because thousands tens of thousands of people had their lives destroyed by r.b.s. . moscow says it views further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia as the start of an economic war washington says it's stepping up the restrictions over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in the u.k. back in march. also in the headlines this friday the us democratic party wants facebook to share data on members for info fake news so we can tell them what's right this is social media giants are accused of censorship after banning controversial show host alex jones. trail and hamas militants from egypt tentative cease fire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip.

and the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia that a desperate to contact loved ones who've been persuaded to go and fight for islamic state in syria. we'll call it that it will be ok that some call it will all be ok i just feel so sorry for the children it's so difficult when you don't know where exactly children are. good morning welcome to the program i'm kevin owen it's just ten ten am here in moscow you're watching r.t. international first in the headlines this friday a further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war that's how the russian prime minister dmitri medvedev reacted to newly announced restrictions by the u.s. over the poisoning of former russian double agent sergei scriptural and his daughter

in britain in march. if it comes to banning banking activities or certain currency use we will be able to call it a declaration of economic war and this will require a reaction by implementing either economic political or if necessary any other measures these new sanctions that are set to come into the first places limits on financing and export especially on a number of national security goods the second wave is set to hit diplomatic relations as well as banking and imports and takes up the story for you. when it comes to global disagreements sanctions that the u.s. weapon of choice as russia's number two at the u.n. put it let's us welcome the united sanctions of america well russia is being on the receiving end of plenty of them they stem from allegations of election meddling military aggression human rights abuses all cyber crimes take your pick and the latest well that's of assault reports innings washington says it has determined

that russia used a military nerve agent to attack form a double agent say script paul and his daughter where are you getting the conclusion that her she's behind the screen poisoning i would leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding of the screen but others haven't given any evidence either just various grades of highly likely is highly likely that russia was responsible we do hold russia culpable culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder and this being uncertainty from specialists investigating the case. as analysis of the p.c. w.'s report i did to find the country. of origin of the agent used in this attack and we continue to see a sort of a series of corporate baggers here of insinuation that russia is involved which basically is a mood music which is feeding the population in the west with the idea yes it is

the russians despite the evidence just a constant constant stream of these. people just accept oh yes it must be the russians therefore that's ok we have asked him point more sanctions it's time that we did get all the evidence but my suspicion is that as i'm going to happen although that seems of little interest to washington which is found guilty slapped it with new sanctions and strangely given it's ninety days to prove it wasn't involved or it will ratchet up the penalties to a whole new level with even talk of branding russia a state sponsor of terrorism that regardless of trump. wanting russia as a partner in his fight against terror and the torso doesn't seem to matter that the u.s. itself has a long history of consorting with groups branded as terrorists for instance america's support for the movement which techie label to terror groups organizing an attempted coup. sooner or later the united states will make a choice either to. either the bloody. country of

democracy. or how about the american officials here they are a in extremis grip the mujahideen a coke who bombs the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. noun opposition is centered in this room. and let's not forget how america stood alongside the afghan wish i had been in its battle against the soviet union only to see that group later fall into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. does america dealing with these five and groups amount to sponsoring terrorism while the state department has a good answer for that i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding. time now for the third of the last piece of the series of

reports on the fate of children of islamic state fighters from russia with the coaching of a travel to the south of the country to talk to people desperate for news of family members that pledged allegiance to the terror group. it's early morning but the office of those human rights group and brosnan is packed with women all desperate to find out any news about their loved ones many have come here from other regions of russia's north caucasus and almost all cases their relatives left russia to join eisel in syria often taking their young children with them these women are united in their quest to have one simple question answered are their family members still alive there are over six hundred women and children reported missing at this human rights office and these are just some of the photos that their family members have left in a bid to locate them now our free picture has the name date of some general

