people. just twelve euros fifty a month. a flood fakes make it on to facebook as an independent test of the side. of misinformation discovers it's far from robust. also ahead on the program a. front and center in the u.s.

midterm election campaign after mistakenly being used to. a dystopian future in the states our reporter pays a visit. to pay significant steel workers who were coerced into forced labor during the second world war we look at what's reigniting the country's future. and former inmates some of us in juvenile detention center. after guards forced them to take part in five nights for their entertainment. the guards would be laughing and keeping watch so predominantly it was for entertainment of the guards. from moscow to the world this is our international welcome to the program.

people opposing political counterfeits russian trolls and even i sell facebook struggling to live up to its transparency pledge by continuing to approve fake out from fake sources the tech giant introduced a new tool to curb misinformation on its platform hawkins takes a closer look at how it's working so far. remember how the zucker vowed 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 it so 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 the judge 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 related 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 both books and claim they were paid for by major political figures in just about an hour they passed base because of a process that's a little awkward while the 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 disclosed 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 stop all 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 or the 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 in valid 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. another tech giant feeling the heat is google where stuff staged a women's walkouts on the web and stay in protest over the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims reached fever point after revelations that a high profile executive allegedly being paid a golden handshake of nearly nineteen million dollars the spying allegations of sexual misconduct against him but for many google stuff taking part in whedon's these industrial action it's not an isolated case they're demanding changes to the tech giants work culture including greater transparency when settling harassment cases the company is vowing to address the issue. by to another story which got her attention this week and seaside village had to

find itself getting some unwanted attention in the u.s. midterm election campaign j but sounds is known locally as one of the u.k.'s most deprived areas but images of its dated streets appeared on the republican party 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 locals here in jail exxon's in essex have been left fuming after a pro trump republican candidate for the senate for the state of illinois used a photograph of j. wick sands on his social media feed 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 park in america and then you come to a cover of a walking tour a week and you see the different plane. when it is in america we don't leave room or for a friend there right now again i was iraq and everything america are we here is just let's say we can referee it winds come in use an old fire of africa somewhere and say look you're town's going to look at this is that bad news sells good news it doesn't. match nobody should be used are going to put a good picture on it we got a bit of hostility with the camera down there is it kind of is it is do you guys feel a bit kind of burned by the negative press attention that you guys have had yes because of the t.v. show that happened way before yeah now when you want to come study would say become a sticks in people's faces yes just you know we would you know people don't like it they don't like it or the offending advice has now been removed and dr nextel

a spokesperson has issued an apology or cough an apology our intent was never to smear to town and to photo 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 bloss who shops that way 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. in the town isn't exactly a luxury seaside resort it is still a deprived area and even the 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 they're keen to turn 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 she said that dr nick stella should come over here and she could show him around the town and so he can see for himself all the improvements that have been made i get the sense that the locals here would have one or two things to say to

him. for teenagers who were inmates of the units juvenile detention center of woman near one hundred eighty thousand dollars settlement offer it was revealed guards force them to take part in so-called five nights. the lawsuits to guard so that youngsters always of their cells on into a larger room to fight each other for entertainment boys who didn't want to bottle were forced into bites with tougher inmates while the guards watched explain the clashes took place weekly during a three month period and twenty sixteen 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 in 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. 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. to another headline stories this hour on easy relations between science korea and japan have suffered another blow a court in seoul has ruled that a japanese steel corporation should pay around eighty eight thousand dollars to

cite korean steel workers compensation for their forced labor during the second world war tokyo is our trade by the ruling claiming the issue was settled decades ago when diplomatic relations between the states were established. if one can. regarding the recent court verdict i would like to remind you of the one nine hundred sixty five treaty between japan and south korea 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 at 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 he should had my husband would have seen that 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's no way japanese ships would fly this flag associated with japan's military past so the savvy rise 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 and south for the years the brutal

occupation by israel with 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. conscription protests turned violent in a city near tel aviv in israel on thursday thirteen ultra-orthodox jews were arrested during the demonstration i am members of the religious group block traffic while police trying to disperse the crowds the military service in israel is come post story for both men and women but the ultra orthodox community had been allowed to avoid it in order to study the jewish holy book the torah however last year israel supreme court ruled the exemption was on the constitution ah right and more coming this friday morning here in our to

