facebook fans hundreds of pages groups in accounts to iran and russia for alleged political meddling. video of a british policeman apparently slapping a teenage girl during an arrest causes outrage and triggers debate a big debate about what constitutes reasonable force for police simply doing their job to a grown police officers can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old go back to them. tell us fourteen year old girl still calls are just like anybody else for the relations between the e.u. and the us deteriorate germany's foreign minister now suggesting a european alternative to the swift global payments system to give the plot financial independence from the us.

hybrid afternoon just turned one pm moscow time this thursday the twenty third of august to watching out international with me kevin no one could have come first and it's been confirmed that two people have been killed and another seriously injured in a knife attack in paris earlier today thomas mourning the islamic state terror group claimed it was behind the attack as another new development has come in though in the last hour the incident happened in a suburb in the west of the french capital never cite the suspect was probably shot dead by police reports say that indeed he shouted god is great in arabic during the attack some french media suggest the suspect was convicted of inciting terrorism in twenty sixteen that may be the police knew about him maybe had some record here according to their theories anyway authorities say the police operation is over but to avoid the confirming the police are saying that. that is over and they're

confirming the accident the incident did happen to the guy shouted god is great during it. q elsewhere today facebook recently launched a crusade against the spread of misinformation and fake news it's now banned hundreds of pages it claims are linked to iran and russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion if you put trying to this has got the lead story. thanks for joining us 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 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 inauthentic 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. 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 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 us just for all the things they can do i. say stay 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 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 well actually as a footnote to this since people might be going off the idea anyway statistic

showing the social media site might be losing some of its sparkle more of it according to ranking service the amount of time visitors spent on the platform is down ten percent this month it also reveals a visitor interest is slipping to keep an eye on the. story now from the videos emerged of a british police officer apparently slapping a fourteen year old girl during a rest the images soon spread online they divided public opinion you can see if yourself please be aware that the video contains scenes of violence coming up. with you i was going to. be sure you want was. was was funny it was. was. russian. police say they responded to a disturbance involving youths fighting there while they attend to the get the girl

under control the male officer probably struck the teenager in the face is claimed that that was in response to her trying to grab a taser and police radio the girl in a fifty two year old woman were arrested on suspicion of assault two officers had to receive medical treatment for bites and cuts is a little over reaction this being 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 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 ik nique switch may look shocking to untrained on will curse early here former british police suspect appeared occur command social justice campaigner george barber literally 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 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 girl back to them using a stylus 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 was only while take it to the ground and then you feel moaning about heavy police officers on a four year old girl on the ground and if the officer's 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 forty year ago if she was if you are six foot tall man i think would be a different situation in terms of what's going on i think if the police aren't trained to deal with fourteen year old girls with 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 calls are just like anybody else you tell 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 have talked to your eyes and i think. this is about recognizing that if the police can respond to a video like that with a with period 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. and to keep order and questioning why fourteen year old girls have brawling in the streets with other children of that age instead of questioning the actions of the police doing their best to deal with that situation. it's never changing world next something no one would have even taken seriously a few months ago an alternative to the swiss banking payment system is now becoming a legitimate discussion topic in the e.u. german foreign minister heiko mass has floated the idea of an independent system crucially free from u.s. pressure where the u.s. crosses red lines we as the 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 swift let's remind ourselves it's the society for worldwide into bone financial telecommunications baizley global payment network designed to secure transactions between banks and encompassing eleven thousand financial institutions two hundred countries swift claims politically it's neutral but it's apparently caved in to american pressure in the past case in point this after washington withdrew from the nuclear deal recently reimpose those sanctions against iran swift was left with a pretty stark choice is cut off a rainy and banks from its network by early november or face an asset freeze travel bag and restrictions do business in america can call itself neutral a german m.p. from the f.t. party things although the foreign ministers call makes sense though he says it's come at the wrong time. the one who controls finance controls everything so in this sounds like this to keep 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 worsen the ties with the united states at the same time when europe itself has deteriorated his relations with russia sold the baldness off mistah mass it's not in the right time and not at the right place on the europe's one of america's closest allies the kind of treatment the e.u. has been receiving from the u.s. of late not exactly what you'd call friendly.

the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal that diminishes company international need is never good ask break the laws that we ourselves helped to create. we saying things to them they say no thank you we don't take you to. 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 europeans will see this business as a load seen the choice between doing business with a run a business with the united states is very clear to them. well a pigsty. and i will follow for you today the u.s. national security advisor has got a tough message regarding syria and the iranian presence there it's one of the

topics up for talks right now with his russian counterpart nickel yes trish if that's underway in geneva it comes at a time when relations between moscow and washington of specially for a say europe correspondent peter all of the reports well the meeting between these two representatives has taken place the u.s. mission here in geneva just behind to be the groundwork for the mate was laid during the meeting of presidents trump and putin's last month in helsinki that meeting but i was really overshadowed by the hysteria over the fact that those two were meeting in the first place these meetings they were usually where work is done presidential type of meets they have more of a photo opportunity a signature on a on a document it's usually these meets between these type of representatives from governments where they are going out problems but the real problem at the moment and the fact that we might not get much movement on the issues is the fact that the relations between washington and moscow are at such

