that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happening it's happened. social media warfare the u.s. senate unveils how it thinks russia is allegedly swearing opinion in america it believes posting funny viral images online is enough to change the course of lectures. a lot of pride pride related content less news more memes. 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 journalists from the redfish group are on the case that investigating how ethical it is a fundamental principle we call by is informed consent. to political.

and german sports were joined says it will no longer work with the iranian football federation just a month after rival nike did the say. hi good afternoon you're watching out international live with me kevin owen here in moscow riches turned one pm this thursday the second of august first that with the u.s. midterm elections approaching the issue of cyber security has come to the fore in washington again the senate intelligence committees held a hearing on how best to counter russia and other countries in their alleged attempts to interfere in america's domestic affairs all that just a day after facebook took to facebook and instagram accounts which it said aimed to influence voters caleb maupin reports on this latest news.

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 them 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 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 students 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 maybe in video games and whatever they're pointing to. could have very significant influence. in our can mark receive is frankly a joke this makes no sense at all you know you look at the united states that has hollywood so films that have amazing in every country in the world might facebook whatever of these means were video games ok on comparison to that we need three different cultural influence of the us or greater data sharing between make it about media literacy nato has come up with so way of teaching it to youngsters the alliance has released a facebook gave no called the news hero players are supposed to learn how to separate truthful stories from the fake ones and this is going to try to hand them

. 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 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 to meet those 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 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 in fighting fake news since you have to collect enough like 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 say see if you're going out r.t. landed. another social media platform twitter is a good friend of so for the center of debate over censorship the latest controversy comes after suspended austin petersen the republican candidate for the u.s. state of missouri senate race for it described as abusive behavior here to twelve

and it came after he responded to the accusations of colluding with russia so what did he do or peterson posted this image of the former soviet leader joseph stalin as a reply to his critics know some users from the very offensive and it was subsequently doing to a violated the platform of rules that's what he did there's a catch to all this though that image actually came from twitter's own collection it can be found on its own database but embarrassing for twitter but this is what they had to say in response anyway this is the full statement you can check it out with your own eyes it claims the image of starlin amounted to targeted harassment which it said is often used to silence voices on the platform but or simply to send the says he thinks there is much more to this and his suspension beyond the scenes . 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 p. this is ban comes as twitter launches a special research group to combat prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and openness person really cause controversy to the team accused of a strong anti trump bias. why donald trump when you can trump donald. something tells me a little suddenly started seeing more republicans in congress testing the waters and pushing back against term.

trumps twenty sixteen digital team and cambridge analysts we can help the russians figure out who to tell gates he's campaigned on facebook. austin peterson again claims the platform despite what is says he's actually making a concerted effort to censor certain ideas and talking point. 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. a tech company and a banking behave more both 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 their irises scanned before they get food and aid the redfish investigative group went to see how this biometric data is being harvested. media and instead of using a password to create and using a body part this experience based in two thousand and thirteen the un announced its partnership with british jordanian iris spying metrics company iris card 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. if you listen to. what i listen to a. scene. within

a fifty if. i'm going to go for ira's guard the deal meant access to millions of refugees huge market to trial its technology and while it gives the technology to the un for free iris garri make a cool one percent from every transaction made by its ip system which could explain why bankers goldman sachs recently invested in. some in iris card companies like goldman sachs making undisclosed deals with iris cord who are in charge of both the three refugees transaction. of course founded by one of jordan's wealthiest families including a figure from buster. on their advisory board you've got none other than x. national security advisor to george w. bush. former head of m i six richard dear love both of whom were 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 border or this kind of relation with people from the. team that took part in planning the war is more than. i had a heated exchange about this with the c.e.o. of ira scarred with dealing with highly secure technologies we would be. people who are professionals in their field and they're professionals i don't want to you are asking me about a political question from town. we all the many political statements we're not making any statements. do you. work at the margin political anger start 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 their 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 started as a forced experiment on refugees injured being in camps could soon be coming to an ob or a.t.m. near you. prefer questions they are a scarred advisory board didn't immediately respond to our requests for a comment i can tell you when tom goldman sachs did get but we're not with much they said they had nothing to. next up plane crash

