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 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 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 were 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 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 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 him literally 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. the cold 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 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. but this me thing between the two national security advisers it it didn't result in any major breakthroughs what really expecting not but where that you 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 us democratic party has claimed it detected an attempt to hack its voter database with midterm 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 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 hack of their voter file and 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 he 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 a fall 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 or investigative reporter dave lindorff is 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 effected dramatically by a really bad candidate running a really bad campaign in. facebook's upping the ante in the crusade against fake news it's now banned hundreds of pages it claims are linked to iran and russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion here's our teasingly a potential with commentary. thanks for joining us 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 the us of those by. some of them through. facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian vaults 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 in offensive behavior on facebook and instagram what kind of sin is this in authentic behavior let's hear from zox people they use similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing we ban this kind of behavior because we want people to be able to trust the connections they make on facebook. the issue of trusting what pops out at you from the internet it's almost as old as i am asking where we should meet. it seems like you're chatting with somebody just like yourself not only even if they show a picture of themselves it may not really be who they say they are it could be somebody

dangerous i'm not trying to say criminals who take advantage of online platforms shouldn't be banned or prosecuted but dear facebook the way the internet and social networks have worked for years is that users can be who they want to be online who said they must stick to what someone thinks is authentic behavior what if i want to be an elf or santa or a real news hound and i'm now going to be blamed for an authentic behavior and get a red card sooner or later i. universe. will come to the us as 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 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 of 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 that the public's losing trust with the news media and says well he's got a big plan to revamp the b.b.c. jeremy corben out of the broadcaster should be freed of government control and the lambasted other media bosses for skewing the news agenda. almost 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 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 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 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. 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 jeremy 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 highs of 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 and really hiving the

b.b.c. or from any direct government dependents. to come stay with us. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each day. eighty five percent of global will you long for the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one does not show

you can afford to miss the one and only. a unemployment rate is down the labor participation rate is high so this goes against all the doom mongers before the election to trump ben and of course nobody in mainstream media want to focus on this because it belies there is beers to hear . about this is an international now as donald trump's presidency perhaps is most precarious period yet he has had back at those calling for his impeachment over his implication may hush money scheme in an interview with fox news.