oh look you know what i don't want. a flood of fakes to make face an independent test of the science new tool to curb misinformation and discovers it's far from robust. coming up on the program

this hour a run in your seaside village in front and center in the u.s. midterm election campaign after mistakingly being used to illustrate a dystopian future in the state's. south korea borders japan's apace significant damage is to steel workers who were coerced into forced labor during the second world war we look at what's not being the country's future. former inmates a u.s. juvenile detention center when up peyote after guards forced them to take part in fighting for their entertainment. cards would be laughing and keeping watch so predominantly it was for entertainment of the guards.

a.t.m. here in moscow this friday morning november the second you're with international welcome to the program top story people posing as political candidates russian trolls and even isel facebook struggling to live up to its transparency pledge by continuing to approve fake advertisements from fake sources the tech giant introduced a new tool to curb misinformation on its platform daniel hawkins takes a closer look at how it's working out so far remember how the valve to protect your news feed from fakes arguably the biggest problem of modern times we're going to take a number of measures from building in deploying new ai tools that take down fake news to growing our security team to more than twenty thousand people to making its that we verify every advertiser who's doing political an issue well the issues but again we can't prevent all governments from all interference but we can make it harder we can make it much harder and again based book is unveiling

a new so-called war room facebook has created what it's calling the war room where teams of patrolling for fake news misinformation and meddling to multiple scandals in a big brainstorm but also it was finally found now will no shady sponsor can post political ads without proper vetting verification the social media joy and even made this sleek video to make sure you appreciate their efforts there was never anything that delivered the same kind of visibility into who paid for paid political content on facebook until today ads really had to politics have information about who paid for them with crucial u.s. midterm elections just around the corner surely no one would be allowed to get the up behind the new controls except they did. big time facebook's not meeting that higher standard of transparency we received approval by political ads on facebook and claim they were paid for by major political figures in just about an hour they

passed facebook's approval process that's a little awkward while a few posts slipping through the net could be understandable some of the haves were just obvious to journalists took means allegedly shared by russian trolls back in twenty sixteen like this one jesus arm wrestling satan published it on a page called ratatouille for senate and disclose the funding as paid by islamic state you couldn't make it up this mean was published in mike pence his name the page ninja turtles p a c in fact the only time advertising was denied was when they posed this hillary clinton or mark zuckerberg himself when asked how this could have happened facebook said well it isn't perfect but we'll try harder in four students isn't perfect and we won't support people trying to game the system but we have made it much harder and we will continue to improve since then a near identical experiment took place with a similar result journalists managed to get approval for ads paid for by cambridge

analytic a notorious political consultancy banned from the site after dragging the company into a huge scandal earlier this year so there you have it two years of investigations congress hearings and political battles against all blind trolls and smart well funded adversities the result even more possibilities for ridiculous trolling what can't help but ask what is the problem with the state of american politics was that really in the dodgy ads this idea that it is now their responsibility and they're qualified to take on this responsibility to determine what is in isn't real news to determine what is in is invalid political information to determine what is in isn't for. speech that's just ridiculous i mean it's absolutely ridiculous to to assume that this company should be in charge of that this idea that facebook is going to tell us what our real political ads quote unquote and what aren't and what is real

news and what is in and what should be free speech and what shouldn't be giving them this overreaching censorship power is absolutely ridiculous. for another tech giant feeling the heat is google where stuff staged a women's walkout on wed and stay in protest over the company's thing of sexual misconduct claim it's reached after a revelations that a high profile executive allegedly being paid a golden one shape of nearly nine hundred million dollars despite allegations of sexual misconduct against her and but for many google staff taking part in whedon's this industrial action it's not an isolated case there to mom being changes to the tech giant's work culture including greater transparency when settling harassment cases the company is vowing to address the issue.

