hundreds of pages groups and. alleged political meddling also ahead this hour. video a british policeman apparently slumping a teenage girl during a. rage triggers debate constitutes reasonable force two grown place officers can find a way of restraining fourteen year old go. tell us. just like anybody else. relations between the e.u. and the us that germany's foreign minister said european alternative to the swift global payments system to give the block financial independence from american

pressure. iran the clock across the world this is your r.t. international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome our top story facebook recently launched a crusade against the spread of misinformation on fake news and it's not hundreds of pages it claims are linked to iran and russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion and logged on. thanks for joining us million but franco with your latest is 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 bots and trolls from an apparent russian troll factory how many trolls does it take to incite i've revolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook in all sessional networks russian trolls have been accused of infiltrating facebook well some story is 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 my now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later i. universe. will come to the us is 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 stop 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. statistics meanwhile suggest the social media site might be losing some of its sparkle according to a ranking service the amount of time visitors spent on the platform is down ten percent this month it also reveals that visitor interest is slipping facebook are yet to respond to a request for comment on this. so another headline stories this hour a video has emerged of a british police officer a partly slapping a fourteen year old girl during an arrest the images soon spread online and divided public opinion please be aware that the video does contain scenes of violence. but your god was going to. get around it was going to was

ok that was my and it was going to write well police say they responded to a disturbance involving fighting units in attempting to get the girl under control a male officer apparently struck the teenager in the face it's claimed 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 had to receive medical treatment for bites and cuts here's a little of the reaction there's been to the incident why would a fully grown man police officer need to palm strike a full two 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 to 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 all police chiefs have justified the officers actions saying the video does not give a full picture of the situation we understand this finnish man peer concerning however officers are trained to use restraint it makes which may look shocking to untrained on will curse earlier on r.t. former british police inspector peter kirk and social justice campaigner george bard i went head to head over the incident. 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 the 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 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 go on the ground and if the officers use of force isn't right then he would be prosecuted or disciplined for it that act of bashing that will 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 you know six foot four man i think the different situation in terms of the place where 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 in 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 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 you would be better off supporting the police in. trying to keep alder and questioning why fourteen year old girls have brawling in the street with other children of that age instead of questioning the actions of the police doing their best to deal with that situation. something few would have taken seriously only

a few months ago and alternative to the swift banking payments system has now become a legitimate discussion topic in the u. here's german foreign minister us floating the idea of an independent system free from us pressure where the us crosses red lines we as europeans must counter-balance as hard as that is it is indispensable that would strengthen the european autonomy by creating channels that are independent of the united states the european monetary fund and independence we system ok let's go through this swift or the society for worldwide interbank financial telecommunications is a global payment network it is designed to secure transactions between banks and compass is eleven thousand financial institutions in two hundred countries swift claims political neutrality but has apparently caved in to american pressure in the past well after washington withdrew from the iran nuclear deal and reimpose

sanctions against tehran swift has been left with a choice cut off iranian banks from its network by early november or face an asset freeze travel bans and restrictions to do business in america a german m.p. from the f. d. party thinks that although the foreign minister's call makes sense it's come at the wrong time. the one who controls finance controls everything so in this sense this to teach 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 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 is one of america's closest allies the kind of treatment the e.u. has been receiving from the u.s. of late is not what you would perhaps call friendly. from the. nuclear deal diminishes compliments international is never good last break the rules that we ourselves helped to create. we setting things to them that we don't take you for. free trade stupid trade so

now we will also impose import tariffs we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid. because business is a load. the choice between business with a run business with the united states. the us national security advisor also has a tough message regarding syria on the arabian presence there it's one of the topics in talks with his russian counterpart nikolai but true chef that's being held behind closed doors in geneva it comes at a time when relations between moscow and washington are especially fraught as are europe correspondent peter all of our adults and. well the meeting between these two representatives has taken place at the u.s. mission here in geneva just behind me the groundwork for the mate was laid during

the meeting of president's trip and last month in helsinki but that meeting well 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 meet them more of a photo opportunity and 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 the attempted murder in the poisoning of said again in salzburg in the united kingdom only at this year russia denies any involvement but the sanctions could be put in place they are coming from the russia lobby as 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 on necessary to normalize relations between the two countries for 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 meeting to come from this meeting is on 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 been described the united states what they really want to see is they want to see iran pull out of syria at the raw. inside 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 it would and. we are obviously sure. 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 of 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 of the two nations a speaking considering the state of the relationship between them at the moment or if there is there's news right after this.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or some want to be. considered to be prosperous what with the full spectrum or can people get. interested falls in the waters of politics. i. welcome back to the program two people have been killed and another seriously injured in a knife attack in parlous we have now just heard in a recent development that french authorities say that they will be launching

