french interior ministry admits that a terrorist suspect allegedly involved in planning an attack was freed because of a bureaucratic. video of a british policeman slapping a teenage girl. triggers a debate about what constitutes reasonable force doing the job. grown police officers can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old go back to. kill us. just like anybody else. does relations between the e.u. and the us to germany's foreign minister suggests the european alternative to the global payment system to give the block financial independence from the u.s. pressure.

here moscow this thursday the twenty third of august welcome to the program. is r.t. international first france has released a suspected terror plot over a bureaucratic error according to the french interior ministry has got the story from paris. an interesting story here in fronts indeed and alleged islam is terror plotter was freed here early in april because an investigating judge had forgotten to renew his pretrial custody and this information was first emerged in the local media but was later confirmed by francis justice ministry and french government spokesperson has called it a failure of much more to go it is obviously agree failure i think the justice minister already initiated an internal probe to identify the reason for this. and then introduce certain amendments to prevent such things from happening in the

future because obviously the priority now used to find this individual the man who was one of the defendants in the case over alleged planned terror attack in the your own area here in france in two thousand and fourteen and was also believed to be part of a terrorist network sending fighters to syria he was one of fifteen people accused of being involved in this activity and eight of these people have already left friends to fight in syria and iraq after the man was freed in april justice ministry says he's been under strict judicial control which means he was restricted on movements and he had to come to an assigned police officer twice a day to report his activities and his whereabouts but just a month after that in may the man was found outside the restricted area he was driving a car without a license and there were pictures found on his cell phone that could be classified as islamic state group propaganda the man then appeared before the court and he was

freed again and now as we just heard from the government spokesperson there thought his biggest challenge is to track him down. there are five hundred people now in french prisons for terrorism offenses that's twice more in jail deemed for being radicalized to political and this brutal doesn't believe that this failure is just a bureaucratic error. if it was not so tragic it would be a joke because it's time. she was treated so i mean it's completely illogical after all we can understand a bureaucratic error one but two times too hard to never it looks are just incredible but i don't think it's just a bureaucracy error i think it's it's a general. situation and you know things with terrorism insurance and especially things lead with syria and trends are very complicated and unclear

so it's very difficult not to imagine that there is something behind the scenes the most important prisoners are not under control so i mean it's all do do do administration has to be reached for me thank you it is the most of a british police officer slapping a fourteen year old girl during an arrest the images soon spread online and divided public opinion this way where the video coming up does show scenes of violence here . did you i was it was. was was was was my idea. was. to write what police say or say they responded to a disturbance involving a youth fighting while they attend to the get that girl under control

a male officer apparently struck the teenager in the face it's claimed that was in response to her trying to grab a taser and police radio the girl and a fifty two year old woman were arrested on suspicion of assault two officers had to receive medical treatment for bites and cuts as a little of the reaction has been to the incident. why would a fully grown man police officer need to palm strike a fourteen year old girl the video shows nothing more than police brutality the officers in question need sacking the open palm head was to disorientate her so they could get her arms she was being very violent in my opinion and not force was very necessary agent john donne no excuses for resisting arrest there's no deserved or not about it he used adequate force to protect himself and detain the suspect at the same time police chiefs have justified the officers action saying the video does not give the full picture of the situation we understand this finish may

appear concerning however officers are trained to use restraint tick nique switch may look shocking to untrained on will curse at their own r.t.a. former british police inspector paid a kirk and also a social justice campaign charge but i went head to head on it. clearly to many people like myself it seems that there must have been a better way of dealing with that situation than bashing that girl in the head in bashing the head into a metal shutter to grown place officers can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old girl back to them but i'll tell you what you say tell us i just tell us if that's why this is this is wise and tell us your the police officer you tell me the only alternatives available to the officer that i could see were allowed to keep a name and snatching his taser and radio which wouldn't have ended well or take it to the ground and then you'd be moaning about heavy police officers on a four year old girl on the ground and if the officers use of force isn't right

then he would be prosecuted all discipline for it that act of bashing that would bashing that girl in the head and i do think it makes a difference that she was a forty year ago if she was a six foot four man i think would be a different situation in terms of what the police with i think if the police aren't trained to deal with fourteen year old girls that are being violent in ways that don't require them to bash them in their heads into metal metal shutters since any police officer uses any force whatsoever it's described as police brutality which it isn't you also keep saying for a girl like that has any relevance fourteen year old girls can calls are just like anybody else telling me that two grown police officers two grown police officers with four limbs to deal with on one person they can't restrain those four limbs and and the body without bashing the head into mental chatter and to go back to a point i made before and i don't for you this wasn't about having a hate to a man you should use or have talking to. disorient this is about recognizing that if the police can respond to

