no. social media warfare in the u.s. senate unveils how it thinks russia is allegedly swaying opinion in america some members believe posting means online is enough to change the course of an election a lot of pride pride related content less news more memes. nato develops a game to teach players how to spot fake news well 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 put fact recognition technology journalist from the red fish group investigate how ethical that is. fundamental principle the global it is informed comes. from the us. what is.

and german sportswear giant adidas says it will no longer work with the rainy and football federation just a month after rival nike did the same. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. first nato has come up with its own way of teaching media literacy to youngsters they alliance has released a facebook game called the news hero players are supposed to learn how to separate truthful stories from fake ones and associates try her hand up it. 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 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. we will not counter. we more so we have to be able to counter this information with facts but to me 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 by 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 check it out r.t. london. twitter has again found itself at the center of debate over censorship the latest controversy comes after it suspended austin peterson a republican candidate in the u.s. state of missouri senate race for what it described as abusive behavior his twelve hour ban came after responding to accusations of collusion with russia. now peterson posted this image of former soviet leader joseph stalin as a reply to his critics some users then flag that post as offensive and it was subsequently deemed to have violated the platform's rules but there's

a catch here the image actually came from twitter's own collection and can be found on its database that's here is what twitter had to say in response it claims the image of stalin amounted to targeted harassment which it says is often used to silence forces on the platform but often peterson says there was more to his suspension to read 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 peterson's ban comes as twitter launches

a special research group to combat prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and openness that's already causing controversy though the team accused of a strong anti trump bias. when you can trump john. something tells me you will certainly start seeing more republicans in congress are testing the waters and pushing back against trump. trump's twenty sixteen digital team in cambridge on this week to help the russians figure out how to tell gates he's campaigned on facebook. often peterson again claims the platform despite what it 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 in the united states 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 russia's foreign minister says washington's paranoia over alleged russian meddling and american elections is off the scale that's after a senate intelligence committee met to discuss how to counter russia and other countries and their alleged attempts to interfere in the u.s. domestic affairs in the apartment go joins me live with more on this what was the reaction from russia's foreign ministry that. jacqueline hi well first of all just want to say a few words about what's happening in the u.s. we are seeing hearings after hearings more and more stuff like that more and more

people having to testify and all this is happening in places like the cell a senate intelligence committee so we can see very serious people sorting out very serious government and state affairs and what they're doing is they are all over social media digging for stuff and they are finding stuff if you can say so here's one finding the russians are increasingly counting on social media in their meddling and their trick is according to the american officials and experts who testified was less news more means when i was talking to the russian foreign minister here in singapore i asked him what he thinks about it and he just simply had a laugh so. when you throw smoosh look it's just hilarious

when i hear that funded pictures can undermine american democracy but i think that's just paranoid that goes off the scale it's not respectable for american lawmakers to make a sensation out of nothing we're not the ones who invented social media and we're not the one soon says to the making social media open to everybody still. officials are certain that the russians are carrying on with their attempts to interfere and meddle in the us democracy and now they are saying that the russians have a new target that is the us mid-term elections and again according to experts and the officials russia is not only using facebook or twitter they are now all over things like credit or pinterest and what the russians are involved in is posting means. i cyberattacks remain as 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 confirm hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did. 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 it's much broader than twitter and google. so if you listen to the experts you will hear that russia is inspiring controversy across the u.s. on various issues like immigration gun control democrats versus work republicans so to cut the long story short every issue that the americans have divisions about although i can tell you that the thing that the hearings were lacking is some

proper evidence to really prove that there's some sort of system in russia and that there wrist some sort of strategy or systematic work on undermining democracy in the u.s. basically if we combine all these alleged attempts to meddle or interfere in the u.s. democracy. thank you for bringing us that report. a tech company and a banking behemoths are being accused of using millions of refugees in jordan as guinea pigs and a race to perfect new facial recognition technology the displaced people are obliged to have their irises scanned before they can get food and aid the redfish investigative group went to see how the biometric data is harvested. really. using a password using a body part is extremely invasive 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 the blink of an eye refugees jordan's two biggest cans . have to biometrically register their irises in order to receive eight fundamental principle that we go by is informed consent. if it wasn't. for iris guard the 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 card 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 iras card

companies like goldman sachs making on the slow deals with ira scored who are in charge of both the three refugees transaction iris guard of course founded by one of jordan's wealthiest families including actually with a master. on their advisory board you'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 what 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 that took part in the war is more than. the speaker. i had a heated exchange about this with the c.e.o. of iris guard with dealing with a highly secure technologies we would be idiots if we do not ask people who are professionals in their field are their professionals i don't want to warn you you

are asking me about a political question from town some understandable fuck we i'm not involved in any political statements we are not making any statements for you to use these i agree to do you. because you are among political company we have been working large and political i understand but they are not nonpolitical do you understand you do understand that they understand security or do deny that basically the creators of the software and hardware iris card are the only ones who know how it works and we just have to take their word for. 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 benefit could it be that's what started as

a forced experiment on refugees injured the union camps could soon be coming to an eye or a.t.m. near you. the ira start advisory board didn't immediately respond to our request for a comment goldman sachs didn't reply however saying they had nothing to add. a video said to be from inside the plane that crashed in mexico on tuesday has emerged online apparently shows the moment the aircraft hit the ground. someone watching and you said you heard

