it's. truly. crimea in mourning the first funeral and are being held for some of the twenty killed in these college massacre survivors recall the tragic day. like the separation still to close. the loop on the sit down one. of the bones of the chain to give a shit yeah for us the folly. of coming up on the program us face on twitter and take different approaches over on alleged anti semitic video we look at how politics i defect whether you're content blocked.

a poll shows a nine folding increase in the number of u.s. military personnel who think will soon be dragged into a global conflict with russia and china among the top grades. just go on for a year and have a four pm in singapore on ten in the morning here in moscow this friday oct nineteenth a warm welcome to r.t. international. three days of mourning is underway in crimea for the victims of whedon's things college massacre which left twenty people dead mostly teenagers the killer then fatally shot himself in the first funerals are being held right now in the city of courage our senior correspondent is there murat cows the of herat

clearly a very emotional time and understandably a great deal of grief talk us through today's memorial. of thousands and thousands of locals of turned up for this ceremony a final chance to say goodbye farewell to all those whose lives were cut short in this horrific massacre and just the stress most of the victims were teenagers aged sixteen to nineteen making their loss so much more cute so much more painful as a lot of grief here people as well as top officials the governor senior officials have turned up to offer words of support to the families understand one relative felt so aggrieved so poorly that she needed medical attention a little earlier but the governor and others wish them strength to deal with this

tragic loss nevertheless hoops and prayers here with those still in hospitals many people fighting for their lives in critical condition on life support battling severe injuries as i mentioned earlier move them barely older than children teenagers so we obviously wish them the best wish them to recover from their injuries and we hope that the death toll doesn't rise any further twenty one killed including including the shooter himself but as i reported earlier there was nothing spontaneous about this massacre. it was cold and calculated and pre-planned . because. it was here on the thirteenth of october that vladislav surkov the suspected shooter

began to turn his plan for mass murder into reality she did which of the reason for this is the look at me and damien probably by my choice. but i hope a new bullet to put on couldn't be on the beach with a one hundred and fifty shotgun shells were only for the second part of his atrocity. four days later he waited until his mother left this house dressed in black and carrying a bag of ammo left for college on the other side of town. first he detonated an improvised explosive device. to put up with second on us i'm still flipping through the bomb field as it was with lethal shrapnel was set and treated in the cafeteria on the full us through exactly at lunchtime when it

would be packed with faculty and students. these was no crime of passion these was planned with cold calculation given the efforts needed to learn how to and to actually build a bomb with a time a detonator the aim was clear to kill and maim as many as possible as quickly as possible in the ensuing chaos. as panic and confusion took hold the gunman began his killing spree he started on the second flu . making his way downstairs to the devastated cafeteria killing anyone he met stuff will students. bring you. more shots more victims. critique you.

will do. but most of them teenagers they tried to run to hide they did desperate things. the mushy i didn't know you. and i get his rampage last the just fifteen minutes before he killed himself in the library on the second floor fifteen minutes but his victims are in the hundreds every child left dead a family was torn apart the everything killed generations of graduates next start their friends that teaches neighbors and countryman all shocked and. since the early hours of the morning they've come here bringing more and more and more flowers candles toys and t.

is mourning a loss of tragedy that they can scarce comprehend what's worse the tragedy apparently without cause or reason right guess they have while with the funerals on the way as we've been seeing the pain of what happened is still wrong for the witnesses and the survivors. well that in that will make you more. of a struggle to be a look are you willing to take on the puts you right now on a mission to be like the officials you find the book on leashes you decide to help them figure to fiddle with those.

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home secretary has launched the review into hate crime legislation he wants to expand the law to protect more vulnerable sections of society but as polly boyko reports and although everyone is happy with the idea. at the moment police in england wales and northern ireland annually mourners have five main strands of hate crime that aggression towards someone on the basis of either their disability their sexual orientation the gender identity their race or their religion but the u.k. foreign secretary sajid javid gets his way then that definition of what constitutes a hate crime will be rewarded to include things like ages him and miss origin e the problem is that talk of expanding a law isn't particularly popular with those that will have to enforce the potential new laws the police u.k. forces a struggling to maintain an effective service battling steep budget cuts and an

unprecedented wave of violent crime that's the reason the government's law review has prompted criticism from one high profile police officer who's standing up to the idea saying that though it's noble it's not needed and it'll make it even harder to police what he calls genuine crime the first priority of any government is the protection of the people let us focus urgently on genuine crime supported by basic evidence let's not encourage people to think we can solve deep social problems or give employment people manners so should the police be dealing with things like wolf whistling and ages them we want to see what london this thing i think you'd rather than focus on burglaries on facebook i say focus on the area should try and cut down the crime it's obviously the police to decide how they spend their resources i mean i would like to see more police on the beat on the street but that doesn't seem to be very hard for arsenal in my day through being

