a british newspaper claims it's found a russian spy operating in the us embassy in moscow but washington intel agencies insist it's really not what it seems also ahead. i. protest in the capital against the. coalition assault on the main port city in which dozens and. headline stories are not still a geo graphic quote went too far. on a photo of a dying polar bear that blame climate change the photographers say the message they wanted to get across the story.

live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international good to have you with us mine aims union only our top story a russian mole inside the u.s. embassy in moscow it's stuff on britain's guardian newspaper has been reveling in its scoop but all is not how it seems. off explains everybody loves the spy drama mystery suspense and a 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 shared jewels of the president and vice president all of that according to the guardian the woman fed to the physic 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. itself 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. 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 but ministry of 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 info and information despite all this the article was published. after all everybody loves a spy drama but some plots a better be saved hollywood script. where u.s. security and intelligence chiefs have pledged to protect democracy in a rare united appearance at a media briefing in the white house they attempted to reassure the american public about they are actively working to protect the upcoming midterm elections in november from foreign interference perhaps predictably russia was named as the main threat without any evidence provided our democracy itself is in the crosshairs paid

by russia to try weaken and divide united states threat. from foreign interference in our elections to prevent russian another foreign influence and the russians try to hack into and steal information. in government officials alike cyber attacks against voting infrastructure along with your puter intrusions delicious cyber actors are things like the fish that goes beyond the elections it goes to rushes in to undermine our democratic values however when that person the us national intelligence director was pressed to give more details he wasn't particularly forthcoming. give us a better sense of who specifically targeted we know these two senators who said that they'd been targeted by hacking by people person a. 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 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 actions that it's in place but i'm not in a position right now to release those names a washington based journalist jill noria believes the default position for many in washington is to blame anyone else and rush is a solid choice. the rhetoric 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 rulers their own rules ship this is absolutely getting out of control right now i have not seen it like this before and it's getting more and more dangerous when you think of the relations between two superpowers they don't want better relations with russia they want to push this line and they yes there's a war between trump and his intelligence. so let's turn our attention to yemen where thousands of people there have turned out in the capital in protest at all going saudi led coalition airstrikes it was prompted by a deadly raid which killed dozens in the main port city of hope to saudi arabia denying he's carrying strikes in the early time instead blaming the conflicting reports please be warned the video you're about to see contains graphic imagery yemeni official say twenty eight people were killed around seventy more into it

however a local t.v. station has reported that fifty two are on at least one hundred wounded they are strikes hit an area near the city's main hospital yemen's health ministry is clear and 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 and that is the united nations and its organizations and the international community remain silent in the freeze of the ration from the american economy the coalition allies in their crimes for more than two thousand two hundred and tweedle dee and human accounting and. laid. not war with a rebel since march twenty fifth when it sided with the government and joined the civil war since the last intervention the un says the situation in yemen has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis the spike that saudi arabia the united states enjoyed wind military cooperation both under the obama administration's

washington provides riyadh with billions of dollars worth of planes tanks and other military equipment but now the united states un seems to perceive the latest attack on civilians as a new development despite the same scenario helping being played out there 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 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 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 the health ministry in galluses sees one palestinian has been killed. in over one hundred injured in the latest great march of return protest near the border with israel the ministry said that fifty of those injured were wounded by israeli live fire. the israeli defense forces estimate the number of what they call violent rioters on a. friday so the nineteenth great march of return rally since they began in march

it comes as hamas and israel reportedly consider a deal brokered by egypt to and protests along the border. ok to another headline story this hour national geographic is admitting quote went too far linking a starving polar bear with climate change saying there's no way to know for certain why the burrow was dying national geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear there is no way to know for certain why this bear was on the verge of death. polly boy who looks now 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'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 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 who 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 very well because so you think that really the cause is climate change exactly that's for the global. yes it was safe for you the magazine simply took what everybody would have thought about these images and said it yes i

wouldn't necessarily even really there i'd look at the poor thing do you feel like it's one of those situations where the media sometimes kind of manipulate you know the girl it definitely there 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 but i said no to this not there's not any way for them to get them here to anyway so it probably has something to do climate change so yeah climate change is clearly a serious issue that weighs heavily on the minds of many people but the question is whether it should mandate serious reporting. all the photographers huff and explain why they waited all 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 birds 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 the migrant issue has driven away between chancellor merkel the interior minister at one point horst see her even threatened to resign but in the ruling coalition in danger of getting a deal for migrant transit centers to open in bavaria was eventually established to help process asylum seekers foster. well the name uncursed center is an acronym the ride from the german word for arrival decision on repository ation and the society explains how the new refugee camps are going to 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 we are afraid that should there and there be more people in the refugee center it could lead to social tensions developing each sensor 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 wonder where the challenges posed by the influx of people put people in the migration center makes 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 strong thick for those affected seven and consent. it was set up as a result of the compromise between chancellor merkel and in terry mills to see hope for following calls for its negotiations but whether they'll succeed in easing the tensions in the coalition government remains unclear initial sethi party back. in the press that they didn't brewing a british judge has recognized on this law make faith more age as being legal under u.k. law the case was brought by a muslim woman who wanted to divorce her estranged husband the couple were married of a traditional muslim wedding ceremony also known as nic twenty years ago but it was regarded as a religious certainly and therefore not a civil marriage under u.k. law doesn't block divorce proceedings in shari'a law on which a union can only be dissolved by a consul of muslim leaders but such councils have no legal jurisdiction in the u.k.

