a russian woman is charged in the u.s. for allegedly trying to meddle in the upcoming midterm election via social media. funerals are held in crimea for some of the twenty people shall i send you to technical college survive this recall that tragic day. like the separation of the phone book will look to. the bones of the year which can. still only slow. the release of a hardline muslim cleric in the u.k. sparks outrage and three was jailed for supporting islamic state but so just of this sentence.

it's one o'clock and you're watching international live from moscow studio with me in india today a very warm welcome to the program the u.s. justice department has filed criminal charges against a russian national for allegedly trying to meddle in next month's midterm elections . has the details the us department of justice has indicted a woman who is forty four years old an accountant living in st petersburg now she is the first person to be indicted and it is alleged that she was meddling in the upcoming midterm congressional elections in the united states she's being charged by the u.s. department of justice with conspiracy to defraud the united states it's alleged that she had millions of dollars invested into social media activity that was intended to quote so. division and discord in the u.s.

political system in july we heard from christopher ray he's the director of the f.b.i. and he says that no evidence of such a plot by russia actually had been discovered so far we haven't yet seen an effort to target specific election infrastructure at this point it's not alleged that any voting machines were targeted it's not alleged any voter registration records or any election infrastructure was in any way targeted now this comes in the aftermath of twitter releasing a collection of tweets it says came from russian trolls and quite a large number of tweets and the report itself actually admits that these tweets their influence was rather negligible they really didn't have much of an impact on the u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen strangely enough you know these tweets are not only directed against hillary clinton but also directed against donald trump and in fact they were more effective when they were targeting trump so the allegation that there was some sort of russian conspiracy to get donald trump in the white house

doesn't exactly add up if that were the case why would these russian bots and trolls be working to hurt donald trump rather than help him and why would they be working for the benefit of hillary clinton the other point it's raised is it's alleged that these these tweets are associated with the internet research agency which is connected to a businessman who said to be connected to vladimir putin the russian president also alleged that this woman in question works with this businessman and he is connected with latimer putin it's quite a stretch it's not clearly established how the russian government is responsible for the activities of a private company the questions still remain they're alleging that she is friends with this man who owns the internet research agency and that he is friends with the russian president it's kind of a long chain of separation that they're making it's also important to note that we've heard donald trump speak up and says that the woman in question has absolutely nothing to do with his. campaign she has been named in previous

indictments from the u.s. department of justice in the bob muller investigation regarding the twenty sixteen election she was named however at this point we're now seeing her named and sharjah in connection to alleged meddling in the twenty eighteen elections which have not yet taken place which are coming up in november. we can now bring in daniel mcadams executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity thanks for coming into the program daniel now so to sum this up a russian accountant st petersburg is being accused of meddling in the u.s. election using social media accounts in your opinion does this case make any sense well it strikes me as a kind of a massive gaslighting operation against the american people because it's clearly it's that it's the deep state for lack of better term trying to keep the idea alive that the russians are somehow meddling in our lives and i think the timing is very important because if you remember back to the july indictment of the twelve

supposed russian intelligence agents for undermining and interfering in the elections that was three days before the putin trump's summit in helsinki this is the same situation because this is literally just days before john bolton is traveling to moscow to his mission is explicitly to help improve relations between the u.s. and russia and potentially to organize a trump putin two point zero summit so i think the timing is extraordinarily suspicious in the situation and i mean even if it is proven that this woman has been running a troll farm effectively is there any hard evidence to link that to the russian government. well there isn't there is certainly there hasn't been any presented in there certainly has been allegations that this is simply a quick bait farm and that's why the allegations even in the press release of the department justice itself talk about how they've they've they talk about hot button

issues the second amendment taking the knee in the n.f.l. the gay issues they all sorts of race relations and think these are people to get people excited and to click i think it's a really a reasonable explanation that is simply it could be a troll farm that may have been operated by businessmen perhaps making a bunch of money we certainly have been convinced otherwise even the justice department is not trying to convince us otherwise they've not said that they're actually meddling in the elections the only accusation is that they're trying to undermine our faith in democracy which is such an amorphous suggestion it absolutely makes no sense at all i mean you mentioned gay issues that being posed to them ties apparently relate to the issues including gun control gay rights and the charlottesville riots so what could be wrong with writing about those sorts of things and time and again how does that constitute meddling. well it's a little bit ironic because they know there was a letter sent to the state department from

a bunch of democratic congress persons this past week demanding that they reinstate the seven hundred thousand dollars that the state department was supposed to spend on interfering in hungary selection the coming up local election next year to pay for anti hunger in government stories in the media so it's a little bit ironic that we're talking about foreign meddling in our elections with no evidence whatsoever meanwhile congress is clamoring for the u.s. to continue meddling in other people's elections. the thing is daniel we've seen. a lot of allegations against russia since the twenty sixteen election i mean it was all it went on and on and on do you think the american public believe any of this now well i think it certainly has come to the point where people have lost whatever believe they have except for the most diehard dead end people but i think at this point it's less about russians i think it's about criminalizing dissent in america

