in the headlines this morning facebook hundreds of pages groups and counseling to iran and russia for alleged political meddling. french interior ministry admits that a terror suspect allegedly involved in planning an attack was read by a court because of a bureaucratic failure. video of a british policeman apparently slapping a teenage girl during a rest. triggered big debate about what constitutes reasonable force doing a job. grown police officers can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old go back to. tellus fourteen year old girls just like anybody else plus as relations between the e.u. and the u.s. to to reiterate germany's foreign minister now suggesting the european alternative

to the swift global payment system to give the block financial independence from u.s. pressure. by the good morning just turned eleven in the morning moscow time this thursday the twenty third of august as kevin i would hear it r t h q with this update first facebook recently launched a crusade against the spread of misinformation and fake news hundreds of pages it's claimed to rand and russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion and you've got the lead story today. thanks for joining us million 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 of the by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian bots 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 then 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 authentic 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 what pops out at you from the internet it's almost as old as i am asking 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 and i'm now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later i. universe. people come to the oasis for all the things they can do i. may stay because of all the things they can well it 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 how how big 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 and 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 place so next time 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. videos emerged of a british police officer apparently slapping a fourteen year old girl during an arrest the images soon spread online and they've divided public opinion be aware please the video coming up does contain scenes of violence. that your god which. was. was mind you this was. true right police say they responded to a disturbance involving youths fighting and while they tend to the get the girl under control of 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

a fifty two year old woman were arrested on suspicion of assault two officers said to receive medical treatment for bites and cuts over it as 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 i'm not force was very necessary. agent john done 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 actions 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 sick nique switch may look shocking to untrained on will curse on this channel for

a british police inspector come in social justice campaign and george barda went head to head over 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 go in the head in bashing a head into a metal shutter to grown place officers can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old go back to them 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 that 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 having police officer on a four year old going on with ray and if the officers use of force isn't right then he would be prosecuted or disciplined 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 fourteen year ago if she was a you know six foot fall man i think would be

a different situation in times and. 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 using a hate to emanuel's or have talked about. 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 street with other children of that age instead of question in the actions of the police doing their best to deal with that situation. france has released a suspected terror plot or over a bureaucratic error according to the french interior ministry roof a national report 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 or to go it is obviously agree failure i think the justice minister

already initiated an internal probe to identify the reason for this failure and then introduce certain amendments to prevent such things from happening in the future obviously the priority now is to find this individual the man who was one of the defendants in the case over alleged planned terror attack in the leon 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 the sixty 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 additional 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. around five hundred people in french prisons for terrorism offenses according to the justice ministry political. doesn't believe that the release of this suspect there was simply a bureaucratic error. if it was not so tragic it would be a joke because it's time to talk and see us treat so i mean it's completely illogical after all we can understand a bureaucratic error one but two times too hard but never it looks so just incredible but i don't think it's just the f.b.i. rocketed ever i think it's it's a general. situation and you know things with terrorism and ramps

and especially things linked with syria it runs 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 retold. here something over to taken seriously just a few months ago an alternative to the swift banking payment systems now become a legitimate discussion topic in the e.u. them and foreign minister heiko masses floated the idea of an independent system free of u.s. pressure. where the u.s. 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 channels that are independent of the united states a european monetary fund and an independence with system so what is swift this is good for a pub quiz it's the society for worldwide interbank financial telecommunications

it's a global payment network designed to secure transactions between banks and companies eleven thousand financial institutions two hundred countries swift claims political neutrality but it has apparently caved in to american pressure in the past case in point this after washington withdrew from the iran nuclear deal you recall and reimposed sanctions against iran swift was left with a stark choice cut off a rainy a bank from its network by early november or face an asset freeze travel bans and restrictions to do business in america well now a german m.p. from the party thinks although the foreign minister's call does make sense he thinks it's come out at the wrong time the one who controls finance controls everything so in this sense because the kitchen goal of mr marson making europe germany a 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

take into account possible reactions from the united states 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 baldness of mr mass it's not in the right time and not at the right place . well here are some of america's closest allies the kind of treatment that he has been receiving from the u.s. of late is not what you could call friendly. the united states well with a draw from the iran nuclear deal that diminishes complicate the international order in it is never good last break the laws that we ourselves helped to create.

we saying things to them they say no thank you we don't take you that's not free trade that's stupid trade so now we will also impose import tariffs we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid and. expect that you are peons will see this business all over europe last seen the choice between doing business with a run of business with the united states is very clear to them. coming out more u.s. sanctions just as a polo says in fact the majority of americans would prefer to smooth the diplomatic waters with russia instead of making more waves.

from. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted over checked. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be pressed. to the right to be precise as to what the forecast for you in the morning can be good good i'm interested always in the waters of my colleagues. question. it's.

