a vineyard in austria is styria state and while some i guess thing whether putin will offer a dog to the bride and what present he has for the couple others have slammed the foreign minister for daring to invite him. u.s. department of defense is planning to spend up to fifteen million dollars and hauling the performance and didn't do any of it still has. and explains history shows such programs have to be handled with care. treated. hollywood science fiction often depicts the soldiers of the future with all the talk of a space force from donald trump and fighting robots across the silver screen our imagination has plenty of places to go.

now on the surface a new grant from the pentagon for extramural biomedical research and development doesn't sound so bad the object is to create soldiers who can withstand even the harshest circumstances take a listen develop technologies to maximize the physiological performance of s.o.f. operators including enhanced in durance enhanced senses tolerance to environmental extremes and enhanced overall fitness in order to maintain operational posture ability in high stress scenarios without noticeable augmentation and without hampering personnel mobility additionally the ability to accelerate the effects of sleep through methods requiring less time a vivid picture i know the prototype. now let's give this a little context this won't be the first time that the u.s.

military has engaged in this kind of research. you know. now at the time these grotesque experiments using american g.i.'s and civilians essentially as lab rats by the time they were taking place the public knew nothing about it it was all quiet so five now the public documents indicate that these new

experiments will not involve human beings only human simulators however anyone who is familiar with the not so well publicized but very well documented history of u.s. military research they'll certainly raise an eyebrow caleb up and r.t. new york. graffiti has been appearing in the spanish city of boston lona encouraging holiday makers to jump off the hotel balconies some of it suggests that the potentially deadly practice known as balcony is fun one of the graffiti messages mockingly claims it improves the quality of life for locals can in camera for either to jumping into a pool from about kony or climbing from one balcony to another the risky activity is growing in popularity with tourists some hotels have banned it and introduced fines. keep you.

live. thank you the balcony graffiti that sprung up in barcelona host sparked online anger with people pointing out that this year alone six people have died performing the stunt most of them were from britain or ireland the u.k. foreign office has warned against engaging in the practice and the majority of accidents victims have been drunk and lost their balance we got reaction from his taurus in barcelona thank you so you will be too oh so i am out of my seat when there is no sir like many messages very violent like me against you it's i guess the same in terms of like they want to have to city for old and they know what's important to maintain jobs to make some money out of the

worst period and i think if you get some kind of tax why can't i have this many tourists from beyond that it's not comfortable for them having to you know to see its effects on ice or to see that's just so old and do so much and it should be accepted. story for all those students at least aggressive thinking stories like this it's to me some something. but not something that was just you know was thank you because if i would live here and i see you guys who were in my city. hall style sometimes it's like still to come russia has a fiendish plan to stop us democracy according to a new american reports but the details for you after this short break.

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welcome back to marty international where russia is ask it again that's the claim in an article in the us magazine the atlantic he says the kremlin has set its sights firmly on meddling in the upcoming midterm elections with russia's objective being to weaken america the article goes on to explain moscow's alleged three step plan to break american democracy first unleashed russian hackers second by corrupt us politicians could support those who think favorably of putin but it's not just the russian states those come under suspicion the atlantic also claims

this very channel helps undermine democracy by inviting on guests to death to question mainstream narratives the magazine names brandon straka as an example he's the founder of the movement encouraging democrats to walk away from their party though the atlantic fails to point out he talks to other media outlets to. well i i myself was a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say kind of a democrat by the. fault because i'm a gay man and i think the expectation for a lot of minority groups is that we are supposed to vote democrat and that we are supposed to be liberals friend strake is spent years as a liberal he now says he's concerned by what the west has become well before the election i was already starting to feel uncomfortable with where we were headed in terms of identity politics and p.c. culture. principle commentator line daleks planed what he thinks is behind anti russia articles like the atlantic nobody ever calls these people to

task they are paid for by volume or how many likes to do good how many clicks hey that was a great article factually incorrect. factually a baseless and also the mentality just feeding frenzy of does this monster dish more this monster that you must feed constantly with there's no rush no nato no bad guy no boogie man so there's many reasons why the book you made the strawman the specter the evil image of russia must be maintained. occupy london appears to be the latest victim of facebook's recent spree of shutting down accounts the social justice movement how it is page taken down for several hours the movement says this is not the first time facebook has tried to censor its content occupy london was founded in two thousand and eleven as part of

a global movement organizing hundreds of protests against financial elite the movement say its founding values are equality and diversity occupy london has a significant social media presence with around one hundred fifty thousand followers on facebook. some believe certain pro palestine posts by occupy london might be to blame for facebook's action well facebook to comment the social media giant has since apologized to occupy london saying it was all a mistake but one of the movement's activists george barda isn't convinced. just you know sort of a blip in the state of the blue it probably wouldn't mean very much at all but the problem is this is part of a massive rear guard action i think by the establishment you know anyone can go online and see the evidence this themselves chris hedges is a it's a prize winning journalist it's been one of those exposing most of the details of

