you. can't. question media outlets warn of a civilian massacre as the syrian army gears up to retake it in a province the same outlets that failed to mention the areas under the control of jihadist groups accused to prove fraud. with midterm elections looming in the us these countries warning of alleged external meddling not just by russia but now also by china with a trade war between beijing and washington in full swing. and the british and canadian governments accidentally exposed passwords and security plans online coming out we speak to the idealists who uncovered the arrow with a simple google search.

good morning it's just here in moscow you're watching out international line with me kevin owen in the headlines then first in a bit more detail the syrian army's gearing up for an offensive on the last major rebel stronghold it live the battle for the enclave marks the final stage of the syrian war if the assad forces manage to retake it it'll bring almost the entire country back under government control however ahead of the campaign the western media's been doubling down on its narrative against a maskers with some saying that assad forces are certain to inflict heavy civilian casualties the same outlets so fail to mention the enclaves under the control of jihadi groups accused of war crimes it. takes a closer look. these yagur a few of the syrian civil war has strong it's now pretty much about this part of the country the northwest basically here in and around it is where you'll find all the armed rebel groups the ones still putting up

a real fight no wonder getting hold of this area would be the ultimate success for damascus five days after multiple airstrikes hit this once quiet neighborhood province killing dozens of people shattering whatever illusion of safety that may have existed if you listen to the c.n.n. piece and get the impression it would province had been a peaceful oasis till showered by those bombs how about telling the viewers about the dicey melting pot it actually is the syrian army has been on a mission to win back land those rebels or even internationally recognized terrorists who stood in their way were given two options take out the white flag or get a one way ticket to it no kidding some were moved there on buses and that's when the real mess began instead of teaming up various groups and went to war with each other and let's not forget some of the mightiest organizations running the show

their moderates. h. t. s. or to harir all arguably the most powerful and hair raising the very same people who used to be known as moose or syria's al qaida branch and if that name doesn't ring a bell just picture nine eleven or any other bloody carnage that took responsibility for. this is quite a trio to those who've heard of nor. will likely associate them with the beheading of a palestinian boy on camera they've also been blamed for torturing journalists and aid workers jaish al islam paraded kate's hostages through the damascus suburbs they once controlled only to use them as human shields later this group along with

was firmly on john kerry's terrorist list when he was in charge of the state department we've seen pictures we've heard testimony of shocking crimes committed by our by book by joshua. but. it seems even london a staunch ally of some rebel groups has lost patients britain won't send any more cash to fighters an adlib as it says in the times newspaper u.k. diplomats have admitted the remaining rebel areas are falling into the grip of jihad is t.v. giant sky news came up with a teaser for their exclusive report from ad lib province on twitter but online many warned by the media's attempts to portray that place as just a rebel held clave perhaps they've seen this reporting tactic once before during the seizure of syria's economic hub aleppo activists say close to one hundred

children have been killed in the east in rebel held areas of aleppo. battle districts of rebel held an able to convince moscow to stop bombing civilians all they talked about was how civilians and moderate opposition fighters were being slaughtered by assad and the russians there was no mention of the jihad as though and their sins something our reporters saw with their own eyes. and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. beyond that you're into the rebel held parts of aleppo that is the black flag of job nusra. brainchild in the syrian civil war.

duma always black and white. again. enjoy killing. a child is the issue of a complete reality. the us has found a new culprit when it comes to election meddling china the mainstream media those still obsessed with rush's alleged involvement in america votes and is raising the alarm over the upcoming midterms kind of open report as america prepares for the midterm november elections the mainstream media is beating that same dead horse from twenty sixteen if there is a problem you know who we can blame russian hackers ahead of the midterm it was agony and security of our next election the russians are targeting members of

congress the us midterm elections are just around the corner and russia's attack continues to haunt the united states russian election interference in the twenty thousand midterms the russians have not reduced their hacking but it looks like russia is not the only country capable of assembling an army of keyboard crunchers to maniacally dismantled democracy trump says that another global adversary of the united states is getting in on the action. one of the foods that are so focused on looking only at russia you start also looking in another direction china but in the end if we are smart tough and well prepared we will get along with everyone so why does trump want everyone to focus on china so badly well trump is waging a trade war against china a trade war that's quite unpopular with lots of american farmers right now we're a fair disadvantage we have no control over anything or are they based in

