u.s. national security and intelligence achieves double down on trying to tackle alleged foreign interference as jitters grow over the upcoming midterm elections. refugees in jordan are being required to hand over biometric data in order to gain access to aid and food journalists from the red fisher group investigate the ethical concerns around the practice fundamental principle that we do is informed consent of the letter the letter. of the. nato develops a game to teach players how to spot fake news but critics say it is simply

a propaganda tool. and a german sportswear giant adidas says it will no longer work with the iranian football federation just a month after rival nike did the same. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international seans on this truly glad to have you with us. u.s. security and intelligence chiefs have put on a united front at the white house reasserting their suspicions that russia is currently meddling in the upcoming midterm elections artie's killam up and his commentary one by one the various security chiefs took to the podium at the white house we heard from general paul neka soane of the u.s. cyber command christopher ray the head of the f.b.i. dan coats the. actor 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 made by russia to try to weaken and divide united states 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 targeting like the officials that 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 better sense of who specifically targeted we know the senators have said that they've been targeted by hacking by people person in the government. numbers of the senate members of the house is it democratic or republican campaigns we follow procedure that spend agreed. 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 is who is targeted so we have. taken that actions that is in

place but i'm not in a position right now to release these things 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 or an independent journalist joe lauria believes american politicians are using the russian threat to distract from domestic issues this is new rhetoric and actually it doesn't seem to be based in reality i have to say they're going to blame russia for whatever happens in the november elections whatever goes wrong whatever problems we have it's russia's fault there are no racial divisions there is no way in quality of income there are no problems in this country except the ones that are made by russia this is ridiculous what's going on here they have to use something to deflect criticism from their own. rules their own rules ship 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 several u.s. senators have introduced a new anti russia sanctions bill among other provisions the bill requires a two thirds vote in the u.s. senate to leave it nato and requires the secretary of state to assess whether russia is a state sponsor of terrorism it also calls for creating a new fusion center which will seek to respond to hybrid threats which seem to come only from russia according to the authors of the bill political commentator lou rockwell told us that the objective is to forge a united front against moscow. they want to get everybody on board and you saw that they had all the heads of all the various agencies and they want to get every interest group they have the you know the military and the entire military

industrial complex the security complex all they are waving the bloody shirt they produced zero evidence and. that's you know that's been true all along about this overall russian interference russian collusion all that stuff they want to get everybody together they want to scare the american people are russia's alleged interference in american politics was also discussed by the us senate intelligence committee on wednesday and met for a hearing on the changing nature of online influence campaigns by foreign powers and one issue of particularly concern seemed to be the spread of memes. on social media that allegedly can be traced back to moscow we asked to the russian foreign minister for his thoughts on the subject. 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 we're the ones who invented social media when all the ones who insisted on making social media open to everybody so those who are sitting there and 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. and cyber attacks for me are made a part of moscow's personal content it's created tested and posted on such as you tube breaded interest it's pushed to twitter and facebook with their standing audiences in the hundreds of millions and it's targeted at the most receptive this

is a problem of the entire information ecosystem this is cross-platform reading from hundreds of ira's created accounts tumblr dated. a lot of pride related content less news more isn't just a couple of this is music apps 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.

you can now get help learning how to navigate through online fake news from an unlikely source nato has launched a facebook game to teach people how to sort fact from fiction or do some associate you're going to try to her and. 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 nato is lot fear based strategic communication center of excellence could dig up something better especially given the lengths that 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 facts but to me those new virtual reality world passions seem slightly more subdued you enter a rather suspiciously empty and slow paced news room where you are the news editor in charge of deciding which reports are real and which are not by clicking on a folder with news stories in it accompanied by repetitive elevator music. it's not yet clear how successful the game is and fighting fake news since you have to collect enough likes to be considered a viral success and so far it's had mixed reviews getting an a for effort from some users but dismissed as a propaganda tool by others all you need to enjoy the game is a facebook account and sign off your facebook info to the alliance in the process

and spicy chicken out party 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 should 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. it's really. kind 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 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 camps. 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 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 fields with iris cord 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 adviser 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 just. the fact that the border or this kind of relation with people from. this team that took part in the war is more than. the 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 care about it one of course you are asking me about a political question from council 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 suffer because we are a month political company we are in work in large and political i understand but they are not not political do you understand you do understand that they understand

security or do you deny that basically the creators of the software and hardware iris cart 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 or a.t.m. near you. the u.n. refugee agency is senior field coordinator in amman says he is confident of the refugees

data is secure and that the biometric system ensures a goes to the intended recipients he added that only the e.u. and h. c.r. has the second half of the encryption key needed to view an individual state we asked the irish guard advisory board to comment on the findings of the redfish report they have yet to get back to us goldman sachs told us it had nothing to add . zimbabwe's incumbent president emerson. has one reelection more on that story after a short break but we're watching. russia is one of the countries that most buy capacity in all the very high population does that mean russia does need to be concerned about sustainability i would say yes

absolutely you are no lucky situation where you have a lot of four per person so to say you know you have a lot of wealth make a logical wealth and but the word is very scarce so that's a huge economic advantage as well and saying wow this is an amazing form let's look after it well because that's our out said that the major loss to live well the long run. is like the ease pending and if you 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 it has 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 spent living beyond their means for somebody hears that.

