that. means take center stage in the information war as the u.s. senate intelligence committee looks for ways to counter foreign misinformation campaigns we've got reaction from russia's foreign ministry a lot of pride pride related content less news more memes. in the first mission it's just the latter is when i hear that on the pictures come to mind american democracy. plus nato develops a game to teach players how to spot fake news but critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. a biometric data of millions of refugees in jordan is being used as a way to unlock food and aid journalists from the redfish group investigates the ethical concerns around the practice a fundamental principle of the legal blood is an. eye for the other side of the.

what is the bill and german sportswear giant adidas says it will no longer work with the arabian football federation just a month after rival nike to the say. this is our to international coming to life from the russian capital where it's just turned four pm welcome to the program. the u.s. senate intelligence committee met on wednesday to talk about the threats posed by misinformation campaigns run by foreign states and one issue of particular concern seemed to be the supposedly invasion of social media by russian memes russia's foreign minister reacted by dismissing the discussions as absurd. move when you close michelin it's just hilarious when i hear that funded pictures can demand 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 when the ones who invented social media and when the one soon says to the making social media is open to everybody. so those who are sitting there and d.c. 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 the midterm elections in america in twenty 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 reddit or pinterest where they post more and more russian made names. cyber attacks remains were made a part of moscow's personal content is created tested and posted on from such as you tube reddit and wrist it's pushed to twitter and facebook which are standing

audiences and 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 came from hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did it. a lot of pride related content less news more means this isn't just a couple of this is music apps this is video games this is me share it 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 the. 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. you can now get help learning how to navigate through online fake news from an unlikely source nato has launched a facebook game to teach people how to sort fact from fiction and thus to see a chicken to try her hand at 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 needles 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.

we will not counter. we more. we have to be able to counter this information with facts but it made those new virtual reality world passion seem slightly more subdued you enter a rather suspiciously empty and slow paced news room where you are the news editor in charge of deciding which reports are real and which are not 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

and sites in turkey now r.t. london. twitter has also found itself at the center of the 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 peterson received a twelve hour ban of her after he responded to an accusation linking campaign funding was alleged russian hacking peterson posted this gift of former soviet leader joseph stalin as a reply to his critics some users flagged the post as offensive and it was subsequently deemed to have violated the platform's rules even though the image actually comes from twitter's own collection and appears first on its database when you type stalin but twitter is holding firm that its ban was not a mistake it claims peterson's reply i'm out of to targeted harassment and could be seen as an attempt to silence voices on the platform but austin petersen believes using the stolen image was not the main reason he was suspended 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 peterson's ban came as twitter assembled a special research group to combat prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and openness the new team is yet to get to work but it's already been accused of every strong anti trump bias. thank. you can from john.

something tells me you will suddenly 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 you he's come on facebook. the team will work on algorithms to root out incivility and intolerance on twitter and assess the extent to which people engage with different viewpoints but also peterson believes the platforms making a concerted effort to censor particular 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 the 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. concerns are being raised over the use of iris scanning technology as a means of unlocking aid for refugees in jordan it's fear that should there biometric data get into the wrong hands the refugees may find themselves the targets of foreign governments or intelligence agencies the redfish group went to investigate. it's really. kind of using a password and using a body part is extremely invasive in two thousand and thirteen the un announced its partnership with british jordanian ira 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 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 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 iris card companies like goldman sachs making on the heels with i regard who are in charge of both the three refugees transaction iris guard was called founded by one of jordan's wealthiest families including actually are from buster. 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 were advocates of the war in iraq what i think of what it's like there are guinea pigs. this is just. the fact that the boys or this kind of relation with people from. this team took part in planning 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 feud are their professionals i don't want to warn you you are asking me about your political question from thompson on the stand this is a fact if we get involved in any political statements we are not making any statements and you do not agree to do you. because we are among political company we are in work in the market and political i understand 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. 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 whose benefit could it be that's what started as a forced experiment on refugees injured the union camps could soon be coming to an ore a.t.m. near you. the

u.n. refugee agency senior field coordinator in amman says that although there's always a risk of identity theft he's confident the system is secure and make sure aid goes to the intended recipients he also says on the un h r c has the second half of the encryption key that would be needed to view an individual's data we asked the irish guard at work advisory board to comment on the fighting findings of the redfish report but they didn't immediately get back to us goldman sachs also told us it had nothing to add. a video said to be from inside the plane that crashed in mexico on tuesday has emerged online it apparently shows the moment the aircraft hit the ground. some of which ended and you heard a noise like thunder and then there appeared

