our democracy itself is in the crosshairs threat is not going away the russians try to hack into and steal information us national security and intelligence chiefs a doubling down on allegations of possible foreign interference ahead of those elections to congress. controversial refugee facilities known as centers open the doors in germany. and national geographic admits it went too far with a caption on a photo of a dying polar bear the blame climate change we asked people in london what they thought about the error of judgment. could also be advertisement maybe charity purposes this picture is very very powerful impact when you see it but then once you have the impression it's very difficult to change your mind or to focus again

on this new. good morning sister and a.t.m. this a friday in moscow when i was kevin owen you watching r t international first u.s. security intelligence chiefs have put on the united front to the media briefing in the white house they attempted to reassure the american public that they are actively working to protect the upcoming midterm elections from foreign interference they once again named russia as the main threat without providing any evidence. our democracy itself is in the crosshairs paid 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 computer intrusions malicious cyber actors targeting elected 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's this is really hard to believe these two senators have said that they've been targeted by hacking by people in person in government. numbers or the senate members of the house is it democratic or republican campaigns that 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 these things these allegations that we recently heard are not that different than what we 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 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 rulers their own rule ship and 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 sibel tony eastley with the announcement congress also introduced its own aggressive measures against russia with a new bill it calls for the secretary of state to assess whether or not russia is a state sponsor of terrorism it also calls for creating a new fusion center which will seek to respond to quote hybrid threats from russia among those provisions the law requires at least a two thirds vote on any attempt to leave nato peace will come to the rockwall told

us the objective is to forge 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 and all that stuff they want to get everybody together they want to scare the american people. and now the news this friday morning the first of a series of refugee camps known is said to open the doors for migrants coming into germany across the austrian border they've been established after a controversial last minute deal between the parties in the ruling coalition and he should assess the explains next this morning how the new refugee camps set to work then. centers like this one in part of germany's new strategy for dealing

with refugees in the various seven if these are up and running described as one stop facilities they bring together all the government agencies needed to complete the asylum process bordering austria the variable the brunt of the migrant wave which saw over one million migrants and to germany as part of medicals open door policy in two thousand and fifteen. was. the local authorities are worried that rather than easing the tensions as promised by the federal government these processing centers could bring more trouble it's not much of a problem in the city before the community in the vicinity it is a big burden one that we are afraid that should there be more people in the refugee center it could lead to social tensions developing each sensor can hold between one thousand and one thousand five hundred migrants but the one hit can reach

a maximum capacity of three thousand four hundred local businesses say that they're feeling the strain already since the reception center opened we have had at least one theft each week it is very noticeable and has increased a lot the fact is ninety percent of thefts are done by people from these centers the city is home to over seventy thousand residents who was aware of the challenges posed by the influx of people put people in the migration center much no sense at all because that makes them feel like a ghetto and get away station was never going to history. the mood of local people has become a little bit more aggressive newcomers have to learn how to fit into society to avoid this refugee support groups are among those not happy with this processing facilities they see them as an impediment to integration and in some cases home full to those house being permanently confined to mass housing facilities it's got a strong fix for those affected seven and a sentence. as

a result of the compromise between chancellor merkel and in terry mills to see whole for following hard fought negotiations but whether they'll succeed in easing the tensions in the coalition government remains unclear on issues that the party. more detail now on a story we've been covering the last few days white farmers in south africa outraged the government plans to amend the constitution so that their land can be seized without compensation the new legislation will permit the redistribution of white owned land to the country's poor black majority paula slayer's talk to some of these farmers involved. the farmers that are using the utilizing the land at the moment if you take the land away from them without compensating them where would they go what would they do they have to have capital to start up a new venture if you take ownership away from people you're going to lose all your international investments people are not going to invest in a country where you can't own something ownership is the base of any economic

growth mr i'm a poor want to create world because the or poor people it's true that this is true that you want to create jobs in the agricultural sector but you're not going to do through land expropriation in wanting to create rule and then you destroy the one six in that he's going to create the world democracy in action is how the south african president several ram oppose or course his efforts to change the constitution to allow for land expropriation without compensation he announced this week he was increasing efforts to do this so that agricultural production people's access to land and just and equitable distribution are increased what this means is that the few thousand white commercial farmers in south africa will lose their lend and receive no money for it if you take away those are all players and you replace them with people that has no knowledge and has no experience we are going to produce a lot less and if we produce less food the food prices will go up and that will

harm the people that's on the bottom of the food chain the people that struggling to survive at the moment if you have less food prices will go up and they will struggle even more to survive lend who owns it who took it and who should get it is a bitterly contested issue in south africa under apartheid most black south africans were not allowed to own land with the result that even today the country's white minority still has a disproportionate hold over farms when also mandela's african national congress to power in one thousand nine hundred four it walda by the year two thousand. thirty percent of land would be returned to black owners but even today that has not happened with white farmers still holding the overwhelming majority in recent months there's been growing anger against the south african government by the country's black majority over the slow pace of land reform but critics warn that the government's plans to expropriate land could lead to land grabs like what

happened in neighboring zimbabwe where the economy collapsed after land reform was implemented still south africa's president in so said most people here want to see exposed creation without compensation become part and parcel of the constitution policy r t o millo south africa. national geographic's admitted it went too far linking a dying polar bear with climate change saying there was no way to know for certain why the bear was dying the photographer's original caption quote this is what starvation looks like and quote was changed to this is what climate change looks like two point five billion people watched that video of the most eating animal probably boy looks at the implications this morning. you might remember these heart wrenching pictures of a starving polar bear looking for food national geographic ran them back in twenty seventeen with a big caption claiming that this is what climate change looks like the images went

