this hour's headlines stories a british newspaper claims it's found are russian spy operating in the u.s. embassy in moscow but washington intel agencies insist it's really not. also in the program thousands of yemenis protest in the capital against an alleged saudi led coalition assault on the main port city in which. national geographic admits it went too far with a caption on a photo of a dying. blame climate change the photographers say it wasin the message they wanted to get across enough the story.

just eight o'clock in the evening here in moscow this friday august third welcome to our to international in and only a russian mole inside the u.s. embassy in moscow stuff britain's guardian newspaper has been reveling in its scoop but all it's not how it seems down off explains everybody loves the spy drama mystery suspense and the russian. my name is evelyn. this guardian story had every ingredient for a thriller recipe the u.s. secret service as quite clearly stems from the very name is one of the most

enigmatic agencies of the u.s. government its main function is to protect the lives of u.s. presidents ministers the top political brass and that is where the russians according to the guardian planted a mall the russian spy had been working under texted in the heart of the american embassy in moscow for more than a decade she had plenty of time together intelligence without supervision the source said the guardian's head of investigations claims she was operational for a whole decade in that time through the agency's internet in e-mail systems she had access to all kinds of highly classified stuff including the jewels of the president and vice president all of that according to the guardian the woman fed to the be russia's key security agency before being let go last year over security concerns they had lined the narrative the details looked spectacular in the scoop

which was even projected to link to a spy ploy in washington d.c. that self her activities of stealing and sharing information could shed more light on how the russians were able to hack the twenty sixteen presidential election office of the d.n.c. except the secret service was well unimpressed by the reporting and not out of shame or embarrassment but because of the facts according to the media release within the agency the woman in question held the position of a foreign service national these employees have their duties outlined very strictly as by default the secret service views every one of them surprises as potential spies the woman's responsibilities were limited to things like translation cultural guidance administrative support and i don't mean to offend anybody here but this. more like the job description of a tourist guide rather than a spy a material employee and i wish i could say the guardian did not know all these

things when publishing the article but they did prior to the guardian publishing their article the u.s. secret service provided their editor with their official statement clearly refuting unfounded information despite all this the article was published as is after all everybody loves this spy drama but some plots a better be saved hollywood script. letting state side us security and intelligence chiefs pledge to protest democracy in a rare united appearance the 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 any evidence provided. our democracy itself is in the crosshairs paid by russia to try to weaken and divide 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 it goes beyond the elections it goes to russia's intent to undermine our democratic values however when the us national intelligence director was pressed to give more details he wasn't particularly forthcoming. you give us a better sense of who is this is really hard we know these two senators have said that they've been targeted by hacking by people personally. members of the senate members of the house is it democratic or republican campaigns we follow procedure that's been agreed. some time ago in terms of when we've just

received this type of information it is processed through the leadership of the respective house or chamber the senate chamber and then disseminated down to the individual member who 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 those names washington based journalist jill dougherty at sais the default position for many in washington is to blame russia for everything. 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 on rulership 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. so sins of yemenis have turned out in the capital in protests that are only going saudi led coalition airstrikes it was prompted by a deadly raid which killed dozens in the main port city of. saudi arabia denies carrying out air strikes in the area the time that blaming me it would seem rebels please be warned the video you're about to see contains graphic scenes yemeni officials say twenty eight people were killed around seventy injured however a local t.v. station has reported that fifty. wounded the air strikes hit an area near the city's main hospital yemen's health ministry is clear who it thinks is to

blame. 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 is really the coalition and its hootie and allies and their crimes for more than two thousand two hundred twenty days ago and. now the saudi led coalition has been at war with the rebels since march twenty fifteen when it's. sided with the government on join the civil war since the intervention the u.n. say the situation in yemen has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis despite not saudi arabia the u.s. have enjoyed wind military cooperation both under the trump and obama administrations washington provides 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 lift as the attack on civilians as a new development this by the same scenario having played out for years. we had that in saudi led coalition had the air strikes 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 isn't 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 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. of staying in the region one palestinian has been killed and over one hundred others injured in the ongoing great march of return protests that is according to gallup health. stry the israeli defense forces estimate the number of violent rioters at eight thousand friday saw the nineteenth great march return rally since they began in march it comes as hamas and israel reportedly consider a deal brokered by egypt to end protests along the border. national geographic is admitting that it went too far in linking

