good food russia sharing good. from sanctions to syria russia's security chief. for talks. but interested journalists more than others. but there are you ever concerned that president security. of course i mean that's a silly question. the us democratic party over another suspect but. much closer to home also this hour. video of a british policeman slapping a teenage girl during an iran. triggers debate over what constitutes reasonable force. grown place can find a way of restraining

a fourteen year old go back to. tell us. just like anybody else. just. eleven pm in hanoi and seven in the room right here in moscow this thursday august the twenty third welcome to our to international top story the u.s. national security adviser on his russian counterpart have held more than five hours of talks in geneva but john bolton didn't give much detail away to reporters a short news briefing afterwards. i think we made a lot of progress we identified certain areas where lines of communication could be restored there were some where the areas of disagreement

remain we didn't see. much utility in resuming discussions there are going to be some things where we're going to consider inside the united states government consider more fully what our position is and then decide to proceed from there well this meeting of national security advisors was well the groundwork was laid for it when the president met in helsinki last month today they cover the whole range of pretty much what had been touched upon a in helsinki they talked about nuclear nonproliferation they talked about cyber attacks they talked about the situation in syria in afghanistan and in ukraine as well and this meeting of course comes when relations between moscow and washington are at a particularly low abp with sanctions from the united states against russia looming over the poisoning of said in the united kingdom earlier this year russia denies any role in the attempts on misguided piles of life when it came to the iranian

sanctions in the iran nuclear deal john bolton unequivocal who saying that the will be sanctions put in place against iran on doing business with iran and that the sanctions are coming in november and he's the russian side didn't ask for any exemptions during the meeting today and that the u.s. side on expecting to gave many exemptions at all they also talked about a rainy in troops in syria mr bolton saying that he wanted to see both as he put it regular and irregular rainy and troops removed from syria pulled back from syria the russian side going into this it already said that they were sabine support of this book that this wasn't something that was going to be poppin. immediately as with any of these meetings when it comes to senior figures within the the trump white house and within the trump of the trumpet ministration there were questions about russian meddling and this quote this time well it was no different whether

you ever concerned that iran's president is a security risk of course not i mean that's a silly question. and i just spoke to a morally 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 we waited hours in hours for mr bolton to coleman and speak to us it was very short not so sweet at the end there following that question for my colleague from the b.b.c. it's worth noting that after that one of the bolton stuff came along pulled her to one side and told her the. question was ridiculous and that they wouldn't be working with their organization in the future that shocked quite a few of the geneva diplomatic press corps here at this meeting between the two

national security advisers that it didn't result in any major breakthroughs we weren't really expecting not but where they agreed they still agree where there's disagreement well there's certainly still discord between washington and moscow as it stands at the moment. britain's opposition leader sees the public's losing trust with the news media and saying he's got big plans to revamp the b.b.c. germy corp and added the broadcaster should be freed of government control as he lambasted other media bosses for skewing the news agenda. all of the offline prints too often serves 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 b.b.c. could be and is i believe tacitly influenced by government u.k. opposition leader jeremy gorgons 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 praising 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 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 and 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 he did see that he believes that much of the press isn't very free at all 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 apart from proposals about putting in place a revamp for the b.b.c. our position leader corben 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 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. facebook's opting in its crusade against fake news it's not the hundreds of pages claims are linked to

a run in russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion here to try and go with his take. thanks for joining us i believe that franco with your latest is in the world of social media facebook and twitter 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 the by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian bots 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 banned six hundred 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. 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 oasis for all the things they can do i.

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. in the position of mediating human relationships which is first of all a very unhealthy thing to do and it's something. they really are grossly.

incompetent to do that 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 when he choose to complain about a post online think twice what if the fact checkers disagree in fact whatever you do there better think twice and we have to train the figures meanwhile suggests the social media site might be losing well a little of it sparkle one ranking service has calculated the amount of time visitors spent on the platform done ten percent this month it also reveals that visitor interest is slipping facebook are yet to respond to our request for comment on it. another day another hiking scandal now the us democratic party has claimed its detected an attempt on its voter database with elections just a few months away this attempt is further proof that there are constant threats as