washington betraying the united states from the chinese we have no control over there but the markets are going to know that this continues for unlike the time they're going to be certain people are not going to farm and i would say no matter what you think of trump's tariffs nobody likes the idea of china coming into the country and messing up our election process trump wants us to rally around the flag and protect our ballot boxes come to think of it this could be used against any country they don't want you to like it seems like john bolton has figured that out i can say definitively that it's a sufficient national security concern about cheney's meddling iranian meddling in north korea meddling that we're taking steps to try and prevent it so all four of those countries really. our intelligence shows that there are a number of others there are looking at and considering aging particularly in two thousand and eighteen of course no actual evidence is being provided but who needs evidence anymore these days anyhow now iran russia china and north korea are all

plotting to meddle in the upcoming elections we shouldn't be surprised that the congress is now working on the election security bill but it's interesting to note that despite this four way pending an attack it seems like this bill will not actually include a hand counted audit but don't worry those easily hacked computer voting systems they can handle anything trump is obviously using china as sort of this target to make it the new big bad guy the big justification he has had for at least the steel tariffs is that because the chinese government gives such a huge a subsidy to its own domestic steel production that we need to fight back of course he's going to want secondary justifications you know suggesting to try to try to influence elections or whatever else the united states has a horrific record in foreign policy the u.s. government is creating one false enemy after another and using that to justified politically unjustifiable behavior when we talk running parallel to inside

america's suspicions also falling on senior white house officials national security adviser john bolton against in hot water with democrats to mounting the release of papers relating to his work with foreign nationals over the past seven years one person has been associated with these pro-gun to vist maria buthe a russian national accused by the us of espionage given the alarming and unprecedented nature of these revelations and the high level position of trust mr botha now holds we request that you produce documents relating to whether mr bolton reported his previous work with this alleged russian spy on his security clearance forms or the white house vetting materials provided to president trump appointed him to his current position. the allegations relate to a video in which bolton expresses his support for broader gun rights in russia back in twenty thirteen when bolton was the head of the national rifle association subcommittee some reports claim he took part in a round table forum on gun rights organized by buthe this is being taken by

democrats that is further potential evidence of a kremlin influence operation in the us where the russian national government to grant a broader right to bear arms to its people it would be creating a partnership with its citizens that would better awhile for the protection of mothers children and families without in any way compromising the integrity of the russian state the us government's alleged that syria beautiful relationships with leading national rifle association members in the tent to try to alter the republican party's attitude towards russia has been accused of failing to register as a foreign agent with the attorney general hooten has pleaded not guilty to the charges against her and moscow says the whole case against her is politically motivated we asked political cartoonist ted rall for his thoughts on the scrutiny that john bolton is now facing over his ties to boot in then. i suspect that what happened here is that. someone probably sort of had an accidental finding someone was

searching for something else and just blundered across it and thought hey we can use this now i don't think that there's a lot of chance that this is going to go anywhere and i'll tell you why the rush to get well has been so polluted by two years of telling the public we've got to prove you've got the proof no really we have the proof and then they don't come up with solid evidence or even not even solid evidence or any much evidence at all that democrats have really messed up they they've been talking out of turn they have not been able to come up with any kind of evidence or proof of of russia collusion so at this point i think most of the public has really tuned out. afghan security forces have reportedly freed nearly one hundred fifty people kidnapped by the taliban on monday the group still holding some military personnel hall stage to ambush three buses on monday kidnapping the passengers the raid came shortly after the afghan president offered a cease fire during the muslim holiday. daniel holkins reports. the three month

cease fire proposed by president garny is not the first such motion in afghanistan it probably won't be the last that has the blessing of the us time for peace has a better ring to it than war on terror regardless the taliban are firmly rejected it instead continuing a countrywide military offensive. the no no. no no no no no no. i saw my friend dying who was among thirteen people including children even women who were killed during a near straight last night there is no attention from the government and no facilities for the residence of the dead bodies are still on the roads things that i've also been injured. military commanders say the truce will only benefit the