a video like that with with pure defensiveness i think the problems are only going to get worse between sections of the public they already have a lot of doubts about the police black clothes matter in the us for instance it's not as if the police haven't been brutalizing people for many years it's that people now have smartphones and can record it would be better off supporting the police and try. to keep order and questioning why fourteen year old girls are brawling in the streets with other children of that age instead of question in the actions of the police doing their best to deal with that situation and the conversation went on facebook recently launched a crusade against the spread of misinformation and fake news it's now banned hundreds of pages linked to iran and russia for what it describes as coordinated in authentic behavior including shared and appropriated political content as reports. thanks for joining us but franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts spewing fakes and

propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. not us at this by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian vaults and trolls from an apparent russian troll factory how many trolls does it take to incite i've evolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook and all sessional networks russian trolls have been accused of infiltrating facebook well some stories never seem to die well this facebook slash twitter online police raid is an actual news story this week yeah you can take plenty of the earlier reports replace the word russia with iran and get pretty much identical stuff all right speaking of facebook

this time it bad six hundred twenty five pages traced to iran and an unknown number of pages linked to russia it just wouldn't work if russia didn't get mentioned and the reason for this verdict is we removed multiple pages groups and accounts for coordinated in offensive behavior on facebook and instagram what kind of sin is this in authentic behavior let's hear from zuck speak will they use similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing we ban this kind of behavior because we want people to be able to trust the connections they make on facebook. the issue of trusting wot pops out at you from the internet it's almost as old as i am. ask her where we should meet. it seems like you're chatting with somebody just like yourself not only even if

they show a picture of themselves it may not really be who they say they are it could be somebody dangerous i'm not trying to say criminals who take advantage of online platforms shouldn't be banned or prosecuted but dear facebook the way the internet and social networks have worked for years is that users can be who they want to be online who said they must stick to what someone thinks is authentic behavior what if i want to be an elf or santa or a real news hound i'm i'm now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later i. universe i will come to the us is for all the things they can do i. say because of all the things they can well looks like online platforms will force

us to adjust to a new reality where a step away from your genuine behavior may lead to a ban or some distinguished fact checkers will tell you who you should or shouldn't trust how's this for a policy update facebook's just announced it will assess how good or how bad their users are at flagging fake news we developed a process to protect against people indiscriminately flagging news is fake and attempting to game the system the reason we do this is to make sure that our fight against misinformation is as effective as possible i think it's political pressure i think it really comes down to that they are putting themselves in the position of mediating human relationships which is first of all a very unhealthy thing to do and it's something. that they really are grossly. incompetent to do the users primarily will not know what is being done to them and

they will be manipulated in all sorts of ways we don't know what kind of ways so next star when he choose to complain about a post online think twice what if the fact checkers disagree in fact whatever you do they're better think twice. there's progress they call it parallel to this cause google's being taken to court for violating its user privacy policy the tech giants accused of collecting location data even when features are turned off on devices google represented that a user can turn off location to return a time with location history of the places you go are no longer stored this simply was not true previously the company claimed that with the function off your device wouldn't be trucked but users say no maps and other services continue to store your information however it's now been reported that google's help section acknowledges

the possible storage of user data it's saying that other location services on the device won't be affected by the setting it also adds that some data can be stored as part of search or map services technology and this roger k. thinks the stored data could be hijacked and used for many different reasons in fact you have someone to look for and work through now. and you didn't know it then they could activate anything on that phone and do anything with it they want so you can just imagine if you turned on the microphone to drown the camera you could turn off the lights let you know the time of the i phone or are they could do all kinds of other things including the location data we talked about gyroscope data going to records movement. you know other sensors that are there. and and use that information for anything that they want to do and so if you think for example about you know traditional spycraft and place you can buy lamps in

rooms and i'm pictures and things. the phone you need not bother the phone already is exactly that what just as i was controlling it. after the break more u.s. sanctions just as a poet says if the majority of americans would prefer to smooth the diplomatic waters with russia instead of making more waves. but all of this is to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so if you want to present. or somehow want to be upset.

