i. think that. social media warfare the u.s. senate unveils how it thinks rush's allegedly swaying opinion in america it believes posting funny viral images online is enough to change the course of the election. a lot of pride related content less news more. coming up to nato develops a game to teach players how to spot that pesky fake news while critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. personal data from millions of refugees in jordan is being harvested in a high tech operation to perfect recognition technology journalist from the redfish group investigate how ethical that is the fundamental principle that we call by is important concept was a little bit. german sports were added

says it's no longer going to work with the iranian football federation just a month after rival nike did this a. very good morning of watching out international live with me kevin i just turned eleven am now this thursday the second of august in moscow first with the u.s. midterm elections approach to the issue of cyber security has come once again to the fore in washington the senate intelligence committee has held a hearing on how to best counter russia and other countries in their alleged attempts to interfere in america's domestic affairs that's all just a day after facebook took down facebook and instagram accounts which it said aimed to influence voters caleb maupin explains what. russian

information warfare in our own backyard after election day the russian government stepped on the gas the russians in this case and others see us as a cheap date the russian activity seeks to turn the normal differences of opinion among americans into headlines about unbridgeable political divisions the russian government came into the house of the american family and manipulated us as you might suspect the story goes on the same way we've heard it many times before essentially russia is accused of encouraging controversy in the united states around issues like immigration guns racism and all kinds of other things. as cyber attacks remain us remain a core part of moscow's arsenal content is created tested and hosted on platforms such as you tube reddit and pinterest its push to twitter and facebook with their standing audiences in the hundreds of millions and it's targeted at the most receptive this is a problem of the entire information ecosystem this is cross-platform reddit

confirmed hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did it now one thing that's lacking in this report just like in so many other similar reports is any solid actual evidence. we can you estimate the number of americans touched by russian linked activity in this area. you know that is very difficult to do and i'm concerned that even after eighteen months of study we are still only scratching the surface when it comes to russia's information warfare in their effort to influence the american mind apparently the kremlin has one very very powerful weapon. a lot of pride pride related content less news more memes it isn't just a couple of platforms this is music apps this is video games this is me i'm sure

and it's much broader than twitter and google in the portrait that the testimony painted on capitol hill you essentially got the impression that americans minds are very easily manipulated that all it takes to influence the way americans think about world events and politics is to give them a video game on a computer or a meme to look at and all the sudden their minds are changed now repeatedly during the hearings we heard members of congress expressing frustration with the american people saying that they were angry that the americans weren't just listening to what they called the good sources and were instead listening to other other news outlets other other voices expressing different views out from there we also heard a call interesting lee for classes on media literacy to be given in american schools so that americans can know what news outlets they should be listening to and what news outlets they should not be listening to. there is

a need to build resilience in target populations this will include long term effort to implement media literacy training and integrate such training into classrooms their e interesting it was quite a day on capitol hill the idea that me and video games and whatever they're pointing to could have any significant influence. in arkansas crecy is frankly a joke this makes no sense at all you know you look at the united states that has hollywood. films that have amazing influence in every country in the world. whatever these means were video games they aren't comparison to. a cultural influence of the u.s.a.'s greater. think about media literacy nato has come up with its own way of teaching it to youngsters the alliance has released a facebook game called the news hero players as opposed to learn how to separate truthful stories from the fake ones and this is how can

a tried and. welcome to nato's new online weapon against misinformation it's the news here oh i promised myself to report only the truth join me on my quest to filter the news some of the headlines about the game might imply that its developers have a bone to pick with russia but on closer inspection it seems it doesn't have that much russian fake news to decipher you might have thought that needle's lot fear based strategic communications center of excellence could dig up something better especially given the lengths that went to asked here trying to prove that russian t.v. comedy was really an undercover propaganda machine and of course there is nato's deep seated suspicion of all things russian we don't accept cyber. law we will not counter. we more so we have to be able to counter this information with facts but it made those new virtual reality

world passion seem slightly more subdued you enter a rather suspiciously empty and slow paced news room where you are the news editor in charge of deciding which reports are real and which are not but clicking on a folder with news stories in it accompanied by repetitive elevator music. it's not yet clear how successful the game is and fighting fake news since you have to collect enough likes to be considered a viral success and so far it's had mixed reviews getting an a for effort from some users but dismissed as a propaganda tool by others all you need to enjoy the game is a facebook account and sign off your facebook info to the alliance in the process i say turkey now r.t. london. and other social media powerful twitter is again found itself of the central debate over censorship the latest controversy comes after it suspended peter said a republican candidate in the u.s.

