this migration crisis continues to cause a huge rift in europe and it looks like it's once again going to be one of the biggest platforms causing division in europe as we head to the elections just in eight months time the question is which saw it is going to weigh not. are we spoke to writer and political commentator john brink hmongs who feels anti immigrant sentiment is becoming more and more popular within the e.u. . we michael should be worried about it that's out of the news for a more popular in india and my colleagues in france and of course all banning hunger games even i mean old opposed to that in the elections are that well expect a large block of. the if we tease to get like did you see in france the high.

i mean the. republicans are already taking the opportunity of having a very in and a manhunt discourse which is between you can this because the family friends is not thinking that when you may fancy teddy with them but not fans and he's not he's a descendent of mike and that's a different question that he's in my guns are not that many to a few hundred years there but the right is going to jump on that and they expect them to make it and i didn't find any we did x. national front of me just now that i'm in the national guard doing something i don't personally among us and that and and then they will probably win against michael and the left is not going to win and that's what they expect. the last stronghold of rebel and a terror groups in syria the northern province of idlib is surrounded by government forces with in the final showdown approaching russia's foreign minister sergey

lavrov has warned of the us seems to prefer a regime change to ridding the area of terrorists. we have the impression that us threats against damascus aimed at preventing terrorist from being expelled that is not the first time the us no matter which administration has prioritised the task of changing dissidents regimes above the common goals of a red occasion terrorism and extremism we believe these egotistical unilateral political games are counterproductive we believe all the conflicts should be solved multilaterally with open contacts between countries including regional countries. as tensions mount in it leibovit russian center for syrian reconciliation says it has received intelligence on the delivery of toxic so. absences to the province it claims that the material has been brought in with the help of the white helmets rescue group for use in a false flag attack russia has previously warned militants are preparing to stage a chemical attack artie's but our guns do you have has more on the potential

escalation of the situation in italy. the stage is set for a final and it looks like a bloody battle the battle for adlib tens of thousands of islamists rebels from all over syria and the world against the syrian army and its allies no wonder then that the stakes here are like never before i q's ations provocation and chemical scandal it's not an even fight the syrian army is stronger which means jihad ists need all the help they can get from abroad.

following the alleged goot a chemical attack russia's warning that rebels will try to stage as similar incident in egypt to draw the u.s. france and britain in get them to hit as ad again russia says an incident is imminent especially after the u.s. and allies jointly stated that they would act if it looks like as had launched another chemical attack that's almost an invitation to do so says moscow it would suggest that now when the u.s. is steering the situation around we want to know how could damascus have chemical weapons if the u.s. france and great britain destroyed them last year you know what the u.s. answers we never said that france did the chemical weapons provocation which is being prepared is aimed at keeping al nasra they're counting on using it against the so-called regime as they call it it's do or dive for the g. hardest rebels nowhere left to run nothing left the new rules and this fall. says

the west the gulf which have pumped billions upon billions of dollars into a cause that's on its last legs damascus and moscow a trying to work out a deal to reduce perhaps avoid the bloodshed but the job for it syria russia adamant this swamp of terror and zealotry has no future at the. group this is the last place for the terrorists so from all points of view this abscess should be removed of course what everybody's fearful of is escalation given the us russian military buildup in the region everyone has a gun pointed at each other and given that this is it the final act of the syrian war the urge to shoot might just be overwhelming meanwhile

civilians are fleeing the italy by area through humanitarian corridors set up by the syrian government and russian. and i asked them then why did they get militants were holding and since hans to chance them it was cold in our counting minds their intensity of course and some of this humanitarian courage to is not something. that any i am from if the conditions were dire there the militants don't let anyone go we have scaped with just the clothes on our backs. and more news after a short break coming up on art international.

