size five overkill to some but you know we now have videos of each. kindle or dagger and russian is a hypersonic missile and it's fast really fast flies at three kilometers a second when deafening tries to shoot it down it dodges to maneuvering flying in an unpredictable trajectory world first by the way the u.s. plans to test its own analog next year. saddam out this is the overkill bought a new nuclear i.c.b.m. that carries get this twenty nuclear warheads the real a store with its range which is practically unlimited past nuclear missiles had to

use the shortest flight path and fly through ed defenses this thing can literally fly to the south pole and back up to hit that stargate from behind. if for whatever reason you don't feel like flying through and. there's adam god and it's designed to literally ram its way through enemy anti missile defenses with the speed first it's lifted into space then its engines turn on and it enters the atmosphere at knock twenty that's roughly seven kilometers a second. poseidon the greek god of the she may be gone but he's got a no less terrifying successor a nuclear powered paedo that travels so deep and so fast it's in theory undefeatable. brevets nick

a new nuclear powered nuclear capable cruise missile it's literally powered by a nuclear reactor on board inside the miss out meaning it's got indefinite range so long as the reactor has fuel it can stay airborne fluids around and around until the opportunity to strike. combat lasers have always been a cool science fiction gimmick but they never really got doing the science and technical requirements with two great until now it seems it is yet named after a russian worry among the laser weapons system designed to deliver incredible amounts of energy in a small area so shoot down all melt down and incoming drew nor jet to shelve for example other than that not much known yet.

now one might ask isn't all that is just begging for an arms race is russia each in for a fight no says putin it's all about balance balance means peace the four things were even russia and the us had nuclear parity mutually assured destruction then after the u.s.s.r. collapsed nato began to expand began to field new weapons that could destroy russian nukes what putin unveiled is russia's a return to military equality status quo a return to balance. a french court has rejected a case brought by survivors of the twenty fifteen particle and terror attacks against the state over its handling of the tragedy of it also looked at the actions of a group of soldiers ordered not. to intervene despite being posted right outside the

batticaloa concert hall in paris as the assault folded in paris has to. 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. was. so what they claim to basically is that the french state failed to assist in danger by not intervening and what was happening that night at the vatican because the soldiers were not only given orders not to go in to be in they were also given orders 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 slaughter 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 degree of danger was known to steve failure to draw conclusions from previous attacks the leaders linked to the lack of surreal and vigilance by the security services of the french state many of the questions that the families wanted answered still haven't been answered not by this case

today nor by the palm. choir which followed those attacks just a year or so ago but we do know is as those remain this questions remain and since they will be something that those families will continue to think about and wonder whether in their minds they could be new done to save their loved ones and help people survive there's a turks back on the phone the thirteenth two thousand and fifteen or so still to come here on the program in your mix of headlines israel critics of its army from speaking school bus story in just a moment. when

we were doing stuff with russell brand you know we highlighted one of the payday lenders in the u.k. and they in fact closed up shop and it was very effective but it's one of the most pernicious and ugliest and underhanded way to destroy a society is by letting payday lenders you know exploit the fact that they can get away with two thousand three thousand fourteen thousand dollars thirty percent a year interest.

quarter past there of moscow the israeli parliament has passed a controversial law that bars any activists or human rights groups critical of the israeli defense forces from entering schools but activists who actively promote illegal or international political actions to be taken outside israel against soldiers of the israel defense forces or against the state of israel anyone who wanders around the world attacking i.d.f. soldiers will not enter a school opponents of the new law fear that its vague language could stifle any criticism of the israeli state altogether there are several organizations in particular that the law targets as they are explained. the buck stops with the education minister himself it's up to him to say which organizations and which individuals can address students in a school or in a university and he's already picked his targets the reality in which organizations

that undermine the legitimacy of the state of israel and flown the idea of soldiers get to school children has ended today breaking the silence cross the law and a long time ago of legitimate dialogue when they chose to slow to the state of israel in the international arena breaking the silence is in israeli non-governmental organization of army veterans who kill ect and publish testimonies of soldiers who served in the west bank east jerusalem and gaza they tell their personal stories and eye witness accounts of abuses to palestinians. by company commander card one kid in a daring operation i remember he brought him up to the outpost and beat him up he slapped him around and the kid was detained until father came to get him very passionate and i just remember how their parents came to the church point and bed it was dark they begged us to release their kids. and now the target of the new law

is the best celeb human rights group. during the discussion of the new legislation one of the lawmakers surely your form of each chord the initiators of the law cowards for trying to keep students away from different opinions and particularly n.g.o.s they don't like breaking the silence is not against i.d.f. soldiers breaking the silence are i.d.f. soldiers i.d.f. soldiers who return from the territories and tell us the reality of military rule. but proponents of the law say they did it for good cause and the only intention is to cherish the values israel's education system does not only aspire towards his

students coalesced to get cheap mints and greet but rather is also responsible by virtue of the law for the values it instills that breaking the silence into a more alarming picture it's their greatest restriction on freedom of expression for political grounds or on political grounds for political reasons very explicit israeli law this is the end of a great a society as an open society and it's all being done for one reason for silent criticism of the occupation and. they've been grassroots protests from some schools and the principal of the school in north tel aviv to one it says that the new law will not stop him from telling his students both sides of the israeli palestinian story as a principal as an educator it is my duty to stand up and say no more these laws meant to harm democracy i should not be part of it i do not agree with it and i should object to it it runs against freedom it has not been challenged in the high

