our democracy itself is in the process or thread isn't going away the russians trying to hack into and steal information us national security and intelligence chiefs a doubling down on allegations of possible foreign interference and of those mid-term elections to congress without still providing any specific evidence. also the controversial camps to process asylum seekers known as centers open the doors in germany the move comes after a fall between germany's ruling coalition over it. and national geographic admits it went too far with a caption on a photo of a dying polar bear the blame climate change in london what they thought of this error of judgment. could also be advertisement maybe charity to

this picture is very very powerful impact but once you have the impression it's very difficult to change your mind or to get focused just. by good morning just past eleven am here in moscow this friday watching out international with me kevin first in this news round the u.s. security intelligence chiefs of put on a united front at a media briefing in the white house they attempted to reassure the american public that they're actively working to protect the upcoming november midterm elections to congress from foreign interference as they put it they want to get 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 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 your puter 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 to you give us

a better sense of who specifically targeted we know these two senators have said that they've been targeted by hacking by people person in the government. numbers of the senate members of the house is it democratic or republican campaigns we follow procedure that's been agreed. some time ago in terms of when we first 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 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 in the last few months russia is accused of somehow info. unsing 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 rules ship this is absolutely getting out of control right now i have not seen it like this before and it's getting more and more dangerous when you think of the relations between two superpowers they don't want better relations with russia they want to push this line and the yes there's a war between trump and his intelligence sibel tenuously with the announcement congress also introduced its own aggressive measures against russia 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 as they put it which will seek to respond to hybrid threats from russia among those provisions the law also requires at least a two thirds vote of any attempt to leave nato political commentator lou rockwell told us the objective is to fold united front against moscow. but i want to get everybody on board and you your saw that they had all the heads of all the various agencies and they want to get every interest group they have the you know the military and the entire military industrial complex the security complex all they are waving the bloody shirt they produced zero evidence and. that's you know that's been true all along about those overall russian interference russian collusion all that stuff they want to get everybody together they want to scare the american people. dozens of civilians have been killed in the yemeni port city of who died there in air strikes allegedly carried out by the saudi led coalition was

one of the pictures again coming up a disturbing yemeni officials say twenty eight were killed and around seventy injured whoever a local t.v. stations reported that fifty two a dead and at least one hundred wounded the airstrikes this time hit an area near the city's main hospital for its part saudi arabia has denied carrying out any airstrikes 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 in yemen has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis according to the u.n. despite that though saudi arabia and the u.s. have enjoyed wide military cooperation both under the trump and obama administrations before it washington has 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 despite the same scenario playing out frequently before we had

that a saudi 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. that if this is what started to happen civilians are at risk infrastructure isn't 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 the intelligence for the saudis and you don't hear too much criticism he should have been out there months ago condemning what the the the humanitarian catastrophe that's occurring in yemen i assure you just you just cannot be nice about this any longer or or just overlook it because it's gone on

for too long and too many people have been have been killed and you wonder and you have to ask yourself the question what's the point. national geographic admitted it went too far linking a starving polar bear with climate change saying there's no way to know for certain why that there was dying national geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular solving polar bear there is no way to know for certain why this bear was on the verge of death but only to looks at how simply swapping the caption and a whole new angle on that story. 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 miss the expectation 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 that small but it could be climate changes things but first the main will be no we'll talk about it maybe move the jupiter plan. changes but obviously you could also be advertisement for maybe charity purposes i think it may be fake because in antartica there will really be those who still. think it's very wrong this is so you think that really the cause is climate change

is exactly that's for the. yes it is so 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 manipulates 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 impacts 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 it is not there's not any way for them to get there you go 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. a new strategy to cope with

the influx of migrants to germany has been introduced the first of a series of camps known as anchor centers of open the doors to refugees coming to germany across the austrian border move for was agreed in a controversial last minute deal between the country's ruling coalition the my good issues drove a wedge between chancellor merkel and interior minister or c.e.o. for at one point even a friend to resign putting the ruling coalition in danger they eventually agreed to set up the margaret transit centers in bavaria that would help asylum seekers to be processed fast it is the player now the name and care center comes from uniting three german words that mean a rival decision and reparation. explains how the new refugee camps will work. thank you centers like this one 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 so now before the community in the vicinity it is a big burden we are afraid that should there and there be more people in the refugee center it could lead to social tensions developing speech center 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 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 get a straw fit for those affected seven and consent. as were set up as a result of the compromise between chancellor merkel and terry mills to see hope 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.

white farmers in south africa are outraged the government plans to amend the constitution so the loan can be seized without compensation the new legislation will permit the redistribution of white owned land to the country's poor black majority paullus leah's talk to some of the 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 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 you want to create jobs in the agricultural sector but you're not going to do through land expropriation in one thousand to create rule and then you destroy the

one situation that is 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 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 paula stare r.t. south africa controversial story coming up america's gun debate taking a high tech twist those plans how to print a three d.

weapon controversial getting online earlier this week with an illegal order to take the butt off again should that information be out there we speak to someone coming up who definitely thinks it's a good idea and the people who oppose it is one of the stories right after this break this friday morning in moscow. 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 then trying to wonder if wages don't rise as fast as this neo inflation then we have trouble.

