national security intelligence chiefs done on trying to. foreign interference. coming mid-term election. go ahead on the program refugees in jordan are being required. data in order to gain access to food journalist from the red fish with. the ethical concerns are wrong the. fundamental principle. is in for. a game to teach players how to spot. critics say it's simply

a propaganda to the. german sports word. ses it will no longer work with the football federation just them. this. from moscow to the world this is r.t. international good to have your company my name's o'neil ok our top story this hour you can get help learning how. through fake news from police source nato launched a face book game to teach people how to sort fact from fiction. tried her. welcome. 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 last year trying to prove that russian t.v. comedy was really an undercover propaganda machine and of course there is nato's deep seated suspicion of all things russian we don't accept cyber. we will not counter. we more. we have to be able to counter this information with facts but it made those new virtual reality world passion seem slightly more subdued you enter

a rather suspiciously empty and slow paced news room where you are the news editor in charge of deciding which reports are real and which are not 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 all you need to enjoy the game is a facebook account and sign off your facebook info to the alliance in the process and so i say turkey now r.t. london. now 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 . really. 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 towns. 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 this close deals 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 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 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 secured to common use 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 town some understand this little fuck if we get involved in any political statements we are not making any statements and you do not agree to do you. because we are among political company we are in work in the market and political i understand but they are not political 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 the union camps could soon be coming to an or a.t.m. near you. 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. has already influencing these elections which have not yet taken place now at one point we did hear from paul cote who is the dan who was pressed about what actual hacking took place

what. senators were being attacked what exactly was going on and he couldn't really answer the question this is his response when pressed for specific information. you give us a better sense of who specifically targeted we know at least two senators have said that they've been targeted by hacking by people in person in government is. members of the senate members of the house is it democratic or republican campaigns and then a separate question but we follow procedure that spend agree that. some time ago in terms of when we first received this type of information it is processed through the leadership of the respective house or chamber set of chamber and then disseminated down to the individual member who is who is targeted so we have

taken that action that is in place but i'm not in a position right now to release these things. now this comes on the heels of a hearing from the senate intelligence committee in which it was basically we heard all kinds of allegations against russia one of them being that the use of means was somehow going to influence the u.s. public this is some highlights from the recent senate intelligence committee hearing system. as cyber attacks remain us but remain a core part of moscow's arsenal content is created tested and hosted on platforms such as you tube reddit and pinterest its push to twitter and facebook with their standing audience is 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 confirm hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did it.

a lot of pride pride related content less news more memes this 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 and now we hear it are to see immediately went to russian government officials and asked for a response to these allegations flowing from capitol hill in washington d.c. now this was the response of russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov when he heard these allegations from the u.s. government. it's just hilarious when i hear that funded pictures can demand 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 the ones who invented social media and we're not the ones who insisted to making social media open to everybody. now the avalanche of accusations continues to flow however the evidence to back up these accusations

is pretty strongly lacking however americans are pretty clear they have been pretty strongly warned about the alleged influence of russia as the country gears up in the next few months for the upcoming midterm elections thanks for talking us through all about. in new york city let's indeed stay stateside virginia where gregory copely who is the editor of defense on foreign affairs magazine is standing by to speak to us on this topic gregory hello to you what do you make of the joint statement by the u.s. heads of intelligence that russia is right now still interfering in the u.s. midterms unbe on. well it's this is politics as usual where in the run up to the midterm elections the media and a lot of politicians particularly those on the opposition side in washington very anxious to say that the coming elections will not be free and fear the reality is

that there's very little that russia can do to influence the elections certainly not in social media or in the manipulation of social media that's that's not going to have an influence on the election if that were the case then the united states with itself would come under severe attack or attempting to influence the elections are very hard to start over strategy or of britain and the like so really this is a nonsense and but it is the silly season it is the run up to a major congressional election which is critical and therefore these allegations are being made for domestic purposes i think that president trump himself would like to just consume salt from these allegations because he recognizes that there's a real job to be done in building strategic bridges with russia in particular that he wants to see russia not driven into the arms of the it was a colleague in china so therefore he knows that it's not strategically wise to pick

this fight so the reality is that you know asians have little that nation they're meant for domestic purposes the intelligence community is going to respond to that kind of pressure when you have lawmakers insisting that russia is quote interfering in the election process then the intelligence community has to respond as though that were a serious allegation gregory it also opens up some other issues going down different avenues if the interference is still happening what does that say for instance about the work of the us security services. a good point the reality is that you the interference is as is alleged through social media then the us is. teligent cyber communities could do very little about it because it's a question of freedom of speech and yet we see it right now where google is attempting to interfere with freedom of speech and in china by greeting to chinese

government. censorship of the social media so reality in reality social media and open media are manipulable by all sorts of the question is what impact will it have on the voting if the social media and the mainstream media in the united states was as decisive in affecting the election outcomes as they claim to be then we wouldn't have seen donald trump elected in twenty sixteen because the media was universally against him the reality is that if you're looking at cyber interference in an election then it really can only be critical if you can give into voting machines or to the tracking of voters and nobody has credibly alleged that russia or any other foreign government has been successful in manipulating the ballot boxes that that's just what i wanted to talk in gregory where a correspondent was speaking there about why was there any concrete evidence given

after that white house briefing for instance there for well there's no concrete evidence this is all about supposition it's about feelings and to what extent by the way that's what the global intelligence communities have descended to in the past couple of decades they have become factories for the perpetuation of beliefs rather than hard brickley based intelligence evidence we saw that. the whole allegation against trump the script case in the u.k. we see it about so many. situations globally where we see belief based based intelligence so-called intelligence estimates rather than empirically based in fact derived from its. praeger a couple editor of the fence on foreign affairs magazine always good to have you on the show thank you you thank. lengthy litigation

