and a russian firm photog. the name of the agent is stabling song my name is evelyn so then you are at us and spoke. 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 bustles 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. itself or 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 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 info and 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. and while the this particular russian spy story was debunked even by the u.s.

secret service itself america's politicians on intelligence community have been doubling down on allegations of meddling in elections they've pledged to protect the upcoming midterm elections in november from foreign into fair. our democracy itself is in the crosshairs paid by russia to try to weaken and divide united states its 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 from candidates and government officials alike cyber attacks against voting infrastructure along with computer intrusions malicious cyber actors targeting elected officials it goes beyond the elections it goes to russia's intent to undermine our democratic values. content is created tested and hosted on platforms such as you tube reddit and

pinterest its push to twitter and facebook with their standing audiences in the hundreds of millions and it's targeted at the most receptive this is a problem of the entire information ecosystem this is cross-platform reddit confirm hundreds of ira created accounts tumblr did it. a lot of pride pride related content less news more means this isn't just a couple of platforms this is music as this is video games this is me i'm sharing it it's much broader than twitter and google. when you look it's just hilarious when i hear that funny pictures can undermine american democracy i think it's just paranoia that goes off the scale it's not respectable for american lawmakers to make a sensation out of nothing we're not the ones who invented social media and we're not the ones who insisted on making social media open to everybody 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. draws 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. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro says he's escaped an attempt on his life that's after drones carrying explosives detonated nearby while he was addressing troops in caracas the incident was captured on video. i did a little bit of a lot of good little for the. president

i thought it was on the ground just on seven soldiers were injured and the venezuelan government says it's already detained some of those behind the assassination plot but it was also blame at neighboring colombia where any involvement in the group called the soldiers claims that carried out at the time. i play both stories coming your way here on the weekly on international we just. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be

present. to try to be for us this is what before you know more people are. interested always in the water. it's. good to have you with us today the south african country of zimbabwe has seen

deadly unrest over the contested outcome of this presidential election in a historic vote seventy five year old emerson ghana just over fifty percent of the ballots but the opposition has slammed the result as fake claiming the election was rigged ensuing mass street protests then turned violent. i. am. god you know we understand are six people were killed during the protests defying the official result the main opposition has to claim his cow and the nelson chamisa as the winner let's take a closer look at the two main rivals in this election the elected president emerson nicknamed crocodile has been in power for just over half a year he was appointed after long running president robert mugabe was ousted last year and only god one by only a small margin in the election gaining just six percent more than his rival now his

opponent is the pro western nelson chamisa he's the current leader of the opposition and a recently qualified pastor he came close to becoming zimbabwe's youngest ever president being only forty years old. along with his supporters now demand the release of all the data relating to the election result a washington says it will be reviewing zimbabwe's election results and appealed to the losing party to quote show graciousness in defeat of the vote in zimbabwe again worldwide attention as it was the first in decades without mugabe's name on the ballot papers so quickly here's a breakdown of why this election matters. this election in zimbabwe is a huge milestone for what's been a very troubled country with an even more troubling financial crisis and here is why is the first time since one thousand nine hundred eighty the name of robert mugabe isn't featured on the ballots he was at the helm of the country for almost

forty years and it seemed nothing good price in the way mcgovern his departure from his presidential throne was as quick as it was unexpected the big coup unfolded after a fight the power between mugabe's own wife and his right hand man the first lady also known as gucci grace and the voice present nicknamed as the crocodile each accuse the other of poisonings and death threats and it seemed grace had won her way when her ninety three year old husband sacked the vice president suddenly the army stepped it taking control of the capital just as the parliament was moving to impeach robert mugabe he quit to allow a smooth transfer of power in the crocodile finally got his teeth into running the country. a volatile atmosphere and a district was forced one pro migrant group to end its crucial work that according to volunteers the area is now unsafe and even minimum security measures are simply

not being met and the group has been working there for almost two years distributing more than two hundred fifty thousand meals and supplies. charlotte devinsky reports. in paris is a gritty eighteenth hante small town hundreds of migrants clustered together on the streets they gather here as it's where food is distributed by a local fall until the group but after twenty months solid data to me call wilson looks set to close its doors saying they just can't take anymore the thoughts of it's become more tense we're serving around seven hundred breakfasts every day to migrants who live in terrible conditions they have nothing not even tents they sleep on the ground and sometimes woken up by the police early in the morning they kick women used tear gas to move them so when they come to us they're stressed the nervous twice last week we had to stop serving food to let the tension calm down this is something new for us so yes we're stopping migrants have been expelled by

