the new york times issues a lengthy special reports on rush's alleged interference in america's twenty sixteen presidential election the articles being slammed for poor ethics and journalistic standards. coming up on the program this hour a fall in germany say's authorities of the let him down carsten hempel salt for a fight with refugees which a court ruled was self-defense. here take

a look here this born my son has already been knocked out is that self-defense is that self-defense. the generation being born is the last to be free that's the grim prediction of wiki leaks editor julian assange. has obtained video he made just before his links to the world of work heard by the ecuadorian embassy in london. you're going to freak out a little bit because yes i'm bringing in. the most was a call about a result one. that seems absolutely clear and democracy. is really smart phone five can access microphones cameras on steel personal data is uncovered in countries around the world.

just go in one am interim to five pm and eight in the morning here in moscow this friday september twenty first welcome to our international our top story the new york times has published a colossal special report the scribing rushes alleged interference in the twenty sixteen us presidential election of the ten thousand words in the article the word alleged is used just twice with the story instead of partly portraying many unproven accusations as facts jacqueline delved into the report. a way to unravel the russia story so far the new york times special report into the saga looks impressive masses of subsections fancy photo shopping and multiple timelines and they all lead back to a kremlin conspiracy to get its man in the white house as mr trump emerged in

spring twenty sixteen as the improbable favorite for the republican nomination the russian operation accelerated on three fronts the hacking and leaking of democratic documents massive fraud on facebook and twitter and outreach to trump campaign associates its two thousand and sixteen and anonymous banners hung from a bridge are the suspected work of moscow the link russian bought sharing images online this was russia's way of bragging to the world but donald trump was their man but what seems strange here is that a sincere conclusion of the unraveling continues the line blurs between accusations and hard fact here we have the indictments of those quizzed in the moeller investigation that same den moscow march the fifteenth a veteran hacker named even your macaw of a russian military intelligence officer working for secret outfits called unit two six one six five began probing the computer network of the democratic national committee hitting nine states in three weeks and some of twenty fourteen and

a book of trover and alexandre crawl over was supposed to gather intelligence to help the mimic american some facebook and twitter the evidence is all their names dates and motives again all from indictments now i'm sure the new york times isn't willing to accept miller's word as gospel but things seem a little too dramatic perhaps even for president putin putin is angry the russian leader thought the united states and hillary clinton had sought to undermine his presidency and there are plenty more where that came from somehow i doubt the russian president handed over and i hate hillary diary to the new york times but the bombshell d.n.c. hack thanks again to those indictments allowed a special report to point. fingers today there is no doubt to hack the d.n.c. and the clinton campaign a detailed indictment of the twelve offices of russia's military intelligence agency felt in july that mr mullah documents the every move let's put aside the fact that the information exposed real issues in the democratic party not ones

dreamt up or spun by trolls something else worth noting but the report doesn't is only a company called crowd strike hired by the d.n.c. had access to their servers the f.b.i. and mueller at the mercy of their findings because those servers were wiped clean why good question this piece of the puzzle also adds another russian name to the saga of pete's an ally in name constantine records had begun promoting mr trump as a future presidents in twenty twelve and created a russian language website three years later to support his candidacy so man you've likely never heard of made a pro trump website years ago in russian and there is page after page of the stuff here's some of the quick highlights. putin may have won trump the election but who knows that meeting would trump jr in a russian law or was to get rid of anti russia's think sions but was that all trump is correct when he tweets in all caps that no collusion proof has been found but we

just wrote a whole article about it i think you get the picture and all fairness the new york times does have an argument as to why there is so little public information to back them up it's just not been made public mr mullen is prosecutors only rarely go public with the evidence they've been steadily gathering in secret interviews and closed door sessions of a grand jury as you build a picture in this russia riddle it seems unnamed sources have shaped it almost entirely so the take away from this two years ago donald trump won the us election and there are plenty of accusations that russia is responsible. well independent journalist and former correspondent for the wall street journal joe lauria sais the article fails to meet basic journalistic standards one of the nations of reporting journalism one o one is there are two sides to every story and an indictment or an accusation even from government is only that in an accusation and an indictment and it needs to be proven in a court of law and you always use the word alleged when discussing whatever the

government alleges that someone else has done that's proven in the court of law then it's a conviction but until that happens it is not fact it is not proven it is not the truth it is an allegation and that's all we've got from the miller indictments are allegations have to report the indictment obviously but that doesn't mean that it's true and yes that is what they've done their ethics here are abominable because they have taken and then up the only want c.n.n. they're all doing that they're taking this as fact when it's only an accusation i think they realize they're in trouble and their reputation is at stake so they have to stick to their stand not going to reverse themselves and begin to say well we really got some of this wrong that were destroyed their reputation their credibility in a journalist lives on the reputation of credibility of course the public suffers. to another for headline stories this hour in germany a father is appealing to authorities to relaunch the investigation into his son's death almost a year ago carsten hempel son mark is dying to after