you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. 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. and trump you know it's all about detente and getting along with the greatest ally and friend russia there is no place to get to the kids and you know if you open it up there's other things in there so while we proceed here in the first half i'll

just see what. kind of. international donald trump has accused google of bias the us president claims only negative coverage about him is being promoted and is found to take action is also one that facebook and twitter are quote taking advantage of our people. google search results for trump news shows only the viewing reporting of fake news media in other words they have it rigged for me and others so that almost all stories and news is bad fake c.n.n. is prominent republican conservative and fair media shuts out illegal ninety six percent of results on trump used for national left wing media very dangerous google

and others is oppressing voices of conservatives and hiding information in news that is good they are controlling what we can on cannot see this is a very serious situation will be addressed we asked the white house for comment but they have yet to give us a response trump said tweets have still attracted plenty of attention though in the media it is not the first time the tech giants search has done has come under fire much research and studies have shown google can alter search results for its users more and more over google itself admits automatic algorithms can sometimes have issues sense of error created by inherently biased humans google has addressed trumps accusations claiming there is no political agenda to its search engine and its results are not biased towards any political ideology legal and media analyst lionel believes the most crucial part in this case is well the tech giants have to

answer in court. there's different ways it's interesting the methodology it deal ranking shelving eye shadow banding algorithm. if i have a library and i put your book and a part of the library that nobody ever knows about in the basement that nobody has access to but i say oh it's here in the library we have it nobody's ever seen it nobody has access to it you know we're getting into again a new world the law always lags behind technology nobody drafters of our constitution the bill of rights never imagined that we would have this but it was going to be interesting to see is how the courts deal with this and how the international community does this and or these organizations so great and so large and so rob the naggy and in their colossal size that that trade agreements or trade considerations can be implemented it's going to be fascinating to see.

the budget plans of a large u.s. government broadcasting agency have revealed washington wants to create fake cuban social media accounts to more effectively spread anti-government news these are the plans of the broadcasting board of governors which is an independent government agency has access to markets in one hundred countries and reaches at least two hundred twenty six million people worldwide or to kill a mop and looks closer at how the us is doing exactly what it accuses others of doing. imagine a government utilizing social media to sow discontent and on rast in another country the us media would be outraged they would never stand for it the russian government exploited social media platforms paid social media users are trolls russian backed operatives continue to infiltrate and manipulate social media to hijack the national conversation well according to the congressional budget request of the broadcasting board of governors

a us government communications outlet apparently the us federal government is doing just that they are setting up a facebook account purporting to be native cuban accounts they even openly admit that they're doing it in fiscal year twenty eighteen the u.s. office of cuba broadcasting is a stab wishing on oil and digital teams to create non-branded local facebook accounts to disseminate information native pages increase the chances of appearing on cuban facebook uses news feeds the same strategy will be replicated on other preferred social media networks so almost exactly what russia is being accused of doing is being openly done by the us government so where's the outrage if this is something that is unacceptable why is the u.s. government doing it openly without even much secrecy we can say that the u.s. has always had double standards it's in its foreign policy the u.s. has intervened in other people's elections can at least a hundred other countries a foreign power finances political groups in the united states that are going to

run in elections that is illegal in the united states if the united states does that in one hundred of the countries in the world facebook has recently been on a crusade to close down accounts that are deemed to be inauthentic hundreds of russian and iranian accounts have been shut down we've removed six hundred fifty two pages groups and accounts for coordinated you know authentic behavior that originated in iran and targeted people across multiple internet service in the middle east late in america. and the us we reached out to facebook to find out if they would apply the same treatment to networks owned by the b.b.c. she we will let you know if they give us a response the broadcasting board of governors twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two strategic plan continues them bushes road map to refine and expand the reach and impact of u.s. international media in support of american strategic interests so what exactly are these strategic interests well take a look at these latest headlines from t.v.

marti and outlet owned by the broadcasting board of governors. expert calls out failing or a galatians of the cuban private sector. for activist groups unite in miami to protest against the latin american dictatorships remember how russia is accused of selling discontent for american society by pushing controversial issues that's what the usa is doing to the small island the problem is very few cubans have regular access to the internet so now the state department is creating a task force for the purpose of expanding cubans access to information i.e. the information that washington wants cubans to hear but we want people to have broad access to information and cuba is no exception to that cuba has a low internet penetration rate is certainly not a secret while they have opened up a little bit not to the level that they should have it is preposterous to claim

that studying and issues such as internet access is an open and transparent manner the cuban government has called this to be a subversive act we disagree with that we think that that is ridiculous that there's a new level of u.s. intervention to try to try and undermine the cuban revolution and overthrow the cuban government and it's this social penetration and fake media social media and penetrating cuba's internet that's the same thing that the united states is doing all around the world in russia. in eastern europe and latin america africa the middle east. and asia the usa has been working to topple governments oppose detractors and support its allies for well over a century meddling is nothing new for washington d.c. they look mop and artsy new york we asked broadcasting board of governors for comments on their budget plans but separately the agency's representative described the project as stalled saying quote it's nothing nefarious. by the dozen for us

