it. was. a secret project by u.s. democrats to test online tactics during an election is revealed in a new york times report it's claimed they use the method that would no doubt the seri those much maligned question involves. another hits for the trump administration defense secretary james mattis announces he's stepping down just one day after the u.s. president surprises our allies by saying he's withdrawing troops from syria. and the top journalist from one of germany's most respected publications to speak is exposed for faking news speediest he's been stripped of several awards for his investigations including c.n.n. journalist of the year twenty forty.

great to have you where there is this friday this is r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow and if you are in our top story russia's alleged online meddling has surfaced once again but this time moscow can't be blamed the new york times reports that a group of democrats undertook a secret project to test online tactics during an election in the u.s. state of alabama last year by employing methods allegedly used by russia to influence campaigns gaseous investigates. for years the public you me were barash by stories of russian bots on t.v. radio papers daily he told us of malicious programs of evil software soulless slaves of putin an existential threat to america

take the alabama election a year ago russian bartz the media reported interfered medaled corrupted on behalf of republican candidates roy moore so surprise atop a supporting more they both have a deep love of country the countries russia but still rather. choose for it's pretty alarming when a guy's lives in a fluent russian or speaks fluent russian russian it everywhere year later it's moving closer to the oval office one might wonder why on earth russia would bother with the massive dissin from asian campaign in alabama of all places to france salad value of the van as juicy a target room or him self was clueless about it i had no idea why this was happening so as is republican tradition he blame the democrats for setting him up

the democrats as a source are tradition change the subject and insulted him. maybe more should check with letterman or putin who shares his views on depriving people of their civil rights here is where it gets really good the new york times did some digging and found a report titled the alabama project and figured out those weren't putin's bots at all they were faked dressed up to look like russian bots we orchestrated and a labrat false flag operation that planted the idea that the more campaign was amplified on social media by a russian but that i've seen some dirty stuff in politics all over the world but this this is platinum tear this on this deplorable and dirty tricks turns out it was all of fake psyop orchestrated by a group of i.t.

experts who wanted to help the democrat win by cheating by lying and by their fraud being millions of voters in an attempt to frame the republican as being helped by russia the guy who allegedly financed all of this is billionaire reid hoffman co-founder of linked in and apparently a guy with a really faulty moral compass often comes with the money my experience now here is the kicker and lighty is telling people shouldn't worry it's only one hundred thousand dollars peanuts when it comes to elections whatever world the democrats live in a hundred grand is change. joe trippi a season's democratic operative said it was impossible that one hundred thousand dollar operation had an impact on the race journalists no longer report the news

they report their opinions same new york times when talking about how alleged the fake russian facebook accounts spend the same money hundred thousand dollars on advertising on a national campaign the disclosure adds to the evidence of the broad scope of the russian influence campaign so when a democratic group is all but who are spending a hundred grand on this information on lies framing and defaming someone it's just one hundred grand pocket change but if it's the russians at one hundred thousand dollars becomes an absolute fortune a crime against america and god i've always been suspicious that the russian bought in there it was slim z. and was probably made up simply because that's the kind of saying that the

democratic party does they makes things up in order to create the basis for an attack on the right wing and on the conservatives this is in the character of the democratic party and in the lack of character i should say and it's it's a criminal element that has taken over the democratic party the mainstream media only talk about things that service that democratic party agenda and it's an agenda that we saw in syria you know it's an agenda that will lead to war it's an agenda that risks nuclear conflict with the two great nuclear powers it's an agenda that needs to be stopped. by trump administration has taken another hit defense secretary james mattis has announced he's stepping down. because you have a right to have a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects i believe it's right for me to step down from my position james mattis is

served in the military for over forty years and has been defense secretary from the start of trans presidency he supported trans calls to strengthen the military that was known to disagree with trump on many points including the president's surprise decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. or chums decision seems to have been the last straw for meit is it also seems to have driven a wedge through the us as well with media and the stop basement think is criticizing the move and ordinary americans strongly supporting it with more on not his kind of. promise announcement withdrawing the usa from syria has got the media up in arms the republicans and the democrats are livid they say that the usa is losing out i believe it is a catastrophic mistake the job's not over dangerous premature jeopardize america's mission in theory and her allies makes our country an even bigger laughingstock than it already is that gift it benefits iran the only reason they're not dancing