police in this area many times philip tells me that despite this they come back and every time they do this situation becomes even more desperate from the beginning our mission was to serve hot drinks and bread and we've done this for twenty months every day during the last month or so we started questioning our mission as we don't want to volunteer to be put in danger. who is to blame for this situation with not giving enough help to the migrants on the streets is this the mayor of paris is this the government of france. is all for us is both the state is responsible for people on the streets for taking in migrants at the same time the authorities in paris are restricting access to water taps in the summer is irresponsible they also have a responsibility towards the miners their miners here who sleep on the street and in the camp of drug addicts me the state nor the parish administration is doing its job. with the authorities not providing enough support the volunteers giving up

just a stone's throw away from haiti is an area known locally as crack hill that's also made things worse for those working to help the migrants felipe says that some of the drug addicts are also coming for food handouts and causing problems. by the drug addicts revaluated recently but nothing was done to help them and they came back to and now come for a break for this too it creates additional tension they're aggressive including towards the volunteers so this is an explosive situation. while recording the interview me the food distribution point to. individuals approach us all move you guys all about media which serves your reality and i was here i was only. marginally so every city. at the moment some of the people on the streets are very and. like bill me now we're not filming it he says but they just uncomfortable with

the cameras. pete when you typically see the same thing. i. think. more people are coming nothing is being done about it and there are the drug addicts as you saw it's impossible to film people here it's becoming more difficult than before we think the situation is explosive and a person is in real danger. by shutting up shop so legality me kong wilson know that they are cutting off a vital lifeline for the phone ripple newcomers but as well as doing it out of concern for their volunteers they hope the move to prompt the authorities to stop ignoring the plight of migrants and force them to take action charlotte do you can ski r.t. paris. turkey has vowed to retaliate against the u.s. after washington impose sanctions on two officials and korea over the detention of

american pastor and drew brunson earlier turkey rejected a u.s. request to let him return to his homeland brunson is currently under house arrest in izmir turkey the turkish president or other one says the u.s. move is quote disrespectful. we've shown patience but the step america has taken does not with it's a step taken towards a strategic partner in america has shown serious disrespect towards turkey. on wednesday the trump administration slapped economic sanctions on two senior turkish officials and said any property they have in the us will be blocked in response turkey has said it will introduce sanctions of its own targeting the assets of a us officials in the country and besides freezing their assets ankara says those targeted will also be prevented from simply doing business with turkey now the pastor at the center of the dispute is andrew bronson he was detained in twenty sixteen in connection with an attempted coup against out of the ones government

that year he's accused of espionage and assisting terrorist groups a deal between the u.s. and turkey to secure the evangelical pastors release broke down last month and bronson was then transferred to house arrest over health concerns but he's still facing thirty five years in jail if found guilty and that's led to a heated dispute between the u.s. and turkey and we spoke to the former turkish ambassador to the u.s. osman fight oklahoma who he says the bronson case is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to problems between washington and i think around. the first order of business is to dissolve this case so that passers a concert and this can be done not courting to turkish will by the turkish courts could provide a chance for the two sides to an adult other more serious problems because the pastor gross in the case is it is really basically a detail that us as congress is extremely unhappy about the areas developments in

turkey as absolute but to purchase as four hundred missiles from russia have been objections from a nato allies including the us that is put the create problems for over. its nato partners but i think that the churches are trying to beef up its. defense system in that the deal with this one hundred says is in place and it's well you know. this news just in here on out international a suicide bomber has killed three nato soldiers in afghanistan and the mission has not yet revealed the nationality of the soldiers and added that an american and two afghan soldiers were wounded in the blast as well as the incident comes just one day off the two suicide bombers attacked a mosque in the southeast of the country killing thirty nine islamic state said it was behind that attack so far there is no information as to who carried out that

latest attack on these nato soldiers. and i just about wraps up the program for this hour here on r.t. international there we are back with more of your weekly in about twenty five. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics score less and less i'm show business i'll see you then. this is says harlan kentucky. the voice. very funny thing.

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