from sanctions to syria russia's security chief meets his american counterpart for talks in geneva but one topic interested journalists more than others whether you are ever concerned that iran's president is a security risk of course not i mean that's silly clutched. the u.s. democratic party cries foul over another suspected attacker the answer turns out to have been much closer to home. facebook fans hundreds of pages groups and a counseling to iran and russia for alleged political meddling. you're watching our chief international coming to you live from moscow where it's

just one ten pm welcome to the program we start with breaking news this hour in the russian capital as an unidentified assailant has opened fire at two policemen and central moscow in the come bodi an embassy the attacker has been wounded and detained by the authorities he said to be in serious condition the suspects identity and motives are still unknown but of course we'll bring you that information when we can. the u.s. national security adviser and his russian counterpart have held more than five hours of talks in geneva but john bolton didn't give much 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 ebb 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 missed this could have 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 and 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 happening. immediately as with any of these meetings when it comes to senior figures within 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 him over only a few minutes ago and. we have performed here in exactly the way i think the two leaders would've 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 from a colleague from the b.b.c. it's worth noting that after that one of mr 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. another day another hacking scandal now the u.s. democratic party has claimed it detected an attempt to hack at the voter database with elections just a few months away. this is the proof that there are constant threats as we head into the midterm elections and we must remain vigilant in order to prevent future attacks first it looked like just another meddling story in the endless stream of meddling reports that we've come across lately and the democratic party said that it had detected an attempt to hack its voter base and of course total panic ensued in the media check it out d.n.c. just confirm the n.b.c. news it has alerted authorities to an attempt to have all their voter file 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 seriously but there's a twist here it wasn't meddling or hacking it was just a test according to a source the democratic party or the democratic party of michigan used volunteer hackers to test its systems security while this was confirmed by the national committee the source also said that the state department did not notify the d.n.c. the national committee before hand let's take a look at what was said. we along with the partners she reports at the sites now believe it was believed by a third party as part of a simulated fishing test the test which mimics several attributes of action attacks on the democratic party's votes of was not authorized by the d.n.c. vote builder nor any other. now the timing of all of this is worth noting it's coming just as we're getting closer and closer to midterm elections that the

media's going crazy frantically searching for external factors but they've turned a blind eye to domestic factors which could be where their answers are. double charms presidency could be entering its darkest hour as u.s. democrats ramp up calls for his impeachment that's after his former lawyer implicated the president as one of the orchestrators of hush money during his two thousand and sixteen election campaign michael cohen said he paid for people silence over compromising information on the order of trump but it seems cohen's information comes at a price as his own lawyer has launched a crowdfunding campaign aiming to raise half a million dollars the funhouse and gone down favorably with everyone michael cohen truth dot com. that really hoping that he will get some help from the american people so he can continue to be the audience is that they don't appear ready to donate money but so far over a quarter of the target money has already been raised with more than two thousand

people donating and just one day the petition says the money will go towards paying cohen's legal fees. we cannot cross live to political analyst charles or tell for more on this how likely is it now that term could actually face impeachment. i think it's most unlikely so to begin with lanny davis is one of the bill and hillary clinton's closest friends they were all together in law school. i have reviewed a summary of the agreement that he signed and lawyers close to me of also giving me the advice that basically mr cohen appears to have confessed to something that is not in fact a crime raising the question of exactly what sort of legal advice did lanny davis provide did he explain to mr cohen you know how he could have evaded. potential culpability here and why did he sign this document lanny davis as

a primary duty to to michael cohen not to his yale law school buddies bill and hillary clinton so this is very very suspicious to me. and you know it was lanny spends a lot of time on mainstream media has been doing so for a long time as a crisis manager so he whipped the mainstream media into a frenzy very quickly over impeachment impeachment a pitcher we have to remember in this country and i'm not a lawyer but impeachment is only for high crimes and misdemeanors brok obama. campaign was found guilty of a larger amount three hundred thousand dollars or so election law violation these sorts of violations are certainly not high crimes the house at present is controlled by republicans even nancy pelosi is as she is little appetite for impeachment now so you know what we know so far i doubt that that indictment which is impeachment would begin prior to the election and i'm fairly certain that they would not be able to muster the sixty votes that are required sixty six votes i

believe are sixty or sixty six votes are required to convict so you know this is a lot of hoopla and them an establishment press hoping that dollar drop will go away and i think donald trump is very much here to say very much energized and very much looking forward to doing what hillary clinton didn't do in two thousand and sixteen and that is getting out and campaigning and interacting with the people who elected them now this go fund me campaign has already been quite successful in this inspire others to then come forward with information against trump in order to raise money for themselves. well again remember who this money is going to it's going to pay michael cohen's lawyer lanny davis it's hardly a selfless appropriate approach here that way davis' is taking. you know other people are certainly going to come out of the woodwork how credible they may be who knows. but you know this is the double standard that is in evidence here of a rating michael cohen muller's rating michael cohen's office is to get what are