seems wrong. just don't call. me. yet to stamp out to stay active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and. i get new in brazil considering a new law that will prevent isolated indigenous tribes killing children the disabled all not able to live within the groups some lawmakers say though that the traditions of these remote ancient community should be protected and that therefore

the rules of modern day society don't apply. i. think they'll. say i say that's a fail safe. if i had remained there i would certainly be dead. certain cultural practices here i'm compatible with human rights they need to be thwarted there's no middle ground.

for most repressive and little actions ever perpetrated against indigenous peoples of the americas were unfailingly justified through appeals of noble causes humanitarian values and universal principles. that allowed. the current laws of the tribe can't be judged if there was nowhere nurse that they were doing wrong well the bill being considered it is called is law it's named after a woman who refused to kill her child with a progressive muscular disorder the missionaries to stave them proposed the bill it calls for educating tribes and monitoring pregnant women it also says the failure to report a child killing should be criminalized it's already passed one stage was still has to be considered by congress their human rights lawyer barreto believes that the trials themselves need this law. it's always been

a taboo in brazil to talk about it so we have not i mean the studies not many data and also because it's difficult to registered denver city has noticed that oh depair and it's suffered a lot because of steve's obligations that sometimes they have to their babies we have some cases that the parents committed suicide in our journey not to kill their children it's not that we are imposing than the state's no day do not want to kill they are choosing because they love the youtube so the ones you have to have the hell so you receive in state so do you can raise the student. a federal judge in the u.s. has issued a temporary restraining order suspending downloads of those three d. printing gun designs that wrote earlier this week earlier this week the u.s. justice department had given permission for the weapons design blueprints to be

made available on the web but then almost immediately eight states went to court and the judge in seattle ordered the plans were taken with the media to fake so in the short time they were online it sort of files were downloaded thousands of times over now even though three d. printed guns have made a plastic none the less capable of inflicting fatal injuries is the worry you may find it too expensive though of course a high end three d. printer is needed to make this kind of thing that cost thousands of dollars but anyway back to the point for now the blueprints are offline but the battle is not over the man behind it compares his mission to anti establishment activism what wiki leaks. you could cost digital radicals we believe the internet more perfectly preserve a second then and help to be its expansion what is working weeks for guns this was our idea of 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 god and then share a file on the internet that would be like working with. go to wilson you just saw

there started his quest back in twenty thirteen when he first developed a weapon that could be made from scratch by anyone who's got access to a specialist printer democrats say held the senate majority back then were opposed to the plans being shared online now they're saying any blood spilled by three d. printed guns will be on president trump's hands donald trump will be totally responsible for every download of all plastic a r fifteen that will be roaming the streets of our country if he does not act today it's his doing it's his responsibility the blood is going to be on his hands coming to a theater near you coming to a school or near you coming to a sports stadium these ghosts. are the new wave of american gun violence. journalists in belgium of slammed the government there after discovering will have to pay a fifty year

a feed for security vetting if they want to cover the next year leaders' summit the head of the european federation of journalists says it's not down to journalists that have to pay for security measures like this these measures only applied to belgian journalists to their union says around one thousand will be liable to pay up while foreign media will be free we believe that the belgian is not respect the. international standard laws regarding access to. information fundamental rights in europe and this decision against. them and the right we are not against you know that the policy globally you know you don't do to your state students sure security and what we don't understand is why should we pay for it as journalists. jervas became aware of the new rule after the european council issued credit taishan guidance for the event the belgian

foreign ministry says it will assess the effectiveness of the measure and adjust it in future if necessary meantime journalist associations as well as the commissioner said it undermined simply media freedom the head of the european federation of journalists again. i don't see other countries we really think this is a mistake i hope the belgian government will change its you want it we call or. cancel the. germans from from list of people supposed to be for. meetings so i really think it's a mistake and i hope the government will correct its just. my thoughts this morning so much more of course on our site twenty four seven r.t. dot com and one of them are up for late as it happens straight to mobile device review are now is coming up to twenty seven minutes past eleven here in moscow have

a great day and maybe around in about half an hour i catch an expert in for me that thank you. all. this is harlan kentucky. over all of this move them places you could walk ministry fanny's. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the polis the fed said that it was a lot of these people a survivor was disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i

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hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle to the corporate mainstream media fuel america's cultural wars do they magnify political differences it would seem so how else could it be if the only topic that is discussed and argued over is donald trump or journalist infected with trump arrangement syndrome. cross talking trumped arrangement syndrome i'm joined by my guest rob talbot new york he's a political pundit and journalist contributing to the huffington post also in new york we have lionel he's a legal analyst and a news decoder at lionel media dot com and in plymouth we cross to patrick endings and he is a journalist and writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wire dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rolls in effect means you can jump in anytime you want lionel let me go to you you're also referred to on this program as fella

my first question is here does the do the corporate mainstream you remember that program did that do they do the corporate mainstream media. do they contribute to the cultural wars as it is divided and is everything is contentious as it really is or are they just magnify it for their own political purposes go ahead lionel yes no yes no and sometimes the corporate first of all correction my dear friend it is not the mainstream media used to be that mainstream media used to be mainstream there are now this is the mainstream media social media different platforms that's mainstream they are an existential fight for their life so within the particular parameters of their working environment yes they mix it up and people are scraping does the rest of the country mainstream.