state of missouri senate race. what it described as abusive behavior is twelve came after we responded to the accusations of colluding with russia now peterson posted this image of the former soviet leader joseph starlet as replied to his critics simply as some users flag the post as offensive and it was subsequently deemed to have violated the platforms terms there's a catch to this but actual it means that thing there came from twitter is own collection it can be found in its own database but here's what twitter to say in response anyway it claims that the image of standard amounted to see the wording there targeted to rassmann which it says is often used to silence platforms voices on the platform but dostum peterson says he thinks there was more to his suspension the meets the eye here three different emails were sent to me about this saying that i had not done anything wrong mysteriously two days later the band was issued

it almost seems as though something had gone on behind the scenes and that this would this was an attempt to suppress my speech during a critical election and it is quite ironic because my response was a was a picture of joseph stalin which was meant to be humorous saying off the gulag and then of course they mass reported me as if i have access to a gulag here in the state of missouri that i could that could be a credible threat. mr peters has been comes to it launches a special research group into combat prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and openness well that's cause controversy with the team accused of strong anti bias against trump. why don't we can from john or. something tells me you will suddenly start seeing the republicans in congress testing the waters and pushing back against trump.

trump's twenty sixteen digital team in cambridge and this week to help the russians figure out who to target in their face use campaign on facebook. to put this in the game tribes the powerful despite what he says is actually making a concerted effort to censor certain ideas and talking points. we don't have free speech in the united states in order to be able to discuss the whether we have free speech so that we can discuss very controversial things i don't mind if a social media network has a bias i assume a bias but what i prefer is transparency about that bias twitter suppresses conservative and libertarian voices from being able to get their message out because they have a bias and it's deeply disturbing and a threat to american democracy next a tech company in a banking behave martha both being accused of using millions of refugees in jordan is guinea pigs in a race to perfect new face recognition technology the displaced people are obliged

to have the irises scanned before they can get food and aid the redfish investigative group went to see how the biometric data is harvested. and sort of using a password and using a body part is extremely invasive in two thousand and thirteen the un announced its partnership with british jordanian iris by a metric company iris guard they began rolling out and i respect ignition and payment system that meant refugees could withdraw money and shop with a blink of an eye refugees jordan's two biggest counts. have to biometrically register their irises in order to receive a fundamental principle that we go by is informed consent wasn't. going to. listen to us. within a fifty m.

. for iris guard the deal meant access to millions of refugees huge market to try lipstick on a jeep and while it gives the technology to the un for free iris garri make a cool one percent from every transaction made via its ip system which could explain why bankers goldman sachs recently invested an undisclosed sum in iris card . you've got companies like goldman sachs making on the deals with iris who are in charge of both the three refugees transaction. of course founded by one of jordan's wealthiest families including actually are from after our on their advisory board we've got none other than ex national security advisor to george w. bush. former head of m i six richard dearlove both of whom were from the war in iraq what i think of what it's like they're getting picks. this is. the fact that the boys or this kind of relation with people from. this

team took part in planning the war in iraq is more than. despicable i had a heated exchange about this with the c.e.o. of ira scarred with dealing with highly secure technologies we would be idiots if we do not ask people who are professionals in the field are there professionals i don't want to warn you you are asking me about a political question from town. we have any political statements we are not making any statements for you to use these are very. political company we have it work martin political anger started but they are not nonpolitical do you understand you do understand that they understand security or basically the creators of the software and hardware iris guard are the only ones who know how it works and we just have to take their word for. it the collection of iris

