our democracy itself is in the crosshairs threat isn't going away the russians try to hack into and steal information us national security and intelligence chief said doubling down on allegations of possible forwarded fear its head of those midterm elections to congress. reporting to this morning controversial camps to process asylum seekers known as. open the doors in germany. and national geographic it went too far with a caption on a photo of a. climate change we asked people in london what they thought of the error of judgment. could also be advertisement for maybe charity purposes this picture is very very powerful impact but once you have the impression it's very difficult

to change your mind or to focus. on. either a good morning my name is kevin zero in this is our international live from moscow this friday is just hernani am here now first the u.s. security intelligence chiefs have put on a united front to the media briefing in the white house they tend to reassure the american public that they're actively working to protect the upcoming november midterm elections to congress 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 influences the russians try to hack into and steal information candidates and government officials alike cyber attacks against road infrastructure along which computer intrusions licious cyber actors are like the fish that goes beyond the elections it goes to russia isn't it undermines 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 the 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 person in government. numbers of

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. 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 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. 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 out 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 having come 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 rulership 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. civil tenuously with the announcement congress used its own aggressive measures against russia with a new bill that calls for the secretary of state to assess whether or not russia is a state sponsor of terrorism and also calls for creating a new fusion center which will seek to respond to quote hybrid threats from russia

among those provisions that will require at least two votes on any attempt to leave nato political commentator lou rockwell told us the objective all the while on the line 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 the civil war should interfere it's russian collusion all that stuff they want to get everybody together they want to scare the american people. first of a series of refugee camps known as centers 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 there and the explains how this new refugee camp will work. and consent is like this one

and part of germany's new strategy for dealing with refugees in the various seven if these 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 now before the community in the vicinity it is a big burden on that we are a phrase that should there and 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 our 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 these processing facilities they see them as an impediment to integration and in some cases harmful to those house being permanently confined to mass housing facilities it's got a straw i think for those affected seven and dissenters. as

a result of the compromise between chancellor merkel and in terry mills to see whole for following hard for negotiations but whether they'll succeed in easing the tensions in the coalition government remains unclear initial sethi party. dozens of civilians have been killed in the yemeni port city of who died or in airstrikes allegedly carried out by the saudi led coalition and warn you that some of the images coming up here are disturbing yemeni officials say twenty eight people were killed around seventy injured but a local t.v. station reported the fifty two or one hundred. years strikes at an area near the city's main hospital so the arabia is denied currying out any astroids in the area at the time instead blaming the attack on who's the rebels riyadh's coalition has 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.

despite the saudi arabia of the u.s. have enjoyed wide military cooperation both front of the truck and obama administration's washington's been providing riyadh with billions of dollars worth of planes tanks and other military equipment as well now the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. seem to perceive the latest attack on civilians as a new development despite the same scenario playing frequently. we had that assad 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 in yemen 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 the world just sticks. for the saudis and you don't hear too much

criticism you should have. and 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 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. more now on the story from south africa we've been tracking this week white farmers the outrage the government plans to amend the constitution so that the land can be seized without compensation the new legislation will permit the redistribution of white and land to the country's poor black majority flawlessly as talk to some of the farm was 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 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 or do you

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 or want to create growth because the or poor people it's true that is it is true that you want to create jobs in the agricultural sector but you're not going to do through and expropriation in one thousand 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 opposer calls his efforts to change the constitution to allow for land expose ph and without compensation he announced this week he was increasing if it's 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 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 and 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 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's struggling to survive at the moment if you have less. food price will go up and they will struggle even more to survive 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 insists that most people here want to see exposed creation without compensation become part and parcel of the constitution policy r t south africa. national geographic has admitted it went too far linking a dying polar bear with climate change saying there's no way to know over certain why that there was dying the top of his original corruption this is what starvation looks like was the corruption was changed to quote this is what climate change looks like two point five billion people watched the video of the amazing dynamo looked at the implication. 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 skewed the narrative and it was. this is one bear it's not a once off is it 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 had lost 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. the polar bear is is a stall that it could be climate change if we think that first and maybe no we'll talk about it maybe move the juice of one. it changes well but obviously it could also be fake advertisements rule maybe charity purposes i think it may be fake because in antartica there wouldn't really be. i think it's very