it's likely. treatable people are. interested in the. question. when i was still seemed wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me old yet to ship out to stay active. and engaged but it was betrayed. when something by themselves worlds apart we just of the common ground. i gave good morning something no one could have taken seriously a few months ago next an alternative the swift banking payment system has now become a legitimate discussion topic in the e.u.

german foreign minister hiker has floated the idea of an independent system free from the us pressure where the us crosses red lines we as europeans must counter-balance as hard as that is it is indispensable that we strengthen the european autonomy by creating payment channels that are independent of the united states a european monetary fund and an independence we system swift the society for worldwide interbank financial telecommunications is a global payment network it is designed to secure transactions between banks and companies eleven thousand financial institutions and the two hundred countries in fact swift claims political neutrality but it has apparently caved into american pressure in the past case in point after washington withdrew from the iran nuclear deal and reimposed those sanctions against iran swift had been left with a stark choice cut off the rainy of banks from his network by early november or face an asset freeze travel bans and restrictions to business in america german

m.p. from the f.d.a. party think so the foreign ministers call doesn't make sense it's come of their own time. the one who controls finance controls everything so in this sense this to teach a goal of mr marson making europe and germany more independent by creating its own financial system it's still it's a strategic goal that has its right to exist but please we have to to take into account possible reactions from the united states i think they won't be fond of this idea and we cannot afford to ruin the ties with the united states at the same time when europe itself has deteriorated his relations with russia sold the boldness of mr mass it's not in the right time and not at the

right place. although europe's one of america's closest allies the kind of treatment the been receiving from the us is not exactly what you could call friendly these days. the united states will withdraw from the nuclear. disaster ministers come from an international order you need is never to fast break the moves that we ourselves helped to create. we saying things to them they say no thank you we don't take you to this is our free trade stupid trade. explains the europeans who see this business is all over europe. the choice between doing business with iran or doing business with the united states.

the e.u. was not treated by the trump it was. as if we were elyse at the same level because for example when the u.s. only talk about the trade balance yes there for us has a negative trade balance with europe as regard to the movement of goods but if the overall some of the trade balance is positive for the united states today if you do not look only at the movement of water but also at the moment off the reserves and of course on these grounds this movement by the us towards europe cannot be considered fair. to us sanctions against russia which were due to be enacted around the twenty second of august haven't officially come into force share there's been no official confirmation of the exact date the going to be applied they were imposed over the poisoning of a russian double agent and his daughter in the u.k.

earlier in the year which the kremlin has been accused of orchestrating well sco denies the accusations an investigation is still ongoing there are two projected way. observe and he russia sanctions do then the first will effect the sale of u.s. made electronic components in aviation and space industries moscow's saying those might his only going to impact the russian public to say russia could face more draconian restrictions in november though they could report in the banking and trade between the two countries for that as well as limit diplomatic ties there's also the threat that russia's state could be banned from u.s. airspace caleb maupin has been gauging what americans make of the latest moves against russia well if you watch the recent hearings on capitol hill american politicians are rather outspoken about what they think about these new moves against russia ongoing efforts to interfere in our sacrosanct election process seize and those of our allies are just some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime putin wants to break apart the american republic russia's attempts to

interfere in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election are well and widely known russia has undertaken a campaign of malign activities in its attempt to compete with us our allies and our partners and cats up to thirty one gives us more tools with which to respond however a new gallup poll shows that among the u.s. public fifty eight percent that's well over half favor improving relations between the usa and russia and that it's just over a third thirty six percent that say they want further steps against moscow and now we decided to go out on the streets of new york and talk to people about these new sanctions more than half of americans want the usa and russia to get along better are you one of those people i wouldn't mind this one i want everybody to get along you know i think you need sees the way to go peace. why are we fighting with russia . who knows the truth is obviously known only to being. these tell you

one thing but it could be do you have another reason for playing you know they've put sanctions on russia before and according to the officials it hasn't stopped their activities so. do you think it's a good move to keep doing them. and maybe more the cold war was terrible for everybody you know we need to thread the delicate needle of not encouraging bad behavior while recognizing that there are a world power that needs to be respected for their capabilities and you know navigating through that is not simple i think it is important that we do they have to be and putting and eco substances into other countries that were allied with illegal substances in the u.k. it is prayed to be related to the government a much anyway more than half of the americans want better relations between the two countries what do you think that costs should be more. and i mean you do you think it be good for the usa and russia to get along right you think so absolutely why can't we get along with russia i mean i think that we can but it would be really difficult right now in the situation that where and when. you know the current