we head into the midterm elections and we must remain vigilant in order to prevent future attacks. let's get the story now with our washington correspondent sim you're a counsellor mirror all is not what it first appeared to democratic party leaders. well at first it looked like just another meddling story in the endless stream of meddling reports we've witnessed and of course total panic ensued check it out. d.n.c. just confirmed n.b.c. news it has alerted authorities to an attempted it had all their voter file in the takeaway really is is this continues to be a major issue democratic party's voter database targeted with a sophisticated hacking attempt to target really was the voter database any attack on a political party or campaign is important for us all to take search site here there's a twist turns out it wasn't meddling were hacking but a simple test take

a look we along with the partners who reported the sites now believe it was built by a third party as part of a simulated fishing test the test which mimics several attributes of actual attacks on the democratic party's votes to follow was not authorized by the d.n.c. vote builder nor any other. according to a source the democratic party of michigan used a volunteer hackers to test their system security and the source also said that the party wasn't notified prior to the test so perhaps the media might learn from this situation and not just go along with any report they see it but it seems there is little chance of that interesting stuff from your account in washington d.c. thank you for the a russian cities marking seventy five years since the biggest tongue battle in history of the monger story still ahead on r.t.

international. you know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the fast and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. when we all make this manufactured consented to the public will. when the ruling

classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. room in the real news is really. a look at 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. thank you i was was. was i was sure it was you

was my new year's thank you was a guy that was your question. tonight police say they were responding to a disturbance involving youths fighting tempting to get the girl under control one male officer struck between enter in the face it's claimed that was in response to her trying to grab his taser and police radio the girl and 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 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 i'm 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. police chiefs have justified the officer sanction 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.e. 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 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 the i could say were allowed to keep a name and snatching his taser and radio was very well taken to the ground and you've been moaning about police officers on the 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 guy in the head and i do think it makes a difference that it was a forty year ago if he was a you know six foot called man i think would be a different situation in terms of your 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 lot that has any relevance fourteen year old girls can cause are just like anybody else it's 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. talk it was. 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 order and questioning why fourteen year old girls have brawling in the street with all the 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 number of months ago i'll turn it 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. where the u.s. crosses red lines we as europeans must counter-balance as hard as that is it is indispensable that we strengthen the european autonomy by creating channels that are independent of the united states a european monetary fund and an independence we system all swift which stands for the society for worldwide interbank financial telecommunications is a global payment network it's designed to secure transactions between buying selling campuses eleven thousand financial institutions in two hundred nations swift it claims political neutrality but has apparently caved in to american pressure in the past well since washington withdrew from the iran nuclear deal on reimpose sanctions against iran swift has been left with

a choice cut off or really in banks from its network they are early november or face an asset freeze travel bans and restrictions to do business in american or german m.p. from the f.t. party thinks that although the foreign ministers call makes sense it's come at the wrong time the one who controls finance controls everything so in this sense because to keep the 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 through relations with russia sold the boldness of mr mass it's not in the right time and not at the right places . 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 exactly what you'd call friendly. the united states. from the. international. break we ourselves. free trade. so now we will also impose import tariffs you can also.

we also. see this business. business with business with the united states. it is seventy five years since the end of the largest tongue in history the third reich on the red army will died eight thousand tanks with over three million soldiers involved on both sides it finished with the soviet union pushing on a country offensive to ease pressure on the western front and helped liberate the world from the nazis. easy. to me that. it would.

be the purpose of authorities but it easy for. all those are new stories for with facebook busily purging a kind from russia and iran this week watching the hawks delves into what in authentic behavior actually means and it's next. to me just simply set. up a base here. in the field. non-single he would be useful if he.

were talking to. ok let's. get it why don't we just get it started. but not a lot of any of us come out i skid but i'm about the same as art but i was up the money into the museum about. how the long low i left my last caller. just said so you'll be. there when you go so this is a long. long way from here to be made by. the people who got the musical folks on the got. that little part that you. feel. so sad because 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 want to focus on this because it be lies there and spears the theory.

greetings and salutations it's in the latest example of us happily handing over their cognitive reasoning skills to silicon valley corporate behavior facebook was roundly applauded this week for expunging over six hundred accounts linked to what they are calling an authentic 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 news zuckerberg explained exclaimed the 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 owen 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 moon embracing 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 bashir 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 saudi anti israel and pro palestinian beams as well as to promote support supposed support for specific u.s.

policies paper bowl to iran such as the us around nucular deal. is can you smell any air you can can you can you smell the atlantic council just parading with joy over this purge so let's take a slide down the slippery slope of facebook as political arbiter and try to keep free speech alive as we start watching the hawks. as it gets to the bottom so it's. like you know that i got. it.