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two pm. day right here in moscow this friday november the second a warm welcome to our to international top story. people posing as political counterfeits russian trolls and even eyes old facebook struggling to live up to its transparency pledge by continuing to approve thick advertisements from fake sources the tech giant introduced a new tool you may remember last month to curb misinformation in the platform well daniel hawkins been taking a closer look at how that's working out so far remember how the valve to protect your 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 takedown fake news to growing our security team to more than twenty thousand people to making it

so 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 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 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 both books and claim they were paid for by major political figures in just about an hour they passed facebook's a 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 to 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 adverse stories 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 is in free speach. each 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 isn't and what should be free speech and what shouldn't be giving them this overreaching censorship power is absolutely ridiculous what the best of weeks for tech giants another feeling the heat is google where stuff staged a women's walkout on wednesday in protest over the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims or reached a fever pitch after revelations that a high profile executive have allegedly paid a lower than one of nearly nine million dollars this fight allegations of sexual misconduct against them but for many google stuff taking part in this week's industrial action it's not so nicely in case they are demanding changes to the tech

behemoths work culture including greater transparency when settling harassment cases the company is vowing to address the issue. try to another headline story this hour ignition seaside village has find itself getting some want to the tension in the u.s. midterm election campaign jay wick sounds is known locally as one of the u.k.'s most deprived areas but images of its beloved but dated streets appeared on a republican party poster polly boyko travel there and she explains why. what links this essex seaside town to the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections and insensitive political advice 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 locals here all rather cross country to try to park in america and then you come to a cover of walking and you see the different plane. when it is in america we don't remember for there right now again i was iraq everything america we here is just let's say 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. and that's no you should new 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

it's a cliche that happened before yeah i know you want to come study would say the common 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 nick stella's spokesperson has issued an apology or cough an apology our intent was never to smear to town and to photo not unknown to us as jay week sands in essex we never used a name for us it was an example of a town overburdened by poor governor. and 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 we 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 jay 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. let's be stateside because for teenagers there who were in juvenile detention center of woman you're one hundred eighty thousand dollars settlement after it was revealed guards force them to take part in so-called fight nights. the lawsuit sees two guards that youngsters are diverse into a larger room to fight each other for entertainment boys who didn't want to do battle were forced into bouts with tougher inmates while the guards watched its claim the clashes took place weekly during a three month period and twenty sixty r.t. heard more from the boy's 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. is going to asia where on easy relations between site korea and japan have suffered another blow tokyo is raged a court ruling that awarded south korean steel workers over eighty eight thousand dollars compensation for forced labor during the second world war only one of the men though is still alive. i'm very sad and i'm crying a lot because i'm the only woman 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 earlier 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 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 japan which was from one thousand nine hundred forty five still linger and. 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 on thursday thirteen ultra-orthodox jews were arrested during the demonstration i. members of the religious group block traffic while police try to disperse the crowd a military service in israel is compulsory for both men and women but the ultra orthodox community had to avoid it in order to study the jewish holy book the torah however last year israel supreme court ruled out the exemption was constitutional. sixty minutes past midday here in moscow still lots the coming through in the u.s. directs its sanctions firepower and a lot in america calling some countries a sordid cradle of communism now we check which way the wind's blowing for the next

election to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

to 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 up in the second world war and the cold war has come to an end what is replacing it. international 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 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 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 going to have nothing new to say they feel contempt from those voltages that it's not exactly always making them vote for populist but it's 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 mark ron 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 an off or 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 too has voted for him in un mccoll he did come from those sponsors 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 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 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 long. the u.s. national security adviser has announced a new wave of sanctions against three latin american countries here indeed is how john bolton described the left wing governments in cuba nicaragua and venezuela.

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 near our sure well that is just snippets of a long speech john bolton also went on to accuse the three nations of violating human rights the scribing the us quote a cradle of communism sanctions have become a key foreign policy tool of the trumpet ministration with recent threats against several other world powers. brun 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 but do sanctions work with former u.s. diplomat jim justice things it's exactly the opposite take a listen. 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 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 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 is 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 something a little different on a snap shots of history a camera dating back to the second world war has been recovered from a trench in southern russian about those happen from time to time the difference for this one against all odds one frame from the roll of film survived.

that's the troops couldn't approach the strange they kill him with the ground cover . just for luck even this is a good camera and it expenses still also the fighter covered camera with some things you can note. an update on a story we've been closely following for some time here in r.t. a ukrainian court has prolong the detention of a russian journalist until just before the new year karylle for shinseki who has

two old russian ukrainian nationality was arrested in kiev in may on charges of treason at the reaction lots of reaction on this in fact russia's foreign minister the secretary general of the organization for security and cooperation in europe they both earlier condemned the journalist attention. i hope. the street tried to attention may not be further extended and it is there for and on the force of often often where two thousand and eighteen. i call this is. i call on the ukrainian authorities to expedite the investigation on the serious charges brought against to shoot skeet and to conduct such a meaningless occasion in full compliance beat the principles of the rule of law necessity and proportionality. it is obvious that it was shinseki was a risk that soley because he was carrying out his professional duties describing it

analyzing the current events in ukraine as he was doing this in order to present the truth to those wanting to know more about it in a climate where the russian media is being silenced in the country overseas well today friday marks the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists many gathered in front of the ukrainian embassy in moscow to them on the release of karylle artie's medina was their. the whole case has drawn criticism from numerous a international humanitarian law as well as a journalist organizations you know 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 he's also here among numerous others high profile journalists and everyone has come here demanding the immediate release during list was detained to by

a ukrainian security service on may the fifteenth and remains in jail since that now he was when he was arrested he was first transferred to the city all for him so on where he was taken into custody by court order and was accused of treason now he's detention has been extended and that happened even despite the news and reports of his deteriorating health. all right that's your friday morning news update for now but if you've got a little bit of time on why not it's almost the weekend why not stick around for another slice of her debate show cross talk is next. you know world a big part of the new 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten like colored timestamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade 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 business shows you can afford to miss the one and only. in twenty four to you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know lloyd i mean you are liz put me in the new. i believe that i do believe me to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four. those who took part in this to do over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle 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 that came into being after the second world war and the cold war has come to an end what is replacing it. talking words of war i'm joined by my guest peter cousin they can watch him he's a professor of history at american university as well as co-author with all over stone the un told history of the united states also in washington we have michael

holland he is a senior fellow at the brookings institution and in about.