because they're still living beyond their means or somebody hears the. headline stories this hour u.s. national security on intelligence chiefs doubled down on trying to. foreign interference grow over the upcoming midterm elections. refugees in jordan are being required to hand over a bio metric data in order to gain access to a. journalist from the redfish group investigate the ethical concerns are wrong the . fundamental principle that we go by is and comes. from the. call to ahead nato develops a game to teach clears how to sponsor the critics say it's simply propping up the.

german sports where. it will no longer work with the arena and football federation just then. did the same. wherever you're training in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international good to have your company our top story. u.s. security and intelligence chiefs being putting on a united front the white house to reassert their suspicions that russia is currently meddling in the upcoming midterm elections with more in this. one by one the various security chiefs took to the podium at the white house we heard from general paul neka son of the u.s. cyber command christopher ray the head of the f.b.i. dan coats the director of national intelligence as well as kirsten nielsen who is

the secretary of homeland security now one by one they spoke with they all kind of seem to repeat the same kind of message this is the security chiefs making their allegations our democracy itself is in the crosshairs paid by russia to try to weaken and divide united states this threat is not going away to prevent foreign interference in our elections to prevent russian and other foreign influence and the russians try to hack into and steal information candidates and government officials alike cyber attacks against voting infrastructure along with your puter intrusions malicious cyber actors are getting elected officials it goes beyond the elections it goes to russia's intent to undermine our democratic values we've heard the head of the n.s.a. come out and say that the u.s. government is prepared to engage in special operations to counter russian influence

in the upcoming elections now dan coats the director of national intelligence he was pressed to give specifics related to allegations regarding hacking and and other specific allegations about somehow russia possibly influencing the election this is how he responded you give us a very sensitive to specific term usually senators have said that they've been targeted hacking by people person a government. numbers of the senate members of the house is it democratic or republican campaigns but we follow procedure this pedigree that. some time ago in terms of when we. receive this type of information it is processed. through the leadership of the respective house or chamber the senate chamber and then disseminated down to the individual member who was who was targeted so we have taken that actions that is in place but i'm not in

a position right now to release these allegations that we recently heard are not that different than what we've really heard many times since the twenty sixteen presidential election especially in the last few months russia is accused of somehow influencing the minds of american people via social media however as these allegations are being leveled not a lot of evidence is really being presented to back them up rush is a legit interference in american politics was also discussed by the us senate intelligence committee on that whedon stay it met for a hearing on the changing nature of online influence campaigns by foreign powers and indeed one issues of particular concern seem to be the spread of memes on social media legibly 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 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 us democracy and they're saying now they have a new target the midterm elections in america in twenty eight 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 remain remain a core part of moscow's personal content it's created tested and posted on top form such as you tube reddit and rest 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 to ecosystem this is awesome platform read it came from hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did it. a lot of pride related content less news more isn't just a couple of forms this is music taps this is video games this is me share it it's much broader than twitter and google more conclusions from the experts they are saying that russia is inspiring controversy across the u.s. on various issues like immigration gun control democrats versus republicans to cut the long story short every issue that the americans have divisions about what's really lacking at 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. let's talk on the issue of russian meddling on cross live to julie laurie an independent journalist who always welcome to the program good to have you what do you make of this a joint statement a few hours ago by the u.s. heads of intelligence that russia is right no interfering in u.s. elections ahead of the midterms. well the whole thing is this sounds like you know there's a communist under your bed this is pure mccarthy this rhetoric that we're hearing as far as that joint statement i mean the f.b.i. director ray today testified that there was a this threat to the electoral system coming up in november november election first of all if the democrats lose again they've got a ready made excuse the russians did it to blame them not to do it our policies will not respond to the american people's needs it's the russians who are doing it the new york times reported that the testimony of ray wasn't never even specific we

don't know what specific threats there were and he was vague on the government's response the head of the d.h.s.s. said that voting machines were being targeted as well that's very serious except as far as i know voting machines are offline they are not online they cannot be hacked and the government u.s. government has never said from the obama administration to the current administration has never said that including the last indictment from over on the g.r.u. agents that voting machines were tampered with or vote counterexample so this is new rhetoric and actually it doesn't seem to be based in reality i have to say don't look from. seems far less convinced that russian meddling he's expressed diets and several occasions most recently at his meeting with love him or put in helsinki there was a little bit of flip flopping of course that time but there's this media conference today signify a split between the president and his intel chiefs. oh up sure he's been at war with his intelligence chiefs since the beginning of his administration since