a seemingly unilateral decision by the us justice department sought blueprints for three d. printed guns made briefly available on the web and in the short time they were online it's thought the files were done loaded thousands of times on wednesday a texas based gun rights group published the blueprints for three d. principal guns openly online but eight states went to court on a seattle judge then ordered the plans be taken down the battle is not over though with the man behind the blueprints comparing his mission to establishment activism like wiki leaks. you could cause digital radicals we believe that the internet more perfectly preserve the second and help to be its expansion what is we here weeks for guns this was our idea a kind of see 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. printing and then share

a file on the internet that would be like wiki leaks cody wilson who you just saw there started his quest back in twenty thirteen when he first developed a weapon that could be printed out hold on till recently the federal government especially the state department made sure those blueprints did not make it onto the web but earlier this year the justice department decided to drop litigation against three d. gun plans from being posted online putting it out all it's with the state department the reason that the state department got involved our only act would be in the us 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. this is an extraordinary story so we need an extra three months to put some meat on the bones of it and we have got one legal analyst on commentator lionel welcome back lionel does it surprise you that

these two key departments of government aren't even on the same page and such well let's call it as it is an emotive issue guns for the american people has not happened before even. happens all the time and no it does not surprise me and what will perhaps surprise you or shouldn't is that there has always been provision on the internet for blueprints to make plastic guns via three d. printing let me repeat it's always been there nothing new so what you ask is the source of this brouhaha next trump is doing nothing new it's already been there there was also a first amendment right to the dissemination of information now the only thing which is on the books today are and i do want to go to too much but as a lawyer i could tell you as a former prosecutor it gets

a little sticky when we talk about that which is sent over seas which really doesn't apply here and also it deals with there is a law that prohibits undetectable guns that cannot be picked up through conventional say airport types of of detection devices that being sad gun smithing there is a right that i have to make a gun now whether i sell it distribute it that's a different story that's not in here let me give you another little bit of a reference in one thousand nine hundred seventy one in this country there was a famous anarchist cookbook the anarchist cookbook told people how to make potions and how to poisons how to kill people and it was information that was gleaned in coal aided from army manuals information that was already made available the issues that our courts have dealt with this if i provide any information to you or

data or a thought or a passage or a song or or instructions the same thing with we used to have rules or instructions on how to make a nuclear bomb you find the fish sile material great and if you think you're going to go home and play. one of these things to your h.p. three d. computer or that al-qaeda is going to mass produce plastic guns i mean this does it none of this makes any sense but sense as i did do with it sol as you say emotive and emotion let me just pick up on something you said there donald trump spokes person said on wed and stated that the justice department went ahead with the president's approval how can something like this get passed his desk without needing signing off we have right now a department of justice and its subsidiary the f.b.i. that is acting completely independent of the president and is in

a parallel universe there is there are what is referred to often times some may see too much is this thing called the deep state and i'm not suggesting that's here but this dissociation this their skin so oid connection between the president and the department of justice is is typical but what this is is if you read the attorney general for massachusetts who you would think would know about a lot it seems that right now the message of this is that donald trump because of this this crazy donald trump that we're going to have a state guns and nobody knows anything about what is a gun the federal definition of what a god is the laws that are already here this is complete hysteria not based in fact or reality it just briefly putting your legal hot on again no other theories

blueprints have been on the web albeit briefly in reality they're right there aren't they so isn't the protect protracted court battle a waste of time. absolutely it's moot let me also repeat they've been on there i implore anybody go online and google how the blueprints for a plastic gun and also remember you can say go on line is they are right i don't warrant a gun which is defined as something which is cabled to capable of expelling a projectile through an explosive that's all a gun is under federal law but i can go and say let me make a facsimile you know a harmless plastic gun and then the second blueprint is how do i convert that that's there as well i have been able to before the republic this

grand republic we have been making guns weapons it is protected speech and moreover extracting at the mere information is the data not the dissemination of the gun think about this the implications of free speech it's not the gun that i'm providing it's the information how does one do it if i write a book about how people fashion knives in prisons or real life shawshank redemption emphasis on the word am i telling people how to do this lionel legal analyst and political commentator we always appreciate your time thank you. sportswear giant seems to be losing their appetite for the uranian market with germany's nose saying it will no longer work with the country's football federation but decisions thought to stem from the u.s. sanctions against tehran with the details double quarter. one by one business

giants are cutting ties with iran and the latest is german sportswear company adi das the company said it's no longer going to do business with the iranian national football team and that didn't exactly go down well with tehran. given the improper and in the chorus step taken by added s.a.g. with regards the sacred name of deer around on its website it is necessary to take punitive measures against such conduct the violates human rights and signed a contract with an alternative prior to the start of the asian football confederation asian cup we took to the streets of tehran to find out what iranians think about us as decision the slogan is nothing is impossible what they did is prove that they contradict their own slogan i believe what they did belittle the football federation first of all i believe there is no need for us to introduce

politics into sport it is a nasty thing to do there is no sense in a country like the us or any other country trying to enforce this so why the contrary it is the they who should worry that they have lost their way to good market we asked us to comment on the reasons for the decision but they declined to give any details the company's move comes hot on the heels of nike's decision not to sell football boots to the iranian world cup team but the iranians played admirably at the world cup and its supporters took to ridiculing nike's model. unlike with nike his motives for leaving the iranian national team without 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. u.s. sanctions mean that as a u.s. company knight cannot supply shoes to players in the iranian national team at this time sanctions applicable to have been in place for many years and are in forcible by along with the u.s. threatening further sanctions even more american and european companies appear unwilling to deal with iran that's despite the fact that since the trump administration sanctions announcement e.u. officials pledged 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 act lawful you know detail mean 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 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. here with r t international the latest kaiser report starts in seconds. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

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