information on the back this is a four year old so maya this child left russia when he was less than they hear but there are so many more of them. that he said doesn't miss a single meeting held at the office she says she has already accepted that she will never see her only son again but she just hopes that her grandchildren are still alive she brought pictures of her son's wife mariam one taken before she went to syria and another when she was over there with her son that he said has never even seen her grandchildren and pass on both of them were born in syria and communication was lost long ago so much so that she doesn't even know the name of her granddaughter. so we all hope that it will be ok that somehow it will all

be ok i just feel so sorry for the children it's so difficult when you don't know where exactly your children are and heard anything from my daughter in law in the last eight months and then i cry and i will turn fixes this year it is so difficult i don't think i can last much longer. that enid tries to spend almost all her free time at this office coming here after work she listens to the women's stories fills out forms and registers the newcomers her own personal tragedy brought her here to this place three years ago her brother left home and never returned his phone was last tracked in turkey but not a trace since almost three years of silence said. it is very difficult for me now it was so close since we were kids always together went to school together to university together work together he was always around i

guess often he left i feel like part of me as i don't leave a normal life now i just exist. was arena still believes that one day she will see her brother a life she has dedicated her life to helping others find their families twenty one russian women are currently in prison there are all of them were sentenced to life behind bars but they're there in prison with their children so now we're trying to bring back these children it is going to be such a joy just one child for to us if i help these children maybe this might somehow help me bring my brother back home. for her search has come to its conclusion but there was a no for a retail ending she found out that her older sister aida is among

a group of russian women convicted and sentenced to life in prison in iraq for joining and supporting i so she is in jail with her twelve year old daughter so while just got out knows she will probably never see her sister again she is doing everything possible to. get her a nice back home and give her the childhood she's so clearly lost sass that she still canned food come to terms with her sister's decision. i don't think she was looking for it but to live there building a house together our brothers gave us land we had so many plans or planted trees their own we wanted to do so much you had so much plans for the future and suddenly this happened. all these stories a tragically familiar had this that out of a who leads the search for missing people says that the real number of families in

fact it is catastrophic she says their database comprises over two thousand people was for safety lisa i feel irritated when i hear people say you're saving terrorists i'm deeply disturbed by that was what is this child's fault what's the fault of these children only the fact that their parents took them there and they became victims of this war when you start to deal with this problem you understand these are human lives we're talking about and they are our citizens it's easy to just ignore these people there are only two official employees working at this office the others are volunteers that help when there is time as there is not enough manpower to deal with the vast amount of people affected and every second counts we can't afford to lose time every minute cost the lives of one or two children says average began to reunite families nine planes have arrived back in

russia carrying a little over one hundred people just a fraction of the thousands stranded and the war torn region. reporting from russia's republic of chechnya. earlier this week we are the first two episodes of that series about two russian sisters found a rocky orphanage and also brought a woman convicted to eight years in prison on terrorism charges after following her husband to syria each one a separate different case no case should miss them if you want to find out more you want to watch it again we can tell you it's a streaming on our you tube show. else in the headlines this morning democrats are looking for a new tool out to counter fake news online they're asking facebook to share data on its users so that they can then be fed with what they say is the right information

that e.m.c. is frequently accused russia of course of trying to influence voters in the twenty sixteen presidential elections. takes a look at what's in this plan. it's ok not as great as we want who might you hear that from a teacher checking your rest say your gym coach boss or a senior technology officer for the democrats talking about how well the likes of facebook are cooperating with their party as if catering to the d.n.c. was on the network's mission statement what would make mr krikorian happier we would love to do was give every campaign something like the weather report to tell every campaign what is being said on social media in the morning and how they can combat it i'll explain the dems won facebook to look for people who've been fed fakes or propaganda the network should then share that audience with the d.n.c. so that they could feed them what's accurate i.e.

