from sanctions to syria russia's security chief meets with his american counterpart for talks in geneva but one issue seemed to interest of journalists more than others when john bolton addressed the media afterwards but there are you ever concerned that iran's president faces security threats of course not i mean that's a silly question. u.s. democratic party cries foul over another suspected attack but the answer turns out to have been much closer to. facebook bans hundreds of pages of groups and accounts linked to the iran and russia for lead to political meddling.

broadcasting live directress it is a moscow this is r t international john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now 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 at 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's 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 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 i think this whole notion that sanctions also are a weapon and 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 purport. 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 in support of this but 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 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 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 from my 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 that well her 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 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 it's a detected an attempted. to hack into voter database with midterm elections just a few months away. this is 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 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 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 tax on the democratic party's votes of was not authorized by the d.n.c.

vote builder nor any other vendors 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 right investigative reporter dave lindorff says 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 affected dramatically by a really bad candidate running a really bad campaign in. facebook's upping the ante in its crusade against fake news it is now banned hundreds of pages it claims are linked to iran and russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion here's our teasingly and. thanks for joining us i believe that franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and twitter have 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 us at this by. about 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 took over twitter and facebook some stories never seem to die well this facebook slash twitter online police rate 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. time and bad six hundred twenty five pages traced to iran and an unknown number of pages linked to russia it just wouldn't work if russia didn't get mentioned and the reason for this verdict is we removed multiple pages groups and accounts for coordinated in authentic behavior on facebook and instagram what kind of sin is this an authentic behavior let's hear from zax people they use similar tactics by

creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing we ban this kind of behavior because we want people to be able to trust the connections they make on facebook. the issue of trusting what pops out at you from the internet it's almost as old as i am asking where we should meet. it seems like you're chatting with somebody just like yourself not only even if they show a picture of themselves it may not really be who they say they are it could be somebody dangerous i'm not trying to say criminals who take advantage of online platforms shouldn't be banned or prosecuted but dear facebook the way the internet and social networks have worked for years is that users can be who they want to be online who said they must stick to what someone thinks is authentic behavior what if i want to

be an elf or santa or a real news hound 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 us is for all the things they can do i. say stay 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. 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. 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 and also reveals that visitor interest is slipping facebook is 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 in lambasted other media bosses for skewing the news agenda. poland 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 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 of 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 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 revamp for the b.b.c. opposition 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 we heard from political analyst chris bambery he says german corbin's ideas about the media resonate with the british public 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 is right 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 really hiving the b.b.c. or from any direct government pellets. morning short break you want your international stay with us.

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i welcome back this is r t international as it donald trump's presidency enters perhaps its most precarious perch period yet he's head back at those calling for his impeachment over his implication in a hush money scheme in an interview with fox news the us leader claimed such a move would be catastrophic for the economy i don't know how you can impeach somebody who's not a great job if i ever got a ph i think the market would crash us i think everybody would be very poor. on tuesday donald trump's former lawyer pleaded guilty to numerous federal criminal charges in court michael cohen implicated the us leader in breaking campaign finance laws in two thousand and sixteen cohen said he was instructed to pay hush

money to alleged mistresses of trump on trump's orders in order to influence the election but despite being in deep legal trouble and seems cohen has to try and pay for his medical bills and is capitalizing on the situation his 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 in just one day the petition says that the money will go towards paying cohen's legal fees political analyst to charles or tell as more you know this is a double standard that is in evidence here rating michael cohen muller's rating michael cohen's office is to get what arguably is 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 loretta 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 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 race over ten million dollars to pay their legal expenses nobody seems to be bringing that up. washington has it reiterated its threat to impose sanctions against turkey if. pleat the purchase of an f. four hundred missile system from russia. you know it goes against our policy to have a nato allies such as turkey use an asse four hundred system part of the problem with that it is that it is not in iraq robel with other nato systems and so we are against the having some of our partners and allies around the world potentially purchase us for hundreds it would trigger katz's action i'm not going to get into

that but we have made very clear what could trigger sanctions for other countries and entities around the world the russian made as four hundred missile system is capable of engaging multiple high speed aerial targets within a range of four hundred kilometers the u.s. state department threat of fresh sanctions comes as washington and already find themselves at odds over the detention of andrew brunson an american pastor whom turkey accusers of spying and terrorism offenses release pastor andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences. who will respond to the u.s. declaring the trade on the whole world by answering new markets and finding allies at the president's direction the department of treasury is sanctioning turkey's minister of justice and minister of interior. some believe they can threaten us with the economy sanctions exchange rates interest rates inflation is what we tell

them we've uncovered your schemes and we challenge you. well across live now to former u.s. diplomat jim john. for more on this jim good to have you with us so. i'm a bit confused about this story how concerned should the u.s. be over the sale of the four hundred system to turkey i mean and why should they be concerned at all. well depends on your point of view sean i mean there has grown up a mentality in washington that. there's something any country that we don't like those sanctions is somehow a non-war option and of course it really is a form of warfare economic warfare that we can slap on to that country and that it's somehow a three b. it's something we can do to other countries but they really can't do back to us she really is kind of the tool of choice

a one size fits all in the case of turkey there are many things frankly i don't think this is about this pastor brunson or all i think there are many other issues between the united states and turkey but this is something we routinely do with with friends as well as with countries that were not so friendly with so in terms of allies i mean famously supposedly the u.s. and turkey are allies they're both not members of nato why is turkey opting for the s four hundred over other systems i mean is it normal practice for the u.s. to demand allies use particularly weapons systems other than others. actually kind of the is the problem with this is not really interoperability i mean obviously that's a question but there are many countries that procured military equipment from a number of different sources i think what's what's going on here released with respect to turkey is that because we have an estrangement relations with them that we are going to deliver any threats that we think are appropriate that will put pressure on mr everyone i think

a lot of this revolves around syria and the fact that turkey is getting closer to russia and iran and hopefully wrapping up the syrian war but there are many things i think going on and under the table as well. that seems to be the case one thing that i've noticed lately is that the u.s. seems to be sanction happy if that makes any sense so why is the u.s. threatening sanctions in this case are there not better ways to negotiate with allies on such issues. but i don't think we're looking at this is negotiating with an ally or this is more or less let's remember let's be honest xan we don't really have allies we have satellites and a good satellite does what it's told and every doesn't want to behave like a good satellite then we pull out the big stick and threaten him and i think sanctions happy is exactly the right word i think we treated this as something we can do at will there's no recourse on the part of the targeted country and in most cases they succumb look for example with the europeans are doing in terms of to

talk with not of iran under threat of sanction americal going to azerbaijan to looking at alternatives for north stream to in case we start staging german companies i think part of the reason we're sanctions happy is because orks all right jim john just former u.s. diplomat always like hearing your thoughts on these things it's going to be interesting to watch how it all plays out and this is just one more thing for us to keep an eye on thank you. all right 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 u.s. crosses a red lines we as you were peons must counter-balance as hard as that is it is indispensable that would strengthen the european autonomy by creating payment 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 it is a global payment network it is designed to secure transactions between banks and encompasses eleven thousand financial institutions in two hundred nations swift it claims political neutrality but has apparently caved to american pressure in the past and since washington withdrew from the iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions against tehran so it 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 and germany and be from the f.t. party thinks that although the foreign ministers call make sense it's come of the wrong time the one who controls finance controls everything so in this sounds so as to keep goal of mr marson making europe and

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 to take into account possible reactions from the united states i think they won't be fond of this idea and we cannot force to ruin 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 mass it's not in the right time and not at the right place and that does for me i'll be back in about thirty two and a half minutes with more news stay with us desire to internet. i.

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