in the end to run in isis camps is they just don't believe in density media's outrage does not match public opinion polls show that eighty six percent of americans say that u.s. military force should only be used as an last resort now that opinion used to be very common on the opposite side of the political spectrum remember the peace marchers the antiwar movement this is what bernie sanders had to say my main concern terms of the middle east is to make certain that the united states does not get involved in perpetual warfare in the quagmire of iraq and syria trump made the same announcement last year but forces swiftly moved in to change his mind russian president vladimir putin who sent forces to support the syrian government against the terrorists a big game changer in the conflict he says he's a bit skeptical of trump's announcement would be stupid to you concerning the u.s. withdrawal from syria i don't really know what that means for example the u.s. has been present in afghanistan for the past seventeen years and almost every year

they say that they are withdrawing the troops they are still there now is the presence of american troops needed in syria or do you think so let's not forget that the presence there was illegitimate it was not agreed either with the un security council nor with the syrian government if the you. promise to withdraw that is the right decision while politicians and media from both sides of the political spectrum is voicing outrage trump's move is at least complying with international law now let's see if he sticks to his guns this time. r.t. new york former u.s. congressman ron paul says diplomacy must be implemented in this case. although he has his ups and downs i think that he has taken a good position he said he wanted to get out of out of syria and he said in the campaign he said that isis is not a threat there and that it's time to come home and i just wanted to be complete yes move the troops out our couple thousand troops but i want to make sure that you

know the cia's out in the special forces are out and that we don't use sanctions and that we move in that direction where we just have hands off and deal with diplomacy and getting along with people but in that philosophy that i just spoke it also means though for in a way our problem is if we dominate and militarize a country then we finance all that and if we converted into friendship then we send them millions of dollars because we still own you so we still should be concerned it's great to do troops are leaving and as i mentioned as we began that i wanted to be more inclusive you know i would not say we're going to remove two thousand troops because we've been in a many many countries we continue to be in countries but we start off with our cia agents and we start off with special forces we start off with interfering with sanctions and we just don't we don't need any of that if we're noninterventionist

and we just want friendship and trade you don't spend that money because it gets us into trouble. invention and deception in germany where i told journalists they respected to speak a newspaper as being sacked for making up stories failure is the most course has the details when it comes to trustworthy journalism the mainstream media might tell you there is no alternative to. meet one of the. poster boys of honesty class reload works for one of germany's most respected newsmagazines der spiegel he was even named cnn's journalist of the year back in two thousand and fourteen for a story about prison inmate care the report takes to put it to an interesting approach to

a major social problem. if you look through spain's pictures in the reader's mind that unfold like a few well an acting career might have been better suited for real odious because the paragon of modern journalism seems to have faked his way through his seven year career of the sixty articles we know der spiegel published reloading us admitted fourteen contained fake news and a story about a young syrian boy he made up quotes and locations the tale of a guantanamo bay prison or a complete fabrication it was only after his colleague revealed his doubts over a story they were working on together about the us mexican border that the truth came out. at first they were just like little mistakes that i paid attention to things that seemed suspicious a vigilante group that doesn't allow you to take pictures of them but they tell you unbelievable stuff even admit to their crimes like that they detained mexicans and

crossed the mexican border with weapons were no went through the ringer with his managers trying to bring his doubts forward imagine challenging the legitimacy of an award winning western journalist praised by c.n.n. itself and if you're thinking this is a glitch in the mainstream media think again all these outlets have parted with journalists after they fabricated stories some more award winning journalists but awards in journalism are a whole other matter take journalist. he faked his own death with the help of the ukrainian secret service attempting to pin the blame on russia for an assassination it was a calculated deliberate international terrorist crime that can't go with killed due to his professional activities he was only working on things that were critical and investigative of russia you know it was it was one of the biggest fake news stories of the year but he was even given the time award for journalistic bravery if the