before he took office after the election and before inauguration he was shown the so-called steel dossier by james coleman then f.b.i. director as a kind of way to safe you don't fall and stay in line we have this stuff that we could put out about you clearly kind of j. edgar hoover tactic even comic con of admitted that in his testimony so yes there's been a war going on it's continuing it's intensifying they're doubling down they're going to blame russia whatever happens in november elections whatever goes wrong whatever problems we have it's russia's fault there are no racial divisions there's no way in quality of income there are no problems in this country except the ones that are made by russia this is so we dickless that i can't believe anybody believes that and guess what america people don't believe it a gallup poll last week that asked americans to list their most greatest concerns and at the bottom was russia and it was less than one percent was statistically insignificant so this is an elite game that's being played in the corporate media is just spewing it out absolute rubbish that same media has been talking about

foreign interference for almost two years now our us intel the service is so powerless we're talking about a great superpower here that they can do nothing to stop it if it is happening and what the russian interference yeah i think we've heard about it for a long time anway i can't stop right right now they need this obviously for their rhetoric to remain in power to fend off legitimate criticism of their government policy in this is and would be then why i started we were able to do something about it. because it's not probably not happening this is this group here in washington this protest group that had an online facebook page saying that they were organizing an antiwar white supremacist group and they were shut down by facebook visits and the russians were running it was a bot the furious to real human beings this is ridiculous what's going on here they have to use something to deflect criticism from their own. rules their own rules

ship and this criticism by the way goes back to in my case anyway into the eighty's before russian federation even existed well before r t a sputnik existed so the idea that this is russian propaganda instead of the fact that this is legitimate criticism that cannot get on an american media platform so i we come on r.t. to speak about this as if we're taking notes from the kremlin this is absolutely getting out of control right now i have not seen it like this before and it's getting more and more dangerous when you think of the relations between two superpowers they don't want better relations with russia they want to push this line and they yes there's a war between trump and his intelligence people without question we appreciate you coming on to the program joe as we always do jewellery independent journalist r t international. you can get help in 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 to see

a church that tried it out. 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 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 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 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. concerns are being raised over the use of iris scanning technology as a means of unlocking aid for refugees in jordan it is feared that showed their body

or metric data get into the wrong helm's the refugees may find themselves the targets of foreign governments and intelligence agencies the redfish group went to investigate. it's really. using a password and using the body parts is extremely invasive in two thousand and thirteen the un announced its partnership with british jordanian i respond in 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 the fields 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 buster. 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 when i think of what it's like they are guinea pigs. this is just. the fact that the boys are second in relation with people from. this

team that took part in the war and is more than. despicable. i had a heated exchange about this with the c.e.o. of iris guard with dealing with the highly secure technologies we would be idiots if we do not ask people who are professionals in the field are there professionals i don't want to worry you are you are asking me about a political question from council understand this is a fact if we get involved in any political statements we are not making any statements for you to use these are very to do you suffer through because we are among political company we are in work in the market and political in their stand but they are not nonpolitical do you understand you do understand that they understand security or do 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

about 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. well the u.n. refugee agency senior field coordinator in amman sees he's confident the refugee status is secure and not the bio metric system ensures aid goes to the intended recipients he added only the un hates c.r. as the second half of the encryption key that would be needed to few an individual's data well we asked the ira scarred advisory board to comment on the

findings of the redfish report they haven't yet got back to us goldman sachs also said that they had nothing to out. lengthy litigation on a seemingly unilateral decision by the u.s. justice department sold blueprints for three d. principle 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 blueprints for three d. guns openly online but eight states went to court and a seattle judge then ordered the plans be taken down the bottle is not over though with the man behind the blueprints comparing his mission to anti establishment activism like wiki leaks. you could cause digital radicals we believe that the internet more perfectly preserve the second man 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 wiki leaks 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 well cody wilson who you just saw started his quest back in twenty thirteen when he first developed a weapon that could be printed out home until recently the federal government especially the state department made sure that 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 this directly with the state department. the reason that the state department got involved our only act would be 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. a legal analyst down commentator lionel told us he's not surprised by the a part and lack of cohesion between various branches of the u.s. government 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 are what is referred to often times some may say too much is this thing called the deep state i'm not suggesting that's here but this dissociation this this skid soit connection between the president and the department of justice is is typical. journalists in belgium have attacked the government there after the scarring they're going to have to pay fifty euro for security vetting if they want to cover the next e.u. leaders summit the first became aware of the new law after the european council

