social media warfare the u.s. senate unveils how it thinks russia is allegedly swearing opinion in america these days it believes posting funny viral images online is enough to change the course of the election. a lot of pride pride related content less news more means. develops a game to teach players have a spot that pesky fake news while critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. of personal data from millions of refugees in jordan is being harvested in a high tech operation to perfect recognition technology journalist from the red fish group on to the out where the reverse to getting her ethical it is a fundamental principle. is informed consent to have a little. bit of the. german sports which says

it will no longer work with the iranian football federation just a month after rival nike did the say. hi there good afternoon midday or one euro moscow my name is kevin owen you live without international from h q first in the running order today we're talking about this for the u.s. midterm elections approaching the issue of cybersecurity has come to the fore in washington again the senate intelligence committees held a hearing on how to counter russia and other countries in the religious attempts to interfere in america's domestic affairs although just a day after facebook took down facebook and instagram accounts which it said aims to influence voters caleb maupin reports. 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 but 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 audience is 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 that any solid actual evidence. 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 this 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 american student 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 wanting to. could have any significant influence. in our democracy is frankly a joke this makes no sense at all you know you look at the united states there's hollywood so film ones that have amazing words in every country in the world might facebook whatever of these means were video games here on comparison to their three different cultural influence at the u.s. there is greater data sharing between speaking about media literacy nato has come up with is the way of teaching it to youngsters the alliance has released a facebook game called the new zero players as opposed to learn how to separate truthful stories from those fake ones and this is tried and. welcome to

nato's new online weapon against misinformation it's the news hero i promised myself to report only the truth join me on my quest to thought through 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 it went to last year 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. we have to be able to counter this information with facts but in media as new virtual reality world passions 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 clicking on a folder with news stories in it a company wide 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 and start in turkey now r.t. london having a whale of a time by the looks of it well another social media platform twitter is again found it's over the center of debate over censorship the latest controversy comes after suspended austin the republican candidate for the u.s. state of missouri sent. rise for what was described as abusive behavior is to ban

chemistry responded to the accusations of colluding with russia so what did he do well peterson posted this image of former soviet leader joseph stalin as reply to his critics that caused some outrage some users flagged that post as offensive and it was subsequently deemed to have violated the platform's rules but as each catch here the image actually came from two of his own collection it can be found on its own database so what did twitter have to say in response well let's take a look at that in a bit of detail shall we it is it claims the image of started amounted to targeted harassment as it put it which it said was often used to silence voices on the platform but back to austin peterson again he thinks there was more behind is suspension that meets the. 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 after 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 is bound comes to it a lodge is a special research group to combat prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and openness and that's already caused controversy too with the team accused of a strong anti trump bias. why donald trump when you can trump donald. something tells me you little suddenly started seeing more republicans in congress testing the waters and pushing back against.

trump's twenty sixteen digital team and cambridge analysts before help the russians figure out who to tell gates he's campaigned on facebook. austin peterson again claims the platform despite what it says is actually making a concerted effort to sense a 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 or you know say it 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 at a threat to american democracy. a tech company in a banking behave both accused of using millions of refugees in jordan as guinea pigs in a race to perfect new face recognition technology the displaced paper obliged to

have their irises scanned before they can get food aid the red fish investigative group went to see how this biometric data is being harvested the. really. using a password and using a body part is extremely invasive in two thousand and thirteen the un announced its partnership with british jordanian ira spying metrics company ira scored 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 camps. have to biometrically register their irises in order to receive eight fundamental principle that we go by is informed consent.

for iris guard to deal meant access to millions of refugees huge market to try lots technology and while it gives the technology to the u.s. 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 companies like goldman sachs making on the heels with ira scored who are in charge of both the three refugees transaction. 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 are advocates of the war in iraq when i think of what it's like they are guinea pigs. this is just. the fact that the boys or this kind of relation with people from. this

team took part in the war and is more than. the speaker. 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 their field are there professionals i don't want to worry you are asking me about a political question from council understand this is a fact we are not involved in any political statements we are not making any statements and you do you think do you. because we are a man political company we are in work at the margin political i understand but they are not political do you understand you do understand that they understand security or do you deny that 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 remain 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 started as a forced experiment on refugees injured dainian camps could soon be coming to an eye or a.t.m. near you. so a lot of potentially big questions that we can tell you the terrorists advisory board didn't immediately respond to any request for any more information furthermore goldman sachs did reply but they had quote nothing more the word.

play next of videos said to be from inside the plane that crashed in mexico choose days emerged online the punishes the moment the aircraft hit the ground. so who heard a noise like thunder and then they appeared to light on the side where the rings are. everything was fine and then i felt that it fell and started to hit us then it stopped and we all started to lose i was going to die. and i was praying i was praying to have a number of the source of the numbers to see through jesus saved our lives it's a miracle fortunately we have no news of any deceased people the only one we think is in the serious condition is the pilot. yet we know today that the pilots

suffered a serious spinal injury all one hundred three people on board the plane survived makes good media reported eighteen were taken to hospital and mitchell report said the plane crashed just moments after takeoff but there are accounts that never actually completely got off the ground at all a lot of thoughts about what the weather was doing there right then investigators say the flight recorders have been recovered in perfect condition the yet to be examined. watching out international for moscow this first day with me kevin though in a lot more coming clearing possible reasons why a leading german sports brand seems less and less enthusiastic to play ball with the rallies to. see it is like this is pending and if you take your picks 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 weather and travel and die because as nobody. to exist anymore and this is what's happening in the can that's going to be a lot of fun to watch because there's a living beyond their means for somebody hears that that's all coming up. with more make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round. the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.