now an english seaside village has found itself giving some want to the attention in the u.s. midterm election campaign g what is known locally as one of the u.k.'s most deprived areas and images of its still updated streets appeared on the republican poster polly boyko explains why. what links this essex seaside town to the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections an insensitive political one hundred that's what miracles here and j. week sans in essex have been left fuming ofter a pro trump republican candidate for the senate for the state of illinois used a photograph of j. wick sands on his social media speed as an anti advertisement so the caption next to the photograph read only you can stop this from becoming a reality but the problem is the picture wasn't quite reality the image of jay wick

sounds that he used was taken several years ago and since then the local authorities have made quite a few improvements to the local area so the miracles they're all rather cross country to try to pocket america are and then you come to a cover of a walking joy and you see the different plane. when it is in america we don't leave room or for the right now i was iraq and everything america are we here is just not something we can refuse it winds come in use an old fire of africa somewhere and say look your town is going to look like this is the bad news. a match normally should be used or will use are going to put a good picture we've got a bit of hostility with the camera down there is it kind of is do you guys feel a bit kind of burned by the negative press attention that you guys have heard yes because of the t.v. show that happened way before yeah nobody want to come study with it so you become a speech in people's faces just you know. with you know people don't like it they

don't like it or the offending advice has now been removed and dr nick stella's spokesperson has issued an apology or cough an apology our intent was never to smear to town and to photo not known to us as jay wick sands in essex we never used a name for us it was an example of a town overburdened by poor governance which is exactly what we in our district are seeking to provide at every level back in two thousand and ten and two thousand and fifteen the government named the area as the most deprived in england in fact i was here to report on it at the time the time was thought up as a holiday resort for city dwellers back in the one nine hundred twenty s. these are all meant to be summer houses but because rents were so cheap people started living here all year round some parts of the town like tarmac roads street lighting or even pavements lost to shops that were here have been boarded up

unemployment is rife in the town in fact sixty two percent of the people that live head to pend on welfare payments. and the town isn't exactly a luxury seaside resort it is still a deprived area and even though local authorities have been keen to stress that they have invested in new roads and new drainage systems it could use more money there is some hesitation when you talk to the locals as well they don't want to talk to the cameras they've been burned before by. bad press and the. image of the town around some concede that they could definitely use more investment but it's not up to politicians in america to judge their hometown one interesting suggestion came from the director of a documentary about j. which he said that dr nick stella should come over here and she can show him around

the town and so he can see for himself will the improvements that have been made i get the sense that the locals would have one or two things to say to him. heading back stateside now where four teenagers who were inmates of a u.s. juvenile detention center have woman your one hundred eighty thousand dollars settlement offer it was revealed guards force them to take part in so-called fight nights the lawsuit ses two guards led youngsters of their cells and into a larger room to fight each other for entertainment boys who didn't want to do about them were forced into boats with tougher inmates while the guards watched its claim the fight nights took place weekly during a three month period in twenty sixteen but r.t. heard more from one of the victim's attorneys. there was a tradition that went back several years we were told and it was called fight night

and on friday nights in particular two guards would let various young men out of their cells and pit them against one another in a particular room and let them take their shirts off and box and one would emerge from the room victorious and one would not and then there were several rounds on any given friday night the videos that we saw would show the the guards would be laughing and keeping watch so predominantly it was for entertainment of the guards ages of our clients were approximately sixteen and seventeen they were in the county juvenile justice center for various crimes nothing to outrageous or horrific cuyahoga county authorities apologized via skype to each and every client except for one who didn't want to partake in this and we hope that there will be a policy change in this particular jail and hopefully jails across the united states. on the easy relations between side korea and japan have suffered another

blow a court in seoul ruled out a japanese steel corporation should pay around eighty eight thousand dollars to south korean steel workers compensation for their forced labor during the second world war tokyo is added to rage by the ruling claiming the issue was settled decades ago when diplomatic relations between the states were established. and regarding the recent court verdict i would like to remind you of the one nine hundred sixty five treaty between japan and south korea i should whereby the issue was completely and clearly settled the south korean court decision goes against international law as for the japanese government we will respond no doubt about that. it could be pennies for a big company or a whole country's budget but see tokyo is really going to happy that the trial went in favor of the only plane of who was still alive all the other south koreans