a starving polar bear with climate change saying there is no way to know for certain why the burro was dying national geographic went too far in drawing of the feelings of connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear there is no way to know for certain why this banner was on the verge of death holy book and simply changing the caption opened a whole new angle on the story. 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'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. this is one bear it's not a once off is it's i mean i'm 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 had lost control of the narrative we were perhaps naïve the picture went viral and people took it literally. well now national geographic has been forced to admit that it went too far in linking the dying bat to climate change and

that there's no way of telling exactly why the stricken bear was on the verge of death so i've come to london zoo to speak to the animal lovers head to find out if they feel like their sympathies have been manipulated by the media. i think it's story world because so you think that really the cause is climate change exactly that's where the global. yes it is so 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 manipulate you know the girl it definitely. is i mean we know that that happens we know that there is manipulation this picture is very very powerful impact when you see it but then 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 but i says no to this not there's not 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 negate serious reporting. well the photographers haven't explained why you be waited on until now before speaking out but some biologists were already skeptical about the claims that the alamo was suffering because of climate change saying that even this was a more likely reason for the burrs condition. germany has got a new strategy to cope with the influx of migrants the first of a series of facilities called uncurse centers have opened their doors to refugees

arriving from across the austrian border the move was agreed to in a controversial last minute deal between germany's ruling coalition well the migrant issue has drove a wedge between chancellor merkel on the interior minister at one point horst see hoffer even threatened to resign putting the ruling coalition in danger of splitting migrant transit centers in bavaria where eventually established to help process asylum seekers foster. well the name uncursed center is acronym derived from the german word for a rival decision. and he said he explains how the new refugee camps will work. centers like this one in 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 we are afraid that should 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 threats 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 home full to those house being permanently confined to mass housing facilities it's got a strong fix for those affected seven and consent. this was set up 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 finishes at

a party. brazil is considering a new law valid will prevent isolated indigenous tribes from killing children that are disabled or for another reason not able to live within their groups some lawmakers however say quote the traditions of these remote ancient communities should be protected and that the rules of modern society don't apply a warning some viewers may find the following images subsiding. i. think they'll. say if i say that's a fail safe going to come over.

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 were unfailingly justified through appeals of noble causes humanitarian values and universal principles. along those that don't want to go to. the hard pictures to see their under brazil's current laws the tribe can be judged if they weren't aware they were doing wrong the bill being considered as cold and want

g.'s law it's named after a woman who refused to kill her child suffering from a progressive muscular disorder the missionaries who save them propose the bill it calls for educating tribes on monitoring pregnant women it also saves 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 some representatives there worry that the bill would violate the tribes rights. so far on the g. when we talk about the law which states that indigenous peoples customs must not dominate we take away their rights and 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 many studies not many data and also because it's difficult to register then the amber see has noticed that oh depair and it's 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 origin not to kill their children it's not that we are in. the states no day do not want to kill they are choosing because they love the so they wanted to have to have the hell so to receive in status so they can raise the student. a suicide bombing house have a mosque in eastern afghanistan during friday prayers officials there are now being quoted as saying about least thirty nine people have died more than eighty others

are wounded a quarter of them critically more details from a local journalist not a bailout story. 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 this is the capital of paktia province in southeastern afghanistan. as 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 a stun region in the corum agency is aware militant pakistani groups are also operating leg. 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 are 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 attacks in the future. white farmers in south africa are right range the government plans to amend the constitution so their land can be seized without compensation the new legislation will permit the redistribution of white own land to the country's black majority or talk to some of the farmers involved. performers

that are using utilizing the land of 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 m. a poor or want to create growth because they are 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 land expropriation in the one to do create growth and then you destroy the one section that is going to create the world democracy in action is how the south african president several ram oppose or course his efforts to change the constitution to allow for land expropriation without compensation he announced

this week he was increasing efforts 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'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 and. 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 point. south africa stories for no n r t international but stay with us because until a city in the philippines is known to many for the wrong reasons as a sex tourism destination or documentary fall in angel's documents the children conceived by holiday makers and left behind as an afterthought starts in moments.

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