again sportswear firm seem to be losing their appetite for the iranian market these days with germany's dusts now saying it will no longer work with the iranian football federation some reports claim the decisions dictated by the us sanctions against iran as double quarter of course. one by one business giants are cutting ties with iran and the latest is german sportswear company us 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 and in decor a step taken by added s.a.g. with regards the sacred name of deer around on its website it is necessary to take 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. a slogan is nothing is impossible what they do is

prove that they contradict their own slogan i believe with the little 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 so why the contrary to the they who should worry that they have lost already 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 model.

unlike with nike his 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 one cannot supply shoes to players in the iranian national team at this time sanctions applicable to have been in place for many years and are enforceable by along with the us threatening further sanctions even more american and european companies appear unwilling to deal with iran that's the spite the fact that since the trumpet ministration 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 european companies so we know me to act the law. 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 in 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 republics 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. yellow book from the foundation for peace and future research told us it's the u.s. that's 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 and 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 will not have any kind of since or what they do politically in the belief that the in a more of 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. must not must never lied to countries outside the united states. 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 they've called it catastrophic currently over two decades on from the end of apartheid

white farmers still own the lion's share of the country's are group cultural land the african national congress the country's ruling party has been buying up some of it for redistribution but now opinion among lawmakers a shifted and the majority now support taking land without offering compensation but for that the constitution has to be changed says the move the president rubber hose and i want to push ahead he says the amendment will help drive economic growth into prehensile of land reform program. economic growth by bringing you more in south africa to fool you. and mabel the productive participation of millions more south africans in the economy but the head of one south africa her cultural union told us that confiscating land is going to scare off investors. so 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 but already a lot of foreign countries already contact us as an organization and say 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 a first and that they make this promises to the bubbly because they need it for the election i think it is busy challenging the much on the other try to save himself and that is what's going on now. teenage palestinian activists to head to mimi made headlines last december you may recall she was arrested and sentenced to eight months in jail after kicking and slapping israeli soldiers the seventeen year old was released them this week told r.t. direct she doesn't regret or actions. it's hard to put my experience into words i can't even explain how oppressed i felt while i was there i hope nobody

ever goes through what i went through but i'm glad i ended up there for my beliefs and i'm ready to go to prison one hundred more times if it serves the good of my country i had to cope with a lot of bad news at the time the many arrests of my relatives and friends including my brother sometimes it was too much to handle but the death of my cousin hit me the hardest while i was in jail the prison ministration try to shut down the classes we were attending that was a low blow to but we pulled through we managed these unfortunate events united us we started to look after each other like sisters do our love and care for each other helped us be stronger in tough situations she was convicted of aggravated assault of obstructing the soldiers she later accept the deal in court to plead guilty she's become a local hero in the face of palestinian activism just to recap for you briefly this is the video of the incident that went viral at the time.

and. yet. for its part israel's claim the soldiers were simply trying to prevent palestinians from throwing stones at israeli motorists it treats the heads actions as a criminal offense and a threat to the military's to terence policy calling her provocateurs she now hopes to become a lawyer and one day lead cases against israel. i knew they could arrest me it's a common practice when your people live under israeli oppression but i did nonetheless since it was the soldier who shot at my brother when he was already wounded in the face and nearly died because of it this was the same soldier who fired at teenagers near where i live this was the same soldier who put me behind bars besides this situation was critical when i did what i did as it was the time when trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital it was a hard time and i think it had an impact on what i did at the end of the day. i

will continue studying at university i want to take courses in international law so that i can become a lawyer and stand up for my country also i hope for all the imprisoned palestinians to walk free soon i would like to say this to all the prisoners i'm with you i want them to know that i love them and miss them and that it will never forget them we're going to leave it there for now check it out to dot com for so much more from us twenty four seven i'm kevin oh and here are moscow have a great afternoon. kentucky. story.

all the wiser said that there was a lot of. people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. america has a welcome to the kaiser report and prepare to be. places where we're going to continue a bit on this whole united states of inequality and the preparation as we head into

the midterms because a lot of data is now coming out about twenty sixteen elections there's micro data that new york times came out with and it's really quite interesting but one thing i've really noticed and this goes with the data i'm going to look at this billboard this says colorado billboard replaced is zero in g.o.p. with soviet hammer and sickle and this is from a democrat a resistance hero and he is posted this in colorado and i responded to that with this tweet and yet with this command and control monetary policy and state subsidized banking system and mortgage market it is the u.s. which is far more communist than the russian federation even the i.m.f. agrees as we had just recently spoken about in our report where the i.m.f. had said well actually the russian economy monetary policy is way better than us policy welcome to talk of your theory of data versus ratings go ahead honey this is

your show ok before the let me just comment that i've been saying this for quite some time that the u.s. and russia are two ships passing in the night with america becoming more soviet like and more of just stop zero stasi like and russia becoming more free market like and we're seeing that trend play out down twenty eighteen in a big way but to the idea of data versus ratings so the people who put up billboards like that are part of the core poc r.c. they're part of comcast minions on m s n b c. ratings by sensationalism and propaganda the other side of the political spectrum the trump camp uses data they just look at data and that's how they want to twenty sixteen that's how they're going to do great in twenty eighteen that's either going to win in twenty or twenty because they're not ratings driven trump is data driven and so told the democrat.