eligible for compensation for being pretty much sent as slaves to japan during world war two have passed away. i'm very sad and i'm crying a lot because i'm the only one left and i wish the verdict had come earlier like he should had my husband would have seen it was a lifelong burden of his and it's really sad things to this. but the knighting sixty five agreement on wartime claims between the two countries and did that meaning all disputes are in the past boom it took the storm fifty three years to break out with the precedent the anti japan sentiment in korea has been brewing for a while to juneau japan's even lost to communist china in a favor ability poll taken by south koreans last month tokyo was meant to take part in a naval event put on by so but the host said there was no way japanese ships would

fly this flag associated with japan's military past so the sabur eyes navy cut loose and pulled out ever heard of k. pop now that's the kind of territory where you don't really expect to run into that kind of conflict. well after one of these girls sang the japanese anthem in front of the japanese military koreans want to shut her down on t.v. there's even a petition for that on the president's website back to the nine hundred sixty five treaty ironically just three years ago the two countries leaders celebrated its fiftieth anniversary just so you know this woman then president. as the daughter of someone who signed the agreement is now in jail tides clearly changed. mistrust that exists between the countries and the still pain

that exists throughout korea both north. for the years the brutal occupation by japan which was from one thousand nine hundred forty five still linger and a there is not trust there is concern about a lot of past grievances and issues. it's being revealed not the german government spent millions of euro to help various opposition groups in syria's province it came to light in a freedom of information request by members of the left party twenty seven million euro came from the german economy ministry ten million from the foreign ministry and roughly the same amount from private sources the e.u. also chipped in bringing the total to almost seventy million euro note up funding was said to encourage groups that oppose terrorists in the area. well the

disclosure of the funding may cast a shadow on recent talks on the syrian conflict of included russia france turkey and germany they all agreed that agenda is aimed at undermining syrian sovereignty must be content we discuss that with a member of the german left party who condemns backing the rebels. german government has done some geopolitical calculations but what we know from history from very recent history is that those geo political calculations will backfire they believe that they can contain terrorism to that region but that's not true what government is obviously lying because there is no civilian groups there those groups that they have given money to are groups with big arms with tied with the government they are terrorist groups and the only thing the government has not sat is that those groups are terrorist groups. five senior members of the

afghan taliban who were once held up the guantanamo bay detention center are not going to represent the group at opp coming talks with the u.s. they were exchange for u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl a taliban prisoner in twenty fourteen they have now been posted to the taliban's office in qatar to negotiate an end to the conflict with the u.s. in afghanistan we are spokes person about the negotiations. negotiations are at a low level when issue stage this is because the americans are opposite side of fighting against if the other side will be honest in the negotiations and really change their strategy from fighting to negotiating then i'm sure we will reach a high level and there might be a good result. the taliban is widely considered a terrorist movement but after seventeen years of u.s. involvement in afghanistan to have rather kate the group there the militants are

still going strong according to a recent study forty one percent of the country's population live taliban rule afghan journalist ali latif believes that all sides have to make concessions the u.s. will you know they'll have to accept them because the truth is if you're talking about who has been negotiating you know all of these figures have been controversial figures they've had to have had u.s. support in being there and being allowed into ha and i think donald trump is very eager to figure out some way out of that have on so you know if they had any kind of a protest they would have expressed that by now as much as the talabani is could be correct in their statement in saying that if the u.s. wants to i want to get real about negotiations they have to end the war the fighting but at the same time the taliban has to do the same thing we saw in the first ever cease fire three day cease fire we saw that the taliban were able to lay

down their arms were able to come into the cities were embraced by the people and i remember after what happened a friend of mine who works in the office of the chief executive he said you know what this proves is that the afghan war could end in fifteen minutes if both sides agreed to it. with just months to go before the european union's parliamentary elections polls aren't making easy reading for the blocs ruling parties voter preference seems to be veering towards more radical quarters in what could lead to an unprecedented check up in european politics bringing us the story this hour double quarter. europe's political establishment is set up for a meeting in may during the e.u. parliamentary elections and with support to win doing for both the center right and the center left the big winners euro skeptic an anti migrant parties the feeding is that there's a kind of the extortion among voters because they feel that the traditional

