headline stories this hour bombs hundreds of pages of groups linked to iran russia political meddling. sanctions to syria russia's security council secretary has said today to meet his american counterpart in geneva to discuss the main stumbling blocks in their country's relations also ahead a. video of a british policeman slapping a teenage girl during an iran. what constitutes reasonable force two grown place officers can find a way of restraining a fourteen year old go back to them they tell us. just like anybody.

just after four pm here in moscow this thursday august the twenty third welcome to r.t. international i mean and our top story facebook has all the ante in its crusade against fake news it's not hundreds of pages it claims are linked to iran and russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion here with more. thanks for joining us. with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts 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. but those by you. should also put them

through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian vaults and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i revolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook 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 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 zax people 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 my now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later i. universe. will come to the oasis for all the things they can do i. may stay because of all the thinking 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 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 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

sign might be losing some of its sparkle one ranking service has calculated 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 us to a request for comment. britain's opposition leader ses the public's losing trust with the news media got big plans to revamp the b.b.c. let's go live now to westminster in our tease on the future for more on this nasty it was that third set of proposals wasn't it bring us up to speed but what was it. well the union you care position party leader german corben did indeed present his views on the state of media and press in the u.k. right now as well as his opinions on how things should look moving forward this took place at the edinburgh television festival where he was giving this speech and to kick start things off on the issue of public trust for once jeremy corbyn says

that the british people don't trust the media. the british press is the least trusted in europe including normally you countries like north macedonia and serbia the worry about new forms of news and we've heard plenty of that we've ignored the fact that most of our citizens think our newspapers churn out what they believe to be fake news every day well the korban really looked closely into according to him the problem of wealth and power being too close to media and the press he described the situation as feeling and not being ready for the challenges of the twenty first century he said he thinks the press is not very free at all and despite of praising institutions such as the b.b.c. for their importance jeremy corbyn seems to think it really needs a revamp in terms of the way it's organized and run he said that it needs to be freed of government control as well as have the political influence on it be

reduced. and offline. prints too often sets the broadcast agenda even though it is worded so firmly to the tories politically and to corporate interests more generally the cozy relationship between senior press and broadcasting executives media owners and indeed senior politicians well loved following those statements jeremy corbyn did outline several suggestions that he believed could improve the situation among them really supporting public interest journalism as well as local newspapers that he sees as being underfunded but playing quite an important role in held a holding power accountable he talked about the importance of making the b.b.c. again more representative democratic and independent he also spoke of creating a bridge a. bridge a british digital corporation something to walk closely with the needs of developing digital opportunities online as well mean for will follow the news in

that way and also other suggestions like essentially giving more power to the public when it comes to the press in this country to see what the b.b.c. thought about those statements we did reach out they told us they are not commenting on this topic or i talk this through the proposals this. is to see a trick. the us national security advisor and his russian counterpart are in geneva to discuss truly sions between the two countries we're expecting a news briefing on the results of the discussion in the next couple of hours meantime artie's peter all one has been filling us in on what could come of the talks. well the meeting between these two representatives was taking place at the u.s. mission here in geneva just behind me the groundwork for the mate was laid jury in the meeting of presidents trump and last month in helsinki but that meeting while 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 you. tend to murder in the poisoning of surrogates. in the united kingdom eliot this year russia denies any involvement but the sanctions that could be put in place they are coming from the russia lobby is 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 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 right. 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. 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. now is something few would have taken seriously only a few months ago an alternative to the swift banking payments system has now become a legitimate discussion topic in the e.u. here's the german foreign minister floating the idea of an independent system. where the u.s. 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 swift which stands for the society for worldwide interbank financial telecommunications is a global payment network it's designed to secure transactions between banks in converses eleven thousand financial institutions in two hundred countries swift

claims political neutrality but has apparently caved in to american pressure in the past now since washington withdrew from the iran nuclear deal re imposed sanctions against iran swift has been left with a choice cut off iranian banks from its network by early november or face us said freeze travel bans and restrictions to do business in america or german m.p. from the f.t. party thinks that all of the foreign ministers call makes sense it's come at the wrong time. the one who controls finance controls everything so in this sense this to keep goal of mr marson making europe and germany more independent by creating its own financial system it's just that 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 mars it's not in the right time and not at the right places. although europe is one of america's closest allies they kind of treatment the e.u. has been receiving from the us a plate is not what you would perhaps call friendly . the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal that diminishes confidence in the international order you need 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 for that 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 as a load of us seen the choice between doing business with the run of doing business with the united states is very clear to them. details of a deadly knife attack in paris right after this.

