our democracy itself is in the crosshairs threat is not going away the russians try to hack into and steal information u.s. national security and intelligence. allegations of possible foreign interferences ahead of those upcoming midterm elections to congress with still providing any specific evidence we'll bring you the latest this friday morning. other stories are covering two controversial comes to process asylum seekers notice and consent is open to those in germany the move comes after four negotiations between germany's ruling coalition over it. and national geographic admits it went too far with the caption on a photo of a dying polar bear the blamed climate change people in london what they thought

about this 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 that it's very difficult to change your mind or to focus again on this new. good morning just past ten am for the morning here in moscow now you are live without international let me kevin i know we stay with me for the next half hour or so for the news update starting with this that the u.s. security and intelligence chiefs have put on a united front at the media briefing in the white house they attempted to reassure the american public that they are 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 pain 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 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 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 but we follow procedure that's been 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 was who was targeted so we have taken that action that is in place but i'm not in a position right now to release these things these allegations that we recently heard are not that different than what we've really heard many times since the twenty sixteen presidential election especially. 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 it 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 it 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. civil tenuously with the announcement congress also introduced its own aggressive measures against russia but the 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 that would seek to respond to hybrid threats from russia among those provisions the law requires at least to a two third vote on any attempt to leave nato political commentator lou rockwell told us the objective here is to forge a united front against moscow they want to get everybody on board new year saw that they had all the heads of all the various agencies and they want to get their interest group they have the you know the military and the entire military industrial complex the security complex all there 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 interference russian collusion of all that stuff they want to get everybody together they want to scare the american people. the news this morning

the first of a series of refugee camps known as anchors sent is 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 in germany nisha sethi next explains how this new refugee said the camps will work . and consent is like this one in parts of germany's new strategy for dealing with refugees in bavaria seven if these are up and running described as one stop facilities they bring together all the government agencies needed to complete the kind of person bordering austria the variable of the brunt of the migrant wave which saw a one million migrants and to germany as part of medicals a pendle policy in two thousand and fifteen. but local authorities are worried that. rather than easing the tensions as promised by the federal government these processing centers could bring more trouble but

it's not much of a problem in the city before the community in the vicinity it is a big burden on we are afraid that should there and be more people in the refugee center it could lead to social tensions developing each center could have 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 are done by people from these centers the city is home to over seventy thousand residents who wonder where the challenges posed by the influx of people put people in the migration center makes no sense at all because that makes them feel like a ghetto and get a 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 is catastrophic for those affected seven and dissenters were set up as a result of the compromise between chancellor merkel and in terry mills to see hope for following calls for its negotiations but whether they will succeed in easing the tensions in the coalition government remains unclear finishes at a party. dozens of civilians have been killed in the yemeni port city of airstrikes allegedly carried out by the saudi led coalition must warn you some of the images coming up again here distress exactly human officials say twenty eight people were killed around seventy were injured in this latest strike over local t.v. stations reported that fifty two are dead and at least one hundred wounded the airstrikes said to me. area near the city's main hospital this time so the arabia has denied

carrying out any airstrikes in the air at the time he said blaming the attack on who's the rebels riyadh's coalition 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's become the world's worst humanitarian crisis according to the u.n. despite that saudi arabia and the us of nonetheless enjoyed wide military cooperation over the years both under the trumpet under bomber and obama administrations washington's been providing riyadh with billions of dollars worth of planes tanks and other military equipment but now the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. see to perceive the latest attack on civilians is a new development this by the same scenario playing out frequently. we had that a saudi led coalition had airstrikes today against a fish market and a hospital in his 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 you know 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 the logistics and the intelligence for the saudis and you don't hear too much criticism he should have been out there months ago condemning what the the the humanitarian catastrophe that's occurring in yemen is just you just you just cannot be nice about this any longer or or just overlook it because it's gone on for too

long and too many people have been have been killed and you wonder and you have to ask yourself the question what's the point. what farmers in south africa outraged 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 owned land to the country's pull black majority full asli is talk to some of the farm was involved here. the farmers that are using them 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 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 is it is true that he wants to create jobs in the agricultural sector but you're not going to do

through land expropriation in one thousand to create growth 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 course 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 val that 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. 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 in so said most people here want to see exposed creation without compensation become part and parcel of the constitution policy r t o mellow south africa.

