and you damned if i'm not the nominee been thought you could have you don't want to . know that you got me totally in my army because you. are jim ocracy itself is in the crosshairs thread it's not going away the russians try to hack into and steal information the us national security and intelligence chiefs are doubling down on allegations of possible foreign interference head of congressional and local mid-term elections without providing any specific evidence . also this hour dozens of civilians are killed in an alleged saudi coalition air strike on a yemeni port city incident apparently surprising riyadh's main ally the us. and national geographic admits it went too far with a caption on a video of a dying polar bear the blame climate change but that's not before the misleading

phrase had been intentionally seen by billions of people. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow where it's just turned three pm thanks for joining us this hour u.s. security and intelligence chiefs have pledged to protect democracy and a rare united appearance at a media briefing in the white house they attempted to reassure the american public that they are actively working to protect the upcoming midterm elections in november from foreign interference predictably russia was named as the main threat without and the evidence 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 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 very 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 we follow procedure that spend agreed. some time ago in terms of when we. receive this type of information it is processed through the leadership of the respective house or. senate chamber and then disseminated down to the individual member who was who was 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 in. 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 is 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. bruised 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 so i mean take the asli without announcement congress also introduced its own aggressive measures against russia with a new bill it calls for the secretary of state to assess whether russia is a state sponsor of terrorism it also proposes creating a new fusion center which will seek to respond to hybrid threats from russia among

those provisions the law requires at least a two thirds vote on any attempt to leave nato political commentator lou rockwell told us the objective 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 their 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've produced zero evidence and. that's you know that's been true all along about the civil war should interfere it's russian collusion and 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 hadera and air strikes allegedly carried out by the saudi led coalition would like to warn you that falling images are disturbing yemeni officials say twenty eight people were killed and around seventy injured however a local t.v.

station has reported that fifty two are dead and at least one hundred wounded airstrikes hit an area near the city's main hospital saudi arabia has denied carrying out any airstrikes in the area at the time instead blaming the attack on the rebels riyadh's coalition has been at war with them since march of two thousand and fifteen when saudi arabia joined the civil war in yemen on the side of the government since that intervention yemen has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis according to the u.n. despite that saudi arabia and the u.s. have enjoyed wide military cooperation both under the trump and obama administrations 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. seems to perceive the latest attack on civilians as a new development despite the same stereo playing out frequently. we had that a saudi led coalition had airstrikes today against a fish market and a hospital in who 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. 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 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. national geographic has admitted it went too far linking a starving polar bear with climate change saying there was no way to know for certain why the bear 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 probably boyko looks at how simply swapping of the caption opened 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 skewed the narrative and it was. you're. you're. this is one bear it's not a once off is it's 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. if the polar bear is a stall but it could be climate change a few things but first the main will be no will talk to maybe move the jupiter. it changes well but obviously you could also be advertisement for rule maybe charity purposes i think it may be fake because in and talk to could there wouldn't really be those and. i think it's everyone this is so you think that really the cause is climate change is exactly that's where the growth of. your search is safe for you the magazine simply took what everybody would have thought

about these images and said it yes i wouldn't necessarily. thing do you feel like it's one of those situations where the media sometimes kind of manipulate you need to have it definitely to events that 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 will i says no it is not there's not any way for them to get it anyway so probably is 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. that's emerged about the caption last december when the article was first published now that the magazine or the

photographers explain why they waited until now to speak out biologists were skeptical about the claims the animal was suffering because of climate change from the start according to them illness was a more likely reason for the barest condition. and the strategy to cope with the influx of migrants to germany has been introduced the first of a series of camps known as anchor 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 issue drove a wedge between chancellor merkel and interior minister or c. hoffer at one point c. hoffert even threatened to resign putting the ruling coalition in danger they eventually agreed to set up the migrant transit centers in bavaria that will help asylum seekers to be processed faster the name ungar center comes from uniting three german words that mean arrival decision and repay ship and this is suffa it's not the explains how the new refugee camps will work. centers like this one in 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 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 a result of the compromise between chancellor merkel and in tearing means to see hope for following hard fought negotiations but whether they all think feedin even attention from the coalition government remains unclear on issues happy party back . a suicide bombing at a mosque in eastern afghanistan during friday prayers has killed at least twenty four people according to officials local journalists also worry as the details the casualties and fatalities could be much higher the attack took place during the friday prayer when the. mosque was busy hosting a big number of worshippers in the provincial capital of card is the capsule of paktia province in southeastern afghanistan the shias in afghanistan are extremely vulnerable especially when it comes to places of worship islamic state of attack them now that part of the country on the border with pakistan was dearest on region

