a french opposition leader reacts fear easily to finding his name on a list of suspicious twitter accounts forcing him to declare he is not a russian via. the netherlands a real cell from the shock of suicide rather than an immigration party politician who claimed she was raped by a muslim gang last year also ahead of. the to cut. up. to palestinians are killed and more than that two hundred injured in the latest flare up on the israel gaza border soldiers opened fire after rioters hurled explosives and broke through.

broadcasting live there up for our studios in moscow this is our team international john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now french opposition leader and former presidential candidate john newcombe ellen shauna has hit back at suggestions he is part of a russian online dissin from asian campaign hey stupid spook i'm not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you and the song appeared on a list of accounts showing increased to twitter traffic in the wake of the assault scandal surrounding president micron's former bodyguard r.t. show dubinsky 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. thought their russian bought 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 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. distant from ation 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 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 these supposed russian boats of which thousands of people appeared on a list now these. they released included thousands upon thousands of people from france who had been tweeting about the banality. and they were around four million tweets what it showed is that only a tiny fraction around six hundred fifty accounts from people which they described

as being in the russian style fear that is basically journalists like myself who work right see my colleagues and people who perhaps retreated contant in the past never did it say that we were russian but of course the mainstream media felt that somebody had to be to blame for this candle which president himself described as being a storm in a teacup and what's the point in that in the truth get in the way of telling a story. meanwhile the belgium based ngo which carried out of the research has said it gets financing from twitter to put that in context last on twitter banned r t from advertising on the platform it then diverted the revenue it had received from r.t. to research on how 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 luke rivera believes 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 as 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 hundred twenty five thousand euro to the. countermeasures let's say to challenge the russia at 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. the suicide of an anti immigration politician in the netherlands has

caused a nationwide shark before her death valley girl claimed she had been kidnapped and raped by a group of muslims 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 rather screw it and. i in concert i have to salute. i 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 and details given to warrant starting an investigation the mayor of the hake 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 get 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 sent an interview request to two village bills a former colleague who she accused of organizing the central solved we're waiting

to hear back from him. two palestinians have been killed in the latest clashes on the israel gaza border more than two hundred others were injured crowds have been a rallying at the border fence each friday for the past four months in a so-called great march of return more than one hundred fifty civilians have been killed since then according to the palestinian health ministry the latest flare up followed two days of rocket fire between hamas and israel journalist and could ari was at the latest protest for us. i mean look at meters away from chanting slogans against israeli. and others. and they're letting. the israelis this is. the scene

in protesters. the policy protesters have been burning tires don't let the vision of the israeli snipers that their israeli forces continue to use live ammunition or scores of one of these i mean injured at least five are in severe critical condition into what i saw today and according to the injuries oh i have to tell you that tear gas that being thrown today is a new complication on the palestinians palestinian local leaders have gated 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 french yuri's were treated in the medical point seventy were treated in and the hospitals and transferred directly to the hospitals where their injuries were not easy five paramedics were injured in palestinian journalist was also. injured and

the numbers date and show went indicate how the israeli forces continue their violence against the palestinians for the twentieth friday live ammunition and tear gas have been filling the place. since the beginning of the protest protest would continue and the israeli today also used tank shelling on the protestors. israeli military says its soldiers opened fire in self-defense after protesters threw explosives into successfully infiltrated israel's territory. switching gears now an online campaign has been launched targeting the b.b.c. the hash tag b.b.c. switch off is now training in the u.k. with people accusing the corporation of political bias one of the key accusations centers around the b.b.c.'s treatment of opposition labor party leader jeremy corbin is faced constant questions over alleged anti-semitism in the party

supporters say the b.b.c. has not given the same attention to conservative politician boris johnson is under fire over a newspaper column for which he is being accused of making islamophobia comments about face of. backers accuse the b.b.c. of shifting right. we put the claims to the b.b.c. which responded by saying it is proud to be the most trusted news provider at

a cost to audiences of only forty pence a day here is some of the reaction we got earlier on r t 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 with 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 is 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 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 is 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 well i'm going to if i want the melody to receive. u.s. senators are accusing their government of being complicit in the civilian deaths in yemen by arming saudi arabia after a saudi airstrike in a school bus killing twenty nine children so far the state department has refused to condemn the incident. we called 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 of these ladies every hear laughing. and that i would refer you to the department of defense that is involved in that but you as you know saudi arabia is an important strategic partner in the region to the united states video of the aftermath shows the extent of the children's injuries now please be warned what we're about to show you is upsetting to watch of the