scans and biometric data isn't new but using refugees that have no real choice but to hand over their information in exchange for receiving aid on this scale is unprecedented and as yet there main many unanswered questions is the tech safe is it secure who has access to it and who really benefit could it be that's what's. as a first experiment on refugees injured being in camps could soon be coming to an hour or a.t.m. near you. raises huge questions we wanted to know more the iris guard advisory board though didn't immediately respond to our request for more comment furthermore goldman sachs did reply but all they had to say was they had nothing they were. crushing yesterday a video said to be from inside the plane in mexico on tuesday's emerged online and

apparently shows the moment the aircraft hit the ground. now you said clearly no one is like thunder and then they appear to light on the side where the marines are. this everything was fine and then i felt that it fell and started to hit the us then it stopped and we all started to lose i was going to die. and i was praying i was praying to get the number of his source and the number of his suits with jesus saved our lives it's a miracle fortunately we have no news of any deceased people the only one would think is in a serious condition is the pilot. well yeah we know today that the pilot of the air

mexico flight suffered serious spinal injuries all one hundred three people on board the nonetheless survived mexican media reported eighteen were taken to hospital but the confusion over what went on there still is going to go on for a long time there's a supposed initial report said that plane crashed moments of the take of no other reports that actually it never got off the ground the toll there were the initial thoughts of mexico's transport ministry the saying it never became airborne investigators say the flight recorders have been recovered in perfect condition but they yet to be examined ok it posted as we find out more. thanks for watching this morning this is out international this thursday morning live from moscow with me kevin though in coming up possible reasons why a leading german sports brand seems less and less enthusiastic these days to play ball with iran.

but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. too bright to be close it's like them before three in the morning can't be good. interested always in the waters of our. first sit.

against horse with seem to be losing up a tight for the iranian market these days with germany's at the dust now saying that it no longer wants to work with the iranian football federation some reports claim the decisions dictated by those sanctions against iran double quarter pause. one by one business giants are cutting ties with iran and the latest is german sportswear company adi das the company said it's no longer going to do business with the iranian national football team and that didn't exactly go down well with tehran. given the improper indyk or a step taken by added s.a.g. with regards the sacred name of deer around on its website it is necessary to take prompt punitive measures against such conduct the violates human rights and signed a contract with an alternative prior to the start of the asian football

confederation asian cup we took to the streets of tehran to find out what iranians think about us as decision. slogan is nothing is impossible what they did is prove that they contradict their own slogan i believe what they did belittle the football federation first of all i believe there is no need for us to introduce politics into sport it is a nasty thing to do there is no sense in a country like the us or any other country trying to enforce this quite the contrary it is they who should worry that they have lost their way to a good market we asked us to comment on the reasons for the decision but they declined to give any details the company's move comes hot on the heels of nike's decision not to sell football boots to the iranian world cup team but the iranians played admirably at the world cup and its supporters took to ridiculing nike's motto.

unlike with nike's motives for leaving the iranian national team without any gear were quite clear they just couldn't do it and they fell in line with u.s. sanctions without much of a fight. u.s. sanctions mean that as a u.s. company cannot supply shoes to players in the iranian national team at this time sanctions applicable to nyc have been in place for many years and are enforceable by along with the u.s. threatening further sanctions even more american and european companies appear unwilling to deal with iran that's despite the fact that since the trump administration sanctions announcement e.u. officials pledge to support and protect european businesses will put to work as the

european commission we have the juicy to protect your companies so we know me to act and. we are determined to fight so that the decisions taken by the united states have no repercussions for the french businesses that invest and have invested in iran top e.u. officials even wrote a letter pleading with the u.s. to exclude european companies from the penalties and the state department's response it's our way or the highway we are asking every nation every nation who is sick and tired of islamic republic destructive behavior to join our pressure campaign this is especially those who are allies in the middle east and europe easy for him to say especially when many are saying the e.u. will bear the economic brunt of cutting off ties with iran but for now it remains to be seen whether impossible is truly nothing for the block. the foundation for peace and future research says it is the u.s. has pressing european companies to stop dealing with iran. you see the united