president i mean is nice to get along but you can't trust russia they always been on the hand you know the me so they get with they deserve a better relationship with everybody i'm in favor of russia and we would think a hundred percent of our country wants a better relationship with russia and i would think a hundred percent of russians want to better relationship with us and the north koreans and the iranians and the mexicans and you know and the people in new jersey for that matter they say that this is the best way to deal with russia's malign activities are these sanctions do you buy that argument now you know you don't really believe anything anymore and i am led to believe the people that we spoke to seem to overwhelmingly feel that it would be better if the united states and russia could see eye to eye get along more now that certainly just isn't the feeling on capitol hill we've heard a lot of hostility to russia from american politicians but it's just not there on the streets from a wall street journal correspondent joe lauria believes u.s.

politicians are using the so-called russian threat as a distraction from the internal problems the whole thing is quite a conundrum for me why they continue to try to poke. decides this issue and use sanctions in some way to help them domestically except that they're trying to cover up their own shortcomings their own short changing of the american people and to try to blame our divisions and our economic crisis and our racial divide year on and on an outside power which is the oldest trick in the book going back to the beginning of civilization if the democrats lose or do not do as well as they hope in the november election having used rusher again as their as their main talking point they may have to readjust and realize that the progressive wing of the party is growing and that the american people don't give a damn about russia and that they have to finally address the real issues here and leave this russia issue alone and get back to normal relations with this country that isn't that it's imperative for for world peace essentially i'll leave you without thoughts nine twenty five through most of this thursday morning kevin i would say in the great day.

yeah. i've been saying the numbers mean something that they matter to us is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars timestamping each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per second per second and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one just shows you know ford to miss the one and only.

unemployment rate is down the labor participation rate is high so this goes against all the doom mongers before the election to comment and of course nobody in mainstream media wants to focus on this because it belies there is fiercely. welcome to barcelona and to the cultural architectural gotten off the cuff a lot of capital and the first two programs and the cd is from cut the lumia we've asked about the politics and the economics where want to be the public is going to

day we ask a deeper question about this what is catalunya is that on the top in this region of spain this ancient going to be a nation is allowing me to base cultural identity is a community of interest once we can answer that question then we'll be able to that we have it's likely that catalonia is going to end up. before stover to be on the studio was the mills. and first we hear from evolving peasants he says sort of freshening interruption free street talking economists super bowl watch and listen terry says great show as ever love the way you end the show on goodbye for now we've seen the last of you and your bonus is alex no you haven't because we're back on in a few seconds bob says just catching up on the backlog of alex salmond two episodes and interviews with kenny mcleish regarding independence westminster and especially breaks it these are fascinating and that's reminder to everybody if you can't watch the show live it's all available on the r.t.

dot com website on alex's facebook and ru cheap channel bobby mcpherson says great interview with a new mcleish timely to freshen and straight talking on scotland's political situation trump and the dangerous company he keeps out among the interesting topics but actually it did he says fascinating to see the parallels between scotland in catalonia professor and tutor was particularly persuasive yes he was indeed a man who took the stand from catalonia says big thanks in catalonia i get the feeling our two countries are going to be close friends in the coming years i do hope they are first two programs on catalonia we looked at the politics and the economics of the constitutional battle being fought with spain today show goes deeper into catalan people and culture as alex attempts to answer the question of what is catalonia and who better to answer on the culture of catalonia the leading poet i knew better to know what the people are saying than one of the key horse in catalunya top radio station so by to alex in barcelona. where better to start this

exploration of cattle our national identity then to interview the top poet and catalog i spoke to francis pastor. francesco welcome to the alex salmond show thank you very much you've seen by many one of the widest as the leader of it's often called the miracle generation of catalan poets what provoked such an upsurge in the catalan poetry and four of your generation. i think you know people born in the forty's and fifty's by the time we were able to decide what we wanted to do we had two ways in front of us his finest writing goes we could choose to write on him or we could choose to write in the spanish we had been brought up in the spanish that posts under the front for him for all of us within the have television with him at radio within that newspapers very few books.