never thought in a million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. social media warfare the us sun and veils 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. also this our 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 investigate how ethical it is. fundamental principle that we go by is informed comes. from the do it. what is.

and german sportswear giant it adidas says it will no longer work with the arabian football federation just a month after rival nike did the same. this is our to international bringing you your live news update this hour welcome to the program. russia's foreign minister has described washington as paranoid over moscow's alleged election interference saying it goes off the scale it's after a senate intelligence committee met to discuss how to counter russia and other countries and their supposed attempts to meddle in the u.s. domestic affairs more details from the upper trend go more and more hearings in america about russian meddling more and more people having to testify and all of this is happening in places like the senate's intelligence committee very. serious

people sorting out syria's government and state of affairs and they are all over social media looking for stuff and they're finding stuff here's one of these findings so to say the russians are increasingly counting on social media and their trick according to the experts and officials is less news more means here at the summit in singapore i asked sergey lavrov what he thinks about it and he simply laughed it off. when you put a smile it's just hilarious when i hear that funded pictures can demand american democracy 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 when the ones who invented social media and when not the one soon says to the making social media open to everybody. so those who are sitting there and do you see talking russian meddling over and over are certain

that the russians are carrying on with their attempts to undermine us democracy and they're saying now they have a new target in the midterm elections in america in twenty team and we're also hearing that moscow is not only using the traditional ways through facebook or twitter but also all kinds of other platforms the likes of read it or pinterest where they post more and more russian made names. i 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 confirm hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did a. 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 more conclusions from the experts they are saying that russia is inspiring controversy across the u.s. on various issues like immigration gun control democrats versus republicans to cut the long story short every issue that the americans have divisions about what's really lacking at these hearings though is as usual i should say solid evidence that there is a system that it is controlled and backed by the russian government and that the scale of it is large enough to really take this mean meddling menace seriously. and speaking of media literacy nato has come up with its own way of teaching it to youngsters they alliance has released a facebook game called the news hero players are supposed to learn how to separate

truthful stories from the fake ones artie's honest to see a church her hand that 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 it's 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 asked 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. we have to be able to counter this information with facts bucks in media as new virtual reality world

passion seems 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 as they say turkey now r.t. london. another social media platform twitter has again found itself at the center of a censorship debate the latest controversy comes after it suspended austin peterson

a republican candidate in the u.s. state of missouri senate race for what. described as abusive behavior his twelve hour ban came after he responded to accusations of colluding with russia petersen posted this image of phone former soviet leader joseph stalin as a reply to his critics some users flagged that post as offensive and it was subsequently deemed to have violated the platform's rules but there's a catch here this image actually came from twitter's own collection and can be found on its database now here's 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 voices on the platform but austin peterson says there was more to his suspension three different e-mails 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 prejudiced and promote what it defines as collective health an openness that's already causing controversy though with a team accused of a strong anti trump bias. trump we need john and. something tells me a little suddenly started seeing more republicans in congress testing the waters and pushing back against. trump's twenty sixteen digital team and cambridge analysts are going to help the

russians figure out who told that they use campaign on facebook. austin 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 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 behemoth 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 scan before they can get food and aid the redfish investigative group went to see how the biometric data is hard to. read you know media and instead of using a password that people are using a body part is extremely invasive in two thousand and thirteen the un announced its partnership with british jordanian iris my emetics 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 counts. have to biometrically register their irises in order to receive a fundamental principle that we go by is informed consent. from the community. listen to what the indiana. within a fifty if. i'm going to go for ira's guard the deal meant access to millions of

refugees huge market to child it's technology and while it gives the decline of g. 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 an undisclosed sum in iras. card companies like goldman sachs making on the heels with ira scored who are in charge of the refugees transaction. of course founded by one of jordan's wealthiest families including actually a filibuster. 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 dear love 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 are this kind of relation with people from the u.s.

