our democracy itself is in the crosshairs threat is not going away the russians try to hack into and steal information us national security and intelligence chief said doubling down on allegations of possible foreign interference ahead of those midterm elections to congress without still providing any specific evidence. of setting pictures here in our next headline dozens of civilians killed in an alleged saudi coalition air strike on a yemeni port city the instant paralegals surprising riyadh's main ally the us the . 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 maybe if there was more to it. could also be a advertisement maybe charity panel says this picture is

a very powerful impact but then once you have the impression that it's very difficult to change your mind or to get out of this new. hello there live from your to do sense here in moscow one pm it's kevin i am with you this friday welcome to the program first u.s. security intelligence chiefs have pledged to protect democracy in a rare united appearance at a media briefing at 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 predictably russia was named as the main threat without again any evidence being provided. 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 are getting elected officials 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 the government. numbers of the senate members of the house is it democratic or republican campaigns but we follow procedure this pedigree that. 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 actions 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 really heard many times since the twenty sixteen presidential election especially in. 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 is 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 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 well civil taney asli with the announcement congress also introduced its own aggressive measures against russia with a new bill it cools for the secretary of state to assess whether russia is a state sponsor of terrorism it also calls for creating

a new fusion center which is set to respond to hybrid threats from russia among those provisions the law requires at least a two third vote on any attempt to leave political commentator told us the objective he thinks 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've produced zero evidence and. that's you know that's been true all along about this overall russian of experience russian collusion all that stuff they want to get everybody together they want to scare the american people. dozens of civilian. have been killed in the yemeni port city four died or a day of strikes allegedly carried out by the saudi led coalition must warn you some of the pictures coming up here are disturbing as you maybe expect given

official say twenty eight were killed around seventy injured over local t.v. stations change that number it's reporting fifty two were dead and at least one hundred wounded the airstrikes it's an area near the city's main hospital saudi arabia's tonight carrying out any airstrikes in the air at the time instead blaming the attack on hoofy rebels riyadh's coalition has been 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. and despite that though saudi arabia and the u.s. have continued to enjoy wide military cooperation both under the truck before but a bomber administration's 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. seems to be perceiving the latest attack on civilians as a new development despite the same scenario i think played out frequently before.

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 she should have been out there months ago condemning what the. the humanitarian catastrophe that's occurring in yemen it's 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 the point. national geographic has admitted it went too far linking a starving polar bear with climate change saying there was no actual way to be certain why the bear 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 well this is pictured in the mother what the cause but polly boy he looks at how simply swapping the caption 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 stude the narrative and it was. you're. you're. 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 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 a few things but first the main will be no will talk to maybe move the juice of one . it changes well but obviously you could also be advertisement for maybe charity purposes i think it may be fake because in antartica there would really be. i think it's very warm this is so you think that really the cause is climate change

is exactly in that's for the. u.s. which 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. 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. 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 is 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 but i said no to this stuff there's no any way for them to get in here to 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. the photographers up and explain why they waited till now before speaking up at some biologist were really skeptical about the claims the animal was suffering because of climate change saying that maybe illness was a more likely reason for the best condition. new strategy to cope with the influx of migrants to germany's but introduced the first of a series of camps now known as anchors centers have opened their doors to refugees coming to germany across the austrian border the move was agreed in a controversial last minute deal between the country's ruling coalition the migrant issues drove a big wedge between chancellor merkel and interior minister offer of late you may recall one point zero four even threaten to resign putting the ruling danger of the ruling coalition in danger they eventually agreed to set up the migrant transit centers in bavaria that they hope will help asylum seekers be processed faster the

name and care instantly comes from uniting three german words that mean a rival decision and reparation and isha sesay explains how the new refugee camps will work in theory. and 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 before the community in the vicinity it is

a big burden on are a phrase that should there and there be more people in the refugee center it could lead to social tensions developing each 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 the newcomers have to learn how to fit into society to avoid this refugee support groups are among those not happy with this processing facilities they see them as an impediment to integration and in some cases home to

those house being permanently confined to mass housing facilities it's get a straw fit for those affected seven and consent. 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. continue to track a story of in covering earlier on this week as well bit more detail but it white farmers in south africa are outraged right now government plans to amend the constitution so that their land can be seized without compensation the new legislation will permit the redistribution then of white owned land to the country's poor black majority paullus leaders talk to some of the farmers at the sharp end of this. 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 or want to create world because the or poor people it's true and this it is true that you want to create jobs in the agricultural sector but you're not going to do through and expropriation in wanting to create growth 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 rum opposer cause his efforts to change the constitution to allow for land expose 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 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 your long without international this friday lunchtime we thank you for it coming up america's gun debate takes a high tech twist those plans how to print a three d. weapon controversially getting online earlier this week you may recall there was a legal order to take a back off again sharpish should that information be out there is the question we speak to someone who definitely thinks is a good idea also the people who oppose him just one of the stories right after this break.

if. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand out of business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the

right answer. questions. again welcome but for you just coming in a suicide bombings happened at a mosque in eastern afghanistan during prayers parallel there's conflicting information about how many casualties have been involved their reports say at least they could be as many as twenty people have been killed there seems dozens more been injured in the attack would share afghan sources say was carried out by two suicide bombers of course we'll bring you more on that when we get it but the trouble needs to eastern afghanistan after what looks like a suicide bombing keep abreast of the r.t. dot com. brazil's considering a new law that will prevent isolated indigenous tribes killing children that are disabled or for any other reason not able to live within the groups some lawmakers

though say that the traditions of these remote ancient communities and whether what you think about it should be protected and that the rules of modern society therefore don't apply. think they'll. say that's a that's a fail safe can be that of a bomb or. 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 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 no. one the current law the tribe can't be judged if there is no awareness that they were doing anything wrong the bill being considered now was called more watches law it's named after a woman who refused to kill a child with a progressive muscular disorder the missionaries who saved them proposed the bill in fact it calls for educating tribes are monitoring pregnant women it also says the failure to report a child killing should be criminalized in future the bills are already passed one

stage but is still being considered by the senate some representatives though worry that the bill would violate the tribes rights. mr farland the g. when we talk about the law which states that indigenous peoples customs must not dominate we take away their rights when they are already in a vulnerable position we should respect their traditions more cases of violence and abuse take place more often when their culture is disrupted we should concentrate on the social aspects of their health rather than criminalize their customs and traditions and digitas people are often ignored when it comes to social policies and are also treated carelessly by the brazilian government it's always been a taboo in brazil to talk about it so we have not. not many data and also because it's difficult to register the numbers no just that oh depair and it's a lot because of these obligations that sometimes they have to you know their

babies we have some cases that the parents committed suicide in origin not to kill their children it's not we are in posing down the you know day did not want to kill their children because they love you so they wanted to have to have the hell. we see in states so they can raise the children. federal judge in the u.s. has issued a temporary restraining order suspending downloads of three d. print designs earlier this week the u.s. justice department a given permission for those weapons design blueprints to be available on the web but eight states almost immediately went to court and the judge in seattle ordered those plans be taken down again with immediate effect so in the short term there online though it's thought the files would loaded thousands of times even though three d. printed guns are made of plastic the number less capable of inflicting fatal injuries that's the worry they're also expensive to produce as that is specialist

equipment but back to the story for no the blueprints are offline but the battle is not over the. behind it compares his mission to get this stuff online to anti establishment activism what wiki leaks. you could cause digital radicals we believe that the internet more perfectly preserve the second and help to be the expansion what is working weeks 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 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. because we will see that you saw this started his quest back in twenty thirty when he first developed a weapon that could be made from scratch by anyone who's go one of these specialist princes democrats who held the senate majority they were opposed to the plans being shared online if i know they say any blood spilled body three d. printed guns will be blood of president trumps hands donald trump will be totally

responsible for every load of all plastic and our 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 is 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 there has always been provision on the internet for blueprints to make plastic guns via three d. printing the issue that our courts have dealt with is if i provide information to you or data or a thought or a passage or a song or instructions the same thing with we used to have rules or instructions on how to make

a nuclear bomb you find the first cylon material great and if you think you're going to go home and plug one of these things to your h.p. three d. computer or that al-qaeda is going to mass produce plastic guns i mean this does it none of this makes any sense but sensors on to do with it sol as you say emotive and that motion long leave me without thought that's it for me kevin owen folks have as much to come clean about you can tomorrow jacqueline who can say throughout the afternoon keep it a check on what's happening in eastern afghanistan the suicide business had a mosque for now though for me have a great friday. 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 comes i wonder if wages don't rise as fast as a business and pleasure and then we had trouble. with this manufactured consent to instant of public wealth. when the right wing closest to protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent so. we can all middle of the room signal. room in the real news room.

you know world of big partisan route logs and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. so you know. i know you need to.

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