the other. one is. from sanctions to syria russia's security chief meets with his american counterpart for talks in geneva but one issue seemed to interest journalists more than others whether you ever concerned that iran's president is a security risk of course i mean that's still of course. the us democratic party cries foul over another suspected hack but the answer turns out to have been much closer to home. and facebook bans hundreds of pages groups and accounts linked to around in russia for alleged political meddling. this is r t international coming to you live from the russian capital with your live news update this hour welcome to the program the u.s.

national security advisor 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 a way to killie low abt 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 all coming into 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 i think this whole notion that sanctions also are a weapon and the how we as

a country america's i can't you know threatening even more severe sanctions and i think that's the wrong way to go i think sanctions are an early rehearsal for war i think people have been just blown away out of proportion. 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 in troops removed from syria pulled back from syria the russian side going into this it already said that they were in 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 it'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'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 and not so sweet at the end there following that question from 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 that well 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 but this me thing between the two national security advisers that it didn't result in any major breakthroughs we weren't really expecting not but where they agree 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 claimed it's detected an attempt to hack into voter database with midterm 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 confirmed n.b.c. news it has alerted authorities to an attempted of 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 is 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 to 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 who reports at 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. now the timing of all of this is worth noting it's coming just as we're getting closer and closer to midterm elections and the media

is going crazy frantically searching for external factors but they've turned a blind eye to domestic factors which could be where their answers are investigative reporter dave lindorff so the election tampering claims are being exaggerated. the middling issue is. first of all i think has been overblown in the first case you know when they found evidence of. you know russian based. organizations that were buying ads and things on facebook it was such a tiny amount during the two thousand and sixteen election that it was laughable so you know i think most people most sensible people realize that the election in two thousand and sixteen was not significantly impacted by meddling it was effected dramatically by a really bad candidate running a really bad campaign in. facebook upping the ante and it's chris tate against

fake news it's now bam hundreds of pages it claims are linked to iran and russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion is it trying to with more. thanks for joining us militant 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 that those by. us about 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 twenty five pages traced to iran and then unknown number of pages linked to russia it just wouldn't work if russia didn't get mentioned and the reason for this verdict is we removed multiple pages groups and accounts for coordinated in authentic behavior on facebook and instagram what kind of sin is this in authentic behavior let's hear from zuck speak will they use similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing we ban this kind of behavior because we want people to be able to trust the connections they make on

facebook the issue of trusting what pops out at you from the internet it's almost as old as i am. 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.

will come to the us just for all the things they can do i. say stay because of all the things they can well looks like online platforms will force us to adjust to a new reality where a step away from your genuine behavior may lead to a ban or some distinguished fact checkers will tell you who you should or shouldn't trust how's this for a policy update facebook's just announced it will assess how good or how bad their users are at flagging fake news we developed a process to protect against people indiscriminately flagging news is fake and attempting to game the system the reason we do this is to make sure that our 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. that they really are grossly. incompetent to do 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 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 freed of government control as he lambasted other media bosses for skewing the news agenda almost all flying. prints too often serves 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 over those and indeed senior politicians b.b.c. quickly and is i believe tacitly influenced by government u.k. opposition leader jeremy horgan's 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 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 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 in the media as opposed to those in power in terms of a statement 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 jeremy corbin's ideas reflect what the british public thinks you know the b.b.c. in particular been seen but 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 most of the newspapers in the media in this country was in the interest of both their 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 doing and the government control over that because that can be used to influence the b.b.c. directly for i think we're proposing is very interesting really hiving the b.b.c. or from any direct government. dollar terms presidency could be entering its darkest hour as us democrats ramp up calls for his impeachment that's after his former lawyer implicated the president as the orchestrator of hush money during his two thousand and sixteen election campaign michael cohen said he paid for people silent 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 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 political analyst charles or tell if the u.s. authorities are being one sided. you know this is the double standard that is in evidence here rating michael cohen mahler's rating michael cohen's offices to get what arguably is privilege information between cohen and his client donald trump. as it were trumped up charges that really are non crimes that go on as felt such pressure to admit stand a stark contrast to the approach taken by loretta lynch komi and others to go after the clinton foundation over actual public corruption actual fraud actually meant actual mishandling of classified information there's a clear double standard here well i draw your attention further back into history in ny in one thousand nine hundred five and afterwards the clintons themselves were basically bankrupt they raise over ten million dollars to pay their legal expenses nobody seems to be bringing that up. something few would have taken seriously only

