hearing that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. news appear on the front line in the information war as the u.s. senate intelligence committee looks for ways to come or influence campaign spearheaded by foreign powers we got reaction from russia's foreign ministry to the latest concerns on capitol hill a lot of pride pride related content less news more memes. it's just hilarious when i hear that funny pictures can demand american democracy. plus nato develops a game to teach players how to spot fake news but critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. refugees in jordan are being required to hand over biometric data in order to gain access to aid and food journalist from the red fish

group investigate the ethical concerns around the practice. the fundamental principle that we go by is informed consent remember that we couldn't do it without it. and german sportswear giant adidas says it will no longer work with the arabian football federation just a month after rival nike did the same. a very warm welcome to the program from the whole crew here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us for a global news update this hour. 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 supposed invasion of social media by russian means russia's foreign minister reacted by didn't dismissing the discussions as absurd. when you

look it's just hilarious when i hear that funny pictures can undermine american democracy i think that it's just paranoia that goes off the scale it's not respectable for american lawmakers to make a sensation out of nothing when all the ones who invented social media when all the ones who insisted on making social media open to everybody so those who are sitting there and the sea 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. cyber attacks were

made as it were made up or part of moscow's arsenal content is created tested and hosted on top form such as you tube reddit and frist it's pushed 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 came from hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did. a lot of pride pride related content less news more means this isn't just a couple of platforms this is music apps this is video games this is me 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. 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 associates are going to tried 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 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 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 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 gift of former soviet leaders josef stalin as a reply to his critics some users like the post as offensive and it was then deemed to have violated the platforms rules even though the image actually came from twitter's own collection and appears first on a stated base when you type stalin but twitter is holding firm that its ban was not a mistake it claims peterson's reply and mounted to targeted harassment and could

be seen as an attempt to silence voices on the platform but austin petersen believes using the 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 a strong anti trump bias. why

don't we need johnny. something tells me you will suddenly start seeing more republicans in congress testing the waters and pushing back against. trump's twenty sixteen digital team and cambridge analysts we can to help the russians figure out who to tell gates their fate he's campaigned 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 often peterson again 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 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 there biometric data get into the wrong hands the refugees may find themselves the targets of foreign governments and intelligence agencies the redfish group went to investigate. really. using a password and 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 a blink of an eye refugees jordan's two biggest camps. have to biometrically register their irises in order to receive a 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 garri 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 deals with iris guards who are in charge of both the three refugees transaction iris school 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 dear love 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 are kind of relation with people from. this team that took part in the war and is more than a. speaker. i had a heated exchange about this with the c.e.o. of ira scarred with dealing with a highly secured comedies we would be idiots if we do not ask people who are professionals in their feud are there professionals i don't want to warn you you are asking me about a political question from thompson on the stand 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 because you are among political company we have it 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 who benefit could it be that's what started as a forced experiment on refugees injured dainian camps could soon be coming to an or

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 person he says only the u.n. h.c.r. has the second half of the encryption key that would be needed to view an individual's data we asked the iris card advisory board to comment on the findings of the redfish report but they didn't immediately get back to us on goldman sachs told us it had nothing to add. a video said to be from inside the plane that crashed in mexico on tuesday as a merged online apparently shows the moment the aircraft hit the ground.

so which i know you said you heard a noise like thunder and then there appeared a light on the side where the wings are. everything was fine and then i felt that it fell and started to hit 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 the source of the number as susan said 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 the mexican media says eighteen people were taken to the hospital initial reports of the plane crash moments after takeoff but others say it never completely left the ground 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 firms calling time on supplying iran's athletes and germany's being called to account for an african genocide a century ago those stories and more after a short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going foundation let it be an arms race is on offer and spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. you know world of big partisan route. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than

ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. 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 adidas now saying it will no longer work with the national football federation there the decisions to stem from the u.s. sanctions against tehran its own 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 prompt 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 the slogan is nothing is impossible what they did is prove that they contradict their own slogan i believe what they did to 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 over 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 without it us nike's 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. the u.s. sanctions mean that as a u.s.

company cannot supply shoes to players in the iranian national team at this time sanctions applicable to nyc 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 businesses 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 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 where i was in the middle east in 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 envoy to syria about the security situation there. 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 u.s. . is located there around sixty thousand people live there now there are many high school militants who are under the guise of refugees my personal opinion is that

the americans have got themselves into a deadlock a trap and they're not always told 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 saw militants are quite active although there are not many of them and maybe want to see thousand people is located on the syrian right on the eastern bank of the fraser river which is controlled by the kurds. to jerusalem now where forty six ultra-orthodox jews have been arrested while blocking a road to protest the detention of a draft dodging student. i. oh. just saw police used water cannon in an attempt to disperse the activists that

led to skirmishes which saw one officer injured has reportedly been taken to the hospital the demonstration is now over protests regularly flare up over the issue of concern conscription in israel as ultra-orthodox jews refuse to serve in the military although they are typically given an exemption they have to sign papers to receive it which some refuse to do. to tribes in the maybe a in southwest africa or attempting to sue germany they're seeking compensation and official apologies for the genocide committed by germans over one hundred years ago and if something has the story. germany still shows signs of its dark imperial cost this is looted it's named off to adult do that it has stoppage the very first colony german southwest africa also known as the maybe a in the early one nine hundred stim insets less finally sees land from local

citizens leading to one of the centuries west genocides. the hero's nation must now leave the country if it's refuses i shall come palette to do so with a long queue and a hero found inside the german frontier we know without a gun or can know will be executed i shall spare me that women not children. today's hereright unama communities still mourn the deaths of the eighty thousand

people were slaughtered is that battling for the german government to pay for the crimes committed you plan to use or know what people how to commit holocaust. and then you simply claim sixty eight on that you. i enjoy in then you beat him at the british. but because we have been to be different skin color speak. the german government you see for us. it's only in apology. in the to. 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 cheney'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 when i was a war crime and genocide the media 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 filed a 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. a violation of law and germany is not. really. completely held accountable just unique in the sense that you can find cleavage and extermination order that just issued by germany. to the extent it's that means there will be historians to say just look at the mix they will make up

for this of this case history will delete 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 bell and. that's our wrap up of the day's top headlines for now but don't forget you can always have to our website or to dot com for the details on all of those stories and more 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

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