this hour's headlines story the u.s. government departments. trying to foreign interference grow over the upcoming midterm elections. so ahead in the program develops a game to teach clears how to fake news but critics say it's simply a propaganda tool. refugees in jordan are being required to biometric data in order to gain access to a food journalist from the red fish group investigate the ethical concerns are the practice. fundamental principle. is in fourth place. in the.

german sports word jelly and. it will no longer work with the are really in football federation just the. nike did the same. eleven am in vancouver eleven pm in islamabad and nine here in moscow you're watching r t international good to have you with us our top story u.s. intelligence chiefs are putting only a united front at the white house to reassert their suspicions that russia is middling in the midterm elections let's go live now to our correspondent and for more hi there what's being said what in the past hour or so there. well one by one we saw the head of the f.b.i.

the head of the national security agency the director of national intelligence get up to the podium and essentially repeat the same allegations let's take a listen to what was said. we address the question of the president's involvement in this his leadership his determination to prevent russian and other foreign influence and elections in regards to russian involvement in the midterm elections we continue to see a pervasive measures in messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states we also know the russians try to hack into and steal information from candidates and government officials alike free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy and it has become clear that they are the target of our adversaries who seek is the d.n.i. just said to so discord and undermine our way of life this is not just an election cycle for. our adversaries are trying to undermine our country on

a persistent and regular basis whether it's election season or not. now they repeated essentially a message that's been pretty frequent you know the midterm elections are two months away but yet they argue that russia is somehow now actively interfering in the elections they spoke specifically about what they're calling pervasive messaging campaigns now the n.s.a. director said that the united states was ready to take special operations against russian interference in the u.s. elections. now this comes on the heels of a recent meeting by these hearing rather by the senate intelligence committee in which they made some pretty interesting allegations about how russia is trying to influence americans this is the senate intelligence committee hearing. so that if. a cyber attacks remain as it were made a core part of moscow's arsenal content is created tested and hosted on platforms

such as you tube read it and pinterest its push to twitter and facebook with their standing audiences in the hundreds of millions and it's targeted at the most receptive this is a problem of the entire information ecosystem this is cross-platform reddit confirmed hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did it. a lot of pride pride related content less news more memes it isn't just a couple of platforms this is music apps this is video games this is me i'm sure and it's much broader than twitter and google now after these allegations were made at the senate intelligence committee we here at r.t. went directly to russian government officials to ask their response to these allegations this is the response from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov to what's being alleged. it's just hilarious when i hear that

funded pictures can undermine american democracy i think that's just paranoid that goes off the scale it's not respectable for american lawmakers to make a sensation out of nothing when not the ones who invented social media and when not the ones who insisted to making social media open to everybody. now there doesn't seem to be a lot of solid evidence being presented however the avalanche of accusations seems to be unfolding a lot of allegations are being made and americans are being told that they should be very very worried about russia's possible role in the upcoming midterm elections live from new york city this hour kill up and thank you. all right moving on you cannot look at help learning how to navigate through on line fake news from an unlikely source nato has launched a facebook game to teach people how to sort fact from fiction unless the see

a church tried her hand out it. welcome to nato's new online weapon against misinformation it's the news hero 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. so 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 newsroom where you are the news editor in charge of deciding which reports are real and which are not but 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 or you need to enjoy the game is a facebook account and sign off your facebook info to the alliance in the process as they say turkey now r.t. london. concerns are being raised over the use of iris scanning technology as a means of on locking aid for refugees in jordan it is feared showed their

