u.s. national security and intelligence chief doubled down on trying to tackle alleged foreign interference as it 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 redfish group investigate the ethical concerns around the practice fundamental principle but. is informed consent. for the out of the benefit 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 says it will no longer work with the iranian football

federation just a month after rival mikey did the same. for broadcasting live from our studios most of this is our international on the certainly glad to have you with us. and 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 and as. one by one the various security chiefs took to the podium at the white house we heard from general paul neka sono 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 but they all kind of seem to repeat the same kind of new. this is the security chiefs making their

allegations our democracy itself is in the crosshairs paid by russia to try to weaken and divide the 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 computer intrusions malicious cyber actors targeting look to 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 at least two senators have said that they've been. targeted by hacking by people personating 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've just received 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 it's in place but i'm not in a position right now to release those things these allegations that we recently heard are not that different than what we really heard many to. time 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 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's 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 the 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 of the bill requires a two thirds vote in the u.s. senate to leave nato and requires the secretary of state to assess whether russia is a state sponsor of terrorism but also calls for creating a new fusion center which it will seek to respond to hybrid threats which seemed to come only from russia this according to authors of the bill the political commentator lou rockwell told us 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 those

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 concerned seemed to be the spread of memes on social media that allegedly can be traced back to moscow we asked the russian foreign minister for his thoughts. when. 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 not 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 u.s. democracy and they're saying now they have. the new target the midterm elections in american 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 main. cyber attacks for me were made a core part of moscow's personal content is created tested and posted on top form such as you tube reddit and wrist 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 right it came from hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did. a lot of pride pride related content less news more this isn't just

a couple of this is music apps this is video games this is me sure it's much broader than twitter 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 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 some associates tried

her hand at it. 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 it's 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 it went to asked year trying to prove that russian t.v. comedy was really an undercover propaganda machine and of course there is nato's deep seated suspicion of all things russian we don't accept cyber. we will not counter. we more. we have to be able to counter this information with facts but to meet 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 or 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 in 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 iris my emetics company i restored they began rolling out and i respect ignition and payment system that meant refugees could withdraw money and shop with a blink of an eye refugees jordan's two biggest camps. 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 iras card companies like goldman sachs making on the slopes 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 advisor to george w. bush. former head of m i six richard dear love both of whom are advocates of the war in iraq what i think of what it's like they are guinea pigs. this is. the fact that the boys or relation with people from. this

team took part in the war and 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 want to warn you 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 do you suffer through because we are a man political company we have it work in large and political i understand but they are not nonpolitical do you understand you do understand that they understand security or do to marry that basically the creators of the software and hardware iris guard are the only ones who know how it works and we just have to take their word for. it the collection of iris scans and biometric data isn't new

but using refugees that have no real choice but to hand over their information in exchange for receiving aid on this scale is unprecedented and as yet there remain many unanswered questions is the 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 eye or a.t.m. near you. the u.n. refugee agency senior field corner in amman says he is confident of the refugees a day it is secure and that the biometric system ensures goes to the intended recipients he added that only the un h c r has the second half of the encryption key needed to view an individual's data and we ask the iris guard advisory board to

comment on the findings of the redfish report but they have yet to get back to us goldman sachs told us that it had nothing to hide. zimbabwe's electoral commission has announced of the country's incumbent president emerson. has emerged victorious in monday's election it was the first vote held by the country since of the ousting of longtime former president robert mugabe and the streets of the capital harare were quiet add to the time of the announcement however the city saw violent protests earlier with demonstrators alleging a rigged now on wednesday the military moved in and used gunfire to disperse the opposition protests resulting in six being killed. six out of ten provinces before problems came to his main rival nelson chamisa dominated in urban areas. during would vote in the countryside. tragedy has