jacqueline bouvier discussed it earlier with a muslim rights campaigner of british politics commentator. how significant do you think this ruling is in terms of how britain regards religious weddings and the marriage there after it is essentially the first time that the british courts our legal system has essentially recognized a parallel legal system nearly shari'a law it does set a precedent with perhaps establishing what the bindery serang that should be so i view this as troubling misguided and potentially very disturbing for the future the judge was talking about recognizing it as a void marriage under english common law which is not exactly the same as shari'ah although this might might be similar so yes in fact to clean made that point that this is not about recognizing a shari'a law it's about recognizing and implementing what is seen as a marriage or avoid marriage and english common law not sure real law in actual

fact it's good everything to do with it couldn't be more clear and you being ingenuous by suggesting it's some completely divorced from islam it's everything to do with shari'a law as it's understood in this united kingdom and we cannot have i'm sure you'd agree with me there is no place for parallel legal systems within the u.k. with the years over the centuries english law has improved to the level where it's very very similar to the general aims and objectives of sharia anyway so. a marriage under english common law is very similar to marriage under serial or anywhere in syria has certain guidelines certain rights and one to responsibilities for a husband and wife or people who are you know showing the world that there has been whoa and likewise english common law does as well someone to suggest that should real or in its full manifestation has any compare ability to british law is a little cross i believe this judge has set

a precedent which does carry consequences those consequences seemed it tell of the . to particular problems which it doesn't deserve above any other fee if on those my read on of the whole was the opportunity to get the rights was this judge has no veiled and by simply hoping a simple a simple certainly a look if you want to get my head on the shari'a law that's one thing but burdened by that it isn't does not provide you with legal status under british law and this judge has given them a backstop i think that's all well to be fair the woman in this case she was arguing that she did ask for the civil ceremony and that her husband refused to go forward with it that her father had also asked for it and it just was not an option for just the same if she asked for a divorce and he would not give it to her so someone if we could go to you again what do you think this means for other women who are an unhappy marriage just possibly that they might also try and take this route the rights that women i mean

did men have in this scenario are the exact same rights that they would have under the english common law so when you look at things for example the division of assets and so forth if there is an asset which is truly shared like the marital home or a car or something that worked together then regardless of if then my we don't know . even under the english common law lead to manchuria obviously they have an enticement too they both have an entire term to that thing presidents can lead to all kinds of situations and in this case what we're seeing is a parallel law being legitimized in the u.k. i repeat should be in courts how likely is in the united kingdom. going to south america now where brazil is considering a new law that 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 said quote 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 quite upsetting. i. think they'll. say i say i say fail so. if i had remained there i would certainly be dead. certain cultural practices here i'm compatible with human rights they need to be

thwarted there's no middle ground. for most repressive illegal actions ever perpetrated against indigenous peoples of the americas were unfailingly justified through appeals of noble causes humanitarian values and universal principles. that are long. yes tough to watch that under brazil's current laws the tribe can't be legally judged if they weren't aware they were doing anything wrong but the bill now being considered is called movie watch easel it's named after a woman who refused to kill her child who was 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 criminalized the bill has already passed one stage but is still being considered by the senate some representatives there worried that the bill would violate. the tribes writes stuff 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 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 many studies not many data and also because it's difficult to register then and there's no just 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 our dinner not to kill their children it's not that we are in. the states you know days do not want to kill they are choosing because they love the you tube so they wanted to have to have the health so to receive it in stages so they can raise the student pope francis has called for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide without a lot more done for this question next on watching the hawks. disinflation very little inflation for decades interest rates have gone down for thirty years

markets have rallied for thirty years now the whole thing is reversing interest rates are going up so is inflation so we'll see how that plays out if wages rise faster than inflation. as such then comes to wonder if wages don't rise as fast as this neal inflation then we had trouble. when lawmakers manufacture consent to stick to the public will. when the right wing closest to protect themselves. with the flaming merry go round lifts and be the one percent of. the time we can all middle of the room signals. room i mean real news room. most of the people

in you know who it's that. we were in the number one in this mood all day it's perience is all of this him with a little left of the group that's. something you would not slow down. greetings and sell you take. guess what a hawk rogers right now as you hear me talk and see my face you are joining the vast majority of folks across the united states of america. spend more than eleven hours a day staring at 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 and 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 smart phones but 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 millennialist balls 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 t.v. you crazy baby boomers but as are eleven hours a day in front of the to the screen the radio or the 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 wall-e. you're the matrix predicted.