arguably as privileged information between cohen and his client donald trump. as it were trumped up charges that really are non crimes that cohen has felt such pressure to admit stand a stark contrast to the approach taken by the right to lynch komi and others to go after the clinton foundation over actual public corruption actual fraud actually actual mishandling of classified information there's a clear double standard here and donald trump needs to get up and energize people in the iris in the department of justice to administer the laws equally and fairly which is not currently done barbaric and this is not the first time when people close to trump have set up these online campaigns to raise funds one of the women involved in the hush money scandal herself also raised tens of thousands of dollars why are these campaigns proving so successful well i draw your attention further back into history a night in one thousand nine hundred five and afterwards the clintons themselves

were basically bankrupt they raised over ten million dollars to pay their legal expenses nobody seems to be bringing that up they raised money to pay off you know people who accuse bill clinton of certain things paula jones and others so i mean this is not it's like this is just a started happening yes using the internet it's new but politicians and others who get into trouble regularly try to raise money to pay off their bills which charles or tell a political analyst thank you so much for your time and your comments this evening . facebook's upping the ante in its crusade against fake news it's now banned hundreds of pages it claims are linked to you ran and russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion here's a live picture and go with more. thanks for joining us i believe that franco with your latest is in the world of social facebook and twitter gotten rid of suspicious accounts schooling 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 the us of those 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 zuck speak will they use similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing we ban this kind of behavior because we want people to be able to trust the connections they make on facebook the issue of trusting what pops out at you from the internet it's almost as old as i am. ask her where we should meet. it seems like you're chatting with somebody just like yourself not only even if they show a picture of themselves it may not really be who they say they are it could be somebody dangerous i'm not trying to say criminals who take advantage of online

platforms shouldn't be banned or prosecuted but dear facebook the way the internet and social networks have worked for years is that users can be who they want to be online who said they must stick to what someone thinks is authentic behavior what if i want to be an elf or santa or a real news hound my now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later i. universe i will come to the us is for all the things they can do i. may 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 fights 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 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 voice 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 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 our request for comment. britain's opposition leader says the public's losing trust with the news media and says he's got big plans to revamp the b.b.c. jeremy corbyn added the broadcaster should be free of government control as he lambasted other media bosses for skewing the news agenda all and offline print 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 pros 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 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 e.u. 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 churn out what they believe to be fake news every day well apart from proposals about putting in place a rebound for the b.b.c. opposition leader morgan also work talked about the need to increase the in flu. 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 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 we heard from political analyst chris bambery who said german corbin's

ideas reflect what the british public thinks you know the b.b.c. in particular been seen as being biased in representing those views so i think particularly young people there is a growing view that the b.b.c. and the established media is on the side of the elite is on the side of the corporations who after all or most of the newspapers in the media in this country was in the interest of both the houses the b.b.c.'s finances come from a license that every viewer has to buy but the government sets the cost of that license and saying it is rigged and the government control over that because that can be used to influence the b.b.c. direct way of or i think we're proposing is very interesting hiving the b.b.c. or from any direct government. something few would have taken seriously only a couple 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. 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 swift which stands for the society for worldwide interbank financial told me to telecommunications quite a mouthful is a global payment network it's designed to secure transactions between banks and encompasses eleven thousand financial institutions in two hundred nations swift claims political neutrality but has apparently caved in to american pressure in the past since washington withdrew from the iran nuclear deal and we impose sanctions against iran and 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.t. party things that although the foreign ministers call it makes sense it's come at the wrong time the one who controls finance controls everything so in this sense because the key to 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 resume the ties with the united states at the same time when europe itself has deteriorated his relations

with russia so with the boldness of mr mars it's not been the right time and not at the right places. and 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 the exactly what you call friendly. well with a draw from the iran nuclear deal that diminishes confidence in the international. break the rules that we ourselves helped to create. we setting things to them they're saying no thank you we don't take you for. free trade debt stupid trade so now we will also impose import tariffs you can also use we also to breed this.

business is a load seen the choice between doing business with a run a business with the united states. video has emerged of a british police officer slapping a fourteen year old girl during an arrest the images soon spread online and divided public opinion please be aware that the video we're about to show you does contain scenes of violence. thank you but your god was going to. take a very was coming out was. ok with my new year's you know you. guys thank you i'm kind of all right because you. know tonight police say they were responding to a disturbance involving use fining and more attempting to get the girl under

control a male officer struck the teenager 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 that's been 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 to 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 meanwhile police chiefs have justified the officer's actions saying the video does

not give a full picture of the situation we understand this frenchman appear concerning however officers are trained to use restraint economics which may look shocking to on trained on will curse earlier on r.t. former british police inspector peter kirk m 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 girl 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 girl back to them but i'll tell you what you say tell us i just tell us if that's why this is this is wise and tell us your the police officer you tell me the only alternatives available to the officer that i could see were allowed to keep a name and snatching his taser and radio which wasn't very good well 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 tall man i think it 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 soon as 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 is 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 would be better off supporting the police in. going to keep old 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 that best to deal with that situation that's a recap of the day's headlines news for now but don't forget you can find us on all of your favorite social media platforms for up to the minute reports thanks for tuning in this hour. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure i'll be speaking to

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