a fight with four refugees it was later judged to have been self-defense on the part of the migrants but his father say security camera video shows a different scenario marcus seen here in block and his friend are shown with the group of migrants and april the minister of justice intervened on promised to transfer the case to another city where the migrants have since moved to sensually to take another look peter all over spoke to carsten and. carson hempel son marcus was killed last year here in britain bourke after an altercation with migrants when he spoken out about his grievances and demonstrations he found himself labelled a nazi. and we got them all as they came forward on stage i politely asked the audience to show

a little respect so i could tell the story of my son right in front of me there was a group of asylum seekers with a coordinator who was showing them how to hold posters up properly and what slogans to show imagine how i felt as a father when you see syrian asylum seekers who came from the same country as the person who killed my son and they called me a nazi it was insane they'll evolve government money that comes from my taxes every month to pay for people like that his son is also being painted as a white nationalist by some media outlets that's among youth in germany people are labelled left or right and this is the biggest mistake there is the overwhelming majority of people are centrist in their political ideals they're not members of any party all they want is their voice to be heard obviously it is their right to demonstrate peacefully on the street i criticize equally the people who do hitler sell it's follow. we have been making a number of appeals both to the british government through the ecuadorian

government and more broadly about his health situation he has been inside a building for the past six years without access to sunlight or out so outdoor area to exercise his health is deteriorating we're worried about permanent impact on his health as a result of the situation if he was in prison he would being required to have an hour outside every day that is a un standard he's not had that he's had a number of health conditions including a shoulder which isn't he's an incredible pain he needs an m.r.i. that is not the sort of thing that you can bring to into the embassy has been appealed by doctors to the british medical association appealing to them to allow him the health care that he needs and the british government continues to say he will not get that kind of medical treatment he must come out of the embassy and in order to get that medical treatment he must give up the right to asylum that he's been granted by the ecuadorian government. he has spent more than six years. under some forms of restriction on his liberty as

a result of that investigation that has now been dropped he has already spent far more time in prison and he would ever have been required to for having. entered the embassy conditions we say he has served time and he has he had a reasonable excuse and that this is this is a minor offense the fact the real issue is and has always been the concern about u.s. extradition we are concerned about the prospect that he may well be sent to the u.s. and what treatment he would suffer once he's there we know that chelsea manning the alleged source of recruits material was subjected to inhuman degrading treatment according to the un special rapporteur and we're concerned that joint if he is sent to the united states will face a long and drawn out process and it will take many years before we are able to make the arguments that we know should and should win which is the constitutional argument that he has the right to the first amendment for his publishing activities no publisher should have to face this join us i just always said that he's happy to face british justice but not at the risk of facing american injustice we entirely

accept that he can and will face any process within the u.k. related to potential bio proceedings but he should be able to do that with the assurance that he will not be extradited to the united states to face prosecution for having exercise internationally protect the rights of free speech to publish material in the public interest. ok to another story we're closely following this hour is really smartphone spy work capable of seeing microphones cameras and other data has been trucked to as many as forty five countries breaking down the story for us not fall asleep or. i'm him had sylvia just north of the israeli city of tel aviv and this building is home to an israeli company called it is so crude which develops and sells one of the most invasive spy ways in the world the software is called pegasus and it doesn't matter whether you're an i.s.o. android person you'll phone could become a target a phone becomes a spy it campbell that michael text message is it anything else

on the phone or close to it are susceptible to monitor this is how pegasus works the target perceives a text message with a special nick one click on it and the spy ware is secretly downloaded to your smartphone from then on all your private data personal messages pos words just about everything is being sent back to the operator so who are the targets according to any so group its software is designed to track criminals are products of say the lives of thousands of people prevented suicide terror attacks help convict drug lords facilitated complex crime investigations and return kidnapped children to their parents but internet research has from citizen lab embarked on the hunt for pegasus and according to them it does not serve only a good cause instead it may be breaching innocent people's privacy and some

countries laws against cross border have because citizen lab tracked them away in as many as forty five countries among them six states with a history of abusing spyware to target civilian society. citizen lab says at least ten pegasus operators are involved in cross border surveillance israel's friend an ally the united states they say is no exception

