oh. but like the little bit of. our democracy itself is in the crosshairs threat it's not going away the russians try to get into and steal information from u.s. 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 evidence. dozens of civilians are killed in the alleged saudi coalition air strike on yemen's main port city instead apparently surprising riyadh's main ally the u.s. . and national geographic admits it went too far with the caption on a photo of a dying polar bear that blames climate change the photographer say that was not the message they wanted to get across and that the story has been skewed.

you're watching our team for national coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned five pm welcome to the program. 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 mid-term elections in november from foreign interference predictably russia was named as the main threat without any 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 that goes to russia's intent to undermine our democratic values we've heard the head of the n.s.a. come out and say that the u.s. government is prepared to engage in special operations to counter russian influence in the upcoming elections now dan coats the director of national intelligence he was pressed to give specifics related to allegations regarding hacking and and other specific allegations about somehow russia possibly influencing the election this is how he responded you give us a better sense of who specifically targeted we know at least two senators have said that they've been targeted by hacking by people person in government. members of the senate members of the house is it democratic or republican campaigns we follow procedure that spent 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 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. 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 the yes there's a war between trump and his intelligence simultaneously with the 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 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 for their lives here 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 yemen's main port city of hadera in airstrikes a look at airstrikes allegedly carried out by the saudi led coalition please be warned that the video you're about to see contains graphic scenes 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 yemen's ministry of health claims that the responsibility lies on u.s. israel coalition and its saudi allies. that is also how the health ministry strongly condemns the crime of targeting the hospital in the fishermen's market in . the united states bruce full responsibility is the united nations and its organizations and the international community have remained silent in the freeze of the gratian from the american israeli the coalition and its allies and their crimes for more than two thousand two hundred and twenty days ago and coming out of saudi arabia denies carrying out any airstrikes in the area at the time instead blaming the attack on who is he rebels riyadh's coalition has been at war with them since march of two thousand and fifteen when saudi arabia sided with the government and joined the civil war since that intervention the u.n. says yemen has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis despite that saudi

arabia and the u.s. have enjoyed a wide military cooperation both under the trump and and obama. stray sions washington has been providing riyadh with billions of dollars worth of planes tanks and other military equipment but now the united states u.n. ambassador seems to perceive the latest attack on civilians as a new development despite the same start playing out frequently. we had that in 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 had 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 is admitting that it went too far linking a starving polar bear with climate change saying there's no way to know for certain why the bear was dying national geographic went too far in drawing 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 changing 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 youtube alone the video got one point five million views and it also became one of the most of you to videos on national geographic some websites but it turns out that the photographers original caption didn't they posted the videos saying that this is what starvation looks like but when national geographic picked up the material to publish it skewed the narrative and it was. this is one where it's not

a once off is it i mean i mean is the expectation that as climate change continues that this kind of image is going to be amplified again and again but that viral success troubled the photographers it was not the message they intended for viewers the mission was a success but there was a problem we had lost control of the narrative we were perhaps naïve the picture went viral and people took literally. well now national geographic has been forced to admit that it went too far in linking the dying bat to climate change and that there's no way of telling exactly why the stricken bat was on the verge of death so i've come to london zoo to speak to the animal lovers head to find out if they feel like their sympathies have been manipulated by the media. i think it's very well because so you think that really the cause is climate change exactly that's for the global. yes which is saved. are you the magazine simply took what

everybody would have thought about these images and said it yes i wouldn't necessarily. do you feel like it's one of those situations where the media sometimes kind of manipulates you need. to vent that is i mean we know that. we know that there is manipulation this picture is very very powerful impacts when you see it but once you have the impress on them it's very difficult to change your mind or to get focus again on this new problem to light because a lot of other pictures as well. as noted it's not there's no any way for them to get it anyway so focused on 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. the photographers haven't explained why

they waited until now before speaking out but some biologists were already skeptical about the claims that the animal was suffering because of climate change saying that illness was a more likely reason for the bears condition. germany's got a new strategy to cope with the influx of migrants the first of a series of facilities called centers have opened their doors to refugees arriving from across the austrian border the move was agreed in a controversial last minute deal between germany's ruling coalition the migrant issue drove a wedge between chancellor merkel and her interior minister at one point horsey hoffer even threatened to resign putting the ruling coalition in danger they eventually agreed to set up the migrant transit centers and bavaria to help process asylum seekers faster than a monk or center is arrived as an acronym derived from the german words for arrival decision and repatriation initial southie explains how the new refugee camps will