because as you as your viewers know there was a massive purge of facebook and twitter websites this past week a very large chunk of them were very reputable alternative media sites that question the state and if you look at facebook statement about why they were banning them they said ok well these are american sites but they're exhibiting behavior reminiscent of the russian sites that we've banned so i think the russian bogeyman is out there to provide for the elimination of any political dissent where they're left right libertarian progressive in america that's the real target i am absolutely convinced ok danny i'm accountable is executive director of the ron paul institute of peace and prosperity always good to have you on the program thanks daniel. three days of mourning are being held in crimea for the victims of wednesday's college massacre a student killed twenty people before turning the gun on himself our senior correspondent mike castor is in the city of carriage where a public ceremony for the victims has been held. 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 last so much more cute so much more painful as a lot of grief here people as well as top officials the governor to offer words of support to the families understand one bullet it 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 reported earlier there was nothing spontaneous about this massacre it was cold calculated and preplanned. but. it was here on the thirteenth of october that vladislav surkov the suspected shooter begad to turn his plaid for mass murder into reality the wishes of. the community the community game you know you can actually. hear you but i hope a new political. couldn't be a navy ship with 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 rusnak of left for college on the other side of town.

first he detonated an improvised explosive device. to put up with a second on us i'm still flipping it 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 this 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 floor making his way downstairs to the devastated cafeteria killing anyone he met stuff with students. right few. more shots more victims she was usin it but if you. install tional symbol i mean you know but they don't do it until but there most of them teenagers they try to run to hide they did desperate things. as an eula. the mushy ideas now you. can argue his rampage last a just fifty minutes before he killed himself in the library on the second floor fifteen minutes but his victims are in the hundreds for every child left dead

a family was torn apart for every teacher killed generations of graduates left. their friends their teachers neighbors and countryman all shocked and hurt. since the early hours of the morning they've come here bringing more and more and more flowers candles toys in tears mourning a loss of tragedy that they can scarce comprehend what's worse a tragedy apparently without cause or reason. the gunman was an eighteen year old student at the college we spoke to his grandmother about his childhood. remembers not in. school who could use. to have to.

use. she no one. really percentage. of the minister who knew. this extremist cleric has been released early from prison in the u.k. that story and more coming up next. leg. lifts. join me every thursday on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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welcome back to the program there's outrage in the u.k. after a radical muslim cleric accused of inspiring terror attacks was let out of prison. anjem choudary was reportedly taken to this probation house in london the notorious radical preacher was released out of jail having served just how off of his five and a half year sentence following being sent to jail back in twenty sixteen for encouraging people to join isis now the british prime minister theresa may has said the authorities are well prepared for this development on the question of anjem choudary obviously an extremist feature he pledged his allegiance to die ash he was convicted of infighting support for them and. but if and when any terrorist offender is released well rehearsed plans are put in place to keep the public safe and the police they presume the probation service and other agencies have

a range of powers available to them the fifty one year old father of five who once led an extremist group that was bound under terrorist laws in the u.k. is going to be serving the rest of his time within the community on why since he's going to be monitored by the m i five the police as well as other agencies now he's not exactly free and is going to be staying at the probation house under several conditions those include not being able to preach or attend certain mosques he will only be able to communicate with people that authorities have allowed him to communicate with he will have one telephone his internet use will be supervised as well as his travels limited he will not be able to leave the u.k. now the place where he's reportedly now going to be staying is on the same street as the school and we've been gauging some opinions from locals about this here whether he says it the other end of the country i'd rather you didn't say this

about influence he's nasty he's evil he's negative he's maligned there's nothing nice to say. maybe if you go to a country where jihadism is more accepted but not here strong place for him if you can surgically that you still do in this country the reported cost of the security operation to have him be out of jail is said to be at a whopping two million pounds a year compared to the fifty thousand pounds a year it would have cost to keep him in jail reaction to this was also very swift to follow it's crazy to put the public in danger and spend two million pounds a year monitoring extremist anjem choudary we could be following australia's lead to keep him locked up the extensive list of constraints on un jim choudhry is welcome that said the fact that he's being released that's all and that's imposing these constraints will cost the taxpayer two million pounds per hour. it's a bore and those argument otherwise are almost as dangerous as here's the release of anjem choudary some of those citizens are foreigners in their own home is

a threat to our security is betraying all of us and we need to defend all communities in our nation we need a new treason act indeed this could be seen as a concerning development chattery did not himself organize any terrorist attacks nonetheless he is seen as one of the most dangerous radicalized in the u.k. reporting from london. for r.t. . we now have some breaking news has just come in the saudi prosecutor general has said a journalist who went missing two and a half weeks ago in turkey died in a fight inside the consulate is the first time the saudis have admitted that jamal shockey a saudi national and u.s. resident is dead earlier officials said he left the consulate alive turkey has accused a society hit squad of murdering jamal but riyadh has denied that the latest statement from the. an intelligence official was fired over the incident and eighteen a saudi nationals have been detained while we're going to discuss this situation