but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be preached. to the right to be close it's like the full story of the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the logs in the. first six.

hello again two people have been killed on another seriously injured in a knife attack in part as french authorities are not considering it an act of terror. you know they could the attack had serious psychiatric problems prosecutors are not treating it as a terrorist case at the moment well that's the spine islamic state claiming it was behind the incident happened in a western suburb of the french capital near verse i the two killed were confirmed to be the knife man's mother and sister he reportedly shot at gold his greatest in art of bacon was eventually shot dead by police at the scene some french media are naming the colorist come l. s. who was convicted of inciting terrorism in twenty sixteen and spent time in prison . video has emerged of a british police officer slapping

a fourteen year old girl during an arrest the images soon spread online divided public opinion please be aware that the video does contain scenes of violence. that your god was going to. get i'm sure it was going to come i was sure it was. was mine. was yeah i'm trying. to write police say they were responding to a disturbance involving youths finding now while attempting to get the girl under control a male officer struck fifteen year period in the face it's claimed it was in response to her trying to grab his taser on police radio the girl on a fifty two year old woman were arrested on suspicion of assault two officers had

to receive medical treatment for bites on cuts here's a little of the reaction there being to the incident why would a fully grown man police officer strike a fool two year old girl the video shows nothing more than police brutality the offices 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 or police chiefs justifying the officer's actions saying the video does not give a full picture of the situation we understand this finish may appear concerning however officers are trained to use restraint economics which may look shocking to untrained on will curse earlier or earlier on r.t.

excuse me former british police inspector peter kirk and social justice computer george barr they went head to head have a listen. 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 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 take it to the ground and then you'd be moaning about having police officer on the floor in the o'byrne on the break 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 tall 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 lot 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 have talked. to 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 in trying to keep order and questioning why fourteen year old girls are 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. said also right up to the moment developments can always be found on our twitter page you're watching r.t. international. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would

prefer and it's meaningless in the death 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 more executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no way to parent and that we're even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to get kelly here is because that's what murder victim's 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.

all. the. kids. hello and welcome to worlds apart extra this is an addition to our regular show in research focus on the people behind the story is if asked in the most oppressive soviet the russian leader joseph stalin is likely to be among the first

to come up with the great terror of the nineteen thirty still haunts this country with millions executed to the what is much less known is that barely a year before the purges began stalin sought to well for the lack of a better word democratized 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 ne russia almost nine thousand kilometers away from the old lines they. are. living. in the. months along 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 shut the 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 hear 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 reach and. 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 uses know the topic but i think it's a very counter-intuitive topic on many levels how did the idea pop into your well

there's 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 this column 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 in 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 well russia is very very big and at the time it had incredibly poor infrastructure and very few members of the communist party in rural areas to govern it so governing desirous

empire of the soviet union and modern russia has always been difficult simply because of the expanse and the fact that the population is not densely settled russia has a very peculiar relationship between people in power and it's usually assume that litter ship surprises the people's demands for rides but i take it from your book that in the case of the nine hundred thirty six constitution it was actually the other way around that stalin was actually more liberal and progressive society you could take yeah i was quite surprised when i was looking at particular hey be a scorpius which is the right too. the ability to have rights when you stand trial to not be arrested without the sanction of the prosecutor etc people were not interested in that that was something that was designed as part of actually reforms to get away from this revolutionary reality legality and sort of the equal.

implementation of both punishment and arrests and people weren't interested people had a lot of problems with crime in the countryside and it tended to be crime that the state didn't prioritize things like drunken beating fast hooliganism that post a real threat arson to people's daily lives was d. prioritise so they wanted the ability to arrest people that destabilized their lives on the spot now you told me before the. people in academia really advise you against using the word democracy when it comes to stalinist russia because they include this notion of civil society that is central to today idea of democracy but. what you're describing just there wasn't talent terrorism about point of time either there was somebody in moscow with a limb of the security apparatus the rest.