so it's seemed wrong but old rules just don't hold. any old belief yet to shape out these days comes to educate and in the game trade equals betrayal . when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the. a flood. an independent test of the site's new tool to curb misinformation discovers it's far from. heaven the program this hour a seaside village ends up front and center in the u.s.

midterm election campaign after mistakenly being used to illustrate a disk will be in the future in the states r t. in america. and when it comes out he would say become as the people's faces just you know. career order to pay significant damages to steelworkers who were coerced into forced labor during the second world war we look at what's reigniting the country's. former inmates a u.s. juvenile detention center when a payout after stuff forced them to take part in the fight night for their entertainment. would be laughing and keeping watch. for entertainment of the guards.

live from our international news center in moscow this is r.t. good to have your company i mean and o'neill our top story people posing as political candidates rushing trolls and even i saw facebook struggling to live up to its transparency pledge by continuing to approve fake. 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 to protect you. news feed from fakes all you believe 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 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 facebook and claim they were paid for by major political figures in just about an hour they

passed facebook's group a process that's a little awkward while a few posts slipping through the net could be understandable some of the ads were just obvious to journalists took means allegedly shared by russian trolls back in twenty six theme like this one jesus arm wrestling satan published 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 forstmann to isn't perfect and we weren't so poor 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 never 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 is in free 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 staged a women's walkout on wednesday in protest over the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims anger reached fever pitch after revelations that a high profile executive allegedly being paid a golden handshake of nearly ninety million dollars despite allegations of sexual misconduct against them but for many google stuff taking part in the industrial action it's not an isolated case they're demanding changes to the tech behemoths work culture including greater transparency when settling hard cases when a company is vowing to address the issue. an english seaside village has fallen into itself getting some on wanted attention in the u.s.

mid-term election campaign j wake sounds is known locally as one of the u.k.'s most deprived areas but images of its the lapa dated streets appeared on a republican party poster. why. what links this essex seaside town to the upcoming u.s. midterm elections an insensitive political one hundred that's what miracles here and j. rick sands 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 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 j. 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 walking and you see the different plane. when it is in america we don't leave room or for the right now again i was iraq and everything america are we here is just what sorry we couldn't refuse it winds come in use an old fire of africa somewhere and say look your town's 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 not only when it comes out he would say the commerce that's 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 call for an apology our intent was never to smear to town and to photo not unknown 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 could 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.

let's need to move across the atlantic because for teenagers who are inmates of a u.s. juvenile detention center have one near one hundred eighty thousand dollars settlement after it was revealed guards forced them to take part in so-called five nights the lawsuits two guards lead youngsters are to their cells and into a larger room to fight each other for entertainment boys who didn't want to do battle were forced into bites with tougher inmates while the guards watched its claim big clashes took place weekly during a three month period in twenty sixteen or two you heard more from the boys attorney . 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. let's turn our attention to asia where on easier relations between sides korea and japan have suffered another blow tokyo as i raged at a quarter ruling about awarding side korean steel workers over eighty eight thousand dollars compensation for forced labor during the second world war only one

of the men is still alive. i'm very sad and i'm crying a lot because i'm the only one left it could be pennies for a big company or a whole country's budget but see tokyo is really going to happen 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 and i wish the verdict had come early if it had my husband would have seen that it wasn't. lifelong burden of his and it's really sad thanks to you this way. but the nine hundred 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 seoul 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 she's 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 of 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. on m t conscription protests turned violent in a city near tel aviv on thursday thirteen ultra-orthodox jews were arrested during the demonstration i members of the religious

group blocked traffic while police trying to disperse the crowd military service in israeli's compulsory for both men and women but the ultra orthodox community had been allowed to avoid it in order to study that you actually broke the torah however last year israel supreme court ruled that the exemption was constitutional . on the way the u.s. directs its sanctions firepower and a lot in america calling some countries a sordid create all of communism and we check which way the wind's blowing for the next election. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

the talk of impending war around the world is on the increase the great power 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. given the way which to terrorists attacks with programs structured using european logistics these as you say there's a certain desire to change the way of life change to society even from this.

hello again with just months to go before the european union's parliamentary elections polls aren't making easy reading for the blocs ruling party's voter preference seems to be veering towards more radical quarters in what could lead to an unprecedented shake up in european politics europe's political establishment is set up for a beating in may during the e.u. parliamentary elections and with support to win dealing 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. extortion among voters because they feel that the traditional grantees have nothing new to say they feel contempt from those voters that it's not exactly always making them vote for populist but 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 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 voters voted for emmanuel mccoll he did come from those filters but he had created his own 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 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 against those sponsors 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 a long. time i threw another story we're closely keeping an eye on today the u.s. national security adviser has announced a new wave of sanctions against three latin american countries john bolton described the left wing governments in cuba nicaragua unfitness with. 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 they 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 nations of violating human rights the scribing the months a cradle of communism sanctions have become a key foreign policy tool 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. to 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 gary moore who is a disgrace former u.s. diplomat jim jock triss believes the sanctions policy code box fire on the trump administration. 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 there are a hostile actions the damage in other 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 in the trying to use movement as a way winds of 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. to a developing story now

a ukrainian courthouse prolong the detention of a russian journalist until just before the new year krill efficiency who has jewel russian ukrainian nationality was arrested in kiev in may on charges of treason let's go live now to our tease me being the question of the who is keeping across the story hi medina talk us through the latest. well you know. you were very writes indeed the queen in court has expanded the arrest of now this news agency the green and bureau had visions can till december the twenty eighth and now the journalist was detained to buy a ukrainian security service ellen made the fifteen's and remains in jail since that is who i am now he was when he was arrested he was first. once for each of the city of a hit song where he was taken into custody and by court order and was accused off

of treason now he's detention has been extended its has been extended and that happened even despite the news and reports of his deteriorating health now the whole case has drawn criticism from numerous a international humanitarian law as well as a journalist organizations now here in moscow are we are gathered and front of the ukrainian ample see which is located right and the city center and today mainly have come here in support of the journalist and clued in artie's editor in chief she's also here am on numerous others high profile journalists and everyone has come here demanding the immediate release of the russian journalist ok thanks for talking us through the latest there from downtown moscow medina caution of.

all right now time for a snapshot of history 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. to nazi troops could approach you strange they killed here with the ground covered . with good luck even this is a good camera and expensive film also of a fighter covered camera with something was a good note. it

really is a snapshot of a time in the past isn't that ok that's our stories for a novel lot still ahead this hour the former head of french intelligence is in fact the guest on today's edition of sophie and co some tough in a wide ranging interview i saw some of it earlier i'm going to sit and watch it now i hope you do as well it's next. oh look beautiful that little girl.

because there's survival look stacey just like all the starts simply putting all the surface. there are you going to get back. to. good repatriations to look at the rest of seventy years. philippa separate the treasure report. 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 ultra rich eight point

six percent market saw a thirty percent rise 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 a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only. i am not a terrorist i am not at that as i am not. but. these days no matter where you are in the world the chances are you're being watched jones resulted in the deaths of them in the sun to keep just like any anywhere flying it's over ten thousand meets him yet you probably won't have the slightest idea of your being in the last and if you won't see it coming. what

i think. what we have seen in post nine eleven scenario that in case of pakistan cia had been given a license to kill the a bombing villages their villages their houses the mud houses the bombing them sometimes they claim that they have killed a terrorist and then you see he is alive so who have to kill. children for a country for profit. how can you smile. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution in haiti including the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent

revolution is always spontaneous or is it just no lawyer here i mean put me in the neighborly is that i'm the schooling you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in this today over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other calls that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. you know world a big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now.