the right thing. the democrats are hungry for facebook data this could have been a great moment to remind you of the cambridge analytical data gate to joins the asp who joins the asp i would not just see your facebook profile i would see all of the facebook profiles of everybody that you're friends with and people have no idea that it was being taken in this way you know that was one massive gate but i'll remind you of something else the a bomb it seems had a solution in place a facebook application more than one million a bomb about because you signed up for the app gave the campaign permission to look at their facebook friends lists in an instant the campaign had to wait see the hidden young vote just a little democrat trick to get hold of some user data for political gain before the two thousand and twelve vote you never heard about it because pretty much no one cared those were the days no hash tag collusion media fallout news anchors didn't

go on about a twenty four seven and some people in charge at facebook were just real fans of mr obama facebook was surprised to enable to psych out the whole social graph but. they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing they allowed us to do things they wouldn't have allowed someone else to do because they were on our site should we assume that dems are still on facebook's friend list you know they've been told to sort the russian fakes out and so be has been taken measures they've just gotten rid of pages followed by hundreds of thousands of people because they're linked to russia i mean facebook's not so sure about that bit we're still in the very early stages of our investigation and don't have all the facts including him maybe behind this but remember for the democrats it's ok not as great as we want and so i'd love to know what type of audiences were these hundreds of thousands of people because we want to talk to them or work with them come on it's

just a bit of audience data we're taking a broader view here presidential candidate for the libertarian party of involved things the social media generally has deviated from its original purpose. the idea of freedom of speech is a legal protection that says the government cannot restrict any freedom of speech it doesn't say whether or not private companies can say what facebook and twitter are doing are ok legally morally it is absolutely reprehensible morally as the leaders in communication twitter and facebook have a responsibility to encourage an open exchange of ideas not to give a huge bias to the established pro with state pro status quo old ideas they need to give space of the ideas that challenge that that's what has made these what made these these media useful in their early days but today these media are not sticking

true to their early promise instead they are turning out to be just another tool of the status quo. while the subject of social media to be debated the problems it can cause pretty real is well for instance while being interviewed in a college a seventeen year old student was asked not about his educational success but why he follows alex jones on twitter and that shows of course the controversial show host recently banned by several social networks the students' lawyer explained to my colleague neil harvey that more about what happened you represented a college student who wasn't admitted team diversity because they followed alex jones on twitter is that true and if so can you tell us more about that. sure i'm happy to explain exactly what happened what was going on was it during the interview process the applicant was question about the fact that he was following mr jones on twitter and the fact that he was looking his stuff and that was something that was

a challenge during the during the actual interview process and subsequently the parents of the student reached out to me and then i reached out to the the mission's director of the university and made sure that the situation was resolved in the student satisfaction so the problem here was that the fact that the interviewer was actually questioning why this young person was following mr jones in the other types of internet activities that he was partaking and yet a bit more about alex jones he's the guy being on the alternative news channel info was he was suspended this last week by several social media platforms they say because he was spreading hate speech and glorifying violence broadly share against his people need to be more educated on how social networks use information i'm a big fan of increasing people's personal privacy and i'm a big fan of not only personal privacy but freedom of speech and the problem here is the fact that a lot of them understand how invasive

a lot of these companies are and how invasive a lot of pride institutions are using their technology turn figure out exactly what your rate is what your religion is what your political viewpoints are and they're taking this information and they're using it against you so that's what i think people need to better understand these these issues and defend themselves against that and they only way they can do that is they become more educated about what is actually happening in the world today. you want to go to international for a good morning for me kevin owen here r.t. h.q. this morning coming up among the stories israel and hamas militants agree yet another ceasefire after last couple of days of really heavy fire but the question is how long is it going to last we'll try and gauge it more coming up.