a noise like thunder and then there appeared a light in the side where the wings are. this everything was fine and then i felt that it fell and started to hit us then it stopped and was all started to leave i was going to die. and i was praying i was praying to god the number of his source and the number has just said jesus saved our lives it's a miracle fortunately we have no news of any deceased people the only one we think is in a serious condition is the pilot. today we know that the pilot has suffered serious spinal injuries and all one hundred three people on board survived mexican media reported that eighteen people were taken to the hospital and the report said that the plane crashed moments after takeoff now there are accounts that it never completely left the ground at all investigators say the flight recorders have been recovered in perfect condition but are yet to be examined. much more to come in the program including african tribes bringing germany to court for alleged genocide

that happened more than one hundred years ago that story and more after the short break. our. politicians. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so we want to trust and should. we somehow want to be rich. that you'd like to be if you like. treatable to be good. interstate all the while you. should. welcome back sports where firms seem to be losing their appetite for the uranium market with germany's adidas now saying it will no longer work with iranian football federation some reports claim the decision is actually dictated by u.s. sanctions against iran dull quarter house. 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 punitive measures against such conduct 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 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 their way to 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 enforceable by along with the us threatening further sanctions even more american and european

companies appear unwilling to deal with iran and that's despite the fact that since the trumpet ministration sanctions announcement e.u. officials pledge to support and protect european business it's true that new job will put to work as the european commission we have the juicy to protect european companies so we know me to act. 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 u.s. 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. russia's 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 a military base which is close to the camp russia says eisel fighters are regrouping in the region we spoke to russia's envoy to syria about the security situation. but the study also took us there only two areas where i saw militants are 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 us. is located there 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 a war we soldiers fighting against i so it turns out that i saw militants also settled in this area there are one thousand seven hundred of them and they can

occupy the us military base within hours maybe days another place where i saw 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 euphrates river which is controlled by the kurds. to tribes in the maybe a in southwest africa are attempting to sue in germany they are seeking compensation and official apologies for the alleged genocide by german colonial colonialist over one hundred years ago and the southie takes up the story. germany still shows signs of a stark imperial cost this is looted it's to us or names off the adults knew that it has the very first colony german southwest africa also known as the maybe a in the early one nine hundred stim insets less thought it receives land from local citizens leading to one of the centrist west genocides.

the heroin the nation must now leave the country if it refuses i shall come pallid to do so with a long tube and a hair of found inside the german frontier with or without a gun or can oh 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 were slaughtered that data length of the german government to pay for the crimes committed you know what people how to commit holocaust. and then you

simply can't be fixed on the jews. and you're just in the new the british. but because we dip into different skin color i speak. the german government you see for us. it's only. even the apology came a century later with the 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 cheney's position it took over a decade more for ben into officially acknowledged the crimes of the past the war of extermination in the media from nine hundred forty nine when i was

a war crimes and genocide the movie has received hundreds of thousands of euros from germany perhaps a sort of in direct way of compensation but that's not enough for the tribes last year to merit and now my representatives father the law suits in new york saying they wanted to be part of the official talks between germany and the maybe a saying it was the only way to ensure justice what happened in south africa was a genocide not. a violation of the law and germany is not. really. completely held accountable just unique in the sense that you can find a region extermination order there just issued by germany. to extend its them and there was a number of people historians to say just look at the mix they will make a difference of these case he's lee we believe 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 on the netherlands pay a high price to posturings finishes at the ati bell and. that's a wrap up of the day's top headlines for mel thanks for tuning in. russia is one of the countries that most buy capacity and although very high population does that mean russia does need to be concerned about sustainability i would say yes absolutely you are no lucky situation where you have a lot of farm per person so to say you know you have a lot of wealth ecological wealth and the word is very scarce so that's a huge economic advantage as well and saying wow this is an amazing farm let's look

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greetings and salutation. the u.s. economy is booming hawk watchers yes that is at least that's what we've been told these last few months. and over again headline after headline talking head after talking had from the wall street journal to forbes to see n.b.c. even the white house has been trumpeting the u.s. economy declaring on its web site quote jobs jobs jobs the american economy is booming. but buried underneath all the news bold headlines and talking head fawning something feels i don't know something is feels a little off because while the economy booms for some we are also seeing some very disturbing trends and things that we don't like to talk about at parties like the news that a homeless census in seattle washington recently uncovered the number of people residing in campers and other vehicles surged forty six percent over the past year

in fact according to governing dot com americans living out of their cars isn't unique to just the city of seattle washington matty quinn reports that there's been a boom in vehicular homelessness especially out on our lovely left coast where rents some skyrocketed in the number of homeless people who don't live in shelters is up twenty thousand from twenty seventeen but with more and more u.s. citizens being forced to live out of their cars due to increasing rent heavy debt low wages and an affordable cost of living one of they going to do when the national law center on homelessness and poverty is reporting that across the country the number of prohibitions against to be a residency has more than doubled during the last decade. it appears that the ghost of tom joad still haunts the american highways and cities as we start watching the hawks.