viral the photographers estimate over two billion people saw them on you tube alone the video got one point five million views and it also became one of the most of you to videos on national geographic's websites but it turns out that the photographers original caption didn't make an explicit link to climate change they posted the videos saying that this is what starvation looks like but when national geographic picked up the material to publish it stude the narrative and it was. you're. you're. this is one bear it's not a once off is i mean i mean is the expectation that as climate change continues that this kind of image is going to be amplified again and again but that viral success troubled the photographers it was not the message they intended for viewers

the mission was a success but there was a problem we were glossed control of the narrative we were perhaps naïve the picture went viral and people took it literally. well now national geographic has been forced to admit that it went too far in linking the dying bat to climate change and that there's no way of telling exactly why the stricken bat was on the verge of death so i've come to london zoo to speak to the animal lovers head to find out if they feel like their sympathies have been manipulated by the media. if the polar bear is is a stall that it could be climate changes things but first the main will be no will talk to maybe move the jupiter plan. it changes well but obviously it could also be fake advertisement fool maybe charity purposes i think it may be fake because in the antartica there wouldn't really be those instant. i think it's everyone it's

just so you think that really the cause is climate change is exactly mean that's for the globe. yes it is safe for you the magazine simply took what everybody would have thought about these images and said it yes you know i wouldn't necessarily. poor thing do you feel like it's one of those situations where the media sometimes kind of manipulate you know the girl it definitely. is i mean we know that that happens we know that there is manipulation this picture is very very powerful impact when you see it but then once you have the impress on them it's very difficult to change your mind or to get focus again on this new problem that i feel like because a lot of other pictures as well although i says no to this stuff there's no any way for them to go get that huge anyway so it probably has something to do climate change so yeah climate change is clearly a serious issue that weighs heavily on the minds of many people but the question is

whether it should negate serious reporting. it is exactly here in moscow thanks for choosing to have your two did around the world this friday the third of august one is not showing out international but more stories to come this morning including journalists in belgium accusing the government of violating their fundamental rights we'll tell you more about that and the rest of the news then after this break. most of the people in. that. we were number one in this room. all day it's poor into us all to him it's a little muffled the growth has. sunk he would not out something that.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down whose business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. such as financial survival john today was all about money laundering first to posit this confession to three different. oh good this is a good start well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in europe something in america something overseas in the cayman islands it will pull these banks are complicit in the kleptocracy who decide to give me a call and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how

we did while we've got home got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry how about puck on luxury automobile again for max payne owing money laundering is highly illegal here for much kaiser of course. by the very good morning to you friday is going good so far let me take you through some more headlines this morning here at r.t. dozens of civilians have been killed in the yemeni port city of who died in airstrikes allegedly carried out by the saudi led coalition must warn you that the following images coming up are disturbing 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 wounded those

airstrikes hit an area near the city's main hospital. has denied carrying out any airstrikes in the area at the time instead blaming the attack on who the rebels riyadh's coalition had been at war with them since march twenty fifteen when saudi arabia joined the civil war in yemen on the side of the government since that intervention yemen has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis according to the u.n. spite that the saudi arabia and the u.s. have enjoyed wide military cooperation both under the truck and a bomber administration's washington's been providing riyadh with billions of dollars worth of planes tanks and other military equipment and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. said in light of the attack that washington now feels a new sense of urgency in yemen despite years of civilian suffering. and that aside he 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 anyone and that if this is what started to happen civilians are at risk infrastructure is at risk for nikki haley it just occurred today which is unfortunate because the united states is actually supplying a lot of them will just stick. for the saudis and you don't hear too much criticism he should have been out there months ago condemning what the the humanitarian catastrophe that's occurring in yemen i yes 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. journalists in belgium have attacked the government there after they discover they can have to pay fifty euro for security vetting if they want to cover the next you leaders summit the european federation

of journalists says it's not down to journalists have to pay for security measures we believe that the belgian is not a suspect the. international standard. access to. information under mental right. and this decision against it's the right we are not being you know that the policy. of the. duty of states to ensure security and what we don't understand is why should we pay for it as journalists the journalist became aware of this new rule apparently after the european council issued accreditation guidance for the event the belgian foreign ministry says it will assess the effectiveness of the measure and adjust it in the future if necessary belgian european journalists associations when tom as well as the european commission have said the measure of the binds media freedom for one head of the european federation of journalists again. i don't see.

countries we really see this is the state i hold the belgian government change its you want it we call or. cancel the. germans from the list of. meetings so i really think it's a mistake and i hope the government correct. other headlines this morning a federal judge in the us has issued a temporary restraining order suspending downloads of those three d. printing designs a unilateral decision by the u.s. justice department gave permission for blueprints of the weapon to be available briefly on the web and in the short time there were online it's thought the files were downloaded thousands of times now on wednesday a texas based gun rights group published blueprints for three d.

guns openly online that meant that anyone could download print fall plastic weapons capable of inflicting fatal injuries but eight states jumped to it they went to court and the seattle judge then ordered those plans to be taken down the battle is not over the with the man behind the blueprints comparing his mission to anti establishment activism like wiki leaks. you could cause digital radicals we believe the more perfectly preserve the second and help to be the expansion what is wiki leaks for gods this was our idea a kind of see you know it or media purposes like wow could we be wiki leaks for guns what would that look like without a three d. printer we said what if you could three d. printing and then share. that would be like working with. cody wilson who just saw the start of this quest back in twenty thirteen when he first developed a weapon that could be predicted her until recently the federal government especially the state department made sure those blueprints didn't make it onto the web. the reason that the state department got involved are only aqua tea 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 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 kid saw a connection between the president and the department of justice is is typical. if you want to come with any of our stories check out our side of the company but and so it's good to hear from you and then to get another up as well for all our news straight to mobile device review for now though it's coming up to twenty four minutes past eight o'clock this morning in moscow it's kevin i would say thanks for

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