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israel and hamas militants have reached a cease fire agreement following two days of trading heavy fire. in one of the latest bombing raids a cultural center in gaza city was destroyed israeli defense forces launched that operation after hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into southern israel. was. a wednesday night an i.d.f. strike killed at least three people including

a pregnant woman as well as are eighteen month old child the health ministry reporting that a local journalist was at the funeral. we are attending the funeral of we now it's a mess in baghdad were killed yesterday during that abstracts launch from gaza strip and that's a plus three year old mother that was pregnant with a nine month baby i'm expecting him at any minute but yet is the one year and a half old baby you see thousands of palestinians are participating in that you know all you see is features i think that the airstrike came from this side the smell is very bad where blood is filling the place as you see the place is completely destroyed after talking to people in the same neighborhood they said that they found. the mother and the baby shuttered with pieces of their

body. burned to the most find out at the explosion was there or in the house ambulances came in the voices of people screaming were heard inside the house we started knocking on the door no one answered we went to the other door a small child opened it he was frightened he ran away from the woman's body blown apart baby was to the ambulances took the victims to hospital the husband was injured in the leg stomach and head and strikes were launched. till dawn the israeli forces kept on singing and strikes where the palestinian resistance also fired rockets into israel palestinians said that they would confront blood with blood and strikes with their strikes the palestinian factions are calling for the palestinians to participate in the great march of return they already have says the military action was a response to rocket fire from gaza into israel since wednesday several israeli citizens are said to get injured. that is a threat and an aggression that the i.d.f.

cannot and will not tolerate and in response we have retaliated with striking one hundred forty minute third targets belonging to hamas inside the gaza strip. the i.d.f. is committed to defend the state of israel its a vivien's and its sovereignty and we are ready and prepared for different scenarios to come. a green party candidate spoil the party somewhat for the us democrats in local elections in ohio they did expect victory but instead joe munchak grabbed over a thousand votes to swing the poll unhappy with a loss that the democrats lashed out of the green party as usual blamed russia to the us american explains believe it or not there might be a new villain in u.s. politics meet kill man check one of the green party's congressional candidates in ohio who was alleged to have sway an election with just over a thousand votes but couldn't even remember his own campaign website. or congress

dot wordpress dot called words lawyers something you might think that no one would be threatened by this unassuming guy but you'd be wrong that the democrats narrowly lost that election to the g.o.p. mantric and the entire green party were immediately scapegoated for the defeat this is an embarrassment. to green party can you please wait to make your symbolic votes at a time when our government isn't being overrun by white supremacists. so the green party candidate is an immigrant from a distant planet as he explains on facebook we can vote for whoever we want in the us that doesn't mean we should know someone as far as to say that anyone who votes for the green party could be a russian agent. you know what sucks. because of our unwillingness to bus policy that protects our election integrity i mean did we think the green party wants tonight a russian meddling why else would anyone cuss to protest in ohio when there is so

much at stake this isn't the first time minor parties like the libertarian party or the green party have been attacked by the establishment for electoral losses in two thousand when al gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral college vote democrats castigated green party voters for choosing nader over poor and quote helping bush with in two thousand and sixteen when hillary clinton lost democrats pulled that strategy again blaming minor party voters and accusing libertarian party candidate gary johnson and green party candidate jill stein of electing tropp and they added a whole new layer to their accusations were supposed to r.t.c. was central to this accused of undermining democracy u.s. intel communities exact words for hosting a debate between johnson and stein and showing america that they had other choices besides the two establishment candidates are horrible prime apparently and then when an old photo of jill stein sitting next to blatter we're putting out an r.t.a.

gallow went viral all hell broke loose his jill stein trashing the us wall in russia in december twenty fifth thing she attended a russian propaganda t.v. and sat at the table with mike flynn and putin keep in mind there was absolutely no reason for her to be there except to become a russian pole they're not the only ones who've been accused of colluding or working with russia anyone who doesn't toe the bipartisan anti russian line is obviously on the kremlin payroll now senator rand paul one of the strongest libertarian voices of the republican party is also under suspicion let's be honest minor parties are a nuisance to the two establishment parties that make up the two wobbly the fewer parties the better right no one old dilute votes but here's the question without minor party guests who would. been scapegoated maybe it should just be one party basically protected from russian involvement but there's only one surefire way and

that's to have no elections at all samir khan r. t. washington d.c. . that's why things looking for this friday morning kevin are in thanks for watching keep up with the latest from us on our up you haven't downloaded it already check out our site out of a good day. last

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