mainstream. media incest you should question less you might want to take a second to question more donald quarter r.t. . from brushes they can to me and education to possible nuclear war and world domination president putin fielded a wide array of questions from journalists during his fourteenth annual q. and a with the media we've gathered some of the k moments from the event. as the u.s. is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty what's going to happen it's hard to imagine what if the rockets are located in europe what should we do of course we will have to ensure our security with

concrete steps let them not say later that we are trying to get an advantage we're not trying to get some advantage with this but merely to seek your balance to ensure a security. concern in the u.s. withdrawal from syria i don't really know what that means you in the for example the u.s. has been present in afghanistan for the past seventeen years and almost every year they say that they are withdrawing their troops but they are still there now because of what is the presence of american troops needed in syria but you can i don't think so but let's not forget that presence there is illegitimate but it was not agreed on but it will be there with the u.n. security council you know with the syrian leadership if the u.s. plans to withdraw is the right decision. they will block just tell me this who set the blockade between us and the rest of ukraine but it's going to russia you know if it was done by the ukrainian authorities they have in forced a full economic blockade of the territory that they consider their own they shoot

at those when they consider their own citizens almost every day civilians die though we provide humanitarian support for those living there but only not to let those people starve to death. sure you will be because she was assassinated everyone knows that there is evidence script is allowable however there are sanctions against russia and complete silence in the case of saudi arabia is that where this politicized russia phobic approach is just another reason to attack the russian if it was not script they would have thought of something else this is obvious to me and the aim is one to hold workers growth at any cost. in my view. relations are at a stalemate is in the interests of both of our countries to get out of this stalemate are we interested in me stalling our relations with the u.k. yes we are and so is the u.k. . many western politicians and experts and even

ordinary people see russia as a threat they even think that you want to rule the world of course i do i just want to know if you're already won this was a real any of your foreign policy. concerning ruling the world we know where the headquarters are located of those who want to do this and it's not in moscow you can connect this to defense spending the u.s. spends over seven hundred billion dollars on all russia only forty six billion of them in about all do you really think that our aim is to rule the world or the us that this is just a cliché that's being imposed by the west in order to resolve their own domestic problems in the. uk it was in you just when will you marry in the home and home. these are two different questions are you married. yes so he is married and wants me to suffer the same. first of all do they cannot and then they said my flash was

bothering with the russian flag cannot bother anyone but i want to refer to keep playing who said when everyone is there the great game is finished the at the great there will be a meeting whenever. this is a question about how i think it should be the next one of us of the year how's your health if. you were not seen enough. to spy spending several hours with hundreds of journalists my peers and wasn't quite finished a teenage russian girl who is registered blind and hopes to be a top reporter herself but the country's leader afterwards. hello how are you. hello you've put your thumb i would like to ask you some questions did you always dream of becoming president or before you wanted to be for example an astronaut you could. honestly i never dreamed of becoming president and

i had no intention this happened by chance and there's that you know probably at first it was very difficult for you can you describe your first days as president the. yes it wasn't easy these were very difficult years for the country as a whole we were balancing with survival there was a very difficult situation with the economy and security as well clear last what was your most memorable day as president. which is it is very difficult to say but we just talked about this at a big press conference the most striking events of this year with the presidential election on the world cup how do you make a wish and in your. years yes this wish was a secret but i can share it with you i wish all our wishes will come true may had to actually you of course. you are very handsome. thank you very much. russia's media regulator probs morning is coming up right

after the break thank you. china much bigger economic power or much or long term.

i think. you have to live with that. and there are lots of advantages that the europeans jethro as well as america. welcome back fifty seven migrants rescued at sea three children have arrived in the spanish port city of almira the body of one refugee was also recovered hours earlier eleven dead migrants including a pregnant woman were found in a boat off southern spain eleven others are still missing meanwhile in suits and spanish the sea on the north african coast more than one hundred migrants have reportedly attempted to enter the port there fifty were arrested when they tried to

cross from morocco into spanish territory the border now is reportedly closed despite the dangers many migrants in the region put their lives on the line with the dream of reaching major it. if she knew how to get to the dream even study i also want to get a job make some money and go back tomorrow couldn't. lose.

