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 chiefs a doubling down on allegations of possible foreign interference head of those midterm elections to congress without still providing any specific evidence latest on that coming up. also dozens of civilians were killed in an alleged saudi coalition air strike on a yemeni port city sir but these disturbing pictures apparently surprising may now lie the u.s. . and its 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 this error of judgment and what might be behind it. could also be

a advertisement for maybe charity battle says this picture is very very powerful impact when you see it but then you have the impression that it's very difficult to change your mind or to forget focus again on this new. new life the arctic new center here moscow at midday is kevin owen with this friday welcome to the program the u.s. security and intelligence chiefs of put on a united front to the media briefing in the white house they attempt to reassure the american public that they are actively working to protect the upcoming november midterm elections to congress from foreign interference and once again named russia as the main threat without providing any evidence. our democracy itself is in the crosshairs paid by russia to try weaken and divide united states

threat is not the only way 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 voters infrastructure along with the puter intrusions malicious cyber actors are things like official 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 these two senators have said

that they've been targeted by asking for a people person in government assistance 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'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 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 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. rules their own rules ship this is absolutely getting out of control right now i have not seen it like this before and it's getting more and more dangerous when you think of the relations between two superpowers they don't want better relations with russia they want to push this line and they yes there's a war between trump and his intelligence yet meantime civil tell you sleep with the announcement congress also introduced its own aggressive measures against russia with a new bill that calls for the secretary of state to assess whether russia is a state sponsor of terrorism or not it also calls for creating

a new fusion center which is set to seek to respond to hybrid threats from russia among the provisions to the law requires at least a two thirds vote on any attempt to leave nato political commentator told us the objective here is to forge a united front against moscow. they want to get everybody on board. 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 there are waiving the value sure they've produced zero evidence and. that's you know that's been true all along about us of all work for the appearance of russian collusion and all that stuff they want to get everybody together they want to scare the american people. also in the headlines today dozens of civilians have been killed in the yemeni port city of data or in air strikes allegedly carried out by the saudi led coalition could warn you some of the images coming up are disturbing is sadly yemeni officials say twenty eight were killed

around seventy injured over a local t.v. station is reported to fifty two are dead and least one hundred wounded those airstrikes it's an area near the city's main hospital saudi arabia's denied carrying out any as strikes 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 fifth when saudi arabia joined the civil war and you have been on the side of the government since that intervention yemen has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis according to the u.n. despite that saudi arabia and the u.s. have enjoyed wide military cooperation both under the trump and former obama administrations to washington's been providing riyadh with billions of dollars worth of planes tanks and other military equipment but no the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. seems to perceive these latest attacks on civilians as a new development despite the same scenario playing out frequently before. and

that is 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 even. 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 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. national geographic has admitted it went too far linking a starving polar bear with climate change saying if there was no way to know for certain why that was dying national geographic went too far in drawing a definitive 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 it's a sad picture no matter what the reason but polly boyd who looks at how simply swapping the caption a whole new angle on the 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 stude the narrative and it was. you're. you're. with this is one. of the 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 bear 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 the star but it could be climate change if we think that first and maybe no we'll talk about it maybe move jupiter by. it changes but obviously it could also be advertisement maybe charity i think it may be fake because in antartica there will really be those who still. think it's very long it is so you think that really the cause is climate change is exactly that for the

. us 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 really there are look at the picture. 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 you have the impression that is very difficult to change your mind in order to get focus again on this new problem because a lot of other pictures as well but i said 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 mandate 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 centers have opened the doors to refugees coming into germany across the austrian border the moves agreed in a controversial last minute deal between the country's ruling coalition the migrant issues drove a big wedge between chancellor merkel in the interior minister. in fight at one point even threatened to resign over reporting the whole ruling coalition in danger for a minute there vengefully agreed to set up a migrant transit center centers in bavaria that will they hope help asylum seekers to be processed faster now than they. are comes from uniting three german words that mean a rival decision and reparation next than isha sesay this lunchtime explains how the new refugee camps are set to work. consent is like this one part 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 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 away station was never going to history. the mood of local people has become a little bit more aggressive the 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 home to those house being permanently confined to mass housing facilities it's got a straw i think for those affected seven and consensus. as a result of the compromise between chancellor merkel and in 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. may day fifteen moscow trucker story been talking about earlier on this week next white farmers in south africa outraged the government plans to amend the constitution so that their learning can be seized without compensation the new legislation will permit the redistribution of white and land to the country's poor black majority paullus leaders talk to some of the farmers involved here. 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 and explode in one thousand to create rule and then you destroy the one sticks 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 exposure ph and without compensation he announced this week it 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 save us 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 live without international lot more to come miracles gun debate takes a high tech twist those plans are to print a three d. weapon controversially getting online earlier this week but there are legal order to take it all off again so should that information be out where we speak to someone who definitely thinks is a good idea and also the people oppose him just one of the stories right after this break. when i was still seem wrong. why don't we all just don't call. any world yet to shape our disdain becomes active. and engaged when it