a light in the side where the wings are. everything was fine and then the 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 shoes and the number in his shoes so that 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. in fact the pilot suffered serious spinal injuries but thankfully all one hundred three people on board survived mexican media say eighteen were taken to the hospital and mitchell report said that the plane crashed moments after takeoff but others say 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. on the way another major sports where firms calling time on supplying iran's athletes and germany's being called to account for

an african genocide a century ago those stories offer a short break. both of the people in the last month it's very it's about that moment. we were in

the only this. all day experience as old as him will still must live in the group yes. and that our psyche would not at some. point come back sportswear firm seem to be losing their appetite for the uranium market which your muse adidas now saying it will no longer work with the national football federation the decisions thought to stem from the u.s. sanctions against tehran quarter has the details. 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 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 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 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 why the contrary it is the 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 a need here were quite clear they just couldn't do it and they fell in line with us 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 the spite the fact that since the trump administration sanctions announcement e.u. officials pledge 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 wax a lot of old you know. 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 and the state department's response it's our way or the highway we are asking every nation every nation who is sick and tired of 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 it remains

to be seen whether impossible is truly nothing for the block. the russian defense ministry is calling on the u.s. to allow humanitarian access to a refugee camp in southern syria among other things it's urging the u.s. to shut down and military base located close to the camp russia also says our suppliers are now we're grouping in the region we spoke to russia's envoy to syria about the security situation there the status of that. 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 through this 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 a who we sold is 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 could 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. tribes and there may be a in southwest africa are attempting to sue germany they are seeking compensation and official apology apologies for the genocide committed by germans over one hundred years ago initial southie has the story. germany still shows signs of its dark imperial past this is looted it's to us are named after 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 may seize land from local citizens leading to one of the centuries west genocides.

the here are in the nation must now leave the country if it refuses i shall come palette to do so with a long queue 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 as 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 in the new the british. but because we depend to be different skin color of. the german government you see for us. it's only. in apology. in the to. even the apology came a century later with the german economic cooperation and development minister close to tess 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 benenson officially acknowledged the crimes of the past the war

of extermination in the media from nine hundred forty nine hundred way it was a war crime and genocide the movie has received hundreds of thousands of euros from germany perhaps a sort of entire right way of compensation but that's not enough that the tribes last year america and now my representatives father in law suits in new york saying they wanted to be part of the official talks between germany and the maybe i'm saying it was the only way to ensure justice what happened in south africa was a genocide not well as a violation of law and germany is not. really. completely held accountable you just unique in the sense that you can find a region extermination order there just issued by germany. to extend its limits there were not the historians to say just look at the mix they will make a difference of this case history will believe even if they when 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 now but in the meantime you can always find us on all of your favorite social media platforms for up to the minute reports thanks for tuning in. see it is like to use appendix and you can take your panics 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 of the bodies it's going to weather and travel and die because as nobody to exist anymore and this was

happening in the u.k. and it's going to be a lot of fun to watch because they spent living beyond their means for somebody years now now it's all coming home to roost. in the philippine city of angeles when the u.s. military moved out the six tourists moved in. and now a whole generation of fatherless children is growing up you. played that. tempest and. i think the east region like you. i know your. son. is the first time in the t.v. crew to use you and takes you were known to answer is known that now and that if

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string i don't roughly don't t.v. . pundit welcome to worlds apart treat the earth's resources as you would the money in your bank account this is the matter for that my guest today uses to raise awareness of the exploitation of our environment but with the ice caps melting species dying out and our reliance on fossil fuels on the bait it isn't it too late to save our planet from environmental insolvency well to discuss that i'm now joined by mattie's backer now go see all of global footprint networks mr becker negs good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for having me

it's a pleasure now we're recording this conversation on the eve of earth over should day reach this year according to your calculations falls on august first and for all what i understand this is not an occasion for celebration as far as you are concerned yeah we call as we mark earth over should be it's a day in the year by which we have used as much from the planet as the planet can renew need tire year and it falls on august first this year and from what i understand it's also the early is that it's been in the recent years why is that. actually in tire history of humankind its earliest date ever we have never been as large as a population a consumption is still going up yes productivity of agriculture is going up which is mitigating it a little bit but overall demand is still exceeding what we kind of renewed more and more. for those of our viewers who have never heard about this day what exactly

does it mean so essentially the or ecological accountants so accountants typically they count money we count physical things potatoes and cotton that milk and everything and and we look at the word that's a big farm and say how much of this farm is needed to regenerate everything that we use so we add up every square meter of huge for example my orange juice my potatoes my column and cetera how much there is that be called out the ecological footprint that we didn't compare with how much is available on this planet so how big is the farm called planet how big is our hunger as humanity and then we can make a balance sheet and that by marking this day on august first that it would mean that humanity will. run its credit on the particular day i'm starting from august first it will be essentially living on. loan to resources it's like with money if you spend one point seven fold what you earn you know.