a french opposition leader reacts furiously to finding his name on a list of suspicious twitter accounts forcing him to think there are certain russian. feels from the show. the immigration party politician claimed she was raped by a muslim gang. also coming up on the program. but. two palestinians are killed more than two hundred injured in the latest flare up on the israel gaza border soldiers opened fire after rioters hurled explosives and broke through the fences.

are international news center this is art scene my names you know good to have your company our top story french opposition leader and former presidential candidate. has hit back at suggestions he's part of a russian online disinform ation campaign hey stupid spook i'm not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you well known shown appeared on this a list of a kind showing increased twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president mccollum's former bodyguard. explains why some people drew the link to russia. well a huge outcry here in france so many people on twitter who 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 boat numbers to their twitter accounts now this came out after the banana scandal which was a former security aide to president mike brown who was filmed actually assaulting protesters doing may day now because of that many people were treating about it and an engineer based in belgium 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 boats but russian boats not so those says

e.u. just in the mation law which says that the study wasn't even about russian boats we did not notify 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 a scandal we never said this the fact that the government spokesperson immediately exploded 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 boats of which thousands of people appeared on a list now these. the list they released included thousands upon thousands of people from france who had been tweeting about the panellists scale 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 style sphere that is basically journalists like myself who work rajiv my colleagues and people who have retreated to our content in the past never did it say that we were at school russian boats but of course the mainstream media felt that somebody had to be to blame for this candle 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. charlotte toobin scheme meanwhile the belgium based in jail which curried out the research channel was speaking about has said it gets financing from twitter last autumn twitter bombed r.t. from advertising platform if then diverted the revenue it received from r t two research and the network is used during elections twitter has also decided to take

the one point nine million dollars we are projected to have global advertising and donate those funds to support external research into the use of twitter in civic engagement and elections independent journalist lucrative they believe the researchers are working under political pressure. i think that rushing through to try to satisfy the politicians on both side of the atlantic's they see this is a problem they have to deal with it but for them freedom liberty on twitter is for twitter the best thing for their uses so they had to they were under pressure from the european union in this case state they had to do something and they dedicated one hundred twenty five thousand euro to the. countermeasures let's say to challenge the russian this information you could call it the embryo of the propaganda machine of the european union and i'm sure many people many national

politicians when they hear about this trip the story are really furious that's the reason behind this. there is shock across the political spectrum of the suicide of a consular in the hague just before her death the lead to lay claim she had been kidnapped and raped by a group of muslims and accused a former party colleague of organ straining it our europe correspondent peter oliver has the story. 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 was chris cox crustal 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 peter all over with the reporter we sent an interview request to believe delays former colleague who she accused of organizing the sexual assault on her we're waiting to hear back from him. two post indians have been killed in the latest clashes on the israel gaza border more than two hundred others were injured cried some been rallying at the border fence each friday for the past four months in a so-called great march of return more than a hundred and fifty civilians have been killed since then according to the post and health ministry the latest flare up followed two days of heavy fire between hamas and israel against a journalist dari wasn't fried his protest. i mean let me just i. think slogans like i was really.

that day was their demand and they're letting. the. israeli forces. just. listen in protesters. the policy protesters have been burning tires to the bridge and of they certainly snipers that the israeli forces continue to use live ammunition or scores of the kids have been injured at least five are in severe critical condition to what i saw today and according to all of the injuries oh i have to tell you that tear gas that being thrown today is a new complication on the palestinians listing is now complete is advocating summing up the twentieth friday of the great march of return

a palestinian prime minister was killed while one hundred ten were injured forty the brain juries were treated in the medical point seventy were treated in and the hospitals and transferred directly to the hospitals where their injuries were not this easy five paramedics were injured in. journalist was also injured and the numbers paint and show and then dictate how the israeli forces continue their violence i got the palestinians for the twentieth friday live ammunition and tear gas have been filling the place and a sense that the power that sent the beginning of the protest protest would continue and the israeli today also used tank shelling on the protesters. the israeli defense forces say they opened fire in self-defense after protesters threw explosives on successfully infiltrated israel's turd tree.

the b.b.c.'s been trending online but perhaps not in the way the broadcaster would have liked the harsh times b.b.c. switch off has been gathering steam from people who accuse the corporation of political bias the broadcaster has been criticized for its treatment of opposition labor party leader jeremy corbett he's currently owner pressure over claims of anti semitism in the party and his own previous comments on this real supporters say he's being given a bit of furley tough time in comparison to former foreign secretary forrest johnson who gets himself under fire over a newspaper column in which she's accusing comments about face below its lots of bonkers lots of support but opposite as well parker's accuse the b.b.c. of shifting the right.

well we put the claims to the b.b.c. which responded by saying it is proud to be the most trusted news provider of a cost to audiences of forty pence a day here's some of the reaction we got earlier on our two u.k. . they perceive the b.b.c. is maybe shooting one person what i would say is that it's without question and indeed the b.b.c. has more or less tacitly admitted this on occasion that they have a strong liberal bias in terms of the main issues of our time i think that's absolutely undeniable i mean or whether it's on migration or the results certainly

on bricks it whether it's on climate change they have tended towards a certain viewpoint and i would say this without question the fact that that makes it a bias organization the problem with this campaign is it in a way it's beside the point but i would say that the main thing is that the b.b.c. particularly for example since the referendum vote has shown its colors so obviously in so pawling the i think there's no question that is bias the reality is that the b.b.c. if you look at the broadcasters in terms of andrew neil who's the chairman and editor of the spectator magazine you look at robbie gibbs who was the former. former head of b.b.c. political output is now to resume is director of communication you look at craig oliver who was down in streets under david cameron's chief of communication was actually head of programming at the b.b.c. so this idea this notional idea that the b.b.c.