a low ebb right now in fact fresh sanctions from the united states against russia could drop throughout the day these are over the attempted murder in the poisoning of surrogates could have fallen sold in the united kingdom earlier this year russia denies any involvement but the sanctions that could be put in place they are coming from the russia lobby is it sometimes called off from congress coming from the desk of the u.s. president donald trump has said that he thinks that these sanctions are necessary to normalize relations between the two countries so the russian side they deny any involvement in the attempt onset of his life and also they say that they're not going to change their foreign policy or admit to something they say they haven't done at the whim of the united states but one of the main points that we're hoping for some type of movement on this meeting to come from this meeting is on the. syria russia wants to see an international commitment to rebuild the country while

the united states has just recently taken funds that were earmarked for exactly that and put them to of the needs as it's being described the united states what they really want to see is they want to see iran pull out of syria at the russian side is saying look this isn't something that's going to happen overnight iran will pull out but it's not going to be an immediate act when it comes to chemical weapons as well we've also heard from john bolton as he was heading into this meeting before this meeting and which he said they showed chemical weapons be used by the assad government that this would result in a show of force from the united states we now see plans for the syrian regime to resume offensive military activities and. we are obviously. if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly it is also worth noting that in the past when the u.s.

has made these type of threats before it's usually been the precursor to some kind of major military assault they are looking to see if we can get any kind of movement on these issues but it's going to be difficult any movement on syria any movement on the iran nuclear deal or the role of iran in syria any movement on the nuclear containment procedure in north korea all of these things very difficult to see them making major strides on thursday but we should really just because the two nations are speaking considering the state of the relationship between them at the moment you know we should know more about three hours or so is going to be a live media conference on that will dip in to let you know from the big comes out coming up meantime before all but after the break here a paperwork heresies a suspected terror plot to walk free in france tell you all about that and more.

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all middle of the room. really. like a life without international things choosing us this thursday will france's release a suspected terror plot of them over a bureaucratic error according to the french interior ministry briffa national reports from paris an interesting story here in fronts indeed an alleged islamist 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 a french government spokesperson has called it a failure and should not try to go that it is obviously a grave failure i think the justice minister already initiated an internal probe to

identify the reason for this failure and then introduce certain amendments to prevail. in 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 this 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 five hundred people in prison for terrorism offenses according to the justice ministry political. doesn't believe that the release of the suspect here is simply 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 if you read pretty care or what but it's too hard and there are it looks are just incredible but i don't think it's just a bureaucracy error i think it's a general. situation and you know. with terrorism it runs

and especially late with syria it runs are very complicated and unclear so it's very difficult not to imagine that there is something beyond just the most important prisoners are not under control so i mean it's all do do do administration it has to be reach warm. prison inmates across the u.s. a protesting against what they call modern day slavery they're demanding humane conditions and holding peaceful sit ins and hunger strikes the protest was organized to mark a deadly riot in a maximum security prison in south carolina in april seven inmates were killed more than a dozen injured then in a riot which the media described as a senseless uprising prisoner said could have been avoided though if the correctional facility hadn't been overcrowded and conditions were better the inmates have several demands first to end prison slavery as they put it in a proper way the prisoners are put out to work in roles such as cleaning cooking and lawn mowing sometimes was a little of this four cents an hour also they claim the black inmates get hefty a

sentences and are denied parole because of the skin color they also want more rehabilitation and more medical services paul writes from the human rights defense center told to see things prisoners are being deprived of essential treatment. but government in 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 medical legal acts 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 is the world's largest prison population two point three million inmates campaign to say that jails have five times as many prisoners has other industrialized nations any one adult in every one hundred to save time poor right to get things into government decision to deprive the inmates of their rights. one of these that pervades the criminal justice system in the united states at the judicial level is bias in favor of the government's story think people excuse the 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 adequate mental health care treatment did not provide educational opportunities to enslave the people of the system to brutalize them into the private with basic human rights these are all government decisions that have been made. if you just joined us bit more on the ready to take you saying the bottom of the screen is that it's been confirmed that two people have been killed in another seriously injured this morning in a knife attack in paris the islamic state telegraph claims it was behind the attack

even this early stage the innocent harm that a suburb in the west of the capital have aside the suspects be shot dead by police the reports he killed his mother and sister that's new in and seriously wounded a bypass he reportedly shouted go all these greatest in arabic during the attack some french media have named the suspect now again this new in for you to it's. who was convicted of inciting terrorism back in twenty sixteen so they may be making the link that the police maybe knew we had some record here before but that's just there's speculation we've yet to confirm that the french minister of interior is expected to make a statement on the attack in the coming minutes. well not no that's it for me kevin i mean for today you know neal in the very capable hands of him or leave you for the next six hours or so to bring you all the latest look at what's coming over in geneva plus maybe paris as well for me here in moscow today thanks so much for watching and have a great rest of the day. join

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