the ambulance took me to hospital with a broken arm or a doctor took care of. that ahead exhibit a border guards catch illegal migrants at the ferry they beat them up. there is no work no education nothing i want to look like europeans our life in morocco is just stuff from. being on the street in the cold when the locals insult us we cannot turn to the police as they might deported us. trump has agreed to shut his personal charities down amid allegations that he used it as a piggy bank for his presidential campaign and business affairs as the new york attorney general said the move was a victory for the rule of law however the president's isn't the only person whose charitable organization has drawn negative attention.

donald are there i was sure to arabia giving twenty five billion dollars guitar all of these countries you. thank god wiki leaks had it so julian a song has welcomed visitors to the ecuadorian embassy in london for the first time

in hof a year two german m.p.'s met with the whistleblower to express their solidarity and hopes of finding a legal solution to his situation and this is to check and picks up the story. m.p.'s from the german bund to stop and it's committee on foreign affairs who also had a letter in support of we q leaks founder julian assange signed by dozens of m.p.'s have been visiting him here at the ecuadorian embassy in the british capital they are demanding that the u.k. provide assurances that the song would be able to leave this embassy without being extradited to the u.s. they say the next step in this everlasting case is the responsibility the united kingdom united kingdom has to take the measures now. to be a solution which is in the frame of international law and not in the frame off the u.s. had a new station boys again. international law and against actually the us war i

mean against the first amendment they are taking measures like the protection of journalists and freedom of speech and the freedom of press so we have to actually protect them from themselves not to a violate the first amendment julian assange just father also visited him here on thursday saying he did not find his son in the best of conditions but says declining as you would expect of a fusion. to go straight. for patients. knows someone who strictly business ties. to a communication you know telephone. friend. of. the m.p.'s visiting from berlin have demanded that the international community listen

up to the united nations ruling that has now quite a long time ago found that julian assange has detention is arbitrary united kingdom government tried to appeal to the un decision and but they lost and still they are not accepting and. accepting this u.n. decision and this has to be stopped they have to i mean it's a member of the united nations it's a have a seat in the security council and in my point of view you can't united kingdom is dead jewel exact and respect to international law and international rights of someone over who likes to you know song ecuadorian officials have lately been increasingly indicating that the week you leaks founder has outstayed his welcome behind these walls while his sancia spent the last six years here fearing that if you leave the premises he will be extradited to the u.s.

and prosecuted for his work as we can weeks publisher that released information that washington would rather have kept under wraps reporting from london a mistake with are today. meanwhile a journalist who has been a long time media partner for wiki leaks has won a freedom of information access peel the ruling requires the london metropolitan police to turn over any correspondence they may have between u.k. and u.s. authorities regarding three wiki leaks journalists journalists lawyer and elder hans spoke to r.t. about the ruling. tribe in a decision is a very important decision for journalists the key point that it's clarifies is that a journalist can use freedom of information legislation which in the u.k. entitles access to documents held by public bodies that journalists can use to obtain personal information about individuals where they have those individuals

consent and that was being argued by the metropolitan police not to be correct they were suggesting that the individuals themselves had to make their own requests under data protection their to slay sion so the metropolitan police has been required by the tribunal to confirm or deny whether it holds the requested information within twenty eight days and they then have to go on to provide any information that they hold all they have to explain using freedom of information laws why they are not able to provide it. listen live pictures from council only here for you now where pro independence groups are rallying ahead of a cabinet meeting in barcelona spanish prime minister petra sanchez and counsel and lead a key in tahrir agreed on thursday to any effect of dialogue meeting is usually held in madrid but all pharmacies decided to move it in order to reduce tension in

catalonia more than twenty roads are being blocked across the rest of the region while police have been deployed in large numbers ahead of the meeting and to madrid protests are expected to grow during the day we'll be keeping across that or we may well those are the headlines for this hour but do joins again at the top of the hour with my colleague you know new. this is being biased broadcasting around the world covering the world of business and finance of the impact for all of us.