frontline in the information war the us senate intelligence committee looks for ways to 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 privately to content less news more names. it's just hilarious when i hear that. american democracy also ahead on the program and nato develops a game to teach players how to fake news but critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. refugees in jordan are being required to hand over a biometric data to gain access to

a. journalist from the red fish group investigate the ethical concerns are a. fundamental principle. of the. german sports where a giant. will no longer work with the indian football federation just a month after rival nike did the same. live from our international news channel in moscow this is r.t. good to have your company on the internet only our top story the u.s. senate intelligence committee met stay for a hearing on the changing nature of online influence campaigns by foreign powers on one issue a particular concern seems to be the spread of means on social media that can be

traced back to moscow we asked the russian foreign minister for his thoughts on the talks. 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 and went all the ones who insisted on 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. cyber attacks remains were made up or part of moscow's personal content is created tested and posted on top form such as you tube reddit and rest its push to twitter and facebook with their 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 tried to hide related content less news more this isn't just a couple of forms this is music taps this is video games this is me and 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 that. 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 get help learning how to navigate through online fake news from an unlikely source nato has launched the facebook game to teach people how to sort fact from fiction and to see a church going to try to hurt. welcome to nato's new online weapon against misinformation it's the news here oh i promised myself to report only the truth join me on my quest to filter the news some of the headlines about the game might imply that its developers have a bone to pick with russia but on closer inspection it seems it doesn't have that

much russian fake news to decipher you might have thought that needle's lot fear based strategic communications center of excellence could dig up something better especially given the lengths it went to 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 cyber. we will not counter. we more. 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 a company wide 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 well twitter has also found itself at the center of the beta over a century ship the latest controversy comes up after it suspended austin peterson a republican candidate in the u.s. state of missouri senate race. for what it the scribed those abuses of behavior peterson received the twelve hours after he responded to an accusation linking campaign funding with alleged russian hacking well peterson posted the gif of former salvi at leader joseph stalin this one was 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 came from twitter's own collection on appears first on its database when you type stalin but twitter is holding firm that its bond was not a mistake it claims peterson's reply amounted to targeted harassment and could be seen as an attempt to silence voices on the platform but austin petersen believes using the stalin 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 paul peterson's bon came twitter assembled a special research group to come by prejudice and promote what it defines us collective health and openness the new team is yet to get to work but it's already been accused of a strong anti donald trump bias. like donald trump when you can trump john. something tells me a little suddenly started seeing the republicans in congress testing the waters and pushing magazines trying. 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.

so we know the team is going to work on algorithms to root side incivility and intolerance on twitter unless assess the extent to which people engage with a different a few points but often peterson believes the platform is making a concerted effort to censor particular ideas on 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 or you know save 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 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 feared 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. it's really. sort 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 a blink of an eye refugees jordan's two biggest cans zaphod. 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 close deals with iris cord who are in charge of both the refugees transaction iris guard was called founded by one of jordan's wealthiest families including actually are from after our on their advisory board we'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 there are guinea pigs. this is. the fact that the boys or this kind of relation with people from. this

team took part in the war and is more than a. 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 there professionals i don't want to work you are asking me about a political question from town so understand this is a fact we are not involved in any political statements we are not making any statements for you to use these are great to do you. because we are a man 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 do to my 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. 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 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 eye or a.t.m. near you. ok so we know that the un refugee agency senior field coordinator in ses he is confident the refugee state is secure enough the bio metric system insurers aid goes to the intended recipients he says only the un see are the second half of the

encryption key that would be needed to view an individual's data or we also asked the irish guard advisory board to comment on the findings of the redfish report but they haven't yet got back to us well goldman sachs told us it had nothing to out. on the way another major sports where firms calling time on selling equipment to. the story and more after the break. join me every first week on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. of the people in my. family we were in

number one. all day the evidence is i want to see him with a little muscle growth that's. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. skeery dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. quarter of an hour into the program welcome back sports were a giant seem to be losing their up

a time for the uranian market with germany's on the dust knowledge saying it will no longer work with the national football federation the decisions thought to stem from the u.s. sanctions against iran double quarter the 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. given the improper indyk or a step taken by added s.a.g. with regards to 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 do is

prove that they contradict their own slogan i believe with the little the football federation first of all i believe there is no need for us to introduce politics into sport it is a nasty thing to do there is no sense in a country like the us or any other country trying to enforce this so why the contrary it is they who should worry that they have lost already 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 nike his motives for leaving the iranian national team without any fear 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 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 trump administration sanctions announcement e.u. officials pledge to support and protect european business it's been put to work as the european commission we have the jussi 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 it remains to be seen whether impossible is truly nothing for the block. tens of thousands of people have gathered in jerusalem for the city's largest ever pride parade police know it in force there too with around two thousand officers positioned along the truth along the routes for people who have been arrested in the t l g b t protest stops are being led by orthodox rabbis the parade has often

been a source of tension in the largely conservative city in twenty fifteen it ended in tragedy after an ultra-orthodox jewish six people one of them a sixteen year old girl who later died from her. the russian defense ministry is calling on the u.s. to dismantle a refugee camp in southern syria which it seems is being used as a hiding place by islamist islamic state militants excuse me 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 this security situation there. with us they also took us through 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 us. is located around sixty thousand people live there now there are many eyes who militants who are