u.s. led forces they've also been clear no peace will be possible in afghanistan as long as the foreign occupation carries on and as coalition forces approach their seventeenth year of operations in the country how simple things seemed all those years ago we acted and the taliban no longer is in power in afghanistan which is not only good for the security of the free world it is incredibly good for the people who suffered in afghanistan under barbaric rule a decade and a half later the taliban control large swathes of territory and are able to strike at security forces and civilians almost that will afghanistan has been a battleground for various militant groups something the u.s. views pragmatically the taliban are fighting isis and we encourage that because isis needs to be destroyed the afghan question has forced the u.s. to sway between a military solution negotiations with the taliban was such a hot cold rhetoric from the white house it's hardly surprising. the possibility of

mediation as taking years to arise it's been quite a balancing act for washington to have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table there's no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish and i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban trembles as a hero of thirty years you know a bit to the boys before the call for the taliban when their choices are to reconcile live in irrelevance or die in september taliban representatives have been invited for talks in moscow alongside government officials bypassing the united states if successful these could become a step towards the long list ceasefire of them all a permanent solution to a decades long cycle of violence something that today looks as this didn't as ever

. holkins reporting there we discussed the prospects of the talks between the taliban and the afghan government with political analyst. and also investigative journalist nicholas davis. the taliban have obvious on their side have concluded you know they need to apply more pressure to force the u.s. to talk to them in a sense it's ironic because you know the u.s. have always talked about applying enough military pressure to bring the taliban to negotiations to the peace table that has always been the official u.s. policy but in fact it's the taliban who are doing that and. probably have more chance of success the afghan government just recently and the crucial rule by the other superpowers in the region in russia of course is one of the strongest country russia can pay

a pivotal role in in mediating between the taliban in the afghan government and everybody in afghanistan is hoping that something good will happen after the conference in moscow in russia is made eating. and will be also invited the afghan government could be also a participant of the conference so there could be some more progress is in afghanistan because the different there that negotiation in the introduction between the afghan government and taliban is just under very fast speed right now larry moscow something minutes past eight of the morning busy in the center as you see of the shoulder this is a snapshot of central moscow right now the main mosque there were thousands of muslims are gathering for islams holiest holiday we're going to go live to the russian capital as my most than she was happening a bit more detail after the break.

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their balance sheets in the leverage by ten times and now here we are in twenty eighteen and in fact now the balance sheet of these banks of the central banks is ten times more like. there who just joined us have a good morning for me kevin know it is ninety minutes past a through more scope around a billion muslims across the world is celebrating islam's holiest holiday either allowed to the coach numbers at moscow's main mosque with thousands of works of gathered huge to this morning we didn't either but it's the first day of four days of celebrations goes on to the weekend doesn't it. it is true it is a deed a very important day as muslims around the world are celebrating as this very important day in the islamic calendar known as the yes asked of a lot of us sacrifice it is celebrated worldwide and only in russia by young.

millions of people and here and moscow the streets around the central mosque have been blocked to allow as many devoted muslims asked possible to join in on the morning prayer which starts the official celebration it is a bit of a chilly morning here in the capital it just started to rain but nonetheless people started to come here very early in the morning around five in the morning and at the moment there are just as thousands of people here now this celebrations on the estate begin with the morning prayers then followed by visits to friends and family and the exchange of food and gifts there are several mosques around the capital where these celebrations are taking place also there are special areas dedicated so for a precarious and they're located around the capital now aids al ad homs or at the

festival of sacrifies is also the komi nation alpha one of the most sacred traditions of islam and that's of course the annual pilgrimage to america or harsh it is also the celebration of the a willingness of the prophet abraham to obey to the law of allaah when he was asked to sacrifice his most dear possessions little braids and now prepared to sacrifice his only son but then our replace his son with a goat which was sacrificed in stands and now according to tradition in commemoration of that it's an animal is sacrificed on this day and divided into three to family neighbors and the poor as i said a very important day for a millions of muslims around the world but they. give us for more insight into the background of it all thank you. for government so that you can kind of have accidentally left sensitive information exposed online the study was revealed by