this despite the fact that the firm says its software was not designed to work in the u.s. we have a den of fide several possible pegasus customers not linked to the united states but with infections in the us it is possible that several countries may be actively violating united states' law by penetrating devices located within the u.s. and if so group is a pretty secretive firm you'll hardly find any ads for its products according to the new york times who obtained papers from people who had dealings with the group its proposal says you can remotely and covertly collect information about your targets relationships location phone calls plans and activities whenever and wherever they are as we can see the last part doesn't appear to be quite true and the risk is a little scary we approached the company for comment and are still waiting for a c.r.t. pitsea well a security expert we spoke to say's it's no surprise that governments misuse

software for snooping. if you're telling him tool to government i think it should be annoyed. that they're using it really all constructive or even a little believe me go public many people have been using hacking tools for a very long time to do legal acts all over the world and why would it be different when using this particular software it's very difficult to control the spread of software it's not something that you could physically constrain through a country in mind that standing in government one to use software through to legal and illegal act in their own country in another country will always be able to do that no matter what other countries think about it. the ukrainian president is just superficial broadcaster the b.b.c. will bring up to date on that story in moments.

we want a strong european union based on strong member states and we want a europe which sticks to its christian heritage so number one we don't want europe to get rid of the christian heritage and we want the member states to stay as

member states we don't want you know give up our nationality we don't want to give up our culture or we don't blow you up or heritage and so on and so for. twenty one minutes into the program welcome back the president of ukraine is preparing to take on the b.b.c. petro poroshenko is suing britain's national broadcaster for libel over allegations he paid a hefty sum to meet donald trump in june last year here's daniel hawkins with more in the story getting that one on one meeting with the leader of the free world himself is a priority for many world leaders as it was for ukraine's president poroshenko last

summer russia and ukraine remain firmly in global headlines so get in that chats handshake and photo opportunity with trump early some say before vladimir putin was crucial. as new sanctions against russia were announced and the president spoke of how productive discussions had been some officials behind the scenes may have breathed a sigh of relief mission accomplished but reports emerged at the meeting that may have been arranged unconventionally according to the b.b.c. diplomatic routes would have given poroshenko little more than a photo opportunity so ukrainian officials opened a back channel through a chain of contacts including trump's lawyer michael cohen now facing numerous federal charges to secure that tete a tete and the latter would take a handsome cut for penciling a meeting into trump's story allegedly around four hundred thousand dollars now the

story citing top official sources in ukraine featured on the b.b.c. back in may this year but it seems the ukrainian president's office wasn't happy with the revelations the head of state's office is apparently suing the broadcast the for libel since low correction or apology was issued the allegation that the claimant was guilty of serious corruption is self evidently an extremely grave and serious one it has also caused him consider would distress an embarrassment since you have a geisha it strikes at the core of his personal dignity and integrity. understandably all parties involved have denied any such shady dealings ever took place the b.b.c. couldn't offer any more details on the allegations although the ukrainian side has confirmed the high court case whatever the outcome it's sure to add to a cocktail of intrigue gray areas and speculation already surrounding trump's first

in office. the u.s. secretary of state has lost its odd one of his predecessors mike pompei oh accuse john kerry of trying to undermine the trumpet ministration by meeting with officials that's after kerry admitted to meeting in the arabian foreign minister on at least three occasions since leaving office in twenty seventeen it's one thing to meet with your counterpart it's another thing to do what secretary kerry wendy sherman or this money's frankly the whole gang has done which is to actively seek to undermine what president trump is trying to achieve you have been telling the iranians to wait out the president trump and the administration and to wait until there's a democratic president in twenty twenty one is that accurate. i think everybody in the world is talking about waiting out. while in the tweet donald trump himself carries talks with iran were illegal and once again blasted the arena in government

hostile regime he claimed the meetings quote undercut great work to the detriment of the american people the president also asked whether john kerry was registered as a foreign agent for his actions. well as secretary of state from twenty thirteen to twenty seven thousand john kerry was closely involved in the negotiations on the twenty eight fifteen nuclear deal with iran but earlier this year donald trump quit that agreement sparking international condemnation. cover a offer s.l.p. a former advisor to iran's nuclear negotiating team told us that the speed between pompei or un kerry reflects a deep rift within the u.s. to stop a sprint. as well as mr kerry is concerned he has been a pause to a number of foreign policy positions are beside ministration therefore this issue

how the growing political division within the united states and the fact that the democrats feel an opportunity to undermine president trumps presidency and his prospects for a second term but attacking him on foreign policy issues including iran so i think that the iran issue is part of a broader circle foreign policy issues. with the company for. as we draw closer to the mid-term elections in november. the u.s. has impose sanctions on the chinese.