oh. but the middle of the. our democracy itself is in the crosshairs threat is not going away the russians try to hack into and steal information u.s. national security and intelligence chiefs are doubling down on allegations of 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 yemen's main port city instead apparently surprising riyadh's main ally the u.s. . and national geographic admit its went too far with the caption on a photo of a dying polar bear that blamed climate change the photographer saying that that was not the message they wanted to get across and that the story had been skewed.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. u.s. security and intelligence chiefs have pledged to protect democracy and a rare united appearance of a media briefing at the white house they tend 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 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 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 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 first received this type of information it is processed through the leadership of the respective house or chamber the senate chamber and then disseminated down to the individual member who was who was targeted so we have taken that action that is in place but i'm not in a position right now to release these things these allegations that we recently heard are not that different than what we 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 along with that 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 higher 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 the 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 produced zero evidence and. that's you know that's been true all along about this all the russian interference 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 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 eight hundred wounded

airstrikes hit the area near the city's main hospital him and the ministry of health claims that the responsibility lies on the u.s. israel coalition and its saudi allies. the health ministry strongly condemns the crime of targeting the hospital in the fishermen's market in the united states because full responsibility because the united nations and its organizations and the international community have remained silent in the face of the gratian from the american israeli the coalition and its saudi elyse and their cries for more than two thousand two hundred in twenty days you go. to saudi arabia denies 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 sided with the government and joined the civil war since that intervention the un says yemen has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis the spite that saudi arabia and the us have enjoyed wide

military cooperation both under the trump and obama administrations while. inten 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 scenario 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 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 she should have been out there months ago condemning what the the the humanitarian catastrophe that's occurring in yemen. 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 it to 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 political 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 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.

this is one where it's not a once off is it i mean this is 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 have 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 where the global. your sources say for 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 tell it definitely that that is i mean we know that. we know that there is manipulation this picture is very very powerful impacts when you see it was you have the impression on them it's very difficult to change your mind or to get focus again on this news probably about the light because a lot of the the pictures as well. as noted it's not there's no new evidence can't eat anyway so probably 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 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 bear's condition germany's got a new strategy to cope with the influx of migrants the first of a series of facilities called ungar 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 or stay home for even threatened to resign putting the ruling coalition in danger they eventually agreed to set up the migrant transit centers and before you tell process asylum seekers faster the name under center is an acronym derived from the german words for arrival decision and repatriation and explains how the new refugee

camps will work. centers like this one and 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 on we are afraid that should there end up being 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 our 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 i think for those affected seven and consent. this was set up as a result of a compromise between chancellor merkel and in terry minutes to see hoffa following calls for negotiations but whether they will succeed in easing the tensions in the coalition government remains unclear finishes happy party but. white farmers in south africa may be about to lose their lands of the government pushes to amend the constitution and seize their property without compensation it's among our stories still have after the short break. most of the people in you know who it's very it's a balmy we were in love with only this. all day experiences all this. must live in the group that's in.

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welcome back to the program let's show you what's happening right now in gaza this is an increasingly agitated protest near the border with israel we can show you live pictures now eight palestinians are said to have been wounded after israeli forces took action against the ongoing great march overturned protests some of the protesters were wounded by live ammunition that's according to the gaza health ministry of course these protests have been going on since march of this year and over one hundred palestinians have been killed in clashes with the i.d.f. . 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 those critically more details from local journalists but 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 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's 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 now 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 ancient community should be protected and that the rules of modern society do not apply and warning some viewers may find the following images upsetting. think they'll. say i said if i say failsafe.

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 indigenous peoples of the americas growing failing we justify through appeal some noble causes humanitarian values and universal principles.

to follow the list of those. under brazil's current laws the tribe can't be judged if there was no awareness 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 who had a progressive muscular disorder the missionaries who save 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 and 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 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 meanly steadies 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 to kill their 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 so little ones to have had the hell so to receive an estate so they can raise these.

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 would permit the redistribution of white on land to the country's poor black majority artist pasir have talked to some of the farmers and bob. the farmers that are using them utilizing the land at the moment if you take the learn 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 land expropriation in one to two create rules and then you destroy

the ones to action that is 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 val that by the year two thousand and thirty percent of land would be returned to black owners but even today that has not happened with white farmers still holding the overwhelming majority if you take away those are all players and you replace them with people that has no knowledge

and has no experience we are going to produce a lot less and if we produce less food the food prices will go up and that will harm the people that 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 which is of course 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 off the land reform was implemented still south africa's president and so said most people here want to see exposed creation without compensation become part and parcel of the constitution. south africa that's a wrap up of the day's top headlines for now but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the latest on all the stories and more thanks for tuning and.

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