a new round of u.s. sanctions against russia which were due to be an acted read about the twenty second day yesterday of august have not yet officially come into force no official confirmation of the exact date will be applied either they were imposed over the poisoning of a russian double agent and his daughter in the u.k. earlier in the year which the crowd that has been accused of orchestrating moscow denies the accusations and an investigation as you probably know still ongoing now there are two projected waves of anti russia sanctions very much on the way that the first one coming very soon is going to affect the sale of u.s. made electronic components for the aviation and space industries so the face of it moscow saying those measures won't have much impact on the russian public at large

but then russia could face in about three months more draconian restrictions read about november they could reportedly hit banking and trade between the two countries further as well as limit diplomatic ties there's also a real threat to that russia's state airline could be banned from u.s. airspace caleb maupin has been gauging what americans on the street really make of these latest moves against russia. well if you watch the recent hearings on capitol hill american politicians or rather al spoke out 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 yes one i want everybody to get in on you know thinking unity is the way to peace you know where we fighting with russia . who knows the truth is obviously known only to being you know these tell you one thing that 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 i think it's a good move to keep doing that 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. since is the. period to be related to the gulf many of us anyway more than half of americans want better relations between the two countries why do you think that course should be more. and i mean you think it be good for the usa and russia to get along right. why can't we get along with russia i mean i think that we can but it would be really difficult right now in this situation now where and when. you know the current president i mean it's nice to get along but you can't trust russia they always been under an enemy so they get what they deserve a better relationship with everybody i'm in favor of russian. think one hundred percent of our country wants a better relationship with russia and i would think

a hundred percent of russians want to get a 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 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. prison inmates across the u.s. a protest against what they call modern day slavery they're demanding humane conditions and holding peaceful sit ins and hunger strikes over it the protest was organized to mark a deadly riot in a maximum security prison in south carolina back in april seven inmates were killed in a more than a dozen injured in a riot which the media described as

a senseless up roys ing prisoners say could've been avoided if the correctional facility than at the time had been overcrowded conditions were better at the inmates a got several demands the end to prison slavery and a proper wage for one lot also prisoners put to work in roles such as cleaning cooking in law moving sometimes for as little as four cents an hour they claim the black inmates for them or get hefty their sentences and are denied parole because of this they also want more rehabilitation and medical services paul writes from the human rights defense center he thinks that prisoners have been deprived of essential treatment. the government this country has for the past forty years as a war upon a very anti human rights crusade against people who've been accused of crimes or convicted of crimes of this country prisoners routinely die from medically to lax because they don't receive treatment for very basic medical conditions mentally ill prisoners languish in perfect conditions where they don't receive treatment for

their mental health is illnesses you don't see such huge percentages of prison populations dying of preventable causes in the countries of industrialized prisons even in third world prisons. you know such death rates are all but i've heard of the us now as a rule of law just prison population two point three million inmates campaign to say the jails there have five times as many prisoners as other invest industrialized nations and anyone adult in every one hundred to save time poor right again thinks it's a government decision to deprive the inmates of their rights one of things that pervades the criminal justice system in the united states at the judicial level is bias in favor of the government and that comes to rethink from people accused of crimes to preserve challenging their conditions of confinement that's one of the main problems it's very much a governmental decision that's been made to not provide adequate medical care to

not provide out of that mental health care treatment to not provide educational opportunities to enslave the people within the system to brutalize them into the pry them of basic human rights these are all government decisions that have been made. we avoid you to keep in touch with all the news from us as it happens to your mobile device without opt out of course also here in moscow this late thursday morning at seven zero in saying thank you for watching and have a great rest of the day. welcome to max kaiser evil guy. looking forward to your. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain. you watch kaiser report.

when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer an it be eliminated penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying and there's just no way that hasn't been that we hear even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to get pellet here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. in a world of big partisan move lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever

we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. are. there. are. a lot of welcome to world the party x. tribe this is in addition to our regular show interest focus on the people behind this terrorist. if asked to name the most oppressive soviet the russian leader

joseph stalin is likely to be among the first to come on the great terror of the nineteen thirty still haunts this country with millions executed to the what is much less known is that there are only a year before the purges began stalin sought to well for the lack of a better word democratize the soviet society and the society pushed back against it this paradoxes of soviet power came to life thanks to the work of an american academic from maryland who were found here in northeast russia almost nine thousand kilometers away from the old lines they. are. samantha long is an assistant professor at the state university has been teaching

here on an almost six years in the morning she's trying to expand her students' english vocabulary by discussing beauty and fashion in the afternoon she scours the local archives in search of documents which shot light on a much happier subject the early years of the soviet state. i wouldn't be surprised to find a graduate from the state university teaching at the university of pittsburgh but i think the opposite is still quite exotic how did you up here well i started writing my dissertation on the one nine hundred thirty six constitution and when i looked in the archives in moscow there was just an overwhelming amount of material so i needed to focus on the region and one of the regions i found a lot of material from cure of funding was a little bit difficult to come by it's not necessarily the most sexy topic you says no to sex a topic but. it's a very counter-intuitive topic on many levels how did the idea pop into your well

that is a difference actually how i came to them like constitution and stalin seem like two things that shouldn't go check out there so i wanted to see what this was about how serious a project this was whether it was really just a propaganda exercise as it had been described or if there was something a little bit more substantive now here is one of the most extensively researched areas of the soviet history and it's also the one that comes with a lot of accept the conventions. this was strictly to tally terror and state where everything was decided top bottom line here you are coming out with a book suggesting that stalin actually tried to encourage what he saw at least as genuine political participation why would he need something like a well rushed.