zimbabwe's electoral commission has announced of the country's incumbent president emerson and has emerged victorious in monday's election it was the first vote held by the country since the ousting of longtime former president robert mugabe in the streets of the capital harare were quite quiet at the time of the announcement however the city sell violent protests earlier with demonstrators alleging a rigged vote on wednesday the military moved in and used gunfire and to disperse the opposition protest resulting in six people being killed mangala won six out of ten provinces with four provinces going to his main rival nelson chamisa chinese. dominated in urban areas where kerry vote in the country's.

tragedy has struck in the yemeni city of who date where the saudi led coalition has conducted airstrikes resulting in civilian casualties now we would like to warn you that the following images are quite graphic now yemeni officials say twenty eight people were killed and around seventy injured however a local t.v. station has reported that fifty two are dead and at least one hundred boarded air strikes hit an area near the city's main public hospital those who are severely wounded mostly civilians but life. has repeatedly been accused of war crimes but denies deliberately targeting noncombatants the coalition has been at war with the rebels known as the goofy's sense march two thousand and fifteen yemen is now in the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than twenty two million people in dire need but by years of civilian suffering u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley seems to think that the pastor fee only began well yesterday. we had

that a saudi led coalition had airstrikes today against a fish market and a hospital in her data that may have caused dozens of casualties we've hit a new day now in yemen and we've had a new sense of urgency and u.n. and that if this is what started to happen civilians are at risk infrastructure is at risk or former pentagon official michael maloof thinks washington should have recognized the humanitarian situation in yemen long ago. for nikki haley it just occurred today which is unfortunate because the united states is actually supplying a lot of the logistics and the intelligence for the saudis and you don't hear too much criticism he should have been out there months ago condemning what the the the humanitarian catastrophe that's occurring in yemen is just you just you just cannot be nice about this any longer or or just overlook it because it's gone on for too

long and too many people have been have been killed and you wonder and you have to ask yourself the question what's the point. litigation and a seemingly unilateral decision by the u.s. justice department saw blueprints for three principle guns made briefly available on the web and in the short time they were online it is thought the files were downloaded thousands of times on wednesday a texas based a 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 to be taken down the battle's not over though with the man behind the blueprints comparing his mission to anti-establishment activism like wiki leaks. and you could cause digital radicals we believe that the internet more perfectly preserve the second then and help to be its expansion what is working weeks for guns this was our idea a kind of seed 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. cody wilson who you just saw there started his quest back in two thousand and thirteen when he first to develop a weapon that could be printed at home until recently the federal government especially the state department made sure those blueprints didn't make it onto the web but earlier this year the justice department decided to drop a little geisha against three d. gun plans from being posted online putting it at odds with the state department the reason that the state department got involved are only aqua t. 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 our legal analyst and a commentator lionel told us in his very special way that he's not surprised by the apparent 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 see too much is this thing called the deep state i'm not suggesting that's here but this dissociation this this good soit connection between the president and the department of justice is is typical. sports where giants seem to be losing their appetite for the iranian market with germany's adidas now saying it will no longer work with the country's football federation now the decisions fought to stem from the u.s. sanctions against tehran donald quarter of ports on when sports meets politics. 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 decor 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 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 quite the contrary it is they who should worry that they have lost their way to

a 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 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 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. 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 bloc. journalists in belgium have a tax of the government there after discovering they will have to pay fifty euros for security vetting if they want to cover the next you leaders summit they first became aware of the new law after the european council issued accreditation guidance for the event both the belgian and the european journalist associations as well as the european commission have said the measures undermined media freedom. european commission as much like the belgian law that entered into force on the first of june the commission will not introduce such a few the belgian foreign ministry says it will assess the effectiveness of the measure and adjusted in the future of necessary we spoke to the general secretary of the european federation of journalists about the controversy he says it should

be the state paying for security of some its not those attending you believe that belgian is not respect the. international standard most access to information that is from commission fundamental rights in europe and this decision against its rights we are not against you know that. policy. you don't do to your state to ensure. security and journalists you also get it from that security what we don't understand is why should we pay for it as journalists are there does it for me i'll be back in thirty two and a half minutes with more news you are watching our two international.

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