pulled away from what i think most people would call this bread and butter issues of policing going after criminals mode and towards large growth to go after. so-called cross which might be pleasantly into vigils before which is already an existing. legal remedy under the criminal law i've been called a coconut and worse so i know how important it is to stamp out hate crime the government says it's determined to tackle hate crime because it directly challenges british values but convincing already struggling frontline offices to expand what they have to police is going to be tough. for former metropolitan police solve a certain roger grey thinks there are more pressing problems the u.k. authorities should be talking instead this is not really helping the situation in the country when we've got

a knife crime is increasing by ten percent along with other violent crimes this is where our resources should go and stop dealing with peripheral peripheral and politically correct questions and dealing with the the basics of what makes us site in our towns or their homes we shouldn't have a situation where we are encouraging a culture of allegation you must build our police officer to exercise the law that's what he's there for he is no to the greater extent a social worker he sees political correctness again going too far. to a story that is generating a lot of interest this week what is class those hate speech for one social network appears to be the norm for another facebook has removed a controversial video of a preacher who compares jews to termites as it violates their rules but twitter refused to do likewise saying the video is in line with its policies many mccutchen

of a failed state or into the story. working out what twitter things as a ride so wrong is no easy task take that controversial american preacher a lawyer can he wrote of this i'm not an anti semite an anti termite he wasn't clear enough he even added a video you know what to do. and do semi stop through. termite and not murdered you. because you're so stupid and snotty the first time his fat his feed with such comments but there is no policy violation for twitter which says a crackdown on dehumanizing language has not yet come into effect the company has been quick to pounce on others though reported the doing average thing it can to

stop the popular new mean showing liberals as an p.c.'s all that gaming term refer still non playable characters as and background characters preprogrammed to with a limited reactions. but. there's no need to get far. they're represented by a grey faced generic character with a bland expression the character is meant to represent people who do not think for themselves on a bill of having in the internal monologue very many similarities to the terms basic and know me you can see why the and to liberal brigade a loves them. the truth drugs.

twitter is how as not so can slap ing bans ole over the place hand. them the scope of the banning as unclear but such is the means popularity twitter as struggling to keep up. with her grew up always with its definition of hate speech it seems that it's also a feeling to keep on another notorious together here's jack greenberg. remember those big bad russian trolls you've heard about for what feels like years now who are alleged to have up and that the us presidential election the so-called troll factory a secretive technology firm that created and distributed both fake news and divisive

stories and pose these were accounts that really looked like american citizens well in a bid for transparency twitter has published some nine million tweets from thousands of accounts they believe were run by stud trolls and if you like us find the data more than a bit difficult to interpret we're not conclusions have already been drawn by the digital forensic research lab twitter gave the group early access to the database and they put out a four part report where they outlined the major takeaways and some may surprise you for example the russian internet research agency the main target was apparently in fact russian speakers a chart breaking down what language tweets were written and shows that for years those in russian vastly outweighed those an english rather interesting given how influential the fake accounts activity was meant to be among american voters there is no doubt the russians are trying to influence the presidential election russia's blatant interference in the united states twenty sixteen presidential elections the

fact is russia meddled in our twenty sixteen elections right speaking of influence the positive conclusion of this is that the trolls were less effective than may have been feared many achieve little or no impact and their operations will be washed away in the final hours of twitter according to the group's analysis the apparently ineffective russian operation had multiple goals including to prevent hillary clinton from winning the election that's something we've heard time and again and it's true that a good number of the tweets are anti hillary but those post didn't gain much traction whereas trump accounts such as these did the plus side to trump becoming more on the hinge but the people are finally realizing. maybe having a treasonous madman secure predator white supremacist in the white house maybe isn't such a good thing if you think that drill donald trump is the worst president america ever had he's not worthy to be called a human being according to the report such

a liberal accounts engage other users and much higher numbers meaning the trolls were much more successful at getting people to bash trump the man they were meant to be getting to the white house and the trolls were also found to have push anti russian dances they spread some content that was notably anti russian which highlights a key assessment of dissin from asian if successful in driving a country further apart rather than closer together internally that country would be less able to enact anti russian policy those gift tweeting trolls are clearly so smart they even outsmarted themselves just a note on this the report warns that the alleged dissent from ation war will continue despite the platforms of best efforts professor of russian and european politics richard sipe believes they haven't just does not support twitter's claims of interference like so much of output of the internet research agency.

it had nothing to do with the election two thirds of them came out after the election some supporters some against him some for clinton though some against it and some of the russian language as well so it's a complete mixed bag and so you could say a lot of it is to do it with a quick update i mean it's not you know with twitter is different but basically like so many of these posts on social media it's all about advertising it's all about raising profile so it's in my view a lot of this is making a mountain out of a molehill and it's as you say these midterms. are yet to get another big test of. of the american system at the same time. once again you're creating this story of the into. variance in the election so it's a whole new way waves will face with many accusations and fear little substance obviously we're waiting for the report which will probably come out sometime early next year but the fact that he didn't come out before the midterms even if they had

some genuine conclusion genuine proof substance rather than these accusations then i would have suggested they would have come out before the midterms twenty minutes past eleven am here in moscow to join me again in ninety seconds time for more global news from r t h q. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answers.

