analysts infected with trump arrangements. u.s. national security and intelligence chiefs double down on trying to tackle alleged foreign interference as it jitters grow over the upcoming midterm elections. refugees in jordan are being required to andover biometric data in order to gain access to aid and food journalists from the red fish group investigate the ethical concerns around the practice fundamental principle that we go by is informed consent. for the output of that of the. nato develops a game to teach of players how to spot fake news but critics say it is simply a propaganda tool. and german. says it will no longer work with iranian football federation just a month after rival nike did the same. broadcasting

live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now 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 as commentary. 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 the united states this threat is not going away to prevent foreign interference in our elections to prevent a 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 elected officials that goes beyond the elections that 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 who specifically targeted we know the senators have said that they've been targeted by hacking by people in person in government. because 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 process. through the leadership of the respective house or. chamber so to 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 rush 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 laryea 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. rulers 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 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 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 the. directive 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 of 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. russia's alleged interference in american politics was also discussed by the us senate intelligence committee on wednesday it 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 means on social media that allegedly can be traced back to moscow we asked of the russian foreign minister for his thoughts. move 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 it's 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 us 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 forums such as you tube dreaded interest it's pushed to twitter and facebook with their spending audiences and hundreds of millions and it's targeted at the most receptive this is a problem of the entire information ecosystem this is awesome platform reading from hundreds of ira's created accounts tumblr dated. a lot of tried to hide related content less news more isn't just a couple of this is music caps this is video games he says me 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 artie's on a socio trick and try her head at. 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 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 so i say check it out 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 should their biometric data get into the wrong hands the refugees may find themselves the targets of foreign governments and intelligence agencies of the redfish group went in to investigate. really i mean.

people using the body parts 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 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. if it wasn't. for iris guard the 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 heels with ira scored who are in charge of both a three refugees transaction iris card 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 were advocates of the war in iraq what i think of what it's like they are guinea pigs. this is just. the fact that the boys are kind of relation with people from. this team that took part in the war and is more than.

a speaker. i had a heated exchange about this with the c.e.o. of iris guard with dealing with a highly secure technologies we would be idiots if we do not ask people who are professionals in their field are there professionals like you're not only one of course you are asking me about a political question from town so understand this is a fact we are not involved in any political statements we are not making any statements to you to use these are great to do you suffer through because we are a man political company we have it work in the modern 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. the collection of iris scans and biometric data is in theory 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 ore a.t.m. near you. the un refugee agency senior field corner in amman says he is confident the refugees data is secure and that the biometric system ensures aid goes to the intended recipients he added that only the un age c.r. has the second half of the encryption key needed to view an individual's data we asked 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 add. zimbabwe's electoral

commission has announced the country's incumbent president emerson. 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 and the streets of the capital harare were quiet at the time of the announcement however the city saw a violent protest earlier with demonstrators alleging a rigged vote on wednesday military moved in and used gunfire to disperse the opposition protests resulting in six people being killed. six out of ten provinces with problems is going to his main rival nelson chamisa. dominated in urban areas with the vote in the countryside. tragedy has struck in the yemeni city of who did where the 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 and around seventy injured however local t.v. station has reported that fifty two are actually dead one hundred air strikes hit an area near the city's main public hospital those who were severely wounded mostly civilians were hospitalized. riad has repeatedly been accused of war crimes but denies deliberately targeting noncombatants the coalition has been at war with the rebels known as who these since march two thousand and fifteen yemen is now in the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than twenty two million people in dire and despite years of civilian suffering the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley seems to think that the catastrophe only began just yesterday. we had that in 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 u.n.

and that if this is what started to happen civilians are at risk infrastructure is at risk former pentagon official michael maloof thinks washington should have recognized the military 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 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 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. going to be litigation and a seemingly unilateral decision by the u.s. justice department saw blueprints for three d.

printed pull guns made briefly available on the web and in the short time they were online it is thought that 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 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. you could cause 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. all right 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 that those blueprints did not make it onto the web but earlier this year the justice department decided to drop litigation against gun plans from being posted online putting it at odds 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 legal analyst and commentator lionel told of the told us in his very special way that he's not surprised by the parent lack of cohesion tween 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 are now saying it will no longer work with the country's football federation the decisions of thought to stem from the u.s. sanctions against tehran quarter reports on when sports meets politics. one by one business giants are cutting ties with iran and the latest is german sportswear company 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 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 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. a 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 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 the spite the fact that since the trumpet ministration 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 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 attacked the government there after discovering that they will have to

pay fifty euros for a security vetting if they want to cover the next e.u. 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 does not like the belgian law 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 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 it should be the state paying for security at summits not those attending. he believes that. it's not respect the. international laws but the nexus to information that's just information fundamental rights in europe and this decision against

its fundamental rights we are not against you know that. you don't exist due to your state to ensure. security and journalists you also benefit from that security what we don't understand is why should we pay for it it's us as journalists. estimated thirty five thousand people marched through jerusalem on thursday in the city's largest ever annual pride parade participants chanted slogans and carried rainbow colored banners at a live event that also took on a political dimension due to the netanyahu government refusal to extend surrogacy rights to gain met roughly two thousand police officers who were there to provide security for the following the two kilometer round peyrade is often a source of tension in the historically conservative city was met with. protests in which four people were arrested in two thousand and fifteen it ended in tragedy

after an ultra orthodox jewish man stabbed six people killing. that does it for me headlines at about thirty four minutes you're watching art international stay with us.

that's geysers sinuses by. the ballot. plugs into d.c. this is a central plank support diatom is common right now it's a stop to. is kim jong un serious about denuclearizing or is he pulling one over on the trump administration take a look at that on this edition. of politicking on larry king a troubling series of reports suggest that north korea may be building new long range missiles and exploring ways to hide the extent of its nuclear weapons program from the united states this after donald trump recently tweeted his anger with

critics of north korea's progress to denuclearize what's going on and what do these reports means that the agreement signed at the singapore summit. let's talk about that with gordon chang expert on asia and north korea column this. morning is author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world he joins me from new york our what's your read gordon on the reports that north korea is building new ballistic missiles new hip young yang. that washington post report from the beginning of this week is certainly correct north korea is building these wasan fifteen's that was the missile that was tested november twenty ninth and it has a range to strike the east coast of the united states the big story here actually there are two stories one of them is that all of these revelations undercut the notion that the trumpet ministration has been propagating that north korea has made

a strategic decision to give up its weapons if it's made that decision then it wouldn't be building these missiles and it wouldn't be producing fissile material the other story larry is that you have an intelligence community in the united states which is angry upset and is actually playing a paul revere role where you have senior administration officials trying to downplay all these developments and then the i.c. comes up with all of these leaks which show that the north koreans are going full steam ahead and so essentially the intelligence community is undercutting senior trump officials the president and secretary of state pompei of specifically so what have been in singapore did conjunct law didn't did this read to him what happened yeah there's two possible explanations neither of them are good one of them is that chum that kim jong un really had no intention of giving up his weapons and that's probably the case the other one is that kim was sincere in giving up his weapons

but he doesn't control the military and the military are the ones who are actually in possession of the missiles in possession of nuclear warheads and are directing all of this research and development and production it may be a little bit of both but the point is that this is just inconsistent with the assumptions that underpin from policy so what does what does trump do now. well i think president trump should pivot basically he should be starting to impose costs and not just on the north koreans but also the chinese and the russians who have been blatantly violating u.n. sanctions over the last several months president trump has referred to this a couple days ago when he was speaking about the chinese getting in the way they certainly have and they will continue to get in the way until he imposes those costs so for instance he can go after the chinese banks that have been money laundering that would be.