in the corum agency is where militant pakistani groups are also operating like. in different capacities as well as the pakistan based militant work there karni network so we'll have to really see who was behind this attack but what is an extremely dangerous trend now in afghanistan is that the afghan government and its international allies continue to fail to protect lives in afghanistan and when you have such a big number of casualties in fatalities you're actually thinking about a destroyed society almost you're talking about families losing their breadwinners people are losing their lives their aspirations their dreams in this friend six really dangerous trend actually continues in most major cities across afghanistan and so the question is what if any. security strategy is in place to prevent these

sort of attack. in the future coming up in the program white farmers in south africa may be about to lose their lands as the government pushes to amend the constitution and seize their property without compensation more on that after a short 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 then inflation. as such then trying to wonder if wages don't rise as fast as this neo inflation then we had trouble. you watching are to international welcome back to the program white farmers in south africa are outraged at government plans to amend the constitution so their land can be seized without compensation the new legislation will permit the redistribution of white owned land to the country's poor black majority falsely or

has talked 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 growth because they are 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 land expropriation in one thousand to create rule and then you destroy the one six in that he's going to create the world democracy in action is how the south african president several ram opposer calls his efforts to change the constitution to allow for land expose 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. russia will go up and they will struggle even more to survivors 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 insisted most people here want to see exposed creation without compensation become part and parcel of the constitution r.t. south africa. brazil is considering a new law that will prevent isolated indigenous tribes from killing children that are disabled or for other reasons not able to live within the groups some law makers though say the traditions of these remote communities should be protected and that the rules of modern society don't apply a warning some viewers may find the following images upsetting.

think they'll. say that's a 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 this is no middle ground.

the most repressive and lethal actions ever perpetrated against the indigenous peoples of the americas were in failing we justify through appeal some noble causes humanitarian values and universal principles. that along with the list of possibilities. under current laws the tribe can't be judged if there was no where near as they were doing wrong the bill being considered is called mood wodges law it's named after a woman who refused to kill her child who had a progressive muscular disorder the missionaries who saved them propose the bill it calls for educating tribes and monitoring pregnant women it also says the failure to report a child killing should be criminalised the bill has already passed one stage but is still being considered by the senate where some representatives there worry that the bill will violate the tripes rights. just to follow on 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 digitise 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 meanly steadies not many data and also because it's difficult to register then then there's no just that oh depair and it's suffered a lot because of these obligations that sometimes they have to you know they are babies we have some cases that the parents committed suicide in our dinner not to kill their children it's not that we are imposing. no day do not

want to kill they are choosing because they love the. ones to have to have the hail so to receive an estate so they can raise the student that's a wrap up of the day's top headlines for now but in the meantime you can find us on all of your favorite social media platforms for up to the minute reports thanks for tuning in. zia's says harlan kentucky. the employees it was very funny. a ko money city it was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the

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talk and see my face you are joining the vast majority of folks across the united states of america who spend more than eleven hours a day staring of one form of screen or another i'm not exaggerating according to the two thousand eight hundred first quarter total audience report from the nielsen company on us media consumption us adults are spending more than eleven hours a day or two thirds of their waking time interacting with some form of media from t.v. to computers to radios to apps on your smartphone. let that number sink in a minute eleven hours a day if we are lucky enough to sleep an average of seven to eight hours that means that we americans spend maybe four or five hours a day not staring at a screen or consuming some form of media. has a journal of your content producer in today's day and age well welcome to the boom

town because there are couch potatoes in them there ills in fact as tech crunch points out us adults are spending nearly six hours a day watching just video six hours are you still wondering why netflix is now spending eight billion this year on seven hundred hours of programming when we're watching six on average a day before you start spouting off about how it must be those darn millennial faults for our eyes and for all of our eyes to the viewing screen glued society we live in today the report actually points out that older generations generally spend the most time with media adults thirty five to forty nine spend over eleven hours a day on it while adults fifty to sixty four years old do so at nearly a thirteen hour clip. get off my darn t.v. you crazy baby boomers but as are eleven hours a day in front of the to the screen the radio or smartphone too much are we so distracted by the digital worlds of facebook ok cupid twitter and twitch that we

have now lost our sense of self and cognitive thinking here in the real world or is this just the next evolution of the human species like wally you're the matrix predicted maybe it's time to take our eyes off the television screens and start watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal with. the buttocks if you. like you know that i got. this. welcome we're going to watch the hawks like a robot and having the thanks for joining is even though i guess pro.