international in one thousand seconds time do stay with us if you can. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show ford to

miss the one and only. talk of impending war around the world is on the increase the great powers speak openly on the need to prepare for a conflict what does this tell us if anything it appears to be a sign the global order they came into being after the second world war and the cold war has come to an end what is replacing it. into the program welcome back with just months to go before the european union's parliamentary elections polls are not making easy reading for the blocs ruling party's voter preference seems to be varying towards more radical quarters and what could lead to an unprecedented shake up in european politics daniel quarter brings

us the story. europe's political establishment is set up for a meeting in may during the e.u. parliamentary elections and with support to wendling for both the center right and the center left the big winners euro skeptic an anti migrant parties the feeding is that there is a kind of the extols should among voters because they see. the traditional galaxies have nothing new to say they feel contempt from those voltages that it's not exactly always making them the populace that is 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 well 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 for a minute in the cold he did come from those filters but he had created his attitude and he was a change of face in the shape of generation but 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 policy is that everyone is as you age and they do not know how to express their discontent except have against those bosses again with mainstream parties and leaders who championed modern liberal values losing popularity we could have an electoral power vacuum but that won't stay empty for a long. thing in europe it's been revealed the german government

spent millions of the bureau to help various opposition groups in syria said live 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 a further ten from the foreign ministry in roughly the same amount again from privates. sources the e.u. chipped in as well bringing the total to almost seventy million euro the funding was said to be for helping groups that opposed terrorists in the area. well the disclosure of the funding could cast a shadow one talks just held on the syrian conflict between russia france turkey and germany they agreed that agendas aimed at on demining syrian sovereignty must be condemned we discussed the issue with a member of the left party in germany. 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 guns with clients with the government they have terrorist groups and the only thing the government has not sat is that those groups are terrorist groups if it comes out that this has been going on for longer than we think then that will add that actually the damage that america has already suffered and i'm not sure that our government can sustain any more damaging facts because they are already at breaking point. breaking point. five senior members of the afghan taliban who were once held at the guantanamo bay detention center are now set to represent the group of upcoming talks with the u.s. they were exchange for u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl the taliban prisoner in twenty fourteen they have been

posted to the taliban's office in qatar to negotiate an end to the conflict with the u.s. in afghanistan we asked their spokesperson about the negotiations. negotiations are at a low level initial stage this is because the american side against. the other side will be only to 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. well the taliban is widely considered a terrorist movement but after seventeen years of u.s. involvement in afghanistan aimed at or rather caving the group there the militants are still going strong according to a recent study forty one percent of the country's population they've 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 how do you support him being there and being allowed into a ha and i think donald trump is very eager to figure out some way out of the on quagmire 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 in the war the fighting but at the same time with taliban has to do the same thing we saw in the first ever cease fire three day cease fire we saw that the tall one 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 of a long war could end in fifteen minutes if both sides agreed to it. a

moment caught in time a camera dating back to the second world war has been recovered from a trench in southern russia and against all odds one frame from the roll of film survived. that's its roots couldn't approach the strange they killed him with the ground covered him. we're lucky that this is a good camera and expensive film also the fighter covered camera with something like a notebook. yeah

i want to story updates on breaking developments remember can always be found on our twitter page and right after some more great programs on our to international i'm back right here with the latest. book given the way in which the last terrorist attacks were proclaimed structured using european logistics these as you can see there's a certain desire to change the way of life change to society and for us.

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 out on the lose business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer. question. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution of you tube clip of the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it still or here . put me in the neighborly is that i knew. the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in this state

over five billion dollars to assist in these and other. secure and prosperous and democratic. ball. needlepoint do it because it's. been one hundred seventeen the bolsheviks led by vladimir lenin seized power and set out to build the most equitable society on earth before long the other countries followed russia's example but so far the recipe for universal happiness remains of use if people are still searching to this day.

you could be. fair. a lot of were shown it by did got up when we were shown to treat. can we even remember the events of a century ago and if so why is that we went out in search of people who view russia's nine hundred seventeen revolution as a global event. festival we went to visit leftwing ideologist and famous french philosopher. maybe it's not a surprise you know that your books focused on the bust of teeth.

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