question. seemed wrong but. just don't call. me. yet to shape out these things become educated and in the game equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello again nearly half of u.s. soldiers believe their country is likely to be drawn into a major conflict within the next year according to

a new poll and they're wasting no time in maintaining their combat readiness. yesso forty six percent of service personnel believe such a conflict is somewhat or very likely that's around nine times higher compared to the previous year i wonder if last year it was north korea that topped the chart in this particular poll this time around servicemen named cyber terrorism russia beijing is the greatest dangers facing the united states former pentagon official michael maloof told us key national threats are widely misunderstood we have a looming confrontation growing and so the troops may be right but i think it's

probably in the wrong area i don't think it's going to be either china or russia that they should be concerned about it should be about doing something against iran and i think this latest case with. cyber terrorism as such even against troops in the field is a very realistic concern especially when you consider the extent to which the u.s. military today relies on technology to look at the f. thirty five i mean if if an e.m.p. went off and and they were able to successfully to freeze all electronic components of that aircraft it would be useless and it's a ninety million dollar airplane per copy. remarks by the united states aren't going u.n. ambassador to a meeting of conservatives has been leaked nikki haley claims she was initially offered the post of secretary of state by president trump but turned it down as she

did not feel qualified. it seemed pretty much the same about her position at the u.n. . i thought the job should go to someone who didn't have the same then in kerry i don't draw honestly i don't even know what. nikki haley is juge to leave her rule is a united nations envoy in january an investigative journalist and much blumenthal wasn't the closed door meeting where he was speaking. she revealed that her learning curve was too steep to be secretary of state something we all knew because she had just been governor of south carolina before and had foreign policy experience limited to having lunch at the international house of pancakes maybe she was playing to the crowd but i think you know in a setting like that where she thinks that there is no media present doesn't know that there is a journalist there i think her comments should be taken very seriously and received

as her most canned some of her most candid remarks today. donald trump obviously was not basing his decision to ask nikki haley to be u.n. ambassador on her experience but more on her profile he wanted to diversify his cabinet have an up and coming female republican who was a minority she's of indian descent probably people within the pro israel lobby who are pushing trump's transition team to appoint her so that they could make sure that the u.s. would represent israel's interests at the u.n. and that's exactly what happened. nikki haley during the meeting with the council for national policy boasted of how tough the trumpet ministration was on russia boasted that the trumpet ministration had expelled over one hundred

diplomats that the trumpet ministration had imposed harsh sanctions that it wrecked russia's economy and she boasted of arms sales to the ukrainian military and she said the obama administration can't even hold a candle to us on russia and this earned her lots of applause. for i want to bring the latest from syria on the situation unfolding there our team has obtained video from a proposed demille it tries zone in a province in the country the last terrorist rebel stronghold in the nation the government an ally say defense lines remain intact and the implementation of the new zone is set to go ahead well we know the turkish forces are currently trying to push militants back is allied with a group called the national from for liberation whose fighters you can see in these latest pictures or video agency spoke to one of its commanders and nothing about some of it is the individual with regard to demilitarize in the buffer zone defense

lines remain intact no soldiers are in position but they have light weaponry on the front line backed up by heavy weapons in the rear so they're able to deter any attacks on the buses or an agreement is being maintained smoothly without complications as some background on this the agreement was reached by moscow and uncreate in mid september it establishes a fifteen to twenty kilometers zone in that agreement heavy weaponry have to be pulled out of the area russian turkish military is will patrol the territory love him or putin has commented on russia's operation in the country. to be used to. the goals that we heard the beginning of the operation in syria so many years before there will come. taking part in operations fighting against terrorism and won't was the result zero we liberated ninety five percent of the syrian republic ensuring sovereignty them so if you still haven't carried out the planned operation in their lives but i want to say thank you to our turkish partners we see that they

are working our debate show crosstalk hosted by peter lavelle is right ahead and then do join me after that for all the latest updates this friday morning from moscow. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all going to considered i'm peter lavelle the gruesome plot thickens there are reports the saudis now will admit he died in their custody after an interrogation that went wrong turkish media claim they have evidence of intentional murder nonetheless trump declares he's not going to walk away from saudi arabia will there ever be justice for jamal khashoggi.

cross talking saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest joe maccarone in washington he's a policy analyst at the arab center washington d.c. and in bluefield we cross to call in kabul he is a professor of political science at bluefield state college gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it joe let me go to you first in washington. the more name in this program search for justice i mean after everything is said and done do you think we'll ever really know what happened to jamal go ahead. i mean that typically we know too much than other you know a situation that happens in this part of the word i mean we already have a lot of leaking a lot of detailed information we're not sure how much all of them are accurate but there's one thing clear that he went into this consulate that he never came out so .