struck in the yemeni city of who did where this saudi led coalition has conducted air strikes resulting in civilian casualties and we would like to warn you that the following images are quite graphic yemeni officials say twenty eight people were killed in around seventy injured. a local t.v. station has reported that fifty two are dead and at least one hundred wounded there are strikes hit an area near the city's main public hospital who are severely wounded mostly civilians were hospitalized there. has repeatedly been accused of war crimes but denies deliberately targeting noncombatants the coalition has been at war with the rebels known as the who these since march two thousand and fifteen yemen is now the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than twenty two million people in dire need but despite years of civilian suffering u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley's seems to think that the task for a fee only began yesterday we had that a saudi led coalition had airstrikes today against a fish market and a hospital in who 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 even then that if this is what's. starting to happen civilians aren't risk infrastructure isn't risk former pentagon official michael maloof thinks that 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 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 i assure 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 of a lengthy litigation and

a seemingly unilateral decision by the u.s. justice department solid blueprints for three principle guns made briefly available on the web and in the short time that they were online it is thought that the files were downloaded thousands of times and 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 to be taken down the battle is not over though with the man behind the blueprints comparing his mission to anti-establishment activism like wiki leaks because digital radicals we believe that the internet perfectly preserved the second and helped to be its expansion what is weekly 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. cody wilson who you just saw there started his quest back in two thousand and thirteen when he first had

developed 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 litigation against a 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 legal analyst and commentator lionel told us that he is 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 say too much

is this thing called the deep state i'm not suggesting that's here but this dissociation this this sketch so oid connection between the president or the department of justice is is typical. sportswear 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 the decision is thought to stem from the u.s. sanctions against tehran donald quarter reports on when sports means politics one by one business giants are cutting ties with iran and the latest is german sportswear company id to us the company said it's no longer going to do business with the iranian national football team and that didn't exactly go down well with tehran. given the improper indyk or a step taken by added s.a.g. with regards the sacred name of deer around 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 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 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 us sanctions without much of a fight. the 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 us 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 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 this one republican destructive behavior to join our pressure campaign this is especially those who are allies in the middle east and europe easy for him to say especially when many are saying the e.u. will bear the economic brunt of cutting off ties with iran but for now it remains to be seen whether impossible is truly nothing for the bloc. journalists in

belgium have attacked the government there after discovering that they will have to pay fifty euros for security vetting if they want to cover the next leaders' summit they first became aware of the new law after the european council issued accreditation guidance for the event both of the belgian and european journalists associations as well as the european commission have said that the measure undermines media freedom. european commission doesn't like the belgian law that entered into force on the first of june the commission will not introduce such a feat. when the belgian foreign ministry says it will assess the effectiveness of the measure and adjust it in the future of necessary we spoke to the general secretary of the european federation of journalists about the controversy he says should be the state paying for security and some it's not those attending. believes that. it's not respect the. laws regarding access to information that's just information fundamental rights in europe and this

decision is against its fundamental rights we are not against you you know that. that policy. you don't duty or states to. security and journalists you also benefit from that security what we don't understand is why should we pay for it's us as journalists. to tribes in namibia in southwest africa to suit germany they're seeking compensation and official apologies for what they call a genocide committed by german lists over one hundred years ago and he's managed to set the as the story. germany still shows signs of its dark imperial past this is looted it's named after a dull flu that it has stablish the very first colony german southwest africa also known as the maybe in the early one nine hundred stehman settlers find it receives

land from local citizens leading to one of the centuries west genocides. the here are a nation must now leave the country if it for a few years is a show compel it to do so with the long view and here of from inside the german frontier with or without a gun or a carol 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 is that battling for the german government to pay for the crimes committed you plan to use or know what people how to meet on a cost. and then you simply claim to be sixty eight on that you. i enjoy in the new beat british. but because we dip into different skin color speak. the german government you see for us. it's only. in apology. in the to. even the apology came a century late 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 belin to officially acknowledged the crimes of the past the war of extermination in the media from nine hundred forty nine where i was a war crimes and genocide namibia 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 want to be part of the official talks between germany and the maybe i'm saying it was the only way to ensure justice what happened in south africa was a genocide not while ation a violation of the law and germany is not. really. completely held accountable it is unique in the sense that you can find a region extermination order there just issued by germany. to extend its them as they were not the historians to say just look at the mix they will make

a difference of this case history will delete even the old 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 either does or for me i will be back in just under thirty one minutes for a full orchestra as you are watching large international and we are so glad.

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