won't. deal with truth the put simply to those. of you that those of us old. french opposition leader has found his name on a list of suspicious twitter accounts and led to him declaring he is not a russian bot. the netherlands reels from the shock suicide of an anti immigration party politician who claimed that she'd been raped by a muslim gang blunt's here. and disturbing video from yemen leaves humanitarian groups and the public stunned with the appalling saudi coalition air strike on a school bus in yemen the raid claimed the lives of twenty nine children with thirty more injured.

this is our team for national bring you your live news update this hour welcome to the program first french opposition leader and former presidential candidate. has hit back angrily at suggestions that he's part of a russian online disinform ation campaign after appearing on a list of supposedly suspicious twitter accounts hey stupid spook i'm not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you. although not directly accused of being a russian has appeared and a list of accounts showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president micron's former bodyguard the inference being moscow's pulling the strings also on that list is our paris correspondent charlotte dubin ski who gave us more details. well a huge outcry here in france so many people on twitter thought that they had been labeled russian boats that's because they were named in a twitter list which looked at the number of people who had tweeted about the but

now a skate scandal here in france some of them even decided to use it as a badge of honor and actually added they. bought their russian numbers twitter account now this came out after the banana scandal which was a former security aide to president michel and he was filmed actually assaulting protesters doing may day now because of that many people were treating about it and an engineer based in belgium e.u. this information lab actually decided to analyze the people who were tweeting about that well they published a list of the accounts that it tweeted the most about this particular scandal and the mainstream media here in france immediately decided that the frenzy around that scandal had been caused by not just any votes but russian votes not so those says e.u. just in the mation law which says that the study wasn't even about russian bots we

did not modify the conclusions of our study a lot of media reported that we studied and identified that there had been russian meddling that the russian state orchestrated interference in the banal or scandal we never said this the fact that. the government spokesperson immediately excluded this for political ends created this sort of hype there was never the object of our study well the engineer even had to step in releasing a press release to say that the mainstream media here in france had completely misinterpreted their report and it was not about the supposed russian but of which thousands of people appeared on a list now these are. they released included thousands upon thousands of people from france who had been tweeting about the banality scale up there and they were around four million tweets what it showed is that only a tiny fraction around six hundred fifty account were from people which they

described as being in the russian spy a lot sphere that is basically journalists like myself who work for art see my colleagues and people who perhaps retreated our t.v. content in the past never did it say that we were a tool russian boats but of course the mainstream media felt that somebody had to be to blame for this scandal which president himself described as being a tool a storm in a teacup and what's the point in letting the truth get in the way of telling a good story. there shock across the dutch political spectrum of the suicide of a councillor in the hague just before her death billy dilla claimed she'd been kidnapped and raped by a group of muslims a macuser a former party colleague of orchestrating it here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. tributes and messages of condolence to the family of former dutch party for freedom council of illy dale have been flooding in from across the political divide

in the netherlands the fifty three year old former representative in the hague took her own life on wednesday after publishing a video on social media in which she claimed to have been the victim of a kidnap and rape back in twenty seventeen ordered by a political opponent. was thousand. crew in a it was. in the video misdeal claims she was attacked by what she calls a muslim gang on the orders of a former political colleague who had since converted to islam the deceased claimed a former party for freedom member who quote hated her intensely in a statement to r.t. the dutch police said that although they had spoken to ms deal no formal complaint was made nor were there satish in details given to warrant starting an investigation the mayor of the hague expressed her sorrow at miss deals death

saying her passing touched her very much and that the city had lost a committed and passionate councillor dutch prime minister mark said he was shocked and expressed his sympathy towards her family and party the party for freedom leader good villages said he was lost for words at the death of a colleague he called warm and always particularly willing to help young people in politics we've sent a request to ask for an interview with taylor's x. colleague but as yet he hasn't responded. u.s. senators are accusing the government of contributing to the deadly saudi led coalition strike that hit a school bus in yemen on thursday the red cross says twenty nine children were killed and thirty others injured all under the age of fifteen the u.s. state department is calling on the coalition to investigate but underlying too that saudi arabia is a key regional partner for the united states we call on the saudi led coalition to

conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident you also supply the tremendous amount of weaponry then the data for targeting to the saudis so that. sorry no lie wrong is that we're sorry these ladies every hear laughing. on that i would refer you to the department of defense that is involved in that but you know as you know saudi arabia is an important strategic partner in the region to the united states video of the aftermath of the attack shows the extent of the children's injuries please be warned that what we're about to show you is upsetting to watch the strike hit the north of the country which is under the control of the hills here rebels saudi arabia launch an intervention against them in two thousand and fifteen the latest u.n. data says that the majority of people killed in the conflict died as a result of coalition air strikes that's around ten and a half thousand casualties in an official statement the saudis defended the attack

accusing the rebels of using children as human shields. targeting today is a legitimate military action conducted in conformity with the international humanitarian law to get the militants responsible for planning and targeting civilians which resulted in killing and injuring them. the united states is by far the largest supplier of weapons to the saudis is also provides targeting assistance for riyadh's air strikes and military drills last year saudi arabia spent seven hundred fifty million dollars on training by american specialists which it claimed was to reduce civilian casualties and to arms trade activist sam walton told us that washington and london should be shouldering more responsibility. what's happened is a massacre and it can never be legitimate to kill children it's that simple questions must be asked we've seen over the course of this war on cells from washington and london to saudi arabia go up and up when i talk to people

in yemen they are absolutely livid so angry with our governments for arming. arming saudi arabia and for providing the planes the bombs the missiles military training and diplomatic cover for the bombardment which they are living under yes it killed children but it happened in a civilian marketplace as well which is another big question why were they targeting a civilian marketplace the weapons that we are selling to saudi arabia are bombing schools they're bombing hospitals you know we're seeing the world's largest ever cholera outbreak in yemen and that cholera outbreak is happening because the sewage the sanitation systems have been systematically targeted by british and american bombs and planes dropped by saudi arabia u.a.e. so we really have to ask yourself some questions and start putting pressure to stop this war on saudi arabia. monitoring who or what people fall on line has

had some serious repercussions for one american student during a college interview the seventeen year old wasn't asked about his educational success or background but why he follows alex jones on twitter a controversial show host recently banned by several social networks the students laura gave more details to r.t. is the. you represented a college student who was into the university because they followed alex jones on twitter is that true and if so can you tell us more about but sure i'm happy to explain exactly what happened what was going on was it during the interview process the application was question about the fact that he was following mr jones on twitter and the fact that he was looking his stuff up 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 then i reached out to the the mission's director

of the university and made sure that the situation was resolved in the students' 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 in alex jones is the man behind the alternative news channel info wars he was suspended this week by several social media platforms they say it's because he's spreading hate speech and glorify violence broadly share against us people need to know how social networks use their 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 people just don't understand how invasive a lot of these companies are and how invasive a lot of pride institutions are using their technology trying to 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 why i think people need to better understand these these issues and defend themselves against them and the only way they can do that is they become more educated about what is actually happening in the world today a few days on since enforced was banned by several plot platforms including facebook the world's biggest social network briefly blocked another controversial media outlet from venezuela a statement from venezuela analysis claims they're being targeted on thursday morning off facebook pages arbitrarily and published by facebook with no warning or explanation apart from a standard message informing us that we had allegedly violated the company's terms and conditions there is the international context in which facebook appears to be targeting independent or leftwing sites in the wake of russia gate venezuelan else

this is a left leaning english language news website which began in two thousand and three its stated aim is to counter mainstream coverage and as a kin to the politics of the late president hugo chavez the website says it's non-governmental and relies on readers donations we've asked facebook to clarify why it banned the website but we're still waiting to hear back live now to one of the co-founders of that as well now says gregory well part welcome to the program now why do you think your site fell foul of facebook's rules. well the big problem really is that we never got an explanation there was no so it's impossible for us to really know. the only our best guess is that perhaps a number of people complained to facebook claiming that it was perhaps misrepresenting what we were doing other words claiming that we were government sponsored site or something like that and so they automatically take a side that's what i can told now when when there's

