as we can. mr bolton. yet from the b. imaging folks b.b.c. mr bolton it's not going very easy week for your president i'm just wondering as national security adviser whether you were told given the events of this week and admissions of pale since you've mentioned election meddling whether you're ever concerned that your own president is a security risk of course not i mean that's a silly question. and i just spoke to a motorway a few minutes ago and. we have performed here in exactly the way i think the two leaders would have expected us to and you know i honestly have a little faith in the american people who elected him president thank you very much . ok so the meeting with reporters just wrapped up john bolton

the u.s. national security adviser taking a number of questions he had just finished he has confirmed a five hours meeting with nikolai patrushev the his russian counterpart just going through a little bit of what bolton say will go through more detail in the coming hour but he did say that they made a lot of progress considerable was a word he used as well after about number of issues the start treaty being deployed strategic nuclear weapons he also said he spoke to donald trump just after the meeting concerning what was spoken about as well ukraine and of course syria as well we'll try and get a bit more detail. in the next thirty minutes or so we'll see what else comes out of that meeting between at john bolton nicholai patrushev all right let's get a check on what else we're covering this news hour here in r.t. international facebook has upped the ante in its crusade against fake news it's not

bound hundreds of pages it claims are linked to a round in russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion here so you. thanks for joining us by millions of franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have gotten rid of suspicious accounts spewing fakes and propaganda from iran the troll factories not only after the minds of the americans but users all over the world it's claimed to be run by iran's government media. not us at this by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian balls and trolls how many trolls does it take to incite i've evolution scores of so-called russian bots took over twitter and facebook 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 zox 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 and i'm now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later i. universe.

will come to the us just for all the things they can do i. may say 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 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. 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 style 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 just another aspect in this statistics are suggesting the social media site might be losing some of its sparkle one ranking service has calculated the amount of time visitors spent on the platform saying that it's done ten percent this month it's also reveals that visitor interests this living facebook are yet to respond to a request for comment. or another story we're closely following today britain's

opposition leaders say as the public is losing trust with the news media and ses he's got big plans to revamp the b.b.c. german corben out of the broadcaster should be freed of government control and he lum busted other media bosses for skewing the news agenda on and off line print too often sets the broadcast agenda even though it is weighted 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 b.b.c. could be and is i believe tacitly influenced by government. yeah lots of reaction to this speech i'm just see a church and joins us live now from london with more it did look like a pretty thorough and direct set of proposals tell us more. well you know that indeed u.k. opposition leader jeremy corbyn there presenting his views on the state of the

media today and how exactly it should move forward now in terms of what he had to say about the b.b.c. despite creasing this is a very important british institution he did go want to see that he believes it's time for some changes including the reduction of political influence and the b.b.c. being freed from government control as he described described it he said it needs to be democratized more independent and more representative and this was part of the bigger picture he was painting about the state of affairs when it comes to the media the press in the u.k. he did talk quite a bit about this relationship that he sees as a little bit too close for comfort in terms of wealth and power being a little bit too close to the media he said that the press is as he sees it failing at this point and is not going walking hand in hand with the twenty first century he did see that he believes much of the press isn't very free at all and he also

talked quite a bit about the trust of the british public when dealing when it comes to the press and here is why the british press is the least trusted in europe including normally you countries like north macedonia 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 what they believe to be news every day well apart from proposals about putting in place a revamp for the b.b.c. opposition leader corven also work talked about the need to increase the influence of public interest journalism as well as local newspapers that he sees as now being quite underfunded and not being able to properly function while they're an important part of communities around this country again apart from this do. ties in and making the b.b.c. much more independent he also said there should be a creation of

a british digital corporation and overall said he believes that the public should have more control of the press and the media as opposed to those in power in terms of his statements on the b.b.c. we did reach out to them for commentary and they told us they are not commenting on this topic yeah lots of column inches on this so the media do like to speak about the media don't they are to us to see a thank you for. videos 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. if your god was going to. get around right here you know i was going to go ok thank you very much. it was my you know this was yeah ok i'm going.

to do this you know you know. police say they were responding to a disturbance involving youths fighting and while attempting to get the girl under control a meal officer struck the teenager in the face it's claimed that was in response to her trying to grab his taser police radio at the girl the fifty two year old woman who were arrested on suspicion of assault two officers had to receive medical treatment for bites cuts here so little of a reaction there's been to the incident why would a fully grown man police officer strike a forty year old go 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 and 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 or police chief sub justified the officers actions seeing the video does not give a full picture of the situation. we understand this british man appear concerning however officers are trained to use restraint techniques which may look shocking to untrained on will curse earlier on r.t. former british police inspector peter kirk and social justice campaigner george barda 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 or not using a stylus i just tell us if that's why this is this is wise and tell us your the

place of the 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 wasn't very well taken 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 all disciplined for it that act of bashing that was bashing that girl in the head and i do think it makes a difference that it was a forty year ago if she was a you know six foot four man i think would be a 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 so there's 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 cause 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 a man you should use or have taught it was. this is about recognising 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 place closed 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 small fines 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 street with the children of that instead of questioning the actions of the police doing their best to deal with that situation more global news live from r t h q here in moscow in ninety seconds.

i mean rape is down the labor participation rate is. 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 belies their conspiracy theory. manufactured sentenced to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round. we can all middle of the room sick.