issued accreditation and guidance for the event both the belgian and european journalists association as well as the european commission have said the measure undermines a media freedom. the european commission does not like the fact that entered into force on the first of june the commission will not introduce such a feat the belgian foreign ministry says it will assess the effectiveness of the measure unadjusted in the future if necessary we spoke to the general secretary of the european federation of journalists about the controversy he say's the state should be paying for security at summits not those attending. believe that. it's not respect the. international standard laws regarding access to. information fundamental rights europe and this decision against it's fundamental rights we are not against you know that the policy you know you

don't do to your state to sure. security and journalists we also benefit from that security what we don't understand is why should we pay for it as journalists. sports were a giant seem to be losing their appetite for the uranian market with germany's out saying it will no longer work with the country's football federation the decision is thought to stem from the u.s. sanctions against iran double quarter reports on when sport meets politics one by one business giants are cutting ties with iran and the latest is german sports where a company i lead 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 in in the chorus step taken by added s.a.g.

with regards the sacred name of deer and 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. slogan is nothing is impossible what they do 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. there's no sense in a country like the us or any other country trying to enforce this so why the contrary to the they who should worry that they have lost their way to good market we all started to comment on the reasons for the decision but they declined to give any details the company's move comes hot on the heels of nike's decision not to

sell football boots to the iranian world cup team but the iranians played admirably at the world cup and its supporters took to ridiculing nike's motto. unlike with nike his motives for leaving the iranian national team without a need here were quite clear they just couldn't do it and they fell in line with us sanctions without much of a fight. the u.s. sanctions mean that as a u.s. company knight cannot supply shoes to players in the iranian national team at this time sanctions applicable to have been in place for many years and are enforceable by along with the us threatening further sanctions even more american and european companies appear unwilling to deal with iran that's despite the fact that since the

trump administration sanctions announcement e.u. officials pledge to support and protect european 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. every nation who is sick and tired of this one republic's destructive behavior to join our pressure campaign this is especially those who are allies 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. an

estimated thirty five thousand people marched through jerusalem on thursday in the city's largest ever will pride parade participants chanted slogans and current rainbow colored bombers at an event that also took on a political dimension to the netanyahu government's refusal to extend surrogacy rights to game is roughly two dollars and police officers were there to provide security for those following the two kilometer routes the parade is often a source of tension in the historically conservative city this year it was met with . protests in which four people were arrested while in twenty fifteen it ended in tragedy after an ultra orthodox jewish man six people killing a teenage. in south west africa are attempting to sue germany they're seeking compensation almost

fishel apologies for the genocide committed by german just over a hundred years ago. picks up the story. germany still shows signs of imperial cost this is looted it's named off to do that and hey established the very first colony german southwest africa also known as the maybe in the early one nine hundred stim insets less finally sees the land from local citizens leading to one of the centuries west genocide. the hero's nation must now leave the country if it refuses i shall come palette to do so with a long tube and a hair of found inside the german frontier with or without a gun or a candle will be as acute it i shall spare me the women not children.

today as hereright unama communities still mourn the death of eighty thousand people were slaughtered as that data length of the chairman governments of pay for the crimes committed you know what people how to commit holocaust. and then you simply can't be sixty eight on the juice. in your folly just in the new the british. but because we happen to be different skin color of. the german government you see for us. it's only. in apology.

and that's it. even the apology came a century later with the german economic cooperation and development minister close to tess 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 from nine hundred forty nine where it 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 for the tribes last year america and now my representatives father 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 it is unique in the sense that you can find it in extermination order that was issued by germany. to. explain if they were not the historians to say just look at the mix they will make a difference 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 to posturings finishes at the r.t. bell and. news stories like this are in order to international but next who is the party of the working classes this is this ghost with marx i.