team that took part in planning the war and 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 idiots if we do not ask people who are professionals in their field and they're 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. because we are a man 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. 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. what started as a forced experiment on refugees injured damien come could soon be coming to an eye or a.t.m. near you. knowing that two of the ira scarred advisory board members were strong supporters of the war in iraq we asked them if their wish to join the tech company is driven by their political views they did not immediately respond to our request for a comment goldman sachs did 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. some of which i know you said you heard a noise like thunder and then there appeared a light in the side where the wings are. everything was fine and then i felt that it fell and started to hit us then it stopped and who all started to leave i was going to die. and i was praying i was praying to get the number of his source i don't know but it is just so jesus saved our lives it's a miracle fortunately we have no news of any deceased people the only one with

think is in the serious condition is the pilot. we know today 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 initial report said 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 genocide that happened more than a hundred years ago that story and more after the short break. they gave us national camera. roughly once they showed some leave for them. her. own two videos and some with the rocky string attached. playing down more on

string i don't roughly don't t.v. . i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars and. more than ten white collar crime stamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the ultra rich eight point six percent market so thirty percent is one of your somewhat four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show you can't afford to miss the one and only.

this is our to international welcome back to the program sports where firms seem to be losing their appetite for the iranian market with germany's other deaths now saying it will no longer work with the iranian football federation some reports claim the decision is dictated by the u.s. sanctions against iran teleporter has details. one by one business giants are cutting ties with iran and the latest is german sportswear company id to 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. in the improper and in the chorus 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. a 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 so 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 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 u.s. 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 pledged to support and protect european business it's true that 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 this one republican 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 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 isis fighters are regrouping in the region we spoke to russia's envoy to syria about the security situation. but

the status of that verse there are 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 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 always soldiers fighting against i so it turns out that i saw militants also settled in this area there one thousand seven hundred of them and they can occupy the u.s. 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 germany they are seeking compensation and official apologies for the genocide by germans over one hundred years ago and

if something takes up the story. germany still shows signs of its dark imperial past this is looted it's just a names off to adult 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 bases land from local citizens leading to one of the centuries west genocides. the here in the nation must now leave the country if it for a few years is i shall come palette to do so with a long tube and a hero found inside the german frontier with or without a gun or a candle will be executed i shall spare me the women not children.

today as hereright unama communities still mourn the deaths of the eighty thousand people were slaughtered as that data length of the german government to pay for the crimes committed you know what people. cost. and then you simply claim to be sixty eight on the juice. and you're just in the new the british. because we didn't contribute to different skin color speak. the german government you see for us. it's only. in a pillage. even the apology came

a century lace 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 jamie'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 for nine hundred forty one thousand know it was a war crime and genocide namibia 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 america and now my representatives father lawsuit 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 well ation a violation of the law and germany has not. really been completely held accountable it is unique in the sense that you can find a region extermination order there just issued by germany. to the extent it's them if they were not the historians to say just look at the mix they will make a difference of this case history will delete even the law if they win it might encourage other indigenous groups to take action against format european colonial overlords which could see the likes of bresson fronts on the netherlands pay a high price to posture and issues that the r.t. bell and. that's a wrap up of the day's top headlines for now but in the meantime you can always find us on all their favorite social media platforms for up to the minute reports thanks for tuning in.

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russia is one of the countries that most buy capacity and all the 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 but 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 after it well because that's our asset that will enable us to live well in the long run.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton and welcome aboard coming up today gary left the c.e.o. of view from the wing is here to talk about the prospect of turbulence in the airline industry over fuel prices and airplane manufacturers plus facial recognition technology seems to have

a racial bias and even get this members of the u.s. house and senate are not immune archies actually banks has the details on the can. controversy and who's going to profit from artificial intelligence and how are hackers being stopped from killing the golden goose shipley the c.e.o. of vera software gives us his expert insight and finally from paris france artie's charlotte devinsky looks at allegations that there's something rotten about competition and prices with french supermarkets we've got our motors running and before we had out of the policy highlight what some have. the euro zone has seen the weakest growth rate in two years according to euro's that gross domestic product for the second quarter of the year expanded by only point three percent that's even down a tenth of a percent from the lackluster first quarter and out of four tenths of a percent from q four of twenty seven teen that was at four point seven percent

higher oil prices and growing trade tensions within the united states were to blame according to some analysts and europe staff also released unemployment data which shows the unemployment rate in the e.u. stood at eight point three percent in june the same level as in may that's the lowest level since december of two thousand and eight both the g.d.p. and the employment data will go into the european central bank officials consideration as they remain on course to end their bond buying program known as quantitative easing or q.e. by the end of the year. and while we talk about high oil prices all prices have dropped in recent days even though they're relatively still high higher than normal in recent months that is west texas intermediate w t i traded at the new york mercantile exchange nymex job two percent yesterday just below six.