this but effectively what's happening in the name of dealing with fake news many progressive websites that have been a major part of you know bernie sanders jeremy corbyn etc. they used they found the traffic going down. websites like alter net truthdig you know mainstream progressive websites using that traffic go down by seventy percent literally and these algorithms devised in private nobody can inspect and have a huge impact on what information the world gets to see about what's going on and that's a hugely significant issue going forward the relevant thing today in terms of discussion is still a very powerful force online and has millions of people engaging with its posts and so it's very important that they and others like them are not in the name of fake news effectively removed from most people's internet searches and i think this is a huge issue going forward bearing in mind that google and facebook are very very close to the american establishment you know the washington post is owned by jeff bezos who was and is an answer but not surprisingly he's very keen on using the

washington post to make sure that the internet allows his articles to come up at the top of such as an aunt. maria buton or the gun activist who has been charged with acting as an unregistered russian agent in the u.s. has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for her legal defense much of the media coverage around her arrest which came just after the trump putin summit in helsinki so her branded a russian spy moskos compared to his treatment in custody and the media hysteria around the case. the witch trials of the seventeenth century on thursday the russian embassy in the u.s. accused the local authorities of subjecting buton there to cruel and inhumane treatment including strip searches as after russian diplomats visited her in prison and found her health had deteriorated there demanding the u.s. state department stops psychologically pressuring and humiliating maria and

stressed she's still a suspect not a convict so america takes up the story. maria was taken into custody about a month ago accused of acting as a russian agent and quote developing relationships with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics now if she's convicted she could face up to fifteen years in prison and now the russian embassy has issued a statement comparing it to the salem witch trials and accusing us of dorothy's of subjecting her to cruel and inhumane treatment including night checks every fifteen minutes something that's only done to prisoners who have a history of suicide strip searches after visits she's being denied medical care she had a swelling on her leg as a result of cold temperatures in her cell and she's only been given pain killers now she's walking with a limp she's also not allowed outdoor walks and she can't receive any letters in russian apparently because they might contain coded messages for some background

after she pled not guilty if she was denied bail and her attorney thinks her nationality might have had something to do with it i'm hesitating to say it's completely apolitical we think it's hard to imagine a national another country would be treated the same way if it were a little bit of a russian for time here in the country the media might be using language like spy in spanish but her lawyer says that those words can't be found in any legal documents and that she's never done any military related work and there was no classified information involved now to sum it all up she's basically been accused of lobbying and somehow the u.s. sees it as connected to russia gate she's also accused of trading sex for influence but there's been no evidence at all to substantiate those claims but what's interesting about her is that she's always supported improving u.s. russian relations and she's pretty open about this it also should be noted that she was arrested hours after the trumpeting summit in helsinki but now she's waiting

for trial the date of which is still unknown but what we do know is that the next technical hearing is scheduled for september tenth but most evidence against her is still classified so we're just going to have to wait and see how this case unfolds we spoke to human rights lawyer. about the case. how she's being treated is a violation of the u.s. law u.s. constitution which for bids cruel and unusual punishment in also violates international law there's so much anti russian sentiment because while she is not being accused of being a spy that really is how it's being played in the media and so i'm not sure she's going to get much of an audience in washington for her concerns she may have to go to an international body for that the fact is a lot of mischief can be done before or if ever the harm being done to her is correct clearly there's people in washington who want to be rail any chances of a detente with russia and i think the timing as to be taken into account and it may

be some indication of a political motive to make it impossible for the two countries to reach some sort of you know peace with one. back with the latest the top of the. they gave his camera. roughly once they showed some movie you for them. uncool videos and someone with the broken string abs. going down more on string i don't really don't t.v. .

the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. a lot of sympathy i want to become lost and i want to ask some just about what if many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentries sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the best person asked bank of mom. mostly to point out. that at best i get a question that one that. they can't water the options to stay in the country with

donald trump in the white house all over forty gravels. the who can be bribed to do the job of a fed fitzgerald of many couples won't. put a political spin spun both of you up at the pump do the bulk of the. i magine are times when you're watching a special edition of going on the ground award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger will now be in our new series starting in september but this is one of his most recent interviews with us in it he went beyond the headlines on serious roles very yemen and north korea. ok she didn't i would say may day today. tell you protests in france have turned violent forcing from east to use tear gas

and water cannons and arrested more than two hundred times to. corruption this seemingly they see. across the may day protests in support of workers' rights turned violent in cities around the world. as the tear gas settles and rain washes blood from the streets of europe after this week's global mayday uprising i'm afshin rattansi and this is going underground special with me for the whole program is that journalist and filmmaker john pilger john let's start and go straight to austerity before we go to foreign policy you've been in australia i know another first world country the levels all sterile. since the twenty eight crash a stir to supply globally so the same policy of extreme

tax cuts the trump was opposed to go in the amount of space it's that we've that we've had in this country for perverted long time it's called neo liberalism but you apply so you have or this called an underclass people working for. temporary visas for low wages this is become the pattern. all rich countries it's the kind of. darwinian economics that those who are to third society those who've who've got it through really will those in the middle who aspire to do well are usually in debt and those in the bottom of the scarlet and heads of course while as you say these two thirds have been suffering since twenty eight or even before then there is money for wars what was

