means appear on the frontline and the information war as the u.s. senate intelligence committee looks for ways to counter foreign misinformation campaign we got reaction from russia's foreign ministry the concerns of american lawmakers a lot of pride pride related content less news more means. the bush machine will it's just hilarious when i hear that funny pictures can undermine american democracy. nato develops a game to teach players how to spot fake news but critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. plus the biometric data of millions of refugees in jordan is being used as a way to unlock food and a journalist from the redfish group investigate the ethical concerns around the practice fundamental principle but when we go by is in form called the number that

we're going to do it i don't know. what it is. and german sportswear giant adidas says it will no longer work with iranian football federation the same month after rival my team did the say. this is our to international bring your global news update this hour welcome to the part of. 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 seem to be the supposed invasion of social media by russia means russia's foreign minister reacted by dismissing the discussions as absurd. didn't. move when it was smashed look 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 not the one soon says to the making social media 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 u.s. 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. and cyber attacks for me are made up for part of moscow's personal content is created tested and posted on a pop up such as you tube read it and wrist it's pushed to twitter and facebook when

they're 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 right it came from hundreds of ira's created accounts tumblr did it. a lot of pride related content less news more 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. hearing's 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 associate 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 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. so we have to be able to counter this information with tracts 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

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 after he responded to an accusation linking campaign funding with alleged russian hacking peterson posted this gif a former soviet leader joseph stalin as a reply to his critics some users find the post as offensive and it was subsequently deemed to have violated the platform's rules even though the image actually came from twitter's own collection and appears first on a state a basis when you type stalin but twitter is holding firm that it was it's banned was not a mistake it claims peterson's reply and mounted to targeted harassment and could be seen as an attempt to silence the 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 span came as twitter assembled a special research group to combat prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and openness a new team is yet to get to work but it's already been accused of a strong anti trump bias. we need john and. something tells me

a little suddenly started seeing more republicans in congress are testing the waters and pushing back against. 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 says. 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 austin peterson again believes the platform is 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 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. 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 their 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 i restored 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. 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 iris card companies like goldman sachs making on the heels with ira scored 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 after our 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 took part in planning the war and 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 town some understand this is a fuck if we get involved in any political statements we are not making any statements and you do not agree to do you suffer through because you 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 you can deny that basically the creators of the software and hardware iris guard are the only ones who know how it works and we just have to take their word for. 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 dainian camps could soon be coming to an ore a.t.m. near you. the

un refugee agency senior field coordinator in amman says that he is confident the refugees data is secure and that the biometric system ensures aid goes to the intended recipients he says only the un has the second half of the encryption key that would be needed to view an individual's data we asked the ira scarred advisory board to comment on the findings of the redfish report but they didn't immediately get back to us all goldman sachs 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 that apparently shows the moment the aircraft hit the ground. it's annoying watching it and i said we 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 we 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 people were taken to the hospital and mitchell report said 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 in the program another major sportswear firm calling time on supplying iran's athletes and germany is

being called to account for an african genocide a century ago the stories after the break. seized it is like the easy pen things and you can take your panix 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 is going to wither in trouble and die because it has no body to exist anymore and this is what's 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 so many years now now it's all coming oh. you know world of big partisan law and conspiracies it's time to wait to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than

ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back to the program sportswear firm seem to be losing their appetite for the iranian market which are miss adidas now saying it will no longer work with the national football federation their decisions thought to stem from the u.s. sanctions against tehran double quarter how's 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 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 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 they who should worry that they have lost their way to a good market we are starting 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 motto. unlike without a 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. the 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 that's despite 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 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 it remains

to be seen whether impossible is truly nothing for the block. the russian defense ministry is calling on the u.s. to dismantle a refugee camp in southern syria which it says is being used as a hiding place by islamic state militants moscow has also said it wants washington to shut down a military base. located close to the camp we spoke to russia's own war to syria about the security situation there. and they also got. there 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. . campus located there around sixty thousand people live there now there are many eyes to militants who are there under the guise of refugees my personal opinion is that the americans have got themselves into a deadlock a trap and very physical we saw this 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 say militants are quite active although there are not many of them but 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 in the maybe a in southwest africa are attempting to sue germany they are seeking compensation and official apologies for the genocide committed by germans over one hundred years ago initial sufi has the story. germany still shows signs of its dark imperial past this is looted it's to us names off to do that it has stopped the very first colony german southwest africa also known as the maybe a in the early one nine hundred stim and settlers finally sees the 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 found inside the german frontier with or without the gun or cattle 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 to school know what people how to commit on

a cost. and then you simply claim to be sixty eight on the juice. and you just in the new beat it's not british it's. not because we dip into different skin color speak. the german government you see for us. it's only in apology. and that's it. even the apology came a century later with the german economic cooperation and development minister close to ten is 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 acknowledge the crimes of the past the war of

extermination in the media for nine hundred forty nine hundred way 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 in 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 well ation 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 as there was in the historians to say just look at the mix they will make up for this of these case he's legally 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 on the netherlands pay a high price posturings finishes at the ati bell and. that's a wrap up of the day's top headlines from l. but in the meantime you can find us on all of your favorite social media platforms for up to the minute reports thanks for tuning in. most of the people in the last month. that. we were in that number close to this. all day experience this all of this will slow.

the growth. and the psyche you would not have a sense that. this is harlan kentucky. with all of this group the employees says it was very funny using. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal miners are said. that it was a laugh to see these people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happening it's happened.

you're welcome to the kaiser report and prepare to be in the. place where we're going to continue a bit on this whole united states of inequality and the preparation as we head into

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

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

democratic side figures out to look at the data hillary spent billions on data and famously chose to ignore it she thought her instincts were better than the data and that's why she lost we'll get into that another episode but i do want to mention that the democrats are the ones that enabled all of that enabled google and facebook to capture such a large share and not basically break them up via anti-monopoly anti-trust laws so they're the ones that allow them to collect so much data and yet that's part of the reason why i think they have this sort of mental breakdown where they have become the republicans of the one nine hundred fifty s. and now in fact what the data the actual results of twenty sixteen show is that america's three towns once solidly blue are now a g.o.p. haven a generation ago democrats represent and much of the country's manufacturing base now it is in g.o.p. hands a swing remaking both parties the republican party has become the party.