a sufficient number of complaints and of course when we appeal it then they review it actually our side has been that is our page on facebook has been put up again late last night so things are back to normal but we still didn't receive a single explanation as to why it was taken down or why it was put back up one along with that you were saying that you haven't had any explanation about the temporary ban how likely are to use to get an answer given the questions that you post to facebook. i think it's relatively unlikely and just because i know that it's how facebook has become such an anonymous organisation in many ways and they generally don't try have never heard anybody getting a response even when you know it's there i know a number of friends who've had individual posts blocked and they never receive any explanation so i doubt that we're going to get any and it's just calls attention to the fact of just how unaccountable facebook is to the public although it's become

the largest platform for news and information in the world today and do you have any plans of adjusting some of your facebook content to make sure that this doesn't happen again. well the only kind of adjustment that we've made is to our clearly stated exactly how our funding system works that we're basically just funded by donations so that in case there are challenges and kind of claims about you know this can be quickly checked and quickly resolved without a you know us being taken down automatically what do you make of the decision by facebook and others to ban alex jones from info from the info wars website. yes i think that's actually a very tricky issue i mean and it's a free speech issue in some ways of course i think alex jones in contrast to that as well and i was his dot com has patently distributed false information about for example the sandy hook massacre in the united states and so that's a certainly

a very problematic issue i think but on the other hand i don't really trust facebook to make these kinds of judgments and i think the fact that they took that is what analysis dot com down is a proof of this and therefore i would say one should err on the side of. free speech in other words to allow even an odious side i think such as it's wars to continue because we cannot trust facebook to make these kinds of judgments gregory well part co-founder of invent us well now thank you for your time and your comments. about the latest from the gaza israel border after the break well more protests have kicked off despite a cease fire. he

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afford to miss the one and only. welcome back to the program the latest palestinian protests over occupied territory on the gaza israel border is gaining momentum this friday the ongoing great march of return protests began on march thirtieth of this year when one hundred fifty civilians have been killed since then according to the palestinian health ministry meanwhile a fragile cease fire has been reached between israel and militants from hamas which controls gaza following two days of trading heavy fire. described as the brink of a new economic war washington is seeking to further tighten sanctions on russia that the russian prime minister dmitry medvedev has described the proposed move or accusations about the poisoning of former russian double agent sergei screwball and

his daughter in britain back in march yes it was for solution the but 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 economic politically or if necessary any other measures . the new sanctions will come in two rounds the first will limit investment and exports especially on a number of national security goods including the energy and tech sectors the second wave is expected to be much harsher as it will hit diplomatic relations as well as banking and imports and issues that they take a look at how far the new penalties might go. when it comes to global disagreement sanctions that the u.s. weapon of choice as russia's number two at the u.n. put it let us welcome the united sanctions of america well russia has been 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 the salt reports innings washington says it has determined that russia used a military nerve agent to attack form a double agent sic a script paul and his daughter where are you getting the conclusion that russia is 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 there's been uncertainty from specialists investigating the case. as another says more the p.c. w.'s repeat what 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 get all the evidence but my suspicion is that some going to happen although that seems of little interest to washington which has found moscow guilty slapped it with new sanctions and strangely given its 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 cuban 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 coupe blood and. democracy. or how about the american officials here they are a extremist group then wish i had been a coke who bombs the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. position 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 say that group to form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. does america dealing with a spot and groups amount to sponsoring terrorism while the state department has a good answer for that i would leave it to others to characterize the current state

of our own standing and it's not just russia on the receiving end of washington's economic backlash on friday don't trump announce that the us is doubling tariffs on its nato ally turkey i have just authorized a doubling of tariffs on steel and i mean you with respect to turkey as their currency the turkish lira slides roughly downward against our very strong dollar many move now be twenty percent and still fifty percent our relations with turkey are not good at this time the move sent turkey's currency the we are into a nosedive and present heir to one has already said his country will not be drawn into an economic war. change the euros to dollars in the gold that you are keeping but if you'll pillows into lira banks this is a domestic and national struggle. the turkish lira valuation dropped the worst since two thousand and fourteen and it's now worth half of what it was in two