a computer research who says that he trucked in the data using a simple google search. both. and that. it's just. should. should be. so but the sound quality there got the gist of it while trailers an online application for managing projects and personal task created back in twenty eleven by twenty seventeen and again wide popularity among many companies and agencies attracting twenty five million users while government surged their employees not to

store sensitive information all digital devices trial and on the left says it has all the necessary safeguards to prevent an intentional disclosure of information we strive to make sure public boards are being created intentionally and have built in safeguards to confirm the intention of the user before they make a board publicly visible government of canada employees are being reminded of their obligation never to communicate were store sensitive information on troll boards or any other are not arise digital tool or service despite all the precautions the information is still discoverable on the internet technology expert bill new told us that users themselves are frequently the weakest links in the security protocols . it was a human error very much so but to fold trode boards as they're called. to try it and actually somebody has to go and change the settings to public in order to allow it to be universally accessible the governments are trying to do that very

best in order to protect valuable data from all sorts of different threats and they put in place an enormous number of training measures and enormous amounts of procedures this is just an example of that the fact that uses all very often the weakest link in all of this thankfully just fault was pointed out by some white hat hackers some ethical hackers who brought it to the attention of the relevant authorities if it had been discovered by black cats which is to call a criminal act because they wouldn't suit will do this and access could have been going to some of the systems and i think it's a lesson that we need to learn and actually additional measures need to be taken and certainly the people who are managing these boards will be facing in certain amounts of attention at this moment in time and they call it the price of progress i think it's twenty four kind of twenty five minutes past eight o'clock this morning thanks for joining us here in moscow review what you did around the world

this is out international always so much more from us on our main site. if you haven't got up check it out a great way to download all the info as it happened direct to your mobile device kevin and for now thanks for watching. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see it end. it'll. please. please.

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world i'm part shown and thank you for being on the board coming up the european union has put regulations in place to protect consumer privacy related to digital companies like facebook and google and now the united states may do something similar global regulatory attorney myles edwards joins us for the latest and the data is the german shoe clothing an accessory maker is trying to help rid the world's oceans of some problematic plastic and what it on our feet are to correspond to just touch a sweet tells us the plans and look to the company's earnings plus the images of nineteen fifties cars in cuba strike a melancholy chord with many but is the island nation moving forward with new technology we'll have the latest they have at least for a few hours party correspondent alex my halo bitch brings us the details and wal-mart is making moves in the field of virtual reality shopping so that consumers can head out to a super store without leaving the comfort of their couch steve malzberg joins us

from new york to discuss all of that coming up but first we hit a few headlines. big drug pricing news the united states is a food and drug administration has granted the first license to produce generic versions of lifesaving epinephrine injection devices to tivo pharmaceuticals usa the devices commonly called epi pens the name of the dominant brand marketed by mylan corp can arrest severe and life threatening allergic reactions for the one in thirteen us children who have food allergies keeping reliable supply on hand has become a routine but increasingly challenging responsibility for pay. and school administrators alike and a five hundred percent price increase over the last five years ignited a political powder parental outrage in late twenty's sixteen mylan has also agreed to a four hundred sixty five million dollars settlement a settlement with the u.s. department of justice in twenty seventeen over charges of gouging the government on

epi pens mileages president recently acknowledged that supplies of epi pen brand devices are quote inconsistent and adequate as many parents already knew well help is on the way t.v. usa is not expected to put new pens on the market before the beginning of this school year. and there's a visit of economic good news to report for young people in the united states though there is a catch the latest a to six from the bureau of labor statistics show summer youth unemployment at a fifty two year low at nine point two percent that figure is down the lowest since one nine hundred sixty six and down from nine point six percent last year however other historical metrics suggest the picture is more ambiguous for younger workers actual labor force participation by young people is fairly weak it sixty point six percent far off from the high of seventy seven point five percent set back in one nine hundred eighty nine the rate of unemployment.