states is now bullying european companies and governments sending their message is putting pressure on them to start any kind of cooperation with iran that's a very nasty thing to do because it is suffocating eighty five million people and their lives after having done this since seventy nine at some point it should be enough i must say it's really it's it's narrowminded and it's very sad to see that there are a number of countries who would not have any kind of since of what they do politically in the belief that they can have more politics now i can maybe understand that for american companies but i have no respect for the idea that european companies and banks should not just do what they do because you all must not must never lied to countries outside the united states. south africa's ruling party committed on tuesday to amending the constitution to allow the state to seize land from farmers without paying compensation the plans were met with sharp criticism from white farmers who've called

a catastrophic currently over two decades on from the end of apartheid white farmers still own the lion's share of the country's over cultural land there the african national congress the country's ruling party has been buying up some of the redistribution but opinion among lawmakers is no shifted in the majority now support taking that land without offering compensation but for that the constitution has to change the move that's a move the president i'm opposed actually wants to push ahead with the he says the amendment will help drive economic growth comprehensive land reform program unlock economic growth by bringing you more land in south africa to fully you. and mabel the productive participation of millions more south africans in the economy but the flip side to this the head of a south african cultural union told us confiscating land is going to scare off investors. but i think i do have

a huge problem with poverty and unemployment and for us this is a pity that they make these choices because no one will invest in this economy and we need growth to actually address the realities of south africa so we have great concern about this approach already a lot of foreign countries already contact us as an organization and say you know that will be the case we are not willing to invest in your country anymore i can give you a lot of examples of people really stop investing in south africa and that's the starting point of economic growth until now it's the first time that they make this promises to the public because they need it for the election i think if he's busy challenging the do much on the other try to say things that these what's going on now if you say in the last stories of the comment but no doubt don't call most a check of facebook twitter up so many ways to keep in touch with what we go to bring you what we hope you'll enjoy it out international now though skype and i would this late thursday morning or mosco couldn't top post eleven something so

much watching and enjoy the rest of the day. like the easy fix and if you take your comics out your body and the body continues on it's just an appendage. so this is what people don't understand is that the u.k. leaving the e.u. the e.u. continues on great but if you take the appendix out the body is going to wither and travel and die because as nobody to exist anymore and this is what's happening in the us going to be a lot of fun to watch because this living beyond their means for somebody years and that's all i can recall.

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pundit welcome to worlds apart treat the earth's resources as you would the money in your bank account this is the matter for that my guest today uses to raise awareness of the exploitation of our environment but with the ice caps melting species dying out and our reliance on fossil fuels on the bait it isn't it too late to save our planet from environmental insolvency well to discuss that i'm now joined by matisse back or neck see all of global footprint networks mr beck and that go it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for having me it's a pleasure now we're recording this conversation on the eve of earth over should day reach this year according to your calculations falls on august first and from what i understand this is not an occasion for celebration this far as you are

concerned yeah we call as we mark earth over should be is a day in the year by which we have used as much from the planet as the planet can renew need tire year and it falls on august first this year and from what i understand it's also the early is that it's been in the recent years why is that. actually in tire history of humankind its earliest date ever we have never been as large as population a consumption is still going up yes productivity of agriculture is going up which is mitigating it a little bit but overall demand is still exceeding what we kind of renewed more and more. for those of our viewers who have never heard about this day what exactly does it mean so essentially the or ecological economy and so accountants typically they count money we count physical things potatoes and cotton that milk and everything and and we look at the word that's a big farm and say how much of this farm is needed to regenerate everything that we

use so we add up every square meter of huge for example my orange juice my potatoes my continent cetera how much area is that the call that the ecological footprint that we did can compare with how much is available on this planet so how big is the farm called planet how big is our hunger as humanity and then we can make a balance sheet and that by marking this day on august first that it would mean that humanity will. run its credit on the particular day and starting from august first it will be essentially leaving on. loan to resources it's like with money if you spend one point seven fold what you earn you know also by by august first you would have spent your income for the year and then you started to treat your assets financially the same is true with resources so if you just look at the whole year we live off the income of nature from jan refers to august first and then the rest would come from depletion and depletion you can see.