your reaction when you first heard of the anglo american french missile attacks on syria it's built on a series of i would call them lies fabrications. the calculus attack on duma resume clearly said this is why britain has to go in and fight and think that it makes the regime they says is to be believed frankly and she's yet to convince us that she has a right to be believed because. almost everything to do with foreign policy has shown to in the end if you take the the the souls pre attack that is on rattling so far east for example the o.p.c. w. report on this which was not reported include in the bar a tree report from its major of a power tree in switzerland which said. this this was no no of agent this wasn't no

for sure it was something entirely different showing about the wheelchair attack i told her you will sure side it is sold protect but they are connected because it leads then we'd leads then to the attack on syria. the there is overall a campaign against russia this is a very long campaign it's been going on since the russian revolution but it's intensified in terms of its propaganda and the way i'd never known i've never known journalism to be so distorted in order to sort of this propaganda be the attack on on on dubai was based on when i quoted the law i when you look at the available evidence the real evidence the evidence that barely sees the light of day. then there's no

justification for it whatsoever. there's no real evidence of a chemical attack so what we're seeing is is the most intense. campaign of propaganda at least since the iraq the buildup to the iraq war in two thousand and three which comes from a great tradition it comes from nineteen forty five the cover story for dropping two atomic bombs later discredited right through to the beginning of the vietnam war the gulf of tonkin so we had years of misery and devastation in vietnam built on a lie when the be going to understand this when we're going to send understand there's no story called patton and we see that played out now almost through the propaganda that's presented as news i think will get you that many mainstream media

journalists have short term memories perhaps but they are handed as they have always been handed press releases from government they routinely say russia has obviously invaded an area of europe and now they're being told we have proof that they have launched a chemical attack on english soil the first time since world war two and and the journalists say all governments cannot possibly be lying about such a serious event i've been a journalist for a long time i've covered many wars i've covered the first cold war i've covered it from the soviet union i've covered it from the united states i've worked all over the world i'm a reporter. i would say there is a pseudo journalism now the kind of journalism you describe i wouldn't describe as journalism to simply write down and swallow what governments tell you is the

very end to thesaurus of what real journalism is fortunately we still have it in the grate on. the mavericks like robert fisk who's single report from duma showed almost without doubt the whole thing hickman's so false he interviewed a doctor who'd worked at this particular facility there is no evidence the doctor made a mockery of macros and maze and claims. we have seymour hersh now who can't pump be published in his own country has to be published in germany probably the greatest investigative reporter in the world hersh last year may his own reporting his own investigation made mockery of these so-called. chemical attacks. i've never known the time when so cold

as you describe it mainstream surely. a satirical. mainstream journalism has been so integrated into a propaganda. and that that propaganda campaign at the moment pointed right against russia suggests to me that it's the beginning of a kind of not the macho on russia. that the surrounding of russia with bases with american bases with nato missiles the provocations day off today. suggests this in syria where basically the russians and the syria some sixty five want the the the rebels. most of whom hobbist an extreme islamicist supported by the united states supported by britain are

still present to as a credible opposition within syria but the whole point of all this is to take syria from the russians since the nine hundred fifty s. if you read the documents you go back and read the declassified m i six dispatches from syria they've been trying to do those things the nineteen fifties syria hasn't been in control in the same way that iran hasn't been controlled this is i hope this is not the last stage i don't think it is because in syria it appears there's a major defeat and what we're seeing is a reaction to that but of course you mentioned some world renowned journalists have you been surprised about how they have been taken as apologists for putin and

fascinated by presenting the opposite there it is oh of course not. a big cold everything throughout my career that's a badge of honor. you're a good reporter only if at some point. authority established forces about who. about whose nefarious activities and invasions you're writing label you a dupe used to be a favor or an apologist robert fisk knows this very well that's happened with every great story he's reported i say great story because he's reporting is paid of the highest order since i've known him as would seem all have has with with people like gareth porter a great investigative reporter who you'll never see he's an american you'll never see in

a so-called mainstream newspaper who writes all of it but read his material about iran it's based on fact you mention iran how serious is this narrative now going to twist away but maybe while still remaining on syria but going to focus on some kind of imminent war on iran especially as we know john bolton is no national security advisor go cello isn't on the whole ball and this this and mike pompei of who is the secretary of state. it's hard to know who amongst them is the most extreme. but iran has been a major target much more so than syria much more so than iraq because iran was one of the pillows of western power american power in the middle east and when most a deck the democratically elected leader of iran was overthrown

in in the one nine hundred fifty s. by britain and the united states and the shah was in store that was when the pillar was reinforced but the pillar collapsed in nine hundred seventy nine with the revolution in iran and that has never been forgiven getting a raw on the major ambition of the above and that's why we're coming to a very dangerous period when trump mosse ratify the agreement the a bomb assigned. with iran along with. the e.u. under which iran committed to its self as a frankly always had committed itself to a peaceful nuclear program in return sanctions would drop and so on we have.