court yet because the legislation is fresh the ngo law is another dark step in the road towards the end of democracy in israel israel is standing on the verge of because this is only one piece of legislation in a longer list. which intends to curtail freedoms of speech. over six decades worth of exports by the us have been revealed in a new project of mapping the flow to all the major recipients using information from an arms transfer database well gary created a flow map of u.s. weapons across the world spanning from nine hundred fifty to last year it tracked. shifting recipients from europe japan and canada to more recent years when saudi arabia and australia have become top bio's of american weaponry while antiwar

campaigner jonathan shafi told us it's crucial the public knows about these expenditures and the varying reasons behind them 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 demean 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 sail arms to the skeins of people that it does obama was kneedeep in terms of how a the arms and history was progressing it trumps is creating even follow this isn't sustainable and it's not the case in the. common good in the way that we attain less need to be doing. ever more white farmers in south africa are considering

emigrating as cases of violence against the rise at home and now some see russia as a suitable place to resettle and start over. our descendants of dutch speaking saddle errors at the eastern cape frontier in south africa and much of the nineteenth century the blue people moved in and in the nineteenth century they tried to act in the way they were surveyed they tried to negotiate negotiate officially they tried to avoid conflict the land in this area for example was never taken of them they can buy whites from the legs with violence or in an unjust law.

the expropriation of land or viewpoint settlers of the sixteenth century without compensation is in visits to one of the measures that we will use to exhilarate redistribution of land to black south africa. i recently visited russia with my family to explore possibilities of recycling in the area and i know that the growth in agricultural production is immense in russia so i think it's the right time to buy into a good coach or russia and i think there is a lot of to ensure. the reason outcomes considering immigration is honestly because i see a dark cloud. over a future that the reality is that we do fear for our lives and the reality is that

a white farmer is attacked every day and so there. my grandfather. was murdered on this form the government has said we're responsible for creating the. and tegan is ward's what for. real really have a plan for a settlement of roughly five hundred families with their own cattle near stubborn. during a gathering over an organization that defends the interests of white farmers in the country south african president several of them a false a show the community that they should not view the so-called land reform as a threat or a reason to pack and go. just about wrapping up the program for this hour though plenty more of the world wide headlines at the top of the news.

for a man are sitting in a car when the phipps gets shot in the head. all for different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because they do not shoot around a corner. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to for indication let it be an arms race is on offense very dramatic developments only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful a very critical time time to sit down and talk.

with you make a deal with your embassy even you're in a week even your did leave us with is a good idea but i think a lot of americans disorders which the ways in which. here is to communicate for example were their ability operations in syria or even about the baltics believe as they did in one nine hundred forty four but your misunderstanding let me give of which would be the catastrophic war which would be crazy for russia would be praising your.

welcome to the alex salmond and a world of tompion diplomacy where international relations are conducted by midnight to meet g seven meetings break up in disarray and establish world order on trade issues. is that a better way to conduct international relations today we examine the concept of soft power and some of the institutions within the united kingdom charge for the task of taking it forward is it a fake negligible and a world of hard to man and tough choices are to be points the way to a gentler more patient and ultimately what effective method of conducting business with new friends and old enemies alike but first alex with your treats your messages emails. first stop there's been quite a reaction to our series on gibraltar anomic quickly and mike nichols before hubel guest on the shore have tweeted and to see how much the a joy the experience it was interesting the reaction from gibraltarians i mean i think there was a general view they were really pleased last some of those paying attention to

their very particular issues with brakes that remember gibraltar territory if it's voted ninety six percent to remain in the european union but still won as we saw in our series which is looking confidently towards the future and a very solid view from stephen key food remains with us of george orwell's one thousand nine hundred forty thinks that the way the world is heading is stephen writes the northern hemisphere a dictatorial power blocs fighting over the resources of the southern hemisphere as in scotland it to be in the uni is a block of e.u. and russia luciana block off america and if are we to be the northernmost part of that airstrip well abscessed the enough stephen george osborne wrote the sport to stop ian masterpiece in scotland so you may be on to something there and finally this week for a minute who is talking about the national security capability of unis worry that the increase funding for the world service is basically

a state funded propaganda channel using its state and capitalism to push their agenda the exclusion of all others actually but it was you read a tweet that gave us inspiration to do this program on soft power that's absolutely true that one passes propaganda is another person's information as we're trying to deploy in this program much of these organizations including for that matter the b.b.c. world service seem to point to a better way to conduct international were relations and then hard but i think a soft power is fundamentally superior to. the concept of soft power is defined as a persuasive approach to international. lucian's typically involving the use of economic or cultural influence in the u.k. and is applied to many institutions some governmental and some like a great universities autonomous commanding a public scene is defeated well it's impressive developmental budgets however there

are many other states in pure parliamentary such as into parliament to union to the state funded british council which promotes educational and cultural links to hybrid initiatives between government and political parties such as the westminster find ation for democracy the work of the british council can depend on support across the commons here's an example of the government's or about benches facing the case and i thank you speaker i welcome the very significant contribution made by the british council to projecting british values overseas and regularly witness this on my visit to trace in the pacific given the importance of the british council when it comes to our soft power what all the implications of possible cuts in funding to. da funding to the council's work and how much these affect the government plans for a global britain but i think my other friend from his question as part of our vision for global growth we want a properly funded and effective council the project protocol use right across the

world i believe that the council will continue to deliver activity in not only the countries through the income generated from other sources such as its commercial income and from both chambers as soft power has strong supporters and advocates alex spoke forced to problem crossbench of buying decision from the house of lords and then to that which we think cameron the member of parliament right stephen and last may go. i'm delighted to be joined by a certain herself one of the foremost exponents in the house of lords so both these organizations which are generally thought to constitute soft power how do you rate the important spano so i think that organizations for example british council but many of the organization that are working in south africa in different parts of the world makes much more easy and they said the space for greater understanding and i think more cooperation everything about the recent comment of conference was very i mean you.