work. 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 we are afraid 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 heading to over seventy thousand residents who wonder where 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 got a straw i think for those affected seven and consented. it was set up as

a result of the compromise between chancellor merkel and terry means to see hope following calls for its negotiations but whether they will succeed in easing the tensions in the coalition government remains unclear finish a sexy party. 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 is among our stories still heard after the break. disinflation very little inflation for decades interest rates have gone down for thirty years markets have rallied for thirty years now the whole thing is reversing interest rates are going up so is inflation so we'll see how that plays out if

wages rise faster than inflation. as such then trying to wonder if wages don't rise as fast as this meal inflation then we got trouble. when i was told some seemed wrong. loads just don't hold. any new gold yet to shape out these days comes to agitate and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i. welcome back to the program

a suicide bombing has hit a mosque in eastern afghanistan during friday prayers officials there are now being quoted as saying that at least thirty people have died and more than eighty others are wounded a quarter of them critically more details now from local journalists also ari. the casualties and fatalities could be much higher the attack took place during the friday prayer when the sun mosque was busy hosting a big number of worshippers in the provincial capital of cairo these the couple of paktia province in southeastern afghanistan the shias in afghanistan are extremely vulnerable especially when it comes to places of worship the islamic state of attack them now that part of the country on the border with pakistan was a stun region in the corum agency is where militant pakistani groups are also operating like jenga v.

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 and 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 attacks in the future. 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 lawmakers though say the traditions of these remote communities should be protected and that the rules of modern society do not apply and warning some viewers may find the following images upsetting. keeping fail. safe i say i say 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 and lethal actions ever perpetrated against the indigenous peoples of the americas growing failing we justify through appeal some neighborhoods these humanitarian values and universal principles. that are long on the list of. under brazil's current laws the tribe can't be judged if there was nowhere n'est they were doing something wrong the bill being considered is called watches law it's named after a woman who refused to kill her child with a progressive muscular disorder the missionaries who save them propose the bill and it calls for educating tribes and monitoring pregnant women it also says the failure to report a child should be criminalized the bill has already passed one stage but is still

being considered by the senate some representatives there worry that the bill would violate the tribes rights. just to follow on the g. mobile 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 for 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 digitize 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 mini studies not many data and also because it's difficult to register then the embers has noticed 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 than the no day do not want to kill they are choosing because they love the supremes so they wanted to have to have the health so to receive an estate so they can raise the. white farmers in south africa are outraged that government plans to amend the constitution so their land can be seized with out compensation the new legislation will permit the redistribution of white owned land to the country's poor black majority artist pasir has talked to some of the farmers and told 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 or do you

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 the or poor people it's true that is it is true that he wants to create jobs in the agricultural sector but you're not going to do through and explode in one can to create growth and then you destroy the one section that is going to create the world of democracy in action is how the south african president several rum opposer calls his efforts to change the constitution to allow for land expropriation 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 the 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 their call home 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 prices 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. africa's president insists that most people here want to see exposed creation without compensation become part and parcel of the constitution point auti south africa that's a wrap up of the day's top headlines for now but don't forget you can always head to our website r.t. dot com for the latest on all those stories and much much more thanks for tuning in . this is harlan kentucky. the place you could work ministry.

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hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle is 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 talban 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 that corporate first of all correction my dear friend it is not the mainstream media used to be that mainstream media used to be mainstream they're not this is the mainstream media social media different platforms that's

mainstream they are eggs. stencil 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 heartland mainstream america care no there you go so ok but ok but rob i'm being i get we all get lionel's point but they still think of themselves as the mainstream and representing. the population what they really do is represent power particularly on the left i would say but i want to stay with this magnification here because if you look if you watch c n n n m s n b c and then you watch fox on the same evening you'd think you'd be in parallel universes i mean you really would have a sense that both are in some kind of.