was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when just to look for common ground. of the people in the world my bear is that. we were number one in this. all day period and there's all this. massive growth. and. you would not think that. interesting dilemma this next story brazil is considering

a new law that would prevent isolated indigenous tribes from killing children that are disabled or simply for any other reasons not able to live within the groups some lawmakers though say that the traditions of these remote ancient human disease should be protected any which way and that the rules of modern society therefore shouldn't apply. 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. the most repressive illegal actions ever perpetrated against indigenous peoples of the americas were unfailingly justified through appeals and noble causes humanitarian values and universal principles. that allowed those. well under current laws the tribe can't be judged if there was no where ness that they were doing wrong the bill being considered is called what jesus law it's named after a woman who refused to kill a child with a progressive muscular disorder the missionaries is saved and proposed a bill that calls for educating tribes and monitoring pregnant women and also says

the failure to report a child killing should be criminalized the bill's already passed one stage but it's still being considered by the senate human rights lawyer told the she believes the tribes themselves need this law. it's always been a taboo in brazil to talk about it so we have now i mean the studies not many data and also because it's difficult to register then the members notice that oh depair and it's. because of these obligations that sometimes they have their babies we have some cases that the parents committed suicide in origin not to kill their children it's not that we are imposing than the no day do not want to kill they are choosing because they love the green so they want to head to head the hell. recede in stages so he can raise these children.

the talk of a question of right or wrong our next story to go to a federal judge in the u.s. has issued a temporary restraining order suspending downloads of three d. print gun designs now you may recall earlier this week the u.s. justice department had given permission for those weapons design blueprints to be available on the web and sure they were for a bit but eight states went to court the judge in seattle then ordered those plans be taken down with immediate effect in the short term the world online it's thought the files were downloaded thousands of times even though three d. printed guns are made of plastic the none the less capable of inflicting fatal injuries they're also expensive to produce as well they need special sequent to print them so for now as it stands today the blueprints are offline but the battle is not over the man behind it compares his mission to an to stablish with activism like wiki leaks. you could cause digital radicals we believe that the internet more perfectly preserved the second and help to be the expansion what is we can weeks

for guns this was our idea our kind of see you know like our immediate purpose like wow could we be wiki leaks for guns what would that look like we found a three d. printer we said what if you could three d. printing and then share a file on the internet that would be like wiki leaks code we'll see you just sort of started this quest back in twenty thirty when you first developed a weapon that could be made from scratch by anyone who's got access to a specialist prince's democrat suit held the senate majority back then were opposed at the time to the plans being shared online and now they've gone further they say that any blood spilled by the three d. printed guns will be on president trumped. 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 ghost guns are the new wave of american gun violence happens all the time you know it does not surprise me and what will perhaps surprise you or shouldn't is that there has always been provision on the internet for blueprints to make plastic guns via three d. printing let me repeat it's always been there seen nothing new so what you ask is the source of this brouhaha next trump is doing nothing new it's already been there there is also a first amendment right to the dissemination of information. journalists in belgium have slammed the government there after discovering they're going to have to pay a fifty euro fee for security vetting if they want to cover the next to 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 not only applies to belgian journalists or of the nose an even more the union says around a thousand will be liable to pay well for of 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. the rights we are not against you know that the policy globally you know we believe that. your state students sure security and what we don't understand is why should we pay for it as journalists release journalists find out about the new rule of the european council issued accreditation guidance for the event budget for a ministry says it will assess the effectiveness of the measure and indeed will

adjust it in the future if necessary as for the journalists associations as well as the commission they've said it and the mines media freedom there are the federation of journalists again. i don't think other countries we really think this is all if you state i hope the belgian government will change its you on it so we call on the government canceled this long. list of. meetings so i really think it's a mistake and i hope the government correct its just. that so so the world putting out around this so far this lunchtime was more r.t. dot com of course have your say check the comments section check out our app as well for all our news straight to your mobile device for now though for me kevin o. any remorse go with r.t. h.q. thanks for watching over great friday.

this is says harlan kentucky. over all of this move them voice it was very funny using. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal was said i'd. love to see these people the survivors of a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's happening it's happened.

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