long because so you think that really the cause is climate change is exactly 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 even rained out 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 impression that it's very difficult to change your mind or to 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 it 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 mandate serious reporting. coming up america's gun debate takes a high tech twist isn't it with the legality for a while anyway or the three d. printing of potentially deadly weapons now been crushed at the moment you can get those plans again online will tell you all about where it is and the rest of the reasons for the morning after right. same wrong. roles just don't. get to shape out these days become agitated and in gains from it because of the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

in the corporate mainstream media fuel america's cultural wars do they magnify political differences it would seem so how else could it be as the only topic that is discussed and argued over is donald trump or journalist infected with trump arrangements. again welcome but this is not international with me kevin owen this morning so a federal judge in the u.s. knows issued a temporary restraining order suspending downloads of those three d.

printed gun designs a unilateral decision by the u.s. justice department had given permission for blueprints of the weapons to be available on the web but then in the short time they're online it sort of falls were downloaded thousands of times but on wednesday a texas based gun rights group published blueprints for three d. openly online that meant that anyone could download the design of a plastic weapon capable of inflicting fatal injuries they are both the caveat here maybe you didn't know that far more expensive than mass produced guns for a metal its c s but anyway eight states went to court and a seattle judge then ordered the plans to be taken down the battle is not over the man behind the blueprints compares his mission to anti establishment activism like wiki leaks and you could cause digital radicals we believe the internet more perfectly preserve the second and help to be its expansion what is working weeks for gods 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 without a three d.

printer we said what if you could three d. printing god and then share a file on the internet that would be like wiki leaks well cody wilson you just saw the start of this quest back in twenty thirty many first developed a weapon that could be made from scratch by anyone who's got access to a specialist printer 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 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. 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 here but there is

dissociation this this kid saw a connection between the president and the department of justice is is typical. of slam the government there after discovery we're going to have to pay a fifty year old faithful security vetting if they want to cover the next leaders summit the head of the european federation of journalists says it's not down to journalists have to pay for security measures it only applies to belgian journalists their union says around one thousand will be liable to pay for a media will be free we believe that. it's not respect the. international standard laws regarding access to internet system commission fundamental rights in europe and this decision beast it's the right. you know the. policy.

it's duty of states to sure security what we don't understand is why should we pay for it as journalists the germans became aware of the new rule 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 but journalist associations as well as the commission have said it undermines media freedom basically the head of the european federation of journalists again. i don't think other countries will i really think this is a mistake i hope for the belgian government change its you want it we call or. cancel the. germans from a list of people to meet. and thank you for. meetings so i really think it's

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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 mean for the agreement signed at the singapore summit let's talk about that with gordon chang expert on asia and north korea columnist new york times 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 if 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 o 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 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 trump 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 a direct statement that would tell sea jinping the chinese ruler that he's got to cut it out but until president trump does those things the chinese are going to continue to violate sanctions and the north koreans are going to continue along this very dangerous path why does mike pump a continued to remain upbeat about all this is going to turn out fine. he's just

implementing trumpet ministration policy and you know pompei as testimony last week at the senate foreign relations committee is a case in point of what's going on here he dodged questions about north korea's production of missiles so that's why we had on monday morning this washington post story where intelligence community officials were leaking all of these developments about the production of these intercontinental ballistic missiles basically saying look if you aren't going to tell the truth to the american public we in the intelligence community will you couldn't then trump statement that quote there was no longer a nuclear threat from north korea to george bush saying mission accomplished on that aircraft carrier after the invasion into iraq. president from suite on june thirteenth the day after the summit where he said that north korea no longer posed a nuclear threat to the united states was clearly wrong and that's why it's taken

so many people aback and it was after that tweet that you had a number of leaks about north korea's production of fissile material and all the rest of this word showed that that north korea was just continuing along its path of building up its arsenal so clearly the president was wrong in that and i think that's almost a universal assessment from people not only in the intelligence community but analysts everywhere because north korea still is a threat how does the intelligence community stay balanced through all of this where one government we two governments. well larry you know you have to look over the last six or seven weeks and you've got to say this there's there's the president and his secretary of state and on the other hand you have people leaking like crazy and the other interesting thing larry is that you have john bolton the national security.