there under the guise of refugees my personal opinion is that the americans have got themselves into a deadlock a trout. as they've always told is fighting against i so it turns out that i saw militants also settled in this area there are one thousand seven hundred of them and they can occupy the u.s. military base within hours maybe days another place where oh so militants are quite active although there are not many of them and maybe want to two thousand people is located on the syria iraq border on the eastern bank of the euphrates river which is controlled by the kurds. a. lengthy letter and a seemingly singlehanded decision by the u.s. justice department has seen blueprints for three d. printer guns made briefly available online they have now been taken down but not without controversy on both sides of the gun debate let's get more on that knife from artie's killer but my pen either how did this all come up by it seems quite extraordinary. well the gun debate in the united states has been

ongoing and raging but the fact that now three d. printing is very common around the united states has added kind of a new dimension to the debate so a texas based gun rights organization has been posting the plans for how to make firearms with a three d. printer on the internet now some of these guns are plastic and can actually not be detected by metal detectors others are made out of metal but essentially anyone could circumvent gun gun purchasing procedures background checks and such go to a three d. printer with these plans and make a gun and that could very easily happen and that these guns they may look a little strange but if you take a look at them they're actually capable of killing and maiming people just like any other firearm even though they look a little bit strange because they come from a three d. printer and now the federal courts have temporarily removed these plans from the

internet and this was after a number of states sued the u.s. department of justice demanding that these these plans be taken down and now at this point the washington state attorney general is feeling triumphant however the individual cody wilson who has been advocating to put guns in the plans to make them on the internet three d. printer available guns online he sees himself as a kind of julian a son for guns so the debate is continuing let's take a listen. complete total victory everything we asked for we got from judge when we were asking for the nationwide temporary restraining order putting a halt to this no reach its decision by the federal government to allow these three deep down the guns to be built around our country and around the world benefit really new cost digital radicals we believe that the internet. perfectly preserve

the second man and hope to be as expansion what is we can weeks for guns this was our idea a kind of seed you know like our immediate purpose like wow could we be with you weeks for guns what would that look like we found a three d. printer we said what if you could three d. printed gun and then share a file on the internet that would be like wiki leaks now this all started back in twenty thirteen the texas based gun group started putting the plans on the internet and then we saw the federal government most notably the state department taking action to essentially stop them from posting these plans about how to make firearms with a three d. printer on the internet but then later we recently saw that the department of justice actually dropped its litigation that would prevent the group from posting the plans online and this is caused a little bit of a rift between the department of justice and the u.s. state department the two departments in the federal government don't seem to agree

about this issue let's take a listen in that the state department got involved our only aqua t. in this is because of our role in controlling foreign access to u.s. defense technology in simpler words the state department wants to prevent the wrong people from acquiring weapons overseas now the bottom line is regardless of the court's decision while these plans were available on the internet thousands of people downloaded them they were downloaded thousands of times and as we all know once something goes up on the internet it doesn't for the gun debate in the age of digital and.

what city of who data on confirmed that media reports suggest that a hospital was struck in the alleged attack. commented on the reports riyadh however has repeatedly denied killing civilians that is a story will be closely following throughout the hours here on our to international . stay with us now for more programs one former scottish first minister grows another next on the alex salmond show this is art international. is like the ease pending 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 wither and travel and die because as nobody 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 there's been living beyond their means for so many years now and that's all coming through. russia is one of the countries that most by capacity and all the very high population does that mean russia does need to be concerned about this inability i would say yes absolutely you are no lucky situation where you have a lot of form 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 say wow this is an amazing form let's look after it well because that's said that will enable us to live well in the long run

. thank you. thank you. welcome to the alex salmond show today we feature a special interview with the former first minister of scotland henry mcleish twenty years ago as a labor minister of state he was piloting the school and back to the house of commons he then became scotland's second first minister after the untimely death of don't know two or his time at the top of scottish politics was cut short by an

expenses scandal which nice seems relatively minor in light of many more recent issues however over the last fifteen years he has devoted himself to public service in scotland while also pursuing an academic career in the united states meanwhile his political journey from keen devolution este to being on the cusp of backing independence has been as much as scotland today alex interviewed him on his career on the status front of scotland's parliament on the egyptian issue and scotland and on his thoughts on the direction of american politics under trump but first to your tweets your messages and e-mails and first from hazel he says thanks for today's got in the brown theme here interviewee so passionate as well as knowledgeable looked at the poor open the door as it bears an occasional reading to our politicians i messed affinities is what they do not want indeed we do not thank you so here and i says that have been many great programs and all informative today keeps going the band features amongst the best getting the message of the strength

and quality of scotland across wealth and thanks for a tasty sure linda says it's a first to be fired from linda all go on scotland get a full landscape it stands in culture impressive parliament sally says fantastic show again but michael gove's right as if he can i agreed. simple heartedly that scotland produces great argon cabinets yes we do and finally came to said great show the disc on the ground something that was overlooked our lungs and water are free from fracking good point that's why the saltire is a friend of quality now over to alex cohen screen just outside the high school in twenty years ago the house of commons chamber was not dominated by brits but by scotland and the mom steering that devolution legislation through was her mcleish now in the u.k. government's plans for bret's that many believe that the principles of devolution and compass not legislate.