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greetings and salutation is this week on a late summer sunday in jacksonville florida described old twenty four year old opened fire on the local video game tournaments and shattered an after new movie on the competition the gunman david katz of baltimore maryland shot down two fellow gamers and wounded roughly ten others before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life. it wouldn't be it seems another weekend in the united states of america without more violence more crazed madman another round of ludicrous theorizing on just what to who is to blame for another terrible tragedy naturally the political left immediately point immediately pointed to the gun in the killer's hand as the ultimate culprit but it was the right the political right the conservatives that found a new enemy of the people to blame for all the violence in our society and they chose. that e.o.

games q fox news and retired political science professor carol swain who proclaimed on the martha maccallum show i think that playing those violent video games clearly influences behavior and we know that in the military they sometimes use video games to break down people's inhibitions and so there's no way our children are not being affected by violent video games and movies that they watch so what was this horribly violent vicious shoot 'em up game cats was playing the clearly rotted there is brain to the point of violent rampage. why madden n.f.l. nineteen an american football simulation video game wasn't call of duty wasn't doom wasn't even grand theft auto yes he was playing a video game simulation of the n.f.l. the same n.f.l. that is featured every sunday on fox t.v. i wonder why martha maccallum and our panel of guys didn't blame the violence of n.f.l. football as

a reason for the shooting. but one. video games have long been the perfect target of politicians religious leaders and others as the bane of morality for our children so today let's find out just why videogames have taken center stage in the blame game as we start watching this. story. real that is. the bottom. like you know i got. this. well that's what it was in the dark side i'm sorry robot and i'm taffeta while it's and i just want to save as that the video games that she's talking about that the

military is the most violent the ones that actually if you were going to say have any kind of connection that our first person shooters an entire category of video games by the way first person shooters the ones that they're talking about that the military use those are things like ghost recon call of duty black ops call of duty modern warfare ghost recon advanced war fighter. one thing about what these all things and that have in common for most of the game you play as a u.s. army soldier or a marine or a navy seal or a special forces assassin out to. take down somebody and so by and large the bulk of the most violent video games are our war games that recreate world war one world war two vietnam korea any of these like major moment push the military during bust through a complex lately where the flag let's be so proud. wow it's interesting you

know it's a it's all sort of the goods it's like people are quick to blame everything but the person who did it you know the leader of the quick to blame of it well it's got to be this it's got to be this because we always need a reason for violent acts which were just i mean and now it's video games and what's sad is that there's no evidence that supports that video games cause bad behavior in fact the u.s. secret service conducted a review in two thousand and four and did a bit of buying causes of schools. it down just twelve percent of studied attackers twelve percent by about a forty one expressed interest in violent video games more of them had copies of the enter book and their house than have video games in our school shooters so it's sort of like saying what if you buy the book what if you find a board game oh my gosh what if i and this i think it's interesting because there actually was a study by the southern economic journal that was talking about that it was published in february twenty sixth and that showed that actually video games can be

tied to a decrease in violence and that researchers found a reduction in crime rates in areas the weeks following major videogame really good ones and so i have played a video game that i don't commit crimes away when we go to brand new brand new mad brand new n.b.a. two k will play rebel rather than going out right on the streets i'm going to tell you folks for the folks at home i play a lot of video games and i've never wanted to actually go out and play a real dragon because that would be inappropriate i mean of one or two controllers in my time but i've broken up but most of the time but you know it's never people it's never like i've never you know raged outwardly at somebody next to me when you lose you lose this is a disturbed young man who doesn't know how there's a reason this bone he got you got beaten by an african-american and i that's. that's where i think that's wise i think though it lies on those who are much more concerned about what toxic young white men in

a really bad society that teaches them a lot about what's interesting too is the american psychological association and media psychology division actually advise the visuals of reporters to stop making the connection between video games and real life acts of violence they said quote journalists and policy makers do their constituencies a disservice in cases where they link acts of real world violence with the perpetrators exposure to violent video games or other violent media there's little scientific evidence to support the connection and it may distract this redressing those issues that we know contribute to real world violence which is usually poverty depression exasperate should you know of feeling that they cannot get ahead you know millions of birds racism brain different things it's not about it's not about the game about what you play. on november twelfth eighteen forty professor john anthony gardner davis was shot and killed by a student on the grounds of the university of virginia kind of the first school