a video said to be from inside it in mexico on tuesday's emerged online that apparently shows the moment the aircraft hit the ground. it's annoying watching it and now you heard a noise like thunder and then there appeared a light on the side where the wings are. 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 troops 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 yes the pilot suffered serious spinal injuries all

one hundred three on board the plane survived makes comedia reported eighteen were taken to hospital and initial reports said the plane crashed just moments after takeoff did takeoff but no other accounts of it never actually completely got off the ground or the bad weather around there you can see at the time investigators say the flight recorders have been recovered they say they are in perfect condition the yet to be examined that's going to reveal a lot we'll keep you posted. it so one sixteen in the afternoon here in moscow thank you for watching r.t. international with me kevin oh in today much more to come including african tribes bringing germany to court for alleged genocide that happened more than one hundred years ago why i will tell you coming up. you know world big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up

to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need. to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic developments only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

again sportswear firm seem to be losing the appetite for the iranian market these days with germany's snow saying it will no longer work with the iranian football federation some reports claim the decisions dictated by u.s. sanctions against iran donald quarter explains more. 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 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 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 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 knight 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 in forcible 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. as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies so we know me to act

lawful you know detail minas sure 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 this one republican destructive behavior to join our pressure campaign this is specially goes for our eyes 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. brand new in russian defense ministry is calling on the u.s. to allow humanitarian access to a refugee camp in southern syria it also wants the u.s. to shut down the military base which is close to the russia says i still fight

a regrouping in the region we spoke to russia's envoy to syria but the security situation there right now. with the status of. their only two areas where i saw militants is still quite active although there are not many of them first of all in a fifty five kilometer long area that's controlled by the u.s. . is located around sixty thousand people live there now. there are many i saw militants who were there under the guise of refugees my personal opinion is that the americans have got themselves into a deadlock a trap there is always soldiers fighting against i so it turns out i saw militants also settled in this area there one thousand seven hundred of them and they can occupy the us military base within hours maybe days another place where i say militants are quite active although there are not many of them maybe want to see thousand people is located on the syria iraq border on the eastern bank of the fraser river which is controlled by the kurds. elsewhere in the world to tribes in

the maybe or in southwest africa or attempted to sue germany the seeking compensation and official apologies for the alleged genocide by german colonialist over a hundred years ago and this is so if he takes up the story no. gemini still shows signs of its dark imperial past this is looted it's to us their names off and told you that it has stopped the very first colony german southwest africa also known as the maybe in the early one thousand nine hundred stehman settlers finally sees land from local citizens leading to one of the centrist west genocides. the here are a nation must now leave the country if it for a few years is a show compelled to do so with a long view and here are a found inside the german frontier with or without the gun or council will be

executed i shall spare me the women not children. today's hereright unama communities still mourn the deaths of the eighty thousand people with floor says that battling for the german government to pay for the crimes committed to school know what people how to meet cost. and then you simply can't be sixty eight on that you. i mean you're probably just in the new the british. but because we dip into different skin color and speak. the german government you see for us.

it's only. in apology. in the to. even the apology came a century lace with a german economic cooperation and development minister close to tears when she spoke about it in two thousand and four. we germans acknowledge our historical political moral and ethical responsibility and the guilt the germans brought upon themselves but the government stepped in saying the minister was speaking as a private citizen and not representing jamie's position it took over a decade more for beilin to officially acknowledged the crimes of the past the war of extermination in the media from one hundred forty nine when i was a war crimes and genocide the movie has received hundreds of thousands of euro's from germany perhaps a sort of in direct way of compensation but that's not enough for the tribes last year to merit a number of representatives farther north suit in new york saying they want to be

part of the official talks between germany and they may be saying it was the only way to ensure justice what happened in south africa was a genocide not while ation a violation of the law and germany is not. really. completely held accountable it is unique in this sense that you can find a written extermination order that just issued by germany. to. explain if there were not the historians to say just look at the mix they will make a difference of this case history will delete jim even if they win it might encourage other indigenous groups to take action against format european colonial overlords which could see the likes of britain france and the netherlands pay a high price to pass chains and the r.t. . you can find so many more stories from us at our facebook twitter or up so much more from us twenty four seven of many ways keep in touch as well with our

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