national geographic has admitted it went too far linking a starving polar bear with climate change saying there's no way to know for certain why the bear was dying national geographic went too far in drawing to the finish of connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear there is no way to know for certain why this bear was on the verge of death where the photographers original corruption this is what starvation looks like was changed to this is what climate change looks like now it was called the problem two point five billion people watched the video of the amazing aged animal polly boyd who looks at the implications. 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 where 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 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. so the polar bear is the star but it could be climate change a few things but first the main will be no we'll talk about it maybe move the juice at by. it changes well but obviously you could also be fake advertisement for all maybe charity purposes i think it may be fake because in antartica there would be really be those and still. i think it's very long because so you think that really the cause is climate change is exactly mean that's for the globe. your

sources say 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 read our look at the 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. that 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 i feel like because a lot of politics as well although i says no to this stuff there's not any way for them to 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 negate serious reporting. thanks for watching this morning if

you're just waking up going to the world friday morning coming to eighteen minutes past ten o'clock here in moscow by names kevin when you with our international heard there it is gun debate takes a high tech twist with the legality of those three d. printing a potentially deadly weapons being thrashed woman that you can download the plans along the next minute your car where is it going to go we'll find out after the break.

disinflation very little inflation for decades interest rates have gone down for thirty years markets have rallied for thirty years now the whole thing is reversing interest rates are going up so is inflation so we'll see how that plays out if wages rise faster than inflation. as such and trying to wonder if wages don't rise as fast as this neo inflation then we got trouble. so too the big plastic gun debate a federal judge in the us knows issued

a temporary restraining order suspending downloads of those three d. print gun designs earlier this week the u.s. justice department had given permission for those weapons design blueprints to be available on the web but eight states mediately went to court and the judge in seattle ordered those plans be taken with immediate effect is where it stands this morning now in the short time they were online it's thought befalls was downloaded thousands of times in the more expensive the mass produced guns made of metal they are none the less capable of inflicting fatal injuries so for now the blue prints are offline but the battles not over the man behind it compares his mission to the establishment activism like wiki leaks. no you can cause digital radicals we believe that the more perfectly preserve the second and help to be the expansion what is wiki leaks 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 without 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. good idea or no you make decision on that one cody wilson who just sort of started this quest back in twenty thirty when he first developed a weapon that could have been made from scratch by anyone with access to a specialist printer democrats who held the senate majority back then were opposed to the plans being shared online but now they say that any blood spilled by three d. printed guns will be on president and donald trump will be totally responsible for every downloadable plastic and ar fifteen that will be roaming the streets of our country if he does not today it's his doing it's his responsibility the blood's going to be on his hands coming to a theater near you coming to a school near you coming to a sports stadium these ghosts. are the new wave of american gun

violence looking to track the story this two journalist belgium have slammed the government there after discovering that after fifty euro favor 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 or shouldn't be any way to pay for security measures now it applies only to belgian journalists at c.b.s. their union says around a thousand will be liable to pay well for a media will be free. we believe that belgian is not respect the. international standard most access to information it's been commissioned condiment to write in europe and this decision against. the rights we are not against in the you know that the policy globally be used in. your state student sure security and what we don't understand is why should we pay

for it's us as journalists but since journalists care where the new rule of the european council issued accreditation guidance for the event the belgian foreign ministry says it will assess the effectiveness of the measure adjusted in the future of necessary journalists association as well as the commissioner said it undermines media freedom anyway the head of the european federation of journalists again i don't think other countries will i really think this is a mistake i hold the belgian government to change its you want it we call or. cancel the. germans from a list of people supposed to meet for. meetings so i really think it's a mistake and i hope the government will correct. that's it for now it's coming up to twenty four minutes past ten in the morning in moscow with more r.t.

dot com downloader up as well for all our stories as they happen structure mobile device kevin i will hear this friday morning so thanks ever so much for watching more for me in just over half an hour. please. tell.

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sophie and kill him sophie shevardnadze the wall has looked its destruction in the eyes seventy three years ago one american nuclear bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki today can humanity come to gether and prevent the catastrophe from ever happening again i ask nuclear weapons to them and activist hiroshima bombing survivor. one bomb one blast and the whole city's leveled in seconds. in its wake. nineteen forty five still serves as a reminder of the horrors of war especially one coming from the survivors of the

explosion what was it like to live through a nuclear attack. i would change the way we see nuclear weapons today and will humanity ever. sets go thurlow survivor of the nuclear bombing of hiroshima welcome it's really great to have you with us. you were in hiroshima in august of forty five when the nuclear bomb was dropped on the city when now i know that a nuclear bomb kills not only at the moment of explosion but for many years after you weren't friar from epicenter of the explosion where you exposed to radiation did it make itself known later. anybody in the city who are exposed to the yes and we are all contaminated. and

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