thousand and seventeen the move follows two turkish ministers being singled out for sanctions last week while ankara urged people to convert any us dollars to local currency for more on this we have dr hiatt agent cohen who is a turkey expert at tel aviv university welcome to the program now do you think people in turkey will heed calls to change up their dollar even considering the turkish lira has plunged so far. and well as far as i see from israel its is very much unlikely i have also friends in turkey in turkey and what i hear from turkey and what i understand from the turkish social media is that is the exact opposite and many people are stealing their turkish euros in order to buy u.s. dollars in order to maximize the interests and to have profits of course in the social media we have also seen some propaganda videos as president their boss

said and many people even burned their dollar banknotes so we can. talk about a uniform. voice from turkey. we're going to see about what i can tell you is that the economy the turkish economy is the story you think to an unprecedented level only in two weeks the turkish lira last experience the devaluation that came to the level of forty percent or more so i don't know if many people even if they really like the president can survive this new friend if if i'm not mistaken the bank sector and the construction. sector will be affected from this immediately many people may lose their jobs so this will also trigger some risk in the turkish streets of course president they're doing can also call his own supporters to the streets so we may see some friction it's. not only the turkish

market it's also. in the turkish streets. and security and what do you make of trump going on the offensive against so many countries at one time can he handle the pressure that's going to come back at him. look i would like to focus on the turkish case we have this pastor andrew bronson and he's held in the turkish prison since this failed coup attempt and there was a diplomacy and as far as i understand the americans want to acquire him wanted to free him before but the turks also wanted to have something concrete in their hands nowadays and in the united states we have two senior turkish figures these are good and the cleric who is residing in pennsylvania and turkey wants him to be extradited to turkey and the second figure is kind of. who is

a senior. official who circumvented the u.s. sanctions against iran so in order to free. branson. to show its own people something concrete and about the united states is also playing this playing this brinkmanship to the edge so it is not easy game forward for turkey since turkey is. not a heavyweight player like russia or like united states so its capabilities are much narrower. dr hiatt agent cohen turkey expert from tel aviv university thank you so much for your time. that's our global news update for this hour and that's all for me as well but my colleague you know neal will be here at the top of the hour with the latest as always thanks for tuning out.

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citizen is back and we look at the case surrounding congressman chris collins who as we reported yesterday was charged by federal prosecutors with insider trading wind to the federal bureau of investigation plus there's a new opponent to president trump's nominee to head the consumer financial protection bureau and it might surprise you west bartlett about that and in a bizarre twist to a story we've been covering for months the sinclair and tribune media groups have terminated their multibillion dollar mergers and they are headed to court post the big picture hauling cook weighs in on the source who it is target with tents and archie's trinity troubles was reported on toss the company's poorest in the past take a look at coffee crops and the a port and supposedly a very sick con of these clusters tons of crypto currency induced including allegations of market manipulation for christie i is back in studio to help us understand the details all that's coming up but first we start with this it's another day and we not see another blow in the ongoing trade war this time china

and united states are added again exchanging fire with a new round of tariffs. on tuesday night the u.s. set in motion a twenty five percent tariff on sixteen billion dollars worth of chinese imports that will take effect on august twenty third on wednesday china took reciprocal action leving the same percentage duty on the same value of u.s. imports to china also taking effect on the twenty third and china will impact a number of us the action by china will impact the number of u.s. companies that deal in chemicals and heavy manufacturing items including those tricky dick least targeted motorcycles that we've mentioned previously the famed harley davidson company has a large plant the state of wisconsin which president trump carried in two thousand and sixteen and the company has notably opposed the trump tariffs while behind the scenes discussions are reportedly resolving the tariff tangle the political risks are for mr trump maybe increasing business insider noted that census bureau figures show that china is the largest trading partner of twenty three u.s. .