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 ira spying metrics company ira scored 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 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 heels with ira scored who are in charge of both the refugees transaction iris guard corps 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 dearlove both of whom are advocates of the war in iraq when i think of what it's like they are guinea pigs. this is just. the fact that the boys are 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 iris guard with dealing with a highly secure technologies we would be idiots if we do not ask people who are professionals in their field are there professionals i don't want to warn you you are asking me about a political question from town some understandable fact if we are not involved in any political statements we are not making any statements and using the i agree to do you. because we are a man political company we are in work in the modern political and their stand but they are not nonpolitical do you understand you do understand that they understand security or didn't 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 text 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 u.n. refugee agency senior field quarantine there in amman say he's confident they refugees data is secure and that the biometric system insurers aid goes to the intended recipients 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 or we asked the ira scarred advisory board to comment on the findings of the redfish report they haven't yet got back to us law goldman sachs told us it's nothing to out. sportswear giants seem to be losing their appetite for the uranian market with germany's snow seeing it will no longer work with the country's football federation the decisions thought to stem from the u.s. sanctions against tehran double quarter brings us 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 in indic or 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 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 the they who should worry that they have lost their way to good mark 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 has motives for leaving the iranian national team without any gear work 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 nyc 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 businesses. as the european commission we have the juicy to protect european companies so we know me to act the law. we are determined to fight so that the decisions taken by the united states have no repercussions for the french businesses that invest and have invested in iran top e.u. officials even wrote a letter pleading with the u.s. to exclude european companies from the penalties in the state department's response it's our way or the highway we are asking every nation every nation who is sick and tired of islamic republics 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 gathered in jerusalem for the city's largest ever and you all pride parade police have been out in force there too with around two thousand officers positioned along the way to colombia to root for people who have been arrested in the protests that are being led by what the docs rob the parade has often been a source of tension that largely conservative city in twenty fifteen it ended in tragedy after an ultra orthodox jewish six people will offend a sixteen year old girl later died from her. the russian defense ministry is calling on the u.s. to dismantle a refugee camp in southern syria which it sais is being used as a hiding place by islamic state militants moscow herz 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 us. is 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 there as they've 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 oh so militants are quite active although they're not many of them 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. twitter has found itself at the center of the bait over center ship 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 hours after he responded to an accusation linking campaign funding with alleged russian hacking or petition posted this gif of yeah 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 came from twitter's own collection appears first on its database when you type stalin but twitter is holding firm doubt that it was not a mistake. it claims that 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 was 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. petersen's bon came out to twitter assemble a special research group to come back prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and open this the new team is yet to get to work but it's already been accused of a strong anti donald trump bias. thank. you. like donald trump you can trump john. something tells me a little from the start see 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 a good place he's campaigned on facebook. yes so we know that the teen 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 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 of the united states 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. a video said to be from inside the plane that crashed in mexico and choose the has emerged online in a partly shows the moment the prophet hit the ground. it's annoying watching it and now you said you heard a noise like thunder and then there appeared a light on the side where the rings are. everything was fine and then i felt that it fell and started to hit us then it stopped and we all started to leak i was going to die. and i was praying i was praying to have a number of the source of the number of issues with jesus saved our lives it's

a miracle fortunately we have no news of any disease people the only one would think is in the serious condition is the pilot yeah and in fact the pilots suffered serious spinal injuries but thankfully all one hundred three people on board survived mexican media say eighteen were taken to hospital initial reports said the plane crashed moments after takeoff but others say it's never completely left the ground all investigators state the flight recorders have been recovered in perfect condition but are yet to be examined. two tribes in namibia inside west africa are attempting to suit germany they're seeking compensation and unofficial apologies for the genocide committed by german colonialists over one hundred years ago with the story this hour and the society. germany still shows signs of its dark imperial past this is looted it's to us or

names off to adult knew that it has the very first colony german southwest africa also known as the maybe a in the early one nine hundred stim insets less thought it bases land from local citizens leading to one of the centuries west genocides. the heroes in the nation must now leave the country if it refuses i shall come pallid to do so with a long tube and a hero found inside the german frontier with or without a gun or a candle will be executed i shall spare me the women not children.

today's 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. cost. and then you simply claim to be sixty eight on the juice. in the new the british. because we dip into buford different kind of speak. the german government you see for us. it's only. in apology. in the to. even the apology came a century lays 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 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 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 follow the 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. 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 that was issued by germany. to the extent it's that means there will be historians to say just look at the mix they will make a difference of these case history we believe even if they win it might encourage other indigenous groups to take action against format european colonial overlords which could see the likes of some friends on the netherlands pay a high price to posturings and the. lie from moscow this is our two international the big questions are always next on worlds apart today earth's resources. are going so well.

she is like the ten things 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 the bodies is going to wither in trouble and die because there's 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 they're still living below their means for somebody hears that cameo.

on the welcome to worlds apart and treat the earth's resources as you would the money in your bank account this is a matter for that my guest today uses to raise awareness of the exploitation of our environment but to 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 matisse back or neck see all of global footprint networks mr beck and they go it's 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 these here according to your calculations falls on august first and from what i understand this is not an occasion for celebration as far as you are concerned yeah we call it remark earth overshoot is a day in the year by which we have used as much from the planet as the planet can

renewed entire 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 population a consumption is stirring 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 from for those of our viewers who have never heard about this day what exactly does it mean so essentially the or ecological economy and so accountants typically they count money we count physical things potatoes and coffin 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 continent cetera how much area is that the call that the ecological footprint that we did can 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 leaving on. loan to resources it's like with money if you spend one point seven fold what you earn you know also by by august first you would have spent your income for the year and then you started to treat your assets financially the same is true with resources if you just look at the whole year we live off the income of nature from jan refers to august first and then the rest would come from depletion and depletion you can see by shrinking forests by accumulation of.