a terrorism probe of the killer how the history of mental illness that's the spy the islamic state terror group saying that it was behind the attack the incident happened in a suburb in the west of the french capital near averse the suspect was shot dead by police french interior ministry has confirmed the attacker killed his mother sister and seriously wounded a passer by he ordered leisure to go on his greatest inara because well some french media have named the suspect s. who was convicted we know of inciting terrorism in twenty sixteen and spent time in prison. while staying in france the country has been on heightened security since terror attacks back in twenty fifteen but a recent bureaucratic error has led to the release of a suspected plotter according to the french interior ministry maria phenomena

is in part this with more. 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 french government spokesperson has called it a failure and should not try to go that it is obviously agree failure i think the justice minister already initiated an internal probe to identify the reason for the speed and then introduce certain amendments to prevent such things from happening in the future because 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 your own area here in france in two thousand and fourteen and was also believed to be part of a terror 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 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. prison inmates across the u.s. are protesting against what they call modern day slavery they're demanding humane conditions under holding peaceful sit ins on hunger strikes the protests was

organized to mark a deadly riot in a marksman security prison. inside carolina in april seven inmates were killed and more than a dozen injured in a riot which the media described as a senseless uprising prisoners say could have been avoided if the correctional facility howden been overcrowded and conditions were better the inmates have several demands an end to prison slavery as they say a proper wage prisoners are put to work in rules such as cleaning cooking and lawn mowing sometimes for us to tell us four cents an hour they also claim that black inmates get heftier sentences under denied parole because of skin color they also want more rebel or tahsin medical services paul writes from the human rights defense center thinks that's prisoners are being deprived of essential treatment but government in this country has for the past forty years as a door upon a very anti-human rights crusade against people who've been accused of crimes were

convicted of crimes of this country prisoners routinely died from medical legal acts because they don't receive treatment for very basic medical conditions mentally ill prisoners languish. 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 a third world prison. you know such death rates for all but i heard. in the u.s. now has the world's largest prison population two point three million inmates campaigners say that jails there have five times as many prisoners as other industrialized nations almost one adult in every one hundred has served time paul writes again thinks that it's a 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 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 adequate mental health care treatment to not provide educational opportunities to enslave the people within the system to brutalize them into the private of basic human rights these are all government decisions that have been made. off some of our stories for now here in our to international though with facebook approaching more icons from russian and iran addresses watching the hawks next delves into water inauthentic behavior actually means stay with us.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. they unemployment rate is down the labor participation rate is high so this goes against all the doom mongers before the election to trump and of course nobody in mainstream media wants to focus on this because it be live there and spears here.

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films a lot less on the upper. lip. greetings and salutations us in the latest example of us happily handing over their cognitive reasoning skills the silicon valley corporate behavior facebook was roundly applauded this week for expunging over six hundred accounts linked to what they are calling inauthentic behavior all originating from iran and russia s on tuesday facebook c.e.o.

mark zuckerberg told the media be a conference call that tuesday's purge reflects a newfound approach within the social media giant to stamping out the scourge of big new zuckerberg explain exclaimed this ship we made reactive to proactive detect detection is a big change and it's going to make facebook safer for everyone over time safer so what exactly was this terrible no good horrible on safe content that was just too dangerous for the simple minds of us simple facebook users well according to newsweek one post showed a parody of the notebook featuring north korean leader kim jong un whom i'm bracing president donald trump in the rain with the title changed to read the new book another showed michelle obama holding a sign reading an immigrant took my job. yeah also taking down

more accounts accused of conducting cyber attacks and covertly spreading pro bushehr al assad in pro russian content and according to the cyber security firm fire a i who tipped off base book to these horrific accounts some were there to promote iranian political interests including anti a saudi anti israel and pro palestinian beings as well as to promote support as approach support for specific u.s. policies paper bowl to iran such as the us around nucular deal. can you smell that any air you can can can you smell the atlantic council just parading with joy over this purge so let's take a slide down the slip really slope of facebook as political arbiter and try to keep free speech alive as we start watching the hawks.