galaxies have nothing new to say they feel contempt from those voltages that it's not exactly always making them the populist making making voters do to anybody who looks you french president emanuel macron took it upon himself to warn europe of a nationalistic menace comparing it to leprosy europe faces a risk that of being broken up by nationalist leprosy and of being pushed around by foreign powers and thereby losing its sovereignty but it seems like the french don't see eye to eye with micron right now a majority of people in france apparently would prefer an unelected technocratic government while over forty percent even say they would rather support and off for a tarion political power so this could be a wake up call for micron as his approval ratings hit record lows to move away from traditions and embrace public opinion so just a minute in the cold he did come from those bosses but he had created his attitude

and he was a change of face in the shape of generation. now that he's become president he's got a slightly different style but in terms of what policies as you think it sounds more and more like the policies that everyone is as you age and they do not know how to express their discontent except have by voting against those bonuses again with mainstream parties and leaders who champion modern liberal values losing popularity we could have an electoral power vacuum but that won't stay empty for long. the u.s. national security advisor has announced a new wave of sanctions against three latin american countries john bolton they scribed the left wing governments in cuba nicaragua and venezuela tyrannies. the troika of tyranny in this hemisphere cuba venezuela and nicaragua has finally met its match oppressive regimes and ideologies forces of oppression to

tallaght tarion ism and domination it worship a false we know their day of reckoning awaits a nicaraguan regime like venezuela and cuba will feel the full weight of america's robust sanctions regime we will no longer appease dictators and despots are sure. john bolton also went on to accuse the three countries of violating human rights scribing them as a cradle of communism sanctions have become a key foreign policy to all of the trumpet ministration with recent threats against several other world powers. run for many decades has been the world's central banker of international terrorism russia has been aggressive giant ah. good driving us to take you know money they're rebuilding themselves european union of course was set up to take advantage of the united states to attack our piggy bank great

and you know what we can't let that happen canada what they've done to our dairy farm workers is a disgrace a former u.s. diplomat believes the sanctions policy could backfire on washington. i think sometimes people in washington especially in congress think of sanctions as something we can do that short of an act of war and i favor the position of former congressman ron paul who believes that sanctions are an act of war and they're a hostile action the damage another country hurt their people sometimes result in the deaths of their people and it's morally legally politically wrong we're in the process of sanctioning almost everybody in the world that we don't like include the russians and the chinese and the venezuelans and the iranians and the syrians and so forth this is the way we deal with other countries and we're even threatening to sanction our own allies if they do business with russia for example cooperated with the building of nord stream too or if they buy energy from iran this is not

a way to increase americans america's standing in the world and i think it will come it will come back to bite us so i think this will end up burning a lot of bridges not only with countries that we have problems with but even with our closest friends. a snapshots of history a camera dating back to the second world war has been recovered from a trench in southern russian and against all odds one frame from the rule of the film survive take a look. that's the troops couldn't approach you strange they killed him with the ground covered.

but just lucky that this is a good camera and expensive film also the fighter covered camera with something like a notebook. they don't make them like that anymore well with just over a week to go on tell the other we're putting on trump meet once again for talks on worlds apart delves into what's done for this question of the summit and its neighbors.

given the way in which the last terrorist attacks were proclaimed structured using european with a just as you can see there's a certain desire to change the way of life change the society in for. twenty forty you know bloody revolution of you tube clip the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know here i mean you know i live with video and they believe that i'm you pulling me to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took. invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other could ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic.

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a tremendous place. for. hello and welcome to worlds apart relationship experts always recommend that trouble couples keep talking to one another in a way that's direct enough to expose mutual grievances but also a sense that if enough not to make things worse that seems like valid advise on the eve of the second meeting between obliging a push in and go but is that enough to pull the current relationship out of a tailspin while to discuss that i'm now joined by. director of the in situ at off

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