strike occurred in the north of the country which is under the control of the rebels saudi arabia launched an intervention against iran and in two thousand and fifteen the latest un data suggests the majority of people killed in the conflict died as a result of coalition air strikes that's over ten thousand fatalities in an official statement the saudis defended the attack accusing the rebels of using children as human and. the 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 by far the largest supplier of weaponry to the saudis it also provides targeting assistance for air strikes and military drills last year saudi arabia spent seven hundred fifty million dollars on training by american specialists which it claimed was implemented to reduce civilian casualties and the second largest arms supplier to

the saudis is the u.k. and i were activist chris believes that the british government needs to halt the exports. it needs to be an angel oneself such a right it should be complete diplomacy right from saudi right to the should be an end to british participation for all the should be a britain rather than. polluting the world should join with you any condemning it and demanding an end to it and demanding diplomatic solution more generally of the needs to be shot changes or want to see. in terms of it because the way things are done them on the west all of the and school the coalition was raising money until much on the other western journalist is stocking up a potential research that libya itself. the turkish lira has nosedived after the

latest u.s. tariffs that story much more still to come you are watching r t international.

thank. you welcome back this is r t international and the russian prime minister dmitri medvedev has 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 round of u.s. sanctions was passed this week over the poisoning of former russian double agent said his rebel and his daughter in britain back in march. yes there was a possibility. 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 which. now the latest u.s. sanctions will limit investment and exports especially on 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 it just takes 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's 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 souls we're poisoning 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 will 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 it's 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 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 and then therefore that's ok we have less important more sanctions it's time that we get all the evidence but my suspicion is that as i'm going to happen all the way that seems of little 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 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 is 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 groups organizing an attempted coup yet you. 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 who backed they are a an extremist group then wish i had the coke bombs the headquarters of be a ceramic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. and that our 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 save that group later form into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago so 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 and standing on friday donald trump announced to the us is doubling tariffs

on its a 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 many a moon now b. twenty percent and still fifty percent our relations with turkey are not good at this time at the movies and turkey's currency the lira into freefall while president has already said his country will not be drawn into an economic battle. change the euros to dollars in the gold that you are keeping but if you're pillows into live banks this is a domestic and national struggle. all right the turkish lira has lost half its value against the dollar since two thousand and seventeen and as you heard president earlier 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. president said and many people even burned their dollar banknotes so we can not talk about a uniform. voice for me from turkey if if i'm not mistaken the bank sector in the construction sector will be affected from this immediately many people may lose their jobs. large crowds have gathered in the romanian

capital calling on the government to resign. protest was triggered by a new law reducing the punishment for abuse of office thousands of romanians living abroad returned home for the rally in bucharest many say that they are unable to find work in their own country due to corruption and bribe taking by officials riot police were deployed and at least one person was arrested. former first minister of scotland and now host on our t.v. alex salmond has sat down with the new leader of catalonia to discuss in the region's future the interview with cream is available in full on our teeth dot

com here's a preview. let me take you back to another key moment the last the first of october last year exactly on the day of the referendum of the activities of the spanish state police which everyone in the world saw and yet of a source of it where were you what we're 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 is suppose that was my putting a station we've my family and other friends we'll call beit school. from friday evening just to. assure. all our neighbors and all our friends could vote defending the ballot box and defending defending sadly this was the idea any of negotiations conversations last with prime minister such as a. is the release of the political prisoners

a prerequisite of having substantial negotiations from your perspective we think that the political speech universe should be free should be free these 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 beijing for for some reasons. whatever does it for me i'll be back of top the hour with more news you're watching our international.

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b.s. . the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. who want to know how most of us that the little simple don't want to because most of enter another one the last post on this but many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the refuse to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the best person to ask than call mom. mostly to morrow i'll tell her the best when i get them in a lot of class and i want that. they have water they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all over for the gravels the both of you who are the who can be bribed to do. i said fitz doubletalk many couples won't vote. the putting food of those who both of both of you out to the pub do the bulk

of the. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the transatlantic relationship is had many ups and downs since its inception after the second world war it is said this relationship is whether these moments of tensions and differences due to american leadership enter donald trump can the transatlantic relationship survive the current occupant in the white house. crosstalk in the transatlantic relationship i'm joined by my guest michael maloof in washington he is a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the second.