further with charles our political analyst and right charles welcome to the program i don't know if you heard the breaking news there. we should get your thoughts on this because you know they have denied denied denied. yeah i mean i think this is illustrating a very important point and that is that in recent years recent decades we've moved away from a situation where wars and skirmishes are carried out by soley by people in uniforms to a situation where we have these battles in these problems carried out by contractors of different stripes and as we know figuring out anything in the middle east is not a simple task so that it is taken so long to get this confession or this admission out of saudi arabia that i have not yet seen any evidence that maybe we won't see any evidence of what truly happened and given that the relationships are tortured

here that you know that turkey has various priorities that are different in saudi arabia isn't different the guitars are different in the u.s. and they're for the russia different than iran etc etc etc i back away from this and i said to myself who does this hurt the most and hurts m.b.'s the most the crown prince the current crown bents of saudi arabia who was on a course to radically transform the country and who had locked up a number of rivals and arranged for large sums of money to be taken against those rivals so i think we need to you really do this deliberately we can't rush to conclusions. saudi arabia and turkey over the world an explanation of what truly happened we also need to do some homework on this this person who was murdered originally he was characterized or i may have been murdered as a purely a journalist and when you look more deeply into his history his family into the circumstances of his new relationship with the supposed fiance there's a lot of questions that have not yet been answered and i think we should all pause

take deep breaths and get answers to some tough questions credibly before we start making decisions like completely altering the long historical relationship between the united states of america and the saudi royal family or taking other steps that people are talking about taking so i think we should pause. take deep breaths and really get to the bottom of what happened i mean you're absolutely right charles often when we get breaking news people do start but we do have to analyze because what we've seen is those two and a half weeks of denial and and actually when you look at what the saudis are saying now one intelligence official fired an eighteen saudi nationals detained last quiet bold statement and quite severe action isn't it. it is i mean and we know just i mean the decision to go from king saul mom to wherever it is chosen next particularly if very young successor is appointed is

a decision that will have profound implications across not just the middle east but the entire world and you know m.b.'s began his role as the whitely successor and tell you guys in quite a few people perhaps you can attribute that to youth perhaps it was the correct thing to do but i mean the war in yemen is certainly not gone well. the decision to lock those people up and take their money that has probably had a negative ripple works so there are a lot of people who i think are unhappy with. that said you know what i read up on this is the person who has been found dead. back in his percy was not exactly a friend of the west but charles if we look if we look at what's on if we look at what's just happened what message is that giving to the world do you think you know the action is heavy what message is going out there now.

well i think the message is that saudi arabia is true for all long time troy tried to cling to the notion that successions are orderly and that the king is in control and there's no conflict and the fact as you say that one senior person was demoted or fired or whatever eighteen are detained says that the saudi government believes that you know this is a lot more so serious than perhaps they'd originally believe in the beginning and one would hate to think that there's some kind of internal civil war brewing as early arabia so i can understand why the government would tear things down i could understand why people in the west would demand as as i think we are in countries as diverse as russia and the united states saying you know this is not behave or you should gauge and in two thousand and eighteen we are owed an explanation so the arabia is an important nation and it's time for it to be a full partner in the civilized world so let's find out what truly happened maybe it's somebody who wanted to make m.b.'s look really bad who did this but charles

you say that the to the west has been demanding that actually our cars as our correspondent mentioned. washington post on a jeff bezos and many top e.u. officials have stayed silent on this case they haven't actually been demanding answers have they as they have done in the past and we only have to look at the novacek case stanley so there's been a completely different reaction that's super for us so what what why do you think that is that's a fair point with. well that's a fair point with one modification i believe that a number of republican senators lindsey graham included who is a certainly a conservative and was an opponent of initially donald trump but a conservative republican immediately demanded for tougher answers and immediately suggested that n.b.s. could no longer be in his mind a legitimate successor to the current king so you're right donald trump has been more cautious his administration has been more cautious cautious even republicans in congress are siding with some democrats in congress to call for more swifter

disposition of this case the clear and obvious answer is that there are deep business relationships between saudi arabia and prime multinational contractors not simply american ones but european was another one's your multi-year defense contracts multi-year energy contracts multi-year investment contracts that everybody wants to protect and then also the well known fact that saudi arabia and other gulf kingdom support non-governmental organizations with contributions then tend to employ academics and retired politicians and generals and stuff like that so there's a certain giles doesn't already hypocrisy to these chiles does it not raise hypocrisy that these double standards that we're seeing so clearly now because of deep economic relationships is that enough of an excuse not for this chaos in the street in the same way i'm giving. oh i'm not i am not a not disagreeing with you that it's hypocritical you know i believe it is

hypocritical but. absolutely i mean i think when a nation that aspires to be i believe saudi arabia is in the g twenty. nation that counts itself as the one of the top ten percent of all nations and is as big an economic important as it is it cannot be engaging in this type of behavior on foreign soil it's a rages ok political analyst and right to thank you so much for coming on to the program thank you. and that's all round up of the news for now please remember that you can check us out online not sauti dot com for all stories sean thomas will be here at the top of the hour with more headlines but first the international documentary called black lives.

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