is some left wing entity is plainly false it's actually many times pandering to those on the right who talk about pandering you know there was a case just this week where the b.b.c. actually had to withdraw something which they admitted was biased it was aimed at children fourteen to sixteen year olds and it was about migration the history of migration into britain it was so bias it was almost laughable and the b.b.c. actually had to withdraw it all because there were so many protests peter if you look at your record and you look at the record of your party in the chair i'm not talking about odds are you well i'm going to if i want the melody to receive. us senators are. using their government of complicity in civilian deaths in yemen by arming saudi arabia that's after a saudi or a strike hit a school bus killing twenty nine children so far the state department has refused to condemn the incident we call in 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 wrong sorry these ladies every hear laughing. and 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 where video of the aftermath of the attack shows the extent of the children's injuries please be warned what we're about to show is upsetting to watch the strike occurred in the north of the country which is on to control of materials saudi arabia launched an intervention against them in twenty fifteen the latest u.n. day to seize the majority of people killed in the conflict and died as a result of coalition air strikes that is over ten thousand fatalities in an official statement the saudis defended the attack accusing the rebels of using children as human shields that. the targeting today is

a legitimate military action conducted in conformity with the international humanitarian law to target the militants responsible for planning and targeting civilians which resulted in killing and injuring them. on this the united states is by far the largest supplier of weaponry to the saudis it also provides targeting assistance for riyadh's or strikes on military drills and last year saudi arabia spend seven hundred fifty million dollars on training by american specialists which it claimed was implemented to reduce civilian casualties the second largest arms supplier to the saudis is the united kingdom and war activists chris nineham believes the british government needs to halt the exports. the needs to be and then sell such rights in the should be completed right in saudi rightly this should be an end to british participation. should be

a britain rather than. a polluting the should join the e.u. any jamia and demand the right and demand to see more generally the needs to be shot changes in the city. in terms of it because the way things are done the most the western alliance to the coalition stories among the other western. is stuck in a potentially should be. the turkish lira nosedive doctor the latest us tara we get into the top of the break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

this is my love hate relationship with the united kingdom. and the a lot of it because it's shambolic of fraudulent. and i buy the cow to hate it because no thousands tens of thousands of people had their lives destroyed by r.b.s. . nineteen

minutes into the program welcomed by the russian prime minister warned that if the u.s. adopts a new sanctions bill in september targeting russian banks it will be considered an act of economic war that's after a separate run if u.s. sanctions were passed this week over the poisoning of former russian double agent surrogate script powell and his daughter in britain back in march. yes there was a possibility that 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 political and or if necessary any other measures which. yeah the latest u.s. sanctions will limit investment exports especially in a number of national security goods including the energy and tech sectors the

second wave has yet to be approved by congress it could be much harsher hitting the banking sector and government bonds and he says seti takes a look at high 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 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 the souls we're poisonings 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 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 there's been uncertainty from specialists investigating the case. as she analysis of 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 did get all the evidence but my suspicion is that as i'm going to happen all the way that seems a valid till interest to washington which is found 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's 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 girl in movement which techie label to terror group organizing an attempted k o u. sooner or later the united states will make a choice either turkey or good either the coup blooded terrorists or turkey a country of democracy. or how about the american officials here they are a an extremist group then wish i had been a coke who bombs the headquarters of be a ceramic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. and that 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 save that group later form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago. does america dealing with a spot in 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 well it is not just russia on the receiving end of washington's economic bhakta lush allman froid a double trumpet nonstop the us is doubling tariffs on its nato ally turkey i have just authorized a doubling of tariffs on steel and on the menu with respect to turkey as their currency the turkish lira slides roughly downward against our very strong dollar and the mini move now be twenty percent and still fifty percent our relations with

turkey are not good at this time when the move turkey's currency into freefall while president dirda one has already said his country will not be drawn into an economic battle. change the euros to dollars and the gold that you are keeping beneath your pillows into live at our banks this is a domestic and national struggle. you know the turkish lira house already lost its value against the dollar since twenty seventeen and i was you heard president one has urged turkish savers to sell their u.s. dollars to support the local currency but turkey analyst cowen believes people are unlikely to heed that call 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 many people are selling their turkish euros in order to buy u.s. dollars in order to maximize their interests and to have profits of course in the social media we have also seen propaganda videos the. president had once said and many people even burned their dollar bank. so we can not talk about a uniform. voice from turkey 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. former first minister of scotland programme host on r.t. alex summoned house dine with the new leader of catalonia to discuss the region's future the interview with kim torah is available in full on r.t. dot com here's

a preview. let me take you back to another key moment the last the first of october last year yes exactly on the day of the referendum of the activities of the spanish state police which everyone in the world saw and yet of us of it where were you what we doing and what we wish it was your immediate reaction to what you were saying while with more than two million people a worse in school that you suppose that was my putting a station with my family and other friends we or could beit school. from friday evening just to. assure. all our neighbors and all our friends could bolt defending the ballot box defending defending sadly this was the idea in your negotiations conversations thus far with prime minister sunshine. is the release of the political prisoners

a prerequisite of having substantial in the. from your perspective we think the particular speech universe should be free should be free this evening should be free tomorrow we are not negotiating in any circumstances because if we negotiate about. the freedom of the prisoners in a certain way we are admitting that they are in breach and for for some reasons. more a great program right ahead here on our international shall thomas is here after

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