a couple of 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 us 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 telecommunications is a global payment network it's designed to secure transactions between banks and encompasses eleven thousand financial institutions in two hundred nations which claims political neutrality but has apparently caved to american pressure in the past since washington withdrew from the iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions against tehran swift has been left with a choice cut off iranian banks from its network by early november or face an asset

freeze travel bans and restrictions to do business in america a german m.p. from the f.t. party thinks that although the foreign minister's call makes sense it's come at the wrong time the one who controls finance controls everything so in this sense it's to teach the goal of mr mas making europe from germany more independent by creating its own financial system it's it's a strategic goal that has its right to exist but please we have to take into account possible ricksha from the united states will be formed of this idea that we cannot afford to resume 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 been the right time and not at the right place although europe is one of america's closest allies the kind of treatment the e.u. has been receiving from the u.s. of late isn't exactly what you'd call friendly. the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal that diminishes compliments of the international order is never good break the rules that we ourselves helped to create. we setting things to them they said no thank you we don't take you for. a 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.

expect that you are peons will see this business as a load seen the choice between doing business with a run a good business with the united states to the. 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 your god was going to. make a come out was. ok and yet you know you. guys thank you i'm kind of all right because you. know. police say they were responding to a disturbance involving use fighting and while 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 and two officers had to receive medical treatment for bites and cut here's a little of the reaction there's been to the incident why would a fully grown man police officer need to palm strike a 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 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 former british police inspector peter kirkland and social justice campaigner george barda went head to head of 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 a head into a metal shelter two 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 well or take it to the ground and then you'd be moaning about heavy police officers on a four year old go on the ground and if the officers use of force isn't right then

he would be prosecuted or disciplined for it that act of bashing that will bashing that girl in the head and i do think it makes a difference that she was a forty year ago if she was a six foot four man i think it be a different situation in terms of what 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 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 the point i made before and i don't for you this wasn't about having a hate to a man you should have taught it was. this is about recognizing that if the police

can respond to a video like that with a with period 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 into. going to keep olga and questioning why full two year old girls have brawling in the street with all the children of that age instead of course judy the actions of the police doing their best to deal with that situation. a man opened fire on two police officers near the russian foreign ministry building in central moscow on thursday evening the shooter was wounded by return fire and has since reportedly died in hospital one of the officers sustained non-life threatening injuries in the shootout and investigation has been opened into the incident you're seeing pictures from the scene in which the police have cordoned off the suspect is yet to be formally identified and his motives remain unclear.

it's now been seventy five years since the end of the largest tank battle in history it finished with the soviet union pushing on a counter offensive to ease pressure on the western front and helped liberate the world from the nazis and your style of travel to the city of curse in western russia to watch the parade. day here in course kicked off with the military parade tanks of the world war two era accompanied by troops later the russian president flew in by helicopter first

thing he did laid flowers to the tomb of the unknown soldier and then a minute of silence to commemorate all those lives lost seventy five years ago after that the russian president talked to some veterans and visited some of the memorials scattered around the city and while he was followed by hundreds of locals as well the city of course holds a very special place in the hearts of well pretty much all russians seventy five years ago this place saw what is still known as the largest tank battle in world history more than three million people fought in it and historians agree that this battle that was the breaking point of the war for the soviets it allowed the troops to basically reverse the nazi on slowed and then effectively drive them back all the way to berlin and seventy five years on the memories of those times still live on among the streets of the city that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our

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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 see 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 into. you're free to do so and go there and look and yes ways you're 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 why.