you're back with r t international something few would have taken seriously only a few months ago an alternative to the swift banking payment 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 free from us pressure us crosses red lines we as you are beings 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 we system ok let's go through it swift which stands for the society for worldwide interbank financial telecommunications is a global payment network it's designed to secure transactions between banks something compas has eleven thousand financial institutions in two hundred countries swift claims political neutrality but has apparently caved in to american pressure in the past well since washington withdrew from the iran nuclear deal and impose sanctions against tehran swift has been left with a choice cut off really and banks from its network by early november or face an asset freeze travel bans on restrictions to do business in america and a german m.p. from the f.t. party thinks that although they foreign ministers call makes since 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 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 although europe is one of america's closest allies that kind of treatment and more that the e.u. has been receiving from the u.s. of late is not exactly what you call friendly.

the united states. from the. nuclear. diminishes compliment international. break the rules that we ourselves are. we saying things to them they say we don't take your. free trade that's stupid. so now we will also impose import tariffs you can also do. we also. see this business is. business with business with the united states. two people have been killed and another seriously injured in

a knife attack french authorities are not considering it a terror. attack and had serious psychiatric problems prosecutors are not treating it as a terrorist case at the moment. is this bind islamic state claiming it was behind the attack the incident happened in a western suburb of the french capital near. the two killed were confirmed to be the knife man's mother and sister he reportedly shot a god his greatest. was eventually shot dead by police the scene some french media are naming the killer. who was convicted of inciting terrorism in twenty sixteen and spent time in prison. the u.s. national security adviser and his russian counterpart have wrapped up more than five hours of talks in geneva but john bolton didn't give much detail away to

reporters a short news briefing an hour ago ok we just didn't get that piece of. footage yet no piece of footage there but to tell you who is waiting for us put it all over who's in geneva in switzerland and has been following developments for us peter you know i was just listening in to the q. and a we're reporters with john bolton he didn't stick around too long what kind of information did we get about what was spoken about during those five hours between moscow and washington. yes short and at the end not all to sweets from the u.s. national security adviser john bolton run us through at the beginning of his press statements what they had talked about all of the the issues like nonproliferation

of nuclear weapons. cyber attacks syria afghanistan as well as ukraine he said that progress had been made in some issues and some needed more work as he put it there was disagreement though that remains still on a government level on a number of issues those well he said there was no joint statement going to be put out between himself and his russian counterpart that says they couldn't agree on what he called election meddling relating to the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential elections. they did agree or agree in some semblance that a rainy and troops as john bolton put it both regular and irregular should be pulled out of syria but he did say that this from the russian side would be a gradual step and not something that the russian side been saying for a while going into this meeting that it wasn't going to be something that would happen overnight at the end there was a question from a colleague from the b.b.c.

of where in the light of the convictions for various crimes for two senior former trump aides whether the president the president himself could be viewed as a security risk or john bolton didn't take that well at all and in fact he dismissed that pretty quickly and left in well a bit of a hole for to have to say anything then one of his senior aides came along and pulled that journalist to one side apparently telling her that the question was ridiculous and that they would no longer work with her organization so we waited a long time for not a great deal of information and a small little piece of fireworks just at the end that rounded off it seems that where the united states and russia were in a green. before they say meeting they're still in agreement where they weren't in agreement those divides remain. in the u.s. security adviser saying that some ground had been made up but they were still points where the moscow or washington were in agreement still here that saying the

devil is in the detail i think it rings true in this occasion for peter all of our europe correspondent in switzerland life. ok let's move to the us now where prison inmates across the country are protesting against what they call modern day slavery they're demanding humane conditions under holding peaceful sit ins and hunger strikes well the protest was organized to mark a deadly riot in a marksman as security prison in south carolina in april seven inmates were killed and more than a dozen injured in a riot which the media described as a senseless op writing a prisoner say it could have been avoided if the correctional facility hardened being overcrowded on conditions were better the inmates have several demands an end to prison slavery and a proper wage prisoners are put to work in roles such as cleaning cooking and

sometimes for as little as four cents an hour they also claim that black inmates get half year sentences honored tonight parole because of skin color they also want more rehabilitation and medical services paul writes from a human rights defense center thinks that 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 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 ill this is 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 are all but i heard. well 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 the right one of these that pervades the criminal justice system in the united states at the judicial level is biased 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 deprive them of basic human rights these are all government decisions that have been made. come out of a stock prices or danya business confidence is up in the u.s. market and the kaiser report tries to untangle that.

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guys are this is the kaiser report up here in toronto canada thank you chair a bunch of gays are here and there are like i don't think these quack but they go honk honk big you throw honking and that's almost talking to susan so if i think they're honking at those boats out there on the water they don't like them hanging around we're still in canada that's a canadian. that's one goose over there it's like make one lose many there are a gaggle of we're on this team we're heading into the midterm elections in the united states we're here reporting from the frontline to see if many more americans my threaten to come here and there are certainly building

a lot of property so there's plenty of space for you here but i'm looking at the u.s. economy because my belief is that bill clinton was right as the economy stupid and that's what people and that's what voters care about some you know if you if you prefer that it's actually a conspiracy theory people are going to vote what putin thinks then you could tune in to see you're free to do so and go there and look and. you know discomfort with the economy over there but i'm going to look at some numbers that have been out this week in the united states which are pretty shocking in light of the what seems like global chaos with emerging market currencies with trade wars all sorts of stuff and f i b small business sentiment climbs in july to second highest level in history the national federation of independent business small business optimism index rose point seven points in july.