shooting and since that nineteenth century a school shooting we've had many more but whether it's virginie attacked newtown or park when they all have one thing in common the data surrounding the events isn't telling the whole story and may even be making things worse the us department of education civil rights data collection division reported that from twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen there were two hundred forty schools in the u.s. that report or at least one school related shooting but a recent national public radio investigation revealed that of those two hundred thirty five schools the federal government reported school shootings in one hundred sixty one of those schools told n.p.r. that no school shootings had taken place thirty seven schools in cleveland alone told them that they intended to mark the previous data point not the one that was reported for incidence this is incidences were miscategorized with only a levin being confirmed the remaining fifty nine. could be proven or disproven by n.p.r. that means that only four organizations are collecting and compiling statistics on

school shootings and that they all rely on either self reporting by the school as media reports or incomplete law enforcement reporting and that inaccurate data is what the federal government uses to determine how much money should be spent on what programs and which one of the six states spending about nine hundred sixteen million dollars on school safety programs since the parkwood shooting in february of this year the very least we could do for the people actually lost in senseless school violence is to base those safety programs on correct information i could not agree with you more we absolutely should be using the correct information when we base any kind of legislation or make money going to societal decisions because we have told the data how can you make a note i can make any kind of good descent of the subject matter you know and also . it's hard for me hard for me to to want to put the safety of my children in the hands of butsy divorcing dr i should say that was tough for me that's not

a great ludo yeah it was tough especially when those two have bad information. and you can't blame whitebread see the boss was around the way that's just to be clear betsy to us and come up with a system she just choose keep doing what they've always been doing you're just not into any better but she is using this dated the plan for the federal government to pay to arm teachers with firearms in schools which i'm sort of maybe off topic but is the best if you arm a teacher at a school what happens if the teacher decides to go about one day and shoot up a school. we will get them a calming video game which is money because they always say like the violent video games make you violent then why don't we just have more calming video games that make you feel better about yourself and not hate your body or your gender or your skin color or your religion for good i mean this is a crazy idea and now here you have. we're because like i said there's only four organizations that we rely on for this information right now and it's much like

police shootings it's it's fairly disturbing the fact that you have the see your c.v. which is civil rights data collection part of the department of education you have every town for gun safety which is obviously an anti-gun organization and therefore as much restriction as they can get through. and so there's obviously an agenda you know not that i think they're being. i'm not saying that they're lying about the numbers to make their point but i'm saying that they're going to take the memories and trust to it to some extent you know they trust certain things that are going on there and the only other two are the f.b.i. and the washington post. the organizations those two how dare you. but one thing i found really strange is that when n.p.r. got in touch with them and said hey we found these mistakes the federal government so department of a division of the department of education the c.r.c. responded saying that they rely on schools to self report but doesn't check to see

if the information is acra for accurate before publishing and they also went on to say this year in d.c. accept correction requests for up to one year from the moment of the submission period opens for the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen collection the corrections period closed on june thirtieth twenty eighteen and for this reason your data correction request cannot be accepted however data no will be included on the data file to ensure users who are aware of the errors you're reporting now one of the ears that n.p.r. was trying to point out is that there was an incident say november twenty first twenty fifteen a it was a saturday and a student posted a picture of himself at home holding a gun and had post not in a manner just you know gun opposed to social media and that was listed as a school shooting and they will not correct it because while you're at it most of the day we have to correct her legs are just going to leave this data out here for david alliances versus the ol. it's just if you will are a data scientists are such that you don't use that. you know that every time and i

mean they they track every time a firearm discharges a live round inside or into a school building or on or on to a school campus or grounds as documented by the press you know it's look here's the thing it's like i think the problem that you have here is that most of us in watching news or reading information you think a school shooting you immediately think of which is going on and killing people by major school shooting not you know someone accidentally discharging a firearm in a pickup truck in a parking lot or something of that nature you know this is like you know like a year off friday and tomorrow scott think of all as runner up. sort of don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we cover the facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are to dot com coming up we delve into the allegations that a chinese company may have hacked all of the recordings e-mails well she was secretary of state and that artie's ashley banks reports on the rare guilty verdict of the texas police officer.